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welcome back everyone we have another

show for you we have quite a few people

listening in from all over the world

anything that i say is not meant to

diagnose you check with your doc before

accepting any of the recommendations

all right let’s just dive right in

steve

hello good morning everyone and why

don’t we go straight to the green room

we’ve got a full

lineup this morning and why don’t we

start with manoa all the way from chile

and she is on with it and has a

fascinating question manoa you’re on

with dr byrd

hello nice to meet you thank you so much

for you the word you do

sure i’m from chile i’m not a narrative

speaker of english language

the question is

i have anxiety i have adrenal issues

adrenal fatigue

anxiety and of course insulin resistance

and

i really deal with the problem that i

can’t find

a good quality of supplement to give a

really good support to my adrenals and i

had to deal with a lot of stress

what can i do

through the diet

to make sure that i’m giving a good

support to my adrenals and keep the

anxiety under control

what what country are you from

chile chile okay

um i would imagine i would imagine they

have farmers markets there is that

correct

yeah

and i would imagine that um you have

some really good soils in south america

i mean there’s like some

some really good soils to grow really

good

food um

and so

you know some of the key herbs that i

would recommend you grow and make your

own tea and maybe you could find them

because the problem here’s the problem

when you buy

herbs that are good for adrenals like

adaptogens and things like that like

ashwagandha

it’s really hard to know where you’re

getting it from and the soil with

the soil is the key

and so you don’t really know

so um

you know you have to find some local

farmers that grow ashwagandha and

ashwagandha is a really good adaptogen

it can help

calm your adrenals the other thing that

you definitely need to get is

nutritional yeast for the b1 the vitamin

b1

and

try to find a non-fortified one because

they make them with

synthetic

petroleum

products i mean

a lot of people don’t know that

99 of all the b vitamins sold um

are sold by companies like dow chemical

company they make these synthetic

vitamins

chemically and that’s what you’re

getting and then they fortify it with

the nutritional yeast which you don’t

really need to do that

and then if you took nutritional yeast

on a regular basis and maybe drank and

make drink on ashwagandha tea you’re

going to feel

calmer you’re going to feel like you can

tolerate more stress

and then

start watching the videos that i have on

stress you know better sleep um

keeping your diet uh correct so you’re

not doing too many carbs and um

also doing the intermittent fasting

um

there’s so many things you can do with

stress but um

you want to get your body to a state

where you can tolerate

babysitting like maybe nine small

children in a room for about eight hours

then we know you’re

you’re good

being able to drive behind okay very

slow driver for

for about four hours then we know you

can tolerate stress

okay yeah

yeah i’m doing a nutritional gist

actually i’m taking your course and

keto and iaf i’m starting the course and

yeah i’ll take your recommendations

because i really need them thank you so

much yeah you’re welcome great and good

luck to you

that’s great well i tell you what

noah i’m a great advocate of the

nutritional yeast so keep it up and all

those other great things and you feel

like a million bucks according to me

so anyway uh here’s some fun stuff for

everybody dr berg why don’t we kick off

the first quiz question and there’s some

interesting ones today and here’s the

first one

okay so the first question is what

percentage

of meat is water

okay

so

so you eat the steak

what percentage that it actually is

water take a wild guess that’s the first

question

this will surprise you yeah it’ll make

us mad too because you spend 30 dollars

for one of those things these days and

if you tell me it’s all water i’m gonna

be very sad feel cheated anyway that’s

the first question folks and why don’t

we go to social media don’t want to

ignore them and zane from youtube

is required to take my meds three times

a day doesn’t mention what they are but

how can i do that if i am uh fasting

intermittent fasting

um i would take them anyway um

do you always have to take things with

meals no not necessarily would it be

best maybe

but i would try to do it on empty

stomach and

um and not worry about it too much

unless they’re

i mean i will say if you’re talking

about medication and drugs maybe maybe

it’s toxic to your stomach and that’s

why they’re telling you to have a meal

in which case you got a problem because

um most medications you don’t to take

three times a day unless it’s for a

specific reason but it would be very

helpful to know what kind of medication

you’re talking about and also

to know why you’re taking it so we can

give you another solution so you’re not

dependent on those medications for the

rest of your life

and you know the whole viewpoint the

medical community is like

that you’re not coming off these

medications it’s like

well what what that doesn’t make sense

to me so

especially with psychiatric drugs like

once you start i’m like is there a plan

to come off the problem is you start

becoming used to it now it’s really hard

to come off

so

i don’t know

i don’t like that situation

well good for you well anyway that’s a

good start and maybe he can have his

doctor wean him off of those and boy

there’s so many stories about that here

on your channel dr berg where people go

back and the doctor goes shazam you

don’t need such and watch you know your

a1c and all sugar all this stuff is

better

so

you know that’s really exciting stuff

let’s look here sophia yeah also on

youtube i have to take warfarin during a

valve implant i am restricted from

vitamin k foods should i start a keto

diet

you should and you should just

do the vegetables uh low vitamin k i

mean i have a video on that if you um

just do the keto and then instead of

doing leafy greens you’re gonna do like

a squash

you’re going to do

other things that have other vegetables

that have low vitamin k1 so it’s not

hard to do

you just need to get the list

and if you just

just type

google like

pdf um list of foods low vitamin k1 and

it’ll be right there and you focus on

that um

it’d be very beneficial

all right that’s terrific let me see do

we have any answers yet

um we don’t but we do have

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so thanks everybody around the world

