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well good afternoon everyone everyone

we’re back with another show and of

course anything that I say is definitely

not meant to cure you or treat any

diseases or even prevent disease so that

being said um we’re going to Jump Right

In we have a lot of great people and

questions that are in the green room and

as well as in social media so

uh Steve over to you you’re very good

speaking of the Green Room we’ve got one

nice gentleman all the way down to the

tip of Africa in Johannesburg and it’s a

little later for him so I’m going to get

him up first his name is David and he

has a terrific question for you I’m sure

David you’re on with Dr Berg

yes good evening yo good morning to you

guys

um good evening from South Africa

hello

hi how you doing doctor

great thanks

so go ahead with your question David

okay good job thank you um I do a lot of

outer trail running and Mountain running

very long distances um I’m trying to

maintain a keto diet with intermittent

fasting during the week but when I run a

hunt I’ve been reading myself for sports

gels

um but I find that our bunk quite a lot

if I don’t take him

um so yeah I’m trying to get myself to

feed or my body to feed off the effects

rather than sugars and I’m finding funny

quite hard to get that right

so basically if you don’t do the uh the

glucose you tend to hit this wall right

that’s correct yes

yeah

um

I mean are you familiar with Professor

Knox in South Africa

that’s right yeah

yeah he has some great data on that I

mean um that it comes with a package it

comes with the package

um you know like diabetes things like

that but here’s the thing

um I think you just need to um

kind of study some of the long-distance

Runners that have got into a really good

keto adaptation to the point where our

fat adaptation where they can just

oxidize fat like way better than anyone

else and because what’s happening you’re

running up against the loss of glycogen

and now where’s the fuel your body just

hasn’t really been able to tap into the

fat because you’re not fully converted

over yet and that that takes some time

um so that’s what I would shoot for as a

long-term goal couple other things

um I would recommend I would um

maybe as a transition uh you do

um not the glucose but maybe you do some

fruit okay try that for a while okay

then push that to the side and then

maybe you do maybe a starch something

like that so it’s a little bit kind of

like a stair step approach because when

you do this straight

uh those packs are just pure dextrose

synthetic from corn syrup they’re just

going to deplete a lot of B vitamins B1

and that’s going to affect your

performance

um

as well as deplete other things too so

you’re taking this refined sugar I think

they even use maltodextrin it’s just so

refined and it’s um yeah it’s going to

be burned as fuel but it’s going to come

with the package because in order to

burn that fuel you need a lot of other

nutrients so

um at the very very minimum you should

be taking you know B vitamins

electrolytes um not too many but just

enough to compensate for the um that

refined sugar that’s going to deplete

because it takes in order to break down

that Sugar it takes certain cofactors

and nutrients so what’s happening you’re

just creating deficiencies left and

right so we want to avoid that

um

now there is some this is a really open

it’s kind of a

a new field a lot of people are

experimenting now with um

you know adding more ins you know

they’re adding uh MCT oil and coconut uh

um fat to help maybe can run on that as

far as just once your body can burn uh

actual ketones they can start taking

some of this the fat is fuel rather than

the sugar is fuel but again it’s a it’s

a new field there’s not a lot of

research but I would go more towards

some some of these ultra marathon runner

diets that um they’re not doing the

glucose they’re doing um they’re doing

certain carbs potatoes and things like

that but it’s definitely not straight

glucose

quite a few different types of foods and

foods but they are really just trying to

avoid those Stills full stop but like I

said um it happens that you you need

them

yeah I understand that I totally

understand

um

the two things too that I think will

help

help you um reduce some of the those

symptoms is to take more vitamin E in

the form of tocotrenals as well as uh

sodium like sea salt because both of

those if you’re deficient especially if

you’re exercising and utilize a lot of

energy they can actually keep at least

your muscles in really good shape and

keep them strong and you’ll have less

fatigue just from that

but um

um

you’ll have to be a human guinea pig to

really uh experiment on this yourself

because there’s just not a lot of

research unfortunately

thank you very much for the advice

you’re welcome I appreciate it all right

thanks for coming on board David we

appreciate that and all of us uh you

know tip our hat here all that long

distance run into stuff uh my longest

run used to be to the refrigerator but

I’m trying to avoid that a little bit

more with Dr Berg’s great Council and

speaking of places far away Kerry from

YouTube just simply wants to say hi Dr

Berg much love from your Australian

followers you have given us health

happiness and you have changed my life

so thanks for that Carrie we appreciate

it and you’re certainly not alone all

across the world we’ve got yeah great

reports like that and LK from YouTube is

it okay to take your vitamins and

minerals during a fast good question

well especially especially that’s when

you want to take them for sure because

um

you are

um you know living off no food so you’re

gonna make sure you get your nutrients

and with very very minimal calories if

any and then that way you can uh survive

a little bit better especially if you’re

going into a fast with some subclinical

deficiencies

so I mean I know some people that do the

fasting and they kind of after like 24

hours they might feel faint you know

just because they’re not taking enough

electrolytes and things like that so

yeah take them while you’re fasting um

now you’re going to probably ask about

well wait a second I thought what about

like the fat soluble vitamins like

vitamin D don’t you need fat for that

so that should I take that with the meal

um it’s going to help you digest it to a

certain degree but you’ll still absorb

um a significant amount if even if you

have an empty stomach so I wouldn’t

worry too much about that perfect okay

we got some really great in my opinion

questions today and I bet the audience

