31 - Digestion

Everybody eats, and everybody poops, but in between… that’s where the magic happens! This week we’re talking about everyone’s favorite organic method of removing nutrients from food: digestion!

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And if you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:

[Truth or Fail]

 Fulmar:

https://blog.nus.edu.sg/lsm1303student2013/2013/04/11/full-mah-bbbbbbllllaaaaarrrrgggghhhh/

Sloth:

https://www.sciencealert.com/this-is-the-horror-that-sloths-have-to-go-through-every-time-they-poop

Platypus:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2013/12/03/how-the-platypus-and-a-quarter-of-fishes-lost-their-stomachs/?utm_source=reddit.com

[Fact Off]

Esophagus replacement:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/one-mans-choice-life-without-a-stomach-or-dying-from-stomach-cancer/2017/12/27/f2c05928-ce13-11e7-a1a3-0d1e45a6de3d_story.html?utm_term=.afbf3730f9d2

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5104299/

Phytobezoars:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4400622/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2673384/

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/apt.12141

[Ask the Science Couch] 

Gum composition:

https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/102/2/e22.long

https://patents.google.com/patent/US6986907B2/en

https://pslc.ws/macrog/pib.htm

Swallowed gum:

https://kidshealth.org/en/kids/swallowed-gum.html

http://www.vivo.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/digestion/basics/transit.html

[Butt One More Thing]

 Everlasting pill:

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/antimony-metallic-cleanse-middle-ages

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3037053/