# Do competitive eaters fully digest their loads?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-competitive-eaters-fully-digest-their-loads/618307>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 9, 2012, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-competitive-eaters-fully-digest-their-loads/618307 "2012-04-09T21:40:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Woodenspoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bc79bd/32.png) [@Woodenspoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Woodenspoon)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-competitive-eaters-fully-digest-their-loads/618307/1 "2012-04-09T21:40:08Z")

</div>

Surely there is an upper limit on the amount of digestive juices someone can produce in a day, or does the food just backup for a certain amount of time …or does a lot of the mash come out only partially digested…D:

I’ve always wondered if you can overwhelm your digestive system…

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![randomface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@randomface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randomface)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-competitive-eaters-fully-digest-their-loads/618307/2 "2012-04-09T22:32:32Z")

</div>

This isn’t really on topic for competitive eating, but it is rather simple to overwhelm your digestive system.

Eat a whole stick of butter for breakfast (and nothing else) and I can almost guarantee oil will come out your digestive system.