Natural Remedies For Gallbladder Problems That Work
Gallbladder problems can be frightening. The pain and nausea that a gallbladder attack can cause may result in an emergency trip to hospital. Removing the gallbladder doesn’t fix a lot of people’s symptoms. It is possible to still experience pain, nausea and indigestion, and a person without a gallbladder may be more likely to develop a fatty liver and gain excess weight.
Hopefully you care well for your liver and gallbladder and never experience a severe gallbladder attack. If you know you have a gallbladder condition, the following strategies should be helpful:
Good things to do for your gallbladder
Start raw juicing using cabbage, carrot, ginger, mint and apple. See juice recipes in the book Raw Juices Can Save Your Life.
Include fresh green leafy herbs in your salads and raw juices. The best liver cleansing herbs are mint, parsley, garlic, chives, shallots, basil, coriander and small amounts of thyme and oregano.
Dress your salads with fresh lemon or lime juice. The acid can help to thin the bile and soften gallstones.
Take an ox bile supplement. This will help with digestion of essential fatty acids and fat soluble vitamins. It also helps to make the bile thinner; reducing sludge and helping reduce the size of stones.
Add one tablespoon of organic apple cider vinegar into ¼ of a small glass of warm water and sip it before your meals. Like with lemon and lime juice, it makes bile thinner and can help soften stones. If you don’t like apple cider vinegar, or it aggravates your throat, taking a betaine hydrochloride supplement has similar benefits. Acid in the stomach sends signals to the gallbladder, telling it to contract properly. This is helpful for people with an under functioning gallbladder.
Try not to eat all day. It’s important to give your digestive system a rest between meals. It’s best to eat 2 or 3 meals per day and minimize snacking.
Take a Digestive Enzymes supplement. This helps you extract more nutrients from your food and supplements, plus helps reduce bloating and indigestion.
Hot spices are good for the liver and bile ducts and good choices are wasabi, horseradish, mustard, garlic, curry, turmeric and chilli. If you have a sensitive stomach or gastritis only use small amounts of these spices or avoid them.
What to avoid if you have a gallbladder problem
- Avoid or minimize your consumption of dairy products. They make the bile thicker and make it harder for your gallbladder to contract.
- Excess alcohol
- Minimize high carbohydrate foods. Grains, cereals, starches, sugar and foods made of flour can all raise cholesterol and triglycerides and make the bile thicker. Those foods promote insulin resistance and that is one of the leading causes of gallstones.
- Seed oils and foods that contain seed oil. Check labels carefully; canola, soybean and sunflower oils are in so many processed foods. Olive oil and animal fats are healthiest.
- Sugary soft drinks and diet sodas
- Avoid dehydration. Drinking plenty of water helps to prevent the bile becoming too thick.
For more information see the book Save Your Gallbladder, and what to do if you’ve already lost it.
The above statements have not been evaluated by the FDA and are not intended to diagnose, treat or cure any disease.
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Biliary System: T1 hyperintense sludge within the gallbladder. No intra or extra hepatic biliary ductal dilation.
They GI said everything is fine nothing to worry about but I have been reading how sludge can turn into stones! I obviously want to stop that before it would happen. Any advice on how to get rid of the sludge and get things moving properly again? My liver is also enlarged so there are some detox issues going on.
Biliary sludge is an indication that you are not producing sufficient bile in your liver and your diet may not contain sufficient fats to encourage regular gallbladder emptying.
It is also likely that you have a degree of fatty liver which contributes to gallbladder sludge.
Fatty Liver usually occurs when the diet is too high in starchy high carbohydrate foods and/or processed foods.
Please check out Dr Cabot’s recent videos on the liver and gallbladder here:https://www.liverdoctor.com/category/videos/
To dissolve sludge, boost liver health and your vitality, Dr Cabot prescribes
‘Raw Juices Can Save Your Life’ contains therapeutic juices to stimulate liver function and, with it, bile production.
Livatone Plus – 1 cap twice daily for 2 weeks and then increase to 2 capsules twice daily, to improve liver function.
N-Acetyl-Cysteine (NAC 600mg) – 1 cap twice daily for 2 weeks and then increase to 2 capsules twice daily well away from food, if any upset occurs take at the beginning of your meals. This supplement works well with Livatone Plus to get your liver better faster. NAC should be taken with a whole glass of water away from food. Do not take just before retiring to bed. NAC can be strong on the stomach, and this is why you need to take it with a whole glass of water.
Collagen food – ½ to 1 teaspoon twice daily in vegetable juice or water to reduce oxidation, inflammation and boost liver health.
These can be purchased here:https://www.liverdoctor.com/products/supplements.html
Kind regards,
Jessah Shaw
Nutritionist
If you have a stone blocking your cystic duct you may need gall bladder removed.
If you have a stone in your common bile duct, this stone can be removed by ERCP and you can keep your gall bladder if gall bladder is not infected/damaged severely.
For pancreas you need SUPER DIGESTIVE ENZYMES and CREON in middle of meals.
Watch my videos on gallbladder on YouTube as they tell you what to eat to heal gallbladder and bile ducts.
Let me know how you get on
Dr Sandra Cabot
www.liverdoctor.com