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well hello everyone you’re we’re back

with another show today and uh sometimes

i’m trying um it’s morning over here so

but it’s in different time zones so uh

welcome

welcome we have a lot of great people in

the green room waiting to get in and

we’re going to answer a lot of questions

so let’s just dive right in steve

anything that i say is not meant to

diagnose you remember that it’s just to

give you information to think with to

check with your doctor

um so that’s the disclaimer

all right well speaking speaking of the

green room we don’t normally go right

off to it but we’ve got memorial day

weekend coming up all over the country

and we want to get a little advice from

a former nypd officer and that is greg

and he’s going to tell everybody how to

stay out of trouble this weekend in

addition to his various health concerns

with you greg you’re on the air with dr

byrd

hi dr berg uh i guess to stay out of

trouble is uh the best thing is don’t

drink and drive don’t uh make a full

yourself out in public and uh don’t have

any kind of rage with uh alcoholic

drinking

i like that good advice greg

so go ahead with your question now greg

oh aye dr berg you say not to eat if

you’re not hungry and what’s the maximum

time you could safely go because i could

easily do 72 hours and you also say to

use uh apple cider vinegar and lemon

juice and should you be using that when

you’re fasting because there’s not much

to digest when you’re fasting

and right

is there any maximum amount because

you know i take shot glasses two ounces

of lemon juice two ounces of apple cider

vinegar and is there any uh

amount you should not take

good questions um let’s let’s first

address the uh

the uh not hungry okay so let’s say

you’re not hungry and you go as long as

you can

um

you know

there is a tremendous amount of

benefit to fasting especially prolonged

fasting

for every single part of your body

including your muscles especially

because you get this growth hormone

spike you get autophagy it’s recycling

of your old tissue it’s anti-aging and

plus it’s going to

increase your lifespan

and killing the cancer cells on top of

everything else and build a new immune

system um

so the goal i mean i would think your

goal would be to get as much of that

fasting as possible so

um when you’re not hungry and you still

maintain a good amount of energy

um

you may want to just ride the wave and

go as long as you can and go 72 hours

and play around with it and do these

longer fast

i found that

you know my cognitive function starts

kicking in there my mood starts going up

so take advantage of that and

and just don’t eat uh the the the point

of when you should eat is that you’re

you’re feeling weak uh maybe a little

grouchy

um

you don’t have the full strength and

especially a really good

indicators let’s say you work out and

you just cannot

last too long compared to when you eat

then that just tells us that

you’re not quite there yet but

the fact that your appetite is gone

means that you are eating when you’re

not eating you are eating your own fat

and that’s a very

healthy

fuel

the key is getting all the nutrients so

just make sure you get all the nutrients

because if you don’t

including even vitamin d and omega

3 fatty acids

you may find that you start getting

maybe a heat joints

more pain things like that so just if

you’re taking all your nutrients you can

fast for a good period of time even even

three or four days not a problem um

make sure you take sea salt as well now

as far as apple cider vinegar um most

people dilute it but you can you can do

it as a concentrate uh if it doesn’t

bother you just

you know like a little shot glass

the lemon juice it doesn’t it’s not

going to interfere with your fasting

hardly at all so it’s not going to

increase insulin so you can do that

though the apple cider vinegar

you want to start out doing that but

let’s say you’re fasting for

72 hours

and you are in deep ketosis so your

ketones are more acid so you may not

want to continue the apple cider vinegar

if you’re doing a 72

hour faster or longer because you’re

just going to add more acidity

to situations so you may want to have a

little bit of like maybe an

eighth of a teaspoon of

baking soda instead to

neutralize the ph

but again that’s a minor point um

and then if you’re fasting for 72 hours

make sure when you transition to food

that you go slow don’t do what i did and

just start eating a big meal

and i have videos on that but um

yeah so that’s that’s pretty much my

answer greg

thank you

you’re welcome that’s great and greg we

all appreciate you keeping all the

boroughs safe that’s quite a heroic

career and we salute you for that and

thanks for coming on with dr berg and by

the way as you continue to accumulate

more

experience on fasting you’re one of the

long haulers you know we’d love to hear

back from you certainly communicate to

us on on social media why don’t we kick

off the first question of the day dr

berg and here it is

okay so i have to look around my camera

here in fact let me see if i can see oh

yeah here we go what percentage

of carbs

does the average american

consume

daily

so if we take a look at all their

