The Dr. Berg Show LIVE - March 12, 2022 ｜ DrEricBergDC

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welcome back everyone we have another

show for you we have some really good

guests standing by we have a lot of

people on social media

steve is standing by and of course

anything that i say is

definitely not meant to replace your

medical care

uh so check with your doc before uh

implementing any of the things we’re

about to tell you

all right so let’s we’re going to dive

right into this and uh steve where do

you think we should start well we’ve got

um let’s see uh

four beautiful contestants on with us as

we call them and carrie unfortunately we

couldn’t get her uh camera working so

she’s gonna come on like a phone call

but since we only have four why don’t we

save them uh for a little while and

we’ll start off with uh how about a

shout out to everybody watching and let

me start off with our guest so christina

is from my old haunts

in irvine california we’ve got poor

carolyn freezing her butt off in

colorado springs uh let’s say we’ve got

janice from eastern pennsylvania i know

that karen would have something to say

to her and then carrie uh is from

wherever but i’ll i’ll make sure i know

where that is

i lost my note anyway and here’s what

else is happening around the world so uh

we have viewers coming to us from the uk

canada uganda zambia jordan south africa

grenada sweden jakarta haven’t heard

from them before india france pakistan

mexico israel the netherlands norway

taiwan trinidad puerto rico greece

algeria good grief belgium germany iraq

switzerland maldives scotland iceland

japan italy hong kong egypt come on

chile brazil

morocco cameroon south korea

and australia new zealand the

motherland of ethiopia that’s

interesting thailand dubai

the philippines nicaragua peru vietnam

and all across these united states that

is by far the longest list we’ve ever

had and we tip our hat to terry for

typing all that he probably just got a

world geography book out just hacking

down names no these are all genuine uh

people so let’s see and why don’t we

kick it off with a question from uh

social media let’s see grace from

youtube will an apple a day mess up keto

enough to stop weight loss

well apple a day will definitely keep

you out of keto and

definitely won’t keep the doctor away

unless you shoot it really really hard

at him which i don’t recommend doing

that but um yeah the apples nowadays

are not the apples that were

we ate way in the way back you know when

apples were like more tart

a lot less sugar now we

bred them to have more carbohydrate more

sugar unfortunately so you’re eating

you know 19 grams of sugar not even

carbohydrate sugar

so um in fact that was the one thing

that i um

i kept in thinking that was good i even

recommended in my first book like

uh apples and peanut butter and i ate

several to the day and i think it was a

hundred and

two no 211 pounds of course pure muscle

and then uh i went down to 185 when i

cut out the apples

and the snacking so yeah apples are will

not keep the doctor away um

unfortunately

so you’re saying stevia in uh apples and

bacon up you’re still getting killed on

the sugar aren’t you

yeah because it’s the actual apple and

when you cook it

i bake it you make it turn into sugar

even more

so you have this because you break down

the carbohydrates just like a potato i

mean you can go ahead and eat a raw

potato all you want

but as soon as you cook it

it breaks down the starch and then it

increases the glycemic index what a chip

all right let’s see here um let’s go to

mc from youtube why is that after a hard

leg workout i’m craving cookies or

sweets

well because you’re burning off your

glucose and you haven’t adapted to fat

yet

so it takes a while one to three months

to get into fat adaptation where you’re

actually a

fat burner you’re oxidizing fats and uh

you can work out and pull your fat

reserves

excuse me if you haven’t adapted

and you work out you just deplete your

sugar because you’re running on sugar

and then now you’re going to be craving

sugar

all right well uh and by the way uh

social media see i came to you first

today we want to pay you due respect we

usually put you two or

number two or three out but not today

and so mickey from youtube here’s the

last one before we go to our first quiz

question does powdered milk have the

same amount of hormones as regular milk

absolutely

absolutely um

positively and it’s you know sometimes

people try to find the powdered milk for

a formula

you know if you if you do that um i

would go for goat’s milk and try to get

it organic

because the cow’s milk is

um there’s so many allergies there’s so

many

issues with that hormonally um

even if it says no

uh rbst which is a another hormone thing

so um

if you’re gonna do it i would go for the

goat’s milk powder

very good okay we got some really fun

questions today and here’s the first one

all right what is the emotional

symptom or emotional symptom of high

high blood glucose high blood sugar so

like when your blood sugars go higher

what uh

emotional symptom

shows up

okay interesting now let’s let’s go to

uh carrie who’s in the green room and

unfortunately we couldn’t get her camera

to work but her voice uh is wonderful so

carrie you’re on with dr berg go ahead

with your question

hi there thank you steve yes first of

all steve i’m from texas texas that’s

where she’s from she told me that but

just keep my desk neat i tore up my

notes and threw them away sorry about

that so carrie from texas no no problem

at all hi doctor thank you so much for

letting me talk to you i am been very

frustrated

you know

i’m a master gardener and i specialize

in medicinal foods i have helped people

for many many years

with their own digestive issues and i’ve

always been healthy

overall i’m 58 i’m 5'4 i’m 117 pounds so

it’s not really a weight issue

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my brother

turned me on to watching all of your

videos so i could try and diagnose

