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welcome back

we’re here for another q a and uh

anything that i say is definitely not

meant to diagnose or replace your

medical

treatments so just uh take it with a

grain of salt and

come to us through social media to ask

questions and then

we’ll we’ll try to answer as many as

possible

let’s just dive right in and uh get

right into it steve okay so i definitely

don’t like long introductions so go

ahead you you start you certainly don’t

well i’ll keep mine to a minimum too uh

so let’s go this time to uh social media

they’re oft ignored they think but we’re

not going to

we’re not going to let them prove that

so susan from youtube i have metastasis

in the bones breast cancer and was

recently diagnosed with coronary artery

disease i’m sorry boy the dietary

requirements for these conditions are

very different what should i be doing

well i think that probably the most

important thing to do is focus on the

cancer right now there is a recent if

you take up to a scan of all the videos

that i’ve done on cancer watch the most

recent ones

and apply that information there is a

download

that i would follow based on some really

pretty hardcore research on what i would

do if i had cancer

we we recently did finish the study

which a lot of you donated to which i’m

going to we’re submitting it to

a major

uh oncology publication so i’m excited

to get that published

the results and you’re going to be quite

happy to see the results um and this is

like using

it’s not even diet it’s alternative

things to

alter a certain pathway i’m really

excited about it but go ahead and um

go to those videos and uh dissect them

and apply that information

well that’s wonderful and i’m going to

assume that this would also apply to

marion from youtube 38 have had colon

surgery followed or cancer followed by

chemotherapy what vitamin mineral

analysis do i need which is the best

serving same videos i guess for her

yeah yeah you want to do that you know i

think the thing that’s unique about the

cancer is that um

the diet that helps prevent it is not

the diet

that i would apply if i had it

so that’s that’s the mystery that you

should just

that will inspire you to go and see what

what is should the diet be

um

but um

what’s fascinating about a cancer cell

is that it comes from a normal cell

and uh

it’s damaged to the cell and then it’s

like this

morphs into this ancient pathway that it

ferments fuel

and

it loses

its ability to die

so it kind of lives forever

so it kind of has all these strategies

to survive so what you have to do is you

you have to understand the mechanism

unfortunately there’s so much confusion

about

what to do especially when you go down

the medical route

because

the prognosis is not that great uh using

the typical conventional care

so anyway um

that’s all i got to say

all right very good so angela from

youtube is taking should i mention the

name brand it’s the standard stuff you

find off the stuff off the shelf at

walmart multivitamin for women i would

like to take something with more

nutrients multivitamins what would you

recommend for a woman over 55

get get a real get a real uh food based

vitamin nutrient and of course i’m not

biased of my own

um

i’m being sarcastic but um the the kind

of i think the best multi

is my keto energy but because it comes

from i actually show you the food that

it comes from so there’s food that comes

the problem with using uh food based uh

vitamins and minerals is that uh

it’s just a bit more expensive because

it takes a lot of work to

extract the natural version versus

synthetic you can make it from

petrochemicals and unfortunately um

they don’t work the same

and so

that’s but that’s why they’re cheap and

i mean look at the first ingredients

usually calcium carbonate that’s

limestone and uh

i mean it’s like eating it’s like a rock

so you’re

it’s just really sad that to know that

99 of all the vitamins out there are

made synthetically

and um you think you’re getting the real

thing but they’re

an imitation of the real thing and some

people say well there’s no difference

really so there’s no difference between

artificial versus natural okay so

um

that’s just kind of false information so

get something food based read the

ingredients and see where it comes from

um you want the source of it on the

label

well it sounds great by the way i’m

going to take you folks behind the

scenes there’s old charlie take you

behind the scenes uh in a conversation i

overheard uh dr berg having and that was

that he was paying over 2 200

a kilo for something versus you know 10

dollars for a barrel of it from china do

you recall what that was something oh

i’m just going to say like um

like one like vitamin b1 um i i didn’t

want to use the synthetic version so

um it was like

well over 20 28 a hundred dollars per

kilogram

incredibly expensive just for that

ingredient alone so um

um versus the naturals like i mean

versus the synthetic which is like

pennies

so

i mean like a half a penny per

per kilogram i mean this is crazily

cheap so the thing is like um

um

you know when you get into vitamins you

don’t want to base everything based on

costs exclusively you want to look at

the quality too

but it does take

it’s more expensive to get the the real

stuff unfortunately

well i’m i’m a great

fan of all those and healthier for it so

why don’t we kick off the first question

doc i’m not sure if you can see it but

there you go

all right let me see if i can see it i

think i can see it all right good so

what is the best natural remedy for an

ulcer i’m talking about the ulcer either

for your on your stomach or the small

intestine

a peptic or

a duodenal ulcer

incredible hang on just a second doc i’m

going to arrange your

picture in here i’m going to bring on

taylor

who has been very patient from georgia

and we were giggling about everything is

peachtree street down there and uh you

can’t find your way because of it but

hang on taylor i’ve got you all squared

in the way and welcome to the show with

your first question in 30 seconds if you

can go

all right okay so um usually from what i

see people who are doing keto and also

trying to like reverse things like

insulin resistance typically have issues

with weight gain and trying to lose

weight however i’m kind of on the other

end of the spectrum i’m thin