calories in their diet for a given day

what percentage

of that is carbohydrate what do you

think the answer to that would be

scared to hear the answer okay so let’s

go to social media and let’s go to

youtube first with g young

and he wants to know is berberine a

natural product or an artificial

supplement no it’s it’s a natural

supplement it’s an herb

it comes from a plant

and

it

will give you a lot of

cool benefits for

everything from blood sugars to

improving your insulin resistance

problem to

helping reduce the incidence to gout i

mean there’s so many benefits to

berberine it’s a it’s kind of i if i’m

not mistaken there’s one study that

shows that it works

almost

to the same magnitude as metformin for

um insulin resistance so it’s a pretty

interesting thing but i will say this

now that we’re bringing this up

when we’re getting into

phytonutrients

like

for example turmeric is a plant but

curcumin is the phytonutrient in

turmeric

they now can make that synthetically

so you don’t want to be taking synthetic

phytonutrients or or antioxidants like

you don’t want to take synthetic

beta-carotene

or um

alpha tocopherol for the vitamin e

because

um

it’s completely different chemistry and

um there’s a lot of data that shows that

it increases your risk for getting

cancer it doesn’t decrease it so um

just that’s

the transition in the future

from my viewpoint needs to be more into

the area of

knowing the source of

where these supplements your food comes

from

and have full transparency because

there’s so much

corruption this area you don’t even know

what you’re getting and you don’t know

where it came from so that’s kind of

where i’m starting dr berg approved so

we’ll have a list of

products that have a higher quality and

there’s no hidden little anything in

them like maltodextrin that creates

problems so especially in the all the

new keto products coming out which

i mean it’s just it’s just crazy well

that’s exciting to hear dr berg because

when i look for something that’s healthy

i mean i don’t know there’s so many ways

to spin it you know a feel

you know farmed or you know whatever so

i’m sure everyone’s looking forward to

that so we can consolidate down to some

stuff if i’d ever decide to have

anything other than a bacon cheeseburger

and steak fries at least i’ll have a

list and know where to go from there

okay so let’s see next up is uh ajo from

youtube will going to bed on an empty

stomach affect the quality of my sleep

that’s interesting

actually it should improve your sleep it

should improve your sleep

um

you know

people have to they this this thing

where they have to constantly be full

they can’t be hungry um our bodies are

designed by nature to go

for periods of time without food so

being hungry is a very natural thing and

it’s a that’s a little bit of stress

that is actually a positive stress

we’re not talking about starving we’re

just talking about it’s okay to be a

little hungry here and there the key is

whether that hunger affects your

overall energy

your performance your mood because

there’s a difference between um

you know low blood sugars and being

hungry

big difference because there’s all these

hormonal waves that occur even like in

this morning i’m like at eight o’clock

in the morning um and i still have it

too it’s just like a little wave of a

little hunger and it goes right away

because there’s hormonal fluctuations

going through that will stimulate the

sensation of hunger

so um

you know going to bed hungry is actually

a very positive thing believe it or not

wonderful you’re on the right track

there okay let’s go over to facebook

jennifer wants to know why her daughter

gets extreme constipation when she goes

off sugar

well i think

the the microbes need to eat something

and i would replace that sugar with

fiber which by the way is a carbohydrate

so why don’t you feed because these

microbes can eat sugar

but they also can eat fiber so you don’t

want to take a fiber supplement you want

to get it from your vegetables because

especially right now they’re coming up

with all sorts of synthetic fibers that

people are taking and we don’t know the

safety studies we don’t know how they

affect the gut microbiome

not to mention

the um

the uh it’s called myco myco biome not

micro and that’s all the fungal the

friendly funguses that live in your body

um

that are just as beneficial but um

you

know um

i i released a video this morning

um

on sugar

and uh you should watch that because uh

it’s uh you may never eat sugar again

after watching this video

and uh

you know your microbes

so right now i’m doing all sorts of

experiments with fermentation

kombucha kefir and other

fermented drinks and they all need sugar

right

so the key is how do you feed them sugar

and then use all that sugar up so then

you don’t have to have anything left

without having it completely turned to

alcohol

because they can also

consume alcohol as their fuel as well

so anyway we’ll

i’ll be releasing some videos on that

very soon as well stay tuned folks okay

it’s that time dr berg and the busiest

guy on friday morning in the world is

terry our co-producer because he has to

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you’re coming from it’s really exciting

