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Hey Kids! Did you know all this stuff about your digestive system? Some of it really gross and really cool. And probiotics can help that part of your body, and overall health, in a variety of ways. Read more to learn more: 
- Probiotics are good, benefitial bacterial that live in your tummy
- Probiotics means 'for life'
- Probiotics help protect against illness and are essential for life
- Probiotics boost the immune system, which helps keep you healthy
- Approximately eighty percent of our immune system originates in the gut
- Without the trillions of beneficial bacteria in our guts we could not survive
- Probiotic bacteria are essential for your system to digest food and absorb nutrients
- All the bacteria in a human gut weigh between a total of 2 to 3 pounds
- Your stomach is made of several layers of strong muscles
- Over the course of a lifetime, your digestive system may handle up to 50 tons of food
- Chewing food takes from 5-30 seconds
- Swallowing takes about 10 seconds
- Food can move around and be digested in the stomach for up to 4 hours
- It takes 3 hours for food to move through the intestine
- Your food can stay in the large intestine for up to 2 days
- Intestines become a length of at least 25 feet in a grown up
- About ¾ of your poop is made of water
- The remaining ¼ of the poop is made up of bacteria, indigestible fiber, and a mixture of fats, proteins, mucus and dead cells
- Why is poop so stinky? Bacteria produce smelly, sulfur-rich organic compounds
- Poop is brown due to the iron in the waste product bilirubin
- "Poop" originates from the Middle English word poupen or popen, and it originally meant "fart." The word was based on the sound of a fart. "Poop" came into use with its current meaning around 1900.
- Farts come from several sources: air we swallow, gas seeping into our intestines from our blood, gas produced by chemical reactions in our guts, and gas produced by bacteria living in our guts
- The odor of farts comes from small amounts of hydrogen sulfide gas and mercaptans in the mixture, which contain sulfur
- Foods such as cauliflower, eggs and meat are notorious for producing smelly farts
- Despite their reputation, beans produce large amounts of farts, but they are not particularly stinky
- Fart sounds are produced by vibrations of the anal opening
- On average, a person produces about half a liter of fart gas per day
- The average person farts 10 times a day
