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now dr. Eric Berg

hey guys welcome back it’s Friday

morning Eastern Standard Time in

Northern Virginia and I’m here to take

your calls they have a lot of colors

already and waiting for like a half hour

so let’s just get right into it and

again try to keep your questions to one

question because there’s so many people

that want to call in and by the way if

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five six one four to nine - Kaelyn

you’re from Atlanta go ahead you two

question hey dr. Burke thank you very

much I’m very big a simple question what

are fasting or intermittent fasting

thank you so much for the simple

questions I like those okay so let’s

just talk about that there’s a lot of

research on fasting there’s not a lot as

much research on intermittent fasting so

that being said here’s my opinion on it

I think in order to do a water fasting

you know you’re you have to work up to

it

because it’s such a shock to the body

sometimes people can’t handle it they go

into a hypoglycemic reaction where they

have blood sugar problems so if you’re

doing a water fast and versus

intermittent fasting I would use a

couple indicators to know if this is

right for you

one is if you have extreme hunger and

you have blood sugar problems like

dizziness feeling cold lightheadedness

brain fog and any of these other

symptoms other than just a little bit of

hunger then I don’t think you’re ready

for it I think you should start with

intermittent fasting intermittent

fasting is kind of like a gradient

approach you can start like just by

doing three meals a day then you could

switch to two meals a day then you could

switch to two meals for a four hour

period and fast for 20 hours and but you

got to work up to it so again my whole

view point is I think it’s good if you

can do it but I’m recommending in a

minute fasting for the majority of the

people because you get your nutrients

it’s easier to go into you get lots of

benefits again we don’t know a hundred

percent

all of the benefits but we know it’s

like it protects the brain

it helps cardiovascular lowers

cholesterol it helps the heart

it helps memory and helps reverse

insulin resistance other than that it

doesn’t do anything but those are the

points so good question hey Jessica

you are on the air from New Jersey go

ahead you two question Thank You dr.

