[Closed] why is poo poisonous?

Concerning oneself with the weightier philosophical matters of the age, I see? 😉

It's full of toxins that your body produces or disposes of. Same way that the air you breath out is toxic but not when it went in.

No idea though it's essentially one way so stuff that's at one end may well not suit the other end that's not designed for it.

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Bacteria in your gut doesn't do so well in your stomach and can cause all sorts of nastyness.

It's a process to remove a load of things from your body which are harmful or not useful.

It's not going to be good for you to stuff it back in again at the top, is it?

Edit: as has been pointed out already.

Coprophagia

[i]Concerning oneself with the weightier philosophical matters of the age, I see?[/i]

See my recent FB pics; the cheeky beer we were having at the time may have been slightly stronger than anticipated...

IANAD but...

I don't think anything is removed from your body by the digestive system. It's all about sucking the nutrients out of food and drink.

Poo is not good for you becuase of the bacteria from your gut and that it's all the bits of food that are harmful left in a nice brown log. So to be more vulgar about it: your body took all the good bits and shit out all the nasty bits. It's not going to be a good idea to stuff all the nasty bits back in at the top with some added bacteria.

Its the renal system that filters out the toxins yet drinking piss is perfectly harmless.

Its the renal system that filters out the toxins yet drinking piss is perfectly harmless.

Renal, Digestive, Lymphatic all play their part.

A bit of googling on the subject matter reveals that ... someone needs to have a quiet word with Germany and Japan 😯

your body took all the good bits

Quite a bit of good bits left but best left to the worms.

why is poo poisonous

Dubno but turd I hear is easier to swallow.

My cycling buddy is a gastroenterologist and I must say that my admiration for the human digestive system has increased massively since I've been riding with him, it really is an amazing organ (or "collection of organs" as he corrects me).

One story he's told me was the time he was well up a good lady's bowel with his endoscope when he came across an oil slick, something he'd never seen in many years of butthole surfing. He checked her notes and saw that she was taking that American weight loss drug that prevents your body from absorbing fats. Very entertaining.

A bit of googling on the subject matter reveals that ... someone needs to have a quiet word with Germany and Japan

I'd never buy a used glass topped coffee table from them.

...or an oven from the Dutch.

He checked her notes and saw that she was taking that American weight loss drug that prevents your body from absorbing fats.

I guess that's why they worn against anal leakage. As oil is just going to fall out of her sump.

Interestingly though your body is somewhat immune to your own poo if it gets in to wounds etc.

If you rubbed someone else's poo in to a cut you would get quite ill, rub your own in (and assuming it was fresh) and you will not.

The little bits of info you pick up when having the end of your small intestine sticking out of your stomach.

If you rubbed someone else's poo in to a cut you would get quite ill, rub your own in (and assuming it was fresh) and you will not.

That's the kind of insight you just don't get on Retrobike. 😉

Its the renal system that filters out the toxins yet drinking piss is perfectly harmless.

Its harmless in the sense that its reasonably sterile - but having done the work of filtering out all those toxins drinking your piss just means your kidneys have to do that all over again.

Your poops isn't so sterile as lot of the work of digestion is done by bacteria - a good proportion (almost of third) of the volume of your poop is actually bacteria, not old food, we get on quite happily with it them living in the gut, where they belong, but we wouldn't fair so well rubbing them in our eyes or in open wounds. Its also not just the left overs from digestion, our liver, for instance, empties waste products from its processes into the gut as well - the brown-ness of your poop is largely from the liver breaking down old blood cells, so pale poops can be a sign of anaemia, but the liver is also removing toxins from the blood also, and again putting those back into your system just means having to work to filter them out again.

Interestingly though your body is somewhat immune to your own poo if it gets in to wounds etc.

No it's not having seen the consequences I can assure it isn't.

Hmmm, interesting Drac. The area around my ileostomy sometimes has broken skin and the area of flesh that it pokes through isn't 'sealed' so to speak.

I do not get any infections etc caused by this and was told it was because your body is immune to its own faeces.

Why would there be no ill effects otherwise?

Sure if it was left to cake in and not be cleaned for days then things would get nasty but then there is more at play than just wound / faeces interfacing (hence my mentioning it needs to be fresh excrement).

Sure if it was left to cake in and not be cleaned for days then things would get nasty but then there is more at play than just wound / faeces interfacing (hence my mentioning it needs to be fresh excremen

Yup which is the same if it was someone else's too, fresh and cleaned out wouldn't cause any more issue than your own.

Didn't the Vietcong set poison traps with sharpened bamboo dipped accordingly.

Also to say the word 'poop' you have to emulate the process with your mouth.

Hoping dannybgoode isn't a first aider. "Ahh we're out of plasters, just rub some poo on it".

Two girls one cup didn't seem to mind.

Didn't the Vietcong set poison traps with sharpened bamboo dipped accordingly.

Yup they beat the American's with a shitty stick.

Do not google "church of fudge".

nick1962 - Member
Two girls one cup didn't seem to mind.

sick....... 😯

Also to say the word 'poop' you have to emulate the process with your mouth.

I like that.

I believe that whole thing was faked.

Whatever helps you sleep at night 😉

Do not google "church of fudge".

*googles "church of fudge"

MY EYES

MY EYES

Quick! Rub poo in them!

Nah, it's all a media con.

Not only is it non-toxic, it's also surprisingly delicious.
Tuck in...

DrP

Quick! Rub poo in them!

*rubs poo in eyes...

MY EYES

What about the human centipede then?

Actually it's sometimes beneficial - check out faecal transplants for Crohns disease.

What about the human centipede then?

What about the human centipede then?

Did you see the directors cut, the one with the happy ending?

I believe that whole thing was faked.

Chocolate ice cream.

Chocolate ass cream?

The banter is shit in here

jivehoneyjive - Member

The banter is shit in here

why is poo poisonous?

Because it's made of poo.

tonyg2003 - Member

Actually it's sometimes beneficial - check out faecal transplants for Crohns disease.

so pale poops can be a sign of anaemia

So all the dogs that used to do white turds in the 70s and 80s died of anaemia? At least this thread has provided an answer to that regular question.

So all the dogs that used to do white turds in the 70s and 80s died of anaemia?

I don't think they were white when they did them - they turned white as they dried out because dog food used to have a lot of ground up bone in it. But - vaguely related factoid - onion and garlic in scraps fed to dogs (basically anything thats got a sauce or gravy on it) does cause them to become quite severely anaemic

never feed your dog onions

bizarrely, they don't seem to mind munching their own turds

and horse turd, that's like the finest caviar, apparently

weird animals.

never feed your dog onions

Innit. Looking after my sisters dogs, and she warned me about the deadly onions. All this took place while the dog was chewing on a dead pigeon.

There's loads of stuff dogs shouldn't eat but when you read about them it's often down to the quantity, just like humans really then.

Dogs should limit their human intake?