digestion

Here, gut microbes break down nutrients that escaped earlier digestion, producing compounds such as short-chain fatty acids.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

Researchers at Arizona State University have developed a mathematical model that explores this often overlooked part of digestion.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

Although this approach is practical and widely used, it cannot fully explain what happens during digestion.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

Resistant starch is a type of carbohydrate that escapes much of the usual digestion in the small intestine, allowing it to reach the colon, where microbes can break it down.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

It is the stuff inside the cell that controls every process of life, from digestion to reproduction.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

“Here are some reliable recipes for seasonable candies warranted to be no more harmful to youthful digestions and appetites than most other candies.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2014

Healthy men with strong digestions, Robert Burton held, need less sleep than those with weak stomachs; sanguine and choleric men need less than the phlegmatic, and the melancholic need most of all.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though their digestions may have suffered, their smiles were undimmed, the lips stiff and upper throughout.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the face of the barrages of entertainment fired at them by advertisers, U.S. children have not only retained their sanity and their digestions but kept a deadly critical sense.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dear me! dear me! what will your digestions be like if you keep on in this way?”

From Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse by Annie Roe Carr