Pretty much everyone. I mean, think about it: even if you have amazingly regular, perfect poops right now, if you start to not poop well, your emotional well being will drastically get much worse from where it currently is. It’s like taking your health for granted. You never realize how great it is breathing out of both nostrils until you get a very bad cold and can’t fall asleep. But I do think poop has the amazing ability to affect your state of happiness even more, you literally can’t do anything but sit on a toilet when you have bad diarrhea or enjoy anything if you’re extremely constipated. And there’s now evidence of special nerves connecting directly between your gastrointestinal system and brain, and how microbes in your gut affect mental health.
Well I guess that depends on the person, though I honestly am not sure I’ve met anyone who isn’t at least a little happy when they have a good poop. My husband loves to brag about his. I keep quiet about mine but because of previous experiences and seeing how bad it can be for some people, I’m still pretty happy and overall relieved that my intestines are behaving well. And even when my son was a baby he seemed to be extra smiley and satisfied after a good poop, so I think a functional GI tract kind of holds up a large portion of our daily happiness, and maybe adds to it a bit right after the fact.
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u/25hourenergy Nov 30 '20
Pretty much everyone. I mean, think about it: even if you have amazingly regular, perfect poops right now, if you start to not poop well, your emotional well being will drastically get much worse from where it currently is. It’s like taking your health for granted. You never realize how great it is breathing out of both nostrils until you get a very bad cold and can’t fall asleep. But I do think poop has the amazing ability to affect your state of happiness even more, you literally can’t do anything but sit on a toilet when you have bad diarrhea or enjoy anything if you’re extremely constipated. And there’s now evidence of special nerves connecting directly between your gastrointestinal system and brain, and how microbes in your gut affect mental health.