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so hi Alan this dr. Berg it’s a pleasure

to meet you finally I’ve seen you before

and after and I wanted to personally

talk to you so thanks for doing this

interview pleasure to be here

yeah hey listen I wanted to first just

find a little bit about your history

where you came from as far as with your

health of your body and let’s just start

there can you give me a little history

of that sure as a kid I was actually

pretty skinny as a junkie I was pretty

frail actually and even through high

school I was I probably was 140 pounds

when I graduated it was after high

school say between the ages of 18 and 20

or says I started putting on weight and

my dad was actually the one who kind of

came to me and said it’s time to putting

on a little bit of weight and get a

little bit of a belly I’d like for you

to go get some blood work done because

it’s been you know since you were a kid

and she had anything done and it’s age

of 20 I was kind of diagnosed with high

cholesterol and high triglycerides and a

lot of us her editor my dad had it had

all this as well and that kind of

started a chain of events for the next

20 years of me fighting high cholesterol

high triglycerides metabolic syndrome

and finally led to severe insulin

resistance and good old type-2 diabetes

Wow now at the time did your father or

did he get you tested and find yes you

have a genetic cholesterol problem at

the time now it was just a basic lipid

test is the best I can remember in

awhile since then did they find that you

actually do have a genetic problem got

it so so yeah I’m definitely interested

in to see what you’ve done about that so

so fast-forward here you are struggling

with this thing you get diabetes

and did you also gain weight at the same

time by the time I got married at the

age of 22 I was 200 pounds and from

there 20 years later I ballooned up to

240 on a 5/8 frame is pretty heavy yeah

Wow so who you are in the situation and

probably right you know kind of

concerning because you got the whole

genetic thing got your

other and your got diabetes so so at

that point what were you doing there

what did you try attempt well over the

years I went to doctors and I always had

blood work done and my cholesterol and

triglycerides were always elevated and I

was always still on medication I was

never really told here’s the root of

your problem as to why you have this but

here’s what’s elevated take some

medications and I spent many years

taking statins taking metformin taking

blood pressure medications and I never

seem to really get better it was just

ban dating ban dating the problem really

oh I could imagine did you have any side

effects from statins the statins about

crippled me I had us and the biggest

thing I had was muffled fatigue and fix

you’re picking up a garden hood and

trying to spray a garden hose I had such

limited strength in my hands the muscle

fatigue was so bad I didn’t squeeze

garden hose and my back and hips and

legs it was like like I was a 70 year

old guy I didn’t have my wife sitting me

up in bed some mornings it was so bad in

the static Wow and you’re like what 40

something years old I’m 43 now this was

probably really got out of statin

probably in my 30s early thirties okay

that’s crazy so here you’re a 30 years

old your body is like going down that’s

that’s pretty wild like personally when

I was 28 I hit my lowest health of my

whole life I also had arthritis in my

hands back chronic fatigue couldn’t

sleep so I can I can relate to that and

I’m like what the heck I could imagine

what I’m going to get 35 I’m going to be

probably yeah that’s over as ridiculous

yeah so okay so then what did you did

you stumble on something that turned

things around sorta yes around 2012 or

so I experimented with Atkins a couple

times and I don’t think I really knew

what I was doing I would just kind of

did it and I was semi successful in it I

did lose some weight the first time I

lost around 20 pounds and I never stuck

with it and put it all back on plus them

and the second time I did Atkins

leave was 2013-14 ish and I lost about

30 to 35 pounds once again I never stuck

with it part of the reason is I didn’t

know then what I know now but I wasn’t

managing insulin I was starving all the

time and eventually just gave up and got

all the way back on and there I went to

over 240 pounds crazy so then you’re

going along and then then what did you

do up to that at 2016 early 2016 I was

in the worst health and shaking my life

I I would just I hurt all over all my

joints hurt

I had no stamina severe fatigue I felt

like garbage all the time it just didn’t

feel good really heavy

couldn’t button side 40 pants and my

wife was in the spring of 2016 I said

I’m going to go low carb again no low

carb works I’ve had moderate success

with it a couple of times but I’m going

to make a lifestyle change I set my mind

that I was going to do low carb and

stick with it it turned out her spring

break in March of 16 we were out to

dinner with some friends and ironic it

was an old friend from high school

I heard just small talk and yeah I’m

going to do Atkins again he’s like man

don’t do at him do this thing called

spare genic by it I’m like kita what I

didn’t know what he was talking about

and he’s like listen it’s high fat

moderate protein low carb I’m like but

what about my cholesterol my

triglycerides my you know the same

question that everybody has when I come

to it he’s like don’t worry about it