Berg it’s you’ve been a tremendous help

to me and such a pleasure to speak with

you let me get right to it I just wanted

you to know that I’m I’ve been on a

Whole Foods diet for nine years I’ve

been really working on my health it’s

come back from all better issues I’ve

kept my gallbladder my liver and

adrenals have been affected but um

you’ve helped me lose about 25 pounds in

six weeks just by bringing me to the

realization of insulin resistance I just

never knew that so my issue right now is

I’ve come back from a lot of it like a

allergy issues and just having problems

digestion in general so right now I love

nuts I’ve come to the point where I can

actually eat them again I’m severely

allergic was but now that I’m eating

them more often of course I’m developing

more issues with them and I’m have such

a hard time a digestive meats only thing

I see MS Riley digest well is raw salmon

and I just was wondering if you could

suggest anything else as far as higher

fat foods that I could try or or maybe a

product that you would have that would

help me digest fats and proteins better

yeah well it sounds like Jessica that it

may be a simple problem you’re you’re

doing everything good but now we still

have this allergy issue have a hard time

digesting meats which is an indication

there’s one thing that kind of pops out

when you said that the common

denominator is a pH allergies almost I

mean it can’t even exist in the body if

your pH is correct people develop

allergies when the pH become becomes

excessively alkaline in the blood okay

excessively it’s normally should be

Auckland but excessively alkaline you

start developing allergies so the

biggest tip that I would give you is I

would drop your pH in your stomach since

that’s like the only primary acid ever

all the other acids are secondary so

that means that if you took

cleric acid in the form of 1800 chloride

or upsetted vinegar I I do have

something called outside of vinegar plus

which has betaine hydrochloride and

opposite of vinegar in a pill form but

as a intermediate thing you can start

adding more apple cider vinegar in the

water table spoon with with water drink

that before the meals because if we can

drop the pH and you may need to also

adds an acidifier to the point where all

of a sudden now you’re digesting

proteins then we know your allergies are

going to get a lot better

because it’s the undigested proteins

that then go through the the body

mistakenly and you start developing

allergies that’s how you get an allergy

so we want to drop the pH make you more

acidic and that will actually help you

it also will help release bile because

it in order to release bile you need a

pH between 1 & 3 which is very acidic

and thereby releasing the bile so you

may not have to take bile salts but if

you just drop that pH it should kill two

birds with one stone the ability to

digest fats digests proteins and reduce

allergies so anything you can do to

acidify the body will help allergies

there’s one more thing if you if you

have seasonal allergies or you can also

certify the body with something called

ammonium chloride so you can write that

down it’s it’s not toxic or it’s kind of

a gnat it could be kind of a safe thing

to take it’s called ammonium chloride

but that’s in a natural acidifier and

then I also the other said if I would be

like phosphorus as a supplement but

stick with the up the betaine

hydrochloride right now on the upside of

integrating could be fine Hey Nydia

you’re on the air you’re from Florida go

ahead you had a question yes sir my

question is that because I had breast

cancer I stopped having any sugar and

therefore I’m very soon now so I’ve

listed your fats on recipe and I’ve been

eating it and adding a lot of milk fats

into my diet and now I’m concerned about

my liver if it’s not going to affect my

liver and

so what you’re saying is that you’re a

little concern about adding this fat and

destruction the liver is that the

question right okay good let’s talk

about that and I’m creating a whole

series of videos on this because people

are fat phobia I mean they’re like what

happened like and then I guess 50s 60s

and 70s there’s been this transition

against fat fats the bad guy and 80s

everything all the big food companies

went low-fat and low fat doesn’t taste

good so they replaced they added more

sugar

next next knack will cookies Alison has

low fat high carbs right so everyone

started getting fat fat has gotten a bad

rap because it you know people associate

well if I have fat then if I eat fat

that’s going to create a problem there’s

a couple pointers on that if we take

cholesterol for example you got LDLs

it’s so called bad cholesterol right

it’s not even cholesterol

it’s low-density lipoproteins it’s a

protein that carries cholesterol through

the body and there’s two types of LDL

and I’m going to create a video on this

so you can really get it but this is the

thumbnail sketch you have one LDL that

is not a problem at all it’s very fluffy

it’s very big and it kind of floats it

doesn’t go into the lining of the

arteries to clog it and then there is a

bad higher density type LDL which goes

into the lining and starts causing or

plaquing when you get your cholesterol

tested they don’t separate those two out

it’s just one LDL so how do you know if

if even if it’s high if it’s bad or good

you have to look at your triglycerides

okay triglycerides those are blood fats

if the triglycerides are high and and

you have high LDL then that’s a problem

but here’s the interesting information

when you want to lose one of the LDLs

that’s okay the big one the fluff you

want

when you eat fat that will increase that

okay LDL the one that doesn’t cause

destruction the bad cholesterol the LDL

the bad one which is the high-density

one is only increase through

carbohydrates refined carbohydrates so

basically it’s kind of a technical

answer to this eating fat is not going

to in any shape of form destroy your

liver or create a problem unless you’re

doing carbs at the same time okay so as

long as you cut the carbs out there’s

not going to be a problem with saturated

fats and I know there’s a lot of them

you know

vegans too that are going to say oh my

gosh no no it’s all the fats really bad

but I’m going to I’m going to put a

series of videos out that will give you

the the other viewpoint the other side I

consume a tremendous amount of fat like

my breakfast which right now I think

it’s ten nine ten I didn’t have

breakfast I’m going to probably have a

breakfast at eleven but I’m going to do

four eggs I’m gonna do a lot of cheese

I’m going to do no sugar high quality

bacon and I’ve been doing that for a

long long time and I put a lot of people

on it and actually improves their

cholesterol so I guess that’s a long

answer to no it’s not going to be a

problem it’s not going to harm the liver

what it’s going to harm your liver is

there carbs but you looks like you got

that out of the diet so you’re going to

be totally fine Achim you’re on the air

San Diego

go ahead hi dr. Budd thank you for

taking my call I have two quick question

for you my first one is I have a problem

with like pee grinding I grind my pee a

lot at night is there something I can do

about it and my second question is I’m

about your incident support and um I

know it stays take with meal since I’m

doing intermittent fasting and I only

