Rover agrees!
Posted on 07/08/2025 6:06:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A study published in July 2024 investigated how often 1,425 people went number two, and compared those stats to their demographic, genetic, and health data.
Pooping too often or too rarely were both associated with different underlying health issues, while the healthiest participants reported pooping once or twice a day – a 'Goldilocks zone' of bowel movement frequency.
The study, led by a team from the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), investigated the bathroom habits of people who were "generally healthy" – that is, with no history of kidney or gut issues like kidney disease, irritable bowel syndrome, or Crohn's disease.
These participants self-reported how often they dropped the kids off at the pool, and the researchers organized them into four categories: constipation for those reporting one or two bowel movements per week; low-normal for three to six movements per week; high-normal for one to three movements per day; and diarrhea for four or more watery stools per day.
The researchers also analyzed patients' blood metabolites and chemistry, their genetics, and the gut microbes present in their stool samples. The team then looked for possible associations between bowel movement frequency and these health markers, as well as other factors like their age and sex.
In general, those who reported less frequent bowel movements tended to be women, younger, and with a lower body mass index (BMI). But even accounting for these factors, people with constipation or diarrhea showed clear links to underlying health issues.
Bacteria usually found in the upper gastrointestinal tract were more common in stool samples from participants with diarrhea. Their blood samples, meanwhile, showed biomarkers associated with liver damage.
Stool samples from people with less frequent bowel movements had higher levels of bacteria associated with protein fermentation. This is a known hazard from constipation.
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There’s actually a wall chart (The Bristol Stool Chart).
Some joker put one in the bathroom at work a while back.
Poop jokes aren’t my favorite, but they are a solid number two
I see what you did there.
Newsflash: People with Irritable Bowel Sydrome more frequently have diarrhea!
As a teenager growing up in Vancouver, Washington, me and my friends would cruise over to Portland and laugh at the bums. One day we pulled up to a wino and my buddy asked him if drinking all that wine gave him the shits?
The wino looked at us and said, son, I ain’t seen a turd in 30 years.
I refer to it as moving the mail, but I like this phrase better.
Your comment had me laughing out loud because I’ve been there and felt the exact same way! I have got to show this to my husband. This thread is hysterical.
Rover agrees!
My cat ran away for 36 hours. No poop when she got home. Vet said she was without water for that long, gave her a $600 enema, told me to put 1/4 teaspoon of Miralax in her dinner every night. Works like a charm. Tried not putting it in, and no poop. Guess this will go on forever.
Moral of story: If you don’t poop enough, take Miralax every night until you do.
“These participants self-reported how often they dropped the kids off at the pool”
Is this a common euphemism? I am not familiar with it.
She is gonna make a lot of enemas if she keeps alienating people like that.
Snort.
You know how you look at some people and wish you had their job.
Being a poo researcher, not so much.
I keep getting the “pink salt trick” on rumble.
Came back expecting this thread to have been memory holed, but it has been bumped to the top. Oh well,
Thomas Crapper was an English plumber and businessman. He founded Thomas Crapper & Co in London, a plumbing equipment company. His notability with regard to toilets has often been overstated, mostly due to the publication in 1969 of a tongue-in-cheek biography by New Zealand satirist Wallace Reyburn. Crapper held nine patents, three of them for water closet improvements such as the floating ballcock.
Post of the day!!! ROFLMAO
Stay out of my bathroom!
Has anyone else tried those complimentary pink mints in the mens room?
I go once a week and it’s an ordeal
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