From Nose to Tail: Can You Stomach It?

this episode, we are in fact continuing the journey. Um. You know some of our series we tell you, oh, make sure you're back and listen to part one and listen to part to this one. You can probably mix it up a little bit. Yeah, I think everyone knows that, yes, food needs to go through your mouth before it goes

into your esophagus and stomach. Yeah. But what's so cool about that episode is that we learned about how your tongue is bathed in saliva, and the saliva really brings all those flavors to you, and that so much of our ability to smells something or detective flavor has to do with the tongue, and that there's our receptors in the back of our throat that are actually detecting that smell, So I actually just gave it away. But there's a

lot of really cool stuff in the episode. So yeah, you've gone through that episode hopefully with us, and you were about to plunge down the gullet, yes, and splunk inside. And and like last time, we were inspired to do this one a little bit by Mary Roach's new book, Gulp, which highly recommend everyone pick that up if you're at all into science, if you're at all into food and digestion, into laughing or learning. It's a great book. We're really

enjoying it. And also check out our interview with Mary Roach, which will have published by this time. Yeah, it's it is great as usual, she has so many interesting things to say. Um, so, yeah, let's talk about this journey into the stomach. And uh, let's think about previously previously on nose detail, Yes, previous smell to haggas we tasted hags. We put hags in our mouth. The haggis is the chewed as as much as you can chew chewed up. We get salive on there, we get various enzymes and

we have formed a what what is this cargo? Bullets bullets And just as a reminder, hags is essentially like a tur ducan of organ meat uh, encased in sheep's stomach. Yes, right, so all of that gets you know, chewed up in her mouth and as you say, it becomes the bullets haggas, it's like a gross muca see foodie football that's about to be passed to the rest of the digestive system.

That's right. What happens is that you get the swallow reflex and it's activated and the larn x elevates and closes to avoid portions of the food bullus bulls haggis entering the trachea. Yeah, because that's bad. That's joking, that's that's not being able to breathe. Big ball of organs trying to go down your wimpipe bad bad news. And as Mary Roach points out to the bad ones to

to actually get down there. Of course, with the grape and the hot dog, both just the right size to to block your windpipe, perfect circumference to mimic the circumference of your windpipe. So yes, that is why actually they say with with kids toddlers to you know, always cut up a hot dog or grapes. That's the very reason. Alright. So the police is entering this esophagus, and the esophagus I think is wonderful because it really is the beginning

of this long tube of your digestive system. Because if you think about this, it really is a tube from your mouth to your anus. It's just in different types of sculptures along the way. Yeah, it's like one long winding hallway through a house. The decorations change, the carpeting changes, but but ultimately it's the same pathway, right. And from this pathway it's a pretty straight shoot. We're talking about eight inches here, um. And it does have two parts.

There's the or esophagal spin sphincter, that's the U S and that is under our conscious control, right, So that is helping us to eat, to breathe the belch, and to even vomit when we need to. And it is essentially keeping food from going down the wrong pipe. Right. That the upper part of our esophagus. Now, the lower part is involuntary, and it's muscles are kind of like the dormant to the stomach, making sure that acid and food don't travel backwards into the esophagus. That's bad though.

That does happen, of course, and it's sometimes it's important that it happens in the case of regurgitation, It's true. Yeah, But the cool thing about the esophagus, this is essentially made up of these muscles that are easing the food downward,

especially in the process of paristalsis. Yes, peristalsis. It's kind of like I can't help but think of like a snake eating something, or or when you when you have accidentally put your hoodie in the washer and dryer without h eyeing up the cords and the cord comes out and you have to carefully like work it through the hood again. It's that kind of like gradual process. Yeah, it's smooth muscle movement and it is sort of like you think about a worm or snake sort of sort

of moving along. And now para salsas begins in the esophagus and it goes all the way to the anus, right, So this is a movement um that really does kind of usher your food from one station to another. And when we talk about the esophagus, the movement is initiated by circular smooth muscles contracting behind the chewed food, and then it's followed by a contraction of longitudinal smooth muscles

which pushes the digested food forward or down. So you could do a cartwheel and you can be digesting and it would still move your food in the correct direction, because it is it is those muscles that are really making sure that food is going down, uh, not necessarily gravity. Right now, we're still in the upper esophagus at this point, right, and now this is a This is the area where everything is still under conscious control. For the most part.

