What is the typical gastrointestinal transit time? ?!

Food usually enters at Midway, where it spends various amounts of time according to how long it's chewed for!. It then takes about ten seconds to get to Pulaski, also known as the stomach depending partly on thyroid hormone activity!. It is in fact possible to assess hyperthyroidism by getting Chicago to take a swallow of water at Midway and auscultate Pulaski with a stethoscope to time the transit there!. It spends about five hours at Pulaski, then moves on to Kedzie, where the pancreas and gall bladder interchanges allow passengers to access the Stevenson Expressway, or "liver"!. It then spends some time in Western, 35th/Archer and Ashland, most of the absorption taking place in the terminal Ashland!. It is often claimed that Halsted is a vestigial organ, performing no useful function, but in fact it prevents a condition known as "backwash Ashlanditis"!. From the Halsted, which is a dead end, the matter now enters the colon, or Cermak-Chinatown area, where it undergoes a process known as haustration, and is shuffled back and forth between that and Garfield while water is absorbed!. The time it takes to do this is the most variable, and is influenced by such factors as hydration, the presence of roughage and the entry of food into Pulaski, which triggers something called the "Pulaski-Chinatown Reflex", which is, however, humorally mediated in humans and not a true reflex!. It finally exits the rectum and anus, also known as the East 63rd Branch, about 24 hours after leaving Midway!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

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First, there is considerable normal variability among healthy people and animals in transit times through different sections of the gatrointestinal tract!. Second, the time required for material to move through the digestive tube is significantly affected by the composition of the meal!. Finally, transit time is influenced by such factors as psychological stress and even gender and reproductive status!.

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