Why is ingesting fecal matter dangerous even though its just stuff from your body?
In: Biology
You are making the mistake of thinking that just because something is in our body, it should be safe. It isn’t.
Our bodies contain all kinds of stuff thats deadly dangerous to us. We live because we have specialized location on our body where those things need to be stored.
Fecal matter is poisonous. Full of bacteria that can and will kill us but our intestines are specially designed to handle them and prevent them from spreading through our body and killing us.
Stomach acid is similar. It can burn your tissue, even burn holes in your tissue and cause significant internal damage, but our stomachs are equipped to contain the acid (most of the time) and prevent it from mixing with tissue that isn’t protected against that acid.
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