Digestion And Absorption

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Human Digestive System

The digestive tract is responsible for the processing of the foods that you eat, from the time you put food in your mouth, until you eliminate the undigested material from your body. It's a highly organized system and the path of food is very specific. Go through the given video for a quick trick to remember the sequence of organs in the human digestive system.

Level 3 nutrition exam how to remember the digestive system.

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Steps in Digestion

It is very important to remember the steps of digestion in its particular sequence. Let us remember it with a simple mnemonic 'I DAAD'.

How to Memorize Pancreatic Hormones?

All that you have to remember is the GPS and then add an I to it. It will now becomes 'GIPS' and here is your trick to remember the pancreatic hormones secreted by the specific alpha, beta, gamma and beta cells.

Enzyme Activation reactions in One Shot

Want to understand and remember the reactions involved in the activation of enzymes in the duodenum? Observe the diagram below and have a photo memory printed in your brain.

Composition of Pancreatic Juice

Pancreatic juice contains a lot of enzymes which facilitate the process of digestion. But remembering the names of all the enzymes is really difficult. Isn't it? Here is an easy peasy way to memorize the composition of pancreatic juice. Check out this fun trick below.

Digestion in Jejunum Region

The duodenum receives undigested food from the stomach in the form called chyme. This chyme mixes with digestive juices and enzymes in the duodenum region. Duodenum is primarily a region of chemical digestion, so a lot of important reactions takes place in it. But the final step in digestion of complex molecules occur in the jejunum part. Here is a fun mnemonic to remember all the enzymes and reactions catalysed by them in the jejunum.

Gastric Juice in the Stomach

Food in the stomach gets mixed thoroughly with the gastric juices which help in the digestion of the food. Let us memorize the composition of gastric juice with a simple trick.

Intestinal Juice

Memorize the composition of intestinal juice very easily by just remembering the word 'SMELL'.