if your digestive system were to shut down then when you ate the food would have no place to go & it will just sit there until it becomes too much for your body to handle. Then your body will start to shut down & eventually you will die from this.
If the digestive system broke down, the muscular system would no longer receive nutrients. It would start to break down as well. The body would weaken, and tasks would become more difficult.
You would die.
The first task of the digestive system is to break down food into a fine pulp (mechanical digestion). When the food is physically broken down, digestive chemicals break the food down into small molecules (chemical digestion). The mouth is the organ in which the process of digestion begins.(Google)
Amylase breaks down carbohydrates in the digestive system.
your digestive system beaks down food.
The stomach is a part of the digestive system. It is responsible for breaking down food through the secretion of digestive enzymes and acids.
digestive system
Amylase is an enzyme that breaks down carbohydrates, such as starch and glycogen, in the digestive system.
The enzyme that breaks down starch in the digestive system is called amylase.
Well, I believe there's some sort of pump included in the nervous system. If that pump shut down, you'd die instantly, so you'd die instantly if the systems shut down. It's also highly unlikely that the digestive system would "shut down", as it begins in the mouth.
Peristalsis keeps your food going down into the digestive system.
the function of organs in the digestive system is to break down food