including those in the green room for

tuning in to the dr berg show every

friday at 11 00

a.m east eastern time and let’s see wow

that’s awesome yeah it really is let me

see uh what else we have uh from terry i

tell why don’t we

uh oh here we go this is what i was

waiting for audience the answers to quiz

question number one and the quiz

question number one asked

what percentage of meat is water

and the audience responded 55 of them

say 75

40 say higher than 55 percent and 5 say

less than 55 percent

any close uh numbers there doubt well

i would imagine no one looked that up

real fast and put the answer down i know

you wouldn’t do that but if you take a

steak and you just wring it out with the

water

you’ll get 75 of that that meat being

water isn’t that

wild

there’s not much water in steak 75

that’s amazing wow that’s mind-blowing

that is so

i mean it is true when you eat celery

you’re getting like it’s 95 water but

steak you would think it’d be very very

dense

so

um now you know you can get your water

by eating more steak well i want a 75

discount then i’m going to demand it

next time i’m over at the longhorn and

see what they have to say about that i’m

sure they’ll give it to you oh i’m sure

they will now let’s see what else are we

going to do why don’t we go back to um

our great lineup and let me see who i’m

going to choose and here’s a guy that’s

in the movie business david

from of all places burbank california

let me unmute him

and select his shot and david uh you’re

on with dr burke

david can you hear us

i think david

may be muted somehow let me go to

somebody else here uh here’s a uh new

friend of mine his name is julian and

he’s sort of mobile right now he’s uh

not on the run he just likes to move

from state to state and julian you’re on

with dr byrd good morning good morning

dr byrd thank you good morning

i’m sorry david hang on just a moment we

lost you can you hear me yes stand by

just a moment david

okay go ahead julian with your question

hey hey i thought we were uh having

internet issues for saying um good

morning uh dr berg my my question for

you is

so i’m i’m an explorer and

i just went into the whole keto thing

and uh to lower my blood pressure

and then i went for head to every health

benefit i can think of and now i’m

doing uh i’m currently on a 120 hour

fast and this is my day i will break

that fast in

like four hours

and uh i also combined it with three

days of dry fasting

so wow

yes sir no water for 72 hours

and

my my question for you is i also do

training uh i uh hit training uh four

days a week

and i also walk walk a lot actively i

saw uh practice kung fu i did my horse

sense this morning and uh i don’t know

if it was a lactic acid but that’s a

whole other topic i was just

uh getting through all that and um

my question for you is uh with the

acidity

that we uh build up through the

prolonged fast and i suppose the dry

fasting

i i don’t take any any

minerals during the dry fast since i’m

not drinking i tried to take potassium

without water and uh i take it from a

potassium

chloride

and uh it’s

very very difficult but but my question

for you is um when when i break my fast

i break it with uh apple cider vinegar

and i remember you mentioning the

acidity and my my concern is um

is the combination of the acid the

acidity buildup

uh the bloating i i no longer drink

water while eating

and

i

i mean i notice i can eat so much more

when i don’t drink any water

and i don’t

man my question is super scattered but

but pretty much

i do five uh 120 hour fasts every month

and then when i eat consecutively

days right after that i make sure i do

at least 20 hours of fasting

i also combine dry fasting with

everything though

since i don’t um drink water with my

meals

i i drink water uh leading up to the

meal like every hour

and um i suppose my question is when i

drink the water

and without with that kind of fasting

lifestyle i do

i’m also every two weeks is a three day

three day fast

and uh a two day fast regular i never

eat mondays or thursdays

um when i when i break my fast it’s an

apple cider it’s a it’s a sauerkraut

and apple cider vinegar

diluted in a little thing of water

with uh

with lemon juice and a whole lemon

so julian so this is a this is

interesting you said that because um

first of all you are uh

i can imagine your body is

experiencing some real magical things

happening on the inside with your cells

with going that long and that that much

fasting because it’s uh

your uh your immune system oh my gosh

your brain

your cells the anti-aging there’s all

sorts of magical things happening

i did a video on this a while ago

one thing you if you do prolong fasting

that’s the time i don’t recommend doing

outside of vinegar because what happens

is like that your

your acidity level like your ketones are

so high

when you do prolong fasting your

your ketones go above five you can go

six seven

maybe eight

now it’s not dangerous unless you’re a

diabetic so i don’t wouldn’t worry about

that but just think about how much acid

is flowing through your body and then

you have the outside of vinegar so

probably what would be better

when you do the prolonged fasting is to

do

once a day you do an eighth of a

teaspoon of baking soda with water

that’ll just kind of offset things it’s

not enough to mess up your stomach at

all

and then

maybe you um break the fast with uh

instead of outside of vinegar you do

like a wheatgrass juice powder or um

a vegetable powder just to kind of

alkalize your body a little bit more and

then the sauerkraut is awesome

i think that’s awesome and that won’t be

