Dr. Trisha Pasricha

It helps with digestion.

It helps break down with the food.

It helps break the food down.

So it does help you with digestion.

You need those bile salts that are in there.

Um, but we're absorbing most of the, hopefully most of the colorful nutrients that are in our food and, and what's left is the stuff we can't eat and then our bacteria.

And that's really what makes up this nice clay colored poop.

It's, this is one of the ones.

Like you're talking like a whole, like long log of that?

Or pieces of it.

Okay.

Like everyone's allowed to have, I think, one or two purple poops in their lifetime.

Really?

Maybe more, maybe less.

It can be due to something called the anthocyanins, which are this pigment in certain nutrients, like in berries, for example.

Okay.

Those can give you a purple poop.

They can give you like a bluish tinge poop even sometimes.

And actually, they're there in like red wine too.

If this is like a pattern though, we do want to make sure we're not confusing the color for something that's a little bit more maroon-like, which makes us a little more worried for blood.