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 and 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 a 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.
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Let's talk about how to heal and cleanse your gallbladder, and this actually really surprised
me.
When I first got in the practice, there are 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, I'm going to share with you in this
video, many 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 and cleansing stones from your gallbladder and
helping it function its absolute best.
Here's some things you need to remove from your diet.
Number one 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 two, 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, cotton seed 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 flax seed 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 want to mention this, fats, this even includes things like processed peanut butter.
You know, a lot of peanut butter has hydrogenated oil 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, lots 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 three-day gallbladder cleanse, I have a one-night protocol
that I'm going to talk about it in a minute, but here're 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 the liver detoxification.
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, the ultimate super food.
You can make your own, you can also buy bone broth powder.
Do that as a protein in smoothies as well as very beneficial.
So, get bone broth everyday, 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.
For three 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 bupleuram.
Bupleuram 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 bupleuram
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.
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 two to three drops
in your water three times a day, very very cleansing for the liver and gall bladder 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 can 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 gall bladder, 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 toxins.
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 bupleuram.
It's going to make a big difference and you're 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 three-day cleanse I talked about.
But if you want to do a one-night gallbladder cleanse, your body will release some stones
over night.
And here's what you're going to do.
Again, this is optional, but you're going to drink right before bed a fourth of a cup
of olive oil, a fourth of a cup of flax oil, one cup of grapefruit juice and four tablespoons
of Epsom salts.
Now a lot of times people will divide these into two doses.
They'll do some right after dinner, which is a light dinner, typically bone broth and
veggies around six 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 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.
This is an advanced treatment.
Actually, I've seen it formulated by Dr. Hulda Clark.
He's one of the people who have recommended this in the past.
Again, this is optional doing a lever 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, four 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 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, and releasing frustration.
And certain sports such as tennis, hitting a baseball, racket ball actually, anytime
you're hitting or releasing anything, boxing.
Even if you're doing it with the air, do it.
Kick boxing 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 one, 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 two here, drink bone broth for a three-day cleanse.
Just do bone broth, vegetables, green apples and some herbal teas.
Number three, take three times a day milk thistle bupleuram, lemon oil, and other herbs
like dandelion and turmeric can also be greatly beneficial.
And then last here, number four, you can actually do this cleanse of olive oil, flax oil, grapefruit
juice and four 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 training on how to naturally cleanse your gallbladder
in five simple steps.
Guys, it's been me, Dr. Josh Axe, talking about how to heal and cleanse your gallbladder.