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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. Today we're going to talk about the eight benefits of something called alpha

lipoic acid. Now, they're usually as a confusion with this fat because most people refer to it as

a la, and they confuse that with another ALA, alpha linolynic acid. This one is omega-3 fatty acid.

This one is completely different. So we're going to be talking about this one today. It has some really interesting properties. It's a very powerful antioxidant. When you're exposed to various things from radiation, oxidation from the environment, from your diet, from exercise, stress, nutrient deficiencies, you get all these free radicals that actually

can damage your DNA, they can damage the cellular membranes, they can damage your mitochondria.

So alpha-lopoic acid is a very strong antioxidant that can protect you.

One of the main things it will help you with is sensitizing glucose and insulin. So if you have insulin resistance,

if you're a diabetic, this would be a good thing to take because it helps to normalize both insulin

and glucose. And about 60 to 70% of the population has insulin resistance, so it's a really good

thing. So it will help your blood sugars. It also will help increase glutathione, which is another

very powerful antioxidant that your body can make in the liver. And it's known as the master

antioxidants. So these antioxidants come in networks.

You have antioxidants for proteins, mitochondria, for fats. There's all different kinds.

Another really amazing benefit of alpha-lopoic acid is its ability to inhibit certain types of

cancer. It actually will help you if you have something

called autonomic neuropathy, which I will do a separate video on. This is a very common yet under-diagnosed

condition if you have diabetes. And so if you have this neuropathy, you'll have problems with your digestion,

your heart, your bladder. And the remedy would be to not only get on keto and intermittent fasting,

but start taking 600 to 1,800 milligrams of alpha-lipoic acid. Alpha-lipolic acid mainly deals with

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