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let’s talk about enzymes what would be

the number one symptom that you would

get if you were deficient in digestive

enzymes you’re really dealing with about

five different pieces of this puzzle

that you have to understand you have the

stomach you have the pancreas you have

the gallbladder even though the

gallbladder does not produce enzymes

it’s involved in enzymes and you have

the small intestine and you have the

large intestine so let’s start with the

stomach what enzymes does the stomach

produce well primarily one called pepsin

and pepsin has everything to do with

digesting protein

but the stomach also makes another

enzyme called lipase which can help you

break down fats but only um like a

backup if you don’t make it from other

organs we’ll talk about that but pepsin

is a very powerful

protein enzyme that helps you break down

protein and pepsin is activated by

hydrochloric acid in the stomach and one

of the big problems with you not having

enough of this enzyme is really not

having enough hydrochloric acid but

maybe you have acid in your stomach but

just the pH is not acid enough and if

you don’t have the acid you’re not going

to have the release of the enzyme and

you’re going to experience uh various

symptoms the number one symptom you’re

going to experience is indigestion and

then you’re going to get gas those are

the two primary ones but if you’re not

digesting protein okay because you don’t

have enough acid you’re going to have

all sorts of things that are going to

occur lower in the digestive tract for

example

that acid is also necessary to activate

the gallbladder to release bile and if

you don’t have that activation then we

don’t have enough bile and then we don’t

get the necessary detergent to help

extract the fat soluble nutrients from

the fat that you eat and then we have

undigested protein material that ends up

in the small intestine and now both the

pancreas and the small intestine have to

overcompensate and they have to produce

more enzymes to help break down this

material and many times this doesn’t

happen so you end up with all sorts of

issues with gas and bloating and

constipation all stemming from this lack

of acid that’s supposed to activate and

release the enzyme so typically in this

situation

a lot of people take

um pepsin but they don’t take the

hydrochloric acid that’s necessary to

activate it so it doesn’t really work

that well why are we not producing

hydrochloric acid it could be you’re

just getting older because as we age we

don’t produce enough hydrochloric acid

it could be because you’re taking

antacids that’s one big reason why you

don’t have enough acid because maybe you

have heartburn which by the way comes

from a lack of stomach acid in the first

place and that valve is not closing so

if the valve doesn’t closed you get

regurgitation you get GERD and you can

have a lot of problems as in acid reflux

which could also be caused from a lack

of vitamin B1 as well as a lack of

vitamin D so the first thing that I

would do if I had indigestion

gas is I would take betaine

hydrochloride retain hydrochloride is a

really good simple solution for

activating this enzyme in the stomach to

help you with protein digestion all

right let’s shift gears to the pancreas

okay

so if you don’t have the full function

of the pancreas you could have what’s

called pancreatic enzyme insufficiency

okay so you just don’t make enough

enzymes and the majority of enzymes for

digestion actually come from that

pancreas so this is very very important

the pancreas works like crazy to produce

enough enzymes to help you digest food

so based on what you’re chewing there’s

little signals get sent down to tell the

pancreas to get ready to digest whether

it’s fats proteins carbohydrates or

other things and so the pancreas has to

produce that in preparation for the food

that’s coming through and then depending

on how much acid you have in your

stomach is whether you’re going to

release enough bile

to help work to break down the fats

small enough

so the enzymes the lipase enzymes the

fat enzymes can act on this fat you see

if you don’t have enough bile to do the

big work then that lipase enzyme really

is going to have a hard time breaking

down that fat and then you end up with

undigested fat that goes through the

small intestine into the large bowel and

then that symptom which can come from a

pancreas problem is called stiatorea

okay which is undigested fat so you have

this large volume of stool very bad odor

sometimes it’s floating sometimes it

leaves skid marks the color could be

anywhere from light brown to pale to

Gray and that can be coming from a lack

of pancreatic enzymes or even a lack of

bile maybe you don’t have a gallbladder

maybe you have a bile deficiency maybe

you’re just not producing a bile but if

if you’re deficient in the enzymes

coming out of the pancreas you’re going

to have problems with the digestion of

fat you’re going to have bloating you’re

going to have abdominal pain and you’re

going to have a lack of fat soluble

vitamins

like vitamin A Vitamin K Vitamin E

vitamin D and you can have a lot of

different symptoms from that I almost

forgot to mention if there’s a problem

in the stomach and you don’t have enough

hydrochloric acid you can be deficient

in amino acids okay and that could be a

big issue with building your muscle and

you may just start losing weight and you

might feel weak now with the pancreas

one common cause of this enzyme

deficiency is pancreatitis

so what could cause that well there’s

some rare things like tumors certain

diseases like cystic fibrosis which is a

problem with certain fluids like

digestive fluids or juices like your

mucus in your lung but more commonly

okay what can happen is you have either

gallstones or gall bladder sludge okay

and this sludge is stuck in the pipes in

the bile ducts the bile duct as it comes

out through the liver kind of branches

over into the pancreas and the

gallbladder so if you have a stone or

sludge in these ducts it can back up not

just the gallbladder but the pancreas as

well and it can create all sorts of

inflammation and it’s a much more common

problem than other problems

and the solution is something called Tut

cup which is a type of bile salt that

can just open up those ducts because it

allows the sludge to open up and become

thinned okay and you can actually even

help to reduce skull stones with that

and the very reason why you have a

sludge in the first place is maybe

you’re on a low-fat diet maybe you’re

