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Watch Food Being Digested In This Fascinating And Gross Video

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The digestive system. Liya Graphics/Shutterstock.

The following video by National Geographic tracks and explains food's journey from our mouths to the stomach, intestines and finally to the rectum to be excreted.

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I would make a joke about the natural, but still kind of gross to observe first hand, process making your stomach turn, but I don't have the guts (sorry).

 

 

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ORIGINALLY PUBLISHEDOctober 5, 2015

Written by Danielle Andrew

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