The Digestive System In The Human Body

Have you ever sat and wondered what happens to your food as you are swallowing it? Have you thought about where it goes, or what is going on inside your body as you digest? The term is called digestion. Digestion is the breakdown of food we eat, and turn the food into small, tiny, components that is absorbed through our bloodstream. When digestion your food it goes through two breakdowns; Mechanical, and Chemical digestion. But what happens once the food enters your bloodstream, and breakdown into small molecules? The term is called the digestive system. The digestive system is basically the breakdown of macromolecules broken down into tiny molecules. The organs in your digestive system work together as a community to convert the food we consume …show more content…
It is time to begin our tour through our body, and see how the digestive system really works. First the digestive system is broken down into eight sections. Those eight sections are the oral cavity/ tongue, the esophagus, the stomach, the small intestine, the large intestine, the liver, the pancreas, the gallbladder, the rectum, and lastly the anus. Our first stop is the oral cavity or the mouth. The food is taken into the digestive system by the mouth. The mouth itself contains many organs, such as the teeth, the tongue, and the salivary glands. When food enters the mouth it must first be broken down by the enzymes inside your mouth. These organs are all working together to help digest the food into smaller pieces. The teeth role is to helps the process of chewing, chewing the food into tiny molecules. While the mouth and teeth are working together to help chew the food particles into tiny pieces. Now that we have the mouth and the teeth working together to help our foods become tiny spectrums, we move on to the tongue. The muscles in our tongue help the food, and saliva form into a ball, which allows us to swallow our food into the esophagus. The esophagus is eight inches, thin, long, muscular tube which connects to the pharynx (throat), and stomach. The esophagus job is to be the passageway pipe to help the flow of our foods, and liquids. The purpose of the long pipe is to control the flow of our food, so it does not enter your windpipe. The esophagus runs behind the heart, the windpipe, and in front of the spine as well. Right before the esophagus enters the stomach the pharynx passes through two diagrams; the (UES) Upper esophageal sphincter, and the (LES) Lower esophageal sphincter. After the long road down the esophagus, we enter the