Dr. Trisha Pasricha
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I've never seen white poop.
Yeah, I hope you never do.
But people see it and- What does it mean?
Remember how I told you that our poop is actually only brown because we have bilirubin?
Yes.
If we took that bilirubin away, this is the color our poop would be.
It would be like this pale clay.
Isn't that surprising?
Isn't that bizarre?
It's bizarre.
It's clay colored at
If we took the bilirubin out, so when we see this color, it tells us there's something blocking our bilirubin.
It could be a gallstone.
It could be something more worrisome, even like a cancer.
If this has been going on for one day, two days, call your doctor immediately because this could be a big emergency.
That's what color would be?
Yeah.
Isn't it kind of lovely?
I think that's what a lot of people think, but I think we're forgetting that, again, we're actually absorbing all the good stuff.
Why is it in there?