Gallstone flushes versus a natural health regimen
This is turning into a medical blog. The Economic Voice explained in comments on this post how to do a gallstone flush and it clearly works for him. I went searching and present to you here three articles.
The Liver and Gallbladder Flush can be used by those who have had gallbladder removal as well as by those who have not. This is because there are often gallstones in the liver and in fact, most likely are if you’ve had them in the gallbladder. The problem with bile has its root in the formation in the liver.
A flush helps to alleviate congestion due to gallstones and/or thickened bile A person can have gallstones after gallbladder removal because this underlying problem of bile stagnation has not been addressed. Congestion can be a problem in the gallbladder and in the liver itself as well as in the bile ducts.
Gallstones are made of cholesterol primarily but also calcium. If the stones are large and calcified, there is more chance for complications. So if you know you have stones, I suggest you find out the size and type from your doctor.
Are there any risks associated with gallstones and gallbladder flushing?
Risks are small, but 1 out of 150 people with symptomatic gallstones may experience stone stuck inside the cystic duct or stone stuck inside the common bile duct.
1 out of 150 people with symptomatic gallstones who try liver flush may experience serious case of acute pancreatitis and may need emergency medical help!
If you have asymptomatic gallstones, the odds are in the range of 1 out of 500.
How many people with symptomatic gall stones experience cure after liver flushing?
56 of 121 = 46%
How many people with symptomatic gallstones experience improvement after liver flushing?
55 of 115 = 48%
How many people with symptomatic gallstones regretted liver flushing?
2 of 158 = 1%
How many people with symptomatic gall stones got worse after liver flushing?
4 of 131 = 3%
The ampule of Vater normally has about the same diameter as a pencil lead. So, what do you think would happen if you make a gallstone start traveling down the bile duct? Well, if it is smaller in diameter than a pencil lead, it should pass through without any problem. But, would it be big enough to even notice in your stool? Hardly!
In fact, if you were successful in making a stone larger than that leave your gallbladder and enter the bile duct, you would immediately become very uncomfortable. The pain would start under your ribcage in front on the right – or sometimes in your back – and pass across to the other side under your ribs. The pain would typically also go to your back on the right and cause nausea as well.
But those that push the liver cleansing diet don’t ever even mention any possible complications like that. In fact, there are even worse possible complications. If a stone became stuck at the ampule of Vater, the back pressure could also cause inflammation of the Pancreas. That would result in Pancreatitis – a very painful and potentially fatal condition. These people often need emergency surgery.
Dr Higham’s recommendation
As a non-doctor who would be struck off if he attempted to practice, these are my recommendations on what to try:
1. Have that complete medical check at your regular clinic, with at least two doctor’s opinions. Go to one of the natural remedy practitioners whom you hear has a good reputation in the area. Form your opinion after that as to whether you can do the following:
2. Slowly move your diet onto a 40-30-30 of good carbs-protein-fat if training but less fat, more carbs if not training. The nature of the carbs is important – keep off saturates but go for the other recommended types [any online nutritionist can say].
3. Keep the food as natural as possible but this involves chopping it up. Give yourself an hour and a half every two days and prepare small bowls of this balanced food. Nutrition charts abound online with each food’s value.
4. Have a tray of these bowls in the fridge or if your fridge is packed for other family members, sorry but you need another fridge in the garage. Aim to eat one of these bowls every few hours and no snacking in between, every bowl in itself using the 40-30-30 method or the 45-30-25 method.
5. Keep off commercial sugar-laden juices and make your own from fresh fruit and water [boiled]. If tempted to substitute processed for natural – don’t. Leave that out for this meal and buy fresh later. One or two misses aren’t going to matter all that much if you’re active.
6. Check out that blood group chart and just keep it in the back of your mind.
7. Begin an exercise regimen on the advice of both doctor and trainer at your local fitness club, leaning towards the former. Don’t go extreme and if you feel good in your first and second sessions, don’t be tempted to try too much. Keep strictly to the fitness plan.
8. Aim to mix aerobic and anaerobic exercise – the latter meaning strength or weight training, an important component to be very slowly introduced, depending on how sedentary you are, how close to death you are. Your heart is the primary concern here and monitor it at all times.
9. Despite people telling you you have to complete routines in a set time or drop your recovery time under a minute, don’t listen to them – listen to your body. Aerobics classes might be fun but they’re bad for you because you are going at the fit trainer’s pace. Now, that trainer has cranked it down for you but the very fact that she is fit means she doesn’t truly appreciate how tough it is on your fat laden heart.
