Fat and gallstones

[Guest guest]

Thanks Duncan and Carol for this interesting info.

I was diagnosed with a huge gallstone in 1996 and after 15 years of living

with it (mostly symptom free these days), here is what I now believe about

its origin and what I need to do to avoid pain.

I formed the gallstone during a time when I had been trying to use severe

fat restriction to lose weight ( the weight gain I believe was caused by too

much sugar especially fruits and too little fat).

I always ate huge amounts of vegetables but had got fat down to a roast beef

dinner once a week - and no dairy except low fat yogurt.

I now believe the fat restriction caused further weight gain, the huge

gallstone, fatty liver, glucose intolerance and high cholosterol and all of

this contributed to the nasty range of symptoms that are lumped together as

fibromyalgia.The mechanism as far as the gallstone seems to be that if the

bile is not released from the gall bladder regularly, it can solidify - I

will leave the more knowledgeable of you to debate what conditions are

needed for this to happen.

My health has much improved since I have added butter, home grown eggs,

cheeses, olives, avocados, coconut products including VCO, fish oil, more

nuts and fatty meats (Australian grown on sunny grassy pastures not

feedlots). Cholesterol is down, the gallstone hardly ever offers a twinge of

pain, my weight stabilised and pain levels are generally much better.

Pasta still triggers pain and I feel better avoiding wheat as much as

possible.

So I wholeheartedly agree that fat sould not be considered the villain when

it comes to gall bladder health. I urge anyone suffering to see what affect

a gradual increase in healthy natural fats has on their body.

That said, blue green algae did wonders for me when the fibromyalgia was

really bad and Magnesium in various forms makes a huge difference!

Great to have such extensive contributions!

Cheryl