Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

You know, diet to macias earth has been around for a long time, like millions and millions

of years. And what it is, it's a powder made up of fossilized diatoms. Now, what is a diatom?

Well, that is basically algae or phytoplankton. And over eons, this phytoplankton dies and becomes

fossilized and ends up in the bottom of a lake. And the unique thing about diet to macias

earth is it's loaded with silicon, okay? Now, when silicon is exposed to oxygen, it becomes

silica. And silica is really good for connective tissue joints and your bone. In fact, calcium can't

even help you form bone without silica. So to help the mineralization of bone and to prevent osteoporosis

and osteopenia, you definitely need enough silica. Silica is also necessary to make ligaments,

tendons, cartilage, your nails become strong with enough silica. They become brittle without silica.

Your hair becomes brittle without silica. Your skin loses the strength without silica. And so

if your skin is wrinkly or you have loose skin, you may benefit from silica. The strength of your

aorta and your vessels need silica. And so silica could potentially prevent an aneurysm.

Silica is also needed to build a strong trachea. And so there's different types of collagen

and silica stimulates type one collagen. And diet to macias earth has some other interesting

benefits. It can help you potentially get rid of parasites and worms and pathogens and even

E.coli because it helps to scrub and sweep away these microbes in your intestinal tract. And the

third thing that it can help you with is binding with aluminum. Not normally diet to macias earth

has aluminum in its structure, but it's very tightly bound to silica. And even just like

different types of clay or rocks, like quartz, for example, has aluminum in it that's very,

very tightly bound. But when you take diet to macias earth, this aluminum is not going to

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