The Dr. Berg Show LIVE - February 24, 2023 ｜ DrEricBergDC

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thank you

hey welcome back everyone

we’re here with another show a lot of a

lot of great questions lined up

um in social media so we’re gonna Dive

Right In anything that I say is

definitely not meant to diagnose or

treat you or replace your medical care

check with your

competent position before implementing

any of these suggestions

all right Steve good morning and let’s

Dive Right In good morning to you sir

and we will Terry has been dutifully

passing along the questions from social

media so let’s start with Susan from

YouTube when someone has lost so much

weight that their eyes look sunken in

how can they restore their eye area to

its normal look and I’ll tell you I’ve

known some people docked that I knew for

years that were very obese and and they

really did look sort of hollow when they

went down and kept it off it’s an

interesting phenomena

well the thing that comes to mind with

that is if you I don’t know I’m guessing

you use the type of

plan that I recommend because I I will

say that um there’s a lot of different

types of Keto right you do dirty keto

you have all different types of like

there’s for example

um Ideal Protein that’s keto that’s low

that’s low carb but it’s also low fat

and in the type of foods that you’re

using are are really

um processed type packaged foods which

you end up losing weight but you don’t

really look vibrant and healthy so

that’s what I don’t know about that

question so

um I would

um but let’s say you did the healthy

version of the ketogenic diet and you

still look Hollow there’s a couple

things that you can do to

to kind of fill out things to make

um make you look healthier and of course

there’s a couple things that come to

mind you know like get out in the sun a

lot more

um consume Foods

um with the healthy fats make sure you

do not go low fat because we need that

healthy glow and that healthy those

healthy fat sitting from your diet I’m

talking about Omega

Three fatty acids like the cod liver oil

don’t be afraid to have

cholesterol in your diet from eggs and

butter because

um that is going to

support the endocrine system

and help especially if you’re

postmenopausal and in the skin and the

um collagen

um all these factors so you’re you know

people think of the um your skin or

hydration as the main thing that fills

things out and you’re if it’s sunken in

it’s dehydrated dehydrated it’s not true

it’s more of the um the fat balance in

your diet and also if you go low fat

people tend to look very unhealthy so I

would start eating more healthy fats and

just and get more sun and more exercise

and that’s how I would counter it

but I don’t know I don’t that’s all the

data I have well Susan we hope that

helps uh and let’s uh here’s typical of

Dr Berg’s hate mail so Louise from

YouTube I’ve been taking Dr Berg’s hair

formula for four months now and my hair

has stopped thinning I also take a cup

of green two of green tea daily thank

you Dr Berg so that’s some more uh

information from out in the field I love

you doc let’s see why don’t we go into

today’s first question and Doc here it

all right so which hormone is mostly

involved with hair loss

all right team uh climb on that audience

and we’ll move on and why don’t we

really move on all the way to the United

Arab Emirates where we have Ahmad a

patiently waiting for us and a mod if

you unmute yourself you’re wrong with Dr

Byrd yes hello can you hear me yes

perfectly

uh thank you my question is that

actually I took finest ride for hair

loss and I am maintaining severe side

effects from that medicine because I

took it for around two and a half months

uh I have a lot of things so some kind

of pains in every area I couldn’t sleep

I feel like I’m just in my hands and

body

what can you advise me to do or what is

the right thing to make

so that medication blocks an enzyme

called five Alpha reductase which

basically stops the conversion of

testosterone into DHT which is the type

of estrogen that binds more tightly to

The receptors okay and then the because

it binds more tightly The receptors

it can inhibit the growth of hair and so

that’s what it’s just true is basically

allowing you to have less DHT right

that’s what it’s doing but the problem

is that when you have low DHT which is

the form of testosterone you have just

as many side effects

um as you have with too much DHT

the real problem with DHT is not

necessarily with that enzyme it’s with

the Androgen receptor being more

sensitive it’s kind of like

um it’s a genetic um

issue with those receptors so what can

you do now how can you make that

receptor not so sensitive of absorbing

this DHT right there’s several things

you can do one

um is that you can do things to increase

oxygen like for example

um exercise can definitely help

um if you’re anemic

that erecting that can increase oxygen

and how do you do that well iron B12

folate very very important and also can

help you with hair hair growth

um also making sure there’s no

inflammation in your scalp so how do you

do that vitamin D

vitamin D in itself

and actually uh help regulate that

oversensitivity situation and lower the

inflammation

um also the amino acid um

a lysine also can help that problem as

well and that comes from mainly

um red meat animal products and versus

people that try to eat too many nuts or

seeds or grains or beans they get more

of the other

Arginine which actually can block that

L-lysine so