myself

he by the way has lost a hundred pounds

and i cannot believe his health

is incredible after following your

your plan of the really strict keto and

the

intermittent fasting

so i started it five

weeks ago and

my symptoms were and have been over the

last seven years i’ve been struggling

with this

continually getting worse

i’m sorry

bloating fatigue after i eat

20 minutes exactly i sneeze so i’m

thinking allergic reactions

um the nausea can be so bad i have to

sit down and relax after i eat dizziness

i’m looking over here

after looking at your videos

i’m looking at adrenal cortisol related

and just last night this is this is very

timely

after eating again very strict i’m

fasting 20

to 22 yesterday i fasted 24 hours

i ate

my stomach was just churning

and then that area in the gallbladder

and liver started spasming

and it hasn’t left me

all through the night

i remain bloated and

there’s discomfort it’s not horrible

pain but there’s definitely discomfort

i’m eating as clean as you can eat about

i’m taking the non-fortified nutritional

yeast i’m afraid of the bile salts

haven’t done that yet

and then lastly

the only things i truly can eat without

any issues would be sardines salmon

kimchi and sauerkraut

okay so a couple questions

do you find that you um

bloat the more fiber that you eat

i’ve been trying to watch that and i

would have to say i could would bloat

more but i still bloat no matter what i

eat i ate a handful of arugula the other

day

not only did i sneeze but my i was

bloating as well

okay do you have you tried um betaine

hydrochloride

no i have not

um do you have any problems underneath

the right rib cage as far as a full

tight feeling that sometimes maybe goes

into the right shoulder or neck

no no shoulder pain no back pain um

full feeling would be you know the

bloating but you know like i said today

it’s actually discomfort

i i think when the first thing i would

try and this is a common thing where you

start to lose your

your your ph in your stomach and and

things don’t take a while to break down

and

that can create bloating because it’s

the foods that are not it’s not

activated it’s not breaking down fast

enough um and also the the p the stomach

ph activates the release of your own

bile salts so i wouldn’t go in the

direction of bile salts quite yet i

would go betaine hydrochloride which

will acidify your stomach and you

probably need about five

before a meal and it does take some some

weeks to

really get it corrected but you take

that before you eat and then you find

that wow oh i have less bloating then we

know that’s it

let’s say you do that for a bit

and

doesn’t quite get resolved i’m thinking

potentially

potentially it could be sibo which is

some bacteria in the small intestine

which is creating that but

uh that’s a rare that’s kind of a long

shot

but the other thing that might help is

to take some

bile salts or gallbladder formula and an

empty stomach

because that tends to keep the the bile

duct flowing freely but i would only do

that after you try one thing at a time

and the butane hydrochloride but the

bile salts will help

open up those but kind of just like

allows the the flow of

bile to go through the liver and the

gallbladder and so there won’t be as

much bloating

and um

you’ll you’ll get better digestion but

let’s start with the butane

hydrochloride

okay and and doctor you said take five

what’s the mgs

um it really depends on i mean usually

i mean

i think the one i have is 300 milligrams

okay tablet and then it’s the digestive

formula which i don’t even know if i

were in stock with that but you could

find it some just betaine hydrochloride

and just do like 300 milligrams and then

do five of those now

some people just um if they do two it

just does doesn’t really create the

effect

so you want to build up the stomach acid

over maybe a period of some weeks and

then you’re good for a while or

permanently so

but there’s a lot of things that can do

dilute our stomach acid and then you end

you know all of a sudden not digesting

and then

your body can then not break things down

and you can have histamine reactions and

all sorts of issues so that could be why

you sneeze

is there a blood test

i want to go have the whole panel done

is there something specific that you

might have me do so i can see if there’s

anything else going on there

well

you can

get

a stomach acid test it’s a

they have the invasive ones and the

non-invasive ones

the one that i like is you actually

swallow a pill on a string it goes down

your stomach you lay on your right side

you pull it back up and then it can you

can tell what’s going on with the ph

it’s more of a functional test than a

blood test

because

you want to know what happens

you know in this in the different levels

of digestion but

doing a blood test is probably not going

to give you very much you need probably

you probably do like a stool sample and

just look at undigested foods and that

would tell you if you have unadjusted

protein for example that can give you a

clue on

you have a problem with um lack of

stomach acids

okay great thank you so much

you’re welcome and then out if you try

everything and then nothing works

then you can check for sibo and

go to a gastro duck and they can tell

you exactly what to do there’s a certain

gas

sibo small intestinal bacterial

overgrowth test in the small intestine

right yeah i would watch in your video

on that too and i thought maybe that

might be a possibility so we’ll keep

we’ll keep plugging away at it and see

if we can get it fixed thank you again

you’re welcome

well it’s heartbreaking when someone

like carrie is willing to do everything

to be so disciplined and still has

trouble for me me for instance six

crispy creams no bloating it’s just not

fair

so we wish you know people people uh

don’t bloat as much with refined foods

you know they can get away with the

donuts but they they bloat with

you know some of these

more fiber and

you know whole foods