will agree and here’s the first one

okay question number one what is the

primary nutritional difference

between adult vegetables

and sprouts and microgreens

is uh broccolini a sprout or something

or is that just regular old broccoli I

think that’s a type of broccoli

interesting all right well uh so climb

on that audience

let’s see here let’s go through the list

of people in addition to David and Dr

Gantt and Marsha who are listening to us

from all around the world so we’d like

to say a good morning to our viewers

joining us from the UK Canada Mexico

Jordan Palestine Japan Australia we just

mentioned Ghana Bangkok Algeria uh and

by the way Terry corrected me I’ve been

saying nambia but it’s

Namibia Namibia if I said in Namibia

thank you Terry Hong Kong Brazil Tunisia

Germany Oman turkey Spain Greece Italy

Paraguay Montenegro South Africa thanks

again David Denmark Pakistan uh and

here’s another one that he gave me uh

eritia come on dear you got to throw in

these names anyway aratia I think I said

that right Nepal Taiwan Saudi Arabia

Israel France the Netherlands Nicaragua

Nigeria Sweden Ethiopia India

Switzerland Malaysia Croatia United Arab

Emirates Emirates excuse me Estonia

Trinidad and Tobago the Czech Republic

Jamaica Aruba Slovakia Bhutan Zambia

been their beautiful place Peru Zimbabwe

Austria Ghana we’re getting there folks

Poland Iran Qatar Iraq the Virgin

Islands and all across these United

States including uh you know Atlanta who

will have up soon and also my my

neighbor Dr Gant is from Fayetteville

North Carolina and she promises to come

out to the beach at Wilmington where I

live but says she prefers Myrtle Beach

so there’s a little rabbit hole to go

down cat on a cat can style from YouTube

is it okay to drink organic ceremonial

Keiko while fasting

did I said it right I I didn’t hear what

you said ceremonial what uh c-a-c-a-o

is that like Coco I’m not sure what that

is yeah interesting well audience why

don’t you guys if you know what

c-a-c-a-o is uh why don’t you uh

yes I guess that’s what it is

oh okay yeah yeah you can drink that

yeah

not a problem all right very good thank

goodness and being my pronunciation

today I’m just uh getting an F minus I

think okay let’s see

um here’s a good one Karen from YouTube

I’m eating clean keto with intermittent

fasting on a 22 and 2 schedule if I

drink antimicrobial formula with uh

Manuka Honey morning and night am I

still getting any benefits from

autophagy so she’s chugging some honey

dog

I think not because out of all the

things you can eat of course

fructose glucose that’s what honey is

made out of um

can inhibit

um it can raise insulin and insulin is

the factor that kind of inhibits

autophagy so you you really are not

going to get the benefit of that um

um

so you have other things you probably

could eat would be better I mean you can

have celery uh that would be that would

probably help you a lot more but of

course the um

you know I know there’s um

some good properties in honey so maybe

if you’re taking it to help yourself

with a sore throat something like that

or you can put it topically on a burn if

it’s like I think maluka honey has some

amazing properties and uh you can use be

used for many different things as an

antimicrobial

but

uh there’s so many more antimicrobial

things that you can ingest

to uh that don’t

create that effect

very good okay the odd garlic oregano

oil things like that wonderful okay

uh the first question of today uh Dr

Berg asked the audience what is the

primary nutritional difference between

adult vegetables and Sprouts or micro

machines and the audience

uh ninety percent of our respondents say

sprouts and micro greens are the

nutritionally dense 10 say they have

higher levels of chlorophyll

okay so um

what’s interesting about

um this little baby Sprout you have the

seed right and that would be also be

considered a grain

grains or seeds and people actually eat

grains right

um and then you have the Sprout which is

usually about

um

two to five days

and then you have the micro green which

is it’s a little bit later up to 14 days

so it’s a little bit older in the stage

of development then you have baby greens

which is a little bit older and then you

have adult vegetables so the the peak

nutrition okay happens right right

around

you know 7 to 14 days so you have this

massive up uh spike in these protective

defense chemicals but primarily you’re

getting massive amounts of

phytonutrients in these phytochemicals

which by the way drug companies are

spending a lot of money researching and

in their development of drugs from

these phytonutrients that are just have

amazing properties anti-inflammatory you

name it anti-cancer so what’s unique

about a microgreen or a sprout is you

have about between

40 to up to a hundred times the amount

of phytonutrients than adult vegetables

so here you’re trying to get your

phytonutrients your antioxidants from

the vegetables being broccoli which you

should

um but if you had the microgreens or the

Sprouts it’s super concentrated you get

a lot more so you wouldn’t have to have

as much

so those people that can’t seem to do

the 10 to 20 cups of salad a day like

Steve should definitely be doing micro

greens or Sprouts just put a little bit

on your salad now

um

growing methods are important too and

I’m not going to get into that but the

point is like you can buy these micro

greens at the store they’re a bit

expensive because they go bad really

quick but you don’t need very many and

so you’re consuming this super

concentrated phytonutrient you can even

grow them yourself that can actually

help you with so many different things

they’re using it for autism H pylori

cancer even if someone is on

chemotherapy it helps to minimize the

side effects it also just helps you

trigger enzymes in your own liver to

help turn poisons into harmless

particles so if there’s some type of

I don’t know Benzene for example that’s

very toxic

these phytonutrients help to dismantle

that so they can help you and the last

cool thing about it is that when you

have the sprouts and you have the micro

greens they have the least amount of

um anti-nutrients lectins oxalates uh

phytates

um all these things that a seed has

as well as an adult vegetable has

so you’re eating something at the stage

where it’s a plant growth that’s uh will

give you some really cool benefits

without with minimal problems wow how

about preparation doc how can you ruin

those things

or how can you get the most well if you

grow them you know what you can do is

