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thank you

all right welcome back everyone I

appreciate you stopping by to uh

interact with uh some of the things

we’re going to talk about today and

there’s a lot of good questions lined up

and of course anything that I say is not

meant to replace any type of chemical

synthetic

you know drugs for something more

natural that has less side effects so

just check with your doctor before

making that substitution God forbid all

right Stephen

all right well we’re really excited and

honored to have our first guest out of

the Green Room it’s uh Julian and she is

one of the many hard-working hospice

nurses that does such a tough task and

so we’re glad to have her on hang on

just a moment Julian let me bring I mean

Carrie right I’m sorry Harry yes stand

by Carrie and I’ve really botched this

up because I didn’t even unmute you so

Carrie stand by a minute and I’m going

to Fashion this shot for you including

uh let’s see Dr Berg forgive me for

doing that what did I do wrong

I tear it Carrie I’m not quite sure

what’s wrong with your shot but please

go ahead with your question for Dr Byrd

okay no blem hi Dr Berg hi hi I’ve been

following you for quite a while and um I

must say everything you talk about I

pretty much learned in college uh

genetics and molecular genetics so I

appreciate you

um I do have a question I um have

recently started menopause about oh

maybe six months ago

and I’ve noticed that losing weight

feels

impossible

um in fact I’ve tried everything I’ve

tried in the past

um cutting cutting calories cutting down

carbs fasting I mean I’ve I’ve tried it

all and I can’t seem to

um get the ball rolling and I wondered

if you had any advice for me

so do you um where do you tend to hold

the weight is it more in the stomach or

the hips or the butt what what where

does it tend to accumulate

stomach hips thighs that area

okay

so um

do you did you um have you been doing

keto before that before menopause or

just kind of like after menopause

I just recently started

um after watching you I started the

healthy keto I actually started the omad

um and I find that you know by the end

of the day I’m starving

um so it’s really hard to you know just

have a salad

so uh that tells me right there that

somehow I don’t think you’re in ketosis

for some weird reason

um do you um can you give me a little

bit more information on like um what you

would eat and how how many meals a day

um well I’ve been trying to do one meal

a day

um I’ve been trying the sauerkraut uh

last night I had the sauerkraut I had

some hot dogs on it the night before I

had a hamburger with a big salad

um I just find that later in the night

I’m craving sweets

um

it might be from a habit that I used to

do I used to kind of snack into the

night but it just feels harder than it

should

yeah um here’s the thing um did you go

right from multiple meals just to that

one meal a day

yeah okay and how long do you do it for

until you you said well this is a bit

too difficult

probably about four days

yeah and then I and then I tried a

prolonged fast I fasted for about four

days

um I’m kind of an all or none person

so I don’t like I’m not very patient so

I’ll just

you know challenge myself as hard as I

can

um but I’m feeling defeated right now

um and just

I don’t know where to go

so I’m gonna I’m gonna I’m gonna switch

your goal for a moment and um okay

the first goal let’s just uh

have the first goal being getting rid of

the appetite

in other words get to a point where you

can do this and you’re like wow I can go

long periods of time without an appetite

I have no more Cravings that is your

first goal because that is based on like

let’s get healthy lose weight not lose

weight to get healthy

um and so you’re you’re really up

against uh probably years of insulin

resistance and so it’s like even what

happens is like even though you’re not

eating sugar your liver

is uh in this excessive uh

gluconeogenesis it’s making sugar from

other things and so here you are like

what is going on I shouldn’t be going

through this

um and then so how do we do that

um

I would do two meals a day and I would

add a little bit of a little bit more

fat with the meals yes that’s right more

fat saturated fat I would add a little

maybe butter and I would add

um other things with with meat fat why

because

um menopause you have this shift

from your ovaries that are gone in

retirement now to the adrenal glands

which are the raw materials cholesterol

we need to to build up more of those uh

hormones that your adrenals now have to

take over the slack

so that’ll actually the extra Fat’s

gonna help um with the satisfying you

allowing you to go longer without eating

and then I would give it probably two

three probably even four weeks to really

let your body

um adjust and um

adapt to fat burning then you go to one

meal a day

and then watch what happens and they’ll

be like wow now my body’s uh really in

ketosis and you could probably even get

a test to make sure you’re you’re in

ketosis and then you can um you know add

add some exercise to that and it goes

stronger ketosis but I think just the

transition just needs to be tweaked a

little bit more and especially if you

had a history of doing this with sweets

um does that make sense

it does it just I lost a whole bunch of

weight about six years ago

just by cutting my calories and carbs

and it’s not working this time around

yeah

yeah this happens with a lot of women

that goes go through menopause and um

it’s like a whole different

um condition

and um

so

I think I think um the fact that you

still crave sweets and still hungry

tells me just you’re not quite in

ketosis yet now why would that be well

because adrenals need some more support

and that needs to be focused on first so

um

um because I will tell you this the

results will come once you don’t have

when you’re in ketosis and how do we

know that well you have no you’re not

hungry anymore

so that’s kind of like yeah you’re

welcome try that I think uh just shift

