Friday, May 20, 2011. Managing eczema on your scalp. Scalp eczema doesnât get much press, but a lot of us live with the problem every day. Me, for example: I own virtually no dark-colored tops, because a snow of skin flakes shows up within seconds.
Trypsin is secreted into the duodenum, where it acts to hydrolyse peptides into their smaller building blocks, namely amino acids (these peptides are the result of the enzyme pepsin breaking down the proteins in the stomach).
The Stomach. The primary function of the stomach is to break large proteins into smaller peptides and peptones. Pepsin is an enzyme produced in the acidic environment of the stomach (1.5 to 7.0 pH) which digests proteins into smaller peptides of varying lengths.