Welcome to the Doctor Burg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Doctor Eric Burg.

So I have a question, are you becoming a germaphal?

Now listen, I am not against protecting yourself against the coronavirus or any virus at all

with a mask or washing your hand and you need to do that.

The point I want to make is this, not all germs are harmful or dangerous.

And I want to make a distinction, friendly microbes are not pathogenic.

Pathogens are those microbes that cause disease.

That includes virus, bacteria, fungus, candida, etc.

You have as a huge part of your immune system, trillions and trillions of friendly microbes

around the surface of your body, inside your body, in your colon.

And when you over sterilize your body, it can lower your immune system and make you more susceptible to having infections.

These microbes do so much good.

There's certain microbes that make acid, that makes a pathogen not want to live in that environment.

Your microbes make vitamins to support your immune system.

They also have anti-tumor properties.

And a lot of people get grossed out when they realize that they have an entire universe of microbes living through the body

and your environment, everywhere you touch, there's microbes, there's germs all over the place.

But what they have to realize is when they start to overly destroy the microbes on our body,

as well as the microbes in our food, our resistance to infection goes down.

Because these microbes are symbiotic, they actually help form a barrier to protect us.

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