# You have 50 pounds of rotting feces trapped in you **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 6, 2015, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-50-pounds-of-rotting-feces-trapped-in-you/733699 "2015-10-06T09:50:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-50-pounds-of-rotting-feces-trapped-in-you/733699/1 "2015-10-06T09:50:16Z")
This persistent claim of woo sellers of herbal cleansers and purges is so patently absurd and stupid yet it keeps going, almost like people want to believe it maybe because it is more comfortable than admitting they gained fucking 50 pounds of fat. No exercise for me I’ll just shit it out! If people would just stop and think for even a few seconds they would realize how stupid it is, where is this festering shit hiding exactly in a end to end muscular tube? Apparently the digestive tract is like a cave network with various dead ends and side tunnels, but how some herbs are going to find the fugitive feces is never explained. Has the rotting shit somehow left your digestive system and carved out a home in your abdominal cavity? Maybe it replaced their brain, or took up residence in the empty skull of the customers. The fact a sucker is born every minute drives me crazy, the fact people will resort to any kind of mental gymnastics to avoid uncomfortable thoughts or GASP exerting effort drives me crazy. EDIT:And I love when people boast about the gross looking shit that came out when they have colonics or enemas, yes that is unformed feces and mucus, DUH! If you hadn’t jammed gallons of water up your butt that gross looking stuff would have formed into poop and gasp been pooped out in due course. ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-50-pounds-of-rotting-feces-trapped-in-you/733699/2 "2015-10-06T10:23:33Z")
Thanks God for my fat burning pills is all I can say. Time for a couple of Indian takeaways… ---
**Author:** ![brovolone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e4f/32.png) [@brovolone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brovolone)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-50-pounds-of-rotting-feces-trapped-in-you/733699/3 "2015-10-06T10:43:13Z")
I was hoping there would be a rant about Herbalife in here somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-50-pounds-of-rotting-feces-trapped-in-you/733699/4 "2015-10-06T10:55:19Z")
Well to be fair the digestive track is not smooth but has lots of ‘protrusions’, so like a cave lined with bookshelves ceiling to floor. You can store a lot of shit on bookshelves, no dead end passage required. ---
**Author:** ![Telperion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telperion/32/509_2.png) [@Telperion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperion)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-50-pounds-of-rotting-feces-trapped-in-you/733699/5 "2015-10-06T11:38:32Z")
I’ve always thought there’s a special kind of irony about an advertisement that claims people are full of shit. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-50-pounds-of-rotting-feces-trapped-in-you/733699/6 "2015-10-06T11:46:27Z")
Yeah, the whole colon cleansing thing, either by enema or by those herbal supplements that irritate the intestinal lining and make you shit out a three foot long green snake of mucus, is the worst woo ever. It manages to play on people’s native squeamishness about storing waste inside their bodies (however briefly) at the same time it plays on the American obsession with losing weight quickly without doing hard stuff. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-50-pounds-of-rotting-feces-trapped-in-you/733699/7 "2015-10-06T11:58:39Z")
I’ve been told this before. My response was, “Speak for yourself.” My then-partner’s response was hysterical laughter followed by his best med-school-professor voice stating that the assertion was utter nonsense. tl; dr – I agree with **grude**! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-50-pounds-of-rotting-feces-trapped-in-you/733699/8 "2015-10-06T12:05:40Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > Well to be fair the digestive track is not smooth but has lots of ‘protrusions’, so like a cave lined with bookshelves ceiling to floor. You can store a lot of shit on bookshelves, no dead end passage required. Well to be informed, it just doesn’t work that way in the human body. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-50-pounds-of-rotting-feces-trapped-in-you/733699/9 "2015-10-06T12:43:01Z")
This is what [47 lbs](http://www.aliveandwellcoloncare.com/id9.html) looks like. Might be disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![Gothic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Gothic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gothic)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-50-pounds-of-rotting-feces-trapped-in-you/733699/10 "2015-10-06T13:06:03Z")
