Dr. Trisha Pasricha
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So everything that's part of that really, really long, complicated tube, that's your gut.
Huh.
So let's walk through it.
So suppose you take a bite of food.
It goes through your mouth here.
Yep.
And now follow along.
It goes through this tube at the back of your throat.
Do you see this muscle?
That long tube is called the esophagus.
Okay.
And it goes from the esophagus down.
You know what's interesting?
Not so.
It's hiding out in the back there.
So I had to actually remove the heart for you to be able to get a good look at it.
It's all kind of in that same area because the esophagus travels through your chest cavity on its way down to the abdominal cavity.
Okay.
And then when you have heartburn, you're sort of referring it to that general area and you don't know exactly where it's coming from.
Is it the back or the front?