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Very frequently, especially, we are so rich in cultural backgrounds that our patients have and each culture has its own potion or a remedy for a particular condition. And sometimes the patients will come and ask you, “Can I do this? Can I, let’s say have olive oil and will that push my gallstones out?” The real answer is no. There’s really no other effective therapy than surgery once the symptoms of gallbladder disease occur. Again. I want to emphasize that 20% of people in the United States have gallstones and we don’t have to operate. We don’t have to do anything unless the symptoms develop.