What Is Betaine HCL? - Dr. Berg Explains How To Use It
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 14 July 2021
⏱️ 5 minutes
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In this podcast, I explain what betaine hydrochloride is along with its excellent benefits for your digestive tract.
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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. |
| 0:13.4 | I wanted to talk about this ingredient called the Tain Hyde Chloride. |
| 0:26.1 | What is it? |
| 0:27.1 | I have this in my digest formula and a lot of people keep asking, what is it and what |
| 0:32.2 | is it doing? |
| 0:34.2 | It's basically a natural compound. |
| 0:36.0 | It's a natural amino acid found in Beats, Spinach, Beef and Shrimp. |
| 0:43.2 | It's in other foods as well. |
| 0:44.6 | It was originally found in Beats and that's why they call it Beats or Betaine, Hyde Chloride, |
| 0:51.6 | but it's a combination of Betaine and Hyde Chloride acid. |
| 0:55.4 | It's really, really, really important if you have SIBO, small intestinal bacteria over |
| 0:59.6 | growth because one of the functions of this strong acid in the stomach is to prevent pathogens |
| 1:05.9 | and unfriendly microbes from going from the stomach through the stomach into the small intestine. |
| 1:13.1 | Very important. |
| 1:14.1 | What this ingredient is meant to do is increase the acid in your stomach. |
| 1:19.2 | When I say increase the acid, I'm talking about lowering the pH. |
| 1:23.8 | Lower the pH, the more acidic and the stomach pH should be between 1.5 and 3, which is |
| 1:32.5 | extremely low and extremely acidic. |
| 1:37.0 | That's going to improve the absorption of item B12, minerals, trace minerals and protein. |
| 1:46.2 | What the acid does, if it hits this level right here, is it activates a very powerful protease, |
| 1:53.4 | which is an enzyme that breaks down proteins, thereby breaking down protein into amino acids. |
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