Natural Remedies for Gallstones

Are you or someone you love facing the prospect of gall bladder surgery? Although this type of surgery is becoming more and more common in our society of fast foods and high meat consumption, millions of people are making the decision not have their gall bladder removed surgically. On the other hand, over five hundred thousand individuals per year are choosing to have gallbladder surgery, known as cholecystecotomy, because their doctor has recommended it. Aside from the costs involved, the pain and lost time in the hospital, the body will never break down fats as efficiently without the bile from the gall bladder, so they will be missing a major organ needed for proper digestion. If there is any way to correct the problem without surgery, it should be explored first.

Surgery should give some pain relief, but the long-term side effect may be a greater risk of bowel and colon cancer. The good news on gall stones is that your body was designed to flush out gall stones on its own, if the right nutrients are present. Many doctors don't know about many effective remedies used to prevent or treat gallstones naturally.

Some simple gallstones treatments that use natural remedies help your body naturally flush and dissolve the gallstones are:

1. Oral Dissolution Therapy: This treatment is increasing in popularity because it works best for small gallstones fromed from cholesterol. The medicines using this treatment contain the acids normally found in bile. These acids help dissolve the gallstones, so your body can dissolve and flush the bad cholesterol and the stones formed fron it out of the gall bladder into the small intesting, and then out of the body. This treatment can take several months to dissolve the gallstones, so it's not an instant remedy.

2. Gallbladder and Liver Cleanse Treatment- Over many years, toxins, bad cholesterol, impurities, and pollutants have built themselves up in your gallbladder and liver. To keep the gallbladder and liver working effectively, most doctors advocating natural health methods recommend that you flush your liver and gall bladder once a year.

3. Foods to Avoid - Most gallstones are caused by poor diet of fast foods and lots of animal products, which have high cholesterol and high fats. Experts recommend that you reduce intake of foods that are high in cholesterol and fat, like fried foods, pork, milk, and even beans, nuts and corn. During testing, you won't eat these foods for at least a month and then you will slowly reintroduce some of these foods back into your diet.

Lecithin helps homogenize the bad cholesterol, especially in the gall bladder, so lecithin supplements, along with Vitamin E are often advised. Eggs used to be recommended against, because they contain cholesterol, but newer studies are showing that their high levels of lecithin more than offset the cholesterol content.

Your doctor can test you and advise if you have any risk of gallstones, so he is your best place to start. Lecithin helps homogenize the cholesterol in the bile, to prevent gall stone formation, so it, along with vitamin E, and a diet with fewer animal products, like meat and milk, and more raw fruits, salads, and other vegetables can directly reduce the risks of bad cholesterol and gall stones

You may also like to read more about controlling cholesterol, which is part of the gall stone problem, at Cholesterol Healing .com.

This article was written by Jim Krage of Healing Energy News .com.