Gallstones

 
Did you know that gallstones are caused by Western diet? There are several reasons for that:

  1. Fiber depleted diet, leading to increased cholesterol precipitation in the bile and hence gallstones formation.
  2. Obesity, resulting in increased cholesterol production.
  3. Food allergies, that precipitate symptoms.
  4. Increased carbohydrates intake.

 

Therefore diet recommendations should be:
Increase:

  1. Dietary fibers: flaxseed, guar gum, pectin etc. (1).
  2. Vegetarian diet ( 1, 2 ).
  3. Buckwheat ( 5).
  4. Caloric restriction (7).
  5. Water: six–eight glasses a day. It is him

Avoid:

  1. Foods, avoiding allergic reaction such as egg, pork, onion, milk, citrus, beans, nuts ( 3 ).
  2. Legumes ( 4 ).
  3. Sugar and other carbs (6).
  4. Red meat.

Of course diet alone cannot fix the problem.  It cannot fix Neurotransmitter Imbalance, it may not be able to fix minerals and vitamins deficiency because of maldigestion or malabsorbtion. It cannot fix Hormonal Imbalances either. To figure out what is going on you need to see Functional Medicine Doctor to go to the root cause of the problem and elimiate it.

References:
1.Trowell, Burkit Heaton Dietary fibre, fibre depleted foods and disease.  London, Academic press,   1985:289–304.
2. Pixley, Wilson, McPherson. Effects of vegetarianism on development of gallstones you women. British medical Journal 1985, 291:11–12.
3. Brennerman. Allergy elimination diet is the most effective gallbladder diet. Ann allergy 1968:26:83–87.
4.  Nervi, Covarrubias, Bravo.  Influence of legume intake on biliary lipids and cholesterol saturation in young Chilean men. Gastroenterology 1989, 96:825–830.
5.  Tomotake, Shimaoka, Kayashita. Stronger suppression of plasma cholesterol and enhancement of the fecal excretion of steroids by a buchwheat  protein product then by a soy protein isolate in rats fed on cholesterol free diet.  BioScience will biotechnology biochemistry 2001, 65:1412–1414.
6.  Moerman, Smeets. Kromhout.  Dietary risk factors for clinically diagnosed gallstones in middle-aged men.  Ann. Epidemiology 1994, 4:248–254.
7.  Caroli - Bosc, Deveau, Peten. Cholelithiasis and dietary risk factors. Digestive disease science 1998, 43:2131–2137, France.