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well good morning everyone

welcome back there’s a lot of questions

feel free to give us a call let’s dive

right in

anything that i say is not meant or

intended to cure you

or replace your medical care check with

your doctor before taking any of the

advice that i’m about to talk about

i’m going to jump right into desiree uh

is

calling um and she had a question

are you there desiree i am dr berg how

are you today

are you there can you hear me

hello i think you had a question related

to which nutrients are essential for

extended fasting

yeah dr burke can you hear me i can hear

you yeah yeah unfortunately

uh yeah unfortunately you’re not able to

hear desiree but why don’t you answer

her questions as we sort through that

and she is on the line okay so

she had a question which nutrients are

essential for extended fasting it’s a

very very good question

um and that would be

um electrolytes i’m talking about

potassium

um and magnesium

and even calcium and sodium you don’t

really

retain potassium and magnesium for a

long time

so if you’re going into a fast without

these nutrients um

you can be end up with a deficiency and

you feel real dizzy and things like that

and even sea salt too like that’s why i

always recommend

sea salt electrolytes and then

a good electrolyte blend would be great

the other thing that you need is b

vitamins

you don’t retain some of these b

vitamins

very long either and you need to b

vitamins

as you do keto and definitely fasting as

well because you’re burning more fat you

require more b

vitamins so those two are really

important and then

if you could actually also add in trace

minerals in there that would be

also a very good thing as well and

there’s other ones as well

i’ve talked about this in other videos

like omega 3 fatty acids

but those fats tend to

be stored in your fat cells a little bit

longer so it’s really the water soluble

vitamins that you need to put back in

and some of the minerals that you don’t

retain

like zinc for example very very

important i mean you retain

calcium pretty well and iron but not

these other ones

vitamin c is another one that you don’t

retain for a long time too so that would

be another

good thing to take as well okay doc i

think you can hear each other why don’t

you try that desiree

can you hear me i can hear you perfectly

now hi desiree

okay hi dr burke how are you great

um i heard you say electrolytes b

vitamins trace minerals

zinc and vitamin c are they what i need

to

do yes yeah

zinc is part of the trace minerals so if

you take a trace metal blend you’re

going to be covered

and then vitamin c as well but just make

sure with your vitamin c it’s a food

based

it’s not like a synthetic version

because you want the whole complex

and even if i’m diabetic right i was

need all of this especially if you’re

diabetic because

um you you’re always gonna you’re gonna

go into this

um with insulin resistance which means

that you’re gonna need more nutrients to

penetrate that resistance because

insulin is required for absorption of a

lot of these nutrients

so i think what i would do as well if

you’re

since you’re diabetic is find my video

on this topic

and watch that because it’s a little bit

more in detail for someone like you i

think that can help you

okay can i actually one quick question

accurately

you’re taking your essential 80 central

amino acids

and before i started taking them i had

one grey hair in the front of my head

i took them from and it literally and i

couldn’t it disappeared

i st and i i was stored so i stopped to

them just to

try to experiment and now it haven’t

taken them about a month

and now the one here is back is is it

possible that one of

the eight essentials controls like hair

grains

oh well think about what your hair is

made out of it’s

made out of amino acids so there’s no

there’s a there’s a product i have it’s

called keto aminos it’s all the

essential amino acids

and it’s good for a lot of different

things what’s unique about it is that

you you absorb like 99 of it compared to

other protein

you would only absorb like 50 but this

is not a protein it’s

it’s individual amino acids so it

doesn’t take a lot of digestion it goes

right in like a rocket ship

and it’s really good for people that are

fasting

also if they’re trying to build muscle

and also if they’re athletes

and for other things too metabolic

processes if they’re gastric bypass

if they even like you you’re a diabetic

you’re not going to absorb

amino acids as well so this will just

give you the amino acids

drive it right into the tissues and

think about how many different

bile

it’s a really good source i consume

cheese on a regular basis

just make sure it’s organic and

grass-fed and also sheep cheese and goat

cheese would be even better

but i wouldn’t take i would not get your

calcium primarily from a supplement

um just because i mean

if you find a good good source but don’t

do the calcium carbonate

and i just don’t recommend taking

calcium as a supplement at all

because it’s it’s very hard to die

absorb that get it from you get your

calcium from your food

from dairy you can also get some calcium

from leafy greens

but i would never take calcium as a

standalone vitamin

especially calcium carbonate which is

actually in most multivitamin minerals

so

it just creates a lot of issues actually

even for women there’s some studies that

will increase the chance of getting a

heart attack

so um calcium and iron for example

are two minerals that our body tends to

retain

more than other minerals

thank you very much dr bill you’re

welcome thanks for your call doc by the

way we lost your camera but we do have

our little remote live

uh icon up so we’re still going on with

the show and maybe you can charge that

but in the meantime

