What is Your Green Poop Telling You?

Should you be concerned if your poop is green? Find out what green poop means for your health, plus how to get rid of it naturally.

So what’s the deal with green poop? Is it something to be concerned about? Or is it no biggie?

Your poop says a lot about your health. And that means it’s important to pay attention to things like form, frequency, odor, and—yep—color.

But before you panic, know this: Green poop may actually signal that you’re eating a lot of leafy greens and chlorophyll rich foods, which is a good thing!

On the flip side, though, green poop can also mean that your digestion needs some major help.

So, if you aren’t downing the green foods or taking iron supplements, green poop can signal that food is moving too fast through your body and this can set you up for malabsorption.

Let’s break it all down.

When everything is working properly, the liver produces bile, which is a light green fluid that’s stored in the gallbladder.

When you eat a meal that contains adequate fat, the gallbladder releases bile to help break down the fatty acids. Bile also signals the pancreas to release digestive enzymes to further breakdown the food we eat every day.

As your food continues to digest, bacteria and enzymes in the large intestine take that bile, and turn it brown, the normal color of poop.

But sometimes these processes move too fast. This can be caused by an imbalance of good gut bacteria, stress, overeating, malabsorption, and even chronic issues like Crohn’s disease or hyperthyroidism.

When that happens, bile isn’t broken down properly and you end up with green poo poos.

To get back on track, you need to support your liver, gallbladder, and overall digestion

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That helped a lot! My parents told me that green poop was normal.But after two to three days of this happening, I was getting concerned! Only today, I decided to do some research on green “poop”

[Ken-zlic]

I took a laxative last night and the next day it's now green. I did eat green foods also. No pain

[johnrichardson]

Most resourceful video on subject so far, thanks so much!

[crizzamarie]

I have drink too much ginger that causes me diarrhea and turns my poop into green, hopefully I'll be okay soon. It causes my digestion to be fast. Hopefully this helps. Thanks

[swordofgod]

This has never happened to me until yesterday and it’s happened today too. I think it could be purely stress cuz I don’t see what else

[gpooch]

Very good video! Direct and to the point! 😊

[kazuichi]

so I haven't eaten any green foods, but it's been green for three days now and my stomach has been hurting, it's not diarrhea and it looks normal, but it's green and I have stomach pain. What is this and should I be worried?

[rodrigocisneros]

Ive been having diarrhea for a couple days now, i always have the urge in the morning luckily so i can be okay throughout my day, but its green sometimes, is that bad? I feel like im lactose intolerant, ever since i started eating cereal again it started happening again since this problem ive had it before

[darrelmaggay]

Thank you for this. I’ve been overthinking.

[NeoLocket]

So I shouldn’t be scared? Wow my heart was about to jump from my chest when google showed food poisoning and stomach bugs I was afraid of those two things because I don’t want to get sick again when I just got over 2 bad colds!!

[Elena-]

Apparently if your green poo DOSENT change in 48hrs then something like medical stuff but lucky it’s brown now

[eman]

High intakes of sugarary foods can make your poo turn green.

[iateHam]

Mine keeps changing sometimes it’s brown or full green sense my period left a couple of days a go. And I’m not eating green or a lot of food just been drinking water. And a lot of pains what do I do? =(

[startupenterprises]

I just pooped a mixture of light blue and light green but I think it’s from a medicine called valerian

[simplebloxfruits]

I’m a bit over weight I wasn’t hungry but eat I will try lose weight and let my body digest my food thank u I over eat before like 2 times and I have a test tomorrow and I was. Bit stress

[chiley]

It’s been like that for a few days maybe 3 I haven’t been eating any greens maybe it’s my diet

[relanjayalvasan]

Is it normal ? My wife sometimes poop with a small amount of blood around the poop.

[KelsbxX]

Thanks you so much I thought I was going to die 😂

[lestersamuel]

Been drinking a lot of Sonics Blue Coconut Slushes and last night plus today my stool was green is the slush the reason why ?

[proxy_user_]

It keeps going from normal to green so i decided to search it up