Our body is so perfectly designed and its highest priority is to maintain homeostasis (all your bodys systems working together to maintain an ideal environment). One of the greatest things about its design is that we dont have to worry about our bodys internal mechanisms and what happens to our food once we have swallowed it. It is all taken care of without any conscious thought from us. Sometimes however a wrench is thrown in our gears and causes some sort of dysfunction. Fortunately our body gives us warning signals and symptoms that let us know something is wrong.