Eric Bakker, naturopath.
Thanks for coming back.
Oil and fat.
You guys like that?
It's great stuff, isn't it?
I've talked a lot about different kinds of foods on this channel, but I haven't really
sort of gone specifically into talking about what is the best fat or oil for the digestive
health.
What do you guys think it is?
Would it be lard?
What would it be?
Would it be butter?
Would it be coconut oil?
What would it be?
Well, drum roll, it's olive oil, it's extra virgin olive oil, EVOO.
Okay.
Not virgin olive oil, not olive oil, but extra virgin olive oil.
Now the reason being, it has a much higher polyphenol content.
So polyphenols are basically antioxidants.
They're very small components of many different types of special foods or what I call the
A grade foods.
And the extra virgin olive oil, especially if you're going to get that real olive oil,
that's not counterfeit.
And then if you guys are in the states watching this, be careful because olive oil is one
of the most counterfeit of all products that you can buy currently because it's in such
high demand.
So you'll probably want to get onto the olive oil association or the council over there
and make sure that you buy a proper olive oil.
Because there's so much crap on the market, it's unbelievable.
You might as well be drinking sump oil with some of that stuff that you get at Walmart.
It's gross.
I bought some olive oils in the states and tried them.
Opened up the bottle and I could straight away smell it was rancid.
I knew it wasn't really good olive oil so I just binnedit.
So we're lucky in New Zealand because we have many olive oil plantations, especially here
where I am in this area and we get really, really nice olive oil straight off the press.
In fact, I live in a small town, [inaudible}.
We've actually got the village press here that actually press olives for people so if
you bring your olives here, they'll crush them.
So think about it.
You get an olive off the tree and you mash it up the fingers.
It's oily, it's greasy, it's got oil in it already.
Why would you want to drink corn oil for, or canola oil?
Canola oil's not even a plant.
So just be very, very careful with the kind of oils you're you're consuming because they
could wreck your gut health.
I'm not a fan of conventional teller or lard.
I would prefer that if you...
particularly lard, I think, is one of the best fats you can have.
These are very, very good also for the digestion.
But olive oil seems to really shine through.
The studies I've looked at, the studies that were conducted in Spain and in Greece many
years ago.
There's no doubt about it.
Olive oil has a very interesting effect also on the microbiota.
The study was conducted in February in 2018 in a university.
I believe it was in Spain, where they looked at rats and mice, different animals, and they
looked at the effects of oils on their gut.
And they found olive oil was significantly better on the microbiota then butter was.
Butter behaves differently in the guts than the oil did.
Butter for a long time has been seen as not bad.
Now it's being accepted as not a bad fat, but it still does not have the specific effect
on the bacteria in the gut that olive oil is shown to have.
So this could be a big part of the Mediterranean myth or the Mediterranean diet, on why people
are living so long in these areas.
If you look how much olive oil they consume, it's ridiculous.
The average American will consume about a liter per year.
Whereas people who live in Spain and Greece and Italy consume over 13 liters per year.
So this could also be one of the reasons why this Mediterranean diet thing really rings
true for so many people.
It's the sheer quantity of olive oil they consume.
So think about extra virgin olive oil and to include some of that in your diet.
There are different types you can try out.
So olive oil's like wine.
You've got some that are peppery and you've got some that are a little bit sweeter.
You have to try them out.
I've got about 10 different olive oils in my kitchen that I use regularly from different
types of olive.
Barnea and for example.
Barnea and I'm just trying to think...
Kalamata and there are so many olives and each olive can produce quite a unique oil.
So you need to try them all out for yourself and like wine or anything you eat or drink,
the flavor is very individual.
But pick one that you like and definitely consume more olive oil.
Don't forget to click on the link in the description box regarding my candida shopping list and
you'll note the oils are on there as well.
And I talk about olive oil on that list.
Thanks for tuning in.