The gallbladder is one of the most picked on organs out there. The frequency of patients presenting to my office that have had their gallbladder removed is staggering. Unfortunately the majority of those removed weren’t the problem.
Gallstones are extremely common and rarely create any problems. With the right diet, they’re constantly being dissolved and removed without your knowledge. If they are creating a problem, it falls within the realm of nausea, vomiting, queasiness, burping, belching, and upper abdominal pain. This includes pain behind the right shoulder blade.
Typically the gallbladder compresses to purge the bile into the common bile duct and eventually into the small intestine when stomach acid reaches the optimal pH level of 1.8 to 2.3. This causes a release of cholecystokinin which initiates the contraction of this organ, pushing bile out of the gallbladder.
When there’s a constantly low stomach acid, bile can become stagnant and form stones.
Clearing gallstones without surgery is a relatively easy procedure. Your surgeon may not want you to be aware of this, but the right kind of food can thin bile and dissolve the stones, relieving the discomfort associated with a hot gallbladder. The wise thing to do is eat these foods when you aren’t having problems to keep bile thin and flowing freely.
When I see skin problems, I always look to the liver and gallbladder first as this union is needed to emulsify fats which are important in building and maintaining the health of your skin. Vitamin A is a fat soluble nutrient your skin must have to remain healthy. If your digestive system isn’t able to receive it due to bile failure, the skin suffers.
There’s a doctor who regularly treats psoriasis with bile salts and gets amazing results. This is great, but we need to consider the source. Your liver produces bile with the assistance of choline. This bile is then transferred to the holding site called the gallbladder as it waits for the signal to enter into the digestive process. We need the choline, and we need healthy stomach acid to keep the proper digestive process working.
The juice of fresh beet leaves can have a tremendous effect of dissolving the gallstones and relieving the discomfort of a gallbladder attack. The greatest percent of gallstones (90%) consist of cholesterol. In one of his lectures, Dr Royal Lee said, “Anybody who has the pain in their gallbladder area will be quite surprised how quickly it will disappear under the beet leaf juice treatment. And I have seen many cases where stones were completely eliminated in a few weeks. Patients who were scheduled for an operation and when they came back for the operation, they couldn’t find any stones.”
This should be great news to anyone who might be scheduled for gallbladder surgery. When fresh beet leaves aren’t readily available, this is where I resort to the concentrated beet leaf juice that Dr Royal Lee initially put on the market as Betaris, more than a half century ago. Since then, the name has been changed to Betafood, but the results continue to be nothing less than wonderful.
Because of the many nutritional benefits of the red beet, it’s been included in many of the marvelous products I’ve been privileged to use in my practice. Because of it’s many virtues, often times patients will never experience circumstances where heroics need to be employed. They just go on with life never having any of the major issues like cancers, heart attacks, or strokes.
Because of the employment of nutrition suitable to maintain optimal health, the doctor who pursues this route of treatment usually isn’t seen as the intervening hero which is how we often see the surgeon. When I was in the explosion 43 years ago which gutted me, the two abdominal surgeons who worked for eight hours putting me back together get the hero status. I’m happy to just keep my patients out of the operating room, provided they don’t get in harms way as I did.
I’ll never know how many gallbladder surgeries I’ve avoided for my patients, but grateful for the knowledge and resources made available to me to help my patients remain well. For as many wrong foods that can destroy your health and precipitate a gallbladder attack, there are those which I can use to support and prevent them, even when we aren’t totally focused on eating correctly.