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Date: December 01, 2021 12:14AM
“ Coffee is a complex beverage containing more than 1,000 chemical compounds, many of which have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. And determining how they affect the intestines is challenging.”
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“[A] gut response to coffee can happen fast. In the same study, some volunteers agreed to have a pressure-sensing probe inserted into their colon to measure intestinal muscle contractions before and after drinking a cup of Joe. Among those who said that coffee usually stimulated a bowel movement, the probe showed a significant increase in pressure within four minutes of drinking coffee, while the so-called nonresponders had no change in colon activity.”
“ That drinking a cup of coffee can stimulate the opposite end of the gastrointestinal tract within minutes means “it’s probably going through the gut-brain axis,” Dr. Martindale said. That is, the arrival of coffee in the stomach sends a message to the brain, which then “stimulates the colon to say, ‘Well, we’d better empty out, because things are coming downstream,’” he explained. ”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/30/well/eat/why-does-coffee-make-you-poop.html?action=click&algo=bandit-all-surfaces-time-cutoff-30&block=trending_recirc&fellback=false&imp_id=93441838&impression_id=329cd939-5264-11ec-9421-0122d03aeead&index=0&pgtype=Article&pool=pool%2F91fcf81c-4fb0-49ff-bd57-a24647c85ea1®ion=footer&req_id=150558358&surface=eos-most-popular-story&variant=4_bandit-all-surfaces-time-cutoff-30