Welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast,. On today's episode I'm going to

discuss something that may be a little uncomfortable for some people to talk about.

Yes, I'm talking about what goes on in the bathroom.

Poop.

But even if bathroom talk can put you outside your comfort zone and you can quit

giggling right now. I promise you're going to learn a lot in this episode.

We're going to talk about what your poop can tell you about your health and what a healthy poop looks like,

the causes of constipation, bloating, and diarrhea,

and why you might never need to use toilet paper again.

Don't believe me?

Well, listen in and find out as we talk all about poop.

So, topic one, what exactly is poop? Now, what's fascinating to most people is we've always been told

that our bowel movement is basically unused food particles that weren't absorbed from our small intestine and large

intestine and believe it or not I was taught that in medical school.

And that was before we actually learned about the microbiome.

And for those of you who have listened to me, the microbiome is those hundreds of trillions of bacteria, about four to five pounds

of bacteria, that live in your primarily colon but also in your small bowel and there's even some

that live in your stomach. So the vast majority of what comes out of your rare end is actually living bacteria.

And that's what's so interesting.

It is the vast majority is not residual things that you ate.

It's the bacteria that ate what you ate.

Now why didn't we know that?

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