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title: What you can learn from the color of your poop.
date: 2013-02-15T15:33:44Z
modified: 2013-02-15T15:33:44Z
permalink: "https://elizabethyarnell.com/what-you-can-learn-from-the-color-of-your-poop/"
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categories:
  - Living Naturally
tags:
  - Bristol stool chart
  - color of stool
  - personal disease assessment
author: Elizabeth
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Besides watching the [consistency of your poop with the Bristol Stool Chart](http://elizabethyarnell.com/effortlesseating/2012/04/what-healthy-poop-looks-like/ "bristol stool chart") to assess your state of health, the [color of your stool ](http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/what-your-stool-telling-you?page=3#copy "what the color of poop means")can tell you a lot as well. Assessing your stool over a few days time can help you to get a better sense of if the color is related to what you ate or to biological function. Here’s a quick overview:

**Brown** = normal.

[![dr oz stool color chart](http://www.doctoroz.com/sites/default/files/im_uploads/008_1_poop-rainbow_MEDIA.jpg "dr oz stool color chart")

](http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/poop-color-chart)Here is Dr. Oz's Stool Color Chart to guide us in assessing our health through our poop.**Light clay colored** = too many antacids or perhaps liver dysfunction.

**Green** = possibly you ate a huge mass of leafy greens, but more likely it indicates the stool is moving too quickly through the digestive tract. Green can mean Crohn’s disease or that you’ve been on a round of antibiotics.

**Yellow** = gallbladder dysfunction, possibly from a viral, bacterial, or parasitic infection.

**Red** = either you ate beets or you have bleeding in your lower GI tract.

**White** = perhaps indicating malabsorption of nutrients or an excess of mucus. The barium used in x-rays can also turn stool white.

**Black** = heavy meat consumption or bleeding in the upper GI tract.