You Are Full of it!

Ever wonder what our bodies do when we aren't looking?

Found this interesting for some reason. Surprising and a little gross as well.
www.medicaldaily.com...

Individual cells have a finite lifespan, which means when they die the body replaces their absence with new cells. With 50 to 75 trillion cells in every body, a constant cycle of death and renewal are taking place throughout your hair, nails, and skin.

The Body Produces The Following Quantities In One Year:

Hair: 6 in.

Nails: 1.5 in.

Skin: 8.8 lbs.

Tears: 22 gal.

Sweat: 60 gal.

Saliva: 96 gal.

Urine: 133 gal.

Poop: 360 lbs.

Now I know many here have said that I was full of crap on many occasions and now I can honestly reply with "Yup!"

After stepping away for a coffee and coming back to the thread I took another look at the numbers and something doesn't make sense. An average of 1lb of poop per day? This has to be wrong.

Not trying to be gross and having never actually crapped on a scale I can honestly say that 1lb seems on the low side to me. Just the regular morning 3 coiler is definitely well over a pound. It has to be. We eat more than a pound of food a day (some of us) so what happens with that?

My wife says that I can't defecate on the bathroom scale tomorow so I guess I'll never be able to prove it. But I know.

Jude11

a reply to: jude11

Now did someone weigh all their excrement to find this out?

originally posted by: ChefSlug
a reply to: jude11

Now did someone weigh all their excrement to find this out?

Poop on a scale for 24 hours x 365 =

How else would you do it?

originally posted by: ChefSlug
a reply to: jude11

Now did someone weigh all their excrement to find this out?

Hospitals do it all the time for patient health records.

But at home? Check my OP edit.

Jude11

originally posted by: ChefSlug
a reply to: jude11

Now did someone weigh all their excrement to find this out?

You can do that if you doubt the numbers. I will just take their word for it.
A pound a day,,,,,,sounds reasonable...

a reply to: jude11

Wow that's pretty eye opening!

I bet you politicians have more than 360lbs though...

lol

~Tenth

originally posted by: beezzer

originally posted by: ChefSlug
a reply to: jude11

Now did someone weigh all their excrement to find this out?

Poop on a scale for 24 hours x 365 =

How else would you do it?

And who collects dead skin anyways?

Leatherface? (Horror flick)

That's even more disgusting IMO.

Jude11

originally posted by: Hoosierdaddy71

originally posted by: ChefSlug
a reply to: jude11

Now did someone weigh all their excrement to find this out?

You can do that if you doubt the numbers. I will just take their word for it.
A pound a day,,,,,,sounds reasonable...

Not too sure. 1lb is just not that much for the consistency, thickness...Oh hell, how did I get here?

I'm gonna quit while I'm behind...Damn, there I go again...

I have to end this!

Damn...I can't stop!

Jude11

a reply to: jude11

Imagine a job description. . . .

I collected tears for a year.

a reply to: jude11

I don't typically poop everyday and when I do it's not THAT much so I think it's a case of averages. While some like you apparently poop like crazy others like me do not, thus it evens out to that. I was thinking that average was a bit much myself basing it off myself.

a reply to: beezzer

If you use Restasis it can significantly improve your natural tear making.

If you use ATS without adblock chances are you've seen a Restasis commercial

a reply to: jude11

My wife says that I can't defecate on the bathroom scale tomorow so I guess I'll never be able to prove it. But I know.

Lol. Do a study. Tell her its a conspiracy…

Thanks for the insight.

Theres one fluid you left out. Two actually, his and hers.

originally posted by: jude11

originally posted by: beezzer

originally posted by: ChefSlug
a reply to: jude11

Now did someone weigh all their excrement to find this out?

Poop on a scale for 24 hours x 365 =

How else would you do it?

And who collects dead skin anyways?

These guys. They live on your bed.



Thats skin its dining on.

originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: jude11

My wife says that I can't defecate on the bathroom scale tomorow so I guess I'll never be able to prove it. But I know.

Lol. Do a study. Tell her its a conspiracy…

Thanks for the insight.

Theres one fluid you left out. Two actually, his and hers.

I told here it was in the interest of science.

Now I don't know where she hid the scale.

Jude11

originally posted by: beezzer
a reply to: jude11

Imagine a job description. . . .

I collected tears for a year.

Sounds like a Country Song.

All it needs now is a dog and a truck.

Jude11

a reply to: intrptr

Cool picture of a dust mite. It's a lowly job, but someone has to eat it.

originally posted by: MichiganSwampBuck
a reply to: intrptr

Cool picture of a dust mite. It's a lowly job, but someone has to eat it.

um...eeeewwwww!

Jude11

You aren't considering the water we expel, much of our food is water. We loose most of this through breathing, sweating, respiration of skin, peeing, and some through poop.

Now, if we also make a lot of byproducts that need to be expelled. A lot of organs, including our skin, is involved in excreting these byproducts. Even our sinuses secrete stuff that needs to go. Our bodies are extremely complex, they make thousands of enzymes and hormones that are necessary to digest the nutrients. When you mix up the food chemistry too much we secrete enzymes inappropriately which increases our byproducts and causes waste.

We need to simplify our foods, not make them more complex. A roast does not need a bunch of chemistry added to it, salt, pepper, and a little garlic salt and some onions. The onions and garlic added are to help keep the blood from sticking together from possible antigens to the beef. This happens in some of the A, B, and AB type bloods. O's don't need the extra sulfur compounds so much. You could also use salicates I suppose, some foods contain these or you could just take an aspirin once in a while. Otherwise you can get a headache if you can't keep the blood from sticking

originally posted by: intrptr

originally posted by: jude11

originally posted by: beezzer

originally posted by: ChefSlug
a reply to: jude11

Now did someone weigh all their excrement to find this out?

Poop on a scale for 24 hours x 365 =

How else would you do it?

And who collects dead skin anyways?

These guys. They live on your bed.

Thats skin its dining on.

That's just... gross. Looks like it has an orange shirt on.

what an interesting thread .....that went yuck yuck yuck (in my opinion, i understand some love it and that's o.k.)

that dust mite is just revolting, it's like eating corn flakes

originally posted by: beezzer

originally posted by: ChefSlug
a reply to: jude11

Now did someone weigh all their excrement to find this out?

Poop on a scale for 24 hours x 365 =

How else would you do it?