Are You Turning into a Germophobe?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 8 June 2020
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Are you becoming a germophobe? I’m not against protecting yourself against the coronavirus or any virus for that matter. Yes, masks and washing your hands are incredibly important. But, here’s the thing, not all microbes are harmful.
Friendly microbes are not pathogenic. Pathogens are microbes that can cause disease. A huge part of your immune system is friendly microbes. These microbes live all over your body on the inside and out. When you over-sterilize your body, this can lower your immune system and make you more susceptible to infections.
A few benefits of your friendly microbes:
• Certain microbes make acid that makes a pathogen not want to live in that environment.
• Friendly microbes make vitamins to support your immune system.
• Friendly microbes have anti-tumor properties.
In some studies done on mice, they found that mice without any microbial life were more prone to autoimmune diseases, allergies, asthma, and other health issues.
Your skin flora is very necessary to protect you—it’s an immune defense. When you alter this microbiome, you basically throw the body out of balance, and you could develop inflammatory conditions.
Over-sterilization can also lead to a decrease in T cells, which are important in preventing inflammatory reactions throughout the body.
Even sterilized food (pasteurized food) goes through a process that kills off everything, including enzymes. These sterilized foods can potentially weaken the immune system.
Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:
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 I have a question, are you becoming a germapho? Now listen, I am not against |
| 0:49.3 | protecting yourself against the coronavirus or any virus at all with a mask or washing your hand, |
| 0:55.6 | and you need to do that. The point I want to make is this. Not all germs are harmful or dangerous. |
| 1:03.6 | And I want to make a distinction. Friendly microbes are not pathogenic. Okay, so pathogens are those microbes that cause disease. That includes |
| 1:13.8 | virus, bacteria, fungus, candida, etc. You have, as a huge part of your immune system, |
| 1:23.3 | trillions and trillions of friendly microbes around the surface of your body, inside your body, |
| 1:30.1 | in your colon, and when you over sterilize your body, it can lower your immune system |
| 1:36.4 | and make you more susceptible to having infections. These microbes do so much good. |
| 1:43.1 | There are certain microbes that make acid that makes a pathogen not want to live in that environment. |
| 1:50.3 | Your microbes make vitamins to support your immune system. They also have anti-tumor properties. |
| 1:58.3 | And a lot of people get grossed out when they realize that they have an |
| 2:01.9 | entire universe of microbes living through the body and your environment. Every where you touch, |
| 2:07.1 | there's microbes, there's germs all over the place. But what they have to realize is when they |
| 2:11.8 | start to overly destroy the microbes on our body, as well as the microbes in our food, our resistance to |
| 2:20.2 | infection goes down because these microbes are symbiotic. They actually help form a barrier |
| 2:25.9 | to protect us. In some interesting studies where they have germ-free mice, they basically have |
| 2:31.6 | no microbial life living inside or outside that mouse, they end up |
| 2:36.3 | with autoimmune diseases, allergies, asthma, and all sorts of other health problems. If you look |
| 2:43.0 | on the surface of your skin, it's not just a layer of dead cells. There are billions of things |
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