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Stool Colours — what the colour of your stool reveals

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Also known as: stool colour · stool discolouration · brown stool · green stool · yellow stool · fecal colour · unusually coloured stool · colour of stool · dark brown stool · light brown stool

Your Body Is Speaking

There is hardly a body signal that is as consistently ignored as stool. You flush, you look away, you move on. What lands in the toilet is considered dealt with — waste, what the body no longer needs. But that is precisely where a misunderstanding lies.

Your digestive system is not just a disposal facility — it is a processing system — and not only for food. What you don't digest emotionally shows up in what you excrete physically. The colour, the consistency, the smell — none of it is coincidence. It is a record of your inner state.

Medicine recognises stool colours as diagnostic indicators: yellow can point to gallbladder dysfunction, green to rapid intestinal transit, dark brown to slow transit. All of that is true. But the question that is rarely asked is: Why is your digestion changing right now? What are you processing — or what are you refusing to process?

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