January 5, 2025 • 30 mins
Kicking off another new year, we look at another popular resolution and the effects it may have on your time in the bathroom.
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>> Hunter Hoover (00:00):
It just. It just really gets the fart factory fired up.
You know what I'm saying? It's like, fire up the fart
factory. It's steak Thursday.
Welcome back to Privy.
Privy is a podcast about
bathrooms recorded
(00:22):
from my home bathroom. I'm your host,
Hunter Hoover, and I love
bathrooms. Welcome back, everyone.
Um, thank you all for being here, and Happy New
Year. If you're listening to this, this is the first
episode of 2025. We did
it. We made it to another one. Uh,
and I gotta say, full
(00:44):
disclosure, this. This episode was recorded just a bit
before the new year. But I gotta say
it at the top of this. There's
a lot going on. This has been a
strange setup. So, um, normally when I set
up for recording in my home bathroom. Here
we are, we're back in home bathroom. It's usually pretty
straightforward. Throw the table up, throw the computer on, get
(01:07):
things set up, do my hair and
nails. You got to get stuff looking just
right for everybody out there. But
today I'm in the process of setting up the
computer, setting up the mics, getting everything square, and
the urge hits me. The urge to purge. And that doesn't happen.
Happen very often. And it's always awkward because
then drop. You drop
(01:29):
duff hang beef, and you're just
staring at, like, a full computer and
microphone and table set up right in front of you.
And it's always a strange and surreal thing when.
When you're staring down your podcast
recording setup mid beef. But such is.
Such is the way of things. But it's bitter C. You
(01:50):
know, and it's. It's kind of a strange start to the year because, number
one, um, I got a new bath mat.
So full, uh, disclosure. I've been complaining as, you
know, listener, you'you'll. The acute ear will know that
for the last some time, I've been going on and on about
how the bathmat is a crucial part of
the bathroom experience, specifically between
November and February. That said,
(02:13):
I have been without bath mat for going
on two or three weeks. And I
survived. I was strong. Um, I powered through. You
know, I'm not looking for. I'm not looking for accolades or
medals. I just want recognition.
But my wife has
purchased me, like, the most
deluxe bath mat that I
(02:35):
have ever had the pleasure of being a part
of. Uh, and it's deluxe because
it's like memory foam. So it's like, extra
thick. Uh, which, you know, the pea splatter
is something that. That we'll cross that bridge when
we get there. I'm sure, there's. I'm sure that as you
launder it, those things can sort themselves out.
(02:55):
But I'm pretty psyched about this bathmat. I'm not going
to lie. It. It is a great new addition.
It's a great way. New year, new me, new
bath mat. Just don't pee on
it. But then first,
first, um, I mean, I mid.
I mid dumperoo and
(03:16):
I'm out of toilet paper. My wife forgot
to replace the toilet paper. And so
it's one of those things where it's like, it's just,
it was just a strange bathroom experience.
Lots of mixed emotions, you know,
staring down the pod, staring down an
empty toilet paper tube. There she blows.
(03:36):
That's. I replaced the roll.
But also happy about the fresh bath mat.
So a lot, lot going on, um, by
way of, uh, bathroom
experiences today. As
I noted, this is the first episode of the new
year. And anyime that we
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ring in the new year, everybody
is making resolutions. It's resolution
season. People is like, it's new
Year. We got to set goals
and try to come up with ways that we can
better our lives and commit to this for doing it for a full
year. Um, and I'm here to tell you that if you wait till the new
year to make these changes, you won't make them.
(04:18):
But we've covered resolutions in the
past and in
that conversation we discussed, like, the role
of fitness and how
sometimes, you know, it can cause
the diarrhea to really just seep down your
leg. Uh, and you can go seek out that
episode. If you go back one full calendar
(04:40):
year, you can find, uh, I believe it's
called runner's diarrhea. But I'm not. I cannot
remember. And maybe now, you know,
five days in, at the point of this episode'released're five days into
the new year. Maybe now is a good time for
you to be rethinking and thinking about your
resolutions. It's not too late. You're five days late, but you're not
too late. Maybe you want to make some resolutions this
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year. And I got to tell you, every year I tell myself
that I'm going to read, I'm going to read more books,
I'm going to be more conscientious and in set
aside time to be able to read.
And I usually start out pretty good, keep
up on the reading, and then I get like
three days in
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and things just fall apart.
And I think for me, I think I need to
be setting either a daily or a weekly reading
goal of like, this is how much I want to read
in uh, a week's time. So that way I have this more
tangible goal to aim
towards as, as I look towards doing
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more reading and keeping me on track. But people
make all sorts of resolutions this time year
and it's a good time also to think back
on the resolutions that we've made in the past.
How do we do? How did last week's or,
uh, last year's resolutions go? Did they last a
week? Do we need to course correct your
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resolutions this year to help you be successful
based off of what you learned from last year?
And on almost every list of common New
Year's resolution, there lives something
about reading more, something about saving
money, about the reading
mores me. I must confess, there's also something
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about, about exercise and,
and I did not just start my
year off by, by saving a lot of money.
Dang old Mickey Mouse knows how to suck money out
of a guy. You know what I'm saying?
Disney prices are kind of absurd. More
on that next episode. But good
lord, they know how to, they know how to get your money.
