Keto and gallstones- help

[atomicspacebunny]

I agree with this - when there’s too much cholesterol (more than the bile salts can dissolve) that’s when the stones often start forming.

But that could be endogenous cholesterol (saturated fats) from carbohydrates creating the gallstones not dietary saturated fats?

Now that makes sense more sense?

If it really worked the way they say it does, we would all be keeling over in pain from gallstones constantly?

References:

[1] ”…But they are made by the liver. As the body’s cells extract fatty acids from VLDLs, the particles turn into intermediate density lipoproteins, and, with further extraction, into LDL particles. …” …How is Cholesterol Made?

[OldDoug]

But that could be endogenous cholesterol (saturated fats) from carbohydrates creating the gallstones not dietary saturated fats?

Now that makes sense more sense?

You pretty much lost me there, Bunny. I really don’t know - it’s just that blaming “saturated fat” in our diets is, in my opinion, almost always false. At the least, there’s more to it than that - there are confounding things, genetic factors, other substances and hormonal responses to take into account, not just that “You’re eating too much saturated fat.”

[velvet]

Well, I certainly wasn’t eating much fat when I had gallstones. I was eating pretty much fat free, the way I was told to eat.

I was, however, in menopause with wildly fluctuating hormones that drove me batshit crazy. So I tend to look more towards the hormonal explanations.