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[-] Flamekebab@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Is this actually a thing? I've only ever heard it from people in the US.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Coffee is a diuretic, but I don't know if its the caffiene. Other caffeine drinks don't make me have to use the bathroom soon after, like coffee does. It's not giving diarreah, it's just moving things along.

[-] spamfajitas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

James Hoffman just recently made a video on this very subject: https://youtu.be/LZnAQ-PWQdg

[-] Cenotaph@mander.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

It may be the quantity, energy drinks do it too.

[-] RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Maybe its the temperature of the coffee too.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

i drink my tea that hot, it does not do it. coffee does.

[-] daq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

Typical tea has around 50mg of caffeine. Typical espresso based drink has 2 or 3 espresso shots at around 65mg each. Plus milk, which a bunch of adults can't digest to at least some degree.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

so you're in luck i know way too much about my gut. i can test for part of the gut but i'm missing much of mine. the parts i have, black coffee accelerates transit around 33% (reduces by 1/4). Short version, it stimulates peristalsis to a degree that tea does not. If you would like specific numbers I'm going to need a day or two.

[-] devfuuu@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

It's basically the only reason I actually drink coffee for.

[-] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

James Hoffman released a video on this on YT a couple weeks ago, its a bacteria that's unique to the gut biome of Coffee drinkers.

The video is more playful and cartoony than his normal work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZnAQ-PWQdg

[-] datavoid@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

I'm Canadian, sometimes you've just gotta go more than once a day

[-] Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

I meant more the "coffee makes you shit" thing. I've not encountered the idea across the pond.

[-] pankkake@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

From my personal experience:

I'm not a regular coffee drinker. Whenever I do drink one, I get the urge to go number 2 within 15 minutes.

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