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Vincent HoVincent Ho

Vincent Ho is a senior lecturer and clinical academic gastroenterologist at Western Sydney University

Your poo is alive (mostly). Here is what’s in it

1 November 2018 by Vincent Ho

  Human excrement is not just a bunch of dead cells. Most of it is alive, teeming with billions of microbes, explains Vincent Ho of Western Sydney University. What makes up poo? Here’s what studies in healthy adults tell us. Water Our faeces is largely (75%) made up of water, although this differs from person … Read more

Categories Featured, Science Tags Biology, Poo

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