I have read somewhere that it is normal to defecate about once a day. This leads me to think that it takes about 24h for food to pass through the body under normal circumstances.
Now lets say you eat some bad sushi that triggers “the runs” within an hour.
When you then defecate, is it the actual sushi that comes out or is it just the food you ate before the sushi?
Also, how fast could food theoretically go from mouth to anus?
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In my experience with a gut disease (salmonella for a week or two) I ran an experiment to see exactly that by adding hard-to-digest food items to my diet deliberately at a specific time. My timing came out to 2.5 to 3 hours, but suffice it to say the roads were already cleared so I don’t know what time timing is like for a healthy colon with a sudden eviction notice.
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