What goes on inside your digestive system? Your body needs food to stay healthy, but how does it turn food into the nutrients you need? Dive inside the Digestive System and find out.

It takes about 24 hours for food to make its way through your digestive system. Your body needs food for energy, vitamins and minerals. But food needs to be broken down into a substance your body can ...

The theme song of an ’80s sitcom goes, “You take the good, you take the bad/You take them both and there you have/The facts of life.” The same can be said of our gut microbiome, the complex ...

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 ...