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welcome back everyone I’m at another Lo

a different location here but we’re

going to just jump right in we’re going

to do a Q&A on keto and intermittent

fasting and we’ll answer all your

questions thanks for coming on if

there’s anything that uh we say we don’t

want to intend to bypass your medical

doctor or replace your medical care

check with your doctor before

implementing any of this information

it’s just for your continued research

Church okay all right Steve deal over to

you okay good good morning everyone from

around the world and let’s go uh to

around the world on social media

starting off uh with Chaz uh from

YouTube and he wants to know uh how can

carnivore dieters eat so much protein

without worrying about keto acidosis or

smelly sweat from elevated Ura and

ammonia levels that’s an interesting

question what’s the

scoop well um you’re not just eating all

the protein too you’re eating a lot of

fat okay so you’re eating fat which

actually kind of offsets that and our

bodies have um an incredible ability to

adapt to different diets so uh some

people have an issue some people don’t

but the

benefits of doing that especially if you

have gut

inflammation you just pretty much uh

you’re creating a healing response to

your gut um because in that situation

your system is compromised where you

can’t tolerate these fibers or legumes

or or anything other than um some

protein and so and fat so it seems to

work uh but I would recommend not just

doing muscle protein I would also

recommend doing like the eggs the fish

things like that but

um um but it’s something to um test the

waters and then see how you do um do I

recommend it long term it really depends

on the the sever of damage but once your

gut heels maybe you want to start

introducing um things like um sauerkraut

or fermented vegetables in smaller

amounts and gradually increase it after

that all right very good Natalie from

YouTube again I’ve heard or YouTube

again again not Natalie I’ve heard that

it can be dangerous to take B1

supplements because they are linked to

cancer what are your thoughts on this

and taking supplements in

general okay I’ve never heard that

before you’ll have to show me some of

the research on that um B1 typically

it’s water soluable it’s not going to be

a problem there are fat cable but um I

think it’s just the reverse because

cancer originates in the mitochondria

and vitamin B1 actually protects the

mitochondria it helps metabolism within

that kreb cycle so I think it can reduce

your chances of cancer versus causing

cancer um even at higher levels I’ve

never seen any problems with that of

course you have also the synthetic

version of B1 um which I think um I

would go for the natural one because

it’s going to be better but typically

nutrition in general um you want to go

for you want to find the source uh a

good source of it you don’t want to just

do the synthetic even the antioxidants

because there’s it they they try to

synthesize the um the exact replication

but in nature nothing comes as one

individual

fractionated nutrient it always comes in

a complex especially with the

antioxidants because think about it when

you have this free radical which is like

if you look at it’s called an unpaired

electron so it’s kind of like this plate

spinning around in the circle um that’s

kind of wobbly because it’s not balanced

with two weights so if it’s a free

radical it’s an

unpaired electron right so then it

creates a lot of Destruction so here

this antioxidant comes in and it donates

an electron to help balance that free

radical and now it’s stable but what

just happened to that antioxidant it now

becomes unstable because it had a donate

electron so in nature you have a um

networks of antioxidants that uh they

borrow another electron from another

antioxidant and they keep doing that and

they keep doing that until the point

where it becomes very stable so in

nature when you take a lot of like one

antioxidant it creates some some

additional problems even in increased

risk of cancer so if you stick with u uh

food-based

antioxidants food base nutrition for the

most part you’re going to stay out of

trouble excellent excellent counsel

here’s Don and Jennifer from YouTube

I’ve gone from 185 pounds to 157 thanks

to your program and you’ve helped me fix

my digestive issues I’m a 17-year-old

retired army ranger who wishes to salute

you so there you have it Dr ber and you

were Army weren’t you uh yourself yeah

Army see all right there you go is that

whoa I forget what all the things are

but no no all right well no this is not

the Marines oh that’s right okay well

good us civilians will stick to our

stuff here and let you guys decide that

okay so uh evina from Facebook how can I

apply your Healthy keto and fasting

protocols for someone who has Gilbert

gilar Syndrome excuse me gilar syndrome

syndrome just like you would apply it if

you didn’t have that condition um you’d

want to do the healthy version of it

just uh because remember keto is just

low carb it doesn’t mean healthy

ingredients so you want to do the uh

make sure it’s nutrient dense make sure

it’s quality ingredients and uh it’s the

if you if you add in that intermittent

fasting with the healthy version of Keto

I think you have the perfect plan to

create more health and so um

um I can’t even think of even one

situation where it would be

contraindicated at all even if someone

is pregnant or even lactating they still

should do keto but maybe not

intermittent fasting but keto I mean

it’s just a I don’t I don’t see any

situations where you would it’d be

contraindicated all right very good well

let’s go to the green room because aloc

from Phoenix his his video’s been going

