How do we remove hydrophobic wastes?

[SSerenity]

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When we eat food, our proteins and carbs are broken down and go straight to the liver.
Some fats are broken down and take a different path through the lymphatic system, but end up in the liver anyways.

From what I understand, the fats traveling through the lymphatic system and arriving at the liver are either stored in hepatic or adipocyte cells.

The kidneys can excrete hydrophilic molecules no problem.
But not hydrophobic...

How does our body deal with excess hydrophobic waste that made it to our thoracic duct? Does the liver just stash them into hapatocytes/adipocytes and just keep them out of sight?

Also, I read that the liver can chemically modify these hydrophobes which allow them to be useful in the bile. Is this also an attempt at losing them in feces in the form of bile?

 

[Synapsis]

Well remember fats are fantastic stores of energy. When you metabolize these fats, the waste that's eliminated isn't necessarily hydrophobic. Beta oxidation, for example, generates a bunch of acetyl CoA's, which end up giving of CO2 as waste, which is of course eliminated through gas exchange.

 

[sakabato93]

Some unusable fats are mixed and excreted through bile.