If feces is the bits of food that our body couldn’t digest or use, is it possible to eat a diet that our bodies can use 100% and never have to defecate? And, if so, could such a diet ever be healthy or would it always be deficient in some nutrients?
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If you eat nothing you excrete a substance the consistency of snot out your butt. It’s fairly hard to hold this stuff in, or fart past it, so it’s not even convenient. The stuff is likely mucous from the top end, intestinal shedding, bacteria, and water. This is first hand experience from multi day fasts, not sure if it slows down or changes when you stop eating for longer than a week. I doubt adding perfectly absorbed food to this would reduce it to zero in any case.
Yes it is possible. During bootcamp I didn’t poop for two weeks. Not sure if I was scared shitless or using everything, but I will say I was eating a ton of food during those 14 days.
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I don’t know if I’ve seen someone address it specifically, but your question premise is wrong, that’s not what feces is. It does contain some food we couldn’t or didn’t digest, but that’s not most of it.
You get energy from the food by changing chemical bonds, not from using it up and making it disappear.
It sometimes helps people to think of it like a car. You put gas in and then it emits exhaust. No matter how efficiently you drive you aren’t going to make a car that doesn’t exhaust anything (assuming it runs in gas obvi).
Yes it is possible! In fact it’s something NASA has put a lot of time and energy into researching. Because they didn’t want to deal with astronaut poop.
So it turns out the human body is good at completely consuming certain proteins. It turns out chicken eggs and lean beef are both really good at not leaving waste in your body. So for a really long time NASA astronauts would eat nothing but steak and eggs for a few days before launch. Although I don’t think that’s the case anymore.
Anyway high protein and low fiber foods are what you should go for if you don’t want to poop.
A meat based diet will reduce it to a fraction, but not the whole 100% that you can sell your toilet.
I’ve heard that rice and bananas are a low waste output mix. Nutritionists of Reddit, is that true?
No, and this is because your body is acting as a giant bioreactor which means, stuff goes in, and stuff goes out. The same amount. Just changed by your biochemical reactions into different end products, similar like fire transforms wood into ashes.
If you wouldn’t poop (pee, exhale) the same amount of matter as you intake, you would become heavier over time by exactly this amount.
Are you asking for a saline drip?
Like others have pointed out, your feces are 60% dead bacteria.
The rest is a mixture of indigestible fiber, water and waste materials resulting from cell renewal and other biological processes. The indigestible fiber is actually healthy for you, it gives your feces bulk, unless you want to poop like a baby for the rest of your life.
You can’t live without producing any waste.
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