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now dr. Eric Berg

I guess welcome back it’s Friday 9

o’clock in the morning on the eastern

area of the world and I’m here to take

your questions there’s already a bunch

of callers so if you want to call in the

number is 866 5 6 1 4 2 9 2 and when you

answer it when you bring your questions

try to keep the history really in a

thumbnail sketch because there’s a lot

of colors I want to get try to get to

everyone today so the first question

comes from Michelle and Delaware go

ahead Michelle you’re on the air

supplements and I take of yours the

wheatgrass the gallbladder the d3 and k2

joint pain and hair now and also I think

the the estrogen the dim mm-hm and as

far as I wanted to know when how long do

I need to wait for these hair

supplements are taking effect

I do get released from my gallbladder

I have no gallbladder but the

supplements there and the hair and nails

I do get that but I wanted to know how

long will it take for me to notice about

the the dim and d3 and the k2 and I also

have like a woman feminine problem with

bad breath I wanted to know what your

advice is or knows okay hey quick

question what female problem would you

have related to the estrogen and dim

would it be hot flashes or something

else

breast cancer breast cancer okay well

let’s just talk about that real quick if

you have breast cancer it’s almost like

you’re probably not going to notice any

difference when you’re taking it because

it’s more protective preventive so when

you actually balance out the bad Astra

j’en you may not feel any difference so

that’s a tough one unless you have some

physical subjective symptom related to

estrogen dominance but it’s a very good

preventative thing a lot of research on

it you you’re getting some results on

the nails but the hair I think you said

there’s some patches I just have one

question do you have any acid reflux

sometimes sometimes okay so so you

mentioned the joint formula how long

does it take to work what what knee is a

problem left or right it’s the left knee

I have a they said I need to have a knee

replacement I’m bone-on-bone okay and

then I have also have the it feels like

the pain is coming from my right groin

but they say it’s the hip but it doesn’t

need replacement yet okay yeah there’s

gonna be a compensation so there’s a

couple things you want to do Michelle

you got bone on bone I’m assuming you’re

on my eating plan perfectly there’s no

cheating I’m just assuming that it’s

probably true if you’re not really get

back on it because that will reduce

inflammation now here’s the data on the

joint thing it if you have bone and bone

it’s gonna you’re gonna have to add some

other techniques for example if you

search knee pain on YouTube there’s two

videos that I have one is part one part

two I would follow that because you want

to be working on the right thigh and the

hamstring and the outer part of your

thigh so you’re gonna massage the right

side that’s gonna take the pressure off

the left knee and then in addition I

think that’s gonna help balance because

if you have bone and bone and your left

knee you’ve been kind of your gate has

been asymmetrical and you’re probably

supporting the rights more on the

muscles on the right side so you have to

balance it out that will really bring

down the pain because if you don’t do

that you may not fully get the benefit

of the joint formula joint formula takes

some time especially since it has a very

specific type of collagen that helps

rebuild ligaments and tendons and part

of the meniscus in there so it will help

that now the other thing is that you

have bad breath what I would do the

first thing I would start to acidify

your stomach start adding more upset of

vinegar you can either get into tablets

or just in the water and dilute that and

start drinking that because if we drop

your pH you’ll get a better digestion of

protein which will be less waste from

your protein and

that will improve things the other thing

with bad breath is it’s more of a gut

problem so you also want to add

fermented vegetables like sauerkraut

pickles start building that up and maybe

even some kefir over time that should

help kind of deodorize the breath all

right

thanks Michelle hey Tina you’re on the

air you’re from New Jersey go ahead yeah

and I wanna god bless you for helping

added now my question is I have you been

feeling good for nine years now it’s

like off and on and on I went to

emergency with my big test after test

colonoscopy got serology I want to get

ology I want to cardiologists I did it

all but they can’t find what is wrong

with me I feel weak you know my body

feels weak sometimes my legs few weeks

like a chumpy attacking my new system I

don’t know what it is and that’s kinda

what it is too

so I’m just wondering if you can tell me

what it is and what to do please

okay Tina um let me just kind of narrow

in real quickly to see if I can help you

because it could be a million different

reasons so I have a question are you

doing the eating plan in my videos

perfectly or are you kind of partially

doing it no I I do this by my side like

a vegetable I still you know and it

comes all of it whatever I talk to my

body all of it buddy okay so when you

say attack your body do you mean you

have inflammation to somewhere all of a

sudden my body will feel weak my legs

feel weak that’s how I feel I get panic

I guess yeah you know like panic okay

okay so there’s a couple things I would

jump right into number one again it

could be many things the thing that I

would start first is there’s some

b-vitamin symptoms that you have I would

do b12 and B one may

be six but if you take nutritional yeast

and you take a tablespoon or two per day

that will normally relieve those

symptoms that you told me if it doesn’t

maybe what you can do is fill out the

evaluation quiz on my side it’s a free

thing and then we can kind of analyze it

based in everything because I’m going to

need a little bit of your history and

ask you a lot of in-depth questions but

right now I think it’s the B vitamin

deficiency primarily b12 b6 and be one

of those vitamins can make you feel weak

anxiety kind of you know when you get up

you’re kind of out of breath yeah so go

ahead and do that and then let let us

know hey Vanessa

you’re from California go ahead you’re

on the air thank you for taking my call

I’m following up on some of the things

that you prescribed or your advice to

take the last time and also have

question related to the adrenal gland

related symptom so the instrument look

low cost cord and a gall bladder and

apple cider vinegar those are the three

things I start taking about two weeks

now and I just wanted to know how long

do I go on with this and the dosage to

take up the seemed to be different from

the label up on the box versus what you

show on your video so I just want to

know for that what are the top what are

the top two symptoms that you have I’m

pre-diabetic and and I feel like the

gall bladder fits in that description

for the liver problem in all that

horrible and adrenal problems do you

have a gallbladder yes I do I’m 56 and

I’m just pre-diabetic two years ago

condition wise and not just the main

thing and then of course I came with the

migraine headaches from the two years

ago as well okay all right Vanessa so

there’s the general answer to that

that’s always a good question how long

do I take supplements it really depends