in and out and now he looks absolutely

lovely so so while the video is holding

let’s put them on alock you’re on with

Dr ber for your one quick question

please thank you so much uh thank you Dr

bur for taking my question I really

follow you a lot I watch a lot of your

videos um and I’ve have been following

uh doing all the right things I’ve been

uh doing intermittent fastings I’ve been

doing fasting I’ve been doing uh taking

all the right food um probiotics or R

and whatnot but uh whenever I go and

check my vitamin and minerals I lack a

lot of them I take supplements as well

uh but still I lack um vitamin and

minerals uh like vitamin D especially

B12 um a lot of it um so I’m not sure

what’s the reason reason there um and

then um other problems I have is I get

flu all the time every time I go like I

feel just fine right now I’m feeling

fine but if I go and get tested I

probably will find out that I’m flu

positive I’m like out of 10 times out of

10 out of eight out of 10 times I’m flu

positive and it’s mostly Flu Boo flu B

uh I have taken shot as well um for flu

but still it comes out to be positive uh

so don’t seem to understand the reason

uh behind all of these things got it I

think what you’re saying is you get

tested for influenza the flu right yeah

comes out positive always and I feel

fine I feel just okay all the

time you know um there is such a thing I

mean as a false false positive and if

especially if you feel fine I mean what

are you g to do you g to treat it if you

still feel fine what about just

supporting the immune system that would

be a uh kind of A New Concept with h

zinc vitamin C and vitamin D now you

mentioned something very important um if

you’re taking this supplement especially

D and even

B12 um and you still test uh deficient

there are there’s a condition it’s a DNA

uh problem and the term you can look it

up it’s uh it’s called polymorphism

where your some of your genes are um

altered in a way that makes it very

difficult to absorb vitamin D in fact I

recently looked at the 23 people I think

it was roughly 23 rough could be 24 but

people that I tested with the DNA and

100% of them had at least one gene that

was not allowing them to either absorb

vitamin D or convert from the inactive

to the active I that that was like

amazing now that was a small sample but

still so you may uh have some genetic

problem that prevents you from absorbing

those two nutrients which are very

common issue so

solution is to take more of it take more

take 20 or even 30,000 iuse and then

also um you can take uh more b b B12 but

just make sure that that form of B12 is

not in the synthetic form which is

called cyano Calamine you want the uh

methyl Calamine which actually You’ want

to take it with like folate in B6 as

well and you could find that but yeah

there’s a there’s a lot of genetic uh

issu isues that prevent people from

absorbing nutrients that’s on top of all

the other issues like malabsorption your

gut or maybe low stomach acid so yeah we

want to increase absorption and um I

think the solution is just to take more

of it that would simply override any

type of resistance especially to your

receptors for vitamin D if you have even

if you have a chronic infection going on

in your body um those microbes are very

sneaky and they tend to downgrade your

receptors especially for vitamin D as

they’re strategy because I know that’s

part of your immune system so the way to

solve it is to um take more take more

nutrition it’s not going to be a

problem is there any test we can get it

done to to diagnose these conditions I

did get genetic testing done some time

back um and that was not for this

purposes but that for for for fertility

purposes but everything came out to be

fine that point and also I don’t have

this condition now I mean I not have I’m

44 years old and up to up to the age of

like 35 40 I was just fine it’s just

happening like last few few years

welcome to getting older no I’m just

kidding uh I think what I would um I

would uh just hang in there for um a few

more weeks I’m going to do a video and

interview the great uh Greek Doctor Who

actually specialized in something called

metabolomics which is I think the the

Medicine of the future which they can

look at a lot more information in your

blood and urine to pick up things that

you can’t detect from normal blood

tissues because you’re looking at all

the different um uh enzymes and the and

you can even visualize the inside of the

mitochondria where you have the CB cycle

and look at each stage of what’s

happening to find the bottlenecks and

seeing what you’re really missing so

this is I wish I had this in practice

this uh way of evaluating someone it’s

very Dynamic way better than a blood

test because it goes deep into um it’s

called the metabolites which are the end

products of this whole chain reaction of

the

biochemistry it’s something it’s a it’s

a bit difficult to understand if you

just start a reading on it but I’m going

to make it really simple but um I will

do a video on it and I will have a link

where you can get that test but I think

it’s going to be

awesome well that’s great

look forward to it that’s wonderful

listen let us know go out there and gulp

some more real vitamin D and by the way

I will brag on Dr Burks 10,000 I use per

capsule so it wouldn’t take many for you

to get up to speed I’ve taken them and

have no uh noted ill effects feel great

so thanks again and do check back in

with us uh ack and why don’t we go to

our first quiz question of the day and

Doc here it

is okay which is better for Sleep yogurt

or

kefir right yogurt or kefir audience

climb on that let’s go back to social

media and let’s find out if there are in

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great videos and so forth now back

