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Why is poop brown?

Director, Cardiovascular Inst.,
New York Presbyterian/Columbia
POSTED BY Dr. Mehmet Oz
Blame it on bile. Bile secreted from the liver meets the food just past the stomach and then it treats your waste like a wooden porch: It stains it greenish brown.

If it's not that color, then treat your poop like a mood ring-a different color is an indictor of something else going on in your body.

  • Green bowel movements signify rapid movement of food through the intestines or the digestion of blue or black foods.

  • White-colored poop (yes, t… Read More »