Left Side Abdominal Pain Under Ribs – Causes & Remedies Covered by Dr. Berg | DrEricBergDC

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now i’ve talked about right-sided abdominal pain  but i really haven’t talked too much about pain on  

the left side other than maybe one video and  it’s really hard to find so this video is on  

what happens if you have pain underneath the  rib cage on the left side what could that be  

you have the liver here you have the pancreas here  so your liver is right here and your pancreas is  

on the left side you have the gallbladder on  the right side and then you have all these  

little tubes that help drain bile biles made in  your liver it drains through these little tubes  

they’re called ducts and most of it gets stored  in the gallbladder and it’s concentrated by  

five to seven times so then when you eat it gets  contracted and it squeezes out through here into  

your small intestine well you also have a pancreas  that makes enzymes so the enzymes especially like  

when you’re dealing with fats the pancreas  releases the enzyme called lipase which helps  

break down the fats but there’s other enzymes as  well that are created by the pancreas and secreted  

if you look at this area right here which is  kind of right in your below your stomach area  

right here in the mid part you have a joining  of these bile ducts with the pancreatic ducts  

so if by chance there’s some type of gallstone  or obstruction in the in these pipes right  

through in here or down here there’s going to  be back pressure that goes into the pancreas  

because these enzymes are now dissolving and  irritating itself so typically pancreatitis  

comes from either way too much alcohol or  gall stones but up to 40 percent of the time  

there’s an idiopathic cause and that means  unknown cause but if you look up more data on this  

there’s an indication that you have  something called biliary sludge  

it’s kind of a pre-state or a pre-gall stone  where you’re getting this thickened bile sludge  

that is very hard to detect on either a cat scan  mri or even ultrasound because the crystals are  

very very small and i’m going to put a link down  below if you want more information about this but  

what happens if you have sludge that’s kind  of clogging up these little pipes right here  

and you have these little valves that might not  close properly we’re not getting the drainage it  

can back up and create this right here so this  sludge is concentrated cholesterol crystals  

this does not come from having high cholesterol  or consuming too much dietary cholesterol it comes  

from having a lack of bile because it is the bile  that is a key thing in your body to help regulate  

this amount of concentrated cholesterol it’s  the bile that helps keep the cholesterol thinned  

and when you’re lacking bile your risk for gall  stones increase you get more biliary sludge  

and you start getting these crystals the solution  is not necessarily to go on a low cholesterol diet  

it’s to add more purified bile salts because  when you do that that will help to thin this  

cholesterol bile material and allow drainage to  occur but if we go deeper and talk about what you  

need to do to make sure that your body produces  more bile there’s several things that you can do  

cut your carbs down that’s called healthy keto do  intermittent fasting cut down the amount of grains  

that you consume because when you increase grains  you increase insulin and too much insulin can  

deplete your bile reserve also too much estrogen  can do it too so if you’re taking birth control  

pills or even when a woman is pregnant and she has  a spike in estrogen that can mess with the bile  

that’s why women that are pregnant have a higher  risk of getting gallstones same thing with women  

that are taking estrogen replacement therapy  vegetable oils are omega-6 highly inflammatory  

this can also increase insulin and create insulin  resistance which then creates a problem with that  

having too many nuts or nut butters can give you  too many omega-6 fatty acids and irritate this  

area right here of course we talked about alcohol  you’re going to have to cut down your alcohol to  

no more than a six-pack on a weekend number seven  corn most corn is gmo that means it has glyphosate  

which is very irritating to the inner lining of  your bile ducts right through in here also it’s  

a carbohydrate and then of course taking purified  bile salts this would be very very important take  

one in them in the morning on an empty stomach  and take one in the evening on an empty stomach  

and that can gradually help keep this flow opened  and keep it drained and reduce the inflammation  

all right thanks for watching before you  go if you have a question about a product  

or you’re new to keto and you want to know  how to begin keto or you’re on keto and you  

need a debug because it’s not going as smooth i  have a keto consultant standing by to help you  

this is just for the people in the us hopefully in  the future we’ll be able to answer everyone’s call  

but i put the number down below  so you can call and get some help