Thank you!

We have emailed you a PDF version of the article you requested.

Can't find the email?

Please check your spam or junk folder

IFLScience Home
IFLScience logo

Watch Food Being Digested In This Fascinating And Gross Video

Complete the form below to listen to the audio version of this article

You can unsubscribe at any time. View ourprivacy policy and terms below.

IFLScience needs the contact information you provide to us to contact you about our products and services. You may unsubscribe from these communications at any time.

For information on how to unsubscribe, as well as our privacy practices and commitment to protecting your privacy, check out ourPrivacy Policy

Ad

health-iconHealth and Medicine
clock-iconPUBLISHEDOctober 5, 2015
comments icon2

Watch Food Being Digested In This Fascinating And Gross Video

article image
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.

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).

 

 

National Geographic.
clock-icon
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHEDOctober 5, 2015

Written by Danielle Andrew

Add us as a Google preferred source to see more of our
trusted coverage in Search


health-icon

More Health and Medicine Stories

link to article

Global Cancer Cases May Double By 2050, WHO Report Says – But It Doesn't Need To Be InevitableA close up photo of a patient's arm as they lay in a hospital bed. The arm has a bandage around the wrist where a drip can be connected. The patient is also wearing a medical tag. The rest of their body is out of the frame, but there is gentle morning light coming in through a window in the background.
health-iconhealth

Global Cancer Cases May Double By 2050, WHO Report Says – But It Doesn't Need To Be Inevitable

clock-iconYesterday

link to article

Musk Suggests The Impact Of USAID Cuts Was Overstated, But New Research Tells A Very Different StoryA man prepares food rations for people fleeing violence in South Sudan at the Kule refugee camp in Ethiopia.
health-iconmedicine

Musk Suggests The Impact Of USAID Cuts Was Overstated, But New Research Tells A Very Different Story

clock-iconYesterday
comments icon1

link to article

Watch As A Seizure Speeds Through A Brain In Fascinating, First-Of-Its-Kind Video3D representation of a neuron with lots of branching dendrites and glowing orange to represent electrical impulses
health-iconneuroscience

Watch As A Seizure Speeds Through A Brain In Fascinating, First-Of-Its-Kind Video

clock-iconYesterday