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it eats itself whence you are so hungry that say are a fat person that going without food would be fine because you would be fed through your own fat for a couple of days or even weeks but then say your skinny then you couldn't last very long without food
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Does your stomach really eat itself when your starved?
no, this is a common misunderstanding. When your stomach growls it is battling mini unicorns.
Can a kingsnake eat a bigger snake than itself?
No. There is no animal that can eat something bigger than itself. A king snake has a stomach and it has limits.
Will the stomach eat itself without the help of the snot of the nose?
No, you are not supposed to swallow your snot or eat your boogers but it doesn't harm you, the stomach has its own mucus to keep the acid from eating the stomach
Why does the stomach have a thick muscle wall?
The function of the stomach wall is to protect your stomach from eating itself. It has a coating of mucus on the inside that renews itself every three days and stops the hydrochloric acid in your stomach from dissolving itself.
How does the stomach prevent digesting itself?
The role that cells play in keeping the stomach from digesting itself is in the production of a thick, greasy mucus so that the stomach wall remains intact. This thick mucus is called glycoprotein.
If you eat food does it soak up alcohol?
It not so much soaks up alcohol itself, but stops the stomach from absorbing as much of it.
Can you eat apple in empty stomach?
Yes, you can eat an apple on an empty stomach. You can also eat any other food on an empty stomach.
Will your stomach digest itself if you dont eat?
The stomach will only shrink in size that's it . you will get skinner, and eventually malnutrition. The only organ that will digest itself when you don't eat, and alcoholic's are faced with this alto, is the pancrease due to excessive alcohol consumption, without eating.
You eat spoonfuls of all purpose flour?
Can you eat spoonfuls? Or you are stating that you do eat them? You run the risk of choking on the dust, but if you can get them down, flour itself is harmless. Eat too much and you may be constipated. Cause you stomach and bowels to lock up.
Hydrochloric acid is also present in our stomach how will you justify it how does stomach protect itself from this acid?
Mucus produced by goblet cells in the lining the stomach forms a protective layer preventing the stomach from digesting itself.
What is the medical term meaning your stomach eating itself?
In a sense, a stomach ulcer (gastric ulcer, in medical terms) can be thought of as "the stomach eating itself." Helicobacter pylori is a bacterium associated with stomach ulcers.
How does digestive system avoid digesting itself?
The stomach lining is covered in mucus so that the protein-digesting pepsin won't eat away at the muscular lining. However, if the mucus wears off, you can get ulcers in the stomach.