and have a hard time gaining and

maintaining weight although i used to

eat all throughout the day constantly

snacked and i ate really unhealthy um so

is it is it unusual to see people who

are thin and have trouble gaining and

keeping weight on that also have insulin

resistance and how can this be the case

yeah it’s not the highest population but

i’m i’ve i kind of fit in that same

category where you have people that

you know they base everything on their

weight like oh i’m healthy i’m well

whizzing you could still have very

easily have health uh insulin resistance

because and then it affects you

differently it can affect your blood

sugar your mood your cognitive function

it can even create a fatty liver that

won’t even show up in your belly so um

absolutely um

in fact you just kind of

gave me an idea i should probably do a

video just on that because how many

people are

thin and just think well

you know fat is the

most obvious thing that is

like an indication that you’re unhealthy

but um

yes

now when you do keto

the challenge i’m thinking you’re going

to run into especially if you’re going

to do intermittent fasting is trying to

keep the weight down right

yeah i’ve been doing it for the last two

months and actually somehow i managed to

get back to my healthy weight and

maintain it so i don’t know how that’s

happening but it’s great

that’s awesome

yeah i think have you felt

some changes in either like your energy

or other other things

yeah my mood has definitely improved the

one thing that i’ve been struggling with

and i’m still trying to kick which in

hindsight i think is really due to like

an iodine deficiency because i do have a

thyroid nodule but other than that i

still have some brain fog but my mood is

drastically better anxiety has gone away

so it’s it’s made a huge improvement now

that i’ve restored my gut a little bit

and added some good things

wow that’s great that’s great i think

you’re on the right track

and

yeah with the thyroid um

you know you could have these nodules

from an estrogen spike so i don’t know

what’s going on with your cycles but but

you’re right the iodine uh sea kelp is

the remedy for that and um

oh good

good um that should help you and

um

let me think if there’s anything else

um

yeah i think that that should be good

and the longer you do this

you’ll start seeing

all sorts of uh changes for the for the

better um

more stable changes and but with insulin

resistance it sounds like your diet was

similar to mine it does take

it does take some months

and sometimes even years to fully flip

that thing into a place where it’s like

completely almost gone so yeah yeah and

i’m really happy you mentioned the

estrogen things i’m almost positive i’ve

had estrogen dominance since i had my

son because i have like the unwanted

hair and the hormonal acne that just

won’t go away it’s been like five years

so that’s what i’m working on too with

the sea kelp and the iodine so i’ve been

learning a lot from you thank you

right you’re welcome definitely throw um

maybe also

throw in a little cruciferous vegetable

as well um

now people will say well that’s

estrogenic but like no actually it’s um

it just helps the ratios it helps the

ratios a good and bad settle it’ll put

you in a better a good place so yeah

awesome thank you

you’re welcome well that’s really great

thanks taylor and dr berg is very

interested in what goes on uh not just

at the time that you undertake some of

these things but afterwards so

please do get back with us taylor later

on and let us know how things are going

for you an example later i’m not going

to bring you on right now virginia but

she’s been on before and we’ve been able

to kind of track her progress as she

goes through all these healthy things so

but in the meantime let me see uh if we

can

uh

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going to go to victor in a little bit

too who is calling or coming in from

stockholm sweden in fact why wait let’s

bring let’s bring a victor in right now

and victor if you don’t mute yourself

we’re going to bring you in from across

the globe and you’re on with dr berg

thank you very much hello dr berg

hello so

so i have a specific question and that

is i want to build muscle and i do the

intermittent fasting i do 18 to 24 hours

each day i eat two meals a day

i eat a lot of eggs and meat

but the thing is i eat around 100 250

grams protein

and 150 to 200 grams of fat

i would like to increase the amount of

food that i intake but i’m not sure like

should i increase the protein increase

the fat

increase the carbs the carbs are 20 to

50 grams

yeah i wouldn’t increase the

carbs

more than 50 grams i wouldn’t

increase the protein i would increase

the fat that’s the one that

you can be safe and you can be you could

turn that into energy especially with

someone like you that want you want to

increase your muscle mass because

you it’s first of all it’s going to

it’s going to prevent you from losing

any weight because your body’s going to

be using that as your primary fuel

source so you’re not going to lose any

more weight and then you’re going to

have to add in

the right type of exercise

to really stimulate that muscle out of

all the variables

it’s the um

it’s it’s

loading up those muscles that will cause

the the greatest

uh growth factor rebound growth factor

for the uh

for the muscle tissue so

that’s what i would do but you you won’t

grow more muscles by dumping more and

more protein um that’s not the answer so

i think you have it you definitely have

sufficient

uh quite a bit um i’m guessing when you

say protein too

you’re seeing the quantity of

the protein source versus the protein in

the protein source right like

because that would be a tremendous

amount of

actual

protein

yeah

i mean i’m very strict with the food i i

mean i only do the grass-fed organic the

meat

uh i do the liver i do the

i do eggs organics it’s just that how

much fat can i eat i mean if i’m i’m

starting to come like over 200 closer to

250 is that okay for the body or will it

be too much no it’s not going to be too

much because um

the especially when you’re on keto and

you keep your carbs low you can handle a

lot of fat it’s just ability your

ability to digest it with with enough

bile in your gallbladder um

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okay good then that’s great and i think

