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produce the acid in the stomach. Both these cells and other cells in any other
part of the body (for instance the cells of the eye) are twin cells originating
from the division of the same original single cell in the mother’s uterus.
Moreover, both of them have the same genetic information. This means that the
data bank of both cells includes genetic information about the proteins need-
ed by the eye and the acid used in the stomach. Yet, submitting to an order
coming from an unknown source, among millions of other pieces of informa-
tion, the eye cell utilises the information belonging to the eye and the stomach
cell utilises the information belonging to the stomach. What if the cells of the
eye that produce the proteins necessary for the eye (for a reason unknown to
us), began to produce the acid used in the stomach - about which they pos-
sess the necessary information? If something like that happened, a person
would melt and digest his own eye.
Let us continue to examine the amazing balance inside our body:
The rest of the digestive process is equally well
planned. The useful part of the food, which has been Villus
(pump)
digested, is absorbed by the lining of the small intes-
tine and diffuses through the blood. The lining of the vein
small intestine is covered with lateral folds that look
vein
like a wrinkled cloth. On each fold are smaller folds
lymphoid
called "villus". These folds increase immensely the channel
absorptive surface of the intestine. On the upper sur-
face of the cells over the villus are microscopic pro-
jections named "microvillus". These projections
absorb the food and function as pumps. The interiors
of these pumps are connected to the circulatory sys-
tem through a conveyance system furnished with A pump (villi) situated in the small
diverse conveyance routes. This is how the nutrition intestines that absorbs the necessary
materials from the digested food. There
that has been absorbed reaches the whole body are 200 million such pumps in a square
through the circulatory system. Each of the villi has millimetre, and each one of them functions
every second for the maintenance of our
nearly 3,000 microvillus. A 1 mm square area in the
life. In the figure are seen special channels
lining of the small intestine is covered by approxi- (veins, capillaries, and lymphoid channels)
found in the pumps and through which
mately 200 million microvillus. In an area of one
nutrients are absorbed.
square millimetre, 200 million pumps work, without
breaking down or becoming exhausted, in order to sustain human life. So
many pumps, which would normally cover a very large area, are squeezed into
a very limited space. This system sustains our lives by ensuring that our body
makes maximum use of the food we take in.

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