Effects of TUDCA

TUDCA is well documented in research for:

• Liver cell protection
  – Stabilization of mitochondria and cell membranes
  – Protection against bile acid-induced Apoptosis
  – Anti-inflammatory in liver toxic processes

• Neuroprotective effects
  – Protection of neurons in neurodegenerative diseases (e.g., ALS, Huntington’s disease)
  – Reduced ER stress response in cells

• Improves mitochondrial function
  – For metabolic syndrome, fatty liver, insulin resistance

• Choleretic
  – Promotes bile flow like UDCA

TUDCA is used primarily in functional medicine,Biohacking community and in recent studies for neurodegenerative, metabolic, and autoimmune diseases.

Insert: Email from a “user”

Hello Mr. Retzek, I’m the proof: Two ultrasound-verified gallstones measuring 11 and 16 mm were gone after the first course of treatment.

You should have seen my face after the doctor didn’t find anything else during the second ultrasound. That’s enough proof for me that the treatment works.

I’ve just completed my 7th course of treatment in 2 years and, as usual, feel 10 years younger.

Next time, I’ll try your version.

PS: By the way, I had the impression that the liter of apple juice per day had a significant impact on the results – even if you think that’s too harsh…

This time I’ll try your version. I’ll report back.

Thank you for your work!

With himBest regards, RA (55 years old) from Germany

Retzek’s comment

Great, i.e., we should add malic acid for manifest stones; it should be available for purchase at the pharmacy.

I cannot recommend the high fructose load in apple juice, as fructose is a direct liver toxin – just as toxic as alcohol – which inhibits tryptophan absorption and thus ultimately leads to subdepressiveness.

The studies by Prof. Dr. Robert Lustig from New York is very clear and explicit about this. Here is a link to his website with one of his lectures. Here is the website translated into German.

Apple juice is poison for the liver and body

Since the high-calorie apple juice is perceived as a drink and not as food, it’s an extra 500 calories, or 15,000 calories in a month, which causes about 3-4 kg of fatty tissue (tissue = fat + protein + water) and a blistering fatty liver.

Please provide further feedback from those who have successfully dissolved stones so that we can determine: cholesterol stones, calcium stones, bilirubin stones, inflammatory stones, etc. —- …

Dear Dr. Retzek,

A friend referred me to your website. I am currently preparing for my 9th liver and gallbladder cleanse according to Andreas Moritz. So far, I’ve eliminated my atopic dermatitis (see PDF), brought blood sugar levels back to normal, PMS and other depressions have also disappeared, my hormone balance and cycle are at a normal length, and much more.

During previous cleanses, I’ve encountered 250 pea-sized stones and one walnut-sized stone during the 7th cleanse. I’m absolutely convinced that these are intrahepatic stones, as they are known to conventional medicine from pathology. Two larger stones came out of the gallbladder semi-calcified, as can be seen in many pictures of a removed gallbladder. The walnut-sized stone popped as it passed directly below the heart, and I could feel the relief in the liver cells surrounding the stone. This may sound unbelievable, but I can only speak for myself.Talk to me.

The fact that you don’t recommend apple juice during the preparation week is, in my opinion, the reason why your patients only pass small stones. The larger ones are so firmly attached that they need to be softened by the apple juice. In my opinion, such a passage without apple juice could be just as painful as working without Epsom salts.

Andreas Moritz says that the precursors of gallstones haven’t yet calcified and are therefore invisible to ultrasound. But a good doctor with a good device could detect if a bile duct is severely thickened in one place and might no longer be thickened after cleaning, if you’re interested in evidence…

In any case, I think it’s good that you’re spreading the word about the method and are a “convictionalist” in your field (there are very few of these in both Austria and Germany). Please continue with it! Cancer can also be cured with it. I must apologize for my impertinent fellow countryman. You could have countered that anyone with that much anger is also full of gallstones. My anger floated down the toilet with the stones – another nice side effect of the method.

Best regards,

C.S.

Retzek’s comment

I’m just as excited as you are! Fantastic, and congratulations. Since I’m doing a lot of research on nutrition at the same time, I’m skeptical about the intensive fructose intake via apple juice (which is actually 60% grape juice), and the effect of apple juice is supposed to be via malic acid. I therefore recommend buying malic acid from the pharmacy and drinking it without the added sugar, 1 level teaspoon per day.

Some stones may indeed be intrahepatic stones, but this is hardly the norm. In numerous autopsies, we have cut through the liver thoroughly and never seen any dilation.

