What is Gallbladder? – Explained by Dr. Berg

Learn all the basics of the gallbladder in this quick video.

hey guys dr. Berg here in this video I wanted to  answer the question what is the gallbladder okay now the gallbladder is located underneath the  right ribcage right here okay you can see this is the liver on the right side as a little 

• the liver makes a fluid that goes into the gallbladder okay and the gallbladder basically  stores bile B IL e okay now bile is not waste or bowel like people think it’s like waste it’s  now bile breaks down fats it breaks down facts it’s fats like a like a detergent will dissolve  grease it breaks down fat into small little tiny particles so then certain things from the pancreas  certain enzymes like lipase which basically breaks down fats worked in the small intestine to take  that already broken down fat into really tiny particles of fat called essential fatty acids  okay so that’s what it does so the pancreas and gallbladder work together to absorb and break down  fats so the gallbladder secretes this vial when you eat fat that’s when it’s supposed to release  it if you don’t eat fat it’s not going to release it so it’s stores bile it also concentrates file  so the bile in that gallbladder is super strong so you don’t need much of it probably like one  ounce or two ounces of it and it squashes out and it comes in the small intestine it does its  work right there so here’s the thing if you’re actually consuming six meals all day but with  snacks you’re doing three meals and using snacks between at night you’re grazing and every time  you’re eating you’re basically releasing some bile especially if you’re eat any type of nuts or fats  or anything like that well guess what you’re going to really create a loss of this concentration of  bile because you’re constantly eating is constant it doesn’t have a chance to concentrate so you’re  going to actually eventually be deficient in bile so we’ll talk about that in a little bit but and  that’s why in tremendous fasting is so healing to the gallbladder because it allows the gallbladder  to concentrate its file and not have to work so hard that means eating without snacking through  the day okay so it concentrates the bile it also kills bacteria in your food that’s pretty  cool alright so now let’s go back to this bio thing the most of emulsification comes from the  latin word which means milk which actually means combining water and fat and that’s what milk is  it’s like a combination of a substance that has water and fat together because you notice that  fat and water don’t mix well when you emulsify it can actually mix better and that’s why the bile  is emulsifier it’s kind of like a it allows the fat to be broken down and dissolved and mixed up  within the rest of the the food coming down from the small intestine because if you didn’t have  anything to break down the fat the fat would just kind of go right through you and it wouldn’t  be dissolved so bile also helps you lubricate the colon so when you’re deficient in bile you  become constipated okay also if you don’t have a lubricated coal and you’ll have pain when you’re  actually digesting when the food kind of does goes through because it’s not lubricated also by UPS  alkalis the stomach acids coming down from the stomach so they’ll have the super concentrated  acids from the stomach thank goodness we have the bile to help neutralize it because the bile  is alkaline alright now how do you know if you’re deficient in bile well first of all your stools  are going to float I don’t know if you’ve ever tried this as a kid work or you’ve probably seen  people when they have the little stools floating in the toilet and you try to flush it it doesn’t  go doesn’t go down it just keeps floating that’s some serious amount of fat in there that that  person does not have enough bile to break down the fat okay so the stool should sink unless  it has too much fat okay so also a pale color that would be a lighter color that would be an  indication of lower low bile also bad odor anal leakage and it’s oily so those people have low  bile because the oils is kind of going right through them we talked about constipated bloating  probably right shoulder pain but this is the big thing they’re going to actually be deficient in  fat soluble vitamins that’s vitamin A so there goes the eyes there goes the skin it goes with  sinus also vitamin D bone pain poor immune system that’s low vitamin D levels because they don’t  have enough file vitamin E that’s heart skin hormones vitamin K clotting factors bruising also  of k2 high up getting rid of soft tissue calcium from the arteries very important and then you have  a essential fatty acid absorption so essential fatty acids are those very the color essential for  a reason because we need them very important for your heart very important as an anti-inflammatory  they’re important for the cell structure in the cell wall very important to your skin so if you  can’t absorb essential fatty acid you’re going to have dry skin dry hair so we got even your mood  is affected by essential fatty acid there’s a lot of people who take omega-3 or DHA all these  healthy fats for certain health conditions well without this bile you can’t absorb it okay so  if you feel like you’re deficient you just need to focus on improving the function of their let’s  say you may be deficient in bile okay what do you do you can get a purified bile salt product okay  I use one called the gall bladder formula this doesn’t necessarily just have purified bile salts  it has a lot of other things it has stone root to help resolve gall stones it has pancreatic enzymes  to help you take the pressure off the digestion it has the pain hydrochloride to help digest the  acidify the stomach so it helps the stomach but got the pancreas the gall bladder Spanish  black radish slippery elm bark to lubricate these little things so it’s a really good formula  I like it and you take that app Amil you take one after meal you don’t need more than that and some  people just take it after one meal now when do you know that you don’t need file is when you have  diarrhea why because bio will actually increase the elimination so if you’re already eliminating  too much you don’t need bio okay also if you have a hyper thyroid the fire is moving too much and  you add bile to it which you don’t want to add that product that’s going to speed up more thyroid  hormone and you’ll have a more hyper thyroid this would be good for taking bio will be good for  someone that has a hypothyroid because bile is necessary for the conversion of t4 to t3 thyroid  so it makes your thyroid work better if it’s slow so the only reason you wouldn’t want to take it  is if it’s too fast which is more rare but just want to make that note so I hope that helped you  understand the gallbladder a bit more on what it is and people just take these things out like  this like it’s not important but it really is important try to keep your gallbladder at all  cost alright thank you so much for watching