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I opened my eyes and gasped,"What on earth? Where am I?" Right then I remembered what I was saying to myself before. I said that I'm about to enter the stomach. The stomach is an organ between your esophagus and small intestine. It is where digestion of protein begins. The stomach has three tasks. It stores swallowed food. It mixes the food with enzymes and hydrochloric acid, a very powerful acid made inside the stomach used to break down food and make food into chyme which is the semifluid mass of partly digested food expelled by the stomach. Then it sends the mixture on to the small intestine. I also recalled that the inside of the stomach is lined with mucus which protects the stomach from the hydrochloric acid as it's really powerful and also makes gastric acids, a digestive fluid composed of hydrochloric acid. In all this brainstorming, I didn't realize that I am made into chyme now and was about to enter the small intestine which is made up of three segments — the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum. The small intestine is a 22-foot long muscular tube that breaks down food using enzymes released by the pancreas and bile from the liver. The inside of the small intestine is covered with villi, microscopic finger-like projections. After food passes from the stomach into the small intestine, nutrients in the food are absorbed into the body through the villi. Peristalsis also is at work in this organ, moving food through and mixing it with digestive secretions from the pancreas and liver. The duodenum is largely responsible for the continuous breaking-down process by using bile from the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and enzymes from the pancreas, while the jejunum and ileum mainly responsible for absorption of nutrients into the bloodstream. Contents of the small intestine start out semi-solid, and end in a liquid form after passing through the organ. Water, bile, enzymes, and mucous contribute to the change in consistency. Once the nutrients have been absorbed and the leftover-food residue liquid has passed through the small intestine, it then moves on to the large intestine, or colon." My beautiful pizza figure is now chyme," I sobbed. "I guess now is the time that my miserable life ends. Bye terrifying world. I'm leaving you forever." I took a deep breath, relaxed and shut my eyes really tight.

Stomach, liver, pancreas and gall bladder.


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By Shubaita