Question:  What causes gallstones?

Answer:  Experts are not completely sure why some people develop a chemical imbalance in their gallbladder which causes gallstones, while others do not.

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Question:  What can I eat if I have gallstones?

Answer:  Managing gallstones requires following a healthy diet. By eating correctly, you can avoid gallstones from coming back or even prevent more from appearing in the gallbladder.

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Question:  How do I get rid of gallstones?

Answer:  To understand how gallstones form and how to get rid of them, we first need to know a few things about the gallbladder. The gallbladder is an organ that stores a greenish or yellowish liquid called bile, which helps digest lipids and other fatty substances in food.

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Question:  What are gallstones?

Answer:  In medicine, gallstones (choleliths) are crystalline bodies formed within the body by accretion or concretion of normal or abnormal bile components.

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Question:  Can you live with gallstones?

Answer:  Unbelievably, some doctors diagnose gallbladder disease in a rather sexist way, according to nationally syndicated radio program personality and medical director of the Hoffman Center, Dr. Ronald Hoffman. They learn the “five Fs” in medical school to help remember a usual gallbladder patient: fair, fat, forty, fertile and female.

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Question:  What do gallstones look like?

Answer:  Gallstones are small, pebble-like substances that develop in the gallbladder. The gallbladder is a small, pear-shaped sac located below your liver in the right upper abdomen.

Resource:  National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse

 

Question:  Do gallstones pass like kidney stones?

Answer:  Gallstones and kidney stones aren’t exactly the same thing, but their symptoms are often similar. Kidney stones are debris made of calcium deposits found in the urinary tract that occur when there are high levels of calcium in the urine.

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Question:  How do I dissolve gallstones?

Answer:  Fulvic acid/humic acid acts like a chelating agent (as in EDTA) which attaches to the gallstones causing them to be loose and dissolving them.

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Question:  How do I prevent gallstones?

Answer:  Apart from the amount of fatty foods a person eats, there are other causes of gallstones. In overweight people, for example, gallstones are usually caused by the repeated seesawing between eating sparingly (as in dieting) and weight gain.

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