yeah so yeah well we wish you well i

wish i had her discipline okay uh the

audience is very disciplined because

they’ve already answered the question

which asks what is the emotional symptom

of high blood sugar and i think

everybody’s right to some degree

87 percent said anxiety or irritability

10 said fatigue or sleepiness and 3

percent say anger

anger is correct

anger sometimes depression but anger is

the symptom that you would get with high

sugar

wow that’s really interesting so 97 of

the audience failed the test 3

congratulations it’s that anger but

we’re going to give them another shot

later on in the show and let’s go back

steve remember that guy who um we

interviewed

uh oh i interviewed him

here’s a guy who um had serious

issues this is life

not doing too well completely stuck in

anger and he decided to take his life so

he went

he’s from australia he went in his room

and he was going to starve himself to

death

so he lays in his bed

after the third day of fasting

he started feeling better and happier

and wow why do i feel so good i don’t

think i want to do that anymore and it

changed his life and he started looking

at fasting and

that was fascinating so he he’s he’s

lost a lot of weight but

it kind of his plan rebounded on on his

strategy

well i’m delighted that that’s what

happened to him that’s a great story and

it’s true boy you are what you eat in

terms of your emotions too at least in

my case shayna from facebook how can you

tell

off to ask question how can you tell

when you tap into fat burning mode i

just i don’t know i assume she’s going

for keto

well one of the best ways to tap into to

know

is your appetite does your appetite go

away especially between meals can you go

along for your time without eating

that’s the best indicator more than

weight anything and it just tells me

you’re burning fat between meals

now if you could only go for so many

hours

then you need to eat we know you’re not

burning fat

you’re just running on your sugar up and

down up and down so that’s uh i think

that’s the best indicator um to really

know even if you’re in ketosis and fat

burning because that’s really the first

goal of doing this program

wonderful over to youtube lisha says her

kidney numbers are dropping dramatically

i don’t know numbers those are maybe you

do what can i do to restore them back to

health

kidney numbers

yeah that’s what she said didn’t go any

further

well i

kind of need to know what

is it uh the filtration rate what what

values uh i is it protein

i would need to know more specifics on

that but um

yeah i have no idea

yeah exactly why don’t you um

uh you know write us a little bit more

thorough and we’ll kind of look for your

questions see if we can’t have you fill

us in a little bit more so the doctor

can answer your question

and why don’t we go with the second quiz

question for today and here it is doc

all right so um what would be the

emotional symptom of low blood sugar

okay so now we’re gonna ask this

question what do you guys think

type in your answers okay dig into it uh

audience

and let’s see why don’t we go to someone

whose camera is working and that would

janus

from pennsylvania and let me unmute you

on this side janice and let me look for

your wonderful visage here and janice i

hope you can hear us you’re on the air

with dr berg

hello i’m so excited to meet you

hello thank you for the wonderful

videos

thank you

here’s my question i need to heal a

fatty liver

after um 15 years of prednisone use for

rheumatoid arthritis

i’ve already messed up my metabolism but

i need this to work so here’s my

question

as a vegetarian

who

eats fish and dairy but no meat and i

haven’t since i was 16 and i’m 66 years

old now

excuse me

and as someone with elevated cholesterol

is keto even possible while i eat only

fish and is it safe for me

given my cholesterol level for anyone

with a higher cholesterol level

well absolutely because um here’s some

data that you may not know

cholesterol

many times especially the the kind that

can invade your arteries

is converted from carbs

it’s converted from carbs so if you’re

doing

the fatty fish which i’m glad that

you’re doing because now we can get our

protein and our omega-3 fatty acids um

then you’re you’re going to be fine you

then then

do the rest vegetables not the grains

not the sugar because the liver the

fatty

liver

can be coming from

non-fat sources it could be coming from

vegan

carbohydrates

probably more likely and uh so

they found that if you do a low carb

diet the fat on your liver

potentially can

reduce to 50 percent in two weeks

um and so that’s exciting news i would

combine the healthy keto with the fish

and uh do uh intermittent fasting

together that’ll be your best bet i’d

probably add into the mix

milk thistle because that’s one of the

best uh remedies for supporting liver

and improving liver enzymes

the cruciferous vegetables are great for

the liver so i think i think you can

turn this around pretty a to b but

it is safe for the liver a high carb

diet is not safe for the liver

but um

and then watch my videos on on the liver

i i think you’ll

i’ve watched quite a few of them they’re

really helpful very helpful so i’m now

drinking lemon juice

with um

in water with apple cider vinegar but

also adding um pulverized ginger to that

i don’t know if that’s well i like that

that’s great that off and on all day

yeah all alcohol or wine stopped

good good yeah it’s uh we want to

reverse the the fatty liver so yeah we

have to

cut that out

so two weeks you said

yeah but that’s just the start you’ll

you’ll see significant changes right

when you start doing this once you start

dropping the carb um but see here’s the

thing the fat

that the dietary fat you can consume

more of that if your carbs are low i’m

not talking about vegetable carbs other

carbs so

there’s a lot of false information about

cholesterol but

in the studies they’re

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it’s hard to do a nutritional study on