(06:48):
That's, that's for Dankure. Also,
if they had a Disney level like, like
to the, to the extent of an amusement park
that Disney had, if they had that,
but it was Pokemon,
my dude, I be, I'd be like
full blown fore alarm Pokemon
(07:08):
extravaganza lining up to get into
that. I want to wait in line
for like 40 minutes to glad hand Pikachu
be totally worth it. The
Dragonite coaster. I'm practically creating this theme
park. But yeah, we got to get that going.
But some resolutions. Back to the resolutions
Hunter. Some resolutions we make, uh, are
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centered around life projects or things that you want to
accomplish. These are things that are ambitious things
that you've been wanting to get done or to see
these projects through and haven't, haven't done
and set aside for me. It's to fix my fence. Dang wind.
Blew it over, saved it with a classic pillar
wedge it in their system. It's up,
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but it needs some attention. I'm gonna need
to get that fixed. But there's still,
there's all sorts. And the one we looked at
last year was exercise. Those gym
memberships again, they spike this time of year.
And we discussed some of the bathroom dangers that
exist inside the exercise
world related to
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our bowels and how they react to
mostly, uh, an increase in the
amount of exercise that we're doing. But this
year we need to hone in on another
popular resolution and how that
resolution interacts with
our bowels and as a result our
bathrooming. This week we're looking at
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dieting and weight loss.
Gotta kick this new year in just a k
cha
Orange vanilla. It's just it. If
you like many this, this
new year are looking to revamp your
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diet as a resolution. There are no
shortage of options in the dieting
space and the diets in the world that one can partake
in in order to try to go about these New Year's
resolutions. Some popular
diets include, uh, that people take
up during the resolution season and beyond are, uh,
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Paleo, which if you don't know Paleo
pretty much is, it's like high, high protein,
high fiber, low calorie. And the
wholetick behind paleo is like if
paleontology, it's like,
let's go back to eating what we ate during dinosaur
times. Well, here's the thing. We don't live in
dinosaur times. We have dinosaur chicken nuggets, which
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are great, but we don't live in dinosaur times.
So I get what you're saying. But
also, pizza is really tasty. You know what our
ancient ancestors didn't have? Doritos,
McDonald's. And I have a feeling the
lower calories had a lot to do with the whole, like
working was to earn or kill the food you were going to
eat because food was a lot less
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readily available. I have a feeling that the amount
of work that you exceed or
put forth into the world to obtain the food that you're going to
eat is drastically going to out
outweigh the calorie intake of that food. But
that's just me. I don't know. Uh, another
modern popular diet is vegan.
Now if you haven't heard, vegans don't eat anything
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that comes from animals, byproducts or otherwise. And
there's in my brain, there's two types of
vegans. There's two classes of vegan,
conscientious and intentional vegans who are
vegan and want to understand it and don't want it
to make it an ethical thing against your
existence every time you eat something. And these
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vegans are totally fine. These are actually like, it's
cool, their cooking is good, some of the food is good. Big
fan of those who choose this diet that they find
appealing to them. But then there's this other type of
vegan, the type that I like to call Portland
vegan. And these are the folks that
get triggered because you are wearing shoes
made with adhesive derived from an animal
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byproduct. If you're
Portland vegan, good for you. I don't care
like and uh,
sorry, but your, your dietary
choices are not
my concern. Yeah, don't be
Portland vegan. Be cool vegan. But
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some benefits include reduced inflammation,
joint strength and stability, weight loss, so that's good.
Another popular diet, one that in many ways is
representative of its kind, wherein it stands
in for many others that are similar as the Atkins diet.
Now the Atkins is probably one
of the most popular of a
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type of diet called low carb diets.
These diets focus on eating as much
protein as you can. You just pack on the chicken.
Chicken proteins while avoiding
most, if not all carbs. Atkins
and another low carb. No carb diets purport as
lowering someone's appetite to a portion wherein they
choose not to eat as often. Others
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have taken to an extreme form of Atkins
which doesn't focus as heavily on plants and other
fruits and nuts and looks at only eating
meat. This, the carnivore
diet is like Paleo on
steroids. It's the opposite of vegan only
consuming meat and animal products.
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Other diets seek to cut out a certain type of
food or food compound or something found
in it in order to help regulate
digestion and give you
some added health benefits. Sometimes people do this to
help with allergies or intolerances.
Some things that are often cut out in modern
times include lactose, glucose, sugar,
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just to name a few. I could do
these. Like sugar would be
hard. Like that's a lifestyle, complete lifestyle. Reh
haul. I feel like I could give up gluten
pretty easy. There's so many gluten free
options now that like it's fine.
There's countless diets and countless fad diets
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that we could talk about. There's no shortage of them.
And, and another up and
coming one seems to be intermittent
fasting. Intermittent fasting is
pretty much in short. You eat in
a small window of time and so you
give yourself this specific
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amount of time wherein you eat and then you don't eat
for the rest of the day. Usually you limit your
eating window to like 6 to 10
hours of your day, depending on how rigorous your're
intermittent fast fasting
is. I gotta admit, I've tried intermittent
fasting. Uh, I actually enjoyed it a lot.
But something that I found when I did
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intermittent fasting was that I ate more
food than I normally would during my window
because I knew I wouldn't be able to just eat when I wanted.
It was like in the back of my brain. I Was
like, oh, man, I got toa
have one last snack before 8:00.
