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Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. So today I'm going to talk about the gallbladder and exactly what is a gallbladder attack.

Let's start from the beginning and just talk about the purpose of the gallbladder.

The gallbladder is a sack that hangs underneath your right ribcage and the purpose of

the gallbladder is to store and concentrate bile salts.

Bile salts are detergents. They basically help you break down fats and they help in the

extraction of essential fatty acids, like omega-3 fatty acids, which we need to build body tissue, especially your brain,

DHA, EPA, they're anti-inflammatory, as well as fat-syable vitamins.

So when you eat food, you have water-syll vitamins and you have fat-syll vitamins. Vitamin A, D, E, K-1, K-2, those need to be extracted from the food.

So if you don't have bile

they don't get extracted.

So, bile helps to pull those out

and then you also have help from the pancreas.

The pancreas releases an enzyme called lipase

that also helps in breaking down this fat

to the smallest particles so you can absorb it. So what happens with a gallbladder attack,

usually you have a stone that gets stuck in this little tube

because the liver actually makes the bile and it comes down through these

tubes and it's supposed to be stored in this little sack right here. So if you get a stone stuck either in the liver, you can have a

liver stone or somewhere down here or right at the opening, the back

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