your focus and then Watch What Happens

and then one more Point

um some of the superficial factors

called subcutaneous fat which is

different than the visceral fat

um it works a little bit differently in

that you have to really add a lot more

exercise to this so of course don’t omit

that as well

that’s terrific well uh Carey um I want

to come in here for a second because Dr

Berg will attest that I have one of the

weakest constitutions on the planet I

have calluses on my left hand from

hanging on the refrigerator door

it’s just awful and yeah I’m not hungry

right now and I won’t think of eating

until three o’clock and my weak point is

Carrie uh you know in the evening I’m

more inclined once I eat something then

the engine begins a little bit and I’m

hungry but I don’t feel like food at all

right now but my Mantra is nothing after

60 nothing after six well I’m hungry I

know so eat tomorrow have a blast you

know beat those great things nothing

after six and the weight falls off me

and then more importantly that once I’ve

come to that discipline it’s not hard

after a lifetime of freezer burn Lean

Cuisines and misery trying to lose

weight intermittent fasting in

particular is fantastic and I I haven’t

been the best

um you know keto guy but there’s no

question the simple thing is don’t eat

two cups of sugar a day Steve and I

guarantee you you’ll feel better so low

carbs and I I may not meet the mark

exactly but low carbs and um

intermittent fasting one meal a day or

maybe two within a two hour three hour

window but but you know it’s just a life

changer for me and I’ve been down about

45 pounds for the last three years uh

thanks to Dr Berg’s uh constant

discipline uh on me and saying you want

to stay on the show well you bet no I’m

kidding but he’s very

he said I don’t want any yeah anyway but

listen that’s it so Carrie have faith

keep going and once you get that squared

away you are going to absolutely love

life uh on

um omad and and keto and so on so trust

the process all right Stephen being I’m

gonna do a I’ll release the video on

another a slightly related topic because

um as I’m getting into the DNA testing

even my self like I have this there’s a

there’s this kind of a sweet tooth Gene

that I have a problem with so I if I

start

it’s over I can’t just do one it’s like

I have to do the whole thing and um and

then keep going and keep going so as

long as I don’t start and so I just I

don’t I don’t give in to things anymore

because I don’t have the Cravings but uh

I’m I have a tendency to

uh overdo it big time and so um which is

very ironic because uh if you compare

back then to now it’s like a whole

different person yeah well we are

Kindred souls in that in that regard

okay let’s kick off an exciting question

oh wait a minute uh doc let me go to

something else because I didn’t load

that I’m really getting F today for uh

being ready for the show so let’s go to

Social Media Barber from YouTube please

discuss the importance of food

combination when eating what are the bad

combinations and what are the best

combinations if that makes sense

you know honestly it’s like

um with this you can combine any way you

want because we’re not adding the grains

and we’re not it’s not about food

combining that’s not the important

factor but if you wanted to know what

would be the worst combination would be

to add each sugar and protein or sugar

and fat together because you’re going to

get something called glycation which is

um

uh the the kind of The Binding of this

protein and this uh making it very

unavailable to you and really creating

um going right into the Diabetic Type

Thing so and that creates a lot of

damage in all your tissues the arteries

the brain the eye it’s all about

glycation so that would be the worst uh

so what combinations would that be let’s

see what has sugar and fat

ice cream

um which I used to have every night

before bed whole thing of Ben and

Jerry’s then what about um sugar and

protein barbecued ribs

so those are those are two things that

are really bad

um but you can actually add

vegetables or salad with with meat how

about that that’s a good combination

and uh so as long as your carbs are low

you can do any combination you want all

right we’re all cued up with the

questions and here’s the first one doc

okay which vegetable is highest in

quercetin

I’m glad you read that I would know how

to pronounce it so the highest in

quercetin all right let’s go back to

social media uh Ingrid from Facebook I

lost 40 pounds on keto

thanks to all your advice question oh

that just jumped up let’s see a question

because of our female hormones boy we

just talked about that should we come

off keto for a bit or just a day and

then get back on

there’s this false information about you

should cycle through carbs like for some

reason like if you eat carbs then you’ll

reset something or it’ll be beneficial

listen you’ve already been doing that

probably your whole life and that has

not been successful I can’t think of

even one reason why you should cycle

through and go back to go back to carbs

I mean what just to fill up your

glycogen Reserve well what what’s that

going to do you you probably already

have enough glycogen

um

it’s you when you actually go on low

carb or even no carb you still your body

can still make sugar uh if it needs it

because certain a couple of tissues in

your body do need a little sugar but you

don’t have to and you don’t want to

consume sugar to do that so you want

your body to make it and but there is no

reason other than some arbitrary made up

idea that we need to cycle through the

sugar for some

reason which is

it’s not there’s not it’s not it’s not a

good thing

especially since you as soon as you

start that now you’re like okay now you

next day your blood sugars are low and

like um I need some more so just a

little bit of something will create more

of that

that problem or more that desire okay

well let’s talk about who is watching

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these United States including Julian who

