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now dr. Eric Berg

hi guys welcome back it’s it’s just

before the New Year end we have Karen

over here

say hello Karen hello Karen good so

we’re gonna answer questions on social

media and take your questions you can

call in if you want to call in the

numbers eight six six five six one four

two nine two we have a ton of callers

been waiting for a while so we’re gonna

jump right in and take your questions on

keto and in a minute fasting and any

other questions you want to ask related

to health hey Dean you’re from College

Park Georgia go ahead what was your

question yes hi dr. bird’s-eye I would

like to know I’m a 68 year old female

mom and after working for 30 years I’d

like to know I have an MRI god and I was

diagnosed with the herniated disc and I

heard your short video my son listens to

you every day and I heard your short

video on on the disc and the medicine

you take and the magnin aids i magnin ii

yeah i’d like to know how many you can

take a day okay okay good so let me let

me talk about that so for for ligament

support oh sorry for ligament support

for a disc support for tendon support

manganese okay that’s the mineral that

you need so I would get some manganese

you don’t need to overdose on it just

take whatever is on the bottle

it’s a trace mineral so it’s trace

minerals are minerals needed in very

small amounts but you still need them so

I would also you don’t want to take any

one trace mineral for a long period of

time so take it on a regular basis but

then also add trace minerals with it so

you want the whole base I would take

liquid plant-based trace minerals with

some additional manganese and you’re

going to be good that’s gonna strengthen

your back your disc your ligaments

because these trace minerals actually

work with proteins so they allow the

protein to work better and you can build

it back up so that’s exactly what you

need all right

good question

Donna you’re from Atlanta u2 question go

ahead yes good morning dr. Berg I’ve

been doing the keto diet since March and

intermittent fasting and I’ve reached my

goal weight and I want to know how to

stop the weight loss but keep my a 1

being long yeah good question first of

all the a1c is going to be a reflection

of how many carbohydrates that you

consume so you want to keep the carbs

down you don’t want to start going to

the carbohydrate to actually you know

maintain your keto what you want to do

is you want to add more fat and that way

your body will start to burn up some of

the dietary fat and not enough of your

fat if you’re thin and you’re trying to

do this and you go low-fat and you’re

doing lean protein and vegetables oh my

gosh you’re gonna get really skinny so

it’s really a flat reflection of adding

more healthy fats so you’re really

satisfied and you have enough for

example myself I don’t want to lose any

more weight so what I’ll do recently I

made these keto bombs keto bombs are

like healthy fat cookies and I’ll

consume them right after a meal and I’ll

do like quite a few but they’re small

until I’m really good and satisfied and

I can go a long period of time in fact

the recipe is on my blog under recipes

it’s called the healthiest cookie in the

world actually it’s made with them

grass-fed butter and almond flour and

sugar free chocolate and it’s really

delicious

so that’s really what you want to do is

add more fat but don’t forget to add

everything else like a lot of vegetables

and these good protein but that’s the

that’s the thing you need to add all

right hey Megan you’re from Georgia you

had a question about fasting blood

glucose go ahead hi yes um good morning

I was wondering I have my fasting blood

sugar has been around like 105 to 120

that’s kind of my norm and even when I

go to bed

it’ll be you know 110 or even 105 and

still be that or be higher in the

morning and I know the liver has a role

in that and I was just wondering if you

could explain that and maybe how to help

with that yeah sure hey question Megan

do you have any are you overweight no

I’m actually almost underweight okay but

I a 1 C is high though it’s 6.4 okay and

have you been eating a lot of refined

carbs in your past in my past but not

now I’m actually getting ready to start

keto next week okay good do you have any

fat around your midsection

no okay no I’m five six and a half and

like a hundred and fifteen pounds okay

so let’s talk about this you’re

absolutely right the liver has a lot to

do with this fasting glucose level

there’s something in your body that’s

called glycogen that’s stored sugar like

when you when you eat starches like

potato like a potato for example you

have a similar thing which you have

these kind of stored glucose molecules

in a potato but in your body you can

store glucose as glycogen so you have

kind of a similar type thing going on in

your body that you can use when you’re

not eating so you you run off the stored

sugar and then eventually you’ll tap

into fat so one of the things that

you’re running into is high a1c which is

an average blood sugar for like three

months so you’re just your Sugar’s

basically too high and now you’re going

to switch to the keto and M&M fasting

hopefully and the problem is your

fasting sugar is just too high so that

does mean your liver is is probably an

issue and even though you’re thin you

may have a fatty liver or dysfunctional

liver and if the liver is fatty or

dysfunctional or you have insulin

resistance it does not hold that stored

sugar so then now we have this blood

sugar issue because you can’t actually

regulate blood sugars correctly that’s

probably what’s happening so most of the

store sugars in your liver a very small

percentage of it is in the

and in the muscle but it’s mainly liver

so the liver is really a key organ and

regulating this so as soon as you go on

this and you start doing it consistently

with the healthy diet it’s gonna come

right down everything’s gonna fall in

the place your blood Sugar’s going to

come back to a good range like maybe 80

would be great and so you have nothing

to worry about with that so but the

point is yeah you’re gonna be eating

healthy to be able to restore the liver

you’re not going to do keto just to you

know fix your blood sugars you want to

do it to actually get your body healthy

especially the liver so I think you’re

you’re smart on that and I would just

continue with the recommendations that

that are on my website and also the

videos so and you’ll be fine all right

so Karen do we have any quick questions

over there coming in

why are my questions always quick a

whole bunch of these people have a lot

of question I have a lot of people to

write but before anything we have to

give a shout out right to Timmy and Coco

adorable sent us this adorable tree

ornament it says the most loved couple

on YouTube and that and the little

penguins are Karen and Eric so cute and

Timmy and Coco Coco’s eight years old

they are from Iceland and Coco is

getting all the carbs out of her diet

and she’s making the pancakes and the

keto friendly food and her mom is really

proud of her and her mom Timmy’s lost

weight too so we want to say thanks and

we’re gonna we’re gonna shout out to

Timmy and Coco all day long okay great

so I have from Facebook I have Naheed

who’s asking about large fibroids and

keto and weight loss and have you

experienced any challenge with people

with fibroids or is it it’s workable

okay so one thing you have to know about

fibroids it’s a tumor and and by the way

