Video

Transcript

hey guys dr. Berg here in this video we’re  going to talk about the amazing avocado I love  

avocados I consume tons of them and they’re  great for the ketogenic diet because they’re  

high in fat very low in carb hardly any sugar  at all but check this out they have double the  

potassium two bananas it’s 800 milligrams per  cup loaded with vitamin C vitamin K vitamin E  

and it even has a pre vitamin A carotenoids which  basically will also turn into retinol which is an  

active form of vitamin A so because it’s a fat a vegetarian fat it has the fat-soluble vitamins  

okay now magnesium loaded with magnesium tons of  vitamin b5 which is good for the adrenal glands  

for recovery for energy for endurance but it’s  really good for the cardiovascular system and  

even though it has 10 times more Omega 6 versus  Omega 3 it’s still anti-inflammatory because let  

it normally Omega 6 is anti-inflammatory and  Omega 3 is anti-inflammatory and this is just  

kind of reverse it’s loaded with something called  phytosterols which is a different type of certain  

fats that help with inflammation so it will  help with inflammation arthritis things like  

that but what’s interesting about the avocado is  it enhances the absorption of the pre vitamin A  

even from other foods so if you have carrots or  other types of like spinach or kale it’s going  

to increase the absorption because it’s mostly  fat of those vital pre vitamin A in addition to  

that it will help you convert that carotenoid  was just pre vitamin A to retinol which is the  

active form of vitamin A so for my understanding  the avocados are the only vegetables that will  

enhance the conversion of the pre-and to actual  vitamin A so that way you get to division a good  

vision you have good skin a good immune system  things like that so I highly recommend consuming  

a lot more avocados in your diet and I’m going to  show you look just a quick little clip of what I  

do when I actually cut in kado to maximize the  nutrition okay so now here’s the thing most of  

the nutrition is a great concentration of  nutrition is right behind this shell the  

skin so what we want to do is we want to make  sure that we capture the nutrition so you just  

cut it like this and then what you do is you  take the skin and you peel it off like so okay

that’s a little secret so then you could  basically now cut this and go ahead and eat  

it but we want this part right here and if  you scoop it out it’s not as good as doing  

this so you want to peel it right under peel  the skin right off so we just take this it’s  

real simple just peel this right off and then  do it like that all right all right have fun