The BEST Time to Take Probiotics to Survive Stomach Acid
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 24 September 2023
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Summary
Today I want to answer some important questions about probiotics.
Probiotics are microbes. Microbes are a crucial part of our world. They convert carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur into forms that living things can use.
We have ten times more microbes living on and inside our bodies than we have cells.
Microbes have many functions and help us in various ways, including:
• Helping to make nutrients available
• Providing immune protection
• Protecting against pathogens
• Supporting detoxification
• Improving digestion
• Helping to make vitamins
Strong hydrochloric acid in the stomach can kill a good portion of microbes. Bile salts also affect the microbiome. But, some microbes are resilient and can even live without oxygen.
How to support the survival of probiotics in the stomach:
1. Take a probiotic supplement or consume probiotic foods at the end of your meal
2. Consume probiotics earlier in the day
3. If fasting, drink more water with your probiotics
4. Don’t take probiotics with lemon water or apple cider vinegar water
5. Consume raw plants grown in soil
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| 0:00.0 | I'd like to discuss some really key points about when to take probiotics or even consuming |
| 0:06.0 | probiotic foods because how those microbes are going to survive strong stomach acid in your stomach. |
| 0:12.0 | So do they survive the stomach at all? That's the topic of today. |
| 0:16.0 | Now there's a couple things you need to know about microbes. |
| 0:18.0 | Microbes literally run the world. |
| 0:21.4 | They convert carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur to available forms that plants and animals |
| 0:29.4 | can use, that all life forms can use. I mean, even photosynthesis, right? Everyone thinks that the plant |
| 0:35.6 | is responsible for most of the photosynthesis where |
| 0:38.2 | they're converting light and air and water into these biochemicals and fuel but |
| 0:42.5 | do you know that the microbes contribute to photosynthesis the most so you have |
| 0:47.3 | microbes in the soil you have microbes in the roots you have microbes in the plants |
| 0:51.0 | you have microbes in animals you have microbes in and on our bodies have microbes in animals. You've got microbes in and on our |
| 0:55.0 | bodies. In fact, there are 10x more microbes living inside and on our bodies than our cells. |
| 1:03.1 | And so our bodies are mostly composed of microbes. And all plants and animals have a very |
| 1:08.0 | close, important relationship in that they help make nutrients available. |
| 1:12.9 | They provide immune protection. They protect against pathogens. They help you detoxify. They help you |
| 1:19.4 | digest food. They help make vitamins. They help digest things that you can't digest, like fiber. |
| 1:26.2 | Some medications are also made for microbes like antibiotics. |
| 1:30.6 | They're made for microbes. |
| 1:32.1 | And as a side note, anytime you take an antibiotic, |
| 1:34.9 | always at the same time take a probiotic |
| 1:38.8 | just to prevent a candida infection |
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