how is bile important for digestion
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Your liver makes a powerful digestive juice called bile. Next, the bile passes to the gallbladder which concentrates and stores it for later use. Bile helps break down the food you eat. Bile's most important role is breaking down fats. :)
Between meals, bile salts are stored in the gallbladder, and only a small amount of bile flows into the intestine. Food that enters the duodenum (the first part of the small intestine) prompts hormonal and nerve signals that cause the gallbladder to contract. As a result, bile flows into the duodenum and mixes with food and your stomach acids and digestive fluids from the pancreas, which helps the intestines absorb nutrients into your bloodstream.
Bile is also responsible for getting rid of certain waste products from the body, such as hemoglobin from destroyed red blood cells and excess cholesterol.
Bile reflux occurs when bile backs up (refluxes) into your stomach and the tube that connects your mouth and stomach (esophagus). Bile reflux sometimes happens along with acid reflux (backwash of stomach acids into your esophagus). Unlike acid reflux, dietary or lifestyle changes don't usually improve bile reflux. Treatment involves medications or, in severe cases, surgery.