I'm glad you asked!
Cutter Wood has a new book out titled Earthly Materials: Journeys through Our Bodies' Emissions, Excretions, and Disintegrations. It examines the science of our excretory systems. An exerpt available at Harper's Magazine summarizes the numbers.
3,500 kilograms of feces will pass out of your body, assuming that you live 75 years. That would overflow a 20-foot long shipping container. These deposited feces will be matched with 38,000 liters of urine.
Wood also provides numbers for total amounts of hair, semen, menses, tears, and energy measured in joules. This is all information that you will need for future conversation starters.
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