What Should Your Poop Look Like?

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By Dr. Mercola

The size, shape and color of your stool give valuable clues as to the state of your health. It’s so important, in fact, that in 1997 Stephen Lewis and Ken Heaton with the U.K.’s Bristol Royal Infirmary teaching hospital developed what’s now known as the Bristol stool chart.

The chart, formally known as the Bristol stool form scale, was developed after the team conducted a study showing the chart’s usefulness for monitoring changes in intestinal function.1

If you’re in the habit of fast flushing, i.e., you poop and flush without looking at the contents, you should make a point to look …read more

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