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Could alkaline digestive system work?
Just a wild guess, can we assume if start consuming acid say of very low pH as only food then maybe our stomach will adjust to produce alkaline to react with acid to produce certain salts which in ...
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Could alkaline digestive system work?
Your stomach is acid, because that's the best sort of environment for the functioning of pepsin, a protein-chopping enzyme. It is very definitely not the only such enzyme in your body, or even your ...
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