Nutrient Absorption and ‘Leaky Gut’
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This video describes how nutrients are absorbed across the epithelial cell layer in the small intestine, as well as leajy gut syndrome.
Time Stamps
Macronutrients are broken into building blocks 0:15
Cool animation of intestinal villi 0:31
Structure of a villus 0:55
Types of membrane transport 1:37
Glucose, fructose, galactose transport 2:11
Nucleotide transport 3:45
Lactose intolerance 4:54
Amino acid, peptide transport 5:53
Food allergies 7:38
Water and ion transport 8:18
Fat transport 10:15
Vitamin B12 14:41
Leaky gut syndrome 15:24
Images from my Textbook: Human Biology, Anatomy and Physiology for the health Sciences or made by me
Some images from open-source Pixabay