cholesterol because there’s so many

other variables

so it’s hard to isolate in fact on any

nutritional

element because it’s like how do you

know that was the thing you know it’s

really it’s really hard but um

anyway i think that’s what i would do if

i were you thank you may i ask you a

question quickly about dairy

um so i

read some of dr campbell’s china study

about dairy he kind of says that dairy

can switch on cancer genes so i don’t

like to rely on it too much i do eat a

lot for

yogurt

what do you think about dairy well um

the studies that he did

were on mice and

also he’s done some other studies as

well but

i think casein

is not the best protein in the world

especially if it’s like

from cows that you don’t even know if

they’ve had hormones or not or

so you’re dealing with a

a protein that is a growth hormone i

mean think about whey protein too which

is another protein and dairy that

bodybuilders consume

so it has growth potential properties

for cancer

but if you’re doing a moderate amount of

high quality cheese let’s say

switzerland cheese that’s

you know from cows that are really

healthy on top of a mountain top

and you’re doing that in a moderate way

i really don’t think that’s going to be

a problem but

if you’re doing

other cheese that’s just commercial

cheese there’s a lot of bad things in

cheese i’ll tell you right now thank you

thank you so much

you’re welcome

good luck janice uh we would love to

hear back from you and see if you can uh

square all that cholesterol deal away

and uh her she talked about grinding up

ginger it’s a perfect segue to our

question from colleen on facebook wants

to know what are your thoughts of drying

and grinding eggshells to add a smoothie

for extra

calcium doesn’t that make any sense

yeah i think um

the type of calcium in eggshells uh is

is not the best for

our bodies it’s really good for the

plant that can absorb these elemental

types of calcium that go into the plant

that converts it the plant uses with the

help of bacteria uses um

minerals and metals and things like that

and so it starts to convert it but

our bodies

do better with

types of minerals that are

connected to a protein either

plant-based or even an animal so um i

would get your calcium probably from

some dairy or vegetables i wouldn’t

grind the eggshells up

you might absorb some but it’s not the

best

it’s kind of like

if you take the number one selling

vitamin and i won’t mention that name

they use calcium carbonate as the first

ingredient and the whole bottle is

really heavy so it’s great as a paper

weight but i would not ingest it because

calcium carbonate it’s like chewing on

the cement right outside your house

so it’s not the best source oh goodness

okay well let’s see uh audience is still

on it and the second question was what

uh is the emotional symptom let me put

it up there

for low blood sugar and the audience 85

say grouchiness or irritability 10 say

depression or fear and 5 say confusion

well

high blood sugar anger

low blood sugar

anxiety

worry

uh nervous

okay so that would be the

i mean you could there’s shades of in

between but

when your blood sugar is low

you get anxiety and you get nervous you

get worried and that’s why a little bit

nutritional yeast or b1 just completely

clears it up because that really can

help you with your blood sugars

potassium can help too by the way but

b1 is the is the one um that you and

then when you get on a healthy keto plan

boy does your mood change for the better

um it just kind of brings you up makes

you more stable um

so you’re more yourself so a lot of

people that are kind of in these

emotional

bands

really just have blood sugar issues up

and down up and down

go from anxiety to grouchiness you know

anger up and down i don’t know steve if

you know anyone like that but

there are people out there like that i

know it’s hard to believe well dr berg

has forced me into those experiments uh

he says i want you to eat a cup of sugar

and call me in the morning i just feel

awful at that point no but i i have

slipped before but i really do i joke

about it but i’ll tell you what dr berg

has fixed my what goes on between my

ears i’m not so worried about weight

though i’ve lost quite a bit but i just

feel so much better intermittent

intermittent fasting is my main thing

and i just calm down and settle down and

don’t feel so grumpy so there really is

something uh to that um obviously uh and

here’s something that affects you we

appreciate that steve oh absolutely so

carolyn we appreciate her because she’s

watching from facebook and she and this

is probably a question for a lot of

ladies because of pcos it’s almost

impossible to lose my belly and

lose skin from my c-section is it

possible to lose them without surgery

if you fix the cause which is um the

androgens are too high and the antigens

um are coming because um the ovary is

pumping out too

it’s converting more male hormone and

that comes from insulin so if she were

to um fix the insulin problem she can

fix the androgen problem and her weight

problem so

that’s what she needs to do is reduce

insulin and that is the keto keto plan

we’ve been talking about so

i would definitely consider it

wonderful okay debbie also on facebook

wants to know which protein would you

recommend for smoothies other than whey

protein which you spoke of earlier

you can do pea protein

you can do pea protein that’s a it’s a

good one um

collagen protein

um egg protein would be the best the

whole egg protein

so yeah that’s what i would do

all right that’s terrific i tell you why

don’t we launch uh the next question

uh let’s see i think i did that now

one two three four

sorry folks

uh let’s start with this one a true

falseer

all right true or false if i can read

that

atherosclerosis is a vascular disease

okay yes or no audience

spin the wheel

and it’d be a lot easier to get this

right i’m sure with a 50 50 chance

uh sue manth from

if i said that right from youtube

will doing squats improve my growth

hormone

well if you’re doing any exercise with

intensity especially the large muscle

groups um you are going to spike

growth hormone up to

like 600 percent so yes yes that will