to uh back to social media again uban

from Facebook what supplements would

help resolve sciatica

pain huh I just uh I did a video on that

and there’s uh there’s many different U

nutrients involved in itic paint you

know um copper is the trace mineral that

can help you because there’s in the

relationship to having a deficiency and

having a problem with your milein sheath

of this and there’s a condition that if

you’re deficient in comper and I don’t

want to give you the long name of this

disease but it affects the the

articulation between the spinal column

and this in the peripheral nerves which

is basically what stica nerve is s Saka

pain is so uh if you could um consume

more copper uh of course in a base of

more of of the other trace minerals too

that could potentially help you a lot

but uh I recently released a video on

that um and then also the other thing is

to get one of those foam rollers to add

that support in your lower back to keep

that curve forward in your lower back

for cica that’s going to help greatly so

those are a few things and I have other

stretches you can watch

but pyic is definitely a pain in the you

know what literally yeah terrible thing

okay the audience leapt on your first

question which asked uh which is better

for Sleep yogurt or kefir and 98% of a

respondents say kefir and 2% are holding

out hoping that it’s

yogurt it’s kefir Kefir is unique

because it has um about five times more

microbes than yogurt plus kefir has a

combination of friendly yeast and

friendly bacteria as whereas whereas

yogurt is only has the bacteria with

just one to five strains um kefir has

between 15 to 20 to 30 or 50 strains of

different microbes so the byproducts of

kefir um that will give you certain

properties certain effects and uh one is

lowering of cortisol another is the

production of

neurotransmitters like serotonin but

even though our gut makes serotonin like

90% it can’t cross the blood brain

barrier but it can convert into uh

melatonin eventually which then uh you

know ends up helping you sleep so

there’s there’s several reasons why Keir

is better uh for sleeping I would

recommend taking it in the maybe after

your dinner maybe not right before bed

because that way you might interrupt

your intermittent fasting but if you can

find a goat milk kefir or even a sheep

milk kefir that would be better than the

cow’s milk um for many different reasons

I’ll release a video on it but um you

might want to try it I think it can help

you if you look at my videos in the

response uh in the comment section of

how many people were finally able to

sleep because they had kefir it was

tremendous so and you can even make your

own uh you don’t have to even buy it

from the grocery store all right very

good and I’m feeling a little mournful

for the 2% of the yogurts but at least

he did say there’s a few strands of

something good in that so take heart but

go get some kefir if you want the real

deal okay and there’s other people that

feel left out Uh I that we want to give

a shout out to somebody of that just

checked in from Iraq Hungary the

Philippines South Korea Indonesia Guyana

and turkey so welcome all of you folks

glad that you’re watching and um let’s

go to some more social media questions

Gary from Facebook I have been diagnosed

with prostate cancer if I do a 48 hour

fast every week will that help me get

rid of the

cancer yeah right I I that I can’t I

can’t tell you yes or no but I can say

the more severe the stage of cancer the

longer you have to fast so um if you

have stage four I would fast for a

little more than 48 hours I would

definitely fast do that but then I would

probably do a 21 day fast maybe even a

30-day fast if it was that severe um and

if it maybe wasn’t that severe I would

do a a week

fast so that’s just the general

principle that I think um could

potentially help your immune system to

to fight this thing and overcome it um

but there’s a great Channel um that uh

if you just look up my videos on cancer

you’ll see the a channel that a

gentleman uh who had the prostate cancer

who has his own channel YouTube channel

and he he talks a lot about it um what

he did to recover um and how he he’s

doing great he’s still alive and uh he

should have been dead a long time ago so

I always like to learn from people that

have gotten results in that

area all right very good Mandy from

YouTube not Everyone likes their

mother-in-law but Mandy’s concerned

about her my mother-in-law gets diarrhea

about three times a month and she feels

so weak afterward she doesn’t have or

she doesn’t have a gallbladder is there

anything you can do to suggest that

would help her with that

issue well that’s it’s kind of dangerous

to have diarrhea and lose all your

electrolytes so I would put those

electrolytes in including the trace

minerals that’s and sea salt as well to

get the sodium because that’s probably

why you’re feeling tired but if you

don’t have a

gallbladder there and that’s when your

diarrhea started that means that it’s

it’s releasing too much because one side

effect from too much bile um which is

normally not the case when you remove

the gallbladder but sometimes it is then

you’d want to take you’d have to go to

the doctor and take a certain medication

to um to alter that um

excess so um but that’s what I would

recommend and then um one thing that I

do if you take the kefir and the

blackberries and then you blend it in a

shake and consume that that’s a it’s a

good remedy for diarrhea to kind of like

stop the diarrhea and uh help you

fortify with the microbes all right well

good luck with that and thanks so much

for taking care of your mother-in-law

Mandy let’s see Vincent from YouTube how

can I convince here’s a challenge my

kids that healthy keto is the best way

for them to

eat um it’s really difficult so you’re

gon to maybe have to have some new

kids either and then start over again

and then just don’t show them all this

these sweets and sugars to try to break

that have it but I think the best thing

is education uh keep educating

them um to the point where it finally

rubs off but uh that is the difficult

thing um sometimes they have to go

through um their

own effects bad effects to finally you

know can decide on their own that they

