WEBVTT - What's the Deal With Poop? 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:04.400 Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from House Stuff Works 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:13.160 dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:16.720 There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant. Jerry's over there not paying attention, 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:19.840 which means it's time for stuff you should know. She 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:23.600 just loved that you like jerked. I'm totally paying attention. 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:26.640 I've cooled you in my dreams before Dawn joke the 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:29.280 life out of you. You know what a song I've 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:31.120 been seeing in my head all day and researching this 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:39.200 what stool Boom from Waiting for Guffman. We's here stool Boom. 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:42.960 That's all I'll say. But there's more lyrics to it. Yeah, 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:45.279 I mean the whole joke. Remember, And no, I've never 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:48.760 seen that one. Boy, I know. I can't believe I haven't. Guffman, 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:53.240 is that invest In show? To me? Your tied for first? Yeah? Um, 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:55.600 I could watch those just about any time, even though 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:58.680 you haven't seen one of them. If it's anything like 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:01.240 Best In Show, I'm sure I can watch it, and 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:04.280 I assume it's virtually the same movie. Yeah. The joke 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:07.720 in Gouffment is it's the anniversary of the town of 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:10.160 this very small town and they weren't, so they do 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:13.320 a stage musical about the history of the town and 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:15.920 the town was sort of founded on this one guy 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:20.600 who invented the stool, So the town had a stool boom, 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:23.600 and they have this big number called stool Boom, and 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:28.240 you know, of course it's the play on the poop. Well, dude, 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:30.800 stool is a word that sticks out to you when 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:34.360 you're researching poop. It is a weird word to use, 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:40.560 and it's got this definitely quasi medico smack to it. 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:46.280 But at the same time, it's also got a droopy, 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:51.120 dangly quality to it that makes it like super appropriate stool. Yeah, 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:53.080 just the way it sounds. Yeah, it sounds like the 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:56.160 sound that poop makes coming out of your rectum stool, 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:01.080 you know. And everyone who just turned off by that, 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:04.360 you better skip this episode because we're talking about poop, buddy, 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:06.520 And if you can't handle it, go hide your head 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:09.720 under your bed and pretend you don't do it. You 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:13.760 can't handle the poop? Yeah, do you like that famous 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:17.400 line movie records? Uh? Yeah, I mean we'll go ahead 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:20.799 and give the warning. Surely you're not gonna sit down 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.480 with your lunch and click on whatever you title this one, 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:25.120 it's gonna be poop is going to be in the 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:28.600 title What's the Deal with Poop? Yeah, so just you know, 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:30.840 we're gonna talk about poop and what it looks like 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:32.960 and smells like, and what it should look and smell like, 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:38.440 and qualities and and uh properties of its consistency. It's 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:43.560 gonna be uh medically disgusting. We're gonna be drowning and 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:47.440 poop in this episode. Yeah, but it's important because you 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:49.760 can learn a lot from your poop. Yeah, and you 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.680 should not ignore your poop. You should, um maybe not 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:55.200 every time, but you should check in on your poop 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:58.040 and look at it. Okay, So there's a couple of 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:01.359 things regarding that, because that definitelyly is recommended. We used 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:07.919 the um impart of Mercola article and um like, there 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:11.680 was a lot of encouragement to stop and turn around 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:13.680 and look at your poop before you flush, you know, 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:15.760 smell the roses. Stop and take the time to smell 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:17.760 the roses. Right, this is sort of like that, but 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:20.920 it's poop. But hold your breath. No, you should smell it. 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.120 I guess you should a little bit. I think it's 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:26.520 more if you hold your breath and can still smell it. 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:30.760 Then there's a problem. But there's also such a thing 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:33.360 I think is paying too much attention to your poop. 