anything that I say today is that it’s

for your education it’s not meant to

diagnose you will replace your medical

doctors advice so it’s for you to do

research and you’re in entertainment

okay so I’m not going to claim any to

cure anything illnesses but that being

said a fibroid will grow when

it’s fed its food and fibroids and

tumors in general are very hungry for

sugar okay even there’s a PET scan which

basically inject radioactive this

radioactive material in your body that

goes through and it picks up areas of

high level of sugar metabolism and

that’s where the cancer is so a tumor

being more of a benign type of a

situation where it’s not malignant but

which can turn into a malignant cancer

it’s kind of like a pre cancer thing

lives on sugar so keto genic diets are

the absolute best thing to do to get

that under control but on top of that

they’re they’re very highly sensitive to

estrogen so if you really want to be

careful about consuming foods with

estrogen you want to do organic and you

want to do

iodine type things like sea cow because

iodine helps regulate insulin and that

will be the best thing for a fibroid in

addition to in a minute fasting and the

ketogenic diet okay is that good that

was quite enough answer I have another

question okay yes and this is from Max

moody on YouTube and the question is how

does a high fat diet relate to building

muscle well it’s not really the fat that

builds muscle it’s when you cut the

carbs out and then what happens is you

start stimulating the hormones that

activate muscle growth which is growth

hormone and even testosterone and the

way you do it is you keep insulin down

and you also go on intimate fasting

because that will also trigger a low

blood sugar situation and then goes

right into stimulating growth hormone in

fact in a minute fasting Karen will

stimulate growth hormone by 2,000

percent and lizard and individuals not

in everyone but still it’s pretty high

that’s compared to who who well the

studies mainly are in men but yeah yeah

but an exercise if you’re to do exercise

intensely you’re only gonna stimulate

growth on them by 450 percent so in a

bit of fasting is going to be the key

thing that the problem with in a minute

fasting without adding more fat is

you’re gonna have a hard time going from

one meal to the next so that’s why fat

is essential because it has virtually a

very small effect on insulin other than

just eating in general stimulates some

insulin but the fact that it doesn’t

mess with your blood Sugar’s like other

macronutrients it’s what you need to do

but just by sitting down and eat a bunch

of fat that’s not going to increase your

muscles yeah okay so now we’re gonna go

do a question from sue from Indiana go

ahead - yes thank you for all I can

remember I have trouble swallowing

capsules I get stuck in my throat

sometimes for hours yeah that’s that’s

pretty bad because then sometimes

they’re sticky and then it gets stuck

there and you’re like oh my gosh it’s a

tablet sticking right there so I’ll give

you some tips okay

first of all what you want to do is you

want to consume the capsules with food

that’s how you’re gonna get them down

the other thing is like regular water

doesn’t seem to work but carbonated

water is a little bit better because

somehow it that fizz tends to bring it

down into the lower part of the

esophagus so I would add food when

you’re taking the capsules and you’ll be

good to go next thing if that doesn’t

work just open the capsules up and put

it in little peanut butter and consume

it that way all right sue thanks for

your question

hey Larry you’re also from Indiana you

had a question go ahead yes my doctor

did an x-ray on my knees and I’m losing

my cartilage in my knees because I’m a

runner and what foods do I need to eat

to repair the cartilage good question

well Larry if you want to build

cartilage there’s a couple things you

want to consume but that’s usually not

going to make a real big impact with you

losing cartilage there’s a couple

reasons why you of course you have wear

and tear but you have also a chronic

inflammatory condition that concurrent

as well so to reduce inflammation and

help you maximize the growth of

cartilage which by the way revolves

around a certain hormone called growth

hormone we just keep coming back to the

growth hormone growth hormone is

incredible for protecting proteins and

also stimulating the growth of the

connective tissue in cartilage and discs

and lent and tendons and ligaments so

what you want to do the best thing is

intermittent fasting that is hands-down

the best thing and then Nikita why

because that’s gonna bring insulin down

it’s gonna enhance your proteins and

your joints and not just the joints but

the muscle but it’s gonna stimulate

growth woman so in a minute fasting is

what you need to focus on now as far as

what to eat it just has to be a healthy

diet of a lot of vegetables including

like minerals in there trace minerals

probably some sea vegetables to be good

some high quality fish eggs all these

really key nutrients because you want to

look at not just foods to increase

cartilage but you want to look at foods

for overall health building factors in

supporting your proteins versus like

some people think well I’m just going to

eval on a protein and that’s going to

fix it it’s not going to work because

you’re gonna if you have more protein

than you can digest which is about six

ounces per meal you’re gonna then

stimulate insulin and then have a

reverse benefit so that seems to be a

sweet spot with maximized protein

absorption at three to six ounces maybe

seven ounces if you’re a big guy but not

a lot but then if you go too low then

you’re not going to have enough so you

want to provide the raw material to

build cartilage which is not just

protein high-quality protein but the

minerals potassium is very very

essential trace minerals and even

healthy fats because you need some of

the fat soluble vitamins vitamin A D and

K so basically that’s a long answer to

just basically doing the program that

I’m recommending on YouTube the books

that I have and you’re gonna actually do

you’re gonna be very successful if you

have inflammation going on the joint

I think stinging nettle root is a great

herb to

take is a tea or a supplement to reduce

inflammation I like that the best but

other than that I wouldn’t do anything

else okay Larry thanks for the question

Lee hi you’re from Nevada you had a

question about your 14 year old son go

ahead yes hi 14 years old and he’s in

his growth ears and we just wanted to

come see which foods and supplements or

exercise until the day we should we be

focusing on to maximize growth do you

want your son to grow taller he does oh

he does okay yeah there’s a couple of

things and I’m going to recommend that

because I work with a lot of people over

the years and there’s several things

that you want to do you don’t sell this

you can find it online it’s a standard

process product and it’s called the two

atrophic tattoo atrophic after the

pituitary

it’s called pituitary often PMG okay and

you can just do a search for it I would

actually have them take one of those per

day and what it does is it supports the

pituitary the pituitary is really

important in supplying all the the

hormones for maximizing your growth and

I don’t know if this is don’t don’t

don’t quote me on this but I’ve put a

lot of kids on this and they just seem

to grow they just start getting there’s

a growth spurt and even kids that are