everything is fine you can go on with

the phone calls etc

and the questions when you’re ready okay

so can you see me with my backup camera

i have a backup camera we’ll try that it

might it may work

we do have it yeah we have you it’s a

and we’ll we’ll kind of adjust the way

it looks a little bit but you’re back

with us so that’s great doc

okay um it’s the thing about my cameras

i have to

somehow i have to recharge it the way

it’s hooked up so i have to figure that

out

hey bob um you’ve been waiting patiently

you

you wanted to follow up on your bloating

and fluid retention are you there bob

stand by doc hello

hello bob hi yes hi thank you very much

for taking my call again i appreciate it

sure um yes following up

uh i have to say for just one week it’s

much improved

i’m very very pleased with the way that

it’s been going

i’ve tried to implement all the things

that you told me as far as eating just

one time a day

cutting way back on the vegetables

really i’m not having any vegetables

right now but i’ve i’ve gone down almost

four pounds since we last

spoke last friday so it really shows you

know that the fluids and the bloating

has as much reduced um

i was just wondering though how long it

takes to clear up

sibo for one thing and when i can start

having vegetables again how much would

you recommend that i have at that time

yeah i think i would give it two months

because

if you have sibo you’re going to have to

really start

taking more things like a betaine

hydrochloride which is an acidifier that

will start to

add more acid to the stomach because you

don’t want any microbes going through

that stomach most

a lot of people over the age of 50 have

low stomach acids and that’s really what

triggers the whole thing it’s one of the

causes it’s not everything but it’s

contributes the other thing that can

help you reduce sibo is

purify bile salts taking that because

bile cells help

as a secondary function to kill off

microbes

it’s like a detergent and throughout the

small intestine that will speed things

up

greatly and then when you start to

introduce the leafy greens

um you know just do one cup per day and

see how that goes and then maybe add to

two and three and four

these the the benefit of the fiber is

going to

give you short chain fatty acids which

actually really

really important in a lot of different

things and also

feel the colon cells they’ll actually

give the colon cells

energy as well and so that would be one

thing to help you um but that’s great so

we know

that this is the thing that’s uh you

need so we’re on the right track

and um give it another couple months in

the meantime

because now you’re kind of like a

carnivore you’re going to have to

study up on how to do that correctly

with nutrients like you may not

just want to have meats you might want

to do definitely eggs and seafood and

other things to make sure you’re

well-rounded maybe even some animal

organ meats as well to get all your

nutrients

excellent thank you very much you’re

you’re welcome bob

all right steve we have the first

question let’s do it stand by

okay what is the what is the

most difficult nutrient to get

in your in your diet what what nutrient

is the most difficult

to get from just eating foods that’s the

first question

and as you guys chew on that question

i’m going to go to sue had from detroit

that had a question relating to your

appetite while breastfeeding are you

there

hello hi

hi dr greg i have been following a

healthy keto

before getting pregnant then

i am breastfeeding now for 14 months

maybe

but i cannot control my appetite like

i’m trying to push myself

going on keto but it’s out of my control

and my friends and family consider me an

idol

for allowing healthy lifestyle but

i’m gaining weight i should be losing

weight while breastfeeding

but i am gaining weight and i don’t want

to

like quit by feeding my baby because

it’s very essential for him

i’m struggling what to do um

okay so i do understand you definitely

want to lose weight while you’re

breastfeeding i

i think um you’re right it’s it’s more

important to

focus on the quality of breast milk

right now and

um how many meals a day are you

consuming

oh my god probably i’m eating every two

hours and i’m craving for sweets

but i’m i’m going for fruit in order

for my breast milk to be healthy

the fruit yeah i think that’s the

problem i think i would go back to keto

because

you’re you’re out of keto now which

means you’re going to be hungry all the

time which means you’re going to gain

weight

if you do keto and provide

more nutrient dense keto foods

seafood healthier fats and make sure you

have all the nutrients

the problem that i cannot it’s like very

i’m trying to force myself but it’s like

painful hunger

right well that’s because when you’re

actually doing

more carbs like fruit that’s instantly

going to raise your sugar and then drop

it

and then now you’re going to be hungry

very frequently

so yes sir but i i am like i don’t do

carb i don’t eat bread or carb right

yes this is when i like with some

something pushing me supporting me

but i do keto and breastfeeding like i

success

for two weeks then after that i

just something out of my control pushing

me

like i cannot continue is that something

i can do

i think i think you uh having a baby is

requiring certain nutrients i would

i would go with more b vitamins more

nutritional yeast

and i would also take purified bile

salts which will help you

pull more nutrients out of the food that

you’re already eating

i think you’re just missing some

nutrients i would go up with the

nutrients if i were you

primarily the b vitamins

all right try that and let us know how

that works okay

all right steve do we have an answer

answers for this the hardest nutrient to

get from your diet

