Again, people tell me their favorite horror story about water, which dilutes gastric juice, and from this food is poorly digested.
No. She does not dilute it. Drink water whenever you want: before meals, with meals, after meals, instead of meals. This water does not affect the acid and enzymes in the stomach.
Well, that is, we all heard that ordinary water helps with heartburn. It flushes acid from the esophagus and relieves heartburn. If the same thing worked in the stomach, then the stomach ulcer would be treated with water. They would just pour water there in glasses, and it would dilute the acid in the stomach. And the stomach ulcer would quickly overgrow. But it doesn't work that way.
There is usually a lot of acid in the stomach. If you pour a glass of water into yourself, then this water will instantly dilute the acid. But the stomach will inject more acids into this water almost as quickly and even out the acidity of its juice. The stomach is not a bag. It is a living organ that constantly moves, produces something, absorbs and drains into the intestines.
Solid food can hang in the stomach for hours, and the liquid will be absorbed or evacuated further into the intestines after 20 minutes. If every time the stomach irretrievably lost its acid and enzymes, then food would lie in it for years without being digested.
In short, the water with which you drink a piece of meat is very quickly absorbed in the stomach, and what is not absorbed is very quickly decanted into the duodenum.
The acid that the water has diluted is instantly re-produced by the walls of the stomach.
Those enzymes that digested a piece of meat in the stomach, they do not fly away into the drain with a frightened squeak along with water. No. These enzymes are magnetized to pieces of meat and slowly digest them, and in the meantime, water can easily seep past them from the stomach into the intestines. Got it?
Read my articles on the stomach and the acid in it:
Broth and stomach
Lies about the restoration of the gastric mucosa
Cardiomagnet does not protect the stomach. This is a lie
Famotidine sometimes makes our stomach go bad. He dodges or even more acid does
