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Mitk12: Science Out Loud: Why We Fart
Behind every fart (and poop) is an army of gut bacteria undergoing some crazy (and crazy useful) biochemistry. Learn what they have in common with beer brewing, and why we'd want to know about this science anyway. [4:53]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Growth and Metabolism: Digesting Food
Get an overview of three of the key macromolecules of life (proteins, fats, and carbohydrates), and how they get digested and absorbed.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: A Community of Thousands in Your Gut
We'll learn about new studies that take a census of just what lives inside your gut. Recent research indicates that the human intestines may be home to over 5,600 different bacterial species and strains.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Digestive System Overview: Lesson 1
This lesson will identify the major structures and functions of the digestive system. It is 1 of 5 in the series titled "Digestive System Overview."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Layers of the Alimentary Canal: Lesson 1
This lesson will describe the structure, including the four layers, of the digestive tract. It is 1 of 5 in the series titled "Layers of the Alimentary Canal."
Curated OER
Kids Health: The Digestive System
A great little movie that follows your food from the time you eat it onward through your digestive system. Good basic information. From KidsHealth.
TED Talks
Ted Ed: What Does the Pancreas Do?
Beneath your ribs, you'll find, among other things, the pancreas -- an organ that works a lot like a personal health coach. This video explains how this organ controls your sugar levels and produces a special juice that releases the...
Crash Course
Crash Course A&p #35: Digestive System, Part 3
Nachos are great - if you are among the lucky ones whose body can digest them. When digestion goes according to plan, the small intestine performs most of your chemical digestion in the duodenum, while accessory organs including the...
Amoeba Sisters
Amoeba Sisters: The 11 Human Organ Systems
A video that discusses the 11 organ system of the human body. Learn some basic information about the circulatory, digestive, endocrine, excretory, integumentary, lymphatic, muscular, nervous, reproductive, respiratory, and skeleton...
Crash Course
Crash Course A&p #34: Digestive System, Part 2
Nearly 200 years ago, Alexis St. Martin was shot in the stomach. He was saved by local army doctor William Beaumont, but had to live out his remaining years with a gaping hole in the stomach -- allowing Beaumont to learn a lot about how...
Crash Course
Crash Course Chemistry #16: Passing Gases Effusion Diffusion Velocity of Gas
We have learned over the past few weeks that gases have real-life constraints on how they move here in the non-ideal world. As with most things in chemistry (and also in life) how a gas moves is more complex than it at first appears. In...
TED Talks
Ted Ed: What Does the Liver Do?
There's a factory inside you that weighs about 1.4 kilograms and runs for 24 hours a day. It's your liver: the heaviest organ in your body, which simultaneously acts as a storehouse, a manufacturing hub, and a processing plant. This...
Crash Course
Crash Course A&p #33: Digestive System, Part 1
Nachos are delicious. And versatile because today they're also going to help us learn a thing or two about your digestive system. Nachos can provide us with energy and raw materials, by first ingesting something nutritious, propelling it...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Animals: Human Digestive System
A brief introductory podcast describing the main processes of the human digestive system. [0:46]
Crash Course
Crash Course: The Incredible, Smellable Science of Your Farts
Behind every fart (and poop) is an army of gut bacteria undergoing some crazy (and crazy useful) biochemistry. Learn what they have in common with beer brewing, and why we'd want to know about this science anyway. [4:53]
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Digestive System
Paul Andersen starts with a brief description of feeding methods. He then details all of the major parts within the human digestive system. This tour starts in the mouth, move down the esophagus, through the stomach, small intestine,...
Crash Course
Crash Course Biology #28: The Digestive System
Hank takes us through the bowels of the human digestive system and explains why it's all about surface area. [11:53]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Digestive and Excretory: Systems: Meet the Gastrointestinal Tract!
Understand the gastrointestinal tract. [5:20]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Small Intestine 1: Structure
In this video created for Khan Academy discusses how the small intestine works.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Small Intestine 3: Absorption
This video describes how our small intestine works and how macromolecules are absorbed. [4:54]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Urination
This Khan Academy resource is a video about the process of urination.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is Salmonella Poisoning?
Visit us (http://www.khanacademy.org/science/healthcare-and-medicine) for health and medicine content or (http://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/mcat) for MCAT related content. These videos do not provide medical advice and are for...
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Minute Earth: Poop Transplants!
Animated video explaining what C. difficile is and how it affects the human gut. One treatment is to have a fecal transplant which can help the gut recover. Microbiota are also transplanted across ecosystems in agricultural and aquatic...