10 Warning Signs That Your Gallbladder Is Toxic

Hello Health Champions. Today I want to talk about the gallbladder and the signs and symptoms

that can happen if your gallbladder gets irritated or congested with toxins and sludge

The gallbladder is a super important organ but it is probably the most misunderstood

and the most unappreciated organ in the human body the general consensus is that it's not

a real organ. It's just a little bag it's just a little sack sitting there at the bottom

of the liver and it's holding some fluid and once in awhile it squirts it out it's not

a big deal you don't really need it. Now we need to talk about what it does that you will

see that you need it but you can also look at it from a philosophical perspective and

My Philosophy is that we are not born with unnecessary body parts it were born with them

then they have a function they serve a purpose and even if it's something that's going to

evolve and we get rid of it in a million or 10 million years then if it was unnecessary

today then we would be born without it today but because the general feeling is that it

is unnecessary then at the first sign of symptom or trouble then there is surgery that is the

solution and the only type of surgery they perform is called a cholecystectomy chole means

gall, bile and cyst means a bladder a container of some sort and ectomy means to remove it

and according to harvard.edu they perform 1 million gallbladder removals every year

and out of those 40% can expect to have some significant complication. However close to

100% of people will have some discomfort and some alteration in their digestive function

as a result because it does do something and if you remove it if can't do that anymore

but we still see stupid things like this gallbladder removal may increase Health and Longevity

as it forces you to make healthier dietary choices because obviously you can't make healthy

dietary choices if you still have your gallbladder you're not allowed to do that so let's remove

a body part and force you to do that now I'm not only is that absolutely insane and it's

such a stupid argument but the problem is that their idea of healthier choices is now it

forces you to eat low-fat since you can't digest fast well anymore the most common symptoms

have to do with digestion so one thing you can experience is abdominal pain you've can

very often feel it right in the middle where you have this little notch between the

weather rib cage meets or it's going to be a little bit down along the right side of

the rib cage it could be either a sharp burning pain or it could be more of a diffuse pressure

pain could also have pain up in the right shoulder and right side of the neck because

there's a nerve called a phrenic nerve that goes up into the neck and you can get it referred

pain that way it is mostly fat intolerance that sets these pains off because the gallbladder

is involved with fat digestion and if your gallbladder is sludged up if it's congested

and doesn't flow well now you can't digest fat so if you have a lot of fat in one meal and

that's going to set off these symptoms and whenever one portion of your digestive function

doesn't work whether it's just stomach acid or your gallbladder or your pancreas now you

have incomplete digestion and these pieces that are in completely digested they become

too large and they sit around too long and now you have things like bloating, gas and

indigestion and you can also notice it coming kinda in reverse with belching and burping

actually does so we often talk about liver and gallbladder yeah there because their location

and their function are very intimately connected to liver produces bile and that's a continuous

production it makes it all the time and bile is like a detergent so we wash your dishes

and there is some stuck grease if there's some caked-on fat on your dishes then the

detergent breaks that up so if you have big pieces of fat like if you eat fat and there

are larger pieces like little droplets then the bile helps break that down so that it

becomes smaller pieces and later on the pancreas makes an enzyme called lipase that can start

digesting this fat at the molecular level so the body works at the clump level and the

lipase works at the molecular level Now this bile contains both this detergent that we

talked about but it also contains waste so this is a way for the liver to get rid of

its waste products and if we don't get rid of the bile if we don't produce enough bile

and if we don't get rid of it then we're also not having a good elimination of waste products

Now the gall bladder's role in this seems pretty simple that it simply stores and concentrates bile in

the gallbladder so the liver makes bile throughout and then it collects and it comes down through

these ducks and it enters into this duct into the gallbladder the gallbladder stores it

and concentrates it so you think of this as concentrated vs. very diluted detergent

if it doesn't get concentrated it's not going to be very good breaking up fat if it's too

diluted it doesn't have much effect and then when we eat a meal with fat especially now

there's a hormone called cholecystokinin don't worry about the name but it makes this gallbladder

squeeze and it empties the content so now we get a big push that eliminates this detergent

and the waste into the common bile duct and then out into the intestine where the food

is where it can go to work. Now here is the thing to understand that is the main difference cuz a lot of people

say that the gallbladder isn't necessary because the liver is going to make the bile anyway

which is true but it makes it continuously and if you remove the gallbladder now this

bile is not going to get concentrated and it's just going to flow straight through regardless

of whether you eat regardless of whether there's actually any food to digest so the timing

is off the time and becomes completely irrelevant to the meal which was the purpose in the first

place all your organs have timing they do things at a certain time and the bile is supposed

to be released at certain intervals when there's food there. Without the gallbladder we can't

do that. Another important thing about bile is that 90 to 95% of it is reabsorbed so we'll

talk about this in a second it does things throughout digestion and in the small intestine

but then the detergent portion of this gets reabsorbed while the waste is eliminated and

then this reabsorb come back through the liver via the blood and this actually helps clean

the liver this is a very precious substance and this is part of how the liver cleans itself

including cleaning itself from fatty liver so in order to clean and break down the fats

that bile is very important. Another sign that your gallbladder might be in trouble is if

you have constipation or diarrhea because bile normally act as lubrication so if you

don't have enough bile then there's less lubrication and you can get constipated because things

kind of gets stuck but he can work the other way also that you could get severe diarrhea

if you don't have enough bile but that's for a totally different reason that is if you

are unable to process the food that comes in so if you eat one meal a day for example

if you need a very large meal a lot of food at one time and there's a lot of fat in that

especially and you don't have much bile now your digestive tract senses that there is

no way we're going to be able to process through this food it's just going to create a lot

of stress all the way so let's just flush it out and hope for better luck next time this is one