it’s not going to clog your arteries

it’s not going to make you fat that

doesn’t make you fat research it a

little bit and give it a try so yeah

March 21st of 2016 at over 240 pounds

with size 40 I started started kita Wow

and the way you started moulting off now

at that time did you actually introduce

to intermittent fasting or not I didn’t

then I was about a good month or so

maybe two months there’s probably a

month or so in

the heated I started intermittent

fasting a friend of mine that I met we

wanted the key to Facebook groups kind

of took me under his wing and help me

with my macros and he said you know with

your blood work and your your medical

situation you need to get the

intermittent fasting as soon as you can

he said start with 12 hours 12 hours of

easy eat dinner don’t have a snack and

go to bed and get up and that’s your 12

hours start with 12 and then 1 to 16 and

then go from there so since the day I

started the intermittent fasting I have

pretty much stuck with it every day and

now 16 months later that it just comes

natural I go 16 to 18 to 20 hours 20

hours usually and you’re not hungry

you’re not craving now what how much

weight have you lost

right now I went from the last time I

had lead when I officially started I was

240 I could have been higher at some

point and I dropped as low as 155 so 85

pounds 155 was actually a little bit too

thin for me so right now I’m about 162 I

put a little bit back on it muscle how

tall are you 5 8 and a half okay

that’s incredible so how do you feel

energy-wise cognitive function it’s

incredible I literally live on six hours

sleep I just don’t need any more than

that I’m up by 4 to 4:30 every morning

I’m at the gym by 5:30 in the morning I

workout for 90 minutes I come home and

then just do my thing the rest of the

day and then I’m just up and out of and

go on a 100 miles an hour

so end of the day and then tell me about

your diabetes situation what’s what’s up

with that I actually just had blood work

done when I started with my new diet

around the same time I started keto I

started with a new doctor who is Pro

keto and I had been on keto for two

weeks when I started with him and in

that two weeks I had already dropped 20

pounds which was probably water weight

and I had blood work done then and

everything we expected to be elevated

was elevated

now this doctor he does the

comprehensive lipid panel with the

particle test and everything well guess

where all my LDL particles were type a

sticky ones

they were all the small small particle

oh they were okay though I had blood

work done when I started I had blood

work done at six months and it’s six

months my cholesterol had absolutely

skyrocketed my overall was over 350 and

thank goodness that he is a pro keto

doctor because he told me don’t worry

about it

stick with kiddo everything’s going to

be fine any other doctor that I had been

to for years prior would have slapped me

on a staff and said you know cut all his

fat you’re eating well at the nine-month

mark I think it was everything had come

back down my triglycerides were exactly

a hundred at that point at one point in

my life in my my I would say when I was

around thirty I try glycerides for over

a thousand at one point she’s incredible

so nine months in dito my triglycerides

were a hundred my overall cholesterol

was 350 but the particle that bit should

all my LDL particles were in the big

fluffy range good so let me just make a

point on people watching this that don’t

know what you what you’re talking about

this when you when you measure LDL which

is to consider the bad cholesterol and a

traditional test they don’t

differentiate the type a Type B type A

is actually totally fine it doesn’t it’s

not involved in the artery repair type B

a small dense sticky it involved in the

reaction to inflammatory response and

whatever so we want a more advanced test

which you got it which told it shifted

eventually to Type A which is totally

fine so even though it’s high it’s

totally okay probably because you know

two things one is your your burning as

you burn your fat cell some of that’s

cholesterol it’s going to come out have

to come out and your body is dismantling

it but having a genetic tendency you

don’t have the enzyme correctly to

dismantle cholesterol like other people

so there’s always that little bit of a

problem but you just prove that you know

you can actually you can manage it

without by basically cutting out all the

eating healthy interesting the pre keto

I was on metformin twice a day I was on

I believe it was crest or and I was on a

blood-pressure pill twice a day

and now the only thing I take his

official oil in magnesium I have my

latest blood work I just had this done

like like two weeks ago if I can tell

you the numbers real quick

my total cholesterol now is 241 my LDL

is 151 my HDL is 70 and triglycerides

are 55 ticket row glycerides are one of

the best indicators and you’re totally

fine you’re running on ketones

big I had the particle test the particle

test done with this as well and the

whole thing is in the large what the

category so it’s perfect that is so

incredible one question on that your

father is he’s still around

yeah yeah lost in too hard to be 11

years ago

okay how about said you have any

brothers or sisters

I have a sister and she has no health

issues okay I got it all now just tell

me what what do you eat when you eat a

meal and when’s the first time you eat

well I get up it I usually get up

