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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It’s so strange to me that we all have a digestive system yet we rarely talk about issues with it and some don’t even want to acknowledge it. We are strange.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Some of my family run a gastroenterology clinic and even they seem to consider it taboo. It's frustrating because GI issues are some of the least fun to live with, so the more open we are the more we can figure shit out.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

the more open we are the more we can figure shit out.

Accurate.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Yet we all look at memes whilst pooping. Even I

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Along the same lines, it is so strange to me that we take in various solids and fluids into our bodies and rarely really think about it. To eat is to put things that we find in the world into us and ...