Does a High Fat Diet Causes Gallstones? (It Depends)

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 4 December 2018

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Dr. Berg talks about what causes gallstones. There are many confusions relating to this - is it high carb diets, low carb diets? Or is it related to high protein or high fat?

Gallstones are cholesterol stones and they these stones really develop with you lack bile, that fluid that helps dissolve fats.

High carb diet triggers insulin which directly causes gallstones. Insulin converts carbs into cholesterol. High protein diets can also trigger insulin and cause gallstones. High fat diet do not cause gallstones unless your carbs are high. But the main food that triggers the release of bile is saturated fats. In fact, people who go on a low fat diet many times get gallstones because there is very little release of bile (remember low bile causes gallstones).

Low carb diets will lower insulin, but it will release lots of cholesterol from the fat cell and could trigger gallstones IF you are at the same time not consuming enough vegetables. When you do a low carb diet (ketogenic diet), you release lots of fat and that fat has to come out through the liver and gallbladder, however, consuming lots of vegetables will counter this.

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0:00.0	So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting,
0:04.4	whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product.
0:10.5	Call one of our keto consultants. they'll be able to help you.
0:13.4	Call 540991557.
0:17.4	That's 540299-1557.
0:21.0	That's 54099-155.
0:21.6	Welcome to the Dr. Berg, Healthy Kito and Intermediate fasting podcast.
0:29.0	Now your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.
0:34.0	Dr Eric Berg.
0:36.0	Hey guys, I'm back.
0:38.0	In this video we're going to talk about Gaulstones and the massive confusion there is about it.
0:42.0	Some people say, well well it comes from a high
0:43.9	carbohydrate diet, other people say it's a low-carb diet, or a high-fat diet, high-protein
0:49.7	diet, so here you are trying to get rid of your gallstones. You don't know what to do.
0:54.0	So a couple things you need to know.
0:56.0	Gullstones are cholesterol stones.
0:59.0	Okay, it's concentrated cholesterol.
1:02.0	All right, it's not calcium, it's 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
1:09.4	gallbladder has a couple of functions. One is it will help to dissolve fats and extract fat
1:14.8	side of the vitamins. Number two, it also keeps stones from developing. So
1:20.0	gallstones really are a bile deficiency. So anything that will create a deficiency of bile will create gallstones.
1:27.0	All right?
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