We're still more or less in charge of the food movement. But when we get into the lower esophagus, that's where it becomes more of a subconscious movement. It's no longer really our affair what's going on with the food. It's it's been passed on to a different division. That's right. Um. I mean it's all in preparation for shooting it into the stomach, right to the big vat of acid. And I did want to interject something here that when it does, when that bollus lands in that big vat of acid,

we get these noises gurgling from our stomach. Yes, and there's an actual name for these noises. This was new to me. This was a surprise. Yeah. Yeah, this is a bit of on a monopea going on. The word is Warbaraghini, because it sounds exactly like what it is. Yeah, it down. It sounds like we both like, yeah, if

you slow it down, it's a war. War. Doesn't that sound like my stomach just it does sound like like stomach systic, the kind of gurgly noise that that generally makes itself heard during the quiet parts of movies or on dates or in waiting rooms anywhere where it's nice and quiet, and your digestive system is reminding you that even though you were taking it easy, it's it's work times, that is exactly. It's kind of like the digestive systems

work song, like whistle your while you work song. It's like, hey, this is going on, but we're wearing to me or something like that. The cat sits on my shoulder the other day. She was doing and I could hear the sound of her digestion. It was just like, yeah, yeah, I've heard my cats as well. And you know he's he's a giant cat, by the way, and he eats a lot um. He's a twenty six pound cats, so you can really hear his digestion. And he snores too,

and sneezes um. So the interesting thing about the bogaragimi is that it's the gas in the air that's trapped in what we are now calling come formerly the bullets. Okay, now it's like now that this the slurry ball has become just this slurry highway of good called the kind. Yeah, the time is just we've changed the names here because we've put more additives in it, right. We we have added some gastard juices to the mix. And so it's that that gas and air that's trapped in the time

that is making those noises. And if your stomach or your small intestine is relatively empty, uh, it's going to make louder noises. So Jessica Toothman has a great article on our website about this, and she likened it to when you put shoes in a dryer and you can hear because there's just one thing, right, the shoes and a dryer, and it's all around in the dryer. But if you put a bunch of towels in there, then it would muffle this sound. So that is why sometimes

your proper righimi is louder than other times. It all comes back around the washing machines. It really does. Right. We talked about this last time, about how the salava is essentially a detergent the enzymes in it. All right, gonna take a quick break. We have we have delivered you to the stomach, and there's a lot more to come as we discuss what actually goes on in the stomach. This is kind of the main stage really, so of course we're going to talk some more about the stomach activity,

but first a quick break and then we're back. All right, we're back, and we are in the belly of the beast.

We are in the belly um And again, I just anytime I think about like stomach activity, I always go back to the movie Interspace, the climactic battle in Martin Short stomach between the the the bad guy inside of a little robot submarine dude, and then the good guy who was who was it, uh, Dennis Quaid, and they're like duking it out, and then the bad guy gets out of his he like his submarine gets partially destroyed, so he's like trying to drill into Dennis quaid submarine

and then all the stomach acid comes up and just dissolves him down to a skeleton. There on the on the on the front of the submarine. You know, you have just described really this Steve theory. Yeah, that we'll get to in a moment, and it's about beneficial bacteria and the bad guys and allow the good guys like like Dennis Quaid to potentially continue the journey through the body man. That totally should have been in the paper

that was published about Steve theory. Um. But yeah, let's talk about how this PLoP of time enters into the stomach chamber. And there is another set of digestive glands in the stomach lining the first one that we met in the mouth. Right, you've got either saliva there um this next set of digestive glances producing stomach acid and enzymes that further break this stuff down. Yeah, and this is more hardcore for sure. Now I don't know if

it's dissolving bodies to skeleton in a matter of seconds. Um. Powerful, Because there's a part in merriy Roaches book Gulp where she actually has some some some stomach acid put on her skin because it wants to feel what it might be like. And it's it's a very it's not an immediate um burning sensation. It doesn't like eat through her arm like xenomorph blood or thing. It's it's it's not at that potent. Now it's potent. It's acid, but but

there's nothing just crazy about it. It's not like sulfuric acid or something. Yeah, but it's a It should be noted that the major components of gastard juices are mucus, pepsin and hydrochloric acid. And on the pH scale, humans actually have an acid level of two. Now, the lower the level than the higher that the actual acid um