you um I would you know highly recommend

you grow them in actual soil because

you’d get you would get a way better

product but of course some people you

know grow them in

different mediums that uh that don’t

have the the perfect thing for the

microbes you want but anyway you grow

them and you can just cut the tops off

put on your salad and let them grow back

cut it off put in your salad let it grow

back so you can use it multiple times

I’m not sure how many times you can use

them but they do grow back and um

you can also buy them from the store and

just uh you know they’re already going

to be clean and you stick them right on

your salad and or I’ll get some at the

farmer’s market usually has them as well

I go to the Bethesda Farmers Market on

Sunday and there’s a guy there that’s

called the salad guy he is the best

micro greens that I’ve ever had so I end

up buying tons of that stuff I put in my

salad

very great health properties

thanks Doc okay shray from YouTube can

fasting mess with a woman’s hormones my

physician says as soon as blood sugar

drops noticeably cortisol kicks in and

it can further deplete a woman’s

progesterone levels thoughts

so maybe we should just start eating

more frequently eat a lot of snacks eat

every hour and a half to keep that

cortisol from going up right that makes

a lot of sense

um

that is utter uh nonsense in fact you’ll

find that when you do fasting you feel

Serene calm your stress goes down your

tolerance stress goes up

what they’re confusing is the counter

regulatory

cortisol effect when blood sugars go

down because you’re not eating but

that’s that’s not going to be a big

issue because as soon as your body

starts adapting within two to three days

and you start getting into ketosis

you’re hope you’re not eating sugar so

um your body runs on fat fuel so it’s

not it so now you don’t have this

situation where you’re just running on

blood sugars and it goes down and then

all of a sudden you can’t tap in the fat

and then you have this issue so the

solution is to adapt to the ketogenic

diet

and um and your cortisol will be fine

um yeah it’s just based on

misinformation

um they don’t know they don’t know about

the adaptation and the liver they don’t

know about nutritional ketosis

unfortunately just not taught that so

um they can’t really give you a good

opinion because they don’t understand it

wow this covers a lot of folks uh Jack

from YouTube I’m struggling with

prostate issues at 65 your

recommendations would be greatly

appreciated

um

the first thing

um I do know this if you’re consuming

dairy products okay if you have prostate

and dairy sometimes that doesn’t mix

because the dairy can actually increase

the hormonal Factor even estrogen and

actually if you’re doing like nothing

like milk and even sometimes cheese can

you’ll you might notice that your

prostate swells up

so

um my if you’re just cutting that out

that might help you now many uh men get

up multiple times a night to urinate

because the prostate they think anyway

and it could be but I found when you

start doing intermittent fasting

and you cut out the carbs and you cut

out the snacking especially the late

night snacking

the grazing at night when you’re

watching TV you cut that out and you

start doing two meals or even one meal a

day boy

your retention of urine

is going to be so much better in fact

you’ll be able to sleep through the

night without getting up and you then

you’re going to go wait a second I

thought that that was my my prostate and

when in fact it was just your insulin

resistance

interesting okay the rest of our

questions for today unusually are all

true false or and that’s just so great

because you can appear to be you have a

50 chance of appearing to be a genius

even if you don’t know the answer so

here’s the first one to consider uh Dr

Berg

okay true or false the best way to

stretch a muscle

is a static stretch which basically

means you’re not moving the muscle

you’re just holding it for about 30

seconds

okay folks what do you think about that

let’s go back to YouTube Gregory from

YouTube my wife suffers from anemia and

must continually take iron pills and her

doctors can’t find the root of this

issue what are your thoughts

yeah

not good because of the iron pills they

give you are Elemental which is um

really hard in the body you should you

should get a better source of iron I

would get um

liver grass-fed liver pills or spleen

pills that will give you a much better

type of iron I think your body will find

more bile available the other point to

look at with iron is the pH of your

stomach chances are your acid your

hydrochloric acid is just not strong

enough to be able to assimilate or pull

in that iron so these minerals don’t get

absorbed unless you have other factors

involved so you might benefit from

betaine hydrochloride with your meals

maybe two or three or four even five of

those betaine hydrochloride to help you

absorb iron

um iron also uh can be increased with

vitamin C so you might need that as well

so I would look at the whole uh look

your whole diet to see what’s missing

because I think there’s something else

that’s stopping you uh from having this

issue the other thing too

um

there’s other forms of um anemia so

let’s say you’re anemic and they someone

said you’re iron anemic when in fact

you’re 12 anemic

that could be a world of difference that

could be another reason why you might

have anemia that can’t fix it because

you can’t fix it by taking iron you need

to take

methylcobolamine that type of B12

interesting okay as usually happens

we’ve got a few other folks around the

world that want to be acknowledged and

they are from Tibet Albania Thailand

Ireland Norway Scotland and Egypt so

welcome you folks too so glad that

you’re a part of the growing list of

folks that listen to Dr Burke’s great

counsel from around the world

all right let’s see here’s another one

Nikki uh from Facebook wants to know

she’s got her fingers crossed can I eat

kale chips while fasting

you can it just will inhibit your

results because when you’re fasting you

know you shouldn’t be eating

um

yeah so I would probably have those

more towards when you eat than when

you’re when you’re um

fasting I mean the other thing that um

there’s two things that don’t trigger

insulin very much okay number one is fat

number two is fiber so kale does have

more fiber

so that’s cool so that would help that’s

going to be a lot better than sugar but

but still the kale chips they I don’t

know what they put on them and um might

be an inhibiting factor it’s it’s

