[Split From] Stelara round two

[D Foster]

Nice Matari. But I don't buy it completely.

Of course the USA is the world of the lawsuits, that may be the main reason not to use alcohol, as follows from your first sentence.

In Europe there is less fuss about alcohol and drugs.

By the way,digestion is done in the intestines, not in the stomach.

Sure H2O, or like Bill, with lots of food, is better.
But I don't think it harms depending on the type of alcoholic beverage. Like beer contains only little alcohol.

Not quite right  When food reaches the stomach, food is stored and digested by being mixed with acid and digestive enzymes to form a liquid called chyme.  Next, this chyme passes slowly into the duodenum, the first segment of the small intestine.  Bile from the liver and gallbladder along with enzymes from the pancreas are added to chyme in the duodenum to further digest it into small nutrients.Acidic, partially digested food known as chyme reaches the lower GI tract through the pyloric sphincter of the stomach. Chyme passing through the pyloric sphincter first enters the duodenum, a one-foot long, C-shaped segment of the small intestine located inferior to and to the right of the stomach. In addition to chyme, the duodenum also receives bile from the gallbladder and liver, as well as pancreatic juice from the pancreas. Bile and pancreatic juice mix with chyme in the duodenum to neutralize the chyme's acidity, emulsify lipids, and chemically digest the chyme into its most basic building blocks.

A small amount of absorption of nutrients also takes place in the walls of the duodenum, but most of the absorption takes place in the jejunum. The jejunum is the eight-foot long, convoluted middle section of the small intestine that is located between the duodenum and the ileum. Chyme entering the jejunum has been thoroughly digested and is ready to have its nutrients absorbed through the intestinal mucosa. The mucosa of the jejunum contains many finger-like projections, or villi, along with many circular folds along its length. These structures greatly increase the surface area of the jejunum, which increases the jejunum’s ability to absorb nutrients. By the time chyme moves from the jejunum to the ileum, about 90% of its nutrient content has been absorbed into the bloodstream.

Chyme continues along the length of the small intestine and enters the ileum, a highly folded, 10-foot long tube that leads to the cecum of the large intestine. Chyme entering the ileum is very low in nutrients, so the ileum is specialized for the absorption of the very last remaining traces of nutrients before moving the chyme on to the large intestine. The ileum contains villi and folds similar to the jejunum to increase its surface area and to increase the absorption of nutrients. Small masses of lymphatic tissue known as Peyer’s patches line the ileum and monitor the contents of the intestines for pathogens to prevent illness.