ego-centrist digestion
i ate some spinach last night and thought about how my body would "break it down."
It's not so much that my body "breaks it down" but that the chemicals in the spinach react WITH the chemicals in my body.
It's not something my body is doing TO the spinach, but something the spinach and my body (and gut bacteria) are doing together.
They're all interacting and converting spinach chemicals and stomach acid chemicals into new chemicals. They're doing it together, and this isn't about me.