Why Does Intermittent Fasting Increase Gallbladder Sludge? – Dr.Berg | DrEricBergDC

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so today we want to talk about the

gallbladder a relationship - in a minute

fasting some people have been

complaining about gallbladder symptoms

when they do in a minute fasting and I’m

gonna just kind of give you some

insights of why that could be

first of all let’s cover the symptoms a

big ol butt or problem usually you’re

gonna get right-sided shoulder pain now

it could be up to the neck here it can t

be out here it can either be back here

on this muscle right here it could be by

your scapula it could be by the mid-back

but everything’s gonna be slightly on

the right side you can even be on your

head or jaw and cause like even

headaches on the right side of your head

and then abdominal pain mainly on the

right side underneath the right ribcage

you’ll feel a fullness of pain feeling

bloated or you might experience burping

or belching or nausea now there’s

something that occurs in the gallbladder

when you do a fast now around 10 to 15

hours of fasting you get this saturation

of bile in the gallbladder now think

about it when you eat you’re supposed to

release the bile from the gallbladder

that should contract that’s contractile

tissue and the bile should come right

out to help you digest and the

gallbladder releases its bile to help

break down fat so when you’re not eating

it just sits there and it gets more

concentrated but the maximum

concentrated bile occurs between 10 and

15 hours and this incidentally

corresponds with a lot of these symptoms

that someone has when they start doing

in a minute fasting so in other words

the bile gets thick and it kind of gets

sludgy in other words the ball gets

thick and we call that gallbladder

sludge and it can just cause pressure in

this area so you might be concerned am I

gonna get a stone what am I gonna do

realize that after this peak it goes

down in other words your body starts

thinning the bile as you fast longer or

if you just eat so mainly this effect

occurs when you actually start doing in

a minute fasting as you do it longer and

longer your body adapts and you start to

deal with this excess sludge or

concentrated bile so there’s a couple

things you could do to kind of minimize

this in the transition because over a

period of time this is going to go away

in the meantime what do you do well

lemon in your water is going to be very

beneficial even during a fast you can

drink lemon water that will help you

adding apple cider vinegar to the water

with the lemon will also help you

because it actually helps thin the bile

also making sure you don’t overdo it

with the fats especially in the

beginning when people start a ketogenic

Plan a lot of times they go crazy with

the MCT oil and drinking fats and doing

butter and their coffee and they’re

doing a lot of fats and they’re not used

to that so you might want to cut back on

that and go into this very gradual now

if you’re concerned about stones let’s

just kind of cover the basics of how

people develop stones stones usually

come from having too much insulin this

is why diabetics have a higher risk of

getting kidney stones so as you do a

keto plan and you’re doing in a minute

fasting you’re lowering insulin you’re

going to decrease your risk of getting

stones in general the bile that is

released from the gall bladder helps to

prevent the stones from developing so

then the question is what triggers the

bile release well guess what it’s

saturated fats so when you go on a diet

that is low in saturated fats let’s say

you’re vegetarian you’re vegan what’s

gonna happen is you’re not going to

release as much bile and there’s a

higher incidence of kidney stones with

with people that go on a low-fat diet

then a higher fat diet so really it’s

not the high fat in the diet that causes

the stones eating high amounts of fats

will actually help you as long as you

keep your carbs low and I’m talking

about the refined carbs and the sugar

also realize the microbes have a huge

influence on your bile because microbes

in your gut help you recycle the bile if

you don’t have enough microbes you don’t

get the recycling you’re gonna be

deficient in bile and if that happens

you you you can actually get stones as

well if you have liver damage from any

reason you can develop stones so but

going on a healthy keto and alumina

fasting plan is not going to cause

stones but it may cause some temporary

saturation or concentration of sludge in

your gall bladder

between 10 and 15 hours of fasting but

this is only temporary and you can

actually do things to minimize it like

adding lemon juice outside of vinegar

and maybe cutting down on some of the

fats as you’re doing this program

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