should change but uh um yeah use

the um just education I think that would

be the best approach in right

now very good let go to our next

question this is a true falser there it

is

Doc all right but I think the Chinese

water torture might also have come in

handy okay next question is uh during

the uh Paleolithic times like the Stone

Age times man consumed nearly

15,000 milligrams of potassium from

foods is that true or false wow they

were gnawing on something if that’s the

true okay audience climb on that let me

put a check by

that you know I have some duy here but

for some reason I’m one of the worst

quiz question askers and answerers

keeping track of that but I have a list

now I’m very proud of it and I make a

little check mark so hopefully that will

solve that issue uh once and for all

okay back to social media again

um oh Terry said something about don’t

give the Bratz a meal that’s terrible

Terry leave the kids alone all right um

let’s see Jane from YouTube after lumbar

surgery on my L4 and L five I now have

numbness excuse me in both feet what

should I do now to overcome this

condition you want to take something

that supports the nerves uh and it would

definitely be the B vitamins uh B12 make

sure it’s the methyl camine but also um

I would highly recommend higher doses

doses of something called

benine benine which is good for

peripheral neuropathy but it does help

uh the regrowing of of the nervous

system and the mile and sheath

uh so that would be Beno to me and I

would take probably four of those a day

spread them out over a period of time to

help restore that nerve and of course go

on a low carb diet too because um

diabetes tends to really worsen your

nervous your nerves and um it promotes

problems with the nervous system so we

want to go low carb all right very good

Rachel from YouTube will your

nutritional yeast powder break a fast I

cannot swallow your

tablets no no won’t break a fast because

you’re not doing a lot of calories um

there’s a and you’re not doing a lot of

sugar so you’re dealing with a little

bit of amino acids with um trace

minerals and B in the B vitamins

unfortified so um I in the morning I’ll

take a I’ll chew like three or four of

those uh nutritional yeast um tablets

and yeah it’s not the easiest thing to

chew kind of gets in your teeth but um I

feel good when when I take those B

vitamins it’s a good source and uh um

you know you can also get the powdered

and put it on your salad which is really

amazing but I know you like those those

chables right Steve I do I really find

them satisfying in fact sometimes use

them as to hedge you know off any hunger

that I have so chew it for goodness

sakes you’ll you’ll grow to really like

the taste kind of nutty or whatever so

go for it and no fast breaking with it

that’s great news okay Claudia from

Facebook can macular degeneration be

reversed I think so I think so if you

get it in time um you want to um start

consuming foods with um high levels of

uh antioxidants and naturally it comes

from food like these really good high

quality salads grown in soil and also

um you know there’s other remedies that

you can take to I’ve done videos on on

this um like even like zinc Seafood

shellfish organ Meats like liver all

have great nutrition to help um counter

the destruction of this including the

omega-3 fatty acids from from either

salmon or um some seafood because when

you do a lot of um processed seed oils

like corn oil soy oil canola that tends

to worsen worsen that situation more

than help it macular degeneration which

is normally happens when you get older

but by with those oils it kind of

accelerates it so you want to avoid

those all right now poor Pablo from

YouTube I think somebody’s been pushing

his leg because he says I’ve heard that

brushing your teeth can break a fast is

that true no no no it’s not going to

break your fast I wouldn’t worry about

it unless you’re swallowing all that

toothpaste which probably not he’s

probably dipping it into a hot fudge

Sunday and that’s another case so uh

let’s let’s see um we put out the second

question let me get another one

here okay we did that feed me something

Terry uh let’s

see okay here we go SP Spyro and I

missed this before thank you Terry from

Facebook please share your thoughts on

fasting and muscle

gain so there is a situation when you

when you when you go on a

fast people are concerned about losing

muscle um there is an interesting um

counter to that or protective mechanism

set in place when you go fast because um

you know it goes against survival of

this loss of muscle we need that as a

survival thing so our body will one of

the big triggers for growth hormone

which is a a great protector of your

muscles is fasting so there’s going to

be a point where if you fast a longer

period of time time you’ll start to use

muscle but typically the body starts

using fat as fuel to get between these

um times of

fasting now is fasting going to actually

directly build muscle no it’s going to

just help you prevent the loss of muscle

um but if you were excuse me if you were

to um fast in a prolonged way and you

were to take as a supplement

a really good combination of amino acids

okay that would give you the amino acids

without the protein and the other stuff

I think that would be a really good way

especially if you do prolong fasting and

you’re you’re concerned about loss of

muscle and then if you added exercise to

that that would be really great because

exercise is the strongest uh um

conductor or just the stimulus of the

muscle growth

itself um but but that’s what I would do

um to help conserve your muscles and uh

prevent the loss of muscle I will be

releasing another video on some

additional things you can do as far as

what you eat but

um you know the the one of the

challenges people have when they go on a

fast is they they their muscles tend to

look flat because you’re losing all this

stored glycogen which is loaded with

water so it kind might look a little

flat because it doesn’t have the water

in there

so sometimes people think oh I’m going

on a fast I’m I’m having muscle loss no

you’re having a loss of water around

your muscles because you even think of

bodybuilders before a match they might

carbo

load not for building up muscle but to