So that way I, uh, it holds me
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over longer until the day tomorrow where I break my
fast. Probably not how that's supposed
to work, but
that's how I did it. Thing
is, everyone
has those who diet. The people who
take on a diet or choose to change
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what they eat, whether during, uh, a New Year's
resolution or not, everyone has a different
goal in it. And I think there's this
stigma around dieting that it's only for losing
weight. And while sometimes that's a huge
benefit, sometimes people take on a diet in order to
just be healthier. They're eaten better, um,
they're feeling better. Or in the
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case of Portland vegans, to try to impress the people
around them. Like, we get it, you're on your
12th juice cleanse this month and at
some point it's less impressive than you want it to
be. Like the fact, the fact that you're
downing 16
ounces of juice, just like
spicy juice on the regular and
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that, that just cleans your clock and you
just. Shazz Royale, uh, it's
less impressive than you want it to be. Like, I can make
myself poop pretty easy. The
dragonfuit, let me tell you'it'll get the job
done. Did it, did just
fine. But whatever the reason
that you choose to take on it, if you choose to
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diet this New Year's and
you want to take that on in the New year and
whatever benefits you find in it, one thing is
certain, and one thing is consistently
found across these, is that our diets
and the way we eat are going to have an impact
on our time. In the bathroom,
before continuing and talking about our
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diet'effects um, in the bathroom,
there's going to be this idea of a healthy
poop or a healthy bowel movement.
And it's usually defined as a medium,
brown, long, smooth and soft
turd. Now, I would like to
note most of those
adjectives related to that turd
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are verifiable
via eyecon, eye contact
to the, to the turd. But I would
argue smooth and soft.
Those are texture things. And while
I get what they mean is like, oh, it's smooth, it comes
out smooth, it's soft, it's not hard, it's
not like her plunkin mermaid kiss in your, um, bumole.
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Like, smooth and soft
to me are touch senses.
And I don't like that idea related to my turd.
Classic Mr. Hanky Turds, though. And
by that standard, it should Be noted that, uh,
uh, all those adjectives considered,
I am technically quote
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unquote unhealthy. And to that I
say, that's like your opinion, dude.
But they also note that people poop a
variety of times. How many times and
how often. And the frequency
of someone's poop varies to a
great degree. Some people poop as many as three times a
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day, some poop three times a
week. I've had a number of questions.
The first is what about
four to five times a day? Like are we still
okay with that as an amount? Because I will assure
you I'm clocking in at
least four to five times a day on the regular.
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And then my second question to this is three times
a week. If I went an
entire day without taking a
dump, I don't know what I'd do. I think I'd
probably put a note into my doctor saying hey,
I didn't poop today. Do you think I'm good? Like
it's a wild thought to me. The idea of not
pooping every day is just, it's baffling to me.
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I've read stories
online about people saying
that like they only poop once a week or once every
other week. That ain't right. Like I'm
sorry. And when you do, when you
do, like when you
do produce that bee,
that log has got to be mondo
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stank. Like that dude's been
percolating in you for, for a week.
It's gott be mondo stanko.
All this to say all these different
diets can take and have an affected
toll on our poos.
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M some ways that these diets can affect our poo.
It's noted that gluten free
diets can cause you to be constipated.
Especially when you're a gluten free approach
is primarily through high
processed non gluten foods. Rather, if
you focus on rices and other non gluten natural
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alternatives and substitutes, you can probably get the
fibrous situation you need. It's funny
because gluten is kind of sticky in nature, but
it seems that gluten helps break up your turds.
As it comes to pooping, there are some benefits noted
related to intermittent fasting. Intermittent fasting,
it seems, helps the healthy bacteria in
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your tummies thrive. You got bacteria in your tummy
and that tummy when you intermittent fast
during that time of resting, the
bacteria are able to reproduce. They don't have to
be busting down the big thirurdies and they're able to
Catch back up now while you still
need to be mindful of what you eat. It is
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stated that the heavier you are, the less healthy
bacteria you have in your tummy. As a result,
intermittent fasting can be a good way to begin a
weight loss approach or kick start
digestion.
Many people who fast do not note
huge changes in their pooping, but some note they
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poop less. Which if you think about it makes a lot of sense.
Like if you go from eating like three cheesy bees
a day to eating less than three cheesy bees
today, you're going to produce like three
cheesy cheesy bees.
Amount of less poop in your,
in your interactions. So
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that's that in the
low carb, high protein situation, diets
such as keto and Atkins, there's a
noticeable effect on your bowels.
Namely, people report that
these low carb, high fat diets
plug your slam up.
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I feel like one of these is also gonna make you
fart a bunch like anytime. If I
eat a lot of beef jerky or if I eat like a good amount
of red meat, it just, it just really
gets the fart factory fired up. You know what I'm saying?
It's like fire up the fart factory. It's, it's steak
Thursday. They call me steak and
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shake because
keto and others are
low in fiber, high in animal fats. Your
tummy doesn't really process those
things as quickly as they process
like big fiber.
Think about it like being like
sticking a railroad tie in a wood
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chipper. That joker is going to
take a little more to get through than those
unprocessed tree limbs.
It's noted one of the diets that helps the tummy
shaz ctch the most is
the Mediterranean diet. The Mediterranean diet is
very fruit and veggie forward and the meat that is
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found in this diet is gained primarily
through seafood, although there is
some um, allowances for lamb and
sheep. The Mediterranean diet helps
the food. Like it's very
veggie, focus on whole grains, legumes,
and it really helps the food slide right through
the system faster than the sweet, sweet olive oil
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coated veggies and fish you'll be eating.