too that if you were to um

go by your

feeling of being satisfied after a meal

and being able to go from one meal to

the next without being hungry that’s

like the most important thing versus to

try to put you into some category of

this is how many calories that you need

based on your age and size

okay

so if the feeling is that i

i’m still a little bit hungry i should

add more fat

yes yes and then

the other thing too because there’s a

difference between being satisfied and

being

full like you might go i’m stuffed but i

still need something

that’s really has to do with more um

either

nutrient dense foods which i’m guessing

that you’re you’re doing like make sure

there’s more nutrients per calorie

um health higher quality or it could be

just the insulin resistance

issue that takes time

or it could be a lack of bile sometimes

i think so because i had like high

bilirubin levels

um

and this is how i started with the

ketoslash carnivore that i did before

was that i had some infection or virus

in the liver so it took like two years

to become healthy and now when i’m

healthy i’ve started training for a

couple of months and that’s why i i saw

the tip about tatka so i added it to the

to my i’ve done it for like 10 days now

and i’ve

seen the difference that my skin is not

as dry as before that’s interesting

and so this is why now like my goal is

to build muscle i won’t grow

very slow in like all the details where

can i twist and turn to make another

better results

yes yes that’s great um

sufficient protein a lot of exercise and

then a lot of things to recover make

sure your sleeping is really good and

you recover after your workouts and um

you know get if you it’s also about

finding um the right people to um

get your information from or coach you

um there’s so many great people out

there versus there’s other people that

are terri give you terrible advice so

that’s really look for look for someone

that can give you the right right data

on that as well but that’s what i would

recommend um i would probably um i

wouldn’t go over 50 grams of carbs but i

would go up to 50 grams of carbs and

maybe you you add the berries in there

to get your carbs carbs up a little bit

higher but um yeah i would hover around

there yes

okay perfect thank you very much

hey you’re welcome

thanks so much victor for joining us

that was another great call from

stockholm sweden and uh speaking of

around the world

someday steve i’m going to go there i

want to

go there my

grandparents are from there i want to

check it out i will go there one of

these days good welcome summer time oh

nice yeah oh yes i heard about that not

not through the winter

no that’s a little brutal for us okay so

uh we’ve got some answers on the first

question which asks what is the best

natural remedy for an ulcer in the

audience oh my gosh

it’s swept by me give me just a second

here we go

60 say some form of chlorophyll 20 say

zinc 10 say l-carotene did i say that

right and 10 say lemon juice or apple

cider vinegar

okay well here’s the thing um

zinc carnosine will help you but as far

as

a i should have said a food because i

kind of tricked everyone but cabbage

cabbage cabbage cabbage what what’s in

cabbage cabbage

has

a a very unique sulfur base

compound

that

actually kills h pylori

kills h pylori so it kills off this

microbe

that is involved in a large percentage

of ulcers

so

it’s fascinating that

it won’t kill the good bacteria but it

kills this other this pathogenic

form of h pylori now

most a lot of people have h pylori but

it’s inactive or it’s not pathogenic

but

uh there’s something that occurs and i

might be um

i might have asked this question so i’m

hesitant about telling you too much

right now but um

there’s something that happens in the

stomach that allows this microbe to come

out and cause the ulcer i had

an ulcer in college so bad

that i was just downing all the time so

i have a lot of personal

experience with that but

not fun not a good condition

but cabbage um cabbage juice

you can juice it you can steam it you’re

still going to retain like 97 of that

compound

if you overcook it

that’s not going to work

and if you ferment it as in sauerkraut

you can actually still get some great

benefits it’s not quite as potent but

you get the benefits of all the other

probiotics

in sauerkraut so

um

you probably wouldn’t want to do apple

cider vinegar because that’s going to

burn you more

interesting okay how about the second

question this is an interesting one i

didn’t know it

you can see it there

why is farm-raised salmon gray

and needing the synthetic coloring that

they use to make it pink

gross

okay audience dig into that let’s go

back to youtube donna from youtube her

husband is in ketosis now and has

experienced severe calf cramps at night

uh i think he’s drinking too many fluids

uh he thinks he needs 64 ounces of fluid

every day plus four cups of coffee is

this too much what’s going on with uh

with her husband well he needs the

minerals he needs some minerals i mean

typically it’s going to be a deficiency

of magnesium it could be a deficiency of

potassium

and potentially it could even be a

problem with calcium it’s one of those

three so um

that’s what he needs to do is to

increase the electrolytes that’s why i

always say like the electrolytes are key

when you’re doing keto because you’re

going to dump all this extra fluid and

so i mean it’s okay if he has the fluid

as long as he has the electrolytes

to because if you dump all this fluid

you don’t replace those um in your

fasting

you could be deficient and that can show

up as a cramp in your calves or even

like in the middle of night you’re

pointing your toe and as you get this

cramp that just

is a killer um

and then one last thing about that your

ph if the ph is too alkaline you might

not be able to absorb these nutrients

too so that’s another root cause so

apple cider vinegar is a great way to

increase the absorption of

the some of these minerals well that’s

interesting and donna i can tell you i

jog almost every night two and a half

miles

and if number one if i don’t drink

enough but if i don’t take

and i’m going to plug it here dr berg’s

electrolyte formula my can

my calves will cramp up to the point