of the stomach. So that's pretty acidic. It's pretty a sitting but not but but again not like crazy sci fi movie acidic necessarily, Yes, you're that's right, that's right, but it does the job. And so it's especially when you come to something like the CV theory, and the idea is that the stomach isn't just there as a holding pattern for your food and to make it a little bit mushier and to get it even more further

broken down. Although it does that, the theory is that the stomach is also there to weed out the good microbes versus the bad microbes. And scientific American blogger Rob Dunn actually found an interesting study from nineteen forty eight by Dr Orla Jensen. She was a retired professor from the Royal Danish Technical College, and in the study, or Ly Gensen deposits that the stomach um isn't just that blender, but it really is doing this job of weeding out

the bacteria. Because again, as we've discussed in past podcasts, the body is loaded with microbes. We are, it is a big hotel full of things, and and and in the microbe living in my body aren't exactly the same. It's not exactly the same population as you have, as the next person has. But that being said, uh, there's there's some an order here and not everyone that lives on the tenth and eleventh floor are allowed to go up to the penthouse or down to the penthouse in

this environment. It's true, it's true. And then you have to consider something like our friend the vulture, which we've talked about before, and it's pH level because we've talked about pathogens like anthrax actually being present in the feces of this bird. In this idea that that stomach acid could actually render it harmless. Yeah, because they're eating some pretty nasty stuff. And and again it's it's all right. It comes into the mouth, find it comes in the

esophague is fine. But in the stomach, that's where this is what where it is, that's where it has to be nullified to continue now or le Jansen knew that the human stomach um the pH levels in it, actually increases with age, meaning it becomes less acidic, and she also noted that this effect is really acute in people

who are over seventy years of age. So she predicted that the stomach's effectiveness as a killer of bad microbes might be compromised as we get older, and this is one of the reasons that diseases take us over at at older ages, right, So she tested this by culturing bacteria that her and her team had collected from fecal samples of ninety humans, one third of whom we're between the ages of third and forty, and two thirds who were over the age of seventy. They then compare the

microbes found in examples from these different age groups. So let me just kind of go through what they found here, because it really is interesting. Nine percent of the individuals over seventy had more than a million cells of bad news clusterythm bacteria program of theces we've talked about that before. That is a real can be a permanent game changer for people in terms of the quality of life and sometimes the length of their life. None of the thirty

to four year olds had this. Okay, what was more, a third of the individuals over seventy had more than a billion cells program of feces of the oral bacteria strip to Caccus salivarius, and again none of the thirty to forty year olds did so. Donne says, well, were these pathanogenic in oral bacteria doing well enough to actually compromise the success of good bacteria in the gut? Yes,

this is true. It did, while all the thirty to four year olds had at least a million cells of the good bacteria, uh, less than half of the individuals over so, but this is painting. The story is that our health is directly related to the microbes in our gut. In our stomach is maintaining this community of bacteria. The older you get, the less able you are to sort it to see it. And that's where this this idea

of microbes seve theory comes into play. That's interesting because essentially the older stomach, uh is is less scrutinizing when it comes to who should be led into the trust zone of the of the intestines and uh and it it kind of parallels these studies you see about how how older individuals are more likely to be taken by a comment because there because it there's a certain amount of trust that's that's greater in so many of these

older individuess. You know what's really interesting about that analogy is that the guts of those people who are seventy year olds and had dementia were actually in worse shape than any of the participants. So it's a little bit like you wonder if the if the dementia is at play here in terms of communicating with the body to try to we doubt there's microbes. That's a fascinating idea. I'd never never really thought about that dementia not only

of the the conscious mind, but of subconscious processes. Yeah, so it makes me think again of the bearded one. Are we degray and this ability to get to the disease before it happens? So do we alter our pH levels in our stomach as we get older? Can we do that? Yeah? I say, go for it. That's a good bit of information I think to consider, because again, it's his whole thing is let's figure out. But we can't defeat death itself his self herself. You know, it's

it's too intimidating. But if you break it down into a whole list of individual achievable goals, then maybe you can do something right, Like Okay, let's here's the stomach. Let's let's try to battle it this way. Because the idea here is that the human body is like a car, and it has all these parts, certain parts to give out and then the recent point where a whole bunch of parts are giving out and then the thing just

falls apart in the highway. But if we can maintain these various parts, then then maybe the car will hold up longer than it has been indeed, And I think that this study that Rob Dunn brought up in the Scientific American article is just really interesting because it's kind of hit its time in it was sort of sitting there and it's an interesting bit of information. But now that we have the understanding that we have of microbes, it's sort of poised to to change the landscape of

