0
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.
7,599 Questions
What organs detoxities break down drug What organs detoxities break down drug
What organ produce bile to break down fats so they can be absorbed and used by the body?
Liver produces bile. Bile contains bile salts and bile pigments. You have sodium taurocholate and sodium glychocolate as bile salts. These salts reduce the surface tension of the fat globules. Very small particles of the fat are formed. This greatly increase the surface area of the fat. this gives an opportunity to the enzyme to act on the fat granules. Fat is split into fatty acid and glycerol. These products are absorbed through the wall of the intestine.
If your stomach is bleeding, you should see a doctor - you could have a bleeding ulcer or you might have torn something in your stomach somehow.
How does the body turn food into energy?
food is oxidized meaning it reacts with oxygen and CO2, H2O and energy in the form ATP is produced
Enzymes are important because they initiate and regulate biological activity. Enzymes are biological catalysts which means that they speed up chemical reactions inside and outside cells.
For example, the digestive enzyme amylase, found in the saliva, breaks down starch into smaller molecules so that it can be absorbed into the blood. Similarly, lipase breaks down lipids (fats) into smaller fat globules, so that they can also be absorbed into the blood. Enzymes allow the body to maintain all of its many cellular and metabolic processes.
Without the assistance of digestive enzymes, many of the nutrients in food would not be made available to the body.
More than 5000 enzymes are known. To name different enzymes, one typically uses the ending -ase with the name of the chemical being transformed (substrate), e.g., lactase is the enzyme that catalyzes the cleavage of lactose.
Each enzyme performs one specific process, so 5000 enzymes will do 5000 different things in the body.
What kind of food contains more enzymes? Raw fish, meats, vegetables, fruits and specially fermented foods contain a greater amount of enzymes. hope i helped
What are the four parts of the colon?
1. ascending
2. transverse
3. descending
4 Sigmoid
then the rectum
What are the ingredients in acid indigestion tablets?
Indigestion tablets contain three main ingredients, these are: sodium bicarbonate, calcium carbonate and light magnesium carbonate. These are called antacids.
What is the order of the digestive tract that food passes through?
food passes throw 6 digestive organs in your body. Mouth ,esophagus ,stomach ,small intestine ,large intestine, and rectum.
Are there any acids in your digestive juices?
Gastric acid is a secretion produced in the stomach. It is one of the main solutions secreted, together with several enzymes and intrinsic factors. Chemically it is an acid solution with a pH of 1 to 2 in the stomach lumen, consisting mainly of hydrochloric acid (HCl) (around 0.5%, or 5000 parts per million), and large quantities of potassium chloride (KCl) and sodium chloride (NaCl).
If you mean enzymes that digest and break up the food, these are lipase, protease and amylase.
Lipase breaks up fat into glycerol and fatty acid.
Protease breaks up protein into amino acids.
Amylase breaks up starch into sugars.
Why is digesting a banana a chemical reaction?
Digesting a banana is a chemical reaction because once that it is already in your mouth you cannot reverse it back as a full banana.
*(If that made sense!) LOOL ! :D
What is formed when protein is digested?
there is only one product formed when proteins are hydrolyzed- amino acids(peptides)h2nch2cooh and h2nc2h4cooh
How long does it take for a cheetah to digest?
These large beasts have been created with an amazing organ called a stomach, in which their food is placed. After some processing here, it proceeds through the intestines, and then out of the body.
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
