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hey guys I’m back it’s Wednesday night

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in the world we have a lot of callers

today I wanted to try a different time

zone to see if that works

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alright great so we’re going to take the

first caller Vanessa you’re on the air

you’re from California go ahead good

evening dr. burr thank you for taking my

call I have got two type of questions

one is a thyroid that which has been

removed about 10 years ago and the lady

is about her early 30s right now and she

had was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease

like in about 20 years ago so basically

she’s really went through the

readmission and then her thyroid was

removed 10 years after that and the last

few years she’s actually went get away

about 10 pounds and I think she’s at I

Roy type of person and in adrenal please

give us eyes on that and the do’s and

don’ts and also the testicular cancer

post surgery which is about two months

ago a male kind of a slim body type only

30 as well please say button on the do

and don’t of this to individual sure

Vanessa let me just give you some tips

because it’s a lot of questions but

here’s the thing non-hodgkins lymphoma

it’s on the rise it’s going spiking up

it’s actually quite high and there’s

been some links to some interesting

things in the environment specifically

glyphosate yeah that’s that in the GMO

so it’s kind of day coincidence with the

spike and I if you search some of the

class action suits you’ll get a lot of

data on this and they did all the

research they compiled it so if that’s

the case then what you’d want to do is

make sure these people that got cancer

because the immune system is now weak

they need to go completely 100 percent

organic

to make sure there’s no more GMOs in the

food they need to make sure that they do

a lot of cruciferous vegetables because

the liver needs to detoxify cruciferous

stimulates enzymes in the liver it gives

the liver enzymes and it stimulates the

liver to make enzymes in the process of

converting these poisons to harmless

particles it’s called phase 1 phase 2

detoxification so allows the whole

process to convert a fat-soluble poison

to a harmless particle that’s

water-soluble so that’s why you want to

every every day I would consume some

type of cruciferous whether it’s a kale

shake Brussels sprouts radishes really

important and that’s what I would do as

far as the thyroid if you have it

removed what happens now is that you’re

going to have to be on medication you

know thyroid hormones that the thing

that I would look at is make sure the

gallbladder is working good because

there’s a gallbladder problem we have

the gallbladder removed you might have a

hard time converting t4 to t3 in which

case you need to take some bile salts to

allow that thyroid to work better so

that’s pretty much the answer I would

give you a Vanessa thanks for your

question hey George you’re from Turin

Toronto go ahead you’re on the air

good evening got the word thank you for

taking my call and I just wanted to say

thank you thank you thank you for

everything you do in your videos much

appreciated I lost 40 pounds I’m five

months on keto get adopted kale shake

every day intermittent fasting your

supplements as well my question is hair

and nails doesn’t want to improve so

much in so fast is there something I can

do to speed up this process I our

curiosity are you taking the hair

formula I just ordered it okay um other

than that is a lot of greens not a lot

of protein no sugar no alcohol nothing

else okay so let’s talk about the hair

there’s two mainly in men it’s high

levels of DHT which is a powerful form

of testosterone that burns that out

there’s a called an enzyme inhibitor

that I’m not going to get into the

technical name but there’s something

that you can take the slow down the

process of DHT building up in the body

that it’s called stinging nettle root

that is in the hair formula in addition

to a lot of other nutrients we’ve got

the trace minerals you have the B

vitamins biotin we also have horse tail

which gives you silica and also actual

protein itself a certain type of

collagen that builds up the hair I think

to speed up the process I would go out

and get some stinging nettle root in

higher dosages that will help because in

men it’ll actually kill two birds one

stone it’ll actually help the hair and

also help the prostate I would do that

typically if you’re on the ketogenic

diet and you lose your hair which or you

start getting hair loss all that means

is you need to also include intermittent

fasting with that and that should clear

it right up in fact the people that I

know that are doing in a minute fasting

with the ketosis it really accelerates

the hair growth because you’re you’re

increasing growth hormones which is

building up more proteins and you’re not

breaking them down and so you’re

reducing insulin which is an underlying

inflammatory condition so that’s what I

would try George but thanks for your

call and thanks for your lovely words

Majestic you are from Virginia right

down the street yes I am you hear me

thank you so much for stopping my calls

yeah I can hear you fine I am decided to

do intermittent fasting from watching

some of your videos on YouTube and I

just have quick yes and those for food

um one is butter huh

okay um it’s totally fine make sure it’s

grass-fed Carrie gold might work

for ya okay maple syrup maple syrup

that’s a no but if you go on my blog I

have a recipe for maple syrup that you

can

consume cool pancakes I have a recipe

for that to go on the go my blogging go

into the video blog and then click under

recipes because I I just looked at to

today and I was like I have a lot of

recipes on there waffles pancakes

everything okay what about vivia it’s a

drink that is sweetened with stevia

totally fun it’s like a carving yeah

good that’s good

totally fine okay this is the most this

is the biggie right here what type of

salad dressing because like I can eat

dressing all day long but what type of

salad dressing can I um the best thing

to do is make your own we have recipes

for that too but here’s here’s what I

use and I use um I go to the grocery

store and I did a video on this so you

could find this as well and I just

basically looked at the label 95% of

them are made from soy or canola if

they’re not organic

they are GMO most definitely so you’re

