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 weights.

I want to talk about why harmless bacteria can turn bad. So there's all sorts of different

relationships that we have with bacteria. You have good bacteria that exchange with us. We provide a

home for them to live in. They give us vitamins,

immune protection. Then you have another relationship with bacteria, which is commensal,

in which one organism benefits with another without hurting them or necessarily helping them.

So in this relationship, they're just living there,

they're just neutral, they're not causing us any harm. And then sometimes they

will flip in the relationship with us and turn pathogenic, which they can cause

disease. And there's a handful of these bacteria that can do this, a certain

types of strep bacteria, e coli, candida, that basically is

harmless, and then something happens, and they flip, and they start creating harm. In fact,

some of these bacteria in a 30-day cycle can go through 500 generations and morph into something

very harmful to our bodies. They can go from harmless

to actually killing us. Now the key factor that changes this relationship is the environment that

they live in. It's the environmental pressures. So when this environment changes in pH,

oxygen levels, oxidative stress, temperature,

chemicals, and this can all occur with what you put in your body, what you expose your body to,

and a mainly talking diet. Based on what you feed your body, the environment can change from one spectrum to the other.

People that live on junk food end up having a lot more pathogens. People that eat healthier

have less pathogens. And of course, this also relates to plants. If a plant is given enough

nutrients, they have less pests, they have less pathogens, they have less disease.

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