okay we’re still working on that why

don’t we go to another call

let’s go to mary mary are you there

i’m here

hello hi mary how are you

great thanks thank you for taking my

call

i have a question regarding shingles

yes he has been dealing with the bout of

shingles unexpectedly and i’m going to

tell you i’m embarrassed to say

i’m 60 years old i’m healthy i exercise

i supplement

i watch you i have holistic

practitioners and i

got the first flu shot i’ve ever had in

my life

so i want to start there i got it on a

wednesday

september 30th i started not feeling

good on

friday uh two days later

and have kind of gone downhill since

then

i’m going back uphill but i developed

shingles

on my face left side of my face in my

left eye

i did watch your video um and i’ve been

taking the

50 000 units of d3 and with the 500

mcgs of k2 and i started

that just this past sunday

so i’m wonder i’m also taking 3 000

units of or milligrams of lysine

i’ve been taking that since the onset

i’m taking vitamin c i got a b12

shot yesterday i’m doing everything so

this the uh

lesions have cleared up i have

inflammation in my

eye i’ve certainly been to my

optimologist five times in a month

i just went yesterday but now i’m

dealing with of course the post

herpetic neuralgia which i know you

recommended the d3 and the

m the k2 i guess my question is if you

have any other recommendations or how

long it may take for that to kick in

right and i think this was a coincidence

with the

vaccine right i think it is

yeah that hap i mean i’ve seen this all

the time in practice where there’s

someone who gets a flu shot or something

all of a sudden it stirs up

a hornet’s nest and

unfortunately now we’re trying to

backtrack so

um there’s one thing that they do put in

vaccines now

which is the aluminum which it’s called

an

um it’s it’s basically something to

enhance the immune reaction

so one thing you can do

um yes

hello you can hello hi can you hear me

oh yeah

you cut out there for a minute okay

silica

silica is something you can start taking

that binds with aluminum that’s one

thing you can take to

if that is going if that’s actually

creating a problem but

i think the thing that you need to do is

calm down the immune system with more

vitamin d and more fasting

prolonged fasting to help repair this

damage that this has created and just

kind of let it go through its process

because once the immune system is like

activating

some dormant virus

it’s almost like it’s really hard to

stop it because you’re in a full-blown

immune system and an immune reaction

then you

just have to let it go through the

process but to speed it up

vitamin d will calm things down and i

would probably even go up to 50 000 ius

every day

and i would do some more fasting those

are the two things

really that you need to do and then try

to reduce stress as much as possible

i know some people that get poison ivy

a lot and uh and once they get it

if they’re highly allergic um

you know one thing that they can do is

as well is just because they’re in this

immune reaction is to take a lot of

vitamin d

and then fast and at least those two

actions will

modulate or just kind of chill out the

immune system because it’s overreactive

right now

zinc is something else that i would

definitely start to

beef up and it just so happens that zinc

is in beef so you can use that as well

but zinc vitamin d and fasting are your

three things that i would focus on right

now

okay dr berg how about some results from

your first question and i’ll repeat it

what is the most difficult nutrient to

get from your diet

and the survey says 55 from vitamin d

30 b12 and 15

zinc what say your doctor well the

answer is vitamin d

it’s almost impossible to get the amount

of vitamin

um the from your diet that’s why we go

for the sun

especially in the winter unless you’re

doing um

fatty fish on a regular basis in cod

liver oil

it’s very difficult to get it and this

is why so many people are deficient

steve

so going forward into the winter i

always recommend

add vitamin d to your diet and you’re

going to find

as a supplement and cod liver oil is one

good source as well but

you’ll find that your aches and pains

will be kind of chilled out a little bit

your low back pain won’t be as bad um

your mood will be better because as you

go into the winter and you don’t get

enough sun

boy it’s like you get stiff low back

pain depression those are the three

big things that um occur without vitamin

d and there’s many others as well and

you just mentioned 50

000 units so five of your fabulous uh

d3k2 so that’s

oh that is that’s mainly for an immune

reaction

okay if you’re just maintaining it you

just need probably

um and i know some of you are going to

say wow that’s a lot

10 000 ius a day but

if you’re over the age of 45

if your skin is a little bit darker if

you have

weight problems all these factors

increase

majorly your need for vitamin d

so um personally i’m i’m recommending

10 000 i use as a maintenance dosage for

vitamin d3 so

i personally take 20 um and

if you’re concerned about that i have

probably like five or six videos on

you know what are the side effects of

too much vitamin d and you’re going to

find that you would have to take

a lot i’m talking hundreds of thousands

of vitamin d for many months before it

becomes a problem so i wouldn’t worry

about it too much

all right sounds great doc all right we

have some questions on

social media would you like to take one

yes i would like to take some of those

questions

okay so facebook of legia religia

if i’m saying that right what is the

best food sources for

vitamin b1 b1

yes sir okay um

sunflower seeds is a good source also

nutritional yeast is a really good

source

vitamin b1 is in a lot of different

foods the key with

b1 is to avoid things that deplete your

b1