is one of our traveling sort of

minstrels of health and he’s currently

in San Diego and we’re glad to have him

back and Julian if you would give us a

30-second intro and then let Dr Berg dig

into it and Julian you’re on with Dr

bird

hey nice to see you Dr Berg I appreciate

all the research you share and do I

let’s see I had a lot of questions

um recently I did everything you

mentioned about blood pressure

um I forgot the whole list but the

Arginine I was curious if I have to take

margin L-Arginine if I consume a lot of

meat and if um oh I stopped eating kale

uh that worked I think my blood pressure

came down I would eat a pound of kale

every time I eat but

I just don’t want to do that the rest of

my life uh it’s a very bloating

so I replaced it with a bunch of

avocados and cucumbers I was curious on

your thought on those two if that makes

sense okay yeah so I think I think yeah

I hear you it’s like there’s there’s

ours you do have um not very majorly

high oxlets in kale but there’s some

other anti-nutrients that some people

just don’t do well

um but

um our L-Arginine does tend to increase

the nitric oxide which will help the

arteries and blood pressure and things

like that but

um like why couldn’t you eat just a

steak why could you eat some Animal

product and get that Arginine because

that specific amino acid does compete

with other amino acids so it might not

be selectively

absorbed like you want it to create that

effect so it’s better to have it on an

empty stomach and not with any other

amino acid

um but then you also said uh what about

other types of vegetables right you’re

um is it cucumber or something like that

yes sir I’ll just do

um mostly mostly avocado and then just a

whole cucumber

yeah yeah so you just gotta find out

what what type of vegetables that don’t

bother you and um

um

you know I think that’s a good good idea

but if you can just also over time

experiment with more variety just to

start

putting a little bit of tension on

feeding these um these microbes a

variety of things that have uh

vegetables that that don’t irritate you

yet can actually

um give you more of like a diversified

you know gut microbiome

um but again I don’t agree with some of

this new functional fibers that they’re

coming out with and they’re like

synthetic fibers and they’re like oh

yeah it’s good for your gut health well

do we know that our microbes want

synthetic fibers versus like fibers that

come from flu this is like a whole

different

field that creates a lot of bloating and

gas in people so especially when they

get into keto treats

again this my goodness it’s hilarious uh

my blood pressure went from maybe around

140 to around 120 over 80 which I would

like to get to 110 over 70 optimally but

um as soon as I left the kale

um it went back to 140. but it but the

diastolic stated 80 and the strangest

thing I thought I’m eating like six

avocados

you know what that’s good that’s that’s

actually normal that’s normal your

diastolic should be 80 because you don’t

want it actually too low because then um

you won’t have that pressure to push the

blood around like you want it so you

want it just like you know roughly

around 120 or 80. so

um I think you did the right thing the

fact that you um it affect your blood

sugar there could be some type of gut

inflammation going on so just be aware

of the omega-6 fatty acids the vegetable

oils just watch out for those they’re in

so many different things

um but hey thanks for coming on and good

to seeing you again and enjoy the sunny

weather in San Diego as we’re freezing

our butts off up here in the North

yes sir thank you Jillian great to see

you again I tell you what you ought to

see Jillian he’s got these huge guns

he’s in super shape he lives in a van

with his honey and I don’t know but you

know he’s the real deal so whatever eats

he fine-tunes it and he looks like he’s

just the perfect specimen he must do a

hundred push-ups every hour in that

thing but anyway thank you for coming

back on and uh who knows where we’ll

find Julia next he’s in San Diego

currently but he’s kind of a nomad and

travels all over and Exhibits his great

health for everyone he passes okay let’s

uh find out if we have some answers to

our first quiz question and in fact we

do with our Lightning Fast audience the

question was which excuse me vegetable

is highest in curcitin if I said that

right Doc and uh 40 say broccoli Sprouts

25 say onions I love them 15 say cabbage

10 say leafy greens and 10 say

cruciferous of veggies

okay well the answer is onions wow

onions have uh very high levels so um

onions um can give you a lot of

different benefits but this this

compound this natural compound is also

really interesting because it actually

can help with allergies asthma it’s

anti-cancer it’s anti-inflammatory it’s

antimicrobial it’ll also increase

um this hormone in men called

luteinizing hormones pituitary hormone

which can then increase your

testosterone

so

um

so stay tuned for more information on

that I will be releasing a video on that

topic wonderful let’s go back to social

social media with just uh give them all

the love today uh oh wait a minute shout

out to additional viewers joining us

from Bulgaria Tanzania Somalia Thailand

Singapore Puerto Rico Kuwait Malta and

Romania wow is there any place left to

talk about this morning okay Judas

um Judith from Facebook you are amazing

not me Dr Burke she’s talking about you

I think I love your videos uh you are so

knowledgeable thank you so thank you for

that you’re welcome that’s wonderful and

let’s see we talked about the lady that

lost 40 pounds that’s fabulous let’s see

oh let’s see we already talked about

that excuse me so Bob from YouTube I

would like to know about your

Keiko powder did I say that right

c-a-c-a-o

gecko pirate if I use it

what’s the that’s the fat in um

chocolate uh chocolate cocoa bean and um

so you know it’s um

I don’t know how many um benefits that

would have for health I think it

um I don’t know it could could have some

benefits but uh it’s um it’s good fat to

use for various keto desserts and uh

um I’m experimenting on creating these

keto bricks using cacao powder and some

whey protein and uh so far

um boy that’s a chemical a chemistry

project to have to get just right

because

um at first it’s like it tastes like a

dog biscuit and then now I put too much

sweet in there like some natural you

know sweeteners and then now it’s too

sweet so I’m still working on it give me

some time and I will post that video but

uh especially for people that uh let’s

see they’re on the run and they want to

make their own bars because all these

