9 Ways to Become Nutritionally Deficient - Dr. Berg

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so in this video I wanted to talk about nutritional deficiencies there’s some hidden sources of why people have nutritional deficiencies especially despite taking vitamins now these nutrients that you’re supposed to be taking to enhance your health usually are supposed to be in the food but the problem is the soils are so bad that it’s hard to find food that has enough nutrients especially in the US so you have this empty harvest okay so you have that and then you have the other fact that people just don’t eat enough of the right amounts of food to get the nutrients but the nutrients help you in many different ways they’re kind of like helper factors that help chemistry work better through the body in the formation of body tissue and the formation of different body chemicals to allow the chemical process to occur protection against disease and like high sugar for example so like for example vitamin b1 protects you against the symptoms of high blood sugar so even though you have give to people with high blood sugar and someone and one of them is deficient in vitamin b1 that’s the person that will exhibit more symptoms from high blood sugar and this person might not so you can kind of look at vitamins as birth control pills for disease because they actually protect yourself from further damage so of course the most obvious thing is just not getting enough nutrients from the diet okay so we’re going to move beyond that we’re going to talk about some hidden reasons why you might be deficient okay that goes beyond just the diet one is you don’t have enough stomach acid now let me explain what that means if you don’t have enough hydrochloric acid you’re gonna have a hard time absorbing minerals and trace minerals which are minerals needed but in much smaller amounts so the trace minerals would be like zinc selenium cobalt and the regular minerals minerals would be like calcium magnesium phosphorus so we need stomach acid to absorb the nutrients also we need that to help break down protein into amino acids so amino acid is a nutrient a micronutrient protein is a macronutrient so if you don’t have the stomach acid then you may have a problem with breaking down the protein the acid actually triggers an enzyme to break down the protein usually it’s not just 100 percent of the acid dissolving it’s the release of a certain enzyme so you never get that release of the enzyme and then you end up with undigested protein and you get gas is the common symptom and the way that you know you have low stomach acid is that you have heartburn or indigestion or bloating okay that’s very very common but there’s one more purpose of this very strong acid which should be between 1 and 3 by the way which is very strong and it’s to kill off microbes if you’re not able to kill off those microbes you you happen to develop a condition called SIBO which is a small intestinal bacterial overgrowth where microbes are now growing in the wrong place in the small intestine not the large you should not have all this microbial action going on in the small intestine and the problem with that is that you get an overgrowth in the wrong place and then those microbes eat up all your nutrients because in the small intestine that’s when you have 90% of the absorption of nutrients happen so if these guys are eating up all the fuel or the food particles and you don’t have enough you’re gonna have nutritional deficiency just from that so one of the big causes of SIBO is low stomach acid so these are definitely connected ok and if you have SIBO you’re gonna have a lot of gas a little tons of gas and you there’s a test that your doctor can do to determine if you have it but you want to not add a lot of fiber or probiotics in there because that’s gonna feed the microbes more and we’re not we don’t want to add more microbes to the system we want to do more stomach acid we want to do fasting and we want to do certain types of vegetables ok you can look up the video on SIBO and actually get more data ok number 2 low bile so your gallbladder is not working or it’s missing and you don’t have enough bile and you’re not going to be able to get the sufficient fat soluble vitamins vitamin A D E K k1 and k2 is really important in driving calcium out of the soft tissues out of the arteries out of the joints but M&A is for the eye so you’ll be driving at night and can’t quite see in dark for the immune system for the sinuses so you might develop sleep apnea or have sinus congestion vitamin D bone pain depression immune problems vitamin E you exert yourself and you feel tired really quick so you have no endurance or you might have angina pain that’s a vitamin E deficiency so you can have all sorts of issues and also you won’t be able to absorb the omega-3 fatty acids and DHA and that can lead to all sorts of things but again if you don’t have enough bile you’re not going to be able to absorb the fat soluble vitamins and the essential fatty acids okay despite taking them as supplements okay three low enzymes that’s usually in the pancreas because your pancreas produces most of the enzymes in the body and it’s supposed to determine what you put in your mouth you eat it it goes down here your body releases enzymes to break down those particles so you have this whole chemical reaction going on well if you actually consume a lot of the wrong foods over many years and you develop pre-diabetes or insulin resistance or you just basically kind of used up the enzymes because you’re eating all cook foods which is really bad you don’t have enough raw vegetables then the pancreas isn’t going to release the enzymes people that have diabetes or prediabetes or insulin resistance just don’t have the capacity of pancreatic function anymore so if they because the pancreas actually regulates insulin and another hormone called glucagon which is the blood sugar thing it regulates when you eat and when you don’t eat but it also is another function of releasing the enzyme so if you don’t have enough enzymes you’re gonna have all sorts of undigested incomplete food going through particles going through and it’s going to create bloating and gas other than that you’d be totally fine okay see Bo we talked about that it’s basically thing we’re going to create deficiencies of nutrients and then number five decrease flora like your friendly bacteria it’s called microbiome and the large Wow let’s say it’s not sufficient maybe you took an antibiotic or you you know you’re exposed to glyphosate and all the GMO food which is in the grocery store which they don’t label that’s actually classified as an antibiotic by the way its patented by Monsanto it so it’s basically killing up the microbes and you’re wondering why you don’t have the digestive capacity you once had so without the flora you can’t recycle the bile as well as you did before and that alone can create a whole chain reaction of things but the floor is very important in breaking down fiber also helping us make vitamins especially the B vitamins a biotin is one really important one so if you don’t have enough biotin you’re gonna get hair loss the quality of skin hair is gonna be very poor so the flora gives you certain healthy acids that help blood sugar issues they help protect against microbes and pathogens but they also help make vitamins for you number six raw vegetables nuts and seeds there are certain compounds in raw foods that are protective antioxidants that protect the plant or not or seed against developing into an actual plant okay and so you have phytic acid you have enzyme inhibitors phytic acid in all these and even though that’s an antioxidant it can actually block the absorption of nutrients so this is why for some people when you actually just slightly steam the vegetable or even you get rid of that phytic acid or you soak these