too much caffeine as in coffee

or even tea tannic acid will deplete

your b1

um and of course the refined carbs will

definitely decrease your

your b1 if you’re a diabetic and you

have higher sugars

or if you’re doing more carbs then the

the demand for b1 goes way up

if you drink alcohol your demand for b1

goes way

up so

nutritional yeast is the best source and

i just would recommend

adding that as part of your diet but

sunflower seeds do have

b1 as well make sure that the raw ones

because b1 is a bit sensitive to heat

great thanks lucia for that question do

you want to kick off another question

or should we yes i do what is the

easiest

okay we talked about the most difficult

nutrient from your diet what about

what is the nutrient that’s the easiest

to get from your diet

so let’s let’s see if you guys have that

one correct

as we go to darmonder from minneapolis

are you there dominder from minneapolis

yes i’m here hi how are you i’m doing

good

wow i’m doing good in general

yeah are you really doing that my main

issue has been my um you know

gut uh i have had

uh ibs uh more of or

on type c they call it right more on the

constipation side

um for for

almost since my early 20s i’m 53 right

now

close to 53 and uh

it’s been heck of a ride i mean i’ve

tried different therapies and

i’ve felt good and i felt bad um

but um i in 2012 i

did uh uh you know nutritional therapy

with dr

larry wilson um they

give supplements and whatnot but i’m i’m

really looking for a starting point i

cannot tolerate any supplements anymore

so i’m really looking for a good

starting point to start healing my gut

can you tell me um can you can you give

me a couple ideas of what type of foods

that you eat on a daily basis

um i eat a lot of veggies mostly you

know different type of vegetables

um you know with my in my breakfast

lunch and dinner

um and i eat quinoa or brown rice that’s

pretty much it or i’ll take you know

gluten-free breads i cannot

tolerate gluten either yeah

i think i know the problem i think i

know the problem

um you’re eating foods that

do have irritants

to your colon

in the brown rice unfortunately in the

grains

grains in general are real hard and even

for

a certain percentage of population

vegetables can uh create a lot of issues

with your gut

um in this case i know you’re a

vegetarian

um no i’m i’m not a strict vegetarian i

can definitely

i’m open to eating meat my family had a

background where we used to eat

meat so i am definitely open to that

it’s

there’s no constraint over there okay i

would i’m gonna recommend you do an

experiment

i want you to do something for one week

and then call me back next week

um i want you to do um

more of a carnivore diet and include

seafood

include meats and eggs

and i want to see how your gut feels

within one week

don’t do any grains no vegetables

and let’s just see how you do in one

week because

for someone like you i think that may be

a significant um relief

to your gut and also

i want you to do some in a minute

fasting so don’t eat three meals a day

like do

two meals a day work on that and then

touch space

with me next week because unless we get

your diet corrected

all these supplements are not going to

do anything okay

i’ll tell you my experience with meat

also if i eat

chicken or egg i mean i have a really

hard time the next day

yeah so i think you could have because

of what you have

you’re probably um there’s there

either is allergies also an inability to

digest some of these proteins so

i would stick with the shellfish if you

could do it or

fish um and maybe some lamb

and try some other protein that you can

digest but

definitely not the ones that you know

for a fact will create a problem

okay thanks for your call

steve what do we have as answers yes sir

let me put the question up and it is

what is the easiest nutri nutrients

gives me to get

from your diet and the survey says 45

from calcium 45 is calcium 35 percent is

what’s that oh vitamin c i’m sorry i

couldn’t read and 20

uh potassium do we have any smarty pants

in the audience

okay so um the easy

actually the easiest one to get is

vitamin k1

it’s in not only is it in

so many foods but your microbes

make b1 so it’s very very very unlikely

for you to become k1 deficient

because it’s one of those things that

stops bleeding and so your body as a

survival mechanism

has created um created many different

possible sources from this from your own

microbes

to the food that you eat and

so i guess i could even worded this

question a little bit differently what’s

the

uh what’s what’s probably the one of the

least nutritional deficiencies that

you’ll

ever have it’s a k1

unless you’re on coumatin you’re you’re

taking a drug that’s blocking it because

that would

that’s a whole different situation but

most people are not deficient in k1

now we’ll just have to give the audience

okay thanks steve hey let’s go to matt

um

matt you had a question about exercise

are you there

yes i am thanks for taking my call i was

wondering if you could speak to the

relationship between gluconeogenesis

and um and using ketones um

for energy production and how that might

inform

the kind of exercise and the intensity

of it

and then also um just another quick

question

if i’ve got plenty of stored fuel in

terms of fat already should i be

reducing my dietary fat

very low if i’m already producing

ketones and in good ketosis

thanks good question good questions um

let me take the last question first

i wouldn’t go i wouldn’t go too low i

would not go below 75 grams of fat

because we need those fats for

many many different things but of course

yes if you reduce your fat your body is

forced to produce more ketones and i

guess

you cannot run your entire body on

ketones there’s a certain

i’d say about a third of your tissues

require glucose and

