01/03/2026
Bile plays a bigger role in digestion and bowel health than most people realise.
🧼Bile is like your body’s dishwashing liquid. It breaks down fats the way soap breaks down grease. It also acts as a transport system, helping move waste out of the body through your bowels.
❓Who makes bile?
Your liver makes bile every day.
Your gallbladder is like a little storage pouch that holds bile and squirts it out when you eat, especially when you eat fats.
👷What does bile do?
Bile helps to:
* �Break fats into tiny pieces so you can digest them
* �Carry waste products (like used hormones and toxins) out through your poo
* �Help your bowels move more smoothly
💩Constipation & diarrhoea
Too little bile reaching the gut can be linked with sluggish, harder-to-pass stools for some people.
Too much bile reaching the colon can sometimes irritate it and look like a “runny tummy” or loose stools.
So bile can be involved in both constipation and diarrhoea, depending on how it’s flowing.
👀What we see in colonics
During a colonic, we often see:
* �Undigested fats floating on top (like oil on water) → can suggest your bile isn’t breaking fats down well
* �Bright, lumo yellow fluid → often bile moving through
* �Thicker, sludgy matter → older, stickier waste finally letting go.
We can’t diagnose conditions from colonics but we can see helpful clues about how your digestion and elimination are working, and then support you from there.
🤔What if you don’t have a gallbladder?
If your gallbladder’s been removed, your liver still makes bile - it just drips into your gut more slowly instead of being stored and squeezed out in one go.
Some people find this can affect how they digest fats and how their bowels behave.
Colonics are a gentle way to support the body’s natural elimination pathways, helping the bowel clear more effectively and allowing the liver-bile-gut system to work more efficiently together.
When waste is moving well, the whole system can function with less pressure and better balance.
If you would like to better understand your body, if you struggle with digestion, or constipation/diarrhoea, then book in for a Rojas colon hydrotherapy session with us at Bottoms Up!