to hear how

broadly this show goes all right now

let’s go to the quiz the first quiz

today let me bring that up and i’ll read

it on your behalf dr berg what

percentage of carbs does the average

american consume daily and the audience

claims at least 75 of them say 80 or

higher 20 say fewer than 80

uh

percent

and 5 say less than 50 if you make sense

that’s very scientific from terry does

that make sense okay

so um the answer is six about 65

uh 63 to 65 percent

so um

that’s

astronomical because guess what a lot of

those carbs in fact if not all of them

eventually turn into

this thing called sugar so you can only

imagine the quantities of sugar of an

average american now i know

all of you watching

probably are on keto and you probably

don’t eat very much sugar and don’t eat

a lot of carbs so someone is making up

the difference

so

um

so you can imagine some people probably

doing 90

incredible incredible

so um

yeah the video i released today

is just taking one little thing

the red blood cell and showing you the

effects of

uh how sugar affects the red blood cell

and i will say

you probably will dramatically cut down

your sugar in carbs after watching that

video

steve

asking for a friend of course no

absolutely

let’s see here why don’t we kick off the

second question make sure we get through

all of them today and doc if you can see

it here you go

okay what percentage of carbs should

someone on the ketogenic diet consume on

a daily basis

i know but i’m not telling okay let’s

see what else do we have here

back to social media uh

are there and now let me get some that’s

a little complicated um let’s see what

are the this is gloria from facebook

what are the best foods to heal my

kidneys

well

the first thing you do is avoid a

certain food to heal your kidneys and

that would be

carbs and sugar because the number one

cause of kidney

chronic kidney disease is

diabetes and which is basically high

sugar so high sugar really

destroys

the um

the kidneys because if the kidneys are a

little little tiny little filters in

their capillaries and

you know the sugar as it affects your

red red blood cell trying to be filtered

you’re trying to push through this

filter something that’s not very

flexible something that’s sticky

something that’s clotting and it just

destroys the kidney

as far as what foods

would be a low-carb

high-quality

group of foods so you want to do

you know have a combination between a

moderate amount of high quality protein

with um

you know

good healthy fats and

the carbohydrates probably should be on

the vegetable family

um

i mean there’s

very specific foods that are better than

others for the kidney but

um if you have already have kidney

disease you don’t want to overload it

with maybe way too much

protein

because that the protein has to be going

through this breakdown urea cycle and

that adds more stress to the kidneys so

you don’t want to do that so you want a

moderate amount

excellent excellent words dr berg let’s

go pick on somebody else in the green

room and let’s put paul on the spot paul

if you can hear us i see you back there

come on up to the thing and you sir my

neighbor from south carolina along with

dr bird

see unmute yourself sir

sorry about that good morning everyone

good morning

but basically it’s about a thumbing

sound in my left ear but usually before

i go to sleep and then early in the

morning

how can i get rid of it i’ve been taking

a lot of veggies

unfortunately it still comes and goes

do you do you consume um

a good amount of uh carbs or breads or

sugars or grains anything like that

uh the only grains i eat usually is

quinoa

i don’t i don’t eat many carbohydrates

at all i’m certainly brightest in cheeto

yeah

okay good so um

when you lay it on the pillow it just

doesn’t feel like the the heart rate is

pounding is that what it feels like

i don’t get much pounding from the heart

from my heart but the ear the pulses

yeah that’s see that’s a that’s usually

a potassium deficiency usually

um

there is a very good test

it’s uh you can’t tell you really can’t

evaluate potassium from the blood

because

it’s most of the potassium is not in the

blood it’s inside the cell so there’s an

intracellular test that measures calcium

and potassium you’ll just have to try to

look up

what site because there’s a there’s a

site online you can actually look that

up and then they can send you a testing

kit and you can measure that to see if

you’re if you have a problem with that

there could be a reason why the

potassium is not getting absorbed but

there’s other reasons too why you might

have that sound especially if it’s just

in one ear

one thing that you may want to try is

benfotamine which is a

fat soluble b1 that actually

um

could actually reduce that symptom

the other thing i’m thinking which i’m

just throwing ling sing out loud you

know another causation would be some

type of

mucus in the estation tube

that comes from a sinus issue that’s one

area

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there’s another i don’t know if you