gonna have to find it’s going to be like

a small percentage of salad dressings

that are made with sunflower oil or

avocado oil or olive oil those are the

ones that you buy I don’t have a

specific brand because sometimes it I’ll

see it then it’s gone because a lot of

people are not buying it but that is the

problem just find one without the soy

corn or canola okay what about the sugar

content in them yeah you want to get one

without sugar as well that’s a given you

absolutely just look at the actual sugar

grams and make sure it’s below like 1 1

or less okay 1 or less ok now the

vitamins because you take in

electrolytes I have everything that you

think it can I take those during the

fasting period you are doing totally fun

the only thing that could knock you out

of ketosis a little bit is excessive

amounts of bone broth because it’s a

protein sometimes l-glutamine which is

the amino acid sometimes branch amino

acids will do it so anything amino acid

could bump you out it’s not a big

problem because it’s only temporary it’s

just a small amount but just so you know

if you’re testing your urine and go wow

I’m now I’m out of ketosis don’t don’t

freak out it’s probably just something

like that okay what about dear

she even theory now the thing about

dairy is that I’m going to do a complete

video on that you have certain cheese

that have has a lot of lactose in it and

so you just have to get more hard

cheeses definitely grass-fed cheese’s

I like the fattier cheeses the cream

cheese sour cream I like also the brie

cheeses those are higher in fat lower

and lactose so if you get yogurt for

example it’s very high in lactose and

also even some of the keepers are higher

in sugar so what I would do is I would

stick with the hard cheeses or soft

cheeses but if you look at some of the

traditional cheeses that they show you

the sugar content that’s probably the

lactose it’s pretty high but typically I

wouldn’t worry about it just some people

can do a lot of cheese some people it

binds them up it can knock them out of

ketosis possibly because they have an

allergy to either lactose which a lot of

people have or casein which is the

protein in milk I I’m from Wisconsin I

like cheese I eat a lot of cheese it

doesn’t seem to bother me at all and

it’s a really good fattier protein to

consume at the end of meal so it’s kind

of a wild variable when you get into

cheese’s but I’m going to do a complete

video on that good okay now watch that

and lastly I guess we buy apple juice

not from concentrate and it has only

apples and absorbing accident is that

okay no because that’s pure sugar that

will totally block your ketosis

completely no juices you know fruit

juices but I think I know your last

question though no fruit no fruit zero

all right yeah okay thank you so much

okay good I was trying to predict your

last question but I don’t think I did

but okay good so Dave you’re on the air

from Austin Texas

yeah hi thank you for taking the call

and I really enjoyed your video short

excellent teacher oh thanks um you’re

welcome you are very likeable good job

doctor

I have a question about DHT I read pro

and con on olive oil and coconut oil and

I’d like to know your cake on him in

relationship to DHT yeah okay you know I

looked at that too and honestly there’s

the some people that are against it that

said it will increase DHT our it’s play

it’s an arbitrary of someone’s opinion

I’ve never found an actual study that

they based it off of or any type of

physiology books that will state that I

think they’re totally fine I do not

think they increase DHT at all so I

would not worry about it at all but I

think one of my favorite things there’s

two things that will actually lower DHT

in the body if you have too much of it

well there’s a lot of them but the one

that the one that’s common is the

stinging nettle root but number two is

mushrooms button mushrooms so well that

that actually will convert it’ll

actually improve it lowers DHT and it

frees up more free testosterone so just

happens to be kind of a something you

can get anywhere terrific okay thanks

very much

hey thanks Dave let’s see it’s a sauna

you are from California go ahead you’re

on the air okay dr. burr good evening hi

I am yeah I’m so actually I am 41 years

and 112 pounds

I am adrenal tight and I started ketosis

a year back and lost 22 pounds in 3

months so but the problem here is my

total cholesterol is 394 which has gone

up then a year before and LDL is 340 HDL

is 73 and triglyceride is 37 which have

improved also and I take all the

vitamins d3 k 2 wheatgrass and fish oil

and all so my question is it normal to

have that high cholesterol and LDL as I

have family history of heart attacks on

my mom’s side or should I change my diet

or add something to lower my cholesterol

so doctor this suspect it is tramadol

hyperlipidemia

and my another question is I have pain

in my joint when I sit for very long so

how can I fix that one I already take

phospholipid so that was my question

yeah thank you yeah fast food liquid is

a phosphorus that actually helps to free

up calcium deposits so I have a question

for you are you doing intermittent

fasting yet yeah okay yeah okay I do so

um so I think what for inflammation you

could go get some stinging nettle root

that’s a great anti-inflammatory but

here’s that here’s the thing that I want

to talk about I created a video recently

on LDL what happens is that first of all

when you burn fat cells

you can’t get rid of fat cells you’re

just taking the the triglycerides and

some cholesterol in the fat cells and

you’re using them up for energy so the

fat cells are shrinking right so as the

triglycerides come out you’re burning

those up as fuel but the cholesterol

that’s coming out is not burned as fuel

so when you’re in ketosis or

intermittent fasting all this

cholesterol that’s been stored in the

fat cell where’s it going to go it has

to come out and it has to go through the

circle circular has to come to the liver

and it has to come out to the

gallbladder so you have to just make

sure that you’re keeping your vegetables

very very high if your LDL so called bad

cholesterol is high it might not be a

problem it’s usually not a problem

because there’s two types there’s Type A

which is the large buoyant fluffy type

of cholesterol which is not a problem

and there is Type B which is the dense

smaller type cholesterol which which is

involved in more of the the plaquing

formation and it’s just kind of like

it’s and it’s the result of something

