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
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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