So today we're going to talk about the benefits of apple cider vinegar.

So what is apple cider vinegar? Basically you're taking sugar in the apple juice and certain microbes, bacteria and yeast are turning that sugar into alcohol, then eventually into vinegar.

So there's a whole process that occurs and the end product vinegar is acetic acid. Now there's other acids involved, but this is the main one.

So remember growing up in Wisconsin, where there was farms all around our neighborhood, and so we had a crab apple tree, and there was a farmer on the other side of the corn field.

So I brought him a big bushel basket of crab apples, and I wanted him to grind up these apples and turn them into apple juice.

So he did that for me. I brought him back in jugs, and I left him out in the sun, I think one or two days, and they turned into something called apple cider.

Apple cider is basically a spiked apple juice. Okay, it had some alcohol in it, and that basically was the start of my alcoholic journey at eight years old.

And I'm completely being sarcastic, so I did not become an alcoholic at eight years old, more like 20 years old.

Now I'm just kidding. But the point is that if you take apple juice that's not pasteurized, not heated, it goes through fermentation. Okay, so with the help of microbes, it eventually turns into vinegar.

So there's many different types of vinegar that you can get. The one I'm going to recommend is a raw, unpasteurized version of vinegar, organic.

Braggs has a really good one. It also has the mother. What is that? That's basically some residue of some fiber pectin, some bacteria in yeast.

I do not think that's going to give you a lot of health benefits. Really the health benefits are the acetic acid.

But the fact that the upset of vinegar is raw means that it's going to be rich in enzymes. So that alone can actually help you in your digestion.

So you don't want it pasteurized. And the other thing that because it's organic means it doesn't have the added pesticides in the chemical.

So Braggs is a really good version. Also the pH is between 3.3 and 3.5.

If you get distilled vinegar, it's a little bit lower. I think it's like 2.5. But this is acid enough.

So the other thing is you don't need to keep it in the refrigerator. You can keep it outside the refrigerator.

And it will last for like 5 years. So now let's talk about the benefits of upset of vinegar.

Number one, digestion. It speeds up digestion. It activates enzymes.

So a lot of these enzymes in the stomach, in the pancreas, and other places in the body are dormant.

And it takes certain things to activate them. And acid is one of the activators of the enzymes in the stomach to help you break down protein.

So right there, that's going to help speed up digestion.

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