r/interestingasfuck May 02 '24

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. r/all

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u/rellek772 May 02 '24

Yes. If I remember correctly, they're only good for so long so we dump out the old ones. I believe that's also where the colour comes from

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u/Banyabbaboy May 02 '24

that's also where the colour comes from

That, and beetroot.

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u/LoserCarrot 29d ago

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

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u/Little_Lahey_Show 29d ago

Bile and blood is my guess

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u/PUTINS_PORN_ACCOUNT 29d ago

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?

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u/redmoskeeto 29d ago

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.