What would happen if your stomach stopped producing pepsin?
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Pepsin is one of the primary causes of mucosal damage during laryngopharyngeal reflux. Pepsin remains in the larynx (pH 6.8) following a gastric reflux event. While enzymatically inactive in this environment, pepsin would remain stable and could be reactivated upon subsequent acid reflux events.
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What would we do without the enzyme pepsin?
To answer what we'd do without pepsin, let's examine what it is.
It's an enzyme whose precursor is produced in the stomach lining. Under the acidic conditions of stomach juice, with lots of hydrochloric acid, it converts to the pepsin form. It also needs an acidic environment to perform it's role of catalyzing the breakdown of proteins in your food. More particularly, it cleaves proteins to amino acids. Interestingly, the stomach lining then has to protect you from digesting yourself. Isn't that an odd thought? This also gives a new reason to why our stomach juices have to be so acidic.
With such a huge digestive role, I wouldn't want to lose my pepsin production. Otherwise I can't digest my steaks, and what kind of sad world lets that happen?
So without we can't digest protein in our body
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