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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Your Skin Is WARNING You (Don’t Ignore This!)

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

These 5 colon issues and gut problems can wreak havoc on your skin’s health!


1. An altered microbiome means your gut contains more bad bacteria than healthy gut microbes. It’s often caused by diet or antibiotics. An altered gut microbiome can cause inflammation that can become systemic, leading to rosacea.


2. SIBO is a condition where gut microbes are in the wrong place. Most microbes should be in the large intestine, not the small intestine. SIBO can lead to nutritional deficiencies, inflammation, arthritis, and rosacea.


3. Gut inflammation symptoms include pain, tightness, or bloating. Gut inflammation is typically caused by diet, with gluten being one of the most common culprits. The more gut inflammation you have, the less you can absorb zinc. Zinc deficiencies are one of the most common causes of skin rashes. The carnivore diet is very beneficial for people with gut inflammation.


4. If you have chronic gut inflammation, you may lose your gut villi over time. This can diminish nutrient absorption, especially the absorption of vitamin D. Many autoimmune skin issues are directly related to low vitamin D. You can increase vitamin D with supplements, sun exposure, and certain types of light therapy.


5. If you’ve had your gallbladder removed or you have low bile, you may develop skin issues. Without enough bile, you won’t be able to break down and digest the fat-soluble vitamins, especially vitamin A. To increase vitamin A, consume beef liver or cod liver oil.


Ox bile, purified bile salts, or TUDCA can help if you have a sluggish gallbladder or have had your gallbladder removed.


To improve gut and skin health, take a good probiotic and consume fermented foods like sauerkraut, kimchi, raw milk cheese, yogurt, and raw salad from the garden. The carnivore diet can significantly improve gut health, reduce skin issues, and improve autoimmune conditions.


If you have SIBO, do intermittent fasting and OMAD. Try acidifying the stomach with betaine hydrochloride or apple cider vinegar.


You can make your own L. reuteri probiotic mixture to improve your gut and skin health significantly. L. reuteri can live in the small and large intestine and has multiple benefits, including improved digestion and the improvement of skin issues like acne.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Five things that your skin can tell you about your digestive system, your gut. It blows me away that so

0:06.7

many people are treating their skin with lotions, creams, medications, but they're ignoring the root cause,

0:13.5

which is in the gut. Now, when I get through all five, I'll tell you how to correct them, but I want to

0:17.6

kind of just touch on each one first. Number one, altered microbiome. That might mean we just

0:22.7

don't have enough good guys and we have too many bad guys. That could come from your diet or especially

0:27.2

taking an antibiotic. One of the most common effects of having alteration in your gut is rosacea. Even if you

0:34.2

look at how they treat rosacea, they give you an antibiotic because they want to kill off the excess bad bacteria. And it does work temporarily. It's going to come back. Actually worse. This imbalance in the microbiome creates inflammation that then becomes systemic and it can go throughout the body, but it shows up in your cheeks. Now, there's other problems in the digestive

0:54.6

tract. Number two, SIBO, small intestinal bacterial bacteria overgrowth. That's a condition where you

0:59.7

have the microbes really in the wrong place. Most of your microbes should be in the large

1:03.9

intestine. But when those microbes start to go up into the small intestine, you develop

1:09.2

nutritional deficiencies because these microbes compete

1:12.6

for your food. And you definitely have a lot of inflammation, sometimes arthritis, but you can also

1:18.8

have rosacea. I'm telling you, if you want really nice skin, just fix your gut and you will have

1:23.8

beautiful skin. Number three is inflammation in the gut. And you'll feel like a pain or

1:28.9

tightness or bloating in the gut. And the great majority of the time, it's what the person's eating.

1:34.2

The big culprit is gluten in wheat and other grains. And here's what you need to know about

1:40.0

inflammation. The more inflammation in the gut that you have, the less you can absorb zinc. A deficiency

1:46.2

of zinc can cause rashes, but also deficiency of zinc will cause the flaky, scaly, red skin around

1:54.5

your nose, around your mouth. But deeper, it's the inflammation, the gut that won't let you

2:00.4

absorb zinc. The worse off your

2:03.0

digestive system is the fewer foods you should eat in a given meal. And this is why carnivore seems to

2:09.4

be really good for a lot of people because you're eliminating a lot of different things that could

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