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hi guys we’re back the day after

Thanksgiving and we have Karen here hi

Karen how you doing great

Happy Holidays and hope you guys

survived the Thanksgiving meals right

well today we’re going to take your

questions a lot of the questions are

going to be related to like usual kedo

but feel free to ask other questions

about your body if you wanted to call in

the number is 866 5 6 140 292 alright so

we’re going to take the first call from

Brooke from Tennessee you are on the air

go ahead you had a question yeah I was

just wondering my friend thinks that the

tryptophan in Turkey is a large enough

amount to actually make you sleepy after

the Thanksgiving meal and I was just

wondering yeah I could prove to them

that’s not true that it’s like low blood

sugar and also okay okay good so let me

answer that question thinking we got a

little scrambled right there yeah I

don’t know where that’s coming from man

no idea where that’s coming from

okay so let me answer that question all

right hold on one second guys okay

that’s better okay so question I had a

question was does tryptophan in the

turkey make us tired that is actually a

myth

let me explain tryptophan tryptophan is

an amino acid and tryptophan is one of

the largest amino acids compared to

other amino acids so it’s really only

absorbed an empty stomach so because it

is combined with other protein it’s

never going to work so the real reason

why people get

tired after the Thanksgiving meal is

because the starches combine with the

sugar combined with a massive amount of

protein that people have it’s gonna

spike insulin

everyone’s gonna be falling asleep you

know taking their nap and that’s really

what’s behind the sleepiness is not the

tryptophan in fact you really you know

what we did last yesterday was we

basically didn’t have any sugar

we had the protein as far as our

starches instead of mashed potatoes we

did cauliflower mashed potatoes it was

incredible

Karen is an awesome cook and no sugar so

that’s the way to go and I think we got

cut off from the other question so you

can call back on that one

so Arlene you had a question

you’re from Delaware go ahead good how

are you a problem sometimes one but this

is how I do it I eat bacon and eggs in

the morning maybe around one o’clock and

then maybe around six o’clock I’ll have

my last meal which meant which will be a

meeting vegetables but I’m dealing with

not being able to move my bowels like I

like my body feels it should and when

when should I be able to put in my

regular vegetables like lettuce and you

know stuff like that cuz I think that’s

what my body is lacking how should I add

that into my diet okay good question

Arlene the the whole key point on this

program is to have unlimited vegetables

and salad so you need to be putting that

back in immediately what happens when

you do the ketogenic diet

one of the biggest missing links or

things that people emit is enough

vegetables to get the potassium to keep

the bowels going usually if you increase

that you’re going to start going on a

regular basis so it’s going to be very

simple add more vegetables into your

diet lots of them like said at least 7

cups up to 10

and you should be going on a regular

basis because think about it the fiber

in the vegetable feeds the microbe

microbes do not consume or eat

probiotics probiotics are the microbes

so the probiotics and friendly flora and

your gut those guys that they eat the

fiber and then they make a certain type

of nutrient that actually feeds your

colon cells but they need the vegetable

to be able to work correctly all right

versus the grain fiber which I don’t

agree with but that was a really good

question

so Karen let’s take a question from

Facebook do you have any any questions

coming up here yes as usual I have a lot

just sort of hello to everybody just

getting oriented here so I’m going to

ask you to take one call ok good

so hey Jack you’re on the air you’re

from Alberta Canada

you had a question hi dr. Berg first

thing I’d like to wish you a Happy

Thanksgiving

thank you for all of your advice and

information and the past five months

doing here oh and IFS been able to lose

70 pounds luckily was able to fit into

my wedding tuxedo wow that’s great

though yes it has been a great help so

my question is on you know sort of

macros and intermittent fasting where

I’ve been doing the one meal a day for

like about five months now with amazing

results obviously but my question comes

down to thinking where I know generally

you recommend 0.4 grams per you know

pound of bodyweight or not you know very

moderate amount and but when I’m still

around the 220 pound mark that still

leaves me at about 80 to 100 grams of

protein a day okay so if I’m eating only

one meal a day right and we know that

excessive amounts of protein in one meal

is getting converted to glucose anyway

what do you recommend in that type of

situation should I just kind of forget

about it and just focus mostly on the

vegetables and fat or do they try to

still try to get as much protein as they

can good question

all right what

• with city are you in Calgary

I’m an Edmonton Edmonton they look quite

a larger lorry

have you ever been to that mall they do

yes I’m actually just leaving that mall

right now in college I drove through

that and I’m Canada we went to that mall

it was the most amazing things I think

it’s the largest mall in the world isn’t

it yeah wow that probably takes the

whole week to get through them all so

alright let’s get back to the question

hi I’m the bunny okay so so Jack here’s

the thing when you’re doing one meal a

day there’s always this I always talk

about you know you have to get your

nutrients and kind of cram that in there

but if you were if you were to take

let’s say six ounces of that protein and

times three and that’s a lot of protein

right that’s a huge amount of protein

and so here’s the catch-22 your body

could really only absorb about 35 to 45

grams of protein per meal okay that

comes out to about six to seven ounces

to maybe eight ounces let’s say six to

eight ounces

okay so anything extra is going to turn

the glucose now when you’re doing in a

minute fasting something happens in your

body that’s different than if you’re

doing several meals a day one is that

your body starts conserving protein it

starts to save protein just it doesn’t

break them down as much so your protein

metabolism becomes very very efficient

so really you don’t need as much protein

because your body is in a toff adji

where it’s recycling the protein more

you’re not wasting the protein so Tata G

is just basically the body’s ability to

recycle proteins and other other things

so you really don’t have to stuff

yourself too much with that protein

maybe you do eight ounces and you’re

good and just focus on the nutrients and

don’t worry about trying to get massive

amounts of protein in that one sitting

but that was a good question okay I’m

ready all right Karen go ahead okay

so I get to ask a couple questions now

because it took a second to ramp up but

one question is what to do for acne okay

all right then come back okay so is it

cystic acne or is just regular acne

Karen doesn’t okay I don’t know that

everyone with acne knows all right so

there’s a type of acne which is really

painful you get on your shoulders and

it’s like it forms a cyst that comes

when you have something called PCOS

polycystic ovarian syndrome okay what is

that that that’s a condition with

females they have these little extra

things growing on the ovaries and you

have high levels of androgens it’s male

hormones and you get facial hair you

lose your hair you get a deeper voice

and you get acne other than that you’re

perfectly fine but that really comes

from the same condition that causes

polycystic ovarian syndrome which is

high insulin so if you want to fix

insulin resistance all you have to do is

lower your insulin so the program that

I’m recommending over and over and over

and over on facebooking and YouTube and

the book on my website and right now is

in a minute fasting and keep ptosis

those two together will help the cystic

acne so the the main thing it’s really

just the insulin dropping the insulin

and then if you do this and you still

have problems then you really need to

add more B vitamins because if you’re

deficient and B vitamins you have all

sorts of skin issues vitamin A is

another factor that’s why accutane which

