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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Alfred E Neuman knows all about this...
Then he wants to see the wine list.
You sound like my brother-in-law.
“Better coffee a millionaire’s money can’t buy”
Caffeine is cholinergic: It promotes neuron activity and muscle contraction. The intestines are muscles.
Also, it is acidic and somewhat purgative. Many herbs and spices are somewhat (or very) purgative.
Yes. Water alone on arising tends to stimulate peristalsis.
This is insane. I have never had a sip of coffee in sixty six years. What kind of fool would even feel the need to study this among a myriad of other things?
actually coffee enemas were a thing in healthcare back at the turn of the twentieth century.
Stimulation same as a Red
Back when I was young
Get up
See a man about a donkey
Coffee and a wonderful Marlboro Red
Sprint to water closet to bomb Nagasaki
Exactly what I envisioned. A line of rats patiently waiting in line at Starbucks for their latte’.
Nor have I in my own 60+ years. I do have plenty of caffeine, however, in the form of tea and 5-hour energy shots.
No laxative effects here.
Is coffee a colonic stimulant?
CONCLUSION: Caffeinated coffee stimulates colonic motor activity. Its magnitude is similar to a meal, 60% stronger than water and 23% stronger than decaffeinated coffee.
This so-called study was rat abuse!
The only fools involved are the people who gave these guys the grant.
Back before I gave up eating fast-food, McDonalds was the best laxative there ever was.
Likely why you’ll never find any stopped-up rat there!
Coffee causes “blanditis”, a disease where everything you eat turns to $#!+....
I think it’s the timing. First thing before you begin the day. When I start some 25+ years ago I drank or tried to 20 oz. I heard a man’s testimony about how once he started drinking the warm-hot water the first thing he hadn’t had the flu or a cold. Wow, that interested me because I was having strep about twice a year. But true to his experience, aside from the movement happening, I have not had the flu but once. But I decided I didn’t want to drink 20 oz of water first thing every morning so I stopped. Things seemed fine, I think my body was trained, but I went to visit my MIL in the hospital and 10 days later I had mono! Couldn’t work for more than 3 months, took a year to get my strength back. Specialist my doc sent me to said women over 40 don’t get mono! Well, I was back on the water regimen stat! Have been since. I try to convince many, only a few takers.
Not Mormon. Do they do this?
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