Inside us, there’s a huge network of chambers and pulsing, corkscrewing organs that perform complex chemistry on our salads, scrambled eggs and steak and chips. In this excerpt from Guts: The Strange and Mysterious World of the Human Stomach, Michael Mosley pops a camera-equipped pill to see exactly what’s going on – from the oesophagus to the bowel.

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