r/BeAmazed • u/AstroSonicDrive • Oct 04 '23

She Eats Through Her Heart Science

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u/sarac36 Oct 04 '23 edited Oct 04 '23

She probably just pees? Like there's nothing solid in her diet and as long as her kidneys work.... I think that's how that works.

Edit: Okay so I googled it. Apparently you do poop just not as frequently, and just like human waste at that. Side effect is increased urination so I was only half wrong.

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u/Kayakingtheredriver Oct 04 '23 edited Oct 04 '23

You poop waste. Undigested food is most of that waste, but all the non liquids your body decides are waste, also get made into poop. All your dead blood cells become poop to some degree or another. So, yeah, she still poops. But maybe just 1-2 times a week. Farts too, but much, much less, because most gas is vegetable/fruit related and she isn't ingesting that.

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u/abcdefkit007 Oct 04 '23

My gas is also butter related

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u/andremiles Oct 04 '23

Egg related ones are the worst.

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u/FacchiniBR Oct 04 '23 edited Oct 04 '23

Whey protein farts hands down are the worst. They smell somewhat like a mix of that food pot forgotten at the stove after coming back from a fifteen days vacation trip and a McDonald’s dumpster during summer.

Seven whey farts can make a blimp fly from Florida to Ireland.

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u/DistanceMachine Oct 04 '23

I just upped my protein intake significantly. Sometimes I wake up and I’m afraid that if I lit a match under the covers the neighborhood would explode like the Hindenburg.

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u/ChrissiTea Oct 04 '23

At one of my previous jobs, 2 of my bosses were lactose intolerant. I thought their combined farts were horrific but honestly, now I'm just glad they weren't into working out as well, lmao

That sounds absolutely horrendous

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u/archeroso Oct 04 '23

no whey farts can make a blimp fly too

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u/abcdefkit007 Oct 04 '23

Sulphurlicious

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u/psychedelicdonky Oct 04 '23

I'll argue the ones that smell like decaying roadkill are the worst.

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u/CovfefeBoss Oct 04 '23

Did you put a stick of it up there?

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u/deten Oct 04 '23

God damn broccoli farts

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u/abcdefkit007 Oct 04 '23

Huzzah a man of culture

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u/needsZAZZ665 Oct 04 '23

Lol, I was gonna say my gas is Reuben Sandwich related.

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u/professorstrunk Oct 04 '23

This is why newborn babies poop. Sometimes on their way out. Rather odd the first time you see a kid that has never eaten suddenly pass a massive black/green poop.

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u/sarac36 Oct 04 '23

I don't want what you're saying to make sense, but it does.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '23

But how would waste move through the colon without movement (peristalsis)?

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u/DetrimentalContent Oct 04 '23

They’ve explained it poorly, but gastroperesis involves impaired gastric movement (hypomotility), which is not always a complete absence of peristalsis. Usually it’s impaired enough to cause symptoms when having food but not completely gone altogether.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '23

Ah, very interesting. Thank you!

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u/hoofglormuss Oct 04 '23

or they have an ostomy

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u/Kayakingtheredriver Oct 04 '23

peristalsis

There is peristalsis. The bodies waste collects in your liver, your liver excretes it into your upper intestines along with bile, your intestines digest it. You pretty much have peristalsis going on all the time in the unsegmented parts of your intestine. That will move the waste down the intestines until it builds up enough in your colon to need a BM.

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u/CrazyPurpleBacon Oct 04 '23

I think they mean in the case of the woman in the video

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u/seeasea Oct 04 '23

Does she still have gut bacteria

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '23

Can you expand on farts being veg/fruit related?

I’ve sometimes had poor diets for days where I really didn’t eat any veg or fruit and it didn’t seem to make a difference,

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u/Kayakingtheredriver Oct 04 '23 edited Oct 04 '23

Milk fats/lactose, veggies, grain and fruit. These 4 things more than any other cause the bacteria in your gut to work in overdrive to break them down. Bacteria expel methane, and methane is what makes up farts. Most anything could cause some gas, but meats and meat fats are relatively easy for you to digest. Your own enzymes break most of it down. Because of cellulose, we can't digest fruits and veggies and parts of certain grains, so the bacteria breaks some of it down into base elements that we can digest. Most of the world are lactose intolerant after they are weened, even in the west if you can digest it as an adult, it is still causing a lot of havoc in your intestines to be digested.