smaller of course you know there’s a

limit to how you can help I’ll tell you

can grow based on your genetics but seem

to be every time i recommended this

product for these children they just

start growing especially if you want him

to sign up for the basketball team I

would put him up at two troph and PMG

but what would stop the growth of a

child would be to have foods that are

deficient in nutrients so all the all

the eating plans that I recommend and

out of this book for ketosis in him and

fasting is what he needs to do he

doesn’t need to do anything different

you know high quality protein eggs

grass-fed beef things like that versus

low quality protein powder a lot of

vegetables huge amounts of salad are all

very essential healthy fats in the egg

yolk

the avocado the coconut oil all really

keep I would also have him take a really

high-quality sea kelp because the iodine

in there will also help growth as well

and a lot of the other trace minerals if

if a child is deficient in iodine they

don’t seem to grow their growth is

stunted so that’s another really

important trace mineral but the two

atrophic sea kelp those two supplements

and put him on the program and of

recommending and I think he’ll do quite

well you want to make sure he doesn’t do

the six meals today though just do three

meals really good meals trying to have a

snack because I was going to increase

insulin and actually inhibit growth

because insulin is the real inhibitor of

these hormones especially growth hormone

we’re trying to enhance growth from him

I would also watch some of my videos on

growth on them because that’s the

hormone he needs the increase okay Karen

over to you

okay good so I have Karen on YouTube and

she says she did a water fast for five

days and on day four her legs started to

cramp she wants to know she should add

salt to the water but I think you’re

probably going to say something

different yeah if you’re doing water

fast and especially if you’re if you

have any type of insulin resistance or

hypoglycemic issues blood sugar issues

and you start going like four or five

day fast your body could start utilizing

you might not have enough stored

minerals basically because insulin

resistance allows prevents the

absorption of these minerals so you’re

just you’re experiencing a loss of trace

minerals I’m sorry just electrolytes in

general I would probably do the

electrolyte powder I have to give you

all the trace minerals which will help

you but basically what you’re doing is

telling your body you’re not quite ready

to go that long with fasting especially

if you get cramps it’s usually a

potassium deficiency maybe go three days

okay that’s what I would do but yes you

do want to have more salts that will

help you but generally speaking cramps

are gonna be a potassium may be a

calcium issue may be a magnesium issue

possibly a sodium but not always okay

you have another question I do I have

Lori from Facebook

and she wants to know will fasting help

loose skin she lost a bunch of weight

and now she has some loose skin and

somewhere she heard about pickle juice

and coffee and she just wants to know

yeah advice if you mix pickle juice with

coffee no that don’t mix this - that’s a

very terrible but separately pickle

juice is really good for your your

system your your bacteria in your gut

it’s a good acid coffee on the other end

is another story but yeah in a minute

fasting is the probably the best way to

tighten up your skin because again out

of all the things that stimulate growth

hormone which is the anti-aging hormone

and all the things that will stimulate

etapa G which is recycling of proteins

into new skin and muscle and ligament

it’s intermittent fasting it’s the thing

to do but now it she did the inter

minute fasting and she lost the weight

so now she’s got the loose skin you want

to keep doing it I’m a bad thing for a

long period of time yeah in fact that

brings up one point Karen that you

reminded me okay is that there’s there’s

people that are getting they want to

actually start exercising and so they

they switch to this keto and in a

fasting program and all the sudden they

start actually exercise and they get

tired they run it a gas and so they do

carbo loading and they think they need

carbohydrates as their energy source no

they don’t what they need to do is do it

a little longer to get into this point

of true fat burning a true ketosis where

your body is fully adapted and you’re

not cheating here and there you’re

consistently doing this over a period of

weeks to the point where now you do a

workout and you you have tons of energy

why because your body can easily switch

to fat-burning it doesn’t have to have

this glitch in the system or you’re just

burning up your sugar and then now we

have to now you’ve cheated or whatever

now listen it has to adjust back to the

fat burning again it takes three days

you’re fully in there you have lots of

energy and then you’ll start seeing all

sorts of really cool changes with your

skin with your ligaments with your the

tone of your skin you won’t have that

sagging skin anymore you’ll start

looking youthful because you’re in a

real state of ketosis

okay yeah all right so hey Chris you’re

from California you had a question by

terminal fasting in blood thinners

yes go ahead

what was the question yes well first of

all thanks for taking my call

I started keto and it had been fastened

about three months ago I started with

the sixteen eight fast I have done a 20

to 24 28 and now I mean one mil day

that’s pretty high in fat some that gets

is a 23 one yeah

so I’ve like an hour window so anyways I

want to try a thirty to five day fast

but I’m on a blood thinner

Eliquis and I’m on a high blood blood

pressure medicine now I will tell you

I’ve lost about fifty something pounds

and my blood pressure has gone down

tremendously so Wow

I’m just wonder if I can do the you know

and I don’t have to take food I don’t be

food with the pills so can I do it fast

and without any problem you think

honestly check with your doctor I don’t

think you’re gonna have a problem I

don’t think it’s going to be

counterintuitive at all are

contraindicated at all because as you do

this you’re fixing insulin resistance so

your arteries the elasticity in your

arteries the epithelial cell and the

arteries will start to heal and so then

you’ll have more elasticity you’ll have

less blood pressure problems it should

come down nicely then your doctor can

wean you off that stuff it starves the

blood thinners I’m guessing you might

have had a clot or something or atrial

fib or why do they put you in that blood

clot in my leg in one night long no one

the long gone though okay

hey just as a side note Chris I think

you there’s a there’s an enzyme called

Sarah peptides do some research on that

that is a really good enzyme you taken

an empty stomach to clean up any type of

extra proteins that you don’t want in

your body like little little pieces of

sticky you know cloths or whatever so do

research Sarah pepper taste I think

you’re going to find some great stuff

there and there the one that I would

recommend I’m not going

recommend a brand but you needed in

higher dosages like at least a hundred

and twenty thousand I use okay so take

that but as far as what you’re doing I

think you can eventually come off the

medications with the help of your doc

and I think you’re on the right path but

you know if you’re doing 23 hours and

fasting you can see a lot of positive

benefits with your body if you can do

