 Hi guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here. I want to do a video just talking about this new diet I'm embarking upon. I've never done a diet or really anything like this before, so it's really uncharted territory for me. And the reason I'm doing this is not because I'm doing a diet, you know, who cares everyone's going on diets for, for weight loss at the moment. It's because it's a kind of specific diet for post-cholestectomy or post-gallbladder removal and functional dyspepsia and bloating and all the issues I've been having. Now, this is very much, you know, it's my perspective as somebody going through these issues. And I want to do this because if it really works, I'll be able to do another video in a few months and say, I followed all these recommendations and this is the difference that it made. So context, I'm about two years out from my gallbladder surgery. And as it seems to be the case, there is a subset of people who just get on from the surgery and everything works just fine in their body. And then there's people who everything kind of goes the other way and seems to break down and stop working. And I've been kind of somewhere in the middle, I guess, having difficulties, thankfully, you know, not being housebound. I've read some really tragic stories about people that just, you know, we're really destroyed by the surgery. So I haven't had that, but I have had basically the functional dyspepsia, which is a normal person, language, it's fullness, bloating, burping, all these, I think what doctors called upper GI symptoms. So it's not like down here in your colon, which is more like IBS, it's just all like stuff coming up. And it's very, very unpleasant and be going on for two years. So that interview with Dr. Tally really gave me encouragement to see the, see the dietician. I had this appointment set already and just give it a good shot because he said he sends every single patient of his out to see a dietician. Now again, this is just me talking here as a FD patient, someone with problems after the surgery and not as medical or nutritional advice. So I just want to say basically what I'm moving to. I also just want to talk about one supplement that a lot of people after their gallbladder removal do take and which I find kind of helpful just to give a full picture of what I'm doing now. So the diet, my diet, it's over here. I'm just looking at my screen here. Basically, it's a low fat diet. And the reason what my dietician told me is, you know, it makes a ton of sense, the gallbladder is an organ that stores bile, concentrates bile, and then puts that bile, injects that bile into the small intestine where its job is to basically one of its jobs is to help break down fat. So it's like kind of part of the digestive cascade that makes it easier for our bodies to break down fat and then subsequently to absorb fat and fat soluble vitamins. So when that's missing from your system and you maintain eating the same amount of fat, which is essentially what I've done, not advised, you're going to be having problems. And the problem I've been having, which I've heard a lot of people having is weight gain. I've had a really, really hard time maintaining a weight and it's been perplexing. I've been exercising a bit. I've been, you know, meant to eating a pretty normal diet and the pounds were just like coming on. So I'm hopeful that this diet will simultaneously improve all these digestive problems and it will also help maintain a healthy weight because I've kind of got back down to my previous gene size, which is amazing. And I don't want to go back in the other direction. So I'm trying to maintain at this level. So the diet, it's a low fat diet for that reason, trying to minimize that consumption of fat. And it's basically, here's what it is, it's grains, it's legumes, so it's chickpeas and lentils. It is, what else am I eating? Low fat dairy is another thing. Now this is something that nutritionist or dietitian, I should say, was hesitant about because lactose intolerance and gluten intolerance, I'm personally trying to keep as many things in my diet as I can have and not cut out for no reason other food stuff. So I don't know that I'm lactose intolerant. I've no reason to think that I am. So I kind of insisted actually that I keep the option to eat this. So I basically in the last week bought like every low fat dairy product in my supermarket ranging from low fat yogurt, to low fat cheese, to low fat labneh, which is spread here in the Middle East. And I must say everything's been surprisingly good and tasty. So that's been a good snack for me. So beside the grains, there's eggs in my diet. There are lean meats. So like for example, lean chicken, white chicken, white chicken breast, chicken breast, and low fat fish. So there are fatty fish. And there is less fatty fish. So low fat fish, basically just avoiding fat. Now that's kind of it's a tough one for me. And I suspect the reason I've had a lot of problems post surgery is because I'm a big fan of stuff like olives. I'm a big fan of full fat cheese and full fat milk. And these are all things that unfortunately are kind of out from the perspective of this diet. The only other thing I'll say about this diet is it's really interesting how far low fat diets have kind of fallen out of favor. If you put this into YouTube or the internet and Google, you're going to get a bunch of results. Low fat diets are terrible. They were really popular in our parents day. And now we realize how good some fats are and don't cut out fat. So I don't know if that information is valid as a non nutritionist. But there are people with medical conditions like you don't have a gallbladder or your pancreas is creating issues that really have to stick to low fat. It's not about maintaining or maximizing health. It's about sort of dealing with a different digestive situation. So that's basically what the what the diet I've been recommended to take is porridge is what's going to be my breakfast now. Lunch is going to be this Indian curry. So I'm going to be making my own curries again. And this the only difference will be that I'll be measuring very carefully the fat, a lot of dals, a lot of, you know, Indian Indian veggie curries. And then for dinner, either more curry, or there's going to be basically those leaner meats. And that's going to be my diet for snacks. It's going to be a bit grim. There's going to be rice crackers and baked apples slices. I buy myself a air fryer for the first time. Well, obviously for the first time in my life. And just trying to make this easy for myself, make this even maybe fun, trying to see the positive aspect of this as in not just saying, Okay, I've lost my gallbladder. I can't get it back. I've now got all these digestive problems I didn't have before the surgery. I'm now bloated all the time. All these things are true and all these things are kind of sucky. But I'm trying to see it from the perspective of this is like this can be my catalyst to eat really healthy to live really healthy to just maintain a much healthier lifestyle. So that's kind of my motivator and just the mind frame shift I'm trying to do at the moment. So that's what I'm doing. I did want to mention this supplement because the other thing I've just added is a weapon to to try to try make things a bit better for myself. So this supplement is called bile acid factors. It's by a company called Jarrow formulas. And if the low fat approach is the preventive approach, this is kind of coming at it from the other direction of because you don't have as much bile after the surgery, right? So the gallbladder takes in the bile that the liver makes and then it really distills it down to concentrated bile and then puts that into your small intestine. And when you don't have that, the bile just kind of trickles slowly throughout the day as the liver makes it. So what this guy does is it's an animal derived product. It's bovine sourced. You'll also see ox bile supplements. You'll also see something called Todka. What these things are trying to do is just give you artificial bile and the way you're supposed to use this supplement is to take one pill at the start of the meal so that it'll mix in with the food and just give you that kind of missing bile that you don't have. So the way I'm approaching it and I if I can say this is I think quite a good approach. I'm trying to eat low fat 90% of the time and the 10% of the time that I just want to say screw it. I'm going to have my falafel. I'm going to have my hamburger. I'm going to have that pizza. In other words, I'm going to have a fatty meal. I need a break from the low fat and I'm taking one of these now only one. You do not want to take too many of these bile acid pills because let's just say you will know all about it for the next few hours in many, many different ways and you also don't want to take these after the meal because you want to take them at the start. If you take them after the food's already gone down, you'll get horrible, horrible reflux. I've experienced this so you kind of have to keep your head on with these supplements and I am keeping them on a little kind of key holder thing that I bring with me so that if I'm out, I'll be able to take one on the go. So that's what I'm doing. That's what I'm trying. My next appointment with the dietitian is in about the end of December. So October, November, December, three months to experiment with this. I'll give you guys an update then and they really hope that for anyone else dealing with all these sort of digestive problems after colisysctomy, their gallbladder surgery that these things help so that there can be a bit of, I can provide a little bit of encouragement that there are certain things that will make a difference. Thanks for watching. Feel free to subscribe for more videos on this YouTube channel.