# Do some people digest more efficiently?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 24, 2013, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-people-digest-more-efficiently/656558 "2013-04-24T02:55:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2013, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-people-digest-more-efficiently/656558/21 "2013-04-27T02:20:29Z")

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If you are serious [here’s](http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00276-002-0057-y) a sense of the range of normal:

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> The post mortem average length of the whole intestine was 795.5±129 cm and was significantly longer in men and in young subjects. It was correlated with the subject’s weight but not height. Multivariate analysis demonstrated that the factor showing the strongest correlation with intestinal length was body weight.

In [mice and rats at least](http://evolucion.fcien.edu.uy/daniel/paper12.pdf) diet impacts large intestinal length.

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