that and there’s nothing better that you

can do for your body unless you’re you

know in addition to what you’re eating

the quality of food nutrient-dense foods

so I think you’re on the right path I

would just ride the wave and keep going

Chris thanks for your call hey Tim you

had a question you’re from Los Angeles

go ahead what was your question hey

doctor by the way you do a really great

show I mean really enjoy it you’re very

very professional listen potassium as

you mention a lot is very difficult to

get but I know that cream of tarter for

a teaspoon is like 500 grams of

potassium which seems to be a lot so I

make a morning shake you know with the

kale and spinach and all that stuff and

that’s what I drink you know around noon

or so but to add extra potassium can I

put a couple of teaspoons of that is

like a thousand milligrams of potassium

in addition to everything else that’s in

the blender yeah good questions him I

don’t like that source of potassium I

mean it may work temporarily you can get

a potassium citrate in a powder form

that would be a better form i i have

something called electrolyte powder that

i use it as a thousand milligrams of

potassium citrate and it has all the

other minerals too so you’re not just

taking Benassi ’m you’re spiking it with

magnesium the trace minerals little

calcium a tiny bit of sodium with no

sugar and it tastes good so that’s one

thing you could spike it with or you can

just buy some potassium citrate and

spike it but anytime you do one specific

mineral at high dosages over a long

period of time out of the normal complex

you start throwing off other minerals

and that’s the only little catch-22 I

just don’t like the source

potassium in cream of tarter but that’s

so that’s what my recommendation thanks

Tim I appreciate it okay Karen okay well

first of all I want to thank all the

Facebook users because that’s really

ramping up and people really love

Facebook and make sure that you share so

people know that we’re available on

Facebook and I just think it’ll be fun

everybody should push the heart right

now see how many hearts go across I just

think that’s gonna be funny but yes we

have from Facebook doctor yes ears

asking a question does l-glutamate break

the fast absolutely not no it’s not

going to be a problem in fact any

supplements that you have are not going

to break the fast and the other thing is

that so yeah you don’t worry about

supplements but let’s say for example if

it’s a carbohydrate supplement like like

if you go to the GNC or wall green well

there they have like ensure or they have

these glucose supplements well that’s

gonna break the fast for sure and I’m

not talking about that as a supplement I

think that I would not even recommend

that but the point is that if you take

any of the supplements it’s not gonna

break the fast it’s not enough

carbohydrate so you don’t to worry about

it alright Shelly you’re from Washington

State hi how are you I’m 46 when years

old Hren

I had a hysterectomy a complete

hysterectomy when I was in my early 20s

I went over 20 years without hormones

about four years ago I had about 30

pounds of rapid weight loss I haven’t

been able to put it back on I have a lot

of muscle wasting loose skin I’m trying

to rebuild my body I’m concerned about

intermittent fasting should I just do

keto till I rebuild my body okay so

question the real important question

Shelly what part of Washington state are

you from

I live in East when it sorry you broke

up what was that North Central

Washington okay I practice in Lynnwood

Washington for six months but it just

rained too much I couldn’t take it so I

moved to California for a little bit

okay you’re breaking up a bit you break

it up okay so here’s what you should do

Shelly if you’re and this is really

common you went through an early

menopause situation because you had a

hysterectomy in your 20s this is a

really good question from any anyone

who’s watching going through menopause

and you’re female

and what’s happening is your adrenals

now are gonna have to take over take up

the slack of the ovaries the ovaries are

going a retirement and now the adrenals

have to kick in there so many women have

a situation where now they end up with a

higher fat ratio than muscle so they

lose muscle why because the cortisol

goes sky-high and that’s the nature of

the adrenal and stress so you can have

to realize that it’s gonna take a while

to build that back up it’s kind of like

when you’ve asked you a process and you

have thinning of the bones well atrophy

is thinning of the muscle fibers so

you’re gonna have to build that back up

so in a minute fasting is gonna be

crucial to build that back up and you

would think that not eating as frequent

would you would lose more muscle it’s

just the opposite you’re gonna protect

your muscles grow more muscle because

you’re gonna stimulate growth form them

doing Aikido is essential keeping the

carbohydrates low and having really good

nutrient-dense things and then then

you’re gonna have to add exercise in

there very slowly and gradually over a

long period of time to start stimulating

the muscle to get it to grow and you may

hit plateaus when you’re doing this

because as you grow muscle it’s heavier

than fat so even though you’re shrinking

you’re gaining more muscle mass the

weight is Plateau don’t worry about that

just go by your strength go by your

overall health and just keep doing it

because it could take up to six months

to a year before you start seeing some

significant change thanks for your

question Shelley

all right Karen okay good so we have

Lauren on YouTube and she says this time

of year her hands and her feet are

always freezing even though our house

her apartment is cranked up with the

heat so what can she do diet wise that

will change that

I know sometimes just on keto that can

happen that you can get cold right right

well first of all you live in Alaska so

you need to move down to the Mojave

Desert that will help you know it’s like

here’s here’s the other thing that

happens during the winter yes you have

temperature changes other variables

could be that you just start

intermittent fasting you are going to

get a little colder it doesn’t mean your

metabolism is slowing down it just means

that your body is adjusting to this and

it’s becoming more conservative so it’s

it’s not generating a wasting Heat

that’s becoming more efficient I’m sorry

so that does happen now the other thing

that you can do is start taking vitamin

D because one thing you’re not going to

get now is a lot of sunlight even if you

did stand outside in the winter and try

to get some Sun in your face it’s not

gonna happen you’re not gonna get enough

vitamin D so you want to start taking in

a supplement to start to bring back in

which you’re missing from the winner and

that hormonal e is going to help you

warm up a little bit so because if your

vitamin D D deficient you will get cold

okay Karen okay I have another one and

we have to say again just in case

they’re there watching from Iceland

Timmy and cocoa thank you

Coco’s 8 years old and she’s learning

how to eat right by watching dr. Berg

and using our recipes to make pancakes

and things like that so good job girl

keep it going so we have on Facebook

Sandra is asking is all of this

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only partially it’s enough no just want

to show you this is if you go to the

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this book has a lot of information it’s

