Gallbladder Cleanse: 5 Steps to a Healthy Gallbladder

Hey guys, Dr. Josh Axe here. Welcome to Ancient Medicine Today. We are live here right now. And hey, I'm going to be covering today how to naturally cleanse your gallbladder. And I will tell you, for so many people, we have gunk built up in our bile ducts, in our liver, in our gallbladder, and it's really keeping us from feeling and living our absolute best.

If you're a person right now, and especially you feel sluggish and you have problem digesting fats. This is a big warning sign that you've got gallbladder or liver issues going on. So we'll talk about how to cleanse those on our episode today. Also, I know I've got a lot of you watching right now who are joining me live from all over the country.

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Let's talk about how to heal and cleanse your gallbladder. And here's the— this actually really surprised me. When I first got into practice, there were a large number of people, patients I had coming in, especially women, who were telling me that they were going to go and get gallbladder surgery or having their gallbladder removed.

And after following the steps that I had them follow, as I'm going to share with you in this video, they were able to reverse their condition. Many That's right. Of them were able to work with their physician and not go and actually get a gallbladder surgery done.

So the good news is there's all-natural ways that you can follow in helping heal and support the health of your gallbladder, in cleansing stones from your gallbladder and helping it function its absolute best. Here are some things you need to remove from your diet. Number 1 is processed sugar. Sugar is highly inflammatory to your body.

Now I know typically when we think of gallbladder, we think of fat, which I'll talk about in just a minute. But specifically with the gallbladder, consuming too much excess sugar and white flour products, things along those lines, that's going to cause inflammation of the liver and gallbladder. So you want to remove processed sugar. Number 2, you want to remove excess fat from your diet.

Now again, just to give you a few examples of this, the worst of the worst are hydrogenated oils. So again, if you're consuming hydrogenated oils, canola oil, cottonseed oil, soybean oil, corn oil, any of those oils on a regular basis, you want to get rid of those and especially being careful of eating out fast foods, French fries are fried in oil.

You even need to be careful, look at certain types of chips and crackers, things with sunflower and safflower oil in fact will probably cause a lot of inflammation of the gallbladder If you're getting too much of it, you need to be careful of over-consuming fats if you have gallbladder issues for a time, okay?

So typically, you want to go a little bit lower fat for a time and then you can add in healthier fats over time, but you got to be careful there, especially if you're having a gallbladder attack or gallbladder inflammation on a regular basis. So really be careful of the fats you're eating.

If you are going to consume fats, The best fats are going to be coconut oil followed by a small amount of something like a flaxseed oil on a regular basis. But those oils are going to be easier for your body to deal with typically than other oils. The next thing here are processed foods. I even want to mention this, fats, this even includes things like processed peanut butter.

You know, a lot of peanut butter has hydrogenated oils added as well. So again, you've got to flip over, read the ingredients. And make sure you're not consuming too much excess fats there, especially the hydrogenated processed fats and processed foods. Of course, French fries, burgers, anytime you're eating out, it's typically a processed food and a lot of packaged food.

When you're eating, eat real food, lots of fruits, lots of veggies, a lot of organic lean meats. That's ideal if you're going to cleanse your gallbladder. So make sure you get all of these things out of your diet. Now, I want to talk about doing a gallbladder cleanse. If you really want to start doing a 3-day gallbladder cleanse, I have a 1-night protocol I'm going to talk about in a minute.

But here are the biggest things you want to be getting in your diet. You want to get bone broth, vegetables, get some green apples, and then also I would mention here herbal teas, which I'm going to talk about some herbs in just a minute. But bone broth, we know, contains the amino acid glycine, Which supports liver detoxification.

Now, the other great thing about this is this can actually help you burn fat and lose weight when you're doing this liver gallbladder cleanse as well. But again, bone broth, that ultimate superfood, you can make your own. You could also buy bone broth powder, do that as a protein in smoothies as well, it's very beneficial. So get bone broth every day, lots and lots of vegetables.

Now, when I'm saying vegetables, that doesn't mean potatoes, okay? Vegetables are... Green leafies and cruciferous vegetables, carrots and beets, those things, but cooked or juiced vegetables throughout the day, and raw veggies are great as well. And then green apples. Green apples are sour in nature, they're high in pectin, they are very cleansing to the liver and the gallbladder as well.

Great part of a gallbladder cleanse. So for 3 days, drink bone broth throughout the day, do a lot of veggies like salads, do some green apples as well. Those are the best foods you could be eating. Now, I want to talk about some of the best herbs for cleansing the liver and gallbladder. And here we have milk thistle. Now, milk thistle is in the realm of bitter herbs.

It's very high in a compound called silymarin. And this compound has been shown to be one of the most powerful herbs on the planet at detoxifying the liver and the gallbladder. So when you're doing a gallbladder cleanse, consuming milk thistle, typically 150 milligrams once to twice daily. Is going to be greatly beneficial. And then Bupleurum.

Bupleurum is an herb in Chinese medicine that is greatly beneficial at cleansing the liver and gallbladder. In fact, it's found in almost every Chinese medicine formula when we're talking about liver health and gallbladder health. You're going to find Bupleurum in there as well. And another one of my favorites are citrus essential oils.

