The Dr. Berg Show LIVE - November 4, 2022 ｜ DrEricBergDC

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thank you

all right welcome back everyone we have

a really great show we have a great

lineup today there’s a lot of great

questions people from all over the world

are listening in and so if you have a

question go ahead and comment or

question or ask the question through

social media

um anything that I say is definitely not

going to replace your medical care check

with your

competent physician before implementing

any of these things we’re going to

discuss today

all right let’s just Dive Right In Steve

all right very good let’s see why don’t

we go straight to social media we never

want to ignore our great friends on

social media so let me see here what is

today and yes from YouTube I’m doing a

five day fast right now and I’m a little

confused on the best way to break and

extend it fast because you share your

thoughts

yeah watch my video on it because

there’s a lot of details but in a

thumbnail sketch you don’t want to break

it with any carbs any sugar because

that’s that can really be dangerous

because what happens with potassium

being pushed around

um in and out of your blood

um start out with just a small amount of

um food maybe um

maybe a little small little salad or

something maybe a little nuts and then

wait a couple hours and then maybe have

a little bit of um egg

you know then maybe wait a couple hours

and have a little bit more but you want

to kind of gradually go in and don’t

make the mistake that I made

when I first did a prolonged fast I just

pigged out ate a ton of food I was like

like I’ve never eaten before and then I

go oh my goodness that was a big mistake

because your digestive system

is not ready for that much food so ease

into it and then

um watch my video on the specifics

because there’s a little bit more to it

than I just mentioned

terrific okay and here’s an interesting

question Marcia from YouTube is there a

practical way to measure autophagy

good question

um no there’s not going to be any

practical way to measure it other than

the effects that it can create

which is not are not going to show up

immediately they’re kind of delayed so

we’re talking about the recite how do

you measure recycling of old damaged

proteins right

you just start looking younger you know

well it’s going to be so gradual you may

not see a difference right away so it’s

I don’t know of any way to measure it

but we know how to induce it uh there’s

a lot of things that can trigger it the

main thing is fasting

but there’s degrees of autophagy

and um so for example let’s say you’re

starting to go lower calorie and you’re

lower than a thousand calories per day

you will get some autophagy

um and then you less and less eating

let’s say you’re at 100 calories a day

you’ll get more autophagy no food you’ll

get even more autophagy so when someone

does fasting and then consumes let’s say

Bulletproof Coffee right with a good

amount of calories

um I mean it’s not like a thousand

calories so they may stop autophagy for

a period of time

but it’s not going to be as bad as

consuming a really big meal with a lot

of protein

that’s interesting okay doc uh currently

I’m on like a three hour window and I

certainly eat more than a thousand

calories in three hours then I have 21

hours is there any autophagy in that

given the fact that I need to yeah there

is a top 50 going on when you start

fasting for that many hours absolutely

um so there’s going to be a lot of

benefits and even when you’re fasting

and let’s say you don’t have a lot of

autophagy there’s a lot of other

benefits that go beyond just the

recycling of old damaged proteins so

there’s a lot of things happening

for your health

autophagy is one benefit one of the many

and what’s cool about autophagy is

what’s nice about that

as it relates to prolonged fasting is

that you’re cleaning up uh damaged

mitochondria which are behind cancer so

like I said before and I’ll say it again

the best strategy for overcoming cancer

is to

clean up these uh the actual root cause

of cancer which is damaged mitochondria

and so

you know rather than try to um

you know use Force by force let’s say

some people have this idea that I’m

going to use I’m just going to destroy

cancer my body I’m going to use all the

chemo and all the radiation hey I killed

the cancer but you also killed the

immune system at the same time so um

you know it’s not just about using more

Force it’s kind of like uh when I was in

wrestling it’s not necessarily the

strongest person that always wins you

know you have to have technique you have

to have strategy so

um you have to use uh things that um

leverage you know resources to overcome

these problems very encouraging uh and

people all over the world appear to be

encouraging because here’s who’s

listening uh joining us today from the

UK in Canada Egypt Jamaica Greece Poland

Austria Denmark Croatia Switzerland

Mexico Saudi Arabia India the

Netherlands hold on my list just jumped

up Oman Vietnam the Czech Republic

Trinidad and Tobago Sweden Bermuda South

Africa the United Arab Emirates Nepal

Jordan uh let’s see Spain Ireland

Greenland France Australia Malaysia

Chile Japan Israel Qatar

who Italy Nigeria Dominican Republic

Argentina Dubai Ghana uh Bahrain we

haven’t heard from them for a while

Taiwan Papua New Guinea Romania Pakistan

Iraq Colombia New Zealand Peru Scotland

Georgia Thailand Ethiopia and all across

these United States so thanks everybody

for tuning in and as always thank you

Terry for his his fingers must be

throbbing after typing all that in uh

and let’s go right back to Karen this

time from Facebook how long can I take

Mick milk thistle and what are the

benefits

I mean you could take it for a good

amount of time I mean I don’t think

there’s a restriction but the benefits

are very unique

um this prickly

um herb or wheat which I have the mole

all all around my backyard

um this milk thistle has this property

of um protecting the liver so if you

were happen to be poisoned by either a

mushroom or a snake I would try to start

chewing on some of this milk thistle

seed because it’s the antidote it

protects the liver and so um it’s great

for people that are alcoholics people

that take Tylenol people that have any

problem with the liver they should take

it and it it can help protect the liver

against things if you’re on medication

or you have some chronic problem that

involves the liver you should just take

it as a something to help neutralize the

effects of that toxin I’m sorry the

medication

so um

that’s what it does terrific okay let’s

get to our great questions we’ve got one

I’m really excited about today but

that’s not the first one this is

probably exciting as well and Dr Berg

there you go

okay how much actual water does an

average person drink per day

in cups

all right folks dig into that and let’s

go to our uh green room as we call it

and uh

today it’s the husband of a very

familiar person that we’ve had on

Virginia who’s this french-speaking

woman in multilingual and so interesting

but now her husband who’s not nearly as

pretty as she is is going to be on with

us and Sir if you would unmute yourself

we’ve got Richard from Pismo Beach go

ahead Richard you’re on with Dr Berg

Richard go ahead if you can hear us good

morning doctor good morning

all right

I’ve been on healthy keto and if for

about a year and a half now and on omad

for about three months I lost 45 pounds

I feel great but I was diagnosed with a

hiatal hernia and Barrett’s esophagus

