• Healthy digestion, also called digestive health, results in the absorption of nutrients from food without distressing symptoms. Healthy digestion follows...
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    metabolized in the liver, absorbed directly into the intestines during digestion, and found in semen. Trehalose, a major sugar of insects, is rapidly hydrolyzed...
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  • in healthy, living tissue; autolysis in itself is not an active process. In other words, though autolysis resembles the active process of digestion of...
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  • scientifically-formulated options that promote healthy digestion, healthy immune system and seasonal allergies, healthy skin and coat, calmness as well as composure...
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    healing potential of the remaining healthy tissue. Removal may be surgical, mechanical, chemical, autolytic (self-digestion), or by maggot therapy. In podiatry...
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    Wellness: Strengthen the Immune System and Prevent Disease Through Healthy Digestion (4 ed.). McGraw-Hill. 2012. ISBN 978-0071668996. Digestive Wellness...
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    sequential stages. The gastric digestion stage, the hepatic digestion stage, the vascular digestion stage, and the tissue digestion stage. Each stage digests...
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    In chakra-based medicine, practitioners work this area to promote healthier digestion, elimination, pancreas-kidney and Adrenal function. Weak Agni (fire)...
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    including its degradation products, that escapes from digestion in the small intestine of healthy individuals. Resistant starch occurs naturally in foods...
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    primitive ones: sponges have small pores (ostia) throughout their body for digestion and a larger dorsal pore (osculum) for excretion, comb jellies have both...
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    1880) was a Canadian voyageur who is known for his part in experiments on digestion in humans, conducted on him by the American Army physician William Beaumont...
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  • fatty acids and membrane lipids. Lipid metabolism is often considered the digestion and absorption process of dietary fat; however, there are two sources...
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  • (circulation of energy), udāna (energy of the head and throat), and samāna (digestion and assimilation). Early mention of specific prāṇas often emphasized prāṇa...
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    Saliva (section Digestion)
    The enzymes found in saliva are essential in beginning the process of digestion of dietary starches and fats. These enzymes also play a role in breaking...
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    fuel the brain and other tissues. Studies have shown that carbohydrate digestion in young kittens is much less effective than that of a mature feline with...
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    trapping objects with no nutritional value; the plant will only begin digestion after five more stimuli are activated, ensuring that it has caught a live...
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  • alcoholic beverage served after a meal, traditionally believed to aid digestion even though there is not strong evidence to support this. When served...
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    which helps with brain function, and their dietary fiber encourages healthy digestion. They also help to conserve body protein and have a warming effect...
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    chains made of amino acids linked together by peptide bonds. During human digestion, proteins are broken down in the stomach to smaller polypeptide chains...
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  • Impaired digestion or absorption can result in fatty stools. Possible causes include exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, with poor digestion from lack...
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    they are believed to also make settling into bed easier by promoting digestion. A nightcap was originally alcoholic, since it makes the drinker feel...
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    Breslau. He remained there from 1884 to 1886. Heidenhain was studying digestion in dogs, using an exteriorized section of the stomach. However, Pavlov...
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  • The process of digestion is initiated soon after a person has consumed his meals. The gastric juices and enzymes responsible for digestion are stimulated...
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    rumbles: Incomplete digestion of food can lead to excess gas in the intestine. In humans, this can be due to incomplete digestion of carbohydrate-containing...
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    ethnobotany, galangal has been used for its purported merits in promoting digestion and alleviating respiratory diseases and stomach problems. Specific medical...
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    including sexual arousal, salivation, lacrimation (tears), urination, digestion, and defecation. Its action is described as being complementary to that...
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    the rumen and capped. Cannulas are typically implanted in healthy cows to research cow digestion in a university setting, to analyze the nutritional quality...
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    Stomach (section Digestion)
    the digestive system. The stomach is involved in the gastric phase of digestion, following the cephalic phase in which the sight and smell of food and...
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    Digestate (category Anaerobic digestion)
    remaining after the anaerobic digestion (decomposition under low oxygen conditions) of a biodegradable feedstock. Anaerobic digestion produces two main products:...
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    regulates bodily functions, such as the heart rate, its force of contraction, digestion, respiratory rate, pupillary response, urination, and sexual arousal....
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