these new keto bars are just so filled

with again those functional fibers which

I don’t like dextrin corn fiber tapioca

fiber that type of thing wow well

speaking of fiber I think you said I

want to use it in lemon drink will it

help me stop passing gas and without

being scientific you will eventually

explode if you don’t uh pass gas at some

point so is this going to Aid him and uh

over flatulence

I don’t know if it has that effect

um I’m not sure

um

but since we’re on the topic um I will

mention

and when you ferment products right

let’s say you’re fermenting you can even

ferment meat

um like in sausage and those little

sausage uh

what is it called like Slim Jims and

that type of thing you can and they have

to put some type of carbohydrate to feed

the microbes so is that bad or good well

it really depends on what’s left over

after the microbes eat it it’s kind of

like if you have Kombucha tea and you’re

I think it’s made with sugar so the

question is how much sugar is left over

like two grams so well that’s definitely

a lot better than other sweet drinks but

even with the with the meats um there

are some companies that are

really increasing the ingredients but

they have to add some carb for that

microbe and so if

if you can get less than one gram I

think now we’re in in the ballpark where

we can deal with that a lot easier so

it’s not necessarily

um

completely about the type of sugar it’s

also about the amount of sugar too so if

you’re just doing traces then that’s a

lot better okay very good here’s a good

question Haley from Facebook will your

electrolyte powder break a fast

no because there’s hardly any calories

to it there’s just minerals

um and uh so you’re not going to really

break a fast you’re going to encourage

someone to go longer because one of the

problems with doing fast is your if

you’re already going into a fast with

deficiencies of minerals then that can

affect your your electrolytes and you

can have some issues with the heart and

things like that

so

um that’s one thing and then the other

thing is when you do fasting you

actually release a lot of water that’s

been retained and so with the loss of

the water comes a loss of electrolytes

so you do need a bit more potassium

magnesium and even sodium when you start

doing fasting as well as the Keto Plan

okay very good uh our first question of

the day which I missed miles from

YouTube can you help me with my keloid

can fasting help heal it or eliminate it

I don’t know that’s uh that depends on

how big it is I think it’s going to

improve it I would also add some good

quality Vitamin E oil to rub it into

that keloid to help break down some of

the scarring

um

there’s another enzyme called um

seropeptase which I don’t know the

jury’s still out that may create some

positive things because that also helps

you break down excessive um like um

scarring and fibrosis in certain parts

of your body but these are just things

to look at and just research more to see

if that could work for you okay very

good and Stephanie from YouTube like

this question where do you start when

trying to improve gut health and maybe

add to that doc what do you do to screw

it up

you start with the basics

um you experiment

um I right on my website it’s like it’s

free just download the an eating plan uh

plus I have if you can look under videos

the first video is start here step one

and you start there and then if you

start to have bloating with the amount

of greens that you eat then you back off

but if you don’t have the excessive

bloating then you can do

um do that program and

um get some benefit from from some of

those vegetables so

that’s how I would start it keep it

simple

um and then you can modify it but I lay

out a really good

high quality plan on the website and

also my videos so you can um at least um

piggyback on years and years of trial

and error and experience and experience

of a lot of other people that tried it

and just the refining down to you know

what this is going to work for the

majority of people not everyone but and

then see if it works for you okay if you

want to start here as Dr Berg say then

you should start here and that’s by

downloading his free app which is good

on Android or Apple devices so make sure

you put that in your quiver of weapons

to assault all this stuff now look what

happens when you download that I’m

assuming that Alicia from Facebook must

have got the app and other things Dr

Berg you are saving my life I am down

144 pounds since May 6 2022 I have 75

pounds to go thank you with several

exclamation marks so good for you Alicia

that’s a wonderful story to hear and uh

any great okay let’s see uh Antoinette

from YouTube my sister has been

diagnosed with diverticulitis what would

you recommend for her

well I don’t know what she’s eating and

I don’t have any additional information

but I will say if you have inflammation

in your diverticuli in your gut I would

probably do carnivore for a while that

way because we know that the fiber can

create some irritation down there I

don’t believe that uh

the fiber has started the whole problem

but I think it left you with the

inability to break down fiber I think

this the whole problem starts uh mainly

by disrupting the microbiome and one

cause could be an antibiotic another

cause could be

omega-6 fatty acids and all the

vegetable oils it could also be the

sugar we eat but um

typically

there has to be some pre-existing

weakness within the gut and then all of

a sudden the whole chain reaction occurs

okay very good now this next question is

specifically for our producer Terry

Cornwell and here it is

okay what is the most potent way to

increase uh the growth of your brain

cells

have hope Terry okay I want to grow your

brain because here’s the thing as we age

the brain does shrink and that’s called

atrophy and if a certain part of the

brain shrinks too much then we get

cognitive problems our mood changes so

what is the most the most potent thing

you can do to reverse that process and

expand that brain to a normal brain

regrow it back to normal

okay very good get on that audience and

let’s see let’s go back to social media

um oh poor Colleen from Facebook I have

low ferritin and b12 what is the best

way to increase them because my hair is

falling out

so if we look at the question of iron in

B12 which is related to anemia your

nails the quality of hair what food

would have both iron and b12 and it

wouldn’t be spinach it would be red meat

okay red meat you can also do liver

um but I would have a big huge stake

right now and uh you probably feel a lot

better

um

