food does not pass through the digestive system by gravity .you can still digest food even if you are lying down .explain how food passes through your digestive system.
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Answer:
Food is transported through the digestive tract through the contractive action of muscles in the oesophagus, small and large intestines by a process known as peristalsis. Hence food can still be digested even when one is lying down.
The process of peristalsis starts in the oesophagus when a bolus of food is swallowed. The longitudinal and circular muscles contract in a wave-like pattern to gradually push the bolus down into the small intestine then into the large intestine.
Peristalsis ends in the ‘large intestine’, where digested food is absorbed into the bloodstream and undigested food it sent to the rectum for excretion.
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Yes, food can go down when you are lying down but it can be harmful.
Food can go with the help of juices or in mouth we have tongue but if we are lying down food can be go through windpipe except for food pipe.
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