Digestive System

digesting food is a big job, and 2 or 3 organs cant preform this task by themselves. you need a organ to absorb alcohol, to hold the food, to regulate the blood sugar, and to get rid of the food when the nutrients are extracted. there is a lot to do, so the body needs many organs.

Digestion of starch and other carbohydrates begins in the mouth with an enzyme called salivary amylase.

No, you would be dead if you appendix ruptured.

The Epithelium

Digestion time varies depending on the individual. For most healthy adults, it's usually between 24 and 72 hours. After you eat, it takes about six to eight hours for food to pass through your stomach and small intestine. Food then enters your large intestine (colon) for further digestion and absorption of water. Elimination of undigested food residue through the large intestine usually begins after a total of 24 hours. Complete elimination from the body may take several days.

Starch is a complex carbohydrate therefore it cannot be used and is insoluble unless it is broken down. Also the body requires glucose for important metabolic functions (respiration) to provide energy for the body, starch cannot be used for this process.

Insulin is produced by the pancreas, a small organ between the stomach and liver

Yes. Digestion is happening as long as there is food in your stomach/intestines, and usually takes 5-7 hours.

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When the patient's breathing and blood circulation are impaired, or when the patient has anemia (low levels of red blood cells), body tissues do not receive as much oxygen and energy. Consequently, the patient experiences a general sense of fatigue.

to digest the food

fatty acids.

Since perler beads are little pieces of plastic, it is definitely not good for you. Eating plastic is never recommended or beneficial.

Most nutrient digestion occurs in the stomach

The function of phosphoglycerides in digestion is to consume fatty acids. They are similar to triglycerides but only eat two types of fatty acids, phosphoric acid and glycerol.

I remember briefly studying the concept of homeostasis in college. It was a pretty simple straight forward explanation of how the body maintained equilibrium between its various systems and organs. I was quite content to regard homeostasis as a state of constancy that the body maintained all the time. It was something I could depend on and take for granted. Certainly, as a chiropractor I would not be called upon to adjust patients who were in the process of losing control of their homeostatic functions. I know now that I missed one of the most important concepts in healing. Unfortunately, it was not until about 15 years later that I gave the subject anymore serious thought. While collecting clinical data on digestive complaints and correlating them to laboratory results, I came face-to-face with the ability of the body to maintain homeostasis. How was this accomplished since the blood must provide both the acidity for HCI production in the stomach, and alkalinity to the duodenum for the pancreatic enzymes to work? It sent me scurrying to my medical library for an exact definition, and even back to Claude Bernard's original concept of the "Internal Milieu" in 1859. The environment in which each cell lives is called the internal environment. This environment is the extracellular fluid, which surrounds the cell. 20% of this fluid is found in the blood stream, and 80% in connective tissue. It is from this fluid that the cells receive oxygen and nutrients and into which they excrete waste. Yet, it must constantly be maintained within the very narrow limits of body temperature, pH, volume or water content, and concentration of dissolved substances such as sugar, cholesterol, and many more. Guyton's "Medical Physiology," 7th edition states, "The term homeostasis is used by physiologists to mean maintenance of static or constant conditions in the internal environment." It is a tendency to uniformity or stability in the internal environment or fluid matrix of the organism. This is the material that I skimmed over in school, taking for granted that the body would do this regardless of what I did. I did not completely appreciate that the body will do whatever it must to maintain homeostasis! In other words, I should be able to somehow measure the early warning signs of exhaustion in the struggle to maintain normalcy. By definition, blood chemistry studies are not the answer since the body has already lost the struggle by the time the blood test is beyond normal limits. As an example, recall that blood calcium and phosphorus levels remain normal in osteoporosis. This is accomplished by removing the minerals from storage in order to maintain homeostasis -- at all cost. There are many other such examples of the body's willingness to stress specific organs in order to meet the requirements of the extracellular fluid. Obviously, the stressed tissues have increased nutritional requirements during these periods. I believe that chiropractors are in the best position to recognize these increased nutritional demands by virtue of their knowledge of the autonomic nervous system and its relationships of the organs and spinal innervation. At first glance, it would seem that a discussion of how the body maintains homeostasis goes beyond the possibilities of this short monthly column. And, if I did delve into it, I'd probably lose readers. But, I implore you to stick it out. I offer no lengthy physiological and biochemical dissertations. Rather, a simple explanation of why the sciences of chiropractic and nutrition are inseparable, and regardless of your scope of practice why you should be interested in the maintenance of homeostasis and recognizing specifically the increased nutritional demands of stressed organs required to assist in the healing of your patient, regardless of chief complaint. Homeostasis is maintained primarily by the efforts of the hypothalamus gland. It is interesting to note that the hypothalamus is the only part of the brain that is not protected by the blood-brain barrier. That barrier exists to protect the delicate tissues of the brain from changes in the extracellular fluids. It still remains largely a mystery as medicine continues to attempt to unravel its complexities. Most drugs cannot penetrate this barrier. But, the hypothalamus is exposed to the extracellular fluid or internal environment. The hypothalamus contains centers for monitoring and regulating the pH, temperature, volume of fluids, and concentration of solutes of the extracellular fluids. Further, it is linked by nerve circuits to almost all parts of the brain. Utilizing input from other parts of the brain and information received from the blood passing through it, the hypothalamus continuously regulates almost the entire endocrine system and the autonomic nervous system in an effort to maintain homeostasis. Additionally, the hypothalamus controls both appetite and satiety. It is linked directly to your sense of smell and taste. It motivates you to eat what the extracellular fluid requires, and to reject what it does not need by making certain foods and drinks taste or smell good. In short, it is responsible for your cravings. As an aside, we generally crave what we cannot adequately digest and deliver to the hypothalamus via the blood stream. But, we will deal with that another time. Let me close by saying that a few questions concerning dietary habits, digestion, and elimination coupled with your case history and chiropractic examination can reveal valuable information regarding the homeostatic challenge that is exhausting your patient all day, every day.

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To digest food material and give the energy

The term used to describe the muscular action of the digestive tract is "peristalsis." This coordinated, wave-like contraction of smooth muscles helps propel food through the digestive system, starting from the esophagus and continuing through the stomach and intestines. Peristalsis is essential for the proper digestion and absorption of nutrients.

It breaks down the food then the stomach breaks down the rest.

Your teeth break down the food by chewing and allows saliva to mix in to start digestion by converting carbohydrates into sugar. Various acids and bacteria in the stomach continue to break down the food, helped by bile and other gastric juices.

Poop in your pants

no there are no adaptions

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Thiamine (B1)

The duodenum has a sphincter that controls the opening of the stomach to dump partially digested food into the small intestines. This sphincter can be weakened by stomach ulcers. After the duodenum, food stuffs continues through the small intestines where most digestion takes place.