{"id":29076,"date":"2021-05-06T12:05:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T12:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=29076"},"modified":"2021-05-06T12:05:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T12:05:03","slug":"a-doctor-explains-why-coffee-makes-you-poop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/05\/06\/a-doctor-explains-why-coffee-makes-you-poop\/","title":{"rendered":"A Doctor Explains Why Coffee Makes You Poop"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div id=\"attachment_296\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-296\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-296\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/woman-coffee-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/woman-coffee-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/woman-coffee-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/woman-coffee-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/woman-coffee-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/woman-coffee-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/woman-coffee-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/woman-coffee.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-296\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Shutterstock<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Amazingly enough, we actually don\u2019t know why coffee makes you poop. We know that coffee initiates what&#8217;s known as the &#8220;<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/books\/NBK549888\/#:~:text=The%20gastrocolic%20reflex%20is%20a,with%20the%20ingestion%20of%20food.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-id=\"52\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:52,&quot;p&quot;:48,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;partnerLink&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:24,&quot;o&quot;:4}\">gastrocolic reflex<\/a>&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/familyhealth\/a-doctor-explains-why-coffee-makes-you-poop\/ar-BB1glj1o?ocid=msedgntp\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Amazingly enough, we actually don\u2019t know why coffee makes you poop. We know that coffee initiates what&#8217;s known as the &#8220;gastrocolic reflex&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/woman-coffee.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29077,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29076\/revisions\/29077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}