In this video, you'll discover how to use apple cider vinegar to improve your digestion.
It's no secret that millions of people suffer every single day from digestive issues, whether
it's gas, bloating, or intestinal discomfort. Many people are suffering. And the thing is,
is that when people come into my clinic and they're looking for answers, they in most
cases just have not come across anything that has helped them. But one of the things I'm
going to teach you in this video is I'm going to teach you one simple trick that you can
utilize right in your home that can drastically improve your digestion and that is apple cider
vinegar for digestion. Now let me tell you, this really has helped so many people and
it's very simple, so stick around to the end of the video.
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Let's go ahead and dive in. And first what I want to do is just briefly talk about what
digestion is. When we hear this term digestion, what are we referring to? Now, digestion is
the process of breaking down food. So digestion starts in the mouth, it goes into the stomach,
the small intestines, and then of course, digestion goes until the food leaves your
body. Now, when we look at digestion in particular, food is first absorbed in the small intestines.
The small intestines is where a lot of havoc occurs when people start to have digestive
issues, but it also is where a lot of the digestion is happening. So that's where your
food is being absorbed into the bloodstream so that it can be utilized by your body. The
food that you're eating is literally becoming part of your body's becoming part of you,
and that's where it happens. In the large intestine, in the small intestines. Next we
go in the food travels to the large intestines. That's where a lot of excess water that is
left over is absorbed, and then of course it leaves the body and so undigested food
passes out and then that is the full digestive process in a nutshell. Now of course there's
a lot of complicated mechanisms that happen in between there, but just as a 3000 foot
overview, that's what it is.
Now let's talk about poor digestion. Let's talk about some of these symptoms cause we're
talking about how we can actually improve digestion. And now what are some of the symptoms
that many people face today? First of all is bloating. Now if you're someone who's getting
bloated after a meal or someone who is just feels like you're bloated all the time, there's
a good chance some digestive issues are occurring there. Belching and gas. This is another thing
that many people suffer from and it seems that anything they eat, it causes them to
have a lot of gas and it just really messes with their lifestyle. Nausea and vomiting
with meals and acidic taste in your mouth, fullness during meals, IBS symptoms. Now this
stands for irritable bowel syndrome. Irritable bowel syndrome is basically when somebody
bounces between having like diarrhea to constipation and every time they eat something they're
running to the bathroom. When you have irritable bowel syndrome, first of all, you know, but
secondly, there's not a whole lot of stability in your overall gastrointestinal health. These
are digestive issues that many people are suffering from today. And then belly pain,
just simply, well, you get a lot of gastrointestinal discomfort. So, if you're having a lot of
these issues, let's talk about how apple cider vinegar, the different components that are
in the apple cider vinegar, how they can help you improve your digestion in a big way.
Let's go ahead and dive right in to the Apple cider vinegar and what's in it. Now, first
of all, Apple cider vinegar is going to contain prebiotics and you asked probably what is
a prebiotic and why does it matter? Well, prebiotics are formed from the fermented apples.
Basically, you're going to get a pectin within the Apple cider vinegar and that acts as a
prebiotic. Now the prebiotics are plant-based fibers that aren't digestible to your body,
so you're thinking, well, how does that help me if I can't even utilize it? It helps you
in a big way because what you're essentially doing is these prebiotic fibers pass through
the digestive system and become food for the bacteria within your gut. Now, this is a good
bacteria. This is a probiotic. This is a very important part of overall digestion. This
is a very important, important part of your overall health. We actually have to make sure
that we're feeding these prebiotics in order for them to thrive and be healthy. And it
stimulates the growth of the healthy gut bacteria, which we're going to talk about just in a
minute. So, when we use apple cider vinegar, we get some of this prebiotic benefit and
we are going to help make those good probiotics within our gut thrive.
Now, let's talk about the probiotics because they're incredibly important. Now, when we
talk about probiotics in general, today is something that people aren't getting near
enough of. Most of our food is very processed. Most of our food is cleaned to a high amount.