on how bad your problem is before you

get started you know obviously if you

have a pre-diabetic it takes 10 years to

become a pre died

Vanek so insulin resistance takes time

so you know you want to give it a chance

to help the nutrition rejuvenate you for

example the insulin and glucose support

has like ten different things that

support the pancreas and blood sugars so

you may be on that for a bit it could be

more than four or five months but the

the goal is to get you to a point where

those symptoms are improving if you have

a test an a1c test and it comes down

real low to the low fives then we know

you hey you’re stable and then you can

start weaning off some of these things

and then see how you do so it’s really a

test it’s like okay take it out see if

you actually are able to hold that

because that you’re right the goal is to

try to get is the most nutrition from

your diet without having to rely on a

supplement but if there’s long term

chronic liver damage if there’s no

gallbladder then you’re gonna need some

type of long-term support nutritionally

there’s also it’s really hard to get

certain nutrients from the food like

trace minerals so those are more of a

long-term thing as a way to enhance your

health so really with you I think I

would probably maybe another a month or

two start weaning off some of the stuff

and see how you do you might be able to

go without the gallbladder go without

the insulin but it’s one of those things

you’re going to have to test because

that it could be from way over here some

people need for like 1 month other

people need it for like a year so it’s

really hard to answer that we just have

to test the waters all right thanks

Vanessa

diddy you’re from New York City you have

a question go ahead oh yeah I do

good morning so I have a question

regarding caffeine withdrawals I mean a

couple of weeks now go and I’m just

drinking we saw a child approximately 2

milligrams of caffeine per cup so I

realized that I get massive withdrawal

symptoms which included actually almost

had to go to emergency room two weeks

ago so I found you online and then I

absolutely bought the adrenal package

now I am reading well I continue to

research what’s going on and what I see

here is for example there are doctors

writing online that some of the

components which are in the adrenal de

package actually also might be a

distance such as ashwagandha for example

so I wondered because I want to get rid

of all substances that might be

addictive

you know yeah because I don’t want to be

with any addiction so I wanted to hear

any of your comments regarding it good

good question let’s talk about that like

even some people don’t want to become

addicted to laksa tips right so they

don’t take a laxative so let’s just talk

about caffeine caffeine is addicting it

gives you a sense of well-being

alertness if your body is so used to it

because it has to raise the adrenal it

has to activate the adrenal what happens

is that you cut that out that caffeine

also the adrenals go crash and burn and

you’re gonna need something to bring you

up so I always tell people to do a

gradual weaning off and then eventually

don’t go cold turkey add the tea in

their tea house just a little tiny bit

of caffeine and you can start doing tea

for awhile and and then eventually just

like you know cut it completely out over

a period of some months but if you have

that many withdrawals your adrenal needs

some serious help

ashwagandha is not addictive in fact I

don’t know of any herb that is addictive

because it’s from nature mainly

addictions are you know caffeine

nicotine drugs that type of thing so I

don’t know a lot of times on the

Internet you see all sorts of things

that are just totally false

ashwagandha gives a sense of relaxation

so it’s meant to kind of help the

adrenal so you as you start working on

the adrenals start eating better start

sleeping better the need for that will

go down but to be addicted to an herb is

just it’s not true so I think you’re

going to be fine in that but let’s just

talk about one more point in that let’s

say you had a laxative which is herbal

versus constipation and you can

turn about becoming dependent on

laxatives well the damage of not going

and being constipated is huge auto

intoxication poison flowed into the body

bad so it’s much better to keep taking

the laxatives keeping the bowels going

until that’s you get that thing

corrected so we just have to look at

relative importance –is is it important

to keep the stress off your body lower

cortisol using Austral ganda absolutely

so versus any type of possible

addictions i have never in 27 years

heard of anyone that’s addicted to

ashwagandha so so i don’t think you have

to worry about that so i think you doing

fine just do a gradual thing over a

period of time and some people need to

be on a little tiny caffeine for you

know months before they can come off but

the goal is to greatly reduce it like

one like a small cup of coffee in the

morning usually will not create much

damage to people so i wouldn’t be

stressing about too much about that but

caffeine does tend to deplete B vitamins

thanks didi

okay so Vanessa Europe from new drew new

york go ahead you’re on the air

hi my question i have two one about

probiotics the one about iron the one on

probiotics is every time i take

probiotics because my doctor told me i

need them

my heart beats really rapidly and I’m

not sure what’s causing that why that’s

happening why is that the reaction

mm-hmm okay and the second question I

was recently diagnosed with anemia but

for the last 10 years my hair has like

gradually broken off and the doctor is

now saying it’s anemia but I’ve always

operated at like 11 which is within the

normal range 11.1 that’s always been my

normal iron range so how much higher

would you think I would have to go to be

normal if our if at that normal range or

a quote-unquote normal range my hair

they’ll fall about and everything okay

did do you have any type of indication

that that anemia is coming from b12

deficiency or do they know it’s just

iron deficiency

they did my ferritin levels and me

they’re actually guessing they don’t

really know but I have in the past I’d

like fainted and have fainting spells

and different things so the doctor is

now assuming it could be iron

they’ve taken beats my b12 test they

said I was okay but they don’t really

know they really do seem to be guessing

because you know obviously your hair is

falling out

something is wrong right and they can’t

just send me away any more right now

what about your do you have any

indication of what could be causing and

could it be excessive men’s menstruation

do you have any type of problems with

stomach like your indigestion or gas or

heartburn I was diagnosed was also

having fibroids but with the fibroids

I mean I’m although does cause heavy

bleeding for the whole course of the

month it doesn’t really matter when they

took my blood test it was still the same

at eleven point one for my iron so

they’re not really sure okay all right

so the first question is probiotics and

heartbeat and let’s talk about that the

probiotics tend to increase lactic

lactobacillus microbe these microbes

make lactic acid so sometimes when you

take them and it makes just a little bit

too much lactic acid your pH slightly

goes more acidic which is actually going

down that up so when the pH is more

acidic it does tend to increase the

heart rate a little bit so what I would