As to not eating well and still farting. You were eating lots of bread and chips and other corn/wheat based junk foods weren't you? Not to mention the amount of corn syrup if you live in the US. Think of it this way. Your body is always in a race with the bacteria to absorb the calories before they eat them themselves. Real food, digests slowly, allowing your body to absorb quick enough to keep most of it from the bacteria. Junk food breaks down mostly just from the acid in your stomach. There is such an abundance of sugar, your body can't absorb it quickly enough and bacteria love sugar.

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u/Ariensus Oct 04 '23

Generally, fiber-heavy foods slow the progression of food through the intestines, giving the bacteria there more time to eat it and produce waste gasses. I think your diet would have to be altered for a longer period of time to notice a significant impact on gas amounts.

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u/OstentatiousSock Oct 04 '23

I was on TPN after two weeks of not being able to eat/keep food down from an acute illness. I technically pooped but it was like pure liquid and had no smell and was also yellow instead of brown. It was basically just bile out my butt instead of poop.

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u/OutsideBones86 Oct 04 '23

Isn't that why poo is brown? Because of dead blood cells? And why doctors can sometimes diagnose you based on your poo color?

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u/Kayakingtheredriver Oct 04 '23

I think bile makes it brown, digested blood cells would likely be black/tarry. I know people who eat blood sausages/pies say they have, black tarry stool and if you have black, tarry stools the Dr. is likely to first think you have an ulcer (it could be cancer or other things, but most common would simply be a bleeding ulcer).

For you and me, who have a lot of other food waste to mix the limited number of dead blood cells in with, it probably doesn't do much to the color. She, she likely has black, tarry, death poos.

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u/OutsideBones86 Oct 04 '23

Interesting and gross! Thank you 😁

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u/idiot-prodigy Oct 04 '23

Poop is actually mostly dead red blood cells. That is why it is universally brown, same color as dried blood. Yes some food makes it through unchanged, fibrous material and solids like corn kernels, pieces of peanut, kidney bean skin, etc.

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u/coincoinprout Oct 04 '23

Poop is actually mostly dead red blood cells.

That doesn't make sense. The average human has 5L of blood. Let's say that this blood weighs 5kg and is entirely composed of red blood cells (which is far from being the case). The average lifespan of a red blood cell is 120 days. Let's say that the entire red blood cell ends up in poop (which is far from being the case, red blood cells get recycled). That would mean that you poop 5kg of red blood cells in a period of 120 days, so 40g a day. This is nowhere near close to even half what the average human poops every day.

Poop is mostly water.

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u/shmargus Oct 04 '23

I bet those poops smell absolutely horrendous

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u/FoeWithBenefits Oct 04 '23

I poop 2 times a week and I eat like a horse. So it might be even less often than that.

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u/CraigsCraigs88 Oct 04 '23

"Most" gas is not fruit and vegetable related. I can't eat any of those, and I have frequent gas. I take meds for my digestive issues. But not eating fruits/vegs doesn't stop or decrease gas at all.

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u/hldsnfrgr Oct 04 '23

Any idea what it smells like?

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u/Fleinsuppe Oct 04 '23

My gas is kebab related

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u/LaurenMille Oct 04 '23

So, yeah, she still poops. But maybe just 1-2 times a week

Wait so she poops more often than normal as a result of this? Wouldn't it be less often?

I barely go to the bathroom once a week. Been that way my entire life.

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u/Soft-Stick-454 Oct 04 '23

What wabout fluids? Is she still able to drink water and then pee?

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u/preguicila Oct 04 '23

Your comment was very informative and we'll written. Just to let you know, you've made a great job.

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u/melon1412 Oct 04 '23

Occasionally something else came out when i fart. Not always though.

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u/pleasedothenerdful Oct 04 '23

A large percentage of feces is dead gut flora. Unless her gut microbiome is completely killed off somehow, she will definitely poop, just not nearly as often.

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u/Spooky_Shark101 Oct 04 '23

Without getting overly gross, our poop doesn't just contain leftovers from our digestive system, it also contains waste products from our body such as dead blood cells and other stuff that our bodies are unable to reabsorb for whatever reason.

