Why Is Poop Brown And Pee Yellow?
To start using Tab for a Cause, go to: http://tabforacause.org/r/minuteearth2 The pigments in our food all get destroyed on their way through our digestive system...so where do the colors...
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"Hi, this is Emily from MinuteEarth.Although the things we eat and drink are all sorts of colors, they all come out the otherend looking either brown and yellow.And actually, our digestive systems destroy pretty much all the colors in our food, turningwhat’s left into a grayish mass – the pigments that show up in our poop and peecome, not from our food, but instead, from our blood.That’s largely because our bodies produce an insane number of red blood cells, but thesecells have no way of maintaining or repairing themselves, so they only last for a few monthsbefore becoming so stiff and inflexible that they’re forced to retire.If all the retiring red blood cells went straight to the toilet, and took all their oxygen-carryingiron with them, our poop and pee...
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"Hi, this is Emily from MinuteEarth.Although the things we eat and drink are all sorts of colors, they all come out the otherend looking either brown and yellow.And actually, our digestive systems destroy pretty much all the colors in our food, turningwhat’s left into a grayish mass – the pigments that show up in our poop and peecome, not from our food, but instead, from our blood.That’s largely because our bodies produce an insane number of red blood cells, but thesecells have no way of maintaining or repairing themselves, so they only last for a few monthsbefore becoming so stiff and inflexible that they’re forced to retire.If all the retiring red blood cells went straight to the toilet, and took all their oxygen-carryingiron with them, our poop and pee...
