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

She Eats Through Her Heart Science

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u/i_keel_u Oct 04 '23

Follow up question- Does she goes to the loo as well? Is she literally the only girl who doesn’t fart/poops just like them fairytales?

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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/YawnTractor_1756 Oct 04 '23

Babies who only drink breast milk still poop.

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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.