What goes on inside your digestive system? Your body needs food to stay healthy, but how does it turn food into the nutrients you need? Dive inside the Digestive System and find out.

Chemical digestion occurs when the body uses enzymes to break down certain molecules, such as carbohydrates. This process allows the bloodstream to absorb smaller molecules to transport around the ...

The mouth starts the digestion process by breaking food down into a more easily digestible form. It does this through a combination of mechanical and chemical digestion. After people take food in ...