Gallbladder Removal (Surgery) - Vital Things to Know
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Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 17 March 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, we’re going to talk about the side effects of gallbladder removal. You can live a long, healthy life without a gallbladder, but unfortunately, 40% of people who’ve had their gallbladder removed end up with persistent pain and symptoms for a year or more.
Some of the common symptoms associated with gallbladder removal include the following:
• Constipation
• Diarrhea
• Anal leakage
• Fullness under the right rib cage
• Right shoulder pain
• Collins’ sign pain
The gallbladder is an extension of the liver that holds and concentrates bile. Every time you eat, it contracts and releases bile into the small intestine. Bile begins to break down fat, allowing the pancreas to further break down fat by releasing an enzyme called lipase.
Bile is critical for the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins A, E, D, and K, as well as essential fatty acids. Bile also helps you get rid of excess cholesterol.
A gallstone is a concentrated cholesterol stone that forms due to low bile. This is why bile salts are used as a remedy for gallstones.
If you’re low in bile salts, your liver will make more bile and cholesterol. Seventy-five percent of all the cholesterol in your body is made by your body. Only 25% of your cholesterol comes from the diet.
Here are some of the causes of bile deficiency:
• Estrogen (birth control pills, pregnancy)
• Stress
• Prednisone
• Diabetes
• High-carb diets
• High body weight
• Liver disease (fatty liver, cirrhosis, hepatitis)
• Low-fat diets
• PPIs
• Nutritional deficiencies
• Low melatonin
If you’ve had your gallbladder removed and you’re having symptoms, here are a few things that you can try:
•Gentle acupressure
•Bile salts after eating
•TUDCA for bile sludge
•Betaine hydrochloride to acidify the stomach
•Increase melatonin (infrared rays, improve sleep)
•Milk thistle, beets, dandelion greens, artichokes
If you have diarrhea, bile salts may worsen your problem. Follow a low-carb, moderate-fat, moderate-protein diet if you’re dealing with symptoms from gallbladder removal.
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| 0:00.0 | I want to share some information that every person who had their gallbladder removed should know about. |
| 0:05.4 | Unfortunately, they're not told to this information. |
| 0:08.9 | Now maybe you have a gallbladder problem, let's say gallstones and you're considering getting surgery. |
| 0:14.0 | I also want to cover some data about that and I will cover all the |
| 0:17.6 | complications that can happen once they remove the gallbladder and then |
| 0:21.5 | what you can do about it naturally. |
| 0:24.0 | But you can live a long life and be perfectly healthy without a gallbladder. |
| 0:27.6 | Okay, but 40% of the people who have their gallbladder removed end up having persisting |
| 0:35.0 | complications in pain and symptoms for at least a year, sometimes a lot longer, |
| 0:40.0 | either constipation or diarrhea, anal leakage, and you might even feel like a full |
| 0:46.2 | sensation underneath your right ribcage that could refer to the right shoulder or |
| 0:50.8 | you might have something called Collinsine, which is the discomfort on the tip of your scapula on the right side. |
| 0:57.0 | So if you reach your hand back there, it's like you might feel some weird thing going on. |
| 1:01.0 | Now let's say you have Golesdownes and they're |
| 1:03.2 | recommending getting surgery. Well I'm going to show you some other things that you |
| 1:07.0 | might want to look at but there's also the option of what's called lithotripsy |
| 1:11.9 | which is using sound waves to break up those stones versus doing |
| 1:17.1 | a surgery to remove the gallbladder. If anyone tells you that the gallbladder is an extra organ that is not needed, they are |
| 1:26.4 | lying to you because we need the gallbladder. It has a very important function. |
| 1:32.1 | So the gallbladder is an extension of the liver. So every time you eat, |
| 1:36.8 | your gallbladder contracts and it releases this super concentrated fluid called bile that empties into the small intestine. |
| 1:46.7 | And so the gallbladder is just a sack to hold and concentrate the bile. |
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