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Healthline 2015 Best Blog Contest!

So I got this today:  Hi Jenni, Congratulations – Your blog, Jenni's Guts has been nominated in Healthline 2015 Best Blog Contest! You can see the contest here: CONTEST    Each year, we recognize and honor the top health blogs of the year with our annual Best Health Blogs Contest . The contest shines light on those blogs that have really made an impact on their reader community and provided them with valuable information and resources to help them live better, healthier lives. We are happy to let you know that you have been nominated in the contest! The contest started this Monday, December 21st and will run through January 21st. We will award cash prizes (up to $1000!) for the top 3 blogs with the most votes. Please share the page with your followers and ask them to vote for you. Users can vote once every 24 hours , so please continue to share and encourage your followers to vote!  Please vote for me.  It would be so great to win.  Honestly ...

Digestion 101 - The class I missed because I was in the crapper pooping

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Your liver produces bile salts which are stored in your gall bladder.  When you eat your gall bladder squirts out tiny bits of these bile salts through the common bile duct along with some pancreatic juices from your pancreas and it mixes with your food to help you break down fats and such so you can digest your food.  By the time your bile salt acid/food mixture reaches the end of your small intestines and the beginning of your colon, your intestines will take any of the excess bile salts and and send them back up to your liver where the process can start again the next time you eat a meal.  Your colon then absorbs the excess water out of your digested food and then you poop.  Normal poop.  Solid (ish) poop.  This is the process.  The normal process of eating and digestion and pooping. Bile salts from your liver are not supposed to end up in your colon because if they do, they cause a laxative effect and you poop - a lot - of yellowish, yucky watery ...