White Bean Extract for Weight Loss Humorous Journey Through The Human Body.
I sat daydreaming in my chair one day as my mind started to wonder about what it would be like to shrink down to size to make a journey through the human body.
My first step is to find a suitable mode of transport. I cast my eyes on a tiny toy submarine and step into its interior to find to my delight that it's fully equipped for the journey. As I position myself at the helm of the submarine I familiarize myself with the controls and check that everything else is in working order.
Suddenly I find myself being shaken; I look into the periscope to see a child has picked up the submarine and throws it. It misses its target and lands in the food, unnoticed by the person eating I am in the process of being consumed.
My entrance into the mouth is like entering 'Luna Park' without paying for the admission fees; gleaming white teeth close like trap doors behind me and throw me into complete darkness. With my high beam lights on, I look through the periscope and see that the salivary glands in the mouth, located in the cheeks and under the tongue, are continuously and slowly releasing moisture in the mouth to soften and lubricate the food, so that it can be swallowed easier. The sight or smell of food or sometimes the thought of it starts a reflex action that causes the mouth to water! And because of this I am experiencing some turbulence in this area as my sonar is picking up some peculiar sounds, the splashing of the saliva juices, and a belching sound of a volcano is echoing in my ears. I experience a tumbling movement of the tongue as it is manipulating the food around the interior of the mouth. The teeth are housed in the upper and lower jaws and the gnashing sound of them is thunderous, as the food is being ground down to smaller portions! My ride is a bumpy one and I steer my submarine to avoid being crushed to death! As the force of the food being swallowed is causing my submarine to be propelled down a narrow tube, the passage of which is called the gullet, leading me directly into the stomach.
I experience a wave like movement in this tube causing my submarine to be whisked along to the stomach, but decide that I will detour and head towards the upper region of the throat, I see an organ that looks like it is made up of cartilage, muscles and ligaments. The two most important ligaments are the vocal chords, which, when air passes through them - at varying degrees - cause the cords to tense, (being like pulling a guitar cord tight and then releasing it), causing a vibration and an audible sound, being part of the airways system by which I now make my way down towards the lungs.
I head in the direction of the lungs and whilst the airway leading into this area is closed off by a small door which stops the food from entering into it, I use my controls on my panel to suspend my submarine above it and wait for my host to take a deep breath of air. This opens the door so that I can navigate my submarine into the opening. I make my way into one of the lungs and find that the air sacs which are surrounded by a network of web like blood vessels allowing the spent air in the blood to be passed through the lung wall and into them to be breathed out again. When fresh air is breathed in, it combines with the red blood cells and is carried by them to all parts of the body. In the meantime my sonar has picked up some sounds caused by some of the cells heading in my direction which have been alerted by my host's brain, it has detected an unbalance of air in one of the airways which I am exploring and has been sent to expel me as the intruder As the cells have not reached me yet, I prepare my torpedo tubes for launch as soon as they are sighted. In the meantime I hear what sounds like coughing. I engage my thrusters to direct my submarine into the gullet as I hear the next bout of coughing: the force of this action causes my submarine to rise, the power of my motors forces me along the passage and towards where digestion takes place.
My journey continues into the stomach, and as I enter I look through my viewing windows and turn on my windscreen wipers. I can see the contents clearly. I see it contains a membrane to protect the walls from the enzymes and acids, this sac like organ has a lining to protect it from the acids which are secreted by glands in the stomach wall, breaking down the nutrients in the food into simpler forms which are carried in the bloodstream to different parts of the body.
I exit the stomach and use my laser gun to make an opening in the wall of the small intestine and head towards the pancreas, noticing that this organ lies under the stomach, aids the further breakdown of foods, by supplying enzymes which break down starches, and balance the blood sugar levels. I leave the pancreas and speed towards the liver (which is the largest organ in the body). It is located on the right side of the abdomen under the diaphragm, it works at breaking down the fats, and it filters harmful substances from the blood, whilst acting as storage for vitamins and minerals. It maintains the proper level of sugar in the blood and it produces cholesterol in the body. Some of the nutrients are stored in the liver for later use.
