Gallbladder Disease

Natural Treatments for Gallbladder Disease

If you are suffering from gallbladder problems, such as cholecystitis, gall stones, or an unusually irritated gallbladder, you are probably feeling pretty lousy! Although some people don't seem to experience symptoms with their gall stones, others suffer constantly from an inflamed gallbladder.

Why do I have gallbladder problems?

Your gall is a small organ that assists in digesting fats. It stores the bile produced in the liver and sends the bile out to help digest fats when they are consumed. Can you live without your gallbladder? Yes. Are there complications associated without having it? Yes!

Symptoms

Nausea, indigestion, gas, feeling overly full after a meal, having difficultly eating fatty foods, constipation or diarrhea, fever, pain in the upper right side of the body, up under the rib cage.

The reasons why you have gall bladder problems most likely stems from one of these 5 likely causes:

• Recent, dramatic changes to your diet (going on a crash diet) - If you have been on a crash diet and dramatically decreased your caloric intake, you are putting yourself at risk.
• Pregnant, or postpartum - the hormones produced during pregnancy (estrogen) makes a woman who is pregnant or who recently had a baby at a higher risk.
• Obese men and women - among everyother diease, you are at an increase risk for gall disease as well
• Extreme stress or emotional upset - they say resentment and anger can cause gall inflammation, and/or stones
• Heredity

Natural Treatment and Remedies



If  you have noticed you are having problems digesting food, have pain in the area, or simply suspect you are having problems with your GB,  you should first go visit a chiropractor. Why not a medical doctor? Well a medical doctor can only do one of 2 things. He will either

a.) tell you to have expensive and maybe unnecessary surgery,

or

b.) won't be able to help at all.

A chiropractor on the other hand CAN help you. A licensed chiropractor who does muscle testing and offers supplements can very possibly get your GB problem under control without the use of traditional medicine.

Supplements your chiropractor may give you:

• AF Betafood
• Livton
• Multizyme

Foods you should be eating:

• Beets
• Carrots
• Lemons
• Yogurt
• Cheeses

Your goal should be a well balanced diet, and you may need to calorie count to be sure you are getting enough.

If you are depriving yourself of much needed calories, you could be causing more harm. You absolutely want to avoid eating large meals, and eating fatty overly processed foods. Your chiropractor will be able to tell you, through muscle testing if he suspects you have stones. If stones are suspected, you could go to your medical doctor to have an ultrasound done to determine their size. If they are small enough for you to pass naturally, then continue the course the chiropractor has for you. Doing both the diet, and the supplements.

You also want to be sure you are getting plenty of exercise, sleep and down time.

If your problem is due to stress, you really need to focus on working out and resting.

Yes they are completely opposite things to do, but the exercise helps with circulation and metabolism, while the rest allows your body to recover from the damage caused from the inflammation/stones.

Always consult your doctor (either chiropractor or medical doctor) before trying something drastic like a cleanse. A liver cleanse may work...some people swear by them, but they may also cause you to have a gallbladder attack which can put you in the hospital, or worse, if left untreated, could kill you.

If you are having this problem because you are overweight, you need to evaluate your life, and see what you can do to make changes. Being overweight is the number one reason for heart attacks, cancer, and nearly every other disease you can think of. You need to get control of your eating habits, so you can better control your life.

My BIGGEST recommendation: Go gluten free for 2 weeks. I felt better within a few days, after suffering from horrible nausea for more then 7 months, and having pain and inflammation for 4-5 months. I cut out wheat and felt almost instantly better.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck - from the View has written a cookbook...a gluten free survival guide. She discovered her intollerence to gluten when she was on the reality show Survivor.