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How do stomach tissues work to break down food?

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Dr. Stephen Southard answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Several different: Ways, both mechanical, as the stomach "churns". But also chemically as the enzymes from the stomach(hydrochloric acid) serve to break do proteins.

Answered 1/30/2015

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