One of life's questions answered - pooping and coffee

[packman]

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


https://gizmodo.com/why-does-coffee-make-us-poop-scientists-gave-coffee-to-1834852779

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. It's great to see science prove what we coffee-drinkers have always known!

[50 Shades Of Blue]

2. ROFL!

[hlthe2b]

4. Growing up, I always thought it odd that so many older people switched to decaf, even without BP

or other heart issues. Yet, as with my elderly grandmother, they would guzzle laxatives constantly and still have issues with constipation.

Sad, when with a little added fiber and coffee, they might well have avoided much of that.

[malaise]

12. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

[CaliforniaPeggy]

18. You said it, my dear malaise!

[underpants]

3. Love the coffee cup 😆

[Control-Z]

6. I swear, one of my kids must sent this to

the cup maker after observing me for years.

[RKP5637]

5. Yep!!! n/t

[Talitha]

7. Just the aroma of brewing coffee is sometimes enough...

[csziggy]

8. So I guess I should go back to drinking coffee!

I stopped after I had a kidney removed - partly because while in the hospital and not able to hold down any food and few fluids, I had broken my caffeine addiction and figured why go back.

But between the opioids I was on during recovery and the effects of an impinged nerve, I have had problems pooping ever since - until a couple of weeks after my back fusion. I figured my problems were caused by the opioids and the nerve problems but maybe cutting off my caffeine intake added to them.

I have been drinking hot tea - Captain Picard had it right, Earl Gray is THE stuff - and that has helped. But coffee might be better...

[tblue37]

21. Eat a banana each morning. Actually, half a banana is enough for most people. nt

[TomSlick]

9. I thought we already knew this.

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[yardwork]

10. Proved it in rats now, didn't we.

[Honeycombe8]

11. I don't think research money needed to be spent on this. Really. nt

[cwydro]

16. No shit!

[Honeycombe8]

17. LOL!

That was good!

[Solly Mack]

13. I need that cup.

[Iggo]

14. Fuckin' A.

[UTUSN]

15. Uh, they coulda asked *me* on the cheap!1 After I do a generic V8 plus cup of coffee,

it's a done deal!1

[Raine]

19. So now we know more about how rat's

systems work, wow.

[NotASurfer]

20. Does this mean, according to science,

that I should have a coffee maker in the bathroom, loaded and ready to go, so that when I'm loaded and ready to go..?