how the flush really works

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> Ok here is a web site info that explains it.

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> The olive oil

> will flow up the common bile duct into the liver and the gall bladder

> and release gall stones that have been stuck there.

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As supported by Dave and Fred's previous posts, the above statement is

completely erroneous.

Anything we consume by mouth gets digested and assimilated, and any leftover

waste passes through and eventually out of the digestive tract. The oil drunk

during a liver flush is no different. It's a one way trip. The oil consumed as

part of a liver flush does NOT flow up into the bile duct into the gall bladder

and cause the release of stones. This is utterly false and is misinformation

based on either a misunderstanding or ignorance of the true physiological and

anatomical workings of digestion.

Here's how the flush DOES work:

The liver manufactures bile, which has two main purposes. One purpose of bile

is to serve as a medium through which the liver disposes of some of the toxins

and wastes it filters from the blood. Bile's other main purpose to help our

bodies break down, digest and assimilate the fats we consume.

One way to think about the way bile works in this respect is to imagine a greasy

cooking pot or dish with lots of congealed fat stuck to it, which is cleaned

much more easily with the addition of soap. The soap breaks down the fat,

emulsifying it so it's more easily dissolved. Bile has a similar effect on the

dietary fats we consume, breaking them down and emulsifying them so they can be

more readily digested and assimilated.

Every time we consume foods containing fat, as soon as the chyme leaves the

stomach and enters the small intestine, this causes an internal physiological

response that triggers the release of a hormone called cholecystokinin. This

hormone signals the gall bladder, which is the liver's storage container for

bile, to contract, releasing some of its contents. The gall bladder then

squeezes some of its bile into the cystic duct. The bile travels from the

cystic duct into the common bile duct where it's mixed with pancreatic enzymes

before being excreted into the very beginning of the small intestine, called the

duodenum. There the bile mixes with the fats, helping to break down and

dissolve them so they can be properly digested.

It's also important to remember that there's a sphincter muscle called the

Sphincter of Oddi, located where the common bile duct connects to the small

intestine. This is a one way valve which prevents the contents of the digestive

tract from traveling up the biliary ducts into the gall bladder.

Here are a couple of diagrams showing the anatomy:

http://gallstoneflush.com/images/biliary%20tract.JPG

http://www.clarian.org/ADAM/doc/graphics/images/en/19261.jpg

The day we do a liver flush, it's important that we eat no fat whatsoever during

the entire day prior to drinking the olive oil mixture. This lack of fat

consumption causes a bit of pressure to build up in the gall bladder. The idea

is that when we drink all that olive oil at once at the end of the day, since

the gall bladder hasn't been signaled to squeeze out any bile for the previous

24 hours or so, it will contract even more forcefully than usual. This strong

contraction causes it to spurt out and expel more of its contents than it would

under normal circumstances.

So it's the triggering action of the fat hitting the small intestine after we

drink the olive oil that signals the gall bladder to release its contents during

a flush, and not the passage of oil directly into the gall bladder, because food

entering the digestive tract simply does NOT enter into or travel up the biliary

ducts.

Hope this helps to clarify things,

Elan