Apple Cider Vinegar Benefits, Uses & Side Effects. Are There ACV Benefits Or Just Side Effects? 🍎🍏

Benefits is there such a thing as well if you've been looking on the internet to see

that there's probably more claims and more anecdotal evidence and more confusion and

disagreement on apple cider vinegar than just about anything else out there who are the

benefits real and if so what does it help with and how does it work if it does today

we explain that coming right up hey I'm Doctor Ekberg holistic doctor and a former Olympic

decathlete and if you want to truly Master Health by understanding how the body really

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miss anything apple cider vinegar the benefits ACV for short first of all what is apple cider

vinegar if you take sugar and you ferment it with yeast you get alcohol and then if

you add certain bacteria certain microbes to get acetic acid which is exactly what it

sounds like it is a pretty strong acid now when we say strong that means it's stronger

than a lot of acids but not necessarily as strong as some so the strongest acid in the

body is hydrochloric acid and even though acetic acid is pretty strong it's not nearly

as strong as hydrochloric acid so we'll talk about those also so if you're going to drink

apple cider vinegar then you want to use raw organic unfiltered with the mother and why

is that because a lot of the benefits you're going to get regardless but the reason you

want to use that is because it's natural it is derived from whole food from organic apples

if it's raw that means is unpasteurized if it's on filter it means they haven't messed

with it so the mother that's the solid stuff that remains behind in the vinegar even though

it doesn't have any specific benefits in itself it tells you still having the whole unfiltered

products what's the result of this process that you're looking for when it's raw organic

and I'll filter you know that there's going to be a little bit of enzymes in there so

before we dive into the claimes and all of that we would understand a little bit about

the digestive tract your gastro in what is the purpose of your GI tract because a lot

of people there so much emphasis in nutrition about what to eat what to put into your mouth

but there's not so much focus on how is it going to get from the mouth into the cell

how is it going to become tissue use it we can't absorb it if we don't break it down

first and that is the purpose of the upper portion of your digestive tract in order for

us to break things down we need two things and that acid and enzymes and acid triggers

a lot of the enzymes especially the ones in the stomach this is where we get virtually

all the benefits vinegar acetic acid of apple cider vinegar acid is a bad thing they've

heard over and over and over that vegetables and fruits are alkaline good acid is terrible

for you well that's a myth because your body has different pHs there's different pH in

different body fluids in different compartments for different purposes so let's just talk

a little bit of pH so in your mouth you have neutral pH it's right around 7 your saliva

supposed to be neutral and in your mouth when you chew you also have certain enzymes there

that don't need acid to be triggered it's called salivary amylase and it starts breaking

down carbohydrates so animals who eat mostly carbohydrates or herbivores they don't need

a whole lot of acid but animals who need to break down protein who eat meat omnivores

or carnivores they need a whole lot more acid what we have to understand about the pH scale

is that it's logarithmic and you don't have to understand anything about that accept that

for every number that the pH goes down it becomes ten times more acidic so 6 is 10 times

more acidic than 7 5 is a hundred times more acidic than 7 for is a thousand times more

3 is 10000 times more to is 100001 is 1000000 and 0 pH is 10 million times more acidic than

neutral so what does that mean will apple cider vinegar has a pH of around 3.5 that

means it's about five thousand times more acidic than neutral than water but the human

digestive tract is designed to break down protein we are an omnivore we have been we

have the ability to break down protein and normal pH is somewhere between 2 and 3 when

we eat something that needs protein breakdown so we're about 50 thousand times more acidic

than water and we're about 10 times more acidic than apple cider vinegar so how can apple

cider vinegar help what we're going to get to that in a few moments I want to touch a

little bit on the claims that people have like there's so much anecdotal evidence I've

seen videos talk about oh you should take it in the morning because it gives you energy

you'll be energized for the day when there is no energy in apple cider vinegar per say

it's more like if you bite down into a lemon you get a shock from the taste of fact from

the acidity and this is kind of the same way you're going to wake up and it's not a bad

thing but it's not like it gives you energy apple cider vinegar is very popular app for

skin treatment and dandruff treatment and hair treatment and there's some truth to that

because your skin is a little bit acidic and you have a bacterial culture just like you

have an a biome to have a culture of bacteria in your gut you have a culture bacteria in

your skin and under and so forth and it likes to be a little bit acidic so if you apply

acetic acid like apple site in the form of apple cider vinegar then you're going to lower

the ph so here's the thing though you want to be careful because apple cider vinegar

is a whole lot more acidic than what your skin like so you want it diluted first acids

especially if you use a lot of them you could probably get some irritation or possibly Burns

if you use a lot so just dilute it and be careful with that it has been claimed to whiten

teeth and whether that works or not I tell you do not do that acid erodes enamel it is