is a synthetic vitamin A works but it

actually comes with the package creates

a lot of side effects I don’t recommend

it but vitamin A was a beet would be

like cod liver oil and butter and things

like that so just I would just focus on

dropping insulin all right next question

Karen okay good so the next question is

technical but I’m going to ask a

question here because I don’t know that

everybody watching knows this a lot of

conversation about macros asking

questions about the macros what is that

necro macros has to do with basically

the bigger categories of like proteins

carbohydrates

and fats as far as percentages or grams

okay so that’s macros and then

micronutrients would be like vitamins

minerals trace minerals essential fatty

acids amino acids so I’m talking about

macros are talking about like how many

carbohydrates how many how much protein

how much fat yeah okay so so do you want

it

do you want to know what the macros are

for the ketogenic diet or do you just

want to know that what that means

oh sure why don’t you do that now

because now people will ask if you don’t

say that okay so in a ketogenic diet the

macros as far as a percentage goes you

want to keep your carbohydrates like 5%

of the whole calorie per day 5% that’s

pretty low that’s like 20 to 50 grams

okay then the fat macros should be 75%

that’s a lot but just realize

percentage-wise it’s a lot but fat is

more than double the calories so in

other words it’s not as much as you

think and again a lot of this is kind of

you might need to get my just my booklet

to read up on more of it but the protein

should be 20% it’s a moderate amount of

protein of the whole day so those are

the macro percentages all right Karen

okay good

what do I get another one you think you

answered your - I’m gonna go to share we

you’re from Indiana go ahead you had a

question yeah I was wondering um thanks

again for taking the time out to talk to

us but I was wondering I I have

generally eaten pretty healthy and

always have tried to keep meats to a

minimum I love bacon I you know I love

adding that to my dad you know it’s part

of the the ketogenic diet but I was

wondering do you have any other

suggestions on how to keep you know I

don’t want to keep eating pork but do

you have any other suggestions on how to

maintain that ketogenic level and I’m a

simple eater - I don’t like to cook a

lot okay the simpler the better how do

you do so you know right I know you also

are you willing to consume like eggs

things like that yes yes I am okay

let me give you some tips one of the

best protein so you can get as eggs I

had a lot of eggs don’t I Karen yes

couple dozen a week yeah we I mean this

is the prod every time I go to a grocery

store people freak out they’re like what

are you guys doing with all those eggs

I’m talking like buy seven dozen eggs we

go through a week of course we have

twelve kids but now we only two are

living at home but the point is we need

a lot of eggs egg is the perfect protein

recently we went to a bed-and-breakfast

out in the Percival Percival Virginia

and they had a whole like these chickens

grass you know fed on the grass and they

were like natural grains it was freaking

amazing I mean we bought pretty much

every egg that they had duck eggs try to

crack those things they’re like hard as

rocks very healthy I love those eggs but

the point is the egg is a really good

protein source you can do fish seafood

like in calamari or shrimp that’s

totally fine crab that’s totally fine

it’s not an unhealthy thing like people

think even though it’s high in

cholesterol so you don’t have to do

actual you know you don’t have to do

turkey you don’t do pork you don’t do

beef you can do eggs and you know what

another thing that’s really good is

cheese has a lot of protein and very

little carb so if you do a grass-fed

cheese you can do that as well so the

problem becomes when you want to do

completely vegetarian proteins because

then it’s hard to find a high protein

source for that without getting the

carbs all right good question hey Debbie

we’re gonna take a question from you

before we go to Karen you’re from

Tennessee go ahead hi first I want to

say how lucky Karen is to have such a

compassionate husband like you McNiel

care my question is first on 58 and for

years I’ve done acting’s diet when I

would gain weight but I haven’t done it

and at least 15 years I had gastric

bypass which was the worst thing

ever did in my life that caused the bow

blockage which almost killed me and I’ve

had to have other surgeries which caused

problems which I’ll mention in a minute

but I’m doing the keto I think I’m

dinner I’m new to your program I’m

reading watching every video you have

but it first of all is Adkins close

enough to the ketogenic diet okay good

question all right so let me just answer

that the booklet that you need to you

should get you probably already have the

book but there’s a booklet that comes

with it if you get on the website or you

can get it separately on a Kindle on

Amazon but the booklet that comes with

it is called it’s not lose weight to get

healthy it’s get healthy to lose away

it’s a condensed version that shows you

all the basics the difference between

actions and what I’m recommending

there’s some key differences number one

Atkins

goes too high on the proteins so they

don’t restrict the proteins and because

protein can trigger insulin so I like to

keep the proteins between 3 to 6 ounces

the other thing that the Atkins diet

does not emphasize enough is the

vegetable amounts they kind of say keep

your carbs down including vegetables I’m

telling you unlimited vegetables ok

that’s what you that’s the two

differences that I would recommend and

then of course there are there avoiding

you know refined sugars and you’re

consuming fats and all that is fine so

that would be the tweaks that I would

recommend all right

so we’re going to write the Karen do you

have any questions coming up Karen first

of all people love you okay well I love

them are telling me repeatedly now

there’s a pretty common question coming

up it comes up all the time people have

attention on calories and want to know

how many calories a day yeah so this

whole calorie thing is a bit of a less

important thing because it’s really

here’s the problem we’ve already tested

this low-calorie thing for yours we know

it doesn’t work

it’s been proven it doesn’t work talk to

anyone who’s done low calorie diets

because it’s gonna slow your metabolism

however that being said if you keep your

vegetables very very high and forget

about the calories and you keep your

proteins three to six ounces then we’re

only left with one last topic and that

would be the fat and the fat calories so

let’s just bring this up as you reminded

me Karen let’s talk about this because

this is where the confusion comes in

this is like the wild variable that

people like don’t know what should i do

how many fat calories when I say 75% of

your diet should be college like oh my

god that’s like huge chunks of lard

right no it’s actually not that much in

the booklet I show pictures so I can’t

really show you pictures right here but

but here’s here’s a couple tips on that

if you start out doing this and you do

too much protein you’re gonna get right

shoulder pain and headaches because it’s

gonna overload your gallbladder you can

feel bloated it’s gonna hit a nerve and

go right through the right shoulder area

and that’s when you know you have too

much if you don’t have enough fat you’re

not going to be able to make it from one

meal to the next because you’re going to

be starving if you specially have low

blood sugars so you need to kind of

adjust that back and forth so it’s

different for everyone in the beginning

you’re gonna need more fat then later on

as your body adapts to ketosis and your

body is burning fat you want your body

to burn your own fat not necessarily the

diet fat that you’re consuming so those

are some real key principles to focus on

because just go gradual and see what

your sweet spot is I mean I don’t even

care if it’s a lot of fat in the

beginning because we’re trying to get

your body to adapt as long as it’s not

too much and it’s gonna overload your

ability to digest the fat that’s the key

Keith’s point and I just wanted to take

a side note here to let everyone know

because there’s been a lot of questions

the last couple of days will we be doing

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this sales only for today yes it is no

