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Originally Posted by Fathom Zero
Nutrients and stuff gets lost on their way down to your intestine, which is really just a tube with lots of surface area for absorbing the good stuff. More medicine is absorbed into the bloodstream that way. It wouldn't really work with food because it has to be digested. The intestine can't pull any water out of it. That's also why suppositories are sometimes gel-like and waxy, as you said.
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this is all kinds of wrong
the whole purpose of your large intestine is to reabsorb water and your stomach doesn't absorb anything directly except alcohol, aspirin, caffeine and some ions. zee small intestines is where the majority of digestion and absorption takes place.