Your poo is (mostly) alive. Here's what's in it
- Written by Vincent Ho, Senior Lecturer and clinical academic gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University
Human poo is a concoction made up mostly of water with a sprinkling of the solid stuff.from www.shutterstock.com
If you’ve ever thought your poo is just a bunch of dead cells, think again. Most of it is alive, teeming with billions of microbes. Here’s what studies in healthy adults reveal makes up our poo.
Water
Our faeces is largely...