Dr. Trisha Pasricha

So take a look next time you're in there and say, hello, it's your microbiome that you're pooping.

The majority of it is not what you ate.

You've absorbed all the good stuff.

Why does corn make it through?

Yeah.

Everything you can't absorb, we cannot absorb and digest and break down corn.

Because it's fiber.

Am I not chewing it enough?

You can chew your heart's content, but we don't contain the enzymes and the machinery to break down fiber.

Now, listen, that's a good thing.

We need to eat more fiber because all the fiber that we're not absorbing, we are giving as a gift to our microbiome and they love it.

They thrive off of the

corn off of the cruciferous vegetables, all the high fiber foods.

And it's not a surprise to me that sometimes those little chunks and pieces come out and we say, oh, there must be a problem with my digestion.

No, no, no.

It's normal.

It's not like we can't even bean shells like these things are all normal.

When I do colonoscopies on people, it's

half the time I can tell them what they had for dinner two nights ago.

You can see bits of it, especially if they've eaten a lot of salad or something like that.