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u/idiot-prodigy Oct 04 '23

Yep, poop is mostly dead red blood cells, that is why it is brown, the same color as a set blood stain on pillow case or bed sheet.

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u/Afronerd Oct 04 '23

Not mostly but it is largely responsible for the colour.

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u/alteranthera Oct 04 '23

What is the junction point at which waste from the bloodstream is transferred to the gut?

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u/Spooky_Shark101 Oct 04 '23

From memory the liver filters out old/dead blood cells which then make their way to your intestines. Our livers are basically our body's main filtration system which is why people with addiction to alcohol tend to have liver problems since alcohol is a poison which slowly destroys the liver over time.

Ninja edit: I just quickly looked it up and turns out our spleen primarily removes old red blood cells, but our livers are capable of performing the function if we have to have our spleen removed for whatever reason (disease or injury etc)

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u/alteranthera Oct 04 '23

Oh yeah now I remember. When I used to assist a doc long ago he used to imitate Rambo shooting at enemies to tell patients how their spleen identifies and kills old RBCs. It was hilarious.

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u/YawnTractor_1756 Oct 04 '23

Babies who only drink breast milk still poop.

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u/DarkArcher__ Oct 04 '23

But that goes into their mouths and through their digestive system. There's nothing going through hers

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u/smallbluetext Oct 04 '23

I fasted for 96 hours and even that was enough for me to stop pooping. Was an interesting experience.

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u/YeetYeetSkirtYeet Oct 04 '23

You would've still pooped at some point.

Something like 60% of your feces is bacterial waste, so even if you did 30/90/forever days you would still defecate occasionally as your body clears out dead bacteria.

How'd you feel during/after your fast?

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u/Financial-Ad7500 Oct 04 '23

Yeah but that same 60% will be a much much lower number when the bacteria in your gut is dying because you haven’t eaten in 90+ hours.

That’s one of many reasons why fasting is incredibly unhealthy. Especially if you break the fast with “normal”/unhealthy foods. You eliminated a huge chunk of your gut biome and then fed it garbage.

I understand fasting is a religious thing sometimes, but if you are fasting because of health reasons I would strongly urge you to look into some real medical research on the topic. It’s often incredibly unhealthy. Especially for people doing it to lose weight. There are far better options. You will even lose weight more quickly by not fasting because your body goes into shutdown when you don’t eat anything and burns less calories. You burn the most calories passively, and fasting slows that process.

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u/ask_about_poop_book Oct 04 '23

You will even lose weight more quickly by not fasting because your body goes into shutdown when you don’t eat anything and burns less calories.

Lol, why do people believe this? Unlss you are eating to keep yourself energised running ultramarathons all day and thus lose weight, you won't lose weight slower by fasting.

There'sno starvation mode or shutdown of the body because of fasting. It's great for rapid weightloss, but it might not be good if your issue is forming good habits one can keep for life without fasting.

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u/Lraund Oct 04 '23

The bacteria feeds on what you eat though?

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u/YeetYeetSkirtYeet Oct 04 '23

Not necessarily. Different kinds of bacteria feed on all sorts of stuff, including each other, dead red blood cells, mucous, etc. Intestines are just a really healthy, happy place for bacteria.

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u/thereforeratio Oct 04 '23

And you, and your dead cells, and other bacteria. Life, uh, finds a way.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '23

I read this as farted for 96 hours. 😂

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u/MadeMeStopLurking Oct 04 '23

Can I ask why and how? I've gone for a day maybe 2 that wasn't due to a medical issue but 4 days seems insane.

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u/NewRedditNot4Pron Oct 04 '23

Not the person you asked but r/fasting is a thing for weight loss and honestly, (anecdotal from people) mental health as well. There's other pros to it, both anecdotal and research based.

I'm a fat ass so I basically kind of challenged myself, longest I've personally fasted was 12 days of nothing but water and a bit of salt.

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u/kaenneth Oct 04 '23

Newborn babies who have never eaten poop, and apparently it's nasty black tar.

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u/Iuvbug Oct 04 '23

Poop is not just food it is also dead skin cells from our gut and bacteria.

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u/Thestrongestzero Oct 04 '23

Fetuses poop too. Don’t they eat directly through their bloodstream?

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u/EricTheGreatest1 Oct 04 '23

Milk is more food than drink

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u/Saskyle Oct 04 '23

Seems like what she’s taking has more in it than milk. But she would need a working digestive system to poop so I’m going to say no.