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kidding

we’re only selling it then we’re taking

it off forever okay pick me okay Karen

you have a question

okay yes explain how keto diet or

whatever your recommendation is for

allergies and asthma okay well first of

all if we let’s just take asthma for

example okay

asthma is kids that go out in the Sun in

the summer all of a sudden they’re out

that have asthma all of a sudden their

symptoms go away and that’s because the

vitamin D vitamin D is great for the

immune system and so a lot of times

asthma will be helped by vitamin D but

what’s underneath that is an adrenal

issue that is setting the person up for

a long issues because what is the

treatment for allergies I’m sorry asthma

that most people have to take it’s

Branko steroid and Hallam’s right Karen

prednisone right so what happens is that

what is that that’s adrenal hormone so

they’re taking adrenal hormones because

they’re running out of adrenal hormones

so if they support the adrenal you can

actually improve

asthma now as far as allergies that’s an

adrenal issue as well I should do a

video on specifically this topic because

what’s the treatment for a lot of even

like really severe allergies they you

get an EpiPen epinephrine that’s

adrenaline that’s an adrenal hormone

again adrenal so there’s a connection

there but when you do the Kido in a

minute fasting it starts to clean up the

the microbes the the fungus the mold the

bacterias that shouldn’t be there

infected cells so it’s really really

really good for the immune system and

one last thing Karen 80% of your immune

system is in your GI system so when you

do in a minute fasting my GI your

gastrointestinal your gut okay sorry

that’s terrible I think it’s in your 80%

of your immune system is in our

digestive system so when you do in a

minute fasting you actually greatly take

the stress off here immune system

indirectly and you improve those

conditions so yes I would reckon that’s

the long version to tell you yes to help

yourself

go in go in those two actions all right

now Debbie you’re from Tennessee I think

I just answered your question but I

wanted to make sure if you’re okay on

that so I’m gonna go to Meghan from

Georgia you had a question about liver

body type go ahead yes I am 37 and have

been kind of trying to figure out my

what’s going on with my blood sugar and

body gut and all that for years and I

found you so I’m very thankful to

started learning from you and I took the

assessment and I’m a primary liver type

but I am I’m not needing to lose weight

and have been thin my whole life kind of

an anomaly to the endocrinologist and

having high high blood sugar a 1c about

6.4 and thyroid low thyroid

so as I looked at your program and it

says for the liver body type to kind of

hold back a little bit on the fats

I wondered can I go into ketosis have

holding back on the fats when I’ve tried

to go into ketosis before I’ve had pain

in the right side and issues with the

liver although I was not doing all the

greens that you recommend okay

good question very good question so this

brings up a really good point people

assume that if you’re skinny all your

blood sugar levels and you’re inside of

your body is all healthy not necessarily

so there’s just as many thin people that

have internal stuff that’s not right as

well as overweight people so this is a

good example where you have your a1c a1c

is an average of blood sugars for three

months so it kind of gives you what your

normal is six point four is a bit on the

high side it should be like five I think

the normal cutoff would be like five

point four so it’s a little too high so

we have a blood sugar problem adrenal

body types can’t tolerate as much fat

because the gall bladders involved right

so here you are trying to do this and

you get this full sensation on the right

side and you might have a gallbladder

issue so what I’m gonna recommend is

that you have the vegetables in there to

offset the heavy protein and the fat

okay that’s all you really need to do

and maybe adjust the fat so your fat is

not like crazy high and you can digest

it because the heavy fats tend to Oh

Karen wait what you doing over there

you’re just eating some pie middle okay

and by the way that’s a sugar-free pie

right okay she’s okay okay so the point

is that you can do fats but just offset

it with the vegetables and you should be

fine but you might have to work up to

that to strengthen it and you that way

your blood sugar values will come right

down to a normal level and you’ll be

really happy okay good question so Karen

did you enjoy that little treat there

yes

no sugar and I think we have some

recipes on their site for these pies and

pecan what did you make yesterday

yesterday for dessert yeah - pecan pies

a cheesecake a pumpkin pie and a

strawberry pie a strawberry pie come on

that’s incredible so the crust was made

from almond flour right yeah that was

amazing

so let’s go right to Chris you’re from

New Jersey you had a question about

nosebleeds go ahead

yes um hi dr. Berg thank you so much for

all that you do I really appreciate it

and um I’ve been following you for a

long time I’m sorry Oh awesome my

pleasure I have your book I just

recently received it and I haven’t had a

chance to you know get into it because I

just had my dad move in with us it’s a

little bit crazy right now but my

question is I started keto in June cuz

I’m a teacher and by the and I was

feeling great losing weight not feeling

hungry doing as much salad as possible

I’ve always been a big salad eater low

sweet tooth my whole life and then right

before school started I went to visit a

colleague of mine who just had a baby

and I was sitting in her living room and

I was like you know how you feel like

you knows he’s just gonna run and I put

my hand up to my face and I I had a

nosebleed and I never in my whole life

even as a child never had a nosebleed so

I got a little worried and I started to

think where did this come from because

it was the only thing I was doing

differently was following this diet so I

googled it and there was something out

there so I immediately threw a carbon to

my diet a doughnut cuz I got i got

fearful but I only had the nosebleed two

days like at night and then the next

morning my mistake was I got little

worried and upset and I took two

excedrin the night before so needless to

say the nosebleed the next day was like

almost like a hemorrhage because my

blood was so thin from the excedrin yeah

I don’t know if it was related and I

haven’t had one since but I did go back

on keto so I’m presently back doing it

because I felt great okay let me ask you

some questions about

do you have a history of any sinus

issues well yeah I kind of have like

post nasal drip

I don’t yeah I don’t have that’s the

only thing I know that I have I mean I

don’t have any problems that’s right I

need to be treated for I’m not taking

any medication before before you did the

ketogenic diet were you on any

medications no I’m on none I’m 54 and

pretty okay okay with blood pressure you

know every keep up to date with all my

doctor appointments and so blood sugar

is always good okay well let me just

kind of give you the three top things

that would cause a nosebleed just so

this is an interesting point low vitamin

D levels would do this so I’m glad that