where i got to stop it gets so painful

and i just can’t keep going on so i will

say doc

drown enough i drink enough but uh you

know making sure that i drink a glass

full of electrolyte stuff a couple hours

before i run has kept my my calves from

cramping so i just for my personal

experience i’m just surprised you even

need any electrolytes with the amount of

vegetables that you consume and the

amount of salad that you consume on a

daily basis that’s right well i make

sure they put a little bit of lettuce on

my double cheese uh you know to make

sure that i’m eating right

those nutritional guidelines okay let’s

see where the heck are we so donna good

luck with you and your husband tell him

to put some more minerals in his body

let’s see uh maria from facebook i still

have a constant sweet taste in my mouth

despite eating less protein what else

can i do that’s interesting

it’s a chronic what taste a sweet taste

and she doesn’t say she’s taking

anything let’s see i still have a

constant sweet taste in my mouth despite

eating less protein what else can i do

well maybe cut down some of the sugar

like donate the carbs are going to

obviously

that’s what you have to adjust if you

have a constant sweet taste in your

mouth i would imagine but you know it’s

really hard to to evaluate that because

i don’t have enough information

i mean i can’t figure this thing out by

adjusting the protein just that one

variable i i don’t know um a sweet taste

in your mouth i

i don’t know i don’t know i

i don’t know what the rest of your diet

is like yeah but you know the

the default answer is um

for of so many symptoms

if you don’t have the basic

correct eating in it’s like these

all these remedies that i even i

recommend don’t work because they um

you’re going uphill you’re going against

these basic

deficiencies and basic problems with

your fuel source that mask other

symptoms and create other symptoms so

the key is first getting in your diet

then try to adjust some of these other

symptoms because you may not even have

them after you get your basic eating

corrected

all right and over to you yes yeah sure

uh well some of it stephanie from

youtube will keto improve borderline

hypothyroidism

it can definitely help your your thyroid

problem because of

what it does to the endocrine system a

high carb diet

increases um

insulin

and you get insulin resistance and that

can affect the thyroid severely not just

the thyroid the entire endocrine system

so um like sometimes i’ll have people

say well i can’t do ketil because i am a

diabetic or i have hashimoto’s i’m like

no no that’s the reason why you want to

do it and

also um it’s gonna drop inflammation

so if you have an autoimmune

disorder especially the thyroid you’re

gonna drop inflammation so right there

you’re gonna improve the situation so

you might wanna possibly consider doing

keto

maybe

why not miriam from facebook can soaking

vegetables overnight get rid of any

pesticides

in them perhaps on them

i think it will help a little tiny bit

but you need to

these pesticides you have to usually

soak them with and

even apple cider vinegar can help you

but you want to add something to it i

have a video on that and i give options

of how to

how to remove some of this stuff but um

just water alone we’ll do

maybe

five percent elimination but there’s

just you know

the

these chemicals are are fat soluble and

this is why when you get a chemical wash

um

it usually can actually it’s a salt it’s

a natural solvent that helps pull out

some of these fat soluble chemicals that

get attached to the outside of the

vegetable

so um

find something like that

all right the audience is on it uh quiz

question number two asks why is

farm-raised salmon gray and needing

synthetic coloring

and 55

say a lack of exercise which causes an

increase in myoglobin that’s interesting

30 say lack of natural nutrition like

krill and 15 say

lack of quality foods smart audience i

think that’s that’s uh amazing research

yeah yeah exactly um um here’s what

happens so the the salmon and trout uh

well mainly salmon eat krill and shrimp

and um

and then those krill and shrimp have

microalgae they’ll eat that and

and that has the pigment so these

pigments are created from the algae

and this pigment gets transferred

um but of course guess what uh the farm

raised salmony they don’t eat the krill

they eat um

soy corn

uh animal

products a lot a lot of other issues so

they don’t have the natural

pigment source so

they have to pay

so if the the companies that make the

farm fish have farm raised fish have to

pay to color it using a certain pigment

that’s made from petroleum chemicals and

synthetic

derivatives and unfortunately um

it’s like i mean it’s expensive too it’s

like 20

of the

fish’s diet is um the expense comes from

the the coloring agent which is is not

the same as a natural

thing so um there’s a lot of issues with

that and it’s a synthetic version um

the safety studies

are sparse

and um

but it looks good

so as long as it looks good right

because if they didn’t put it in there

it would be literally it would be pale

gray

so um

honestly i don’t um i would want to see

the sta safety studies over a long

period of time before i would want to

put those in my body and you may say

well

it’s just coloring it’s not a big deal

right well um it’s a it’s a

yes it’s a synthetic antioxidant well

so is synthetic beta-carotene and some

of these other antioxidants

that they found to cause cancer

in certain studies but it took like 10

20 years to get it off the market so

it’s just one of those things where

there’s there’s no safety studies

there’s nothing on humans and so we’re

just gambling trying it out and

hopefully it

you know it works out but yeah this goes

to for the the coloring and egg yolks

commercial eggs

and even chicken meat so when you buy

chicken they have to put different

pigments in there to make it look like a

a fresh chicken or it’s going to be very

pale gray

so

unfortunately

um this is what we were

you know these are options

so we have to spend a little bit more to

get something that’s

without some of these petrochemicals

wow well for the lay people uh out here

shopping

how do you know it says you know the