In principle, I don’t care at all. For me, this is more of a religious question, and anyone who doesn’t do any research has to rely on “believing it.” I myself am purely effect-oriented, and the effect is there—whether the stones are real liver stones or pseudo-stones, i.e., adducts. This is therefore a question of extreme insignificance.

You can’t sell this as a “real stone” to anyone within the established medical system who does ultrasound and clearly sees small nodules, dilations of the intrahepatic bile duct system, etc.—but—I repeat, the effect counts, not what we believe to be what.

A woman called me (from Germany) on December 12, 2011, to report the following:

The ultrasound showed stones; I had an X-ray, but nothing was visible, which suggests non-shadowing cholesterol stones! After years, I started experiencing gallstone colic. I was admitted to the hospital as an emergency, was indicated for surgery, but postponed due to rapid symptom improvement. I was referred to Gallekur through a naturopath.

I’m a medical technician and therefore “medical-oriented”: I cut open my stones; there was a “flesh-colored parasite” in the center, and concentric deposits all around. Some of the stones were spiral-shaped – trapped as if they had formed in a vessel. I had many stones. I can’t understand the theory that these are just adducts; to me, the stones seem to have grown very “organically”:

Then I also did a parasite cleanse according to Clark, and the next treatment was much better for me, with far fewer reactions.

I’m doing well.

I also want to mention: The liver and gallbladder cleanse is not just a physical cleansing, but also a lot of pent-up feelings. I had a lot of anxiety/panic during the first two treatments, and I felt like a lot of “old” things were coming to the surface. The cleanse seems to be very relevant (I’ve worked with people who do meditation and yoga), people want to cleanse.

You – dear reader – are welcome to share your experiences.

Hello Dr. Retzek,

I just want to share something:

As an absolute fan of spices for healing all kinds of ailments, I also take turmeric. Actually, to keep my osteoarthritis pain-free and my brain active.

Google searches usually end in total confusion and at best, half-knowledge. Nevertheless, something sticks.

That’s how I came across an alternative liver cleanse with turmeric.

Turmeric mixed with pepper and a little olive oil and taken as a paste. Not exactly a culinary delight, but certainly ingestible. A Dr. Feil recommends something similar for osteoarthritis…!

So yesterday I took two turmeric capsules in the morning, a scant spoonful of the paste before lunch, and again around 5 p.m.

Then I had a bowel movement of the finest kind! Countless fatty stones were floating in the toilet. A quantity that couldn’t possibly have come from the two spoonfuls of paste.n, not even from the dietary fats I consumed at breakfast and lunch.

The normal stool sank to the bottom.

So there must have been fats lurking somewhere. In the intestines, perhaps, or in the mysterious tubes between the liver and gallbladder…?

Today I’ll repeat it and see what happens – literally.

So, I just wanted to tell a competent person.

Kind regards, IO – Bad Aibling

I found this text on the blog of the KLÖSTERL Pharmacy in Munich, from which I purchase a large number of orthomolecular substances.

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The conventional treatment for symptomatic stones is cholecystectomy, after which, however, approximately 10-15% of cases develop postcholecystectomy syndrome with the same symptoms. Conventional treatment attempts to promote the gradual dissolution of radiolucent stones with the oral administration of bile acids within 6-24 months. However, after its termination, it can lead to various gastrointestinal symptoms and other symptoms and to relapse in up to 50% of cases.

Dietary Factors:

1. Diet: For overweight patients, gradual weight loss. Identify and avoid food intolerances (NU). Limit the intake of refined sugar and trans fatty acids. Avoid excessive intake of cholesterol and saturated fat.
2. Vitamin C: 500-2,000 mg/day.
3. Rowachol® in selected patients with radiolucent gallstones.

Avoiding NU can be particularly successful. For example, after individual testing and avoiding symptomatic foods, 69 patients with gallstones or postcholecystectomy syndrome were symptom-free after one week. Chicken eggs, pork, and onions were the most common allergens, accounting for 93%, 64%, and 52% of cases, respectively, followed by chicken (35%), milk (25%), coffee (22%), oranges (19%), corn, beans, and nuts (<15%).

Rowachol^® is a proprietary product containing 6 monoterpenes in olive oil. It stimulates bile production and inhibits the formation of cholesterol crystals. Clinical studies have shown complete or partial dissolution of gallstones in 29% of cases within 6 months. It improved the effectiveness of chenodeoxycholic acid in dissolving gallstones, allowing the use of lower (and better tolerated) doses. It presumably also improves the effectiveness of ursodeoxycholic acid preparations. In more than 50 years of its use, no serious side effects have been reported.