eat once a day so can I take it you know

without food like in the morning because

I want to take it more than just one

peel at night because um that’s when the

time I’m eating very very good like any

okay so let’s answer the first question

grinding a bruxism that’s really a

vitamin b1 deficiency so you just need

more b1 I would take

nutritional yeast maybe a teaspoon of

that and the part the hard part about

the nutritional yeast is trying to

figure out how to consume it because of

the powder I mean what I do is I just

take the teaspoon and put it in my mouth

and try to it gets all sticky and

eventually kind of gets out of my teeth

but anyway that would give you the b12

handle that symptom on a rare case you

might need specifically just be one but

make sure it’s a natural version okay so

that should handle that the insulin

support formula that she’s talking about

is mainly to help dysfunctional insulin

doesn’t have to be taken with food at

all you can have an empty stomach you

can even take all of at the same time

it’s not going to be a problem okay all

right so hey Laurie you are on the air

you’re from Rhode Island go ahead hi

I’ve been suffering with some for about

15 months with stiff and painful knees

had an x-ray at the orthopedic it’s fine

as they said everything looks normal but

your massage tool it really helped but

it didn’t fix it all the way some

noticing a lot of your videos you’re

talking about too much calcium and

taking apple cider vinegar so I’m

wondering first question is could joint

pain knee pain be due to too much

calcium and if you say yes is there

anything else plus to do with the apple

cider vinegar and then the other thing

is these cherry hemangiomas I’m getting

them on my skin and a lot of spot and a

lot of places and I’m wondering if what

what what’s what is that cause I read

once a long time ago it was related to

liver but that’s all it said in this

certain book that it’s related to liver

and I don’t know if you agree with that

or you could tell me how to stop um work

yeah I think where they come from you’re

talking about that condition we have

these little spider veins that are kind

of coming out in little bit different

spots right no they’re like they’re like

little red circular and they rise up

they rate their rays they get bigger and

bigger right but the tiny little red

things right yeah yeah so question Lorie

have you done the like the eating plan

that I suggested with low carbs and

ketogenic and fasting have you tried

that yet yes yes I’m doing that and that

is helping okay all right good so let’s

just talk about that for a second so oh

let me ask question are you taking

calcium right now no I stopped taking it

because I I was taking the one you said

not to okay yeah so if you’ve had a

history of taking calcium carbonate

which people don’t realize is like

eating a rock chewing on cement

I don’t even recommend taking calcium

unless you have bone loss osteopenia or

cramps in the calf I mean you could take

some occasionally but don’t get in a

habit of taking a lot of it because the

calcium is it’s much better to get it in

a food source with some high-quality

cheese I’m from Wisconsin so of course

I’m going to plug that but the the thing

is that if you have stiffness in the

knee that tells us that either you’re

lacking vitamin k2 that has a purpose of

driving the calcium out of the joints

and the arteries so that’s one thing k2

or your pH needs to be more acidic so

yes so I would recommend to the upside

of vinegar to drop the pH to allow

calcium to be mobilized when your pH is

not correct when your blood pH is

slightly too alkaline you get allergies

but you also get calcium in the soft

tissue on the eyes as cataracts on the

teeth is tartar on the joints as

arthritis bursitis tendinitis on the

kidney is kidney stones so what you can

do is drop the pH there’s a couple

things that you can do to drop the pH

you can take betaine hydrochloride

outside of vinegar another one that

works really good for stiff hands and

stiff knees is ammonium chloride that’s

an acidifier they use that back I think

in the 40s in in some of the arthritis

medications

they used as a as kind of a extra I

think a extra product that was like

inert or a binder

it’s called ammonium chloride in some of

these medications but when they took it

out the medication stopped working and

they realized wow you can actually help

arthritis stiffness with ammonium

chloride I think you could get it maybe

online find somewhere where you can find

it that’s a good acidifier it just drops

the pH and it’s pretty safe and then you

can also do fast food or phosphorous

liquid standard process has a good

faster than liquid these are all this

things that you you could try but again

it’s one of those things where I don’t

know exactly I just know we need to drop

your pH and we need to add the k2 and

there’s several ways to do it okay so

and also well as you drop insulin over

time and you’re stopped taking the wrong

kind of calcium you should improve over

time

okay so Arlene go ahead you’re on the

air you’re from Delaware how are you

today great how are you um I’m okay I

have a couple questions for you one is

I’m on the ketogenic diet and I’ve been

getting like a like a twitch feeling and

maybe even a jittery feeling throughout

my whole body and I was wondering if

that is that one of the side effects and

also I wanted to know about what is the

maximum of carbs I should have to lose

weight and you had also suggested that

when I talked to you last week you said

for a white tongue that kefir is good

for it but I’ve been looking at the

kefir and on the grocery stores and they

have like 12 carbs so is that high fat

low carb is that good for that for that

program very good question okay so let’s

just kind of go through it first

question is the twitch and the jittery

feeling it sounds like you need to need

more electrolytes as you do the

ketogenic diet you drop sugar there boy

you’re going to lose water weight and

you’re going to

is electrolyzed specially potassium so

you can put that back in you need a good

electrolyte powder to do that so that’s

one thing and then also the other thing

if you have especially like the keto flu

you might need the B vitamins so

nutritional yeast so electrolytes and

nutritional yeast are essential when you

do when you start getting into this

situation because people just need more

that should handle that and sometimes

you need sodium a little more salt so

again it could need a combination the

maximum carbs you want is 50 grams per

day I’m going to recommend that you

don’t worry about vegetable

carbohydrates okay

the lower the carb you do if you get

down to 20 the faster the weight loss

okay if you have a ruined metabolism you

need to stick with 20 but don’t worry

about the vegetable carbohydrates the

white tongue is a completely separate

problem and yes

Kiefer does have some sugar so it’s

almost like it’s kind of conflicting so

you may want to just do a little bit of

kefir make sure it’s a I like the

grass-fed plain not little fat the whole

fat so just have a little bit and that

should over time improve that situation

and of course there’s other things you

can do probiotics but I think that

should that should be enough all right

good question alright so Patricia you’re

on the line you have a question you’re

in the Bronx New York yes yes hi dr.

