![]() ![]() This important muscle separates your sensitive esophagus from your stomach with its hydrochloric acid. Heartburn & Indigestion from Drinking CoffeeĬoffee can cause heartburn (acid reflux) by relaxing the lower esophageal sphincter muscle. This is due to the way it diverts your body’s resources away from digestion and into ‘fight or flight’ mode.Īll in all, there’s many ways that coffee can cause intestinal cramps, belly bloat and bad gas, since it can potentially interfere with several stages of the digestive process. Most people wouldn’t recognize their morning coffee as a prime suspect in why they are so gassy in the afternoon or evening.Įven the way coffee elevates cortisol and adrenaline to give you energy (or is that anxiety) can be responsible for bloating and excessive gas. ![]() It can also make you fart many hours later, when poorly broken down food arrives in your lower intestine to feed flatulence causing bacteria. This can cause bloating and intestinal cramps soon after drinking coffee, even diarrhea in extreme cases. This is one of the main ways coffee causes gas as undigested, putrefying protein is feed on by the intestinal bacteria that create hydrogen sulfide (rotten egg gas) for those really smelly farts.Īnother way coffee makes you gassy and bloated is by stimulating gastric emptying when you drink it with or soon after a meal.īy causing the contents of your stomach to evacuate before gastric processes have done their usual job, digesting food arrives into your small intestine too early. When there is a shortage of hydrochloric acid for proper digestion you often have problems breaking down protein in particular. Do this for long enough and your body’s capacity to produce hydrochloric acid can be impaired. Your body has a limited ability to make hydrochloric acid, particularly if you are dehydrated, nutritionally deficient or under stress.īy drinking regular cups of coffee you are kicking stomach acid production into overdrive. That makes first thing in the morning the worst time to drink coffee if stomach pain is a problem for you. This effect is especially pronounced if you drink a cup of coffee on an empty stomach. When you drink coffee your stomach increases gastric secretions of hydrochloric acid (HCl) in reaction to these oils and acids. Increases Stomach AcidĬoffee contains many acids, oils and chemical compounds like caffeine that can harm your stomach and intestines by irritating their linings. 8 Negative Side Effects of Coffee and Caffeine 1. Okay, if you’ve made it this far without being scared off then let’s get started. Just making this one change in your drinking habits can make a dramatic difference to your health and sense of well being in your daily life. As well as symptoms and side effects, including stomach pain, bloating, intestinal cramps, diarrhea and excessive gas.Īnd for some good news, in following articles I’ll cover caffeine withdrawal remedies, replacing coffee with healthier alternatives and a step by step plan to quit coffee. I’ll do this by covering the damaging effects it can have on your digestive system. ![]() What I hope to offer with this post is some positive motivation and momentum to give up coffee. Many of us are far more addicted to this legal drug than we’d like to admit to ourselves. Giving up their daily caffeine fix is a scary thought for some people. It was actually easier than I’d expected. I took the last I had to work as an offering to the caffeine addicts there and replaced it with a caffeine-free yet coffee-tasting substitute. 9 Coffee and Digestion: 8 Digestive Problems with Coffee & CaffeineĪfter doing the research for this post I gave up coffee. ![]()
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