If our stomach acids are some of the strongest acids, how do stomach bugs and tapeworms and germs not get digested in it? How is it that only things like insulin get digested?
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A lot of the bacteria and the tapeworms/parasites reside in your intestinal tract. After food leaves your stomach and enters the small intestine, the acid is neutralized in the duodenum with a bicarbonate secreted by the pancreas. So by the time it hits your intestines, the food is broken down but no longer acidic.
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