Admit it: You’ve smelled your own poop before and it definitely didn’t smell like roses. Everybody poops—and everybody has smelly bowel movements. But what does the smell of your poop actually mean?

Generally, “normal” poop should be brown. When you eat food, it eventually turns that color by the time it exits the body in the form of stool, according to Baltimore colon and rectal surgeon Jeffery ...

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A lot of times it'll be down to what you've eaten recently, so no need to be immediately alarmed if your stool is suddenly a new colour. But some hues are worth speaking to a doctor about if you're ...

There's a reason most people keep an air freshener or a scented candle in their bathroom: Everybody poops and it doesn't smell great. Still, we've all had bowel movements that seem to emit a more foul ...

Let's face it: poop stinks. Stool is made of waste, undigested food, bacteria, and other things your body doesn't want, meaning it will never smell great, says gastroenterologist Sameer Islam, M.D. He ...

Poop, feces, stool — whatever you call it, there's no denying the unpleasant smell. While it's perfectly normal for poo to be pungent, it makes you wonder what it is about our excrement that makes it ...

WHEN you think of poop, the colour brown is probably the first that comes to mind. But number twos can take on lots of different colours, from red, green, orange and yellow, depending on your diet and ...