watched both of my videos on

tinnitus not that you have that but

there’s two things

you do okay yeah

um did you watch my both my videos on

that of the technique trying that

technique that tapping technique i’ve

tried a little bit

okay all right

so um so those are a few things that i

would do um and do you have any sinus um

issue

zero

zero okay

um

i think i would i would do the

benfotamine and i would also um

just start beefing up no pun intended

your potassium

not just with foods but with some high

potassium electrolyte and then and see

if it doesn’t go away because it’s

that pounding in the inner ear is

usually a potassium

deficiency um that’s causing this uh

loud pulsation and you’re gonna hear it

in the ear it’s not you’re not gonna

even feel it on the heart

but um

yeah and then you know to really

let’s say that doesn’t work right so

then i would have to which i don’t have

time to do now but i would

try to find some other clues that you

have that are going on with your body to

see if it makes sense of what could be

causing it because it’s really hard to

figure

that symptom out without other data so

i mean

probably

try that first but um

and then maybe you can email us more of

a history so we can

give you more things to test and try

because um

who knows i mean it could be

any number of things

okay

thank you very much you’re welcome

thanks a lot paul my neighbor from south

carolina i hope uh you have a uh

good sleep tonight without uh your ears

pounding and so come to the beach for

goodness sakes i don’t know if that’ll

help you but you’ll have fun a lot of

sun palm trees

and all that stuff so let’s see let’s go

back to our quizzes and the latest one

uh was a question not a true false and

it asks what percentage of carbs should

someone on the ketogenic diet consume

daily

and let’s see so

uh 85 of our respondents say 20 15 say

10 or less who’s right

well

it should be

and i’m going to i want to differentiate

two types of carbs right

we have the vegetable carbohydrates and

in my

my book i talk about not actually

counting them

but if you did

um

actually no i do talk about counting

them actually i want you to count those

in fact i want you to increase those so

that would be like five percent but

think about this we’re talking about

calories

are there a lot of calories in salad no

it’s like mostly water and nutrients and

some fiber

so

you’d want five percent of the uh your

calories to be vegetable or salad and

then the other five percent could be

carbohydrates so the answer is five to

ten percent um if you’re talking about

just all these other carbs

five percent not 65

5

and then you would want um

you want about 20 protein and then the

rest

fat okay

but it might sound like a lot of fat but

it’s it’s not because

fat has more than double

the calorie density

than these other foods do so

if we’re talking about volume of fat

it’s it’s like less than half of that so

it is a little confusing but

um

the point is that with carbs you need a

very small amount to make this

successful it is the key factor that

determines whether you burn your own fat

and generate ketones or not it’s the

amount of carbs not the amount of fat

it’s the carbs

interesting you know i read an article

once where they discuss fat as the

miracle food because about a cube the

size of a dice

can fuel you for some ridiculous length

of time you know it’s like the the

ultimate fuel for the body is just that

we i guess end up with a great excess

sometimes

you know um i think

you know it’s true

because

it’s one of those things that

everyone has been pushing low fat low

fat well you know it’s just the opposite

because that’s how things end up usually

it’s like whatever

the mainstream is pushing look in the

other direction because

um

they usually are wrong and

it usually takes 10 15 20 90 years

before that data comes out

i mean take a look at any of the

recommendations crisco

um

trans fats and

sugar in the 70s so anyway um

let’s

let’s why don’t we give people another

question how about that steve all right

stand by let’s do it right now and here

it goes

all right

true or false

there is no major difference

between grass-fed and grain-fed beef

they’re pretty much the same is that

true or false come on audience looking

for 100 there

and let’s go uh now this is uh

our heart goes out to deborah from

youtube any advice for reversing

pancreatic

neuroendocrine cancer can you starve it

is there any path forward with that doc

yeah well there’s uh i interviewed one

person i’m interviewing another person

who um

got rid of stage four cancer um and the

other person is

they don’t have that cancer anymore and

and i think the the best thing you could

do is watch those recent videos on

cancer and

start doing prolonged fasting as your

most powerful weapon

i just released a video on cancer and

exercise

that’s an interesting video on the

relationship between

how oxygen

can actually help you recover from

cancer

because these cancer cells are anaerobic

without oxygen and

and there’s a whole mechanism of why

that would work

but i would do serious

prolonged fasting like

i’m talking a week at a time and then

eat one meal a day and then go to two

weeks

and then there’s a protocol that i would

recommend these are supplements that i

do not sell

you can get them

online there’s a video on that but

this is based on a

really um interesting

um

researcher who’s a phd in md in out of

france

he’s an old timer and

he has this amazing explanation of

um a little strategy to starve off the

cancer and so

i ended up help

funding and help a lot of you actually

help fund this research and it’s done

now it’s being published and once it’s

published then i can do a video on it

but it’s

the results were fantastic and this was

not even involving changing the diet

um

it was an animal study

but still it was

it was a really good study so then the

next

study would be on humans but in the

meantime we have some interesting data

that

may be beneficial to you

but it has to involve

hardcore

fasting

exercise and

and then watching

but those

think it’s possible for sure

well our hearts go out to you and

you know all the best luck with that we

hope you call us back with some

improvement josh from facebook any

remedies for my wife’s morning sickness

she’s 10 weeks pregnant

yeah i would do tutka tutka

it’s a type of bile salt that’s uh will

help get rid of nauseousness and it open

