Digestive System
By: Grace Carlsen
What is the Digestive System?
The digestive system is when some organs turn food into energy, and provide the body with the basic nutrients it needs.
What does the pancreas do?
The pancreas is part of the digestive system. It produces juices called enzymes that help the body digest food. It is has pinkish-yellowish color, and is located behind the stomach.
Where is the digestive system located?
This system runs throughout your whole body.
Pancreas Diseases
1. Peritonitis
2. GERD (Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease)
3. Colon cancer
4. Pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer is a disease in your pancreas that is very harsh, you can treat it by surgery, and you can notice it by slight yellowing of the skin and eyes, and major weight loss. You can cause it by smoking.
2. GERD (Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease)
3. Colon cancer
4. Pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer is a disease in your pancreas that is very harsh, you can treat it by surgery, and you can notice it by slight yellowing of the skin and eyes, and major weight loss. You can cause it by smoking.
Four functions of the digestive system
1. Take in food through the mouth
2. Break down food through mechanical & chemical digestion
3. Absorbs nutrients through walls of intestines
4. Eliminates wastes
2. Break down food through mechanical & chemical digestion
3. Absorbs nutrients through walls of intestines
4. Eliminates wastes
Can someone live without a pancreas?
You can live without a pancreas, you would just have to take medication daily for the rest of your life.
Interactions with other systems.
It interacts with the skeletal system, the bones help you chew your food. Also the muscular system, some of your muscles help the body digestive your food.
The mouth
The mouth triggers taste buds, which triggers saliva, saliva help break down the food you eat. Also if you chew your food more it can help with digesting
Esophagus
The esophagus receives food from the mouth and transfer its to the stomach. Normally food go down to to the stomach.
Stomach
The stomach is a part of the digestive system, the muscle breaks own the food. Also the stomach releases acid.
liver
Blood flows to it from the heart. It also breaks the nutrients further from already being digested
Gall Bladder
The Gall Bladder stores bile. Bile is stored in a sac that sits under the right area of the liver
Small/Large intestine
Small: the juices of digestion are created in the walls of the small intestine.
Large: Absorbs water and salts from the food that hasn't been digested, and stores waste.
Large: Absorbs water and salts from the food that hasn't been digested, and stores waste.