over 10 years ago and my question uh

since I have no symptoms since I started

Keto uh will and can these conditions be

healed over time

I believe they can I believe they can of

course when you get into Health Care uh

it’s very very

um negative to bring up the word cure

which is really bizarre because why

can’t we can’t things be cured

um I guess it’s illegal in certain

States so you can’t cure anyone but you

can definitely manage the symptoms I

think I’ve seen that before people have

Hiatal hernias which is a kind of a

physical physical problem because

there’s a weakness within the abdominal

wall there or even the uh the tissue

um right right next to the diaphragm and

all of a sudden they have no more

symptoms so I think it can be resolved

if you have a problem in the future I

think one really uh good thing to do

would be the manual type uh therapy that

I show you in some of the videos to kind

of like push things back in there while

you you stretch back and forth to kind

of manually manipulate it but think

about what happens when you do keto

you’re

you’re improving insulin resistance

you’re improving your ability to absorb

proteins amino acids so you should see

better

um muscle repair more muscle and uh on a

better connective tissue

um because if hernias are just weakness

within a certain

connective tissue or even muscles you

can have weakness within the wall so

um anything you do to strengthen that is

a good thing

well I think you get a little delayed

there but that’s great Richard

um I hope that helps and congratulations

on a fantastic

um 40 pound weight loss I’m sure that

yeah yeah I have no doubt that Virginia

was lashing him through the whole

process and uh ensuring that he stayed

on task so good for you that’s what

great couples do for one another so

thanks again and by the way Richard why

don’t you uh you know stay in touch with

us and let us know if the uh Barrett’s

esophagus shows Improvement and so on

we’re always fascinated to find out what

happens after the fact so thanks for

joining us and our best to your wife or

Jenny all right let’s see do we have no

answers quite yet on the question so why

don’t we go back to social media Charlie

from Facebook I have a dear friend whose

son is suffering from Crohn’s disease

what foods do you recommend for him

I I would do the basic eating plan that

I recommend to everyone which is the

healthy version of the ketogenic diet

which would not include any of those um

those things that are inflammatory like

the uh

um omega-6 oils especially the seed oils

got to be careful of those the canola

the corn the soy cottonseed oil avoid

those uh creates inflammation and of

course all the grains which can

especially the gluten can tear up your

gut and create all sorts of problems

with the gut but

um there’s a really good video to search

out I think it’s um

entitled the real cause of bloating you

should watch that and apply that

information because um

you know

when you’re dealing with these body

problems you want yes you need to reduce

the symptoms and Colitis is a symptom

and um but the question is why did you

get this in the first place are you

creating enough Health are you on the

right eating plan

um go to drburg.com and just I have it

download you can just download the

eating plan just right there

and so we have the exact details if you

want even more details I do have a book

on it

um so that’s what I would recommend

terrific great Council I’m sure okay we

have an answer for our first question of

today which asks how much water does the

average person per day drink in cups and

our respondents let’s see 65 percent say

eight cups 30 say fewer than eight cups

and five percent are standing out saying

more than eight cups any Winner’s doctor

no no winners today ouch

um it’s the average person only consumes

just slightly more than four cups and I

for my friend in Germany

um Dennis

um that would come out too if I’m not

mistaken 236 grams

but don’t quote me that’s what I was

going to say roughly around there but

here’s the thing um

yes they’re drinking a lot of fluids for

sure probably over eight cups of fluid

but the actual

glasses of water is only slightly more

than four cups which is fascinating most

of the other fluids include the coffee

the sodas the diet sodas the juice the

alcohol a lot of things that have

caffeine a lot of things that dehydrate

you that are not hydrating at all so um

so that’s interesting and stay tuned for

a more in-depth video on that because um

you know there’s this whole push

just to get people to drink more water

but is that really solving the problem

is that really curing the problem well I

think it’s helping a little bit but it’s

not doing a significant

um factor for hydration so I’ll get into

the details on that when you in in a

video

all right well here’s some details from

Sharda from Facebook I oh wait a minute

I’m sorry let me go back one Sheila from

Facebook I’m 63 and cannot lose any

weight even being on omad for several

months on healthy keto help

there’s two things you have a you have

an option for two things okay

I would do a significantly longer fast

okay and I’m talking about to do like a

five day fast

um maybe even longer and because

especially if you’re not hungry so many

people are like

they’re doing omad and they’re not even

hungry and they have a lot of weight to

lose well so the question is if you’re

not hungry why are you eating your body

is eating itself and it’s eating all the

fat so might as well ride the wave take

advantage of that and go longer go five

days take the supplements but um that’s

a nice way to jump start it but the

other thing that I would do in between

if you could do this is do omad every

other day so one meal a day every other

day so you’re not eating today but

you’ll eat tomorrow you’re not eating

next day you’ll eat the next day and so

on some people

they need to do that because

what’s happening inside their body maybe

from something in the past that really

you know cradle a severe insulin

resistance problem

um they need to go to more of an extreme

level I I had a handful of people that I

had to put on that program which finally

helped them and just because things were

just at a snail’s pace and so

um if they did that they would they

would get success but

especially if you um if you happen to be

in a situation where you were dieting as

a kid and you were put on a lot of

programs that’s always an issue or you

had a lot of stress certain times or you

dieted a lot through your early 20s or

there’s always something in the

background that kind of slows things

down but um that’s those are the two

choices do prolonged fasting and or do

the um

eat every other day one meal very good

by the way we just spoke about liquids

in a fast should you be on four cups or

something is there any different uh

regime in terms of the amount of fluid

you’re taking during a fast

well I think I think you need you need

to do at least uh two to three liters of

fluid per day uh especially if if

there’s any risk of kidney stones you

know because you want to keep that fluid

enough fluid to the body so on average

uh if we take everything in the

consideration you know and videos I’ll

say well don’t drink unless you’re

thirsty well um

that’s kind of like a

a theory that make I mean that makes

sense because you don’t want to over

drink but but you need some fluids so I

would say between two to three would be

good

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especially if you exercise you know the

