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hey guys dr. Berg here in this video

we’re here with Justin and we are going

to show you how to do an evaluation so

so many people when they get an

evaluation they go to the practitioner

and they just they give them a list of

things to take for their symptoms so

what I want to do is I want to take all

this information crunch it and come up

with a root cause versus treat the

symptom Justin we talked before can you

tell me a little bit about your main

problem I think you said it’s a almost

like a anxiety stomach where it’s in

your abdomen can you tell me about that

correct I mean it’s just a persistent

feeling kind of like a tight knot

sometimes it’s really tight sometimes

it’s kind of a throb it’ll manifest

itself as shooting maybe through the

back sometimes it’s angling sometimes it

comes up the chest into the shoulder

area a little bit and just a just as

uncomfortable anxious feeling got it

okay so does it come up to here does it

ever come up to this point this muscle

right through here rarely I do have an

issue with my neck because I have a

strain in my neck so it would be hard

for me to tell that was actually coming

from this area or whether it was just a

result of this small injury I have a

possibly large injury I have in my

engine Ram I have an injury in my neck

right here so you can right side where

the if you could feel you can actually

hear that yeah here’s what happened to

your neck I don’t know it was it’s like

it almost like it was slipped on wrong

and then it just kind of got worse so it

really wasn’t an injury was just like

sleeping wrong and then you start

hurting yeah and then sigh her but it’s

been like that for a while but it’s like

something in there hear it yeah I can

hear it crunching yeah okay good we’ll

come back to that I always want to kind

of differentiate like when people say I

have an injury and then you find out it

wasn’t really an injury just slept wrong

why would the neck still hurt from

sleeping long right this doesn’t make

sense

next question does this sensation it’s

like always there or does it come and go

it’s it’s always there but it will raise

and lower at certain times of the day

say I’m maybe in a higher pressure

situation it will exacerbate

that ya like stress or anxiety kind of

doubles up on it but it’s always kind of

there like I can feel it in the morning

I can feel it at night before you go to

bed okay

so the next common question we want to

ask is when did this start I’ve probably

had it for the last I’d say three to

four months straight as a persistent

thing you know I’ve always had it on and

off but you know the persistent feeling

down there has been firming it quite

some time okay

now what about when it first originated

where you didn’t have it no listen you

had it I would say I’ve always had it on

and off so that you’re born no probably

since probably my mid-20s mid to late

20s it’s been on and off but I’ve had

periods where it wasn’t there and then

I’ve had periods where it’s returned but

this is the longest I can remember

probably for the last three or four

months that it’s been a persistent issue

got it hold our you know 37 37 so

starting your mid-20s

do you remember like not having any any

issue at all like in your early 20s yes

and no I mean there was a yeah we were

wild people then so you know there was

always something going on to detract

from that but but less in the early 20s

and maybe kind of ramping up and I went

on okay I’m trying to get to like an

exact point it started it’s may be hard

to find that exact point okay so we have

that information I would nail it down to

the late 20s I would say you know

probably around 28 great that was the

year that I started going downhill to

myself okay so late 20 20 or actually 28

years old now the next thing we want to

find out of all the things that were

different were things that changed right

before that happened was there anything

that happened

food-wise stress wise that could have

triggered this well I was on and

actually when I was with my wife at that

point or with my then-girlfriend

I had a pretty hefty drinking habit back

in the day and when I started trying to

curtail that or change my habits and

that I think I sent myself into a bit of

a you know emotional and physical

upheaval it’s in myself okay so there

was definitely a stress there was some

drinking stress back and forth that

whole thing which makes sense during

that time was you’re eating like

perfectback man or is it slightly off oh

now I’ve never had my diet is probably

something that did the improvement even

today okay now the next question is I

want to get a related symptoms like you

having other body issues for example

fatigue sleep hitching burping

constipation do you have any other

symptoms no not right now

like I said I’ve been taking a SSRI

recently and I’ve been on and off of

them and then when I was off of them

before I was on tried lexapro first

which made me super tired then I went on

to paxil which seemed to have little to

no effect then I went off the fact so I

