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Comment on Does drinking coffee reduce the amount of nutrients absorbed from prior meals?

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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AccountMaker@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Oooh, I didn’t think of that. “Eat all you want without gaining weight with this one simple trick”

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- actionjbone@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  (the one simple trick is diarrhea)
  
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  - Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Or eating fingers…
    
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- Fermion@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Isn’t that just a crappier version of bulimia?
  
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  - teft@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Excessive laxative use is a thing bulimics sometimes do. It will ruin your insides so probably not a good idea.
    
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    200ok@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Totally. And then comes the dependency on laxatives… They’re constipated without them, which causes hemorrhoids.
    
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  - actionjbone@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I see what you did there
    
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- lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  If that worked I wouldn’t have spent so many months trying to go from overweight to normal, while still drinking a litre and half of coffee per day.
  
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Duranie@leminal.space ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Our bodies aren’t 100% efficient when it comes to nutrient absorption anyway, so considering there’s a number of other factors at play, it’s probably making minimal difference.

When we eat, the food added to our stomachs signals the large intestine (colon) to get a move on and make room for incoming food. Caffeine can help stimulate this response, but since most nutrient absorption occurs in the small intestine, we’re not really losing anything of value. There is some absorption in the colon, but that’s mostly water being removed so we can have formed stools instead of chronic diarrhea.

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