do with the probiotic is I would take

less and take take it at different parts

of the day maybe take in the morning

verses before night and just see how you

do but you need the probiotic but the

point is that I think it’s altering your

ph a little too much and sometimes some

of the probiotics people are sensitive

to because they’re Dairy related and

they couldn’t even have an allergy to

Dairy so if that’s the case you can get

a non-dairy probiotic okay so that’s

number one number two the anemia thing

there’s a lot of that a lot more

to this I’ll have to create a video on

this but there’s a couple things that if

you have a fibroid even though your iron

levels test normal in the body you’re

actually having a tremendous amount of

blood that’s stored in a fibroid so look

I’m a tumor which can create a lack of

blood in other places but it might not

show low iron in your blood so the point

is that fibroids come from too much

estrogen estrogen dominance so the

estrogen balance and dim would be a good

option and also adding more cruciferous

to actually counter that probably some

good sea kelp

Icelandic sea kelp would also help lower

estrogen so that’s one thing the other

thing that you might want to look at is

just increasing the acid in your stomach

and that would be with betaine

hydrochloride or apple cider vinegar

that will instantly increase the

absorption and function of your iron the

last thing with iron is that if people

are vegans or vegetarians and they’re

consuming a lot of vegetables for their

iron there’s it’s not prepared correctly

or you know you’re not germinating them

or you’re not soaking in water and

you’re not you don’t know what you’re

doing with that you’re gonna have high

levels of phytic acid and that’s going

to block iron so that’s probably not the

case in your situation but that’s

another thing I always look at thanks

Vanessa

okay it’s Michelle I think from Virginia

you had a question go ahead and and um I

called a while back about too big and

you recommended to seek help and was the

IMD yeah and I just wanted to make ask

because I’ve also having like excess

facial hair issues and I don’t want to

know if eating those two would increase

it more and I also wanted to ask what

your recommended dose for the seek help

and dentists and if there are any

natural brands that you recommend okay

you’re getting facial hair though right

yeah okay so the fact that your facial

hair is probably a little bit of PCOS or

polycystic ovarian syndrome going on

which is basically high androgens so

the seek help and the estrogen balance

with dim that I think I’ve recommended

those are two natural products I have a

seek out from Iceland which is organic

they’re on the site and an estrogen

balance with Jim both of those do not

increase androgens what they do is they

help balance the estrogen and the button

your existing body to get rid of some of

the bad and increase the good ratios

okay so that’s one thing that they do

but typically PCOS high antigens come

from either an overactive adrenal gland

which is stress or high levels of

insulin which if you’re on my eating

program that I’m recommending over and

over and over and over that could be

beneficial because if we can lower

insulin you’ll get less conversion to

androgens because increase insulin

converts to androgen and then that will

cause the facial hair so again those are

the two products sea kelp Icelandic

estrogen balance plus dim and then get

on the eating plan to lower your insulin

or fix the insulin resistance that’s

what I would do all right hey Traci

you’re from Chicago you had a question

go ahead uh yes I do um I I believe I

had the adrenal body type I believe I’m

estrogen dominant I had was struggling

with fibroids for years which resulted

in me having to have a hysterectomy and

they also removed my ovaries and I was

not in menopause yet so it threw me into

immediate menopause and now my body

composition over the past two years my

muscles have like disintegrated I’ve

gained 25 pounds by pulled back you know

composition has completely changed and

the doctor put me on estradiol

and I also saw who listed me who told me

you know not to take estradiol so I’m

looking for your advice and I also have

like the low average bone density for my

age

similarly to excuse and say what I

should do to get this do I take this or

or not okay Tracy let me let me show you

hey mr. producer I’m gonna go to the

board and draw a little thing for you so

you can see this alright so here the o

breeze here’s the uterus

you had these removed okay you need to

go find them and get them back now it’s

good now you have two adrenals there on

top of your kidney okay and the adrenal

is a backup organ for these organs

they’re the backup it produces the same

hormones so the fact that you had these

removed make the made the adrenal glands

increase in function they had to work

harder if your adrenal glands are tired

going into this situation they’re

already existing weak and you remove

this and forced the adrenals to work

harder it’s gonna throw off your

hormones it’s going to put stress on the

hormones and create all sorts of

symptoms with cortisol you know estrogen

deficiencies and you name it the doctors

then come in and give you estrogen which

by the way the adrenal gland makes so it

causes the adrenal gland not to have to

produce that because you’re taking it so

what you really should do if you have

these organs removed is support the

adrenal nutritionally not the hormones

not taking a hormone but to support the

gland with with glandular extracts

there’s a couple things that I have that

do that one is the it used to be called

the adrenal night formula but now it’s

called a sleep aid regular because it

has adrenal extracts in it and it

actually supports the adrenal so that’s

one thing and also the adrenal and

cortisol relief also supports the

adrenal and then start doing maybe even

some acupressure on the adrenals so look

that up I have a lot of data on that and

then start to sur

adrenal what to eat and focus on that so

the dreamless need a little more protein

they need a lot of potassium foods they

need they need more fat because that

builds up the adrenal hormones but does

not need low fat it needs low intensity

exercise walking long walks reducing

stress better sleep that type of thing

but the point is that this is a long

answer to you need to support the

adrenals that’s pretty much the quick

answer to that and let me plug back in

here okay great

hope that helped Tracy okay so naive is

it Nazz how do you pronounce your form

yeah okay yeah okay yeah actually one

year old and I didn’t have gallbladder

but according to native videos that I

was watching I’d like to take comedy in

tights to for my knee pain and also

because I’m losing my hair I want to

take the type one for my here and I was

wondering if I think those two together

is it like okay and what’s the

recommended dosage and what kind of

collagen like me when I go online there

are too many kind fish animals and I

don’t know what one is organic on it’s

not and the recommended dosage some of

them are 40 milligrams I’m okay Matt

Raney right okay good question so

there’s two things there are certain

types of collagen for hair there’s

certain type of collagen for rebuilding

knee joints and other joints with

cartilage and tendons and ligaments I

don’t really have any opinion on any

other brands because I don’t I don’t