probably not going to contribute to your

success but I mean it’s definitely way

better than other things you could be

doing so I guess um really

depends on what you’re comparing it to

all right here’s an off to ask question

Dana from Facebook what can I do about

fatigue during fasting

that’s an easy one uh it’s going to be

one of three things but usually it’s

going to be a lack of sodium so you need

to have some sea salt and you’ll find

the energy should go up about maybe 80

percent of the time another

um

mineral that might create a fatigue

would be a lack of potassium

so start taking up potassium find up

electrolyte powder that is high in

potassium and of course I’m not biased

of my own but that’s what I would

recommend but you’d find that you’d

energy goes up because you need a lot of

potassium to run the

sodium potassium pump that generates all

the power to your muscle and nerves so

that will instantly give you energy and

the last thing to look at for energy is

uh the B1 B1 is like the spark plug

and uh

you need it when you do keto or even you

do high carb diet you need B1 to ignite

the engine and get things working and a

lot of people are deficient and so that

may just ignite and give you more energy

too but start with the salt do one thing

at a time and see what it is all right

well I am biased to your electrolytes

now to be fair I hadn’t tried other

powders but I used to get the cramps in

my calves really bad and if I would

drink your electrolyte formula a couple

hours before I ran it seemed to

alleviate that I must also admit I just

probably wasn’t hydrating well enough

but I’ve had great results with that

electrolyte powder plus it tastes great

so there you go all right the second

question of the day is a true false or

as we said the best way to stretch a

muscle is a static stretch for 30

seconds and the audience 75 percent of

them say it’s true 25 is say it’s false

well the 25 is correct you know I was

taught uh for many years that you have

to do static stretching in fact um when

I was in wrestling I did static

stretching and I ended up pulling a

muscle

um what happens when you think about a

muscle muscle um always comes in pairs

okay you have a something that contracts

something that’s relaxing so let’s say

for example you’re trying to relax your

hamstring and you stretch it well

there’s something called a stretch

reflex which counters the stretching

because it doesn’t want you to break

that muscle So within three seconds of

stretching you have this reflex that

comes in and counters that stretch and

so here you are trying to um become more

flexible and you’re actually creating

more damage believe it or not I know

it’s hard to believe but um there’s

something you can do I’ll be doing a

video on this it’s a wonderful stretch

by uh physiotherapist

um athletic trainer trains the top of

the food chain as far as athletes

Olympic runners okay this guy wrote a

book and um stay tuned for that video

but what you want to do is you want to

isolate the muscle you want to stretch

okay the hamstring for example and then

you you take the opposite muscle and you

contract it okay that would be the quad

the thigh muscle so you contract that

while you’re stretching in motion

hold at the end of range of motion for

two seconds let off

repeat eight to ten times it’s really

great um stretch I’ve been doing and I

love it you can do with any muscle in

the body but the principle is uh it

makes a lot of sense and it’s working so

I wish I would have known that a long

time ago interesting okay I’m going to

put up another question then we’re going

to go back to the Green Room for a Dr

Gantt but here’s the next true falser

all right true or false immobilizing the

joint

is the best treatment for sprains and

strains mild to moderate injuries of

your joints

climb on that folks and let me unmute

our next guest and Dr again if you would

remind yourself to unmute you were on

with Dr Byrd

all right

yes

all right hated

oops you are breaking up a little bit

maybe get a little closer to the mic

can you hear me now perfect oh good

um my question is for my patients that

are diabetics and they are fat what do

you think is the best thing when the

person that’s over 40 trying to lose

weight

for the fluctuating

did you get all that dog

well I got the gist of it but you kind

of phased out but I think let me just

duplicate this question

um so you have what’s the best fasting

pattern this window of fasting uh for

someone over 40. generally speaking yes

okay yeah I think um the the best

pattern I to start out with is the 18

hour fast and then the six hour window

so that gives you this real easy thing

to do by just skipping your breakfast

and that’s easy to do because most

people really they’re not as hungry as

they think in the morning and even if

they are it’s a hunger wave that goes

away if they just ignore it because

really they have this little spike in

cortisol but if you can do an 18 hours

oh my goodness you’ll have so many

amazing benefits

so uh after six o’clock you just fast

all the way to the next day you know

until 12 and you have this wonderful

period of autophagy and you see all

these amazing benefits that would be

like the average

great fasting window for someone over

40. now if someone’s a little more

hardcore and they’re uh they want to see

faster results and they want to bite the

bullet what you do is you you push them

right to a 20-hour fast so now we have a

four hour window and um of eating and

then 20 hours of fasting then you’re

going to see some even better benefits

especially with the immune system and

then if you want to be

a rock star and then you just do a one

meal a day and you fast for 23 hours and

now you’re gonna it’s gonna take it to a

whole new level uh you’re not gonna have

any hunger cravings are gone you’re

gonna feel great mood wise your

cognitive function is great if you have

Alzheimer’s symptoms they’ll probably go

away

um

so I notice even when I do videos when I

um

when I fast before I do a video

wow you don’t have to do much editing

but when I don’t when I eat before I do

a video you gotta edit that thing chop

it up it’s like you know just takes more

cuts and more resources but

um yeah I like the question I’m glad

you’re doing that but 18 hour is really

really good but you know what some

people

um need to do

um a 14 hour or even a 12 hour

and that’s going to add some benefits

but the more you can get them not to

snack the better okay

thank you thank you that’s great thank

you for joining us uh doctor from um

