Dr. Layne Norton

And we were joking back and forth. I said, you know what? I bet I could like come up with a pathway to get people to eat poop. Like I can make a compelling argument for just eating poop. And then he goes, he's like, I'll take that bet. I'm like, okay, let's give it a shot. So I'm like, what is some of the most common compounds in human fecal matter?

And one of them is butyrate, right, which is a short-chain fatty acid produced by fermentation. Butyrate, so I did this post where I'm like, here's why you should eat poop to lose fat. Butyrate increases fat oxidation. I think it activates brown fat, increases insulin sensitivity, decreases inflammation. It's been shown to actually ameliorate the development of obesity in studies.

And one of them is butyrate, right, which is a short-chain fatty acid produced by fermentation. Butyrate, so I did this post where I'm like, here's why you should eat poop to lose fat. Butyrate increases fat oxidation. I think it activates brown fat, increases insulin sensitivity, decreases inflammation. It's been shown to actually ameliorate the development of obesity in studies.

And one of them is butyrate, right, which is a short-chain fatty acid produced by fermentation. Butyrate, so I did this post where I'm like, here's why you should eat poop to lose fat. Butyrate increases fat oxidation. I think it activates brown fat, increases insulin sensitivity, decreases inflammation. It's been shown to actually ameliorate the development of obesity in studies.

And so I had all these PubMed ideas. Now, what I didn't tell people was those are all mostly in rodents, right? And it's giving an amount of butyrate that you'd need to eat about 50 to 100 pounds of fecal matter a day in order to get, right?

And so I had all these PubMed ideas. Now, what I didn't tell people was those are all mostly in rodents, right? And it's giving an amount of butyrate that you'd need to eat about 50 to 100 pounds of fecal matter a day in order to get, right?

And so I had all these PubMed ideas. Now, what I didn't tell people was those are all mostly in rodents, right? And it's giving an amount of butyrate that you'd need to eat about 50 to 100 pounds of fecal matter a day in order to get, right?

But that is very similar to a lot of the content that is out there, which is find isolated compound, scare people or promote it to be the best thing ever, and then link it to an outcome. And then sometimes you can tie in epidemiology with it as well to support whatever you want.

But that is very similar to a lot of the content that is out there, which is find isolated compound, scare people or promote it to be the best thing ever, and then link it to an outcome. And then sometimes you can tie in epidemiology with it as well to support whatever you want.

But that is very similar to a lot of the content that is out there, which is find isolated compound, scare people or promote it to be the best thing ever, and then link it to an outcome. And then sometimes you can tie in epidemiology with it as well to support whatever you want.

But again, like I'm not saying – I do things in my training and my nutrition that don't have randomized control trials to support, right? They don't really have anything to support. It's just – it's how I've kind of fallen into doing things. So that's okay. But what I wouldn't do is come out and say, what I do is the best thing ever.

But again, like I'm not saying – I do things in my training and my nutrition that don't have randomized control trials to support, right? They don't really have anything to support. It's just – it's how I've kind of fallen into doing things. So that's okay. But what I wouldn't do is come out and say, what I do is the best thing ever.

But again, like I'm not saying – I do things in my training and my nutrition that don't have randomized control trials to support, right? They don't really have anything to support. It's just – it's how I've kind of fallen into doing things. So that's okay. But what I wouldn't do is come out and say, what I do is the best thing ever.

And here's why, especially if there was human randomized control trials to the counter, that is the biggest thing, right? If we have human randomized control trials and they're going the opposite direction of a case study or an observation, there's a reason human randomized control trials, I scream about them all the time and why they're considered the gold standard of evidence.

And here's why, especially if there was human randomized control trials to the counter, that is the biggest thing, right? If we have human randomized control trials and they're going the opposite direction of a case study or an observation, there's a reason human randomized control trials, I scream about them all the time and why they're considered the gold standard of evidence.

And here's why, especially if there was human randomized control trials to the counter, that is the biggest thing, right? If we have human randomized control trials and they're going the opposite direction of a case study or an observation, there's a reason human randomized control trials, I scream about them all the time and why they're considered the gold standard of evidence.

When we look at cohort data, You're just observing people. There's no intervention.

When we look at cohort data, You're just observing people. There's no intervention.

When we look at cohort data, You're just observing people. There's no intervention.

Sure. So cohort data, you're comparing groups, but you're not having an intervention. So you're tracking them over the course of however, what period of time. A lot of cohort studies like looking at cardiovascular disease, cancer.