“I don’t even know what my gall bladder does. How important can it be?”
I overheard this comment from two gals in their early 20’s talking about having their gall bladder removed this morning before yoga. One of them had recently experienced crazy pain passing a gall stone and it was recommended to her that she have her gall bladder removed. Since she didn’t know what her gall bladder does, she didn’t seem to think it would be missed if it was removed. Well, what does the gallbladder do?
The truth is, the gall bladder performs many important functions in your body. It supports your digestion, your detoxification and your hormonal balance by helping to assimilate fat and fat-soluble vitamins which that are critical building block to many hormones.
As you may know, the gallbladder is a small, pear-shaped organ that stores and concentrates bile, a yellowish-green fluid that is produced in the liver and stored and concentrated in the gall bladder. When we eat a meal that contains fat, the gall bladder secretes bile into the small intestine where it helps emulsify the fat for digestion.
Bile also serves as a depository to carry toxins and old hormones out of the body. Ideally, the gall bladder releases bile into the small intestine where it breaks down the fat for the body to absorb, before being eliminated from the body in the stool. When we eliminate the bile, we eliminate the toxins along with it.
Unfortunately, stress, toxicity, hormones, or diets too low or too high in fat can make the bile thick, viscous and stagnant which impedes its ability to flow both to the small intestine and out of the body. This results in the following problems:
In other words, the good things can’t get into the body and the bad things are not removed from the body.
When there is not enough bile or bile is too viscous, it prevents us from properly digesting fats and can presents as symptoms like:
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