February- Gallbladder and Bile Duct Cancer

Understanding the function of the Gallbladder and Bile Duct

For being such a small pouch, the gallbladder has an important task. And for the even smaller tubes, the bile duct has just as an important task.

What would one organ do without the other? How can the flow within the body continue to work properly if there is an interruption?

Grasping an Understanding

There is the process of ingestion, digestion, absorption, and excretion. When you eat, the mouth ingests the food, the esophagus digests the food, the small intestine absorbs, and the large intestine excretes, which means to poop. The flow during this process will vary from person to person, but this process occurs every time that food is consumed.

•Liver --> Gallbladder --> Bile Duct --> Small Intestine

•Produces Bile --> Holds Bile then releases when eats --> Where the bile travels --> Helps break down the fat in food in combination with the bile

How is bile produced?

First, the liver produces the bile. The liver produces the bile through a process:

There is the blood in the body.

The blood has different cell components, one of them being red blood cells (RBC).

The red blood cells contain hemoglobin. (Hemoglobin gives blood the color red)

Heme is a component of hemoglobin.

When heme is broken down, it produces Bilirubin. (Bilirubin is an orange-yellow pigment)

The liver takes the Bilirubin and changes it to Bile, which is a yellow-green fluid.

This is how Bile is produced.

There is a flow to the process. This flow is vertical and horizontal within the body. From top to bottom, as well as left and right.

More about the Gallbladder and the Bile Duct

with a story translator made up by me

Once the bile is produce by the liver, the bile is sent to the gallbladder to be stored until food is consumed.

Story Translator: The liver is a producing company called Liver Me Up, LLC. This producing company produces a product called Bile. Once the production of Bile is complete, Liver Me Up, LLC sends the product to the storage containment center Gallbladder Reservoir. Gallbladder Reservoir will store Bile until a signal comes that food is being consumed, which is usually by a phone call from the esophagus.

When food is consumed, the gallbladder will send the bile to the bile duct to flow to the upper small intestine, known as the Duodenum.

Story Translator: When food is consumed, the esophagus calls Gallbladder Reservoir so it can begin to transport Bile through a tube called Bile Duct. Bile Duct allows Bile to flow smoothly to the next designated location called Small Intestine. The specific department location Bile travels in the Small Intestine is called the Duodenum Department.

Once the bile is in the Duodenum, the bile and small intestine get to work by breaking down the fat in the food.

Story Translator: The Duodenum department of the Small Intestine is designed to specifically be a teamwork setting to work with the Bile to break down the fat in the food through a certain breakdown process to prepare for transport to the Large Intestine.

After this process, what food that has not been absorbed will be excreted in the large intestine.

Story Translator: Once transported to the Large Intestine, you poop.

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