Berg um I wanted to thank you for all

your videos and say hello to Karen

because I love her too and I have a

question regarding dietary guidelines

that I should follow I have my a one C

last a1c was six point six I’m not on

any medication but I’d like to get it

into non-diabetic range I also have golf

stones so I want to be able to find out

what sort of ratios and the macros that

I should be eating that’s going to get

me into that sort of ketosis that will

lower my insulin levels would also not

be so high fat that I’m having a

gallstone problem okay good so the first

question is a 1 C is 6.6 so it sounds

like you’re doing you’re doing the right

thing it probably came down we want to

get it down to the low fives a1c is an

average of blood sugars for three months

so it’s a really good indicator of if

you are a diabetic or not okay so you’re

on the right program for that I would

suggest supporting even more with

certain nutrients you may want to try a

product I have called insulin and

glucose support which kind of supports

insulin excess and blood sugars and it

has 10 different nutrients in it that

will also help you a lot but as you

actually fix insulin the gall stones

will improve because high insulin will

cause gall stones the other thing is

like to dissolve gall stones there’s a

product I have called gall bladder

formula which has bile salts in it as

you do a ketogenic diet obviously it

requires more fat so some people have

been bile deficient so that’s why they

have stones so we might have to add

actual bile salts it’s called gall

bladder formula to start dissolving

those stones to keep the gall bladder

clean however there’s one more thing I

think is the most important thing to

focus on this in a minute fasting in a

minute of fasting and I just released a

video on that will cause the gall

bladder to rest between meals thereby

concentrating bile thereby resolving the

stone and that will really help you

because you have kit you have kids on a

diet and you have intermittent fasting

two different separate things or not

they’re not the same so people actually

think that unit minute fasting is part

of a ketogenic diet it’s not it’s

something that I’m recommending to add

on top of everything which you’re you’re

doing this meal planning and then you’re

not eating and you’re eating back and

forth so that’s one thing the other

thing is to stimulate bile you have to

add fat to the diet if you’re going to

low-fat diet you could end up with gall

stones because you’re not producing a

file so it all has to do with bile watch

some more videos on the bile but I think

that will give you a head start

okay Patricia alright so Danielle you’re

from Brooklyn as well go ahead you’re on

the air yes yes yes another New Yorker

thanks for taking my call I really

appreciate it

my question has to do with weight gain

due to the cortisone or - cortisone

shots so let me just give you a little

background first

up until three years ago I never had an

issue with weight gain of 118 pounds

five five feet four inches or pretty

petite then I got to cortisone shots and

after the second one I gained ten pounds

I have belly fat now I have fat on my

arms which I never had before and I’m

consistently gaining weight and I can’t

lose it for the life of me and I don’t

know what to do

what I did do was try the giving up

snacks in between meals because I also

had bloating thanks to you and that

resolved the bloating but it didn’t get

rid of any of the fat now what I also

discovered is that I have five fatty

liver highest cholesterol I’ve got low

energy you know just walking up a flight

of stairs I’m exhausted after that so I

don’t know what the issue is is it

insulin resistance is it divert issues

like what is going on with my body I

never had any problems before okay you

know it’s a similar thing happened to me

I was doing fine well I wasn’t doing

fine what kicked me is that cortisone

shot back when I was late 20s I’d poison

ivy and these cortisone and then I got

it again in his cortisone and all this

and every Uros doing cortisone for five

years in a row that is some nasty stuff

cortisone is adrenal hormone and so when

you take it it actually shuts down your

adrenals and we can see adrenals so you

are an adrenal fatigue issue so that’s

that’s probably what’s going on the

adrenals are kind of inactivated in

there now now they’re not working like

they should and that’s what’s going to

then cause a rebound effect to add more

cortisol and that’s what that’s why

you’re getting more fat so here’s what

you need to do you need to support the

adrenal gland and have a lot of data

videos on that

a lot of nutritional things for that you

can research that on your own but as far

as eating goes you definitely need to do

the ketogenic diet you need to do get a

minute of fasting follow it to a tee

because that will start to fix the fatty

liver keep the vegetables high to keep

the fat coming through the liver and so

that will take the pressure off the

adrenals too because you’ll be dropping

insulin when you drop insulin you drop

stress to the adrenals it doesn’t

increase stress it decreases stress the

other thing is that to repair the damage

from cortisone shots you need to get a

high quality thing called colostrum get

into powder get the good stuff

it’s a little bit pricey you take before

bed start off with a half a teaspoon in

some water drink it and then gradually

go up to a teaspoon and a heaping

teaspoon why because apparently that is

a lot of properties to repair damage

from cortisone it helps the gut it helps

the liver and you would take that helps

the immune system you would take it over

a period of probably six months I’ve

seen credible success with that I’ve

taken it before so that’s really what

you need to do sorted renals continue to

support the insulin resistance through

the diet and then add the colostrum all

right great

hey George you’re on the air from

Toronto go ahead hey doctor how are ya

thanks for doing the live show this is

great sure so first of all I actually

came up with a couple other questions

but my first question is in regards to

the fat intake I know you talked a lot

about calories but what I don’t know is

the total amount of grams for fat and

protein maximum or minimum per day so I

was wondering if you could shed some

light on that okay and then I had

another couple questions just in regards

to the keto you know how when you first

do a keto you use a lot of weight but

when you do second or third attempts at

it your body doesn’t adapt and I just

wanted to find out you know am I still

going to be okay if I just keep to it

you know what there’s just some more

information on why the

while it does that and what I need to be

doing okay so question George do you do

ketogenic you lose some weight and then

you go off the program I get it years

ago okay so yeah but this time around

now I just started actually on Sunday I

saw I found your side you online and I

and I started doing it again and it’s

just not coming off estas as it was yeah

so I just wanted to get some information

on that but I’m afraid that I’m I’m

worried about the grams because I’m not

sure how many grams of fat and protein I

need per day okay I’m good another

question on that is calories per day I’m

not sure how many I actually need to

have yeah okay alright George so let’s

just talk about that in general I have a

video on that it’s really a variable

thing I can’t not even knowing your size

your shape your bone density or high I

can’t tell you how many grams and

calories exactly but but here’s here’s

the rule of thumb that is the fat grams

is the wild variable that can go from

very small to very high if you take an

athlete they need to seriously do some

mass amount of fat to be able to to

function you take someone sedentary they

can’t do very much so I always like to

start off by not adding fat to the diet

just consume your normal food in a whole

fat form

don’t go low fat proteins like even if

you’re going to have hamburger do the

fattiest kind you have don’t go lean

okay so so you’re just not adding the

coconut you’re not adding the oil and

that type of thing so you’re just going

through like that and then you can start

to play around by adding a little bit

more like a keto bomb but here’s the

thing George if your metabolism is very

slow which it sounds like it is and you

start adding a certain amount of grams

like too much it is you’re just going to

burn the poquito bomb the dietary fat

but not your own fat a much more

important principle would be to do the

in a minute fasting with the ketogenic

and so you can start healing your

metabolism through healing insulin and

then you’ll be able to tolerate more fat

but

that’s a kind of a question that is it’s

really hard to do on the air because I

don’t even know what you look like I

don’t of your size but it sounds like

you’re going to be the kind of case that

you you’re not going to be able to do a

lot of fat right off the bat and you

just want to play around as far as

calories the same thing I would shoot

for not worrying about calories but

going based on satisfying your body with

the recommend recommended eating plan

that I recommend and then do three meals

no snacks and then go to two meals no

snacks because that way even though

you’re you’re really satisfied you’re

going without calories between the meal

longer and longer longer longer that

alone will allow you to heal metabolism

and speed up your metabolism that but

that’s my answer I’m sticking to it

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Tamara you’re on the air you’re from