help you

and

especially if it’s like you know don’t

over train and you get enough sleep so

these short bursts of high intensity

using as many muscles as you can um

would be awesome in fact one of the

i mean

there’s different scales of types of

exercises right and there’s several ways

to get there but i mean if you were to

do like a full flat out sprint which is

hard if your knees are bothering you

that would give you a tremendous amount

of spike

and then you also have

plowmetrics hopping on different things

uh and then

i was in the russian um no it’s called

the hungarian bag swing i was doing that

for a while i like to rotate it now i’m

really into the sled

the sled there’s a guy um

if you saw him on youtube it’s called um

toes over knees guys incredible

incredible exercises for your knees and

legs and hips and uh he recommends the

sled so of course i bought one what a

workout you go backwards you pull the

sled you push the sled

the best workout and what’s cool is that

it’s not like weight bearing on your

knees

you’re kind of going

lateral and so it’s good for your back

love it and you can get one heck of a

workout

you work your feet as well

they have a lot of different sleds you

can buy they’re like you’re dragging

this thing you’re putting a weight on it

you can

do it on your grass you can do it in

your basement it’s pretty cool

well that’s wonderful let’s see why

don’t we go to our next guest in the

lineup and that would be carolyn

and carolyn uh is from the frigid

colorado springs

and hold on carolyn i want to unmute you

and you’re on with dr burke

thank you steve hey dr berg hi um so my

question might be two-fold seven weeks

ago i had my gallbladder removed

and i’m actually underweight because i

got so sick before it got removed and it

was actually sudden it wasn’t stones it

was non-functioning after a virus

i didn’t have the typical

attacks that you would get so doctors

thought it was in my head for so long

until they finally did all the

functioning tests and unfortunately it

had to come out i didn’t know how to

save it

and i was so miserable so i am

underweight

i’m still having trouble i’m seven weeks

out i’m having trouble still with

healthy fats regular fats getting back

to a normal diet

um i don’t have this might be too much

information i don’t have diarrhea so

that’s not that’s never been a side

effect of mine it’s been more

constipation before the gallbladder

removal now i’m pretty regular since it

came out but

i’m trying to gain weight

trying to do it right

i have high cholesterol so you never

know that by looking at me apparently i

have very bad genes

cholesterol numbers hover between 220

and 240

and so i’m trying to find a way i need

to get healthy again and i’m trying to

find if keto can work for me

without a gallbladder and how i can get

those fats

back in my system because right now i’m

still eating low-fat non-fat

and i need to gain another 10 to 15

pounds

well the good news is that

you have the perfect symptoms for

some bile salts i would do like a

gallbladder formula

bile salt

as well as an additional biocell called

the tudk it’s called tut cup

and i would do the two i also have gerd

grade level two

okay

so tutka is a bile salt that you take on

an empty stomach take two

and then the other one to just take with

the meals because

the fact that you had constipation in

the past tells me that you were

deficient in bile

and just kind of made made that area of

your body weak the virus kind of went in

there and did the rest but here’s the

thing um

you’re trying to um

trying to gain weight right now and

part of your digestive digestive system

is uh missing

so you need some help um

the gallbladder normally concentrates

the bile so then you when you eat it can

release the bile to extract the fats

right now that’s probably not happening

to the degree that you needed to so now

you just have to

give your body some bile

to help

make things work a little bit better and

because

even though the liver is producing it

it’s not going to be concentrated enough

if you take it with food now you can

actually absorb the omega-3 fatty acids

now you can absorb the fat soluble

vitamins

and

the one thing that helps you mobilize

cholesterol so it doesn’t back up and

build up in the blood is bile

that’s really what you need that’s what

you’ve been missing and so these are all

just some kind of like

epigenetic effects

to help someone with the genetic issue

that you have

so i think um i think that would help

and then

you probably need a little bit of help

with uh

with your gerd so i would take some

betaine hydrochloride which is a

supplement you could just take right

before you eat and then take the bile

salt after you eat and just play around

with the dosage because then when you

start eating

we keep that

valve nice and close so it doesn’t back

up and then you can actually digest more

food which would be a really great thing

so um the combination of

the potato chloride to help your acid

and then also the bile salts are

what you need

and the bile salts without in your

gallbladder formula would that be

sufficient or would would there be would

you recommend different i would use that

for

the bile salts

right after the meal

and then i would add i would

buy some additional tatka i don’t sell

that you just have to look that up find

that tudka which is a

a different type of bile salt on an

empty stomach and what that’s just going

to do it’s going to keep

keep the bile ducts really flowing

nicely so your liver is happy

and you’re

your system is working better and um

there’s so many miraculous things that

happen with tutka and especially even

with your cholesterol levels

so i think you’ll like that

okay thank you now i’m on a ppi for my

gerd

i tried to lean off a couple weeks ago

post surgery and take apple cider

vinegar tried to do that and it made

everything inflamed and burning so i

don’t know if i did it wrong i don’t

know how to lean

so the the problem is you’re stuck in a

rock and a hard place because you’ll

feel better temporarily

until you eat again so you’re gonna have

to figure out how you’re gonna um