so again if you have the animal products

and fish and things I think you’ll get

the iron you’ll get the B12 you’ll get

the L-lysine and that can help you

and then um

the other thing is like um it’s all

Palmetto is a natural thing to take I

don’t know if you’re taking that that

would be something that you could

benefit from like like what

uh saw palmetto

uh-huh yeah that’s a good one I didn’t

take any of these

so I would start to look at my videos in

relationship to this uh this this

receptor for Androgen and start working

on that because

you don’t necessarily want to completely

block

uh that that receptor you want to

balance it because there’s a genetic

weakness in that area uh like for women

um you ever hear that after they get

like pregnancy like they might actually

grow hair during pregnancy but right

after pregnancy they lose their hair or

they’re in their menstrual cycle certain

times they might lose their hair that’s

because they have a dip in estrogen so

this the hormones can be a big factor as

well

so anyway I just wanted to give you a

few tips there but I have a lot more if

you go to my YouTube videos so thank you

very much you’re welcome all right

thanks for joining us from the UAE we

really appreciate it and we hope that

you uh do great in your uh pursuit of

healthy hair and doc I hate to say this

but they’re absolutely after you this

morning Don Louis and Jennifer from

YouTube are doing well with your help

I’ve lost 26 pounds in six months and

I’m just five pounds from my uh from my

ideal weight thank you Dr Berg so

they’re not going to let you alone today

awesome awesome okay so uh Michael from

YouTube I had double bypass surgery

about three weeks ago I’m a type 2

diabetic how much d3k2 and cod liver oil

should I be taking not to clog up my

arteries again uh and what other

suggestions might you have to offer to

Michael

you know I would just recommend use the

recommended dosage on the back of the

label it’s those two nutrients are not

going to clog your arteries up okay

um and you’re probably referring to the

cod liver oil because it’s a fat it’s

not going to clog your arteries up it’s

in fact it’s going to thin the blood

prevent

um plot formation it’s uh it helps to

decrease the platelet stickiness it

helps to thin the blood so it does the

opposite of that

um also it’s a great anti-inflammatory

so you’re getting rid of inflammation

that could could be the reason why you

you know that if someone develops

lacking or clot clotting so I think

you’re on the right track so I I

wouldn’t be concerned about it those

things clotting you at all very good we

can’t wait to see the new you after that

process really takes hold all right Dr

Berg we have an answer for the first

question today which asks which hormone

is mostly involved with hair loss speak

of the devil and uh 55 percent of our

respondents say is testosterone you

spoke of that 40 say estrogen and five

percent say insulin who’s correct

well

you’re all correct um but specifically I

was looking for that hormone I actually

just mentioned DHT what the heck is DHT

it’s a type of testosterone that

is more powerful

and normally like if we’re talking about

hair

um you should have like 10 of that

testosterone be DHT

um but again like I said before if

there’s more of a sensitivity to that

receptor it binds

more so uh normally it binds like five

times more so let’s say it binds 10

times more and it gets in the way and

then it interferes with the growth of

hair so really

um a good

thing to focus on if you have pattern

baldness if you’re women or if you’re a

guy or a girl you need to start to look

at that area more than other areas like

how can I regulate that DHT better

not completely block it because then it

comes with the package you start getting

you know side effects from um you know

like um decrease libido and things like

that so we want just to regulate it and

unfortunately some people have that

genetic issue so you know I’ve talked

about that before I’ll be talking more

about it but there’s things that you can

do to overcompensate which I’ve just

mentioned with the first guest

all right very good now we move on to

fried frog from YouTube and Mr Frog I’m

gonna have a word with your parents for

their terrible naming convention that

must be so embarrassing anyway Mr Frog

asks I get vestibular migraines what’s

the best way to eliminate them

I have no idea but um for headaches or

migraines in general there’s several

things that I recommend

um the first thing I would do

is I would evaluate

a common cause of these headaches or

migraines could relate to your bile

ducts which is underneath the rubber rib

cage and so if you were to have a

migraine and massage underneath your rib

cage and that migraine went away or the

headache went away then we know it’s

related to that then you’d want tadka as

a remedy and then you’d want to get on

the right eating plan other causes for

migraines could be a deficiency of

sodium in which case having more salt

could help you

and I think I did a video I listed um

nine different causes and you can watch

that but as far as the vestibular type

I’m not exactly sure what’s behind that

I don’t think I’ve ever done a video on

that specific issue so

sorry

all right very good well Mr Frog We wish

you well and let’s talk about who’s

tuning in this morning beyond the people

we’ve already heard from a good morning

to all of our viewers joining us today

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not named so bring it on okay let’s see

