Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ

by Giulia Enders

While some of us might be sitting around thinking “Nobody cares about me!”, our heart is currently working its seventeen-thousandth twenty-four-hour shift—and would have every right to feel a little forgotten when its owner thinks such thoughts.

If we swallow a raw egg, it will undergo the same processes in our stomach as it would in the frying pan. The white of the egg turns opaque, the yolk takes on a pastel color, and both set and become solid. If we were to vomit the raw egg back up after the right amount of time, the results would look like almost perfect scrambled eggs—without any cooking!