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A surprisingly serious meditation on embodiment, shame, and truth—told through the most avoided subject in human life.
Feces are among the body’s most information-rich outputs. Yet we avoid looking at, talking about, or even thinking about them. Just as we physically whoosh feces away through indoor plumbing, we shove it away socially and culturally in thick casings of shame.
But we might as well face the truth they tell while we’re healthy, rather than get our noses up in it when we’re sick. Feces are a diagnostic goldmine, not just in exam rooms but in our own bathrooms, too. We can read from them crucial information about our microbiome, the health of our diet, even how we’re managing our emotions and social experience. There’s a reason why doctors have long studied stool and farmers exercise extreme care with their fertilizer.
Learning from physicians, biologists, and farmers, Feces: A Love Story teaches ordinary people the life-enriching data in feces makes it the most honest stuff we make, indeed maybe even the body’s diary. We can’t know ourselves if we refuse to look at what we make every day.
A surprisingly serious meditation on embodiment, shame, and truth—told through the most avoided subject in human life.
Feces are among the body’s most information-rich outputs. Yet we avoid looking at, talking about, or even thinking about them. Just as we physically whoosh feces away through indoor plumbing, we shove it away socially and culturally in thick casings of shame.
But we might as well face the truth they tell while we’re healthy, rather than get our noses up in it when we’re sick. Feces are a diagnostic goldmine, not just in exam rooms but in our own bathrooms, too. We can read from them crucial information about our microbiome, the health of our diet, even how we’re managing our emotions and social experience. There’s a reason why doctors have long studied stool and farmers exercise extreme care with their fertilizer.
Learning from physicians, biologists, and farmers, Feces: A Love Story teaches ordinary people the life-enriching data in feces makes it the most honest stuff we make, indeed maybe even the body’s diary. We can’t know ourselves if we refuse to look at what we make every day.