The Inner Journey: Mastering Digestion
Like Duolingo, but for The Inner Journey: Mastering Digestion. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
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Key ideas in The Inner Journey: Mastering Digestion
- Crushing food exposes the inside parts to digestive liquids
- Digestive juices can only work on the outside layer of a food chunk
- More contact points allow juices to work on the whole mass at once
- Large chunks take much longer to break down completely
- Why increasing surface area speeds up chemical digestion
- The consequence of swallowing unchewed food on nutrient absorption
- Front teeth act as the initial cutters
- Pointed shapes focus force to break through skin or meat
- Flat surfaces are best for mashing plants
- Back teeth perform the final heavy-duty mashing
- Mapping tooth shape to its mechanical function
- The sequence of mechanical breakdown in the mouth
- Unchewed food passes through the system without releasing all its nutrients
- Flat teeth are specialized for crushing grains and leaves
- The stomach has to work much harder and longer to break down large pieces
- Grinding is necessary to break open tough plant cell walls
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives The Inner Journey: Mastering Digestion the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
When you swallow a large chunk of food, where do the digestive juices begin their work?
Get it right to open this lesson and 95 more in the app.
Where The Inner Journey: Mastering Digestion takes you
Go beyond the basics of eating to understand how your body extracts energy and handles waste. Explore the mechanical and chemical marvels of the gut and see how other animals solve the same problems.
- 1
The First Contact: Breaking Things Down
- Mechanical Crushing: More Than Just Chewing
- Saliva: The Chemical Head Start
- The Swallowing Reflex: A One-Way Valve System
- Gravity vs. Muscle: How Food Moves Upside Down
- 2
The Acid Chamber: Processing and Protection
- The Stomach's Churning Motion
- Managing Acid Without Dissolving Yourself
- The Gatekeeper: Timing the Release of Food
- Why Some Foods Stay Longer Than Others
- The Signal for Fullness and Hunger
- Vomiting: The Body's Emergency Exit
- 3
The Extraction Lab: Absorbing What Matters
- Surface Area: The Secret of the Small Intestine
- Neutralizing Acid for Nutrient Pickup
- How Fats, Carbs, and Proteins Part Ways
- The Bloodstream Connection: Where the Fuel Goes
- The Microbiome: Your Internal Ecosystem
- 4
The Final Filter: Waste and Water
- Reclaiming Water: The Large Intestine's Job
- Compacting Waste for the Exit
- The Dual-Muscle System of the Exit
- The Science of Gas and Bloating
- 5
Nature's Variations: Different Guts for Different Diets
- The Multi-Chambered Stomach of Grass-Eaters
- Short Guts: Why Meat-Eaters Process Fast
- Birds and Gizzards: Chewing Without Teeth
- The Hindgut Strategy: How Horses Digest Fiber
- Regurgitation: Feeding Young and Re-Chewing
5 sections · 24 units · 96 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
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