parts of the pituitary gland parts of

the hypothalamus

the lens of the eye the red blood cell

part of your kidney need glucose

here’s what you need to know your body

can very easily make

this glucose through this process of

gluconeogenesis

and it can make it from ketones

it doesn’t even need it doesn’t even

need protein to make it can make it from

your own

fat so when you’re exercising

um you’re basically going to

oxidize your glucose your store glucose

as glycogen

from your liver and you’re going to

start tapping in the fat

and the the key

with what i think you’re trying to do is

you’re trying to

use up your stored fuel and

also make sure that when you exercise

you’re

having an optimum fuel source so you’re

maybe you don’t run out of those glute

that glucose that’s needed by certain

parts of your tissue but

i think it’s going to be a process where

you’re going to have to

adapt to more fat oxidation over a

period of

months which does take some time if you

do hardcore keto

your body will start making more ketones

and then when you add more exercise more

and more

you’ll be more of a fat burner and

that is much healthier and you can last

longer

but in this transition phase a lot of

people

end up with like hitting this wall where

they’re not adapting as much and so they

feel kind of low blood sugar issues and

they tap out of the glycogen and not

converting over to fat burning as well

and that is a reflection of your liver

so if you have a fatty liver for example

where there’s

you have a gut which means you have a

fatty liver it might take a longer

period of time

so one little tip that i would give you

and other people if you have a lot of

weight to lose

i would focus on trying to get that

liver

working better faster and that will

speed up

everything is especially your ability to

adapt to ketosis

and less reliance on blood and running

on

glucose and less reliance on

gluconeogenesis

and to do that you take choline

purify bile salts lecithin there are

three things that will speed things up

and that will dump the fat off the liver

a lot faster

all right thanks for your question dr

berg yes

um one one other question if my body is

producing a high amount of ketones i’m

always above

two to five and a half millimoles

does that mean my liver is functioning

well yeah or is it probably

poorly no i think you’d i think it’s

functioning pretty well

because um it’s you’re still within a

good range

and i wouldn’t i mean if you’re going up

into like you see eight

nine ten that’s a big problem but you’re

you’re in a good range i think that’s

another indication that your liver is

doing

pretty good um you know it wouldn’t hurt

you know at some point to get it just

get a liver uh

profile and see if there’s any problems

with enzymes

being too high with liver enzymes but

honestly if you’re on keto and you’re

doing intermittent fasting and you’re

exercising

i think that all that’s going to help

your liver so i think you’re right on

track i would just ride the wave and um

you can always tweak things but i think

you’re doing pretty good

okay doc how about a few more uh

questions from social media

yes all right all right guys

are you bad on facebook susan wants to

know how much iron do i need

with chronic anemia she has an anemic

problem

you know here’s the here’s the thing be

careful

about the type of um irony you take

there’s something called ferrous

sulfate i think it’s called this is uh

yeah ferrous sulfate that’s a common one

that they uh

there there’s a lot of different

supplements i would not take that if i

were you because

um there’s a high incidence of gi

symptoms and constipation and it’s very

oxidizing it’s

oxidating it irritates the cold and it

creates inflammation

a much better source of iron than

supplements

is concentrated supplements as in

grass-fed liver supplements or grass-fed

liver

or red meat or a good one would be

you can also get

spleen extracts they have like a bovine

spleen extract i know some people might

be grossed out about it but it’s a

really good iron protein bound

it’s more like the iron comes in more of

a bound to an amino acid it’s called

it’s chelated so it’s much easier on the

system so anything you get like a

chelated iron

that’s bound with protein is way better

than the

ferrous sulfate that they have in a lot

of different supplements

but let’s say you’re doing that and it’s

still not working

the real cause is or the more a more

common cause would be

low stomach acids so if you were to

take betaine hydrochloride in your diet

you would be much better off and you

probably see your anemia go

going away um

not only that is that when you take or

consume red meat for example

and you can’t break down the red meat

and you can’t extract the iron from the

protein

and you’re not assimilating iron or even

the calcium because your stomach acids

aren’t strong enough

that could be why you’re anemic as well

and the stomach acid also will help you

kill two birds with one stone because it

will help you

absorb b12 without the stomach acid

you can have an anemia from b12 as well

as

an iron deficiency anemia so honestly

if you’re already consuming some red

meat and and you’re still anemic

it could be your menstruating that could

be one issue but the other common one is

low stomach acid so the secret is

betaine hydrochloride

take about four or five of those before

you eat

and you should see some change within

one about one week

all right steve all right another quiz

or what would you like

yes i’m going for another quiz what

is the number one cause of fatigue over

the age of 50.

and now i know steve that you’re about

45 years old but

you will find out after you’re 50 you

may start

noticing a little fatigue so the

question is what is the

most common cause of fatigue in people

over 50.

