Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

Hey guys Dr. Berg here, I want to talk about what you must know if you don't have a

gallbladder. People are told they don't need the gallbladder, it's an unnecessary organ and you

won't have any problems but there's some long-term effects. First of all, what is the gallbladder?

It's a little sack that hangs underneath your liver but the sides of a little potato and there's

a tube that comes from your liver and this little sack that hangs off this tube. But the key is what

holds what it stores. The gallbladder stores and holds bile.

B-I-L-E, what is bile? Bile is the very important fluid that helps you absorb fats,

absorb fatty-ciable vitamins, regulate cholesterol, help balance hormones, so it does all

a lot. It helps lubricate the colon. We'll talk about all those but basically without a gallbladder,

you don't have the concentrated effect. Normally, the bile is concentrated by five times the amount

in that little sack there. We need that bile to secrete out when you eat fats to be able to

pull it in. Without that gallbladder, you're always going to be deficient in bile. It's just

going to trickle down because it's made by the liver. It's going to trickle down. Bile is what

prevents gallstones. Probably the reason why you had a gallstone. The first place is you don't have

no bile. Now they take the gallbladder out and you don't have the bile. You continue to have other

problems. Let's take a look at without a gallbladder, all the potential issues. Number one,

you're not going to balance the cholesterol anymore. Cholesterol is necessary in the

building of hormones, specifically stress hormones, okay? But other hormones too, like testosterone,

they're made from cholesterol. Your brain needs cholesterol, the nerves need cholesterol.

So also, free cholesterol needs bile to help break it down. So you can have more of a build-up

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