it’s not the cause of it’s just it’s it

means that there’s a problem so if your

LDL is high how do you know which one it

is because they don’t tell you unless

you do a more sophisticated test what

you do is you look at your triglycerides

and your HDL if your triglycerides or

HDL

are normal or your triglycerides are

lower like normal or low and your

triglyceride cholesterol is normal or

high then you don’t have to worry about

it because you have more type-a LDL and

that means that all this cholesterol is

just coming out through the body and

coming out to the liver and it’s not

being a problem at all even if your

cholesterol is high now if you are

really concerned go get a genetic test

to see if you have a genetic problem

with cholesterol if that’s the case then

you’re going to have to maybe take red

yeast or you know maybe not take extra

cholesterol and really take more outside

vinegar and more vegetables but I bet

you that’s not the problem because most

I mean it’s kind of it’s more rare to

have a genetic problem with cholesterol

and and this is the thing that people

just need to know and understand HDL is

like it’s going to be high as you’re

burning fat and it’s coming out to the

body and look at the other factors are

you feeling better are you sleeping

better but that’s what I would check and

if you really are concerned then you

just go get a test to check your a and B

to really get the specific type of LDL

that you’re running into but watch my

video on that as well all right good

question hey Christine you’re on you’re

from New York go ahead you’re on the air

oh my god your honor me yeah hi oh okay

um yeah I I’ve been doing internet

fashion keto for many years I’m type of

thyroid I went from 30 something’s down

to 10 I’m taking all my thyroid but now

I heard that has wheat in it or

something maybe I should be taking that

but anyway

I’m losing about a living weight I’ve

lost 30 pounds since January Wow yeah

but I I know you say wow but like I I

fast for three days like I eat 500

calories a day

why am I losing okay I see so your since

January right oh no tired I can’t lie

there sighs I quit myself yeah so I’ve

seen I have some questions

Christine farmer thyroid yeah you have a

thyroid in conjunction with these other

issues can you hear me now okay so you

can’t hear me but I’m going to answer

this question you got a once the thyroid

is a problem everything is really slow

like the metabolism is going to be

really slow so I think what you’re doing

is a more of a low-calorie diet because

500 calories a day is not enough and

that is going to cause your metabolism

to slow down even more so the difference

between ketogenic a ketogenic diet

element fasting and a starvation diet or

a low calorie diet is that you’re when

you in a minute fasting you’re even

though you’re doing it you’re doing less

meals you’re still having the quantity

of calories to fulfill the nutrient

amounts and that’s what you’re missing

so you probably want to go to one meal a

day but make sure it’s a big meal not a

500 calorie small meal or else you’re

going to be tired because your body is

just doesn’t have the nutrients to

survive so the other thing that that you

may want to do is really beef up your B

vitamins because that usually is

required when you go through ketosis but

I think you’re tired because you’re not

having enough calories but you need to

make sure those are quality calories

okay

all right hey George you’re on the air

you’re from Columbia British Columbia

yes thank you

what thanks for having the show on a

different day it’s good okay

I’m calling on Friday so what I want to

know is if you’re drinking a lot of

apple cider vinegar mixture with water

can you also take supplements with that

at the same time like say and and do you

have to take that’s sort of one question

and the other one just supplements in

general like but also NAC do you take

that with food or without there seems to

be some kind of like mixed information

out there

yeah NAC is really good to repair the

liver after someone’s taken steroids or

damaged liver that one I like to take

that one alone but you can take it when

you’re fasting and you can take it with

other supplements but I’m talking about

like not with food as far as apple cider

vinegar you can take that with all your

supplements it’s not a problem at all

you can just combine it all and just get

it over with

are you from what part of British

Columbia are you from I’m calling from

Kelowna okay yeah that’s beautiful over

there wait I actually used to practice

in Lynnwood Washington and go up there

and it’s just gorgeous up there it rains

a lot but it’s that’s why it’s so green

yeah yeah well it certainly rains a lot

down near Vancouver and stuff not so

much in Kelowna but um oh yeah you moved

from Lily

why’d you do that watching me because I

couldn’t handle the rain it rained

almost every day and I was like you know

what I just can’t take this so then I

moved to California and to dry out for a

while then I mentioned it to San Diego

okay cool

one more question about Coleen it okay

so there’s a desert supplements for the

liver right and so you got choline mixed

with in inositol I have that supplement

and it says on there to not take it with

them in relation to other mineral

supplements because there’s a thing

called by something or other that

interferes with mineral absorption or

something like that have you heard of

that yeah it’s a it’s a very minor point

it’s almost like insignificant it’s just

it’s so minor I would not worry about it

but inositol and choline are great for a

fatty liver and yeah I wouldn’t even

worry about that it’s a very minor point

so how long will it take for the NAC

thing to work on the fatty liver it’s

very very subtle it’s very slow and

subtle the one that’s going to probably

make the biggest difference George is

the choline taking a good amount of

choline over a period of time and I mean

you know you have the liver the fat can

come off and maybe three or four months

depending on

that you have I mean if it’s a lot it

could take a lot longer but to repair

all the other damage and liver it could

take several years it’s a long-term

project yeah and and and Farrah pepper

taste is that you know is that good for

the fatty liver thing - yeah well no

that syrup pepper taste is a very

powerful enzyme that breaks down scar

tissue unwanted scar tissue especially

cirrhosis that’s what that’s going to do

it’s going to clean that up

pretty nice I like it that’s the one