too acid and then

then wait wait for an hour or have a

little bit

of food maybe an egg or something wait a

little bit have a little bit more and

really slowly go into this because as

you know

there’s a lot of

things that can happen if you go too

fast and

i’m glad that you’re not doing carbs

because the carbs are going to

really make um

that can that’s the most dangerous thing

when you’re doing carbs after prolonged

fasting

and also you’re doing dry fasting for

three days which is incredible you’re

not drinking any water which

it just exaggerates more

benefits or enhances more benefits

so

you have some serious discipline that is

awesome and uh i think you’re going to

live a very long life actually so

wow thank you so much for that i um it’s

hard for me to really phrase the

question because it’s like

with the acidity thing i try to bypass

the bloating when i when i refeed but

since i’ve gotten into this new

information that yeah you brought up

about uh water and bloating

that it was hilarious to me how i never

noticed it before and when you read it

online they say there’s no correlation

but i’m like

when i eat i eat

two dozen eggs

on their pasture raised organic and i

also eat a pound of meat

or organic grass-fed

and

i noticed for some reason i couldn’t eat

it anymore i’m like i’m pretty sure i

can eat about 5 000 calories

and

my my my assumption was well if i get

more acid hopefully i can get it in

and um one thing i did forget to mention

is i do this for autophagy i’m very

curious about it and my main purpose in

autophagy

is

the uh i want to see if i can rewire

habits in my brain and see if they’re

connected to any neural pathways that

can be corrected with uh my purpose for

survival

and

i appreciate the information you provide

because it’s just

like i would love to keep um

updating

you on on things that i’m expect because

i’m not i’m not finding any uh any

research on this so i’m just

trying to see what happens

yeah you are the research and so it’s

kind of like

um fasting is like

is a miracle grow for the for the brain

um

and you’re getting all this autophagy

recycling going on with the neurons

um it’s great great for your brain um

i think yeah carry on and uh good luck

to you thanks for that question you bet

julian anyway thanks that’s fascinating

after hearing julian’s routine i’m gonna

throw mine away that’s all there is to

it just gonna chuck it out because uh

that sounds like a fantastic lifestyle

and you know i spent time on the road i

used to drive 50 000 miles a year for

my profession and man it was hard to go

by the speedways and you know the little

convenience stores but he’s julian’s on

the road 24 7 and somehow has remained a

level of discipline that uh hitherto i

have not known so good for you julian we

would love it even even even when you

start doing intermittent fasting and

then the stomach actually does

kind of

adapt to that it gets smaller so same

thing with prolonged fasting your

stomach will get smaller to adapt to

that and then all of a sudden you go

back and

try to put more food it’s like whoa it’s

like not quite fitting in that that

small space anymore um so it’s it takes

some adjustments because your body’s

more efficient and it doesn’t actually

need that much

food

because it’s very efficient

all the systems adapt

and so

versus other people they need to eat

like literally a cow like just a

tremendous amount of meat to get

satisfied um it’s not a bad thing that

you need to eat less so yeah that’s

really cool that’s fantastic we look

forward to steve what do we got next

well we’ve got another quiz question and

here it is

all right what percentage

of

what percentage of your body is water

what percentage of your body is water

back to the steak thing a little bit

um now let’s see what else do we have um

jj and let’s go to facebook this time

can people

uh can people food anxiety since being

diagnosed with an ulcer i’m afraid of

eating acidic foods

could that be my detrimental to my

health so they’re anxious about eating

acidic foods because of their ulcer

well first of all um

if you have an ulcer you don’t want to

be doing a set of foods because that’s

going to irritate your ulcer um i

i think i would i wouldn’t worry about

eating acidic foods or alkaline foods i

would just eat healthy foods which

happen to be both

acidic and alkaline i mean like you got

the whole vegetable family which is

alkaline and then you’ve got the meats

which are a little bit acid but of

course we’re not eating sugar which by

the way will turn you alkaline not acid

which is interesting

um

and just so happens that like

the fats they’re fatty acids

you have nucleic acids

you got all these acids that you have

that your body requires so

um

if it bothers you to consume acid foods

then

then there’s some

i’d like to know what you’re talking

about are you talking about tomatoes are

you talking about

lemons

um

so it’s it’s hard to answer the question

without more data so that’s that’s all i

have steve well that’s a lot now jamila

facebook wants uh

sorry alexa just

just butted her way in

uh let’s see jamila from facebook what

are the best foods for someone who’s

anemic it doesn’t say whether she’s you

know following any of your plans but

there you have it

red meat red meat

red meat wow so um rare red meat because

then you have the huma the uh the form

of iron that is um

very available

and

versus spinach which it’s not

and that’s one of the best things for

anemia unless you like liver and then i

would go with the liver

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but red meat should handle it pretty

