Digestive System

• Digestive System

Do you know what happens to your body when you consume something?
Have you ever heard of the body parts like esophagus, sphincter or intestines?
Well today I will be taking you to a journey inside your digestive system!

The whole digestive system rotation revolves around the mouth, stomach, small
intestine and large intestine.

Mouth: As you take a bite of the food you’re eating, the food goes through your
food pipe (esophagus). Then the esophagus helps transfer your food to your mouth
and end at the stomach. This conveying only takes approximately seven seconds.

Stomach: Next is the stomach. The stomach is a very important thing from the
digestive system since it has acid. You might be wondering, “Why would we want
acid inside of us?” Well the answer is very simple. The acid kills bacteria and helps
prevent diseases. To make sure the acid doesn’t hurt the stomach, there is a pile of
mucus on the walls of the stomach.

Small intestine: The small intestines job is to swill the nutrients out of the food.
But to do that, they have villi surrounding the small intestines. Since villi is mostly
made up from blood vessels, the blood helps absorb the vitamins and proteins from
the food.  

Large intestine: Finally we’re at the last stop which is the large intestine. The large
intestine is combined up with liquid from the food. The liquid later on gets absorbed
with blood and is ready to come out as faeces.

Since we have landed out of the digestive system, let’s go over some new things we
have learnt. So we all know that the whole digestive system takes 8 hours and that we
have strong acid inside of us but the only thing you need to take care of is eating lots
of nutrients and being responsible for your body-energy!