Top 9 Health Benefits of Bile Salts

In this blog, we will discuss the gallbladder and bile salts because of the great importance of that organ which is typically considered an extra organ that you don't need but the gallbladder is very very important it helps you store and concentrate bile salts. 

Now your liver makes bile and so do your friendly bacteria now about 95 to 97% of all the bile that you and your body make is recycled. 

So bile is very very important and when you take bile salts as a supplement normally people take that with a meal they might take it just after they eat and it will usually help with bloating belching burping and nausea. 

Now the primary function of bile salts that most people know is the extraction of the fat-soluble vitamins from the fat in your diet but there are many other benefits of using purified bile salts and taking them on an empty stomach. 

Now I've pretty much purchased every single medical textbook on both the gallbladder and bile salt so it's a fascinating topic. 

I want to share with you the nine benefits of taking purified bile salts and for these benefits, I'm going to discuss them. 

I would recommend taking purify bile salts on an empty stomach. I would take one in the morning and one in the afternoon.

Let us discuss the benefits of the Bile salt

1)      PREVENT GALLSTONE

 

      Taking purified bile salts can help you reduce the risk of getting gallstones why because a gallstone is a super concentrated gallbladder crystal compound andbilesalts help you prevent the formation of cholesterol crystals okay that's number one.

2)      EXTRACT THE FAT SOLUBLE OF VITAMINS(A, E, D, K/OMEGA-3 FATTY ACID)

 

It helps you extract the fat-soluble vitamins vitamin a e d vitamin k and the omega-3   fatty acids and what it does to fat is it emulsifies the fat it breaks down the fat   into these small particles which increase the surface area so the pancreas can release its enzyme called lipase which then does the rest of the dissolving of that fat particle so you   can fully extract those nutrients from that food and so you need both bile and the enzyme from the pancreas to make this successful.

1      3) CONSTIPATION

It can help you with constipation   bile is kind of a lubricant, it helps to lubricate the colon and so when you're deficient in bile, you   can become constipated now if you have too much bile you can get diarrhea because it   actually releases a lot of water in through the intestines specifically the large intestine so that's why you need just the right amount.

4) Conversion Of Thyroid Hormones

Bile helps you convert thyroid hormones t4 is the inactive version of the thyroid hormone and t3 is the active form you need bile to make this transition from t4 to t3 and this is why sometimes when people have their gallbladder removed and they become gallbladder deficient they may end up with a thyroid problem the the simple solution is just to start taking purified bile salts because that will help the thyroid greatly and one contraindication of taking purify bile salts is if you have too many thyroid hormones so if you have a hyperthyroid condition you never want to take bile salts because that's going to increase more conversion and make things worse but for a hypothyroid condition purified bile salts can help you greatly.

5) Vitamin D Receptor Agonist

It is very interesting bile salts can act as a VDR agonist now what the heck does that mean vitamin D receptor agonist bile helps you trigger the receptor for vitamin d now this is very important in autoimmune diseases because the problem with autoimmune conditions is that you have this massive inflammation and vitamin D is the most important vitamin in dropping inflammation and if you have an autoimmune condition and you don't have any inflammation you really don't have hardly any symptoms from that condition and so bile can help you indirectly reduce inflammation in the body especially the liver.

6) Decrease Body Pain

 Bile salts can help you decrease pain in your body specifically in   the right shoulder simply because if you have a congested gallbladder or there's congestion between the liver and the ducts going to the gall bladder or the small intestine a lot of times. 

This bile will form sludge because you're missing bile and that congestion will back up the pipes and put pressure into the liver and cause pain in the right shoulder as well as trigger a nerve that goes from your diaphragm up to your neck called the phrenic nerve and cause right shoulder pain right trap pain up through here pain in the rhomboid muscle in the back part where it can also cause pain on the right side causing a headache on the right side of your head. 

It can also cause pain and tightness underneath the right rib cage or in the stomach area or underneath the left ribcage and even pancreatitis because what can happen is this bile sludge can back up and now you have your bile salts which are detergents that are not moving properly and they're stuck in the bile ducts in the liver and even in the pancreatic ducts. 

If it's stagnant or doesn't   move that can create inflammation and so by taking purified bile salts that thin the sludge and allows things to drain through and the pain goes away and so a lot of the pain problems are coming from a deficiency of bile.

 Let me just mention the reasons why you might be deficient in bile

• Gallbladder remove
• Low-fat diet

•  Taking too many Omega-6 fatty acids- Like soy oil canola cottonseed oil corn oil all these cooking vegetable oils that we consume are very very  damaging to the liver and they can create a big problem.

• Sugar-If you're consuming too much sugar refined grains or you have a spike in insulin that can decrease your bile if you're estrogen dominant or you're taking birth control pills and the estrogen spikes that can create a deficiency in bile 

• Live fatty/Hepatitis/Cirrhosis- If your liver is fatty or you have hepatitis or you have cirrhosis and there's liver damage that can decrease the production of bile.

•  High level of Cortisol- If you have high levels of cortisol or   you're taking prednisone which is a type of cortisol that can create a deficiency of bile.

• Soy protein isolate-Soy protein isolates can greatly aggravate the gallbladder and the liver and cause a deficiency   of bile having too many exotoxins let's say for example, you did a detox and you're breaking up   bacteria or virus particles and that's releasing these endotoxins which by the way create the detox   reactions that occur when you do a detox what happens to a lot of people is they get this stuck   flow in the liver and the bile is not going to drain properly and so one of the things that I always recommend when you do a detox especially a liver detox is to first take purified bile salts to get the drainage occurring first so you don't get this backup of toxins in the liver which   is very very uncomfortable another cause is malabsorption if you have gut damage   you're not going to be able to recycle bile since 95 97 of all the bile in your body is recycled   if the end part of your small intestine is damaged or you have inflammation and you can't recycle   that you're going to be deficient in bile.

• Don't have enough good bacteria- The last reason why you might be deficient in bile   is you don't have enough good bacteria all right let's get back to the benefits.

7) Small Intestinal Bacteria Overgrowth(SIBO)

Purify   bio salts help reduce the risk of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth "SIBO" why because bile is   toxic to bacteria and one of the things that bile does as it's released into the small intestine is it kills off all the bacteria in your small intestine and that way you prevent bacteria from growing in the wrong place and so bile travels all the way down through the small intestine kills off the bacteria make sure it doesn't grow and then right at the last part, it gets reabsorbed so most of the bile is reabsorbed into the liver and so very little bile enters the small intestine and this way we keep the bacteria in the right place the large intestine and if there's a problem with this and some of that bile gets into the large intestine that's when you have diarrhea.

8) Liver Inflammation

  I already mentioned this but bile greatly helps reduce inflammation in your liver it's a paddle protective it protects the liver.

9) Reduce Toxic Load/ Rrgulate Excess Cholesterol

These purified bile salts reduce the toxic load so the toxins that are filtered out to the liver   need bile salts to help push them out through the small intestine and out through the large intestine and they also help regulate excessive amounts of cholesterol.

All right these are nine benefits of Bile Salt.