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Jami McQuivey

Holistic nutritionist and host of the "Gallbladder Gone? Now What?" podcast for Christian women, founder of Healthy by Design.

Jun 15, 2026

16:25
So for the woman who's just going about her day, can you explain like the function of the gallbladder for her?
16:32
Absolutely.
16:32
So I think the gallbladder gets kind of this bad rap because it's a storage unit.
16:40
And so we have the liver that's making the bile.
16:42
So the liver gets all this attention, right, for making bile.
16:46
But it drips it into the gallbladder and gallbladder does something phenomenal and amazing.
16:53
is it concentrates it.

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29:23
What would you say? What would you want her to hear today?
4:53
I mean, yes, you can live with your gallbladder removed, but oh, maybe you don't need your appendix or your tonsils or these other organs that get removed without looking at the root cause, right? And so with specifically about the gallbladder, what are some of the mistakes or what are the misunderstandings that you see people experience when they have had that or if they're looking into that? Is there something that they could do to help prevent these kind of things? I know that's like a really weighted question with a lot of different angles, but I would just love you to answer hack that a little bit?
5:24
Well, I love that question.
5:26
That's a beautiful question.
5:27
One of the things that is so paramount here is that women understand, one, we can live without the gallbladder, but we have to make adjustments.
5:35
So there's something, I've heard different numbers, 1.2 or 1.8 million gallbladder removals a year in the United States alone.
5:44
And the majority of those are women.
5:46
Okay, so now we have all these women who don't have gallbladders.

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21:30
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26:33
And
26:33
so for years I was like, I don't talk about energy.
26:36
I don't do energy medicine or any things that apply with energy, any of that.
26:41
And then it wasn't until, cause I love science.
26:44
I'm a science nerd that we're like, I was like, Oh, you're actually talking about energy, electricity.
26:50
Yes.
26:51
Thank you.

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33:23
Yeah.

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