What does the Digestive System do to keep the body healthy?
Ingestion - Food enters the mouth
Digestion - Process that breaks down food into small molecules
Absorption - Small molecules of food are taken into body cells
Elimination (egestion) - Unabsorbed food goes out of the body
The esophagus in the Digestive system is the 1st part of it. It begins in your neck then it reaches towards your chest. Once it's in your chest it leads to your stomach.
Once it's in your stomach muscles lead it into your stomach acids where it's broken down.
The esophagus is important because it moves our food to our stomach. We need to eat and get nutrients so it's an important organ.
Your stomach is a large and very important organ in the digestive system. Enzymes and acids make sure food remains there for 8 hours.
The stomach breaks down food you've eaten and it's fully broken down in 3 days.
It helps churn the rest of our food and pushes it down to our intestines. It also helps us not each so much because it stretches and holds more food so we feel full.
It digests food and turns it into feces. It starts at the mouth then works its way down to the stomach, next thing you know its in your digestive system and it takes a process of 3 days to be fully digested.
This system moves food through the GI tract. It begins at the mouth then enters the stomach after that it enters the digestive system which works its magic for 3 days when everything is fully digested.
If you didn't have this system food would drop out of your body. Your food would enter your stomach and try to melt but would take days considering how much you will eat. The more you eat without a digestive system the longer it digests the bigger your stomach gets.
The liver helps your body filter toxins and poisons from your blood then it produces bile. Your liver also helps break down proteins and carbohydrates. Liver is also almost a full chunk of meat 95% to be exact. Liver is tilted downwards inside of your body and lays on top of your stomach, and intestines.
Once your liver is finished digested food goes into your gallbladder. This organ is a sac of the toxins and poisons that were filtered from your liver. Once its done it delivers the rest of the filtered toxins and poisons into slots of your body when it's needed.
It converts the nutrients in our diets into things that the body uses and can stores these nutrients so our bodies can use them in different parts when its needed.