now also realize that to help you absorb

iron in B12 there also is a stomach

component part that you need to acidify

that stomach that could be a part of the

problem so

um if you don’t have

like an ulcer or gastritis then you can

take betaine hydrochloride if you do

then you need to heal the stomach

um with something like um sulforaphane

from broccoli Sprouts or maybe some

some zinc kind of sign things like that

to actually heal it then you you have to

go from there but I have done a lot of

videos on this topic you can dig into it

and learn all about it okay very good

next up from the Green Room is Karen and

she is from Ohio hi Karen unmute

yourself and go ahead with your question

for Dr Berg

hi

hello

hi

um

thank you for giving me this opportunity

and thank you for your dedication to

this work

um I started keto

last March and in the first eight months

I lost 60 pounds

wow but two months in to this I um

was diagnosed with an autoimmune

condition called bolus pymphagoid

and they would I was given a prednisone

injection and steroid cream which helped

to clear it up I’m starting to get these

sores again and I don’t want to keep

taking prednisone

or even the steroid cream but I don’t

know what to do

got it now question

um before you had this autoimmune was

there anything that that occurred

uh right before that that may have

triggered that

well to be honest with you I’ve also got

R A and hypothyroidism and yes my mother

lives with me I have three brothers that

I have to helped do shopping for none of

them are driving so I’ve got a lot on my

plate

um but yeah

okay so yeah because there’s always

something that uh kind of triggered it

sounds like the stress is really high so

um one thing that you can do

um is start taking something that kind

of mimics prednisone but that is very

virtually no side effects and that would

be the vitamin D in higher amounts

vitamin D3 and higher amounts I would

make sure you take the K2 with it and

magnesium because it’ll work better

the other thing that you can do is

probably ashwagandha would be a very

good herb for you and some natural B1

that will actually reduce the stress so

then your immune system

can get back into

alignment from what what’s happening

with that but um yeah because you

because you we need to get rid of the

inflammation the slippery slope with

these steroids or the prednisone wow

that um that can affect your weight it

affects everything else so I do

understand I took steroids Prednisone

every year for I don’t know how many

years because I had poison ivy every

single year I had to take it and to the

point where it didn’t work anymore so um

that created a lot of damage in my body

um so luckily I’m not I haven’t gotten

it this year but um

the point is that that prednisone just

makes your adrenals very very weakened

and then one last thing that I think

will benefit you is the whole desiccated

adrenal

um

I’m not biased of my own adrenal product

but you’re taking these glandulars that

definitely it’s kind of like a it’s like

a stronger

um approach against this problem to

really support the adrenals and give it

what it needs to kind of function

okay we’ll have at that I’m already

taking 30 000 D3 and K2 okay for the

last eight months so okay then you need

to um and it’s taking care of the ra I’m

not a no ra medication good then I would

I would continue that but I would also

add the B B1 and then as well as the

ashwagandha and then also um

oh good make sure you have a really good

probiotic

and do whatever you can

to lessen this stress situation I know

you’ll probably have to do regular type

of aerobic exercise to get more

um flushing of the cortisol out of your

body and the adrenaline but um

um

you know you’re you’re kind of sounds

like you’re stuck between a rock and a

hard place and that’s a not a good place

to be

um for your stress so that kind of keeps

you

you know so anything you could do to

improve that

environment would be therapeutic to your

adrenals

all right that’s great well listen thank

you so much Karen and love to hear back

from you on to your progress and if you

want to reduce your stress just watch Dr

Burke he’s so mellow and he’s even

mellow off the camera he doesn’t throw

things around as soon as we go off the

air he’s just very relaxed and I think

it must be his diet all right let’s move

on uh to

um

another question let’s see oh no we

didn’t answer this one okay I’m gonna

get with it folks what is the most

potent way to increase a growth of brain

cells specifically in Terry our producer

and the audience

45 percent of them say fasting I agree

45 say exercise five percent say more

sleep and five percent say reduce sugar

intake

well everyone’s correct but there is one

very very potent

trigger and that is exercise

exercise and then

um you know exercise if you think about

um

what exercise does it’s like

back when when people you know um we had

to hunt for our foods and things like

that uh we were exercising a little bit

more right Steve indeed I mean you

literally had to be running constantly

so our bodies have adapted to that to

the point where if we didn’t have food

thus fasting uh we would and it was cold

out and all these other things you’d

have to um

make sure your brain is sharp uh you

couldn’t have brain fog so or else you

would die you wouldn’t survive so

all the ancestors where your body has

come from have survived from this

adaptation and this this mental acuity

that occurs when you

exercise and when you starve your body

or fast and especially even like cold

therapy too so all these things can be

beneficial to your brains and but if we

reverse that and we have a sedentary

life and we car you know eat constantly

and always have food around us and the

all-you-can-eat buffet and

Steve this might be shocking to you but

you know you food is available even 24

7. there’s places you can go to that are

open that you can get food

even in the grocery store around the

clock stop it

um I know I know it’s hard to believe

but uh we no longer have the uh problem

of food but um now we have the opposite

problem

wow all right everybody keep that

refrigerator door closed all right Tony

from Facebook which is better for

controlling cholesterol non-flush or

full flush niacin is that a thing

yeah yeah you want the flush for

cholesterol in fact if you don’t have

the flesh if you have the non-flush it

won’t work uh for your cholesterol

problem it works for other things so if

you really want to control uh in a very

powerful way your cholesterol niacin the

regular flushing type is the an utmost

awesome remedy out there

okay we need to help uh Ann who’s coming

