(Is your stool a funny color? Here’s why your poop is green.) Bile has an important role in giving stool its brown color so when a patient tells Kumar Desai, MD, gastroenterologist, hepatologist ...

Occasional changes in stool (poop) colors usually occur ... Pale poop looks different from your typical brown poop color and ...

The same is true when your stool is a paler-than-normal color—it doesn’t usually happen randomly. “There’s always going to be a reason,” says Christine Traxler, MD, a family practitioner ...