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Factoid: Your Tummy Is Cleaver

  • Writer: Matthew Corbin D.C
    Matthew Corbin D.C
  • Aug 20, 2017
  • 1 min read

Updated: Dec 31, 2020


The inner lining in your stomach is remade every 3 days so not to digest itself. Nice! Our stomach can hold about 3 litres of liquid and is made up of 4 layers. The internal layer stops hydrochloric acid (a powerful corrosive compound) burning through it by coating the lining with bicarbonate that neutralises the acid...in basic terms. We are amazing!


Gut anatomy
actoid: Your Tummy Is Cleaver

 
 
 

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