it kind of opens up the

the bile ducts and

that would help as well and then the

other remedy would be vitamin b6 but i

would only try that after you tried

tutka and i would take an empty stomach

twice a day

um

and because what happens with women when

they’re pregnant is they get this spike

of estrogen and that tends to

thicken the bile

that’s draining down and then if that

backs up they can have a lot of

nauseousness and other symptoms so this

is a really nice quick

relief from that problem

that’s encouraging quiz number three and

we do have a hundred percent are here so

they’re all smart or dumb depending on

your answer doc and they say oh excuse

me the question was true false there is

no major difference between grass fed

uh

and grass what do we between grass-fed

and grass-fed beets did i read that

wrong grain grain excuse me green grass

okay i did read that wrong all right so

i’m the one that’s not smart all right

so 100 of the respondents say is it

false there is a difference between

grass-fed and grain-fed beef uh are they

smart we hope

they are smart and that is the truth and

what’s uh

actually very interesting about that

there’s there’s not a lot of studies out

there but there is one study that i

found recently that um

that is just it’s not even completed yet

but that i talked to the researcher

who’s doing the study

and it’s actually

mind-blowing because they compared

um

grass-fed grass finished which is the

key

because just when something just because

something is grass-fed doesn’t mean it’s

grass finished which means the last

month or two or three

are just grass not grains versus grain

finished and this is what they found the

muscle in that beef

from the grass-fed resembled muscle from

a healthy athlete

the muscle from the grain-fed

animals

resembled someone with metabolic

syndrome

and so the question is is there

any difference between consuming

um

a sick animal

versus a healthy animal does it affect

your health i don’t know what do you

think i have studies we have to be done

on this to see if this is true but i’m

thinking

that you might actually improve your

health if you eat healthier animals what

do you think steve

well i think you’re on to something doc

that makes a perfect sense to me

so and let’s go to claudia on youtube

and i think she represents you know a

lot of folks who are struggling with

this sort of thing i haven’t had a

gallbladder for nearly 20 years

some people have that and now have a

fatty liver and i’m obese will taking

bile supplements help

doc what can we do for claudio well you

might want to think about getting a

getting a gallbladder because they’re

they come in all different sizes and

shapes now and so you can get them and

install them but

um

yes

yes you want to

get some bile salts

gallbladder formula is one that i have

i’m not biased of my own but you want to

take that with meals

and you might want to take an empty

stomach and what will happen

is that

bile

helps to mobilize

fat and cholesterol and it can help

reduce a fatty liver but there’s also

other things too you should be doing you

should be doing the ketogenic diet you

should

you should be doing choline choline is

important and then bile salts is another

thing if you don’t have a gallbladder

that means you don’t you’re not able to

concentrate your bile and your gall

bladder and you’re not so you get this

trickling effect from the bile from the

liver into the small intestine so you

never have enough bile and you don’t

have the concentration of bile so those

two things can

also affect your ability to extract

nutrients from your food i’m talking

about vitamin a d

e

k 1 k 2. so these are all fat soluble

vitamins but not only that

many phytonutrients like the carotenoids

are fat soluble

so i mean

lutein

zeaxanthin all these like really

important things for the eyes for the

heart

you can’t actually

um absorb those without bile so

it’s quite extensive i i’ve done a lot

of videos on this and i think um

uh you should probably take bile salts

now the way that you know you took too

much is that you get diarrhea

the way that if you don’t have enough

um

you will have your stool float

and

and it’ll be pale the color of your

stool so there’s ways to know to get to

get the right amount of bile in your

body

well good luck from that

and you know i know you don’t like to

brag about your products but i love the

electrolyte formula that keeps me from

cramping up when i jog but aaron wants

to know if he can take your electrolytes

with k2 d3 i assume that’s your product

as well yeah yeah you can take it no no

problem there what i have in the k2 and

the

d3 is the

i already have in there a little bit of

mct oil powder so you don’t even need to

take it with a meal because it comes

with fat and

if i’m not mistaken it also comes with

bile salts so it helps to absorb

it’ll be absorbed a little bit better as

well as it has the magnesium which is

another factor of absorption so

i wanted to handle like a lot of

different barriers for absorption

and the fact that a lot of people

probably the majority of populations are

deficient in vitamin d vitamin d is the

most important fat soluble vitamin

because every single cell has receptors

for vitamin d

all right that’s wonderful so why don’t

we go back to the the um green room and

we’ve got a young man here handsome from

new jersey and he would probably have

been in greg’s spotlight as an nypd and

he suggests so he’s going to have a lot

of fun this weekend but in addition to

that he has some question for you dr

berg about your various programs greg

you’re on i’m sorry brian you’re on with

dr berg

hey dr burke how’s it going great

i also suggest not coming to the jersey

shore this weekend it’s going to be

mayhem um but my question is i

intermittent fast for about 19 hours a

day

um i do 72 hours about every two about

every two months

um mostly for the benefits of autophagy

are there benefits of going beyond 72 or

should i shut it down after after 72

because it kind of plateaus

no no there are there are definitely

benefits that go beyond 72

like

the shrinkage of polyps in your colon if

you have them the killing of cancer

cells the complete regeneration of your

immune system

you’re just going to get more and more

benefits

cognitive benefits regrowing of brain

brain cells

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so it’s a it’s a it’s it’s definitely if

