Episode 137: The Digestive System
The Science of Everything Podcast
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Digestive Myths
The gastrointestinal tract is very effective at moving all of the material that enters it out of the body within 24-ish hours. There are some urban myths about things like chewing gum taking years to digest in the stomach or whatever. But for the most part, if you consume food, the nutritional value of that food will be extracted by your small intestine and anything that's indigestible will be passed into the large intestine and ultimately excreted.
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