Sorry to be so 'bodily' this early in the morning but I am seriously wondering if there is something wrong with me!
Tell me: "does one slurp of one's morning coffee bring on an URGENT need to go for a shit?" or am I quite abnormal in that respect?
Given the extraordinary speed with which it seems to act, I am guessing the caffeine, if caffeine it is that causes the effect, must be absorbed by the mouth or at least by the stomach in very short order indeed! However, I wonder if it is simply a case of "Incoming - everyone needs to shuffle down a bit to make room!"
Is there a gastroenterologist in the house who can offer his/her opinion on the subject?
@Paulos_the_fog Not for me, but certain teas (namely oolong) do it. You may have a mild allergy. Or it could be any other number of things that we can do experiments on!
Try it with a high-caffiene content tea and see what happens! Also, you should also try decaf coffee and tea.
Also, you should test if it's the temperature, it could be that. Or it could be the dissolved material, so you could try an apple juice as well.
Finally, it could just be that any liquid (or maybe solid) material entering the stomach is re-engaging the digestive tract, thus you should also do a negative control with no liquids and just food.
Thus, we achieve the following experimental configuration:
Cofffee/Tea/Apple Juice (or a non-pulp juice) all heated.
Then try them all unheated (still brew them hot for the brewed drinks to ensure consistent extraction across batches).
Then all uncaffinated.
Then nothing but bread.
Finally try nothing.
Time everything relatively based on ingestion period, then based on your circadian rhythm (compared to when you woke up) and finally on absolute time. Also, try not to run the experiments near daylight savings time transitions to prevent confounders of circadian rhythm shift effects.
I'm actually looking forward to the results, and may even run the experiment myself xD
@johnabs
It doesn't really bother me but it is so very dependable and the action so damned fast that I wondered if other people react the same way to their morning coffee.
Being retired I don't have any sort of routine - I wake up when I wake up and get up when I please! To be honest I don't really like coffee that much as it doesn't taste of anything these days so I literally drink a cup or two in the morning just to avoid caffeine withdrawal symptoms.