let’s go to Frank from Facebook I uh I’m

a breast cancer survivor should I be

taking spirulina and sea kelp

well I think you should definitely take

seek help and probably something called

Dem dim is a constant concentrated

cruciferous product that can help

inhibit estrogen but the sea kelp is

also interesting

angle because it that that natural

compound which is a iodine it’s a

protein bound iodine so it’s really

really safe you take that that can also

help regulate the excess amount of

estrogen which is definitely related to

breast cancer in men and women so um the

other thing to really be careful about

is the soy milk or the soy protein

isolates

that’s been known to create some issues

as well so um

there you have it

that’s that’s some good tips very good

okay and this is interesting I hear a

lot of this stuff Jim from YouTube will

coffee Replacements like mud or wtr

haven’t heard of that Spike insulin are

there any other coffee Replacements that

you would recommend

I don’t think so I don’t think they have

anything

bad in them I think they might be pretty

good you can do the green tea that’s a

good coffee replacement tachino is

another one that I had long ago

um which is a blend of um

if I’m not mistaken they’re just kind of

roasted herbs and um and they it tastes

just very similar to coffee so you’d be

surprised and doesn’t have any caffeine

but um

I guess nowadays people are doing more

the the mushroom type drinks which

actually are adaptogens and they can

increase energy so there’s a lot of

things you can take but green tea would

be also at the top of the list because

of the benefits that green tea has on so

many different things okay very good and

next Quiz question Dr Burke here it is

okay which biomarker is the best cardio

best for cardiovascular problems

is that the LDL or the triglycerides

climate audience we know you’ll come up

with a great answer let’s see

um how about Mr

DJ health so Mr health is asking I got a

zero score on my CAC test but the scan

report indicated a calcified

renaloma in the left lower lobe should I

be concerned also my blood glucose is

110 after a 10 hour fast how come he

says

so he’s talking about the the coronary

artery calcification test and that’s

great that it’s zero that is awesome but

he’s concerned because there’s calcium

um in the left lobe of the liver the uh

sorry the the lung

um which is probably that something that

occurred after inflammation in the lung

but

honestly I I would say I wouldn’t worry

about it

um it’s not like you have calcium in the

arteries anymore

so um I mean I don’t know if it’ll ever

go away but there is a lot of people who

have these little calcium deposits

throughout the body

um but the question is why was there

damage there at some point was there

inflammation

um and sometimes the body heals with

this calcification and it’s very

difficult to have the completely be

removed I’m glad that it’s not in your

your kidneys or your arteries anymore so

that’s good or if it was that would be

bad but the point is that um calcium is

uh sometimes very pathogenic if it’s in

the wrong place and the thing that

controls calcium is that vitamin K2

vitamin K2 so it’s important to have

that in sufficient quantities and I did

recently a video on the foods that are

highest in K2 you can watch that

um the other reason why you get

calcification is there’s inflammation in

the arteries in other parts of your body

so how do we get rid of that we emo we

avoid

this omega-6 fatty acid which is

competitive for the Omega-3

so you have to get rid of and this is so

important the omega-6 fatty acids that’s

the corn oil

the soy oil the cotton seed the um

um safflower seed and just remove those

from the diet they’re in the salad

dressings they’re on a lot of deep fried

foods going to restaurants it’s in all

the fast foods

um that stuff it’s in the corn chips

that stuff just is inflammatory and you

don’t need it

Steve recently we um we adopted uh five

new pigs as a rescue mission goodness

I I’m gonna create a video on on these

pigs when I do a video on sleep apnea

because they have probably the most

severe sleep apnea snoring problem I’ve

ever heard in my life I mean they’re in

the barn I’m talking like probably 300

feet away and I can hear them

from that location okay and these these

poor goats who have to sleep in the barn

now sleep outside the barn because

they’re too noisy so um they’re they’re

definitely an issue but they’re obese

and so whoever raised them kept them in

a small pen and fed them of course the

high level of omega-6 fatty acids in

this corn

they lived on corn and they just got so

fat they could barely walk so we’ll put

them on a program and then we’ll take

videos over time and help them lose

weight and um

yeah just you know it’s just terrible so

anyway stay tuned for that video well we

sure will and I would suggest that for

their bedtime help them adjust their

CPAP mask because that I think is the

basis of the problem very long snouts to

help you get that to work I will do that

okay uh and also let’s see the is now

obligatory hey what about us uh just

came through so an additional shout out

to our other viewers from Somalia

Bulgaria Saint Lucia Yemen Palestine

South Korea Liberia Cambodia and Saudi

Arabia welcome all so I’ve got the world

pretty well covered I think okay why

don’t we go to quiz question number two

which we asked and it asks the audience

which biomarker is the best for

cardiovascular problems LDL or

triglycerides and the audience astutely

said or at least 60 percent of them are

respondents say triglycerides and the

other 40s say LDL any winners

the answer is LDL and what I’m sorry not

LDL price list right ta-da I was gonna

say LDL is a marker uh definitely

there’s some issues but not as severe as

when you do a triglyceride test now it’s

very important to note that when you

test for glycer like uh glasses for um

triglycerides you must do a fasting

triglycerides don’t don’t eat right

before you go do the test you want to do

a good you know a good fasting level

test or else you’re just going to show

up from the food that you just ate

um but the indication for high

triglyceride the cardiovascular health

is um is going to be a better biomarker

than LDL

now that being said LDL is a marker

it’s definitely a biomarker for the

cardiovascular but there’s two types of

LDL and um I’ve done videos on that and

one is pathogenic and the other is not

um definitely um when you get your test

done you know if you have high

triglycerides and high are

um that that that’s a worse uh

indication that there’s a problem and

that really relates primarily to the

level of carbs that you’re eating

because the carbs turn into

triglycerides uh way more than the

actual dietary fat

okay very good and Dr Burke did speak of

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and then when any of your friends ask

