Asking for a friends: Does time of day affect digestion?
Gastroenterologists explain why you may feel gassier as the day goes on.
Think Youve Got Food Poisoning?
Im at my best in the morning.
First of all, and sorry to be crass here, but its because most peoplepoop in the morning.
And so their stomach and everything gets very flat, and they feel really good.
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Theres no bloat and all the gases are out.
(You know the feeling.)
Eating can lead to us feeling full, bloated, or heavy.
When that happens, we get the subjective feeling that were not able to digest as well.
Niket Sonpal, MD
Unfortunately, this post-poo feeling Dr. Sonpal describes is quite ephemeral.
As the day goes on, a variety of things happen.
Eating can lead to us feeling full, bloated, or heavy.
Youve had coffee, youre in peak performance, and your entire GI tract is pretty much empty.
And so everything feels like it goes down very easily.
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The time of daydoesaffect how your digestion feels.
(I never learn!)
The reason why is because the walking stimulates your abdominal muscles, your back muscles.
These muscles help the normal colon contractions that help you digest, he says.
Youre doing yourself a solid.
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