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On the other hand, if we should eat a potato, the stomach would recognize the presence of the carbohydrates and send a message tothe nervous system that would cause the lower valve of the stomach, the pyloric valve, to open after only a short time. The carbohydrates would pass into the duodenum so that they can be digested properly in that alkaline environment. But, if we eat both a steak and a potato together, the nervous system gets mixed messages. The acid environment in the stomach gets diluted due to the presence of the carbohydrates. When the stomach senses the carbohydrates, it sends its message to open the pyloric valve earlier than it would have if it were just protein in the stomach. So the entire contents of the stomach; protein, carbohydrates and all, are passed into the duodenum, quite prematurely as far as protein digestion is concerned. So even if the person has eaten adequate amounts of protein, only a partially digested form of it is passed into the intestines and what is passed on is in a state that’s impossible for the intestines to absorb as useable nutritional components. Instead, the protein remains in the intestines as an undigested, rotting glob of meat, with bacterial actions creating toxins along the way, and is eventually excreted, wasted. At the same time, since the stomach did indeed recognize the presence of the protein, it did pour out lots of acid into the stomach for protein digestion. But because the presence of the carbohydrates caused the contents of the stomach to be passed along too soon, the acid still present from the stomach neutralizes so much of the alkaline contents of the duodenum that it renders the duodenum somewhat useless in digesting the carbohydrates. So not only does the protein being passed along remain undigested, so do the carbohydrates! The result is a partially digested collection of putrefied “garbage” passing along through the intestines on which the natural bacteria in your intestines feed. The bacteria produce gas and toxins which are then absorbed through the intestinal walls into the blood stream! They also produce foul-smelling stools, not to mention insufficient nutrition.
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