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Eating a lot of animal fat makes your body excrete much more bile acid into your stool. This matters because too much bile acid in the colon is thought to increase the risk of developing bowel cancer.

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Influence of diets high and low in animal fat on bowel habit, gastrointestinal transit time, fecal microflora, bile acid, and fat excretion.

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1978 Apr

Eating a lot of animal fat makes your body excrete much more bile acid in your stool compared to eating less animal fat. This matters because high levels of bile acid in the colon are thought to increase the risk of bowel cancer.

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Influence of diets high and low in animal fat on bowel habit, gastrointestinal transit time, fecal microflora, bile acid, and fat excretion.

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DOI: 10.1172/JCI109020

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Eating a lot of animal fat makes your body poop out more fat than usual. When healthy young adults ate about 152 grams of animal fat daily for a month, they excreted nearly three times as much fat in their stool compared to when they ate only 62 grams, showing that the gut can only absorb so much fat before the rest passes through.

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Eating about 152 grams of animal fat a day for a month doesn't change how your digestive system works or how much you poop. This shows that just eating more fat isn't what causes changes in your gut movement, so other parts of your diet are probably responsible.

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Human fat absorption is physiologically limited by bile acid pool size and enterohepatic circulation capacity, resulting in significant fecal fat loss when intake exceeds absorptive thresholds.

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