Growing up I was taught that it takes the digestive system around 24 hours to process food on ‘normal setting’.
However, anyone who has ever accidentally eaten a tonne of free sugar candy and/or got Montezuma’s Revenge will attest to the diarrhoea explosion happening very soon after consumption of the unwelcome ingredients.
But how is the journey from food passing the tonsils become diarrhoea so fast? Isn’t the process from stomach to small and large intestine meant to take longer?
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Your body breaks down most of the food in your stomach and absorbs nutrients and water through your intestines. As the water is absorbed, the material traveling through our intestines begins to harden into a solid poop. When you ingest a laxative (or Haribo Sugar-Free Gummy Bears) your body skips through the absorption phase and releases all of the waste before the water can be removed, leading to the liquid consistency of diarrhea.
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