that you have to take on an empty

stomach because it’s a it’s a powerful

Pro protein enzyme so if you take it

with food it’ll just digest your protein

okay but can you take look Sarah peppe’s

can you take that long-term because on

yeah on some of the bottles it’ll say

you know don’t take it for beyond seven

days without a doctor at all now that’s

just it’s just a disclaimer you can take

it long-term it cleans out cleans that a

lot of scar tissue from the body

unwanted scar tissue and your metrio

sees everything

thanks George doing the right thing yeah

you’re doing the right thing liver yeah

okay thank you you’re welcome thank you

very much sure hey Matthew you’re from

Florida go ahead you’re on the air hey

yeah I have about a couple like three

quick questions

that’s what am I really fast is it okay

spaghetti squash Kolya only is good all

the scholars are really good yeah I

think what was happening is when I first

started your knife first five or six

months I felt better but I still felt

kind of weird and I was blaming it on

the spaghetti squash and a new stevia

that I was using the number one

ingredient is maltodextrin why I think

that is it possible yes I was doing

listen listen multi dextran has a

glycemic index of a hundred and ten it

is way higher than mean table Sugar’s

like I think it’s 64 so you got the most

the highest glycemic index you want to

bump someone out of ketosis take some

with multi dextran that’s why when I

made my electrolyte formula they wanted

to put the manufacturer we wanted to put

multi dextran I’m like no and I said why

do you want to put that in there well we

do it for everyone I’m like no no you’re

not going to put it in mind I’m not

going to touch the stuff it’s it is like

serious like glycemic response yeah yeah

well I’ve stopped doing it and for the

past couple two months now since I’ve

stopped I’ve like quickly and I feel

much better way more energy so

definitely messing up and it seems like

all the cleaners have it even the ones

that like stevia in the raw you think

it’s going to be pure CVI it’s

maltodextrin yeah yeah well you use it

as a kind of an agent to when they put

it anything like enough powder they have

to use it but I there’s there’s ones out

there that don’t have it you’re just

going to have to search and find them

but I know you mean I hate them yeah I

get it now I think most people are on

there doing what you want to what you’re

telling them but they don’t realize that

they’re putting maltodextrin because

everything is in it it’s another video

is it paid on do any kind of

weightlifting you’re trying to fix

adrenal fatigue well the weight lifting

is totally fine the key with if you have

adrenal fatigue is you want to do a

small amounts of it and give you got

your body a sense of rest and then

alternate days go for long long walks

but you can do heavy weights with

adrenal as long as you give your bought

just do it short like probably 15

minutes and then you like do it every

other day or every third day okay Ryan

it’s a quick question I don’t know this

was before though I haven’t napped in a

while but usually whenever I wake up

from my nap I feel horrible like my

whole body will feel hot and I’ll just

still look just gross it’ll take me a

couple hours I’ll take a cold shower and

what can that be from is that just like

a hypoglycemia thing that’s more of a

beautiful it’s a B vitamin deficiency I

would start taking more nutritional

yeast on that that should clean out the

clean out the pipes okay okay thanks

Matthew appreciate the question you very

much hey Betty you’re from California go

ahead you’re on the air hi dr. Berg I

just love your channel thank you so much

for taking my call I just had a really

quick question there was a custom O’Neal

you did a while ago

so with a lot of she was a from Poland

I think this key : and he did

weightlifting and he managed to lose

like 35 pounds over like two and a half

three years and the drink one of the

things he did he said he was doing was

he was drinking apple cider vinegar

lemon juice stevia and creatine and my

question is what kind of creatine do you

recommend there’s a lot out there and

some are apparently better than other

you know I I don’t want to spoil it but

I have a video that’s going to be

released this could be next Wednesday or

Thursday on creatine that talks about

the different kinds but I don’t have a

brand name but you can have to just find

it so why don’t you stay tuned for that

one you just can you know they’re all

very similar they’re not that different

but if you want a higher quality I cover

that in the video so stay tuned for that

specific video because that’s more of an

involved question because there’s like

four or five different kinds okay

excellent

good looking I’ll wait until next week

yeah great well thank you so much thanks

Betty

okay cable bike hey Christine you’re on

the earlier from Florida go ahead hi dr.

Burke how are you good thanks I am

calling in regard to my cholesterol I

have been doing keto for probably about

eight months and since the beginning of

this year I’ve been doing intermittent

fasting along with it I am diabetic and

I get my labs done every three months my

my total cholesterol in January before I

was doing the intermittent fasting and I

wasn’t that deep into the ketosis but it

was a hundred and fifty in April it

jumped to 324 so I had a pretty

significant jump my LDL went

excuse me from 76 in January two to four

in April I’ve been told that it’s likely

that I have a genetic predisposition to

high cholesterol and I’m wondering I

know you touched on this to an earlier

caller if this could be related to just

the cycle of the cholesterol until

everything gets cleaned out so so how

does your triglycerides though

triglycerides went from 211 in January

to to 24 in April okay okay

and what about your HDL I’m sorry your

HDL what was your cart okay what about

your HDL my of course it’s breaking up

now I can’t hear it I want to know

Christine here’s I know you’re breaking

up but I can’t hear you but here’s what

I would like you to do Christine I want

you to get a genetic test to see if

that’s it okay if it’s not genetic

then we know it’s it’s going to be good

but if your if your triglycerides are

going a little higher then that is a

little problem but let’s go to a quick

break and I’ll be right back

call the show now at eight six six five

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two and now dr. Berg hey guys I am back

