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Ask PoopReport: Tracer Test For Transit Time

By Squat-n-leaveit
Created Jun 4 2009 - 8:22am
I was reading one of the usual eat/wait/poop stories when I read a comment stating the number of hours a person's food spends in the stomach, then in small intestine, then in the large intestine, and so on, before coming out and making a splash. I know that my digestion is faster than the time the commenter said. So I wanted to do a survey.

And here's how we do it: everyone, eat corn. Have a nice corn on the cob, a can of whole kernel corn, or eat whatever variation is best for recognition in your poo. Note the time between ingestion and "Hey! There it is."

And then tell us. Less than 12 hours? 12 to 24 hours? 24 to 48 hours? It will be interesting to see just how much variation there is in the human digestive system.


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