Watch Your Gut Work

Digestion is a production line, and the best way to understand it — and to understand what heartburn drugs, gallbladder trouble, or a leaky barrier actually change — is to watch the line run. Press play, then use each animation's scenario buttons to break the mechanism deliberately and see what happens downstream.

• Digestion — The full journey from bite to absorption
• Stomach Acid & PPIs — What acid blockers really do, upstream and downstream
• Gut Motility & Peristalsis — The migrating wave that keeps everything moving
• Bile Acids & Fat Digestion — The gallbladder's detergent system
• Pancreatic Enzymes — The chemical plant that dissolves your dinner
• Gut Barrier & Microbiome — One cell thick: the wall between you and 38 trillion microbes
• The Gut–Brain Axis — Why your gut talks to your mood, and how
• Liver Detoxification — Phase I and II: what "detox" actually means chemically

Connections

• Gut Health — The section hub with all sub-pages
• Gastroenterology — The complete digestive-conditions library
• Food — Whole foods, including every fermented food above
• Infections — The hostile side of the microbial world
• Herbs — Including the digestive and carminative herbs
• Amino Acids — Glutamine, glycine, and the gut-lining builders
• Biology — All 137 interactive animations
• Longevity — Where gut health and healthy aging meet
• Lab Tests — Including the GI and liver panels