Like Mediterranean has that
stuff fully oiled up as it flies through you.
Paleo, it is noted, can go either way
depending on what your diet was like before you started
paleo. Pretty much paleo does
get you to a healthy poop, but it may take a bit
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longer to get there depending on where you are beginning.
Like if your diet is
abysmal to begin, Paleo is going to be a
bumpy start. Finally,
the bathroom effects from
vegans have mixed reviews.
As would noted, there's a variety of vegans
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and another type of vegan is called
a fad vegan. Now, not fat vegan
fad vegan. Fat
vegans are kind of like Portland
vegans, but fat vegans are the ones
that are just buying stuff because it
says vegan. They're vegan not because
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they want you to be, but because they
really like the way that it sounds at parties.
Fad vegans are the ones that are eating
essentially junk food, but they're eating it under the
banner of vegan. They're flying the vegan flag,
but they're not living the vegan lifestyle.
Remember kids, Airheads,
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Sweet chili, Doritos, Famous Amos
peanut butter cookies, Original
Fritos Lays, Classic Sierra Le and
Marie Callendar frozen pies, Nutter
Butters, Oreos, Ritz Crackers, Sour Patch
Kids, Swedish Fish and unfrosted Pop Tarts
are, are all vegan. And, uh, this is a
reminder to you when you see
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vegan on a package. Vegan doesn't mean
healthy. Now, people
who I do believe that people that take
vegans seriously and
prepare food and are cooking vegan tend
to be healthier. But just because you're
vegan doesn't mean you are because, uh, like due could
be slinging back pouch after pouch of Sour Patch
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Kids. And I would argue, yeah,
you're vegan, but like, you're also
diabetic. So here we are.
Vegan doesn't always mean healthy. And
who the flip, who in the flip
wants to eat unfrosted pop tarts?
Like,
unpopular opinion. But
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if you were a point in your life, and it could be medical, it
could, you know, I understand these things
happen. But if you have
arrived at a point in your life where you are staring down,
making the choice, you know what? I think I'm going to go
for unfrosted. Just don't eat Pop Tarts.
Like, I've solved your, I've solved your dilemma
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for you. Like, don't
just don't do Pop Tarts if you can't have them frosted. That's where
I'm at. That's what I'm trying to say.
But if you're eating this variety of vegan, you're
probablynna be finding yourself pretty plugged up anyway.
Your body's trying to process a sugar bomb. But if
you're doing the healthy version of vegan cooking and
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preparing vegan food, as we noted,
there's some tangible fiber
forward benefits promoting a healthy poop from
that. Whatever the reason
that you take up dieting this, this season or if
you don't, that's fine. If your resolution this
year is around your diet, keep in mind that if you
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overdo the fiber, you may need to pack a spare pair of
pants.
If you hear all this and the diet
that you were considering, or maybe you've already
started by the time you listen to this episode and you hear
that it constipates you or it mixes things
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up and really sling stuff out the bee faster than you can
say Jackrabbit Slim. Go listen to our other
episode on laxatives. You might need some. Um, but in short,
all of these diets
affect our poop based on the materials that
they put in our body and as a
result into our
poops. Those which traditionally
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increase fiber, those that are leaned
more towards plants and fruits and, and,
and grains, um, are going
to produce more
frequent pooping and possibly
less solid. Those which focus on
increasing fats and oils, meats and the
likes, dairy, cheese, all of these,
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they're going toa produce more hard to pass,
maybe stinkier poops, but they're going to
be a little more substantial. So keep that in mind.
These things also don't take into account
intolerances. Um, and maybe food intolerances is
a story for another day. But in short, food
intolerances are caused by your body not being able
to process a, ah, certain compound appropriately
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or appropriately digest a certain type of food.
And pretty much the typical path forward
for an intolerance is to like just quit eating those
foods. In some cases
intolerances occur from allergies. Um, but
sometimes it's just like the body isn't producing the
enzyme to break down the certain type of food. This
happens all the time. Um, there's things you can do
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to increase a digestive enzyme help break things
down. You can actually get like enzymes as
vitamins and just like take them to help increase
those digestive enzymes. In
short, junk food makes for rough poopies. You
may experience some gastro, gastro
distress when you see switch from
eating like
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uh, Oscar the Grouch to eating like a
champion in the new year. Like it takes time for
your gut and your bacteria and your
digestive system to adjust to that and that's okay.
As we bring to the close of this episode, if we learned anything
from Aaron Luckman last year when, when he was on the show,
he shared a little bit of his health routine and now, uh, he was hitting
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the smoothies hard. He was saying how it just makes him
real gassy. And if you decide to essentially
blend your fibers, that G is going toa fly through
you quicker than reheated burrito on chilly Wednesday.
Like there's not a chance because all that
fiber is still passing. But your body's not doing any
work on it. It's just literally slinging it right through you.
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So keep that in mind. But that'll
bring us to the end of another episode of Privy. Good luck on your
resolutions. Happy New Year, everyone.
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you for bringinging in another new year with us
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here on the Pod. We look forward to what
2025 has in store. Get hyped.
Follow along. It's going to be good. Thank
you all for listening. Keep hoping in the free world.
Own your stank. And now, as
always, don't forget to flush.
It just. It just really gets the fart factory fired up.
You know what I'm saying? It's like, fire up the fart
factory. It's steak Thursday.
Welcome back to Privy.
