The REAL Reason Apple Cider Vinegar Works To Lose Weight 🍎🍏

hello health champions are you taking apple cider vinegar to help you lose

weight today i want to talk about how apple

cider vinegar really works and why depending

on the ph of your body taking vinegar could be a good thing

or a bad thing once you understand how and why it really works

now you can reach your weight loss goals and get healthier

all at the same time coming right up hey i'm dr ekberg i'm a holistic doctor and

a former olympic athlete and if you want to truly master

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keep learning how to get truly healthy there is a good amount of research today

on how apple cider vinegar can help with weight

loss it can help you lose belly fat it can

lower blood glucose it can control type 2 diabetes and it

can lower triglycerides and even blood pressure in other words

everything that is associated with insulin

resistance but does that mean that apple cider

vinegar is the new cure it all it's a miracle solution for

weight loss does it mean that it's a fix it all does

it help a little or a lot and if so

what is the mechanism well the exact mechanism

of how apple cider vinegar helps with weight loss

is not known but according to the research and observations

they suggest it could have to do with improved satiety

it could be that the liver is producing less glucose and also they notice

that apple cider vinegar can actually up regulate

genes for fat burning and of course it improves insulin sensitivity and any

time that you become more insulin sensitive

then your body is more favorable toward fat burning

than fat storing but it still doesn't explain

exactly what is it about vinegar that does this what is it about vinegar

that is able to create physiological change

in the body well the most characteristic thing is

something you have already noticed vinegar is really really sour apple

cider vinegar contains something called acetic acid

and the way it's diluted in the apple cider vinegar it comes at about

five percent acidity and that gives us a ph

of 2.5 and that is right on par with stomach acid so it's a

very strong acid that can help us break down food

and even though most of the attention is on apple cider vinegar

it doesn't seem to really matter if you use white vinegar

or apple cider vinegar because the physiological benefit

is in the acidity of the acetic acid but now in order to understand more

about why this works and to feel confident

about taking it we need to dispel a myth and that's the

acid myth for the last 20 30 years we've all been

told that we're all too acidic that all our

health problems is because the body is acidic and

therefore you can solve all your health problems if you just become more

alkaline eat those foods that make you alkaline they've written

books about it but are we really too acidic well a lot of

natural healthcare practitioners like myself are finding

that probably more people are actually too

alkaline and that's what i'm finding in my practice

and if you think about this for just a moment if

almost everyone was already too acidic wouldn't we get worse

if we added acid in the form of apple cider vinegar

right we should get worse and yet we have all these people

taking apple cider vinegar and they get better so

real quick and simple now what is acid and what is

alkaline well acid base is what they're talking about and everyone knows

that water is h2o well h2o can split up in h plus

and o h minus where h is the acid and o h is the base now in pure water

they're always going to be equal amounts of h

and oh so they balance each other out and we have neutral ph

but if we mix things into the water that shifts the balance one way or the other

we can change the ph so if the h plus becomes dominant now it's acidic

and we have a ph below seven and if the opposite

we mix something in that gives us more o h

now it's alkaline and we have a ph above 7. now we can't really make sense

of ph in the body unless we understand that the ph is

supposed to be different in different parts of the body

if we start with a digestive tract then saliva is supposed to be neutral or

slightly alkaline if we eat a bunch of sugar and

starch then we feed bacteria that make acid

and we get cavities that's why sugar leads to cavities

it's about ph but as soon as we leave the mouth and we move into the

stomach now it's supposed to get super acidic

and keep in mind that the ph scale is logarithmic

that means that for every step down the scale for every whole number going

down the scale you get 10 times more acidic so as you

move from neutral down to two like in the stomach

you've just become a hundred thousand times

more acidic and that is necessary in the stomach it's a good

thing we're supposed to have that the body isn't

randomly making mistakes it needs that acid to break down the food

that's the first stage of digestion and it sets the stage

for what's about to come the rest of the digestive tract can only work

if we have the early parts work first but as soon as we leave the

stomach now we're moving toward neutral again

we're still a little bit acidic in the proximal or the early portion

of the small intestine but as we move to the

distal or late portion of the small intestine now we become

alkaline as soon as we cross into the large intestine the early portion of the

large intestine we are acid and then as we move toward

the later portion of the large intestine it moves