between 4:00 and 4:30 a.m. and I’m a

coffee and I usually do if I’m going to

the gym I do coffee with MVP oil a

splash of cream and that’s my whole new

calories until I get back to the house

around 7:30 I do messing around here and

I usually don’t eat until 10:30 or 11:00

and I don’t really call it breakfast I

just call it my first meal just happened

that I like eggs so it’s usually eggs

and I raised my own chickens and I raise

my own ducks for eggs so I have a

endless supply love it free-range eggs

so it’s usually my first meal is usually

three eggs cooked in whatever fat I use

decide to use for the day whether it be

olive oil or butter or bacon grease or

the good old coconut oil that everybody

set we know in the news now

and I usually do a whole avocado and

then whatever meat like today I had two

pieces of sausage an entire avocado and

three eggs cooked in coconut oil and I

won’t eat again until we our family

schedule allows us to eat dinner pretty

early is my plan has a lot of ice stuff

after school so we eat then are using

three and four so I eat basically

between 10:00 and 4:00 that’s it I’m

done I love it and you don’t crave no

and you can go without feeling weak no

weakness at all while I’m going to eat

my electrolyte this I’m good that is

awesome man that’s good that’s such a

conflicting piece of data for a lot of

people because they’re just thinking way

over here they’re never going to get

there and you just like flip the whole

thing people like that know you in your

past are they like what the heck are you

doing I’d be curious so they look at you

like funny I you know I had customers

where I go to their house and do

services and some of my customers that

didn’t see me for six months or a year

during my weight loss journey first of

all didn’t recognize me or thought it

was somebody that I had hired to come in

my place they just at first glance

didn’t realize it was me greatly wow

that is amazing yeah I saw you before

and after I’m like I got to interview

this guy this is like incredible

incredible so this so will you well this

is a stupid question but do you think

you ever go back to your normal now of

course now there’s no way the way I feel

so good now I’m just so much I’ve

learned in the last 16 months of doing

this there’s no way I’d go back to the

standard American diet no way no way at

all I mean my blood work shows it and I

just the weight loss and the way I feel

and I’m able to eat this certain way and

gain muscle on putting on you know I’m

putting on crazy amounts of muscle while

doing it the whole river bit you can’t

gain muscle on keto is bogus because I’m

living proof of it

yeah just for people watching when in a

minute fasting especially if you the way

he’s doing it you could

Spyke growth form by 2,000% adding with

the exercise that you’re doing you could

spike it by another 450 percent so it’s

your your spiking growth hormone you’re

actually its anti-aging its preserving

your muscle so and you’re followed a

unit for T 3 4 degree yeah it’s

incredible and my wife started she she

started calling me starting to lose

weight that okay maybe this is not a

gimmick and she started a month after I

did and she’s lost the last time she

mentioned that she had lost over 80

herself Wow

that we’ve lost almost 170 collectively

that is incredible this is incredible so

yeah I went from the size 40 by 40 that

were tight and I’m in a size 28 change

now so your waist of 28 yep that’s

incredible you did really good so anyway

L I want to I really appreciate this

interview a lot of people are going to

like especially ones that are on

cholesterol medication are going to

start researching this I hope they do

absolutely I’m like I’m anti statin I

mean just what I do what I went through

with the pain and the muscle fatigue and

what I know about it now that it doesn’t

really do anything for you there’s no no

scenario where I would take a statin

ever again it’s a billion-dollar

business and the actual results are so

small and it cuts down all your

production of cholesterol which you need

for your hormones in this map so man I’m

so glad you actually stumbled on the

whole keto thing because that turned

everything happen and then when did you

when did you see my videos did you see

that in the mix summer of goodness

somewhere it’s been at least over a year

I was just you know I’d do my due

diligence and research things and it’s

like every time I would Google something

this guy named dr. burns video would

come up and literally I mean it’s just

you were all over the place and you know

I’ve got you setting out every time in

doing this coach did I get him to get an

alert and the thing I like about your

videos is they’re short and sweet and to

the point and you’re easy to understand

for

the common man out there and I’ve shared

your videos along with the keto groups

that I’m in numerous times at least a

hundred times I’ve shared your videos so

we love them oh thanks yeah but I wanted

to take this complex so-called complex

and just try to make it as simple as

possible you know what hold out of that

that’s the goal because you know

especially medicine they have to

complicate things and say oh it’s too

complex or so you’d understand so now

that’s not true right so awesome well

thank you so much Elle and I appreciate

your success story so we’ll do a follow

up maybe in several months from now just

to see how you’re doing it is done okay

thanks I’ll appreciate it order to be

with you all right thanks