question is um

some people don’t crave fluid they don’t

crave uh water they don’t they’re not

thirsty but they’re craving salt

and so

why is that it could be that

um you need more salt than to get more

of a thirst right because you’re you’re

um when you have more salt in your

body’s now okay now more balanced so and

some people

they they don’t have enough volume of

blood and so they might have low blood

pressure is the body going to actually

crave water

maybe not it might crave more salt

because if if they crave more water

and they drink more water it would make

the salt situation worse because it’s

going to dilute you so a lot of times um

the body will crave more salt first so

then then you’ll drink more water

so that kind of solves the problem right

there all right thank you sir okay next

question please

all right which medical conditions

um wait what medical what medical

condition does olive oil have the

greatest effect on

talking about extra virgin olive oil it

does a lot but what what condition does

it help most

all right dig into it audience uh let’s

see

Jay from YouTube is it better to take

regular fish oil or is some

omega-369 uh

better for you also what are your

thoughts on flaxseed oil so there’s a

couple questions yeah flaxseed oil is

not going to give you those omega-3

fatty acids that you need they might

contain a little bit of a precursor ala

but not the um the other ones that you

need so not the active form a better

option uh than even fish oil would be

Cod Liver because Cod Liver not only

will you will give you the benefit of

the Omega-3

but also vitamin A and vitamin D

and so if you think about it uh there’s

just something unique about Cod Liver

that um

just as it’s just more enhancing than

just the other fish oils which is only

the mega-3

all right very good well uh we have got

uh let’s see someone else from our green

room and I’m gonna go tahina from

Houston simply because it seems to rhyme

and let’s see let me get Hina on Hina

unmute yourself you’re on with Dr Berg

hi Dr Berg hello

okay my question is uh I have a multiple

autoimmune diseases like I have

rheumatoid arthritis lupus thyroid

I have H pylori and most of the time my

liver enzymes go elevated

so whenever I try to do the intermittent

fasting I feel super lethargic

and like I cannot do my house chores I

can go to my work I can take care of my

two two years old baby so it’s very hard

but I really wanna do something which is

natural to cure myself or at least you

know to feel better

and uh uh I was doing really good but

after I got covered it was

miserable like my condition was

miserable even I can’t change the driver

of my baby

so uh I I have this condition for 11

years and I never ever did like took any

steroids or anything but

I was doing all natural and I was

feeling much better

but after the covet I got really sick

and I was on prednazon but my immune

system was so suppressed but that I was

getting sick like every other day like I

had holes or like

a strep throat or something then I

stopped taking it and

my question is mostly like I I lost a

lot of weight because of this immune and

this autoimmune and whenever I try to do

the fasting I lose so much weight

this is the second thing I don’t want to

lose any weight I actually want to put

on some some weight

so how I can do that I can eat I cannot

eat gluten I cannot eat mostly like any

greens I cannot eat sell cucumber like

sorry the

broccoli I cannot eat cauliflower well

that’s some good news I have some good

news for you yes so you want some good

news yes are you sitting down right now

yes okay good so you you don’t uh

the good news is the on the Keto Plan

the healthy version

there is no grains there is no gluten

this is exciting so you don’t have to

worry about that and then you can just

avoid those other vegetables that create

problem I get the feeling though what’s

happening is that um

you might benefit more for from a

carnivore diet because uh it sounds to

me like um if you have an autoimmune

disease there could be also some gut

issues involved right so yeah a lot of

inflammation then that means we should

probably switch to carnivore for a

couple months and then so maybe you

don’t do the fasting but you do a

healthier version of the carnivore but

here’s here’s the other thing that I

would do I would start taking

um daily vitamin D3 at like 40 to 50 000

IUS because that will help drop the

inflammation I would take also butane

hydrochloride because you have H pylori

which is you need acidify the stomach if

you can tolerate unless there’s some

gastritis in which you can’t do that

and so I do know what you’re up against

so you’re going to also have to take

high doses of the vitamin B1 I would

probably take a combination of

benphotamine as well as um a natural B1

and just take whatever the dosage says

take you know double or triple of that

because that’ll actually get your energy

back from the covid situation and I have

videos on that and then you can just

watch this video again just to kind of

write these down because I went really

fast and we have to get through the rest

of the people that are lined up but

those are the things that I think I

would focus on and that would turn

things around for you and then once you

get your strength back then consider

doing longer fasts so it’s always a

catch-22

um not wanting to lose weight not having

enough fat to do fasting and if I was in

your situation the only time I would

probably do prolonged fasting is if I

had cancer then I would I would be okay

with getting really really really skinny

if I’m going to get rid of my cancer I

think that’s a better benefit well

that’s great well Hina thank you so much

for joining us we appreciate it and as

always we’d love to hear back from you

and see that you gained a few pounds and

started uh lifting huge amounts of

weight no I’m just kidding whatever that

makes you healthy would be just

absolutely terrific now speaking of

healthy Dr Berg the audience failed the

last

um failed to last quiz question nobody

got it right so let’s hope that they

have improved this time and the question

was which medical condition does olive

oil have the greatest effect on and drum

roll please uh 45 of respondents say

olive oil helps with autoimmune disease

uh 25 say skin issues 15 say liver or

the gut issues and finally 10 percent

cardiac issues and five percent wow

Terry thank you says it’s with

cholesterol is there any wisdom in any

of those answers

well there’s definitely a lot of

everyone is right there’s all these

benefits I mean for it’s a very

potent anti-inflammatory but most of the

research that I found when I recently

looked back at it related to blood

pressure significant blood pressure

lowering effect so that would relate to

cardio but it also has an anti

thrombosis so it actually helps thin the

blood it’s anti-inflammatory

antimicrobial anti-cancer so it would be

also great for autoimmune so um you know

I think that um if you’re not doing

extra virgin olive oil I think you

should start doing it put it on your

salad or just take a couple tablespoons

a day because there’s some really cool

amazing properties in that olive oil

that I was just like I already knew

about it but not when I

recently researched them like wow I’m

going to be drinking more olive oil

and I also

I think it’s called fatora

um what is the name of the one I use

I’ll put it down below but I found this

wonderful Farm in Italy that I get my

my oil from because I watched them

cultivate and grow these olives I tested

their soil and I

um I saw what they do to create this I

mean it’s like talk about someone really

taking it to the next level and caring

about uh the quality and so I looked at

their lab results of the some of the

phytonutrients and how they make it I’m

like okay sign me up I I need to start

or in cases and then using that but

there’s a lot of other great olive oil

out there don’t get me wrong from a lot

of different countries so

um the way that you know when you taste

it and it has that nice little

fresh grass taste with that little

irritation in the back of your throat

and then you know it’s it’s good

wow that’s terrific okay let’s see let’s

go back to social media uh Ernesto from

Facebook is intermittent fasting uh good

for trembling hands

I think I think it is because of the

effects that fasting does on your brain

and um the Tremors

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um mostly happen because there’s some

