Gallstones In The Liver

The liver is the largest gland in the body, weighing up to three pounds. It is suspended behind the ribs on the upper right side of the abdomen and spans almost the entire width of the body. The liver is an extremely active organ that has to perform hundreds of different functions. With its dazzlingly intricate labyrinth of special cells, veins and ducts, it resembles an entire city for the variety of its activities.  

Because the liver is responsible for processing, converting, distributing, and maintaining the body’s “fuel” supply – energy and nutrients – it directly affects the health and vitality of every cell in the body. 

The liver also influences the secretion of digestive enzymes and produces many hormones that affect the way the body functions, grows, and heals. It makes new amino acids and converts existing ones into proteins which serve as building blocks for cells, hormones, neurotransmitters, genes, etc. This vital organ also breaks down old cells and recycles iron. It stores blood and important vitamins and nutrients. Apart from breaking down alcohol, the liver makes powerful enzymes that detoxify noxious substances, bacteria, parasites and certain drug compounds. All in all it filters more than a quart of blood each minute. 

The liver keeps the body warm, provides the energy for sexual performance, maintains good eyesight and keeps the mind clear and efficient. One of the liver’s most important functions is to produce bile, about 1 - 1½ quart per day. Bile is a viscous, yellowish-green fluid that is alkaline (versus acidic) and has a bitter taste. Most food cannot be properly digested without bile. For example, to enable the small intestines to absorb fat and calcium from the food you eat, the food must first be mixed with bile. When fat is not absorbed properly, it indicates that bile secretion is insufficient. The undigested fat remains in the intestinal tract. When the fat reaches the colon along with other waste products, bacteria break down some part of it into fatty acid components, or else it is excreted with the stool. Since fat is lighter than water, it may make the stool float. If fat is not absorbed, then calcium is not absorbed either, leaving the blood in a deficit. The blood subsequently takes its extra calcium from the bones. Most bone density problems actually arise from insufficient bile secretion and poor digestion of fats rather than from not eating enough calcium.

Apart from breaking down fats contained in our food, bile also removes toxins from the liver. One of the lesser known but extremely important functions of bile is to de-acidify and cleanse the intestines. If gallstones in the liver or gallbladder have critically impeded bile flow, the color of the stool may be tan, orange-yellow or pale as in clay, instead of the normal greenish-brown. Gallstones are one outcome of an unhealthy diet and lifestyle. If gallstones2 are still present in the liver even after all other disease-causing factors are eliminated, they still pose a considerable health risk and may lead to illness and premature aging. For this reason, the subject of gallstones has been included here as a major risk factor or cause of disease. The following sections describe some of the main consequences that gallstones in the liver have on the different organs and systems in the body. By removing these stones, the body as a whole is able to resume its normal, healthy activities.

Persons suffering with chronic illnesses have hundreds if not thousands of gallstones congesting the bile ducts of the liver and gallbladder. The liver is able to return to its natural efficiency once the stones have been removed through a series of liver cleanses. And by maintaining a healthy diet and lifestyle most, if not all, symptoms of discomfort in the body will soon begin to subside. Many allergies will disappear, back pain will come to an end and energy and well-being will improve dramatically. In my experience, cleansing the liver bile ducts from gallstones is one of the most important and powerful means to improve your physical, mental and spiritual health. 

  Gallstones – A Constant Source Of Disease  Gallstones in the bile ducts of the liver, medically known as intrahepatic stones, consist of mostly cholesterol (60-90%). The rest is made up of other bile constituents as well as toxins, bacteria, and parasites. Relatively few are made of organic matter from food. They are “invisible” to X-rays because they are not calcified. The gallbladder may have larger stones that are calcified and can be detected. 

