Yogurt Benefits For Health

Hello I'm Dr. Sten Ekberg and I wanted to talk a little bit about yogurt. Yogurt

and milk are very different nutritionally. Yogurt is made from milk

but milk is very different. The store-bought milk is very different from

raw milk. When milk comes from the cow it has bacteria and enzymes in it that

help you digest it so it's like a predigested food it's

very easy to assimilate when we buy in the stores it's been pasteurized and

homogenized that means that they kill off all the bacteria they ruin the

enzymes and they homogenized it so the fat structure and even some of the

proteins get changed so it's a very difficult food very allergenic very

inflammatory when we make yogurt we restore some of those properties some of

those good properties to the milk because we add bacteria to help us

digest it so lactobacillus is what makes the yogurt sour and those that's also

known as probiotics those are the good bacteria that we want more of in the gut

so milk is kind of sweet it has a lot of sugar in it and yogurt is kind of sour

that's because when we add the lactobacillus it's called an

acidophilus bacterium that means it's acidic it tastes sour and we add a

little bit of the bacteria and then they eat the sugar and they multiply so the

longer you let the bacteria eat sugar the less sugar is left in the yogurt but

also the more bacteria is in there the beneficial bacteria so when you pick a

yogurt you want to look for one that is little bit sour the ones that are just

too gentle and too mild they really don't have a lot of bacteria in them and they

also have most of the original sugar left out so I did a little bit of

research and found that by the time a yogurt tastes sour

it has about 30 to 40% of the sugar being consumed by the lactobacillus so

when you buy a yogurt the only kind you want to get is whole plain yogurt

organic whole plain yogurt if you do Greek yogurt that can be fine as well

but what you want to look you want a product that has not been altered more

than necessary so it should not have any pectins it should not have any fillers no

glycerides it should have milk and bacteria that's it so this is not a

brand placement or anything I'm not promoting a specific product but here is

my favorite it's from Trader Joe it's called a European style it's a little

more sour than any other yogurt that I've found in the market which happens

to be the kind of like the taste stuff but it also turns out that it has more

of the good bacteria and less of the sugar so again you don't have to pick

that one but you do want to get a whole plain yogurt don't get things that they

have messed with and that way you retain most of the nutrients and you get a

product that is actually healthy and good for you the only exception would be

if you have a severe way allergy then you want to stay away from dairy

altogether but most people I find 95% of people that do poorly with pasteurized

milk can still eat yogurt if it's a good quality

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