Why do you need muscels in your intestine?

Answer 1

smooth muscles makes up the intestinal wall whereas skeletal muscles would make up your biceps, triceps, and any other part of your body that you consciously control.
Involuntary smooth muscle.
Smooth muscle lines the intestines, and contracts in waves to push food along.
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The type of muscle that the pushes food down to the intestines is called smooth muscle tissue. This is an involuntary non-straited muscle that is found within the walls of blood vessels.
Yes smooth muscles are the muscles found in small intestine

Answer 2

Your intestine is MADE of muscle! Not skeletal muscle (like in your arms/legs/core), but visceral smooth muscle. It has 2 layers of muscle, lateral and circular, and they contract in coordination with each other (peristalsis) to move the digesta through the body. So I guess you could say yes, you need muscles in the intestines.

Hope that helps!

Answer 3

All internal organs are made from a tissue type called smooth muscle. It is quite different from skeletal muscles to which you are probably comparing them. Anywho, without muscles in your intestine, all of the delicious lunch you just finished would just remain static; unmoving within your body, and in turn wouldn't provide you with the nutrients you need.

Answer 4

To break down food, and move waste out of the body.

Answer 5

so that your body can digest your food properly.

Answer 6

The muscle is needed so that the intestine can contract in a flowing wave (called peristalsis) to massage the food along the gut.

Answer 7

There are smooth muscles in the intestine (circular and longitudinal), which are necessary for peristalsis and segmentation.

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Answer 8

muscles are needed to digest and help breakdown the food, to help make it small enough to carry on through the body. to move food through you body or system