7 Key Foods To Improve Gall Bladder Health

Gallbladder issues are very common these days. Every time I run my Heal Your Gut course, a large number of participants have had major gallbladder symptoms or even had their gallbladder removed. A big reason why this is the case actually has to do with the overwhelming amount of toxins your poor liver has to deal with.

The more compromised your liver becomes the more problems your poor dear gallbladder will have as well.

One key issue facing you and I today as far as gallbladder health is concerned, is a low-fat processed foods typical American diet. Diet is critical for good health, I know that seems obvious but so many people take it for granted.

A properly prepared nutrient dense diet such as a Paleo/GAPS/ SCD or Weston Price type of diets are all good templates to learn more about a real food diet. One key component all of these protocols incorporate are good fats.  Unfortunately, you have been duped and told to eat less fat as well as been bombarded by bad fats. These bad, rancid fats and oils can cause atrophy/damage to the gallbladder.

Another problem with a modern diet is a lack of fiber. Processed lifeless foods don’t contain fiber, which is needed to help keep that train rollin’ (if you know what I mean). When you are backed up your poor liver has even more of a toxic load to deal with.

Add to that that many of you don’t drink enough water, let alone clean water free of contaminants and then you’ve got even more trouble. Oh, and I did I mention the issue of food allergies/sensitivities -yet another big ole problem that causes your gallbladder to take a hit.

Instead of going heavily into all the nitty gritty’s surrounding what can lead to poor gallbladder function, I’d like to focus on some key foods you can consume to improve gallbladder health. If you want to help support your gallbladder and give it the raw ingredients it needs to perform it’s duties, try adding in some of these foods (so long as you tolerate them that is).

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1. Cholagogues – These are foods/herbs that help stimulate bile. (See list below)
2. Raw or ‘runny’ egg yolks – An easily assimilated source of fat, lecithin and choline for the gallbladder (use only if tolerated -otherwise you can supplement).
3. Milk Thistle (Silymarin) – Helps to normalize liver function, detoxify the liver and improve solubility of the bile. It also helps to tone the spleen, liver and gallblader. Try it in tea or tincture form as a daily support.
4. Apple Cider Vinegar – the malic acid helps to soften or dissolve gallstones. Try including a daily Apple Cider Vinegar Tonic. As well as using apple cider vinegar in salad dressings and consume regularly.
5. Beets – If you’ve spent any time reading my site you know how much I LOVE beets, especially as a liver/gallbladder support. Why? Beets help to build healthy bile.
6. Cranberries – Cranberry contains malic acid which can help to break down any stagnant bile or bile stones.
7. Healthy Fats – The gallbladder secretes the bile in the presence of fat. Without fat, it won’t do it’s main job and then what? You get thick sludgy bile that gets backed up and serious problems can arise down the road. What fats should you be eating? Read more here!

Cholagogues

• Black radish – or radishes of all types can stimulate bile production and aid in the digestion of fats.
• Daikon radish – often used in kimchi.
• Dandelion greens or Tea –  Dandelion helps to release stored bile and is very gentle in doing so.
• Chicory
• Mustard Greens
• Turnip greens
• Artichokes

Recipes For A Healthy Gallbladder

• Beet Kvass
• Kimchi
• Fermented Radishes
• Spiced Apple & Beet Slaw
• Spice Pickled Beets
• Cran-Water – Use 4 ounces unsweetened cranberry juice to 28 ounces pure filtered water and drink 1 – 2 quarts daily.
• Artichokes
• Homemade Mayonnaise
• Eggnog Smoothie
• Steamed Artichokes
• Spiced Artichokes
• Homemade Aioli
• Grilled Artichokes with Garlic Aioli
• Black Radish Slaw

 

Foods To Avoid For Gallbladder Health

•  Gluten
•  Bad Fats/Rancid Oils
•  Sugars
•  Any foods you may have an intolerance or allergy to

It will be key to avoid these foods in addition to adding in the supportive foods as mentioned above. Remove & replace first and then you can take even further measures to restore and rebalance the health of your gallbladder!

 

 Heal Your Gut

More than 90 million Americans suffer from digestive disorders, according to the National Institutes of Health, yet very few of us know where to turn for help and information. The importance of digestive health is vastly under-appreciated in today’s medical community and society. Are you one of them?

As the very seat of our immunity, good digestive health is imperative to live a truly healthy life. Impaired digestion can trigger problems ranging from mild stomach upsets to life-threatening cancer.

Millions of people suffer day in and day out not knowing just how critical healing the gut truly is.

Poor digestion can be a factor in symptoms such as attention deficit disorder, arthritis, asthma, chemical sensitivities, eczema, liver problems, autoimmune conditions and mood disorders.

The greatest opportunity to recovery from health ailments and to ‘heal your gut‘ occurs when YOU actively participate in the healing process. With my support I believe you and I can work to get you on the road to better digestion.

Colon cleansing

SLIMMER JUST IN 3 WEEKS: PERHAPS THERE ARE 15 KG OF TOXINS HIDDEN IN YOUR BOWELS. IT’S HIGH TIME YOU CLEANSED THEM!

On the off chance that you need to ensure yourselves from numerous manifestations of infections, you ought to cleanse your bowels from mucus, fecal material, and different parasites.

