Tag: the digestive system

Human Body Facts

In your lifetime you will produce around 10,000 gallons of saliva

Human Body Facts

Despite what you might think, your poo is made up of about 75% water

Human Body Facts

Because your digestive system is so powerful, your stomach actually eats

Human Body Facts

By the time you are sixty, you’ll have lost around half of your taste

Human Body Facts

When you are eating food, your jaw muscles automatically adjust their

Human Body Facts

When you swallow, your food travels down your oesophagus to your stomach

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Your poo is brown because of something called stercobilin, which is

Human Body Facts

On average, your gut contains around 100 trillion microbes which help

Human Body Facts

Although we have traditionally thought that the appendix is useless (it