# 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:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-50-pounds-of-rotting-feces-trapped-in-you/733699/21 "2015-10-06T14:37:35Z")
50 lbs? That ridiculous. Okay, maybe inside politicians. But for everyone else, that’s just idiotic. ---
**Author:** ![sevenwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sevenwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sevenwood)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-50-pounds-of-rotting-feces-trapped-in-you/733699/22 "2015-10-06T15:01:24Z")
Anyone making that claim has never had a colonoscopy. After the prep process, your colon is empty, folks. And your colonoscopy team has the video to prove it. I’ve weighed myself after going through the prep process and just prior to the colonoscopy, and this normally 180-pound individual had lost a total of five pounds. And it turns out that even that weight loss is partly because of dehydration. ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-50-pounds-of-rotting-feces-trapped-in-you/733699/23 "2015-10-06T15:07:11Z")
And about a pound of gum from over the last seven years still working its way through, most of it of the bubble variety. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-50-pounds-of-rotting-feces-trapped-in-you/733699/24 "2015-10-06T16:23:46Z")
> [@](#): > > fugitive feces band name! ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-50-pounds-of-rotting-feces-trapped-in-you/733699/25 "2015-10-06T16:34:44Z")
> [@grude](#): > > 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! There was a man who spent part of his life in freak shows as “balloon man” or “windbag” who, upon his death, was found to have 45-50 pounds or so of feces in his colon so it’s _possible_… but unless these woo-sellers are saying we all look like the people on [this page](http://www.aliveandwellcoloncare.com/id9.html) they are full of – well, you get the idea. Ironically enough, I’d describe the owners of that site and what they’re selling as “woo”. > [@](#): > > 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. Maybe they’re from Gallifrey and their intestines have been replaced by a TARDIS. Because the only way that is going to work for some of the folks I’ve met pushing the “your colon is overfull” theory is if they are bigger on the inside than the outside. ---
**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, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-50-pounds-of-rotting-feces-trapped-in-you/733699/26 "2015-10-06T16:52:49Z")
> [@PatriotX](#): > > Trick question. > It’s not vomit until it comes out. But it’s still vomit if you eat it again. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-50-pounds-of-rotting-feces-trapped-in-you/733699/27 "2015-10-06T17:53:14Z")
I think the 'colon cleansing" crap started with Dr. Kellogg, who recommended yogurt enemas. Frankly, he was obsessed with the colon and feces-a major part of his therapy was resectioning the bowel. A few years back, there were ads on TV for something called “nature Cleanse”-the same wacky claim was made-this time it was grease and food residue stuck to your insides. Note; all of these patent medicines carry the same disclaimer “Not intended to diagnose or treat any diseas”-the intent is to separate you from your money. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-50-pounds-of-rotting-feces-trapped-in-you/733699.md?page=1)