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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>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?

It doesn’t. Diarrhea is the emergency eject button of the GI tract. When your body wants to get rid of something in there fast it just hits the release and everything goes all at once. The reason its watery and loose is because normally the liquid part is mostly reabsorbed by your intestines. But because you didn’t give your body enough time to do it properly it can’t absorb the liquid. This is a reason why its necessary to hydrate when dealing with longer bouts of diarrhea, its dehydrating you.

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

Rather than torturing yourself you might want to see if you can isolate which part of the recipe is giving you trouble so you can remove it/replace it with something else.

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