Liver Gall Bladder Flush
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Natural Gallstone Removal
What is the
gallbladder's function?
Your gall bladder's main function is to collect and concentrate bile
produced by the liver that the body uses to digest fats. Think of
bile a bit like you would dishwashing liquid. Have you ever tried to
wash dishes with fat or grease on them in water without dishwashing
liquid? Not really effective is it? Not at least until you squirt a
little dishwashing liquid into the warm water then they are clean in
no time. Your gallbladder makes plenty of its own type of
"degreasing liquid" called bile. Bile becomes up to twelve times
more concentrated in the gallbladder (and hence much more effective)
than it was in your liver. Think about this, with your gallbladder
gone, your liver now has to produce, store and secrete bile. It can
do this but not as effectively as it can without that little purse
called the gallbladder hanging by its side.
The liver makes between 600 - 900 mls of bile each day, and what is
not sent during meals to the duodenum (beginning of your small
bowel) directly via the liver's main duct to emulsify fat, it is
diverted through a smaller duct (branching off the main liver duct)
to the gallbladder for storage until required. When fat in a meal
reaches the duodenum (where most of the food you eat is digested and
absorbed), hormones enter the circulation and along with nerve
signals, stimulate the gallbladder to contract.
This contraction, assisted by the small intestine's contractions,
induces the gallbladder's small round muscle and the stored bile is
propelled into the duodenum where it mixes with food from your
stomach and pancreatic juices from the pancreas by way of the
pancreatic duct. If you eat a fairly fatty meal (fish and chips for
example) your gallbladder can empty completely within one hour. It
is this combination of bile and fats that can make one feel "queasy"
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Bile itself is made up of water, salts, fatty acids, lecithin,
cholesterol, bilirubin, and mucus and has two main functions. The
first function is to help in the absorption and digestion of fats,
and the second to eliminate certain waste products from the body,
especially excess cholesterol and the haemoglobin from worn out red
blood cells, which have an average lifespan of 3 months.
In particular, the bile
(1) increases the solubility of fat-soluble vitamins, fats and
cholesterol to assist in their absorption,
(2) stimulates secretion of water by the colon to help move its
contents along,
(3) is a medium for excretion of bilirubin (the chief bile pigment)
as a waste product of destroyed red blood cells, other waste
products, medical drugs and their degradation products, and other
toxins.
Bile salts are in fact re-absorbed into the small intestine, and
re-secreted into the bile after extraction by the liver. All bile
salts in the body re-circulate some 10 to 12 times a day by means of
this so- called enterohepatic circulation. In each circulation small
amounts of bile salts enter the colon where bacteria break them down
for excretion with the feces.
Who is the greatest at risk of gallstones?
o Female gender: women outnumber men at least 2:1.
o Family history
o Forty or more years of age
o 3 children or more
o Diet: low calorie, low cholesterol, low fat. (especially a diet
like this after a diet high in fat)
o Diet: previously high in refined carbs, alcohol, chocolate, chips,
etc.
o Smoking
o High cholesterol history
o Constipation history
o Rapid weight loss
o Obesity
o Food allergy history
o Dehydration due to not enough water
o Liver problems like cirrhosis or past hepatitis infection
o Sensitive to penicillin antibiotics
Signs and symptoms of gallbladder problems
I have seen many women in the clinic who have for years on and off
never felt quite well in terms of their digestion. Many have
experienced a low grade ill feeling, a digestive discomfort which
was put down to indigestion, constipation or diarrhoea or even a
"grumbling appendix". They go on for years and years with digestive
symptoms and never realise that they may be related to a gallbladder
problem. That's because they are so inter-related with other
digestive symptoms and too easy for their doctor to say: "You are
fine; there is nothing to worry about".
Constipation is one of the most commonly missed complaints, and so
is farting. Don't be embarrassed here, we all fart, some men (and
plenty of smallish children) enjoy boasting about it but women do it
too and are generally totally embarrassed. Flatus is most common in
bed when you first lie down, during the night or when you get up.
This is because your bowel changes its position and gas more easily
escapes through the anus with the large intestine in a horizontal
rather than in a vertical position. Don't laugh, but do you
sometimes feel fat, frumpy and farty and at times "sicky" after
eating a fatty meal like fish and chips or chocolate? Does your
partner joke about how much you "let off"? Then you may very well
have a gallbladder issue.
The Four F's
Have you heard about the four f's? We learn when we study medicine
that women who are "fat, fertile, forty and flatulent" are often the
gallbladder girls. They are much more prone to having gallstones or
a sluggish liver and gallbladder. The following list provided here
may be related to gallbladder but please bear in mind that it could
also be something else. The first four symptoms mentioned are the
most indicative of gallbladder issues. It is not necessary to have
all or many symptoms to have gallbladder problems but the more you
have from this list, the more confirmation you have that your
gallbladder is involved. Please note that it is still advisable to
consult your GP for an accurate diagnosis.
Malta Valetta
Norfolk, Virginia
Cleveland, Ohio
Belarus Minsk
Egypt, Cairo: city limits
Savannah, Georgia
UK, London
Goulburn, Australia
Hartford, Connecticut
Central African Republic, Bangui
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