Does drinking coffee reduce the amount of nutrients absorbed from prior meals?
Does drinking coffee reduce the amount of nutrients absorbed from prior meals?
Basically, as I understand it, when you eat food it goes through your stomach and then it travels through your bowels where the nutrients and water get gradually absorbed along the way. Coffee, as I understand it, stimulates the muscles in the bowels and causes the contents to move through the intestines more quickly. So if drinking coffee means that food will spend less time in the intestines, does that mean that less nutrients will be absorbed from the food than if no coffee was consumed?
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I don't have your answer, but I'd like to add to the question.
You specified "nutrients", but what about the other crap in what we eat?
IF the coffee DOES push everything out before you can absorb every nutrient, is it also preventing us from absorbing all the sugars, calories, preservatives, micro plastics and whatever else we might not want?
Might be a "yes, but" situation that evens out in the end. 🤷🏻♂️ I don't know, I'm just throwing out ideas.
Oooh, I didn't think of that. "Eat all you want without gaining weight with this one simple trick"
(the one simple trick is diarrhea)
Or eating fingers...
Isn't that just a crappier version of bulimia?
Excessive laxative use is a thing bulimics sometimes do. It will ruin your insides so probably not a good idea.
Totally. And then comes the dependency on laxatives... They're constipated without them, which causes hemorrhoids.
I see what you did there
If that worked I wouldn't have spent so many months to go from overweight to normal, while still drinking a litre and half of coffee per day.
Our bodies aren't 100% efficient when it comes to nutrient absorption anyway, so considering there's a number of other factors at play, it's probably making minimal difference.
When we eat, the food added to our stomachs signals the large intestine (colon) to get a move on and make room for incoming food. Caffeine can help stimulate this response, but since most nutrient absorption occurs in the small intestine, we're not really losing anything of value. There is some absorption in the colon, but that's mostly water being removed so we can have formed stools instead of chronic diarrhea.