Digestion follows a predictable seven-stage pipeline: ingestion, mechanical digestion, propulsion, chemical digestion, secretion, absorption, and defecation. Each stage depends on the one before it, meaning a breakdown early in the chain cascades into nutritional deficits downstream. It's a useful mental model for understanding why gut symptoms rarely have a single cause.
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