all right they are advised okay

so let’s go to eric from anaheim

you had a question eric um are you there

yes i’m here can you hear me yes

perfectly

oh hi dr burke i have a question and

before i get to my question i want to

let you know that

that you’ve been an inspiration to me

and as a matter of fact but i’m also

taking your

keto and intermittent fasting courses

and your health code and your health

courses

because someday i do want to yeah so

that way i want to i do want to become a

health coach and you’ve been so much an

inspiration so

thank you so much for my call yeah so

michael

yeah so my question to you is so

this is more pertaining to my girlfriend

so my girlfriend i

my girlfriend i have been doing healthy

healthy keto with intermittent fasting

tips september 1st

and for me luckily for me during this

stretch of time i’ve lost 31 pounds

wow and that’s for yeah and as for her

she only lost four pounds

and yeah yeah yeah so she doesn’t have

luck in her end unfortunately

so the thing is that she has an iud

and i want to know if if the iud is

causing her weight loss um

yeah it could be a barrier it could

definitely be a barrier um especially if

it’s even a

copper iud it can create an imbalance

with zinc

and create some issues with that um i

know there’s an issue with uh birth

control

um there’s it’s a very difficult problem

to solve

without complications um

i think that could be slowing things

down but

before you jump into that being the

reason what i would do is i’d watch some

of my videos on plateau

and make sure that once you’re doing

keto correctly number two

is your carbs low enough is she doing

fasting long enough

if you go through the list and you still

have problems then you want to look

look at something like that and

other body weaknesses that she may have

is she estrogen dominant um those type

of things so

because the difference between you know

a man and a woman

has to do with the estrogen that’s why

they can’t lose weight as fast because

estrogen is a

prevents the loss of weight and but

there’s a lot of things you can do

um but that is a a complaint for a lot

of women like

you know my other half can lose weight i

can’t

but definitely um watch my videos on

plateau

try that out and see if that doesn’t

help her and if it doesn’t then we’re

going to have to find a plan b

for the iud

okay thank you so much you’re welcome

good luck all right steve do we have an

answer yet

no still tabulating that but elizabeth

one of our

valued listeners wants to know why the

front of my calves

are itching i hate it when that happens

well i i don’t know if it’s exposed to

something environmentally it could be a

situation but itching in general

if you have itching you want to look to

the liver

and it could also be a backup

of bile into the blood

which can then deposit into the skin and

create uh

pureitis which is itching so one

interesting little thing you might want

to try is to take some purified bile

salts on an empty stomach

and see if the itching goes away and if

it does then we know

it’s a problem with your liver slash

gallbladder

oh by the way steve people a location

of where some people or majority people

have itching when they have liver issues

is in the bottom of the foot

right in the arch so

yeah so that’s just an fyi i think that

might be another video

uh to talk about why that is itching in

your arch

arch itching faster with consumed height

by the way we do have some answers doc

yeah go ahead all right so question is

what is the number one cause

of fatigue in people over 50 that

unfortunately includes me

and 40 percent of us say a lack of

vitamin d

50 percent uh say or excuse me another

40 say a lack of vitamin b

and 20 percent say low testosterone

you know all of you guys are right and

girls are right

um but there is something that

i don’t know that i found to be

even more common in those things and

that has to do with

stomach acids not having enough stomach

acids which relates to another question

we talked about

as you age especially over the age of 50

and then 60 and 70 you start really

losing your stomach acid

and there are so many reasons why

you get tired from that number one you

can’t digest protein that well anymore

number two

you become iron anemic and then you also

number three you have low b12 and then

you can’t absorb minerals

um so and this definitely relates if you

get more tired when you

eat definitely suspect

low stomach acids now if you are tired

and this kind of makes sense to you very

very

simple solution get some betaine

hydrochloride take three or four or five

actually four or five of those

before you eat consistently and

you’re gonna find that your energy goes

up i mean when i was in practice

it was like so many people had this

problem i would just put them on some

obtained hydrochloride

they would do so much better with their

digestion and with their energy it goes

right up

and now they’re starting to really

absorb

these minerals like iron and

magnesium and they start to digest

it’s just a real common problem

especially when you get older

all right steve we’re going to go to

um julie from los angeles are you there

hi julie go ahead hello oh thank you

dr berg i have many many issues

first of all i’m a muslim i fast every

year

the fasting last year was very difficult

for me

uh during the day i would get like i

can’t breathe

i’d get fatigued um

like i have to lay down i i can’t even

you know get up it’s very weak

i this happens to me every year i’ve

been on a gluten-free diet

for like three years now i can’t take

dairy

i can’t because of my gut

i have fibromyalgia i have like chronic

pain in my arms

and my back now when i did the glute

free the pain

was better for like maybe 90

now that now i’m starting to get back to

pain

i’m still on the gluten free um

i’m still taking supplements i i see

a holistic doctor that’s helping me out

i haven’t seen any results yet the

supplements

i’m taking supplements but i’m finding

like sometimes the supplements really

weigh me down

like i prefer to take supplements like

in a powder form

so i have a question i have a question

what part of your body hurts more the

right side or the left side

um well in my arm the right side

because i have the right side i have it

in my shoulder and my hand

and i also have discs i have two

herniated discs

also as well right so here’s here’s what

i’m going to tell you

about this okay

you need to take it even further than

a gluten-free diet you need to go into

the healthy version of keto and

intermittent fasting because i think

your digestive problems are behind this

this pain and fibromyalgia

and in practice um i would notice that

nearly everyone that came in with

fibromyalgia had it on the right side

the arm the shoulder

the hand and that is because the

gallbladder is on the right side now

you’re going to say well what