just to fill it up with water so it

looks plump and big and things like that

looks full so

um but you’re not going to lose water

you’re not going to lose muscle if you

do like just regular in a minute

fasting uh just don’t also forget to be

hydrated with enough sea salt and

pottassium also is necessary for that

formation of glycogen too so um these

are all just aspects of the muscle um

related to fasting and making sure that

you you actually don’t lose your muscle

all right very good good plan okay

question number two is a true falser and

it asked during the Paleolithic times

man consume nearly 15,000 Mig of

potassium from Foods uh is that true or

false uh and 85% of respondents say it’s

true and 15% claim that it’s

false well there’s a lot of data that

shows that’s true and I actually I’m

going to do a video on that and release

that that research study but it’s

between I think they calculated between

11,000 to 15,000 milligrams I mean think

about this out of all the nutrients

potassium is needed in the most amounts

if you compare that to any other

nutrient we need normally like 4700 to

5,000 milligrams I mean that’s like way

more than any other nutrient right but

that might even be not enough based on

our genetics and and so what would

happen if you started to increase more

potassium from the diet well um would

that be bad on the kidneys well your

kidneys are designed

very robustly to get rid of excess

potassium just so you know and the only

contraindication is if you have end

stage stage five kidney failure that’s

when you’d want to start to be careful

with the pottassium but potassium is

actually

protective uh for the kidney and this

potassium is uh part of the raw material

that feeds a very very vital important

purpose which is called the sodium

potassium p pump which is the thing that

generates the battery like voltage for

your nervous system and your muscle

contraction the nerve signals that

transmit through the nerves and both in

muscle as well as cardiac muscle not to

mention the nervous system in the brain

so if when you give more potassium you

get uh better smooth muscle contraction

even in your arteries so your blood

pressure comes down you get more energy

especially when you exercise size and

you get better nerve conduction so it’s

something you might want to experiment

with is beef up your potassium no pun

intended to the point where um you just

might feel a lot better with whatever

you’re going through versus to be be too

low on potassium boy what benefits all

right I’m going to take that to heart I

hope everyone else does too and here’s

our next question doc there it is why is

it difficult to determine potassium

levels from your blood doing a blood

test okay I’m sure the audience has a

great answer and now I want we go back

to our green room and this time is

Christina and I believe she’s from

Michigan let me unmute her and I think

she’s going to do the same and Christina

we can’t wait to hear your one question

belted out in 30 seconds and Dr bur

would give you a great answer

go thank you hello Dr Burke it’s a

pleasure to meet you I’m a newcomer to

watching your um videos on Facebook it’s

become a great um inspiration for me um

I have somewhat followed a natural diet

throughout my life although now I’m

noticing where my shortcomings are my

particular question is is that in

um late fall last year I was initially

diagnosed with

C or

CL um as of early August I’ve been told

it’s a

mono B cell lympo

cytosis and I’m most interested in what

I can do to bring that white count down

my white count is running approximately

uh

15.6 and I’m getting it checked about

every three months just

to uh watch it thank you okay so we’re

dealing with a condition where your

immune system is overreacting okay so

that’s really the the the concept of it

an overreaction immune system with the

white blood cells that increased um

normally cortisol supposed to come in

there and help regulate that so it could

be it could be a couple factors in the

background of like maybe some chronic

stress that now created a situation

where your immune system is overactive

um because a lot of these conditions

occur after a stress event and that is a

very underrated or under acknowledged

area the stress connection to an immune

problem um that being said the compound

that most resembles cortisol from a

therapeutic standpoint is vitamin D so I

would if I were you start to increase

your vitamin D uh probably by U maybe 30

or even 40,000 I use this every uh and I

would take that maybe um not necessarily

every day you can actually get a better

effect from vitamin D if you let’s just

let’s just take a to take your weekly

amounts that you would normally take and

then just maybe divide it up a few times

a week so it’s not consistent because

you you take it erratically you actually

get a little bit more benefit and then I

would also take uh more zinc uh and some

of the trace minerals and eat really

healthy with the low carb diet and then

I would after about six weeks I’d go

back and get re-evaluated to see how

well you’re doing at that point but we

really need to calm down the immune

system vitamin D is the key for that

it’s a kind of a I would I guess I’d

call it like a natural cortisol without

the side effects and so it tends to

regulate or modulate an

overreactive um higher level of white

blood

cells thank you I appreciate that

information yes I as most persons we’ve

had a lot of stress in our lives and we

do the best we can to um alleviate and

sail through those times so thank you

again for all your help and all of your

information that you do make available

to all of us out here that are of trying

to live a healthy lifestyle thank you

hey you’re welcome well thanks for those

kind words for the doctor in the show

Christina and we’d love to hear back

from you and see if you can get that

that thing calmed down uh that would be

I will all right thank you that’s

terrific okay well uh the audience just

absolutely leapt on this last question

which is why is it difficult to

determine potassium uh levels in your

blood and I wanted to answer because I

knew well I hope they’re right 100% of

them say that it’s because the blood

tests not the best method because

