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hey guys dr. Berg here I wanted to touch on the difference between eating

raw vegetables and cooked vegetables first of all the purpose of eating

vegetables is to get the vitamins and the minerals that you need from a good

source okay now when something is raw vs. cooked the difference is raw has

enzymes in that vegetable enzymes are very very good for you and that helps

break down the food and it gives you great properties health properties but

the problem is that many people are missing the normal enzymes that the

pancreas are supposed to release to be able to digest some of these fibers in

the vegetable for example if I consume broccoli it will cause serious pain in

my intestinal tract I can consume cabbage all day long I

could do kale but broccoli for some reason tears me up so that’s not

necessarily an allergy it’s a missing enzyme that creates inflammation and

I’ll feel like I have a cramp for the next hour so it’s very

uncomfortable so what that means is that somehow along the line I had some damage

in my pancreas and I couldn’t I couldn’t generate those enzymes so that’s one one

thing but there’s other things too if your stomach has low acid and the way

you know your stomach has low acid is that you have indigestion like you eat

food it gets stuck there or you have acid reflux or you have GERD or you

might have constipation or bloating that means the acids are lower and if

the acids are lower it it we can’t create the triggering effect for the

release of enzymes from your pancreas so that could be the very reason why you’re

not releasing the enzymes because when I was in college grad school I was taking

the mega packs of Rolaids because I had heartburn that crazy little did I know

that was caused by not enough acid from all the stress that I was going through

but that’s something that you can if you actually just increase the pH of the

stomach acidify the stomach many times you can see a great benefit of the full

digestion of even vegetables so that’s something to look at the next thing is

that you have low good bacteria in your gut

if the bacteria by the way 90% of this friendly bacteria does most does the

digestion in the small intestine if you don’t have enough of that then you’re

going to get a lot of bloating and excess fermentation and rotting and all

sorts of problems but these microbes are the things that make enzymes for these

fibers in other words they live on fiber now if you’re not used to consuming kale

or a lot of other vegetables that you don’t normally eat like even broccoli or

cabbage maybe you have just like iceberg lettuce or spring green and then you

switch over you haven’t developed the enzymes yet and these microbes have to

grow and adapt to your foods over a slower period of time before you can

digest them so if you change over and you feel like you’re not losing way and

you feel bloated all that means is you’ve got to cut it back you’re not

ready to consume that many vegetables because that’s too much fiber for these

microbes to deal with now what I do is I have you go back to those vegetables

that you were consuming before and gradually introduce it until you can

achieve seven - you know 10 cups of vegetables but you have to sometimes

ease into it you can’t do it overnight the other thing you can do is you can

steam the vegetables or cook them that way you can break them down a little bit

more and it’s a lot easier on the system to digest and you still get the same

minerals you might not have all the vitamins but you still get the good

minerals that you need from these vegetables so that’s one way and then

also fermented vegetables like sauerkraut kimchi all these ferment

pickles those are really easy to digest because

the lactic acid from the bacteria in that they make that from has already

broke it down for you so you can consume with some of that and that will really

help your system but again some people can’t tolerate too much so what I like

to do go for some raw but try not to go too much to the point where you feel

bloated so you have to adjust that adjust the amount of raw vegetables

until you have no bloating okay and no side effects

but again we have to slowly go into this make sure you maybe increase your

acidity in your stomach maybe use a probiotic to start building up or just

start off slowly introducing over time so you can develop your own microbes and

your body can adapt to that situation okay so that’s the only point I want to

make between these two so go ahead and comment below and I’ll see in the next

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