How the Digestive System Works

Before food even hits your mouth, your salivary gland start producing saliva. Once food is in your mouth, saliva and chewing turn your food into a mush called a bolus. The bulos plunges down the Esophagus into the stomach. The stomach walls produce assets to break down proteins. These hormones alert the pancreas, liver and gallbladder to release digestive juices and bile To break down fat. After three hours in the stomach, the Bulos is now a frothy liquid called chyme. The liver send bile to the gallbladder That sends it to the entrance of the small intestine, the duodenum. Fats are dissolved so the pancreas and the intestine can digest the chyme. Fat becomes fatty acids, proteins become amino acids and carbohydrates become glucose. Blood takes these to feed the body organs and muscles. All of the remains go to the colon and become stool. The stool is passed into the rectum and out of the the (insert word that is getting flagged as profanity)