there’s so many brands out there but the

brands that I use I use a joint pain

formula that has very specific healing

and rejuvenating collagen building

properties for not just the joints but

for the ligaments and tendons so it

helps rejuvenate that and helps build

that up but that’s not the only thing

because a lot of times you might not

miss

missing collagen you might have an

inflammatory condition so in that

formula I put the best anti-inflammatory

herbs stinging on a root there is also

MSM there’s just a whole bunch of

anti-inflammatory natural things that I

recommend is called joint pain formula

so that’s for your joints it’s it’s like

a very comprehensive hormone for the

hair I recommend the hair formula simply

because it has the collagen and has

things in there for autoimmune like

alopecia it has the natural B vitamins

it has the trace minerals that has

silica but they’re all in a food base

they’re not synthetic so that’s what I’m

going to recommend for your hair but it

goes beyond just collagen it goes into

the nutrients that help collagen stick

and form in the body alright hey Joanne

you’re from Toronto go ahead you’re on

the air hi dr. Berg thank you for taking

my call and thanks for your show sure my

question for you is I’m 47 I still have

a regular cycle going on every month

I’ve been low-carb for about a year and

a half with great results and I exercise

which is running about twice a week and

everything’s been great feeling wise

except for lately I’ve noticed during

certain times of the month I get a

shortness of breath and I’ve had I’ve

had my heart checked I’ve had an

ultrasound done on my thyroid and I’ve

been given of course anxiety medication

from my doctor because that’s what we

thought it was but um I’ve read a few

reports online from other women who have

been going through this also and a lot

of them are saying that it’s

progesterone related so I just wanted

your thoughts on that and to see what

what my options might be yeah hey John

and again anything that I recommend

check with your doctor I’m not trying to

diagnose or say I can cure any problems

okay so just want to make that noise no

but here’s the question I have what part

of your cycle do you notice these

symptoms is it day 14 is it right

in the period when is it well

because I’m because I’m just starting to

track it now actually yeah it’s kind of

hard to stay but for this month so far

yes I did notice it starting just

shortly after ovulation okay I don’t

know how long that’s going to take me

until like I said I’m still trying to

track it and figure out exactly when

this is happening but I do think there

is some type of pattern because it’s not

all the time

and in some weeks I’m fine and then

it’ll just hit me again god I’m not sure

for help

well let me just let me just cut you off

there and I’m gonna show you oh my gosh

I just dropped around the call sorry so

but let me just show you on the board

hopefully you’ll be watching on your

computer and but let’s just take a look

at this right here

here’s your menstrual cycle day 14 is

when you ovulate okay that’s when the

egg gets released and then we have day

28 here when you start your period so

what happens I always like to see what’s

date coincidence what happens just

before at day 14 guess what you spiked

estrogen okay and then about a week

before your period used ice spiked

progesterone so if you’re getting these

symptoms right after ovulation right

about here I’m gonna say that your

progesterone is probably too low or

yesterday is too high one way to bring

the estrogen down since your menopause

going through menopause we have a

situation where estrogen does decrease

but so does progesterone but

progesterone really drops even more than

estrogen giving you a situation where

your estrogen dominant so because the

ratios because the progesterone that

protects you against too much estrogen

it’s kind of like a counter hormone so

you could correct this by taking more

progesterone okay so that’s the

no-brainer but you didn’t really correct

it you just kind of patched it up if

you’re 47 going through menopause what

you want to do is you want to support

the back-up organ which is

your adrenals so we’re back to the

adrenals again and that will naturally

kind of balance things out but if you

wanted a quick fix go ahead and take

some progesterone cream and that will

knock out the symptoms simply because

it’s related to that specific problem

all right sorry I’d knocked you knocked

you off but okay so now Nancy you have a

question you’re from Alabama go ahead

hey dr. Barry first of all thank you so

much for the information you’re putting

out there learning so much from what

you’re you’re giving us and I’m on your

ketogenic diet of about you know 7080

percent good fat intake and moderate

protein low carb with the high

vegetables and I’m logging it all on an

app and I’m on about Bay twelve here and

I’m wondering if there’s maybe a

recommendation with the Grahams maybe

for a fat feel like I might be taking in

too much fat even though I’m on mark

with the percentages still wondering if

I’m just taking in a few months yeah

okay good question answer you it’s

really difficult to give you a grandmom

out because it can range from this many

grams of this many grams the best thing

to think about is to the principle of a

try and eat your fats in a whole form

unfortunately just like refined

carbohydrates you do have refined fats

which you know normally even even oils

and butter and these other fats and even

coconut oil is out of the natural food

base complex now it doesn’t cause harm

because there’s nutrition in those but

just realize they’re out of the normal

complex so that’s one of the biggest

some things we’re starting a ketogenic

diet is being able to digest those fats

initially because you don’t have the

enzymes of the gallbladder help from the

bile to be able to break them down so I

would very simply just cut it way down

see how you feel is it working are you

getting rid of the symptoms of insulin

resistance are you more satisfied after

a meal can you go longer without crave

and a drop in blood sugar does the way

coming off in the midsection okay use

your hunger a drop being down those are

all the key factors so right at the end

of the meal the the real big reason I

would increase fat is to be able to go

longer between meals but I would just

start lowering it and see how you how

you do and not worry about the grams but

just don’t go out of your way to add a

lot of fat try to have the whole food

like an avocado or maybe coconut with

the fat or peanut butter or something

like that or brie cheese and then see

how you do with that all right

hey Miriam you’re from London go ahead

you’re on the air very informative so

thank you I actually am over four years

old I am taking because I I suffer

hypothyroid I am the micrograms of

levothyroxine and I discovered because

of your channel I take in apple cider

vinegar I got it taking it well I was

wondering if series if it’s good or

because I’m thinking this medicine I was

wondering because recently maybe two

weeks ago I feel very weak I’m not sure

why yeah this is my opinion most

hypothyroid problems are secondary to

either a gall bladder or liver issue or

high estrogen okay so apple cider

vinegar does increase the release of

bile so that’s supposed to increase the

conversion but you may need some bile

support

I call it bile the the gall bladder

