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Will food be able to reach your stomach when you are standing on your head?
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∙ 14y ago
Yes, food and fluid can go from mouth to stomach no matter what position the body is in. While gravity helps when upright, muscular peristalsis continues whether you are upside down, or lying so the esophagus is mostly sideways. If you think about an astronaut, gravity is completely lacking. Yet, food still enters the stomach.
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 16y agoYes. The digestive system does not depend upon gravity, though it helps! Your swallowing mechanism will push the food into your stomach.
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∙ 16y agoyes, food will still make it to your stomach as muscles and not gravity send it there.
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∙ 14y agoif you were to drink something while, on your head you'd probably chock and you wouldn't be able to to eat properly.
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∙ 14y agoYes as the esophagus is quipped with muscles to to push it up there.
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∙ 12y agoYour esophagus ungulates towards your stomach squeezing over and over until it reaches your stomach. This was a concern for NASA for maned space flight.
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∙ 11y agoOnce food enters the esophagus, muscular contractions will push the food to the stomach. And it is called peristalsis.
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∙ 8y agoYes. Food is not moved to your stomach by gravity, but by contractions in your esophagus
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∙ 8y agoYes
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What mixes with mashed up food particles when they reach the stomach?
Your saliva mixes up with food particles when they reach the stomach.
Does food reach the small intestine before it reaches the stomach?
No. Food goes to the stomach and then to the small intestine.
What 2 organs help food reach the stomach?
Esophagus and the ?
How could food reach the stomach?
How does blood enter the stomach to the heart, which route does it take?
What keeps food from sliding back into your mouth?
what stops food from sliding up from your stomach when your standing your head
What happen when food couldn't reach the stomach?
The stomach breaks up and digests the food people eat. If something within the stomach and digestive system is not functioning properly food will not digest properly. This can lead to stomach pain and a build up of undigested food in the stomach.
What is the long tube that food passes through to reach the stomach?
esophagus
What is the function of the esophagus in respiratory system?
The function of the esophagus is to connect the throat to the stomach. This allow food and/or liquid to reach the stomach after it is swallowed.
What helps food get to the stomach?
your stomach it self jk.... food first it goes to your mouth, then to you food pipe also know as esophagus and then the food reach's the stomach.
What organ helps reach the stomach?
The stomach is a connected to the esophagus and to the intestines. To reach the stomach for some medical procedures a scope is placed through the esophagus.
What is the advantage of having muscles that run at different angles in the stomach?
The advantage of having muscles that run at different angles in the stomach is to help the food movement in the stomach. It helps digestive juices reach all the food, and it mix solids and liquids.
What organ does the esophagus pass through?
The esophagus is the tube food passes through to reach from your mouth to your stomach.