over here on the board a little

technical difficulties we’re going to

handle that we have fiber coming being

put in here so that will completely

utterly solve it we just had an internet

disconnection but while we’re here I

want to talk about the last question

that that other person had about the LD

L okay so very simply you have the liver

over here and then you have the artery

and all the cells over here LDL is the

cholesterol coming into the arteries

okay and into the cells so it delivers

cholesterol into the cells and the

purpose of cholesterol is to act as a

band-aid to help heal to provide for raw

material for hormones stare like steroid

hormones like your sex hormones cortisol

so you can have more anti-inflammatory

hormones more stress fighting hormones

all that so and that’s why when you’re

under stress this goes up okay so it

goes in there and it’s going in there to

try to patch up little holes in the

arteries which are already there as a

result of either a low vitamin C

deficiency deficiency or high insulin so

you can have low vitamin C that creates

these lesions which are like leaky

little holes and that can come from low

vitamin C junk foods it can also come

from high levels of insulin why because

insulin even like in a diabetic it

destroys the cells it destroys the eyes

destroys the nervous system stressed

part of the brain called the hippocampus

which then you’re a your ability to

locate yourself in time and space is

destroyed because you can’t find you

know the worst ward I park that type of

thing so high levels of

insulin or insulin resistance so then

the LDL comes in there as a by-product

or a secondary effect to try to help

heal this thing

so then HDL is the cholesterol coming

back to the liver to be recycled you

realize that your body your body

recycles a lot of the cholesterol so it

needs the cholesterol it considers it

important people are attacking the

cholesterol is a problem so here’s the

thing when you actually start to

increase your ketosis you have the fat

cells which are composed of

triglycerides and cholesterol so you’re

going to basically burn up that

triglyceride but cholesterol is not

burned it’s not used as fuel so now as

your fat cells become smaller where’s

all that cholesterol going to go it has

to come out through the body and that’s

why when you when someone goes on a low

carbohydrate diet if you look under a

book it’s called Guyton’s physiology the

book on textbook of how the body works

there’s a chapter on insulin and it

talks about one of the side effects of a

low carbohydrate diet is a fatty liver

well that’s only because they’re not

consuming enough of the other like the

vegetable factors to start cleaning all

this cholesterol out so anytime you’re

burning fat think about this your

gallbladder has to now handle and

dismantle and get rid of the excess so

what you want to do is you want to

consume a lot of vegetables you can kill

two birds with one stone you can

actually flush out all the all the

excess cholesterol that needs to be

gotten rid of any excess fat and also

keeps your gallbladder and liver clean

oh and that’s it can increase the

potassium Reserve because you need

potassium to actually heal the cells

especially with the insulin dysfunction

or insulin resistance so potassium is

essential you get it from the vegetables

so the vegetable is really a vital piece

I do not recommend doing a ketogenic

diet without vegetables okay so when you

do high ketones

you’re going to end up with a lot of fat

coming out of the body a lot of

cholesterol might come up temporarily

and then because a lot of that is the

LDL that’s going to go high so like I

was mentioning before there’s two types

of LDL there’s pattern a and there’s

pattern B a is the is the fluffy buoyant

large particles B is the small particles

and this is the stuff right here B is

the stuff that’s involved in this

reaction with the the lining of the

arteries okay so if you have too much of

B then that tells me there’s a problem

if you have a then there’s not a problem

the problem is when you measure your LDL

they don’t differentiate is that a or is

it B okay so how do you know you have to

look at the triglycerides the

triglycerides if they’re high then that

means it’s chances are it’s higher on

the B okay and if your HDL is low then

it’s B but your triglycerides are lower

and your HDL is higher or these are

normal then it’s it’s an A and it’s not

a problem so here you are you have high

LDL but it’s not a it’s not a problem

it’s actually your body is just doing

its thing and if you come in there and

try to lower it with some drug now so

now you actually cut off the production

of cholesterol systemically through the

whole body and that’s going to create a

problem for a lot of things you realize

that there’s more side effects from low

cholesterol than there is from high

cholesterol and even overall death rates

people die from low cholesterol you know

just even if they were to die from high

cholesterol and that has to do with them

you get other problems with the immune

system you’re more susceptible to cancer

if it’s low cholesterol I did a whole

video on low cholesterol so the key the

key is when you do ketosis we want to

add in a minute fasting

to really bring down that insulin okay

that’ll just that’ll put the icing on

the cake now I shouldn’t talk about cake

and then you want to add a lot of

vegetables to make it even better and

then we want to also add apple cider

vinegar okay so that’s going to really

help dissolve that so so we’re going to

go back and take a call I think it’s

working now and let me just come back

over here all right all right so we’re

going to take a call let’s see hello

you’re on the air three dr. Birgit

Manish I follow all your videos money

from California oh hi nice meeting

washed out so you had a question so you

might Manish from California yeah

go ahead you’re on the air oh you have

to turn on your radio or your you’re off

like whatever I’m getting some feedback

okay how long is it better now yeah it’s

better now okay so yes I’ve been

following all your videos and I’ve been

following on your advice and I’ve you

know tried paleo for about five years

and probably tried a serious or it

ketosis for about a year the results are

pretty good lost out of weight I guess I

have a three-part question I’ll start

with a very sore the short one for the

short one is the the wheatgrass juice

powder which I have from you could you

like for everybody’s benefit tell how

much potassium there isn’t just for our

calculation to you know make sure we get

the entire potassium intake in the day

that’s number one okay let me answer