Houston go ahead hi dr. woogie hi hi I

mean I’ve been doing a keto diet since

last Wednesday and I am getting really

discouraged because I am craving sugar I

mean I want to rip into a chocolate and

it is just really I’m really feeling

defeated because I’m crazy sugar well

I’m glad that you can I mean up or sugar

but you know I’ve been living on this

all my life and I’m 39 years old and I

just I’m really disturbed well I’m glad

you called because now we can dissect

why you’re craving sugar so can I ask

you a couple quick questions yes when

did you start it I started last

Wednesday okay last Wednesday so we know

right there you’re not adapted yet so

that’s one thing so can you tell me

roughly in like fastest time possible

like what you eat in a given day okay

this I probably eat some eggs with olive

oil and some bacon and then from lunch I

might eat um some ground beef with

cabbage with mushrooms and bell peppers

and onions and for dinner I might eat

some steak with broccoli and sauce sauce

i saute onions and mushrooms and salt I

use Himalayan pink salt and some cumin

powder and oregano seasoning okay and

basically tell me

what time you have breakfast I’m sorry

what time do you eat breakfast in

morning um I eat breakfast this morning

about 6:30 okay are you hungry that

early in the morning ah not really okay

really okay and then next question when

you crave is it in the later part of the

day or after a meal or when it’s after a

meal okay all right so there’s a couple

things that you can do number one the

first thing you want to do since all

night long you fasted you’re breaking

the fast by the breakfast when you’re

not even hungry I would not eat

breakfast until you are hungry go as

long as possible and you want to keep

doing that until you can go in for hours

after you wake up then you eat your

first meal why is that because every

time you eat you spike insulin and then

now it’s going to create low blood sugar

now you’re going to be craving okay the

other thing is that I would recommend

going to my channel and make what’s

called the keto bomb there are little

cookies there’s different kinds and use

that as your substitute you freeze them

they’re delicious I mean these chocolate

cookies like it’s almost like you’re

eating sugar but you’re doing xylitol so

that’s one thing you want to have but

have those after the meal that you’re

craving the sweets okay now if you

started this less Wednesday you lived on

your sugar whole life it’s going to take

honestly probably a couple more weeks

before you can really get into this

adaptation but in the meantime we want

to get rid of cravings and so that’s

what I want you to do add a little more

potassium you might want to get that as

a supplement I have my electrolyte

powder but I won’t get that in until the

end of next week because I ran out but

so that’s one thing and then the last

thing has increased more actual salads

and I think you’ll just hang in there

it’s going to happen so those are the

things I would do and then once the

cravings go away that means that your

cells have adapted completely now they

can run in fat don’t give up

okay so just keep going

so LV you’re from Utah go ahead you’re

on the air

yeah hi dr. Burge I am loving your

videos and loving your program since be

on your program two months ago or

starting two months ago then I’m down 23

pounds and I can’t wait to send in my

before and after pictures to you when

I’m all done um and I want to say hello

to Karen as well we love her okay and

the question I have for you is about

intermittent fasting so there’s three

things I’m wondering if I’m breaking my

fast with so the first thing is juice

from a whole lemon in the morning the

second scene is kombucha and the third

scene is a magnesium its natural calm

magnesium supplement before I go to bed

tonight or excuse me at night every

night and I was just wondering if those

three themes might be breaking like that

okay great so know the lemon juice is

not going to be a problem you can do a

whole lemon not going to be a problem

kombucha there’s different kinds the one

that you want to probably get is the one

with two grams of sugar don’t get the

one more than that now kombucha actually

is interesting because it even though it

has it’s made from sugar and it has a

little bit of sugar the lactic acid

yeast actually helps in some resistance

so it’s kind of like a balancing and

most people can do 1/2 of a cup of

kombucha without any problem on a rare

occasion if the metabones really stopped

you might want to not do it but I think

you’ll get away with that if you do that

once a day

now the calcium magnesium not a problem

that’s me no I think it’s a cal-mag I

think it’s just a magnesium product I

think that’s going to be fine I would

continue to take that before going to

sleep because that’s just magnesium and

I think I don’t think you have anything

to worry about I think I would just ride

the wave and I think you’re doing fine

and those three things are not a problem

hey Carmen you’re from Florida go ahead

you’re on the air hi doctor it’s a

pleasure to speak with you um I have a

a problem all the way around I’m almost

44 years old

in the last three years I gained so much

weight do I think it is I’m not sure and

they remove my bathwater

and ever since then I just feel like

that need to eat the world and it

doesn’t matter interested what what did

