Episode 137: The Digestive System
The Science of Everything Podcast
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The Role of the Liver in Digestion
The liver has so many functions that it really deserves a whole episode to itself at the very least. Here I'm just going to talk about its primary function in terms of digestion, which is to produce bile. It's also involved in detoxification, metabolism of carbohydrates, Bragg down of red blood cells but here we'll just focus on the fact that it produces bile. Byle emulsifies droplets of lipids into liquid substrates and then allows digestive enzymes to come into contact with them.
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