Dr. Trisha Pasricha

That's normal.

What we poop, first of all, the brown color, that comes from bilirubin.

That's something that we produce as part of our digestion.

It gives it that brown color.

At different time points, it's going to be a little more concentrated than others.

And at different time points, as it's moving through your colon, more and more water is going to be sucked from one end, a little bit less from the other end.

The bacteria is going to concentrate in one side.

So it's okay to see a little bit of a gradient.

That's just how your body moves things along.

Got it.

let's talk about color please all right we can move the poop good job team that looks so realistic i feel like i can smell poop i know i don't i don't even feel good like wiping this down okay so you want to talk about color yeah let's talk about color all right so i've got a set of pantone color cards for you okay mel okay i'm gonna hand these over to you these are colors that people have actually told me they've seen in their poop before so i want you to flash them over to me and

Wow.

And let's talk about if they're normal or not normal.

Yeah.

I mean, this is a lovely bucolic shade.

I would say, first of all, Mel, everyone's allowed to have a weird colored poop every now and then.

If you see this shade, it's a little bit green, maybe a little yellow, and you have other symptoms, like, for example, you have a fever, you have diarrhea, so it's coming out quickly, frequently, it's liquidy, this is a problem and you should talk to your doctor about it.

If you've been eating something high in chlorophyll, maybe your greens powders, people actually can get the occasional green colored poop.

If it's rare, you don't necessarily need to panic about it.

If you know what you're eating that has changed the color, no need to panic.