Atlanta oh no no I’m sorry you’re from

Fayetteville okay so come out to the

beach soon and thanks for getting on

with the show the audience is on it uh

the latest question was true false so

mobilizing to join is the best treatment

for sprains and strains mild or moderate

injuries and the audience says or at

least 65 percent of them say it’s true

sorry say it’s false 35 percent say it’s

true

the way that we were taught is to

immobilize

compress add cold

you know that’s just what we do but you

know I always like to question

everything and say is that is that

really the best way to do it well

there’s some new research to find that

that’s not the best way to do it in fact

if you if you don’t have a severe joint

you don’t have a fracture for example

and it’s a moderate type injury or

sprain strain it’s best

to add motion to that joint

um

so um

start moving it not to the point of pain

but just start to add some motion to

that joint passive range of motion

because

um

when you immobilize you start creating

um you don’t you don’t have healing you

have you have scar tissue that develops

right away and we found that’s not the

best way to treat an injury and they

they’ve looked at this this greater

research and I will be releasing a video

on this and also

if you’re going to add cold the only

reason you’d want to add cold therapy is

because a pain

um but other than that it’s best if you

don’t immediately ice it because

the the blood’s there to kind of add

circulation healing

so if we add a little bit of motion and

we don’t add ice I’m not saying add heat

but just don’t advice you’ll find that

there’ll be a better healing response I

mean you can add other things like

infrared

but ice um I use that only if you need

to with the pain but this whole idea of

I’m gonna ice it to help healing is um

is actually a myth I know it’s hard to

believe so things that we were taught

come to find out they’re not always a

hundred percent

true

but um

anyway stay tuned for my video on that

because

um uh if you injure a joint you want to

keep moving keep it moving and you’re

going to find that uh it’ll heal faster

especially if you’re an athlete I mean

some of the top athletes

the book that I’m going to recommend of

the guy who came up with the stretching

technique

um

also talks about this motion after an

injury and boy he has a lot of

experience with top athletes in the

world injuring themselves and he puts

him right into motion right away and

then they they’re back playing in no

time so I like the concept and it makes

a lot of sense once you get the details

very interesting stuff okay star sister

uh is her handle from YouTube my blood

sugar is higher in the mornings than

throughout the rest of the day am I in

ketosis if my blood sugar levels are all

over the place question mark

well I’m assuming you’re doing keto

you’re not doing a lot of sugar that

being said uh there’s something called

The Don phenomena where your blood

sugars go up because you still have a

good amount of insulin resistance and so

what’s happening your signals the

sensors in your liver are going wow we

don’t have enough sugar so what we need

to do is we need to make some

and that’s where it’s coming from it’s

not even coming from your your diet it’s

coming from your own body turning the

protein fat and even ketones into blood

sugar and this process is called gluco

glucose Neo meaning new genesis the

creation of so your liver is doing

gluconeogenesis to make more sugar

because it still has insulin resistance

but that will go away with time I

wouldn’t worry about it

um if you are worried about it all you

have to do in the morning

is take a long walk and just burn off

that sugar

but there’s things that you can speed it

up the way to actually fix insulin

resistance is to cut down the carbs

do insulin intermittent fasting

keep your stress low because cortisol

can be a big factor in making sugar

because the cortisol causes your body to

um

do more of that gluconeogenesis and then

apple cider vinegar with water is a good

thing you can add cinnamon to the water

too cinnamon is a really good thing for

blood sugars

berberine is another thing you can do

exercise

there’s a whole series of things you can

do to to speed up this process of

getting rid of insulin resistance

especially like vitamin D and and B1

all right Daria from YouTube I have

anemia and high cholesterol levels I’m

so confused about what I can and cannot

eat help

go back to the basics don’t make it

complex just do the keto the healthy

version of Keto and do nutrient dense

foods and that’s really the key is when

you’re doing these Foods Does it include

all the nutrients well I I show people

in the books and in my videos what to

eat and if you eat foods that are not

only keto but are loaded with the iron

and the B12 you’re going to be fine

it’s when you don’t do that there’s a

problem like let’s say you want to get

your your um

iron from spinach for example well good

luck that’s not the best source of iron

to prevent anemia or um

let’s say you’re even doing antacids

right and you’re trying to get rid of

your anemia good luck because that’s

going to get rid of the acid that’s

necessary to absorb iron

um and actually have it go in your body

so

um

you just stick with the the healthy

version of Keto and um you’ll come out

fine

very good eater from YouTube I have

gastritis and acid reflux what can I do

to address these issues

um there’s a couple things zinc

konoscine is good

um cabbage with the sulforaphane seems

to help

um H pylori which is behind sometimes

gastritis and um

things like that so I think at this

point if you have this inflammatory

stomach I wouldn’t recommend taking

betaine hydrochloride instead I would

just do these other things like I said

and then slowly heal it so then the

stomach can be healthy and then go back

to the normal healthy ketogenic diet but

um I have videos and gastritis uh you

can also do licorice root is another

thing there’s a whole series of things

that you can do to help that but um the

bottom line is um

um

you know this a symptom is just an

indicator that there’s a problem uh once

as you treat it realize there’s a deeper

cause and it’s probably somehow you

didn’t get the core uh eating plan

implemented yet long enough to create

the effects probiotics are another great

way to deal with gastritis because it

handles the the gut microbes which have

a huge influence over these other

digestive organs believe it or not so

they all work together but um

I always recommend a good probiotic if

you have gastritis

