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Two and a half years without a gallbladder

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  1. comrade1234 · · focus · HN ↗
    I wonder if your bad cholesterol goes up in this case? This is because the liver uses cholesterol to create gall enzymes, which it excretes into the gall bladder with a bunch of left-over cholesterol too.
    1. jjtheblunt · · focus · HN ↗
      Gall bladder stores bile, which continues trickling down the common bile duct whether a storage facility sits off to the side ready to dump a bolus into the common bile duct. . With no bladder storing a bile bolus fatty foods might not be adequately digested from the trickle.
    2. M95D · · focus · HN ↗
      No such thing as gall enzymes and no such thing as an enzyme derived from cholesterol.
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