Who needs a gallbladder anyway?

Who needs a gallbladder anyway?

Diet and Nutrition, Treatment
We can survive without a gallbladder, but clearly it is a useful, functioning organ, and we are better off to keep it if we can. There are times when things can go wrong such as gallstones, sludge and blocked ducts, and then it may need to be removed. However……even though there wasn’t really anything wrong with my gallbladder in 2010/2011, I was convinced it had to go. For info, gallstones incidence in the general population makes it considerably more common than NETs so it follows that some NET patients will have a gallstone issue totally unrelated to their NET.  Gallstones are thought to be caused by an imbalance in the chemical make-up of bile inside the gallbladder. Bile is a liquid produced by the liver to help digestion. For some,…
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