Does coffee make you poop, or is that just me?

Wednesday, March 25, 2020 - 06:30 in Mathematics & Economics

Asking for a friend. (Pexels/)What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we promise you’ll have an even weirder answer if you listen to PopSci’s hit podcast. The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week hits Apple, Anchor, and everywhere else you listen to podcasts every-other Wednesday morning. It’s your new favorite source for the strangest science-adjacent facts, figures, and Wikipedia spirals the editors of Popular Science can muster. If you like the stories in this post, we guarantee you’ll love the show.FACT: Coffee makes 30 percent of people poopBy Claire MaldarelliI’m usually a coffee drinker, but as the news has gotten busier these days, I’ve steadily increased my intake. But annoyingly, that has kept me going in more ways than one. That made me wonder: Does intensifying your coffee consumption increase bowel movements in everyone, or just me? It turns out that only about 30 percent...

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