potassium resides primarily in our

cells wow we have a smart audience

because that’s totally true it’s uh the

great majority of potassium is inside

the cell like out of your whole body

it’s like

99.5% of it is intracellularly so if

you’re checking the blood you’re going

to miss it and you’re also going to miss

it for magnesium as well um you can

check sodium sodium is outside the cell

in the plasma in the blood but not

potassium magnesium so um you can’t

really get a true picture of what’s

happening with potassium you have to

kind of look at um you can do um there’s

a certain test looking at the

intracellular potassium off of your red

blood cell you can look at that um but

there’s other ways too but not a typical

blood test I think that’s really a big

issue that I see even in medical

diagnosis if you’re just working on a

blood test you’re not going to get the

enough information because the body will

do everything it can to keep blood to be

normal as a constant especially calcium

you realize you could be osteoporotic

have complete thinning of the bones and

have normal calcium in the blood

interesting ah so the body compensates

so um this is why I like this this new

metabolomic testing um not metab or

baloney whatever it’s metabone bonic

testing bonic testing so um it’s a kind

of a new thing that’s going to be I

think the wave of the future for for

medicine um and functional medicine and

natural medicine as well and that’s no

baloney that’s right all right let’s see

let’s

um let’s uh well let’s throw out another

question they’re doing so well this is a

true falser folks so again 50/50 chance

of being

brilliant all right true or false most

people get enough biotin from their

diet All Right audience what do you

think okay oh Donna from sorry for

laughing Donna from YouTube I have

bleeding hemorrhoids I’m such a child

help Steve you you shouldn’t be laughing

at these these people with these

conditions but um um that’s usually a

kind of a dilated uh lymphatic problem

which usually is stemming from the

liver um so I would focus uh your

energies on the liver strengthen the

liver get on the right diet do things to

help your liver milk this thisle is a

wonderful herb there are other direct

remedies um that you can do I do videos

on that but ultimately there’s something

going on with the liver that you need to

address and of course if there is a

constant Pati involved you have to deal

with that too and the best way to remedy

that is something like um a good amount

of B1 or uh maybe you need more bios

salts uh to help your gallbladder or

maybe you need um more probotics so

there’s different different reasons for

that well my apologies Donna I’m

probably next with that condition so

watch it Janice from YouTube what advice

would you share with someone who is on

your Healthy Keto Plan but doesn’t want

to lose weight uh what can uh what to

maintain but you know don’t want to lose

weight and maintain Optimum

Health I would just do two meals a day

but just have have more calories make

sure that you take the same calories you

would have on your normal day and then

just break it into two so that way we

have the intermittent fasting but you’re

just eating uh a bit more calories uh

than you would if you you just like some

because the problem is when you start

reducing your um the the timing so

you’re not eating so frequently you’re

obviously going to eat less because the

hunger goes down and there’s only so

much you can eat eat per per meal but if

you’re concerned about the weight

maintaining it which I am you just have

have to eat bigger portions and more

food and maybe a little more fat and

then that’s going to slow down your um

your weight loss you’ll get the benefits

of Keto and am of fasting without the

benefit of the weight loss or the

drawback of weight loss I wish I could

find a drawback in weight loss uh Nita

from Facebook what’s a natural and

effective way to address pain from ouch

bone on bone knee

condition well um the typical I don’t

know if you have tried the Ren sulfate

or um some of the natural joint remedies

that they have out there um but I would

definitely do that Omega 6 fatty acid

would be good um there are um certain

types of um procedures now that involve

stem cell therapy which is another thing

to look at too um or even injections

that they can do U to help stimulate the

growth of

carage um you using different forms

natural type things’re they’re out there

but yeah bone on bone um that is an

issue um you know believe it or not

there’s even when I was in practice I

had these patients come in you take an

x-ray and they had bone on bone but some

had no pain at all and total function

others had normal space in a lot of pain

so before you think it’s you

know exactly that problem you know

change the diet see if your pain goes

away uh start um taking more omega-3

fatty acids also be careful of the

oxalates because oxalates can cause knee

pain Big Time whether you have bone on

bone or not and that would be in the

almonds

spinach

chocolate okay and of course you know

beans and even certain nuts too so these

are just other things to look at um in

relationship to knee pain um so that’s

what I would do all right very good well

um our audience leapt on the true falser

which asks most people get enough biotin

from the diet and

99% uh say it’s false and there’s an

outlier that says it’s

true okay so biotin is for your um your

hair your nails things like that um

which uh hopefully I didn’t just answer

the next question St it I can’t remember

if I put that as a question but but

biotin is actually not as easy as you

think to get from the diet unless you’re

consuming eggs like egg

yolks and uh the or liver or kidney or

certain cheeses okay um then you you’ll

get enough biotin but we typically if

you

combine regular foods with having good

gut health you’ll have enough biotin

because at Le at least over half of your

biotin Supply comes from your own

microbes that make it so this is why if

you are an

antibiotic that could be the reason why

you need you all of a sudden you lost

your Biotin and your hair loss went byby

but um the other unique thing about the

biotin that your microbes make is it

makes more free biotin versus on the

diet it comes locked in with the protein

