Posted on 02/04/2018 10:21:18 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant
What happens to food after we've eaten? The ins and outs of digestion are not normally considered suitable for polite conversation.
But we should know more about what goes on according to a new book by 25-year-old microbiologist Giulia Enders. Gut: The Inside Story Of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ, is already a bestseller in her native Germany.
And it makes eye-opening reading, as this extract reveals...
From the minute we take our first bite of food, enzymes in saliva start breaking it down. Tiny openings on our cheek secrete saliva even at the thought of food. It has a host of other purposes, too, which is why other openings under the tongue secrete saliva continuously - up to a litre a day.
Saliva is basically blood without the red cells. It contains calcium to help harden our teeth, hormones including oestrogen and testosterone, and perhaps most surprisingly, a natural painkiller, opiorphin, that is stronger than morphine.
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The large intestine has three sections: the ascending, transverse, and descending colon. When we go to the loo, we usually empty the last section. By the next day, it has filled up again.
For most people, the content of their large intestine is enough for one bowel movement a day.
However, people who provide their large intestine with sufficient bulk may have to go to the loo two or three times a day. Faeces is three-quarters water, to ensure it is soft enough to pass easily. Of the solid matter, an astonishing one third is bacteria that our body doesn't need any more.
Another third is made up of indigestible vegetable fibre, and the remaining third is made up of substances your body wants to get rid of - such as the remains of medicines, food colours or cholesterol.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
My doctor said my gut sounds like a train.
It all starts with the aroma of what you are about to eat
Next time I have gas I will explain to Mrs. Ez that I am just cleaning myself...
My tummy must be really clean.
That said, my cat snores louder than my tummy rumbles so my cat must be REALLY clean.
The colon is one of the more important organs in the body. I speak from experience ... and that’s all I’ll say about that.
When my stomach rumbles either my mouth makes loud noises or my butt backfires.
“A rumbly in my tumbly”. So that’s where “Pooh” comes from.
Mine goes from rumble to roar.
That rumble is rotor-rooter at work....it’s a goof thing
Better out of the attic than the basement.
“I sat next to the Duchess at tea,
It was just as I feared it would be,
Her rumblings abdominal
were simply phenomenal.
and everyone thought it was me!
Oh”
Just a song we used to sung in grade school.
Bookmark
It’s saying, “We’re Pooooooor! We’re Poooooooor!” - George Carlin
Bkmk
Yes it is as complicated as the brain
This article is based on a book by the same author. She has a lot of videos on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=GIULIA+ENDERS
Very interesting....
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