A salt or ester of cholic acid, a compound found in bile that helps digest fats.
From cholic acid + -ate, the chemical suffix for salts; cholic comes from Greek chole (bile).
Cholates are essential for your digestive system—they emulsify fats so your intestines can absorb them, and they're so important that your body recycles them over and over, reabsorbing them multiple times a day!
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