type of deficiency in the brain certain

parts of the brain that control like

dopamine and you might have these

resting Tremors and then you do fasting

and now we get this really cool

regenerative fact you actually can grow

your neurons back in your brain when you

do fasting which is mind-blowing that

your body will do that so if you want a

couple more brain cells

um definitely include fasting prolonged

fasting and there’s other things too

exercise

um cold showers and even those ice baths

which I know Steve is I know you’re

itching to jump into some ice bath or a

cold shower that’ll actually really help

um grow your brain back

so wow that’s great you hear that Terry

There’s Hope

poor guy he can’t retaliate because he’s

not on the air with me but he’ll let me

have it afterwards let’s see Stephanie

no I’m sorry Stephanie I’m going to go

to Sarah best supplements to take in the

third trimester of pregnancy I know

you’re always so hopeful for people

having babies doc

well you just you just want to you know

if you’re gonna get pregnant might as

well have the healthiest baby possible

right and there’s it’s uh you don’t want

to get the cheapest prenatal out there

you want to get something that’s

a whole food concentrate you want to get

something that has um

the uh a good amount and I’m not talking

about massive toxic amounts I’m just

talking about a good amount of vitamin D

omega-3 trace minerals a natural whole

vitamin C complex

um uh something with natural the B

complex so nutritional yeast

um make sure you can have iodine

so these are all and then I would try to

eat foods that are high in these food uh

these nutrients like

um maybe some you know liver

um some organic grass-fed grass-finished

liver that would be really beneficial

um some shellfish oysters I mean these

would be really good to take to increase

your fertility salmon some wild caught

salmon

that uh the the health of that child is

dependent on what the mother ate during

the pregnancy and before

um and you can that way the child

doesn’t end up with you know you haven’t

taken get braces and dental

malformations and all sorts of you know

you have deficiencies like vitamin D

deficiency can create bowed legs so you

want to take enough vitamin D for sure

um that’s the form of rickets in

children but and then

and whatever you have to do to

breastfeed or get some help with the

late Jade League that would be very

smart because in the breast milk you

have uh colostrum which will start the

immune system and you have all these

natural antibodies that the mother has

developed through her whole life that

get passed on to this this infant so

you’re actually giving this infant

their immune system which is awesome

because if they do if you don’t

breastfeed you don’t give them that

immune system they are a lot more sick

more frequently and they have a lot more

allergies and risks for all sorts of

issues

wow well uh do what nature says and

let’s see let me find Stephanie probably

was mad at me because I skipped over a

question but it was only due to my

embarrassment of not thinking I could

say this

this phrase but I think I’ve got it

Stephanie from YouTube can you please

discuss the benefits of taking

serrapeptase did I say that right

yeah Sarah peptase

um that is a an enzyme from silkworm and

it’s great for fibrotic tissue let’s say

for example you have some plaquing in

the arteries or you have some Scar

Tissue throughout the body

it’s been known to help help dissolve

that and help resolve that so it’s good

for a lot of different conditions but

mainly it’s um if you combine that with

tocatrinals which is a type of vitamin

E2 that would be a good good strategy to

help um remove

um extra scar tissue that your body

doesn’t need

all right

all right back to the green Mirage are

you with us pop on your camera and I’m

going to put you on with Dr Berg

so let’s give him just a second and he

is very efficient with that there you go

Raj you are on the air with Dr Berg

please unmute yourself

hi doctor good morning hello

oh thank you so much for giving me talk

to you talk with you uh it’s basically

I’m facing uh stomach issues so after

eating food right after eating food uh

after one two hours I’m getting severe

stomach pain so I went to hospital they

did uh interest endoscopy MRI ultrasound

avaskar ultrasound and gallbladder test

but they said everything is good but my

bilirubin is always high 2.5 2.6 do you

think what’s too high a bilirubin okay

they said we are not sure why it is

increasing but everything looks good so

I went to another hospitals that he

taken all the tests that it endoscopy

and found it could be H pylori and I

took medication for h pylori but still

same thing so I’m getting severe pain

like sharp pain sometimes I have to

vomiting after vomiting and then

settling down

so okay yeah I don’t know what to do so

okay this is this is what this is what

you do okay

um what you want to do is you

there’s two things that I would

recommend and it’s very difficult

sometimes to diagnosis unless you’re

looking for it

um it’s a functional test but it’s a pH

test the the amount of acid you have the

pH of your stomach like what is the pH I

would bet you anything it’s probably not

between one and three it’s probably

higher it’s probably more alkaline and

then when you eat it’s just like you’re

not gonna be able to digest and that’s

going to cause a lot of stomach pain

right there also you’re not going to get

the release of the bile

which means that your bile is going to

be the bile salts are going to be uh

kind of thicker than they should

um because the calcium will tend to kind

of build up in the in the um little

tubes between your liver and the

gallbladder called Ducks bile ducts so

those will be kind of um jammed up and

they’re kind of thickened

um bile salts and some of the other

sludge in there they call it just bile

sludge if you took tadka okay tadka an

empty stomach you look it up get it on

Amazon tadka take two of those in the

morning empty stomach and then take two

in the afternoon empty stomach and then

with each meal

take a whole handful I’m talking at

least eight the betaine hydrochloride

right before you eat and you do that for

several weeks