you say you just said some after

something you didn’t Oh

they remove my got bladder God you

remove the gallbladder okay got him

mm-hmm

and after that I gained like 60 pounds

and I feel like I need to eat everything

in the world and I cannot have any dairy

products and I just see not stay away

from them um and of course my joints

hurt now and another thing that I notice

is that I mean I’m forgetting things

like I can do something and five minutes

later I’m like wait that I did that

where did I put that card okay

which I know that right before that I

know where I put it but then I don’t

remember where I put it Wow okay come

and do you have right shoulder pain or

next stuff um I have uh yeah my shoulder

hurts but isn’t hurting for I would say

at least 20 years but it doesn’t hurt

all the time

it hurts once in a while on the right

side yeah okay that’s a gallbladder you

need to get the massage tools start

working on your gallbladder it’s

underneath the right rib cage and you

massage that so in fact let me just show

you something really quick on the board

okay so basically here’s my here’s your

belly button right here here’s the chest

here’s the arms

there’s your gallbladder which is right

there okay now they removed that thing

so what you wanted what’s happening now

you have one little tube that connects

from your liver to the intestines so

that means that you did not you do not

have you have low bile low bile means

that you can’t absorb the

that size of vitamins vitamin A D e k2

and some of the other essential fatty

acids that you need to get healthy lose

weight or tableaus all these other

things so now what you need to do is you

need to basically it’s very simple you

need to add the gallbladder formula I

have which has the bile salts it has

stuff to lubricate the bile it will

start to put back in which you’re

missing but there’s a nerve that goes

right up here to the right shoulder so

you’re going to have to get the massage

tool come to work on rubbing and

massaging underneath the right ribcage

but also on the left side because now

your pancreas your pancreas is

compensating by making more enzymes

that’s called lipase so when you don’t

have enough bile the pancreas has to

make more of this well guess what else

is going to happen when you strain the

pancreas you’re going to increase more

insulin so it’s going to create more

problems people that have insulin

resistance and insulin problems have low

enzymes people have enzyme problems have

higher insulin because of the pancreas

has to work harder so those are the

things that you can do to the point

where you don’t have any pain down right

there the intermittent fasting is going

to be very important for you the

ketogenic diet is going to be very

important but over time but I would add

the gall butter formula you may need to

add some acidophiles like patanè how to

chloride to your stomach because that

will also help to gall better work if

you take the gall bladder formula and

you get any reactions at all that just

means you need more stomach acid from

apple cider vinegar in the pill or the

actual solution and then do the

acupressure on both sides you’re going

to find that then that will start

releasing more bile and you’ll start

losing weight the pains will go away the

symptoms go away so that’s what I’m

going to recommend what about my blood

back in here okay does that make sense

Carmen or my memory well just just to

actually handle the reason why your

memory is the problem because depression

is an essential fatty acid deficiency

and also your your brain is mostly fat

so you’re not getting the new

trician to the brain you’re probably

having instant resistance to the brain

and there goes the memory in the in the

brain when you have insulin resistance

it destroys something called the

hippocampus hippocampus is like the

relay switch between your database

memories and you accessing them so this

the relay switch is broken so now you’re

like going somewhere where did I park

rather lose my keys that type of thing

that can be improved by improving the

insulin resistance of the brain and also

the goal better because it’s date

coincidence that you had that out and

things went downhill just simply because

you’re starving the brand of nutrition

and forcing the pancreas to work harder

thus the spiking the insulin okay this

is what that torture device I mean

treatment device looks like and you’d

work on the gall bladder you I have a

whole technique I’ll show you how to do

it alright great question Georgia you’re

on the line from Florida both Gloria

sorry hi hello hello hello hi you two

question yes I do have a question I

watched your video on intermittent

fasting and what to drink and you said

no coconut water yes so I am like milk

intolerant I was doing the full fat

heavy cream in my coffee but it was

irritating me so I switched over to

coconut milk and the question is can I

drink coconut milk yeah good good

question sorry

I’m on the keto diet yeah ah two months

go ahead okay good so yeah my suggestion

was not to drink the coconut water you

can do the coconut milk but now the

coconut water why because if coconut

water has a lot of sugar in it or sugar

grams

coconut milk does not so since your milk

intolerant you can do the coconut milk

not a problem okay

so Miriam you’re from southern Virginia

go ahead you’re on the air yes hi dr.