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had to read this book again and I

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wow this is a pretty good book what you

read your book yeah it was it was a lot

of great day tonight here because I took

me seven years to initially create this

and in another thousand hours to upgrade

it but then to read it again I was like

well someone actually read this they

would get a lot of great data you should

read it

I 157 images I’m waiting for the

movie well I have it on video now okay

but this is I haven’t like it’s gonna be

like a new product it’s not not that

expensive you I’m not gonna post it

quite yet it probably probably on the

first or the second of January it’ll be

ready maybe it’d be ready tomorrow I

don’t know but it’s it’s coming up real

soon but it comes with a USB and you’ll

be able to download the files the audio

files onto your cellphone you can listen

to it when you’re we are you drive

driving walking what you can hear dr.

bury me in the noggin 24/7 you should

have one of those little pillow

microphones then what you could do is

you can actually have access to the

videos as well online so you can watch

all the different chapters and the

summary of all the different things that

you need to focus on for those of you

don’t want to watch it but the audio is

cool now it does just go to Android but

you can get a little adapter for five

dollars which we also sell and then you

can watch on your iPhone so that way you

have different ways to access the audio

which is gonna be very cool so that’s

kind of a new thing that it’s gonna come

down the pike so I’ll sound it tuned but

I hope you appreciate it cuz I took a

long time to do those videos so we’re

gonna go to Gale from there

Ochs Indiana you had a question go ahead

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so just I’m excited I’ve been fond y’all