maybe perhaps let me answer that first

okay so it has a lot of it has like 300

milligrams per a potassium per scooper

or teaspoon so I mean it’s not it

doesn’t compare to my electrolyte powder

which is a thousand but it has a lot of

other fat

Jews that go beyond even nutrition it

has to do with growth factors that

actually help internal healing of skin

all the internal lining of skin is

affected by that wheatgrass like if you

have like an ulcer if you have some type

of heat a lack of healing it’s so does a

lot of very amazing things that I can’t

actually make a claim but I see it

happening all day long I would love to

tell everyone but I’ll just say this

that it actually is it has a growth

factor that goes beyond where nutrition

that actually actually helps the

internal lining of the sinuses esophagus

your colon from from start to finish

go ahead second question you had okay

great so the second question is perhaps

maybe it may be a little bit more

details or perhaps if you could do a

video and it’ll some time later is

something that we don’t normally talk

about on your channel is how do you act

and if it’s even possible is how do you

as a male how do you actually gain

muscle on the ketogenic diet because

it’s great for losing weight I actually

find it very easy to lose weight and in

fact I almost get worried at the rate I

lose weight and you know it’s almost

it’s almost good that I feel it’s mostly

fat but at the same time I I do want to

I do have a goal to put on it um good

little bit more muscle so maybe so

here’s what I want to do I want to

answer that one question because we have

a lot of other questions too because I

have to get to every one but here’s the

thing if you want to put on more muscle

mass yes ketogenic diets intermittent

fasting together will help improve

growth hormone considerably but you’re

going to have to do some type of heavy

heavier weights to put on muscle mass

because you just can’t you see the the

the weight training is the activation of

the muscle hypertrophy that’s what

you’re missing so that’s what you need

to do I would get a personal trainer

that knows what they’re doing and do

higher weights lower reps to activate

this you’re not going to build muscle

mass by jogging even though I do that

and it’s healthy but you’re going to do

heavy

and get someone that to help you do that

and that will activate the growth

hormone even more but really to enlarge

the muscle mass hey Angela you’re from

Toronto go ahead you’re on the air

hi thanks for taking my call I’m 47 and

in my mid-20s I have high cholesterol

it’s hereditary so I’ve been on

basically statins ever since that time I

recently came off of it because I my

body just wasn’t I wasn’t liking it so

my doctor has put me on repatha which I

guess it’s an on statin drug so I’m

currently on that now and I’ve been

following you for the last couple months

so I’ve started the a high fat diet low

carb I just want to make sure that well

first I guess my first question would be

should I still take that repatha

medication while I’m trying this high

fat diet and I’m just really scared

because my dad had bypass surgery my

aunt my uncle it’s like it’s hereditary

so it scares me to eat all the spot yeah

I just listen to your explanation which

is really great so given that I have

hereditary high cholesterol is this

something that I should continue to try

good question Angela let me dance oh

yeah if there’s a hereditary problem

that if there’s a genetic problem with

your family also having factors you know

there’s a higher risk so here’s what I

would do I can’t tell you not to take

that medication but I would consider

investigating with the help of your

doctor red yeast which actually is more

of a natural thing and then like for the

meals maybe you don’t go out of your way

to add butter to your meals maybe you

just stick with the foods that already

have the fats in them and just don’t add

additional fats I think the best thing

that’s going to help you is to really

keep in the outside of integrand a

consistent basis keeping the cruciferous

at a high amounts and and lower some of

the the cholesterol that you’re eating

and then the last thing is intermittent

fasting that basically is the best thing

that you can do for for cholesterol

problems because

ketogenic diet you know doesn’t talk

about in a minute faster you can

immediate but to intimate it fasting

handles insulin from a different angle

because you’re not stimulating insulin

every time you’re eating so I would do

that and then I would also get a more

in-depth test to look at your your

pattern a pattern B cholesterol and make

sure that you have your pattern a is a

little bit higher than your pattern B so

you’re actually protected so but yeah

that’s what I would do again I’m not

telling you you can’t take the

medication I would just investigate the

red yeast extract but good question

thank you hey Melissa

you’re on the air go ahead you had a

question about the gall bladder and

estrogen hi dr. Burke I do I have

Hashimoto’s and I had my gall bladder

visas so thank you for your video

letting me know why I could have

Hashimoto as being the low bile or the

high estrogen so I kind of have a double

whammy here um my question to you is I

it’s okay to take the estrogen dim

having the Hashimoto’s I have thinning

hair and and all the symptoms that go

along with it but I wasn’t sure if that

was something I could take having both

the gallbladder and the Hashimoto’s good

question absolutely because the estrogen

balance and dim doesn’t increase your

estrogen all it does is it gets your own

estrogen it convert from the bad to the

good so it just gives you better ratios

of the good safe estrogen okay so it

doesn’t increase your estrogen I think I

said that right initially the other

thing that I would try to get more of is

maybe I would get a selenium product

like it’s a trace mineral I would do

that for sure to help you and then the

last thing possibly may be a gallbladder

formula to to get that conversion going

a little bit better but thanks for that

question hey Denise you’re on the air

you’re from Cleveland hi there thanks

for taking my call I’ll try to make it

real quick

during intermittent fasting get the

takeo shake count as a meal and number

two questions your opinion on the tables

called inversion tables to stretch your

back out yeah I have

I think those inversion tables are

awesome awesome okay so the other

question is as the kale shake countess

meal yes it does but this is what I do I

eat within a 4 or 5 hour window

okay so I’ll have two meals let’s sell

you at 12 o’clock and four or five what

