Ever since I learned that Elvis died with more than 30 lbs of feces in his body all I can think of is….. how???? Assuming a person is continuing to eat day after day, how can you continue to put things in and have nothing come out? I don’t understand why your body wouldn’t force you to expel what’s in your system (well before 30lbs) one way or another?
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The answer, weirdly enough, is the square-cube law.
Imagine a square. If it has sides =1, the area is 1. Increase the sides by 1, and you gets sides =2 and area =4.
When the sides increase, the area increase by a lot more.
In the same way, when in you increase the surface area of something, the volume- the stuff it can hold inside- increases by a lot more.
It’s called the square- law because measure the surface area in square units and the volume in cubic units.
But what does this have to do with Elvis and his poop?
Welp, the normal colon is about 2 to 3 inches across and 4-5 feet long, when he died, the King’s colon was 8 to 9 feet long and 5 to 6 inches across, according to his doctor who reviewed the autopsy.
So, it’s possible to increase a container by not much- 100% as wide, 50% as long- and get a result in volume about 900% greater.
Also- a long career of opiates and refusing to talk about embarrassing medical symptoms will lead to this particular outcome.
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