formula which will then increase more

bile and help more conversion from t4 to

t3 okay so see if you that’s one thing

okay and also look at do you

any symptoms of gallbladder and you

should watch my videos to find that out

if that’s not the case let’s look at

estrogen are you a sergeant dominant now

you’re going on your 40s he possibly

could be pre menopausal which could

increase the estrogen because the it’s

like I said before the pedestrian goes

way too low so you may be getting better

results by lowering your ratios by

probably taking the estrogen balance

plus dim or supporting the adrenals so

those are the two things that I would

look at instantly just to see if you

can’t get results because the goal is to

find the real reason why you have the

low thyroid you know why you have that

some people also then just need a little

seek help to increase iodine and bones

thyroid goes right back in but again go

ahead keep taking medication but fine

try to experiment to see what else could

improve the thyroid see you eventually

can come off that men all right hey

Brenda you’re from New York go ahead

you’re on the air yeah hi good money

about that birth weight I did call you

last week man I still have a problem

with my digestion I have to question

after food even I don’t have a diabetic

in my life but I do check my blood sugar

in morning when I wake up and I do check

my sugar level every morning when I wake

up what is the digital meat in one

finger and to another finger because one

thing we’re reading is different we made

a finger usually I’m always in a 68 to

75 in the morning but because I want to

be more healthy just I follow whatever

low carb depletes us in the YouTube you

know so I’ll find out when I consume

more vegetable compared to the lower

eating the rice and cookies that I got

more higher sugar level what does it go

to burn no ha ha how high will it go

when you eat more vegetables when I it’s

defensible it’s causing me very very

bloating I sometimes go out and then

when I check my blood sugar even though

I don’t eat rice in a day or any any any

cop it

ninety-eight in the morning sometimes

hundreds okay and then but it if I don’t

consume that maths festival my sugar

level going down to 68 to 70 again like

today like three days ago I check I

don’t want you because I was throwing

out of too much of my stomach I stop it

I stop it and then my sugar level going

down very but like before we just make

me very happy right Brendan Brendan

question a question do you know what

normal blood pressure is what’s the

normal blood I’m sorry blood glucose

what’s the normal blood sugar okay

alright then thanks let me just answer

this real quick this is an easy one it’s

yeah we need to eat more vegetables but

your problem is you’re not digesting

those fibers and the vegetables and

that’s what’s creating the bloating the

bloating will create stress the stress

will activate coral the coral will

increase the blood sugars you’re still

within the normal range but I think you

need to either consume different

vegetables that you can digest like some

type of lettuce that is like not part of

the cruciferous or fermented vegetables

okay and I think that’s the way you’re

going to have to go right now because

you’re not able you don’t have the

enzymes to digest it because there’s

certain microbes missing so just cut

down on the best the type of vegetables

that blow you until there’s no more

bloating and I think that will solve it

but I’m not too concerned about the

blood sugar because it’s still below a

hundred but 68 to 70 it could be normal

if you’re in ketosis

but yeah even it goes up to one hundred

is still fine okay thanks hey Jonathan

you’re from Oregon go ahead you’re on

the air

hey Jonathan are you there yes good

morning dr. Berg thank you very much my

question is not really to do with

illness but to do with health I’ve been

studying your material over the last

month and I’m very very grateful for it

two to two questions one just very

general about why aren’t more

government’s adopting this kind of a

approach I have 64 years of retraining

my mind from all that I’ve you know

learnt over the years and that that kind

of retrain of mine takes some doing

secondly I I we started 192 pounds I

have a goal of getting to 160 but it

occurs to me that I don’t really know

what what goal at all

I should have I’m 5 foot 6 in height but

and I wonder what your views will be of

what height you can get to and I suppose

my third question is I haven’t heard a

lot about exercise with the ketosis diet

so thank you

ok great Jonathan let’s take the first

question governments are composed of

large groups of people not just one

person and because of that they are the

last group to come on board with a new

idea so that’s why they’re always the

last in fact if you want some truthful

information find out what the

governments are doing and do the exact

opposite and you’ll probably very very

successful ok because they’re always way

behind of the current research it’s very

political as well and ok second question

you’re 192 you want to get to one of

these six but you’re not sure if that’s

the right thing well it’s really it’s

really going to be tricky because we

don’t I can’t really see you I can’t see

your bone structure I can’t see your

shape every shape is different the goal

is not necessarily a weight goal but how

you look maybe body fat that would be a

better goal and how your shape is you

know your muscular content you know do

you as your belly flat do you do you

feel good about the way you look and the

overall health you have the energy do

you have the vitality how is your

sleeping how’s your stress level I think

that would be a better goal and then if

you can achieve that you will always

find that the weight goes to where you

need to be third question I just

released a video yesterday on exercise

and keep ptosis so you can watch that

but the I think you brought up a really

good point because I want to bring this

up this is um there’s this whole dogma

with exercise that you go through this

thing called a bunk which you actually

hit a wall because you run out of your

stored sugar it’s called glycogen in

your muscle and then the muscle just

gets fatigued and you can’t go anymore

so then we need to do carbo loading and

we need to add more carbs or sugar

before during and after an athletic

marathon or endurance race or even some

type of exercise right well there’s been

some recent research that I have in the

video that shows that if you key to

adapt which means you do this over a

period of months like in you’re an

athlete you will not only have better

performance but you will burn more than

two times the amount of fat as the

person consuming the sugar in other

words your body your muscles can run on

fat efficiently once you key to adapt

but if you take an athlete and they

don’t key to adapt let’s say they do

this in like two or three weeks and

they’re not adapted they don’t have the

enzymes to burn the fat so they’re gonna

crash and burn 85% of your body can run

on fat fuel and the rest that’s

dependent on glucose like part a part of

the brain part of the kidney part of the

eye and the sperm and the red blood cell

all are dependent on glucose but your

body can easily make the sugar from the

fat that you’re eating from your stored

fat and from your protein that you’re

eating it doesn’t need glucose so

you watch in the next several years all

