What is the function of human gallbladder

I believe everyone is familiar with the substance called bitter gall. In people's daily life, many people use snake gall to make wine for drinking, which has many effects on the human body, such as clearing away heat and detoxifying, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, etc. Humans naturally have gallbladder, which is an indispensable organ for the human body. It plays many very important roles in the human body. So what exactly is the role of human gallbladder? Let's introduce it in detail below.

Gallbladder is a substance that exists in everyone's body. Normally, bitter bile is not easy to see. When a person vomits violently, bile may flow back from the small intestine to the stomach and be vomited out from the mouth.

We can all see that bile flows out of the gall bladder in animals such as chickens and ducks. In fact, the gallbladder is just a storage depot for bile, and its real manufacturer is in the liver. The cells of the liver can produce bile, which passes through small bile ducts and finally converges into the hepatic bile duct and leads to the gallbladder, where the bile is stored.

The liver produces about 500 to 1,000 ml of bile every day, which flows into the gallbladder, where water is absorbed and the bile is greatly concentrated. When needed, the gallbladder contracts to release bile into the duodenum to aid digestion.

Bile has two characteristics. One is that it is bitter because it contains bitter bile salts. The other is that it is dark green in color, which comes from bile pigments. Bile pigments are the products left over after the destruction of red blood cells and have nothing to do with digestion. Only bile salts are necessary for digestion.

We all have the experience that greasy dishes cannot be cleaned with water. Degreasing agents reduce the surface tension of fat droplets and act as emulsifiers. At this point, the fat breaks down into fatty acids and glycerol, both of which are soluble in water. The fat in food also needs to be dissolved in water so that it can be absorbed and utilized by the body in the intestines.

The function of bile salts is to emulsify the fat in food and then enable pancreatic lipase to break down the fat. Without the presence of bile, fat cannot be broken down, absorbed, and utilized even with pancreatic lipase alone. People with gallbladder or liver disease are always afraid of eating greasy food. This is because patients often suffer from diarrhea because they cannot absorb the fat after eating greasy food.