Dr. Trisha Pasricha

I think everybody needs to look.

I mean, there's something that I find so bizarre, which is sometimes I ask people like, what did your poop look like this week?

Like walk me through the kind of pattern.

They'd be like, I mean, I didn't really look.

First of all, I think that's so bizarre.

I look every time.

How do you not look?

But if you're not looking, get in the habit of looking because only by looking are you going to be able to identify the small changes that might occur and that might signal that there's a problem or a shift.

So you have to look.

to get in that habit of knowing what's normal for you and remember you're not going to poop the exact same way every single day every single week every single month there are so many factors that change what your poop looks like it's going to be yeah the food you eat is it ultra processed is it spicy it's going to be how stressed you are that's going to change how quickly your colon moves

It's going to be whether you're traveling.

Is your circadian rhythm of your colon thrown off?

There are all these factors that change that.

And you want to get in the habit of knowing how these fluctuations in your daily life impact your bowels.

Because it's really important that when something is off, that you bring that to your doctor's attention.

And you can only do that by really getting to know your own body first.

40% of Americans report that their bowel habits disrupt their daily lives.

Isn't that a huge number?

That's like almost half of us.

There's a lot that we just don't talk about, don't know, and if we could just all of us lean in a little bit more to our physiology and know how our body is supposed to work,