How does it work that we eat few times a day, but usually we poop only once?

Is the colon somehow programmed to buffer the waste until the time is up and then dumps it all further?

Got this thought when observing my dog who eats twice a day (morning and evening) and more or less poops twice a day (morning and evening).

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I’m no poopologist, but I’ll give it a shot!

    Your output, is incredibly, incredibly, incredibly, dependent on your input.

    People who eat a strict carnivore diet, famously, have very little and infrequent poops.

    People who have a fiber-rich diet, and eat spicy food, think about curries, have frequent and powerful poops.

    People who eat a lot of fat, more fat than they can process, will have more fatty poops. In fact, this is one way to determine if you are eating enough fat in your diet, if your poop is dry and clumpy, you need more fat. If your poop is fatty, you need less fat

    All of this is also moderated by your gut biome, whether it’s changing or fed. If you make any serious diet changes, you can expect an odd pooping schedule for the first week or two. Until your gut biome completely adjusts. I’ve seen a paper where it indicates total gut biome adjustment to a radically new diet can take up to 9 months

    A lot of modern processed food, in order to try to be “healthier”, is difficult, or not impossible, for the body to process. That means it goes from the input to the output very quickly. Lower transit time, is healthier because you’re absorbing less of the nutrients when you’re eating a bad diet, but it means more poop

    On the whole: fat, and protein, are almost totally absorbed by the stomach. Grains, carbohydrates, fiber, anything from a plant, The domain of the intestine… And since these are not perfectly absorbed, they have more outputs.

    Fun fact, poop is brownish, because that is your old blood cells getting removed!!!