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The last statement in the answer is at least misleading. The brown color of feces is largely due to certain pigmented compounds found in bile.
… And the organic compounds, you’ve got to admit :->
Torq, it takes a lot of gall to make a statement like that.
I can confirm this. After my gall bladder was removed, I had a drain installed to suck up the bile that was leaking into my abdomen. That’s when I found that when all that bile escapes from your digestive tract, your poops turn pretty pale, close to white. Bile itself is a dark yellowish brown.
–MrMsty
10 points to MrMsty Had a drain installed! LMAO I knew barbers did surgery, but plumbers? Did you get the one with the removable p trap or the cleanout hole?
O.K. MrMsty, I’m pretty new here, but that has GOT to be the furthest any SDMBer has gone to test a mailbag answer. If they have a Cecil loyalty award, you win.
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