Why does diarrhea-causing food expedite defecation?

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So after googling, the normal food you eat is supposed to take 2-5 days to go through digesting all the way to defecation.

I know eating spicy noodles will give me diarrhea but I still eat maybe once a couple months because I love them so much.

It takes only 5-6 hours before I get abdominal pains and have to relieve it at toilet.

So how does this spicy noodles skip everything in my system and kinda pushes in front of the queue to leave the body, it just doesnt make sense?

Edit: thanks for all the answers guys. I didn’t know the body could do that. It really is amazing. And now I feel kinda stupid for not figuring this out for so long.

So now I guess eating spicy noodles doesn’t only give me an unpleasant trip to the toilet but it also gets rid of all the nutrients my body was absorbing from my previous meals.

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Think of your intestines as a super long twisty playground slide. As you eat, things slide down the slide and out the bottom in an orderly fashion.

When you eat something that’s bad or disagrees with your body, it wants to get rid of that stuff fast.

So your body starts dumping water into that slide so things start moving a lot more quickly.

As you can imagine a waterslide is a lot faster than a normal slide so all the kids on that slide start shooting out the bottom at super fast speeds until no more kids are on it anymore.

Kids are splayed out at the bottom, piling on top of each other, crying, its a mess. Just like diarrhea!

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