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Admittedly, “So, how is your poop...” is probably never going to become a favorite topic of food conversations ..but it is important to talk from an early age because the type of poop determines your health. Everyone poops. When you have a good poop you will feel better but when you couldn't you feel incomplete. I promise you after you read this blog you will not only be able to poo easier and healthier, you will naturally feel good about one of your body’s most important daily “productions.” 😂

Let us start the poop lessons 

Your poop depends on the food you eat. Digestions start with your mouth, the number of times you chew, more saliva gets mixed with food(which we will refer to as goop) which makes it easier for the stomach to digest.

"The number of times you chew it would be easier for the stomach to digest"

Your stomach is like a blender- churning and grinding the food until the stomach decides, with the help of messages from other parts of the gut, that the goop is ready to move to the next stop – your small intestines. The small intestine is the largest part of your intestinal tract where the food being digested spends most of its time because most of the nutrients are absorbed into the bloodstream which is used for growth, energy, and repair. As the food passes along, the smart cells lining the intestine are saying to one another, “We need that carb...we need that fat...we need that protein...we need that vitamin,” and so on, and one by one they open doors to grab the nutrient they need. They take it in, and further disassemble it into smaller particles and molecules, and then deliver it into the vast vascular highway surrounding the gut to deposit the needed nutrients throughout the body.

 

As the food being processed travels downward, the gallbladder releases digestive juices that help break down the stomach-blended food into smaller particles for digestion. The gallbladder supplies a green fluid called bile to dissolve fats. Because of this green bile, the goop starts out green in the small intestine and, as the bile is recycled, the goop turns brown by the time it reaches the large intestine. (Because babies have a faster “transit time”—the time it takes for the goop to become poop—an occasional “green poop” comes.) After the small intestine has extracted everything it needs from the digested food, what’s leftover travels onto where poop is made—the large intestine. The large intestine would say, “We live on your leftovers. Down here we digest what you couldn’t up there.”  And it’s the process of recycling this waste that creates poop.

Ever wonder why soon after you eat you get the urge to poo?

There is a nerve pathway going from the stomach to the colon. When your stomach gets full, it sends a neurochemical message to the colon saying, “Prepare to evacuate—there is a whole new meal coming down,” and the colon obliges.

What's a microbiome?

If you ask me for one word that would determine healthy poop it would be the microbiome. It resides on the lining of a large intestine and takes the leftover food that your small intestine couldn’t digest, and extract even more nutrients and convert the rest into poop. So to simplify, better your microbiome, better the poop. They are very important because:

• Make nutrients your body needs
•  Grow a non-leaky gut lining                          • Defend against harmful bacteria that enter the gut
•  Help prevent allergies                                    • Help prevent intestinal illnesses
•  Ease pains in the gut                                      • Lower risk of colorectal cancer
•  Help keep the body lean 
• Balance the immune system                           • Mellow your moods

Fun fact: if you put all microbiome in a jar it would weigh around three pounds, making it one of the largest “organs” in your body.

 

PICTURE OF A PERFECT POOP:

  

• Consistency:semi-soft  
• Color: brown
• Feeling: easy to pass and should feel urge to go 
• Sinks rather than floats    

BEST FOODS TO MAKE BETTER POOP 

• Apples
• Bananas   
• Garlic
• Ginger
• Green beans
• Lentils
• Oats
• Onions
• Plums
• Pomegranates
• Pears
 

 This is a work of fiction. Any similarities to poop living or dead, is purely coincidental😂Meet you in the next poop class