How Dietary Fat Travels through Your Body
Dietary fat changes physical form during digestion and absorption so poorly water-soluble lipids can travel through the body’s watery fluids.
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Your Body Needs Sodium for More than Fluid Balance
Sodium gradients across cell membranes provide stored energy that cells use for electrical signals and the absorption of certain nutrients.
How Your Body Digests and Absorbs Dietary Fat
Dietary fat digestion combines physical dispersal by bile salts with enzyme breakdown, producing lipid components that intestinal cells can absorb.
How Your Body Digests and Absorbs Protein
Protein digestion breaks food proteins into amino acids and small peptides that intestinal cells can absorb for the body’s ongoing protein turnover.