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The healthy range of frequency is roughly 3/day-0.3/day.

And depending on the person it can also change depending on diet and mixing microbiomes. Back when I lived with roommates my frequency changed based on who I lived with to some extent, matching closer to their frequency without changing diet (since I was weight training my diet was controlled and I didn’t eat their food).

Now living permanently with a spouse it has settled on a higher frequency than I remember before moving out on my own. Weird stuff.

That's wild, my frequency has remained pretty consistent through my life, although I did have a couple years where somehow one of the days each week I'd do it would always be Monday, and I never had any explanation for why that was the case.

Not really a constipation but if out of nowhere I notice what I didn't #2 in a while what means I have a quite severe cold incoming - but yet without symptoms.

> one of the days each week I'd do it would always be Monday, and I never had any explanation for why that was the case.

Social functions, a specific food or beverages (Friday drinking night? Not to the Monday though...) on some days, travel for some.

I don't drink at all, and I honestly don't go out very much ever (including back them, probably very much related to the not drinking thing), so I wasn't consistently having the same thing to eat over the weekend. Interestingly, this did coincide with the period where I was going out to a specific event every Monday night, which is the only reason I remembered; I would be thrilled when it managed to come about during the workday rather than in the evening when I was out.

Sounds like I'm still in the range then! Interesting that it varies so much. I've heard some people say (or I guess imply) that they do it daily, and it's so different from my experience that I've always wondered which way is more "normal". I guess both are!

you are full of shit /s

We all are, some of us just cycle it out more often

That agrees with what my doctor said too. They also said that it's not the frequency that's concerning, but changes in frequency, especially if the frequency change cannot be explained by a radical change in diet.

For whatever reason, I was fully expecting people to chime in telling me that this was less frequent than normal, since I've always had the perception that I'm an outlier on the end. Maybe the fact that this doesn't get discussed often made me assume too much about how much variance there is!

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