Paul Saladino· MD
what has been found consistently is that the ph of the stomach meaning the amount of acid in the stomach with a lower ph indicative of more acidic or more protons in the concentration is associated with phylogenetically distant foods meaning they are more likely to um eat foods that are distant than them and that are likely to be rotting and this is something we see across species and it's a pretty good indicator that human stomachs are very acidic on the order of 1 to 1.5 likely due to the fact that our first foods were carry-on were not carry-on in the airplane but carrion c-a-r-r-i-o-n meaning rotting animal flesh