# @seed on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B4NcH8PJZuh
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34247267-seed-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/1b295d02d7.jpg
- **Posted:** 2019-10-29T17:10:12.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Seed (@seed) — https://gondola.cc/seed

## Caption

🤓Nerd moment: this is the Bristol Stool Chart. Developed by Dr. Stephen Lewis and Dr. Ken Heaton at the University of Bristol in 1997, it’s a universal classification tool for human feces. ⁠⠀
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You can think of it as a decoder for your toilet bowl—and for your digestive health. Here's how to read it:⁠⠀
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Ideally, your poop should be Type 3 or 4—expelling easily, in a singular sausage or snake-like shape. If your poop looks more like a Type 1 or 2, you’re probably constipated. Type 6 or 7 means you’re likely dealing with diarrhea. ⁠⠀
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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 normal—common, even. It’s not until the irregularity becomes a pattern that intervention is needed.⁠⠀
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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 "read" a poop image and pin it to one of the seven poop types, accurately. This chart is used across science, research, and in clinical settings, and to automate a computer that can 'rate' stool would reduce bias and variation in human data collection.⁠⠀
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In other words, we're giving new meaning to #ratemypoo 💩⁠⠀
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If you haven't contributed your anonymous poop photo yet,  it's time to #GIVEASHIT and do it (hint: especially if you like our merch 😉)⁠⠀
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