Upon exiting, I enter the gallbladder, which is connected to the liver and looks like a small pear shaped organ, which stores bile. The bile is a yellowish greenish liquid, continuously made by the liver and stored in the gallbladder. When the fat leaves the stomach, it enters the small intestine, where it stimulates the flow of bile from the liver and gallbladder, which in turn digests and absorbs the fat.
I have now left the gallbladder and make my way towards the spleen, which is an organ that looks like a bean and is found under a muscular structure, called the diaphragm. The spleen acts as a blood reservoir and supplies the body with blood in emergencies such as severe blood losses, providing the body in time of need, maintaining blood volume and pressure. I make my way out of the spleen and torpedo the wall of the tube leading towards a skeletal muscle which is the diaphragm, being a dome shaped muscle which lies between the chest and abdomen and is attached to the lower ribs at each side of the breastbone and backbone. It acts as a platform for the lungs when atmospheric pressure forces the air into them, expanding when the diaphragm is relaxed and flattened. When it expands, however, it pushes the lungs upward, causing my host to breathe out.
As I am cruising along I now re-enter the small intestine from the hole in the wall which I made when I exited to go through to the pancreas. I look through the periscope and notice, that thread-like projections from the membrane lining in the intestinal wall absorb the products of digested food and also, that the intestinal tube ahead is broadening, indicating to me that I have reached the end of this passage. I torpedo the wall to gain entry into a hollow space through which blood flows, my vision has now become obscured with the parts of the intestinal wall floating around me so I engage my wipers to clean my viewing screens. My indicator lights on the instrument panel shows that the submarine is weighted down with the burden of the rubbish which it has collected on the surface and this must be removed to gain my buoyancy back before I can continue my journey. On the instrument panel I press the oscillate button and this, when engaged, is like a good shake to get rid of the debris that has adhered to the submarines surface. Unfortunately this did not remove all of the rubbish, I pump out the ballast tanks to get rid of the weight, but I am unsuccessful. My only other choice is to get out and sweep it. I anchor the submarine and enter the room where I can change into a suitable diving suit. When ready, I take with me an underwater cleaner, torch, sample bottle and remote control.
I plug in my cleaner and start sweeping the deck. Surprisingly, it is easier to get off than I imagined. I switch on my powerful torch so that I can check every nook and cranny on the deck and make sure it is spotlessly clean before I leave it. As I head back towards the submarines exit hatch I take a sample of the blood for later inspection. I then disengage my plug in and open the hatch door with my remote control and enter the change room, closing the door behind me. With my diving suit removed and stored I make my way towards the control area, releasing the anchor and engaging the motors. Now that the debris has been removed and the buoyancy been restored, I check the map and can resume my journey and make my way through to the veins and towards the heart.
I note with interest, whilst traveling through the bloodstream, that I am continually showered with blobs of blood and must maneuver between and around them to avoid the collection of more rubbish, adhering to the submarines surface. In the meantime I test the sample of blood which I brought back with me after cleaning the submarines surface, finding something interesting! For instance: that blood carries nutrients from the intestines to the liver and tissues and it takes the core substance from urine, and filters off other waste products for elimination. Also there are two kinds of glands: one is ductless (which means it secretes the products called hormones, which are the body's chemical messenger's, being carried by the bloodstream to the target organ, irrespective of how far it has to travel from the hormone producing gland. And the other one secreting its products into ducts which carries the secretions to other parts of the body: such as sweat, oil and digestive extracts).
Another amazing feat is, when the body's chemical messengers are alerted by a master gland called the Pituitary (which is situated at the base of my host's brain). It directs all other glands by releasing hormones, which control the activity of all other glands in the body. One other gland is called the Thyroid, which is actively involved in the body's metabolism and the way it uses its energy, as I have encountered next. It controls nutritional deficiencies and diet of the individual determining its general state of health.
