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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You actually don’t need stomach acid at all to digest food. Digestion is primarily a mechanical process. Some people literally don’t have acidic stomachs. Stomach acid is primarily there to prevent you from getting foodborne illnesses, the rare people who don’t have stomach acid have to be incredibly careful about what they eat because they can become ill very easily.
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