The liver performs many different functions, such as filtering and storing blood, metabolizing carbohydrates, proteins, fats, hormones, and foreign chemicals, forming bile, storing vitamins and iron, and forming clotting factors.
One of the functions of the liver is to secrete bile, from 600 milliliters to 1 liter per day. And bile has two important functions: one is in the digestion and absorption of fats, because bile acids help to emulsify food particles for absorption of fat through the intestinal mucosa. The second is the excretion of various blood products, especially bilirubin, the breakdown of hemoglobin and excess cholesterol.
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The gallbladder concentrates bile salts, cholesterol and lecithin, and it is stimulated due to the passage of fat in the duodenum. If you have a lot of fat in 1 hour the gallbladder empties. Bile salts work like a detergent action on fat. And thus helps with absorption.
Since the liver is an expandable organ, large amounts of blood can be stored in its blood vessels. The liver has high blood flow and about 1 liter of blood flows every minute.
The blood flowing through the intestinal capillaries collects many bacteria from the intestines and is collected at the entrance to the liver, and the cells in the liver efficiently clean the blood. The bacteria, in 10 milliseconds, is digested upon contact. It is estimated that less than 1% of bacteria manage to escape.
One of the functions of the liver is to secrete bile, from 600 milliliters to 1 liter per day. And bile has two important functions: one is in the digestion and absorption of fats, because bile acids help to emulsify food particles for absorption of fat through the intestinal mucosa. The second is the excretion of various blood products, especially bilirubin, the breakdown of hemoglobin and excess cholesterol.
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The gallbladder concentrates bile salts, cholesterol and lecithin, and it is stimulated due to the passage of fat in the duodenum. If you have a lot of fat in 1 hour the gallbladder empties. Bile salts work like a detergent action on fat. And thus helps with absorption.
Since the liver is an expandable organ, large amounts of blood can be stored in its blood vessels. The liver has high blood flow and about 1 liter of blood flows every minute.
The blood flowing through the intestinal capillaries collects many bacteria from the intestines and is collected at the entrance to the liver, and the cells in the liver efficiently clean the blood. The bacteria, in 10 milliseconds, is digested upon contact. It is estimated that less than 1% of bacteria manage to escape.