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Always on the lookout to "improve" my metabolic health, I recently got wind of a supplement called Berberine that makes claims that appeal to me, with its only mentioned negative side effect being that it can cause "loose stools." As a carnivore, my stools are quite firm and sometimes too firm for comfort. A little loosening isn't, in my case, necessarily a bad thing. I bought a bottle and began taking it twice a day, one capsule with each meal.
Nothing happened first. Then, on the morning of the third day, in the process of standing up off the sofa just after waking, I felt the need to fart—a gentle fart, more poot than true fart. What emerged was not sound but instead watery brown gunk, coating my left leg and the inside of my newly laundered sweatpants. From that point forward, I was subject to frequent, watery discharges. As a carnivore used to "going" maybe once every three days, this was not a welcome change.
A few days later, meat and eggs, the mainstays of my diet, began tasting increasingly more obnoxious by the meal, to the point where I was barely able to down anything, which didn't stop me from frequently "going." I discontinued Berberine. Only now, some days later, am I able to finish a decent portion of any one meal, with much struggle. "Going" frequency is much reduced, but not yet normal. I've not yet had any firm stools. Then again, with as little as I've had to eat, I'm lucky to have any stools at all, firm or otherwise.
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