What does the liver do while food is the small intestine?

Answer 1

Not in the same way food enters the gut, no.

Big chunks of food enter and pass through the gut the way most people envision it. Food enters the mouth, then enters the pharynx (throat), the esophagus, and then the stomach and small intestine, where the bulk of digestion occurs. It's at about this point where food doesn't really exist as chunks of food anymore thanks to the actions of acid and digestive enzymes. By now it exists as the components of food -- carbohydrates, fats, and amino acids.

These components of food get absorbed and enter the bloodstream en route to the liver. The liver actually drains the blood supply of the gut so that the liver is the first organ to see the carbohydrates and amino acids being absorbed from the diet.

The important difference is that food enters the various segments of the gut by a slow process that pushes the food from one segment to the next (called peristalsis). In each segment, food is still in its recognizable form (big chunks of food). The difference in how "food" reaches the liver is twofold: 1) the liver doesn't see food itself -- instead it sees the components of food (carbohydrates, fats, and amino acids), and 2) these components reach the liver through the bloodstream, and not through the same peristalsis mechanism by which food enters individual segments of the gut.

Answer 2

The bile is produced in liver and then it collects in the bile duct and is released from the bile duct into the small intestine where it meets food. The food doesn't go near the liver, it goes past the pancreas which then empties the enzymes into the small intestines. The food goes into the small intestine where it meets bile and enzymes.

Answer 3

When food enters your small intestine, it is met with digestive juices produced in your liver and pancreas. Your liver produces digestive juices.

After your food is digested your small intestine or your large intestine sends the digested food through veins to your liver. It is stored, further processed, or sent into the blood stream depending on your body's needs.

Your liver also produces chemicals that your body needs. It produces platelets so your blood can clot. It produces HDL and LDL cholesterol. Your body uses LDL to digest fat and to carry fat to cells. Your body uses HDL to clean up excess LDL.

Your body needs insulin to burn glucose but can burn fructose without insulin. However, if you eat too much fruit, Your body needs to store it. Your liver turns it into triglycerides, a type of fat.

Finally, your liver cleans out garbage. Along with digestive juices your liver sends the garbage out through the beginning of your digestive system. There it is either re-digested or eliminated.

Answer 4

Food doesn't go directly to the liver. By the time it gets to the liver by way of the hepatic vein it is has a milky consistency from being mixed with enzymes from the pancreas and having been broken down and absorbed through the wall of the small intestine.

Answer 5

It gets ready for the food to come to it..... i think

Answer 6

Food is actually digested by the small intestines. The food is converted into nutrients. These nutrients are supplied by the blood to the liver and all other parts of the body.