1. Nutritional Medicine 2011, Chapter 106

But – very important note

I often receive internet inquiries from all over the world regarding this liver cleanse. The following statement on this:

Internet treatments or consultations are extremely unprofessional

Only a trained professional can quickly identify, among a jumble of functional symptoms, whether there is something “strange,” something “serious,” or something “definitely worth investigating,” and then, if necessary, conduct laboratory tests and ultrasounds, etc.

You can’t do this yourself, nor can you reliably determine this by dowsing/dowsing/muting or turning—this belongs in the hands of an experienced doctor (with a complementary medicine background or additional training) or a very experienced alternative practitioner, because for some illnesses, early detection is absolutely crucial!

Therefore, I don’t want to offer email explanations or online consultations or assessments; this is completely absurd, and I would immediately out myself as unprofessional. Anyone who downloads this guide without my explicit request does so expressly at their own peril and risk!

Criticism of the Liver Cleanse

I received the following email in February 2011:

Mr. Retzek,

to get straight to the point of this email,

regarding: https://ganzemedizin.at/files/Gallekur%20-%20Leberreinigung.pdf

Do you even know what you’re writing there, what nonsense you’re spreading?

With 4 tablespoons of Epsom salts, 125 ml olive oil or rapeseed oil, 2 fresh grapefruits (you need at least 170 ml juice), and a tiny bit of hydrochloric acid, you can create the pseudo gallstones you described, but you can NEVER expel real cholesterol (fat) stones from the bile toward the intestines.

Aside from that,n that the bile duct causes terrible pain even with semolina, this duct doesn’t even allow stones larger than 0.3 cm to pass through. So what’s the point of this nonsense?

You are truly the biggest charlatan I’ve ever encountered. How dare you circulate such nonsense? Besides, every somewhat well-read non-medical professional, including myself, knows that a liver cleanse isn’t possible; only liver stimulation, such as with artichokes, can be considered.

And the multitude of stones that are produced specifically in the gastrointestinal tract using your confusing recipe and excreted through the intestines by some brave but unsuspecting users, are not found in the gallbladder at all.

Even with the worst diet, with far too many carbohydrates and too little fat, this number of gallstones will never form in the gallbladder. But unfortunately, there are still gullible fools who fall for your nonsense, endangering themselves and thus their health.

Man, man… Epsom salts, olive oil, and grapefruit, I could roll over laughing if only this topic and the underlying problem weren’t so serious. I know only too well what it means to constantly get gallstones and to put yourself in the hands of doctors who want to remove your gallbladder immediately, or idiots like you who try to force confusing prescriptions on you for a lot of money.

A good doctor is only someone who feels called to this profession, who continually educates themselves, and, above all, who constantly seeks out scientific studies and is less proud of their doctorate and their Porsche.

Furthermore, anyone who knows even a little bit about medicine knows that there’s basically only one way to get rid of cholesterol (fatty) stones: to dissolve them. All it takes is a single substance, one of the most important in the human body, in the right dosage, and lo and behold, even a 5 cm thick gallstone is forgotten in about four weeks.

I know exactly what I’m talking about, because I’ve had several of these large stones between 3 cm and 5 cm in recent years, and after they dissolve, internists, even professors, and especially charlatans like you, always look stupid. 😀

With greetings (from a well-read non-medical professional who understands the human body and its functions), to a would-be naturopath………………………….

XXXX

Reply Dr. Retzek

Thank you for your friendly, admonishing email. I should certainly point out my honestly earned doctorate and my academic qualifications.

Your email is a thoroughly typical West German email, the kind you can read in EVERY German forum. There isn’t a forum where, after the third email at the latest, every “request” doesn’t turn into a reprimand and ultimately an insult; this is, after all, the reason for the high popularity of our competent northern brothers.

Inset: A polite and friendly email from a German reader draws my attention to the fact that such a blanket suspicion is unworthy of a doctor:
Reply: Sorry, dear reader – but please show me just one forum where the mechanism I described above doesn’t operate this way. I can’t help it, and I’m practically annoyed about it every time.

To ignore the characteristic, censuring demeanor of our FRG neighbors out of “academic manners” would be to agree with a “spiral of silence”: a fantastic theory by a prominent German politician and pollster.

I must say, however, that I often consider my German colleagues and neighbors miles superior to the Austrians due to their intelligence and diligence, but we simply have more pleasant manners and a more conciliatory tone down here.

As far as I can see, I wrote the “explanation” for the gallstones in a large red box underneath the treatment. Perhaps an old version from decades ago is still circulating online, where I hadn’t written this sentence.