for so long so this past year I went

from 289 down to 208 graduation I’m

really excited but we have come against

two situations - I have two questions if

I could

the first one is I am a truck driver I’m

48 years old I have great health and my

salads I packed them big just like you

say and I bring my little tuna packets

and all my delicious toppings for my

salad it’s a good salad and in three or

four days it’s all rotten and I’m out

there for 10 days and so all my money

goes down the drain and stuck eating

these fake hamburger patties at these

checks that’s because I don’t know what

else I’m gonna eat are you saying that

the truck stops don’t have huge salad

bars consistent iceberg lettuce unless

you find this that way and then you can

be like I can say can I get three

quarters of an inch and one quarter

iceberg that’s the best salad I can get

when I’m on the road generally speaking

so I I have a question

is it possible that you can put some

type of mini refrigerator or freezer in

your truck I don’t know absolutely we do

My partner and I it goes to but it just

doesn’t keep well so I know the cat will

you have sorry yeah go ahead

well here’s the point yeah you can use

the cruciferous as a way to enhance and

the wheatgrass juice powder that will

actually give you a nice boost for sure

and you’ll feel a difference on that but

what I would do is if I were you is I

would pack your freezer with frozen kale

take it out blend it with water to the

way because we have a freezer filled

with

frozen kale and you could pack it down

good into right I’ve heard that yeah and

then you get you shake so you drink your

salad so that way it stores a lot longer

can you have a blender though yeah you

can have a blender you have electricity

right yeah yeah so I can so dude the

freezer and then the other thing that I

would do is that if you’re traveling

around the country of course you got the

main roads you ain’t got the trucks

stuff you know and I know you’re

probably on deadlines but maybe there’s

strategically you can plan out certain

stores along the way that our bigger

grocery stores that you could go to this

salad maybe it’s off the beaten path

sometimes they have that it might delay

your trip but what I would do is I would

freeze that kale if you looked at our

freezer right now it is just packed with

frozen kale that’s probably two months

old and it’s still good you just put it

in the blender add water put a little

berries blend it up and you can drink

your salad for the whole day but then

dr. Berg what about also the wheatgrass

juice powder yeah yeah you can add that

as well but you still need to have some

salad but I do know salad is very

perishable what about what about making

kale chips like baking drying no because

then you you’re gonna heat it you’re

gonna kill the enzymes okay thank you so

much for following us Gail I appreciate

that so we know we have we a from

Tennessee get a question you’re diabetic

right yes I am thank you so much for

taking my call

sure I’ve been a diabetic for quite a

while and I’ve been following the a DEA

recommendations and end of September I

was admitted to the hospital with

ketoacidosis and as soon as I got

discharged

I found your videos on YouTube and I

started on keto diet immediately and

about a month and a half ago I switched

over to intermittent fasting with keto

and I’ve been doing once a day once a

day and my blood sugar went from an

average of 260 something to about 122

and I was doing really well

and about almost two weeks ago I got up

one morning and my sugar was really high

it was probably about 170 180 and um I

was alarmed you know because it’s been

down to 122 or even lower and so that

has been going on for almost two weeks

now every day and I’m still doing the

Kido I’m still doing the iaf I’m

sticking really close to your eating

recommendations you mentioned that

protein from three to five ounces per

meal and I only do one so I usually

stare on for five getting my vegetables

I’m doing your potassium I’m taking

decayed magnesium calcium trace minerals

whatever I can put in there but my blood

sugar is still high and I was doing some

search online they were saying that

sometimes your liver has a excess of

glucose that they dump out periodically

and I’m just wondering if that’s what’s

happening to me or is it something else

that I need to address okay I’m up

yeah and also I’ve had a hysterectomy a

couple of years ago and I’m 51 going on

52 years soon okay so I’m not really

sure if that has anything to do with it

what’s your take okay are you taking my

week crap my nutritional yeast tablets

I’m not but I do the UM 145 nutritional

yeast powder okay that I got from Amazon

okay good so here’s what you have to do

take more of the powder okay because the

nutrition use has the B vitamins take

like six teaspoons of that powder a day

okay you can get them in tablets if you

want but just you just do to keep doing

the powder you needed a lot of that

nutritional yeast now in this situation

there’s several things that I would do

you’re doing great everything’s good but

it still needs to come down I would go

get a test an a1c and really measure and

see if your a1c is coming down

also is your waste coming down are you

plateauing

the fact that you had ketoacidosis means

that you had some serious diabetes going

on at one time and in that what that is

it’s a very unhealthy way to get into

ketosis where your your pH is so acidic

it could be very damaging to your body

so you want to quickly start alkalizing

the body because it’s so acidic and

you’ve probably got through that fine

but now you’re doing a lot better your

prompt you’re completely out of that

situation and now we have to do to tweak

it so what I would do is I would add

more nutritional yeast I would also add

exercise into the mix exercise is

another great tool to take your insulin

problem to the next level it’ll actually

help help your blood Sugar’s it will

actually help even reverse insulin

resistance it will help stimulate the

muscles to work better with to sensitize

glucose so that’s some things that would

do I would also add probably some seek

help into the mix because trace minerals

are really essential as far as you

having a hysterectomy or going through

menopause that that’s another little

factor because probably even the liver

still needs some work or your your

adrenals are really causing the spike in

this blood sugar so you may want to do

the acupressure technique that I have

online to help your adrenals and that

will help so either that’s going to

solve it or supporting liver with

something like some type of liver

nutrient type thing I think will be a

good liver nutrient you can do the

cruciferous vegetables that would be

good milk thistle would be a really good

herb to take and then that way you’re

either gonna drop it that way or it’s

gonna be the adrenal I think it’s your

liver or adrenal that’s still an issue

because you sounds like you’re doing

everything else right okay so just give

it more time check those two things and

one last thing about the American

Diabetes Association which is incredible

because they do not acknowledge this

relationship between

sugar is causing the diabetic thing

they’re still undecided of course

they’re sponsors and partners with the

food industry in the drug industry

unfortunately but in 1971 the ad a

recommended about 40% of your calories

coming from carbohydrate but then in

1984 they spiked it up to 60% of your

car behind your calories should be

carbohydrates so they went 45 to 60 okay

and then in nineteen and then in the 90s

they recommended that they said well you

can be more flexible and add a lot more

sucrose to this plan to be able to be

part of that 60% carbohydrate well if

that’s giving the basic information that

everyone’s filtering down they don’t

have a chance to get rid of their

diabetes they’re just going to be stuck

so now they’re stuck with managing their

blood Sugar’s with balancing their

calories of blood with their medication

and then all the list of medications

they’re gonna get so unfortunately it’s

very bad information and and there’s the

so called experts so story had to go

through that but I’m glad that you have

the truth right now so thanks for

watching and I’m glad that you’re doing

better hey Steve you’re from San

Francisco you had a question about

bulletproof coffee go ahead yeah I’m 52

years old and started your ketogenic and

intermittent fasting suggestions in

October I lost by Thanksgiving I’d lost

thirty pounds

Wow so I was doing really well I did

break the diet plan over Thanksgiving

unfortunately but I got back on plan but

then I seemed to stall I like I

plateaued and I’m wondering because I

just saw a video that you put out about

bulletproof coffee that you suggested it

in the beginning it was good to extend

your fast up until your first meal but

if I continue to drink some of that

coffee between my meals and does that

count as snacking

it depends my sabotage in my home it

depends on what’s in the coffee

how much coffee but yeah if you do

that’s why I always recommend doing one

cup of coffee because if you start

adding more coffee you’ll even affect

like you all of a sudden you get a

little hungry what happened with that

you got the caffeine that stimulates the

adrenals

there goes cortisol and there goes

insulin spike and now we we’ve dropped

the blood sugars down and because we

have a release of sugar through the

liver so yeah coffee anything more than

one is not going to be good for your

blood Sugar’s yeah

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does that count with ki as well if it’s

