Dr. Tabatha Barber explains how gallbladder removal disrupts bile flow, leading to nutrient deficiencies and metabolic problems like insulin resistance and weight-loss resistance. Women face 2-3 times higher baseline risk of gallstones than men, and removal increases their vulnerability to metabolic disease and chronic fatigue.
I think really what triggers me most with these women who've had their gallbladders removed and they're running to the bathroom and their doctors are saying, well, just avoid, you know, healthy fats, is that we also start to see they become not only nutrient deficient, right? And so immune function is not fully supported, our energy is not fully supported, our brain is not fully supported, but most importantly, they start to develop metabolic disease. And we know that that is at an all-time high. We just go, you know, anywhere and look around, but you could also do a simple Google search or ask chat and it's gonna show you the stats that are just crazy. And for so many women, we have 2 to 3 times greater risk than men to develop gallstones. But also when you look at the research after having the gallbladder removed, they're at a much greater risk of becoming insulin resistant. So kind of what I see when I speak with women, if they've had gallbladder, you know, issues, whether or not they still have the gallbladder intact and they just haven't addressed, right, the dysfunction of bile flow, we're seeing estrogen dominance, we're seeing insulin resistance, chronic fatigue, and, you know, again, weight loss resistance.