pretty nicely and plus it has the b12 so

that can handle the other anemia that a

lot of people have but let’s say you’re

doing that and it doesn’t work then we

know the ph of your stomach is not

strong enough so a lot of people are

anemic because they’re especially as

they get older because they don’t have

enough hydrochloric acid

um that could be caused from having

being on a low salt diet it could be

caused by

you know just aging so betaine

hydrochloride apple cider vinegar are

really good acidifiers

but also to build up that acid you need

other things like the chloride from

sodium chloride from salt and also you

need uh even potassium to build the

stomach acid so there’s several things

that you would need but if you eat

healthy your body will will make the

acid that you need

wonderful okay we’ve got the answer uh

to question number two the audience as

usual is right on it and the question

asks what percentage of your fat or your

body excuse me is water what percentage

is water

and the audience astutely answered i

guess 75 say the body is composed of 80

percent water

20 say more than 80 and 5 say less than

80 who’s right

uh it’s sixty percent about sixty

sixty-five percent um water but here’s

the thing

um your muscles

which are which is your meat um is about

75 percent the same as meat so and then

you got your brain you got different

parts of your body that have more water

content

um

the reason i’m kind of talking about

this is because it’s going to relate to

a video i’m going to be doing next week

which i don’t want to necessarily give

everything away

so i will stop right there

all right that’s enough so that’s

interesting five percent of the audience

wins the prize because they said less

than 80 so good for you and the rest of

you keep trying meanwhile becky from

facebook what are the differences

between potassium supplements potassium

chloride potassium citrate or potassium

gluconate

well that would be a bit more detailed

answer which would require more time but

i will say that um

the one i like is the potassium

citrate

however because

there’s some data

it’s not extensive there’s like a one

study that says when you have potassium

chloride there’s a chance of having some

type of side effect blah blah blah but

you know

that’s what that’s why sometimes people

are afraid of taking potassium because

it can create

some problem with your stomach

but not with citrate i haven’t said i

haven’t not seen anything wrong with

citrate however

this is what you need to know about

potassium citrate

citrate

is a

is something that a lot of manufacturing

companies especially in the vitamin

industry

they buy the type that has

maltodextrin

so they have this it’s a it’s a spray

agent that they use

and so a lot of the electrolyte out a

lot of electrolytes out there that use

the

the citrate forms like potassium citrate

calcium citrate magnesium citrate are

using the form with the hidden

maltodextrin which is

ash i mean so high on the glycemic index

and

it’s incredibly cheap and that’s why

they can sell these products really

cheap when you get the

non-multi-dextrin version

it’s very expensive to do that and

that’s the kind of the version that we

use because i i don’t want to do the

maltodextrin thing so um this is why

when sometimes when you buy electrolytes

and you’re noticing this

after effect like why do i feel so kind

of like my blood sugars were just

affected i personally can taste it right

now i can just feel that so

i’m like oh there’s maltodextrin in here

but some people are not aware but it’ll

kind of give you a a weird feeling and

then all of a sudden you end up with a

little bit of a blood sugar thing by

taking even this keto friendly

electrolyte so um you have to be aware

of electrolytes you got to be aware of

certain ingredients and especially the

citrates are one way that they stick

that darn maltodextrin in there

interesting well i’ll tell you what

maybe a shameless plug for your

electrolyte formula does that have a

remedy for it because i drink eight

ounces of that before i run i used to

get a little crampy and it seems to work

fabulous normally what’s in that stuff

well there’s no there’s no maltodextrin

and it’s just electrolytes trace

minerals

and

in a combination that gives you a lot

more potassium and that seems to be what

people tend to be most efficient in you

know steve there’s this

i don’t know there’s this mantra or

whatever this this theme with certain

medical doctors that i guess they’re

taught medical school that

they’re saying you know what you guys

you don’t need supplements

you can get everything you need in food

right that’s what they’re saying they’re

assuming that

our soils are good and our food is

nutrient dense and that people are

eating enough of that and now every time

someone says that i always ask them

well what’s our requirement what’s the

our days for potassium and they don’t

know they don’t know that answer well

it’s 4 700.

so

if they start to really even figure out

the food that would take to to achieve

that

4 700 amount of potassium which is the

rda

and then they’ll

quickly realize that wow maybe we’re not

consuming enough

maybe our foods don’t have enough

potassium and we’re not consuming enough

of the right foods so um it’s extremely

difficult nowadays to get our nutrients

from food

so

anyway you’re going to hear that a lot

from the medical profession but that’s

just simply because they’re assuming

they they make all these assumptions

which are not based on a foundation that

is true they don’t have that foundation

that

the understanding of

um the new basic nutrition they don’t

understand especially with the soils and

then the depletion of soils using like

just the farmers use npk which is three

three minerals to fortify the soil

well

what about all the other 90 minerals

that you need so

anyway don’t get me started steve

absolutely not uh

you have a tendency to spill out a lot

of knowledge and we’ve got to put a stop

to that near from youtube i do a low

carb diet and have been on omad since

october and lost 25 kilograms i guess

that’s about 50 pounds or something and

my triglycerides we’ve heard this a lot

are now 185 why are they still so high

well you gotta realize that when you’re

burning fat okay when you’re releasing

fat um the triglycerides are coming from

the fat cell the majority of your fat

cells are triglycerides so that has to

come out

and so

your body can use those as fuel

so if you’re not exercising enough

well then you’re not using up that fuel

so it has to come out it’s going to come

out

through your body so

that’s one factor the other factor is

that

if you’re

um

if your liver is fatty and you have um

you don’t have enough bile for example

that could be another reason why your

body’s not breaking down some of these

triglycerides

so there’s a couple reasons it’s nothing

to be worried about though

wonderful unless you’re doing carbs ah

yes watch this

steve should we go to dave that’s been

waiting patiently because i know we

start tried to talk to dave but it

didn’t work or we are on the same page

i’ve been texting him and he had some

sort of weird little delay so david

let’s try this again you’re on with dr

byrd

i think i’m in now am i in you are

you’re indeed

fantastic thank you dr berg so much uh

definitely a technical end on my end

when i fixed it just in time

um hello thank you again so much we

watch your videos daily you’re our go-to

guy for when we have an issue and we

know it’s nutrition and some form of

supplementation so it’s awesome

i’m a 58 year old male

and i started doing intermittent fasting

and your healthy keto diet

in january of 2021

at 30 i became a vegetarian but

basically i was a standard american diet

vegetarian

with a lot of alcohol use and heavy

sugar

i gave up alcohol about six years ago

lost 20 pounds immediately

kept that off

found your channel found your program

started never ate more vegetables than i

did since

watching you even as a vegetarian

it was a lot of seed oils eating out a

lot of you know a lot of just standard

american vegetarian

and um i lost a lot more weight my

puffiness went down i’ve always sort of

maintained 180 190 but you know never

been really trim and now i’m trim

problem is i went back in for my blood

numbers

let’s just say i impressed my doctor

my ldl went up 190 160 points

my total hd uh cholesterol is

proof to like 396.