what’s that connection well the hip bone

is connected to the thigh bone now it’s

your gallbladder has a

it’s right underneath the diaphragm

there’s a little nerve called the

phrenic nerve that goes all the way up

to the right shoulder which can then

literally cause a

spasm in the muscles into your neck and

cause a

kind of a pinched nerve down the right

side and boy does it feel like

fibromyalgia on the right side so

anything you can do to support the

gallbladder and that would be what i’m

telling you healthy keto

intermittent fasting i would definitely

take a gallbladder formula support

um like with each meal and then on empty

stomach maybe take

two of those or three of those a day and

then what will happen

is that your gallbladder will be better

you’ll start absorbing more nutrition

you’ll have less pain

and you’ll start healing the different

parts of your body

i think this is a really easy problem to

solve if

if you get the the basics in not adding

more

whole bunch of supplements but just

doing healthy keto

dairy free of course no more grains

follow my my videos on that

and then julie do that for this week and

then call me next week and tell me

how much better you are because um

we gotta look at the whole picture here

and i think there you’re missing a real

real important thing thanks for your

call

all right doc by the way and i’m not

sure if this shows up on your little

list but colleen has been on for quite a

while from alberta canada by the way she

loves your kale shake but she wants to

know how much k2d3

does she need for optimum health

hi colleen how are you good morning very

well thank you good morning

great i think you answered my question

when you said you take 20

i use with d3 for maintenance

okay now i can’t get yours your ten

thousand

iud which is not your fault i know and i

can’t even get it from dr mccola’s site

so all i can get is

a thousand i use a d3 i had to buy

two separate bottles yesterday in order

to get k2 120 micrograms with the d3 and

then

so uh do i just go ahead and take

20 of these like a day yeah

if you if you know if you get it in a

liquid you because i think you’re in

canada and the problem is that

when i um they have recruit they have

these

these rules that you can’t do like

especially high levels of potassium

or vitamin d and so um i would probably

find a liquid and that might be easier

but yes you need to just take more

and and when i say a maintenance dose of

d3 in k2 uh i’m talking about 20 000 ius

through the winter months

now during the summer i’m getting a lot

more sun so i probably don’t even take

it at all

um that’s just an fyi but during the

winter

especially from if you have kind of a

history of inflammation like i do

and old injuries i need a little bit

more d3

simply just because i have um if i don’t

things kind of kick in gear and just

because years of

wear and tear but um but yeah that’s

that’s what i would recommend

okay um does the bulletproof coffee

break the

your fast i put butter and coconut oil i

don’t know if that’s correct and i don’t

know

if i’m putting you know what you’re too

little it’s going to

um it’s not going to break your ketosis

okay you’re going to make more ketones

but it may

slow down weight loss because your body

is using

those things to make ketones versus your

own

fat fuel and so um

what’s interesting is when you’re

fasting um you’re on a high fat diet

you’re actually on a high fat diet when

you’re fasting you’re

and um but as soon as you start to add

more

fat the body we’ll just use that and so

will it break your fast depends on your

definition of a fast but

i don’t as long as you know you’re happy

with it it gives you energy

that’s great but if you’re trying to

lose more weight you might want to just

not add that in there and see what

happens okay um

is it normal to i fasted for 48 hours

and i stayed the same weight then like

the third day i was like what

i’m still the same weight what i got

only got 22 pounds to lose and

i mean i that’s probably normal right

okay so um that means that you are

your metabolism obviously is slow and

there’s a lot of things you can do to

speed this up but i wouldn’t

take that as a loss um the main thing is

there’s i would go with the other

benefits of

fasting right now which are cognitive

function energy

etc but here’s the thing um

as you’re starting this out that that

could happen

as your body heals and you go through

autophagy

you’re going to be recycling a lot of

protein so you may start noticing that

your

size like your stomach is shrinking a

little bit

but your weight is not just because

you’re healing more

atrophied muscles which is a little bit

heavier per volume than fat

so i would not be

too concerned with that but what i would

do is when you go back to your eating

maybe once a day and then do more of the

prolonged fasting

and even go longer sometimes and then

just make sure you keep your carbs

really really low

and just give it more time and follow

exactly like how

like i talk about in some of the videos

i have on on plateau because

it just happens with certain people that

just have a slow metabolism and

there’s many things you can do to

overcome that but

in the beginning that’s not uncommon

thanks for your call all right doc how

about another quiz

yes here’s a true or false

well let me just say this are ketones

fats is a ketone of fat

yes or no that’s that’s the next

question steve

okay good so now let’s go to sandra

from winterhaven had a question go ahead

sandra

hi can you hear me perfectly okay thank

you

um and thank you for taking my call i

last time i spoke to you

um we’re gonna try to get my gallbladder

fixed so

i bought the gallbladder formula and the

instructions

it says take three times a day one with

each meal

naturally i’m only eating once a day so

i don’t know

if it would be better for my gallbladder

to do something really small

three times a day to get the gallbladder

fixed

or if i should just stay eating once a

day and take three or once a day and

just do one

what i would do if i were you i would

take that first one on an empty stomach

since you’re not having a

breakfast hopefully like taking an empty

stomach

because what’s gonna happen that bile

is going to help you unjam any kind of

blockage in your bile ducts to the liver

and help the drainage and there’s huge

benefits of taking an empty stomach

antimicrobial benefits um helping you

dissolve if any

there’s fatty fat on the liver um

and um you know counteracting if there’s

any sibo there’s

absorbing more fat soluble nutrients

even from

that’s in your body like to help you up

simulating that but main thing is is the

flow of gallbladder through these ducts

because when you take the purify bile

salts when you’re eating

it’s primarily going to be working on

the dietary

fat that you’re eating more than what’s

happening

