 Hi guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel, this is Daniel Rossell here. I wanted to do a video about a supplement that I have been, that I purchased from the internet from iHerb that I've been taking recently. It's the second thing that's made a substantial difference to my life recently. I did a few videos about my new shiny low fat diet, well not so shiny because there's not fat in it. My low fat diet and it's been tremendous. It's the first thing since I had my gallbladder surgery two years ago that's actually made a legitimate substantial difference in my quality of life, in eating. I can eat pretty much normally at the moment if I stick to low fat foods. If I do not stick to low fat foods, I have problems. I went for lunch yesterday, ordered a, I'm a rookie at this, so I'm making rookie mistakes. I ordered a white cheese salad and I could just tell it was like fatty cheese and a couple of hours later, boom, problems. If I prepare my own food, I know it's like 3% cheese, bulgur and good. Anyway, second thing that's supposed to help for post gallbladder stuff if you have problems. If you don't, there's no need to be taking supplements, but it's this one called bile acid factors and this particular one is by Jarrow formulas. What this is is people who've had their gallbladder, I'd probably know this, but the gallbladder stores and concentrates bile and bile is used when you digest fats to make that digester process easier. Hence, when you have no gallbladder and you eat fatty foods for a lot of people, it's substantially harder and you get this bloating and all this other rubbish. This supplement is intended to artificially give you more bile if that makes sense. It's literally concentrated bile in a pill format and it's derived from bovine. This supplement is commonly called ox bile, so it's commonly sourced from ox. This is sourced from bovine sources. Clearly these aren't vegetarian or vegan supplements, although I think you can find a good one. In any event, I want to say a couple of things about this supplement because there are a couple of user tips that I've learned and that other people using this have learned. Firstly, I find this very effective. It actually definitely works. What I do is if I'm eating a fatty meal, so let's say I'm eating a steak. My current policy is I'm eating a low fat diet 80 to 90% of the time and if I feel like having a cheat day, I have a cheat day and I eat my steak and my pizza, but I eat, I take one of these supplements, these bile acid factor pills. Now, as I said, usage is essential. What I've discovered is that you want to eat these. You want to ingest one of these pills. They're fairly big as soon as you start eating. So you eat and then you want to get the pill in and the pill is going to kind of go in your stomach with the food and then that stuff will go down into your small, I presume these are like enteric coded, that'll go down into your small intestine and you'll have a bit of extra bile to break down the fats. So I find if I have a fatty meal, steak, pizza, burgers, falafel, shawarma, whatever, this actually does reduce my symptoms for sure. It's like not even, it's not even a query in my mind anymore. This actually works. Not amazingly, but it works quite well. So that's number one is you want to take it with the food. That's extremely important. If you do not do that, if you take this after you eat, you're going to get horrible reflux or that's been my experience because the food's already gone down. It's down in your stomach and you've just ingested basically bile and that's going to come up, give you bile reflux and that's very unpleasant. So I've made that mistake once or twice when I was new to these. I said, ah, you know, I forgot to take the, but whatever, I'll have it afterwards and it was not a fun time. So that's number one. Second thing is to be conservative about the dosing. So this says four capsules per serving size and I, if you go on, if you read the reviews on iHerb, you see what people say on YouTube. That's crazy in my opinion. I've tried to, I even found too, too much. Now what happens if you have too much? Well, you're going to have too much bile, more bile than you actually need. And excuse the TMI, you might get a little, you might get the runs. You might get that horrible acid. You'll just know about it. I, I've never attempted for two. I could tell it was a little bit too much. I find one helpful. Another thing you could do is if you want to start with 0.5, you could buy yourself empty capsules or just, you know, pour half of this out, open up the capsule and dispense half of it. That would be another option. Now in terms of how I use these, because they're supposed to be taken before food and their entire purpose is to assist with digestion, I don't want to carry this supplement thing around with me. So I bought one of these key, you know, key pill holders from Aliexpress and that's what I do. So I went for a big one because the pills are, or the pills are quite big. And if I can get this thing open, I'll show you, I'll show you what it looks like. I can fit approximately six to eight of these bile acids pills into the key holder. So I just keep them on my keys. And if I'm out and I decide, you know what, I'm going to have a hamburger. I just pop out one of these and eat it with the first bite of the meal. And so far, so good. The only thing is you have to remember to refill this periodically. Someone knows a better idea, please drop it as a comment. This is just a system I figured out so far. So yeah, this supplement has worked really, really well for me. I don't, I'm not a supplement person. I've taken a multivitamin for about one month of my life and that's about it. This is the first thing I've sort of regularly taken and I've read so many good things from people in exactly my situation. They had their gallbladder out. They got all these problems and they said that this bile acid stuff just made a real difference and I find it helpful. So between that and the low fat diet, I think I've made like a ton of progress in the space of one month and I'm doing a lot better than I was a month ago when I just didn't know what to eat, what was problematic, it was all causing problems. So I wanted to put that up there, Bile Acid Factors by Jarrow Formulas. There's other ones and that's everything I know about it so far.