Guts and Glory

Gastropod

Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley

Arts, Science, History, Food

4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

What does it mean when your stomach rumbles? How do our bodies extract nutrients and vitamins from food? Does what you eat affect your mood? Digestion is an invisible, effortless, unconscious process—and one that, until recently, we knew almost nothing about. On this episode of Gastropod, we follow our food on its journey to becoming fuel, from the filtered blood that helps slide food into the stomach, to the velvet walls and rippling choreography of the small intestine, to the microbial magic of the colon and out the other end. And we do it by visiting the world’s most sophisticated artificial gut at dinner time—a plumbing marvel named TIM that chews, swallows, squeezes, farts, and poops just like the real thing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.8	Sometimes when I'm done with work and I still have 10 or 20 minutes,
0:34.7	then I just go to the endoscopy and see if they have some small intestine to show me.
0:40.1	Because I find it very pretty.
0:41.6	I do think that if people could have this in a aquarium at home, I think they might.
0:46.3	Maybe if they knew what it was, they wouldn't.
0:48.7	But maybe they still would because it's very beautiful.
0:54.2	I've never thought of my small intestine as beautiful, but you know, I've never seen it.
0:59.1	If anyone's would be beautiful, Cynthia, I'm sure it's yours.
1:02.9	Anyway, Julia would think so.
1:04.4	Julia enters is not only a German doctor who loves to look at images of endoscopies.
1:09.6	She's also the author of a fantastic book called Gut, the Inside Story of our body's most underrated organ.
1:15.6	And that is exactly what this episode is all about.
1:18.8	Gut's.
1:19.8	The real kind and the artificial kind.
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