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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 benefits of lactobacillus. Okay, what is

lactobacillus? It's a common microbe that lives inside your body and around your body.

It's a type of flora and part of the microbiome,

which is all your friendly bacteria and you have trillions of these microbes. And there's different strains.

There's like at least 50 different strains. And in your gut, by the way, you also have friendly yeast, you have friendly fungus that help you. So a long time ago, we made an arrangement with these microbes.

They wanted to have a place to live, okay, in our bodies, and we wanted something in exchange.

So somehow we made some arrangements.

So we wanted them to make vitamins for us, B vitamins,

vitamin K.

We also wanted them to protect us against pathogens,

unfriendly microbes, okay,

that's part of increasing the immune system.

We also wanted them to help decrease inflammation and also help us

deal with this fiber that we can't digest. So they have the ability to convert fiber into a type of fat,

small chain fatty acid. And one of those fatty acids is called buterate,

which is similar to a ketone. And it actually has properties of helping us with our blood sugars.

It's even anti-cancer. So it's pretty cool. So they give us all this stuff. We give them a place to live.

And so it's a perfect symbiotic relationship where we can coexist versus like a parasite,

which will just take everything from you and it doesn't give you anything back. So lactobacillus

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