Name: How the Digestive System Works
Uploaded: 2015-09-13T07:24:09.000Z
Duration: 5 min 9 s
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I see your gall stones and raise you four tonsils.

Argh. Stupid, good for nothing cards. I curse the day I bought you.

Nurb, did you eat chili again? That's not me, Chloe.

Nurb, let's get out of here! I can't. I'm paralyzed with fear.

We're in the mouth, the gateway to the digestive system.

The digestive system? Yep. It takes the food you eat,

breaks it down, and turns it into energy you can use.

It's trying to break us down into tiny pieces as we speak

That's why we're wearing these spiffy, anti-digestive suits.

Oh, that's saliva. As soon as you take a bite of food

Saliva contains things called enzymes that start breaking down food immediately.

Now we can watch it be digested. Lucky us.

Right here in the stomach, gastric juices are starting to break it down.

Yes, siree. Gastric juice isn't like orange or grape juice.

Your stomach secretes a mix of acid and enzymes

The stomach also churns the partially digested food,

Then the food moves into the small intestine.

Handsome? That combo of chewed up food and gastric juices was gross. Well, then you're gross.

Excuse me? You've seen this combo of chewed up food and gastic juices erupt from your own body

Nurb vomit sparkles with all the colors in the rainbow.

I think it's time to move on to the small intestine.

Here we are. The first part of the small intestine is called the duodenum.

And it's where liquified food goes next. Duodenum. Duodenum.Duo-denum!

There are more digestive juices found here, like bile.

Bile is made in the liver and stored in the gall bladder until your body needs it.

Bile and enzymes from the pancreas break down the

It's here that the body absorbs the vitamins and

Hold on. If the small intestine does all that,

My dear Chloe, of course you need a large intestine.

The large intestine has an important job to absorb water

At the end of the digestive process,  anything that hasn't been absorbed

is considered waste, which your body doesn't need. In other words,

How am I going to tell my diary about this? Just say, today, me and my best buddy Nurb

went on a journey through the digestive system,

and we had, the time of our lives. Uh...OK.