I’ll do because it’s hard to consume the

quantity of food that I need especially

vegetables so what I’ll do is I I’ll

have my big salad or my kale shake in

the middle of that so it’s kind of like

a meal but it’s still within the window

of four hours okay so that’s one tip

that you might want to do but but yeah

it does count as a meal it’s not as bad

as other things but it does count

I write you’re on the area from Florida

go ahead yes I’m a Crohn’s disease

patient and I’ve been doing a lot of

changes in my diet but I have a diarrhea

problem and I’m trying to find that

particular leafy greens that I don’t

give me that diarrhea thing do you have

any suggestions on it I’ve had two

surgeries last one was 19 years ago okay

okay so yeah that’s a situation because

you probably which you’re lacking is the

microflora to digest some of these

insoluble fibers from the vegetables so

what you’re going to have to do is

search online for something called

effective microbes okay and get some of

the effective microbes and start taking

them before you go to sleep I would take

maybe a half a capful in about two

ounces of water slug it down before you

go to bed boom go to bed and then all

night long it will start growing it’s

really good and in the meantime the the

vegetable that I think is going to might

be something that workable is just the

regular it’s green lettuce but the

problem is when you take green lettuce

it’s hard to find because they put all

these other Leafs in there so you

going to find something with only green

lettuce or romaine that usually is okay

but I understand and also just just as a

side note if you my best remedy for

diarrhea like uncontrollable diarrhea

first of all don’t ever take gall

bladder formula because that will

increase more elimination but take take

blackberries in some unsweetened keeper

blend it in the shake drink it down it

seems to be really good for diarrhea

alright good so Deena you’re on the air

you’re from Arizona yes yay dr. Barragan

so kind of talking to you I just wanted

to let you know my sister my mom and I

we love you guys including your wife we

have via pizza you guys did amazing

accreting like four five times

it’s almost of that that’s awesome but

thank you you’re welcome um my my

question for you is about to be on

bulletproof coffee what are your

thoughts on that a mixed um I think some

people do fine and but here’s the thing

I have had several people do it and it

bumped him out of ketosis because it’s

almost like a meals like a lot of fat

they were consuming I would play around

with it some people their metabolism is

good where they can just start losing

weight and and consume that in the

morning and be totally fine

so if that becomes a problem if you find

like wow I’m just still not losing

weight and I need to speed it up just

mix the butter and maybe add a little

coconut okay if that’s still a problem

then what you do is take the heavy cream

and put a little bit of that in there

and then you’ll be fine but it’s great

for safety and to get you to go for one

meal but I’m mixed you try it out and it

may or may not work for you but but

thanks for uh thanks for watching my

videos

hey Margaret you’re on the air from

Texas go ahead hi there dr. Berger the

question for you

I have PCOS I am obese AB a fatty liver

borderline diabetic struggling with

infertility

in absence of the minstrel cycle 265

pounds 5-1 and I’m currently on a

program called Ideal Protein it’s a low

carb low fat moderate protein diet I’m

not on any medications but I guess my

question for you and I’m 37 years old my

question for you is I guess I should

start with PCOS and trying I want to

reverse all this because at some point I

would like to have kids in my life but

I’m just needing a little bit of

direction I’ve looked at your different

supplements and I noticed the estrogen

dim but I thought it said something

about if you were going into menopause

granted I have I haven’t had a menstrual

cycle for about eight months or so so I

just kind of wanted to get some

direction where you feel like I should

start first and something tells me you

can tell me to get on this keto diet and

which I can if I if that’s what’s best

but I just wanted to kind of get you

where should I start person a big

journey here good question thanks

Margaret

there’s things that are really really

really really really important and

there’s things that are very very

trivial as far as estrogen balance and

dim I think that could help you even if

you’re not going through menopause just

just because it helps balance the amount

of estrogen because if you have extra

fat you’re making a lot of estrogen

through the body and that will help

clean it out I don’t think that’s the

full answer though I think it will help

you PCOS if you research it it says

there’s an Associated insulin resistance

connected I disagree I say insulin

resistance is at the bottom cause point

of that condition it causes it because

the clients that used to work on all you

do is you fix the insulin boom pcs goes

away because insulin converts to

androgens okay that’s the missing piece

so so now the ideal protein the

challenge that I have with that and I’ve

researched that as well it’s a very lean

protein program and it’s very difficult

to do that and do an ADD what you really

need

which is in a minute fasting as the

primary thing I mean let’s let’s take

keep

Oh sis and put that over here in a

minute fasting is what you need to start

with now to do in a minute and the

reason for that is because in a minute

fasting is the most powerful tool to

correct insulin which then will solve a

lot of your problems like the weight and

every liver and everything else but to

do that you’re going to have to do less

meals and to go from one meal to the

next without slowing your metabolism

down is you’re going to have to keep

your fat a little higher so you can’t

really do in a minute fasting without

some fat so I would do a combination I

have all my videos on on this I would do

a version of ketogenic diet maybe it’s

not like up like high fat but you just

do a moderate amount of healthy fat and

you do in a minute fasting together the

other issue I have with Ideal Protein is

they do soy protein which is really

damaging to the liver and there are a

lot of packaged foods which are not

healthy so you may lose weight but you

don’t look healthy so I know they’re

convenient but I would I would do them

in fasting with a version of Iquitos

make sure your vegetables are high and I

think for you might what might be a

really good thing even more than the

estrogen balance would be the the

insulin and glucose support because that

