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  flossly
  I did quite some experimenting with this.Fruit moves fastest and green leaves. Meat, cheese, oil and fats slowest.But we often eat combinations: and the slowest component of your food determines the speed of the whole.Also: it's a one lane road and "over taking" is not possible.So, eating a fast moving meal after a slow moving meal results in the fast mover getting stuck behind the slow mover.Hence I start my day without and slow food (only fruit, herbs, green leaves, spices, ginger => usually a smoothy); and end the day with slow food (oily food, nuts, seeds, beans; usually combined with green leaves as we need a lot green leaves).YMMV
• dustractor
  This is why I suspect that GLP-1 agonist medications have the potential to cause a cascade of negative consequences for the health of some people. One of the mechanisms is slowed gastric emptying which leads to decreased motility of the small intestine as a side effect. They do tell people to drink more water to counteract this. It just seems like trading one set of problems for another so hopefully doctor and patient will carefully weigh the benefits versus the risks. We shall see.
• deepsun
  "Linked" not "caused". So it may be that someone with Parkinson's just happen to have slower rates.
• Qem
  I wonder if this explains in part the purported health benefits from cofee. One thing people claim makes hard to quit cofee habit it's that they can't take a shit in the morning anymore.
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  iszomer
  Consumption of dairy and products are a relatively fast and painful solution for personal system purges within 30m but entirely depends on how processed they are.
• anon
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• fibermaxxx
  More fiber, more plants. I know individuals that eat "only vegetable on the burger" Oats, grits, or smoothie for early day Mine:Fruit smoothie with oats Starches, leafy greens, for midday Mine:roasted sweet potato on a salad Legumes and tree nuts for dinna Mine:Chickpea sauce over roasted veggies with pasta, or cashews.The goal is more than 13 plants a day and your movement will be very consistent
• sph
  I guess with my IBS I should be the healthiest person around.
• phyzix5761
  I wonder how Ozempic affects this because it slows down gastric emptying.
• cess11
  https://gut.bmj.com/content/72/1/180The study. It basically says that this is something one perhaps should consider in clinical settings and that the speed of fecal matter might be a worthwhile direction for future inquiry."Altogether, a better understanding of the complex, bidirectional interactions between the gut microbiota and transit time is required to better understand gut microbiome variations in health and disease."It does not say 'this is a sign of health and that is not'.
• jonatron
  I'm surprised there's no mention of hot drinks in the morning.
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  devolving-dev
  I wonder what this means for GLP 1 drugs that slow digestion.
• Grp1
  this post needs an enema
• bregma
  I find I can't keep it down for more than a few minutes. I guess I can eat all the poop I want and stay healthy then?
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  hhh
  And if I flip flop between both?
• beardyw
  If the writer ingested a lot, very little came out.
• pawelduda
  Sooo.... Another reason to drink coffee/yerba mate? Although the latter also supposedly stimulates release of GLP1, which slows down "the release"
• feverzsj
  Eat lots of fibers and water, and you'll poop like a cow.
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  sans_souse
  No shit