you a question you can whip that out and

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terrific doc thanks for working so hard

on that for all of us okay let’s go back

to social media uh Tammy from Facebook

I’m 62 I’ve been getting mammograms

since uh she was 36 I’m currently due

for my yearly exam but I’m debating

getting it uh I I suspect it’s always

been clean any suggestions

all right so

I can’t tell you to get it or not get it

okay don’t don’t don’t take my advice

but if it were me okay

if I had that out I was in your same

situation

um I would just really

question do that that frequently or even

to do it at all because of the damage

that some of these mammograms

potentially can create and I mean think

about it what what causes cancer it’s

damage to the mitochondria well if

you’re putting your breasts in a plate

and there’s pressure and there’s trauma

could that potentially

rate damage in the breasts uh like

physical trauma I think he could

um it’s debatable but it’s something to

look at and uh do you want to put

yourself through that

um I have done a video on that before

you should watch that because there’s a

lot more to be said about that

um the best thing to do

um is to eat as if you have a propensity

to get cancer

to prevent cancer and also if your

parents have cancer or had cancer I

would get a DNA test to see if you have

some genetics that um

are also going to give you a

susceptibility to getting cancer and

then you know what it’s going to tell

you to do is pretty much what I just

said you know like act more aggressively

to prevent it by consuming cruciferous

vegetables on a regular basis uh making

sure that you’re um

your diet is in check I think

you know the best thing to do because

you don’t know um if you people just

don’t realize unless you do the DNA test

what is your weak links so

um you really just need to get on the

healthy version the ketogenic diet and

like I’ve been suggesting and then

thousands of videos and you don’t have

to worry about it you’re bulletproofed

so that’s my suggestion good deal and I

have other people that are just my life

is my own again I’m not going to fill

the whole thing with people that have

benefited from the keto and intermittent

fasting but they are out there so anyone

on YouTube can read that let’s go to

another question uh let’s see

Samar from Facebook is it true that

taking vitamin D not accompanied by

calcium can be harmful

no it’s just the opposite it’s the

opposite vitamin D helps you absorb

calcium by a factor of 20x in your

intestine right so when you take calcium

with Vitamin D

these studies were done in women

postmenopausal you can increase the risk

of getting

cardiovascular problems why

well usually because you’re taking a lot

of calcium because the you’re taking a

thousand milligrams of calcium and then

you take the vitamin D you’re just like

putting these rocks in your body

um I really don’t believe we need as

much calcium as they say we need

especially you know they’re trying to

prevent bone loss but there’s very

flimsy research to show that taking

calcium will prevent fractures if any

and I’ve done a video on that recently

so but they actually can increase your

risk of getting

um calcium in the arteries and creating

a problem so

um yeah I wouldn’t I would not

worry about that taking you have to take

calcium okay by the way here’s I don’t

know if we’ve ever had this situation

before it’s a wonderful and all of our

guests in The Green Room are from uh

Europe and abroad no uh no homegrown

folks here and to that end let’s go to

Dora who is coming to us from Denmark on

mute yourself door if you haven’t

already you’re wrong with Dr Byrd

go ahead hi

hello

Hi and nice to meet you Dr Berg

nice to meet you too

I am from Denmark originally I’m from

Hungary by the way

and I have a question so recently I have

been watching your videos and basically

the first time of my life I got full

understanding what was going on in my

body the last 40 Years thank you very

much for that and my question is I

recognize from your videos that I have

this sibo sickness

and I took uh the last five years I took

a lot of vegetables in vegetable tour

mix and now honestly I don’t know what

to eat because I’m bloated as a pig and

uh and gas everywhere so it’s terrible

and please tell me exactly what should I

eat because should I take a slow juicer

and do the vegetables with that or

should I eat only meat or I don’t know

now what should I eat

so sibo is called stands for small

intestinal bacterial overgrowth okay and

so that’s a situation where you have the

microbes in the wrong place they’re in

the small intestine they shouldn’t be

there because now they’re competing

by taking your nutrition and they can

create a lot of gas because their your

body’s now fermenting in the wrong place

now how do these microbes ferment well

usually from the fiber in the vegetables

as you’re giving them so I think she’s

asking if I’m not mistaken um how do I

know if it’s gone now and what do I need

to eat well just start having a small

amount of um salads and see if you still

bloat

um and if you don’t then guess what

you’re probably good and you can start

doing that and

remember this is also they’re gonna you

add probiotics that can also create the

same situation so so if you don’t bloat

then you’re good if you do blow then you

maybe have you still have a problem with

that in which case

um you either dramatically lower the

amount of vegetables that you have

or just go carnivore completely now what

about

the juice from like wheatgrass juice