Whilst traveling along the arterial routes, I have found that in places the tube was so narrow, that I could not go any further. I had to use my laser gun to remove a thick substance adhering to the walls, which looked like covering of fat and calcium deposits and other related substances, which the blood carries on its journey throughout the network of veins and arteries. Some of the wastes in the blood build up are caught in the narrowing of their walls, causing them to thicken and harden, making them less elastic. This causes the heart to work harder whilst pumping the blood into the narrowing passages. I will need to get out with a shovel to remove the fatty deposits on the deck to get my balance back, and work quickly before another army invasion sent by the body's immune system blocks my way. I change into my diving suit and take the remote control, torch and shovel. And I head out of the submarine turn on my torch and start shoveling the deck as quickly as possible. When all the fat is removed, I head back into the submarine and use the remote control to open the exit hatch door and close it behind me, taking all the implements with me, changing out of the diving suit and making my way back into the control room.
In the meantime my hosts' body has detected that something is wrong and its natural defense system has gone into full alert. An army has been dispatched by the body which detaches into units, each group attacks the body's invader in a different way, some release tentacles to which they attach themselves so that they can swallow up and digest my submarine, others become larger to make antibodies and this provides immunity against later attacks by the same invader. However, before they can get a stranglehold on me, I press the cloning button on the remote control. This sends in a replicated image of my submarine, whilst this army are kept busy I make my escape. Phew! That was a close call!
I am cruising along the vein that leads me towards the heart. I check the map and find that I have to turn left to reach my destination. I reach the heart and see it is a muscular pump the size of a fist, which is situated towards and slightly to the left of my hosts' chest, where it circulates the blood throughout the body. Each time the heart beats, it exerts pressure on the veins and arteries and this is called blood pressure. I note its division is in four chambers; of which the top left, with the corresponding bottom chamber circulates oxygenated blood from the lungs via the main arterial trunk, whilst the right chambers circulate the blood carrying the body's waste products, via the lungs and out of my hosts system.
I enter the pulmonary vein which will take me into the left top chamber of the heart. I enter, I hear a deafening sound of the heart beat, caused by the abrupt closing of the hearts inlet and outlet valves. I notice that the heart muscle in which I am in, causes me to wait for the pressure of the blood which will lead me to the exit of this chamber, continuing my journey out of the heart. I enter the main arterial trunk of the body and it supplies oxygen rich blood through arteries which branch from the main arterial trunk to other parts of the body.
As I leave this area and head down from the chest, I proceed towards the body's main artery at level with the diaphragm, which is a dome shaped skeletal muscle that's forming the floor of the chest area. According to my map, I reach the intersecting arteries and note that I have to turn right and into a kidney artery.
I continue my journey along this artery, which leads me into the kidneys! These organs function to remove waste products from the blood and regulate the salt and liquid content of the body. At the outer covering of the kidney I come across a tube producing urine, I see a dense forest of spider like veins and filters.
My descent from the kidney region is from a narrow tube which allows the passage of urine into the bladder. And as I enter, I find that it reminds me of a deflated balloon when empty and when full, the appearance of a pear because of its squeezing some of the bladder into the abdominal cavity.
I noticed that whilst I am in the bladder that the air in the submarine has become unpleasant, so I turn the air purifying system on and find that it does not seem to make any difference, as the fumes from the concentrated urine are overpowering. I wait for the bladder to fill and position my submarine to fire my torpedoes at the bladder wall to give my host a sharp pain. The stretch receptors in the bladder send signals to my host's brain for the internal valve to be relaxed through which urination is prevented until it is relaxed voluntarily. Normally my hosts' bladder and the abdominal muscles should cause the excretion of urine, but not in this case, since I am the cause of my hosts' discomfort. In the meantime I position my submarine in the narrow tube, which transports the urine to the outside.
My host has experienced discomfort in the bladder and has gone to a physician regarding this irritation, in order to find out the cause of the complaint he is supplied with a small bottle and asked to give a specimen.
At last daylight!!
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