Asked what he would flush away forever, Hickle tells a story from medical history. Kellogg was the most famous doctor in America and pushed auto-intoxication, the theory that the colon poisons the body, which led to unnecessary colon removals and, he argues, to today's detox and cleanse culture.
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I want to know the answer to both, but I just had to use the flush away pun. So please tell me one thing that you think people should do today, and then please, please tell me one thing that you'd flush away forever.
…forever because obviously poop is gross. Like, let's just be honest about that. Nobody, and that's part of what makes testing stools so difficult, right? Like, people don't like collecting stool tests instead of taking it off to a mail. That's one of the pieces of magic about what we've built: that you don't have to. But this is more like a historical story that I think just mind-blows me. So, John Harvey Kellogg, the founder of Kellogg's cereal brand, was like the Andrew Huberman of 1900. He was the most famous doctor in the United States. And he was a huge promoter of this theory called auto-intoxication that basically said that the colon was poisoning the rest of the human body because it contained waste. And what that led to was like through the 1930s, people, like otherwise healthy people, would get their colons removed that didn't need to. Yeah. Yes. Like, and so the whole…
That's wild. I've never heard of that.
I'm obsessed with the history of medicine and healthcare. And that's just one of those stories that like blows my mind. Like, I think about it more than I should. And then a piece of advice. I, that's a tricky one for me just because I'm a huge believer that health is deeply personal and should be…
I love that. I think that your product definitely does that. Even the charts that you showed me when you were showing me your app make it seem very easy to digest the information and make action from the data. Scott, it's been so much fun to have you on here. I know that our community loves poop.…