powder or the juice from vegetables well

that doesn’t have the fiber so that

could give you the nutrition and one

little factor I like about that is that

you’re getting a lot of phytonutrients

that can actually indirectly kill

pathogens and that can actually help you

as well but there’s something that’s

very very important for sibo and that

would be

acidifying the stomach and taking bile

salts on an empty stomach because the

bile stealths tend to go down the small

intestine and act as a detergent peeling

off the microbes in the small intestine

that’s one of the purposes of it so

apparently at some point you lost that

ability to produce bile to help do that

function which could come from your

hydrochloric acid in your stomach which

you might not have enough of so the

hydrochloric acid in the stomach and the

bile salts are two little factors that

um that I would pay attention to and

maybe start increasing those right now

so you can do that with betaine for the

chloride and then the Oxbow and you take

one before the meal one after meal and

you’re just gonna have to test the

waters and um you can

test different types of foods to see if

you still have a problem with it or not

okay thank you very much that’s great

appreciate it thanks Dora for coming on

with us and a question here I’m ashamed

Dr Burke I don’t know remember if you

have a probiotic product but I do know

that most uh cabinets medicine cabinets

have probiotic gummies in them Across

America and maybe Beyond I mean can you

really trust that is that a hard thing

to believe in those products that you’re

actually doing some good or what what’s

your on how to deal with I don’t like

gummies because they they come with a

package they come with these extra

tapioca fibers and the corn fibers and

even if they’re localizing even if you

can add sugar to them uh some of them

don’t but I don’t like I don’t like that

I think um you know the kind of a fad

thing that people are going through it’s

like oh yeah cool the gummies in there

it tastes great and they’re gummy bears

and they’re so cute but

um the question is at the expense of

these synthetic fibers that our bodies

are not really designed to deal with

um they call them prebiotics but in

nature we’d never have this type of

things we we have like fiber from actual

food

but not these all these new

synthetic synthesized new fibers that

are in our diets which are in a lot of

the keto plants so they haven’t been

tested very long I don’t trust them I

don’t I wouldn’t recommend them

is a small amount gonna kill you no

um but um

I definitely would not um do a lot of

them if I were you okay thank you sir

all right here we go next question

number three a true falser

okay true false chronic loneliness and

social isolation can increase your risk

of cancer just as much as smoking and

obesity that’s very sad can’t wait to

hear the audience’s reaction to that

let’s go back to uh social media shazo

Ali from YouTube I’ve had trouble

sleeping after starting keto and iaf

what can I do to restore my normal sleep

pattern

I mean what what I would do is I would

start to make sure you’re taking the

electrolytes number one and one one

mineral or two minerals that can help

sleep is calcium and magnesium

so some people take my electrolyte

powder and that helps give them energy

but there’s not a lot of calcium

in that electrolyte powder so if they

take it over a longer period of time

they may they might need a little more

calcium before bed in which case you

just need to add some and it can help

you go to sleep

but that being said there’s also to be

vitamins when you go on keto the

requirement for B vitamins go up

especially for B1 and if you’re

deficient in B1 that potentially could

keep you up so but this is why I

recommend like taking nutritional yeast

or the B vitamins and electrolytes when

you’re on keto to prevent these these

issues

but I do have a lot of videos on sleep

and so if if you try B1 or you try um

this magnesium or calcium and it doesn’t

work I have plenty of additional

suggestions

all right very good I guess we’re in the

midst of Lent so here’s an appropriate

question Terry from Facebook will

fasting for 20 hours affect the fasting

test for triglycerides

it’s what you it would be a good thing

because then you’d get a true

um number of what your triglycerides are

that don’t take in consideration the the

um the dietary food that can affect

triglycerides so yeah that would be a

good good fasting period to then go get

your triglycerides tested

very good okay here’s an unusual Nancy

from YouTube She’s 71 and suffers from

hot flashes and high blood pressure

that’s not good I’m 20 pounds overweight

what measures would you recommend for me

there’s a lot to do for hot flashes but

um the fact that you have both hot

flashes and high blood pressure the

first thing that I would try if I were

you would be um

I would try vitamin D and I would do

that because that could kill two birds

with one stone I always like to do that

vitamin D other things that can cause

hot flashes could be a lack of vitamin E

in which case I would take the version

called tocotranals or hot flashes

another thing that can help hot flashes

is some C kelp

and then the other thing that can help

hot flashes is just the fact that you’re

post-menopausal and your body is just

just doesn’t have enough of the the sex

hormones anymore in which case you want

to feed the body more raw material to

make estrogen progesterone and even

cortisol and even testosterone to some

degree and the way to do that is to add

more cholesterol to the diet and now we