you can

maybe i don’t know

even to go extended

you’ll see some magic happen if you can

go seven days

i mean that’s like you see some major

major transformation

um that go way beyond

even 72 hours so

the answer is for sure i

i was going to do a video on that but

it requires um i’m just getting my

references in a row but um i want to be

talking about more on prolonged fasting

and what it can do

also for your muscle cells and your stem

cells which is

you know the cells that are

undifferentiated that can turn into

any cell and so you can replace any

damage going on and you get better

repair and recovery and anti-aging

and i also have hypothyroidism that

would i assume help with that as well

yeah do you have hashimoto’s

um i’m not sure if it’s exactly that i

do have hypothyroid hypothyroidism i

take levothyroxine about 88 mics a day

it went from 75 to 88 but

i’m not sure that’s not a big dose but i

know it’s definitely been worse than

that in some cases

find out because 90 of um hypothyroidism

is

hashimoto’s which is an autoimmune in

which case fasting would be

dynamite i mean it’d be really really

good for you because

now we’re addressing

an autoimmune issue which is going to

drop your inflammation

but

but even if you don’t if you fast make

just make sure you’re taking all the

right nutrients but it’s very beneficial

for your thyroid and probably the need

for thyroid hormones will go down um

but um

yeah the two things that interfere with

with the thyroid is the liver

liver function so

and the other thing is um test i mean

estrogen which i you probably don’t have

a problem with but

that’s because that would be if you’re

consuming a lot of soy

or consuming a lot of plastics in the

diet which is in from

i’ve done a video on that um

but those are just some considerations

and i think you’re on the right track so

yeah that’s awesome

all right cool i appreciate it thank you

you’re welcome

have a blast this weekend brian be safe

and let’s see what should we do why

don’t we go to another question dr berg

and here it is

all right so

what

is the benefit

of using ghee

instead of butter and i just want to did

we answer the last

question steve i think we did yes so so

this yeah so we’re good on this what is

the number one benefit of using ghee

instead of butter and i’m talking too

about in the bulletproof coffee or

cooking with it um consuming it in your

foods

all right climb on it audience and by

the way here’s a fun topic that we

covered in one of our symposiums before

moon feather from youtube should long

distance runners do iaf and keto and i

remember a monster um

you know runner that we had as a guest

at one of your

gatherings about three or four years ago

so what do you have to say for a moon

feather

well there’s there’s there was two

speakers that we had one from greece

uh who

did very well in his iron man um

because he’s keto low carb and then you

also have the guy who took the world

record

for a hundred mile run

he was uh he was a guest speaker

and uh both of them were keto uh

athletes so

what happens when you become fat adapted

there is way more fat oxidation which

means you’re burning fat you’re using

that as fuel and that’s very beneficial

for long

long distance

runners versus someone who’s not adapted

that has to rely on glucose

and they have to consume synthetic you

know dextrose and these

these these terrible things throughout

the race which is um not healthy and

there’s a lot of complications there’s a

lot of side effects i’ve done a video on

that they have the carbo load sometimes

so

i think it’s better

of course there’s minimal research right

now but i think there’s going to be a

lot more coming up but

i mean you have so much more fat to burn

why wouldn’t you want to burn fat when

you’re doing long distance running i

mean the fact is that

can you adapt or not can you switch over

and switching over to become fat adapted

uh does take some time especially for an

athlete so it could take

even months up to a year to completely

switch over but you’re going to find

that your workouts your performance

will be much better

okay well here’s a big group of which

maddie represents on facebook please

discuss health protocols for women who

are undergoing menopause thank you says

maddie

the main thing is going into menopause

you want to make sure that your adrenals

are as healthy as possible

because your adrenals are going to back

up the ovaries as a kind of

a little back up machine there and

you want to support them and

then when you go into menopause you

won’t have this dramatic shock to the

system and where you start having a

spike of cortisol where you start losing

your bones and

vitamin e is a in the form of

tocotrienols would be a really good

supplement to take if you’re going

through menopause and but don’t follow

where everyone else is doing like just a

calcium carbonate supplement because

that will increase your risk of getting

heart attacks

try to get your calcium from food

but

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as far as the

supplements if you needed something

uh the probably the

the main thing i would recommend is

something like dhea

which is a precursor to some of the

hormones so

don’t don’t need much just a little bit

of that can help restore some of the

severe drop in these other hormones that

you have during menopause if you need

that because

um

we’re making this huge shift of where

these hormones are coming from

but as far as testosterone goes

testosterone doesn’t in women doesn’t

really drop

as much as it

people talk about

it’s really what happens is the dhea

drops the precursor so um i have done a

video on that you can watch that to get

more details

all right shirley let’s go to youtube

can harden excuse me hardening of the

arteries be reversed if so how long does

it take to do so

well it cannot it it’s not going to be

reversed by going in a low cholesterol

diet

it’s going to be

improved when you go on a low carb diet

because what’s happening these

carbohydrates how they affect the red

blood cell and it leaks iron into the

system it irritates creates lesions

inside the arteries and the cholesterol

comes as a band-aid so now how do you

reverse all that well um a couple things

you can do

you want to take a a really good

vitamin e tocatrinals to help

support and help dissolve some of this

fibrosis that’s going on in the arteries

and then maybe a key later

um

i talk about that in some of the videos

and then vitamin k2 that’s another one

that will help keep the calcium out of

the soft tissues

um but the main thing is stopping the

damage which is getting your diet

corrected because all these other things

will not even touch it unless your diet

is corrected so

and then

the original thing that caused this

problem the first place was your diet

wasn’t correct and probably high carbs

and then that started this cascade so

you must fix that first

all right let’s see here we’re still

waiting on the answer to the ghee butter

thing

so in the meantime

why don’t we let’s see

did we ask maria i don’t have a

gallbladder complete blockage in my

pancreas no we didn’t maria from youtube

i don’t have a gallbladder and i have a

complete blockage in my pancreas what

can i do to improve my vitamin

absorption

the way the

bile ducts come down

is they do

join with the pancreatic ducts and these

are tubes and so

if you don’t have a gallbladder

you could potentially very easily

develop gallbladder sludge

or a gallstone

