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Hello I'm Wynn Culver and welcome to the digestive news. Now we've got to Ryan in the stomach.

Hi Wynn, I have just entered the mouth where all the food enters to be digested. And am currently in the Esophagus where food goes down straight down to the Stomach. It reminds me of a water slide. Oh no, here I go, weeeeeeeee!!! Hey look spaghetti!

Ryan, Ryan. can you hear me?

Loud and clear. If it wasn't for my protective body armor, I might have fallen into the stomach also and been deteriorated by all the digestive enzymes called bile. Wow, the stomach.

So this is what it's like inside my stomach. Well, it's all bubbly and it looks to me like I'm in a huge hamster ball.

Ryan, what other interesting facts can you tell us that is happening in the stomach right now?

The stomach digestes its food in two different procedures, Mechanical and Chemical. Mechanical is when three of the layers of muscle surrounding the stomach contract that create a circular motion that breaks down food. Chemical is when fluids, called bile, surround the food and break it down with pepsin, an enzyme that breaks down the food. currently chemical procedure is working. Well, Wynn, there is Absorption activity going on here. Absorption is where the nutrient molecules pass through the digestive wall and into our bloodstream after food has been digested.

What is so important about the digestive system?

That's a good question, Wynn, but the answer is simple. When you eat a powerbar, it goes straight to your stomach to be digestied because when digested nutrients that are released into your body, it gives you more energy. And if nothing was broken down in your body, we'd all be not able to move and be really fat with food in our bodies.

Okay, What other interesting things are you finding in there?

Well I have seen strands of spaghetti pass down the Esophagus, attacked by digestive enzymes, those digested nutrients run down through the Small Intestine and flow into the bloodstream, and all waste was carried around the Colon, through the rectum and out of the anus. I have just seen the whole Digestive cycle!!! How cool!!

What's your most favorite part of the Digestive system?

Mine is the Liver because the Liver is a vital organ in a humans' body. It creates the digestive juices, called bile, that breaks down the food that passes by. I am currently in the appendix where waste is carried into the large intestine part called the cecum, carried all the way around through the rectum and out the anus. How fun!