The FIRST Sign of Gallstones over 80% of the Time ｜ DrEricBergDC

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today we’re going to discuss the first

symptom that occurs with gallstones

over 80 percent of the time okay and I’m

also going to talk about the fastest way

to dissolve a gallstone if you have a

gallstone and let’s dive right into the

first symptom that occurs over 80

percent of the time and that would be

asymptomatic that’s right there’s no

symptoms eighty percent of the time when

a person has gallstones right you don’t

even know you have them unless they get

lodged into a duct where it creates

distension and pressure you might even

not know you have them until they get

really bad other than that are there any

other symptoms and yes there is

you’re normally going to feel a

sensation underneath the right rib cage

kind of like a a fullness a tightness or

a pain you may feel pain in your right

rhomboid that muscle between your

scapula and the mid part of your spine

and the back part there you may even

have pain that runs up to this side of

your face right here these are all

indications that there’s something going

on with the gallbladder it doesn’t

necessarily have to be a stone it could

be very small micro stones that are

really hard to identify even on an MRI

you can also experience nausea

vomiting bloating belching jaundice now

why would you have jaundice like where

your skin is yellow well that’s because

the gallstone is blocking the bowel duct

and we’re getting a backup of bile into

the liver and that is coming out through

into the blood and into your skin

and some of that is something called

bilirubin which is kind of a byproduct

of your red blood cells and that can

create a yellowing effect of your skin

you may also notice that your urine is

darker than it should be yet your stool

is pale it’s no longer dark brown now

let’s talk about how to get rid of a

gallstone really quick it really is

important for you to understand what

causes a gallstone first and that will

explain everything many people think

gallstones come from consuming too much

fat fatty foods right or foods high in

cholesterol because a gallstone is made

out of cholesterol so just by knowing

that if you eat more cholesterol you’re

at risk for getting a stone right well

actually no you’re not the reason why

Stones develop

is for two reasons one is you have this

high amount of cholesterol coming

through the body and and this is the

most important thing you have a lack of

bile salts and this number two thing is

usually ignored they think it’s just a

cholesterol but what keeps the

cholesterol thinned is the bile salts

bile is the primary mode of elimination

of cholesterol okay it goes to the bile

ducts the more bile you have the more

elimination of cholesterol that you have

so in reality you develop gallstones

because you don’t have enough bile okay

and all of those symptoms that I

mentioned are really symptoms of a bile

deficiency you have this gallbladder

right it’s not an extra organ that

you’re developing you really need the

gallbladder testing to help you break

down the fats if you just put bile into

the small intestine without it being

concentrated you’re not nearly going to

have the effect that you should to help

extract the fat soluble nutrients like

vitamin A d e K1 K2

omega-3 fatty acids things like that and

so this bile helps break down this fat

to a certain degree but then the

pancreas releases its enzyme called

lipase to help break it down even

smaller and so when you don’t have a

gallbladder because they removed it now

you just have a tube from your liver to

the small intestine okay you don’t get

any more concentration of the bile and

then you may have a hard time digesting

fats and absorbing these fat soluble

nutrients now on a rare occasion when

they do the surgery they might have made

this duct maybe a little bit too big and

now we get too much bile coming into the

small intestine and the biggest symptom

for that would be diarrhea and also not

enough bile is constipation and there’s

another term I want to tell you about

it’s called cholestasis and I think

that’s a really common problem where you

don’t have a stone it’s kind of like

sludge so you have bio sludge it’s a lot

of cholesterol but you don’t have enough

bile and it kind it just sits there and

it causes a lot of pain and you do the

ultrasound you don’t see any stone

there’s also a syndrome that occurs

after you have your gallbladder removed

that you now have complications too and

I want to bring that up because

sometimes people will downplay that but

it can occur up to 40 percent of the

time and can you take a wild guess what

the biggest symptom is after surgery

cholestasis this bile sludge and that

can give you the same symptoms as you

had before you had the surgery with a

gallstone because they removed the stone

but they didn’t remove the cause of the

stone which is the lack of bile problem

other risk factors for getting

gallstones would be pregnancy because

you have this spike in estrogen too much

estrogen can put you at risk for

gallstone also taking birth control

pills which is more estrogen obesity and

type 2 diabetes simply because

you can have higher levels of insulin

which also can aggravate and increase

the risk of gallstones liver disease can

put you at risk why because the liver

actually makes bile salts okay and the