The presence of obsessions or compulsions, or both, are what distinguishes obsessive-compulsive disorder from other conditions. The obsessions or compulsions cause marked distress, are time-consuming, and interfere with a person's normal functioning.
(1989) concluded that everyone excretes stinky compounds in their urine after eating asparagus, and the only variation is in ability to smell them. Other papers using chemical tests and carefully controlled smelling tests show that there is variation in excretion of sulfur compounds in urine after eating asparagus.
The odor you notice comes from the breakdown of sulfur compounds in asparagus. You canât smell these compounds in raw or cooked asparagus, but after the body metabolizes them, some people notice an ammonia-like smell to their urine, usually within a half an hour. This phenomenon is very well known. French novelist Marcel Proust wrote in 1913 that asparagus transforms my chamber-pot into a flask of perfume..