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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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Does the human body digest peanuts?
Peanuts contain aflatoxins (aka Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus) and both protein and carbohydrates, often making them hard to digest. They are also high in fungus and pesticides possibly explaining the disproportionate rate of cancer in peanut farmers. In Australia, they are not regarded as a threat of cancer due to the high level of inspection and testing done by agribusinesses to eliminate the contaminants from the peanuts.
Source: Queensland, Australia Government Dept. of Agriculture
Does running help your digestive system?
Actually, any kind of exercise can help your digestive tract. Exercise helps move bowel contents along stimulating the bowels.
Do the lungs belong in the digestive system?
no whoever asked this is so wrong lungs are part of the respiratory system.LUNG DONT DIGEST FOOD!
i have discovered that you cannot digest plastic. As me and my friend experimented it and ate different size plastic buttons 4 weeks ago and they have not digested because the enzymes in our intestine cannot break down the strong bonds in plastic.
What enzymes are required for digestion?
Many sorts of enzymes at different parts of the system. In the mouth enzymes to break down sugars, in the stomach enzymes to break down proteins and in the small intestine enzymes to break down fats and sugars.
Surgery is often used to help.
Do oxygen and carbon dioxide go back and forth between the circulatory and respiratory systems?
In the alveoli Alveolus (also called air sac) is the capillary-rich sac in the lungs where the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide takes place by diffusion. The oxygen poor blood goes from the right ventricle and into the lungs where the co2 is traded for Oxygen in the alveoli and back through the heart and out to the body.
The correct term is alveoli. but they are referred to as sacs, and that is where the exchange of gases take place
Which chemical is produced in the gallbladder to assist in the digestion of fat?
Bile. Bile is produced in liver and stored in gall bladder.
What organs are in the digestive systum?
By far, the largest organs in the digestive system are the small and large intestines. The small intestines is bigger (longer) though. The smallest organ or muscle is the tongue! The smallest item involved in mechanical digestion is the teeth!
If the pancreas was to brust i really dont know what would happem..
The digestive system organ that passes waste to be excreted and reabsorbs water and minerals is the?
LARGE INTESTINE, its main functions is to absorb water and electrolytes from digested mass, resulting in semi solid feces
How can the parts of ahuman body digest system help to break down molecules of fat?
Fat is first processed by a mechanical breakdown in the mouth through chewing and in the stomach through its ‘churning’ action. Lipase, an enzyme produced in the pancreas, converts fat in the small intestine into fatty acids and glycerol. Chewing helps to increase the surface area of food and hence increase the rate of this breakdown. Bile acids, which are produced by the liver, aid this process by emulsifying the fat (further increasing surface area) and by packaging the fatty acids and glycerol into small, water-soluble molecules which can be absorbed by the small intestine. Bile also helps to neutralise the acid from the stomach, reducing acid reflux and producing alkaline conditions in the small intestine where the fat is being broken down and absorbed
What is the purpose of digestive enzymes?
Digestive enzymes are enzymes that break down polymeric macromolecules into smaller building blocks. This is done in order to help facilitate their absorption by the body.
What may happen to the food we eat when large intestine is not working well?
If it stays in the large intestine for too long your stool will become hard and you will find it hard to pass through. We call this constipation. And if it doesn't stay in the large intestine long enough the water in your stool won't have been absorbed into the body and you will have diarrhea
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What is the meaning of a digestive system?
Digestion is the breaking down of chemicals in the body, into a form that can be absorbed. It is also the process by which the body breaks down chemicals into smaller components that can be absorbed by the blood stream. There are also digestive system disorders. Read about them on the internet for more info.
Does LSD have any physiological effect on the digestive system?
LSD is taken by letting it diffuse through thin skin under the tongue right to the blood stream, it ommits the digestive system. Swallowing/drinking LSD would destroy the LSD molecules because of highly acidic ph of stomach. LSD mostly focuses on serotonin receptors in the brain, but the scope of receptor types affected by this drug is enormous and the only way I can think of for LSD to be harmful to digestive system is through some highly complicated endocrine pathways in regular users, but it may have no effect at all.
Do all herbivores have an appendix?
The appendix is found in higher apes, wombats, opossums, rabbits, some rodents, and a few lower mammals. So, no.
Does the circulatory system transport carbon dioxide away from the cells?
The respiratory system does "take away" carbon dioxide by replacing it with oxygen, through breathing. Exhaling causes the body to expel carbon dioxide and inhale oxygen.
Fats are absorbed by entering the villi and then breaking down into a chemical compound or ester called chylo microns which are made fron lipoproteins(fats and proteins) and tryglicerides(compound of fatty acids and a glycerol molecule)
How much does the average person in the west excrete per day?
It's normal to defecate once and urinate six to twelve times, depending on fluid consumption and caffeine intake, etc.
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Why is Bicarbonate is released into the duodenum during the process of digestion?
The statement that bicarbonate is released into the duodenum during the process of digestion is true. The Brunner glands in the duodenum secrete mucus that contains sodium bicarbonate which neutralizes the acid in chyme thereby protecting the duodenum.
Is excess water reabsorbed from the small or large intestine?
The small intestine absorbs food and the large intestine absorbs water.
