Organs playing some role in digestion: the breaking down of food into smaller components that can be up-taken and used as source of energy or stucture.
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Digestion system startup?
Is it true that the human digestion system needs a startup in the morning?
Meaning that if u want to lose weight it can be beneficial to eat in the morning instead of skipping that meal?
Also does ...
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How is the appropriately-stratified gut microbiome acquired in organisms performing horizontal transmission?
I am studying horizontal transmission of primary symbionts in insect reproduction. This reminded me of an earlier question I had asked, in which I learned that humans analogously acquired their ...
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What nutrients can humans absorb in the mouth?
For instance, I realise being able to absorb simple sugars in the mouth is pivotal in the rapid action of oral glucose gel. Thus I was wondering what nutrients in general can be absorbed directly ...
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Do humans have chemosensors for nutrients or chemicals?
I'm reading about chemoreceptors on Wikipedia, and see that the typical ones are mentioned: taste, smell, co2. I would like to learn more about the other kinds of chemoreceptors that humans may ...
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How compatible are mammal digestive systems?
I'm interested in what kinds of nutrients mammal digestive systems extract from food and would like to know how similar are the outputs of these systems.
For example, if it is possible to ...
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Long term liquid food diet by blending/grinding all quality foods one would normaly eat, not any weight loss or prepared drinks
I want to know what are the effects of not using your teeth to grind foods but preparing it before eating with blending and grinding them into a liquid.
Here I am not talking about any weight loss or ...
