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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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What happens if you swallow beef cartilage?
Ever hear the frase "You are what you eat"? Eating beef or chicken cartilage is actually good for you. It helps to repair/replace damaged cartilage in your body. People who suffer from arthritis may also experience relief of some arthritic symptoms. You can buy cartilage in pill/capsule form at your local health food store.
amylase helps you digest carbohydrates into simple sugar so that our cells can use them for energy pepsin is used to digest protein and the are absorbed into the bloodstream from the small intestine pepsin is made out of hydro chlorine acid and pepsi
Why do you have burnt popcorn burps?
If you're having burnt popcorn burps followed by vomiting or diarrhea, get tested for Celiac Disease.
The entire process of digestion involves?
The Enzymes in the mouth breaking up the molecules The Enzymes in the mouth breaking up the molecules
What makes up the skin of the body and the lining of respiratory and digestive tracts?
The Epithelium
the first would be sensory, mouth, tongue, taste and texture of food, phsyical status of stomach size. One sensory effect of the stomach shrinking for example is the release of ghrelin which will stimulate the production of hunger peptides in the brain the second will be physiological, pasage of food from stomach to gut, liver function is it receives nutrients, the effects of insulin production etc. The third biological mechanism will be central, (brain) as the products of digestion exert an influence on the brain peptites and other neurotranmitters that regulate appetite such as cholcystekinin, neropeptide Y, serotonin and endorphins. Late in the digestive cycle the brain.will also come under the influence of gut peptides such as PYY3-36 as the volume of food passes through the gut; the amounts of this peptide being influenced by your weight. The brain will also come under the influence of leptin; a protein released by fat cells as they expand and in theory this expansion will oppose the production of hunger generating peptides. But this is about wanting food and there is surely another mechanism in the brain which is to do with liking food and this is the pleasure seeking brain which is influenced by dopamine - loinked to endorphin flows when we eat food we like or eat food rich in fagt and sugar. This confers reward value to food ( to which we can become over attached). This was a simple explanation - Any comments, or corrections or additions?
What is the difference between emulsification and the digestion of fat?
After you've eaten a roast dinner, fill up the tray that held the potatoes with water, and watch as giant globules of oil settle on the surface. Now imagine this taking place in your intestines. To enhance the surface area for enzymes to act upon, emulsification takes place to break these large blobs of fat molecules into smaller blobs. The example above was a simplified, but effective analogy. Digestion is where enzymes break up the individual fat molecules into smaller products, which are then easier to absorb into the blood. Emulsification = breaking down lots of fat molecules into smaller clumps of fat molecules. Digestion = breaking one fat molecule into smaller products.
I experience severe indigestion and chest pain after eating brown rice?
Same thing happened to me. The strange thing is that I have been eating uncle bens wild and brown rice for weeks now and no problem. But I ate organic brown rice today for the first time and have experienced unimaginable pain in my stomach.
How do the teeth aid in the digestion of food?
Teeth help by mechanical digestion, which is breaking the food in smaller pieces in order for the saliva to cover it and make it easier to digest.
What occurs only in the large intestine?
water is taken out of food in the large intestine. Goodness and nutrients are taken out in th esmall intestine
What does bleeding from the rectum like water mean?
It means you should be in a doctor's office instead of playing around on the internet.
Where do digestive enzymes work best in either a neutral basic or acidic environment?
Digestive enzymes work best in a slightly acidic environment rather than a neutral environment. That's the reason why the stomach releases gastric acid.
Does marijuania effect barretts esophagus?
Are you dumb? (thats the real question)
Are you dumb? (thats the real question)
Sorry, there are no dumb questions. The answer is non-specific to marijuana. The correct response is that smoking of any kind is detrimental to barrett's esophagus. The acids in your stomach or caustic or rather, an irritant to the cells in the esophageal lining. Exposure to smoke is just as severe an irritant to those cells, not to mention the introduction of nicotine-like tars that come from smoking marijuana. So Yes, smoking marijuana does effect Barrett's Esophagus in a very negative way.
Enterokinase which is an enzyme located in the brush border of the small intestine, is the enzyme that transforms Trypsinogen into Trypsin.
Is extracellular digestion the same as saprophytic digestion?
As far as I know there is no such thing as saprophytic digestion, however a saprophyte is any organism that live on dead matter. I know however that saprophytic fungi digest their food extracellularly, meaning the food is broken down in compartments that are continuous with the outside of the specie's body (i.e Gastrovascular cavity found in many animals with relatively simple body plans.)