caffeinated yeah that’s right not as

much less caffeine but I do like a

naturally decaffeinated tea so yeah okay

cuz in between my meals sometimes I

drink a throw to tea and that’s

caffeinated

it’s a licorice root yeah so try to find

something you got then yeah thank you

very much you’re welcome thanks Steve

and I just wanted to say I want you guys

if you’re on Facebook or YouTube to

definitely share this information if

you’re on facebook go to youtube if

you’re on youtube go to facebook cuz i

have different information I even have

some new videos on Instagram so you can

go there and check that out it’s just

new content and then I also wanted to

bring up one thing that you may be

interested in I’m gonna be starting on

Facebook kind of a closed group that we

can invite you it’s gonna be a keto and

intermittent fasting lab where it’s like

almost like a research thing where we

can try different things and share

different results if you want to

participate stay tuned because I’ll give

you more information real soon but I

think it’ll be great to present ideas

for people to test out and then have a

large group of people to try things and

then see how it works we can all learn

from being guinea pigs I’m sorry just

like being people that can participate

in this

all right so stay tuned for that Karen

do you have a quick question if you have

a quick answer I have several questions

all right

okay so this is quick Gaul I believe it

is from YouTube asks what is the

healthiest sugar

yeah well stevia would be the best sugar

actually they’re asking sugar actual

sugar actual sugar which form of actual

sugar is the healthiest well that would

be a simple answer zero sugar but here’s

the thing you have sugar that has

vitamins with it like sugar cane actual

chewing on sugar cane would be the best

thing because you’re getting a lot of

potassium there’s a lot of potassium

sugar cane the problem is you probably

won’t get cavities and you probably

won’t even get diabetes but still it’s

it’s not something I’m recommending but

refined sugar is really really bad

molasses would be really really I mean

comparatively speaking better so I’m

gonna say I’m gonna go with molasses

okay but no answer no well I’m gonna add

I’m gonna add to that I’ve got stay away

from Agathe okay because that’s like

nanny

that’s worse than almost of high

fructose corn syrup because it has like

97% fructose which will totally put you

into an insulin resistant situation okay

okay

farinelli now for a quick answer

Facebook Cheryl is asking about

melatonin how do you feel about using

melatonin to get to sleep

yeah it Milutin is a hormone by the

pineal up in your brain and and the

melatonin basically is stimulated by

darkness so it actually helps you sleep

a problem is when you take it long-term

you kind of in activates your own pineal

that’s why I don’t recommend taking

hormones unless you absolutely need to

because it’s gonna it comes with a

package now all the sudden you need more

and more to keep to keep the same effect

so what I would do is instead of taking

the Lehtonen honestly I would there’s a

there’s a couple things that I recommend

a regular basis and their base it’s my

products that I have one is the the

sleep aid formula I take that often do I

take that can every day every night

every night yeah it’s I take one

but a half hour probably of sleep and

ma’am I go right into a sleep there’s no

melatonin there’s nothing in there

that’s gonna make you feel groggy

there’s nothing addictive it’s just a

blend that I figured out really helps

the adrenal chill out so you can drift

off into a sleep and I’ve went through

many different formulas so that’s

probably what what I would recommend

instead of melatonin because the

melatonin it works but initially you’re

gonna take more and more and it comes

with the package okay

now that leads right into my next

question what are your thoughts and I

know you’re not a medical doctor and

this isn’t medical information and this

is all opinions and things like that but

what are your thoughts on hormone

replacement therapy okay my medical

opinion on that yeah here’s the here’s

the problem with and this is really

interesting question because people say

well I’m deficient in a hormone I had a

test I’m deficient so naturally I’m just

gonna take hormones to replace it it

makes logical sense but what they don’t

realize is the endocrine system is a

very complex system and as soon as you

add in this hormone this other hormone

shifts and also hormones are

communications so the more hormones that

you take it’s going to inactivate the

gland that makes it especially the

thyroid so if you’re taking a hormone

externally that your body’s not having

to produce then your glands can go to

sleep and then now you need more and

more to create the same effect I’m not

recommending it unless you’ve tried

everything else and then maybe but it

comes with a package you’re gonna know

what you’re doing and the other thing is

why don’t why don’t you just support the

gland support the gland that makes the

hormone that way you’re not in

activating the whole hormone system and

I’ll tell you honestly the the endocrine

system there’s there’s no one that that

I know that if just reading through all

the even the endocrinologist they don’t

really understand it yet they really

don’t understand it so anyone says I’m

an expert in it well it’s so many

unknowns it’s so complex yeah they know

some data but the data them using as as

soon as you start taking hormones you’re

gonna inactivate the gland that makes it

so that’s enough for me to say well

let’s just try another way

like why did it go why do you need

hormones in the first place why did the

glands shut down that’s the question

graduate okay good

I I know you want to take a phone call

don’t you well I do I have one more on

Facebook I think this is a good one Joan

is asking she’s been on keto for about

four weeks she lost weight steadily she

just recently after breakfast started to

feel nauseous or nauseated and is

feeling sleepy mid morning and she’s not

losing stomach fat 65 years old what is

happening did I miss something did she

doing in a minute fasting she’s been on

keto so that’s a good point she doesn’t

say she’s doing intermittent fasting she

says keto yeah see keto in itself is

high fat low carb moderate protein so

let’s say you do keto and you’re and you

can’t digest all that fat it’s gonna put

a big strain on that gallbladder and

you’re gonna feel nauseous

the nauseousness is the gallbladder

symptom so that’s probably what’s

happening so I would naturally give the

gallbladder rest by doing in a minute

fasting and that way you can eat less

frequent and not have the situation now

what happens when you even do in a

minute fasting your body starts burning

fat and now all that fat from the fat

sale Karen has to come to the blood and

come out to the liver so now you

actually have a lot more fat being

processed by the gallbladder and that

alone can create nauseousness especially

if you don’t eat enough vegetables okay

so if you actually what I would do is I

would add more vegetables do intimate

fasting and you should be fine and then

make sure that you’re not eating unless

you’re hungry because there’s a lot of

people that get in the fat burning also

now they’re not hungry at all but

they’re still eating three meals a day

or even two meals a day I would go to

one meal a day just eat when you’re

hungry well it’s hard to with social

situations and the holidays and things

like that

well so I understand I’m just saying um

this understand I’m just the messenger

you know what I’m talking about I’m just

the messenger okay okay all right now

I’m gonna go to roll up from Chicago you

had a question about the best

supplements for polycystic ovarian

syndrome yeah um I I was diagnosed with

polycystic ovarian syndrome

years ago and I did some reading on it I

know kind of you know what kind of diet

I should be on and on but I just wanted

to get your input about supplements and

I don’t know if this matters but they

just find fasting glucose and it was 72

so I guess that means I’m a nun and so

it was just my PCOS I’m not sure good

question okay so let’s talk about this I

like the fact that your blood sugars are

that low because usually what causes

polycystic ovarian syndrome which by the

way is a situation where your androgens

are going very high okay so that’s a

male hormone so you get facial hair Ella

