Episode 137: The Digestive System
The Science of Everything Podcast
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The Pyloric Sphincter and the Small Intestine
The stomach can only deal with so much at a time. The pyloric sphincter is typically closed to prevent the highly acidic material of the stomach from leaving. So there's little squirts of material of chime that are pushed out of the stomach periodically, then enter the small intestine and then will be processed by the small intestine.
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