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your body needs to take nutrients that you eat and turn them into other molecules that can be used in your body. how does it do this?​

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As food passes through the GI tract, it mixes with digestive juices, causing large molecules of food to break down into smaller molecules. The body then absorbs these smaller molecules through the walls of the small intestine into the bloodstream, which delivers them to the rest of the body.

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