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Your gallbladder is small, but its role in digestion is fascinating! Discover how this pear-shaped organ stores and concentrates bile made by your liver—and what happens when you eat a meal containing fat.

In this 3D medical-science animation, follow bile from the liver into the gallbladder, watch the gallbladder contract in response to digestive signals, and see bile travel into the small intestine.

You’ll learn:
• Why the gallbladder stores and concentrates bile.
• How digestive signals trigger gallbladder contraction.
• How bile salts disperse fat into smaller droplets.
• Why bile helps digestive enzymes work more effectively.

Explore human anatomy, digestive physiology, and the science behind your body's everyday functions through clear, visually engaging medical CGI.

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00:00Your liver makes bile continuously, but your gallbladder stores it and removes some water
00:06to concentrate it. After fat reaches your intestine, a hormone signals the gallbladder
00:11to squeeze bile out, helping enzymes digest fat.

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