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:36.920 Like after researching this, I was like, oh, man, am 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:38.760 I just letting it go? Is this too hard? Is 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:41.600 this straining? Like? What's the problem here? Like, I I 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:43.840 feel like I'm freaking out a little bit. So I 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:47.960 think there's a certain uh, there's a certain something to 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:50.920 be said about just chilling out about your poop. But yeah, 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:52.640 keeping an eye on it once in a while, because 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:55.680 if I learned one thing from researching this, it's that 0:03:55.840 --> 0:04:00.400 if suddenly your poop starts falling out of its normal patterns, 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:02.880 whatever that may be. I thought you're gonna say, starts 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:05.400 like falling out of your ear right, that's a big problem. 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:08.040 Or like South Park, remember they pooped out of their mouths. Yeah. There, 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:11.640 by the way, there is such a thing as fecal vomiting. Okay, 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:14.080 well let's just get to that right now. What is 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:19.440 It's when you were so impacted compacted, which which which 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:22.200 you would be impacted as well. Um, your poop is 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:24.920 so backed up in your colon that you actually regurgitate 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:28.480 back up. But it does not come up looking like 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:31.479 a stool. It doesn't matter. Um, it's not like you're 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:37.080 I mean, it's so gross. I'm so sorry. Yeah, I 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:40.520 mean it's it's it's digestive fluids that are behind the 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:44.440 poop mainly. So it's not like can I say tired 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:47.599 if you want, I find that an unpleasant word, But 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:49.760 some people are stool. It's not like a stool comes 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:51.640 out of your body. You can say the T word 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:55.840 if you want. So, really, how is it just not 0:04:56.000 --> 0:05:03.479 vomiting then, because it's directly related to the backup of feces. Yeah, 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:06.000 well those the ones that were hanging on just to 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:09.000 see they're gone. Now it's just you and me, Chuck 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:14.840 and Jerry. So anyway, if you if you, if your 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.800 poop suddenly takes a strange turn and it stays that 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:20.120 way for a little while, then it's time to really 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:22.600 start paying attention to your poop. Maybe call a doctor 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:25.040 if we look into the whole thing. But I don't 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.560 overthink your poop too much. Just keep an eye on it. 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:30.520 Uh yeah, And and it's like you said, there is 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:32.760 a tremendous amount to be learned from your poop. As 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.640 a matter of fact, in two thousand fourteen, some archaeologists 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:38.719 in Denmark and Odense, Denmark, which is where Hans Christian 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:44.839 Andersen's from, discovered a latrine, a buried latrine of barrels 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:49.480 and barrels and barrels of seven hundred year old Danish 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:56.559 poop from the town. And you know what, it still smelled. Yeah, 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.039 and there as as a matter of fact, because of that, 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:02.640 they're a to really start to dig into this quite 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:06.120 literally and find you know, a lot out about their diet, 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:12.880 about them, the evolution of human gut microbial Yeah, which 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.960 we're gonna get into. Um, and there's a lot you 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:18.280 can tell from it to you don't have to go 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:20.719 digging around Denmark to learn about your own poop. You 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:22.960 just have to look through the toilet. So to know 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:26.920 what to look for, it's best to understand, well, just 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:29.800 what a healthy poops you know. Yeah, well, let's let's 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:32.000 get a couple of stats out of the way. Um, 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:37.200 the average Joe and Jane produces about ten thousand pounds 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.760 of poop in a lifetime. It's like five times. Right. 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:42.240 Where did you find that? The only place I can 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:44.680 find it was uber Facts And then this article that 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:48.400 this the article that you said I thought was pretty reputable. 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:51.640 I did too, but I couldn't find anywhere else except 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:54.880 uber facts. Right, Well, how about this, we'll just caveat 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:58.640 that with two people. Say that you produced ten thousand 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:02.039 pounds in a lifetime five five tons, and poop is 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:07.919 made of well, it's made of about seventy water, fiber, 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:16.240 undigested foods. Water. Uh, already said water, fats, cholesterol, salt, phosphates, sollar, waste, 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:23.440 dead and live bacteria. Yeah, about is dead bacteria. So 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:26.040 that's you know, it's nasty, that's all. It's a lot 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:29.200 of bacteria. The nasty stuff is the live stuff that 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:31.880 you're shedding because it's not supposed to be in there. 