Digestive system

The digestive system, as you may have guessed it, is how your body deals with what’s coming into it in terms of nutrients. As you are getting the idea by this point, the whole point of all your systems is to support the production of ATP through cell respiration. And what do you need to make that happen? Glucose! (and a bunch of other stuff)

Let’s break down this unit in a few categories:

• Nutrition
• Mechanical digestion
• Chemical digestion
• Absorption