Fun fact: with regard to bowel movements, it contains mostly water (usually around 75%). Of the dry material leftover, about 25-54% of is made up of “bacterial biomass”, meaning alive and dead microbes from our microbiome. That’s probably where the bulk of material came from.
Happy ending? Sounds like he died at 52.
It’s a pity we don’t know what he died of. I hope it wasn’t obesity.
Fun fact: with regard to bowel movements, it contains mostly water (usually around 75%). Of the dry material leftover, about 25-54% of is made up of “bacterial biomass”, meaning alive and dead microbes from our microbiome. That’s probably where the bulk of material came from.
Source (lay person summary - links to primary literature contained within): https://theconversation.com/your-poo-is-mostly-alive-heres-whats-in-it-102848
I assume what was being evacuated the few times when he did have bms was shed gi tract lining.
Who knows. The lining is shed every few days, so must come out. Shame we didn’t get more details. Or not!