Once the food that you eat has been broken down into simple components, you’re ready for absorption, the third stage of nutrition. Most digested nutrients – amino acids, simple sugars, vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients – pass directly through your intestinal walls into your bloodstream. This takes place in the ileum, which is part of your small intestine.
The inner walls of the ileum are covered with thousands of minute, finger-like structures called villi. Some digested food passes through the thin walls of the villi into tiny blood vessels. However, digested lipids (fats) and fat-soluble nutrients need more work, so they take a less direct route. Lipids are absorbed into special vessels of the lymphatic system before moving into your bloodstream.
If you’ve handled the first two stages of nutrition well, you won’t have to be absorbed with absorption. It should happen easily.
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