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  • (slow nonchalant music)

  • - Do you think you can be sexy

  • and have diarrhea at the same time?

  • - Not while you're having the diarrhea, no.

  • - I'm here today with Dr. Deleve, who is a poop expert,

  • also known as a gastroenterologist, right?

  • - Yes

  • - Okay, and what does that mean exactly?

  • - That's a doctor who takes care of people

  • who have problems with their swallowing,

  • their stomach, or their guts.

  • - Okay, so you see a lot of poop.

  • - See a lot of poop.

  • - I asked my coworkers to send me pictures of their poop.

  • And they did and it was so gross

  • that I could not show them to you.

  • (laughing)

  • I questioned my sanity, looking at my coworkers' poops.

  • Then what I had them do is describe them

  • to an artist who made some artist-renderings.

  • I was wondering if you could grade the poops.

  • - Absolutely.

  • - Here we have this one.

  • - Yeah, those are little pebble-like

  • stools and the reason they're like that

  • is because the poop is taking too long to get through

  • the gut so it's getting dried out.

  • That's a sign of constipation.

  • - That's one person who I guess was constipated.

  • - This is a poop that's not the ideal poop

  • but it's still within the normal range.

  • It's slightly constipated,

  • it's rocks kind of congregated into a sausage

  • and that's a little more on the constipated side

  • than a smooth sausage would be.

  • Ah, the perfect sausage.

  • That's a log.

  • If you want a stool that looks like the ideal poop,

  • this is the ideal poop.

  • - This is it, whoever gave me this one,

  • I think it was you (bleep), you got the perfect poop.

  • - That's a green poop.

  • - [Voiceover] So green is okay?

  • - [Voiceover] Green is a perfect poop.

  • - Yeah?

  • - Normal is brown, green, or yellow.

  • That's all normal.

  • - We got this one.

  • - That's a mushier stool, that looks like it's heading

  • towards diarrhea when you're getting these

  • little flakes that are kind of watery at the edges.

  • That suggests that you're developing

  • a looser stool if that's not your normal pattern.

  • Then you have to wonder about dietary things

  • you might be ingesting like lactose,

  • if you're lactose-intolerant,

  • or fructose, if you're fructose-intolerant.

  • - Too many dried fruits?

  • - Too many dried fruits, too much fruit juice.

  • - Alright, so...

  • - That's a very nicely shaped log with some corn in it.

  • That's perfectly normal.

  • - Why do we see it, why does it just come out as corn?

  • - It's not well digested.

  • It travels through you and that's probably a good thing,

  • it means your transit time from mouth

  • to the toilet bowl is fast.

  • - This is (bleep).

  • - I've not really seen a Mt. Everest-looking stool

  • but it looks to me like this came out more like

  • toothpaste and again it's a softer stool.

  • Some people have one loose stool a day.

  • If that's your normal pattern, that can be okay.

  • - How do you know when you're

  • having a poop that's problematic?

  • - You probably should see a doctor if

  • what you're normally doing suddenly changes.

  • You should see a doctor if your stools

  • are suddenly coming out pencil-thin.

  • Consistently, not one day,

  • but consistently coming out really thin.

  • If it's coming out really funny colors like

  • pitch-black or bloody or white.

  • - I'm not afraid to talk about poop,

  • you certainly are not afraid to talk about poop,

  • it's your career.

  • Why do you think people are so

  • uncomfortable discussing this?

  • - It's a mystery to me why people are

  • as jittery about talking about poop as they are.

  • I think it's because it stinks and people just don't

  • like talking about bodily functions that stink.

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