Re: Fasting before Liver Flush

Hello,
I'll try to be structured and brief. Few reason could contribute for stone formation in someone w relatively healthy diet.
1. Inherited/acquired narrow bile passages - in the liver or outside it.
2. Gallbladder inflammations - usually due to previous bile built+inability to drain.
3. High cholesterol, it can come from any animal food, more so in inherited cases of lipid metabolism anomalies - familial hypercholesterolemia, familial hypertriglyceridemia, etc.
4. Diabetes, obesity, pregnancy; high estrogen levels - male, and female; higher incidence in women; multiple pregnancies, early menarche, late menopause; there is a peak around age 40.
5. Rare - but existing - hypertrophy of the pancreas around the common bile duct, which puts pressure on it.
It would make sense to check the gallbladder position, pancreas and bile duct w ultrasound and keep track of blood lipids levels. HDL being high is good, LDL being low is good.
Usually relieving the pressure on the gallbladder with moderate by size meals, not too fatty ones, and losing weight are good initial measures to start with.
Diet richer in phosphorus would help, since it's building block of HDL, acting as "emulsifier" for blood lipids. These would be (citing only vegan sources) in order of decreasing content: pumpkin, squash and sunflower seeds, rice bran, cocoa, buckwheat, poppy seeds, soy, wheat germs, Watermelon seeds, sesame seeds, etc.
Whole dairy contains it too, but it contains cholesterol as well.
Wish you well,
DL