“ I don ’ t have a gallbladder – can I still follow the Wheat Belly high-fat lifestyle? ”

This question comes up with some regularity, so I thought I’d finally post a response here on the Wheat Belly Blog. It doesn’t help that general surgeons who perform cholecystectomies are among the most desperately ignorant on diet and health and commonly tell their patients that, after removing the gallbladder, they must adhere to a low-fat diet—yes, the diet that pushes you closer to type 2 diabetes, contributes to high triglyceride levels and fatty liver, heart disease, dementia and other health problems. So can you include plenty of fats and oils in your diet after you’ve lost your gallbladder? Yes, you can absolutely. But there are several things to know. First of all, with the gallbladder removed, your liver still manufactures plenty of bile that trickles out into the duodenum. The only difference is that you can no longer store up a repository of bile in the gallbladder to release all at once (an effect, by the way, blocked by wheat germ agglutinin in wheat, rye, barley, and rice because this indigestible protein blocks cholecystokinin, the hormone that causes the gallbladder to squeeze out its bile—this is why grain-eaters have more gallstones). So it is conceivable that, should you consume a bunch of fats and oils all at once, you could overwhelm the trickle of bile from the liver, but this rarely happens. The great majority of people are able to consume butter, olive oil, coconut oil, etc. without problems. Some people think that they h...
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