chicken gets to leap around outside

or you know whatever you know i mean or

the salmon how do you know if it’s

really

uh natural if they say so is it or how

do you sort through all that

well you could definitely go by price

because it’s going to be a lot more

expensive but if you can go to a

farmer’s market and you talk to the

farmer

i mean

and and or go to the grocery store and

see if you could find like i mean at the

very minimum organic chicken

because free range just means it’s out

of the cage you know might might have a

hole in the barn where they can go out

occasionally but

i think the wave of the future

is going to be for more transparency of

where i would love to see the animals

where they’re raised before i buy them

and i think that buying animals from a

farmer even though it’s expensive would

be a really good investment if you’re

doing fasting you’re saving money you’re

not eating as frequently so

and support the farmer and um

i think

it’s it takes

more work but when you go to the store

steve and you buy a chicken for

four or five dollars think about

how could they afford to sell it for

four to five dollars to raise that whole

chicken

and even break even i mean it’s

it’s expensive to feed these chickens

good food and let them

roam around i have 16 chickens and

we buy organic feed of course they eat

bugs

and i’m doing all sorts of experiments

with um

fermenting the grains and checking the

yolks so i have everything lined up and

i’m going to share that with everyone in

a new channel

very soon so i’m excited about that but

i had to find the devices to be able to

measure

the carotenoids the retinol the vitamin

e and the egg yolk and then do

comparisons

um

so got some real interesting data coming

coming down the pike steve boy that is

fascinating he’s dr burger’s quick

quick becoming the uh the consummate

farmer let’s get back to questions dr

berg if you can see this here’s the next

one

all right so

what’s in kefir that can help you sleep

better

all right ladies and gentlemen climb on

that

and let’s go back to our green room and

let’s see we’re going to go to debbie

who is in colorado springs

is it warming up out there debbie

uh yesterday it was 80 and today it’s

snowing okay so

that’s colorado

wow well debbie if you would uh knock

out your question as close to 30 seconds

as you can and you’re on with dr burke

well do hi dr berg i’m so happy to be

here you’ve been highly influential in

my journey so far

so my question i was diagnosed recently

with type 2 diabetes

and i have been on keto

for four years the last two years

intermittent fasting as well

and

i suspect because i feel great and i

have i wasn’t on keto to lose weight and

i’m at a healthy weight i just um

did it for all the health benefits and

have never felt better in many many ways

so

i suspect perhaps maybe i’m experiencing

physiological insulin resistance i’m not

sure

i am considering maybe going on a higher

carb diet to retrain my body and my

cells to process glucose again

my fear is my glucose numbers are so

high

that doing that might put me in a

dangerous situation and i’m sort of at a

crossroads of what my next step should

be

so um i think i missed something that

you said but so so you were diabetic you

got on keto no no i i got on keto four

years ago i was healthy i just wanted to

be healthier oh and i’ve been on keto

for four years and i got diagnosed with

diabetes um a couple months ago

interesting so so i have a question

can you just give me a rundown on what

you would eat in a given day on average

sure so i have a bulletproof coffee in

the morning with grass-fed butter and

mct oil

i

fast for about 15 hours so at around

noon other than that coffee

so fat fast and then around noon i will

typically have

eggs and avocado

and sprouts some type of keto

lunch

um and then since i’ve started fasting i

will have more healthy carbs maybe in

the afternoon and for dinner you know i

would be having sweet potatoes and

you know mostly vegetables we

meet three times a week or so um

but but i will say when i started

intermittent fasting i started eating

more healthy carbs and more fruit than i

did when i was

strict strict keto for the first two

years

i got it and um did you get this um

diagnosed through an a1c test

insulin and what was your a1c so my a1c

was 7.2

my

i asked for a homo ir test based on your

recommendation on my second i had blood

done blood work done twice in the four

month period so the second time around

they did my homo ir and that was 1.4

and my insulin is 3.7

okay yeah but my glucose shoots up you

know when i eat let’s say i’ll eat a

sweet potato

an hour and a half later my glucose

level will be close to 400. so it’s

getting very high

but if i’m strict keto

i can keep it under 200 but it’s still

not in a healthy place

are you going through stress

no

okay good

good

um

well

i think um

the fact that your blood sugar is high

you you must

you must start to um

just get rid of

get rid of the starches because the

starches are i mean that’s just like

that’s just adding more sugar to the

yeah the problem there’s um there’s even

some

great um home tests that you can get now

even an a1c at home test

but

i mean you you’re really left with the

decision of lowering your carbs and

going back to the strict version and the

healthy version and maybe some

additional things too

that involve

um maybe not diet but um you know

exercise and then also nutrients like

um

berberine and uh cinnamon i don’t know

if you do those but there’s uh

yeah okay

and the other thing too to help insulin

resistance

and to help help the situation is to

work on the microbiome because

those will

those will start generating um

small chain fatty acids like butyrate

and things that will help your blood

sugars greatly

um

so i think it’s going to be one of those

um

experiments to be able to monitor

yourself your blood sugars and see what

is doing it

but um you you we need to put you in the

right direction here because um

wow that’s really that’s going up even

when you’re strict your blood sugars are

still 200 that tells me that um

that your liver must be also producing

the sugar so it’s crazy it’s creating a

gluconeogenesis is turning other things

from the sugar so um