of the problems that people with OMAD have that they have to try to eat a lot of food

in one sitting and that might be a reason to break up that one meal into two meals and

maybe put them four hours apart but you could also get diarrhea if you have too much bile

so if the liver is working properly or maybe too much and you're reabsorbing a lot of this

bile but there is no gallbladder to help with the timing now you can have this bile is just

kind of flowing straight through and irritating the gut when there is no food there so now

you have too much lubrication and you get more of a chronic diarrhea another thing that

can happen is that you go to the bathroom and you find the results pale and floating

that they're not the dark brown color they're more pale or grayish and they're floating this

is called steatorrhea and that means fat in the stool because you're not digesting the

fat it's still in there that's why pale and fat is lighter than water so it floats. Now

some uninformed person might say that well that's great if the fat is in the toilet that

means I didn't absorb it I didn't get those calories that was sort of the idea of some

horrendous diet food ideas at one point but here's the problem that the fat is actually

a good thing not just for fuel but because of all the fat soluble vitamins and your essential

fatty acids so if you can't absorb vitamin A, D, E and K then you're going to have some

deficiencies and some of those like with vitamin A one of the more common ones are going to be vision

changes any sort of vision changes but especially if you're driving at night and everything

starts looking like this that's called night blindness and it could be that you're not

absorbing vitamin A you're deficient because you just don't have enough bile another common

problem that's becoming more and more prevalent is called SIBO small intestinal bacterial

overgrowth and here's the problem we're supposed to have a lot of bacteria in our digestive

tract but not equally distributed throughout So the small intestine is not supposed to

have a lot of bacteria. The small intestine does the vast majority of absorption nutrients

and in the small intestine is where bile does most of it's work most of it's digestive

work but bile is also antibacterial so it helps control the bacteria and keep them low

where they're supposed to be low and then the bile gets geniously reabsorbed in the

small intestine before it gets into the large intestine because in the large intestine we

want a lot of bacteria to finish off that digestive process so there's something right

down here call the ileocecal valve or I/C valve this is a one-way valve that things are only

supposed to go one way but if this gets a little compromised then we can have backflow of these bacteria

and now these bacteria start working their way back through the small intestine and we

get small intestinal bacterial overgrowth especially if we're low on bile and just to put this

in perspective for you the small intestine is supposed to have about a thousand or 10

to the 3 bacteria per gram or cubic centimeter whereas the large intestine is supposed to

have a billion or 10 to the 9 bacteria per gram or cubic centimeter so that means from

the small intestine to the large intestine as it passes this little ileocecal valve the

bacteria increases 1 million times and the large intestine is where we have these trillions

of bacteria and we want the diverse bacterial strains we want a diversified biome for optimum

health most of the signs and symptoms I talked about in this video are when the gallbladder

is under stress but it's not really an emergency but we want to keep in mind that these

things can get worse and if you have a complete obstruction that could be a medical emergency

so don't try to self diagnose that that's something that you would want to have checked out so

if you have something like jaundice if you have severe pain and yellowing of the skin

and the eye that could be a complete obstruction and if the bile can't make it out of the liver

at all now it starts backing up into the system and you get this yellow discoloration from

bilirubin you could also have a gallbladder attack without obstruction if it is just extremely

irritated and inflamed you can get things like nausea and vomiting because your body

is so completely unable to digest food that anything you put down there just comes right

back out this would have course result in a loss of appetite because why would you want

to eat under those circumstances in severe cases you can also get things like fever and

chills and we also want to keep in mind the differential diagnosis that this can mimic

other things that it can mimic heartburn it can even mimic a heart attack and if you have

a pain right in this area like a sharp burning pain it could actually be an ulcer but if

they go check this out and they open you up then they're probably going to take your gallbladder

just in case they're going to say well we'll take it so you won't have problems down the

road again they don't really understand what it does so too often they opt to take it

out here's a very interesting one because very few people are going to see this relationship

but if we understand the body holistically then it becomes pretty evident you could be hypothyroid

from having a sluggish congested gallbladder this pink organ is a butterfly shape It is very

thin it sits on your throat on your Adam's apple and it makes thyroid hormone it is the

main metabolic hormone that you have like the thermostat for every single cell in your

body when the thyroid makes more thyroid hormone your metabolism goes up every cell in your

body does more of what it normally does when the thyroid slows down then every cell in

your body does less of what it's supposed to do this thyroid primarily makes T4 but

T4 is mostly inactive it has some metabolic activity but ninety-plus percent of the activity

in the body is T3 and the body produces T4 and then it's converted to T3 which is the active

one Now here's where the gallbladder and liver comes in that the liver is responsible for

60% of this conversion so if you don't convert this hormone you basically have no thyroid

function even if the thyroid is working and it pushes out this hormone if we don't have

the conversion we don't have thyroid function now the other part of this is that you got

the bag. That we talked about in your large intestine convert the last 20% to now that

you understand more about what the gallbladder liver does and you understand is holistic

connection you can see that if the gallbladder isn't working if we don't have bile and digestive

function of the liver is going to suffer and if the digestion suffers now at some point

we're also going to have consequences in the small intestine and the large intestine and

80% of all the thyroid function depends on this conversion that is somehow related to

the gallbladder function so think about this now if your gallbladder isn't there to time

and initiate the proper digestive function then everything downstream from that is going

to be compromised and now we're not going to have the proper reabsorption of bile and

this reabsorbed bile is part of what cleans the liver in addition to what the liver manufactures

and now we're also not going to have the optimum healthy gut flora in the large intestine so

you can have a slow or sluggish or toxic gall butter and that's going to affect both of

these areas of conversion. If you enjoyed this video and you'd like to learn more about how the

body really works and how to optimize and master your health you're going to love that video

next. Thank you so much for watching watching I'll see you next time