supports insulin I think your problem is

insulin so if you did that

ride the wave within probably six months

to a year we probably wouldn’t recognize

you I would do that follow the exact

thing that I talked about there

manifesting I just released a video on

that and do two meals and spread out

within a four-hour window work up to

that and I think it’ll solve a lot of

your problems Margaret okay good

question thanks hey Michael you’re on

the air you’re from Florida yeah hi

thanks for taking my call my wife and I

have started watching your videos we’ve

been doing the intermittent fasting for

weight loss but I’m noticing a couple of

things that I’m not able to condense the

three meals into two because I get so

stuffed so

should i I know this sounds like a silly

question but should I stuff myself

because I’m not getting into calories so

I’m losing a little bit of strength I do

weight training yeah very good question

this is what I would do Mike I would

actually no you don’t want to stuff

yourself it’s a delicate balance and as

you do this a little bit longer your

system is going to be more efficient so

you can actually go from one meal to the

next without a problem with no loss and

strength the reason why your your you’re

getting a little weaker is because your

system is not fully key to adapted yet

so you want to go from one meal to the

next initially adding a little more fat

but when you get more efficient you

won’t have to add as much fat and you

can just switch like go right into fat

burning blood sugars are good it’s going

to take a little time to do that I think

you’re on the right track what I would

do is I would do right now maybe like a

12 o’clock have your lunch or your

breakfast and then eat at 4:30 or 5 if

you can do it and have your salad in the

middle I think that’s what you should do

that will help you a lot

Mindy you’re from Houston go ahead

you’re on the air

thank you um I am 50 years old I need to

what is about 50 pounds about almost

four weeks ago I started the

intermittent fasting and then added the

keto into it I lost quite you know I did

pretty well I lost about ten pounds

pretty quickly and then at least a week

I have been stuck and I’m pretty far

into ketosis based on the keto sticks um

and so I’m just trying to find some kind

of insight on what might be going on are

you okay so other question are you

sleeping um pretty well but not you know

I mean I wake up a little bit in the

middle of the night okay are you craving

any sweets no which I normally do I have

terrible sugar Frankie

great not so that means it’s working how

many meals a day do you have usually two

okay do you have a thyroid issue no do

you have any digestive issues um not not

per se no okay are you exercising

No okay I think I think for you with

some people do this I’m talking to even

bodybuilders what they do is they go to

one meal a day now even the guys I

interviewed which are hardcore they’re

doing one meal a day now I personally

can’t do that but if I had a slower

metabolism I I would think I would do

that I would work to that but the the

other thing is that you want to probably

add the workouts now just to speed

things up and I don’t have time to

analyze your macros and look at that but

I’m releasing a bunch of videos in the

next week that will give you a lot more

insights into looking at that a little

bit more but I would add the

high-intensity interval training to your

program to just to kick-start it it’s

time to kick that in there and just

really speed everything up because see

the diet handles 85% but we still have

15% that needs to be addressed with

exercise so why don’t you try that and

see if it doesn’t help and then watch

these new videos okay all right so

Elizabeth you are on the air from North

Dakota hello hi thank you for taking my

call recently discovered you on that web

and I am really appreciative like so

many others of what you the information

you give out there and I especially love

the videos with with you in your life oh

yeah it it makes it fun to watch okay so

now the question I have to my first one

has to do with urinary tract infection

unfortunately I she’d be a period in my

life I am getting them kind of quickly

and I’ve already been on a third

antibiotic and so it’s been recently

that I found the information that you

have out there about the other products

that I could be taking and I’ve started

to what they in my case those are saying

it might be a fish job is there anything

out there other you know that you know

that can help the process of healing off

of fistula

yeah yeah I mean hands down the absolute

best thing to handle that would be

wheatgrass juice powder big-time where

juice powder

yeah wheatgrass juice powder there’s one

that I have that a lot of people are

using now you mix it with water it’s not

a wee wheatgrass powder it’s a

wheatgrass juice powder it’s raw it’s

it’s basically as no there’s no heating

it’s like what they dehydrate it in 106

degrees it’s grown on ancient seabed has

all the trace minerals so you start

taking I would probably take one or two

scoops per this stuff here I have an

lemon as well I would take one or two

scoops in water and spread it out

through the day so it’s going through

your your blood system it’s going

through your digestive system and then

it will filter out through the kidneys

out to the bladder and it will actually

because it’s what it does is it heals

the inner skin of the ureters the

bladder anything internally so I think

that’s your best bet

yeah wheatgrass juice powder that’s it

right here we Craster’s powder okay

great yep all right now my second

question is going back to the basics

like I said I only recently discovered

you and my husband is someone who’s

always troubled with his weight for

somebody who jumped across all your

information I mean with the videos and

things it can get overwhelming where

would somebody just now discovering your

method of losing weight where would it

be a good place to start

well I have two thousand videos so you

know with no here’s what I would do I

think the simplest basic thing is go to

my website and in the shopping cart

there’s a basic book called how to burn

fat it’s a 30-minute read you can just

list tells you exactly what you to do

basic step one two three four and once

you digest that

then go to the videos okay yay thanks

Elizabeth hey thanks guys I really

appreciate your attention I think this

worked out well we had a lot of calls a

couple little glitches but next time it

will be solved I promise

have a great week I’m not going to do a

video next week but the following week I

will I’ll send you a video thanks again