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health advisory Hospital Doctor Yu 2007-11-8 19:09:00

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Most food is digested in the small intestines and very little is absorbed in the stomach.The stomach lining contains a covering that produces enzymes & mucus to protect the stomach from digesting itself.

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It frequently digests itself.

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it can if the protective coating is weakened

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Your stomach, I believe, secrets a lining that keeps it from digesting itself. It sheds this lining and gets a new one every two weeks.

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Ulcers are the stomach digesting itself. Usually a protective coating prevents this

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A stomach does not digest itself. It works like this:

The acid in your stomach (which actually doesn't do the bulk of the digestion, the enzymes in your stomach, helped by the acid, do the job) does not digest the stomach; the stomach continually leaks out a coat of mucus to coat its inner walls, to protect it from both the enzymes and the acid.

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that is the work of our Creator.

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because the stomach has a lining that protects it form the acid and enzymes it produces, but if this lining is weakened the stomach will be hurt as in stomach ulcer

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The stomach does digest itself. I have the ulcers to prove it. The acids are always in the stomach, that is why you need something in there at all times or your stomach will start eating itself. Coffee is my constant companion, or milk.

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