maybe the the next

next thing you need to do is focus more

on the liver with milk thistle and

and things to support your liver liver

health start really working with that

and um

take it to the next level and then just

give it a little bit more time be

patient because

eventually that

they call it the don dawn phenomena or

the

production of that sugar will go down if

you just stay really consistent

and i’m glad you’re not having the

stress because the stress could also do

that medication can do it

but um but i would still add a really

good probiotic and start working on the

gut and then support your liver and then

just give it more time

super helpful thank you so i’m assuming

trying to

you know i’ve the research i’ve done

people try to

have higher carbs for three or five days

to kind of retrain their body to accept

that glucose again is that probably not

a good idea for me based on that now

it’s that that’s um i just found

personally it’s false information it’s

bad advice because

okay

resetting it’s kind of like

resetting your insulin receptors with

carbs

well all you’re going to do is you’re

just putting gasoline on the fire

exactly

it’s just

it’s like turning up the heat to fix the

air conditioner it just doesn’t work so

yeah whoever told you that i would i

would really evaluate

that information because it’s just not

and that’s that’s why people say they um

they have like the carb day to reset and

they

like it’s just going to make things

worse

great okay make sense thank you so much

you’re welcome oh

sure

thanks debbie we definitely want to hear

back from you as you you know continue

this discipline and love to hear that

your blood sugars are down

and steve i just want to bring something

up that actually makes uh uh that she

just

gave me a another uh thought on that con

that uh what’s happening

is that um there’s a lot of information

there’s a lot of products out there that

are being recently promoted as being

keto friendly and and so i’m starting up

a dr berg approved kind of a list and

it’s going to be on my website it’s i’m

actively working on that because

if i went on

amazon and i started searching out these

products reading the ingredients and i’m

like in a state of shock of how many

things are keto friendly and they’re

really not so i will be covering that

because these hidden

the hidden the amount of hidden

maltodextrin

in these desserts and bars and

keto snacks are just off the charts got

maltodextrin you got synthetic fibers

which act like

uh carbohydrates but they’re in the

family that don’t contribute to

carbohydrates so

that is another another thing that i

will be talking a lot more about because

i mean just like debbie i mean she’s

trying to trying to do it and make it

work out and if it doesn’t work she

she might go on to the next thing that

try something else when in fact

if we just make sure we’re doing the

right thing it might end up working

probably is going to work for her so

yeah that was a good good question

well i’m scared to look at that list i’m

afraid that the mcrib is not going to

make the cut so i’m just going to remain

in ignorance so that i can carry on with

my great healthy uh routine okay so the

last question was

what what’s in kefir that can help you

sleep better i’m interested in that one

and the audience 70 say tryptophan

20 say some form of probiotics and 10

say vitamin d

well what’s interesting about kefir

that is um

it is different than yogurt because it’s

a combination of friendly bacteria and

friendly yeast

um

these microorganisms make b1

they make lactic

acid

and they have lactobacillus microbes

that actually help lower cortisol which

is going to help you sleep they also

produce

l-tryptophan which is a precursor to

serotonin which is a precursor to

melatonin

and these microbes make serotonin

directly as well as melatonin so there’s

a lot of reasons why

kefir is good to take right before you

go to bed if you have a sleeping problem

but of course if you’re fasting

you know take it right at the meal at

your last meal but um

a little bit of kefir and you can make

it yourself i’m going to do a video on

a great source inexpensive way to make

yourself i mean just taking either

milk which by the way if you if you’re

lactose intolerant

it’ll be a lot better if you do the

kefir than yogurt and just take either

goat’s milk or cow’s milk high quality

put these little

little crystals in there

keep it out of the fridge for 24 hours

and you have kefir and you can take

those crystals back out

and start another batch

so

it’s a really great way to um

you know get enhance your sleep and

so you might want to try it anything to

improve sleep it might be a good thing

so um maybe you eat late and this will

work briefly great because you have a

late dinner and then you have your kefir

and then you go right to bed

so something to try steve

absolutely on my list viviness from

facebook and by the way you know there’s

so many people coming on to this routine

we forget that they don’t know

everything and she wants to know please

explain what ketones are and what is

ketosis for those just joining the

ketones are a a compound that is a

byproduct

of uh when you burn fat

and so it’s a it’s a fuel source that

your body um runs on that’s actually way

way way better than the typical glucose

and the way that you generate these

ketones is you reduce your carbohydrates

down to below 50 grams but

but keep it under like 30 grams and then

you’ll start making ketones and what’s

interesting about this whole thing is

like

this is our bodies were developed to run

on ketones it’s really a natural thing

but because of the introduction of so

many carbohydrates to our diet

we have switched away from ketosis

burning ketones to running on glucose

so

based on a lot of other reasons health

reasons um you want to try the ketogenic

diet and you’ll see why it’s a it’s a

way better diet to do than any other

diet out there because it runs your body

and what’s

natural to um run on which is the stored

energy of fat so we have a lot more fat

than we do stored sugar

so you can avoid a lot of diseases by

doing the ketogenic diet

very good dr berg next question

okay

what is the best remedy for restless leg

syndrome

