🍽️ Interactive Visualization Digestion — send a meal down the tract Watch enzymes and acid break carbs, protein and fat into absorbable units, with a pH meter that shifts from stomach to intestine. Launch → 🫗 Interactive Visualization Bile Acids — emulsify a fatty meal yourself Eat a fatty meal and watch bile squirt from the gallbladder to emulsify the fat into droplets lipase can attack — then block the bile and watch the fat, and vitamins A, D, E and K, go straight through. Launch → 🌀 Interactive Visualization Peristalsis — push food with a muscle wave Push a bolus down the gut with a contract-behind, relax-ahead muscle wave run by the gut's own 500-million-neuron brain — then switch to mixing, the housekeeper wave, or a stalled diabetic stomach. Launch → 🔗 Interactive Visualization The Gut-Brain Axis — hear the gut talk to the brain Follow the vagus nerve carrying signals up from your gut, the gut making most of your serotonin, and the microbiome shaping mood — then flip it and watch stress disrupt the gut. Launch → ⚗️ Interactive Visualization The Exocrine Pancreas — pour the digestive enzymes Pour amylase, lipase and protease plus bicarbonate into the gut to digest a meal — then block the duct with a gallstone and watch the enzymes switch on inside and digest the pancreas itself. Launch → 🤢 Interactive Visualization Nausea & Vomiting — fire the body's eject reflex Watch four alarm lines — the gut, a blood-sampling brain zone, the inner ear and the mind — converge on the vomiting centre and fire the eject reflex, then calm each with its matching anti-sickness drug. Launch →

Gastroenterology

Gastroenterology — scientific infographic poster

Gastroenterology focuses on the digestive system, including the esophagus, stomach, intestines, liver, pancreas, and gallbladder.

All Gastroenterology Articles A–Z

Every article in this specialty, listed alphabetically.