> [@brovolone](#): > > I was hoping there would be a rant about Herbalife in here somewhere. Here is a rant for you. > **[Bill Ackman: I haven't traded around Herbalife short](https://www.cnbc.com/2015/03/13/bill-ackman-no-fbi-doj-contact-over-herbalife.html)** > > The activist investor also tells CNBC he has not been contacted by the FBI or the Justice Department regarding his campaign against Herbalife. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-50-pounds-of-rotting-feces-trapped-in-you/733699/11 "2015-10-06T13:11:28Z")
a golf ball-sized mass/obstruction in your gut will soon lead to intense pain and is a medical emergency. just where is this 50 lbs of “undigested stuff” supposed to be? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-50-pounds-of-rotting-feces-trapped-in-you/733699/12 "2015-10-06T13:24:22Z")
I heard an ad on the radio this morning that you may not be fat, you may just be bloated! A woman trilled about how the supplement made her belly flat, and it was getting even flatter! All I could think of was hours long flatulence as you farted your way down to a size 6. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-50-pounds-of-rotting-feces-trapped-in-you/733699/13 "2015-10-06T13:29:02Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > I heard an ad on the radio this morning that you may not be fat, you may just be bloated! A woman trilled about how the supplement made her belly flat, and it was getting even flatter! > > All I could think of was hours long flatulence as you farted your way down to a size 6. :eek: I’m picturing her flying around the room like an untied balloon. :D:D:D ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-50-pounds-of-rotting-feces-trapped-in-you/733699/14 "2015-10-06T13:39:28Z")
A SMELLY untied balloon. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-50-pounds-of-rotting-feces-trapped-in-you/733699/15 "2015-10-06T13:39:53Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > This is what [47 lbs](http://www.aliveandwellcoloncare.com/id9.html) looks like. Might be disturbing. Oh my. Why did I click on that link? I just finished breakfast and now I want to vomit. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-50-pounds-of-rotting-feces-trapped-in-you/733699/16 "2015-10-06T13:45:40Z")
How many pounds of vomit does the average person have inside them? ---
**Author:** ![Carryon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@Carryon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carryon)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-50-pounds-of-rotting-feces-trapped-in-you/733699/17 "2015-10-06T13:50:00Z")
Well is this in fact so? And I am assuming this is on average, as I know of a tiny girl who weighs less than 100 pounds soaking wet, I’m sure not half of her body is rotting feces. Is there like a percentage of total body weight that provides a better estimate? ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-50-pounds-of-rotting-feces-trapped-in-you/733699/18 "2015-10-06T14:15:23Z")
> [@Carryon](#): > > Well is this in fact so? no. the charlatans hawking this woo sell you supplements, and after taking these supplements you crap a ton of nasty stuff. what they don’t tell you is _the supplements put that nasty stuff in you._ if you eat anything resembling a reasonable diet, your digestive system doesn’t need any help. it certainly shouldn’t need dodgy supplements or stupid shit like regular high colonic cleanses. Especially that last one; I think the people who do that simply have an enema fetish and are trying to make it sound like it’s actually medically necessary. ---
**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-50-pounds-of-rotting-feces-trapped-in-you/733699/19 "2015-10-06T14:18:32Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > How many pounds of vomit does the average person have inside them? Trick question. It’s not vomit until it comes out. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-50-pounds-of-rotting-feces-trapped-in-you/733699/20 "2015-10-06T14:25:44Z")
Well, didja know that John Wayne and Elvis Presley each had 200 pounds of backed-up fecal matter in their intestines at autopsy? Unscrupulous medical examiners made $$$ selling glass globes containing fecal particles from these two giants of popular entertainment. “Wow, it’s a John Wayne shitstorm!”\* \*more fun and educational than buying a tiny square of genuine Yankee Stadium grass. \*\*Scary thought: someone will actually market such a product. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-50-pounds-of-rotting-feces-trapped-in-you/733699.md?page=2)