What happens inside your body after you eat a fatty meal? 🟢🍔
Your gallbladder stores concentrated bile produced by the liver. When fatty food reaches the small intestine, hormonal signals can cause the gallbladder to contract and release bile through the bile duct.
But here's the surprising part: bile doesn't directly digest fat.
Instead, bile helps emulsify large fat droplets into much smaller droplets. This greatly increases the surface area available for digestive enzymes such as lipase to break down dietary fats.
In this Body Spectra 3D medical animation, we travel from the digestive tract into the gallbladder and down to the microscopic level to visualize how bile helps your body process dietary fat.
Discover fascinating anatomy, physiology, digestive biology, and hidden mechanisms of the human body through cinematic 3D scientific visualization.
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