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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    25 days ago

    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.

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      25 days ago

      Oooh, I didn’t think of that. “Eat all you want without gaining weight with this one simple trick”

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          Excessive laxative use is a thing bulimics sometimes do. It will ruin your insides so probably not a good idea.

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            24 days ago

            Totally. And then comes the dependency on laxatives… They’re constipated without them, which causes hemorrhoids.

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        25 days ago

        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.