This YouTube video (created and uploaded by Sachin Patel on Dec 28, 2023) explains how digestion is initiated and guided by the senses: vision draws attention to food, olfaction (smell) provides cues and associations, and tasting with saliva and taste buds begins chemical breakdown while informing the body whether the item is nutritious. The speaker walks through the visual → olfactory → gustatory sequence and emphasizes the body’s assessment of nutritional value.
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When we swallow a pill or a capsule, we're bypassing that biological communication. So, you know, if we think about it, if we break it down, so. So digestion starts with your eyes. You know, you see something, maybe it's a bright color. You see the shape of something. You see a photo, whatever it is, and you're immediately pulled into it. And that could be due to your associations with whatever you're seeing or just because it's a beautiful photo, right? And then you bring that. Let's just say it's some produce. Then you bring that closer. Now you're. You're. You're accessing your. Your. Your smelling, your. Your olfactory station, right? And so now you get these smells, and those are triggering, you know, kind of concepts in your brain, right? And now you take a bite. And now your saliva, you know, it's touching your taste buds. Your saliva is. Is. Is conjoining with it, and you're breaking it down. And all this starts to communicate your body of, okay, A. Is it nutritious? What does it have? And does it have stuff that we need and want? And so then the body starts to process it.
