Our digestive system is a crucial component of our body that is involved in the breakdown of food and converts it into nutrients and energy. It is a long channel through which food passes, beginning ...

This film explores the complex process of human digestion, detailing how food is broken down into molecules by the digestive system. It follows the journey of food from the mouth, where it is chewed ...

The gallbladder acts as a storage sac for bile, a digestive fluid made by the liver. When a person eats, especially fatty ...

The mouth starts the digestion process by breaking food down into a more easily digestible form. It does this through a combination of mechanical and chemical digestion. After people take food in ...

When it comes to intestines, it sure seems like two are better than one. I asked my friend Franck Carbonero why that is. He’s a microbiologist at Washington State University. He studies the bacteria ...