What Does OLIVE OIL Do for Your Body？｜ DrEricBergDC

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so what does olive oil do for your body

that’s what we’re going to talk about

today now for many years I consumed

olive oil but I had no idea it wasn’t

the real olive oil it was the fake stuff

it’s very Bland it created no

um itchiness in the back part of my

throat like real olive oil does so it

wasn’t until I went to Italy where I

visited a farm where they actually make

olive oil the real stuff the extra

virgin olive oil and that was this uh

farm right here I don’t know if you can

see it San Michelle a Tory so this was

an amazing experience because

I was blown away at how they really take

care of the soil and the process of

making this and everything is cold uh

pressed and extracted without any type

of solvents and chemicals and so after

that experience I was hooked on olive

oil I consume a lot of olive oil so the

question is what does olive oil do to

the body and what’s in the olive oil

that creates these effects we have

antioxidant effects we have

anti-inflammatory effects for arthritis

inflammation in the arteries we have all

sorts of cardiovascular benefits

decreasing blood pressure there’s a lot

of nerve and brain effects for your

cognitive function memory and mood as

well as anti-cancer effects there’s

amazing effects for the skin and even

effects on your eyes so is it the fat

okay because what’s unique about olive

oil is the high concentration of

monounsaturated fat now you might say

well okay so it’s not saturated fat so

it must be healthy because it’s a

monounsaturated fat and eighty percent

of olive oil is monounsaturated fat but

that is not where you’re getting the

benefit okay I mean it also has a little

bit of vitamin E it has vitamin K1 but

that’s not where you’re seeing the big

benefits all of the therapeutic benefits

of this stuff occur because of a group

of plant chemicals they’re called

polyphenols okay poly means many in

phenols is a word to describe a certain

chemistry or a chemical that is from the

plant it’s from the fruit of the Olive

Tree the actual Olive so what specific

polyphenol does all the magic all we

know is that these polyphenols from

plants which are developed as a defense

mechanism uh produce a lot of cool

effects on our bodies especially in

preventing the complications from

chronic disease oxidative stress that

destroys our certain cells and there’s a

couple things about polyphenols that

like to share with you number one they

are made from a group of amino acids

what’s unique about these aromatic amino

acids is they follow a very specific

chemical

pathway which is called the shikimate

pathway so this amino acid pathway

involving enzymes basically converts

these amino acids to polyphenols and our

body doesn’t use this pathway but plants

and microbes do and this is how Monsanto

came up with the glyphosate the

herbicide okay that is also classified

as an antibiotic that blocks this

pathway so it blocks the microbe as well

as the plant’s ability to utilize or

produce these amino acids so there’s no

conversion to these polyphenols so the

more glyphosate something has

the less of these phytochemicals that

they’re the plant’s going to create and

the less the microbe can make these

amino acids this is why especially if

you’re going to get olive oil you need

to do organic because all of the

benefits from olive oil occur if you

have the polyphenols and if you don’t

chances are you’re not going to have the

benefits now this is a pathway also is

involved in making dopamine

noradrenaline

the thyroid hormones

serotonin

melatonin it probably explains why a lot

of people have problems with sleep the

thyroid their mood when they’re exposed

to glyphosate so there’s more and more

research that is showing up relating to

this affecting the your gut microbiome

creating

GI problems creating metabolic problems

but what I find interesting is that the

polyphenols are dependent upon those

aromatic amino acid turning into these

phytochemicals that give you the benefit

the other thing that I want you to know

about polyphenols is that they’re a

little bit difficult to digest and

absorb by your own body so your own

microbes are actually involved in

breaking them down so they can be

absorbed and the third thing I want you

to know there are polyphenols and a lot

of other phytonutrients in your salad

that you put this on and the absorption

is also dependent on if there’s fat

present and so that monounsaturated oil

fat that’s in here will greatly help you

extract these other phytonutrients from

the salad so in my salads which I

consume every day I use extroversion

olive oil I use balsamic vinaigrette

and sometimes I’ll use different spices

as well so regarding olive oil don’t go

for just the cheap stuff that could be

fake to really know it’s real just the

smell of it as well as what it does to

the back of the throat it’ll irritate

the back of the throat that means it has

those phytonutrients it is too mild or

Bland it’s not the real stuff and the

last thing you need to know is always

make sure you do the organic uh extra

virgin olive oil to avoid any type of

extra glyphosate that could end up in a

product since we’re on the topic of

olive oil if you haven’t seen my other