you’ll reestablish the pH tend to put

this H pylori back in remission because

over 50 of the population has it but it

doesn’t become a problem until the pH of

your stomach starts to go up more

alkaline and then now you now you get

the bile problem and then now everything

kind of gets all stuck there and you

have pain so um those are the two things

I would do and I think you’ll be quite

pleasantly surprised at the results

the test to diagnose that is it’s hard

to do this functional test I don’t even

know what tests they do for thickened

bile

um sludge but you know what you either

go through the test which I think they

might even knock you out and it’s very

expensive or buy a very inexpensive

bottle of Tucka take it and if the

problem goes away then you know you have

that problem it’s a lot cheaper to do it

that way

let’s see you know I knew you’re gonna

ask that let me just write it down so I

can

yeah so it’s a t-u-d-c-a

um tug cup

and then the other one is betaine

hydrochloride those are the two that you

need to get that’s great well I think

Raji might be getting a lot of Vitamin D

naturally because you have these Stripes

of sunlight searing into your face

that’s going to be that’s that’s all

right there’s going to be a new trend on

a tick tock and everyone’s going to be

doing that so congratulations you

trendsetter and please do get back with

us after the fact and let us know uh if

things are improving for you so thanks

for hanging in there in the green room

and folks we’ve got a couple more there

and don’t worry we will get to you so Dr

need to take morning and afternoon these

two before

yep okay thank you all right very good I

miss your stripes Taj but that’s all

right all right let’s uh let’s move on

to another quiz question and here you go

doc

all right so how long does stress take

to affect your hair loss so

um you know I mean it’s a well-known

fact that stress can affect your hair

right so when you go through a

significant amount of stress how long

does it usually take before the air

starts to fall out

all right dig into that audience and you

redeem your last last time after opening

with a complete failure uh you uh you

got the last question right let’s see

how if you can keep that Trend going all

right Julie from Facebook my gallbladder

was removed over 30 years ago along with

part of my signoid colon how can I stop

my frequent diarrhea ouch

so unfortunately

um what’s happening is you’re getting

um too much bile now because when they

remove those structures now we don’t you

know usually you’re not going to have

enough but if you have diarrhea that

means you have too much bowel coming

through there and so there are certain

types of medications that you’re

probably going to have to take right now

which are things that slow down the bile

production

and then maybe you could find some

natural thing I haven’t researched to

see if there’s a natural

anti-bile supplement out there there

might be but that’s really what’s going

on unfortunately you’re that have that

situation you just have too much bile

usually it’s the opposite um

another thing that I probably would

recommend that you do just

um who knows what kind of trauma that

created I don’t know it’s like you do

surgery and maybe they made the hole too

big or too you know but if you could

manually massage underneath the right

rib cage and the left rib cage about an

inch off the midline an inch slower

maybe one or two inches lower and find a

certain point of tenderness on left and

right side and start massaging that that

that just might give you a little more

relief because anytime they do surgery

you know there’s a lot of scar tissue

that might develop that if you can

kind of loosen some of that up it can

sometimes help so

that’s what you need to do all right

audience well Terry has got your back he

told me stop saying the first quiz

question was a failure more than 30

percent of respondents were correct by

saying fewer than eight cups of water so

my apologies and once again Terry is

listening and he has your back he’s not

going to let me get it I’m sure you just

you just said that because to make it

was a test to see if he was listening

because

well that’s exactly right Terry

congratulations you retain your job by

being attentive okay no actually Terry

could probably fire me so I mean I’ll

quit picking on him for a while okay

let’s see uh so we’re waiting for that

quiz question answer and let’s see let’s

go back to gallbladders Paul from

YouTube can you share thoughts on what

might cause gallbladder polyps I’ve been

taking your gallbladder formula for

months

well I think it’s the same thing that

might be um causing polyps in the colon

there’s some uh reason that your body is

trying to consolidate or or wall off

something it could be

you know it could be a microbe could be

some toxin I don’t know but what I do

know if you did periodic prolonged

fasting with any polyps whether in the

colon or in the liver and the kidney I

think my thought is that you would

probably see them shrink and hopefully

go away

um so maybe you do like

a three or four day fast

um but that’s what I that’s what I would

recommend

um and then make sure that the food that

you’re eating is the correct healthy

version of the ketogenic diet because

ultimately that will help things in the

long run especially with what’s going on

with your liver because the liver is

connected to the gallbladder

sorry okay uh why don’t we go all the

way to Antigua or Antigua as Jamila

corrected me and she’s got a question

for us she’s got kind of a funky video

going there but let’s hope we can hear

uh Jamila you’re on with Dr bird

okay can you guys hear me yes

yes that’s great okay so Dr Berg

um thanks for having me

um I’ve been watching your videos for

maybe a month now uh let me explain to

you real quick because I have a timeline

on the 23rd of August I had to be taken

from work I’m an immigration officer I

had to be taken from work to the doctor

I couldn’t walk or when I tried to walk

my heartbeat stuff and that was like two

days after my cycle ended and so I was

anemic I found out my blood count was

really low I was told to take try he

make twice a day try he make 600.

