The human stomach is one of the least hospitable environments on Earth. This dark, muscular cavity is filled with a noxious brew of hydrochloric acid and digestive enzymes designed to rip apart ...

It's because the "dessert stomach" is a real thing in a person's ... A similar discovery was found in human volunteers, whose brains were scanned after receiving a sugar solution.

Anatomist, Claire Smith, is showing me a real human digestive system. 'It's a vast, alien-looking mass of tubes. 'And this is the stomach.' DR CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN:I guess I thought it would be a ...