slowly transition because we have to

acidify you to keep that bowel close

but

you probably have gastritis you probably

have inflammation now from

from all this so you you it’s going to

be a juggle

um and you might need a little um

chlorophyll and

zinc l-carnosine for just to heal the

inflammation up in the stomach probably

a probiotic i think you’re just going to

have to

juggle things and work on the different

parts of your digestion until you can

eventually

come off that because long term

you start removing that well guess what

that’s going to do it’s you’re going to

you’re not going to be able to even

produce bile because that’s one thing

that triggers it is acid so you don’t

have it

so then then the valve can’t close and

then you might feel like you have too

much acid which in fact you have not

enough acid

but anyway there’s this

there’s a bit more to study up on that

topic but

it’s going to be a juggle you’re going

to have to play around with these things

and do kind of a gradual type thing

i would find an alternative doctor that

an md that you can work with that

can help you with this transition

because some of the doctors are like no

you have to be on this um ppi for the

rest of your life and there’s nothing

else we can do like oh

okay thanks

great thank you you’re welcome and thank

you carolyn for a great question and we

asked the audience a question or this

one was a true false and it asked art uh

say that for me doc i got arthritis

atherosclerosis thank you it’s a

vascular disease and uh i bet the

audience could uh could pronounce that

but here’s their answer uh 50 percent

say respondents say true 50 say false

okay it’s false

do you know why

because

you can’t get

atherosclerosis in your veins and 50 of

your um vascular system is in the veins

capillaries you never see

atherosclerotic plaquing in your veins

or capillaries

or the small blood vessels it’s

mainly in the arteries so it’s really an

artery disease not a vascular disease

and i’m going to be doing a video on

on why it occurs

in the vascular system and not the other

and it’s going to be interesting so

especially since you know you know heart

disease is the number one death in the

world

so it might be a good idea just to know

a little bit more about it

absolutely ben

ben wu from youtube would like to know

uh if you eat sufficient amounts of

leafy greens do you still need

supplements of omega-3s

especially yeah because you’re not going

to get

very much omega-3 and leafy green

vegetables

it comes in fish fatty fish

you can also get an algae you know

but no you’re not going to get a lot of

it in you know you get like a pre

a pre

omega-3 fatty acid and some

in some greens

but it has to be converted

and so unless you’re doing cod liver oil

or fatty fish or sardines

um you’re not going to get enough

omega-3 and that’s really a big

thing that’s missing in a lot of

people’s diet

wow well catherine from youtube wants to

know what your thoughts are on

bioidentical hormones in this case

estrogen and progesterone

i would try other means first before you

go that route because as soon as you

start taking hormones

your own gland that makes those hormones

now don’t that doesn’t have to produce

the sufficient amounts so now we’re kind

of creating this complexity where now

your glands kind of shut down now

they’re dependent on it and then how do

you know how much to give the person and

over time things fluctuate i would i

would try to do other things find out

why the gland is not producing the

hormones in the first place

that would be a good question answer and

there’s also

phytoestrogens that you can take which

they don’t give you more estrogen they

help balance your ratios out

so there’s other things you can do

sorry doc i reach for my iced tea

uh and now i’ve got it in my grasp and

flower love

she claims is her name from facebook

will monk fruit sweetener

in my coffee break of fast what’s the

best sweetener that you recommend

no monk fruit won’t um

i personally you know it’s a little bit

it has an aftertaste so i won’t do that

but you can do it not a problem um

you can do the stevia you you can do

erythritol which won’t break fast now

xylitol is a little bit higher on the

glycemic index but it tastes just like

sugar that’s what i use in my coffee but

i don’t have much i’ll just have one

packet in my small little cup of coffee

i should show people how big it is i

mean it’s like

tiny

so um

so that’s what i would i would put

all right great deal melinda from

facebook i’ve just found out i’m

allergic to yeast through blood testing

i have to stop taking your

nutritional yeast and just take b1

supplements is there anything else

is that the same kind of yeast stock

well it’s rare but you can have a use to

any protein and there’s protein in yeast

so there could be some something there

or some sensitivity

so i would just find another

natural source of b1 which there are out

there it’s not easy to find

but keep looking um

because you need those b vitamins um see

here’s the thing

um if you look at natural bees

um they normally always use

yeast to get their bees and if you look

at the back label sometimes like this

some companies will have these massive

levels of b vitamins from yeast

and that’s because they fortify them

with synthetic vitamins so um

people don’t know that but that’s what

they do

interesting well i love this guy’s name

i’m going to read his question just

uncle deathy so uncle death with a y so

we can say something about his um his

mood from youtube how can i calm down an

outbreak of crohn’s disease that’s a bad

one

well there’s something you’re eating

that’s irritating your colon and so we

want to you may you might probably

benefit from a carnivore

diet at least temporarily because the

the vegetables um fiber tend to

irritate it not to mention other things

too probably if you’re doing any wheat

you should stop that

of course

glute i don’t even need to mention

gluten because you probably already know

that

you know

but um yeah there’s a lot of things that

can irritate the colon and

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you probably want to go on a carnivore