climb on that audience let’s go back to

youtube

uh

animal i think is the name is there a

relationship between eating breakfast

and having anxiety attacks

well uh my first book i recommended

eating breakfast i don’t recommend

anymore um especially if you’re not

hungry i think that’s probably the most

important thing to do to improve your

health is don’t eat at breakfast and in

that way you can fast longer and it can

improve your mood

doing

every time you eat you stimulate insulin

every time you eat carbs you increase

insulin and the spike of insulin will

put you more into a sympathetic

dominance mode where you’re you’re more

in the flight or fight mode which is

anxiety

so um when you go low carb you reduce

this

this

adrenaline cortisol stress response

so i would skip the breakfast

and it’s false information that it’s the

most important meal of the day it’s not

it’s not a good thing to do

yet i promoted it for years until i

found out that was bad advice

well

live and learn

and uh

yeah exactly steve and let me tell you

who else has learned and that is for

jenny who has been on with us several

times and she’s going to

continue to demonstrate the 30-second

question virginia you’re on with dr byrd

hello dr berg i’m adrenal type i’m 70

years old and i’ve been doing your

program 11 months

i’ve lowered my a1c to 5.8 still needs

to be lowered i have serious ir

but recently the cholesterol the h

ratio to the hdl was like 6.3 so it’s

like the um collectors 364. that kind of

made me a little bit concerned and i’m

dealing with sister cell

prolapse

so i wanted to do a prolonged

uh fast

so i started saturday was the last day

that i had my meal

i by wednesday i could see something

wasn’t right with me i was irritated i

wasn’t feeling well i was feeling very

tired um

no energy i didn’t have any bowel

movements um

for two days and this was i started you

know sunday was my first day and then by

wednesday i said to my husband by

evening time i ought to eat something

because i don’t feel right what did i do

wrong

did you take enough sea salt potassium

b vitamins

i did the b complex i did my

electrolytes two of them

and i did salt on one of them

and i took a cup two in the morning and

two in the evening

okay so a couple things that could have

done that um

you

you may need and it sounds like you do

support

from the microbiome your your friendly

bacteria i think that could be what’s

missing

as well as

some bile salts because the bile salts

will

really put your cholesterol into a great

ratio especially if you’re doing keto

and eating more fats

um

the the purified bile salts you know the

gallbladder formula

take that an empty stomach

and what

what you have to realize too is your own

microbes make

secondary bile and so without the bile

then what happens is there’s nothing to

break down the cholesterol

so that’s one thing that

crossed my mind and then the other thing

too is like um

bile helps you absorb um

vitamin d

and um

there’s a there’s a lot of fat soluble

vitamins that are related to mood

especially vitamin d

those are all fat soluble so i’m

thinking you’re probably not absorbing

those or you’re missing some nutrients

because you’re supposed to feel good

when you’re doing fasting so there’s

obviously something missing so um

i would go after the big clue is your

cholesterol

so um i would kind of work on the

microbes

and the bile

and try it again but don’t go as long

and just see how how you feel and just

increase the sea salts a little bit more

and that definitely will make you feel

weak

and funky and not good if you’re not

having enough sea salt

and then one last thing

hopefully your b vitamins are from a

natural source they’re not a synthetic

source because that could be another

factor

yeah i take your keto energy that has uh

and then dr mercola’s uh

b complex and also benefit me that you

had suggested and i recently just saw

that you have a b vitamin one b1 how

different is that from the benefitamine

of b1 how different

the benfotamine believe it or not it’s a

synthetic but i have not found any side

effects from that synthetic

it’s a fat soluble b1

uh the one i have is a water soluble b1

a completely natural source very very

high quality

the benfotamine works

really good if there’s any type of

brain or nerve issues

the water soluble works

for everything else

so so they’re a little bit different um

but i wanted to have a b1 um because

it’s so hard to find a natural b1

especially for

anxiety and

nervous tension and mood issues and that

happened with the white finger syndrome

the b1 could it could help um

circulation um

possibly

yeah

thank you you’re welcome all right so

great to have you back for jenny and uh

keep up the great trials there and we’d

love to hear back from you again as you

conquer the challenges of uh fasting

that long my hat tipped my hat to you

let’s go to dave who’s coming to us uh

as in a phone call dave uh if you were

there you’re on with dot with dr berg

great thanks hi dr bird

yeah so i have kind of the same problem

that taylor

and uh

you also had commented on this with

victor

i uh i’m losing well i don’t i don’t

hear dave steve

oh interesting let’s see do you have a

muted out in your in your little box

there

no no i don’t but i

um do you hear him i do can you hear me

now

let’s see oh

can you hear me now

did you hear him doc

no i didn’t so you’ll have to just maybe

give me the question unfortunately i

can’t hear a second let me try to drag

him uh into a box here just a moment if

you folks i would talk about now

no still can’t hear you but hang on i’m

gonna remedy this can you hear me now

guys uh i can

uh but uh for some reason the rest now

hang on just a second let me see if i

can remedy this uh everyone if i could

play the little chime where people are

waiting and i’m gonna bring you in here

and let’s see uh can you can you talk to

us now please dave

well i guess we’re not gonna some reason

we’re having trouble with dave’s audio

dave we’re not gonna disconnect you but

in the meantime i’m gonna go to cindy

from bloomington indiana cindy uh

you’re on the air with dr berger hope

hello this is cindy and can you hear me

let’s see i can

but um

dr berg and you know people in the