it cleared up and it should be fine but

if you’re low on vitamin D and the best

source of vitamin D is virgin cod liver

oil it’s awesome and the Sun okay so

those two are the best sources of

vitamin D the other cause of those

blades would be low vitamin C levels

which doesn’t sound like that’s your

problem if you’re low in vitamin C

because you’re not having that

vegetables that could cause it because

if you think about the symptom from

vitamin C a mild version of scurvy which

is like bleeding gums because it affects

the capillaries in the collagen can

happen in the nose it’s rare but that’s

one thing especially people that do

synthetic vitamin C or they do know

vegetables so that’s a common thing also

insulin resistance will cause an ability

to absorb vitamin C so that could be

another situation but typically the

ketogenic diet should not create any

deficiencies that cause this it should

improve it over time the last thing I

would say if someone was on a blood

thinner of course that would do it or if

they have a sinus issue and it got

irritated and then that can cause the

bleeding but I think you’re fine now but

those are some points that I would

recommend so but that’s a really

interesting question I’m gonna take a

question from Davion from Arizona go

honey

yummy then you can ask a question are

you there I’m a burger yeah

I’m here good it’s actually Java and

Abhiyan that’s my name Davian

okay alright well so I’m so here’s the

thing I’ve I’ve done keto three times

and what I mean by three times I mean I

failed three times

mm-hmm so the first time I did it was

about six months ago and I did it for

six days and what what killed me was my

sugar cravings that got me out of it the

first time second time was hungry so I

was able to because I was doing it was

intermittent fasting and I actually

worked my way up to like maybe 16 hours

fasting him feeling like feeling fine

but when it was time to eat it just

wasn’t enough

and I would break it then the last time

which was a couple about a couple weeks

ago I I worked my way up to about 20 22

hours fasting comfortably and I just I

don’t know it just the same thing hunger

I just I just couldn’t stay consistent

you know okay and so I yeah I do I did

it for two weeks so I work my weights

for two weeks but I just need help

trying to yeah I find a fuel plant so I

could officiate you alright let me just

tell you what what I would do if I were

you I think that you’re going into this

a little bit too fast I think I would

gradually work into it to go that many

hours without eating especially if you

probably have a hypoglycemic or low

blood sugar issue you’re gonna like oh

my gosh I’m starving you should do this

so gradual so it’s really really

comfortable and what I mean by that is

you start with three meals a day and

these graduates start pushing up your

breakfast an hour an hour an hour until

you get to two meals a day okay and then

you can start to push up these meals

closer and closer together by adding

more fat at the meal if you are craving

sweets when you’re doing this all this

means is you haven’t adapted yet and you

have to give it more time if you’re

hungry between the meals what that means

is you haven’t adapted and you just have

to go more gradually and back down but

if done correctly hunger and cravings

will completely go away to the point

where you’re like

completely handled and so the other

thing that’s missing is the amount of

vegetables

if you’re not doing the vegetables

you’re gonna find it might not work

because you need the potassium to help

this all magically work out nicely

alright so those are the points that I

would recommend I think and then it will

work for you all right Karen over to you

okay I have the best job in the world

because I get to see all these people

communicating to us all the time it’s

it’s hysterical and we love you guys too

now there’s a lot of questions on on

different social media platforms about

headaches and migraines and there are a

variety of questions but I’ll give you

that one as my first but I reserve the

right to have another question all right

you get two questions every five minutes

all right so now the pedak Sande

migraines then the number one cause for

headaches and migraines is related to

the gallbladder so let’s talk about that

first

if the gallbladder is sluggish or it’s

lacking bile or it’s irritated because

you’re doing to me to the wrong foods

especially you know it’s the really the

carbs and the junk food that destroy the

gallbladder more than the fat fat will

do it too but not if you don’t consume

all that other stuff with it but there’s

an herb that’s connected underneath the

right side on the diaphragm that when

the gallbladder swells up it puts

pressure on the nerve and it goes to the

right side it goes all up to your head

especially if it’s on the right side of

the head the way that you would know

that it’s the gallbladder and here you

are with a headache just press on the

gallbladder for a minute and see if it

gives you relief and all of a sudden wow

my headaches gone then we know it’s that

the other cause of headaches is he it’s

a subclinical blood sugar issue it’s low

blood sugar it’s called hypoglycemia

because your brain one of the fuels that

it runs on if you’re not in ketosis is

glucose it loves glucose so if you’re

low on glucose because you have insulin

resistance which is pre-diabetes and you

can have normal blood sugars and have

this by the way that’s why you have to

check your fasting insulin level if you

really want to figure this out

but if the brain doesn’t have enough

glucose it will start creating all sorts

of

in the vascular system and cause

headaches and migraines so if you were

to fix the blood sugar problem insulin

resistance and do what I’m talking about

the headaches should go away another

cause of headaches which is more rare is

sinus stuff and then the other one would

be an old head injury and I did a video

on headaches and you can actually type

on Google headaches or migraines and dr.

Berg and find it and I even show you the

technique on how to improve damage from

a head injury with acupressure it’s

pretty cool so check it out

all right question I mean Karen next

question Gary misses question more

question Matt wants to know if he can

marry me Matt we you can’t marry her but

you can rent her out occasionally no I’m

just kidding now you can’t you can’t I

was just teasing my dry sense of humor

so no Matt sorry okay she’s taking okay

a lot of questions it might you might

want to say something on the keto course

okay so questions on the keto course no

asking about it how to get it oh if you

are on Facebook all you have to do go to

messenger and swipe up and type under

keto course or just keto I think it’s

key to of course and then you should get

the course that will explain how to do

this if you’re on youtube what you do is

go down in the script description

underneath the video and there should be

a button there that you can go to

Facebook and also type the keto course

because that way you can take the course

and I just want to mention this one

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like 15-second tips so you if you’re on

YouTube or Facebook definitely go there

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YouTube and if you’re on Facebook go to

