9 Apple Cider Vinegar Health Benefits – Dr. Berg on ACV Benefits

so today we're gonna talk about the benefits of apple cider vinegar all right so what is apple cider vinegar basically you're taking the sugar in the apple juice in certain microbes bacteria and yeast are turning that sugar into alcohol then eventually into vinegar so there's a whole process that occurs and the end product vinegar is acetic acid now there's other acids involved but this is the main one so remember growing up in Wisconsin where there was farms all around our neighborhood and so we had a crabapple tree and there was a farmer on the other

side of the cornfield so I brought him a big bushel basket of crab apples and I wanted him to grind up these apples and turn them into apple juice so he did that for me I brought him back in jugs and I left him out in the Sun I think one or two days and they turned into something called apple cider apple cider is basically a spiked apple juice okay it had some alcohol in it and that basically was the start of my alcoholic journey at eight years old and I'm completely being sarcastic so I

did not become an alcoholic at eight years old more like twenty years old no I'm just kidding but the point is that if you take apple juice that's not pasteurized not heated it goes through fermentation okay so with the help of microbes it eventually turns into vinegar so there's many different types of vinegar that you can get the one I'm gonna recommend is a raw unpasteurized version of vinegar organic Bragg's has a really good one it also has the mother what is that that's basically some residue of some fiber pectin some bacteria in yeast I

do not think that's going to give you a lot of health benefits really the health benefits are the acetic acid but the fact that the AB set of vinegar is raw means that it's going to be rich in enzymes so that alone can actually help you in your digestion so you don't want it pasteurized and the other thing that because it's organic means it doesn't have the added pesticides in the chemical so Bragg's is a really good version also the pH is between three point three and three point five if you get distilled vinegar it's

a little bit lower I think it's like two point five but this is acid enough all right so the other thing is you don't need to keep it in the fridge shredder you can keep it outside the refrigerator and it'll last for like five years okay so now let's talk about the benefits of apple cider vinegar here number one digestion it speeds up digestion it activates enzymes so a lot of these enzymes in the stomach in the pancreas and other places in the body are dormant and it takes certain things to activate them and acid

is one of the activators of the enzymes in the stomach to help you break down protein so right there that's going to help speed up digestion number two it's going to control pathogens if you think about it you have pickles you have fermented vegetables that are in acid that acid in there is preserving that food and preventing bacterial growth so when you consume an acid actually lowers the pathogens in the body that helps in the overgrowth of certain microbes especially even a condition called sibo sibo small intestinal bacterial overgrowth which is a condition where you

have bacteria growing in the wrong place you have all this bacteria growing in the small intestine instead of the large intestine and so if your pH is not strong enough in the stomach you can actually develop that condition so if you take outside of vinegar it can help create a condition where the microbes cannot thrive in the small intestine number three it helps you absorb minerals like calcium magnesium and iron all need certain pH to be absorbed if the pH in your stomach is too alkaline you're not going to absorb as many minerals also vitamins

vitamin K vitamin C and even b12 need this acid to be absorbed all right number four it can decrease gas bloating and even indigestion so the last thing you want is undigested food in your in your digestive tract so apple cider vinegar just speeds up the breakdown of food so you have more of a complete digestion one cause of gas is incomplete protein digestion alright number five it decreases acid reflux now normally what happens in the stomach is you have to have an acid up between one and three very very acidic to be able to

have that valve on the top close and prevent the backup of acid that comes in your esophagus so when you lose your stomach acid the valve doesn't close and the acid can reflux up and the term for that is GERD and so you would take in any asset and you feel better but the next time you eat it's worse why because you're making that acid less acid and so over time that valve just stays open and you have a constant reflux and you're dependent on these medications well here's the thing if you take apple cider

vinegar it helps the valve closed more improving the symptoms of acid reflux and GERD the exact opposite thing you would think that would work but it does work now even if you look at the side effects of taking medication for acid reflux and GERD is GERD it's the same thing so the side effect is that you get at more acid reflux it doesn't make sense okay so number six it helps to release bile the bile is made in your liver and it's released from the gallbladder and there's a certain signal from the stomach of having

a certain amount of acid that then triggers the release of the bile so apple cider vinegar can help release the bile that's congested that's why you probably have less bloating when you take it also the enzymes from the pancreas can release so you have more complete digestion alright number seven you get more of a complete breakdown with protein so the protein can then turn into its amino acids which are the building blocks of protein and you need a certain acid to activate the enzymes to do that okay episode of vinegar can contribute to those acids

number eight blood sugar improvement episode vinegar can help you make glucose more sensitive so you have less insulin resistance and thereby less insulin being produced and that can directly cause more weight loss so when you hear these claims about episode of vinegar helping you lose weight this is why also it's going to help you lower cholesterol why because when you reduce insulin you lower cholesterol it's probably going to also help with blood pressure and anything related to high levels of insulin it can improve okay and lastly it can help your immune system it can stimulate

the white blood cells to speed up and help fight infection so as you can see there are many benefits apple cider vinegar so go ahead and take between one and two tablespoons outside of vinegar in some water I usually use 16 ounces I like to put lemon juice in there as well you can use a straw so it doesn't affect your teeth and you can take it before a meal after a meal I take mine in the evening right about 6:00 o'clock I usually take my wheatgrass juice at powder in the morning and I'll take

this in the evening but in summary there's many benefits to this product and if you don't like the taste you can also get it into a tablet form and I'll put a link down below if you want to take it in a pill form alright guys thanks for watching I'll see in the next video so if you want more knowledge on how to create a healthy body subscribe now and get daily notifications daily notifications that sounds weird well I'll just remind you on a daily basis how about that