and um my heart rate slowed down and

everything started to feel better but

last week Tuesday

I had I my heart rate increased again

it was just a little bit over 100 uh the

Friday went up the Saturday the same

thing the Sunday last week Monday I

decided to go to the ER

but before going to the ER I took a

thyroid test at a private lab I got back

my my thyroid test

and I was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism

on Wednesday

um I have multiple fibroids um one of

them is a kind of big

um I have a cyst

on my ovary

so I was just wondering because I have

all the classic symptoms of

hyperthyroidism I have been trying to

eat the ketoe for two weeks I’m not sure

if I’m getting all my calories in but I

can tell you that uh at work I’ve been

stressed for the last couple months and

I’m I’m wondering if it’s stress that

triggered off my thyroid I just need

your help as to what I should do to get

this under control

you know you know at the um you I’m

guessing it’s it probably is Graves

which is an autoimmune hyperthyroid I’m

guessing but I don’t know for a fact

um you know 90 maybe even the

hypothyroid is um Hashimoto’s which is

an autoimmune so what’s really

interesting to me that um when you go

through stress significant emotional

stress or whatever chronic stress

um a person could go either hyper or

hypo thyroid

with an autoimmune situation which I

don’t know why

um it’s one way or the other I just know

that the immune system is developing

antibodies and it’s creating a problem

um so that being said

um there’s a couple things that I would

I would do in addition to

the healthy keto I would do a bit more

fasting

and I would also do whatever you can to

lower your stress because if it was

triggered by stress then you have to

kind of undo that but isolate

you know there’s a lot of things you can

do for reducing stress but then you want

not just do things like exercise to

reduce stress but get find out what is

stressing the isolate the main thing

that’s stressing you out

um one thing that I found more than

anything that will probably help you now

is to do things to improve your sleep

which uh because out of all the things

for stress reduction sleep is probably

the the biggest thing so if you have any

sleep problems you know watch my videos

on that uh go

yeah I’ve been having problems sleeping

everything I’m I’m gonna tell you the

honor truth I suffered from anxiety so

you know hearing that I have hyper

I got really sad

and um

I’m like wow did this really happen to

me and I’m just you know I’d go to sleep

maybe around eight wake up around 12 and

go back to sleep around three I don’t

know you know I don’t know how to

control my answer

that that’s better than nothing that’s

better than nothing you just have I

think I would take this problem

of and just take parts of the problem

and that because it could be very

overwhelming so just work on parts of

the problem that you can do right now

and you keep stripping it down until

it’s all gone for example right now

don’t worry about anything but fixing

your sleep okay okay once then when you

get rid of that you work on the next

thing but

um a couple things for sleep I’ll just

mention right now make sure that your

room is on the cool side make sure that

you do some type of low stress exercise

that can make your body tired uh for

example let’s say you did some some

weight training or something only work

on one or two muscle groups right so

it’s a real short workout

you you and created some damage on your

body but that actually will help you uh

sleep

um more than just kind of like light

type of exercise like really work one or

two muscle groups and um it’ll

definitely help you sleep so watch my

videos on on sleep and then

then reevaluate after you do that but um

unfortunately you have a uh your

adrenals probably need some support so

take a lot of B1 nutritional yeast in

this you can do the ashwagandha the

lemon balm tea those are good but I

think B1 is going to help you a lot with

your adrenals okay Jeremiah listen we’re

running out of time and I appreciate you

coming on with us so please try those

things and get back with us and let us

know how things are going in atigua or

Antigua which I now know how to

pronounce okay so our latest quiz

question number three how long does

stress take to affect hair loss and 35

percent say a week or two thirty percent

say a matter of days 25 say a month or

more and 15 uh wrapped it up with 15

saying more than two months

now this is interesting because a lot of

people that lose their hair

they’re wondering what’s going on I

don’t think I’ve had any stress and then

what they don’t realize is there’s a

huge delay between the time you go

through stress and the time you lose

your hair just because hair grows kind

of slow and we’re talking

one to three months okay after the fat

after a stress so you know with other

things you can kind of see the thing

that happens right before the problem

but with hair loss you got to look

earlier just like in your fingernails if

you see um a problem with your

fingernails let’s say you have this

white Speck right in the middle of your

nail which is a zinc deficiency which is

really

a time where you ate too much sugar

and if it’s right in the middle of the

nail we know about three months ago

