Gallstone flushing refers to the practice of mixing about 1 cup of oil with citrus juice or apple juice and epsom salts, drinking it quickly in an attempt to “force” your liver to “fill up with bile and dump it”, “forcing the gallbladder to expel gallstones” which supposedly end up in the toilet after you go to the bathroom.
When you see those disgusting small balls of green stuff under your toilet bowl, you might get a little amuse knowing that you just flushed those toxins out of your body, right? But the question is: Is gallstone flushing safe?
Some people experience cramping, diarrhea, sweating, nausea, or general sickness after they have completed the “gallstone flush”.
And yes, they felt so much better that they got rid from those nasty 100 to 200 gallstones they believe they have in their gallbladder, all without having any proof they have any gallstones in the first place, and the fact that what they see in the toilet is actually just saponified oil (oil coagulated with the citrus/apple juice) because the body cannot – after all- digest that much oil at one time and must get rid of it.
So, why is gallstone flushing dangerous?
The gallbladder is very tiny in size and there is no way you could pass a couple of handfuls of gallstones each time you do gallstone flushing.
An average gallbladder is only 8 cm or 3 inches in length and 4 cm/1.6inch in diameter when FULLY distended. So the notion that you can pass 100-200 gallstones from the liver flush is grossly incorrect.
If even one gallstone was dislodged it could get stuck in the bile duct and send you to the emergency room for surgery that is definitely not something you want to risk in itself.
The only way you can actually have gallstones removed is if they are dissolved by a chemical solution directed under your doctor, or surgically removed. Dr. X explains why the liver/gall bladder flush does NOT actually work the way you think it does and how doing it is actually DANGEROUS for your health!
Naturally, the gallstone flushers claim that you see gallstones in your poop without actually proving what they really are.
According to reports, although it is certainly possible to pass gallstones into the stool and occasionally even find one, it’s highly unlikely to pass such huge numbers of stones without previous clinical symptoms of gallbladder disease or without easily detectable stones on ultrasound examination. In some cases, the number of “stones” observed in the stool would have required a gallbladder the size of a football to hold them all!
Lastly, if there are more to “come out” when additional flushes are done, it would seem to imply that there is an endless supply to be “dumped” out – a concept that defies plausibility – given that gallstones do not form rapidly enough to replace all the ones supposedly “flushed” out.
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