A short conversational excerpt from a YouTube video by Ben Greenfield in which Ben and Derek discuss the importance of complete bowel elimination and raise concerns that chemicals in conventional toilet paper may be absorbed through contact with the perianal skin over time. The segment mixes personal anecdotes (scheduling around bowel movements) with broad cautionary claims about ‘toxic’ toilet paper and potential compound risk from repeated exposure.
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You don't know how many times I've turned down an 8am meeting because I'm like, well, no, I'm going to be pooping right then. And I don't like to go through half my day with feeling like I'm holding in a bunch of fecal matter. And even that idea of colonic reabsorption of toxins is a thing. And so complete elimination is important. That's the worst feeling, Derek, because I go to the gym at like 8:15, 8:30. All right, so I got my morning poop, and the next thing is the gym. The worst thing is going into the gym, getting five minutes into your workout and realizing, oh, crap, you know, literally and figuratively, I had an incomplete elimination. And then you're just kind of like half distracted during the workout, and you finish and you got to go try and squeeze it in before the rest of your day.
You think about toilet paper and all of these chemicals and stuff that you're. Over the course of your life, how many times have you touched your butthole, essentially, with toxic toilet paper that could be absorbed right back into the body? So it's compound interest, if you will, around toilet paper can cause extreme risk. So that's a big factor. You know, touching that area.
