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If a person persisted in taking sodium bicarbonate with every meal, what would be the consequence to protein digestion?

If a person persisted in taking sodium bicarbonate with every meal, what would be the consequence to protein digestion?
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if a person persisted in taking sodium bicarbonate with every meal, what would be the consequence to protein digestion?

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Protein digestion would be more difficult because of that buffering action of sodium bicarbonate on the stomach acid, which alters the optimum pH for the action of pepsin, a major protein-digester
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