Your Poop Schedule Says a Lot About Your Overall Health, Study Reveals - ScienceAlert

Your Poop Schedule Says a Lot About Your Overall Health, Study Reveals  ScienceAlert

"How often do you poop?" might sound like a very personal question, but your answer could reveal quite a lot about your overall health.

A study published in 2024 investigated how often people had bowel movements and compared those stats to their demographic, genetic, and health data.

The healthiest people among the 1,425 participants reported pooping once or twice a day – a 'Goldilocks zone' of bowel movement frequency.

Pooping too often or too rarely was associated with different underlying health issues, the team led by researchers at the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) found.

"This study shows how bowel movement frequency can influence all body systems, and how aberrant bowel movement frequency may be an important risk factor in the development of chronic diseases," said ISB microbiologist Sean Gibbons, the corresponding author of the report.

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