how we deal with microbes good and bad. Now back to the car analogy for a second. You know, I I do not know much about cars. So when I opened the hood of a car, I look in there and I tend to trust that everything in there is important and that I shouldn't just go in and rip something out and expect the car to work fine. Likewise, I I know a little more about well, I know a bit more about the human body than about the

inside of the car. And I still generally ascribe to the notion that if it's in there, it probably needs to be UM and if it doesn't need to be in there any longer than my body may let me know about it. But as we're about to discuss UM, sometimes things things can disappear from the body and and the body will continue to work just fine. And I mean that's a bit of an overstatement of the obvious. Obviously, people UM in many cases have had have lost an

organ or two. They've had it replaced with the with an artificial, with a transplant, et cetera. But I really had not thought long and hard about that. The fact that you can remove the stomach from a human being, fix them back up, and the body can more or less adapt just fine, right, which is I think it's surprised because the gut seems so central to the food processing part. Right. But what we have found is that

there's something called a gas wrecked on me. And this is a medical procedure that involves surgically removing all a part of the stomach. So if you remove pretty much all the stomach, then you would just really make the cut in the abdomen and then you would reconnect it essentially to the esophagus. So your esophagus and then you're small intestine need each other. Say hello, And as I'm reading, and I should, I should know that. You know, first

of all, I don't. I don't have any personal connection anyone who has received this this procedure, and I know from the research that it can it can be a huge adjustment to be to make in your life. Years long, yeah, years long. And it's no you know, it's nothing to

nothing to to giggle at, it's nothing to take lightly. Uh. But that being said, the procedure itself, like in a detached way, is is just very fascinating because there's something kind of almost do it yourself issue about the idea of taking something as complex as the human body and saying like, all right, part A connects to part B connects to part C. If I take part B out, can't I just connect A and C and everything will

work just fine. And if you you've presented that to me, I would say, god, no, don't, don't connect A and C. But but seeing this and I TA directions. Yeah, exactly. It's like you wouldn't do that with Ikea and expect your bookcase to to hold up. But the body is a surprise, surprise, far more durable than an Ikea bookshelf. Yeah.

And if you have gastric cancer and you don't have many options in front of you that you're going to opt for the surgery, or if you are someone who tests positive for carrying the e caterine gene, which is a rare gastric cancer, it's a way of heading off the disease at the past, right, Because if you have five people in your family who have this rare type of gastric cancer and you think that and you've tested positive for the gene, you think you might be next, well,

then you might take, as you say, things into your own hands and make this decision. Yes, they'll get someone else to do the surgery. Yeah, that part so essentially in the in the case of like a full stomach removal, you're talking about the esophagus being connected directly to the

small bowl. So an entire and a shortcut, if you will, an entire road of the highway has been removed and then hooked up right, And it has parallels to gastric bypassed right, which is when you take a bit of the stomach and you tie it off and you make the stomach smaller so that the person is able or not able to digest as much food and therefore lose weight.

And it's really something that's very helpful for obesity. But it's the same idea is that you adapt to it and eventually, you know, those teaspoons of food that you have become a little bit fuller. Now, someone who has gastric bypass or I guess rocktomy, they're not necessarily gonna be able to eat like, you know, a whole pizza. Yeah, it's gonna it's my understanding, It's gonna be a lot more like smaller meals as throughout the day. But the body is gonna adapt and be able to absorb nutrients

pretty steadily. The about the only the only thing that's only stand out, um here is is when it comes to be twelve. The stomach controls the absorption of vitamin B twelve, so regular injections of that particular vitamin are are going to be necessary. And then there's a question too, I suppose, um, longer down the road is what what does your microbe colony look like with the absence of

the stomach doing the sorting? How much of that matters before it actually gets to the true digestive process and the small intestines and the large intestine. Now, of course you your diet's gonna change also in other ways. For instance, Um, you know you're gonna eat most normal foods, but there are some things like like sweet corn, for instance, they need additional softening by acids in the stomach, and you know it's leant. Know, even that's not necessarily enough to

get the job done. So if you have had your stomach removed, you may need to skip those particular foods. Uh. And then this was extra fascinating as well. Um read the end time pouch actually forms in the small intestines, that is essentially for food storage. A little longer as it continues on this journey. So isn't it amazing? So it creates it still creates a little refrigerator in there to try to store your food. It's almost like your body saying, oh, I see what you did there here,