YouTube because I have additional videos

on there so I have a lot of different

content I just want to encourage you to

share

also with your friends and family

because if you like helping people

that’s what you want to do because I’ll

give a lot of great content and that’s

what it’s all about alright question yep

okay

can you think of a condition that keto

would not be good for that’s a really

good question like the contraindications

dakedo and that was my question actually

I can’t think of any condition in fact

it’s really good if someone has kidney

problems if someone has liver damage if

someone has cancer it’s good if you’re

even breastfeeding or if you’re pregnant

the point I will mention Karen is in a

minute fasting might not be good if

you’re pregnant because you may need a

little bit more food to kind of just

handle that so it’s a little tricky when

you’re pregnant or even breastfeeding so

those are the two things I would say

like kind of watch out for and then also

one last thing Karen if you’re

hypoglycemic it is the absolute best

thing to do

except you want to do it gradually the

number one recommendation for

hypoglycemia or low blood sugar out

there is kind of like everyone is

agreeing with is eat frequent meals a

day and eat sugar if your blood sugar

drops that is the worst advice you could

ever get you want to gradually go into

this do ketta in a minute fasting so you

can correct hypoglycemia which is very

very common okay alright so now I’m

gonna take a question from Neela from

California go ahead you were on the air

hi dr. Berg thank you so much hi I I

really appreciate all the information

you make it so easy to understand I

first based on your advice work on just

being healthy I need to lose maybe 20

pounds maybe 25 but I’m focusing and

getting healthy and since I have started

following your advice

I’m Kido and even trying intermittent

fasting my headaches went away my brain

fog went away well and my main thing was

stress and anxiety I’m worried you know

business and work so I am taking you a

general support formula and it’s been

great so thank you so much my question

oh thank you my question is when I do

smoothie with greens I do eat a lot of

greens or all greens just solids

vegetables and I just blend them that

fiber retain its quality for the gut or

just solid the better like should you

would is there a difference between

blending it or eating it is that what

you’re saying yeah yeah good question

when you’re obviously the ideal scene

would be to chew it and consume that 10

cups of salad some people might need to

blend it it’s a lot easier you it’s it’s

kind of actually it’s a minor point

really sometimes I’ll do the blending

sometimes I’ll do the chewing some

people aren’t used to doing that much

vegetation so I would blend it whatever

it’s more convenient you’re still gonna

get the fiber it’s still gonna be fine

but when you chew it you just get a

little bit more breakdown and for

certain people that have maybe weakness

within the stomach or the digestive

tract maybe they should stick with

chewing it but I’ve not seen a big

problem with that but that’s a good

question

and I just wanted to mention next week

you from now on and fridays we’re gonna

be doing this show at 11 o’clock in the

morning a.m. Eastern Standard Time

because there’s a lot of people from

California but don’t get up until later

so that way we can actually make it

available for everyone ok so that’s just

a side point I will send you a video on

that so Karen do you have a quick

question yes I’m sorry

go away yeah take another cup okay

Nina you’re from Maryland you had a

question hi dr. Berg I really thank you

for everything that you do

I started your program since July and so

far I lost 23 pounds and I was pretty

good and I take all the supplements that

you suggest that for the adrenals like

fatigue and gall bladder formula because

I don’t I didn’t moved my gallbladder

and I also take the white I mean K and

d3 from you and her loss you know

formula from your line my year cousins I

have a history of osteoporosis severe

osteoporosis my latest bone density scan

was minus four point six and I’ve been

on a reclassed shot for you know every

other years and every two years for the

past six years and of course it didn’t

work Nadia she wants to put me my doctor

wants to put me in another injection

that it’s every six months that I didn’t

know I should go for it or not but

recently I heard something from one of

my family that he’s a chiropractor as

well that he told me being in a Cheeto

is not good for us to process the Cheeto

stage make let me let me explain because

that’s a really important point okay let

me just can explain it there’s some data

on Quito that it you lose calcium

through the urine so that oh my gosh

you’re gonna get osteoporosis let me

tell you something the amount of calcium

you’re gonna lose it’s so minor its

insignificant the benefit of doing keto

and in a minute a saying is it’s gonna

fix insulin resistance and that’s gonna

allow your cells to a finally absorbing

the minerals that you need not just

potassium but calcium as well and it’s

going and even the fat type of vitamins

that you need and the protein because a

lot of your bone is made out of protein

in

no acids so it’s absolutely the best

thing to do but I don’t recommend

calcium to a lot of people but if they

have osteopenia or osteoporosis that’s

one exception that you probably get

you’re gonna need some high-quality food

based calcium on a regular basis and to

actually improve osteoporosis what you

have to realize it’s a pretty serious

situation where your your bones are

losing a lot of stuff and the point I

want to bring up is that it just takes a

long time it’s going to take you 6 plus

years to really start building that back

up so don’t give up stay consistent keep

doing what you’re doing and over time

it’ll get better and better and better

and probably whatever I’m recommending

for vitamin k2 double that vitamin k2 is

the key vitamin that makes your bones

really really strong but you want to

take that in the morning with fat so you

want a little add a little oil or fat to

