i find that hard to believe, i could see a significant portion like 30%, but surely a lot of it is also cells from the body being flushed out, and just straight up the part of our food that didn’t get absorbed? Like the whole reason we need fibre is so it goes through the digestive system and makes the poo have a good consistency…
Edit: yeah the abstract says that 55% of the solids in poo is bacteria (17% fibre, and 24% other soluble stuff. Also this is in 9 people eating a british diet which isn’t exactly famous for being high in fibre…), so yes technically poo is mostly bacteria but only if you ignore the water and then it’s only barely a majority of the solid matter. Still interesting that it’s that high of a percentage, though.
90% sounds about right. We’re two legged supports for our bacteria. Without us it would take them ages to go places. That’s why we shit at least once a day. Toilets are our bacteria’s malediction.
Also you have to breathe more from the belly.
Edit: those lazy oxygen deniers are squatting the guts of all the land dwelling animals, as it protects them against the new (relatively) toxic atmosphere. We should probably encourage them to face their fear and discover the world. Diarrhoea for all, that’s what I say!
Plenty of anaerobic bacteria topside! Go take a dump. That smell is mostly their waste products.
Fun fact: Poop is mostly bacteria. Had a gut surgeon tell me it was 90%.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7359576/
i find that hard to believe, i could see a significant portion like 30%, but surely a lot of it is also cells from the body being flushed out, and just straight up the part of our food that didn’t get absorbed? Like the whole reason we need fibre is so it goes through the digestive system and makes the poo have a good consistency…
Edit: yeah the abstract says that 55% of the solids in poo is bacteria (17% fibre, and 24% other soluble stuff. Also this is in 9 people eating a british diet which isn’t exactly famous for being high in fibre…), so yes technically poo is mostly bacteria but only if you ignore the water and then it’s only barely a majority of the solid matter. Still interesting that it’s that high of a percentage, though.
90% sounds about right. We’re two legged supports for our bacteria. Without us it would take them ages to go places. That’s why we shit at least once a day. Toilets are our bacteria’s malediction.
Also you have to breathe more from the belly.
Edit: those lazy oxygen deniers are squatting the guts of all the land dwelling animals, as it protects them against the new (relatively) toxic atmosphere. We should probably encourage them to face their fear and discover the world. Diarrhoea for all, that’s what I say!
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
Animals are pooping inside of me?!