You don't have to skip the drink—but you should have a game plan ready.
So what’s behind that? To start, there’s a good amount of caffeine in these beverages. For example, a grande drink in the line ranges from 170 mg to 255 mg of caffeine.
, it slows the digestion process, which helps boost satiety and keeps you feeling full longer, as SELF reported previously. But if you take in too much of it too quickly, especially on an empty stomach in the morning—like many folks do with their coffee—fat can “exacerbate the urgency to run to the bathroom,”, tells SELF. Fats like olive oil can stimulate motility in the colon and “help smooth the insides of the bowel, making it easier for stools to pass through,” explains Zeitlin.
Coffee also contains acid, which boosts a hormone made in the stomach called gastrin, says Dr. De Latour. Gastrin stimulates a muscle contraction that moves waste along in the GI tract; high levels of this hormone could lead toPlus, the combination of the two foods could exacerbate the effects for people with caffeine sensitivity, Zeitlin explains. “It’s going to cause a quicker, potentially more urgent run to the bathroom,” she says.
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