it because it’ll of starve absorbing a

lot better ok alright so now I’m gonna

give Karen a chance to ask a question

give me a chance okay so we have a bunch

of questions about sleeping not sleeping

waking up several times in the middle of

the night what can be done about that

okay so the the sleeping usually one

really quick tip is to get the filters

in the light because on your on your I’m

sorry your computer because the computer

gives off a kind of a blue light which

is very irritating to the eye so if

you’re on the computer a lot that will

canna keep you awake so there’s a filter

that you can and I did a video on this

LED computer screen and sleeping you can

get a free filter and then tone it down

to more of a yellow light it’s like a

candle light and it’s really good for

the eyes and that will help your sleep

but here’s the thing with sleep sleep

usually comes from something could be a

bladder issue it could be a digestive

issue or it could be a stress issue so I

would focus on reducing stress I have a

sleep formula that it targets the stress

point you probably want to do that

before bed but the point is that you

want to go for long walks and I have

videos on how to do acupressure to your

adrenals to help you calm down before

sleep I do that every

before I go to sleep so that’s what I

would focus on is something that comes

underneath the sleep which is usually

stress an adrenal Drina type fatigue

all right so because we have a lot of

questions that’s all I wanted to point

out in that okay I get another one

yeah so here’s an interesting myth you

can address quickly I’ve heard if you

don’t eat many times during the day when

you do it your body will store

everything into fat making you gain

weight how does intermittent fasting

help you lose weight okay well this is

the thing where people think that

anything anything more than the calories

that you’re burning is going to be

converted into fat well you not

necessarily it really depends on the

type of karbala the type of calorie that

you’re dealing with the main thing you

need to know and what’s omitted in even

in even pre med school or actually

medical school is this relationship

between the insulin factor the hormone

factor and how it relates to calories if

you focus on keep your insulin as low as

possible to normal

okay you’re gonna burn more fat and

you’re gonna prevent gaining more

converting these calories into fat so I

would not again have this idea this

fixed idea that everything is converted

to fat I would look at the type of

calories and relationship to the

hormones so I answered half of the

question what was the other half care

was it on memory what was it what was

that I did no it wasn’t a two-part

question

yeah it was you said you said with the

calories and then there was one last

part after that I don’t know I’m reading

like 47 other questions right now really

bad dr. Berg you it was a really good

question you should write it down in

your notebook Oh in a minute fasting how

does in a minute fasting see I’ve got

that every minute fasting

what’s all the same question in a minute

fasting does something a little bit cool

I mean a little bit different what it

does is it causes it first of all it

takes the stress off your digestive

system

it takes the stress off the gallbladder

it puts your body into a state where

you’re preserving proteins and but the

main thing it does is it lowers insulin

because every time you eat you stimulate

insulin so anything that you could do

the lower insulin and heal insulin

resistance you’re gonna do very well

especially for if you’re pre-diabetic or

a diabetic or you want to lose weight so

that’s why it’s really important it’s

not about the calorie cutting that’s

secondary okay good I have another

question now a lot of people saying

they’re getting hungry

I can’t I can’t wait that long in

between meals and getting hungry yeah

well here’s the thing you’re gonna get

hungry if you eat every time you you’re

gonna get hungry so and I’m just gonna

kind of give you an example let’s say in

the morning like right now it’s about

949 I didn’t eat anything I’m a little

tiny hungry but it’ll go away within you

know now we’re just kind of like I’m not

terrible hugging but yeah you’re gonna

go through a little bit of that maybe

and then all of a sudden like I’m fat

burning again so it kind of goes in

waves especially in the morning because

there’s higher level of cortisol and

adrenaline going on that might be kind

of affecting your blood Sugar’s but then

you’re gonna adapt right in the fat burn

and then you’re not gonna be hungry the

point you have to realize is that you

have to consume more fat at the meal and

healthy foods like vegetables to be able

to fix insulin resistance convert your

body to fat-burning to the point where

you’re not hungry

and then you want to do that

consistently and not cheat because as

soon as you add a meal in there all of a

sudden you’re gonna spike in so a little

bit it’s going to drop down and now

you’re really hungry so it’s something

that you’re really gonna have to be

discipline over a period of time to

really fix especially around the

holidays so you might be hungry right

now because you just had Thanksgiving

okay I have another question yeah this

is the third one I know I know but okay

go ahead okay so I’ve got a ghulam this

into one question and then you can

handle it however things that grow

polyps cysts tumors skin tags things

like this there’s a lot of questions on

this kind of stuff can keto help yeah

okay next question

ya know it does help because

Kito actually reduces insulin insulin is

the hormone that makes things grow and

that’s why like Baker cysts for example

or polyps that’s really high levels of

insulin insulin is the type of hormone

called anabolic where it’s a builds up

tissue so by doing that and also in

combination with vitamin b1 from

nutritional yeast because b1

deficiencies can also exaggerate the

growth of cysts so if you have cysts and

things like that

take the b1 or nutritional yeast and

that will actually help you and also

estrogen dominance will do it too so

these are all things that are important

