Why do we poo after food?

Question

Silly question I know! But usually I will go to the toilet like the next day. 
But sometimes I eat and within half hour I poo! Why does food go straight through us at times? 
My nan eats and she goes to the toilet almost straight away 🫣 weird how our body works!

Answer

It doesnt go straight through you. If your intestines are already backed up, eating again can trigger a bowel movement to make room for the new waste. Youre not pooping what you just ate, youre pooping whats left from previous meals.

Answer

Eating triggers your entire alimentary canal to activate the digestive process. Once activated, you salivate more, produce more gastric acid and enzymes needed for food entering the stomach and peristalsis (movement of the intestines). Basically it says “out with the old and in with the new” so whatever waste was sitting in your lower intestine/colon is moved out to make room for what will be coming through soon.

Answer

I have an IBD and this happens a lot but it also depends on the food I eat. I’m intolerant to a lot of food though and that’s a reaction I have to it

Answer

My ex husband is like that, in the bathroom after every meal. It all really just depends on how each person's body reacts to what's put into it.

Why do we poo after food?

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