Flushing the Gallbladder/Cleansing the
Liver
What is the Gallbladder? What is its
purpose?
The Gallbladder is a sack that is supposed to hold a liquid called
bile. Bile is actually bile salts. Bile Salts are made
by the liver to aid in the digestion of fats and held in the
gallbladder until needed for digestion. When you eat food
that contains fat, the gallbladder contracts, sending the bile salts
into the small intestine. There they help to emulsify the
fats. This means they work like a soap to draw the fats
(non-polar molecules) into the aqueous (water/polar) solutions of
the small intestine.
You know how water and oil do not mix? They want to
separate as in Italian dressing. Water is made of polar
molecules and fats are non-polar. Bile salts act like
dishwashing liquid or soaps. These types of substances are
called emulsifiers. They have one polar end and one non-polar
end. One end of the molecule "dissolves" in the water and one end of
the molecule "dissolves" in the oil. So the emulsifier will causes
the oil and water mixture to become one solution and not separate.
Once the bile emulsifies the fats, enzymes like lipase (which are
polar/water based) are able to break the triglycerides down (digest
them). The digested fats are then either used for energy or go
into fat storage.
What are Gallstones?
Gallstones are stones that can be found in the Gallbladder.
Here is what we know for sure: Gallstones are
chiefly composed of cholesterol, calcium salts, and bile pigments. They also contain some proteins. They are also called biliary calculi
and biliary stones.
If I have lots of Gallstones, where is the
pain?
First of all, people may have gallstones and not feel any pain.
They just do not have enough stones to cause them problems. However,
when the number of stones in your gallbladder becomes excessive, you
will experience pain. The main pain is usually a dull ache
under the shoulder blade, usually the right shoulder blade.
Sometimes the pain runs through the body from the front to the back
of the chest. Sometimes it radiates around the right side.
By the time you are experiencing pain you probably have thousands of
stones. If you do not have a lot of stones and you are
experiencing pain then the gallbladder is becoming diseased.
Either way, you need to flush it. Cleansing out the stones and
toxins will allow it to recover and you will become pain free.
How are Gallstones formed?
Some people feel the stones actually form in the Gallbladder from
the liquids stored there. The belief here is that, just like
in chemistry lab, when you add different substances into a "test
tube" or in this case the gall bladder, chemical bonding takes
place, creating a precipitate. This is plausible, and could
explain why, once people have their gall bladders out they no longer
have a problem with stones. People who believe this way,
usually think the pain from the stones is caused by these stones
getting stuck in the bile duct. They can then say there are no
stones because there is never any pain again. When the
gallbladder is removed the duct that goes from the liver to the
gallbladder is linked up with the bile duct which goes from the
gallbladder to the small intestine. So, they believe, since
this "tube" never has any more "stuck" stones and therefore no more
pain, there must be no more stones.
Interestingly, plaque that forms in the arteries (causing
atherosclerosis), which leads to heart disease/heart attacks, is
also made up of cholesterol, calcium salts along with other things
normally found in the blood stream. In the arteries my
personal belief is that the cholesterol is our friend. Upon
examination of the artery that contains plaque there is micro
fractures (cuts) on the lining of the artery and the plaque that
forms I believe is an "arterial scab". It contains
cholesterol, calcium, cells similar to those that line the wall of
the artery, some proteins, etc. This material is very similar
to a scab. My personal feeling is that there is inflammation
and damage being done to the arterial wall and friendly cholesterol
along with other components makes a scab to protect the damaged
arterial wall. If this did not happen, you would have more and
more damage and the artery would burst under the pressure of the
pumped blood. This scab is actually protecting your life, or
at least prolonging it.
This is why you can "dissolve" the plaque and reverse heart
disease with natural methods. And this is why the disease
continues when surgical procedures are the only course a person
takes. Both insulin and homocystene contribute to heart
disease. Both of these substances increase inflammation in the
body. They are both a sign of poor nutrition, poor diet, and failing
health.
I can't help but believe that cholesterol is not a "bad guy" when
it comes to gallstones either. Blood cholesterol levels
include such substances in the body as estrogen, progesterone, and
testosterone, they include Vitamin D, adrenal hormones such as DHEA,
cortical steroids, human growth hormone, T3 and T4 (hormones made by
the thyroid gland), hormones that comes from the pineal, thymus,
hypothyroid, and other glands. These biochemicals are vital
for life. The liver makes most of the cholesterol found in our
bodies. If we eat cholesterol only about 50% of it is actually
digested and absorbed into our bodies. This just means that
our liver will make less. There has been a lot of bad press
concerning cholesterol. I refuse to believe that because it is
present, it is the bad guy.