don’t have enough saturated fat in your

diet that actually activates this whole

thing maybe you’re eating too many carbs

increasing your insulin maybe uh it’s

from too much stress or you’re on

steroids for some reasons or you are on

birth control pills because too much

estrogen can create that problem now

another common problem with the pancreas

is that let’s say you have diabetes and

you have chronic diabetes and so you

have a big problem with the beta cell of

the pancreas well the pancreas both

produces hormones like insulin and

another hormone called glucagon but it

also half of it is all about enzymes so

being a diabetic can put a big strain on

the digestive part of that pancreas so

one of the best things to do if you know

you have a pancreatic problem is to take

pancreatic enzymes pancreatin is a group

of pancreatic enzymes you can take in a

supplement and that can take a huge

strain off your digestion and help you

and if you were to take that I would

also recommend you take betaine

hydrochloride to have the complete

package and probably wouldn’t hurt to

also take with that some ox bile so

let’s now shift gears to the gallbladder

the gallbladder is also going to help

you extract facil nutrients because the

bile that’s made by the liver and stored

in the gallbladder concentrates so every

time you eat it’s squeezed out and it’s

going to go into the small intestine and

help as a part of this digestive Synergy

between the stuff that’s coming out of

the stomach into the small intestine and

then the help from the pancreas that

lipase from the pancreas is like the

icing on the cake it helps to fully

break down that fat so you have to

complete digestion of fat and even

though the gallbladder doesn’t produce

enzymes it really contributes to these

other enzymes and it’s a really common

problem and a lot of people have a

problem with it a lot of people don’t

have enough bile some common symptoms of

that would be bloating belching and

burping not to mention a lack of fat

soluble nutrients vitamin A d e and K

but also you can notice a pain in your

right shoulder right through and here

that goes up into the neck or that wraps

around into like in the rhomboid area

and a fullness underneath your right rib

cage now let’s move right down to the

small intestine okay

ninety percent of all your digestion

occurs in the small intestine

your small intestine actually make

enzymes as well normally you’re not

supposed to have a lot of bacteria in

your small intestine compared to the

large intestine so primarily we want the

help from the enzymes and so depending

on what’s happening at the stomach level

and the pancreatic level and the

gallbladder is going to determine how

hard that small intestine has to

compensate or work or release these

enzymes so all these organs are working

in Synergy together now let’s just for

example say that you don’t have enough

strong stomach acid okay and that’s one

of your problems

well a lot of bacteria in the food can

get through because now it can’t be

killed because that’s one of the key

functions of of that acid to prevent uh

microbes from going through but now we

get these microbes that go through there

and they end up in a small intestine

where they shouldn’t be there

and also because we don’t get the

signaling from the gallbladder to

release bile salts so it’s both the acid

and the bile salts to act strongly on

that small intestine to ensure that

there’s not a lot of bacteria that grow

in that small intestine too and so now

we have an increase of bacteria in the

small intestine that can then reproduce

and grow and develop into what’s called

small intestinal bacterial overgrowth I

mean one function of bile salts is to

act as a detergent to kill off these

microbes in your small intestine and

then when you when it gets all the way

down to the last part of the small

intestine it gets reabsorbed and it

starts over again so it’s a really

important action to prevent sibo the

same thing with hydrochloric acid so now

we end up with this sibo what is the

problem with sibo small intestinal

bacterial overgrowth

wow you have bloating you have belching

you have abdominal pain and now you also

have competition from these microbes

that are hungry and they’re going to eat

a lot of your nutrition from your food

so you’re going to end up with all sorts

of nutritional deficiencies malnutrition

digestive issues and the fiber that you

eat is going to be fermented at the

wrong place in the small intestine

instead of the large intestine so now we

get a worsening problems when you have

your salads and you get worsening

problems with gas going down the other

end and we get worsening problems if you

take a probiotic because you’re adding

more bacteria so it becomes a big issue

how can we solve that well there are

certain tests that you can do to

identify if that’s your problem but the

solution is to start taking

retain hydrochloride to fix the stomach

the solution is to start taking some ox

bile to help with the gallbladder cut

down the amount of fiber that you

consume in fact I would do carnivore for

a while and also do routine intermittent

fasting and you can do also do other

things like you could take a natural

antibiotic like garlic for example that

would be something that can help kill

off these microbes it’s not going to be

as important as those two other actions

now what about the large intestine does

your large intestine produce enzymes and

the answer is no but the microbes the

Flora the microbiome do produce a lot of

different enzymes to help you with

digesting a lot of things especially

things that you can’t digest like fiber

so they’re working hard to digest this

and they also digest certain leftover

sugars and even leftover proteins if you

don’t have enough of the right microbes

the diversity this is where you get

diarrhea constipation and of course a

fatty stool that’s something that floats

it has a very bad odor and so the best

solution would be to fortify

the microbiome if you don’t have sibo

you can feed a wide variety of different

plant leaves or plants to help increase

that diversity you can also take a

probiotic which I would highly recommend

or consume fermented foods that have

probiotics of course only if you don’t

have sibo I hope that answers uh some of

the questions on your digestive tract

but this leads me to the next thing what

is the most underlying important thing

you can do to prevent all of these

issues and for that answer I put this

video up on just implementing the right

diet right here check it out