Tourists visiting an unfamiliar city would have a hard time finding their way around if they were using nothing but a ...

Alexander Lake, DO, a gastroenterologist at AdventHealth, joined Gayle Guyardo, host of the globally syndicated health and ...

The workings of the small intestine have long been a mystery, but now we are discovering the hidden roles this organ plays in ...

WebMD provides a glossary of terms and definitions related to the gastrointestinal system and digestive diseases.

Dr. Alexander Lake, Gastroenterologist at AdventHealth, joins Gayle Guyardo, the host of Bloom, to emphasize the vital ...

The digestive system is the series of tubelike organs that convert our meals into body fuel. There are about 30 feet (9 meters) of these convoluted pipeworks, starting with the mouth and ending ...

The atlas of the human intestine reveals that the digestion of fat by the human villi resembles an assembly line: Cells at the bottom of the villi encase fat from food in droplets of fat and it is ...

This first section of the small intestine is called the duodenum. Your pancreas releases digestive juices through a duct into your duodenum.

When fat is eaten, the gallbladder contracts to squeeze bile into the small intestine. Here, the function of bile is to 'emulsify' fat.