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?
Many plants have anti-nutrients, compounds that inhibit absorption of nutrients. Both coffee and tea inhibit absorption of some minerals, such as iron.
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.
Oooh, I didn’t think of that. “Eat all you want without gaining weight with this one simple trick”
Isn’t that just a crappier version of bulimia?
Excessive laxative use is a thing bulimics sometimes do. It will ruin your insides so probably not a good idea.
Totally. And then comes the dependency on laxatives… They’re constipated without them, which causes hemorrhoids.
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.
Coffee can reduce how much iron get’s absorbed. This doesn’t have anything to do with the caffeine and the resulting stimulation though, but with something in the coffee binding the receptors or something like that. Don’t know if this happens with other nutrients as well.
I drink entirely too much coffee, and if I don’t be sure to drink plenty of water on top of it I’ll get constipated. It’s almost like the coffee dries me out or something. I had a chemo nurse tell me how important it was to stay hydrated during my treatments and when I told her I drink several cups of coffee a day, she scolded me and said In that case, I need the water even more. I followed her advice and since then I’ve gotten more regular. I used to think it was just normal for me to crap once every three days, but now I go every day and feel better too…
It’s a diuretic. Of course this happens to you.