which can then obstruct

the pancreatic ducts

so how do you clean that out

because we have we have a problem with

the deficiency of bile and we have too

much cholesterol

and that forms a sludge so

you’re left with um

having to take bile and the type of bio

i would take if i were you would be

tutca

and you take two an empty stomach maybe

even twice a day initially and that will

help thin this sludge

which will then

allow the pancreas to drain and will get

less

back up into the pancreas so there’ll be

less inflammation in the pancreas better

pancreatic function less bloating less

pain and it’s like

it’s one of those um

things that works very very well and

gives people a tremendous amount of

relief yet it’s very hard to find

information around taka look at my video

on tutka because i had a extensive one

it’s a very um

interesting

remedy for a lot of things

that you wouldn’t even think are

connected

wonderful dr berg.com of course audience

all right we’ve got the answers to quiz

question number four which asks what’s

the number one benefit of using ghee

instead of butter and i’m interested in

that because i haven’t heard of that and

this is a long one

35 percent of respondents say ghee has

more omega-3s 30 say ghee has no milk

proteins 20 say ghee is nutritionally

superior and 15

say ghee is better for the

cardiovascular

system threaded through there doc do we

have some smart people

well well think about this um

it’s clarified butter so you’re taking

out the solids from

this butter all right but you still have

the all the fat-soluble vitamins you

still have all the nutrients um but you

don’t have

the the casein any casein traces or any

lactose so if someone is um

even though there’s not a lot of lactose

in butter

you’re going to take away these things

so you’re going to get better digestion

you’re going to have

less

allergies

so you’ll have less digestive problems

and it’s the ghee is a little bit better

for your gi like a leaky gut and so you

can put in your coffee blend it up it

makes a really great little um

drink as a bulletproof coffee

but um

but yeah so the big difference is that’s

going to be less

stress on your digestive system because

there’s less lactose

and less um casein with allergies

okay do you mind dr berg just kind of

telling me what it is is it a is it a

strained butter is ghee butter what is

it

yeah they heat it and they strain it

they filter it out so it’s just taking

all these these particles out of butter

which are some traces of

protein and there’s traces of milk sugar

very small amounts but they’re in there

so this is like pure fat

pure fat yum sounds pretty good all

right listen uh francesca from youtube

wants to know if she should be fasting

while breastfeeding

um

probably not because

the importance of breastfeeding to get

all the nutrients and

and

probably not the best time to start

fasting

you want to just maximize the breast

milk which is a very key thing by eating

really healthy just maybe all you have

maybe i would recommend just not

snacking do three meals

so when you’re pregnant or breastfeeding

i don’t recommend doing any type of

fasting other than skipping the snacks

and just having a really nutrient dense

healthy meal so that way you get all

your nutrients and you’re not

having to do the snacking because here’s

the thing if you’re eating a lot of

different frequent meals when spiking

insulin

with

pregnancy or even lactating then we’re

generating a little bit more insulin

than we need to um

so is that necessary i don’t think so

all right terrific good good luck for

you and i know dr berg is proud of you

for breastfeeding and apparently does

great things for little babies and

that’s wonderful it’s the best best

thing and uh

you know the shortage of what infant

formula is well

okay well start breastfeeding that’s

going to be the best thing you could do

because what’s in those infant formula

is

way too much soy and

i mean

it’s giving an infant soy

is uh very estrogenic not to mention

the type of soy the gmo and all the

other crop that’s in those those

products

wonderful go for it ladies you’re on the

right track okay here’s our final

question for the day doc can you see

that

yes true or false mct oil cannot be

converted to fat

right is that true that’s true true or

false and i tell you what uh actually uh

as show he excuse me has been trying to

get on the air with us and she keeps

dropping off as shelly uh let me see if

we can hear you go ahead with your

question for doctors

hi dr berg i’m very happy to be here

i used to have a constipation chronic

and also

um acne chronic so since i started

taking your gallbladder formula and

vitamin d

and probiotic all this problem is gone

but my problem right now is

if i don’t eat high calf food at night i

don’t sleep i keep waking up like three

times one day i eat high cup food

what can i do in this situation

yeah

um

that’s what i did

at some point i couldn’t sleep unless i

had a pint of ben and jerry before i go

to bed

because

the sugar

and the insulin

promotes fatigue

so that’s that’s what you’re doing and

when you go on the ketogenic diet

especially when you’re adapting

you may find that you get way too much

energy

so what i would do if i were you instead

of doing the carbs

i would take a little apple cider

vinegar a little water you know sometime

in the evening

and then what i would do is i would um

um

let’s see there was there was one video

i did on this and i there was a really

good remedy if i could pull that out of

my my database here um

i would i would take b1 for sure um and

i would take magnesium and potassium

because these minerals

are um

are like um relaxing to you they’re

relaxing to the autonomic nervous system

and then b1 is good for the sympathetic

flat or fight mode uh and then on top of

that i would exercise more

to

burn up this extra sugar and help get

your muscles tired especially

in high school

were you an athlete

yes

okay

so

do you find that your physical activity

now is

not as much as when you’re in high

school

i think she froze up there uh from a

poor things internet is uh not working

well

so let me see if she comes right now

what happens to the mitochondria is uh

when you exercise it they become bigger

and then if

if you really

generate these incredible mitochondria

and then all of a sudden you don’t

maintain that level of exercise

and then on top of that you go on the

ketogenic diet you have you’ll have so

much more energy

and so the problem is how do i sleep um

so you might have to exercise more to

get rid of this energy use up the energy

um that’s my situation if i don’t

exercise i don’t sleep

because i’m so used to

this exercise ever since

wrestling and basic training but um

but but more magnesium more potassium

and more b1

and vitamin d before bed i think will

solve your problem rather than the

carbohydrates

oh we can’t hear you oh there she is

okay great well she was shaking her head

enthusiastically through a lot of your

uh consultation there so as shohei i’m

so glad we were finally able to get you

on the show and hope to hear back from

you in a state of greater health that’ll

be a lot of fun let’s see

and you know steve you know stephen one

if we compare exercise to physical work

like cleaning something or fixing

something

i tell you for sleep physical work is

way way way better than just regular

exercise but

again

they’re both very similar but

there’s nothing like doing some physical

work

