10 Low Stomach Acid Symptoms
Reviewed: Dr. Gromatzky
Symptom #4: Undigested Food in Stools
When you have low stomach acid, some of the ingested food is not digested. As a result, even when the pyloric valve opens to discharge stomach contents into the duodenum, some of the food will remain unchanged.
In the small intestines, nutrients from the digested part of food are absorbed into the bloodstream while the rest moves on to the large intestines. In the large intestines, some of the water in the half-digested food is absorbed for use in the body. The rest of the material moves to the rectum and on out through the anus as stools. This material includes the undigested food.
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