BODY STUFF: Why are we so awkward about poop?
How to Be a Better Human
TED
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
When most people think about poop, they think about shame and embarrassment. It’s something they don’t want to talk about and that prevents us from learning things—like the number of times a day we should be going number two—that can keep us healthy! On this episode, Dr. Jen Gunter tells us why some of the things we’ve been told about poop are a load of crap, what makes the gut the “second brain” of the body, and how what you eat goes from food to feces. By the end, you’ll know everything you need to achieve “poophoria.” This is an episode of Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter, another podcast from the TED Audio Collective. To hear more episodes, find and follow Body Stuff wherever you're listening to this.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
| 0:02.0 | Caulctive. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello, this is Chris Duffy, host of How to Be a Better Human. |
| 0:12.0 | This week, instead of an episode of our show, we are going to play you an episode from one of our podcast siblings, another show from the Ted Audio Collective, body stuff with Jen Gunter. This is a fantastic new podcast |
| 0:25.0 | that's coming out and we think you'll really like it which is why we're gonna play |
| 0:28.0 | an episode of it on our feed here and if you do you can subscribe to body stuff |
| 0:31.9 | with Jen Gunter |
| 0:32.6 | and check out more episodes like that. |
| 0:34.8 | We do the same thing a couple weeks ago |
| 0:36.5 | with an episode of Work Life with Adam Grant. |
| 0:38.6 | And we'll be periodically showing off other podcasts |
| 0:42.1 | and the podcast family. I hope that you enjoy and we will be |
| 0:45.8 | back with a new episode of How to Be a Better Human next week. |
| 0:52.3 | When we're kids we have a beautiful gift. Why just poop smell bad? Because of it things inside. |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah, like diseases and... It's diseases. We can talk freely and happily about something we all make. |
| 1:15.0 | Poop. |
| 1:17.0 | I've had red poop and green poop. |
| 1:19.0 | But when we get older, all that laughter turns into embarrassment. |
| 1:27.0 | So when we have questions or concerns about our poop, |
| 1:31.0 | Why is it hard for me to go? Does my poop smell really bad? |
| 1:35.8 | Am I pooping the wrong way? Do I not poop enough? Am I booping too much? Am I |
| 1:39.4 | constipated? What does that even mean? We often let those questions fester and myths can |
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