đ€Nerd moment: this is the Bristol Stool Chart. Developed by Dr. Stephen Lewis and Dr. Ken Heaton at the University of Bristol in 1997, itâs a universal classification tool for human feces. â â
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You can think of it as a decoder for your toilet bowlâand for your digestive health. Here's how to read it:â â
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Ideally, your poop should be Type 3 or 4âexpelling easily, in a singular sausage or snake-like shape. If your poop looks more like a Type 1 or 2, youâre probably constipated. Type 6 or 7 means youâre likely dealing with diarrhea. â â
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Most of us will experience the entirety of the Bristol Stool Scale at some point. One or two days of abnormal bowel movements is normalâcommon, even. Itâs not until the irregularity becomes a pattern that intervention is needed.â â
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So, why are we talking about this chart? Well, this is why we launched
#GIVEASHIT, to build the world's first (and largest) crowdsourced poop image database. With a large enough data-set, we'll be able to train an AI to "...