Berg thank you so much for you Jersey

youtube I wish help of all of them their

fault me and yes I have question two

questions as I’d like to ask one it’s

regarding fasting I’m I’m a Muslim I’ll

be starting the first in a week or so

I’m doing the ketogenic diet so like it

make if you have any advice on what to

do because I will not be drinking any

like water we’re not allowed to drink

water throughout the fast so it’s going

to be like from Sun like in the morning

till sunset at night so my other

questions is since I’ve been on the

ketogenic diet I’m having back pain like

on my side I don’t know if it’s related

to my gallbladder so I ordered your

gallbladder formula I’ll be getting that

tomorrow from Amazon so we’ll try that

see double if that will help

okay great thank you so much you’re

welcome okay so so the good thing is

that you can do Ramadan you can do the

eating the meal in the early morning or

late at night okay when the sun goes

down and completely have the whole day

where you’re fasting just make sure that

you don’t add carbs make sure that the

quality of eating is is good and you can

do that I think that’s perfect it’s like

you’re fast right there you’re in a

minute fasting right there so you do

right before the Sun goes up early

morning and then when the sun goes down

go ahead and eat again so you get two

meals so I think you’re going to be fine

than that now that pain that you have it

definitely could be either gallbladder

or a kidney stone okay so I don’t know

which one it is but just to make sure

because when you do a ketogenic diet

sometimes you start to you could have a

tendency to get

more of a stone especially if you’re

doing spinach and nuts and things like

that that’s high in oxide stones so

here’s what you need to do if you have

back pain like that one thing is to

drink more water with with potassium

chloride that’s in my electrolyte powder

you can do that or just get potassium

citrate not don’t do chloride do

potassium citrate so you can either get

it or in a supplement war you can get it

in the electrolytes but you take that at

least a thousand milligrams twice a day

because the citrate split off and that

will dissolve the oxalate stones in

addition to that drink add lemon

okay so lemon juice you can have it in a

bottle or just actual lemons and you

start drinking more water with more

lemon which is going to give you citrate

and the potassium citrate so you drink

that that will help two types of stones

the uric acid stones or the oxalate

stones which are the most common and

then that way

that pain should go away but the pain in

your back could be either kidney or gall

bladder and we don’t know what it is but

I would just do both of those in the

pain should go away if it doesn’t go you

might get an ultrasound and see what’s

going on if there’s little stone there

because if there’s a kidney stone

obviously you want to handle it but you

can handle it with diet okay I think I

answered your question okay so then we

have ROG beer from Toronto yes hi hi

actually the question is I have so many

questions I am a really big fan of you

so the my daughter she’s 16 years old

and she has the last time periods in

December and if you don’t have the

periods so if I go to the doctor they’re

going to give her the blood control pack

right so that she can use your estrogen

balance or formula that one she can use

yeah yeah that’s gonna that’s good

because when you have estrogen dominant

you become infertile

so that would be the first thing I would

do to clean that up especially if

someone is younger like that that’s an

estrogen dominant thing and even if

there’s some pesticides or things that

are mimicking that that’s what I would

recommend the estrogen balance with dim

in addition to that what you might want

to do is make sure that she gets on the

eating plan that I’m recommending

especially a little bit more fat and

cholesterol which basically is a

precursor for building up those hormones

especially after are like progesterone

and some of the other hormones so just

to make sure she has that and there’s a

there’s a couple other things but those

that would be like the the first thing I

would do and also royal jelly is another

supplement that you can get to kick in

the fertility and the other cycle to

make it work better I recommend that as

well did you have another question I can

get that the royal jelly any health food

store online and the one would think

that my husband he has the high-class

droid yes but we try so many things and

now he’s taking the 5 milligram the

Crestron and that is helping her but

before we check is the his hormones is

really lower side so she he can use that

test Rosen okay so does he is the UH

needing plan that we’re recommending

yeah because before is the five years

ago I am doing the same thing here in

Toronto one doctor is I follow him and

that time I lose weight he lose weight

too but he check do things but not to

really have so he can using that plan

Jackie - Janet yeah yeah he needs to do

the the ketogenic plan one thing for

cholesterol would be the k2 d3 with red

yeast that’s very powerful lower

cholesterol but here here’s the point I

want to make

excuse me when you have people that do

the ketogenic diet intermittent fasting

sometimes their cholesterol will go up

okay even the LDL and I want to explain

that first of all your cells your fat

cells are composed of triglycerides and

cholesterol people don’t realize that

like in your cells and your fat cells

there’s store cholesterol in there so

when you lose weight these cells are

going to shrink right so you’re going to

release this fat the fats going to be

burned the triglycerides are going to be

burned but not the cholesterol

cholesterol is never burned as fuel in

the body it’s used as a structural

material to build cell membranes so

naturally your cholesterol is going to

go up for a period of time but as long

as your triglycerides are down you’re

totally safe because then we know it’s

it’s like it’s not the bad type of

cholesterol

it’s basically an LDL which is just

coming out of the fat cells going to the

liver going through the bile as long as

you have a healthy liver and you have

good bile release and there’s no backup

there you’re totally in fine fact I will

create a video on that but that’s why

it’s high and then if someone goes on a

statin drug and lower is it it’s just

like now they have all these other

symptoms so I got to do a video on that

because that’s a common question hey

Whitney you’re on the air you’re from

Southern Maryland go ahead hi there dr.

