DEFECATING GOLD

THE BIOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY, MYTHOLOGY & POETRY OF EXCREMENT

By: Ronald Blumer

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins

Publisher's summary

– Don’t sit to defecate. Sitting causes a muscle to constrict your colon so your poop can’t come out easily. We’ll tell you how to relax it.
– Read about the 100 trillion aliens living in your gut and without their help digesting food, you’d starve.
– Did you know that wombat dung comes out in cubes, and swallowing a pill containing someone else’s excrement could save your life, and that the astronauts’ own poop will protect them on their long journey to Mars?
– Find out why Elvis died while sitting on the toilet, and that Martin Luther’s bowel movement inspired a new religion, and how Joseph Pujol, who had the ability to musically fart, became the highest paid performer in Paris in 1900.
– Here is the story of the $30,000 fossilized turd uncovered under Lloyd's Bank in England, and of the Italian artist who sold his poop for the price of gold.
This book explores the science, art and poetry of ‘number two,’ and will give you a new respect for our body’s most undervalued product.