Virtues of the Human Digestive System

Welcome to the world of digestion! 

Now is the good moment to decipher the demands of your gut and to create a friendly relationship with your second brain - digestion system.

  Here you can discover the physiological, emotional, and intellectual potential that we have in our human digestive  systems, and to teach you to listen, to learn from, and to work with your gut. When you do this, it will bring purely digestive benefits and also lead to physical, psychological, and emotional well-being. Through this trip , there will be various stops at particular points of interest.

  The average adult's digestive tract has a total length of 8 to 12 meters (25 to 40 feet). It is long (about the height of two-storey building) and also wide. The total area of your intestines spread out flat in two dimensions would cover 300 square meters (3000 sq.ft.) That means you are carrying the equivalent  area of a tennis court hidden in your gut! 

Over a lifetime, approximately 7- tons of food and 100 tons of liquid pass through your digestive system. Your gut is able to process, analyze, absorb, and eliminate this industrial quantity without breakdown or the need for replacement parts ― if, that is, it is treated well. That is a big if , as we so often mistreat our own , one and only, digestive systems, even though they are alerting us to alterations in their normal functioning by sending us signal and warnings that they are in urgent need of "service."

  The human digestive system has a spectacular design. 

One example: the inner lining of the small intestine is "folded" into thousands of villi and on the surface of these are thousands of microvilli (smaller folds). 

Under a microscope, the lining of the small intestine looks like a dense brush or a piece of velvet fabric. These anatomical intricacies enable the mucosa to completely absorb all the vital nutrients in our food and exert inmmunological control ― 70 percent of the total immune defences of the body are found in the belly.