Paul Saladino· MD
the theory here is that this is because the very acidic stomach of our of our species and of other ancestors or other uh animals that also do this prevents the sort of accumulation of foreign microbiota into our guts it's a filter and what we know is that our microbiome we don't want that to be full of pathogenic organisms so we're going to filter out the ones we don't want in the gut in the stomach and that happens with a very acidic gut