Privy is a podcast about
bathrooms recorded
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from my home bathroom. I'm your host,
Hunter Hoover, and I love
bathrooms. Welcome back, everyone.
Um, thank you all for being here, and Happy New
Year. If you're listening to this, this is the first
episode of 2025. We did
it. We made it to another one. Uh,
and I gotta say, full
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disclosure, this. This episode was recorded just a bit
before the new year. But I gotta say
it at the top of this. There's
a lot going on. This has been a
strange setup. So, um, normally when I set
up for recording in my home bathroom. Here
we are, we're back in home bathroom. It's usually pretty
straightforward. Throw the table up, throw the computer on, get
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things set up, do my hair and
nails. You got to get stuff looking just
right for everybody out there. But
today I'm in the process of setting up the
computer, setting up the mics, getting everything square, and
the urge hits me. The urge to purge. And that doesn't happen.
Happen very often. And it's always awkward because
then drop. You drop
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duff hang beef, and you're just
staring at, like, a full computer and
microphone and table set up right in front of you.
And it's always a strange and surreal thing when.
When you're staring down your podcast
recording setup mid beef. But such is.
Such is the way of things. But it's bitter C. You
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know, and it's. It's kind of a strange start to the year because, number
one, um, I got a new bath mat.
So full, uh, disclosure. I've been complaining as, you
know, listener, you'you'll. The acute ear will know that
for the last some time, I've been going on and on about
how the bathmat is a crucial part of
the bathroom experience, specifically between
November and February. That said,
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I have been without bath mat for going
on two or three weeks. And I
survived. I was strong. Um, I powered through. You
know, I'm not looking for. I'm not looking for accolades or
medals. I just want recognition.
But my wife has
purchased me, like, the most
deluxe bath mat that I
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have ever had the pleasure of being a part
of. Uh, and it's deluxe because
it's like memory foam. So it's like, extra
thick. Uh, which, you know, the pea splatter
is something that. That we'll cross that bridge when
we get there. I'm sure, there's. I'm sure that as you
launder it, those things can sort themselves out.
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But I'm pretty psyched about this bathmat. I'm not going
to lie. It. It is a great new addition.
It's a great way. New year, new me, new
bath mat. Just don't pee on
it. But then first,
first, um, I mean, I mid.
I mid dumperoo and
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I'm out of toilet paper. My wife forgot
to replace the toilet paper. And so
it's one of those things where it's like, it's just,
it was just a strange bathroom experience.
Lots of mixed emotions, you know,
staring down the pod, staring down an
empty toilet paper tube. There she blows.
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That's. I replaced the roll.
But also happy about the fresh bath mat.
So a lot, lot going on, um, by
way of, uh, bathroom
experiences today. As
I noted, this is the first episode of the new
year. And anyime that we
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ring in the new year, everybody
is making resolutions. It's resolution
season. People is like, it's new
Year. We got to set goals
and try to come up with ways that we can
better our lives and commit to this for doing it for a full
year. Um, and I'm here to tell you that if you wait till the new
year to make these changes, you won't make them.
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But we've covered resolutions in the
past and in
that conversation we discussed, like, the role
of fitness and how
sometimes, you know, it can cause
the diarrhea to really just seep down your
leg. Uh, and you can go seek out that
episode. If you go back one full calendar
(04:40):
year, you can find, uh, I believe it's
called runner's diarrhea. But I'm not. I cannot
remember. And maybe now, you know,
five days in, at the point of this episode'released're five days into
the new year. Maybe now is a good time for
you to be rethinking and thinking about your
resolutions. It's not too late. You're five days late, but you're not
too late. Maybe you want to make some resolutions this
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year. And I got to tell you, every year I tell myself
that I'm going to read, I'm going to read more books,
I'm going to be more conscientious and in set
aside time to be able to read.
And I usually start out pretty good, keep
up on the reading, and then I get like
three days in
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and things just fall apart.
And I think for me, I think I need to
be setting either a daily or a weekly reading
goal of like, this is how much I want to read
in uh, a week's time. So that way I have this more
tangible goal to aim
towards as, as I look towards doing
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more reading and keeping me on track. But people
make all sorts of resolutions this time year
and it's a good time also to think back
on the resolutions that we've made in the past.
How do we do? How did last week's or,
uh, last year's resolutions go? Did they last a
week? Do we need to course correct your
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resolutions this year to help you be successful
based off of what you learned from last year?
And on almost every list of common New
Year's resolution, there lives something
about reading more, something about saving
money, about the reading
mores me. I must confess, there's also something
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about, about exercise and,
and I did not just start my
year off by, by saving a lot of money.
Dang old Mickey Mouse knows how to suck money out
of a guy. You know what I'm saying?
Disney prices are kind of absurd. More
on that next episode. But good
lord, they know how to, they know how to get your money.
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That's, that's for Dankure. Also,
if they had a Disney level like, like
to the, to the extent of an amusement park
that Disney had, if they had that,
but it was Pokemon,
my dude, I be, I'd be like
full blown fore alarm Pokemon
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extravaganza lining up to get into
that. I want to wait in line
for like 40 minutes to glad hand Pikachu
be totally worth it. The
Dragonite coaster. I'm practically creating this theme
park. But yeah, we got to get that going.
But some resolutions. Back to the resolutions
Hunter. Some resolutions we make, uh, are
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centered around life projects or things that you want to
accomplish. These are things that are ambitious things
that you've been wanting to get done or to see
these projects through and haven't, haven't done
and set aside for me. It's to fix my fence. Dang wind.
