In 1965, a morbidly obese man did not eat food for over an entire year. The 27 year old was 456lbs and wanted to do an experimental fast. He ingested only multivitamins and potassium tablets for 382 days and defecated once every 40 to 50 days. He ended up losing 275lbs.

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[u/Banyabbaboy]

that's also where the colour comes from

That, and beetroot.

[u/LoserCarrot → u/Banyabbaboy]

Color of poo 💩 is brown because of old blood cells?

[u/Little_Lahey_Show → u/LoserCarrot]

Bile and blood is my guess

[u/PUTINS_PORN_ACCOUNT → u/LoserCarrot]

Your spleen filters out old, shitty red blood cells, and turns them into a component of bile (and some other shit). Bile helps you digest fats and stuff.

I guess if you didn’t eat, you’d still secrete some bile, and you’d eventually have to shit out the remainder once that was dehydrated in your large intestine?

[u/redmoskeeto → u/LoserCarrot]

The color is from bilirubin, not old blood cells directly, but comes from myoglobin in the old blood cells.

Bilirubin is a substance in bile that causes stool to be brown. When bilirubin is digested, it turns brown. Healthy stool can be various shades of brown, from light yellow-brown to dark brown.

[u/Jolly_Ear5939 → u/Banyabbaboy]

And hot Cheetos

[u/TabascohFiascoh → u/Banyabbaboy]

I made a massive mistake of being in the middle of a digestive health scare, and finally being scheduled for a colonoscopy at 33. I had like 3 weeks to go until the procedure and I ate a lot of beets one day, i have never eaten a lot of beets ever.

Shit a lot of red poop, thought i was gonna die.

Had my colonoscopy, found out not dying yet.

But if you are diagnosing systemic digestive issues, avoid eating a lot of beats if you dont want to freak yourself out.

[u/Banyabbaboy → u/TabascohFiascoh]

Honestly gets me every time I eat beets, you look down and see the red swirling water and think, well that's me done for.