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Dr. Eric Berg.

Hey guys, I'm back. In this video, we're going to talk about golf stones and the massive confusion there is about it. Some people say, well, it comes from a high carbohydrate diet. Other people say it's a low-carb diet or a high-fat diet, high-protein diet. So here you are trying to get rid of your gallstones, you don't know what to do, okay? So a couple things you need to know.

Gallstones are cholesterol stones, okay? It's concentrated cholesterol. All right. It's not calcium. It's cholesterol.

And bile, B-I-L-E, which is made by the liver and stored in the gallbladder has a couple functions. One is it

will help to dissolve fats and extract fat-savile vitamins. Number two, it also keeps stones from

developing. So gallstones really are a bile deficiency. So anything that will create a deficiency

of bile will create gallstones. All right? Let's talk about the high carbohydrate diet.

First of all, high carb diets increase insulin.

And by the way, insulin converts sugar into cholesterol.

So you're going to get a huge spike of cholesterol.

And this is one of the causes of gallstones high-carb diets.

I'll put a link down below, really because of the high spike in insulin.

So if you're trying to get rid of gallstones,

you definitely have to keep the insulin really, really low.

Number two, high protein diets.

So anytime you consume excessive amounts of protein,

you also trigger insulin, which can cause higher amounts of gallstones. Not to mention

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