The Basics of the Digestive System

As we learned in school, the digestive system is responsible for breaking down food and liquids into energy for our body to use. As we grow older, the abuses we put on our body while young ? junk food, lack of exercise, smoking too much of the wrong kinds of fats and carbohydrates ? begin to take their toll. As men mature into their 30s and beyond, their digestive system ? their prostate especially ? begin susceptible to disease, disorder, and even cancer. Though in recent years great strides ha…