possibly one of the worst things that you can do for your teeth whether it works or

not don't even try to find out it has been said to reduce the absorption of carbs and

again whether that is true or not if that is a benefit or if that isn't affect it is

certainly not a benefit because we eat food because we're supposed to absorb it and you

don't take apple cider vinegar to reduce the absorption of carbs you eat less carbs because

if you put them in your body and you don't absorb them guess what happens they end up

being food for your pathogenic bacteria and you set yourself up for a host of digestive

problems you can use vinegar for a cleaning acid breaks things down but in this case I

would use white vinegar because it has the exact same effect but it's cleaner and if

you're trying to clean something you don't want to put the unfiltered mother on your

stuff because you probably have to wipe that off afterwards understand about this is that

there are some benefits and we'll talk a little bit in more detail but we once and for all

past the idea of using it as a remedy don't use it as a medication don't use it as a magic

pill so many people ask the question will does it work who cares we want to find out

how it works because if it works but it creates another imbalance then we're worse off right

we always want to figure out how does it work and is it is the end result beneficial because

then it's a good thing to do so never ask yourself whether it works now take something

for something don't take it because you have an upset stomach or because you have this

or that alright so it only has benefits apple cider vinegar can only have benefit if it

gives you something you need which it doesn't really it doesn't really have any nutrients

or if it solves the problem if it adds something that's missing so it's not like it as a nutrient

but it can add a little bit of something you're missing and what is that we said that the

human stomach should be as low a PHS between two and three and a lot of people they dismiss

apple cider vinegar and said that all will you know it can't possibly help because it's

not as acidic as the human stomach already is well where they're mistaken is that they

are assuming that everyone has optimal pH to start with that everyone is making enough

hydrochloric acid so let's look at what are the factors that interfere with the production

of hydrochloric acid will first of all stress everything in your body the production of

acid the production of enzymes everything to do with digestion is shut down or reduced

by stress because your body is re prioritizing its resources and anytime you stressed it

says digestion is not really important right now let's do that later so when you are stressed

you making less hydrochloric acid less enzymes if you eat too much protein or if you eat

too much protein for the amount of hydrochloric acid to produce because hydrochloric acid

is primarily to break down protein so the more protein you eat the more more hydrochloric

acid and for a lot of people who don't like meat it's because they're not making enough

hydrochloric acid so their bodies are telling them hey this doesn't taste very good because

I'm not going to be able to break it down you could have a lack of vitamins or minerals

like B1 or zinc they're necessary for the production of hydrochloric acid alcohol interferes

with the production of hydrochloric acid and of calls that the big granddaddy of all double

triple whammy is antacids with the absolute worst thing that you can do for your digestion

because the acid is there for a reason and if you add an antacid you are shutting off

any ability of your body to break down food any ability to complete that process of breaking

down the protein is lost when you take an antacid and you're setting yourself up for

leaky gut and allergies and and bloating dysbiosis and so forth it solves a short-term problem

it makes it worse next time around so this is kind of what we said with does it work

sure but it it relieves the burning but it creates a bigger problems we don't really

care if it works we want to understand the mechanism if you are hypopituitary why because

the pituitary stimulates the thyroid and when your thyroid slows down everything in your

body slows down including the production of hydrochloric acid and another thing is if

you have had bariatric surgery than most of your ability to produce hydrochloric acid

is gone so again when they're talkin when they're dismissing apple cider vinegar and

saying that it can't compete with stomach acid they're assuming that stomach acid is

being produced by with all of these things going on you can people are not probably not

making enough hydrochloric acid and if we look at the people with health issue if we

look at the people with IBS or leaky gut or sibo or digestive problem then I would bet

you that the number of people who don't make enough hydrochloric acid is probably approaching

100% so this is why apple cider vinegar is a good idea because most people don't make

enough hydrochloric acid there's a function there in the body that has been lost by stress

and lifestyle and deficiencies and toxicities and if you add some acid is going to make

it better so even if it's not as strong as hydrochloric acid it's still going to help

tremendously and this is where you hear of all of the reported benefits is because it's

getting something back that helps you digest stuff so once we understand that now the benefits

become kind of selfish parents so number one is it helps overall digestion digestion starts

with taking the big chunks of food and breaking them down into smaller and smaller and smaller

and smaller if the first step doesn't work then the second and third and fourth and fifth

isn't going to work because it's not getting it prepared in the right way Step One is hydrochloric

acid in your stomach when you don't have that step one doesn't work so it helps digestion

overall by helping that first step by increasing acid we improve the breakdown of protein we

split proteins which are long long long long chains of thousands and tens of thousands

and hundreds of thousands of amino acid we split them into short peptides which is chains

