Episode 39:30
The Great Fat Split
Bile and lipase, the two-step
- Oil and water.A blob of fat floats in the watery gut, and enzymes can only work on its surface.
- Bubble trouble.Bile, made by your liver and stored in your gallbladder, works like soap and breaks the blob into tiny droplets.
- Slice.More droplets means more surface, so lipase can snip the fat into fatty acids you can absorb.
Far-out fact
Bile isn’t an enzyme. It sets the table so lipase can do the cutting.
Bile
Lipase