weaned myself off of that I can I was

off that for about two months and slept

fine which is the best sleep I’ve gotten

then a long time just the persistent

feeling down here really no other issues

okay maybe some occasional fatigue but

nothing like what I was experiencing on

the medication and you take these

medications for this problem right okay

because it kind of made you anxious okay

all right so a couple things I want to

just kind of educate people on number

one there’s there’s a there’s almost

like a second brain in your gut and

there’s three parts of the nervous

system the flight-or-fight

the recovery part which is called the

parasympathetic and then it’s something

called it enteric which is all digestion

is all the nerve connections that go rub

to the brain so a lot of how you’re

feeling up here your focus

mood is related to here so now I’m going

to ask his diets probably been bad for

many years but what about do you have a

history of antibiotics now okay good

do you have a history of any type of

constipation no often do you eliminate

per day by three times okay cool

sometimes I’ll say this is a per day I

do once per month and I’m like okay

that’s the problem

alright actually become more regular in

the last probably year or so okay and

then now comes the big question what do

you eat tend to eat for breakfast

breakfast

I’ve got sometimes a Costco Danish

sometimes I heat the bellavita biscuits

they know occasionally McDonald’s but

nothing nothing good I was actually

there last night because we’re going to

get some Pellegrino water and some other

things and I looked at this rack of

Danish juice it’s like a month I was

like this huge just huge selection I’m

like wow there’s actually a lot of

people buying those dangerous and they

sell a ton of people buying those

amazing I’m one of them amazing okay so

then for lunch what do you eat lunch I

usually try to eat something with some

chicken in it you know I work in a

restaurant so I have access to healthy

foods there so during lunch is probably

my best meal of the day so I’ll try to

get some greens some chicken

occasionally some red meat rice and

beans it’s usually the lunch thing good

then do you eat a snack or do you just

wait till dinner pays it depends because

the you know with my work schedule and I

have twins that are a year old so

whether I’m at work sometimes you know

because dinnertime is the busy time at a

restaurant and when you’re with the

twins it’s just if they’re going to let

you eat or not so it gets pretty shaky

at night sometimes I don’t even eat

dinner at all and I skip a lot of meals

and my efforts I’ve also noticed that my

appetite has decreased ever since this

became a persistent thing I dropped

about 15 pounds at my house

okay do you feel so you skip your dip

like binge at night for snack then when

you get home or occasionally yeah okay

and what do you normally snack on like

carrot celery or huh

no you know sometimes like even at night

I’ll hit fast food on the way oh you too

sandwich at home like a ham sandwich

he’s the good whole-grain bread but it’s

usually chips or something like that

with that glass of milk okay

and then um do you crave anything no and

that’s been kind of one of the biggest

factors of this and I wasn’t sure if it

was the medication I was on but it seems

like the signal that’s supposed to come

from here to the brain saying hey it’s

time to eat doesn’t really get there

right you know when I go to eat I’ll eat

like when I’ll eat like a horse when I

go to eat but I don’t feel hungry right

that’s one of the side effects because

it throws off this thing over here

you’re trying to fix this and it gives

you another problem so how many actual

cups of vegetable do you eat per day

vegetable let’s say about 2 - okay now

they are they canned okay now now we

keep reading it that’s another good

thing about you know the babies he’s

great so we usually keep a lot of fresh

fruit and vegetables in the house for

them so I’ll snack on that as well okay

okay so now right now do you feel this

sensation is your sadena is it like a

tight knot like a deeper tight tightness

kind of more it’s like here but it’s

more in the back right now or it’s

almost like a tingly burning and then

it’s kind of a real light though

sort of sensation here kind of like a

throbbing sensation okay 10 being really

really severe zero being no problem how

would you rate it right now right now in

part that’s probably like a three okay

all right so I’m going to do an

experiment I’m going to press on this

point right here you can kind of sit up

a little bit I’m just going to press

right here is that sore right in here

a little bit I’m not yet I feel like a

little sharp pain yeah so um how about

there here’s

Yeah right you in there okay so now what

I want to know go ahead and rewrite the

pain on the right side give me a number

seven what is it uh now hmm I’d say it’s

about it’s funny it’s like it’s moves

like here a little bit okay but right

here right here it’s less I’d say I’d

say move down one two like a two okay