these top athletes will start going more

ketogenic because their efficiency is

going to be better it’s less waste more

oxygen better efficiency you can produce

more ATP which is the energy currency

which is more energy in general and it’s

just more of a cleaner fuel source all

right Jonathan hey Jacqueline you’re

from Toronto Canada go ahead you’re on

the air I have a question about milk and

PETA genic diet I understand

milk is rather contraindicated because

of the lactose the sugars what if one

drinks lactose free milk good good

question the other thing that you there

are other sugars in milk other than

lactose

however lactose is part of the biggest

sugar so I think you would be fine

consuming some milk with lactose free

but it has to be grass-fed or organic

and the problem with milk - is that the

cows consume the grains which is GMO

that’s number one number two the other

problems is pasteurized and when you

have pasteurized milk you have a

different product than raw milk it’s

illegal to sell it in most states in the

US so what you maybe in Canada you can

get some raw milk and if you can get

that and it’s like grass-fed that would

be great it’s much easier to get the raw

milk organic grass-fed cheese which has

a lot less lactose than milk then it’s

low carb and it’s high protein and it’s

fermented so it’s easy to digest versus

just milk but a little milk here and

there is a very minor point but just

make sure it’s organic milk

alright Jacqueline hey Susan you’re on

the air you’re from Ohio go ahead you’re

you’re next hi dr. Berg how are you good

thanks I want to thank you very much for

all your information I’m a newbie and I

just had my first

apple cider vinegar drink this morning

and I was pleasantly surprised to find

that it was quite refreshing my problem

is is I am a food addict

I’m not drugs it’s not money it’s not

gambling it’s food so in 2007 I went

through a liquid diet through a

hospitals outpatient program and I lost

100 pounds and 53 inches and I also quit

smoking that very first week from the 16

year habit I kept that weight off until

2013 when I had my first foot surgery

for a bunion to make a long story short

that doctor did a botched job and

subsequently I just had my fifth great

foot surgery on May 1st to try to

correct the problem so exercise was not

walking it’s gonna have to be like water

aerobics hmm but I need to lose weight

I’ve gained my body is completely

different than it was before

and I’ve gained a lot of weight back not

all of it but quite a bit of it okay and

I’m wondering if your ketogenic diet

will kind of put my body back where it

was

okay good let me answer that Susan first

of all what do you want to acknowledge

that people for some reason get a lot of

pleasure from food I know it’s

surprising but people actually only even

live for the sensation of food it

actually makes you feel better right so

I don’t want to take that away from you

because then you’re going to want it

more so if you start watching a lot of

the videos that we have my wife and I

with the recipe videos you can get some

amazing ideas for a pleasurable

so-called junk food no sugar ketogenic

it’s the way to go so that shouldn’t be

an issue because there’s a lot of

pleasure in some of the stuff I mean

like bread and chocolate and cake and

all these ice cream I mean there’s ways

that you can make it just takes a little

more time that’s number one number two

85%

of your success with weight loss will

come from changing your eating and only

15% with exercise so you can’t really

get your goal with just exercise so that

the good point is we don’t really need

exercise to get you at least 85% to your

goal even if you didn’t exercise now the

advantage of the ketogenic diet is that

ketosis is basically putting your by in

fact learning now wouldn’t it make sense

if you want to lose weight is to burn

fat I mean why wouldn’t anyone want to

burn fat keep ptosis or the ketosis diet

is the science of getting your body in

fat burning so I’m like that is like

what everyone should be doing if they

want to lose weight it’s a tool I show

you some tweaks to my videos of how to

do it correctly so yes I highly

recommend you do that because you can

get to your goal healthily without

craving and hunger okay so that’s really

cool the last thing is that bunion

removal I should do a video on that but

instead of getting more therapy if you

had this done on the right foot the

surgery and the bunion and this whole

thing and now it’s pain because now you

can’t walk on you can’t run out you need

to maybe watch some of the videos that I

have on that but you need to do massage

on the opposite foot right where they do

the surgery probably on the inner toe

where your bunion was and you start

massaging the left foot it’s gonna hurt

like hell why why is it gonna be hurt on

the opposite because the way the nerve

reflexes go but if you would work that

out maybe five minutes every day and

just massage the whole thing and the

compensating muscles which is gonna be

in your left calf it’s gonna hurt maybe

have someone else do it and work that

out or even higher massage therapist to

work that out you will and I wish we

could all do a video before and after

because you’ll be putting pressure on

your right foot within probably a day or

two and it won’t hurt anymore it’s the

fastest way to knock out of pain so I’ll

create a video on that but in the

meantime I already have videos on how to

get rid of toe pain and foot pain work

on the opposite side all right Susan

alright hey Sean you’re from South

Africa go ahead you’re on the air

hi dr. Berg thank you I just want to

thank you for all your your videos and

recipes and everything is really amazing

my question is regarding your sweeteners

and so I’m pre-diabetic and my doctor

actually told me to stay away from

sweeteners like desirable and because

your wall she told me that your

intestines can actually taste or detect

the sweetness and therefore still

produced insulin and I would just like

to get your take on that because you use

quite a bit of sweetener in all your

recipe yeah I always love this when

people give their opinions and what I

would like to do is that when someone

says even they say with stevia well

because it’s sweet then your body will

start increasing insulin because it

doesn’t know the difference between the

sensation of sweet and sugar I would

always say well where did you where did

you hear that who told you that

what reference are you quoting right

there it breaks right down because they

won’t have a reference there is no data

on that in fact the data if you take

non-gmo xylitol it has a much lower

glycemic index it has this interesting

property of being sweet without

increasing insulin very much compared to

sugar that’s what it does same thing

with stevia same thing with three three

tall I’ve been using with tens of

thousands of actual patients over a long

period of time and I can tell you you’ll

be safe with consuming that being a

diabetic but again on the net from your

doctor you’re going to hear every

different opinion the difference between

an opinion in fact is the fact is based

on evidence the opinion that may or may

not be based on evidence so you just

have to find out where’s the source who

told you that and then you’ll find out

they probably heard it from the National

Enquirer or some other high-quality

reference all right thanks Shawn hey

Lisa you’re from Missouri go ahead

