Low fat diets can trigger gallstone formation and insulin resistance. Your gallbladder stores bile to digest fat, so restricting fat causes it to stagnate and form stones. Without adequate dietary fat, your body struggles to regulate blood sugar and insulin.
Is there a connection with lack of gallbladder and insulin resistance? No, but there is a connection with that way of eating. One of the leading causes of gallstone formation is not emptying the gallbladder. So the bile from the liver is staying in here. And as the bile stays in there, the molecules start to clump together and they crystallize and they become a little stone, a little gallstone. Now when the gallbladder tries to evacuate, eject itself, it hurts because it's pinching down on these little stones that can be some jagged and it's increasing the pressure and that causes pain. So the best way to prevent that from happening, of course, is by frequently emptying the gallbladder. The only way to empty the gallbladder is to eat fat. And so very commonly if someone goes on a low fat version of a weight loss diet, you can expect them to have to get their gallbladder removed. And so if you're eating a low fat diet, that means you're eating a high carb diet and you're likely causing insulin resistance at the same time. It.