How to Do a VERY Effective Liver-Gallbladder Flush
Gut health, brain health, heart health, hormonal balance, blood sugar regulation, and a whole lot more all depend on healthy liver and gallbladder function.
Flushing liver stones, gallstones, and bile sludge out of the liver and gallbladder is essential for most people to experience optimal function throughout body.
And Spring is the best time of year to improve liver and gallbladder health with liver / gallbladder flushes.
Almost 15 years ago when I started working with a new health practitioner, she
told me to do multiple liver / gallbladder flushes until no more stones came out for two consecutive flushes, and then to do one flush a year after that.
I proceeded to do about one flush per month for 13 or 14 months straight because that's how many flushes it took before I had a couple of flushes that didn't release any stones.
This flush protocol was like no other that I had tried in the past, involving
almost a week of softening the stones and preparing the liver and gallbladder to release them.
At this point I should address the
warnings that are sometimes given by health practitioners about liver / gallbladder flushes.
According to them, some people doing a liver / gallbladder flush have had a gallstone lodge in the bile duct and had to go to the hospital for surgery.
On the other hand, people have used liver / gallbladder flushes to remove big stones and avoid this kind of surgery, a surgery that is probably inevitable if stones large enough to eventually get stuck aren't flushed out before they cause a crisis.
A great example of this is in the book,
The Amazing Liver Gallbladder Flush. The book includes the
story of a woman who was scheduled for surgery to remove large stones, did the flush, and was able to
cancel the surgery.
I think the difference lies in the fact that
not all flushes are created equal.
My guess would be that people who may have landed in the hospital after a liver / gallbladder flush used a protocol that did not include a period of using substances that soften and break up stones so that they could pass easily.
They probably did not also use measures to dilate the bile duct during the flush.
They probably just got up one morning and downed a bunch of olive oil and lemon juice (BTW grapefruit juice is better).
I've also heard some practitioners say that what people think are gallstones being passed are just gobs of the olive oil that they consumed with the flush.
This is
an absurd idea that is easily disproven by several things:
- A review of the physical properties of olive oil (For example, olive oil cannot turn hard at body temperature inside your body, especially when mixed with bile, a powerful emulsifier of fat.)
- The diversity of sizes, shapes, colors, and degrees of buoyancy (or lack of buoyancy) of stones expelled
- The simple fact that the results of each flush can be vastly different from flush to flush, even though the exact same protocol is used
And after a suffiicent number of flushes, people typically experience
functional improvements like increased ability to digest fats.
In other words, something that was impairing fat digestion was eliminated by the flushes. That would probably be the gallstones that were expelled.
It's not rocket science, and it's also not folklore, as some people would have you believe.
For a more detailed exploration of merits of liver / gallbladder flushes, I recommend reading the book,
The Amazing Liver Gallbladder Flush.
The book is great, but I believe that the flush protocol that I learned is superior to the one that is discussed in the book.
The key is intelligently preparing for the flush with a week of
stone-softening measures and taking steps to
dilate the bile duct before and during the flushing process.
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