• Question: why cant our bodies digest things like wood, metal and plastic?

    Asked by ava and hibba!! on 28 Jan 2025.
    • Photo: Carly Bingham

      Carly Bingham answered on 28 Jan 2025:

      We don’t have the right tools for it in our bodies – it’s like trying to open a door with the wrong key. Instead, the undigestible material passes all the way through our digestive system and out the other end with everything else that our body can’t use

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