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How your gut keeps food moving without instructions from you

Food stretches your gut, the tube it travels through inside your body. Nerves there tell muscles to squeeze behind it and relax ahead, pushing food along.

Your brain sends signals too, but the gut’s own nerves help control these movements.

Source: niddk.nih.gov

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