SHIT HAPPENS !

Have you ever wondered how gratifying and at the same time how liberating SHITTING is? I guess not. We do it every single day(most of us) and give absolutely no thought to it at all. We just take it for granted. It is an important event in our daily routine for our body to function and yet we deem it to be repulsive. This is so not done and this is why Blog Baba is back to liberate all of you hypocrites from your narrow minded returdedness.

OK! SHIT HAPPENS! But have you considered -

Why some float and why some sink to the bottom? 

Why do we have a wide variety of colors to gloat upon? 

What is the main reason for them being rock solid or gooey? 

And finally why do most of them have to be tantalisingly smelly? 

[I should try to be a poet someday]

Well, this blog attempts to answer all the intriguing questions given above. We all know(atleast those of us who listened in bio class in school) that our small intestine helps in digestion and absorbs nutrients and water from the food we ate and the rejected stuff goes down along the large intestine as yellow paste where more water is absorbed back into the body. I guess this is why we have either gooey or solid poop. If we do not give enough time to the body to collect back the water we have mushy goo(loose motion, diarrhoea) and on the other hand if we give ample time to the large intestine to do its job we can have normal goo. However if you don't shit for days on end you will have rock solid goo as almost all the water that makes the goo mushy would have been absorbed back by the body while it was waiting in the rectum after being passed out from the large intestine. You can try it out if you have even an iota of doubt in your mind. (This can also answer why do we have poop in different sizes - think about fusing and growing compactly with the loss of water).

We also have poop in a wide variety of colors. Trust me, I've had green poop and was certain that I was going to die. However now, I know better. Normal poop is brown in color. It is due to a pigment called bilirubin which arises due to the breakdown of red blood cells(R.B.C) in the liver and bone marrow. It then comes to the intestine along with digestive fluids from the liver which aid in our digestion. Here it is further modified by helpful bacteria(these help in our digestion as you would have already guessed). But the color itself comes from iron. Iron in hemoglobin in red blood cells gives blood its red color and iron in the waste product bilirubin gives rise to its brown color. Now it is natural to deduce that yellow poop is a sign of iron deficiency and maybe a cause for slight concern. However if you have tarry black poop it is a cause for major concern as it means that you have a bleeding ulcer. We also have red stains on poop due to bleeding from an anal fissure or split. And finally green poop is merely an overdose of dyed food products. Thank God! But seriously poop is a fine gauge for our health and should be taken seriously.

The two questions that remain are - Why does poop float or sink and what gives them their smell ?

Poop that floats have an unusually high gas content. Sometimes the gases produced by bacteria in our gut don't have a chance to collect into a large fart bubble, but remain dispersed in the feces. The poop then comes out foamy, and has a lower density than water. And the tantalising smell is mainly due to hydrogen sulfide that the bacteria releases. Now you can not only find out who has been farting in the room by just collecting their stool samples you have the golden opportunity to do PhD(Push harder Dummy) level research on shit, all thanks to Blog Baba. I know any kind of discussion on poop is disgusting but someone had to open your eyes to look at shit the way I do (for starters try sitting in the Indian style on Western ones)

I took one of the biggest dumps today, wouldn't flush after 7 tries, had to get hot water and melt the beast. Fucking stinks...