Blew it over, saved it with a classic pillar
wedge it in their system. It's up,
(07:52):
but it needs some attention. I'm gonna need
to get that fixed. But there's still,
there's all sorts. And the one we looked at
last year was exercise. Those gym
memberships again, they spike this time of year.
And we discussed some of the bathroom dangers that
exist inside the exercise
world related to
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our bowels and how they react to
mostly, uh, an increase in the
amount of exercise that we're doing. But this
year we need to hone in on another
popular resolution and how that
resolution interacts with
our bowels and as a result our
bathrooming. This week we're looking at
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dieting and weight loss.
Gotta kick this new year in just a k
cha
Orange vanilla. It's just it. If
you like many this, this
new year are looking to revamp your
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diet as a resolution. There are no
shortage of options in the dieting
space and the diets in the world that one can partake
in in order to try to go about these New Year's
resolutions. Some popular
diets include, uh, that people take
up during the resolution season and beyond are, uh,
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Paleo, which if you don't know Paleo
pretty much is, it's like high, high protein,
high fiber, low calorie. And the
wholetick behind paleo is like if
paleontology, it's like,
let's go back to eating what we ate during dinosaur
times. Well, here's the thing. We don't live in
dinosaur times. We have dinosaur chicken nuggets, which
(09:43):
are great, but we don't live in dinosaur times.
So I get what you're saying. But
also, pizza is really tasty. You know what our
ancient ancestors didn't have? Doritos,
McDonald's. And I have a feeling the
lower calories had a lot to do with the whole, like
working was to earn or kill the food you were going to
eat because food was a lot less
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readily available. I have a feeling that the amount
of work that you exceed or
put forth into the world to obtain the food that you're going to
eat is drastically going to out
outweigh the calorie intake of that food. But
that's just me. I don't know. Uh, another
modern popular diet is vegan.
Now if you haven't heard, vegans don't eat anything
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that comes from animals, byproducts or otherwise. And
there's in my brain, there's two types of
vegans. There's two classes of vegan,
conscientious and intentional vegans who are
vegan and want to understand it and don't want it
to make it an ethical thing against your
existence every time you eat something. And these
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vegans are totally fine. These are actually like, it's
cool, their cooking is good, some of the food is good. Big
fan of those who choose this diet that they find
appealing to them. But then there's this other type of
vegan, the type that I like to call Portland
vegan. And these are the folks that
get triggered because you are wearing shoes
made with adhesive derived from an animal
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byproduct. If you're
Portland vegan, good for you. I don't care
like and uh,
sorry, but your, your dietary
choices are not
my concern. Yeah, don't be
Portland vegan. Be cool vegan. But
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some benefits include reduced inflammation,
joint strength and stability, weight loss, so that's good.
Another popular diet, one that in many ways is
representative of its kind, wherein it stands
in for many others that are similar as the Atkins diet.
Now the Atkins is probably one
of the most popular of a
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type of diet called low carb diets.
These diets focus on eating as much
protein as you can. You just pack on the chicken.
Chicken proteins while avoiding
most, if not all carbs. Atkins
and another low carb. No carb diets purport as
lowering someone's appetite to a portion wherein they
choose not to eat as often. Others
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have taken to an extreme form of Atkins
which doesn't focus as heavily on plants and other
fruits and nuts and looks at only eating
meat. This, the carnivore
diet is like Paleo on
steroids. It's the opposite of vegan only
consuming meat and animal products.
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Other diets seek to cut out a certain type of
food or food compound or something found
in it in order to help regulate
digestion and give you
some added health benefits. Sometimes people do this to
help with allergies or intolerances.
Some things that are often cut out in modern
times include lactose, glucose, sugar,
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just to name a few. I could do
these. Like sugar would be
hard. Like that's a lifestyle, complete lifestyle. Reh
haul. I feel like I could give up gluten
pretty easy. There's so many gluten free
options now that like it's fine.
There's countless diets and countless fad diets
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that we could talk about. There's no shortage of them.
And, and another up and
coming one seems to be intermittent
fasting. Intermittent fasting is
pretty much in short. You eat in
a small window of time and so you
give yourself this specific
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amount of time wherein you eat and then you don't eat
for the rest of the day. Usually you limit your
eating window to like 6 to 10
hours of your day, depending on how rigorous your're
intermittent fast fasting
is. I gotta admit, I've tried intermittent
fasting. Uh, I actually enjoyed it a lot.
But something that I found when I did
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intermittent fasting was that I ate more
food than I normally would during my window
because I knew I wouldn't be able to just eat when I wanted.
It was like in the back of my brain. I Was
like, oh, man, I got toa
have one last snack before 8:00.