that you have to digest it and it’s not

is free so it’s kind of like locked up

unavailable to you so this is what this

is another importance for gut health

especially as it relates to

biotin um there’s a biotin shampoo that

um can actually penetrate the skin the

scalp and then stimulate more thicker

hair um so that’s something that people

do as well so yeah biotin is

um I’m going to be doing a video on that

as well so you can actually learn more

about what it really does it’s pretty

interesting all right very good why

don’t we go to London and go to uh

Marsha and she’s I can see she’s

wrestling to unmute herself which is

excellent okay I’m going to wait for her

to get settled there you go and you’re

on with Dr Berg your quick question

please and you’re still

muted you’re still muted dear see if you

can no now oh there we go

okay hi good afternoon and Dr bur and

Steve thank you very much for this

opportunity my question is regarding

intermittent fasting I’ve been um used

to now to omad I’ve been um doing it

relatively well and uh but he came to a

plateau some months ago I done 72 hours

was okay but then I went back to the

24 in your experience um would you think

I should I do like 120 hours to give a

good kick and

to you know um or do 72 like once a

month or more often or something like

that what do you think so so I have a

question when you um start fasting does

your hunger go away yes okay um do you

find that um like if you’re doing omad

right now are you really really that

hungry before you eat even that one meal

a day or not

um I could extend it okay I think I

think it’s a bit of a habit when it

comes to that time of the day is meal

time yeah so the more weight that you

need to lose um the better it’s to use

that principle only when you’re uh when

you’re hungry and don’t eat if you’re

not hungry and just keep that in mind

because you you’re right people eat

because of habit and tradition and

social reasons so I would go longer if I

were you why why would you do that

because when you’re not eating you’re

actually eating your your body’s eating

your fat and then all of a sudden you

eat and now now we just kind of slow

down our ketosis or or not our ketosis

but we break our fast and um we break

our ability to burn our own fat so I

would ride the wave and go longer to the

point where you’re like okay I’m really

hungry now I feel weak I I I need to eat

and you may find for a while you could

fast um longer than um even 48 Hours um

it could even go up to you know three

even four or five days and then what you

do is have a good meal and then do it

again and just might as well take

advantage of the no appetite and go and

just get the weight off a to B faster

and then get your goal and then you can

actually it’s going to be easier to

maintain it than to get there because

you need

momentum okay thank you very much thank

you very much for you’re welcome your

your help thank you thank you Mara great

uh great question and can’t wait to see

you come back after all your successes

and brag about on the air us that’s

wonderful all right let’s see let’s uh

go to our uh final quiz

question uh and and this one is another

true falser there it is

Doc okay uh more than true or false more

than 60% of the calories Americans uh

regularly consume come from Ultra

processed

foods I hope that’s not true but I bet

it is okay Jericho Jericho excuse me

from YouTube can too much protein

contribute to an increase in

acne um you know

I don’t think so I don’t think so it’s

possible but I don’t think so um usually

what contributes to acne

is maybe that uh you’re eating a lot of

protein but you’re also having carbs

with

it and or you’re doing um yeah too many

carbs that’s usually contributing to

that protein issue because um that will

stimulate the uh sebaceous gland from

producing more oil so um in some of the

videos that I do on acne um you need to

trace minerals like zinc but you want to

start looking at um health and uh large

salads are going to be good for your gut

health uh high quality protein things

like that and without all the other

chemicals so um that’s what I would

recommend right well Lisa from Facebook

has heard that eating not eating enough

carbs will diminish your brain function

what are your thoughts on that and

healthy foods for the

brain no no what happens is your your

brain’s

um if that was true I mean think about

our as our bodies evolved right when

when we didn’t have food available and

the Brain needs to survive what what

would happen back then you would have

been we wouldn’t even be here right now

our bodies are really used to adapting

to not eating so frequently and they not

eating carbs

and um so our brains can run on ketones

very easily in fact they prefer

ketones now I recently

uhu this is very really weird um if you

type if you type the keto diet okay the

first ranking video is a medical video

um the comments are shut

off um with not very many thumbs up of

course they took away the thumbs down so

you can’t really tell the ratios but you

sort of figure it out and it’s an

interview

about how unhealthy ketones are for your

body which is ridiculous and it’s funny

how that’s ranked number one which is

interesting um of course you can’t find

my video unless you I think maybe you go

20 Pages deep but it’s just putting out

there the um the dangers of Keto and how

bad it is for the brain and just giving

people this idea that it’s very

unnatural when in fact it’s very natural

and um you’re going to feel really good

from it but they they put that little

sense of doubt in oh yeah well you might

be feeling great and you losing weight

but it could be creating problems that

you don’t know about I’m like what are

you talking about that’s ridiculous so

it’s just a a a

gross stupidity and under um

understanding the basic physiology of

how the body um PR can very easily adapt

to ketones and it’s preferred than all

this sugar that people run on which is

crazy all right well I believe them I’m

going back to Captain Crunch right after

the show so that sounds like a great

health direction for me okay so our

final question boy the audience has been

so good uh with answering these uh even

though there’s less pressure with a true

