How the Digestive System Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2011

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The digestive system uses mechanical and chemical processes to absorb and transport all the nutrients your body needs to survive -- but how does it work? In this episode, Josh and Chuck take you through all 30 feet of the average digestive system.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
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0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
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0:33.3	It's ready for you.
0:35.8	Welcome to Stucky Should Know, GrimhouseStuffWorks.com.
0:45.7	Hey and welcome to The Podcast.
0:47.3	I'm Josh Clark.
0:48.5	With me as always, as Charles W. Schuck Bryant.
0:52.6	Ta-da!
0:53.6	And that's, uh, that was good.
0:56.4	He chucked even just his jazz hands everybody.
0:58.8	That's what you have to do that when you say ta-da.
1:01.6	Yeah.
1:02.6	I think that's a draw.
1:04.6	Either that or pump your elbow.
1:07.6	Right.
1:08.6	Maybe like flick the bottom of your chin like ta-da.
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