uh 350 396. um

i was referred to a cardiologist he

immediately they all wanted to

immediately put me on 40 milligrams of

statin i’ve seen two cardiologists now

everybody wants me to stop the keto diet

and go back to

a plant-based

low-fat

diet and

and then i had a calcium score at your

recommendation because of my heart

problems in my family and i found a

video on that and had it done and the

news just gets better i’ve got a calcium

score of 888.

so

now what do i do

okay

all right let’s start with the calcium

score and if those people that don’t

know what we’re talking about there’s a

way to identify calcium in the arteries

the coronary artery calcification score

it should be zero

but you know here’s the thing that we

don’t know dave we don’t know what it

was before unfortunately that you did

this that would be fascinating because

let’s say it was a thousand and now it’s

800. it’s kind of like you can’t

evaluate one number it always has to be

compared to something else so

um so that’s kind of one thing

i had a stress test and a carotid

ultrasound at 50. and they were clear

and i was

perfect and i have no symptoms and my

second cardiologist is like you don’t

have any symptoms i don’t think it’s a

blockage i think it’s more of a like

speed bump kind of a situation so i’m

getting another stress test and i feel

great i got to tell you i’m in the best

shape

feeling the best i have no pain and it’s

my i feel betrayed by my body but i’m

sure it’s 30 years of standard american

diet alcohol and sugar that’s done this

yeah that’s what you’re up against

you’re up against insulin resistance

chronically but here’s the interesting

things i would highly recommend um

and i can even

help you with this um finding a a keto

friendly cardiologist and there i know

several of them

that

can basically help

you

order the right testing because you

needed advanced lipid profile tests have

you ever done one of those did it

you did it

what was the what was the particle size

with the small dense and

not good pattern not good okay pattern b

very high particle count okay so two

things you have a genetic high

cholesterol situation

um it’s always been above 200 around 250

and my ldl has always been around 160

170 and my triglycerides have kind of

been all over the map my whole life but

that my baseline is high cholesterol

then i wouldn’t say that is

hypercholesterol or hypercholesterolema

as defined i don’t know if that’s the

case but i’ve never been they’ve never

tried to put me on a statin before

okay so um when you eat your foods are

you adding a lot of additional fats are

you just having the fat that normally

comes with the protein i was adding a

lot of fat and i was adding a lot of fat

i didn’t experiment before that

fractional

uh following a feldman protocol and i

added a lot of fat in the days before

and i was hoping it would do the

opposite and it didn’t so i don’t know

if i’m a hyper responder type of

of this person i don’t quite fruit in

that category really but i am definitely

hyper responding to the fact i have put

out the sad the added fat

dave dave would be a great great person

to work with on this just as a

consulting guy but here’s the thing that

i would do i would like to

have you go get another advanced lipid

profile test and not do a lot of fat and

just see what a normal

diet would produce

and

okay so now what is the danger of this

situation well

we have um small dense lipoproteins the

small particle size

invading the inside of your arteries

so

there’s a lot of things you can do to

counter that remember right right now is

uh take two katrina’s on a regular basis

um tocatrinos are 50 times stronger

oh wow there you go

make sure that it doesn’t have any

tocopherols in there you want straight

tocatrinos got it i believe this is but

i will double check

and you have that like three times a day

that will greatly protect you

um

and uh you know

because you have

the majority of your

of good indicators we have this one bad

indicator situation

i think

you know if we take a look at what

organs responsible for

a lot of the issues you have it’s the

liver the liver is like the kind of the

area that

can make things look a certain way

i don’t know what’s happening in the

liver but juice but if you to focus on

the liver maybe a

milk thistle and do a little bit more

periodic prolonged fasting

that type of thing that would be

beneficial but um

i would really would like to know um

just

don’t add more fat to the diet but just

have it don’t try to go low and then

redo that advanced lipid profile and

shoot the numbers to me at dr berg dr

berg.com and they’ll get them to me but

i’d like to

i would bet that it would come out

really good if you did that

um

because it just it’s illogical what

you’re doing

because what causes those

small dense

ldl is is the uh his carbs

and um well i have to i have to admit i

uh you know i my transition did include

a cheat day

uh

often not often i’d say you know you

know i was i was making that transition

and i was always able to get back into

ketosis no problem but i do admit i do

admit that my i i since my numbers got

really bad i have cut out all cheat days

i don’t do it anymore

all processed carbs are gone

um you know

i’m adding more fiber i’m taking a

number of the supplements that you’ve

recommended including garb garlic ipa

uh i’m doing omega-3 salmon

niacin i’m doing some niacin therapy

which is great i love the flush it’s so

it’s so invigorating i imagine my

calcium sweeping out of my body every

time i feel that flush so i’m doing all

that i’m definitely cutting down on the

saturated fat i am scheduled to come in

and do my lipids again for my doctors in

a couple of months and i’m going to do

that fractional again and i guess i’ll

do the cac in a year to see where i’m at

and get you know

my my second cardiologist really wants

me to do this stress test i’m doing that

in two weeks and if i’m clear on that

which i feel great i’m gonna get back