talk about the grass-fed butter eggs the

fat of your Meats which is a really good

thing for postmenopausal women to make

sure they have the raw material to feed

these hormones because you don’t want to

go uh I mean just take a look at women

that take statins that block cholesterol

boy there goes the hormones even more

just tank right down here so again

you really want to um take a a broad

look at the whole mechanism here and

and do the right thing instead of just

start to well I’m just going to block

cholesterol because cholesterol is

affecting the heart and which is totally

false so

all right very good so Cindy from

Facebook what are your thoughts about

kombucha drinks

it’s it’s it’s basically the make it out

of um black tea and sugar okay and then

it ends up with a smaller amount of

sugar because the microbes eat it and it

helps you with your digestion

personally it’s very difficult to find

Kombucha tea with just two grams of

sugar

mostly a lot of times it’s six grams per

serving size or or even 10 grams 11

grams which you don’t need that you

don’t need that extra sugar so I’m not

crazy about the kombucha drinks simply

because you’re consuming sugar

now that being said other people benefit

from kombucha and so and they still do

fine and maybe they don’t have a really

major insulin problem go for it go for

it just make sure that the ingredients

um that come from really good

ingredients for example

um most of the sugar in America is beet

sugar which is GMO

well you don’t want that

if you’re gonna do kombucha make sure

it’s coming from actual sugar cane

organic

and try to find something with the

lowest amount of sugar possible

very good okay you know uh boy in the

news constantly are these new designer

drugs that end up in your corner gas

station Supermarket the latest one

causes necrosis of the skin while they

get high doctors are trying to keep

their legs skin from falling off I tell

you it’s such a you know a slippery

slope when you go in there and they are

quote unquote legal if you will because

you can grab them out of those places

but boy buyer beware I guess there’s

some really really dangerous stuff and I

guess until someone gets hold of it and

says no that should not be illegal it’s

legal so you know of course that goes

beyond what you’re talking about with

kombucha but it’s really scary I hope

people learn not to trust that it’s safe

for them just because it’s on the Shelf

next to the cash register

terrible you mean you mean even the

candy bars are safe because they’re on

the Shelf that’s what I thought well

yeah they haven’t killed me yet but

they’ve come close so anyway okay so uh

quiz question number three uh asked true

false chronic loneliness and social

isolation can increase your risk of

cancer just as much as smoking and

obesity

and 98 of our respondents say that

that’s absolutely true two percent are

holding out and say no way it’s false

it’s actually true which is interesting

it’s actually that much so

um what’s happening when you have

chronic loneliness social isolation is

you you probably are

you have a very spiking spike in

cortisol which paralyzes the immune

system which then lowers your defense

against cancer

um so you’re very susceptible to having

a lot of health problems when you’re in

that state so yeah that that’s

absolutely true I’m going to be

releasing a video on on that and that

would be one unusual cause of cancer

that you probably have not really uh

looked at yet but there’s actually going

to be more which is actually

I’m going to talk about in an upcoming

video should be interesting very good

let’s go back to our International

followers in the green room and Lionel

is coming to us from Romania and and he

looks very cheery all the time so he’s

been smiling the whole time Lionel what

is making you so happy go ahead with

your question hello I’m very happy that

finally have the chance to to talk with

Dr Beck I’m Janelle from Romania I live

in a town from Transylvania my early

medical condition so far that I’m aware

of is the Hashimoto under hormone

treatment with D4 old problem but no

symptoms thanks God the usual test for

blood sugar are upper normal range for

instance glucose level is 98 glycated

hemoglobin is 5.7 but I have a Homa

index measured last year in November

that is way too high 5.3 clearly my

Endocrinology said no worries blood

analysis for glucose are in range so for

the moment no worries but you know in

November when and I started to follow

you I started to cut sugar white bread

to a certain degree starches increased

fat do almost every day my 10K steps

intermittent fasting for the moment only

two times a week

the good news is that now BMI is exactly

25 at the edge of normal last three

kilos I just did a new set of blood

tests like you said in your videos LDL

went up but I have a very good ratio of

triglycerides to HDR that is 1.8 now you

said it’s good but but insulin it’s

still unfortunately 22 still very big

didn’t change at all so my question

specifically would be what’s wrong and

specifically if you can maybe recommend

an ideal percentage of my daily

nutrients I started to count them in

this moment I’m like 100 grams of carbs

not sure too much or to to to low for my

condition considering I have also

Hashimoto well to be honest my wife is

pushing me to cut some of the fats and

for a while stay only on vegetables and

and lean meat

and I have also a question if

supplements like berberine could help in

my my case or we’ll just hide the

problems or and fool me well I’m glad

I’m glad that this was a one quick

question

um so um a couple things that uh