The cholesterol lowering drugs actually inhibit the liver from
doing its job. Have you looked at the warnings for the statin
drugs? Most of them concern the liver. These drugs are
very hard on the liver. Cholesterol is your friend.
Calcium is the most important mineral in your body. Just
because gallstones are made up of cholesterol, calcium, and protein, does not mean they are
necessarily bad or
that you should eliminate food that contains them from your diet.
Did you know you can dissolve
Gallstones too?
I have seen people do it with apple juice fasting and with herbs
(such as Queen of the Meadow Root, Hydrangea Root and Marshmallow
Root) that dissolve stones like kidney stones, gall stones and
crystals in the joints that cause arthritis and gout, etc.
This takes time, but it does work.
So what is the cause of
Gallstones?
Some people do not ever develop gallstones.
Others develop thousands of stones. This applies to
husbands and wives who live side by side for 30 years eating the
exact same food!! That has lead some medical professionals to
believe there must be a hereditary link. The problem is that
there is a hit and miss and if you go back far enough (and you do
not have to go too far) there will be no history of gallstones.
In addition, there are strong links between heart disease, type II
diabetes, gingivitis and gallstones. You are probably asking,
"How can these all be linked together?" Okay, 80% of diabetics
die from a heart attack. Gingivitis is very, very high among
people who have heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
People in this category tend to gain their weight in the stomach and
are labeled overweight. This group of people also tends to
have their gallbladders out approximately 10 years before the have a heart
attack.
Note: You are now reading my ideas only. I am not a
doctor, just a friend who researches and meditates on things.
I am throwing out my ideas for you to think about. Your health
is yours, your body is yours. You need to research everything
and make your own decisions as to what you think the best things are
for you to do. Please check out everything I say. Make
your own decisions.
When I worked in a hospital in Dallas, I use to do the cross
matching of blood for open heart surgeries. They did 6
surgeries each day.
Over the days and weeks I became distressed by the fact that
98% of the people having open heart surgery were people with A+
blood types. I would check out my antisera (typing serum) and
run controls every night, and sometimes recheck my patients because
the results baffled me. On the nights I was not there someone
else would cross-match those units of blood for the surgeries.
I looked back at their work. It correlated with mine.
You see about 38% of the population is O+ and about 34% is A+ (Only 9% is B+). Therefore, I should have had about half
A+ and half O+ right? But I didn't. I worked there for a
year and only had a handful of O blood types who underwent open
heart surgery and possibly 2 B blood types. What does this
mean? Well it means there is something to the Blood Type Diet and the Eat Right for Your Type books. I don't agree with
everything in there, but I do know there is some truth to it.
My father was classic for the standard person fitting this
"mold". He came from a family that had problems with diabetes,
though he never was diagnosed with it. I believe in retrospect
that he definitely had insulin resistance, and therefore high
insulin levels, but he maintained a healthy pancreas. My
father had severe gallbladder problems when he was in his 30's and
had his gallbladder surgically removed. In those days when
they operated on you to remove the gallbladder the incision went
from the front all the way around the body to the back. Recovery
took weeks. Dressings had to be changed daily and the surgical
recovery was almost worse than the gallbladder attacks. In his
late 40's (10 years later) he was surprised at how little energy he
had. He often declared that old age was creeping up on him. Dad had
a "tummy" on him though he was not grossly overweight. Though
incredibly active in his youth, he had a desk job as an mechanical
engineer to provide for his family. Physical activity amounted to
playing with his children, mowing the yard and taking walks.
Having been married to my mother (who is an O+ blood type) for 25
years and eating the same food as she did, my mother's energy never
seemed to wane, yet his did. He would mow the front yard one
day and several days later he would mow the back yard. He
would have to take breaks while mowing because it would be so
exhausting. In hind sight I can also tell you he had those
creases in his ear lobes. Every single person I have met who
has had a heart attack has had those creases.
At 51 years of age my father was playing with my first born son
and experienced pain in his right arm. He left him on the
couch and went to the bathroom. He came back, still experiencing
pain and then collapsed. I was there and did CPR on him until
the ambulance arrived. Everything was done for him that could
possibly be done, but his heart never restarted and he was gone.
My mother, who is an O blood type, still continues to eat the same foods and
seems to have none of the same symptoms. It has been 18 years
since dad passed away and she is still going strong.
All the signs were there for my father, but I just did not see
them.
Today I am approaching the age my father died at. A few
years ago I did a gall bladder cleanse. I passed thousands of
stones. I tend to gain my weight in the exact same spot - the
tummy. I, also am A+, just like him. So I have a keen
interest in knowing what to do and how to avoid getting gallstones.