to us from Facebook I have MCAS I’m on

keto I’m dairy free and I’m on

anti-inflammatory diet help I feel like

I can’t eat anything

n-e-a-s sorry uh uh MC as in Charlie as

okay and what does that stand for well I

don’t know I tell you what and if you

would you know expand on that a little

bit instead of the acronym or whatever

that is uh we will get back with you but

we’re stumped with MCAS all right let’s

move on until Ann writes back uh let’s

see Ramesh from Facebook sounds like a

vegetarian how can I get uh how can

vegetarians excuse me here’s one get the

right amount of B12

you know plants do not create B12 but

microbes do and uh believe it or not and

I’m not bragging on this but our

wheatgrass juice powder we just we found

out it was like twice twice the values

of our B12

because it’s microbial rich and it’s not

sterilized it’s raw but typically

um just to play it safe you’re going to

have to take uh B12 as a supplement

and the type you really want

is the methylcobolamine not the

cyanocobolamine you want the natural

type of B12

but um

you know it’s funny about

um

vegetables and actually what how they

get their nutrition

um mostly they get it from eating

bacteria

okay they eat bacteria and then in that

bacteria that’s where they extract the

nutrition

so a lot of people don’t know that it’s

kind of a new thing

um

to know but uh Believe It or Not

apparently plants are not vegan they eat

bacteria interesting who knew okay

here’s our next question

all right what is the best

um exercise to increase the growth of

the brain cell I think we covered that

um you want to tell

you want to well we already covered that

do you have another question Steve oh

did we really I’m sorry yeah yeah we

oh I’m sorry this is the we did not

answer this

um what type of exercise that’s what

that’s what this should be uh should we

do to increase the growth of your brain

cells not what should we do so now we’re

talking about the type of all the

different types what would be the best

to do to to get more brain cells okay

and Terry I’m not picking on you I’m

concerned for you I want you to listen

up on this we’ll get you into the proper

mode for that and let’s move along back

to

um

oh Leslie from YouTube this sounds awful

I would like to know what I can do to

reduce or heal scar tissue in the lungs

can’t imagine what happened to her

well you know there’s obviously been

inflammation that then led to scar

tissue in one of the best ways to

inhibit fibrosis in the lungs is the

tocotrenals tocatrinals that’ll also

reduce scar tissue in your liver too

it’s a type of vitamin E newly

discovered

other part of the vitamin E complex I

wouldn’t get the mixed with the

decoferols I would just get the only

like the mixed tocotrinals that’s it not

with the added to cofferals because they

do compete and it’s just it’s more

powerful it’s more powerful than the

regular tocotrinos and especially if you

have fibrosis in the lung and of course

um

there’s other things you can do too like

that Sarah uh I think it’s Sarah peptase

enzyme that also works but I would start

with the vitamin E and go from there

all right very good uh

Savita from uh Facebook has a question

uh he’s lost too much weight with

healthy keto if there’s such a thing

which has a negative impact on my looks

please address my problem well that that

is a real problem isn’t it and people

would kill for that problem but it is a

problem and so what you’re gonna have to

do is you’re gonna have to somehow

maintain that two meal a day

but increase the the calories

you’re gonna have to increase the

calories increase more fat calories

workout

um

harder so you could maintain the muscle

and stimulate muscle growth that’s

really the solution

um

you know yeah you might be doing the 10

cups of salad but there’s not a lot of

calories in that so you’re going to have

to add you know let me leave a little

bit more protein a little more actually

a lot more fat

that’s what I would do and that way your

body will at least at the very minimum

um not tap into your own fat reserve it

will actually

um use it’ll you your ketones will come

from the dietary fat that you’re eating

okay very good let’s uh wrap it up with

our last great contestant from The Green

Room this is Karen from Fort Worth Texas

I’m going to unmute her and she’s now

going to ask her one question if you’re

Dr Burke go ahead Karen

Karen can you hear us

go ahead you’re on with Dr bird

oh oh dear uh Karen we can’t hear you

for some reason so I’m going to put you

back on pause for a second and if you

would maybe

I what I see I see there’s a uh a mute

button on her end

um so if she could click that

I think that there she goes now say

something Karen

okay can you hear me now I can’t hear

Steve but I can hear you okay okay great

I can hear you perfectly

okay great uh so thank you for being on

your show I appreciate it

um I am a 65 year old a very healthy

woman

um I have been doing intermittent

fasting and naturally practicing me in

my whole life

um when intermittent fasting became a

thing it was like oh that’s what I do

um and uh my question to you is is that

I always have high cholesterol it’s very

high and

um

you know I’ve read a lot about you know

listening to your

um talks about good cholesterol that

cholesterol is produced when something

is deficient in your body so it needs

the cholesterol and so I go into this

debate with my doctor you know and they

say well you need to uh exercise you

need to reduce fatty foods stop fried

foods all of that

doesn’t is not relevant to me because I

eat healthy I exercise I’m at an ideal

weight

and so the doctor wanted me to go get a

CT scan to they have a new one that can

look at the arteries to see if they’re

blocked and when I I can’t go on statins

because it it hurts my body but I have

taken a drug called repatha that is a

non-uh Statin drug and that controls my

cholesterol so my question to you is

being a healthy

woman you know my age and I’m if I’m off

of any kind of drugs it’s way up there

so what is your

take on all this like get on the attack

on that or did they do they do a test to

show that you have a hereditary uh

cholesterol problem is that is it

running the family

I think it’s hereditary

um but they didn’t do its tests

specifically to see if it’s hereditary

it’s there a specific test that they can

do for that yeah yeah they can determine

and just rule that out because let’s

let’s pretend that it is because

um you’re eating healthy and you still

have high cholesterol I’m I’m guessing

you have high levels of total

cholesterol or is it more LDL or or

