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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Drink 1/2 Cup at Night to Sleep like a Baby

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Check out this updated video with even more tips on how to use kefir to sleep better at night.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Now, if you want to sleep like a baby, you definitely want to watch this video.

0:03.1

Of course, babies are up all night crying, and I'm being very sarcastic.

0:07.3

This video is kind of a remake of a video I did a year ago on consuming kefir in the evening

0:13.8

to improve your sleep.

0:15.8

Kefir is way, way better than yogurt, and I'm going to talk about why.

0:19.4

When you consume kefir, you're giving these microbes a place to live, and in exchange,

0:24.6

it gives you a lot of other benefits.

0:27.2

The big one is going to be sleep.

0:28.9

So how can kefir help you sleep?

0:31.4

Well, first of all, what is kefir?

0:33.4

Kefir is a fermented drink.

0:35.4

So you have like five times the microbes in kefir, then in yogurt.

0:40.0

Plus, kefir has a combination of both bacteria and yeast, okay?

0:45.0

It even has friendly candida.

0:48.3

It's not until that candida turns into more of a pathogenic version that it becomes

0:54.4

a problem.

0:55.6

So it's a combination of these microbes that help you make serotonin.

1:00.1

Now, serotonin is a neurotransmitter, and 90% of all your serotonin is made in your

1:07.4

own gut.

1:09.2

But here's the thing, it doesn't cross the blood-brain barrier into the body.

1:12.8

Instead, it can act as a precursor to help you make melatonin, which is the sleep neurotransmitter.

1:21.8

So these microbes from kefir actually go into the body and they inoculate or seed your

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