Friendly Bacteria: Why You Really Need And how it Helps – Dr. Berg

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hi guys I have a question for you are you friendly to your friendly bacteria well this is a good question let’s talk about it first of all there’s two main purposes for friendly bacteria another name for friendly bacteria is called flora all right to number one make vitamins okay and also they make up your immune system there’s only really two vitamins that your body can make without the help of microbes and that would be vitamin D from the skin and vitamin b3 that can be converted from tryptophan which is a protein vitamin D helps build the bone helps the immune system it does a lot of other things but those are the two things that it primarily does b3 is really good for decreasing LDL cholesterol and increasing the HDL the good cholesterol right which we know it’s not good or bad but the point is that it helps regulate cholesterol it also helps your skin it helps a lot of things but the body can’t make other vitamins so either you’re gonna get it from the diet or you’re gonna get it from your microbes okay and this is why you have to start becoming more friendly to your friendly bacteria because you have to look at them as partners or things that actually help you they are the energy factories they’re your insurance policy they’re the backup vitamins that you need now they live off of fiber so when you consume vegetables we don’t want to do we don’t want to feed them grain fiber we want to feed them vegetable fiber fermented vegetables sauerkraut kimchi all the fermented vegetables are very very good asparagus you know garlic they’re all really really good fibers to feed your friendly microbes but let’s just take a look at friendly bacteria can make vitamin k2 but I’ve been k2 prevents the calcification of your arteries they get rid of soft tissue calcium deposits in the body so they’re good for kidney stones calcium the deposits and the breast tissue so they take the calcium and put it into the bone where it should be so this is one very variant and vitamin so the body also makes something called folate which you normally think of preventing birth defects and a pregnant women when they take prenatals but it’s also needed to make neurotransmitters to prevent things like depression mood disorders and reduce stress also they are responsible for making certain type of protein as well now biotin is also important too and is made by the friendly bacteria biotin is really good for your hair it’s good for cell growth and if you’re deficient in biotin you could lose your hair and so a lot of people are taking this supplement but it could be a digestive problem you just don’t have the friendly microbes to make biotin in the first place now there’s really only one microbe that makes biotin there’s not a lot of microbes so it’s really easy to become deficient but b12 you have many different microbes that can make b12 so this is more difficult to become deficient but if you’re a vegetarian you could be deficient because normally this is from animal products however I just had my wheatgrass juice powder tested and I found that it’s double the RDAs and it’s interesting because in wheatgrass you don’t have b12 so it’s made by the friendly bacteria that lives with the wheatgrass when you consume vegetables you are consuming something that is just loaded with friendly microbes just so you know so yes you need to clean them off but you don’t necessarily want to destroy those microbes that’s probably half the benefit in addition to all the vitamins and minerals and the phytonutrients so b12 is good for red blood cell preventing anemia nerve brain energy and many many other different functions your microbes make b1 which also is a precursor for all the neurotransmitters in the body like gaba for example and that’s why when you’re stressed and you take b1 you just feel so relaxed because b one makes gaba and gaba is an anti stress vitamin now when you take antibiotics you’re gonna find that you’re not going to absorb nutrients very well after that so you have to put that friendly flora back into the gut by consuming fermented vegetables like sauerkraut that’s very important but any if someone has taken many antibiotics they have a lot of nutritional deficiencies and they need to take a lot of supplements because their body is not making enough vitamins so you have to realize number one that your your body is bathed in a sea of microbes you have 10 times as many microbes as you do your own cells so you want to become more friendly to them you don’t want to just kill them off with too many antibiotics so look at them as your partners as your insurance policy and take care of them thanks for watching