I haven't seen
learnin around for a while now. (I hope all is well with her.) Her knowledge and willingness to use herself for that test is amazing, and it's just as valid now as it was when she posted it.
This link should take you right to her post about the digestion time.
One thing,
kanzz, I'm sure with your background you know, but which may have confused others is this:
Distal and
proximal are often confused because of how they're used. They are used as relative terms.
Distal (think of something off in the
distance) means something further away from whatever it is being related to.
Proximal (think of something that is
approximately near what it is being related to) means something closer. The elbow is
distal to the shoulder (further away from the body). But the elbow is
proximal to the wrist (the elbow being closer to the body). In the digestive tract, the most
proximal point would be the mouth where food enters, and the
distal point is... well :blushing:, the opposite end of the digestive tract.
The digestive process begins in the stomach (for the most part) and therefore it is the most
proximal part of the entire digestive tract. From there food empties into the small intestine and then the large intestine. The small intestine is broken up into three sections: the
duodenum, then the
jejunum, and lastly the
ileum. Because of its position at the beginning of the small intestine, the
duodenum is often called the "
proximal portion of the small intestine." (This is what Dr. Meyer called it in his AR.)
The pineapple described in the AR was in JonBenet's duodenum. In
learnin's experiment, she describes the pineapple chunks as having
begun emptying into her duodenum within ten minutes. But her stomach didn't completely empty until 30 minutes after consumption. At that same time, the first chunks had already entered the "
second part of my small intestine (the
jejunum)."
So (according to
learnin's experiment) depending on how much food is consumed, some will empty within ten minutes while the rest is not in the duodenum until 30 minutes later.
This was only one experiment, and I'm sure some will (rightfully) say there are other factors that might influence the timeline. But I have no doubt that no matter how much some might try to stretch out the length of time between JonBenet consuming the pineapple and her death, she had to have eaten it
after she got home, proving that she was awake and moving around during the time John and Patsy claim she was "zonked."