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The digestive system has the task of taking the ingested food and breaking it up, liquefying it, and making it absorbable by means of ferments and enzymes. We consider the digestive system to include the oral cavity, the middle and lower sections of the throat, the esophagus, the stomach, the small intestine, the liver and pancreas, the large intestine, the rectum, and the anus.

The nutrients that have been absorbed into the body, for their part, cannot be transformed into energy by the cells without outside assistance. For this process, the body needs oxygen.