okay very good I’m going to come on

camera here because it’s uh it’s

confession time Christy from YouTube has

a question about Lyme disease and my

hypochondria skyrockets whenever I go

into the woods uh during the summer

because I imagine that their ticks all

over me uh just injecting Lyme disease

and in fact I went to the doctor once I

told my family it’s up here on my head

and I’m just sure and it’s swollen red

and so on and they followed me to the

doctor and the doctor said well it’s

really kind of a cut do you do you want

a Band-Aid and I no I don’t want a

Band-Aid I was so embarrassed that my

family laughed at me but anyway I just

want to set up the next question because

I’m really paranoid about ticks giving

me Lyme disease and so far apparently I

just have cuts on my head and no Lyme

disease so let’s go back to Christy she

says please discuss the best way to get

rid of Lyme disease so I guess she did

have it

um I’m I’m very and I’m not telling you

to file this but I said just my opinion

is that very much against the long-term

antibiotics

for Lyme because they wipe out your

defenses and then it’s just it gets it

just

not a a win-win situation these spiral

kites um are very

stealth and they can go up into the

brain they can go into this remission

State uh the real solution is to keep

your defenses very very strong keep the

stress low and also do the natural

antibiotics like the garlic the time the

sage the oregano oil and there’s

protocols for lime

um that I’m not going to get into you

can read up on that

um I had Lyme that’s what I did and um

but it’s a good probiotic but it’s you

know

you really have to um build up your your

immune system as the primary goal

um I would say in a given year I would

have

maybe 30 ticks I would find on my body

and

um

many times I’ve had the butterfly rash

so uh of course

um there’s a chance that could have

contributed to line but

um at this point I’m just focusing on

keeping my immune system strong and I

have not had a problem believe it or not

so but it’s interesting because these

ticks tend to stick on you and they numb

the area you don’t even know they’re on

there and then one day you just happen

to be looking down and they’ll what is

that a little scab and you find it’s a

darn tick and you pull it out um so

that’s happened so many times because

I’m

on a farm but um

it is a situation unfortunately you’re

going to have to when you know when you

get home if you’re outside take your

fingers through your hair and just kind

of really feel around if you have a dog

well they’ll bring these ticks in left

and right you have to check your dog and

check out your body every day to make

sure there’s no ticks but I understand

your your problem

um and it is a situation I wish there

was a simple solution but um it’s a

battle between these very stealth evil

microbes and trying to

defend against that well Christy I’m we

are all pulling for you hope you heal

and feel better uh from that terrible

situation okay let’s see here’s another

true falser for the audience doc there

it is

okay the fact that the stomach pH is so

acidic between 1.5 and 3 indicates

that we have a good ability to digest

meat

is that true or false all right folks

climb on it and let’s go back to the

green room and this time from Atlanta

Georgia we have Marcia and Marcia let me

unmute you and you are on with Dr Berg

with your terrific question

hi Dr Berg hi

so I’ve had really large fibroids and I

wanted to avoid a hysterectomy so that

brought me to my journey with keto with

you and so thank you my question is I

have

um lingering sort of indigestion now and

a pulling that’s happening right on this

side and I’m just wondering what can I

what should I be doing more frequently

or eating more of in order to take care

of this lingering problem

so the fibroids are creating a pulling

sensation and it’s uncomfortable is that

what you’re saying

um I

I’ve gone from 192 to 165 I think I’m

you know I’m doing well on the keto so

um but the

um

that’s causing this now to flare up and

sort of you know bother me at this point

so I don’t know what to eat what to do

better

okay it was really hard to hear you but

I think I I understand what you’re

asking

um

Steve did you did you hear her maybe did

you want to clarify or should I just

Jump Right In what I what I think she

asked well I think you you should uh Doc

and then you correct us Marcia if he’s

on the wrong track

so she’s feeling the sensation and she

had the fibroids I think they’re getting

better but there’s still a sensation she

lost weight and like how do we how do we

get rid of some of the maybe the scar

tissue that is developed in this area

would that be the right question okay

good all right great

um so we’re dealing with

um this thing called fascia and

connective tissue and it’s just like

just like an injury

um you do you injure your fascia fascia

is like the Saran wrap that holds

everything together and you have a lot

of fascia that that has been holding

this fibroid in hopefully it’s shrinking

down to nothing but there’s still

probably some fascia and adhesions into

this area so I think the absolute best

thing to do

um is to manually

uh get in there and start working out

some of the fascia so you can do like a

fascial type trigger point type therapy

in the abdomen area as well as fascial

stretches

um uh in your you know in your lower

part of your body and the upper part

because it’s all connected you have

these all these different connections

from even up to the back of your neck

all the way down to your shoulder and

your hip and down your leg in these

sheaths of connective tissue that need

to be stretched and I think you’re going

to find when you do that you’re like wow

I really feel these adhesions in my

abdomen way more and then you’re gonna

have to work those out and do fascial

stretching and you’re going to find that

that’ll give you more space in your

abdomen and then the discomfort will go

away but that’s really what you have to

do it’s and you can manage manually

going in there and and do some work as

well but you’re going to have to

stimulate it and that’s going to

increase blood flow which is going to

help

also Don don’t forget about two things

autophagy from doing the prolonged

fasting that’ll help get rid of some of

that damaged protein collagen as well as

the tocatrinols which also help with

anything scar anything adhesions

uh that’s a really good thing as well

okay that’s great well thank you so much

Marcia for joining us and being so

patient uh there in the green room and