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:35.640 M hm. You know. Poop comes in many sizes and 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:38.560 shapes and colors. Uh, and we're gonna get into those 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:42.440 in more detail. So there's this awesome, awesome thing called 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:47.679 the Bristol stool Scale, and it is an illustrative guide 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:50.680 to what healthy poop looks like. And it's type one 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:54.240 through seven. Type one looks like little deer poops. Uh. 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:58.320 They're they're characterized as separate hard lumps like nuts and 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:00.960 then in parentheses hard to pass ass and then then 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:05.960 in parent seas again you know what I mean. Type two, Uh, 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:09.720 sausage shaped but lumpy. That looks sort of like a 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:12.480 baby roof, baby Ruth, which is why I think they 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:16.880 use that in the movie Caddy shack Um. Type three 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:19.640 and types three, four, and five is you ne we're 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.040 in the sweet spot? Yeah, that's that's the good range 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:24.160 of where you want to be. And apparently four is 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.560 is the best poop of all. Dr Murcola calls it 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:30.040 the holy Grail of poops. Type four. The type three 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:33.120 is uh like a sausage as well, but with cracks 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:36.480 on the surface, So I guess the sausage is not 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:41.080 very well made, all right, it's a rustic sausage. Type 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:45.120 four is just uh, it's the smooth, consistent surface. It's 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:48.320 like a snake between one and two inches in diameter 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:51.480 up to eighteen inches long. I hear that in my 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:55.439 head spins. Yeah, that's a big it's a big poop. Yeah. 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:59.720 And I also read that, um, literally, the perfect stool 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:04.800 is the perfect is a number four and S shaped 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:07.280 number four. Yeah. And the reason why it's shaped that 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:10.720 way is because it's um developed into that S shape 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:15.520 in your intestines, right. Yeah. And my brother, my amazing brother. Oh, 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:19.200 I'm sure it makes a cash registers sound. When he 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:21.800 used to send me pictures of his poops because he 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:25.720 was very famous for his long poops and um, post 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:27.720 some of those. We should make a gallery. Well, i'll 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:29.800 have to. I mean, this is before digital photography. He 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:31.760 would take a photo of get it developed and mail 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:35.280 it to me in college. Man, that Scott, and one 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:37.840 of him was a beautiful, perfectly shaped s. And he 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:41.080 was like, look, I put my initial and um. But 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:43.000 now I know and I can tell him if he 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.440 doesn't listen to this one. That dude, you had the 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:51.079 whole the Unicorn of poops. The long s. Yeah, he 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:56.440 t s two in diameter, perfectly consistent. Exterre was tapered 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:58.839 at both ends. It was gorgeous. And the color also 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:02.880 is very important. I'm just tittering like a child. A 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:05.440 light brown color is really what you're looking for. I 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:08.040 think most people understand what poop's supposed to look like, 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:11.000 and the reason it has that light brown color is 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:15.880 from Bilirubin's, which are from Paul Rubens, from Paul Rubens 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:20.720 Paul Billy Rubens um which are it's a pigment that 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:25.920 comes from the breakdown of um red blood cells in 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:30.400 the liver, so it breaks it down. Get some bilirubens. 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:34.400 That's what makes We'll talk about color more in a minute, 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:37.600 but I just couldn't wait. Type five, you're still in 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:39.760 the pretty good zone if you're if you have soft 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:44.280 blobs with clear cut edges. Still it's caused to be like, 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:47.040 I can do better than this. If it breaks apart 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:50.280 on impact, you're like, I can do better, and I 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:52.000 can tell you exactly what you need to do to 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:59.079 do better. We'll get to it, fiber man. Sorry. Type six, um, 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:03.480 this is when you're heading towards um bad news. Fluffy 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:10.040 pieces of poop with ragged edges and mushy means you hungover, Yeah, 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:15.440 quite possibly. And number seven finally, watery, entirely liquid, no 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:21.280 solid whatsoever, a k A chuck on antibiotics, which I 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:23.400 call poop pills, which I've said before on the show. 