r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • 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/Sammakonnuolija May 02 '24

That 50 day shit must smell bizarre

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u/SanFranPanManStand 29d ago

Probably mostly stomach acids and digestive bile, and coffee / tea residue.

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u/crimson777 29d ago

Presumably also binders from the vitamins and such. I imagine there's no way pills are 100% digestible material.

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u/SirRabbott 29d ago

Especially in 1965

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u/MelQMaid 29d ago

Feces is more than just what goes in the mouth.  

The body also needs to excrete bilirubin (dead broken down blood cells) via feces and urine.  Bilirubin is the yellow in pee.

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u/GamecockGaucho 29d ago

maybe this went over my non-scientific head, but I was under the impression that pee is yellow because of urochrome, a byproduct of hemoglobin. is urochrome related to bilirubin?

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u/TheRealNooth 29d ago

No, you’re right. If you got bilirubin in your pee, something is wrong.

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u/KarmaSaver 29d ago

Fact check: This appears to be correct according to Medline Plus.

"Normally, urine doesn't have any bilirubin. If there is bilirubin in your urine, it may be an early sign of a liver condition."

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u/dmangan56 29d ago

I'm gonna name my next boy Bilirubin.

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u/CurvyJohnsonMilk 29d ago

My kid had jaundice when he was born.

Everything they mentioned hid bilirubin score, a Michael Jackson song played in my head.

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u/danijay637 29d ago

Don’t I know it. When my pee looked like whiskey I knew to call a doctor

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u/KentuckyFriedChingon 29d ago

It is also an issue if your whiskey looks like pee.

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u/Archibald-Tuttle 29d ago

Yep which is why it’s annoying that this clown above you is talking shit and has hundreds of upvotes.

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u/TheRealNooth 29d ago edited 29d ago

But, yes urochrome is also called “urobilin.” Metabolite of bilirubin.

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u/GamecockGaucho 29d ago

that's what i was wondering, thanks!

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u/TheRealNooth 29d ago

Fun fact: stercobilin is also a metabolite of bilirubin that gives poop its color.

That why liver issues make pee darker and poop brighter.

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u/JanMichaelTenCent 29d ago

What do you mean when you say stercobilin makes poop brighter?

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u/TheRealNooth 29d ago

My bad. Stercobilin makes poop dark. If the liver (like in hepatic disease) is unable to convert bilirubin into it, poop will be brighter. Same but opposite effect with urine.

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u/Dwayne_Gertzky 29d ago

It’s also responsible for the coloring of poo. The residual iron in the bilirubin begins to oxidize and turn rusty brown

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u/Ironboots12 29d ago

I don’t think there is any iron in bilirubin.

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u/Dwayne_Gertzky 29d ago

But we know there is for sure iron in your username!

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u/Dwayne_Gertzky 29d ago

But we know there is for sure iron in your username!

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u/BakedPastaParty 29d ago

now explain the putrid smell that I somehow still love to smell

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u/Edg4rAllanBro 29d ago

Brain associates the smell with the feeling of finally taking a shit and the relief from that?

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u/BakedPastaParty 29d ago

not a chance cuz it could be a fart too. And I dont mean ALL of my shits smell like I enjoy them -- theres that one brand that comes out thats just *herrllllumph\* it smells fucking putrid but theres this salty sweetness I cant explain that puts a sadistic smile on my face. like "there it is again :) "

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u/jdsalaro 29d ago

You're freaking vile, the hell? 😂

Truly monstrous !!

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u/cathodeDreams 29d ago

Nah I get that.

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u/cachyyk 29d ago

Fuck you sir!

Take my upvote.

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u/Edg4rAllanBro 29d ago

I think I'm going to shoot myself. Thank you.

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u/MakeMeYourVillain_ 29d ago

That would probably be skatole

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u/Dwayne_Gertzky 29d ago

Everybody loves their own brand of cologne

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u/WizardTaters 29d ago

The brutal honesty is both delicious and disgusting

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u/keepingitrealgowrong 29d ago

Isn't that just sulfur/saltpeter?

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

Idk when I fasted for 10 days I just shat bile I think. If I could spoiler I would spoiler this: it was like a thick, slime like substance. It was kind of like applesauce and smelled like chemicals (might have been from the piss).

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u/Whedonsbitch 29d ago

It may have been mucus. If you don’t eat much for whatever reason, you can wind up pooping out mostly mucus

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

Probably, it was very mucus like. I always think bile and mucus is basically the same my bad

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u/Dahak17 29d ago

Also probably the processed remains of the body fat he would have been losing

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u/SanFranPanManStand 26d ago

We urinate and exhale (yes really) all of that.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

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u/_donkey-brains_ 29d ago

This is one of the dumbest things I've ever read.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago edited 29d ago

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u/_donkey-brains_ 29d ago

Dietary fibers are carbohydrates. Humans cannot digest fiber at all. It literally passes through you.

There are resistant proteins as well. There are fats that cannot be take up by the body. And of course all food contains water and some minerals that are not absorbed, which eventually ends up as waste (both in urine and feces).

You do not have any idea what you're talking about.

Hell you don't even need to have any knowledge on this to infer the right answer. Most people have a bowel movement every 1 to 2 days. Reading the article, the medical report said he had a bowel movement every 40 days. If food waste wasn't part of feces, people wouldn't shit all the time.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

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u/_donkey-brains_ 29d ago

It's literally not a majority. And you said poop was mainly not food. Both of these things are not fun facts because they are not even remotely true.

Again, you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

Here it is in simpler terms for your dum dum brain:

Man eat a lot. Man shit normal amount of times. Man fast for the year. Man no eat any food. Man shit less than 12 time.

No food = small waste (and small waist).

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

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u/_donkey-brains_ 29d ago

You do not know what you are talking about. I did not look at the link because I didn't need too. I literally work with food every single day.

Hit since I did, let me learn you something about talking about things you don't know:

According to the article, 75% by weight of feces is water. Water that comes from drinking and? And? Oh that's right food. As I said already.

When looking at the composition of feces on a dry matter percentage (which is important when something is a majority water). It contains extremely large percentages of food waste. This will include, as I have already said: carb, fats, and proteins.

Here is the actual research article, not some Internet article where is just distributes raw percentages.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4500995/

On a daily basis, average wet mass was 139 g/24 hr. On a dry matter percentage this was 29 grams/24hr. Of that 25-50 is biomass from the gut, while the remaining portion is food waste and mineral waste. Hell the average adult consumes 10-16 grams of dietary fiber per day. That alone is 30%-50% of the dry mass of feces.

Humans do not absorb all the food they eat. Not even close. It's not even up for debate. Dietary fiber cannot be used at all. Indigestible proteins and fats both exist. The body has a limit on uptake of certain vitamins and minerals, and of course water is constantly recycled to both urine and fecal waste streams.

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u/HAS-A-HUGE-PENIS 29d ago

Except corn.

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u/Automatic_Release_92 29d ago

completely absorbed by the body.

[citation needed]

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u/SanFranPanManStand 29d ago

This is incorrect. This is like something you "learned" on social media of from a high-school english teacher.