pshew alopecia which is hair loss and

then midsection weight so what I would

do if I were you I would do seek help

that would be a really good one for the

ovary and see if that helps you but just

realize what’s really behind most cases

of PCOS would be high insulin so even

know your blood sugars are that low the

doctors never test insulin fasting

insulin levels so think about it let’s

say the blood sugars are low and you

have hypoglycemia well what do you

think’s happening to the insulin it

could be high pushing the blood sugars

down so you so it’s really still a

problem with high insulin so I would

actually go get a test for for fasting

insulin and test that and that’s high

then we know you need to support high

insulin with the keto in a minute

fasting but also as far as supplements

go chromium is really good potassium is

really good the B vitamins are really

good to bring down high levels of

insulin so that’s why I have a keto kit

it has the electrolyte powder the B

vitamins and the wheatgrass that’s

really good to support healthy insulin

levels okay thanks for the question no

that’s a really good question Jennifer

you’re from Ireland go ahead you had a

question um thing happens I’m an element

under cater to meet the head we’re both

at the age of 29 and after two weeks are

we

so our half going crazy like Sir Paul

such a happy but very strong sometimes

it woke us up we couldn’t even sleep

we ate lots of matcha tea with lots of

carry lots of potassium we really made

sure to to follow your advice but so

this happened and then we got scared and

we stopped and now my boyfriend still

have to dislike high pulse and I was

wondering what did would you want and

how can we take this good question yeah

okay so I just did a video on high pulse

rate hi Paul straight can also come from

a b1 deficiency so you need nutritional

yeast okay you can get in a tablet or

get in the powder nutritional yeast is

the best source of be one that will

bring the pulse room down it could also

be low potassium now you’re adding all

the vegetables which is great so but you

may need to add but potassium on top of

that to bring that down even more and

then the last thing that you want to

check would be the inability to digest

some of the fats which I know if it

plugs up the gallbladder that can also

raise the pulse rate so look at maybe

cut down the dietary fats maybe or we’re

add in a minute fasting to space it out

so you’re not straining the gallbladder

either nutritional yeast a potassium

that should that should help you okay

Jennifer dr. Burke yes we have to wrap

up soon but I’d wanted to ask you about

your new year’s resolutions is it

do you have does the dr. Berg dream for

the future is it always about nutrition

is it about what lettuce you’re gonna

buy well ma you want to talk about my

new I just like my advice on it no we

want to know about you okay so as far as

myself good I mean honestly I I don’t

have a lot of bad habits so I’m not

going to necessarily have to give up

what I’m gonna do is I’m just gonna step

it up with my exercise and really take

to the next level and I’m working on it

I want to be able to do a lot of

pull-ups sit-ups all the basic things so

that’s really my goal for this year now

I did bust my elbow my shoulder and now

really what’s what I’m rehabbing which

is taking a lot longer than I would like

so let’s ask what would be your New

Year’s New Year’s resolution Karen but

what do you wanna uh looking forward to

seeing you next week that’s a wrap no I

think for my New Year’s resolution

you know I say this all the time I’m not

naturally fit I’m not naturally thin I’m

not as disciplined as the good dr. Berg

so I need to be more disciplined and be

more disciplined with my intermittent

fasting I think is the thing and I too

you know we are working out now we are

getting stronger and I want to do a

pull-up without it with no assistance

you up there I wanna do push-ups and

pull-ups I just want to be really

physically strong I want to be leaner so

I think the key to that is I probably

have to just be more disciplined with my

internet and fast

I like that okay good and also we have

Steve over there’s gonna be starting

Steve first we’re Harry Harry’s already

on the program but he’s gonna be more he

travels a lot so that’s an issue we tell

them what their news resolutions that

and then what I want everyone I’m gonna

take call it the last call from Derek

but what I want everyone to do if you

wouldn’t mind is type in the comment

below what you’re going to do is your

resolution I want to know about it we’re

gonna read all the comments today cause

there’s a lot of hearts cuz that was

awesome Facebook rocked the hearts that

was hysterical okay Derek here from New

York go ahead you had a question dr.

Burke thank you very much and happy

healthy New Year to you and Karen as

well thanks dr. Berg I spoke to you

actually last week in regards to my

situation I’m not on the keto or the

intimate fastening and that’s due to

just what I’m going through I do have

your book I do have the gallbladder

formula wheatgrass I have a gallbladder

situation that just manifested recently

some sludge in the gallbladder and you

told me to take some bile salts but and

I do have your gall

for me along with some other bile salts

other people gave me now I’m not really

thinking of taking that but I wanted to

get your advice I do have some minimal

erosive in the duodenum and minimal

erosive and try tiss I do have your

wheatgrass I just started drinking that

just for the stomach lining I also do

bone broth for that but my main issue

with the gall bladder is that I feel

like I’ve been constipated and I feel

like that’s really what what’s kind of

backing me up and in a video that you

did where you say it’s kind of like the

chicken or the egg

where constipation can cause you know

congested gall bladder or bile

deficiency could be the reason of you

know the constipation because it

lubricates the colon so I kinda need

help here and I know I also don’t know

what to eat

I also been on a low-fat low-calorie

diet which is not good

but my meals are basically you know I’m

trying to kind of do something like like

your program but it’s not really there I

don’t know if I can eat eggs avocados

because I heard that could be

symptomatic people so I’m eating

basically salad with salmon you know

three times a day i was i was using

chicken and turkey not turkey you know

like real turkey organic everything

organic yeah I just don’t know what to

do give you some good advice okay okay

alright so what I’m gonna wreck what you

have to realize is if you have

constipation and you have sludge in the

gallbladder then we know you’re

deficient and bile so now you’re taking

bile salts which is great because

deficiency of bile will cause

constipation if you take too much bile

you loosen up everything in your in your

gut so at this point if you still are

constipated with taking the bile salts I

would go to this store and get a

laxative regardless of any type of

consideration you have because you’ve

got to keep the bowels going to keep the

draining of the

the gallbladder flowing through there

you don’t want any stuck flows in your

liver or your body now the big thing

that you’re missing is the intermittent

fasting because every time you eat

you’re increased insulin insulin is

going to create more sludge in the

gallbladder what stimulates the bile is

saturated fats so I don’t even want you

to start adding more fats to this unless

you’re eliminating and you’re going I

think the first step would be do

intermittent fasting do it just do two

meals a day and try to keep them at 12

and 5 ok 5 o’clock I think if you did

that you would have a lot of benefits

and you can do the active pressure on

the gall butter too then after you’re

doing in a minute fasting then start

adding a little bit of like egg yolk and

it’s not going to create more of a

problem it’s going to stimulate your own

livers ability to release the bile and I

would stay with that for a long period

of time keep the vegetables high the

inflammation in your colon that you have

is going to be healed as you do intimate

fasting because now you’re gonna drop

insulin and that’s going to really speed

up the healing of the lining of the

colon with the wheatgrass is going to

help that support that as well so those

are the answers that I would recommend

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