you’re on the air hi doctor bird my

question I just recently had some lab

work done this week and I got my results

and what I’m dealing with

it’s high

Cuoco my numbers came in at 125

the range is 74 to 106 and then I’m also

dealing with high cholesterol I’m in my

50 and I have gone one year without

ministration and I spoke to my doctor

about that he said two years so I don’t

think that I’m totally I don’t know if

I’m totally out of the woods

administrating my body is going through

changes

I just incorporated eating

steel-cut oatmeal into my diet and I

don’t know if that was a good thing

because I had basically been sticking

with eggs and spinach more your protein

and your vegetables okay and the only

reason why I incorporated the steel-cut

oatmeal because they were telling me

with my high cholesterol to start eating

more oats

I don’t know if that’s a big thing for

me so I want to have some feedback on

what I should try to to do to get these

numbers back in range because I don’t

want to go on medication yeah I got it

thanks Lisa this this is just so funny

because there’s this whole push against

lowering cholesterol so they’ll do it by

adding more grains because oatmeal has

the beta glutens which will lower

cholesterol but here’s the thing

cholesterol is is a healer it actually

heals the body it’s used as a band-aid

it’s your body makes a lot of it because

it needs it it’s a precursor to certain

hormones especially during menopause in

fact and this might be mind-blowing and

different than what you’ve been hearing

and I will create a video on this but

you could literally increase more

cholesterol in the diet and lower

someone’s cholesterol simply because

there’s a feedback mechanism now most

people will not believe that and that’s

fine but I just say try it for two weeks

and just watch what happens because you

your cholesterol changes day to day

and you could even do it within you know

three days and see this interesting you

could buy a cholesterol tester at the

drugstore and then test yourself every

day and you will see it’s just so

bizarre in fact adding more cholesterol

to lower cholesterol just because your

body then won’t have to hold on I mean

it can actually release some of it so I

think I would cut out the steel-cut

oatmeal I think I would go back to what

you’re doing but the other point I want

to make is you have to do intermittent

fasting that because you have if your

cholesterol and your blood sugars are up

we still have a problem with insulin

resistance so we’re gonna have to keep

working on that because all these other

things are symptoms of high levels of

insulin so I would do a combination of

ketosis in a minute fasting maybe

because of your age I would go to two

meals a day but you’re gonna have to add

more fat to be able to go from one meal

to the next and watch what happens

within two or three weeks to your

cholesterol and your blood sugars it’ll

come right down I also watch the videos

on debugging stubborn weight loss you

can go with my membership site and get a

lot more data on that and they can

actually get to the nitty gritty ax to

see there’s a whole bunch of other

things you can do to take it to the next

level as well but I wouldn’t worry about

I think you’re doing fine just cut out

the oatmeal and realize that a lot of

medical doctors just don’t have the

nutritional training they’re basically

symptom based and they’ll they’ll and we

need doctors that emergency care and

things like that but when they get into

nutritional things they just don’t know

some are learning but unfortunately

that’s the way it is hey Edward you’re

from Florida go ahead people you and

I’ve seen some progress and I want to

know why maybe I’m gonna leave a slower

than maybe most people and that is the

way I perceive it as we’ve gone about

that don’t you take on that okay so and

again right after your question we have

one two three four more questions and

then we’re not going to take any more

but here’s the thing Edward underneath

the left ribcage is the pancreas and

probably what’s happening the new thing

with the new introduction of fats to the

diet is putting maybe a little strain on

the pancreas so what I would recommend

in your case very simply is to find some

enzyme combination called pink

it’s called pancreatin okay and it’s a

group of enzymes that you can take into

some of the form to take the support off

the pancreas and just help your pancreas

you know work better because what

happens if you are a typical person

who’s been eating sugar your whole life

whatever your insulin resistance that

puts a lot of strain in the pancreas now

the pancreas can’t produce the enzymes

that it needs to and then it might

strain the pancreas then cause all sorts

of you know irritation or swelling or

the pancreas to work so hard so I would

just add the enzymes to it and maybe cut

down the fat just a little bit and see

if those symptoms don’t go completely

away so we have someone from India go

ahead you’re on the air it’s Shammi

regarding your hypothyroid shopping

oh hi I I is not my primary question my

primary question is on fibroids

so I’ve had fibroids I think from 2003

or four I figured it out in 2005 I did a

myomectomy in 2000 from I’m 39 years old

now so

2005 is my first surgery on I did my

iMac to me I think I had intramural and

sub serious fibroids I don’t know how to

pronounce that

and I 10 years later I did a follow-up

surgery because again I you know it grew

back right so this was in 2016 so post

surgery

I think about a couple of months later I

went back for a follow-up and I still

do have a little bit of fibroid I think

it’s like one point six centimeters

pretty small but my uterus is still

bulky and post-surgery my bleeding has

become less while my period cycle is

perfected so 2020 seven-day cycle the

bleeding has become less so I want to

know I mean what is it that I can do see

I don’t want to keep doing the surgery

again right so I want to know is there a

way to kind of control this you know

fibroid and my little bit of background

everything else seems to be normal my

liver or gallbladder or ovaries

everything is normal but I do have a

bulky uterus okay I’m like what I rode

medication okay great thanks so let me

just kind of give you the four things

number one I know in India I don’t know

in your area the part of India but they

they’re starting introduced even GMO

things cotton for example is GMO cotton

and cotton if it’s GMO it’s sprayed with

glyphosate well you have a female’s

tampon their pads and their panty liners

that are actually very close to the area

of the body that you can actually

increase absorption of those that

herbicide that can then create fibroids

because it’s estrogenic so that’s one

thing you have to do organic in that

situation the other thing is make sure

that all of your foods are organic and

without hormones okay because that’s

really what’s creating this growth of

fibroid underneath everything else

you’re still you know you’re possibly

going in the pre menopause at this age

possibly an X gonna increase your

estrogen to progesterone ratio that

could be another factor it’s unlikely

but that could be a situation so you

might have to actively balance out your

estrogen so you do the cruciferous

vegetables get something called dim di M

that’s a concentrated cruciferous it’s

that will help and then the very organic

healthy seek help that will decrease the

estrogen as well that’s what I would do

