And before our body, our cells actually absorb these carbohydrates into the cells, we have to break down those carbohydrates, the polysaccharides, into their individual form, into their monosaccharides. And the way that our body breaks down these polysaccharides, these long chain carbohydrates, is by using specialized types of proteolytic enzymes that we're going to focus on in the next several lectures. Now, the process that these enzymes use is known as hydrolysis. That basically means they use water to basically cleave the bonds that connect the individual sugar monomers. So hydrolysis is used not only in carbohydrate breakdown, but also in the breakdown of proteins and lipids. In fact, hydrolysis is the most common type of catabolic process that exists inside the body.