The Vital Gallbladder-Thyroid Connection

Get access to my FREE resources 👉 https://drbrg.co/3UvXc09

I’d like to show you some interesting connections between why you may develop gallstones or have gallbladder problems and its relationship to the thyroid okay or if you have a hypothyroid problem how that could relate to your gallbladder in bile salts I really wish it was easier to find these connections when you do your research on these topics but it’s been difficult but I did it and I’m going to summarize it right here there’s some real interesting relationships between the gallbladder and your thyroid and unfortunately this is the type of thing that your doctor should be telling you so let’s first start out talking about what is bile bile is composed of many things you first of all have bile salts in the bile and that’s made out of potassium sodium calcium bicarbonates are like a compound that is alkaline and it’s also made out of chlorides so 67 percent of bile is bile salts but then you also have something else in bile salts and that’s called lecithin so 22 percent of bile is made out of lecithin and lecithin is a choline compound that helps you break down fat and cholesterol so bile is made out of bile salts lecithin which has choline in it also bile is made up of cholesterol and that’s really how bile salts are created from cholesterol and if there’s too much cholesterol and not enough bile salts that’s when you get gallstones so we have the cholesterol we also have bilirubin which is like the end product of red blood cells and you have a little bit of protein in there and transported through the body okay so that term is called conjugated okay so that allows it to travel through the body in a very similar way to cholesterol being attached to a protein that’s why they called an ellipoprotein to be transported through the blood and then as these bile salts travel through the intestine bacteria take the amino acids away and then they unconjugate it and then now it’s allowed to be recycled and so one of the really important purposes of the liver is to make bile and bile is the primary mode of cholesterol elimination and also a lot of the drugs and chemicals and toxins are eliminated with the help of this bile and of course bile has another purpose of helping you break down fats and helping in the absorption of vitamin A d e and K omega-3 fatty acids very very very important and one point about this cholesterol the majority of cholesterol in the body is actually made by your own body you have dietary cholesterol which is about 25 but 75 percent of the cholesterol is made by your own body and this cholesterol is really necessary to help you make bile to help you make hormones especially like estrogen progesterone and even the stress hormone called cortisol also you make Vitamin D from cholesterol so cholesterol is really really important now what’s interesting about the thyroid is when the thyroid is low you have this hypothyroid condition and even if it’s subclinical so it’s not like a major problem it’s a smaller problem that is going into the direction of a full-blown hypothyroid situation the person has a susceptibility a developing stones and when someone is treated with thyroid hormones okay T4 for example a lot of times these Stones go away so the more thyroid hormones you have the less you’re at risk for developing Stones so that’s one interesting relationship also when the thyroid is sluggish as in hypothyroidism the production of bile salts goes down and so if you’re not making the bile salts guess what you’re going to get costumes also without enough thyroid hormones the metabolism of cholesterol is diminished here you are having all this cholesterol in the body but it’s not really broken down it’s not metabolized you can’t really use it the receptors for LDL don’t even actually work so you get the situation where you’re getting a buildup of more cholesterol without the bile to break it down and so again we have another risk of getting gallstones because we’re getting more cholesterol the body can’t use it without the bile salts so you have this super saturated cholesterol Stone that’s developing also your bile ducts won’t be able to relax if the thyroid hormones are sluggish so in a hypothyroid case you can develop stones in the ducts because they’re kind of more constricted or you can develop stones in the gallbladder itself and then there’s another connection if the thyroid is sluggish you’re going to be on the cold side and at the temperature in your body is too cold guess what the enzymes don’t work anymore so now the enzymes in the pancreas are not going to help you break down this fat the activation of the enzymes in the liver are not going to be that great as well as the formation of bile all right so we have that connection right we have this hypothyroid problem that can create Stones right now on the flip side bile salts help in the conversion of T4 to T3 to actually activate the thyroid hormones you see T4 is the inactive version of the thyroid hormone T3 is the active version to help this conversion bile is needed so you may have a lot of thyroid hormone like T4 but you can also experience the symptoms of a hypothyroid because they’re not being activated so we have two problems one is are you producing enough thyroid hormone or is the problem the conversion okay so you have to differentiate which is which it takes a really healthy thyroid to make good bile but it also takes bile to actually create a healthy thyroid the one big common problem probably the most common problem with a hypothyroid situation is that the person has an autoimmune type hypothyroid situation it’s called Hashimoto’s in that case there’s a completely different mechanism it’s not really a thyroid problem per se it’s an immune problem that’s attacking the thyroid so you have antibodies and I actually have a really good protocol and I will put that link down below if you have Hashimoto’s 90 of everyone with hypothyroidism has um Hashimoto’s okay and for that you definitely need to avoid gluten and Grains for sure another common cause of thyroid problems is a high level of cortisol it’s adrenal stress and that can shut down the thyroid so the thyroid is secondary the adrenal is primary and a couple reasons for that it could be stress or let’s say you’re menopausal right and you’re going through this transition where your adrenals are backing up the ovaries and let’s say you’re on a low fat low cholesterol diet well your adrenal hormones like cortisol and other hormones like estrogen and progesterone are made out of cholesterol so if you are on a low fat diet or a plant-based diet you’re not going to get enough cholesterol and that could be the very reason why the adrenals tank down and the thyroid goes down because you don’t have the raw material to make these hormones just by supplying more fat going on a healthy version of the ketogenic diet can supply the raw material to start making more adrenal hormones that can then reduce the cortisol situation and give relief to your thyroid and remember it takes cholesterol to make bile so being on a low-fat diet or a low cholesterol diet can cause you not to even make enough bile to not activate the thyroid hormones so we need that cholesterol also what activates the production of bile is fat in the diet animal fats so if you’re not having enough animal fats don’t make enough bile that right there can increase your risk of gallstones as well as your risk of gaining a hypothyroid situation because one we don’t feed the adrenal hormones okay so then we get higher cortisol and we don’t make enough bio to make the conversion from T4 to T3 so as you can see there’s a lot of different things going on there’s some complexities but I wanted you to understand some of these important connections so you can have a light bulb go off and make some changes because I think it’s really important to just look at all these fact