Bile salts are recycled rather than lost. Where are they reabsorbed so the liver can reuse them?

1. Most components of bile leave the body in the feces, but bile salts are too valuable to discard. 2. They are reclaimed by a route called the enterohepatic circulation. 3. Bile salts are absorbed once they reach the ileum, the last part of the small intestine. 4. From there they travel back to the liver in the hepatic portal blood. 5. Hepatocytes then excrete the same bile salts into newly formed bile. 6. The duodenum and jejunum are where bile salts are still working as emulsifying agents, so absorption there would waste them. _Source: OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology (CC BY 4.0), Ch 23 "The Digestive System", section 23.6 Accessory Organs in Digestion: The Liver, Pancreas, and Gallbladder_