what’s any more information on that yes

so I’m like

um

let me look uh I think I have it in here

I can tell it quickly

um I think it’s around

well ask me another question I can look

it up real quick yeah so did you have

high triglycerides

yes okay did you have high LDL

yes

okay did they ever do an advanced lipid

profile where they looked at the

particle size of the LDL

that’s what you need yeah that’s what

you need because that would give us a

lot of great information because we’re

looking for as a pattern a or pattern B

and basically we’re looking at the

difference between the small dents uh

LDL versus the large buoyant LDL those

are um it

chances are when they do that they’re

going to find that you have the majority

is going to be the large buoyant

um LDL which is non-pathogenic so um

that would be a very very important

another test to be really really

important is um to do a DNA test

to to see if there’s any problems with

this Gene called APO

apoe okay and you want to know if it’s a

a Poe two three or four

and um

you want it to be like three or two you

don’t want it to be four if it’s a four

then that could be more of a risk factor

of other issues

so that’s just an additional test did

they do this CAC test the coronary

artery calcification test yet

I haven’t done that yet I have that

scheduled so that’s a good thing that’s

a good plan yeah that’s a good test

because that’s going to look at calcium

buildup I I mean if you’re eating

healthy I think that’ll be low but it’ll

give you a good it’s even it’s a better

indication than even the cholesterol

test so I would get the advanced lipid

profile to look at those particle sizes

and then um

is that a blood test

yes

yeah

and the thing is that you know

here you are eating healthy and you

maybe you probably feel healthy and then

you get in a drug and you probably don’t

feel healthy so of course I’m I’m I

would just do natural ways to lower

cholesterol for example NATO kinase is a

natural remedy uh red rice extract is a

natural cholesterol remedy niacin is a

natural cholesterol remedy these are

things that virtually have no side

effects but they they act like a Statin

um so and then maybe you just don’t add

additional

um

that to what’s already coming with the

meal and then reevaluate because um

I think I think you’re 65 very healthy

person and uh you probably have a

hereditary factor and in which case you

need to kind of uh drill down on a

couple other things that other people

don’t have to do

okay thank you Dr Byrd you’re welcome

well Karen we hope you come back with us

after you’ve you know tried some of

these things because it’s it’s a shame

you work so hard at staying healthy and

then you have this buggy thing so please

do get back in touch with us and let us

know how that is all going uh and keep

up the great example okay let’s uh hit

another question there you go Dr Burke

okay so what is the best fuel

for preventing seizures

all right climb on it audience let’s see

Junior Joe uh is cod liver oil uh for

reducing inflammation

uh it’s it’s sort of it’s one of the

best because it’s omega-3 plus it gives

you the added benefit that goes beyond

like the fish oils with by giving a

vitamin A in vitamin D so you get the

omega-3 DHA EPA and the vitamin A and

the vitamin D all together in one

package so your grandmother was correct

by giving you this cod liver oil uh

Spoonful each day

um they do back then

um so it’s a really good good source of

Omega three fatty acids and uh

you know I I consume a lot of God never

will

um Steve have you ever had the um cod

liver in the can the wild cod liver in a

can yet I wouldn’t touch it with it it

sounds gross no I think you would in

attack you’d you would like it it’s it’s

uh it doesn’t even taste like liver and

it’s kind of like the consistency of

pudding huh and it’s quite delicious cod

liver in a can it’s kind of like another

sardine but way higher in omega-3 and um

I wouldn’t necessarily at the first time

eat the whole thing because

it’s a lot of it’s a lot of fat but

maybe half of it

um it’s quite quite good and you can get

it very easily online and um it’s a wild

caught usually oh well I’ll give it a

shot and by the way Ann got back with us

MCAS is masked m-a-s-t Mast Cell

Activation Syndrome ever heard of that

okay yeah yeah okay I got it and then

what did she have what did she want to

know about that let me go back up there

um

uh she said I’m on keto I’m dairy free

and I’m on an anti-inflammatory diet

help I feel like I can’t eat anything

because of that condition

well I think um that quercetin would be

a good thing to take as a supplement and

of course the onions would be good too

um and then also

um

you know since we have this immune issue

um you need to

beef up no pun intended your vitamin D

and the zinc to probably the most

important nutrients for the immune

system but I would uh start taking more

of each of those right now

okay very good uh quiz number four this

audience is so smart and so fast what is

the best fuel for preventing seizures

and 85 percent of respondents say

ketones or healthy fats 10 say MCT and

five percent say coconut oil

well I think everyone’s uh saying the

same thing indirectly but it’s uh it’s

ketones and that can come from coconuts

or MCT oil but the ketones are very

interesting because

this

fuel particle has a way of bypassing

one of the Hallmarks for neuron damage

which is um an inability for that nerve

cell to take on glucose anymore because

they have abused it they’ve eaten so

many carbs and more so many sugar sugars

that it created this resistance into the

blood-brain barrier so now they can’t

get the fuel to the neurons and it dies

it’s you shrink you shrink so but guess

what ketones come in there as a rescue

they can feed the neurons directly

regardless of how much damage you have

from the sugar they can also act as an

antioxidant and anti-inflammatory they

provide the neurons for more ATP and

energy so it really is the ultimate

solution

um especially for people that are

epileptic or have seizures and

um unfortunately though

some of the children that have epilepsy

um you know they’re they’re put on a

ketogenic diet that I would say is not

uh too healthy it’s um

a lot of times it’s like

liquid fat and um you know these recipes

I’m like I would I couldn’t eat that

there’s even like it’s called Uh keto

kale it’s like a canned

um thing for these kids that gives a lot

of fat and uh but the quality is crappy

it’s vegetable else

but they’re not looking at the the

quality of ingredients and uh it’s not

just about these macros it’s about

