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

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

Doctor Eric Berg.

Now, it just amazes me how many people, especially in a medical profession, just treat

constipation as a symptom. They do not look at the whole picture. They might just

tell you, it's just a lack of fiber, just take more fiber, men of muzzle,

whatever, and fiber will stimulate the colon, which will help you evacuate, and it's

hydrating, so just take some fiber. That's it. But constipation is the effective

incomplete digestion anywhere in your digestive tract.

I mean, it could be a lack of stomach acid, because stomach acid helps you break down

protein. If you're not breaking down protein, that can end up this undigested

protein. Then you have the pancreas, which produces all these enzymes and enzymes

really work in the small intestine. You have like 20 feet of tubing called the

small intestine, which by the way, your small intestine, the little villi,

actually make enzymes, and also the pancreas releases enzymes in the small

intestine, and that's where 90% of all your digestion occurs. And so that doesn't

occur correctly. Guess what? Undigested food, both undigested carbohydrates,

undigested fats, undigested protein, and it ends up as a constipation situation.

Then you have a liver that makes bile salts, and it's stored by the gallbladder,

and that's released into the small intestine. And bile salts are the detergent that

helps break down fat to a certain level where the enzymes in the pancreas can then

take over and fully digest the fats. But the thing about bile is bile

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