Why would we still produce feces and let them out every 40 days or so if we stopped eating for a long time?

Question

Why would we still produce feces and let them out every 40 days or so if we stopped eating for a long time?

In: Biology

Answer 1

40 days? I’m fairly sure you would poop much more often than 40 days if you stopped eating. A lot of feces consists of dead cells and other waste products our bodies make without regard to food intake.

Answer 2

First, for a few days it would gradually slow down until, basically yeah there would not be enough feces produced to poop very often. if you eat nothing there would be dead cells but it would take a long time to build up enough to actually shit