10. At home versus gym. For a start, the gym gets you out of the house, it is more pleasant, it often has a swimming pool for afters and inbetween days and it is more social. Therefore, you are tempted to go back more than you would put it off.
11. I read that people who try to home gym it tended to drop off as work and family commitments encroached and they were always going to get back to it or make up for it but the daily grind prevents it. It takes a weekly plan to do this exercise three times weekly [say Monday, Wednesday, Friday] and one day for a swim [maybe on the weekend].
12. You can definitely do home training in place of the gym and save money – for example, you can put your feet on a chair and do press ups with your arms, wider for chest, narrower for triceps – yes it is perfectly good training but – and this is a big but – you probably won’t keep it going. Plus, there are some gym weights which target certain muscle groups you want and they do it more efficiently than at home. Better keep the gym in your regime and it becomes a habit.
13. Natural exercise – walking, swimming – these are good. Be very careful with jogging as it impacts the feet quite hard and cause spinal problems later. As a girl, wear lower heels. Walk in parks during the day where there is lots of foliage, not along your concrete jungle street with the car fumes, unless you want bronchitis and asthma. You suck in those fumes at an accelerated rate.
14. Make the whole diet/exercise thing pleasant. Give yourself breaks every few days where you have that chocky bar or beer or whatever, so as to improve your chances of keeping on.
15. Interruptions. Be strong with your weekly plan. Don’t let people encroach on it for their reasons which have nothing to do with your well being. Also, if you love visiting gardens or knitting or whatever, then keep them in the weekly routine.
16. Try to regulate the internet usage as far as you can – maybe give yourself automatic three hour limits and then you’ll go and do something else.
17. Cut out porn watching altogether. There is no moderation here. Concentrate on a real girl or man or think of a past girlfriend or boyfriend. That way, you also kill off the porn industry in numbers. If you have someone, get as much sex in as both your organisms can take.
18. WATER. I left it until the end because it is not only part of the diet. Wake up and sink half a glass of boiled water, not necessarily from the fridge. Overnight it will be fine. Have the glass sitting near your bed with a cover over it or in your way, to remind you.
Have water during exercise. If you sit to watch TV, take half a glass of water with you. If you’re about to head out of the house, sink a glass of water.
If you’re older, the more the need for water, as your apparent need decreases – this is for skin and overall tone and all those nasties like gallstones.
19. Have a three month pitstop for dental checks and six month for the doctor. Brush after breakfast and before bed as an absolute minimum. Use Total or another good paste but not sensosdyne because that is masking problems. Force the dental check on yourself and don’t make excuses.
20. Keep it all natural and don’t go to extremes. Keep up social contacts and don’t let them slip. Try not to despair but say there’s nothing you can do about it so why worry?
21. Involve yourself in some public-spirited project or rebuilding that motorbike or whatever – it snaps you out of your lethargy and gives you a sense of renewed purpose, as well as stopping the slide into cynicism, bitterness and extreme self-centredness, something which is a constant danger for me.
22. Believe in your Maker because health in the spirit is a major factor.
23. Sleep. Don’t let people encroach on it because their agenda has you doing things for them. Insist on your sleep.
24. Have a good laugh over a red wine or two.
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I like the holistic approach which would be incomplete without the spiritual advice. Leave yourself feeling a little hungry; laugh over the red wine or two, saving some to share with Rachmaninoff or Wagner.
I make NO apologies for posting here.
It seems to me all original fire and good intentions have been watered down to the point of uselessness, simply by talking to existing numbnuts politicians who have too much to protect.
You’ve got to move outside the system in the early days. Status quo preservation by existing farts will dilute your effort until it is nothing.
Get big first, get the headlines, then they’ll come sniffing, but it will be on YOUR terms, not theirs.
Witness moron broons latest annnouncement that he “gets it” after BNP on TV cock-up.
You’ve lost all the fire from your knickers. Exploit the current Gov’t instigated hate campaigns for your OWN advantage. Play them at their own game, the Bstds.
http://www.businessinsider.com/protesters-plan-huge-anti-goldman-rally-in-washington-dc-2009-11
I am not quite sure whether that has made me feel better or worse for the day ahead!!!
As I said James it is not entirely safe…..sorry to put a link to my site in but its a link to the most obscure part of the forum.
http://www.economicvoice.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50
I should have posted it in the original comment last night.
I think its potentially dangerous and what I passed through me was exactly what these stones look like in the pictures you can get all over the net or in a you tube gall bladder dissection. And the pain I had has gone completely.
But its not safe drinking all that olive oil alone……..