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:26.120 And by the way, the Bristol stool scale, we should 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:29.680 give props to Dr Stephen Lewis and Dr Ken Heating 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:36.360 of the University of Bristol. Go fighting. Yeah, was when 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:39.120 they first published that thing. And you can find those. 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:43.000 You see him in doctor's offices, certain kinds of doctors. Sure, 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:46.679 my house, do you have one? Is it just right 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:49.440 in front of the toilet? It was okay, but you 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:54.000 means like, um, so, chuck, you said fiber was a 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:56.240 big deal, And we're gonna talk about fiber a little 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.839 a little more depth later on. But if you do 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.280 have stool that is not sticking together, and it's really 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:07.120 it's really you can't get past it. All you have 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:10.080 to do is up your intake of fiber. There's two 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:15.080 kinds of fiber. There's soluble fiber, which actually is absorbed 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:19.080 and it's that slows down your poop process and it 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:22.120 allows more nutrients to be absorbed from food good stuff. 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:25.040 Then there's insoluble fiber, which is what most people think 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:28.120 of like fiber like grains and things like that, that 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:33.440 actually isn't digested by you. It actually becomes food for 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:36.280 the gut bacteria later on down the down the road, 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:39.440 which is great, but you want to keep them alive. 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:42.559 It also has the added benefit of bulking your poop 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:45.080 up and acting like a sort of glue that keeps 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:48.439 your poop together. You know that one long, perfectly smooth 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:55.439 eighteen inch uh two inch diameter as shaped snake. Uh, 0:12:55.480 --> 0:13:00.120 if it is softer but not completely diarrhea like off 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:04.480 serve ice cream. Uh. Maybe lactose intolerance, which is something 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:08.640 I suffer from. Really yeah a little bit, not terribly, 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:11.400 but you love ice cream? Yeah, I mean it only 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:14.760 really hits me hard if I have like a lot 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:17.440 of lactose in a single meal. Like if I have 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:19.880 a lot of cheese, fight like a cheese pizza and 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:22.560 top it off with an ice cream sunday, it's bad news. 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:26.360 So I just don't do that, or I do and 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:29.360 I know what's coming, but it just can't help myself. 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:33.600 Or if you use artificial sweeteners that can cause your 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:36.320 stools to be looser than normal, or if you have 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:42.280 some sort of gluten gluten intolerance or celiac um that 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:45.440 can hurt your make your poop looser as well and 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:47.679 wreck all kinds of things in your body. We need 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:50.920 to do one artificial sweeteners, man, Yeah, we should probably 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:52.880 maybe revisit gluten. I know we did that one, but 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.880 that was a while ago. Gets done? Is it done? Right? 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:59.640 Have we ever done lactose intolerance? I don't. I don't 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.680 think so now, really, I'm surprised we haven't done milk. 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:04.680 There's a lot of cool stuff with that. Like, you know, 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:06.640 there's different kinds of milk depending on where you are 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:08.840 in the world, and they think that that has to 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.559 do with lactose intolerance. Is like type A or type 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:15.480 B milk. It's pretty interesting stuff. Yeah, And did you 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:18.640 know that skim milk has an additional like chemical additive. 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:20.920 It has a lot of high freak toast corn syrup 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:23.880 in it. Yeah, because when you take that's the whole 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:26.400 secret to low fat. That's why low fat stuff made 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:29.280 everybody tubby and gave everyone diabetes, because when you take 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:31.680 the fat out of stuff, there goes the taste too, 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:33.680 So you have to bring some taste back with high 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:36.200 freak toast corn syrup. That has nothing to do with 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:39.920 the fat content. It just gives it some flavor. But 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:43.040 it also is sugar added sugar. Yeah, there's also some 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:46.080 other additive that you need. I don't drink a ton 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.440 of milk anymore, but I started drinking whole milk again 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:51.280 and it is so delicious. What is it doing to 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:54.480 you if your lactose intolerant? How did you reintroduce milk 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:56.440 into your diet. No, that's the thing. Like I can 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:58.760 drink a glass of milk or eat a bowl of 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:01.280 cereal or something. It doesn't wreck me or anything like 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:03.440 it has to be a cheese pizza followed by a 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:06.840 Sunday Yeah, just too much, you know, And a glass 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:10.440 of milk isn't too much. I'm lactose. Um, I think 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:16.400 semi intolerant. Or if you're an optimist, in the glass 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:19.800 of milk is half full, your lactose semi toolerant. Yeah, 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:22.120 there you go, we'll call you that. All right, Well, 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:24.640 let's take a break here, you read my mind. Let's 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:27.160 gather ourselves, and we're gonna come back and talk a 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:38.960 little bit about, uh, the difference between healthy and unhealthy stools. 