The treatment isn’t mine, but rather a thousands-year-old Ayurvedic recipe, also used in folk medicine in China and Japan. Published many years ago by Hulda Clark and also in several other books, for example, by Andreas Moritz.

I have quoted the cure accordingly and refined it with my own tried-and-tested recipes (tea) and removed any unpleasantness (apple juice by the liter).

For clarification: as AustriaI’m able to see REALITIES and not just “RULES.”

In reality, YOU are the first nagging email, whereas I’ve received hundreds of thank-you emails and 10-minute thank-you calls on my answering machine, simply because people are doing well after the treatment.

What should I do now with this imbalance in feedback? I’m not a “religiously dogmatic conventional doctor,” but as a scientist, I’m strictly results-oriented, even if I don’t yet understand the details of this result – this is all part of the knowledge acquisition process.

I’ve brought hundreds of patients with Meulengracht disease back to normal values ​​and experienced a massive improvement in their condition with the treatment. Only two patients with Meulengracht disease didn’t improve, so they are likely genetic Meulengracht disease. The other patients simply have “functional excretory weaknesses” in the sense of posthepatic preicterus – medically speaking, “presumed bile stasis with elevated bilirubin levels in the blood.”

These are simple facts from practice.

For me, the mechanism of action is only partially important, as long as

A) the effect is there and

B) the side effects are minimal compared to the result.

We doctors also treated 50-year-olds with aspirin without knowing the mechanism of action, ditto with chemotherapy, ditto with cortisone, etc. We only knew the indication for these medications without understanding exactly what they actually did.

Yes, now there are the law-abiding “moral guardians” and “esoteric watchers” who strictly adhere to the law, but also those “doctors” like myself who, from personal experience, do what works in practice and is good for people.

I can confirm to you: I could earn three to four times as much with conventional medicine – I know the tax returns, cars, and vacations of my local practitioner colleagues, so I’m truly a committed practitioner, as holistic therapy is enormously time-consuming and doesn’t offer adequate compensation.

Hahnemann himself had to endure insults from his medical colleagues during a cholera epidemic, where only one of 180 patients died, while the “conventional doctors” suffered 60% deaths with the then-common bloodletting therapy.

At that time, there was a university professor in Leipzig (oh yes, Germany) who justified this result by claiming that bloodletting therapy was “scientific and correct” and that Hahnemann’s “charlatan methods” brought the medical profession into disrepute.

This hasn’t changed if we look at the homeopathy bashing in the UK or Austria.

Everything was published in newspapers at the time.

Prince Schwarzenberg, the (Austrian) conqueror of the Turks, traveled to Leipzig with a court of 4,000 attendants to be treated by Hahnemann, as his treatment results – despite the resistance and slander of his medical colleagues – attracted such international attention that Hahnemann refused to come to Austria because homeopathy was outlawed there.

I experienced ignorant know-it-alls consistently throughout my entire biography (but only with doctors, never with my scientific colleagues, who always showed interest in every phenomenon):

Know-it-alls and Ignorance in Modern Times

Many years ago, during my rotation, I spent two weeks on vacation with Dr. Steinkellner, a “cancer adjunct practitioner” in his practice, and witnessing several “miracle cures” among his clients daily, was very impressive, especially in terms of the simplicity yet effectiveness of his therapeutic approach.

Well, when a patient at our Vöcklabruck hospital told us that he had consulted Dr. Steinkellner as an adjunct therapist for his cancer, he was personally thrown out by the then-Chief Medical Officer Schiller. I experienced this personally several times, and each time I was deeply ashamed of this impossible and inhumane Chief Medical Officer, of our hospital, and of “conventional medicine.”

In contrast, I used to chase after every “long-term survivor” in the hospital and ask, “Why are they healthy? According to the findings, they shouldn’t even be there anymore??!!!”.

Only hesitantly, because I am a “doctor,” did the patients confess to me what “additional treatments” they had undergone. I wrote them down and tried to learn, experience, comprehend, and understand—because, unfortunately, the practice of medicine is not pure science but still primarily empiricist.

Now, as a biochemist and long-time member of the university research community, I love and admire science; my numerous summariesThe latest research findings from PubMed document this very clearly, as do my ongoing training and continuing education. However, what counts are the facts and empirical evidence, not so much the theory, which often changes every year.

By the way: it would have been cool if you had emailed me your “recipe,” your “secret” for dissolving gallstones, instead of the typical West German know-it-all contemptuous ranting about “professors” and “charlatan alternative practitioners.”

Best regards,

Dr. Retzek