Can I Survive By Eating My Own Feces

Can humans eat their own feces and survive?

Technically poop is nothing but partially digested food with additional bacteria (almost 30% of the content is bacteria). The gases liberated during the digestive process are stinky (methane, hydrogen sulphide etc) and the color is due to the addition of bile from the liver. So technically, YES you can survive eating your own poop! but who does? Technically we humans are built to walk on all 4 limbs…but we don’t right?

How long would you survive when only eating your own poo and drinking your own wee?

Most likely only one day, maybe two at the most, if you’re tough. In general, humans can survive for around 3 days without water. Drinking your own urine, full of concentrated salts, would exacerbate dehydration, hastening your death. Consuming your own feces, laden with e-coli bacteria, would cause a gastrointestinal infection in your upper digestive system (food poisoning), and cause diarrhea, which would cause even more rapid dehydration. So, congratulations, you came up with a scenario that will kill you even faster than consuming nothing at all.

If I'm in an survival situation, do eating my own poop (when water is present): would it be nutritious and I would survive?

No.  Excrement is literally waste.  Its' the stuff your body can't make use of.  There could be some nutritional content in it that was overlooked, but most of it would be useless.It's also incredibly dangerous.  Bacteria found in it can cause disease which can be fatal.  You should never eat your or anyone else's feces.  If you're starving, there should be other things you can eat around you that would be less risky.It also takes much longer to die of hunger than thirst.

What would happen if I ate my own feces?

First … it’s really hard. Have you tried it?Most likely you will end up spitting them out & end of story.If you try harder, you are very likely to gag, which will interfere with your swallowing, aka you will end up gagging, then spitting them out, then running to the nearest sink to wash out your mouth.If you do manage to brave it out, and swallow a decent chunk, you are very likely to gag , puke, throw up & heave, and then spend a decent amount bent over the toilet, puking up or sink, washing your mouth out.If you do manage to contain your gag reflex and not throw up, you are likely to … be okay. Physically. Mentally is another story.In short, if you are healthy and you have no digestive problems or issues, and your bowel movements are also healthy and have no particular issues., you are likely be okay, with no particular effects. Except the acute mental awareness of what you just did. And feeling of your own poop being in your own stomach. And your breath smelling like your poop. And having poop residue on your teeth and between your teeth. And the poop taste in your mouth. And knowledge of the poop’s texture, firmness, blandness or bitterness of spiciness, or nastiness or firm pleasantness. I’ve heard that if you burp, it will carry the smell of poo as well.If you have any allergies to toxins or other substances found in poop, you may get symptoms of food poisoning. In which case, even if you were okay immediately after eating your poop, you may get sick a few hours later and then spend the next 12–24 hours with a mild-to-moderate-to-serious food poisoning. Most likely hospital stay or emergency will not be required, and after that you will be okay.Contrary to what others are saying, you may be just fine after all this. Aka, it is likely you won’t get deathly sick. Also, I have a hunch that if you eat someone else’s poop, you won’t encounter the toxins your own body decided to got rid of, so your body won’t have to react again with your own waste. It may however react with the the waste of that someone. I don’t know if that will changes your results as far as likeliness of getting sick.Good luck! If you manage to do it, do come back and tell us how it went.

How long will a human survive eating nothing but human bodily waste?

We can do much longer without food than without water. The average healthy adult can fast for up to 8 weeks, if he has only water.Much depends on your physical condition, but also on your weight. On a fat reserve you can feed for a long time before the body begins to break itself down in search of proteins. Extreme cold and heat shortens the time you can do without food.After a few days of fasting, you feel irritable, confused and weak. When you are completely starving, the organ is broken off one after the other. Then you may suffer from hallucinations, muscle spasms or dips and cardiac arrhythmias.Lack of water is much faster to fatal. In a place where it is not too hot or too cold, a healthy adult will spend 3 to 6 days without drinking. But in a hot environment, you can die of heat shock after a few hours. Symptoms of dehydration are initially a dry mouth, in addition to concentrated and strongly smelling urine. Followed by lethargy, irritability, vomiting and diarrhoea. The last stage is shock.Thereby eating our own stool and drinking urine, is a rather stupid idea, at first urine and stool are a body waste, urine is very salty and during a certain time (hours) it get’s saltier, salt dries out the body faster, you die faster.Stool is also no good idea because of the same reason but than acidity instead of salty. Stool is getting more acid the second time it goes through your body and will become drier and at one moment gets dry as bone and therefore want leave the colon anymore.