So that way I, uh, it holds me
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over longer until the day tomorrow where I break my
fast. Probably not how that's supposed
to work, but
that's how I did it. Thing
is, everyone
has those who diet. The people who
take on a diet or choose to change
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what they eat, whether during, uh, a New Year's
resolution or not, everyone has a different
goal in it. And I think there's this
stigma around dieting that it's only for losing
weight. And while sometimes that's a huge
benefit, sometimes people take on a diet in order to
just be healthier. They're eaten better, um,
they're feeling better. Or in the
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case of Portland vegans, to try to impress the people
around them. Like, we get it, you're on your
12th juice cleanse this month and at
some point it's less impressive than you want it to
be. Like the fact, the fact that you're
downing 16
ounces of juice, just like
spicy juice on the regular and
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that, that just cleans your clock and you
just. Shazz Royale, uh, it's
less impressive than you want it to be. Like, I can make
myself poop pretty easy. The
dragonfuit, let me tell you'it'll get the job
done. Did it, did just
fine. But whatever the reason
that you choose to take on it, if you choose to
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diet this New Year's and
you want to take that on in the New year and
whatever benefits you find in it, one thing is
certain, and one thing is consistently
found across these, is that our diets
and the way we eat are going to have an impact
on our time. In the bathroom,
before continuing and talking about our
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diet'effects um, in the bathroom,
there's going to be this idea of a healthy
poop or a healthy bowel movement.
And it's usually defined as a medium,
brown, long, smooth and soft
turd. Now, I would like to
note most of those
adjectives related to that turd
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are verifiable
via eyecon, eye contact
to the, to the turd. But I would
argue smooth and soft.
Those are texture things. And while
I get what they mean is like, oh, it's smooth, it comes
out smooth, it's soft, it's not hard, it's
not like her plunkin mermaid kiss in your, um, bumole.
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Like, smooth and soft
to me are touch senses.
And I don't like that idea related to my turd.
Classic Mr. Hanky Turds, though. And
by that standard, it should Be noted that, uh,
uh, all those adjectives considered,
I am technically quote
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unquote unhealthy. And to that I
say, that's like your opinion, dude.
But they also note that people poop a
variety of times. How many times and
how often. And the frequency
of someone's poop varies to a
great degree. Some people poop as many as three times a
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day, some poop three times a
week. I've had a number of questions.
The first is what about
four to five times a day? Like are we still
okay with that as an amount? Because I will assure
you I'm clocking in at
least four to five times a day on the regular.
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And then my second question to this is three times
a week. If I went an
entire day without taking a
dump, I don't know what I'd do. I think I'd
probably put a note into my doctor saying hey,
I didn't poop today. Do you think I'm good? Like
it's a wild thought to me. The idea of not
pooping every day is just, it's baffling to me.
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I've read stories
online about people saying
that like they only poop once a week or once every
other week. That ain't right. Like I'm
sorry. And when you do, when you
do, like when you
do produce that bee,
that log has got to be mondo
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stank. Like that dude's been
percolating in you for, for a week.
It's gott be mondo stanko.
All this to say all these different
diets can take and have an affected
toll on our poos.
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M some ways that these diets can affect our poo.
It's noted that gluten free
diets can cause you to be constipated.
Especially when you're a gluten free approach
is primarily through high
processed non gluten foods. Rather, if
you focus on rices and other non gluten natural
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alternatives and substitutes, you can probably get the
fibrous situation you need. It's funny
because gluten is kind of sticky in nature, but
it seems that gluten helps break up your turds.
As it comes to pooping, there are some benefits noted
related to intermittent fasting. Intermittent fasting,
it seems, helps the healthy bacteria in
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your tummies thrive. You got bacteria in your tummy
and that tummy when you intermittent fast
during that time of resting, the
bacteria are able to reproduce. They don't have to
be busting down the big thirurdies and they're able to
Catch back up now while you still
need to be mindful of what you eat. It is
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stated that the heavier you are, the less healthy
bacteria you have in your tummy. As a result,
intermittent fasting can be a good way to begin a
weight loss approach or kick start
digestion.
Many people who fast do not note
huge changes in their pooping, but some note they
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poop less. Which if you think about it makes a lot of sense.
Like if you go from eating like three cheesy bees
a day to eating less than three cheesy bees
today, you're going to produce like three
cheesy cheesy bees.
Amount of less poop in your,
in your interactions. So
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that's that in the
low carb, high protein situation, diets
such as keto and Atkins, there's a
noticeable effect on your bowels.
Namely, people report that
these low carb, high fat diets
plug your slam up.
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I feel like one of these is also gonna make you
fart a bunch like anytime. If I
eat a lot of beef jerky or if I eat like a good amount
of red meat, it just, it just really
gets the fart factory fired up. You know what I'm saying?
It's like fire up the fart factory. It's, it's steak
Thursday. They call me steak and
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shake because
keto and others are
low in fiber, high in animal fats. Your
tummy doesn't really process those
things as quickly as they process
like big fiber.
Think about it like being like
sticking a railroad tie in a wood
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chipper. That joker is going to
take a little more to get through than those
unprocessed tree limbs.
It's noted one of the diets that helps the tummy
shaz ctch the most is
the Mediterranean diet. The Mediterranean diet is
very fruit and veggie forward and the meat that is
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found in this diet is gained primarily
through seafood, although there is
some um, allowances for lamb and
sheep. The Mediterranean diet helps
the food. Like it's very
veggie, focus on whole grains, legumes,
and it really helps the food slide right through
the system faster than the sweet, sweet olive oil
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coated veggies and fish you'll be eating.
Like Mediterranean has that
stuff fully oiled up as it flies through you.
Paleo, it is noted, can go either way
depending on what your diet was like before you started
paleo. Pretty much paleo does
get you to a healthy poop, but it may take a bit
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longer to get there depending on where you are beginning.
Like if your diet is
abysmal to begin, Paleo is going to be a
bumpy start. Finally,
the bathroom effects from
vegans have mixed reviews.