to almost neutral again so the body has local regulation it changes the ph

along the way by adding acid or by adding bicarbonate so the point of

this is that we don't have an overall acidity or an overall

alkalinity we have changing values and that's on

purpose to support exactly what's supposed to

happen at each stage of digestion but when we

move from local regulation to whole body ph

regulation what we're really talking about is the ph

of the blood and the cerebrospinal fluid the cerebrospinal fluid is doesn't have

red blood cells in it but it's continuous with the blood

and it's what bathes your brain and your nervous system and that's

very very sensitive so the ph needs to stay

right at 7.4 if it moves even one-tenth away from

that exact number you're going to get really really sick

so the body again has ability to regulate

the kidneys does this when the whole body starts becoming

too acidic now it can dump some acid when it becomes too alkaline it can hold

on to the acid and dump some bicarbonate a lot of

people are testing the ph of saliva or they're testing the ph of

urine but the only thing that really matters

is the ph of the blood and if you think about it

whatever the kidneys get rid of whether it's acid

or base is going to end up in the urine so urine can have a very wide range

of ph and still be normal and it doesn't mean that much exactly where the ph is

because the urine only reflects what the kidneys

got rid of now ph is not the only aspect of homeostasis but it is certainly one

of the most important and one of the tightest regulated so if

you get even a couple of tenths away from 7.4

and you're too alkaline now you're going to get things like

confusion and coma you could get nausea and

vomiting tremors your muscles start twitching you get

spasms you get numbness and tingling because your nervous system isn't

signaling properly anymore you could get lightheadedness because

you're deprived of oxygen because your body can't regulate

blood flow anymore and if it goes a couple of tens

toward the acidic direction well you could have a lot of the same stuff

confusion coma nausea vomiting and your body is going to try to compensate

for that acidosis by rapid shallow breathing

you're going to have fatigue you're going to get headaches

so the point though is if a couple of tenths of a point of

ph can get you so sick you're on the verge of dying

then even a lot less even a fraction of that

starts moving you away from homeostasis so the ability for the body to maintain

as close as possible to that 7.4 is absolutely critical one thing that

i've noticed in my office and a lot of people doing

the same kind of work they find that people with just a little

bit nothing life-threatening or super

dramatic but much less than that in the alkaline

direction they start having multiple joint pain or they can have

that and they can have something called frozen

shoulder also the most important way that

apple cider vinegar can help with weight loss is

that it helps it improves your digestion as we age we tend to make less and less

stomach acid and then that production is further reduced by various conditions

like hypothyroidism and especially by stress so

most people don't get enough stomach acid and then your digestion

suffers because we have to have that stomach acid to

digest protein and absorb minerals and like i said

before a large amount of stomach acid a proper

digestion in the stomach sets the stage for how well

the rest of the digestive tract is going to work

so your absorption is going to suffer if you don't have enough so by adding apple

cider vinegar now you improve your absorption and

a lot of people think that it's just about eating the right food they say

that you are what you eat well that's not

true you are what you digest and absorb

so if you can absorb better if your overall digestion improves and you

absorb more of the good stuff that's actually

in the food now your body is going to be more

satisfied so you're going to have better appetite control because your body

actually got what it was supposed to the other way that apple cider vinegar can

help is that it can make it easier for your

body to take the ph in the right direction toward

homeostasis but here we want to realize that not

everyone is the same so even if acid can help your digestion if you're

already too acidic overall in your body if your body can't

get rid of the acid fast enough then what you want to do is you want to add

some base if your whole body can't get rid of acid

fast enough then you're making things worse by adding acid even if it

technically could help your digestion so most people

however are alkaline and then it's very easy just to add some acid in

the form of apple cider vinegar and only when your whole body is in homeostasis

is it able to regulate all aspects of health like

blood pressure and blood sugar and hormone balance and minerals

etc even though apple cider vinegar is a great

thing and it can shift the odds in your favor

you get so much more benefit when you combine it

with additional tools like low carb diet and like intermittent fasting now you're

going to get many many times the effect it's not

ultimately about weight loss it is about health and quality of life if you take

care of those then the weight will take care of itself

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about how to get truly healthy thank you so much for

watching i'll see you next time