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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