For years, scientists have hotly debated the age-old question: Are you a poop or are you a pee?

People who pee claim to enjoy higher metabolisms and a more active lifestyle, while people who poop tout the detoxifying benefits and increased metal acuity. As your reporter in the trenches, I decided to find out myself. I spent a week – only peeing, and another – only pooping to find out just what makes each of these theories tick.

To begin with – full disclosure: I pooped at least once and possibly twelve times during the peeing experiment and peed fifty-seven times during the pooping week also.

The full op-ed will be published and released soon and I think you’ll be surprised with what I learned!