It takes ~36 hours from the moment you bite into your meal to when you’re pooping it out. Meaning, your digestive tract has 36 hours worth of meals it’s currently digesting at any given time.
When you eat something bad, it seems that you’re on the toilet pooping it out within the hour. How is that even possible if the pathway is blocked by 36 hours worth of meals?
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Food cannot bypass each other. The system once leaving the stomach only goes one direction. All of us have different motility, speed of digestion and water absorption. Also very different biomes or colonies of bacteria helping us digest in the small intestine and converting some of our food into more useful vitamins and minerals. Additionally we have different waves of motion with muscles and the cilia (inside intestines) to move food along or even to clean house once food has passed (our system can be suprisingly clean). Some folks can eat and 8 hours later it is leaving, 12 hrs, or in your case 36. All of these are simply different speeds based on environment and genetics and food. If you are having diarhea then you are bypassing the large intestine and water reabsorption is not happening.
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