The absorptive state, or the fed state, occurs after a mealwhen your body is digesting the food and absorbing the nutrients(catabolism exceeds anabolism). Digestion begins the moment you put food into your mouth, as the food is broken down into its constituent parts to be absorbed through the...
Micelles are essentially small aggregates (4-8 nm in diameter) of mixed lipids and bile acids suspended within the ingesta. As the ingesta is mixed, micelles bump intothe brush border of small intestinal enterocytes, and the lipids, including monoglyceride and fatty acids, are taken up into ...