again you can stick around and just

watch the rest of the show as we move

forward and let’s see uh and quiz

question number four we already have

the consensus or the answers from the

audience and it asks the fact that the

stomach pH is so acidic and I won’t read

the amount indicates that we have a good

ability to digest meat and uh 72 percent

of our respondents say it’s false and 28

say it is true

now I was just I’m just curious how many

people would agree or disagree with that

because if you think about it um

if you take a cat or a dog

their pH is even more acidic than that I

mean it’s down to like one to two

uh and their their bodies digest meat

very well raw meat they can digest it

without chewing it so if our pH is that

acidic

um I don’t know the logic is that we

have the ability to break down meat um

so um if you take a cow that’s not

designed to eat meat what is the pH of

their stomach is it is it that acidic

it’s almost neutral it’s like 6.4

it’s just it’s almost neutral so we’re

dealing with a a huge change in PH right

um so

one way to know kind of what we have the

ability to digest is just to look at the

digestive system and kind of understand

um some of these Basics but yeah our

bodies do have the ability to digest

meat because of this pH

um so as we get older the pH gets worse

and worse and worse and then we don’t

have the ability to digest meat and so

really depends on the acidity in your

stomach when you hit 80 years old like

your pH is probably going to be five

uh maybe even six and you’re gonna have

a harder time digesting meat so when

people say well I’m getting older I

really don’t want to do red meat well

it’s probably because they just don’t

have the acid but the real key thing to

know is

um one of the

problems with getting older is this

thing called sarcopenia which you’re

losing muscle

um and so we do need good amounts

sufficient amount of protein as we age

um so don’t don’t forget that and if we

we talked about Sprouts before Sprouts

have have protein but don’t rely on

sprouts for your protein because it’s so

incomplete it’s not going to be enough

you’re going to need some you can you

might need to eat

um

eat things that have eaten Sprouts like

cows so I’m actually a vegan on a beer

I’ll eat cows that eat grass so I get

that my grass indirectly

yeah well I’m jealous of all the great

things you eat out there uh okay here’s

our final question speaking of digestion

yeah all right the fact that

um our large colon microflora good

bacteria ferments okay it ferments

indicates that we should have the

ability to digest plant fiber

is that true

well false the audience I tell you you

guys uh are the reason our show runs so

well you just don’t waste any time on

these questions and so this show we’re

able to get them all out and the reward

for that from this audience is that we

can now go a hundred percent social

media for the rest of the show unless

you have a dialogue for us doc uh and

let’s see

um oh well wait a minute I’m going to

bring up a graphic because this question

is perfect there’s the graphic and the

question is is can you ship your

products be shipped to Kenya

is that true or false

you know that’s a very good question I

don’t know I doubt it but you can check

uh we’ll put a link down below to see

where where it comes from right now

we’re actively working on trying to make

things available in different parts of

the world so you can check that see if

see if that works but eventually we will

um I’d also like to try to get to

Australia

um but we’re working on that and um the

other thing I’m working on since we’re

talking about products is um some really

uh great things coming in the future

with um

I really want to just grow all of our

ingredients

myself not myself but just

with with certain farmers and myself

involved in doing the testing so we we

isolated the farm we’re actively I have

a plan to do that and I’m really excited

because

um now I’ll be able to do all the

microbial testing and the microbial

testing of the plant the herbs and uh

wow

um talk about quality talk about just

the research and the fun of just trying

to take that to a whole new level

um so I’m excited about that and stay

tuned for

for some great uh information on that

fantastic and let’s say audience you

wanted to watch one of Dr Berg’s videos

and you scour through Google and you get

a little frustrated well there’s a

remedy and it’s called the Dr Berg app

which is available on your iPhone or

through Google play or whatever and

they’re all neatly organized in there

and you know you’ll be able to fare it

down through that and get the answer you

need quickly and for free on the app

it’s no charge at all so just download

that and enjoy the results of your

queries okay and let’s see uh I tell you

Terry is also a big advocate of the

audience because if I miss a question

he’ll regurgitate it and this must what

happens so the the handle is one minute

interview that’s the person’s uh

non-deploom from YouTube what is the

best form of choline we can take choline

uh by tartrate by tartrate CDP or Alpha

CPC does that make any sense doc

yeah it they’re all really good

phosphatidylcholine is good the um they

all have slightly different forms and um

but they’re all I I wouldn’t say one is

better than the other it’s just

different forms that can actually get

the colony in your body but choline is

really good for

um helping make that neurotransmitter

acetylcholine it’s also good to prevent

a fatty liver it’s also good to help

break down fats I have a problem with

choline I need to take that

supplementation based on my DNA test and

I’ve been getting a lot of comments like

Dr Pepper when are you gonna you know

explain more about this DNA I’m I’m

working on it hang in there there’s a I

just have to you know create like over

100 videos for this topic so that way

when someone

gets their report they can um go to the

video that they need to learn about uh

based on their problem with the DNA

because it’s it’s a bit

complex now and I want to simplify it

and make it really simple

um and that takes a little bit of time

so be patient and that’s why we call you

a patient

okay and this is a question true false

the fact that this is one we’ve asked

the uh and you asked the audience the

fact that our large colon microflora

ferments indicates that we have the

ability to digest plant fiber and the

audience is right on it as usual our

final question 55 percent of respondents

say it’s true and uh the remaining 45

percent say that it is false

well

I think um you know the way we’re taught