um the ingredients that’s like way more

important and not way more important but

it’s just as important so um no wonder

uh there’s not a lot of kids that can

stick to this program for very long

because it’s pretty disgusting

okay very good well our producer Terry

got back at me he said hey genius how

about giving them the answer to question

number three which I didn’t do which

ironically says what’s the best exercise

for uh brain cells to shade tear you got

me on that one

anyway uh he’s gonna forgive me yeah he

I know he’s doing a Victory lap yeah it

is but here’s what they all said 70 of

our respondents say sprinting or high

intensity exercise 20 say weight

training and 10 say yoga

okay well you know you could be right

depending on the intensity but aerobic

exercise aerobic exercise so yes it is

true that uh this anaerobic high

intensity is really good for other

things and many great things so you

should do it but the aerobic exercise

where you’re actually

you know you’re you’re doing maybe a

fast-paced walk with a lot of breathing

maintaining a little lower cortisol and

stress hormone

um maybe like a bike or a jog that’s

actually really really good for your

brain so I like to I recommend doing a

combination because if you’re going to

truly doing high intensity workout you

should get sore right and then you

should have rest the next day unless you

switch your workouts so I always like to

mix it up in fact

I don’t even mix it up I I pretty much

do aerobic every single day and then I

do several times a week I do the

anaerobic which is um higher intensity

stuff but that aerobic is very very

therapeutic to your brain and um you

should just get out there and start

walking and getting more oxygen if you

want more brain cells

Steve

very good well I’m jogging in place now

now trying to get that effect

um but it’s slow to come so Sharon from

Facebook my friend has bad neuropathy in

her feet that hurts please help her with

any advice you could offer

that’s a very easy one uh chances are

it’s coming from a high carb diet which

in case you need to get off the carbs

but to to turn things around fast you

take a product called benphotamine okay

benphotamine

um and whatever I would just take four

of those a day

spread them out and if you wanted to

just add one more little thing to it to

speed things up alpha lipoic acid is

another good one for this so the

combination of both of those will be a

no-brainer to help support these nerves

and get the myelin sheath back to where

it should be okay very good our final

question this one a true falser

all right true or false UV as an

ultraviolet radiation has

anti-inflammatory properties

I’m really putting you on the spot here

audience we’ve got about a minute and a

half left or something so knock that out

in the meantime doc let’s see do we talk

about how exciting it is for people not

in a contiguous United States to be able

to get your products affordably

yeah we’re working on that to expand I

think we’ve we’re getting into India I

think uh pretty soon if not we’re

already there but if you click down

below and you’ll find a better way to

kind of avoid the excessive shipping it

would be to ship overseas from America

okay very good let me find another

question while we’re waiting for the

answer uh let’s see

oh now and come on and from Facebook

it’s hard to swallow your nutritional

yeast tablets

um you know and I’m telling you and

crunch them up eat those suckers you I

chew them I chew them um but yes I

understand then you can just get the

powder we have the flakes you just put

that on your salad uh it’s pretty

actually has a nice flavor I like it and

it’s non-fortified so it doesn’t have

these synthetic things uh 30 of the

population has a um genetic problem with

folic acid and so if they’re going to

get these synthetic versions of the B

vitamins like folic acid instead of a

folate or the synthetic version of the

B12 they’re gonna have a lot of problems

so it’s going to build up as a toxic

type thing but if you get the

nutritional needs without that you’re

good you don’t have to worry about it

this is why some people have reactions

to nutritional yeast because they’re

doing the Fortified version

um but before we answer this last

question Steve as you’re getting your

thoughts together I would like to survey

you at home

and um

we’re going to be

um kind of introducing like a new

channel and growing your own food super

healthy food

um and what I’m interested in is to know

uh if you are interested in that number

one and number two why what is the

reason you would be interested in

growing your own food I mean is that

you’re trying to

just eat it find healthy food save money

what would be your reason for doing that

if you could comment down below that

would be great just so I I know

um

like um your intention behind learning

how to grow food right inside your house

wow Laurie and I are really excited

since you brought that up I mean you

know the old victory garden that they

used to have during World War II when

times were tough well guess what

inflation and everything very excited

and plus just you bragging about the

benefits of soil and how much a

difference that can make especially you

know as opposed to hydroponic or all

that stuff so I mean I think there’s

people that are giddy about it we

certainly are I can’t wait to start my

uh Dr Berg victory garden well the

audience has come through with their

Lightning Fast answer true false UV

radiation has anti-inflammatory

properties and

99 say true and there’s one holdout who

says false be great if he was right

you know when you think about UV

radiation everyone’s trying to avoid it

right because it’s um it’s going to

cause melanomas and sunburn and

um all sorts of problems but it does

have an anti-inflammatory effect it does

and it’s this is why they’re using it

even as a therapy for like psoriasis

eczema and dermatitis and and

um even Vitiligo which is a lack of

pigment on your skin so it’s uh I’m

going to create a video on the the

benefits of UV radiation which I think

you’re going to find quite fascinating

I’ll also be talking about the

difference between like UVA versus B

versus C so you really understand it in

a simple way and how it interacts with

your your body and this goes Way Beyond

just the conversion of

um

the vitamin I mean the UV to to vitamin

D three there’s other benefits that go

beyond the vitamin D connection

so with that note I appreciate your

attention your wonderful comments I will

see you next week and also tomorrow with

another video on the YouTube channel

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