but the most important thing is to drop

insulin by doing Aikido in a minute

fasting to really correct that imbalance

and for those of you that are just kind

of coming on I want to just kind of give

you another little reminder that today

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yeah the cute of course is of for little

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mean I don’t know why any everyone’s not

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it’s a no brainer it’s awesome you’re

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of free information away on that ok so

now I’m gonna go to the next caller

which cool what’s cool is I just

realized that I can see a timer who’s

been on hold the longest so now I’ll be

able to do this correctly so Reggie

you’re from Indiana you had a question

yes oh hi dr. Berg love my videos Thanks

I’ve been doing intermittent fasting for

about six months now and I’ve lost 80

pounds and I really really loved it one

mill of day my question is I saw

something

deals about dry fastening and this is

possibly be great so what do you thought

about doing it dry fast now are you

talking about just reducing your liquids

or explain dry fast to me oh no no

liquid no food

they used a lot of benefits and I was

wondering about that it’s the best path

to do it’s like three days faster no

food and no water and opposed to very

beneficial for your body okay so that’s

a really good question I’m not opposed

to doing that as long as when you’re

eating you’re getting all the nutrients

but if you’re gonna do something

long-term and you start skipping like

three days and you go to a day the only

thing you have to watch out for is

you’re gonna have to greatly enhance

your diet with supplements because the

food nowadays just doesn’t have the

nutrients and so you may end up with

kind of some hair loss and you know your

teeth might fall out things like that

other than that you’d be fine but if you

do this consistently where you just do

one meal it might be a little bit better

but the advantage of doing a couple days

without eating or even drinking it

really puts your body into some serious

etaf adji and again I’m not promoting

this I’m just telling you I’m not

against it because of the principle of

our how our bodies were designed

yeah at Apogee is a is an amazing

anti-aging condition where you’re you’re

not eating and you are stimulating a

recycling effect of all the old infected

damaged parts of your cells you’re

clearing up and recycling and making new

proteins in the cell it’s kind of like a

recycling cleaning out the junk getting

rid of the bacteria fungus mold and

yeast and Candida out of the cells so

that’s the benefit of it your skin will

be amazing and if you look at in ancient

times I mean man has developed not

eating three meals a day they’d be lucky

one time they get a meal and the next

time maybe a couple days later they get

a couple meals so our bodies are

designed for that and it’s a it almost

makes sense that that’s kind of what we

need I think it’s hard to do but

as far as liquids and things I mean you

really can’t survive more than several

days without liquid so I wouldn’t say

restrict your water I don’t think that’s

going to help you but as far as food I

mean if you can do it it takes a lot of

discipline it’s I don’t I’m not opposed

to it all right William you are from

Miami you had a question about the Quito

yes sir first of all I want to thank you

man I started cute kiddo because of you

and I have lost 25 pounds I still want

to look ten more my question is what

started taking CLA and we’re working out

a lot okay

good question so si CLA is a type of fat

that’s really good for a fat burning you

can even get get it from doing meats and

things like that

make sure it’s grass-fed if you take as

a supplement

I have heard some mixed reviews

sometimes it makes a big difference

sometimes it doesn’t I’m not opposed to

taking it but it’s a healthy fat that

you also get from food so it’s one of

these things that I’ve just run going to

try it and see if it helps you it may or

may not help you but one last point

about that about fats in general one of

the missing links that people need to

know about is the point on having enough

omega-3 fatty acids and not as many

omega-6 fatty acids if we look at over

the period when obesity started it’s

date coincidence when we went we started

a low-fat diet but in fact what happened

is we cut out the saturated fats a

little bit but the vegetable oils like

corn canola soy went skyrocketed and so

did the sugar so I bet you that create a

lot of problem for people because when

you have that many that much fat which

is omega-6 fatty acids which is not what

you want especially in GMO it’s going to

create a lot of inflammatory conditions

so if you do some grass-fed healthy fats

and omega-3 which

flax oil fish oils things like that I

think that’s would be very very

beneficial for for just about anything

okay Karen you had I’m gonna give you

another question if you wanted to ask

one so I just want to say this this is

the prop today and one of the reasons

that I brought it awesome what is it oh

this is the pecan pie pecan pie now how

did you get away with with the I mean

there’s no there’s hardly any carbs in

there is there no I mean this is why I

brought it because a lot of people don’t

you hold up so people can see it and

there’s there’s a recipe online for this

you can search it out just type dr. Berg

and keto now it’s called a pecan pie

that’s right get the recipe kanpai yeah

you can get in their website or you can

get it on YouTube right so I’m not

advocating that you have pie for

breakfast or anything like that but the

point is like a lot of people refer to

keto or intermittent fasting as a diet

really trying the diet and you know we

have a lot of recipes on because it

isn’t a diet it’s just a way of eating

it’s not the concept we’re trying to get

that concept of sacrifice and letting go

of all of who you used to love to eat

out the window yeah yeah this makes it

easy and one point we we have an amazing

full-time chef that’s helping us also

create the recipes no in our house dr.