he’s he’s talking about his uh

his Homer IR is too high and that is a

test that measures insulin resistance

you’re you’re looking at the fasting

glucose and the fasting insulin test and

there’s a little ratio there

um so that that home IR tells us that

his insulin resistance is still a

problem however is A1C uh is in uh I

think five point something is pretty

good which tells us that

he’s not eating

um a lot of sugar

um and that’s good that’s good uh I

still think the fact that the a um home

IR is high

tells me that he better bring his uh

carbs down even more because 100 grams

is just a little too high I would bring

it down to 50 grams for sure

um now the other Factor that’s probably

messing things up is this this thyroid

issue

um and I’m guessing it’s Hashimoto’s and

so he needs um to really focus on that

because that’ll if you have a thyroid

problem

and you go get your cholesterol and

those other values tested boy it’s going

to be off the charts because the thyroid

can be causing the cholesterol so if you

have a thyroid problem don’t even worry

about testing your your lipids even

though his are fine because it’s going

to be

going to be messed up do you want to fix

the thyroid with selenium and I have a

lot of videos on the nutrients that you

want to support the thyroid with

selenium it could be because your liver

is fatty that could be interfering with

the thyroid so you’d have to fix that

but with choline and maybe some bile

salts that would help that always helps

the thyroid bile salts are a great

remedy for that

um the other factor to look at

um is just how long he had insulin

resistance it could be a long time which

could take some time to correct

um other reasons why what can affect the

insulin resistance is stress I don’t

know his stress level but that’s always

a big big factor okay with this stress

now he is his wife is selling him to

lower his cholesterol and fats which

that’s the secondary thing because

really needs to fix the thyroid rather

than try to fix the thyroid with

lowering the fats

um so

how do we increase this insulin

resistance how can we um do that well

berberine is a great remedy apple cider

vinegar is essential

potential for that it’s going to help

you greatly

um also

um potassium and vitamin D are also

really important especially potassium

higher levels of potassium to help you

fix this insulin resistance problem

exercise is essential

um so I just gave you a lot of things to

do there’s other things to do in my

video so that should at least get you

started for the next few days

thank you you’re welcome Lionel thank

you so much for being such a great

representative of lovely Romania

appreciate it love to hear back from you

with all your uh remedies or your good

reports rather from these things okay

let’s see let’s go to uh quiz question

number four which is a true false or Dot

okay true false apple cider vinegar can

turn into ketones in your body and give

you energy

interesting and that sounds sort of

exciting somehow let’s go back to social

media uh

oh Natalie from Facebook I suffer from a

fast heart rate I’ve been on keto and

Aya for eight weeks I thought it would

help but it doesn’t appear to do

anything I get these episodes one to two

times a day

yeah what I would do if I were you

is it could be related to

uh your Pacemaker and electrolytes which

is a common issue when you start keto if

you don’t get on a good electrolyte

blend then it kind of you know you could

be deficient in electrolytes and if

you’re already going into this program

deficient in electrolytes this can

aggravate the problem so I would start

taking the electrolytes especially the

potassium and the magnesium in which

case it can actually be the thing you

needed to kind of calm down the pulse

rate I do know when someone is potassium

deficient their pulse rate goes up this

is why when you do a lot of carbs for

example you deplete your potassium and

all of a sudden you end up with this

higher pulse rate there’s other things

that can also increase the pulse rate

and that’s B1 the other thing that you I

always recommend to take more of when

you’re on the ketogenic plan so

potassium and B1 and maybe magnesium are

the three things I would recommend to

bring this pulse rate down the normal

State

I mean when you think about it

what are you gonna what else are you

gonna do you’re going to go back to

carbs is that going to help how can that

help your pulse rate

I don’t think it does I don’t think

that’s the solution I think the solution

is just to get these other nutrients in

your body so you can naturally

control the rate of your your heart

very good well we hope that helps and

let’s move on the audience as usual has

really ripped through the questions our

fourth question was true false apple

cider vinegar can turn into ketones in

your body and give you energy sounds

exciting uh the audience 68 of them say

that it’s true 32 percent say that

that’s not true at all

about I’d say two weeks ago

I was a little bit tired and I’m like

wow I didn’t I didn’t change anything

except I dropped down my apple cider

vinegar right and then I’m like I put it

back in and I’m like wow I had more

energy

and there’s various reasons that I

thought

that apple cider vinegar helped your

energy

or as far as the the mechanics of it you

know with because the bloating or

digestion and maybe acidifying and

helping with blood sugars but there’s

another reason which I recently learned

and I didn’t know this

um acetic acid which is the acid and

apple cider vinegar the main one it

