Posted on 05/20/2019 6:38:55 PM PDT by EdnaMode
A good chunk of regular coffee drinkers know that coffee isn’t just great at getting them awake in the morning—it also makes them get up and go poop. But while coffee’s laxative powers are well-known, it’s not clear why exactly this happens. To get to the bottom of this mystery, some scientists decided to do exactly what you’d expect scientists to: They gave lab rats some coffee.
Their preliminary results, presented this weekend at a research conference aptly named Digestive Disease Week, seem to reaffirm a suspicion that coffee’s poop-making prowess has nothing to do with caffeine. Coffee might also kill off bacteria found in our guts.
Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston fed their rats a tiny cup of joe for three days straight, with different groups getting both caffeinated and decaf coffee. Then, the researchers checked the downstairs plumbing of the rats with a physical examination and probe, focusing on the muscles that contract and help guide food (and eventually waste) through the gut. Lastly, they also studied how muscle tissues from the gut directly reacted to coffee in the lab. Their results were clear: muscles in the small and large intestine were more able to contract post-coffee, meaning things could move faster along the gut.
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This study isn’t the first to suggest that the gut’s muscles are directly affected by coffee. As far as back as 1990, researchers found that healthy people who self-reported as coffee-poopers had more movement of their colon muscles after drinking black coffee than did those who said they never felt the urge.
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And then they sold the rat poop as exotic coffee for $75 a cup.
That’s odd...I poop whether I drink coffee or not.
You must be a regular joe
I drink 8-12 oz of water before I get up from bed and that gets everything moving. Never had a cup of coffee in my 60++++ years.
Rizzo Rat!
I’d guess that the body doesn’t want that crap inside itself. It is a poison.
I don’t drink coffee. I eat granola with other breakfast cereals. Seems to work just as well. Long live Quaker Oats.
You think you're joking. I wouldn't doubt it for a minute, nor would I be surprised if a bunch of metrosexuals made a fad out of it.
Coffee is a diuretic and makes me need to pee.
How could they tell if there was a difference?
(That brand is just like the DNC - "Chock full o' Nuts".)
It’s not the coffee at all. It’s all the water in it that lubricates the digestive system. This is not new knowledge. They could substitute coffee with plain water and get pretty much the same results.
Coffee is a diuretic though and will cause one to pee sooner but just drinking water will cause one to pee as well.
3 Reasons Not to Drink Cat Poop Coffee.
https://camanoislandcoffee.com/what-does-kopi-luwak-taste-like/
Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston fed their rats a tiny cup of joe...
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Demitasse?
Has Buttjuice’s sphincter been checked for looseness after a coffee
Because Grant Money.
I'm an animal lover. Not insane, just love all of God's creatures.
...Kopi Luwak is pooped by the Civet. The Civet is kept locked in small cages and then force fed coffee cherries. That’s the Civet’s life. Cat poop coffee is not ethical coffee. They never get out. They eat coffee cherries, poop and repeat until they die — they don’t get out. They never again live in their natural habitat. All so an unscrupulous coffee importer can overcharge for poop...I'm dismayed and disgusted. That's inhumane.
I do appreciate your sharing that link. Glad to know the truth, even if it dismays me. I have never had cat-poop coffee, and now I will be sure to avoid it.
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