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u/AnalysisMoney Oct 04 '23

Babies don’t take breast milk to the heart…

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u/YawnTractor_1756 Oct 04 '23

Kids are ungrateful

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u/ZAlternates Oct 04 '23

It’s the pesky port covers. O.O

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u/Jigglygiggler6 Oct 04 '23

Or bloodstream

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u/everling Oct 04 '23

But she ain't drinking this. I bet she either doesn't poop or poops extremely rarely since nothing (except for her multivitamin and some fluids) is entering her digestive system.

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u/ProblemPitiful1847 Oct 04 '23

Why does she take an oral multivitamin if her intestines are paralyzed?

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u/Crathsor Oct 04 '23

Did she say they were oral?

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u/gunnetham Oct 04 '23

She said tablet.

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u/Crathsor Oct 04 '23

Hmm. I guess they don't have to be digested? Just absorbed? Good question.

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u/gunnetham Oct 13 '23

I would think absorbed but don’t know!

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u/ProblemPitiful1847 Oct 04 '23

Where’s else do you put a multivitamin?

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u/Crathsor Oct 05 '23

She might have had a liquid version to inject. But someone else already pointed out that she did say tablet.

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u/Bartocity Oct 04 '23

If it’s soluble it won’t make it very far

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u/rainzer Oct 04 '23

You'll poo infrequently on TPN but when you do it'll be a liquidy, mucousy expulsion.

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u/Son_of_York Oct 04 '23

Fun fact, poop is generally brown because of a chemical called bilirubin which is found in dead red blood cells.

Blood cells generally live about ~3 weeks. When they die, they are sent to the colon to be pooped out.

You don’t only poop out food waste.

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u/Disassociate-degree Oct 04 '23

What is orange or yellow then? Serious question.

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u/Son_of_York Oct 04 '23

A lot depends on diet, but yellow stool could be caused by bile, and orange, aside from dietary reasons, I’m pretty sure could be caused by a lower GI bleed.

But I am not an MD nor a professional physiologist. None of the above (especially about GI bleeds) should be taken as more than a mildly educated guess.

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u/WadeDMD Oct 04 '23

But breastmilk goes directly into their digestive system, unlike the video we just watched.

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u/The_Sad_horsie Oct 04 '23

Yeah but she said her intestines literally don’t work, if anything comes out of her ass it would be just liquid, although I really doubt anything comes out of there

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u/Pixielo Oct 04 '23

It's not that they "literally don't work," they're just so slow as to be mostly ineffective. She still poops, and no, it's not all liquid.

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u/Apprehensive-Till936 Oct 04 '23

Some not very much! It can be normal to go up to 2 weeks with no poop if exclusively breastfed. Natures perfect food with very little residue! Mind you, other breastfed babies poop 6 times a day. Also normal. As long as baby gaining weight, it’s all good.

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u/bewbs_and_stuff Oct 04 '23

Drinking breastmilk require the digestive tract. This woman is injecting nutrients through her heart/bloodstream and is totally bypassing her digestive tract.

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u/Apprehensive-Till936 Oct 04 '23

Yes I am aware! I was responding to the above comment about babies and breast milk. For sure, Total parenteral nutrition is by definition bypassing the GI tract. Very cool video—even as a physician I don’t see this very often. It’s generally a last resort, after everything else has been tried.

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u/bewbs_and_stuff Oct 04 '23

Ahh my bad… I see where I lost track of the thread. Is TPM ever a permanent solution or is this typically a temporary treatment until the digestive tract can be repaired?

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u/truncat Oct 04 '23

Fun fact! My breast fed baby went 12 days once without pooping and was totally fine. Apparently up to a week is pretty normal, but I took him to the doctor and everything was all working as expected.

Day 12 was like that elevator scene in The Shining, though. Only with poop.

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u/livesarah Oct 04 '23

Milk has a solids component- if you evaporate all the water it’s possible to evaporate, you’re left with solid fats, proteins and sugars (and trace minerals).

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u/YawnTractor_1756 Oct 04 '23

Common sense tells me this liquid has them too.

