Hey guys so this is basically a 3 part question. First off every morning I eat 4 eggs 1-2 pieces of cheese and 1/2 cup rolled oats, while eating that I usually have 1-2 mugs of coffee. About 10-15 minutes after eating/drinking the coffee I am on the toilet. it goes right through me. I have been told that both eggs and coffee can act as a diuretic, but my question is am I getting the benefits from the food or is it going through me too quickly?
As for the spinach question, when I eat spinach it comes out the same way it went in. it looks like spinach (sorry for the graphicness lol). And I just wasnt sure if that was normal, most people I have asked say that does not happen to them.
So my final question, should I go get my digestive tract checked out? I also have trouble controlling bad breath, I brush 3 times or more a day bc I always brush after I take a a dip, and I do that a lot.
If it’s the former, I doubt any nutrients would be lost. If it’s the latter, more likely than not your dinner from the previous night is what is coming out, rather than your breakfast.
If you want to try a test; cover (and I mean cover) your eggs with cayenne pepper. The cheese will make it easier to eat, but this will serve as a ‘marker’ of sorts for when your eggs leave you. You WILL feel the burn as the cayenne leaves (And if this burn happens 15 minutes later, then a problem may be present)
And for the spinach, that usually happens to me when I eat a lot of any vegetable. My guess is that there is just too much bulk to be digested completely (Assuming you see little leaflets, rather than growing a plant in the toilet bowl).
Edit: Also, I personally believe that caffeine can act as a laxative in part. Every source of caffeine I have had in the morning has doubled as a laxative.
[quote]fighting_fires wrote:
Hey guys so this is basically a 3 part question. First off every morning I eat 4 eggs 1-2 pieces of cheese and 1/2 cup rolled oats, while eating that I usually have 1-2 mugs of coffee. About 10-15 minutes after eating/drinking the coffee I am on the toilet. it goes right through me. I have been told that both eggs and coffee can act as a diuretic, but my question is am I getting the benefits from the food or is it going through me too quickly?
As for the spinach question, when I eat spinach it comes out the same way it went in. it looks like spinach (sorry for the graphicness lol). And I just wasnt sure if that was normal, most people I have asked say that does not happen to them.
So my final question, should I go get my digestive tract checked out? I also have trouble controlling bad breath, I brush 3 times or more a day bc I always brush after I take a a dip, and I do that a lot.
Thanks.
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the main reason for this is cuz of two factors…
ONE. your putting a hot… or warm liquid into your mouth/stomach, which warmth is where bacteria loves to grow, so your stomach might be a wee little bit weak to take all that food and the coffee all at once in the morning… then again, everyone is different!
second, the caffeine, it could be to much for your body at one time… trying only have one cup of coffee during ur meal, and drink it slowly, dont chug it down.
not saying you are experiencing these problems, but they are factors to consider.
I can’t really speak about an interaction, but at the very least, it sounds like you have some complex carb intolerance (very generic term - I know) since the spinach came out whole. You can take beano for this (like 5 caps every time you eat complex carbs for a month or two).
Although slightly different story, I had something similar happen once when I ate a ton of spinach raw (I juiced it). I think raw spinach has more goitrogens or something like that. Anywho, it went through me in 15 minutes and my stomach was all grumbly for those 15 minutes.
I know it was the same thing coming out that I had just put in because of the color and consistency. Nasty. It was like a green food coloring shart, fired directly into the bottom of the toilet bowl. Needless to say, I won’t be having any raw spinach juice again.
While your situation is slightly different, I think you could benefit also from taking a break from drinking liquid with your meals. Go a month or so with no liquid within a 30min window of your meals and see if that helps. Liquid literally waters down stomach acid and screws up the digestive process, so if your digestive process is already screwed up, it may be a method you could benefit from.
[quote]silverhydra wrote:
Diuretic or Laxative on the eggs/coffee?
If it’s the former, I doubt any nutrients would be lost. If it’s the latter, more likely than not your dinner from the previous night is what is coming out, rather than your breakfast.
If you want to try a test; cover (and I mean cover) your eggs with cayenne pepper. The cheese will make it easier to eat, but this will serve as a ‘marker’ of sorts for when your eggs leave you. You WILL feel the burn as the cayenne leaves (And if this burn happens 15 minutes later, then a problem may be present)
And for the spinach, that usually happens to me when I eat a lot of any vegetable. My guess is that there is just too much bulk to be digested completely (Assuming you see little leaflets, rather than growing a plant in the toilet bowl).
Edit: Also, I personally believe that caffeine can act as a laxative in part. Every source of caffeine I have had in the morning has doubled as a laxative.[/quote]
This was just hilarious. Cover it cayenne pepper!! I LOLed great post.
Same thing used to happen to me and I don’t drink coffee. I used to have 4-6 eggs with spinach with a few slices of cheese for breakfast and would go straight to shitter after eating. I started taking fiber tablets with breakfast and now I don’t shit immediately. I also replaced the spinach with chopped broccoli and it’s also helped.
If I eat eggs by themselves I’m usually on the toilet pretty quickly anyway. Sometimes I’ll have some whole grain bread or nuts and that usually wards off immediate shitting as well.
[quote]silverhydra wrote:
Diuretic or Laxative on the eggs/coffee?
If it’s the former, I doubt any nutrients would be lost. If it’s the latter, more likely than not your dinner from the previous night is what is coming out, rather than your breakfast.
If you want to try a test; cover (and I mean cover) your eggs with cayenne pepper. The cheese will make it easier to eat, but this will serve as a ‘marker’ of sorts for when your eggs leave you. You WILL feel the burn as the cayenne leaves (And if this burn happens 15 minutes later, then a problem may be present)
And for the spinach, that usually happens to me when I eat a lot of any vegetable. My guess is that there is just too much bulk to be digested completely (Assuming you see little leaflets, rather than growing a plant in the toilet bowl).
Edit: Also, I personally believe that caffeine can act as a laxative in part. Every source of caffeine I have had in the morning has doubled as a laxative.[/quote]
This was just hilarious. Cover it cayenne pepper!! I LOLed great post.[/quote]
It sounds a bit painful…
If you want to use a “marker” just try eating some beets. When you pass a red poo, stop the clock.
Maybe try drinking water with your breakfast, if you still get the same results after a few days, then at least you’ll know it’s not the coffee.
I don’t post here a lot but thought i could contribute here
Coffee can act as a laxative in some peoples cases, but i would figure seeing as this is breakfast that a normal post prandial response is occuring. The post prandial response is your body realizing that you are putting food in it and seeing that it must empty the feces that your digestive system had been processing during the night.
I always find I have to shit within 15 minutes after eating breakfast and never thought much of it until my university physiology professor lectured to us about this. Its funny that morning shits are one of the topics I remember best from that course.
Alot of caffeine increases sympathetic stimulation of the ventricle, facillitating emptying.This in turn makes the food move into the duodenum, pushing food into the colon, facillitating peristalsis which makes you shit in the end. I can’t have caffeine in the morning unless I have access to a toilet withing 5 minutes.
Some people can’t eat high fat foods like eggs and cheese together with very basic vegetables like spinach since it dilutes the HCL in the stomach too much for pepsin to work efficiently on the protein, and later in the duodenum for gall salts to work on the fat. For most people there’s no problem, but I’ve found a difference in when eating vegetables with, before or after high fat meals, after being preferred.