you had a birthday party and you end up

eating the whole cake because it created

a lot of deficiency of Zinc at that

point and then I’ll show that little

white dot so sometimes it’s hard to

um figure these things out because of

the delay time but yeah with your hair

just look three months back and say oh

oh that’s right I had this major stress

event and now it all makes sense so I

will release the video on that shortly

you know there’s an interesting event

that happened I don’t know maybe 30

years ago where a gentleman that was

driving a petrol rig a big semi truck it

caught on fire and he escaped it and his

dark hair turned gray within a very

short period and they said that was from

just enormous stress of thinking you’re

going to burn to death so I never forgot

that uh that article okay we’ve got two

folks left in the green room and Sarah

from Israel has been trying to get on

the air and is coming back and forth

Sarah I hope we can hear you go ahead

with your question

me yes speak up and let us know what

your question is

my question is how I can do to lower my

Uric acids because it’s a little high I

made keto for about a month or a nice

job because I went on vacation and I

went through a blood test and

a uh my uric acid level was

and a little bit my cholesterol yells so

I want to research it because it was

good for me but I don’t know where to

start now with these levels

got it okay good question let me answer

that for you

when you do

mainly fasting or intermittent fasting

it is true that the um

the uric acid does go up okay but if you

think about uric acid is not a hundred

percent a Bad Thing uric acid is

a more powerful antioxidant than any

other antioxidant in your blood which is

fascinating so the question is why is

your uric acid going up because your

anti your um antioxidants are going up

and your body’s trying to

um clean things up and protect things

because you have this

um increased

counter to oxidative stress so um

unless you’re experiencing a physical

problem like gout I wouldn’t be too

other than

you know make sure the amount of protein

that you’re eating is not excessive

potentially that you know because uric

acid is part of the whole protein

breakdown cycle

but

um but when you do go through fasting

there is a spike of uric acid and then

it comes down more and more and more

over time

even if you’re fasting and also

the more your uh the insulin resistance

you have too the more you’ll have uric

acid so

anyway I would um if you have gout for

example

um and then that’s uh realize that

probably the biggest trigger for that is

the fructose and the fruit and the beer

and the carbs and the sugar and all that

more than other things like protein

um and um so

I watch my videos and gout if you have

that but other than that I think I

wouldn’t be concerned um because there’s

so many other benefits you’re

experiencing now and I just give it more

time reevaluate it see if your uric acid

does come down over time and just

realize too that the underlying problem

is probably more with your kidney not

being able to regulate this more than

anything else so you know if you keep

doing this your body gets healthy the

kidneys get healthier the liver gets

healthier and then the uric acid gets

healthier all right that’s terrific

thank you so much Sarah I’m glad we were

able to finally get your call and we’ve

got one more participant Nancy I’m going

to startle her because she’s on the

phone right now she’s going oh no I got

to get off I got to get off and she did

it successfully and Nancy I hope you’re

unmuted and you’re on the phone with Dr

Berger I hope you were bragging to your

friend about being on the show

I was but unfortunately it was my boss

so he said are you at an appointment I

hear people in the background I said no

no I’m waiting to talk to Dr Berg oh boy

let me give you a note no I don’t know

if that would work yeah yeah I don’t

know I’m kind of self-employed it’s not

that big of a deal anyway

um so Dr Berg I’ve been following you

for a while now a couple years at least

and

I have watched your videos on heartburn

and how to get rid of it and your lemon

acid apple cider vinegar cranberry water

I’ve you know bought the your

gallbladder formula and the bile salts

and the butane hydrochloride

what happened is I’ve been taking

Omeprazole for years not consistently

but I know that it’s something I need to

get off of and

so I dropped it and I started doing your

stuff taking the pills drinking the

water every morning consistently got off

my tea instead of tea I would drink your

lemon water

I still had horrible heartburn

so when does it go away what can I do I

actually got back on the two-week cycle

of Omeprazole because it was I was in so

much pain

what do I do

and how long can I expect

okay so do you have symptoms of acid

reflux that’s coming up here or is it

just heartburn in your stomach itself

sometimes both

okay but you do have Gerd

yeah sometimes

okay so this valve that’s on the top of

the stomach

is not closing properly and so

um the question is why

um there’s a couple reasons for that

that the most common one is that the you

just don’t have the acidity that you

need and of course by taking this

medication for such a long period of

time

which actually helps get rid of acid you