After my first set of cleansings about 1 year later I experienced
gall bladder pain again. So I did another series of cleansings.
I realized then that if I did not change things, I would be headed
for a heart attack, and would have to continually purge stones. The
following is what I have done. It has been several years and
the gallstone pain has not come back. I do not know that I
have the complete answer, but I believe I have come up with at least
a partial answer.
- I decided that one of the reasons I had developed gallstones
was because my gallbladder had not be emptying fully. For
several years prior to the pain I had been on a low fat/vegetarian
diet. I now believe that was one of my problems. Any
organ that is not used can become diseased. If you are not a
vegetarian, you may still be forming stones, but you would
probably have a worse problem if you eliminated fats from your
diet.
- I believe there are healthy fats and unhealthy fats.
Healthy fats are Coconut oil, Palm oil, Butter and Olive oil. Unhealthy fats are
soybean oil, canola oil, and most of the seed oils. These seed
oils, especially when heated, oxidize. Oxidized fats have to
be one of the major "foundations" to the formation of gall stones. "Getting an oil change" as Dr. Bruce Fife says, is imperative.
Coconut oil is the most important of all these oils, second would
be butter and natural palm oil. Coconut oil will help to eliminate pathogens and toxins
from the body.
- Many people, especially type A people, have low digestive
enzymes. They are not digesting their food properly.
Somehow, it seems eating probiotic foods is key for these people.
Make your own cultured vegetables, make cultured milk products, or whatever, but get good flora into
your gut. The healing of your gut, the cleansing of parasites and pathogens, and the establishment of
good flora is vitally important.
- Eat a predominately alkaline diet.
This means lots of
fruits and vegetables, in addition to raw milk, eggs, and healthy
meats and whole grains. These latter foods should make
up only about 20% of your diet. People who have medical
conditions such as heart disease,
diabetes, gallstones, kidney stones, cancer, strokes, etc., all have lower urine and salivary pH's. The body does not
run as efficiently, minerals are forced to leach out of the bones
and health fails.
These are the things I have done. Good fats, good flora and
alkaline foods; and the gall stones have not come back.
How do I cleanse Gallstones
from my body?
Download a printable version of the Gallbladder
Cleanse in a "pdf" format, which will open with Adobe
Reader.
Doing a liver flush will flush out toxins and stones from your liver
and gall bladder. Prior to doing the Liver Flush you cannot eat
any fat for 24 hours. So no Coconut Oil no dips or
dressing, no meat, nothing with fat in it.
You may eat fruit and vegetables with no dips or
sauces, but I would recommend not eating anything after 2:00 PM.
At 6:00 PM: Add 1 Tablespoon of Epsom salt
to an 8 oz. glass of water and drink. The colder the water the
easier it is to drink. Some people say it is easier to drink
it through a straw. To me it tastes very metallic. Drink it
fast and get it over with!
8:00 PM: Repeat the Epsom salt and
water drink listed above (see the directions at 6:00 PM).
Now do all your "bedroom chores" such as brushing your teeth,
going to the bathroom, showering or anything you want to do prior to
retiring.
10:00 PM: Add 1/2 cup of freshly
squeezed lemon juice to 1/2 cup of extra virgin olive oil. Shake
thoroughly. Drink and immediately go to bed. Lay on your right side for a
while with your knees tucked if you can (fetal position). Stay
in bed as long as possible. Sleeping all night is ideal.
Of course you will not always stay on your right side. That is
fine.
In the
morning: Repeat the Epsom
salt and water drink listed at 6:00 PM.
You can also repeat the entire process for one more
day.
You will have diarrhea sometime during the day after your flush.
Do not plan on going anywhere. If you look in the stool you
may notice the stones. Some people do not notice them until
afternoon and for others it is the next day. Still others
notice them in the morning just after they wake up. If you
place a colander in your toilet prior to your bowel movement, you
can catch the stones and actually see what has been flushed out of
your system.
Gallstones in a colander
There
seems to be a correlation between how full your gall bladder is and
how long it takes to see the stones. My first time I did not
see any stones until 4:00 PM that second day. But the next
flush I did I see them right away. If your gallbladder is full
you may only pass a few stones the first time you do this. A
second flush may bring out hundreds and a third flush could bring
out over a thousand.
The stones can be coated with fecal material so you may not
notice them. They can be like small crescent moons, they can
be large, blue green and "fuzzy", they can be like little pebbles
and anywhere from blue-green to tan in color. I believe how
"freshly made" the stones are, and how full your gall bladder is
determines what you see.
