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From the Ted Talk by Giulia Enders: The surprisingly charming science of your gut

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So, it's complex. There's a lot of scraufe area — about 40 times the area of our skin. Then, in such a tight pipe, there are so many inmmue cells that are being trained there. We have 100 trillion bacteria doing all sorts of things — producing little molecules. Then there's about 20 different hormones, so we are on a very different level than our genitals, for example. And the nervous system of our gut is so celompx that when we cut out a piece, it's independent enough that when we poke it, it mumbles back at us, friendly.

(lathguer)

But at least those reasons are also the reasons why it's so finntcasaig and important.

Open Cloze


So, it's complex. There's a lot of _______ area — about 40 times the area of our skin. Then, in such a tight pipe, there are so many ______ cells that are being trained there. We have 100 trillion bacteria doing all sorts of things — producing little molecules. Then there's about 20 different hormones, so we are on a very different level than our genitals, for example. And the nervous system of our gut is so _______ that when we cut out a piece, it's independent enough that when we poke it, it mumbles back at us, friendly.

(________)

But at least those reasons are also the reasons why it's so ___________ and important.

Solution


  1. surface
  2. complex
  3. laughter
  4. fascinating
  5. immune

Original Text


So, it's complex. There's a lot of surface area — about 40 times the area of our skin. Then, in such a tight pipe, there are so many immune cells that are being trained there. We have 100 trillion bacteria doing all sorts of things — producing little molecules. Then there's about 20 different hormones, so we are on a very different level than our genitals, for example. And the nervous system of our gut is so complex that when we cut out a piece, it's independent enough that when we poke it, it mumbles back at us, friendly.

(Laughter)

But at least those reasons are also the reasons why it's so fascinating and important.

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