How can certain foods pass straight through you when your intestines already have digesting food in them from previous meals blocking the path?

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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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“That went straight through me” is just an idiom. Your body isn’t bypassing the system to get the most recent thing out, it’s just adding fluid and flushing the whole system. If your body instead wants to get the most recent thing you’ve eaten out faster, it will activate your gag reflex and you’ll vomit.

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“That went straight through me” is just an idiom. Your body isn’t bypassing the system to get the most recent thing out, it’s just adding fluid and flushing the whole system. If your body instead wants to get the most recent thing you’ve eaten out faster, it will activate your gag reflex and you’ll vomit.

Anonymous 0 Comments

“That went straight through me” is just an idiom. Your body isn’t bypassing the system to get the most recent thing out, it’s just adding fluid and flushing the whole system. If your body instead wants to get the most recent thing you’ve eaten out faster, it will activate your gag reflex and you’ll vomit.

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When you consume a thing be it via orally or on the skin etc. You force your body to confront and deal with that which you consumed. When you eat a toxin your body will stop many other processes and spend the entire time dealing with the situation you presented it. Sometimes it’s vomiting, sometimes its diarhea.

Other times its just a prioritization of the digestive process. A perfect example is when we eat a USDA food pyramid meal “complete with carbohydrates, proteins, and fats, your body never gets to burn the fat until after 36 hours of carbs have been broken into sugars. Before this time is up you have eaten at least 2 more plates of carbs thereby denying your body and brain fat fuel. This is why you’re overweight and inflamed. Because you maintain a trail of plant sludge in your digestive tract.

Anonymous 0 Comments

When you consume a thing be it via orally or on the skin etc. You force your body to confront and deal with that which you consumed. When you eat a toxin your body will stop many other processes and spend the entire time dealing with the situation you presented it. Sometimes it’s vomiting, sometimes its diarhea.

Other times its just a prioritization of the digestive process. A perfect example is when we eat a USDA food pyramid meal “complete with carbohydrates, proteins, and fats, your body never gets to burn the fat until after 36 hours of carbs have been broken into sugars. Before this time is up you have eaten at least 2 more plates of carbs thereby denying your body and brain fat fuel. This is why you’re overweight and inflamed. Because you maintain a trail of plant sludge in your digestive tract.

Anonymous 0 Comments

When you consume a thing be it via orally or on the skin etc. You force your body to confront and deal with that which you consumed. When you eat a toxin your body will stop many other processes and spend the entire time dealing with the situation you presented it. Sometimes it’s vomiting, sometimes its diarhea.

Other times its just a prioritization of the digestive process. A perfect example is when we eat a USDA food pyramid meal “complete with carbohydrates, proteins, and fats, your body never gets to burn the fat until after 36 hours of carbs have been broken into sugars. Before this time is up you have eaten at least 2 more plates of carbs thereby denying your body and brain fat fuel. This is why you’re overweight and inflamed. Because you maintain a trail of plant sludge in your digestive tract.

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That meal that ‘passes through you’ may not be the content coming out. As others have said, it doesn’t bypass your digestive system, it has to pass through like the rest of your food, or utilise the emergency system that is vomiting or completely emptying your digestive system.

Most times though, you may just be eating something that triggers your digestive system to pass what it has. When food hits your stomach, your body releases hormones that tell your colon to contract. This is called the **gastrocolic reaction**. It’s a perfectly natural reaction, and it can be mild, but for some it can be pretty strong. It’s so you can eat more food.

It’s possible some foods trigger this harder for you than others. Greasy foods are known to trigger it more intensely than other food.

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