As would noted, there's a variety of vegans
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and another type of vegan is called
a fad vegan. Now, not fat vegan
fad vegan. Fat
vegans are kind of like Portland
vegans, but fat vegans are the ones
that are just buying stuff because it
says vegan. They're vegan not because
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they want you to be, but because they
really like the way that it sounds at parties.
Fad vegans are the ones that are eating
essentially junk food, but they're eating it under the
banner of vegan. They're flying the vegan flag,
but they're not living the vegan lifestyle.
Remember kids, Airheads,
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Sweet chili, Doritos, Famous Amos
peanut butter cookies, Original
Fritos Lays, Classic Sierra Le and
Marie Callendar frozen pies, Nutter
Butters, Oreos, Ritz Crackers, Sour Patch
Kids, Swedish Fish and unfrosted Pop Tarts
are, are all vegan. And, uh, this is a
reminder to you when you see
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vegan on a package. Vegan doesn't mean
healthy. Now, people
who I do believe that people that take
vegans seriously and
prepare food and are cooking vegan tend
to be healthier. But just because you're
vegan doesn't mean you are because, uh, like due could
be slinging back pouch after pouch of Sour Patch
(24:41):
Kids. And I would argue, yeah,
you're vegan, but like, you're also
diabetic. So here we are.
Vegan doesn't always mean healthy. And
who the flip, who in the flip
wants to eat unfrosted pop tarts?
Like,
unpopular opinion. But
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if you were a point in your life, and it could be medical, it
could, you know, I understand these things
happen. But if you have
arrived at a point in your life where you are staring down,
making the choice, you know what? I think I'm going to go
for unfrosted. Just don't eat Pop Tarts.
Like, I've solved your, I've solved your dilemma
(25:25):
for you. Like, don't
just don't do Pop Tarts if you can't have them frosted. That's where
I'm at. That's what I'm trying to say.
But if you're eating this variety of vegan, you're
probablynna be finding yourself pretty plugged up anyway.
Your body's trying to process a sugar bomb. But if
you're doing the healthy version of vegan cooking and
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preparing vegan food, as we noted,
there's some tangible fiber
forward benefits promoting a healthy poop from
that. Whatever the reason
that you take up dieting this, this season or if
you don't, that's fine. If your resolution this
year is around your diet, keep in mind that if you
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overdo the fiber, you may need to pack a spare pair of
pants.
If you hear all this and the diet
that you were considering, or maybe you've already
started by the time you listen to this episode and you hear
that it constipates you or it mixes things
(26:25):
up and really sling stuff out the bee faster than you can
say Jackrabbit Slim. Go listen to our other
episode on laxatives. You might need some. Um, but in short,
all of these diets
affect our poop based on the materials that
they put in our body and as a
result into our
poops. Those which traditionally
(26:48):
increase fiber, those that are leaned
more towards plants and fruits and, and,
and grains, um, are going
to produce more
frequent pooping and possibly
less solid. Those which focus on
increasing fats and oils, meats and the
likes, dairy, cheese, all of these,
(27:12):
they're going toa produce more hard to pass,
maybe stinkier poops, but they're going to
be a little more substantial. So keep that in mind.
These things also don't take into account
intolerances. Um, and maybe food intolerances is
a story for another day. But in short, food
intolerances are caused by your body not being able
to process a, ah, certain compound appropriately
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or appropriately digest a certain type of food.
And pretty much the typical path forward
for an intolerance is to like just quit eating those
foods. In some cases
intolerances occur from allergies. Um, but
sometimes it's just like the body isn't producing the
enzyme to break down the certain type of food. This
happens all the time. Um, there's things you can do
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to increase a digestive enzyme help break things
down. You can actually get like enzymes as
vitamins and just like take them to help increase
those digestive enzymes. In
short, junk food makes for rough poopies. You
may experience some gastro, gastro
distress when you see switch from
eating like
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uh, Oscar the Grouch to eating like a
champion in the new year. Like it takes time for
your gut and your bacteria and your
digestive system to adjust to that and that's okay.
As we bring to the close of this episode, if we learned anything
from Aaron Luckman last year when, when he was on the show,
he shared a little bit of his health routine and now, uh, he was hitting
(28:40):
the smoothies hard. He was saying how it just makes him
real gassy. And if you decide to essentially
blend your fibers, that G is going toa fly through
you quicker than reheated burrito on chilly Wednesday.
Like there's not a chance because all that
fiber is still passing. But your body's not doing any
work on it. It's just literally slinging it right through you.
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So keep that in mind. But that'll
bring us to the end of another episode of Privy. Good luck on your
resolutions. Happy New Year, everyone.
This new year, I would encourage you to go check out our website,
privy-cast.com do with all sorts of fun stuff going
on there. You can listen to past episodes, new episodes. We have a
shop. It's a sticker shop. Go check it out if you want. Um,
(29:20):
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the free world. That free world was not always free. And
as we pursue cleaner water for all, not everyone has cleaner
water and we want cleaner water for everyone.
Thank you to KE Kevin and Poddington for the use of
your music. You can find their things in the link
down below. Uh, this will bring us to the end of another
episode of Privy. Thank you so much for being here. Thank
you for bringinging in another new year with us
(30:03):
here on the Pod. We look forward to what
2025 has in store. Get hyped.
Follow along. It's going to be good. Thank
you all for listening. Keep hoping in the free world.
Own your stank. And now, as
always, don't forget to flush.
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!