of a handful a dozen or a couple of dozen amino acids so that the later stages down

in the small intestine can break them down into individual amino acids and we can absorb

them that's the only form of protein that we can absorb if it doesn't get broken down

then it doesn't matter how much protein you eat you can still be deficient in essential

amino acids the acid activate enzymes every step of the digestive process is stimulated

either by the presence of food or by a certain pH so when we add the acid then we help the

body regulate those digestive stages including the production of enzymes most minerals number

for improves mineral absorption because most minerals need an acidic environment to be

absorbed you can take a bunch of minerals but if you don't have an acidic environment

that they'll do you no good apple cider vinegar can help with GERD with gastroesophageal reflux

disease also known as acid reflux or heartburn how can you do that because that's where a

lot of people are confused they get they eat something at this this burning acid feeling

and we tell them to take more acid the seems like it would make it worse right well there's

the confusion because when you eat something you need acid to break it down if you have

enough acid that acid is going to sit in the stomach with the protein for an hour or so

it's going to break down the protein and the acidity is going to close off the valve at

the top of the stomach if you don't have enough acid then that valve doesn't get the right

signal to close up it stays a little bit open okay now the food sits there for too long

because you don't have enough acid to break it down now it sits there any bubbles and

it sure and sometimes even starts fermenting or awning and then the gases and the bubbles

move up and that valve isn't closed so now it starts burning because you're getting acid

in places it's not supposed to be the acid is well-protected for an hour or two because

that's what it's designed for and then when the food is digested then they restore they

neutralize they reduce the acidity of that food so that it's ready to move into the next

part of your digestive tract which can't handle those low stop acidity do everything in your

body is really really smart and acid is your friend when you make enough things work when

you don't make enough then it creates problem if even if it seems like it's burning from

too much with reflux by just giving them a supplement a digestive enzyme that has some

enzymes and some hydrochloric acid and you can also do get a lot of the same benefits

from apple cider vinegar because it's acid when people add acid and gerd goes away I

would say that better than 90% of people have Improvement within days number 6 it helps

your immune system it kills pathogens whenever you ingest bacteria because there's bacteria

everywhere that's your first line of defense for your immune system is to have enough stomach

acid because bacteria don't do so well in acidic environment apple cider vinegar is

a natural bacteria that kills bacteria and one of my favorite examples is how the amount

of acid in your stomach depends on what you're supposed to eat so herbivores animals that

eat mostly fruits and plants and grass they don't need a whole lot of acid their pH usually

runs in the 4 5 6 range there's some even monkeys that eat mostly plants that are in

the seven range if you are a omnivore you're typically between 2 and 3 if you're a carnivore

like dogs for example dogs and cats they'll run in the 1 to 2 range but the most extreme

example is a vulture specially the turkey vulture it has the lowest recorded pH of anybody

it's between 0 and 1 which means it's about 5 million times more acidic than water and

neutral and why is that because vultures are supposed to clean up dead stuff so after something

dies and it starts weather was sick before or whether it starts to fester with bacteria

after it dies that's not a problem for the vulture they have so much stomach acid that

they will digest any sort of lethal disease they can safely eat that animal and they will

sterilize all of the food all the bacteria and they won't spread it around ultimate clean

up crew of the nature Kingdom so what's the point of reiterate that stomach acid is your

first line of defense and the better that your stomach work the more stomach acid that

you have the better your immune system is going to work as well it's a very very important

for gas and bloating when you sent half digested food down to the bacteria in your stomach

supposed to be a very delicate balance there if you digest properly from the beginning

I stage 1 2 and 3 then by the time it gets down to the bacteria in the gut it is in the

right shape and form if you don't digest it now you're going to feed the wrong kind of

bacteria you get small intestinal bacterial overgrowth in your large intestine and that's

for gas and low income from so if you want to improve gas and bloating digestion part

of that is eating fewer carbs the other part is to make everything work better to reduce

stress and have a more acidic environment and number eight is maybe one of the best

documented one of the benefits that almost everyone agrees on and that is the apple cider

vinegar can make you more insulin sensitive that insulin works better that your body doesn't

have to produce as much insulin if you take some apple cider vinegar it on a daily basis

War before each meal and this is one of my favorite points but there's a lot to talk

about on this one it can get a little bit complex a lot of people have already asked

me if they should take apple cider vinegar when the fast things that take apple cider

vinegar if they're diabetic etc etc so I want to really dig into the details about that

and give you the bigger picture so I can make another video on that topic very soon

and if you going to use it then use it to improve your digestion especially if you feel

like not making enough hydrochloric acid for any of these reasons and don't understand

why you're taking it to you using it for the right reasons if you enjoy this video I'm

sure that you're going to love this one thank you so much for watching and I'll see you

in the next video