In ancient Rome, doctors like Galen literally tasted their patients’ poop to diagnose illness. Hard pass. Today, we have stool charts like the Bristol Stool Scale—a seven-point guide that doctors use to classify your output.
And here’s a wild one: the average person produces about one pound of feces per day. Over a lifetime, that’s roughly the weight of a small car. You are a production factory.
Your poop’s color tells stories: brown is from bile and bacteria; green means rapid transit (maybe too much spinach); yellow might mean fat malabsorption—time to call your doc.
In Japan, there’s a museum called the Unko Museum (Poop Museum) where everything is shaped like smiling poop. It’s colorful, kitschy, and a reminder that even the grossest things can be a little joyful.