Its something you need to think twice about (I nearly called an ambulance because I thought I was going to have a heart attack) but at the same time I have to say I feel one hell of a lot better since it and I WILL be doing another……..very soon.
MTG – wise advice.
Xxxl – still trying to interpret your advice. That one was a bit inaccessible.
Cherie – feel better, keep it natural and all will be well. Mental health is equally important too.
By the way are there any reports of any complications arising from a gallbladder/liver flush?
As someone who has given his body a real kicking over the years I felt like I had to do something and it was the ONLY thing that worked for me. Actually I lied last night in the comment…..I did double the amount of olive oil and lemon juice just to make sure it worked……could be a reason I had such an adverse reaction but then again could also be a reason why I had no complications in terms of a stone gettiong stuck because they flew out of me.
EV – I’ve no doubt it was efficacious for you, which brings another question in – belief. I believe that in believing, we can often make something happen. That’s a controversial one though.
Increased water intake is good – but don’t forget plumbo solvency and replace any cold lead feeds to sinks within the house. Check out the unseen connection from the water main. If this is still lead it should be excavated and replaced. (Water Authority is not responsible for this pipe).
The blandness of a pint of cold water is completely masked by 20% diet tonic and a little freshly squeezed lemon. It makes a lovely drink.
Apologies for misleading information. The connection from water main to tap is legally recognised as two separate pipes; the Water Authority maintains that length to your boundary and you maintain the remainder (with any co use.)
The mental health side of it. I think friends are good for that
“The nature of the carbs is important – keep off saturates but go for the other recommended types..”
Are you getting mixed up between carbohydrates and fats there James? I think you probably meant “keep off the saturated fats” (the ones with no carbon to carbon double bonds). If you really were meaning to discuss the exotic notion of saturated and unsaturated carbohydrates I reckon that would be way too obscure.
You also forgot about prostate flushing – important to keep things moving through there too, one way or another (though I suppose it did get an indirect mention, come to think of it.
Gallstone flushing? Sounds scary but interesting. I wonder if it has been properly investigated. I’ll investigate myself (I mean investigate the literature, not start mixing up the olive oil and lemon juice)
Oops!
http://countries–companies.masterseek.com/id/69187/Albion-Alliance.htm
James.
I guess I am saying, don’t get side-tracked by talk with parties interested in maintaining the status quo, – create your own momentum/publicity.
Moron broon flocked to the banner of immigration after TV, BNP, when he realised there would be lost votes in not going that route.
Create your own groundswell in the PUBLIC forum against the EUSSR, maybe via the route in the enclosed link, and politicians will move to you, instead of you to them, but on your terms, — if you become strong enough.
Most important, don’t trust existing politicians, beware the double cross. Whips have a lot of power, – EUSSR has deep pockets, – the vote in the Lords on Lisbon, was carried by Lords also having an EU pension, that can be revoked by the EUSSR, for ANY act they deem to be against the interests of the EUSSR. Beware on that too.
TEV
Any particular reason for Olive oil?
“Unsaturated Carbs”, dangerous branched chains, activating the superoxide anion radical (O2radical) sometimes creating cascades.
Free radical damage in athletes, leading to injuries over a period of time, that seem counter-intuitive, are very common, and mostly undiagnosed, in the athletic world. Most coaches, and nutritionists totally unaware.
Simple use of free radical scavengers would correct this.
Alcohol is totally contra-indicated.
Ingesting SOD, the best scavenger won’t work, our enzymes smash it up, it is too large to pass.
New developments Here
Is this stealing your thunder? Or will it help you?
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100016829/the-case-for-leaving-the-eu/
xxxl its meant to help loosen the stones for passing out of you…..as I said …it worked and out they came.
Just two things – Andrew, yes, that was an error. Xxxl – free radicals, yes. Political agenda – no sidetracking, means to an end.
hmmm, saw a blip on the blog log saying flushing free radicals, and thought this was a political piece. Not sure what’s more difficult, flushing out poor politicians or poorly processed bile…
Precisely xxxl, I didn’t think it was these bad boys that James was on about. Free radical chemistry can tell us a lot about the strange links between science and politics. Dangerous in the wrong circumstances, but boy can they get things done! Consider also Le Chatelier’s Principle – if you try to change a system at equilibrium the system will resist, or words to that effect. But I have found, experimentally, that free radicals can actually overwhelm the system and change things forever, but once they get started the problem is how to get them to stop. Don’t tell the Albion Alliance though, because as a bit of a Europhile, I have not signed up. Apologies. Normal service will now resume.