Byrd all right

hi I caught a little bit of the caller

earlier that talked about not having a

gallbladder and they health problems

that ensues after um and I’ve had all

kinds of problems since since the

removal my gallbladder

um now I’ve been on key to Jan and I’m

about I don’t know maybe about 40 to 45

pounds overweight

or I was so I started kita Janet about

three about three months ago on down 25

pounds I I feel fantastic

but I tell you what it made a huge

difference on a side note is that

electrolyte powder I started using that

about a month ago and I would not be

able to do ketogenic without it

um now is there I just started last week

doing a bulletproof coffee with the

butter I and the MCT oil and I can go

all day long without eating I’m just not

hungry and and eat my dinner and I try

and stay within an eight-hour window I

is that okay for me to be doing without

a gall bladder good question okay as

long as you’re absorbing all of the fat

soluble vitamins because without a goal

better you can’t concentrate bile but

because you’re only eating like real one

meal and then you’re doing the

bulletproof coffee the other other meal

you’re not going to need as much bile so

you may be okay with that

but the thing that we want to find out

is you got to try to get as much

nutrition from that one meal as possible

because there’s not a lot of nutrition

in MCTS other than that fat there’s not

enough vitamins and minerals there’s a

couple but there’s not the whole

complete complex so you’re going to have

that one meal is going to have to be

pretty darn concentrated with nutrients

so you might want to have instead of

like a salad do a kale salad instead of

like regular I don’t know chicken you

would do more salmon wild-caught just do

real high quality foods and then you’re

probably and you’re doing the

electrolyte balance which is going to

give you that and then you might need to

enhance the B vitamins a little bit

maybe with nutritional yeast and I think

you’re going to be okay I don’t think

you’re having a problem with this

bulletproof coffee because it’s able to

sustain you so until you start seeing

other problems I would ride the wave and

do it but at some point if you start

having problems that are gallbladder

related I would take

gall bladder Formula One after that one

meal and that will just put the icing on

the cake well maybe I shouldn’t talk

about icing on the cake all right

hey Jenny you’re on the air here from

Missouri go ahead yes hi I first want to

thank you so much for being there for us

you’re saving lives giving hope to

people who have none I also wanted to

ask you about multivitamin mineral that

you might recommend and I also have

another question okay good so thank you

I appreciate that I’m getting these

before-and-afters and I’m posting them

on dr. Berg for its last review I am

literally blown away people over the

world showing them sending the before

and after pictures I’m just like wow

it’s amazing okay so the best

multivitamin I would get a food based

complex not a multivitamin at the

wheatgrass is what I use as my multi but

I don’t have any other specific

recommendations for other other

companies because even though they use

natural vitamins they’re still out of

the complex so in nature vitamins always

come in complexes so with vitamin C you

have bioflavonoids you have tyrosinase

an enzyme that’s copper you have the P

factor the K factor the score pick acid

the whole thing versus just like one

individual scorebook acid so I would get

a food base concentrate like the

wheatgrass juice powder that would be

something maybe add the B there’s

nutritional yeast as a complex because

it has all the B’s in it versus just one

individual one that’s what I would do

and then you had one more another

question oh yes I’m about to start the

keto diet and in the past I went through

an acute renal failure and I’ll need to

know if the keto would be harmful for

someone like me what kind of failure I

went through acute renal failure kidney

failure years ago when when you went on

the ketogenic diet yeah no no I

then on the cheat okay before you know I

I was just wondering if my kidney and

liver would be healthy enough for

starting the diet well I think the diet

is a necessary thing for a damaged

kidney it’s absolutely an S it’s a

requirement to start to protect the

kidney when you do in a minute fasting

there are certain factors that actually

protect the kidney you probably be

really uh you’d probably really benefit

from the electrolyte powder that I have

because the potassium actually in there

protects the kidney as well now someone

will say wait a second I thought a

damaged kiddin you can’t do a lot of

potassium that’s only that’s only if

you’re on a kidney dialysis but you’re

not a good amount of potassium is very

kidney protective so I would do that I

would totally do the ketogenic diet I

would cut down the insulin which

destroys the kidney think about what is

the number one killer to kidney it’s

insulin look at a diabetic they always

end up with renal failure so that’s

exactly like people say well as my hell

is my liver and kidney healthy enough no

the diet is a necessary thing to reverse

the damage it’s like that’s your only

option is to go on that eating plan to

fix the real cause yeah definitely do it

so we have a call from Michael you’re

from Sacramento go ahead you’re on the

air hi dr. Burke I recently found your

site and I’m really enjoying all of the

information I had I had two questions

for you the first is about intermittent

fasting I’ve only been on a peanut jinuk

diet for going on about three weeks and

I don’t think I’m that adapted yet

because I still get hungry at about meal

time for every meal and I wake up

ravenous so as far as you know skipping

skipping breakfast and having that be

the intermittent fast part of my day the

majority of my workday is in the morning

I’m wondering if you have any

suggestions about how to make that work

yeah what time you wake up um about 6:30

okay and then you eat right right at

that point I usually eat a

at about 7:15 or so okay what do we what

do you eat

I’ve been eating usually three or four

eggs and some little beef sausages I

don’t eat pork so I can’t do bacon but

the beef sausages have a decent fat

content to them good and I’m and then

you can and that’s usually about okay go

ahead you’re saying I don’t know that

was it okay and then the next time you

eat is that lunch and that’s when you’re

really really hungry right yeah I’m

usually pretty hungry it’s not

intolerable though I just

I know I’m I know I’m hungry for lunch

usually by about 11:00 or 12:00 okay

so you’re just really in this transition

phase right now and let me give you some

tips on how to improve it if you are

waking up and you’re Ravis ly hungry

like I was you want to eat you’re eating

your protein your fat but you want to

also add potassium for that breakfast

and I would take a kale shake do the

kale in there maybe just a little stevia

to sweeten it you know I have the kale

shake recipe you can go ahead and do

that and then drink the kale or do an

avocado why because the potassium is

going to start healing you of the

insulin resistance that you have now the

fact that you’re you able to get through

lunch you’re hungry but you doesn’t

sound like your blood sugar problems

then that’s good that’s fine so eat that

meal and then you’re going to have to go

until dinner now you have to do that

over a period of time that’s going to

get better and better and better and

then what you do as you graduate into

adaptation is that you wait longer and

longer so so you wait an hour and then

two hours and three hours and four hours

in the morning before you eat that first

meal that’s what you’re going to have to

do but I think what you’re missing is

the potassium and then add the outside

of vinegar to that as well and that that

should actually help you but I would

recommend like three meals a day okay

and if you can’t go from lunch to dinner

add a little bit more fat to that meal

and make sure your potassium

is high okay great so with the last

caller Vicki you’re from Arizona go

ahead good morning boy um first of all

thank you for all of your information

it’s just amazing

my pleasure i started the ketogenic diet

but kind of related to it I have been

having this itching in a left breast

that’s gotten worse gradually with over

a year and I noticed it with food is

when it started it would be like if I

ate something I would sweat and I

thought it was having allergic reactions

to certain foods I was on hormones for

over thirty years and they the doctor

took me off of it last year because of

the itching and he said just in case

well it’s within the past year it’s just

gradually gotten worse and worse they

did just the regular mammogram and they

did an ultrasound and have found nothing

but the more I’ve researched and studied

the more I’ve read that there is

something called inflammatory breast

cancer I don’t know if this is in your

realm I was just wondering anything

about it and the more I’ve read the more

the strangest thing is to eat apricot

seeds if there is a chance of that

so isn’t he heard any is it the right

right breast and it is the left breast

left okay

yes sure okay yeah um okay so I’ll just

give you a couple tips that that I know

I have not heard of inflammatory breast

cancer so I don’t have any data on that

I don’t have a lot of data in apricot

pits but I will say this that if you you

have an itching that is usually

something going on with the liver you

you might be doing a little detox from

all the estrogen from the liver so

there’s a couple things that you can do

for eating one would be

to do the estrogen balance with dim

since you had a history of that that

cleans up all the bad estrogen and do

some type of shakes with kale beet tops

and parsley maybe put a little bit of

berries in there to start to really

flesh out the liver which basically you

have a lot of lymphatics in your liver

so that will flush out the liver and

keep your lymphatics clean which will

then stop backing up to the breast

tissue because there is lymphatics

through the breast tissue so go ahead

and do that and milk thistle is one more

thing that I’d probably add to it for

the liver and let us know how you do

thanks Vicki hey guys I just want to say

thank you so much for your wonderful

questions until next week watch the

videos I’ll be sending out daily and

I’ll talk to you real soon

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