audience hear them that’s sort of

interesting well i tell you what uh

cindy go ahead with your question for me

and i will uh tell dr berg what it is

okay that sounds great thank you so much

i’ve learned so much from you over the

last 18 months i’ve been doing keto and

intermittent fasting

i’m 58 years old and i just had a full

checkup and

my cholesterol is high it has been high

for the last 10 years

this time it was 382

and i’m sure my doctor is coming unglued

about that and my ldl was also high

again it’s 232

my tsh3

is high but everything else was normal

when i ask for

small dense ldl or fractionation or an

mr lipid profile to try to understand

those uh particle sizes that you’ve

talked about in your videos

all of the medical professionals that

i’ve seen over the last couple of years

look at me with this blank foggy stare

and i’m just wondering

how

can i get these this this testing done

when and i’m in a huge medical group

here in this college town and nobody

knows what i am talking about thank you

so much

yeah i think um and i could hear

everything you said i think and i ran

into i run into this often so there are

some great

uh keto friendly cardiologists that will

be very happy to consult you remotely

and

help you get the right testing

and

if you just if you start doing searches

on

on youtube to find you know keto

cardiologists i know there’s

i i know i could think of 10 off the top

of my hand

so you could um

look at their websites find out which

one to work with and they can help you

maybe find someone locally or

or they can do it themselves and help

help you evaluate this but yeah it’s

it’s really sad to

uh to know that there some of these docs

do not understand the difference between

these particle sizes and they’re not up

on this data

there’s an advanced lipid profile that

you must do to really see what’s really

going on because

they’re just working off the outdated

old information that’s been pushed

around for years and they haven’t been

updated yet on the new information um

so

in the meantime

um the fact that your cholesterol and

your ldl is high if you’re concerned

i think that the motto of today’s

chat would be bile salts

take

gallbladder formula or bile salts to

help mobilize this cholesterol

and help it be removed a little bit

faster because as you start keto

the fat cell

you’re running off of your fat from your

fat cell well guess what part of that

fat cell is cholesterol and that has to

come out so you’re probably dumping a

lot of cholesterol

out of that

fat cell

which is a normal thing

and the key is

the size

the size of it if your carbs are low

you’re not going to have the small dense

ones that can get lodged

into the inside of the artery you’ll

have the large buoyant ones that

float through the body so

the key is keeping that carb low not

cheating and then adding

the purify bowel salts to help the liver

and give it more time

i do have your

many of your supplements as well as the

gallbladder formula and i did take some

notes on what you were saying and

um i did have a small success in that i

asked for a cac scan and they knew what

i was talking about so that will be

coming up down the road and i know from

your previous videos that i probably

should be increasing my uh hit workouts

and get more aerobic to lower those

numbers as well so that’s kind of my

takeaway from what you’re saying if i’m

correct

yeah you’re right you’re right so that’s

going to greatly help you

and this the

the um the coronary artery calcium scan

is

the

best

indicator for

mortality from all causes it’s going to

tell you what’s going on with the inside

of the arteries if there’s calcium and

hopefully it’ll be zero and you’re going

to be good to go and even if it is

high

there’s things that you can do to kind

of bring it down but

yeah exercise to sleep

uh reduce the stress all these things

are are going to help you so the goal is

just to

keep

keep doing things to

improve it until it’s back to normal the

heart the hard part about this whole

topic is to

like we’re operating off of um

omitted information like we don’t have

all these tests to know the particle

size well we can go by this we can go by

that so

we’re just going to use the

best advice based on what what data we

have until we get you into a good range

so um

it’s a little bit of

coping with the situation right now

until you can get those tests done well

i thank you so much i’ve learned so many

important things from you and 75 percent

of our household is converted to

intermittent fasting and keto and we do

thank you for everything

that’s awesome

great good job thank you thank you so

much like everyone we’d love to hear

back from you we haven’t forgotten dave

let’s try it again dave

try to see if we can have dr berg hear

you go ahead

dave are you still with us

well i’m not going to he might be off

getting a cup of joe in the meantime

let’s go back to uh what will be our

final question answer today and that

asks what’s the best remedy for restless

leg syndrome boy am i glad i don’t have

that uh 70 of respondents say magnesium

20 say various forms of vitamin b1 10

say potassium or himalayan salts who’s

right

steve i had this for just years i mean i

get up at literally in the middle of the

night two o’clock and i’m pounding my

legs because they will not chill out i

had to go for a run in the middle of the

night around the neighborhood so um

little did i know it says a simple

simple remedy of course

um it’s b1 vitamin b1

what it does is it just removes all that

lactic acid that builds up

from the high carb diet now if i would

if i wasn’t consuming ben and jerry’s

ice cream before bed every night and

massive pasta i probably wouldn’t have

that problem so the higher the refined

carbohydrate sugar diet the more b1 that

you need or

you’re going to generate way too much

lactic acid in the in the tissues which

is not a good thing

so um

simple remedy

to a major problem

and i just want to tell everyone stay

tuned for some really interesting videos

coming up that i’m working on and i

appreciate all your wonderful comments

and your attention

sticking around this long

and have a great weekend

we’ll see you next week

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