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Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. Hey guys. Today we're going to talk about fasting and gallstones. This is based on a

very interesting study right here, which I'm going to put a link down below. First thing to know is that

gallstones are created by two conditions. One is a super concentrated amount of cholesterol with

low amounts of bile, because bile naturally breaks down cholesterol. So if you don't have enough bile, then you get this

formation of cholesterol that then can crystallize into stones. This study involved nine healthy

women where they extracted bile from the duodenum, which is the first part of the small intestine,

at 10-hour fast, 15-hour fast, and 20-hour fast.

And they were looking at the saturation index.

So the more saturated, the more risk of getting a golf stone.

So this is what they found, a significant greater saturation

at 15 hours compared to 10 hours. Now, if you're just reading this, you're going to go, oh my gosh,

fasting does increase your risk of getting a golf stone. Well, if you keep reading the article,

you also notice that they said this however at 20 hours it

reverted okay it reverted so I'm just gonna read the last part the conclusion in

conclusion our finding suggests that fasting between 10 and 20 hours may indeed

increase the risk of gallstone formation. But this effect is countered by a more

prolonged fast. Now, there's a couple other points that they mention that I need to talk about.

Number one, it looked like the gallbladder stopped concentrating at a certain point when the person's fasting.

So in other words, in your mind you might think that if you want to fast, the gallbladder

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