Dr. Trisha Pasricha

It's coming from blood higher up in your gut where it's got to touch the acid.

It can, though, a nice pirate black stool can come if you've been taking iron pills.

Iron pills can turn your poop black.

Oh, no kidding.

Iron does constipate you.

That's like one of the most common side effects of iron pills.

So usually I tell people, actually, there's two things I tell people about iron.

One, you don't actually have to take it every single day to replete your iron stores.

You can take it every other day.

And you actually end up getting the iron you need because you can only absorb so much at once.

And sometimes every day is actually overkill.

That can help with the constipation.

But I also usually tell people at the same time, take a fiber supplement.

Do both because it'll help with the absorption.

I mean, I think you can have different shades of brown, but I think we can all agree this is a pretty one.

Totally in the zone.

Just be on the lookout.

When you get too dark chocolate that you're not veering towards pirate black.

Got it.

Yes.