What If Your Stomach Acid Disappeared?

When your stomach is working normally, you probably don’t think about it at all. But when it starts acting up, you can’t ignore it. And right now, it’s definitely speaking to you. Because all of a sudden, you have no stomach acid. Why could it lead to infection? How powerful is stomach acid? Would you excrete food whole? How does lack of stomach acid affect your digestive system and your physiology as a whole? How bad is hypochlorhydria?

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