Spoon Nails: Causes & Treatments By Dr. Berg

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hi guys Dr Berg here in this video we’re going to talk about spoon Nails where you’re actually your nail starts bending backwards okay that is a iron deficiency and some of the common causes would be an ulcer some type of male absorption problem in your intestine uh hemorrhoids colitis which is inflammation in your colon because you can’t absorb it but the probably the most common cause is low hydrochloric acid in your stomach and because you need a a strong acidic stomach to absorb these minerals if you don’t have a strong acid stomach you also get heartburn acid reflux gird at the same time indigestion so that’s why it’s so important to get that stomach really working good so uh even if you’re a vegetarian um you may get um non- heem type iron from you know here’s some good sources like yellow beans spirulina spinach lentils Ginger sesame seeds but those have to be those are only absorbed a certain amount um but the actual active form of iron that goes into the blood and helps you carry oxygen that basically comes from um more animal products or uh seafood or fish uh clams by the way have the highest amount of iron then pork liver I know you’re going to probably do that right lamb kidney oysters octopus muscles red meat so all the foods that a lot of people don’t consume on a regular basis so it could be just some basic malabsorption problem in your intestine that’s that’s a real common thing as well IBS which is irritable bowel syndrome again another inflammation in your gut or parasites okay so if you have a problem with spoon Nails you just want to start consuming more iron if you want to get it as a supplement um get the food based ones probably some liver pills some grass-fed liver pills that’s what I would do so in summary we want to find out the cause of why you’re not absorbing iron um it’s rarely lacking in the diet it’s mainly one of these right here all right thanks for watching hi guys thanks so much for watching press this little button down here it says subscribe and I will make sure that I won’t send more than five to 10 videos a day okay no I’m just kidding it’ll be one or two thanks