Why does eating chili peppers cause diarrhea

Some people have weak spleen and stomach, so they are not suitable to eat overly stimulating foods. Chili peppers are quite stimulating. After eating them, you will feel a burning pain in your stomach. Chili peppers will continue to irritate the gastrointestinal lining and make people feel uncomfortable. Diarrhea is actually a process of relieving pain, after all the capsaicin is excreted from the body. Your body will feel much better. Try to eat less chili peppers.

1. Why do you get diarrhea after eating chili peppers?

The reason why peppers taste hot is because they contain capsaicinoids, a small family of compounds that includes more than 8 types of compounds, of which capsaicin and dihydrocapsaicin account for about 95%. In particular, capsaicin, the "tyrant", has the strongest physiological activity. Its characteristic is that it cannot be metabolized by the digestive tract. Therefore, it is not difficult to understand that if you eat too many chili peppers, these capsaicin will stimulate the gastrointestinal tract, not only making the gastrointestinal tract feel like it is on fire, but also promoting continuous peristalsis of the gastrointestinal tract until the intestines have to excrete the excess capsaicin through diarrhea before feeling more comfortable. Therefore, these capsaicinoids that cannot be decomposed have to "go in and out in the same way", and when they are excreted, they will make the buttocks feel like a handful of chili powder is smeared on them, which is also extremely burning.

2. Why do peppers taste spicy?

This is because chili peppers contain capsaicin, which can bind to the vanilloid receptor subtypes of the human body's sensory neurons. What is then transmitted to the brain is a burning sensation. Therefore, the "spicy taste" of eating chili peppers is actually a kind of "burning sensation".

3. Why does eating chili peppers make people feel very comfortable?

The burning sensation caused by capsaicin in the human body will make the brain mistakenly believe that the body is injured, and it will begin to secrete a pain-relieving substance called "endorphin" that the human body possesses. This is why people feel spicy and refreshing.

4. Why does eating chili peppers cause stomach pain and make people want to have a bowel movement quickly?

In fact, there is still no clear explanation as to why eating chili peppers causes diarrhea, but one of the reasons accepted by many people is that the colon cells are stimulated by capsaicin, which causes gastrointestinal dysfunction.

The function of the colon is to push unformed stool to the liver portal, and in the process absorb the water in the unformed stool to form the stool.

However, when colon cells are stimulated by capsaicin, the movement of the colon will speed up and become irregular, which means that the intestines will not have enough time to absorb water in the stool. This makes the stool unable to form and becomes loose stool. Naturally, you will have diarrhea.