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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

The Importance Of The Intestinal Mucosal Barrier Explained By Dr.Berg

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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I explain how important your intestinal mucosal barrier is.


Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:

Dr. Berg, 51 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in weight loss through nutritional & natural methods. His private practice is located in Alexandria, Virginia. His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government & the Justice Department, ambassadors, medical doctors, high-level executives of prominent corporations, scientists, engineers, professors, and other clients from all walks of life. He is the author of The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:07.7

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

0:13.0

Today, I'm going to talk about the importance of the intestinal mucosal barrier.

0:27.5

First question is, what is it?

0:29.5

Well, it's simply a barrier between the inside of your colon, which have all the microbes.

0:35.7

I'm talking about the large bowel.

0:39.6

Most of the microbes, the frontly bacteria, should exist in the large bowel.

0:44.4

Here are the microbes right here, and then there's a barrier, a mucosal barrier.

0:48.8

It's thick, and there's mucosinate, and then you have the cells of the colon, colonocytes.

0:57.2

These little guys will absorb selectively certain nutrients.

1:03.1

Most of your nutrients and your protein is absorbed in the small intestine.

1:08.4

The large bowel is all about fermenting fiber, but there is some water and some electrolyte

1:15.8

absorption.

1:17.3

This mucosal barrier is the first line of defense.

1:22.6

The body is trying to protect itself from pathogens and also from these microbes getting

1:26.6

into the body.

1:27.6

We want to keep these guys out here so they can ferment fiber because our bodies cannot

1:33.9

break down fiber.

1:35.1

We can help from our friendly microbes that live in our body.

1:39.3

This mucosal barrier also is antibacterial, so it repels bacteria.

1:45.7

It's also a place to ferment fiber.

1:48.5

Fiber is a carbohydrate, but very different than glucose.

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