Willow Wellness
Ox-Bile - 60 Capsules
- Willow Ox Bile is derived from a bovine source and freeze-dried (lyophilized) to maintain its botanical activity.
Willow Ox Bile is derived from a bovine source and freeze-dried (lyophilized) to maintain its botanical activity. Ox Bile supplement is recommended to support healthy production of bile by the liver and improving digestion of fats, absorption of fat-soluble vitamins and elimination of waste products.
Directions for use: Take one to two capsules daily or as prescribed by your healthcare practitioner.
More about Ox Bile:
Consequent from a bovine source to maintain its botanical activity, Ox Bile is a suitable supplement to the liver’s production of bile.
Bile is gastral aid that helps your body process fatty acids and fat-soluble vitamins in a way that it can use them instead of just store them. Likewise, bile is part of the digestive system’s flushing process. Without it, the normal bacteria in your system starts to get rampant.
Bile salts are one of the primary components of bile. Bile is a greenish-yellow fluid made by the liver and stored in our gallbladder. Bile salts help with the digestion of fats in our bodies. They also help us to absorb fat-soluble vitamins like A, D, E, and K. Furthermore, to bile salts, bile contains cholesterol, water, bile acids and the pigment bilirubin. The role of bile (and bile salts) in the body is to:
Aid digestion by breaking down fats
Help absorb fat-soluble vitamins
Eliminate waste products
How Bile Salts Work
Bile helps enzymes in the body break down fats into fatty acids, which are needed for many body functions. Bile is made in the liver, then travels to the gallbladder through a channel that’s called the cystic duct. It is then stored in the gallbladder between meals. Once we eat, it’s squeezed through the bile duct to break down the food before it moves to the intestines.
Benefits of Bile Salts
Eliminate Cholesterol and Toxic Compounds: Bile salts are amphipathic, which means they have both a water and fat-soluble region. This allows them to bind to fats and oils and emulsify them in the gut, which is a water-based environment, so they can be broken down by digestive enzymes. This is how bile salts play a role in cholesterol regulation and help get rid of wastes and toxins through bile.
Near 500 milligrams of cholesterol are converted into bile acids and eliminated in our bile every day. Cholesterol is secreted into bile, which allows it to be eliminated from the body. Free cholesterol is insoluble in water-based solutions, but when it’s in bile, it’s made soluble by bile salts and lipids like lecithin. In this state, cholesterol can be transported and removed from the body through digestion.