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 changes are usually permanent. Enzymes work inside and outside cells, for instance in the digestive system where cell pH is kept at 7.0 to 7.4. Cellular enzymes will work best within this pH ...

The Texas Medical Center Digestive Diseases Center facilitates cutting-edge digestive diseases research, promotes translational collaborative research between basic and clinical areas, develops new ...

Because we have a digestive system! …a series of organs that break food down in a useful way for the body. And it gets rid of all the body's waste as well! Without digestion, the food we eat ...