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Would you have any sources on that?

I casually looked into that claim in the past and read that coffee is as strong a diuretic as pure water.




there's.... i believe there is enough anecdotal evidence to state with a reasonable confidence level that coffee makes you poop.


Yeah really no need to study this. There's "anecdotal" and then there's "this happens to 80% of people and we have cute euphemisms for when you excuse yourself" and that to me is as good as the most rigorous of studies. Now uhh, excuse me, back in a sec.


Chiming in for n+1. Can confirm: I enjoy my post-caffeine quiet time. :)


Hmmm, I smell an IG Nobel prize opportunity for an ambitious grad student who is not afraid to get his hands dirty.


What? I drink rather a lot of coffee and have never had that effect. I've never heard it from anyone else either. Is there any non-anecdotal evidence for this?


Do you primarily drink iced, cold brewed, or something like keurig?


Nope, just normal coffee. Sometimes made in a cafetiere, sometimes from the (rather good) machine at work, but I mostly make Greek or Turkish style these days. It's never given me a dose of the shits however its made though!


The caffeine relaxes the intestinal tract..


Caffeine is a stimulant. One of the things it stimulates are your colonic muscles which can induce peristalsis.


Perhaps they mean as a laxative rather than as a diuretic.


Yes, I believe so from the comments.




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