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Digestive System
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Summary:
The digestive system is a group of hollow organs that food is processed in. The human digestive system also includes other organs that attach to the gastrointestinal system and provide chemistry important for the digestive process.
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The digestive system begins at your mouth and ends at the anus. The human digestive system is designed to break down the foods we eat in our diet in order to provide nutrition to the rest of the body. Throughout this system, there are many other glands inside and outside the digestive system that secrete digestive enzymes and other chemistry to help this process.
Digestion involves the mixing of food, its movement through the digestive system and the chemical breakdown of the large molecules of food into smaller molecules. Digestion begins in the mouth, when we chew and swallow.
Next stop is the stomach, an organ designed to mix food with enzymes from your mouth and to begin the digestion of proteins, if any, in your meal. After a period of time, the food is released into the small intestine, the longest part of the digestive system. Once in this part of the gastrointestinal system, enzymes are contributed from the liver and pancreas.
The food also spends the most time in this part of the digestive system, completing digestion before arriving in the storage part of the digestive system, called the large intestine or colon. Food descends for exit through the rectum during a bowel movement.
If you have any complaints about your digestive system, have any symptoms associated with your gastrointestinal system or have been diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Crohn's Disease or any form of colitis, please download the free report available below.
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