What happens to adipose (body fat) when animals “use it for energy”?

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Does it move into the digestive tract, and then they pass it? Is it a separate mechanism? Where does it go and how does it get out?

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Except for some water, very few things pass from the body into the digestive tract–it’s usually the other way around.

Body fat molecules get released into the bloodstream, where they’re collected by the liver and processed into other chemicals that circulate in the bloodstream until cells pick them up. Waste products, like CO2, eventually get exhaled. Some waste products–and I’m not sure if fat metabolism produces any of these–get excreted through the urine.

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