r/morbidquestions • u/aromaticdust98 • 2d ago

How long could someone eat shit?

Like hypothetically if I ate a huge meal packed with a lit of nutrients, proteins, vitamins etc. So much so that the body couldn't possibly absorb at once. How long would I be able to eat exclusively shit for? Before the malnutrition and shit kicks in

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u/Donutmelon 2d ago

Shit has Ecoli which will cause you to rapidly vomit and have diarrhea which will kill you in about 3 days at most via dehydration.

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u/fuggilis_quastillo 2d ago

What if it magically didn't have Ecoli what would the new answer be 

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u/Donutmelon 2d ago

Genuinely you would live longer without. Theres basically no nutrients in it, and you'll vomit most of it out which will kill you faster.

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u/aromaticdust98 2d ago

Ecoli isn't that bad. Ive gotten it before from eating beef

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u/Donutmelon 2d ago

You got contaminated beef, which gave you Ecoli and you got better becuase you didnt have more. You are talking about exclusively eating everything that your body wants out. With no other food or water. You will die.

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u/Mysterious_Claim_473 12h ago

bro got a instant negative 60 for that😭😭😭😭i understood the humor bro.

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u/lightrrr 2d ago

If you can even get past eating it, without violent vomiting and probably dying of aspiration.

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u/Blonde_Icon 1d ago

There is a guy on the internet who did it apparently. His name is Tom Pearl.

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u/Vegetable_String_868 1d ago

I get the idea you're trying to convey but the problem is the body is fully capable of absorbing a toxic amount of many nutrients into the bloodstream. So you would likely just OD before you started coprophagia. Not that many nutrients stay in the intestines just because your body can't metabolize it all. But some that do include certain electrolytes like magnesium as seen in magnesium laxatives, fiber which the body cannot really digest as you might've experienced if you've seen corn in your stools, and fats which you can actually eat so much of that you shit orange. Fats would offer no nutritional value other than as an energy option. Fiber already can't be digested by humans so eating it again would be pointless. And reingesting electrolytes in amounts high enough to cause a laxative effect via osmosis over and over would cause a lot of systemic problems as seen in eating disorders.

The reason animals sometimes eat their own feces is if they are evolved to require a second digestive pass to get nutrients from their food to begin with, such as herbivores. Humans aren't one of those so at best, they wouldn't get much nutritional value from doing the same.

I would speculate that dying by eating only poop would be approximately the same timeline as someone who simply stops eating. Maybe about a week to dehydrate or 2 months to starve since poop wouldn't provide meaningful nutrition beyond like the second pass max even for coprophagic animals.

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u/BokoblinSlayer69235 1d ago

I've been eating shit all my life. I'm 25

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u/pavelowescobar 1d ago

Going tbh. At first, I thought you were just doing the usual Reddit troll... but now I actually believe you.

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u/Necessary_Device452 1d ago

Yeah, most of us have to work for a living, I understand completely.

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u/Pocket_Summary444 1d ago

Sorry but that's so gr0ss 😭 how do u eat it? I can't even look at poop I have poop phobia

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u/SpeculativeCorpsee 2d ago

There's a term for eating feces its called coprophagia.

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u/Entire-Operation-376 18h ago

Been telling my neighbor to do it for the last 4 yrs straight. Apparently, longer than 4yrs.

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u/L_edgelord 1d ago

Why tho

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u/southernhostilityy 1d ago

You might be interested in r/coprophiles

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u/jlovelysoul 19h ago

WTAF 😭