Berg calm no but they but she’s creating

these recipes on dr. Berg calm that you

have to check out I mean there’s tons of

them and we’re adding them every single

day and the point I want to bring about

that is that if you have questions about

how to make something we’re gonna pretty

much make every single recipe you can

even envision from different alternative

bread solutions to pasta solutions to

simple meals and they’re really really

good and easy and so those are on the

website under recipes and also if you

subscribe we’ll send you a new one each

day I mean it’s pretty awesome so this

will give you the exact

carb protein fat ratios - so you don’t

have to really worry about that

let me ask let me just answer a question

from Tamara from Aruba go ahead you’re

on the air hi hi have you waiting so

long thank you for waiting okay so yes I

have a lot of questions but I’m yeah

just quickly because yeah I’m gonna

worry about some of my international and

sometimes I have a lot of questions that

I want to ask you but I know your time

is very limited

do we have another way that people still

good actually quite normally I can give

you the speed dial give everyone my cell

phone number so you can call me anytime

24/7 just kidding no go ahead you you

can also call my office I have kind of

health coaches there that can answer

questions if you have a okay okay

let me ask just quickly yeah I’ve been

on the keto diet it’s been great from

April 2000 this year

I’ve lost my weight but now I’ve noticed

that when I started I was I had good

energy and now my ad you gone back down

okay that’s one okay and also I have six

kids and I’m trying to get my kids on

the keto diet I did get him finally and

like some of them thought they have like

headaches and they’re feeling fatigued

okay good so these two questions the

first question I’m gonna ask is how do

you get the energy back this is a very

simple thing you need the B vitamins you

may want to try this right here

nutritional yeast or you just get enough

powder what you’re missing is just more

B’s start adding more B’s until the

energy comes back vitamin b-complex is

all about helper compounds that help

generate energy especially in the

mitochondria which i’ve just been

studying you need to generate energy

from the food but you need these B

vitamins especially when you dookied o

to be able to make it all happen so I

would do that and that should bring up

the energy now for your kids for some of

the symptoms it sounds like they’re

going through some

the key to adaptation symptoms and what

they need is more B vitamins - and

potassium so you might want to get

electrolyte blend with a lot of

potassium or a lot of vegetables that

should get rid of the headaches and any

side effects that they’re going through

and then the other thing is just to beef

up the fat if they are having problems

with them headaches especially between

the meal because there could be a blood

sugar issue but I appreciate you waiting

that long and I hope I answer the

question but you can call us anytime but

we have health coaches to help you I

have a question go ahead yes 10:03 but

this is from Judy

Judy’s watching anyway she wants to know

about bullet coffee and keto and

intermittent fasting can she do bullet

coffee yeah the bullet coffee is

basically where you’re you’re blending

in either a coconut oil or butter into

your coffee and it makes it really fatty

it makes it easier to go to the next

meal I think that’s a really good thing

to do especially when you’re starting

out because it makes it easy to do this

and because it gives you a fat in the

morning as you start doing this and

let’s say you have more weight to go and

you’re not you’re not getting there what

you can do is mix the butter keep doing

the coffee if you want and just one in

the morning because now what happens now

you have nothing at all in your stomach

in the morning other than a liquid that

will cause no need to increase insulin

so we keep because every time you eat it

stimulates certain things - to increase

insulin a little bit especially I mean

like anything no matter what to some

degree so if you were to gradually go

into a state where you didn’t need that

fat you could just burn a little bit

more fats if you’re doing in a minute

fasting however that being said the

majority of people that do the the

bulletproof coffee tend to do fine and

they lose weight and it works for them

so I’m only bringing it up because some

people don’t lose that a little bit of

extra alright now the question from that

last question is from the Philippines

it’s pronounced halo go ahead you had a

question

oh yeah my question is I didn’t do it

feature for two months now and I was I

was trying to get us to gain lean muscle

and I tried people for me to to lose and

to heal my insulin resistance and now my

problem is I don’t know how to gain

weight properly building keto and I’m

taking my thank-you biotics

in my heart because I have a heart

disease I have an arch RHD and a Michael

Bob blow up okay so you want to gain

weight now okay so let’s say you lost

all the weight now of a sudden you’re

too skinny and when a gain weight it’s a

better problem to have and this is kind

of an interesting point because you

don’t want to do it unhealthily I mean

if you want to gain weight you just have

to you know add potatoes in there but

then that knocks you completely out of

fat-burning and then it creates other

other issues so what I’m going to

recommend is you start adding more

exercise into the mix and probably don’t

do maybe add another meal to it so let’s

say you’re doing instead of one meal to

two meals if you did instead of two

meals do three males and I would stick

with that if you want to gain a little

bit more weight and then add the

exercise and other than that there’s

really no other tricks to that because

you want to build muscle but if you

wanted to gain more fat all you have to

do is put back in the carbs do the

breads pastas and cereal and starches

and you will boom and have six meals a

day alright hey guys thank you so much

for coming and tuning in next week we’ll

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for helping out on these questions a lot

of good questions and watch the videos

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