Gallbladder issues with a ketogenic diet?
One of our early HELPcare Community members recently raised this question about potential gallbladder issues when starting a ketogenic diet:
Gallbladder issues run in my family. I haven’t had any trouble yet, but I’m aware I could. Are there any special things I could/should be doing as I adopt a higher fat diet?
Sally - Alpha member of HELPcare Community
David Strobel, M.D. is the Medical Director for HELPcare, and in that role provides general health education either through member-only eLearning modules on this site or sometimes through video shared more broadly in blog posts.
In either case, videos from Dr. Strobel are not a specific medical recommendations and do not create a doctor-patient relationship.
Here's a helpful overview of what the gallbladder does and how patients with gallbladder problems, or who have had the gallbladder removed, are sometimes affected by a higher-fat ketogenic diet.
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This is reassuring. Thank you for addressing my question so thoroughly. My mother has had her gallbladder removed, so I'll be sharing this information with her as well.
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