Millions of people from many cultures suffer from gallbladder problems. The main health complaint is gallstones. Over the last few decades, the medical community has gone wild in their puruit of the gallbladder operation. But don’t we need our gallbladders? Of course. They carry out some very important functions, chief of which is to aid digestion by breaking down fats.

There are a number of doctors who feel that the high incidences of gallbladder removal surgeries are unnecessary even though it is now very common for doctors to perform the procedure. The biggest problem with gallbladders is that they form stones. If there are so many of these stones, or they get big enough, they can block the flow of bile (a fat-splitting enzyme). When a gallstone gets lodged, blocking the gallbladder’s exit, pain ensues. The pain, under your right ribcage, can cause pain all the way around your back as well.

Adjunctive Nutritional Schedule
DigestPlex: 1-2 tablets per meal (maximum 4 per day)
VitaLiv: 6 tablets a day
SuperGreens PhytoFood: 1T per day mixed in juice
Raw organic apple juice, drink a quart a week

Symptoms
Gallbladder problems may have one or more of these symptoms:
• Pain on the right side of the front of the body below the ribcage
• Pain radiating around the right side to the back
• Light colored stools
• Intollerance for fats
• Nausea from eating

Gallstone Flush
There’s a bit of controversy as to the effectiveness of what has been called the “gallbladder flush.” Basically, this program, which is found on many sites on the Internet, advises the use of apple juice, lemon juice and olive oil to dissolve stones, open the gallbladder and flush them out. Whether this works or not is up for debate, because some experts claim that what comes out as little gallstones are merely balls of “soap” which are created by the body from the olive oil. Other doctors say that stones really come out and the gallbladder is restored to health. As reported by Dr. Joseph Mercola, mercola.com,
“The Lancet recently reported the use of one quart of pure apple juice for one week. After one full week of the apple juice one cup of olive oil was used just before going to bed. The person was instructed to lay on their left side during the night. A high dose of magnesium can be used to facilitate the removal of the stones. Lancet December 18/25, 1999 354:2171”

Tim Cowan, MD, says of gallbladder problems (westonaprice.org), “First, do not believe that your gall bladder is diseased! Second, give your body what it needs, in this case more cholesterol. Once your body is convinced that you are serious and will provide it with a steady stream of cholesterol, which it desperately needs to stay alive, it will give up the flawed strategy of storing extra, the stones will dissolve and you will be well again. I know of two people who adopted this strategy, and within a year their stones completely dissolved. Actually, you might want to thank your gall bladder for devising such an innovative strategy for keeping you alive until you learned how to eat in a way that provides your body with the materials it needs to be healthy.”

While it seems that feeding yourself animal fat is contrary to other sources, according to Traditional Chinese Medicine, animal fats are ingested at the end of a treatment with a Chinese herb that dissolves stones and opens the gallbladder.
In any case, it seems that the gallbladder is irritated from a diet of processed foods, refined sugars, fried foods, bad fats and oils and too few nutrients in the diet.

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