The #1 Way to UNCLOG Your Colon Fast
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 8 April 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Digestion starts in the mouth, where food is broken down and then transferred to the stomach. The highly acidic stomach acid aids in protein digestion.
The valve at the top of the stomach plays a vital role in keeping food in the stomach and preventing it from backing up into the esophagus. Many people think antacids are the solution to acid reflux or heartburn. Diluting stomach acid worsens this problem by inhibiting this valve from closing tightly.
If you have acid reflux, you want to increase the acidity of your stomach. Diluted apple cider vinegar and betaine hydrochloride are effective remedies for this problem.
Ninety percent of all digestion occurs in the small intestine. This is also the location of a leaky gut. Grains, gluten, junk food, refined sugar, and seed oils can cause a leaky gut.
The liver makes bile, which is stored and concentrated in the gallbladder. Bile helps break down fats, extract nutrients from fats, and kill pathogens. Bile deficiency symptoms include bloating, burping, vision problems, and gallstones. Bile salts such as TUDCA can help digestion by breaking down cholesterol.
Microbes break down food in the large intestine through fermentation. These microbes comprise 80% of your immune system and help make neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine.
After your food travels through this intricate assembly line, it becomes stool. Your stool is mostly water and gets its pigment from your red blood cells. The smell is caused by gas from bacteria.
Constipation and diarrhea are usually related to missing microbes. Antibiotics and chemicals like glyphosate can deplete microbes. Fermented foods and the L. reuteri microbe are great ways to increase microbes and improve digestion naturally. Intermittent fasting can also significantly improve digestion.
Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:Dr. Berg, age 59, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan, and is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media.
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| 0:00.0 | I want to talk about how your food actually turns into poop. When you're eating food, you chew your food. |
| 0:05.2 | You're starting to break your food down. All the stuff that you're eating is giving information through your taste buds down lower into the digestive tract. |
| 0:14.0 | And then you also have the stomach that has to get ready to break down the protein. |
| 0:18.4 | Let's talk about this valve on the top of the stomach first. |
| 0:20.5 | This valve is really important to keep the food in the stomach. Let's talk about this valve on the top of the stomach first. This valve is really |
| 0:21.9 | important to keep the food in the stomach and from backing up into the esophagus because if that food |
| 0:28.0 | backs up, you have something called acid reflux or heartburn. The real problem is the acid that you |
| 0:33.4 | feel is just in the wrong location. It's in the esophagus or even a little bit higher when it |
| 0:38.3 | should be in the stomach. The big mistake that people make is they start taking an acids, |
| 0:43.1 | not realizing that they're going to start to neutralize acids in the stomach. And the more you dilute |
| 0:48.5 | the stomach acids, the less that valve closes tightly. Instead, if you have any of these acid regurgitation problems, |
| 0:55.2 | you should be taking more acid. It sounds counterintuitive, but it does work. You can do |
| 1:00.4 | episode of vinegar diluted because you don't want to take it straight because that's going to irritate |
| 1:04.0 | your esophagus, but also you can take a really good remedy called betane hydrochloride. And I have done |
| 1:09.6 | videos on this, but you'd probably take |
| 1:11.0 | three or four or five right before a meal. And you're not actually taking hydrochloric acid. You're taking |
| 1:15.8 | something that turns into hydrochloric acid. And to really understand that a little bit deeper, |
| 1:20.6 | the stomach acid should be between one and three. That is like battery acid. That's super |
| 1:26.3 | acidic. As we age, the acid dilutes and gets weaker. |
| 1:30.1 | By the time you're 50, your stomach acid is 50% of what it was when you were 20. If that pH is not |
| 1:37.3 | super acid, then we don't really absorb minerals as well as we should. In that situation, we have |
| 1:43.9 | too much bacteria in the small |
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