for a while

okay wonderful and here’s our next

question doc

okay so let’s see is it possible

to feel no symptoms when you have high

blood pressure

boy is that a good question audience dig

into that because i’ve had slightly

elevated blood pressure and i’ve never

felt anything but i don’t have super

high so anyway let’s see why don’t we go

to uh our final guest in the green room

and that’s christina and she’s from my

old haunt uh irvine california and

christine you are on if you’ve unmuted

yourself you’re on with dr burke

all right hi dr berg thank you so much

for taking my call hello hi

um i just wanted to first thank you so

much i found your videos earlier this

year and you’ve made such a difference

and i appreciate you

just empowering your viewers with

knowledge um

i felt like i knew kind of the basics

but your videos really helped me

understand my body and my health and

really take more control of it so thank

you for that

um and i just gave you a little

background i stumbled upon your videos

because i was um experiencing frequent

headaches um pretty much on a weekly

basis i tried to roll out

as many things as possible and just

nothing would work and i was in the

cycle of taking

tylenol

to help with the pain from my headache

because i’m allergic to aspirin and

ibuprofen so i’ve been taking way too

much tylenol within my lifetime and

stuck on a cycle and it wasn’t until

your videos that i realized how

connected headaches are to the liver

and that i was likely just feeding just

damaging my liver by taking so much

tylenol and then

you know it leading to more headaches so

um anyways i’ve focused with your plan

um healthy keto and intermittent fasting

and really focusing on repairing my

liver lots of lemon water um i’ve

haven’t had any headaches so thank you

so much um it’s been three months

no tylenol

um but to me

um so i’ve been following your plan and

everything has been going well i do omad

or two meals a day spaced out like about

four hours

um so i’ll have like at least a good 20

hours of fasting

but i still find that this the sweet

tooth snack attack hits

and

um i do if i do give in i do like um

a dark chocolate i’ll do berries like a

six ounce carton of berries

or i’ll make like a

quick little smoothie with uh like

strawberries a little bit of pea protein

water just to like give a little bit of

that sweetness and i know from your

videos you’re going to say well you’re

not really in ketosis

christina but

i did have lab work done and they

confirmed that i had ketones in my urine

i don’t know if it’s a habit if i’ve

just gone my whole life i was previously

like a huge

like carboholic chocoholic so maybe i’m

just out of habit like need a little bit

of sweet

but i just want to get your take like

how often can i do this is it going to

knock me out of ketosis or slow down my

progress um and kind of what your

thoughts are on my

healthy dessert options

so so do you have them as a dessert or

do you have them between the meals

i have them at the very end so if it’s

if it’s my omad it’s just at the end if

it’s my two meals it’ll be at the end of

my dinner

wow well so um and then the

the chocolate is it um keto friendly or

just regular chocolate

keto friendly because i realize dark

chocolate often has sugar in it so i’ll

do like a lily’s chocolate they’ll do um

i’m not i think they use us dv sweetened

so i know there are some carbs in it but

no added sugar

you know i think i think that you’re

probably within the normal guidelines of

keto i think that’s why your ketones are

showing up because

your carbs probably are not higher

despite berries or the uh

the sweetened chocolate so you might be

okay

the the the good the thing that i would

do if i would get a little glucose test

to just look at where your glucose is

because if you have a history of liver

damage which probably you do and bad

insulin resistance you might your liver

might be making making sugar

behind your back creating these little

cravings and so in that case

if you checked your blood sugar

there’s something called a dawn

phenomena which you wake up with blood

sugar that’s a little bit higher that

would be interesting that would be

really interesting if it’s like

close to 100 or more than 100 then you

know okay

i need to work on my liver a little bit

more and then you take sting no milk

thistle that’s a really good one

and i think i’ve talked about this as

well nac is a good one

and

and then periodic prolonged fasting so

maybe once every two weeks you do you go

two days without eating i mean that

would really help your liver if you

could do it

and then

it’s gonna take some time i think

um to fully get to the point where

your

your liver is back to normal it takes

like three years actually so just just

realize that and just keep working on it

but i think

i if you check your blood sugars if you

are like 80 like right around 80 or less

you know check it periodically

i think

you might be okay by doing these berries

and the chocolate and uh

um i think

you’re probably within the guidelines so

i i thought you were gonna consume these

between the mail but you’re not so

that’s good

so i think you’re you’re doing great

thank you dr berg i appreciate your time

you’re welcome well thanks and christina