Ultrasound technology can spot non-calcified fatty deposits in the liver only if they occur in very large quantities (many thousands of stones). The diagnosis of this condition is often referred to as “fatty liver.” The gallstones found in the liver come in all shapes and colors. Most of them are bright or dark green, yet some others can be white, red, black or tan colored. They result from overeating, an unhealthy diet and lifestyle, as well as stress and repressed anger. As the stones grow in size and become more numerous the liver cells are compelled to reduce bile production. Normally, the liver produces well over a quart of bile each day. This is the required amount to properly digest food in the small intestine. When the major bile ducts are blocked, barely a cup or even less will find its way to the intestinal tract. The restricted bile production does not only impair digestion, but also prevent the liver from excreting toxins and propelling the stones out of the bile ducts. All this affects the blood circulation in the liver. The walls of the liver’s blood vessels (sinusoids) become increasingly clogged up. This, in turn, prevents Low Density Lipo Proteins (LDL and VLDL, also called bad cholesterol) from leaving the blood stream, hence the rise in blood serum cholesterol. Since gallstones are porous, they can pick up or absorb toxins, bacteria, viruses, parasites and cysts that are passing through the liver, like fishing nets collect fish. The stones can become a constant source of infection, supplying the body with an ever-increasing number of fresh bacteria. The attempt to permanently cure intestinal bloating, cystitis, Candida, stomach ulcers, infectious diseases or any of the above conditions is likely to fail if the bacteria-harboring gallstones are not removed from the liver. On occasion, one or several gallstones get stuck in the cystic duct - in the vessel that links the common bile duct with the gallbladder – or in the common bile duct itself. In this case, the wall of the duct undergoes strong spasmodic contractions in order to propel the stones onwards. The contractions of the duct wall can cause excruciating pain, throughout the abdomen, in the back and also in the legs and arms. When the gallbladder is packed with gallstones, it too may go into extremely painful, spasmodic muscle contractions, a condition known as gallbladder attack. Gallstones can trigger strong reactions of irritation and inflammation of the walls of the gallbladder and the cystic and common bile ducts. There may be superimposed microbial infection. Today, over 20 million Americans suffer gallbladder disease and each year about one million of them opt for an expensive gallbladder operation. If a person has his gallbladder removed surgically, he may feel tremendous relief from the acute pain attacks and his digestion is likely to improve for a short while. This is due to comparatively more bile being available for the digestive process. The disadvantage is, however, that that bile comes in small trickles throughout the day rather than in large amounts when it is needed to digest a meal. Bile causes injury to the intestinal walls unless it is mixed with food. In addition, since the patient still has all the stones left in his liver, the digestive troubles are most likely to return and get worse. Other existing health problems such as pain, asthma, bursitis, heart disease, arthritis, etc. become intensified as well. If gallstones become stuck in the ampulla of the bile duct, where the common bile duct from the liver and gallbladder joins the pancreatic duct, jaundice and acute pancreatitis usually develop. This condition can eventually lead to tumors in the pancreas and to a number of other diseases. Gallstones of any kind, size and number can be easily and safely removed through the Liver Cleanse described in Employing Nature’s Healing Powers, Chapter 7, or in my book The Amazing Liver Cleanse. 

The first positive effects that are commonly noticed soon after the cleanse are pain relief and regained or enhanced energy, vitality and general well being. Although the Liver Cleanse can be done by people of any age, including children above 10 years (many children today have gallstones in the liver) and the elderly, it is recommended to do the cleanse only after having followed the general guidelines for creating a healthy body for at least four to six weeks, as is described in the following chapters. The colon and kidney cleanses outlined in Chapter 7, Employing Nature’s Healing Powers, are an ideal preparation for a liver cleanse, too. 

During a series of liver cleanses, I passed about 3,000 small pea-sized green stones, hundreds of chickpea sized and a dozen large ones of 2centimeters in diameter. A recent cleanse showed that my liver was completely clean. The effects of each cleanse were often dramatic and added more and more benefits to the previous one(s). The overall results were that my energy and vitality increased by at least three-fold, all discomfort, stiffness and pain in the body, particularly in the back, ceased and digestion and elimination normalized. Speaking for myself, the liver cleanse is the best thing I have ever done for my physical and mental well-being. You may wonder why in mainstream medicine there is no medical knowledge or reference that deals with gallstones in the liver. The reason for this extremely important missing link is that the theories of modern medicine tell you that gallstones can only be formed in the gallbladder, and not in the liver. The “experimental evidence” supporting this theory is mainly based on taking X-rays or ultrasound scans, which can detect only the few stones in the gallbladder that may have grown to a certain size and are calcified (mineral stones). The current diagnostic tools are unable to recognize the hundreds or thousands of non-calcified hardened bile deposits in the liver as gallstones. Ultrasound scans can reveal fatty deposits in the liver only when there is an excessive number of oversized stones (20,000 or more) congesting the liver bile ducts (fatty liver). And even if early deposits are recognized, there is no effective therapy in conventional medicine that can remove them. The presence of gallstones in the liver can easily be verified by anyone suffering from a chronic illness, especially if his/her gallbladder has been removed. By performing a liver cleanse, the body will release plenty of non-calcified, bile-coated stones. These stones are identical to the green non-calcified stones found in a surgically removed gallbladder. When cut through their middle part, both these “types” of gallstones bear typical age marks, similar to those seen in cut tree trunks. Proper analysis would reveal their age and the kinds of toxins, chemicals and bacteria the body had or has to deal with most. Sweeping the liver clean eliminates thousands of bits of poisonous substances that have helped form the stones and plague the thousands of liver bile ducts. Cleansing the liver bile ducts from gallstones is one of the most important and powerful procedures to regain or improve your health. 

For further details on how cleansing of the liver and gallbladder can make all the difference when it comes to treating disease or improving your health and vitality, please refer to The Amazing Liver Cleanse. 

In Chapter 1 you will find a detailed explanation as to why the presence of gallstones in the bile ducts, both inside and outside the liver, can be considered to be the greatest health risk and cause of most major or minor illnesses. In Chapter 2 you will be able to identify the signs, marks or symptoms indicating the presence of stones in your liver or gallbladder. Other sections of the book detail the possible causes of gallstones and how to prevent new ones from developing. What Can I Expect from a Liver Cleanse covers some of the possible health benefits of this profound, self-help program. Also, find out what others have to say about their experiences with the liver flush. The question and answer section deals with many queries you may have about this procedure and its implications for your health. To reap the maximum benefit from the liver cleanse, I would like to encourage you to read the entire book.