Poop, feces, stool — whatever you call it, there's no denying the unpleasant smell. While it's perfectly normal for poo to be pungent, it makes you wonder what it is about our excrement that makes it stink. So why does poop smell bad?
"Stools are generally not a pleasant smell because they are releasing byproducts of your digestion," Shelby Yaceczko, a clinical dietician at UCLA Health, told Live Science.