you didn’t even brag about the beautiful

weather that greets you every day there

in southern california i do meet that so

that’s really cool and thanks for

joining us on the dr burke show and

please do like we ask everyone that

joins in the green room to let us know

after some period of time how you’re

doing because dr burke really cares

and uh steve

steve i used to live in san diego now i

you know i live in uh virginia and i

tell you

that winter every year you got to go

through that winter it’s like oh here we

go another just kind of go through this

it’s in fact it’s going to snow snow

tonight steve can you believe that

so it’s like i’m done with this this

weather i’m ready for

spring and summer how about you i sure

am and i lived well as i said in orange

county and i would always fly back east

because all my relatives were in the

east for christmas and of course it’s

kind of nice because sometimes there’s

snow in this sprinkle you know the

sparkling lights but when i would fly

back into john wayne orange county

airport get out and the palm fronds were

sort of clacking together in the santa

ana winds i said this is home this is

the place to be

you can keep your lousy snow and your

chains and your salt and all that junk

so it really is hard to beat

understood steve

all right let’s get back to work here uh

and uh here’s our fourth question is it

possible to feel no symptoms with high

blood pressure and our audience roll the

dice on a hundred percent saying yes it

yeah it is in fact

in fact when the heart becomes weak it

starts to work harder because it doesn’t

it’s not able to put the output

is not be able to uh you’re not able to

put the blood flow out like a pump

because it’s a muscle that produces like

a little pump and so now the body has to

compensate and so it compensates by

increasing the pressure and the

retention of sodium and this is why we

have high blood pressure as one of the

cause

here you are

you have high blood pressure because of

it but guess what

now we have because of the compensation

we get more blood flow to the tissue and

you’re feeling great you feel no

symptoms

but you have high blood pressure

then you take a pill to lower the blood

pressure guess what’s going to happen

you’re going to start seeing those

symptoms again

dizziness lightheadedness being like oh

my gosh i’m getting side effects from

the medication

yes and your heart is working harder

so um

if i’m not mistaken i may have released

that video today if not i’ll release it

tomorrow but uh it

there’s some interesting information

about how the body compensates

and you have to understand that these

symptoms you should understand them

instead of treat them

well that sounds very wise a doctor and

let’s see

michelle wants your wisdom

on facebook she’s nine weeks past an

open compound tibia amphibia fracture

ouch what’s the best way to promote bone

growth in healing

i’d definitely get on a really good

supplement that has the trace minerals

of course with the high quality

available calcium

and vitamin d

and k2 which will make your bones really

solid uh but the trace minerals are

going to be key too because um calcium

is not just about bone you need boron

selenium

uh zinc a lot of factors uh so

and then of course i would do a good

amount of fasting um

that’s gonna help strengthen and help

you heal

um and also a good amount of vitamin c

from the leafy greens the best source of

vitamin c steve would be

sauerkraut

so anyone also who has digestive

problems should be consuming sauerkraut

it’s just such a great thing to so it

has the cabbage it’s fermented and it

will help your digestion and even if you

have gastritis

apparently you can do sauerkraut out of

all the vegetables cabbage is the best

vegetable for that

wonderful

jimmy from facebook boy a lot of people

have faced this in their family what’s

the best diet for someone with dementia

well

let me let me let’s see if i can

remember that if i could if my memory

i’m being sarcastic now you need to do

healthy keto and intermittent fasting as

the most important thing for dementia

because

this is all about the brain and the

brain

needs ketones if you feed the brain

ketones it bypasses this dysfunctional

glucose problem with the synapses and

the nerves and your brain will start to

work better

so um

and i would also in addition to being

being on the ketogenic plan i would also

take ketones and this is like one time i

would recommend taking ketones exogenous

ketones as a supplement is when you have

dementia or alzheimer’s or even

parkinson’s

or any brain problem

well that’s hopeful uh and here’s our

final question of the day doc

all right let’s see here um out of

all 95 nutrients which nutrient

deficiency

is most involved in diabetes

well you gotta sort through all 95. all

right good luck uh audience and by the

way uh for our audience around the world

uh why don’t you talk a little bit about

the uh product availability

internationally it’s getting better i

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different languages in russian we’re in

taiwanese which is actually chinese and

also

arabic channel we have

germany we have german we have french

spanish and so for those of you that

can’t get products because the shipping

is crazy expensive

there’s some