Hello and welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition's Ask a Nutritionist podcast brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness.

My name is Leah Kleintrode. I'm a registered and licensed dietitian. This podcast helps people around the

world make the connection between what you eat and how you feel. I want to thank you all so much

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real food messages. So on today's show, I will be answering one question that we received

from one of our Dishing Up Nutrition listeners. And this listener asks, please share tips for

gallbladder health and gallstone prevention.

So great question.

I've worked with a handful of clients over the years who are actively dealing with gallbladder issues and gallstones.

But more often, I see clients who have marked gallbladder removed on their health questionnaire.

So for some clients, this was maybe a

procedure they had done a year ago. For many clients, this is 15, 20, even 30 years ago that they

had that procedure done. So whenever I see this marked on a health questionnaire, I do make it a point

to ask clients about what happened with their gallbladder, what led to the

gallbladder being removed, and just how things change for them and their health after their

gallbladder was removed. It can help give me some clues into other aspects of their health, which

we'll chat about here in just a little bit. I do want to say for one little innocent organ, there's a lot of

ins and outs when it comes to keeping the gallbladder happy and healthy, especially when the

conventional thought around the gallbladder tends to be that it's kind of a throwaway organ.

It's kind of like, yeah, it's nice to have your bile stored up in this

neat little package, but you won't die without your gallbladder, so it's not really a big deal

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