Digestive Diseases Digestive Diseases, also called digestive disorders or gastrointestinal diseases, are those that involve the gastrointestinal tract. The gastrointestinal (GI) tract consists of organs joined by a long hollow tube starting at the mouth continuing through your esophagus, stomach, small and large intestines to the anus. There are other organs along the way including the liver, gall bladder and pancreas. All of these organs help with digestion, which starts the moment something is put into the mouth.

Digestive diseases can have many causes such as stress, smoking cigarettes, allergies, m...

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