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:54.440 All right, Josh, you want to talk what a good 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:58.320 healthy stool looks like? Yeah, and by proxy, and unhealthy 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:00.960 stool as well. So we go back and forth. No, 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:04.560 I think we should go healthy unhealthy. Okay, that's that's 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:06.720 how I think it'd be best. Alright, are you cool 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.800 with that? I'm great with it. So healthy stool? Um, 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:14.600 you already said medium to light brown. It's pretty good. Um. 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:18.680 Different colors can mean different things. Uh, sometimes it's not 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:20.720 a big deal. Like if you eight beats the night 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:24.600 before you're pooping red, don't fret and think I have 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:28.600 internal bleeding. It's just the beats. Have you seen that 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:33.080 Portland you or they like dispatchers but they're like, did 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.760 you have beats? And the person's like yes, They're like 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:38.920 it's the beats, Like it's always the beats, yeah, no 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.280 matter what it is. Like Jeff Goldboom gets in a 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:44.040 car wreck and he's like, I need some help and 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:46.120 he's like, I'm covered in red stuff and they're like 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:48.640 it's beats and he looks and he's like, oh, I 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:51.200 did run into a beat truck. How do you know that? 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:53.120 And then they hang up on him and he's like, 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:56.720 I still need help. That's a great one. I haven't 0:16:56.760 --> 0:17:00.440 seen that. Uh, or you know, like, um, I know 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:03.120 from experience, too much red wine believe it or not, 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:08.160 can cause uh, like black poop a little distressing. If 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:12.359 you have black tari poop from what I read um 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:16.880 where it's like literally sticky, you probably and it's this 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:19.720 is this is something you've started to notice about your poop? 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:23.679 It probably or it could mean that you're bleeding internally 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:27.600 and it's not good. That's not good. All right, let's 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:29.359 go back to healthy stools. Yeah, I thought that's what 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:33.000 we're gonna do. Yeah, I met him to light brown, um, 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:35.320 soft and smooth and not a lot of pieces. Like 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:39.080 we mentioned that as shape is just amazing. If you 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:41.879 can do that on a regular basis, should keep a 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:45.400 little crown in your bathroom. Just don't dole it out 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:47.560 all the time. You know, it's not a participant ribbon. 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:50.000 I really want to save it for the right one. Uh. 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:52.800 And listen up too, because here's something I didn't know. 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:56.320 How the poop falls into the toilet, and whether it 0:17:56.320 --> 0:18:00.600 floats or not is a thing. So it says in't 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:05.080 here the slightest, little gentle woosh, not a big cannonball 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:09.920 splash like an Olympic diver going into a pool, a 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:13.480 well executed dive, right, not one where they lean a 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:16.280 little too far. No, no, like like just a yeah, 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:20.919 yeah it's supposed to. Uh, And then I think the 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:24.760 floating deal. If it floats, it may be that you're 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:28.400 eating too much fat, which means could be a sign 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:30.720 of malabsorption. Well, yeah, it could mean that you're eating 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:32.399 a normal amount of fat, but your body is not 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:35.840 absorbing it, and that could be a digestive issue or 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:40.720 could be pancreat pancreatitis. It could be some problems again 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:44.720 if it's not becoming evident yet. There's a lot of stuff, 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:47.600 a lot of information you can glean from your poop. Yeah, 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:50.680 and if floaters are fun and cute because you can 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:53.480 poke them and play with them, right, but you really 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:57.520 want a sinker? Do you still have that bathroom stick 0:18:57.560 --> 0:19:02.439 I got you for Christmas, the poking stick? Oh yeah, yeah, 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:07.560 I thought that was a backscratcher. It's a boot poker. Yeah, 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:11.840 for floaters. Well I could use it for both were 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:18.199 eight right now? Oh boy? All right, unhealthy poop? Did 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:24.120 we finish healthy? Ribbon like or pencil like? That's not good. 