Human Movement The Willo_ Effect

[BotsMaster]

The Willo_ Effect is the chemical reaction coffee has with the digestive system of the human body causing an acceleration of the bowel movement.

It seems to be a common effect among most people so what we need to find out is what exactly in coffee causes this effect and if there is a remedy for it?

 

[Loonerty]

Hey Willo_ I didn't know you had science named after you!

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

What if I don't want a remedy for it?

 

[eldorado]

It might with the stomach's acids, I think...and might also mess with the myriads of bacterial species down there doing our decomposing for us.

Every double-shot, they're probably buzzing like a Frankston speed-freak for the next hour, then crashing out*


*the above is strictly UN-scientific. I suspect caffeine only works on neurotransmitters, not whole cellular organisms...

 

[GreyCrow]

The Willo_ Effect is the chemical reaction coffee has with the digestive system of the human body causing an acceleration of the bowel movement.

It seems to be a common effect among most people so what we need to find out is what exactly in coffee causes this effect and if there is a remedy for it?

Milk

 

[Willo_]

I feel so bloody special right now

 

[Vicky Park]

It seems to be a common effect among most people so what we need to find out is what exactly in coffee causes this effect and if there is a remedy for it?

Never heard this one before.

 

[Ant_]

I feel so bloody special right now

I'll be thinking of you about 10am at work

 

[BotsMaster]

Milk

Can't be just milk. Unless you're lactose intolerant, you can enjoy a milkshake or a glass of milk without needing to s**t 20 minutes after.

 

[GreyCrow]

I don't know. It could be a combination of the milk v caffeine as I am good to go after an Iced Coffee as well. Not every time, but enough for me to connect the 2.

 

[Willo_]

I feel so bloody special right now

9:05am for me... right after I clock on

 

[The rabbi]

Hey Willo_ I didn't know you had science named after you!

Science is not named after Willo, but the effect of the coffee on the bowels.

 

[Gralin]

Not an answer to the Willo effect but dealing with the fallout more efficiently is important to our future

http://m.phys.org/news/2016-11-binge-eating-bacteria-energy-sewage.html

 

[RunningBounce]

Never really looked into this Bots, or knew the phenomenon had a name, but I do know the experience.

I'd be guessing, but I'll hypothesize that it has to do with addiction. Most daily coffee drinkers would have a mild caffeine dependency. The brain takes in all the queues from the ritual. The smell. The familiar sights of the kitchen / fav cafe. The taste may trigger some kind of neural cascade - boom. Bombs away.

The same effect comes with cigarettes. Or at least it used to, before I gave them up.

 

[Willo_]

Never really looked into this Bots, or knew the phenomenon had a name, but I do know the experience.

I'd be guessing, but I'll hypothesize that it has to do with addiction. Most daily coffee drinkers would have a mild caffeine dependency. The brain takes in all the queues from the ritual. The smell. The familiar sights of the kitchen / fav cafe. The taste may trigger some kind of neural cascade - boom. Bombs away.

The same effect comes with cigarettes. Or at least it used to, before I gave them up.

Lol

 

[Doss]

Doesn't happen much with instant coffee I find.

If I have a proper one from a cafe near work about 9am however...well you know where to find me about half an hour later.

 

[Willo_]

Doesn't happen much with instant coffee I find.

If I have a proper one from a cafe near work about 9am however...well you know where to find me about half an hour later.

Yep spot on.
I understand the logic behind RunningBounce 's theory... but I have only been a coffee convert the last 18 months, and from my early stages of drinking coffee I was finding 20 to 30mins later like clock work a trip to the can.

 

[Pie eyed]

The Willo_ Effect is the chemical reaction coffee has with the digestive system of the human body causing an acceleration of the bowel movement.

It seems to be a common effect among most people so what we need to find out is what exactly in coffee causes this effect and if there is a remedy for it?

Why?
Don't drink stuff which makes you s**t.

 

[BotsMaster]

Doesn't happen much with instant coffee I find.

If I have a proper one from a cafe near work about 9am however...well you know where to find me about half an hour later.

Well the ingredients for both are different:
Instant Coffee
International Roast
Boiled water
Cold milk

Cappuccino
Single shot of espresso
Hot foamed milk

 

[Doss]

International Roast? I don't stoop that low.

 

[jenny61_99]

International Roast? I don't stoop that low.

I remember the day when International Roast was THE coffee. Still have a friend that drinks it. (shudders)

 

[Doss]

I remember the day when International Roast was THE coffee. Still have a friend that drinks it. (shudders)

I imagine putting 'international' in the name attracted people, in much the same way that calling a beer 'craft' these days attracts them and blinds them to the fact that they mostly taste the same as every other supposedly 'craft' drop.

 

[jenny61_99]

As for coffee and crapping... need to ask the question of tea drinkers as well (because there is as much caffeine in tea as coffee). Something to do with intestinal muscles being stimulated by caffeine.

 

[Doss]

I am generally more of a tea drinker while at work and it definitely doesn't have anywhere near the same effect.

 

[jenny61_99]

I am generally more of a tea drinker while at work and it definitely doesn't have anywhere near the same effect.

Same, though I drink it at home. Coffee at work.