Are Rancid Oils Irritating Your Gut?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 30 April 2020
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Today we’re going to talk about rancid oil and your gut health.
What is rancid oil?
This is the incomplete or complete oxidation of fat or oil. Fats and oils have antioxidants to protect from this oxidation. But, if it has been exposed to light, oxygen, heat, or processing, the antioxidants can start to be destroyed, causing the oils to break down.
This can especially happen to unsaturated fatty acids. Saturated fatty acids don’t typically turn rancid because they’re more preserved.
A few oils/fats that are more susceptible to becoming rancid:
• Soy oil
• Corn oil
• Canola oil
• Olive oil
• Nuts
Signs that that fats or oil is rancid is if it smells or tastes:
• Musty
• Sour
• Bitter
• Metallic
It can actually be toxic to your cells or genes to consume rancid oil or rancid fats in somewhat large amounts. But, even a small amount can irritate certain parts of the body. Your gut health can especially become affected. The rancid oil or rancid fat can cause a lot of inflammation in the body as well as free radical damage.
So many people are actually consuming large amounts of rancid oil without even knowing it. If you eat at a restaurant, and afterward, you feel a little sick or bloated, it could be because of rancid oil.
A few things you can do:
• Buy fresh nuts
• Refrigerate and germinate the nuts
• Don’t consume soy, corn, or canola oil (GMO)
• Buy fresh olive oil
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Dr. Berg, 51 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in weight loss through nutritional & natural methods. His private practice is located in Alexandria, Virginia. His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government & the Justice Department, ambassadors, medical doctors, high-level executives of prominent corporations, scientists, engineers, professors, and other clients from all walks of life. He is the author of The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or intermittent fasting, whether you're starting |
| 0:05.3 | keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or you have a question about a product, |
| 0:10.6 | call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 540-299-1557. That's 540-299-1557. |
| 0:21.6 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. So recently I had a question about rancid fats. Are they harmful? Do I have to worry |
| 0:48.4 | about them? Let's talk about that. It is basically the incomplete or complete oxidation of a fat or an oil. Now, |
| 0:55.9 | normally fats and oils come with their own antioxidants, like vitamin C, vitamin E, to protect |
| 1:03.6 | this oxidation. But when something is either exposed to light or oxygen or heated or processed, |
| 1:10.6 | you can start to destroy these antioxidants and create |
| 1:13.6 | exposure to the delicate oils and then they can actually start breaking down. And especially the |
| 1:18.5 | unsaturated fatty acids. Saturated fats don't normally turn rancid because they're more saturated. |
| 1:23.9 | They're more preserved. But unsaturative fats are the ones that are very susceptible to |
| 1:28.8 | becoming rancid. So I'm talking about soy oil and corn oil and canola oil and cottonseed oil and even |
| 1:35.6 | olive oil and nuts. So if you have these oils sitting on your shell for a long time in your |
| 1:41.3 | cupboard and they've already been opened exposed to oxygen, |
| 1:50.3 | they can turn really rancid. And I think pretty much everyone has some supply of certain nuts, |
| 1:54.9 | whether it's walnuts or pecans or almonds sitting in their cupboard, that could be sitting there a bit too long. When an oil becomes rancid, it gives off a certain smell or taste. Sometimes it's musty, sour, bitter, |
| 2:03.7 | metallic, but you'll identify it. But here's the thing. It's actually pretty toxic to the cells |
| 2:08.9 | and even your genes. But of course I'm talking about consuming them in, you know, somewhat |
| 2:14.4 | larger amounts. But even a small amount can irritate certain parts of the body, |
| 2:19.4 | especially this first part of the small intestine, the bile ducts. It can create inflammation. |
| 2:25.5 | It can create irritation and make it feel like your gallbladder swollen. So mainly these oils |
| 2:31.1 | can create a lot of inflammation in the body and free radical damage. |
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