Diabetes: Small Intestine and Absorption

• Mechanical break down of our food into smaller pieces happens in our mouths (chewing) and stomachs (churning).
• There is a little bit of chemical digestion by digestive enzymes along the way, but
• the vast majority of the digestive enzymes are working in the small intestine.
• Those digestive enzymes were made either in the pancreas or
• in the small intestine itself. 
• As if that wasn't enough, the small intestine also does the absorption of small molecules.

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