Question

If you are concerned with the health of your heart, you might be aware of your triglyceride level. Triglycerides are not soluble in water, but the enzymes that digest them are found only in a water environment. How does your body allow triglycerides to be digested?

Answer 1

Answer:

the triglycerides that enter the body through food (fats), are initially operated by the lingual lipase, which forms the food bolus that reaches the stomach where they are again metabolized by the gastric lipase; They then pass to the first portion of the duodenum, where they are attacked by pancreatic and bile juices transforming it into monoglycerides and free fatty acids. It is here that the greatest number of fat ingested is digested. The fatty acids that result from the process can be short or long chain, short chains pass directly to the liver where they will be used as energy, while long chain bind to a protein forming chylomicrons, which are transported by the stream bloody, to the tissues that need fats.