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:25.760 That can be bad news. That could mean you have 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:28.280 some sort of instruction, maybe a tumor sort of matching 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:32.360 things together. And again, once in a while something happens 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:34.760 like this. You don't need to go call nine wine, 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:37.360 but just keep an eye on it. Yeah, because it's 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:39.840 just the beats. That's what they would tell you. Right 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:44.200 You covered a black and tari bright red is also 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:48.480 not a good sign. It could be a medication. Apparently, 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:51.680 black liquorice can cause black and tory poop. Yeah, if 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:54.560 you're if you're eating black liquors though, your gross person, 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:56.639 and you should stop that. I don't like any of 0:19:56.720 --> 0:20:01.040 that stuff, black or any like red vines and twizzlers. Uh, 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:06.080 you don't like any liquors. Well, Emily loves which is 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:09.919 the superior one? Twizzlers. I think it's the twizzlers she loves. 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:12.000 She may think red vines are there's a lot of 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:17.720 people that do a twizzler uh twizzler head. Okay, good 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:19.919 for her, but um, I just I've never gotten it. 0:20:19.960 --> 0:20:21.840 I don't get it. Gummy bears and stuff, they just 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:24.040 I don't like those. Those are like a totally different 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:26.960 thing then in the texture kind of the same. No, no, 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:30.080 not really, I don't like any of it. Chewy, I guess, 0:20:30.119 --> 0:20:33.399 but yeah, no, not really. Not a fan. You should 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:37.479 try him. You should also try licorice and gummy bears 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:39.760 next to each other so you can suss out the 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:44.440 difference because they're not the same thing. Well, the point 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:49.159 is I don't like either one. Uh No, So white 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:51.840 pale or gray stools is no good. That may mean 0:20:51.960 --> 0:20:55.480 you have a lack of bile or a variety of diseases, 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:59.160 from cirrhosis to hepatitis. Yeah, you want to be producing 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:03.480 bile um. If you have white stool. It could also 0:21:03.480 --> 0:21:06.200 mean that somebody slipped you a little barry Um sulfate 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:09.840 and gave you an X ray. Oh yeah, okay, So 0:21:09.920 --> 0:21:13.679 if you've drank barry Um self sulfate recently and you 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:16.080 have white poop, it's probably not cause for alarm. They'll 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:18.760 probably tell you that I would hope so, but just 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:22.800 in case somebody got allowsy, medical provider, we're here to 0:21:22.840 --> 0:21:28.640 help you. Yellow is no good, right, yeah, Gilbert syndrome, 0:21:29.160 --> 0:21:32.280 which means that you're um. Your liver is not processing 0:21:32.280 --> 0:21:36.639 the bilirubins, so they're not breaking down and turning your 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:41.679 poop brown. They're passing through intact and in dyeing your 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:46.960 poop yellow. Gilbart Huh not Gilbert, Thank goodness for the 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:51.840 Mayo clinic. Gilbert h Yellow stool could also be giardia 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:57.919 or problems with your gallbladder, and then mucus chuck. So 0:21:57.960 --> 0:22:01.400 if you look closely at your especially if you open 0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:04.359 it up with your poking stick, you're gonna find that 0:22:04.440 --> 0:22:08.639 there's some mucus associated with it. Um a small amount 0:22:08.640 --> 0:22:12.080 of mucus is totally normal. You're intestines actually produced mucus 0:22:12.359 --> 0:22:15.560 um to coat your colon so that it helps smooth 0:22:15.880 --> 0:22:20.280 the stool through, right, Um, So of course your stool 0:22:20.400 --> 0:22:22.360 is going to be coated in a little bit of mucus. 0:22:22.760 --> 0:22:25.720 If you've noticed that all of a sudden, Um, it 0:22:25.800 --> 0:22:28.840 looks like someone snotted all over your poop. And this 0:22:28.920 --> 0:22:32.639 is a new development that is caused for concern because 0:22:32.680 --> 0:22:37.480 there are conditions where you you can overproduce mucus um 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:42.320 and it can be a problem odor. Here's what to 0:22:42.359 --> 0:22:46.680 look for. All your poop is gonna sneak somewhat because poop. Yeah, 0:22:46.800 --> 0:22:51.520 bacteria chew on undigestive food and produce gases as a byproduct, 0:22:51.520 --> 0:22:54.240 and that creates the stinky poop smell. That's right. But 0:22:54.400 --> 0:22:59.639 apparently if it is really bad and they qualified quantified 0:22:59.640 --> 0:23:04.200 this as over above and beyond the normal stinky poop smell, 0:23:04.600 --> 0:23:08.440 if it could make a billy go puke very nice 0:23:08.440 --> 0:23:12.320 first blood reference, Um, it could be some other issues 0:23:12.359 --> 0:23:16.840 at play if it's really that bad. Malabsorption again, celiac crones, 0:23:17.600 --> 0:23:22.679 chronic pancreatitis, cystic fibrosis. Yeah, and I don't you know. 0:23:23.040 --> 0:23:25.400 I guess that's subjective. I think the key and all 0:23:25.440 --> 0:23:28.240 of this that I've read is look for big changes. 0:23:29.080 --> 0:23:31.960 So that's the key. Yeah. If if your poop is 0:23:32.000 --> 0:23:34.399 normally just pretty stinky, and then all of a sudden 0:23:34.440 --> 0:23:38.400 you are revolting yourself, then you could have something else 0:23:38.440 --> 0:23:41.240 going on. Or if your pet billy goat is just 0:23:41.320 --> 0:23:44.920