PERSPECTIVE—Gallbladder surgery
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This week on A Different Perspective, Doc talks about the impact the gallbladder has on mental health and why you can’t live a perfectly healthy life without it.
- Has an effect on mental health status
- The gallbladder is not just a storage unit, but a sensory organ.
- Why is bile important?
- Bile regulates the gut bacteria, destroys pathogens, and is thought to be antimicrobial
- Bile is important for liver support in excreting toxins including excess cholesterol, excess estrogen, body waste, heavy metal, and so forth.
- Since bile helps remove excess estrogen, bile plays a role in sex hormones balance
- Helps you to digest fats, and stimulates muscle action to aid waste removal
- Enables the absorption of antioxidants and fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E, and K, essential fatty acids)
- Even some antioxidants in fruits and vegetables are fat soluble so you may not be able to absorb lycopene, lutein, and carotenoids for example
- If you’ve had your gallbladder removed, you’ll need to take something before you eat anything.
- What are some symptoms that you’re not absorbing your fats?
- Floating stool
- Digestive upset after meals
- Dry skin
- Hair loss
- Oil in your stool
- Stool light in color (tan not brown)
- Diarrhea several times or more per week
- Bowels that smell bad
- Sticky stool
- Skin rash
- Weight loss unexplained
- Gassy after meals
- Feeling nauseous after meals that contain fat
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Weak immune system
- Bleeding gums
- Poor wound healing
- Weak bones
- One way to keep the liver pumping things out regularly without a major dump is sipping on bitter things. Lime.
- The best herb for the gallbladder is dandelion root.
