Coffee drinkers are familiar with the phenomenon of coffee poops, the poops you suddenly have the urge to have after drinking your morning macchiato.
While interesting and/or annoying, finding out how many people need to poo shortly after a cappuccino isn’t scientists’ number one priority.
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Of course there has been a little research into the area and the mechanism behind it.
First off, any liquid will help stimulate bowel movements by softening your stools.
However, small studies have shown coffee gets the bowels working, including one that placed a six-sensor solid-state probe up to the midtransverse colon of 12 healthy volunteers.
The authors concluded that coffee, decaffeinated coffee and meal induced more activity in the colon with a greater area under the curve of pressure waves and a greater number of propagated contractions when compared with water.
This suggests that
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