Bile Support

Bile Support 60 caps | Pharmax
bile acids complete the conversion of the digestible fraction of foods to their building block components.

The enzymatic breakdown of food begins in the mouth where salivary amylase and lipase commence the breakdown of starch and fats respectively. In the stomach, there is a continued breakdown of fats with gastric lipase, and initiation of protein breakdown via pepsin.

These enzymes are adapted to the acidic environment of the stomach resulting from secretion of hydrochloric acid. In addition, the stomach physically has a ‘pummeling’ action to augment the break-up of food particles. After about two hours, the now semi-liquid chyme is passed into the duodenum and it is here where most digestion takes place.

Amylases, lipases and proteases are all produced by the pancreas and secreted into the duodenum/jejunum. These important enzymic complexes perform the bulk of the breakdown process with the help of nucleotidases and bile acids completing the conversion of the digestible fraction of foods to their building block components.

Finally, in relation to the digestion of carbohydrates, enzymes bound to the epithelial surface of duodenal/jejunal cells perform the final conversion of disaccharides to monosaccharides.