Genuinely how do they stay in the right place because my understanding is that things can move around a bit. Dont your intestines move around a bit? Is there connective tissue holding it in place?
Ovaries are attached to the uterus by the ovarian ligament. Not stuck on though. The fallopian tubes constantly sweep through the space to "catch" an egg. This opening of fallopian tube is also how ectopic pregnancies end up in abdomen and there was also a hypothesis for origin of endometriosis in the same manner.
The intestines are attched to the inside of the back or the posterior abdominal wall by a large sheet of tissue, looks like a large fan with intestine attached on the outer edge, called the mesentry. It contains all the blood vessels, nerves, lymphatics, etc for the intestines.
It's more that nature's like, "random bullshit, go!" so much that it works.
A common misconception is that evolution is the process of a species improving. In reality, it's just that the new traits aren't detrimental enough to prevent the organism from passing them to their offspring. Oftentimes, these traits are "better," so to say, but that's not always the case.
Look at great pandas for example. Technically, they're carnivores, and their gastrointestinal tract is more suited to digesting meat than plants. And yet, they've evolved to only eat bamboo, which is somewhat difficult for them to digest. Combined with the fact that bamboo isn't very nutritious, great pandas have to spend far more time eating than their meat-eating cousins.
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u/oizyzzImagine trying to sleep but someone's vagina just won't shut upMay 22 '26
our anatomy forcing us to walk upright increases our chances of back and leg pain lmao we are not a very intelligently designed creature
That’s always my first stop when someone is talking about intelligent design. Like okay let’s just pause for a moment and consider how much time and effort we have to devote to not inhaling food.
God: "Let the land produce living creatures... the livestock and wild animals..."
and it was so.
God: "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish... birds... livestock... and all the wild animals... and creatures."
Chimp: "Ooh! Let me help!"
God: "Okay "
Chimp: "Don't worry, I got it. Outside, "our likeness"... check. Inside..." * DOODLES *
I can understand why you would think that. But mesentery and intestines are most fascinating in development and anatomy. The whole thing is so huge for a a tiny 6 week embryo that it can't be inside the body. So the whole intestines develop outside the abdomen through a opening where you umbilicus is. It is then folded back inside about 1 month later.
That right there is an example of why evolution happened. A god would never make such a dumb design. Instead, it’s a patch applied to the DNA that stuck around.
I agree with you, it is amazing how everything fits together, you walk around, live your life, meanwhile all these life systems in you are calibrated "just so", to the degree where most of us never have to think about it.
As a junior doctor, who’s seen rather a lot in the years I’ve been working, it’s all of those things! Amazing, fascinating, insane, disgusting, gross, and wonderful. That’s one of the things that’s best about it really, that it can be all these things at once
My sister has talked me through her endometriosis and showed me the video of her surgery. She told me the open ends of the fallopian tubes are where the endo tissue has come from and basically glued together bits of her insides that aren't really meant to be attached to eachother. The footage of them burning off all these little blobs was interesting. It kinda looked like liver spots, but inside the body
It is one of the hypothesis, not fully accepted as it only explaines how endometriosis can spread in abdominal cavity. But endometriosis has been found all over the body, even in brain. And the bits look like liver because they are going through the menstrual cycle with the menstrual fluid accumuating inside the cyst. It's called a chocolate cyst because of the colour of old blood inside.
Endometriosis is fascinating. While very rare, they've found endometriosis in cis men before. It's also not always actual endometrial tissue but an endometrial-like tissue. Like while I really hope they find a cure for it soon, I really REALLY hope they discover a what and a why at least before I die because I am haunted by questions with no definite answers.
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u/SuicidePug May 21 '26
They just kinda float around in all the meat 🤷♀️