I'm gonna just put some extra room here. Can you a mini fridge? Yeah? Yeah, So it's again, it's just it's a testament to the durability of the human body and uh and its ability to cope with really catastrophic changes to its to its systems. So we we were hearing about the stomach and how wondrous it is, and then you start to think about hydrochloric acid, yes, and all of these wonderful ingredients that are corrosive. Right, So the question, of course that comes up, and that was

covered in gulp by Mary Roaches. Well, why doesn't the stomach digest itself anyway? It's got all the ingredients right, Yes it does. And as a stomach versus stomach, what's happening? Well, as she as she I believe pointed out in our interview, the thing is that your your stomach is digesting itself to a certain extent, like it's not like you oh, here's your You know, your stomach is constantly reconstituting itself. It's constantly rebuilding itself, just like our bodies are constantly

wearing away and rebuilding. That's right, dead cells or replace by new cells. Yeah. Yeah, every time you go at the grocery store, as I said before, you were buying the things you're gonna build your new body out of. So, yes, the the the acid and the stomach is breaking down the lining, but then it is it is building back up. And as as Meritork points ouer book, what happens when everything shuts down, well, then the stomach does digest itself with it well, and that's that's the only time truly

that the stomach would digest itself. Right. So, if you were eating that hag us, right, and the body shut itself down, and it also shut down this ability to line the cells of the stomach with mucus, which is protecting the stomach from the acid, that function stops. But the acid is still there, right, the pH level is

still there, the hags is there. It's just gonna keep doing it, gonna continue to eat the haggas it's in and it's gonna continue to eat the stomach lining without it being built back up again, about any kind of renewal going on. So that's cheery. Yeah, but I mean really, I mean once the body shuts down, everything's going to pot anyway. So that's true. So what else you got? What else you got on the stomach? I mean, clearly there's there's a lot. We could probably go all day

with various tidbits. Well, you're probably wondering what foods that I eat on a regular basis turn into poop at what rate? Yeah? Right? Because you want it to turn into poop because if you you know, you don't want to see the meal come out as it was because it's a bad sign. No, Yeah, that really is a bad sign. Yeah. And and it ultimately means you didn't get your money's worth out of the food. We should take that back to the restaurant. Yeah, get a refund.

Get a refund and all undigested portions of the meal. All right. I crib this from how digestion Works on how stuff works dot com and bananas four hours four hours four minus t to poop time and bowl of cereal again four hours, hot dog only seven hours, red meat twelve hours, and trick question, gum, what do you think it is? Um? I heard that it lasts forever inside you in a ball of accumulating gum. That's right. It's never really yeah, well not not not accumulating. It

just doesn't get digested. It just kind of it just comes out with the rest of that stuff. So, yeah, I don't follow your com there's just no I mean, they'll fit it somewhere. But and I was gonna say, you could say that the kids as as a way to deter them from it, but then they'll just be like, that's so cool. I would love to see that come out. Hoop. That's right. They love So there's a scoop on the poop. Scoop on the poop. Yeah, Now, Mary roaches book Gold.

It spends a lot of time with the stomach, and there are a number of tidbits. One of the ones that that that I keep coming back to, and I'm probably stealing from the podcast we're gonna record next, but they are regurgitation artists who would swallow a live frog with a certain amount of water and then uh, you know, within the right before the act, right before they went on stage, and then when they're when they're on stage, they they make themselves throw up and will and behold

outcomes a bunch of water and a live frog. I found that amazing because the frog breathe through its skin if it didn't breathe through the water. So you're you're you're giving it just enough survival equipment to last a little bit inside the stomach. So there you go. Uh, kids, don't try that home. I don't try that. Adults. There's your next cocktail party trick. Yes, let's start with the smallest frog you know, that's sensible, but not one that's

brightly colored. Yes, don't don't go for the bright No, not the talibus. That's probably a most potently poisonous frog out there. All right, Well, on that note, let's call over the robot and get a little bit of listener now, all right, this one comes to us from Michael. Michael right soon and says, I was just listening to the Lucid Dreaming episode and Robert mentioned that he had dreamed up a really cool game. He's referring to the fact that I've had a dream in which I was playing

a card game that did not exist. Um, And he says, I was wondering if you had ever heard of game Craft. It is a print on demand service for board games, so you could have them made up for you. There you go, and and he adds Anyway, I'm a pretty new fan of the show, and I've been listening to the episodes this past week. I love it because it has the fun of chatting with friends in the middle of the night, with the added bonus that you guys

