Contents:
- Medical Video: Cholecystectomy | Gallbladder Removal Surgery | Nucleus Health
- Some things you can do to prevent gallstones
- 1. Control your weight
- 2. Apply a healthy diet
- 3. Do exercise regularly
- 4. Avoid consumption of certain drugs
Medical Video: Cholecystectomy | Gallbladder Removal Surgery | Nucleus Health
Everyone can suffer from gallstone disease. Generally, gallstones are caused by a bad lifestyle, gallbladder problems, and due to heredity. Therefore, to prevent gallstones, you should start applying a healthy lifestyle from now on. That way, you can reduce your risk of gallstones.
Some things you can do to prevent gallstones
1. Control your weight
Obesity or obesity is one of the risk factors for gallstones. Obese people generally have high cholesterol levels, which makes it difficult for the gallbladder to empty itself. For that, you need to control your weight so that it is always in a healthy range to prevent gallstones.
If necessary, you may have to lose your weight until you reach the ideal. But, with conditions, that must be done in a healthy and slow way. Doing a diet by limiting calories into the body to less than 800 calories can increase your risk of developing gallstones.
Losing weight in a short time and then regaining your weight again can also increase your risk of developing gallstones, especially if you are a woman. Ideally, you lose as much as 0.5-1 kg in 1 week. And, should the minimum calorie that enters your body when the diet is 1200 calories, it should not be less than that.
2. Apply a healthy diet
Eating on a regular schedule can reduce your risk of developing gallstones. Also, choose your food well to prevent gallstones. Not by not consuming fat at all. Instead, your body actually needs fat, but good fat. You can consume monounsaturated fats (such as olive oil and canola oil) and omega-3 fatty acids (such as avocados and fish oil) to reduce the risk of gallstones. Instead, you need to limit foods with high saturated fat, such as fatty meats, butter, offal, cream, cake, and others.
You also need to consume fiber that can be found in vegetables, fruits, and wheat. At least you have to eat 5 servings of vegetables and fruits per day. Fiber can help lower cholesterol and reduce your weight. Also consume lots of nuts and seeds.
3. Do exercise regularly
Regular exercise can help you maintain and lose weight. Exercise can also help you reduce high cholesterol and triglyceride levels. So, exercise can help you prevent gallstones. You are advised to exercise at least 30 minutes per day or 150 minutes per week.
4. Avoid consumption of certain drugs
Some drugs can increase your risk of developing gallstones, such as cholesterol-lowering drugs (gemfibrozil and fenofibrate). This can occur because the drug can increase the amount of cholesterol released into the bile, so that gallstones can form.
In addition, hormone therapy, such as the estrogen hormone used after menopausal women or high-dose birth control pills containing estrogen, can also increase a woman's risk of developing gallstones. You need to know that the hormone estrogen can make the body produce more cholesterol, which can cause gallstones. This also answers why women are more at risk of suffering from gallstones.
