Soft cholesterol stones occur because of an imbalance in the chemistry of bile and/or an inability of the biliary system to cycle bile effectively. There is a host of things that can be responsible for this from back injuries, infection, life style, stress, etc. Some are single events and some are a build up over time.

What we call stones is a sign of this imbalance and there are two courses of action. Either eliminate the stones or try to find the root cause and cure it. An aspirin will take away a headache but it doesn’t necessarily take away cure the cause.

In simple terms bile is a mixture of three chemicals: Lecithin, cholesterol and bile salts. Modern life styles and diets often result in a higher proportion of cholesterol than the other chemicals and these have a tendency to clump together and can quickly form stones. Recycled bile has a tendency to clump more that freshly produced liver bile. Even bile within the “normal” ratio can form stones if the bile isn’t cycled routinely or when the gallbladder doesn’t contract properly. There are many solutions to this problem:

Reduce the amount of cholesterol.
Make sure bile is cycled regularly
Increase the proportions of fresh liver bile
Increase the proportion of lecithin
Increase the proportion of bile salts
OR
Correct the root cause if possible.

Looking into the correct ratio of the three bile components the position is immediately complicated because there are different types of bile salts; some are bonded to other substances like taurine. These bile salts have less cholesterol dissolving power than un-bonded forms. Increasing lecithin changes the dissolving power of different bile salts depending upon what they are bonded to, and increased bile salt concentration in the human gallbladder produce significant shift in cholesterol saturation.

Another opinion suggest that the key is to reduce the amount of hepatic bile by changing the diet, eating more fresh crunchy fruit and vegetables like apples, for example.

Other people say it is important to re-establish the full function of the liver and the entero-hepatic recirculation so that balance bile is manufactured in the liver.

Eating regular amounts of oil and fat in the diet exercises the biliary system helping the liver and gallbladder empty and fill properly.

These strategies are supported by the usual sage advice to eat, sleep, and exercise in a healthy way.

All these factors are important and some may be more beneficial than other depending on what’s gone wrong. There are many therapies to choose from and the claims that one is better than any other isn’t helpful.

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Hubby and I have done a number of cleanses and had our "results" tested by doctor. Yes they were stones, chartruese colored at that... zillions... some small as sand and others big as bird eggs. Doc grabbed that three finger baggie and demanded to know how we got them out! Pretty funny, but of course he did not ask for specifics to pass on to others. No no.

God bless the docs who "practice" with confidence but not arrogance. We consider "health care" how we personally chose to feed and care for ourselves for good homeostasis, ergo, preventing entering the "sick care system".

Ignoring medical arrogance, whether it is dark green sludge or zillions of chartruese stones every cleanse that nets results that improve ease of living is vital. The organic apple juice we drank for two days softened the stones and the cold pressed olive oil and lemon juice pushed it all out! It was great...

EXCEPT... if your intestines are unhealthy you better watch out for how much toxicity your cleanse unloads into your dumper! You do not want that garbage in your body to be reabsorbed or housed in your intestines... do a Dr. Richard Schulze 5 day Bowel Cleanse FIRST! Check the net, you will find Herbdoc.com. He has two other major cleanses to help "change your oil" (Just a concept= we "care" for our car's systems better than our body's at times. Would you EVER stuff a candy bar in your fuel tank? 100,000 miles on your oil change anyone?) Health food store supplements are quite weak incomparason to Dr. Schulze 's products and others I've found NOT in health food stores, so consider that when you choose your products. My hubby is the only one of 7 siblings who still has his gallbladder BECAUSE he chooses different than them... all 50ish.

Doctors are only practicing too and albeit they get credit for what they do, they ONLY have license to treat disease, they do not have license to attend to nutritional needs of the created beings we all are... human. Cut burn drug bandaides seldom HEAL anything. They may help prolong life, but that is not our goal.
Thanks for listening,
EJ