In this segment of Functional Medicine Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford discusses the gallbladder and its roll in chronic conditions.

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This is like there’s like the continuation of the functional medicine back to basics. Again, for those of you who may just have seen gallbladder and I don’t know. Yet what we’re titling this or for those of the you who are just looking at gallbladder? Maybe this is the first time this is one in a series of presentations on what classic functional medicine should look like and and and and the emphasis on the is on the fact that there’s, a hierarchy to functional medicine and the way it Should be approached, and we’ve, been through that hierarchy from the very beginning of how to even evaluate a patient as to whether they should be a patient to what the basics are to to.

We’re, called the the priorities of blood sugar and oxygen, and those have you been watching know what I’m talking about. So we’ve gone through the we’ve gone through the intestines. We’ve gone through leaky gut.

We’ve gone through chemical sensitivities, pancreas stomach. We’ve gone through ulcers. We’ve gone through all that in an organized fashion. There is a hierarchy as to the way you should address a person’s overall case, and there’s and there’s, a specific hierarchy within the framework of that as to how you should address a gut function.

There’s like 35 different things that can cause gut issues and a lot of people today know Co, functional medicine, as I do the former program or the flybar program for the gut, and I got on the autoimmune, Paleo diet and I took a Bunch of supplements that I got on dr.

so-and-so this thing for leaky gut or SIBO or whatever it is, and didn’t work. So what’s? Going on what’s, going on as a person, didn’t, follow the hierarchy and in hierarchy of trying to get an intestines under control.

Any other things I just got mentioning there’s, a couple of major major players that if you miss them, you could do all the all the intestinal permeability you want. You can do all the liver flushes you want.

You can do all of the all of the SIBO diets and supplements and all the time and you’re, not getting better ever and one of the two biggest things and those have you been watching know what the other one is.

Hydrochloric acid. In the stomach, I wanted two biggest things: if you don’t fix, if you have it, you don’t fix it, you don’t know you have it to fix it. You it’s missing and you don’t fix that.

How can you fix that? We’ll talk about it? Okay, then you’re. Not getting better is the gallbladder. The gallbladder is like ginormously important to us. You wouldn’t think so with a gajillion gallbladder is coming out.

I think it’s. I think it’s, God. How much is it seventy five thousand? I forget. I actually have notes in front of me today. I don’t, usually use notes, okay, but the gallbladder to me is so huge. It’s, so important that I really want to.

I’m, not good at statistics and stuff, like that. I’m, not great at numbers so, but I really wanted you to get the whole idea of what’s going on now. Most of you know, and so I’m gonna – be looking down and reading off my notes.

So if that looks unprofessional, then too bad that’s, where we’re gonna, do it so so is it gallbladder? Do okay, what most of you know that gall bladders break down fats? Most of you know, people have had their gallbladders out and it’s like oh.

You know that pain. It took the gallbladder out, the pain went away, and then it came back or sometimes the pain went away and stayed away. But you know I don’t see those patients. I see the pain where they took it out.

It came back, they took my gallbladder out. The pain never went away and and and and goblet or shouldn’t come out anywhere near as frequently as they’re coming out, like like 90 % less frequently than they’re coming out, and I’M not exaggerating when I say that they do a lot more than fat digestion.

It does change your cholesterol, so cholesterol is kind of kind of accumulates in your in your liver has to be it has to be, it has to be broken down so that it can get into your system and then and it, and that’s.

Done by bile salts and that’s done in your gallbladder, those of you who can’t eat fish oils, okay, those of you who can’t it. It helps to break down and it helps with the absorption of fatty acids. So it helps with the absorption of your fat soluble vitamins, not just the fish oils, not just a but it but also vitamin A vitamin D.

Vitamin E vitamin K. So if you’re, taking all those things and are they’re coming out the other end or if you’re, taking these these things and you still have flaky skin and then you’re either. Not taking enough or you’re, not breaking it down and absorbing it.

The gallbladder is one of the biggest reasons that you may not be able to take that the symptoms of gallbladder are symptoms of gallbladder or your patients will come in here and and and i’ll. You know i have a assessment format.

People put out there’s old section on gallbladder. First question is, like you know: how did it what happens when you eat fried foods, fatty foods and a lot of people just leave it blank or they go nothing, and I have to ask them and say, because it’s, a zero to four Scale, zero, meaning nothing ever happens, so they mark zero.

I’ll, always ask that person. Is that because you don’t eat fried foods and fatty foods, and things like that and the most the time they’ll, say yes? Why? Because it makes them not feel good. It makes it not feel good because their gallbladder is not working.

Okay, some of the bigger ones for gallbladder are some of the bigger ones or I can’t. Do fish oils can’t eat fatty foods, gas and bloating a distension? A couple of hours after or after I eat fatty foods, but then a lot of times they don’t realize it’s.

The fatty food, a big one, is, can’t. Take supplements, can’t. Take the fish oil supplements a burp up fish oil. I perp up fish oil. I burp up a fatty fish oil after I do it. I kind of woke up. One is really interesting.

Two that are really interesting. Are it genus and the palms of your hands and just general itchiness it’s all over? I don’t know why? Because your gallbladder, or when it’s, not clearing things, those bile salts and the toxins from from not getting cleared and getting into the intestines, they got to go somewhere some of them and make it because because not having a gallbladder, also cause constipation.

One of the things that can cause constipation, so if it’s not getting in if you’re, not clearing those those toxins, if you’re, not clearing those bile salts into the into the toilet, and you can only Clear so much through your kidney, it’s going to the skin.

It’s going to each that’s like that’s like to me like one of the biggest things, and I see like get unis all over and it’s kind of generally, the the other one Is like dry flaky skin which can be thyroid? It can be, it can be.

You know, a lack of essential fatty acids. I don’t need enough. Nuts. I don’t need enough fish. I don’t need enough. Olive oil – I don’t need yes, though, but then if the person is going well, I eat all that.

Then it’s, not getting broken down it’s, not getting through the intestines. It’s, not getting even years into your into your system. You have dry flaky, skin, and so all of these are potential signs of gallbladder.

The gallbladder helps with the secretion and detoxification of a lot of different things. One of the biggest things it helps detoxify is in women. Is your estrogen a lot of people, a lot of women who are who are like estrogen dominant? They may just have bad liver and bad gallbladder Ida.

I have a actually an employee here and we were doing kind of a little bit of a beta trial here on the program. I, those of you who saw my my new year’s high. My new year’s, talk or my new year’s presentation my new year’s.

My years cards to you, I’m verbal cartoon. We talked about how we’re. We’re working on different level programs that maybe we can offer that are more meaningful to people who can’t get here. You know people who you know are wondering whether this actually works or not, and so on and so forth.

So anyway, we we tried it on all of our staff members here, not one staff member here who got our period within like two weeks, just detoxing, just in the initial detox face of one of the programs were considering because it detox their liver.

It detox her gut and a detox, their gallbladder and all the sudden. She started clearing excess estrogen from her system because it was stuck in her gallbladder and was stuck in her liver and she got a period back after two and a half years.

I’m, not having a period, and she was kind of happy about that, but but but so so the gallbladder is a big part of detoxing. Your estrogens now is that a big deal yeah a lot of you like a