in your physiology so i would just add

it on an empty stomach not a problem

good question sandra okay doc we’ve got

the the answer and i i pray for the

audience

that uh this is uh trek because they say

uh oh i’m sorry there was a little about

90 say true and 10

say false so where does that leave us

okay

all right so this uh could uh kind of

you know throw you guys off but no

ketones are not a fat

they’re actually made from fat they come

from

fat but they’re not an actual fat

it’s different than a fat it’s a fuel

source

that your body prefers especially in the

brain in the heart

but it’s not a fat and the other

interesting thing about it that um

your liver

your liver does cannot use ketones

it makes ketones but it doesn’t use it

so there’s certain tissues and i’ll do a

video on this that

cannot utilize ketones you know a small

percentage

of your body but the majority does use

ketones

especially the brain and two parts of

the brain that

really need ketones in a bad way would

be the hippocampus which is all about

memory and learning

and the frontal cortex which is involved

in processing and making judgments and

planning and

whatever um now they don’t really know

for sure what it does but it’s

it’s like a relay for those functions

that’s all i’m going to say with that

but if that part of your brain is

damaged then people have symptoms with

those things but

as far as feeding those parts of your

brain ketones are the answer but it’s

not a fact

that’s interesting by the way myra from

san nicolas

hello myra was the 10 she said

not a fat so we must shout out to her

and by the way there’s a fascinating

question so good for you myra

lou was sick with covert 19 just like me

but now he can’t lose weight on keto is

there any connection by the way

lou and i know doesn’t help you to hear

that that was not my experience i’m

i’m doing well with the intermittent

fasting in keto but that’s an

interesting

side effect perhaps i think i think the

immune system is still

needs some support so i think the best

thing to do

um related to with your immune system is

to do whatever you can to drop

inflammation

take more vitamin d take more zinc

those two right there and then there’ll

be less inflammation

stronger immune system more weight loss

because think about it

if you’re not sleeping at night if you

have

more stress if you have a weakened

immune system

your metabolism is influenced greatly

so i think that’s what you’re running

into right now is just

some residual inflammation

or um

definitely as it relates to stressing

your body in general

okay all right how about one more phone

call

last for the day yep all right so before

i answer this

one last phone call actually no we

answer all the questions right okay good

um yeah let’s go to linda linda are you

there

well that’s lydia doc lydia are you

there oh lydia sorry lydia yes

that’s okay uh can you hear me good

perfectly

okay i have a question about well a few

questions about

certain things um nutritional east um i

have both of them i have

yours and i have bob’s red bell and i

wanted to know the difference

it’s kind of hard to take the tablet

it’s really easy for me to take the

the powder another one another one is

the hair

uh formula um with the

intermediate fasting how long until i

see results

after taking this have another one

we wanted you i heard you talking about

chickens and we wanted to buy chickens

and

the ones that we buy are i mean the eggs

that we buy

is the vital organic pasta raised

and they’re the only ones that are

really yellow we buy sometimes from the

farms and they’re like

they’re like almost white like light

yellow so what if we buy chickens

other than i know sometimes in the

winter they need to be fed

certain things and what is an additional

feed

that you can feed other than grain or

what do you feed them

you know you have to do grains but i do

um organic grains

but i let the chickens out all day long

to eat the worms and the bugs and

everything

and they’re out all the time we have

like eight of them now

and um so they get this huge variety and

i make it myself if

sunflower seeds and a couple different

grains of course all non-gmo

and meal worms and

calcium flakes and a whole series of

things i’ll do a video on that because

there’s a

whole protocol that you can give these

chickens and they just

love it and they will lay eggs all

winter long which is unusual

but they have the nutrition to do it but

definitely you want to let them free

range and

go through the yard and get the bugs um

as far as the

bob’s mill um i think it’s uh they’re

fortifying it with synthetic vitamins if

i’m not mistaken

um so

one of the things that you there is

other sources you can get a powder that

is

unfortified and when i say unfortified

i’m saying

mainly without the synthetic additional

vitamins because um they do that

routinely

um the other thing that this is your pal

steve and i am

a freak for dr berg’s uh nutritional

yeast and those are healthy sized pills

and they’re difficult to swallow

so i crunch them i mean i don’t know if

you’ve tried that but

they’re a very nutty flavor and i just

love them i just uh

you know have no issue with that at all

and have grown accustomed to the taste

that might be an acquired taste but a

lot of people do that

sounds great good idea steve yep you can

crush them i chew them

i don’t swallow them because they’re

like they’re quite

big but i chewed them and yeah it’s um

you know up to just to figure that out

but um

yeah terry was doing the heimlick on me

like every week before i decided to chew

them up so

yeah they’re too big to swallow i think

so a little different

and i think you had another question

there was one more question um

i’m going to make sure i go about the

hair formula i have a lot of hair loss

like fall every time i brush it’s just

hair and

yeah this is this is what i would do i

would um

make sure of course you’re doing healthy

keto and intermittent fasting but

also there’s something called essential

aminos and these essential aminos

you take those um just once a day

and um you get a way better absorption

rate of

protein in general and since hair is

made out of amino acids

um you’ll it’ll just bypass any type of

digestive weakness that you have and

goes right into the tissue like a rocket

ship

and that would help you and then i would

just double

the hair formula and then see what

happens i think that should be the

ticket

in fact what you could do is try this

for two weeks and then call me call me

back on our show and see how you do

thank you lydia all right

listen guys i really appreciate your

bearing with

some of these tactical difficulties um

stay tuned for some more

videos and um i have some real

interesting topics coming up but

um stay tuned and thank you so much for

your questions that you gave us and uh

we’ll talk to you next week

you