Pottenger's Prophecy

Are there specific foods that someone without their gallbladder should avoid? What foods are benefical? Also, what are the best types of fats for someone without their gallbladder?

Yes Ash, a person without their gallbladder should absolutely avoid all partially hydrogenated vegetable oils.

Since fats and oils are very important for health you should get some high quality polyunsaturated oils from good sources. As we discuss in Pottenger's Prophecy it is important to get the correct balance of omega 6 to omega 3 fats. Flax seeds and fish are great sources of omega 3s. Avoid overconsuming highly processed omega 6 vegetable oils such as corn and soy oils. High quality monounsaturated oils such as olive oil can also be very healthful.

Beets and apples thin bile and are particularly good for people without gallbladders.

Unfortunately, once your gallbladder has been removed you will have trouble appropriately digesting your fats properly and would probably benefit from a bile salt supplement to help you emulsify and digest both fats and oils but also the other fat soluble nutrients. Talk to a qualified health care practitioner about how to use them properly.

There seems to be a lot of interest in Gallbladder health and indeed there should be. According to womenshealth.about.com about a half million people undergo gallbladder surgery every year And, about 800,000 a year are hospitalized with gallstones large enough to cause significant pain

The tragedy here is that it is  almost all avoidable. Simple and inexpensive nutritional therapies are in my experience over 99% effective in relieving symtoms and eliminating gallstones over time without sugery!

To me one of the great tragedies in modern medicine is that Medical Doctors will not consider safe and effective remedies unless they are published in their peer reviewed literature and their peer reviewed literature will not publish those remedies because they are insidiously controlled by Big Pharma. It's the perfect Catch 22.

Now, it would be inapropriate for me to publish these therapies in this forum but any Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP) can help you (contact nutritionaltherapy.com for a practitioner near you). Also, almost any Naturopathic Physician and many Chiropractors can help you. If they can't, have them contact me and I can coach them to help you. In the extrodinarily unlikely event that your MD is interested I would be glad to talk with them also.

On that subject here is another observation that I have made. When a medical practitioner says something is "incurable" that doesn't mean that it can't be cured, it just means that they can not cure it with drugs or surgery.

Gray-  I so appreciate this reply and I keep coming back to it for reference.

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!