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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

What Is Betaine HCL? - Dr. Berg Explains How To Use It

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I explain what betaine hydrochloride is along with its excellent benefits for your digestive tract.


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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.

0:13.4

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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