Shane Parrish with Dr. Giulia Enders
Your stool is a daily message from your gut. Its texture and consistency can offer clues about digestion, while fiber, food preparation, and stress shape what happens before that message arrives.
The gut is a robust organ with secondary effects on metabolism and immune resilience, rather than a fragile system easily damaged by common foods.
Stool characteristics offer accessible clues about digestion, Enders says, including its structure, color, and consistency.
Consuming water-soluble fibers and resistant starches, like cooked and cooled potatoes or rice, provides prebiotics for gut microbes and may slow the rise and fall of blood glucose.