how does the food reaches to the small intestine when we sleep at night just after having dinner, which is against the gravity as the food has to go parallel to the earth surface?

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how does the food reaches to the small intestine when we sleep at night just after having dinner, which is against the gravity as the food has to go parallel to the earth surface?

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Your GI tract is made of a type of muscle that contracts without you knowing and that contraction pushes the food down from the throat to the butt. The action is called peristalsis.

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