No one knows what really happens when food enters the stomach. The digestive system is a miracle and phenomenon beyond anything that anyone can perceive. Even with a medical understanding of the way some of it functions, the digestive system remains a great mystery.
Everyone knows we bite into a piece of food, chew it, swallow it, then it enters the gastrointestinal tract, some sort of breakdown occurs, and we expel it. We know that this is how we get nutrients. And we know that sometimes the process doesn’t go so well, and stomachaches develop, or intestinal discomfort, or worse. Just because medical science has discovered digestive enzymes, though, doesn’t mean it has developed a comprehensive understanding of digestion. It doesn’t mean medical science knows the difference between Jack the Ripper and Santa Claus when it comes to what we eat and how our bodies process it.