I mean, this is a good thing that our food is clean so that we're not getting viruses
and maybe bacterial issues, but the problem is, is that we're not getting that good probiotic,
that good bacteria that our body needs to thrive. Let's talk about how bacteria actually
helps us. So, first of all is going to support a healthy gut. It’s incredibly important.
When we look at the gut health or something that we refer to as the microbiome, this is
basically the bacteria that lives not only within your gut, but on your whole body. Now
when we look at the gut health, there's a lot of bacteria that play a huge role in not
only digesting food, but also in maintaining hormone balance and also maintaining proper
immune function and everything. So, we have to make sure that if we want a good, healthy
body, we have a healthy gut. In order to have a healthy gut, we have to have these good
probiotics that are creating health for us on a daily basis. They’re helping us digest
our food. They're playing a huge role in our overall health.
They're also going to support brain health. Whether it's a brain disorder, whether it's
a child who is autistic, someone with a learning disability, or just the average person out
there, there's something referred to as the gut brain axis and basically if your gut is
not functioning well, then your brain doesn't function well, and if you don't have good
healthy probiotics within the gut, then you don't have good functioning brain. There's
something called neurobiotics that is a newer science and basically what they look at is
probiotics and how they actually are linked to brain health. And so, when we look at probiotics,
we know for brain health it also is going to help improve your system, which is very
important if you want to keep away from the disastrous immune conditions that people are
facing today. We want to make sure that we have good probiotics. So many people today
are taking rounds and rounds of antibiotics, which actually not only kill the bad bacteria,
but they kill off all the good bacteria and is creating immune crises in today's society.
Next is going to help improve your skin which is highly beneficial. So, apple cider vinegar
is going to have these probiotics. It's going to help improve skin health. I can tell you
again and again, I've seen people start utilizing probiotics into their daily life, whether
it's from a drink that has probiotics in it or just taking the capsule and they find that
their skin clears up in a huge way.
It also is going to support weight loss. There's very specific probiotics that are linked to…
or let me say the lack of specific probiotics that are linked to weight gain. And so, we
want to make sure that we're getting proper probiotics for weight loss, which is incredibly
important to many people out there.
Now let's talk about how apple cider vinegar can help with the acidic acid. And this is
a big part too. Now we look at apple cider vinegar. We have this acidic acid. First of
all, it's going to help kill bacteria. And that's why apple cider vinegar has that antibacterial,
that very gentle antibacterial effect. I mean that's why some people are using it as a cleaning
agent because it really helps kill that bacteria and it also is going to help kill some of
that bacteria that we don't want within the gut. So, it's going to help as a way to get
rid of some of that bacteria. It also is going to help decrease inflammation. It supports
weight loss, and it also supports balancing the pH in the gut. Now, this is a very important
topic, balancing the pH in the gut. Many people have a problem today because of lifestyle,
because of the food that they're eating, the things that they're drinking, and essentially
what they have is an alkalinity problem within their gut. Now, when you have an alkalinity
problem within the gut, essentially what happens is it opens the door for a whole host of issues.
When we talked about those symptoms at the very beginning, imagine all of those and having
every single one of them in a very extreme way, and that's called small intestinal bacterial
overgrowth. I talk a lot about that. If that's something you're interested in, I'll put a
link in the description here below so you can check out the videos I’ve done on it,
but when you have a alkaline stomach, it opens the door for bacterial overgrowth into the
small intestines, a lack of enzymes being released from the pancreas, a lot of bad things
start to happen. So when we take Apple cider vinegar, the acetic acid within it helps create
a more acidic environment within the gut, which is a very positive thing. All these
people are facing heartburn, belching, gas, all these things that people are facing today.
It's due to an alkalinity issue. The acidic acid in apple cider vinegar will help with
that, so don't overlook that major, major benefit that apple cider vinegar offers.