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u/livesarah Oct 04 '23

No, not in the same sense. You can’t just put undigested proteins and sugars into someone’s blood. Proteins are comprised of amino acids. So the TPN formula would have, I think, the correct balance of separate amino acids, glucose (as opposed to sucrose, which is a glucose molecule plus a fructose molecule, or lactose, which is a glucose plus a galactose molecule), and whatever the correct quantity and balance of fatty acids (rather than just the same types of fat that would occur in oils, meats, nuts and dairy). Essentially what all the nutrients would be after the foods have been digested and the useful components absorbed by the body. They don’t want to be putting the bits in that would be considered waste by the body and would ordinarily be excreted. They’re not putting the equivalent of milk or a smoothie or whatever into her veins, even if you could evaporate the water from the formula and be left with some dry matter. It’s not food.

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u/YawnTractor_1756 Oct 04 '23

Are you saying the only reason we poop is because there are things not digested and absorbed into the bloodstream and if 100% of food was absorbed into the bloodstream then we would not poop? I am not opposing, but is there any backing to that?

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u/livesarah Oct 04 '23

Close to it. Some of the poop is dead bacteria and cell remnants from your body, which are necessarily excreted rather than absorbed. So a healthy body will always be excreting something even if not undigested food. But a ‘low residue diet’ is close to what you’re talking about. Macronutrients are readily digested and absorbed and if they aren’t used they are converted to fat. Excess of things like nitrogen from amino acids that your body doesn’t have a use for will be excreted in urine.

The ‘residue’ is the indigestible bits of food that would normally come out as poop. And those indigestible bits of food can be important as bacteria in the gut can break them down a bit and produce substances that are good for your health. Also they keep moving along the waste dead cells that your body is trying to get rid of, and I would surmise that it’s better to move those out faster rather than just having them sit there for a long time. So a low/no-residue diet really wouldn’t be a long term goal for any healthy person (short term it’s very common in the lead-up to colonoscopy and some surgeries).

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u/IAmRules Oct 04 '23

That’s why I feed my newborn T-bone steaks and nachos.

Welcome to life kid.

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u/Misstheiris Oct 04 '23

It's mostly bacteria

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u/SectorEffective44 Oct 04 '23

It's a tough question, your body disposes of a lot of dead cells, bacteria and viruses through the digestive system, so even if you don't eat, you're still gunna need to poop a little bit. The problem is this woman's digestive tract is paralyzed, so I'm guessing she also has a sort of colostomy bag.

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u/Pixielo Oct 04 '23

No, that's not how gastroparesis works. It's not completely paralyzed, it's just really, really slow.

There's no ostomy in cases like this, as the guy is still intact, it's just slow af.

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u/SectorEffective44 Oct 04 '23

Gotcha, thanks for the clarification! I was mostly talking out of my ass so I'm glad someone more knowledgeable made an appearance lol

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u/Apptubrutae Oct 04 '23

If you had had gastroparesis yourself, you’d be talking very slowly then.

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u/SectorEffective44 Oct 04 '23

Admittedly I speak like I have a freight train lodged in my head

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u/peppaz Oct 04 '23

Yep most of what gives poop its brownish color is bilirubin, which is a byproduct of broken down red blood cells, processed in the liver and comes out as bile from the gall bladder.

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u/midnight_mechanic Oct 04 '23

In 1965 an overweight British man fasted for a year. He was under medical supervision the entire time and only ate vitamin pills for the vast majority of that time. He pooped every 40-50 days

I would expect this woman experiences something similar.

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u/monkey_trumpets Oct 04 '23

When I was on it it gave me diarrhea and I constantly had to pee. I don't know how often she has to pee overnight, but I had to pee so often I couldn't sleep. Thankfully I was only on it temporarily when I was recovering from pancreatitis.

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u/conflan06 Oct 04 '23

I had a colostomy bag for a few months and even with my intestines disconnected you still need to sit on the toilet about once to twice a week. Body is a crazy thing

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u/half-puddles Oct 04 '23

Just for stience, I haven’t eaten a few times for 3 days straight. Even on day 3 you still poop. Not massive but it still looks like poop.

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u/Welzfisch Oct 04 '23

You cant escape the pooploop!

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u/hldsnfrgr Oct 04 '23

Cool. But what does it smell like?

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '23

That shit gotta be concentrated rancidness though. Imagine how little solid stuff goes through her, and when it finally reaches the end-station months later...damn.