into exercise

and keep doing what i’m keep doing what

you’re suggesting and i have cut out

this early i don’t put the fat in my

coffee in in the morning and i’m not

cooking with the butter anymore i’m just

using you know that kind of stuff so

i’m definitely and i will definitely

send you my numbers

great did you one last question did you

did you

have you done an a1c

i have not done an a1c okay um my

brother is uh diabetic pretty much on

the window my whole i’m you know they’re

my whole family is morbidly obese i’m

literally the healthiest one in my

family and here i have the heart of an

88 year old but uh

um gonna reverse that gonna change yeah

i i i honestly now that you gave me some

additional data i think that um

maybe regular cheat day which even if

it’s like

more than once a week probably

altered your values enough because

it’s just i’ve never heard that before

having those values unless you’re doing

some car

and the a1c would pick it right up

because it’s like

someone comes in

and they’re telling you they’re doing

and then the a1cs i’m like oh

tell me if you had

you know

once in a while like and then you find

out okay

so it’s just it’s probably more

motivation to be strict

and the cool thing is

um

you’ll see a change in your cac over

time and then

your risk will go way down so i think

you’re you’re on the right track

thank you dr berg so much you confirmed

everything i thought very good awesome

wonderful david yeah do you let us know

what happens out there and enjoy by the

way he’s in he’s in the movie business

and i was telling him i do a little work

here at the local studio uh and uh there

is food everywhere and there’s a lot of

healthy food there because a lot of the

stars want that but man you can really

pack on some calor some you know high

carb calories if you are so inclined so

i’m not going to blame you for doing

that david i’m sure you’re showing a

great deal of restraint in that regard

but anyway thank you david please do get

back in touch with us and let us know

how things are going that was a

fascinating

call and we wish you well okay here is

another david from facebook says that

uh oh he’s actually uh commenting on

this i’ll move on from that barbara from

facebook what uh if you have ketones in

your urine but my a1c there it is again

is five

uh let’s see

um yeah what’s going on

ketones in my urine but my a1c is five

that’s what she said

well

okay well that’s good that’s good

it means that you’re in fat burning you

got ketones in your urine ketones

um

will be produced when your blood sugars

are low

if your a1c is 5 that’s pretty good

and

you’re right on track there’s nothing

wrong with that

but if your sugar is too high if your

a1c is too high you will not have

ketones show up

but i will say just as a side note steve

i i’ve had several um

pretty top

actors and actresses call me and uh they

want they they have this part that

they’re doing and they need to lose

weight within like a month or so so i’ve

worked with several of them and uh

i’ll have to find out if i can kind of

reveal their name but it’s uh great

stories of like being able to

be motivated to

just do it standardly and then just lose

the weight and then um

then watch the movie and go wow i helped

that person that was really cool yeah i

remember one of them i won’t mention

their name but you recommended they chop

off their left leg they lost 22 pounds

but i’m not sure if that really hated

them in their role it worked really fast

yeah absolutely cut it off you know it’s

like these legs are heavy nowadays you

know yeah they sure are okay now let’s

see what happens on the question and doc

here’s our next one true false this time

okay

all right fatty meals increase your risk

of gall stones is that a tr uh is that

um true or false

okay hop on it audience let’s go back to

social media deaths from youtube what

caused someone to crave

buttermilk should we drink it i mean

maybe something’s triggering

uh dez to

go towards certain foods

well definitely it’s better than milk

and i think there’s some type of um

need for uh to support your gut

um that’s what i think that’s going on

it could be a need that you need calcium

as well people tend to crave

dairy if they crave if they need calcium

but it could also be something going on

the gut so

i don’t know which one it is

but typically people don’t crave um

sauerkraut for some weird reason i don’t

know why they wouldn’t want to crave

that i mean it’s so good for you

absolutely see what else do we have here

um barbara from facebook i don’t know we

already talked about her let’s see as

steph from youtube why is the keto diet

better than the mediterranean diet

because the mediterranean diet includes

pasta

and

that is

you know you might say well people in

that area of the world live to you know

well

if you go to italy there’s a lot of

people eating pasta and they don’t look

too skinny but there are certain you

know places like in the blue zone where

people live a long time but they’re

also you know they’re it’s a whole

different thing they’re outside they’re

gardening they’re more social they

and the diet is definitely less

corrupted but it’s uh

you know

there’s all these different version

versions of the mediterranean diet but i

i think yeah olive oil is great olive

oil is great you should add that into

the keto

tomatoes you can do that

but the problem is the pasta

but what’s interesting about pasta if

you check your blood sugars it won’t

spike right away it’s delayed

it’s delayed sometimes by two or even

three hours but you’ll get the spike

because it’s more dense and it takes a

while for that to affect the sugars

so even like there’s some interesting

data about um corn fiber there’s a

soluble corn fiber it’s kind of it’s uh

you’ll see that a lot of keto friendly

foods which i don’t recommend by the way

the corn fiber and it sounds very very

um natural oh the fiber in corn but the

chemical process it takes to make that

and the blood sugars