When we read in ancient medicine them talking about bitter orange or bitter orange peel or lemon oil. Lemon oil comes from the peel of the lemon, not the flesh. And lemon peel is very high in a compound called d-limonene, which is bitter in nature, which also helps in cleansing the gallbladder as well as the kidneys as well as the liver. Lots of benefits there.

So with lemon oil, you're going to do just 2 to 3 drops in your water 3 times a day. Very, very cleansing. For the liver and gallbladder as well. And I would also say just a few other things to consider, let me back up. A few other herbs that can be beneficial as well if you're drinking, you could do many of these as teas, you could do a milk thistle tea, a dandelion tea is very beneficial.

There's another herb called gentian root which is really beneficial. But these bitter herbs cause your liver to release bile and really support your gallbladder to release bile, helping you better digest fats. And I really believe that that is a missing key.

You might go and search the internet, you might go and read other articles or had someone else give you some advice on how to cleanse your gallbladder, but one of the biggest missing things is bitter foods. In our diet today, it's all about sweet and salty. We're missing sour, we're missing bitter. Bitter is key.

When your body, when you taste something bitter such as arugula, spinach, orange peel, some of these herbs that we're talking about, it causes your gallbladder to cleanse and release these It is so therapeutic. So again, get more bitter foods, bitter herbs in your diet. Drink these bitter teas that I'm talking about like milk thistle and dandelion and bupleurum.

It's going to make a big difference in you healing your gallbladder for good. Now, here is a liver cleanse step by step. Now, what you're going to do, and I want to say that this part is optional, but if you want to do a very advanced form of this cleanse like a one-night overhaul of your gallbladder, This is something you can do.

But remember this, number one is get rid of those foods from your diet. Number two, start doing that 3-day cleanse I talked about. But if you want to do a 1-night gallbladder cleanse, your body will release some stones overnight. And here's what you're going to do.

Again, this is optional, but you're going to drink right before bed a half— a 1/4 cup of olive oil, a 1/4 cup of flax oil, 1 cup of grapefruit juice, and 4 tablespoons of Epsom salt. Now, a lot of times people will divide these into doses, they'll do some right after dinner, Which is a light dinner, typically bone broth and veggies around 6 o'clock.

And then if you go to bed about 10:30, you're going to do this twice. You're going to sleep on your right side at night. And when you wake up in the morning, you'll actually feel some gurgling going on around your upper or your sort of lower rib cage there on the right side. And then in the morning, your body will release stones. So this is something for the next day.

Throughout the day, you're going to want to stay at home. Your body will release some gallstones. Okay. This is an advanced treatment. Actually, I've seen it formulated by Dr. Hulda Clark, is one of the people who have recommended this in the past.

So again, this is optional in doing a gallbladder cleanse, but this is something that will cause your body to release a lot of toxins and stones all at one time. The olive, the flax, the grapefruit, 4 tablespoons of Epsom salts, doing these things in combination here can help.

And then mentality, one of the things that can cause your body to store that bile and store those stones is if you are constantly frustrated. Let me ask you this, are you a person that struggles with being impatient? Maybe you're constantly in traffic jams or you're trying to rush your kids around or you've got work issues.

If you have frustration, any type of anger, impatience, those emotions build up in the gallbladder, so does unforgiveness. So really working on those things, doing things that allow your body to release tension. Walking, getting outside in nature is a big tension reliever. Doing a yoga class, going out for a jog outside, really activity and motion.

Actually, planning ahead is a big thing that helps relieve frustration. If you're sort of planning out your future and goal setting, all of those things can help in releasing frustration. Certain sports such as tennis, hitting a baseball, racquetball, actually anytime you're hitting or releasing anything.

Boxing, even if you're doing it with the air, do a kickboxing class at your local gym, that type of class. Those things help you release those emotions of frustration and anger and help you build peace in your life as well. So let's review these big steps in cleansing your gallbladder. Number 1, remove processed sugars, fats, and get rid of all processed and refined foods.

I'm talking about processed breads, white flour, wheat flour. Conventional milk products, fast foods, processed sugar, soda, let's get all that out of your diet. Replace it with raw local honey, more fruits and veggies, healthy fats from coconut oil in small amounts. Get rid of the processed foods. Number 2 here, drink bone broth for a 3-day cleanse.

Just do bone broth, vegetables, green apples, and some herbal teas. Number 3, take 3 times a day milk thistle, buchworm, lemon oil. And other herbs like dandelion and turmeric can also be greatly beneficial. And then last here, number 4, you can actually do this cleanse of olive oil, flax oil, grapefruit juice, and 4 tablespoons of Epsom salt.

Drink all of these together before you go to bed, sleep on your right side, and last but not least, release frustration and build peace through activity and meditation and prayer. These things are all going to help you cleanse your gallbladder and heal your liver. So guys, I hope you've enjoyed this live video. Yeah. Live training on how to naturally cleanse your gallbladder in 5 simple steps.

Guys, this has been me, Dr. Josh Axe, talking about how to heal and cleanse your gallbladder.