falser and true false more than 60% of

the calories Americans regularly consume

come from ultr processed foods drum roll

please 100% say it’s

true that’s true but what’s even more

interesting is in the grocery store 83%

of all the calories in the grocery store

are Ultra processed not just process but

Ultra process to the point where those

calories don’t ever even don’t even look

like food so they modify the starches

and all these proteins and even fats to

the point where it doesn’t even resemble

food but it sits on the shelf for a long

time so um the question is um

what the heck is going on with our food

right go it’s hard to find real food or

actual food in the grocery stores so

um welcome to um planet Earth where we

we it’s hard to find food you know then

they’ll they’ll um there’ll be certain

campaigns that talk about the import

well if we don’t have this processed

food we won’t be able to feed people

they’ll go hungry well they’re not

getting healthy that’s for darn sure

from these processed foods uh and

they’re highly addictive um Doritos I

used to love Doritos and uh if I started

eating Doritos right now I wouldn’t be

able to stop it’s that addicting so um

it’s a problem and I think if you give

even kids to have like real food that’s

not process they may even like it if

it’s grown on soil that’s because a lot

of the uh the vegetables nowadays are

grown on um they hydroponically which I

have the units I’ve tested it out I

don’t like the taste of it’s just kind

of empty because it you’re just putting

15 minerals in there versus growing

something in the garden or from soil so

um there’s a lot of good information

coming down the pike on that topic I

want to talk about but um but the to get

healthy it’s very hard to get healthy on

process Ultra processed

foods I think it’s actually impossible

all right well here’s something that’s

probably close to your heart Debbie from

Facebook what are your thoughts on Stem

Cell

Activation I don’t know what the uh stem

I don’t know what the activation part of

stem cell is because there’s there’s

different types of stem cell um I’ve

done both type where they’ll you’ll you

can take it from umbilical cord um from

someone some other umbilical cord that

didn’t work for me um I do like the the

taking it from your fat and re-injecting

it still hasn’t had enough time to

really get the full benefits but I’m I

like that more but I don’t know about

all these other kind of things that you

can do to um stimulate stem cells or

products and things I don’t know if

those work I haven’t I haven’t had

enough data to tell you yes or no all

right very good uh Sharon wants to know

she’s on YouTube is there any downside

to taking

berberine yes you’re going to create a

severe dip in the sale of metformin

because um berberine actually is almost

comparable with a lot of the results to

metformin but without the toxic effects

there’s some research on that uh you can

look it up yourself but um berberine is

quite quite amazing with what it can do

not just for your blood sugars and

insulin resistance but many other other

conditions as well but

um I like I like that compound a lot so

um

all right that’s all I’m gonna say very

good okay Goa is the handle this person

is using from YouTube I have completed

65 days on the keto diet subsisting

primarily on eggs and now my skin has

turned very pale please share your

advice I don’t want to give up my keto

dieting well um I just don’t know what

else you’re eating um you may want to

switch it up

to red meat which by the way has um even

more protein better sorts of iron things

like that I don’t know if you’re anemic

for I don’t know what else you’re eating

so are you having large vegetables are

you eating enough other oils omega-3 F

oils so uh

unfortunately um the eggs unless you’re

getting it from a farmers market and

it’s pasture raised organic which then

will give you like 180 ft of space but

even then a lot of the farmers will feed

the egg uh chickens some grains but you

really want that chicken to be able to

have the ability to go out and eat worms

and bugs and and insects things like

that which

um which will make a big difference um

so really depends on what else you’re

eating and um and how much sun you’re

getting and things like that so I I need

more information to really evaluate that

question all right well that makes sense

so mix it up on a healthy keto diet JJ

from from Facebook how can someone

eradicate candida from the

gut normally in your gut you have

different strains of friendly candida

yes friendly candida and it doesn’t harm

you it actually helps you even in kefir

you have friendly candida that’s right

it’s not until you kill off your

bacteria that then you have this

overgrowth of this pathogenic candida so

the way that you fix and overgrowth is

by adding in more

probiotics from

kefir and uh and a probiotics itself

like from you can just as a supplement

or even um

sauerkraut um and then cut out all the

sugar because that uh fungus or C or um

candida lives on sugar and if you starve

it by going on keto then you will um get

rid of it so just don’t feed it anymore

but it’ll make you it’ll make you want

sugar and sweets huh especially uh like

milk sugars especially all right well

Miriam from YouTube’s been very patient

I saw her question some time ago and

you’re going to be our final one for the

day please help me address the issue of

alpia thank you says

Miriam

um Believe It or Not biotin can help

with that as well and so can

zinc um zinc and biotin are two good

ones and of course you’d want to have

get on a healthy diet as well but it is

an autoimmune condition so you may need

more vitamin

D3 to uh help yourself with that but um

the other point I would look at is uh if

you’re going through chronic stress that

has been known to stimulate and Trigger

autoimmune problems so you want to be

careful of that or not be careful of it

but just do whatever you can to get rid

of whatever is stressing you out put

more attention on

that there it is on that note thank you

so much for staying in this long and

watching these videos I really

appreciate your questions stay tuned for

more good videos coming up this next

week have a wonderful

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