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Article from the latest Global Healing Newsletter.

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What Conventional Medicine Won't Dare Tell You About Gall Bladder Removal

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from newstarget.com

A reader asks, " After having gall bladder surgery three weeks ago, I am

having a lot of discomfort, bloating, nausea, and in general, not feeling well.

My

doctor says it will pass, but it seems to be getting worse. I am a

65-year-old woman. Do you have any advice? " The first piece of advice I have for

people

who are considering gall bladder surgery is to get advice before the surgery,

not after it, because once you've had the gall bladder removed, your options

are quite limited. Remember that conventional medicine loves to go in and

remove organs that are presenting symptoms rather than addressing the root cause

of

the problem in the first place. They think that by removing the organ that

hurts, they've cured the problem. Hogwash!

Gall bladder disease and gallstones are almost always the result of poor

nutrition. For example: consuming a lot of soft drinks, sugar products, highly

acidic foods like red meat and products made with white flour all contribute to

the formation of gallstones.

Gallstones can be reversed, but it’s something that takes quite a bit of

time. After all, they have been formed in your body over a period of decades, so

it's not something you can get rid of overnight from a nutritional standpoint.

At the same time, I know that a lot of people are experiencing extreme pain

when it comes to passing gall bladder stones. So obviously, those people are

looking at surgical procedures as a more immediate technique for getting rid of

the pain.

Let's look at some information about gallstones because it is something that

affects somewhere around 18 million people in the United States, and maybe

even as many as 1 in every 12 people. And yet most people don't know they have

them.

According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), pain from gallstones

results in about 800,000 hospitalizations and more than 500,000 operations each

year in the United States. Unfortunately, the NIH doesn't give people a lot of

information about how to actually avoid gall bladder problems. It's also

critical to recognize that the gall bladder has an important function in

digestion. And, if you just remove it (which by the way is quite the barbaric

thing to

do), you are compromising your digestive health for the rest of your life .

Surgeons who remove gall bladders are complacent in educating patients about

nutritional changes they need to pursue after losing this important digestive

organ.

For example, you're not going to get the same quality of digestion you would

have had if your gall bladder were in place. You're not going to get the

excretion of the bile from the gall bladder into the small intestine, and as a

result, you're not going to efficiently digest foods that are moving through

your

digestive tract. This is especially true for dietary fats, including essential

fatty acids.

Without a gall bladder, you're not going to be able to digest dietary fats

with any degree of efficiency. This means that if you don't take bile salts as a

nutritional supplement every time you eat healthy fats, you'll miss out on

all-important omega-3 fatty acids and other healthy oils. That's why people who

have had gall bladder removal surgery usually suffer the classic signs of EFA

deficiencies: poor nervous system function, irritability, learning

difficulties, heart disease, poor blood sugar control, and so on.

Doctors and surgeons flat out aren't telling patients this all-important

information. It's downright criminal, if you ask me. This basic education should

be required by law. It's flat-out evil to remove an essential organ from a

patient's body and neglect to tell them about the long-term adjustments they

need

to make in order to compensate for that missing organ.

And you know why surgeons don't tell people the truth about gall bladder

removal surgery? I suspect it's because if people knew the horrifying

nutritional

consequences of the procedure, they'd refuse to do it, and surgeons and

hospitals would lose out on those paying customers. Talking to a gall bladder

surgeon about your gall bladder health is sort of like taking your car to a

greasy

garage mechanic and asking, " Is there anything wrong with the transmission? "

The answer you get is designed to pad his pockets. If you want honest answers on

gall bladder pain, go visit a naturopath.

As always, I strongly recommend that people who are considering this surgery

look at naturopathic options, because removing a functional organ from your

digestive tract is never a health-enhancing solution. It's just something that's

too easy for conventional medicine to do. They do hundreds of thousands of

these surgeries a year. They don’t consider it a big deal so the patients

don’t

think it’s a big deal either!

But it really is a big deal. It's sort of like saying, " Well, doctor, my

tongue hurts. " And the doctor says, " Let's cut out your tongue. " In fact, your

gall bladder is far more important for digestion than your tongue.

Do everything you can to protect your gall bladder. Along those lines, one of

the most important things you need to do is physically massage your internal

organs through body movement. A lot of people are surprised to hear this, but

your internal organs need to be massaged just like your muscles and skin.

Massage therapy is something that I recommend everyone pursue to enhance his

or her health. Massage moves lymph fluid around the body. It stimulates the

skin. It even stimulates the brain indirectly and helps create an

immunostimulating relaxation response in virtually everyone. The internal organs

need this

same massage and the very best way to massage these internal organs, such as

the gall bladder, is to engage in gentle body movement exercises.

One of the very best you can pursue is Tai Chi. By following the gentle,

pivoting movements of Tai Chi, you will massage your liver, gall bladder,

pancreas, and even your heart. These organs are not fixed in place. They're not

fixed

in your body like they are on an anatomy chart. Your organs move around, and

they actually benefit from movement just like massaging a limb.

Also along those lines, one of the most important things you need to do is

engage in breathing therapy because conscious breathing and deep breathing

offers an outstanding massage to all the internal organs in your torso. Your

lungs

take up a tremendous amount of space in your chest cavity, and when you inhale

and really expand your lungs, you are moving the other organs in your cavity

and giving them a massage at the same time. Breathing is an excellent way to

oxygenate your internal organs and get some movement.

And by the way, your average conventional medicine physician isn’t going to

recommend any of this -- nor will he or she even believe any of it. They've

never been taught that massage is important for internal organs. In fact, most

doctors I know don't think massage is useful at all, which sort of just goes to

show you how little they know about how the human body really works! But

massage is critical. And of course, so is nutrition. Once again, your best

strategy

here for your gall bladder is to avoid removing it. Instead, support gall

bladder health through diet, nutrition, and physical exercise.

For the reader question in particular, if you've had the gall bladder

removed, and you're having a lot of discomfort. What should you do now? I'm

sorry to

say that these are the predictable side effects of having a gall bladder

removed. And chances are your doctor or surgeon probably didn't explain this

fully

to you. Surgeons have a habit of making everything sound really simple, up

until the day you have the procedure done. Then, you start experiencing all

sorts

of rather serious side effects, and they say, " Oh yeah! That could happen as

well. "

Hopefully, in this experience, you've learned a lesson. And that lesson is,

don’t have body parts removed by overzealous surgeons . I don’t know how to

state it any simpler than that. I'm sorry I don’t have a simple solution for

you

to regain your health after having your gall bladder removed. But the fact

is, when you start removing important organs from your body, it is going to have

some serious negative consequences -- by the way, bloating and nausea is

really only the tip of the iceberg here.

The worst effects are the ones you probably won't feel, that is, impaired

digestion for the rest of your life and chronic essential fatty acid

deficiencies. In fact, people without gall bladders need to take special care of

the foods

they consume for the rest of their lives. And above all, they need to avoid

all fried foods and any snack foods containing hydrogenated oils or trans fatty

acids due to the role of the gall bladder plays in neutralizing excess

dietary cholesterol.