they say it it lowers your blood sugars

but if you actually

check it six hours it will spike it so

it affects the blood sugars down lower

in the digestive tract so

um unfortunately

you know

if you don’t get the full picture of

some of these new

new fibers new functional fibers that

they’re pushing out there

tapioca fiber and

you know i would avoid them i would

definitely just avoid them right now

because eventually they’re going to find

oh sorry

there’s a problem with this

interesting

cigarette steve ugh boy did i have a run

with him quit when i was 33 one of the

hardest things i’ve ever done those

pesky things will grab hold of you

but there’s they were supposed to help

you with pregnancy oh absolutely

so anyway we got an answer in from the

astute audience and it asks true false

fatty meals increase your risk of gall

stones and our audience uh 82 percent

said

false 18 said true

okay

what do you think steve

let’s see um

i think

that they do i’m just going to say it

does increase it

no it doesn’t because uh what happens

with a fatty meal fat fat doesn’t make

gallstones fat

stimulates

uh the release

of bile and also the contraction of the

gallbladder

that’s different than making a stone

the stone comes from a concentrated

cholesterol without the bile so it’s

really a bile deficiency in which case

you need gallbladder formula or another

bile salt

so um

that would be a false

wow

dr berg lured me into a false answer

well i deserve it so anyway learn that

audience and listen here we’ve got

really a lot of people piled up in the

um

in our green room so i’m going to start

flying right through those and next up

is tiffany from the windy city chicago

and tiffany uh you are and make sure you

unmute yourself on with dr burb

hi dr berg thank you hello so much for

taking my call i really appreciate it

i’ve actually been following you for

quite a while so i’m 54

i’m over i wait

january 2nd i weighed 284

i’m down to 255.

so i’ve been doing pretty well i’ve been

doing keto

i’m extending fasting

so as i’ve been listening to you um over

the years it’s been you know i go back

and forth with my weight unfortunately

um you talk about insulin resistance a

lot and so i’m like okay well that’s the

reason i’m insulin resistant because i’m

really happy around my midriff i’m not

big here my mid-drip and my hips

so um and in my head i’m thinking

glucose and insulin is the same thing so

i keep looking at my glucose numbers and

they’re low

so i i did go get a uh insulin test so i

just want to tell you so my glucose was

68

my a1c is 4.8 my hdl 83 my triglycerides

are 66 and my insulin was 2.5

my l is high and it’s always high it was

um 204.

so when i look at those numbers in my

head i feel like i’m not insulin

resistance

and so like i’m fasting

and if i’m not insulin resistant it’s

fasting that really is the thing i

should do to lose weight i’m just really

confused okay well first of all those

numbers look wonderful you really got

some great numbers so obviously you’re

on the program and things are going

great it’s working and the question i

think you have am i still insulin

resistant well

it takes a while to

correct that you might be out of the

woods now because you’re eating well

but if you went back to your old ways

you’ll probably find that

kicks right back in

the test for insulin resistance is a

little bit more than a fasting

insulin test and maybe you already had a

homa ir test i don’t know but once you

do keto and intermittent fasting and you

recheck

homa ir

you might see it be normal

so it kind of improved it but

um the question is are you out of the

woods yet no because you’ve had it

chronically so it takes a long time to

really make sure that it’s

it’s doing very very well it’s it’s

really difficult to measure

you know you’re looking at hormones and

you’re looking at blood sugars but can

you actually measure the receptor the

ability for your receptor receive that’s

a really hard test so

it’s really a problem of diagnostics how

do you measure this phenomena

all we know is that

if you’ve had chronic

weight problems your whole life or

whatever

or chronic carb in

ingestion

you have you have insulin resistance and

and then the reason why it takes longer

to get this weight off is that um

that’s sitting in the background that

actually lowers the metabolism itself

but you’re on the right path and i think

there’s things you can always do to

speed it up

but you really have to also know what

normal is sometimes people think well i

should be losing

this much pounds this many pounds per

week but actually

if you’re losing at your age and what

you’ve been through if you lose a pound

a week that’s really good

if you lose more that’s incredible and

you drive the way but if you the more

fasting you do like julian you could

probably lose

up to five pounds a week if you really

did some even like stronger fasting um

as long as you’re taking the nutrients

getting the nutrients from the foods

and doing the fasting

with your values you’re right on track

it’s gonna happen it’s gonna happen your

everything’s coming out nicely and

you just want to ride the wave and

and continue to improve um those

receptors for insulin because you’re now

you’re not stimming any stimulating

insulin anymore so

it’s um

it’s going to get better and better

because you’re retraining your body

uh we don’t need

to

raise insulin anymore as much and also

your blood sugars are fantastic so

yeah well i appreciate that just so you

know that those numbers were done before

i started like i was

like that was before i did really

yeah that was before

making numbers now which i’m i’m gonna

actually go back and do some more lab

work

that was before so i have a question for

you

um what is

okay before

what was your diet like were you eating

a lot of sugar

yeah a lot of crap

and your a1c was still

low like that

it’s always been low in fact like when i

do my extended fast

like uh it go down like my my glucose go

down to like 40.