probably don’t have hardly anything in

there so it’s it’s you’re stuck between

a rock and a hard place because it might

not be as easy as just like oh I’m just

going to get off this and start a

replacement you might have to do a

little bit of both and then give it a

long time because what people don’t

realize is to re-establish the normal pH

in the stomach

um sometimes takes months and sometimes

you have to take larger amounts than

um is recommended on the back of label

especially with betaine hydrochloride I

probably would not do two things at once

like I probably wouldn’t work on the

gallbladder and the bile salts at the

same time because that’s that’s an

alkaline solution so here you’re taking

the potato chloride and the alkaline at

the same time now we got a we

neutralized it I’m like oh so probably

just do one thing at a time and start

with the petite hydrochloride and start

increasing the amount until your

heartburn goes away so you might end up

with like I don’t know five six seven

eight nine ten also wow it took ten of

these and now I have no more heartburn

and then you just give that more time

and just let it kind of reestablish

um now let’s say for example you took

leads between hydrochloride and you you

felt worse then that means you have

gastritis did that ever happen

um so

yes I well

when I take four like you you said take

eight at a time I’ve read that and um so

I take them they’re they’re pretty big

and they’re gel caps so they get lodged

and you get sick stomach and you then

you you know you kind of feel yucky and

then you have to eat and you know same

thing with the vitamins in the morning

you know I’m a faster I fast omad pretty

much every day and when I take those 12

or so vitamins you’re you’re a your k

your B your B12 all of those zinc

yeah I get sick to my stomach and I

found out last week that I was actually

getting severe stomach cramps and

I figured it was maybe the vitamins so I

don’t know

yeah so you might have to just take

those with when you’re one meal and just

take them with food

um the the type of betaine hydrochloride

you might want to get is not in a gel

it’s not in a capsule it’s just like in

a tablet

um okay because I do understand that

with your esophagus things can get kind

of stuck in there and then that can be a

big problem

um I would also

one thing I would take before bed is a

uh my liquid probiotic that way you

don’t have to take anything pill-wise

and then

um that will actually kind of help you

from the other side of your body and

give you more microbes to make more

secondary bile and then we can actually

maybe kind of fix it from the other end

of your digestive tract but what you’re

really running into is the duration of

being on this medication and what it’s

did to your pH of your stomach and

you’re going to have to kind of just

um play with it back and forth until you

can re-establish all the acid at the

same time taking medication and then you

slowly take less with the help of your

doctor you know just until the point

where you’re eventually off of it

unfortunately

coming off medication is always a

problem so

that’s that’s what you’re

you’re up against but

if there is any tests that can um that

you can talk your GI doctor into doing

that could measure the pH of your

stomach that would be very valuable it

might be a pain in the butt to get it

done but I would get I would bet

anything it’s it could be a pH of four

or five or even six which then would

just completely

you know so you can really see what’s

going on you’re like it kind of baffle

your doctor to go wait a second how

could you have no hardly any acid but

you have heartburn that doesn’t make

sense to me well that’s because

the valve is not closing so

um one last Point okay and then that’s

it but uh vitamin B1 uh in the form of

benfotamine not that you want to take

another supplement if you have a history

of insulin resistance

um you could be very deficient in B1 and

that’s another reason why that valve

won’t close

but again I don’t want to throw so many

things at you at once so stick with the

retain another chloride and then solve

that and then go on to something else

all right that’s great thanks so much

Nancy for that and by the way doc we got

a little later start and this is the

question I was dying to get answered why

don’t we give them a bonus question here

and there it is

what is the most ignored disease on the

planet

I just find that do you want me to just

tell people because you’re interested

should I just what it is yeah why not

they probably know anyway

well what do you think it is Steve

um you know I didn’t give enough time to

think that I just wanted you to do all

the thinking

okay so um there is a disease out there

that causes it’s more common it’s never

hardly ever tested and it’s always

ignored it it’s behind metabolic

syndrome a fatty liver obesity

especially in the midsection it’s behind

getting up urinating at night it’s

behind getting tired after you eat

um it’s behind fluid retention it’s

behind diabetes okay wow so it’s this

one disease and we’ll cover this next

week

and I’m being very sarcastic

it’s called

hyperinsulinemia okay it’s too much

insulin

um that’s what’s behind this whole thing

it’s on behind so many other problems

and so really if you look at it these