If the stomach takes 6 hours to digest food, how does it deal with you eating, wait for 5 hours then eat again?
In: Biology
It’s not six hours in the stomach. It’s six hours through the whole digestive tract. So by the time you’re swallowing food to your stomach again, your first meal is likely through the small intestine and into the colon. There’s also tons of variation in how different food types absorb, and the system can speed up or slow down as it needs to.
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