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Which is more normal when your feces floats or sinks? what are the differences? does diet play a role?
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Floating feces: "floating feces" is an exception, not the norm. Stool floats in part when it contains a lot of air or gas. Diet plays a considerable role in stool composition, but additional roles here are played by your bacterial flora, the effectiveness of food digestion and absorption, GI transit time, more.
Answered 4/11/2016
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