Food and drink enter your stomach and dissolve in a strong acid bath, then exits your stomach into your intestines for a good old squeeze over many hours.
When you pee or poo, it doesn’t burn at the exits.
Surely some stomach acid must enter the intestines? Where does the stomach acid go? What happens to it?
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Right after the mixture of acid and food leaves the stomach, your pancreas adds a squirt of bicarbonate (which is basically antacid, a base) to neutralize the acid.
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