all right so here’s the thing this is

only like there’s could be like three

things right here you have the gall

bladder right here you have the liver

and actually use two things right there

and you haven’t also the kidney right

here so in my mind I’m taking kidney

stone possibly but I don’t know maybe

that’s not it gall bladder because gall

bladder we refer pain right up in here

and this will cause keep this really

tight because there’s a nerve that

called phrenic nerve that goes right up

through here comes right into the back

too especially between the scapula right

through and here under do you ever have

anything right here

yeah no I mean I feel a lot of that

tingling to you know come up through

that area so that’s liver and

gallbladder I mean when you talk about

the gallbladder if you can’t have a

really sluggish gallbladder and a

healthy liver so there ones down they’re

both down so I think with him I think

it’s gallbladder and liver that’s my the

most likely thing based on the history

and and even if you did a scope they

might not find golf stones but if they

did a functional test where we see the

release of bile it might be constricted

and that would create an internal

tension in full feeling and tightness

that will make him feel anxious because

this area right here is next to the

diaphragm which actually affects the

breathing so it’s going to it might be

hard to breathe sometime and you might

just feel like I can’t just relax in my

gut so it’s going to prevent him

sleeping through the night and on top of

that they treat him for anxiety with the

drugs and they camouflage the whole

thing so we don’t even like know what’s

going on but the fact that he has pain

right here up to here

that’s all gall bladder once and the

reason I press on the

opposite side is that’s how you you

actually treat it with acupressure you

work you never press on the clock what

you do but if he has a problem here you

can press in the other side it’ll start

draining the gallbladder so I just did

like about six seconds of pressing just

to see if it credited change ideally

what he should do on the couch or on the

bed and start doing massage all through

here till this completely drains okay

and then I’m going to put them on the

eating plan that will start to slowly

build up the liver and the gallbladder

all this will go away I do not think

you’ll need those medications at all

after this because if you have no

sensation there’s no anxiety no need to

take that but obviously based on the

history that’s the most likely thing

that I would recommend does that make

sense yeah okay so so let’s just get

some recommendations so for food what

food wise

are you hungry in the morning or not but

it did vary you know I can eat like if I

go to eat I can eat in the morning but a

lot of times you know I won’t it’ll be

kind of a we have the kids in the

morning and once you get the kids you’re

at the door yeah it’s not a lot of time

I have three kids I told understand that

it’s like you handle him I’ll handle

this one like it’s impossible

so for breakfast I would I think the

best thing can you do eggs mmm I would

do eggs and cheese because it seems to

be somewhat healthy and some protein I

think that’ll at least help you but

because if you don’t eat for breakfast

and let’s say you are hungry you don’t

eat you just trip time in the evening

you may possibly snack on things that

you shouldn’t be eating that’s a

possibility

so we want that and then for lunch what

you really needed to do to fix the liver

is we need to severely increase the

vegetable in your diet so if you have

access to food do you guys have any like

big salads you could eat so I would eat

the salad first and I’m talking like a

big salad I consume about seven to ten

cups of vegetable every single day so we

need a big salad have your chicken have

your protein and your good dinner same

thing vegetable protein since that’s but

we don’t want to do any junk food that’s

the best thing if you keep that in your

not

crave at night that doesn’t look like

you’re trying to lose weight so I think

you could probably do fruits too but I

would make sure with your in your house

that you don’t have any junk in the

trunk or anything junky just really make

sure that it’s almost impossible to go

for that junk because you have all good

food but I’ll send you kind of like a

list of what that means but yet for the

liver you need the main thing you want

to add in addition to the protein is a

lot more vegetable and prized some

nutritional support for this and some

acupressure I think this will resolve it

probably very very quickly but the only

last thing I want to point out is that

it takes three years of healthy eating

to completely rejuvenate your liver so

when you do this for like several months

and it feels good like you have to

maintain it over at least three years

you have a brand new liver sound good

huh sounds great okay well thanks for

watching so that was an example of like

how you want to valuate and pull a

string and give recommendations I’ll see

you the next video