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Welcome to the Dr. Berg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast. Now your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level. Dr. Eric Berg.

Hey guys, in this video, we're going to talk about gastric bypass and keto and intermittent fasting.

Some of you out there have had this procedure done and you're wondering if it's safe, if it's okay, if it's beneficial,

to start the keto plan and do intermittent fasting.

Okay, well, first let's talk about what's really going on in the body.

You're basically missing the full function of part of your digestive system.

Sometimes it's going to be the stomach, sometimes it's a small intestine, sometimes it's

a combination of both.

Now, the purpose of the stomach is to help you break down protein into amino acids and

also to absorb minerals, among other functions

like killing off microbes and things like that. So maybe you won't have the full function

of breaking down protein and absorbing minerals. So those are two little factors we're going to come

back to. The small intestine, on the other hand, controls 90% of the absorption

of all your nutrients. So a lot of the digestion starts in the small intestine. And then in the

small intestine, you get like 90% of your digestion happening there. So those two key areas are

crucial in your ability to assimilate minerals and break down food. Okay? So, yes,

we want you to do this, but we want you to do it with a twist. You're going to have to add

something to acidify the stomach, whether it's outside of vinegar or outside of

vinegar pills or something called batine hydrochloride, or the combination of both,

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