now

are you talking about when you’re eating

sugar your glucose goes down to 40. no

not when i’m sure so when i’m eating

sugar it’ll be like 90 the i tested it

it was like 120

and then it comes back down but if i was

going to extend it fast like i said

five days and go down to like 40. okay

well this is fascinating because um

you um

you’re able to keep these numbers in

check more than other people

so you must have some pretty good genes

but i think

i can imagine your values after you do

this for a period of time

it’s going to be incredible and also

your blood sugars will come way down

if you don’t feel bad if you feel good

then that’s your near normal that’s your

normal these these values are based on

the average person but who is this

average person i don’t know it’s like

kind of a combination of people like you

and people that have like really high

numbers

like david

and then we get normal

whatever that is

but definitely because because i’m so

heavy there’s definitely with some

insulin resistance

yeah most most likely because

that’s what happens when you have

the extra fat the fatty liver you start

developing insulin resistance and so

because insulin is at the heart of the

switch whether you gain fat or you lose

fat okay and so yeah

i keep doing what i’m doing then i

appreciate it thank you so much no

problem good luck tiffany i’m going to

chicago and get a blood transfusion from

tiffany man she’s got the magic numbers

i’ll tell you that’s unbelievable thank

you tiffany best of luck on that and get

back with us as we ask all people to do

after you continued on let’s see where

you’re at

uh let’s see now we’ve got uh another

fascinating um true false doc and here

it is

all right good blackheads you know

blackheads um are dirty pores on your

skin is that true or false

gross all right answer that audience

let’s see where you’re at with that and

let’s uh see if we can get another

person from the green room and this time

it’s gwendolyn

and uh gwendolyn you are on with dr berg

hello can you hear me yes perfectly

okay very good well thank you thank you

for so much that you do

um so i’ve been in healthcare for 37

years just retired very long and diverse

career actually and in my training and

teaching i feel like i’ve spent my

entire life lying to people so i’ve

really i’m fairly new to your program

i am signed up for the certification uh

for the functional nutrition piece of

all of this because it’s fascinating to

me the insulin resistant piece the

insulin index being such a critical

component

all of it is i mean i cannot tell you

how embarrassed i am that i’ve spent 37

years lying to people anyway so um even

with bio

you know

nutritional biochemistry i took tons of

that so fast forward here is my question

that i want to bring to not only myself

but my people

we sometimes inadvertently

fall off of the sort of keto

good eating wagon and sometimes we do it

purposefully

and i’m trying to figure out a sort of a

kinder gentler way for a fast reset

um if and do you know what i mean

because sometimes those high carb days

it takes two days to kind of get through

that um

that

the reset of all of that so is there a

recommendation or will that be covered

at the program i’m about to take will

that be covered um how you kindly and

gently go into a really solid reset

yeah so

yeah that’s gonna i do talk about that

in the course uh if you’re talking about

the keto coaching program but i will say

that um

you know

you got two things when when people go

off the program they need to reset i i

use a very very very very light touch

because there’s um

you know it’s almost like i go you know

what i got to make it really okay to go

off the program because uh

um

they feel bad about i mean i was i was

in whole foods once and uh i’m shopping

and

i saw one of my patients uh

at the

bakery section and they were just about

to take one of the chocolate brownies

and put in their mouth and they happened

to catch catch me and they saw me

they turned

red and then white

and bolted the other way and i had to

run after them and say listen it’s okay

it’s okay i was i was the cheater i was

i had to hit bottom before i made

changes but just you know you got to be

like a

a gentle guy to help coach them and let

them

fall and just you know pick them back up

but the thing is that um i like to let

them

go off the program and then just

experience it until they

self-determinately by their own

determination decide okay

i’m done

because this whole pressure thing

doesn’t work and twisting her arm it’s

like

i don’t do that i just use a very light

touch and then they i try to educate

them on what they need to understand and

i will say that the longer they’ve had

the insulin resistance

the longer it takes to get back on track

so the point is like

if you want to go off the program

just do it with full awareness so you’re

not on this automatic thing and and what

i mean by that is realize the

consequences like realize a little bit

of carb is going to create a lot of bad

things in your body it’s going to stop

you from burning fat for 48 hours are

you willing to do it great then do it

but going in go into this with full

knowledge of that

and that way they um

they might go well well it’s not worth

it

and not do that so

i just use that approach it seems to

work real nicely and uh

um

you know hopefully they won’t be like me

and have to hit bottom which is harder

to count

the back to come back up because you’re

like literally have to be

very very unhealthy before you go okay

i’m not going to eat that anymore so

it’s a process and

it becomes easier because even

intermittent fasting is an exercise to

build up your willpower you become you

have a stronger willpower when you

actually do this longer because you’re

it’s about putting your self-control and

just exercising your self-control versus

caving to

the temptations all the time so

i think it’s a

it strengthens the person’s willpower

over time

well thank you so much uh for that

gwendolyn

and i feel better and more inclined to

be honest now dr berg you know i tell

you i eat a nutritional yeast but it’s

really a handful of skittles each time

so now that i’ve gotten that out i feel

much much better uh

to give you the truth now listen but you

know you know even even like in school

like after i graduate i had to unlearn

things and i don’t even know what i need

what was true or false and

you know you get this diploma

certification you’re certified to have

this specialized knowledge but

is that true data you know even in

school

there’s not enough hours

to spend

to evaluate

if this is true or false is it just the

theory you know so

you have to almost have to graduate get

your certification and then then try to

figure it out to see what’s true for you

with a lot of experience you know and

so that’s kind of the problem with

getting a

a degree from a university

well

indeed okay let’s wrap up with the final

quiz excuse me true false in this case

blackheads are dirty pores in your skin

and let’s see let me clear that layer

and get back to dr berg and our audience

84 say that that’s false 16 say it’s

true

no it’s totally false in fact when you

scrub your skin you make it worse you

damage it what you’re dealing with is um

there’s a little bit of a gland

with oil and a little protein plug

and if that plug is open

exposed to oxygen it oxidizes and turns

darker just like if you were to bite

into an apple and leave it exposed

auction it’s gonna it’s gonna brown a

little bit so

it’s um it’s not dirt it’s uh you have

too many um

androgens and i will release a video

probably tomorrow

on this very interesting topic so if you

have blackheads or whatever and you

wanna or whiteheads whatever if you

wanna get rid of those i’m gonna show

you exactly how to do it so it never

comes back ever

okay so stay tuned for that thanks thank

you everyone for being on and your

wonderful questions and your attention i

will talk to you guys

every day in the morning we want to

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