Vegetarianism and bile stones

I think you raise an excellent point that most cholesterol is made in the liver. I have also read some research somewhere that dietary cholesterol has little impact on systemic cholesterol. But I wonder if dietary cholesterol although may have little impact on systemic cholesterol may have some detrimental effect perhaps straining the liver in some way thus compromising the liver's efficacy in detoxing other stuff.

I've read and tried various diets. I don't have a weight mgmt issue, quite the opposite actually but suffer from numerous dermatological ailments. So I tried Dr. Cordain's Paleo diet (similar to Atkins except lower fat) for 6 months but did not work for me. I tried to follow Dr. Mercola's diet suggestions (mercola.com - he suggests no grains, raw eggs, etc.) but I couldn't handle it. I then tried vegetarian with shrimp for 6 months which worked better but still not happy. And just last week I started all vegetarian following guidelines of Dr. McDougall (drmcdougall.com)

I've read the Metabolic Type Diet and based on the book's questionnaire I would be typed as mixed diet but I feel I do better on vegetarian. I do take a high potenancy GNC multi so am not deficient in any vitamins. My last blood test revealed very high levels of B12 but that was after 6 months of all veggies with shrimp only. Prior to this for the last 10+ years I have had an extremely shockingly poor diet eating all the wrong foods and have unknowingly ingested high amounts of hydrogenated / trans fatty foods. Coincidentally this was when all my problems started. I wonder if all these 'stones' were cumulative from before.

Anyways just my 2c worth. Tweet