A man who had a full gallbladder was told by alternative doctors
in the U.S. and Greece that it was too dangerous for him to consider a
liver flush. Ultrasounds showed his gallbladder to be packed
with stones. These experts all told him his gallbladder was
too full to even consider a flush. For 20-30 years he lived
with this full gallbladder and the pain. He did not want to
lose his gall bladder. Finally he decided to go against their
advice and do a cleanse anyway.
The first time he did the flush, he passed 4 stones. They were
large greenish-blue stones and they did not come out until the second
day. The next week he flushed out about 250 stones. They
came over a two day period following the flush. These stones were
mostly crescent-shaped and bluish green, though some were tan.
The next week he passed another 450 stones. Many of these were
tan, although there were still some greenish-blue and some large
"fuzzy" ones. As of this writing he is still doing a flush
every week. All his gallbladder pain is gone, his skin looks
better, his energy level is up, and he is excited about his results.
This man has the worst case of gallstones I have ever heard about,
yet he is doing it! Flushing stones is painless, relatively
easy and a very good thing to do.
What happens during a cleanse?
Eating no oils or fats for 24 hours prior to the cleanse gives
the gallbladder a chance to fill up with bile salts and be "bursting
at the seems" if that were possible.
The reason you do not eat after 2:00 PM is so there is no food in
the digestive tract that still needs to be digested and absorbed.
Having a full stomach when you do the cleanse can cause nausea.
If the food has moved into the large intestine and has been
completely digested and assimilated you will have no problems at
all.
When you drink the Epsom Salt and water, it is high in magnesium
sulfate. The effect on the body is to dilate smooth muscle.
This means it will dilate the bile duct, making it impossible for
the stones to get stuck. In all the many years that I have done
flushes and in all the many people I have known who do flushes, no
one has every had a problem with a stone getting stuck, as long as
they use the Epsom Salt. Epsom Salt will also dilate the
smooth muscles lining the digestive tract. This will cause a
purging of all the things in the digestive tract. This helps
to quickly eliminate the contents of the gallbladder when they are
dumped. The Epsom Salt is the cause of the diarrhea. It will
only last for a portion of the day. I consider the diarrhea to be a
good thing as there will be toxins, stones and who knows what
emptying into the digestive tract. The sooner these are out of
the body, the better.
When you take the oil and lemon juice mixture, it stimulates
the emptying of the full gallbladder. It will strongly
contract as a reaction to all that oil, and because the bile duct is
dilated, the stones and most of the contents of the gallbladder will
empty into the small intestine. The lemon juice is
alkalinizing and helps to cleanse and neutralize toxins that will be
purged from the gallbladder.
Lying on your right side puts a little more pressure on the
gallbladder so you get a little stronger emptying of the contents.
Lying down is especially important to get a good emptying.
Here is a testimonial from the
man I mentioned earlier:
Dear Annette,
Thank you so
much for helping me have the confidence to attempt the
"liver-gallbladder" flush. I have suffered for approximately 25 to
30 years with many gastric problems. I have suffered with bloating,
gas, and various degrees of abdominal pains.
I was advised
by several health professionals I was at great risk doing any
"flush" to empty my gallbladder of gallstones and I should sign on
for laparoscopic surgery as soon as possible. There was concern a
gallstone would get lodged and obstruct causing infection and
possible gangrene. If infection or gangrene became an issue, I would
have to have major surgery, laparoscopic surgery would cease to be
an option. The result from hesitating would be possible negative
effect to my pancreas. This would ultimately create diabetes.
After much
thought, I became determined to find alternative solutions. I
explored many possibilities from acupuncture to Ayurvedic treatments
in different parts of the world, with no real success. I did have
relief of pain from Ur-Moor treatment in Germany, but the stones
remained.
Today, after
three "flushes" I am feeling much better, since approximately 1,000
stones have passed of various sizes, shapes, and colors from
blue-green, turquoise, to tan. I have noticed a tightening of my
skin where my face appeared to sagging and tired. My skin seems to
have become more moist. Incidentally I am planning more "flushes" to
rid my liver & gallbladder completely of gallstones.
The most
important change is the subsiding of the gas and pain completely,
plus the rise in my energy level. It is certainly obvious one needs
to hang on to their gallbladder, because there is a correlation
between good health and the gallbladder. Many medical professionals
claim the gallbladder is perhaps a leftover appendage from prehistoric times and is no longer necessary. Perhaps medical
science could revisit their gallbladder research, and reevaluate the
value of gallbladders?
I am living
proof of the value of maintaining ones gallbladder and doing the
"liver flush" in lieu of surgery.
Thank you,
Jacob
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