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Digestive System
Digestive System is the category for questions regarding the breakdown and absorption of food-stuffs in our alimentary canal. Questions about the stomach and intestines can be included in this category.
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Water and waste from your food and drink
Your stomach digests the food, gets all the nutrients, then chucks the rest out the other end.
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When you take a drink, about 20 percent of the alcohol is absorbed in your stomach; the remaining 80 percent is absorbed in your small intestine.
Yes, if he has a cut or abrasion in his mouth, or if you have any on your vaginal area.
What is as no function in humans in the digestive system?
The appendix, found at the junction of the small and large intestines, has no known function in digestion. The appendix may also be called the vermiform appendix.
In 1967 Reader's Digest warned that a campaign led by Dr King would cause an insurrection?
In 1967, Reader's Digest warned that a campaign led by Dr. King would cause an "insurrection." What was the name of this campaign?
What foods can cause twisted intestines?
Are there any kinds of food that causes twisted bowl. thank you
What does the acidity of the stomach allow for?
The acidity of the stomach allows for digestion. It helps to break down the foods so they can be digested and absorbed.
Which foods are easy to digest?
It depends on how you define "easiest": do you mean the least likely to cause an upset stomach? Least likely to cause diarrhea? Easiest/fastest food to absorb? To metabolize? Etc.
Many of those criteria would probably be satisfied by what are called elemental diets. Whereas most diets contain complex proteins, carbohydrates, and fats, elemental diets contain the simplest building blocks of these foods: amino acids, simple sugars, and simple fatty acids.
Some physicians swear by the BRAT diet (bananas, rice, apple sauce, and toast) to be gentle on the stomach, but I haven't seen any evidence for this.
What are two factors that play a key role in the efficacy of digestive enzymes?
The 2 factors are temperature and pH level.
How many hours to digest a meal?
The rate of passage of food through the stomach is highly variable, depending on how the horse is fed. Passage time may be as short as 15 minutes when the horse is consuming a large meal. If the horse is fasted, it will take 24 hours for the stomach to clear.
Enzymes are folded proteins. Proteins are made by ribosomes in the cell. To be specific, information in the nucleus (DNA) is transcripted to mRNA which leaves the nucleus to go to a ribosome to help it assemble amino acids (which are the building blocks of protein). The ribosome "reads" the information of the mRNA and make a sequence of amino acids based on that. This chain of amino acids will become folded due to interactions between between each amino acids which will ultimately become a fully functional protein. This protein may become an enzyme. All enzymes are proteins but not all proteins are enzymes.
Why don't muscle cells digest food?
It's not their job, it's the digestive system's job to digest. The muscle cells just get the nutrients.
Is The stomach is responsible for digestion and all absorption occurs there?
This is not true. Almost all absorption occurs in the small intestine. The stomach simply uses its enzymes to break down food into smaller and smaller molecules. The most mechanical digestion occurs in the stomach due to the constant churning motion.
human-made: telephone system, city transit system, human digestive system
natural-made: water purification system, solar system, plant root system
What is the clinical significance of the appendix?
It was for when we was cavemen it was used to help the stomach digest the grass we ate :)
