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🗓️ 1 August 2023
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In this podcast, Dr. Berg talks about several reasons why removing the gallbladder could make you fat. The gallbladder is a sac that holds and concentrates the bile up to 20x. The bile helps with a lot of functions in the body.
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0:00.0 | So, in this video, we want to talk about why there's removing the gallbladder potentially |
0:04.9 | make you fat. |
0:06.9 | Okay? |
0:07.9 | Here's several reasons. |
0:08.9 | One is that you need plentiful bile to help you convert your thyroid hormones. |
0:16.0 | The thyroid produces T4. |
0:18.1 | It's converted through the liver and the gallbladder to the active form, which is T3. |
0:23.7 | So if we don't have enough bile and that's what happens when you remove the gallbladder, |
0:28.1 | you just have this trickling effect because the gallbladder is a sac that holds and concentrates |
0:34.5 | bile up to 20X. |
0:36.3 | Okay? |
0:37.3 | So, we don't have that concentrating effect. |
0:39.8 | We just have drops come down in a non-concentrating effect, so we're going to have a bile deficiency. |
0:45.6 | So that can affect the thyroid and make the thyroid be hypo and selenium metabolism. |
0:51.9 | Okay? |
0:52.9 | Another factor is that without enough bile, your A1C can go up. |
0:57.2 | Your blood sugars can go up. |
0:59.3 | Bial helps to make insulin sensitive. |
1:02.7 | Okay? |
1:03.7 | So, insulin resistance is a situation where the insulin is no longer sensitive. |
1:09.4 | It's being resistive. |
1:10.4 | Okay? |
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