Institute of Human Anatomy on Instagram: "Does Swallowed Gum Stay in Your Stomach for 7 Years? 🤔 Spoiler: Nope! Let's bust this myth. The Truth 🧪 ✅ Your body can't break down gum (it's indigestible) ❌ But it doesn't stick to your stomach for 7 years! We ingest indigestible stuff all the time—like fiber—and it passes through fine! What Really Happens 🗺️ Mouth → Throat → Esophagus → Stomach My Experiment: I mixed hydrochloric acid to match stomach acid concentration, dropped gum in for hours. I

I look back and I see so many PCOS symptoms that aren’t just irregular periods and excess facial hair. I see “PCOS belly”, where I had excess weight in my abdomen. I didn’t only feel pregnant, I remember thinking I often looked pregnant. But I wasn’t and I was crushed. So often was hope taken away. The rapid weight gain would come out of nowhere and make me think I was pregnant again from the symptoms, and I wasn’t. I had “PCOS moon face”, swelling in my cheeks and rounded appearance in my face.

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