um turns into acetone which is one of

the three types of ketones

so it is true that acetic acid can

actually give you energy by the fact

that it increases your ketones

it also can be converted to the other

Ketone called beta hydroxy butyrate and

so that is the why it can give you

energy not to mention our bodies also

make acetic acid it’s a small chain

fatty acid that um

that can help um

you get energy which is fascinating so

if you want more energy it’s the really

simple thing to do one to two

tablespoons of this apple cider vinegar

and water maybe a big glass of water

once or twice a day and I bet you

anything your energy will start to go up

and now you know why wow that’s terrific

well I care what we’re gonna go to Sonia

our final guest from UK however we’re

going to kick off a quiz question number

five before we do

all right true or false

if a product you buy says zero trans

fats

it means there’s zero trans fats in

there

well yes or no audience true or false

true or false and here we go all the way

from the UK is Sonia you’re on with Dr

Byrd

hi Dr Burke thank you for taking my

inquiry

um yeah uh basically I had the

hysterectomy three months ago

um kept the ovaries up and now I’m

starting to have symptoms of menopause

um so uh the worst some somehow there’s

been a bit of answering 10 of my

questions from the previous uh previous

um inquiry but um yeah I’m having hot

flashes and chill flashes as well for

just as it has the very hot one it

follows the chill one and um and then

yeah I was just wondering what uh should

be aware of and how I can support this

transition in my body what Naturals

so yeah so can I ask you um why why did

you have a hysterectomy in the first

place

so I had fibroids I had a very bulky

uterus

uh sadly he had to go

okay

um so there’s a couple things that I

would recommend as a remedy

um to help with this this these symptoms

and it’s basically it’s not not any of

my products it’s a product from standard

processors too and it’s called eutrophin

and um

over trophin PMG so eutrophin and over

trophin PMG and you take

um one of each before bed

and I think that

will really really help you that that

tends to balance out the ovaries in

relationship to the ovary

and the uterus and it helps to balance

that out to the system where your your

pituitary now has this direct link

because it’s kind of like if you have

this you have this whole communication

cycle going on between the pituitary

and the ovaries and even the uterus and

there’s a this whole feedback system and

now

you only have part of that system

and so now there’s just like this short

circuit thing that just it’s not really

working anymore so

taking these two nutritional products

will tend to

um normalize

that circuit in a way that can reduce

the problem that you have

um the other thing to do and you already

got this from other answers is that you

definitely want a beef up no pun

intended your cholesterol which will

give you the raw materials for some of

these hormones because now your adrenals

have to take up the slack even more and

then they’re just uh they’re probably

like hey what about me I’m I’m

overworked underpaid so I need some help

so you want to support the adrenals you

can also do that with adaptogens

um like ashwagandha

and also more cholesterol in the diet

that’s what I would do

thank you thank you you’re welcome

that’s great thank you so much you know

it’s great the audience can’t see them

in there but uh Lionel and Sonia are

taking copious notes while you’re

talking so that’s great they’re serious

about their health and uh you know

appreciate the time that you take with

them so it’s obviously going to put it

into good use so anyway our final

question of the day true false if a

product says zero trans fat does it mean

zero trans fat and there is a strong

opinion on that 98 of our respondents

say it’s false two percent are holding

out that it’s true dog who’s right

hmm

yeah it’s uh this is a loophole

um the the FDA

in America

their definition

of zero trans fats

is it has to have less than 0.5

grams so

half of a gram and then it can be called

zero trans fats when wait a second what

is wrong with that picture it’s not zero

trans fats there’s some in there now

this is per serving size okay if you

take a look at

did you ever eat those Cheez-Its before

I would never do okay yes

okay let’s Cheez-Its they’re little

these crackers right

it’s partially hydrogenated oil so

there’s trans fats in there so how many

Cheez-Its

isn’t a serving size I don’t know but

it’s probably a little handful right

and or even like Ruffles potato chips

I think it’s like two tablespoons of

chips equal one serving size

Steve have you ever in your life eaten

Ruffles potato chips

I’ve heard of them I’ve heard of them

but now I prefer raw broccoli

right okay but you probably know people

you know anyone that can just do one two

tablespoons of those potato chips in one

certain just like walk away from it bet

you can’t eat just one remember the old

lays Challenge and they were right I

don’t think so they’re pretty addictive

and also uh Pringles

you can’t just do a few I can’t

I have to do the whole thing boom

so um

when you multiply and start adding up

the amount of serving sizes that people

have with trans fats they’re walking

away with a tremendous amount of trans

fats which are very very very damaging

to the heart increasing risk of cancer

and so I’ll be doing a video on that too

these these synthetic fats that were

basically we’re replacing our saturated

fats when they found oh yeah well you

know sorry we were wrong they created