Dr. Tabatha Barber explains that gallbladder removal disrupts bile acid release, which breaks down fats and clears hormones. Without it, estrogen can accumulate and GLP-1 signaling drops, impairing insulin control and sabotaging metabolic health goals.
For so many women, maybe they've had their gallbladder, you know, removed because they were having the right side pain or they saw that there were some stones and it seemingly, you know, today is just such a common surgery and they go, just take it out. But they're never ever told the metabolic effects that will happen, the hormone impact in terms of estrogen dominance, right? Because now we don't have enough bile acids being released in the right concentrate at the right time from the gallbladder. To help us sequester toxins, remove metabolized hormones, cholesterol, break down all of these fats, especially if someone's following more of a ketogenic diet, right? They're trying to fix their metabolic health, but yet they're missing this really crucial— I don't— technically it's not a digestive juice, but I will say for layman's terms, right, someone to kind of think of it that way, but we need it to help us and then also signal our GLP-1. Signaling insulin from our insulin cells in the pancreas.
