Given it's still a mystery, could an enterprising PhD student or prof could make this their primary research focus, formulate a plausible explanation, get publi

Given it's still a mystery, could an enterprising PhD student or prof could make this their primary research focus, formulate a plausible explanation, get published in an academic journal, communicate their findings to the lay audience via an insubstantive book on the subject that would have been better off as an article in The New Yorker or something, and subsequently appear on the Huberman podcast to talk about how to optimize caffeine consumption for optimal defecation?