For a time of 70 years, 100 tons of food and 40.000 liters of fluids pass through our bowels, which implies that 15 kilograms of fecal material and toxic debris are generally filled in the stomach. These substances poison the blood and make unrecoverable harm to the entire body.

There are numerous signs that indicate the need of bowel cleansing:

• frequent constipation;
• your hair, skin and nails are in bad state;
• damaged metabolism;
• hearing and sight diseases or problems;
• being overweight or underweight;
• kidneys’ and liver diseases;
• diabetes;
• arthritis, cancer and other diseases.

With the assistance of clisma, just a little piece of the colon (40-50 cm) can be cleansed, while the bowel cleansing treatment, completed with unique surgical instruments, is exceptionally pricy and not so much innocuous for the bowel microflora.

The utilization of 1-3 tablespoons of linseed flour day by day for 3 weeks, can totally cleanse the internal organ and the small digestive system from the mucus that has been filling in them for a long time, the fecal material and parasites, and in the meantime completely protect the bowel microflora.

This strategy permits quick standardization of your body weight and fat burning. What’s more, it absolutely influences the regulation of the lipid digestion system. Linseed flour can ingest and dispose of the poisons from your body and bring down the cholesterol level in your blood.

This cure can help you on the off chance that you experience the ill effects of gastritis, colitis, stomach and duodenal ulcers, urinary tract diseases, cystitis, pyelonephritis, overweight, or harmed digestion system.

Eat this instead of breakfast for three weeks:

1. first week: 1 tablespoon of linseed flour blended with 3.3 oz / 100 ml kefir;
2. second week: 2 tablespoons of linseed flour blended with 3.3 oz / 100 ml kefir;
3. third week: 3 tablespoons of linseed flour blended with 5 oz / 150 ml kefir.

Good Advise: Meet the doctor who prescribe vegan diets!

Meet the doctor who prescribes vegan diets

It’s not every day you’re lying on the table in a hospital gown at your doctor’s office and he or she suggests that kale might make your ailments disappear. If only…

But for Robert Ostfeld, MD, the director of the Cardiac Wellness Program and associate professor of Clinical Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center, that’s kind of what he does. (Okay, it’s a little more complicated than that.)

Dr. Ostfeld, who’s based in New York City, sees a lot of patients with cardiac issues like heart disease (as well as diabetes). But in addition to prescribing things like cholesterol-lowering meds, he also tells his patients to follow a vegan diet—and he’s seen some awesome results.

“Outside of emergency surgery, I’ve never seen anything come close to the breadth of benefits that a whole food plant-based diet provides,” says Dr. Ostfeld.

“When I got [to Montefiore], I started doing what I was trained to do. I encouraged patients to take guideline-based medications…[but] people weren’t get profoundly better. It was after that, I stumbled across The China Study.” (You know, that groundbreaking book that made a lot of connections between food and disease.)

So Dr. Ostfeld decided to start the Cardiac Wellness Program, with the goal of preventing and reversing disease with the help of a whole foods, plant-based diet. We spoke with him about some of his findings and successes.

Dr. Robert Ostfeld 

What kind of results have you seen so far?
“The kind of patient turnaround we see is inspirational,” Dr. Ostfeld says. “It’s totally rejuvenated me as a physician.” Some of the symptoms that have improved for his patients include less chest pressure, patients who can now take fewer medications, and better cholesterol levels.

“We had one particular patient go from 19 medications to three, in the course of a year,” he says. Many patients also notice some added bonuses—like better skin (woot!) or chronic back pain disappearing, he says.

So how does it work? I’m envisioning you and your patients happily drinking green smoothies together…
“I’ll typically see a new patient in the office for an hour. We’ll go through their issues, talk about the whole foods, plant-based diet. We have a session on periodic Saturday mornings where we go into the lifestyle in much more detail. It’s an event: We have a nutritionist, we have a patient who’s been successful speak, and we serve a lunch—and we don’t charge for this. We fund it through tax deductible donations,” Dr. Ostfeld says.

“When patients really embrace it and they feel so much better, they become the best sort of ambassadors for living this way.”

Where do prescription drugs fit in?
None of this is to suggest that Dr. Ostfeld believes diet is the only answer to solving things like heart disease. “We are only lowering doses [of medications] if their blood pressure, etc., are appropriately reduced. We’re only going to do things that are medically justified,” he says.

Which includes running all sorts of blood tests after a patient has been following the diet for some time, so Dr. Ostfeld can see the progress and how things are improving.

“Sometimes patients will cry tears of joy with how much happier and how much better they feel,” Dr. Ostfeld says. “Nobody cried tears of joy when I wrote them a script for cholesterol-lowering medication.”

How skeptical are patients and colleagues about the approach?
“I get resistance and push back from both. Sometimes [patients] look at me like I have five heads,” Dr. Ostfeld says. “Disappointingly…the benefits are not well-known in the medical community. Some physicians are very open-minded to it and others are not. We should be open-minded to all things that help our patients.”

And do you practice what you preach?
“After reading The China Study, I changed my own eating habits, too,” he says. “I’ve been on a whole foods, plant-based diet for about four years. It’s wonderful from a healthy, environmental, and ethical standpoint. Those things resonate differently with different people. I like being able to touch on all three of those,” Dr. Ostfeld says. “It also gives me more credibility with my patients when I am also walking the walk.” —Molly Gallagher