really know what you're talking about. Thanks Michael. He doesn't even know. That's so cool. He doesn't even know that

we do this in a tent with a flashlight. Yeah, but no, No, I love what he's he's saying there because it does like some of the topics we cover, and you know, it reminds me of of like being in middle school and younger going to Scout camp and you know, we're sitting there in our tents, it's night, the lights are out, and we're talking about like the cosmos, are talking about something, you know, getting into that sort of middle school area of you know, cosmology and psychology

and philosophy, you know, ultimately like going up to the edge of human understanding as we perceived it in those days and trying to figure out what exists beyond us and then all of a sudden, you hear me exactly, so cool. Thanks for sharing that. Michael um Well out in another one here from the about the basket. Oh he has a basket now, but today he has a basket. I mean, I don't know what's going on there, if something's broken or nobody's just being silent. I think he

he wove that basket. Yeah, yeah, it's it's very very seasonal. All right. We heard from Jared Jared Writson and says, I'm listening to your podcast on multitasking, and I always thought that drummers were multitasking as they played, playing four different beats at the same time and making them all sound good together while keeping a steady time signature and making sure you're playing along with other members in the band.

Seems like doing multiple things at once. Would you say that it's more likely that drummers are really good at switching focus quickly and relying on muscle memory for the rest um. I've also read that playing a drum set forces you to use both hemispheres of your brain at the same time. Any feedback you have would be greatly appreciated.

I've always been extremely curious about what happens in the brain during this particular task, because not only is it is it a lot of fun, great cardio and a great attractor of the of the female persuasion, but it's it really has been therapeutic through out some of the more stressful times in my life. Thanks Jared. Well, that's

an interesting thought. They about drummers as multitaskers. I'm sure we have some some other drummers out there are listening, so I would love to hear um hear their feedback on it, because yeah, there's a there's a lot going on, especially when you look at the big like crazy drum sets where there's just you know, there's like a gong and there, you know, all sorts of stuff going on there. Now, my brothers in a band and he says he claims

that all drummers are eccentrics and extroverts. Now, it was totally unscientific in the back, yes, right, an anecdotal. Well, yeah, but there's a lot of flair going on with the sticks. There is. There's a lot of a lot of movement, a lot of just you know, waving your hands about. And you you do think about some of the more famous drummers, and they do kind of seem like wild men larger than life. You know, Nick Fleetwood comes to mind, is you know just you know Tommy Lee. Yeah, I

had to say a name like that. Uh So, anyway, any drummers out there, please let us know if that is true or not, although it still remains anecdotal unscientific. Well, here's another one that someone comes to us from Eric and uh he is responding to our episode on objects and our love of objects and lucky charms and whatnot, and he says, I love the Lucky Charms podcast. When I was in high school, a basketball player got into

his head that his socks were lucky. He refused to watch them, and by the end of the season they were very rancid. With his help, the team made the state championships. I don't know if it was in a playoff game or the last game of the season, but near the end he developed a blister his dirty socks. The blister festered and he developed blood poisoning. He spent the championship game in the hospital near death, and with

the doctor's arguing whether to amputate or not. He did keep his leg and made a full recovery fortunately, but he missed the big game. After that, the coach forced all the boys to wash their socks. Wow, that's a

dark turn for the lucky socks there. I wonder if they were destroyed, if they were or they were like put away like in that name storage facility where they put the ark of the Covenant, you know, like it's a potent lucky charm, but it's too dangerous for human use, right And if it were to be excavated and the container opened, then all like high school basketball teams would suddenly fail. Yeah, like the reek of the sock would emanate.

All right, Well, if the rest of you have something you would like to add about rancid socks, about lucky charms, about drummers who are multitasking, or more to the point of this podcast, about the stomach, about the esophagus. Do you have any crazy tales of loud what is it? Burber GiB If you have stories of this and uh and in times when your stomach has been talking to you when you would rather it remain silent, we would

love to hear about it. And certainly, if anyone has experience with gastric bypass or or any type of stomach surgery and would like to share that either credited or anonymously, or if you just want to share it with us and just you know, tell us, don't you know, read it on the air or whatever. We we'd love to hear your perspective on all of this because, like I said, it's fascinating for us, but it's always interesting to hear what you guys and gals have to share about your

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