The Big Gallbladder Mistake That Leads to SURGERY (700,000 a Year)

What causes gallstones, and can you get rid of gallstones without surgery? Uncover the real cause of gallstones and gallbladder problems so you can address the issue at the root.

The real reason why you have gallstones. Did you realize that every single year 700,000 people have their gallbladder removed? That is insane. We treat the gallbladder as an extra organ that we don’t need. But at the end of this video, you’re going to have a much greater appreciation for your gallbladder, what it does, and what you need to do to salvage it.

And unfortunately, a lot of people that get the surgery have similar or the same symptoms as before the surgery, and sometimes even worse. And this video is not about getting you not to get the surgery. It’s just to giving you all the facts of what the gallbladder is, what causes a gallstone, and how to prevent them. When most people think gallstones, they think the person is eating a lot of greasy foods, too much fat, and that fat is triggering a gallstone. That’s what they think.

High cholesterol equals gallstones. That’s another thing that people talk about. But I bet you never heard this, low-fat diets are one of the single biggest triggers of gallstones. The gallbladder is a little sack. It hangs down from the liver.

Your liver makes something called bile. It trickles through these little tubes called bile ducts, and it goes into the gallbladder, and the gallbladder actually stores the bile, it concentrates the bile, and it regulates how much bile is extracted from the gallbladder into the small intestine. And so, it has a purpose. It’s not an extra organ at all. It’s super important in helping you break down fats.

Why do we need to break down fats? Well, number one, to extract the fat-soluble nutrients like vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E, vitamin K. Without bile, we can’t extract those key nutrients from our food. Also, what about omega-3 fatty acids? That’s really important.

Without bile, we can’t extract that. So, what the gallbladder does is it concentrates the bile to make it a lot stronger. So, that way, when it’s contracted, you have just the right amount of bile to break down the fat at a certain point, so then the pancreas can release its enzymes to take it to the next level. So, the pancreatic enzymes and the bile work together to make these little fat particles small enough to get absorbed in the small intestine. And some common myths that people have, they think the gallbladder makes cholesterol.

No, it’s made by your liver, and it drains down into the gallbladder because the gallbladder is just a little sack. And also, this bile that’s made by the liver, guess where it comes from? It’s made from cholesterol. And what a gallstone really is, it’s a combination of too much cholesterol and not enough bile salts. That’s what it is.

So, it’s a super concentrated cholesterol stone. Why? Because there’s not enough bile. So, there’s an imbalance with the cholesterol and the bile. But even before you get a gallstone, there’s something that has to occur first, and that is bile sludge.

And that kind of plugs up in these little ducts, in these tubes, and it backs up pressure into your liver, and then it can cause pain on your right shoulder through here that can radiate back through here, up to the neck, right through here. They think it’s a problem with the right shoulder, so they get that evaluated, and they get that treated. But really, it’s being referred down here by the sludge that’s in these little ducts. And sometimes even an MRI won’t pick it up because it hasn’t formed into a stone yet. And so, what is the elephant in the room?

The elephant in the room is that the bile salts are missing. You’re not producing enough bile for the amount of cholesterol that’s going on right here. And then, what happens when you remove the gallbladder? Now, we lost the storage of bile, so we don’t get the concentration anymore. So, then the bile has a weaker effect on the fat that’s coming in from the diet, and also, there’s not a regulation anymore.

And then, the other complication is there’s too much bile flowing through here, and so the person gets diarrhea. So, too much bile is diarrhea, and not enough bile is constipation. So, a lot of people ask me, “What supplements do I recommend? ” Now, of course, I’m not biased of my own high-quality supplement line. But if you go to Amazon and type Dr.

Berg supplements, you’ll find more information. But the big confusion that people have is they think gallstones are created by too much dietary fat. That is not true. You get more gallstones when you’re on a low-fat diet. Why is that?

Because fat is one of the things that triggers the production of bile coming from the liver, and also the contraction of that bile into the small intestine. So, without that fat, you don’t have that trigger, and so now everything kind of backs up. So, it’s not the dietary fat that is the problem. So, what is the real villain to this? Well, right here, sugar or hidden sugars is starch and too much insulin.

Okay? High-carb diets. Why? Because when you’re on a high-carb diet, you’re going to make a lot more cholesterol, and you’re also going to inhibit the production of bile. Like I just mentioned right here, going right into the sludge, into a stone.

This is why pre-diabetics and even diabetics have a much higher risk of getting gallstones than people that are not diabetics. It’s the sugar and the insulin that really puts you at risk. And one of the remedies that I recommend if someone has sludge and they have right shoulder pain is to actually take as a supplement some bile salts. One form that’s really effective is called Tudca. It is a synthetic bile, but it seems to work really good to allow the sludge to go through these ducts through here, and get rid of a lot of the fullness underneath the right rib cage and the discomfort that people have in this side right here.

And then also with the foods, I would recommend just taking some bile salts right after you eat, not before, because bile salts are alkaline. So, if you’re taking it before, it could potentially neutralize the stomach acid, because one of the things that also triggers this bile salt to be created and released is acid in your stomach. So, those people that don’t have enough acid in the stomach can also be at risk for gallstones as well, because you don’t have that trigger. The point is that if you understand what caused this, which is actually a lack of bile, part of the solution can be to just take the bile to start to undo the sludge or this gallstone that you have, and make it easier for things to flow, not as the ultimate solution, but as a coping mechanism as you fix the diet, as in lowering your sugar and starches, and going on a low-carb diet. And some people will ask, “Is it possible to take enough purified bile salts to dissolve the stone?

” And that really depends on how big that stone is. But even in the medical community, bile salts are used as a treatment for gallstones. And the question is, “Why don’t they recommend it more? ” I don’t know. Doctors are not necessarily recommending things that are not prescribed as much anymore, even though I think there are prescription bile salts.

But you can get them over the counter as a supplement. Now, I also want to talk about this next thing, estrogen, as in birth control pills, estrogen therapy, and even during pregnancy, the risk of gallstones goes up. Why? Because excess estrogen can increase more cholesterol, and it can also slow down the gallbladder contraction. So, therefore, we’re going to get more of the sludge and more concentrated cholesterol.

So, now you know another root cause of gallstones. It could be too much estrogen. So, you have to really identify what’s causing your gallstones, and you can just look at these two possibilities and see what makes more sense. Now, for me, I used to