Pretty much the title.
If the stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve food, why can’t it kill dangerous germs that cause all sorts of different diseases?
In: Biology
Hang on for a minute:
>…if our stomach acid can basically dissolve almost anything organic
This is not true. There are a lot of organic things that a human stomach can’t “dissolve” very efficiently. That includes grass, wood, bone, etc. Some animals can handle those things, but humans cannot.
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