and sleeping like right now

i’m living the farm life and talk about

physical work and sleeping goes hand in

hand way better than any workout that

i’ve ever done

wow yeah milking chickens takes an

enormous amount of energy and so on

and so does milking pigs yeah oh yeah

i’m sure they don’t like that at all all

right let’s see here uh rawad from

facebook’s i’m suffering from extreme

hair loss what should i do to treat this

condition

well

i don’t have a lot more information to

use to figure out the exact thing but

there’s a couple reasons for hair loss

number one you need to you’re not

consuming enough protein number two

you’re not taking the

trace minerals that are needed for these

hair proteins to form

it could also be hormonally where you’re

having too much

dht a very very powerful form of

testosterone i’ve done videos on that

and what to do

but again

i don’t know if you’re on the ketogenic

diet i don’t know if you so i need more

data to really figure out i i like to

ask the question when did this start

what did you do right before that and

that’ll just kind of give me the clue of

where to

what’s going on but i need more

information but those are some simple

things that you can do right off the bat

there is a hair formula that i have that

covers

a lot of different issues the b vitamins

um

silica mineral

um

the dht

factor as well as the trace minerals so

that’s something that

has shown to be very powerful too you

might want to check that out wow it’s

incredible uh let’s clean up the uh

green room by getting everybody a chance

and trisha is up next from believe it or

not niceville florida trisha you’re on

with dr byrd

thank you dr burgess really nice to meet

you nice meeting you

um i’m experiencing the adverse effects

from a hysterectomy surgery

um can the keto diet and nutrition and

supplements help mitigate the long-term

side effects

from

this surgery

yeah did they do a complete hysterectomy

yes

okay

um yes with a twist with a couple other

things that can really really help you

first of all

it’s a trauma

and um and adrenals now are probably

working overtime to compensate because

even like the surgery itself

this is why even after surgery like they

see a drop in potassium because there’s

this massive adrenal stress that just

dumps the potassium so potassium is one

mineral that i would take um

and then

um

supporting the adren adrenos more than

anything but the ketogenic diet takes

you out of the sympathetic dominant

flight or fight mode thing

so um i think it would help you greatly

and the fasting will also help you

intermittent fasting will help you heal

and repair

tissue and rejuvenate um that’s really

important but the

additional things that i would do and

you might want to write these down or

watch this video later to record this

but there’s a couple products i used to

use in my practice when someone had this

procedure that worked really well and

it’s uh

through a company called standard

process i’m not affiliated with them but

it’s it’s called utrophin pmg

and ovitrophin pmg

you would take um maybe a few of these

each day probably taken before bed

ovitrophin pmg and

utrophin pmg

and that

is a wonderful combination that seems to

help support what’s missing in your body

right now

um

because

that whole structure is is connected to

uh

um

the pituitary and hypothalamus on this

axis this coordinated communication and

so now we kind of take away one part of

that communication and now it’s

it’s left incomplete so this will tend

to i think um fulfill that communication

in your body and you’ll you’ll

experience a lot of relief with that

yes i agree um i think the fight or

flight

sensitivity is

definitely increased like i wasn’t

before

and in the meantime you can search out

my video if i’m not mistaken it’s called

the stress webinar where i actually walk

people through a really simple

acupressure technique that you can do to

kind of pull yourself out of a stress

mode it’s a unique thing i used to do it

in practice but i teach people how to do

it on themselves and it’ll just help

help um pull you out of this sympathetic

dominant

mode

in addition to this

your new change in eating which is going

to be low carb and in a minute fasting

thank you so much i really appreciate it

you’re welcome

okay good luck with that uh trisha and

as always we want to hear back from and

by the way our final wonderful person

from across the pond nora is with us and

she’s been smiling the whole time

uh which is wonderful even though she’s

the last uh up here on deck so norah go

ahead with your question for dr byrd

hello dr berg thank you for um having me

on your show

and my question is

about

is it alright to use it

for me as a woman because you’ve said in

your videos that it increases

uh testosterone

and

how much i should use of it i mean on

regular basis

well ashwagandha is one of the one of

the best adaptogens so it supports

adrenal stress

and it allows you to increase your

tolerance to stress so now you’ll be

able to handle stress more

i would i wouldn’t take a lot of it i

would probably take

two

or three per day

not more than that and make sure that

it’s a really good source

and sometimes it’s hard to find herbs

that are you know where it’s grown on

but uh um the better soil it’s grown on

the better it’ll be for you but

ashwagandha is uh one of my favorite

adaptogens

and

in addition to ashwagandha you may want

to add like nutritional yeast or a good

vitamin natural b1 to help

go along with this ashwagandha and then

one last thing as far as a tea goes

lemon balm tea is a really good one for

stress

you’ll feel um some nice changes right

away but those three are

probably hands down

the best for

reducing stress

thank you

you’re welcome okay we’ve got an answer

about you uh well actually we’ve got the

answer to the last question let me knock

that out real quick yeah we have to

answer the question well

that’s all right true false mct oil

cannot be converted uh cannot be

converted to fat and uh 60 say false 40

say true who’s right dr berg as we close

things out

it’s true mct oil

the medium chain triglyceride fats

cannot be converted to fatty

tissue

so this mct oil in your coffee the mct

oil

as you take on the keto plan it’s not

going to turn into fat okay it’s going

to be turning into energy it’s not going

to even be um

um

it’s not going to interfere with your

your ball your gallbladder because the

the bile doesn’t is not needed in that

breakdown of that type of fat so it’s a

very unique type of fat

and

it’s uh

if you have too much

you can get a little diarrhea or

bloating so go

go small with it at

at the start but it can help you

with um

fasting longer and it can also help your

brain especially if you’re starting to

notice dementia

so

it’s good for alzheimer’s

and if you exercise um and you want a

little more energy it’s a it’s not a bad

thing to take

before a workout like 20 minutes before

you work out because it’s going to have

it’s going to give you more endurance

wonderful on that note steve um i

appreciate all of your questions and

your comments and

all the great comments on the youtube

videos i’m releasing recently if you

haven’t seen the one on sugar

it’s um i put a lot of time into it

check it out go to my youtube channel

and check it out i think you might enjoy

that but warning you may never eat sugar

again

steve

all right looking at the video now

see you folks

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you