Now let's talk about when we look at digestion, how enzymes play a huge role into your overall
digestive health. Now, enzymes which are going to find apple cider vinegar again, is going
to be very powerful for breaking down macronutrients. Now, when we eat the food, essentially it
has to be broken down. Like I mentioned before, probiotics are going to help with that process
of breaking it down, but so do enzymes. Enzymes are critically important. I've done plenty
of videos on enzymes and talked about like if there's one major thing that you can do,
if you have some digestive issues, you can start taking some enzymes. Good news is that
some apple cider vinegar is going to have some of those good enzymes in it. Now, it's
important that we have these enzymes to break down the macro nutrients because it's also
going to support that nutrient bioavailability. If we're eating foods and we're unable to
break them down within the gut, essentially we've got a big problem there and so the enzymes
within the apple cider vinegar are going to support breaking that food down so that you
can actually get the most out of the food that you're eating. When people have lack
of enzymes, they not only have typically more gut inflammation, but they also can have malnutrition,
all kinds of issues going on. So, we want to utilize apple cider vinegar to improve
gastrointestinal health, but also go in and make sure that we are really boosting the
enzyme content within the gut.
Now, let's go ahead and talk about the kind of apple cider vinegar to take because this
is really important, like all this stuff that I talked about, it doesn't really matter if
you go the wrong route on this right here. First of all, we want to make sure it's organic.
There was a study out there and they looked at all the different apple cider vinegars,
and what they found is that the organic versus inorganic had a different amount of bacterial
strains in them. So, the organic apple cider vinegar typically had about 30 more bacterial
strains than the inorganic. So, that's one reason that it's important because want to
make sure that we're getting the most out of it, that probiotic benefit. Now, the other
reason is important to utilize organic is because apples are one of the most highly
sprayed fruits out there. And so, in order to keep them looking so beautiful and fresh,
one of the things they do is they just cover it with all types of pesticides. And as a
result, you're eating that when you eat the apple or when you drink the apple cider vinegar.
So, we want to make sure that we're utilizing organic to avoid all of that. Now, organic
is very important, but we also want to make sure that we get the apple cider vinegar that
contains the mother. Now the reason this is important is because that cloudy stringy mother,
which is found in the apple cider vinegar, is going to contain a lot of the enzymes,
the probiotic benefits, and a lot of the benefits that you get from apple cider vinegar in general.
Now a lot of people, they go to the store and they see the one that's got the cloudy,
stringy stuff in it and they see the nice clear one, and I get that the nice, clear,
good-looking one is more appealing, but the truth is you want to get the one that doesn't
look as appealing because it has so many more benefits to offer. So, we want to make sure
that we're getting apple cider vinegar with the mother. Now in general, most people are
drinking the apple cider vinegar. They get the liquid, some people don't like it. So,
we'll talk about the capsules in just a second. I typically recommend the Bragg's Apple cider
vinegar and it's just because you know I want to keep it simple for you. In the Bragg’s
is typically in most grocery stores. So, grab the Bragg's Apple cider vinegar cause it's
just a name that you can trust in health.
Now, the next thing here is if you want to use capsules, this is important. A lot of
people don't like the liquid, so they go and they want to utilize the capsules. Now, the
capsules can be utilized and they have a lot of the same benefit, but the thing is we have
to use the right ones. We want to make sure that we're using a capsule that has raw apple
cider vinegar in it. It also has the mother in it and it actually comes from apples. Now,
I mentioned this in another video, but I basically talk about how many of these capsules out
there don't even come from apples and they are just simply acidic acid capsules that
have nothing to do with apple cider vinegar. And then they're labeled Apple cider vinegar.
And so you know, many people are confused by that. So, we want to make sure that we're
doing the right thing when we utilize the capsules. I'll put a link in the description
below to the capsule that I recommend for people because if we're getting a capsule
that's just not even from apples, then we just aren't going to get that benefit from
it. So, the capsules can be used, but you got to get the good ones. You've got to get
the raw organic with the mother, the whole deal. And so, check that out in the description.
And the other thing here is if you want to learn more about apple cider vinegar, be sure
to check out a video I did right over here that teaches you everything you need to know
about apple cider vinegar - how to use it for weight loss, when to drink it, how much,
every detail you must know.
Let's talk about when to drink it. Cause there's some options here. And with these options,
it doesn't mean that you need to drink it at all of those options, it basically means…