if I were in your shoes and I think that

should really resolve the problem okay

so Paul you’re from Australia go ahead

you’re on the air

I thank you dr. Berg I five years ago I

had three stents put in my arteries and

they’ve put me on cholesterol tablets

statin tablets also a blood-pressure

tablet which I’ve never had blood

pressure in my life and also an aspirin

I saw one of your videos and I decided

there and then that I’ll chuckle I’m so

by all these tablets and I ordered some

of the or k2d three tablets but a friend

of mine was telling me he had this is

got the same problem with he had stents

put in but he’s his specialist said that

he has to lower his cholesterol because

there could be a problem with his tense

now I’m in the catch-22 I don’t know

what to do I’m taking the I’m taking the

aspirin but not not the not the

cholesterol tablets my cholesterol was

with the tablets were at four point six

when I threw them out and I had a test

at my local chemist came to six point

four yeah I at the moment I’m taking

sufficient and some q10 and I’m waiting

for your medication to arrive and I’ll

start taking lives now again I’m not

quite sure about this

cholesterol thing in the stent yeah I

think Paul I’m gonna actually don’t

wanna do some videos on that because I

think that’s a big problem there’s so

much confusion total cholesterol doesn’t

mean anything related to arteries you

want to know about the different types

of LDL which I’ll do a video on but

here’s the thing you’re taking d3 k2

which is the absolute best thing for the

arteries because it D calcifies the

arteries it makes

artery’s more elastic the cholesterol is

this only coming in there as a band-aid

to heal the broken down artery that is

probably has some micro hemorrhaging or

bleeding from preexisting stuff the

other thing you have to do to even

balance your cholesterol is to get fixed

insulin resistance so I think you’ve

probably been watching my videos are

already doing that if you follow that

you’re going to be very successful to

heal the circulation the heart the

arteries the blood vessels it makes the

arteries less inflamed which is then

going to attract less LDL LDL basically

triggers an immune reaction because it’s

there to actually heal things so if the

LDL goes up and you’re not eating any

sugar it just means that your body is

trying to heal something so number one

in the K 2 and D 3 we added the red

yeast extract which is very powerful for

cholesterol so that’s number one

I think you’re taking the right thing

number two you want to get on the

ketogenic diet hardcore you want to make

sure that you’re you’re doing in a

minute fasting so those snacks between

the meals and then number three I would

highly recommend doing a more broad

cholesterol panel to look at the whole

picture the different types of LDL and

get someone if it needs to be my team or

someone else to evaluate that correctly

and start evaluating that over the next

few months and I think you’re gonna be

way more successful but you’re right

it’s it’s hard because your friend tells

you this their doctor tells you that

you’re confused you need to be had it on

that I’ll create some videos on the LDL

very soon so you can have all the data

so you don’t have to be in fear but I

think you’re doing the right thing

thanks Paul hey LeAnn you’re from

Brooklyn go ahead you’re on the air

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thirteen years I’ve been having a heart

palpitation right now I’m 40 and I’m

still having the same problem I did

already

Prentis EKG echo they monitor my heart

for two weeks and it’s the same problem

and I know they can’t get mad and say

what is the problem if he can do any

blood tests they can we know one of the

doctors tell me probably I’m a half in

panic attack she wanted me to see Dion

psychiatrist

I don’t have any panic attacks so I

didn’t go to see the psychiatrist I have

you know no problem to plan fully

okay so let’s talk about the real heart

palpitations is an electrolyte problem I

did a video on that again I’m just

giving information to do your own

research I’m not telling you that this

is going to be the cure but I will say

that you may want to go into the area of

consuming more potassium foods and even

a potassium supplement I do have an

electrolyte powder it’s I temporarily

ran out of it I will have it in ten days

but here’s the thing higher levels of

potassium like if you were to do an

extra 3,000 milligrams of potassium that

is will put the electrical system back

into the connection with the pacemakers

in the heart and of course you want to

also get the magnesium as well the

combination in the in the whole

electrolyte mix because your

palpitations are either a magnesium

deficiency or a potassium deficiency if

you’ve been consuming those over a

period of time

and you still have heart palpitations

then we know you have insulin resistance

in which case you need to follow that

eating plan I’m recommending like to a

tee because insulin resistance blocks

the absorption of potassium and

magnesium so that could be the reason so

you just have to go right back into

fixing that eating better in a minute

fasting and that will start increasing

your potassium and reduces the

palpations but sometimes by taking the

potassium that can also speed up the

fixing your insulin resistance at the

same

time so you can kill two birds with one

stone go ahead and try that okay and

then let us know and maybe about a month

from now all right then we have someone

from Miami Florida

it’s Nabila go ahead yes hello how are

you doing you’re amazing and a gift and

thank you for everything that you do I’m

56 years old and I have a history of

hepatitis C I was treated for that

I finished the harvoni last year in July

and now I’m hearing incidents of liver

cancer occurring from what I understand

the microenvironment of the liver you

know is not restored although you know

we are treated and you know no one has

spoken to me about that my GI hasn’t

spoken to me about that and I’m

concerned also I have hypothyroidism my

valve matter was removed in 1999 and you

know I’m about 210 pounds and I’m having

difficulty losing weight so these are my

concerns if you can assist me with that

sure okay great and you’ll be the last

caller so here’s the here’s the thing I

would get some high quality licorice

root licorice root has this interesting

property that improves viral hepatitis

okay so that’s one thing secondly the

reason why if hypothyroid is probably

because the gall bladder was moved

because now you can’t have a difficult

difficult time converting t4 to t3 so

you probably would benefit from

something called gall bladder formula

and maybe even milk thistle for the

inflammation on the liver so and then to

put the icing on the cake

that’s a bad expression to basically

take the next level follow the the

eating recommendations that I have on

the videos with in a minute fasting and

ketosis because that’s going to take a

huge stress off the liver it’s going to

take inflammation of the liver and

because it’s viral the you can’t kill a

virus all you can do is put it in

remission

so you just your only solution is to

stay extremely healthy

okay and vibrant so thank you so much

for calling hey you guys were great I

hope you got some tips until next week

have a great week I’ll release some more

videos each day so thanks for watching

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