about the large colon

large intestine you know it’s like oh it

just does two things it uh recycles

water you absorb water so to prevent

dehydration and it also electrolytes but

what about the fermentation part you

ferment that’s right that’s the large

intestine so just the fact that we have

acid stomach then we have also the last

part being fermentation tells us kind of

what food we should be eating It’s a

combination an omnivore a combination of

plant and animal and um

it doesn’t mean that you can’t live

exclusively on on plants or just animals

but our body can can do both and I find

the combination is is the best

um but if you are a carnivore and you’re

going well I don’t really need plants

um you can still ferment

uh protein

you can ferment collagen and cartilage

and things like that so there’s even

fermented fish you know in certain

cultures

so what’s you can do that as well

um and that’s I think good for really

for people with digestive issues

but the point is that um

there’s a lot of benefit when you uh

when these microbes are fed fiber you

start making small chain fatty acids and

if you create a deficiency of that the

colon cells don’t always get to be fed

and they can have a problem because that

can help build the layer of mucus in

your colon and add for that that strong

barrier so there’s a lot of benefits

um

from feeding the microbes and having

them give us other things other

other things but when you start changing

your diet one way or the other but with

the whole microflora completely changes

I mean pretty quick so it’s constantly

adapting

um

and um

I think your your core Health really

depends on these micro microbes you know

the level of microbes so the diversity

of microbes and if you have a wide range

of different plants or herbs

you can really create a really nice

diverse microbiome that can then give

you different things that you maybe

couldn’t get before and actually help

you digest

various things because now you have

maybe microbes that can break down

oxlets which decrease your ability to

get kidney stones or break down

um

you know even lactose I don’t know that

could be a possibility but a lot of

these microbes actually even make bile

salts so they’re fascinating creatures

and um I’m doing a deep dive now and

yeah we have the ability to ferment and

if you have too much fiber and you don’t

have enough microbes you could probably

get an over fermentation or even not be

able to keep up with that and get gas so

you can use your digestive system to

really determine what you should be

eating just by testing certain things

out and see how you feel on different

foods that’s terrific well I’ll tell you

what I forgot to get some acknowledgment

to Marcia Mitchell from Atlanta who lost

35 pounds she mentioned and for that she

gets what’s known as the Dr Berg Bell

so that’s for you Marcia congratulations

and uh keep that up and as promised

we’re going to wrap things up on YouTube

um oh wait a minute Maggie from Facebook

says thank you for the app Dr Berg it’s

amazing so Maggie is acknowledging that

that’s a great free thing to download on

your Android or Apple phone let’s see I

think we’ve wrapped up all the questions

um and let me let me find another one

from uh from our social media

um

honestly Bretta from Facebook when I cut

out carbs I lose too much weight what

should I do to deal with this problem

well you can hang around with Steve

McMillan and I’ll plump you up in a week

but no there’s probably a healthier way

to do that uh Dr Berg what do you

recommend

yeah you’re gonna have to just increase

your calories unfortunately increase eat

more food but try not to do multiple

meals maybe add more fat for sure

because that way at the very least your

body won’t be using your stored fat

anymore it’ll be using the dietary fat

as the fuel so it’s it’s more fat it’s

more calories

I have that problem as well so join the

club I even made my own called keto

bricks which you’re you’re using cacao

powder and different things and you’re

making these um

very interesting

thousand calorie I guess they’re just

bricks and you just eat it

um some people don’t like the taste but

I’m experimenting with this so stay

tuned I’ll actually share a recipe with

everyone

um if you wanted to gain weight but I

wouldn’t recommend them if you are

trying to lose weight because this is

going to add more calories unnecessarily

and on that note Steve I don’t know am I

premature oh yeah it’s only well maybe a

little bit why don’t we get one more

question we promised a lot of action for

social media uh let’s see

okay uh now here’s one Nadal yeah I mean

I think I already went for her excuse me

All Right audience I’m going to get it

together

ooh uh Sid hartha from YouTube what is

the best way to stop vomiting during a

pregnancy poor thing

um

the typical thing that kind of comes up

because that can be come from a number

of things and it’s really really about

um make sure you’re going into the

pregnancy and do the whole

um process you’re eating really

healthily you know getting all the

nutrients because I will say that a

certain deficiency of could be zinc

could be B6 deficiency that could

actually increase the risk of vomiting

as well

nauseousness vomiting it also could be

gallbladder this could be many different

reasons for that

um I’m sorry to hear that

um I don’t really have another answer

for you because I don’t know your

history

but um

that’s the best time to

eat healthy is right at that point and

especially once you have the baby and

then you’re breastfeeding hopefully

um just really get your diet like really

pristine and try to breastfeed as long

as possible and that baby is going to

have a great chance of

doing very well and with your immune

system

um

and don’t don’t uh um

try to have the the child in a

completely sterile environment you know

let them go on the floor and

get outside in these experience some of

the microbes that’s going to start

developing the immune system

because the mother gives her the gives

the

innate immune system so you’ve got that

going for you and then you have this

acquired immune system that’s developed

with experience and exposure to microbes

and going through infections and just

because a child gets sick

don’t like try to suppress that let them

go through the process let the immune

system develop

on that note have a wonderful weekend

thank you for your wonderful uh

questions attention and I have some

interesting videos coming up this next

week too

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