The Welcome everybody to another episode of Dr. Man, Dr. Mike's medical podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Mike.

As always, joined by my co-host, Shrek. How are you, Shrek?

I recently bought a Mac Pro. I was in the shop,

Apple store, buying the Mac Pro, and I passed wind. I thought there's not a great place to do it.

They don't have Windows. Today, Matt, on topic.

That's why I did it.

That's why I did it.

Talking about using those pipes for the release of contents from your bowel.

We're talking about defecation, the wonderful physiological mechanisms associated with defecation.

It seems easy defecation because we do it all the time.

You know, you do it four to eight times a day. You know, most of us do it once a day.

It's probably...

Probably on three is diarrhea.

By definition?

Yeah, by definition.

Oh, okay. Interesting. Even if it's a solid stall, or are you saying that you exceed

200-ish grams, it's still considered diarrhea. Wow, there you go. Listen to our most recent episode

on diarrhea. So we're keeping to our poo focus and we're talking about the process of defecation, which effectively

is the removal of contents within the bowel out through the anus. I think everybody knows

what defecation is. End of episode. The end. But it's actually super complex. I think a lot of us

take it for granted and I think some of us don't take it for granted

when we accidentally poo our pants because we have two gatekeepers involved in maintaining

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