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and now dr. Eric Berg hey guys we’re

back it’s another Friday morning the

nation’s capital well actually we’re

about six miles south of the nation’s

capital but anyway I’m here today to

answer your questions ketogenic

internment of fasting nutrition we

already got a ton of calls already so

I’m here to answer your question so the

number if you want to call then its

eight six six five six one four two nine

two all right so I’m here most Friday

mornings at 9 o’clock a.m. there’s been

some questions that people wanted me to

do this later in the day because in

other parts of the country I’m looking

at that right now I’m just not set up to

do that so unfortunately you won’t be

able to get up in the middle of the

morning and 3 o’clock and call in but

anyway so the first call we have is

Diana from Arizona go ahead you had a

question about hair loss good morning

mr. Byrd um yeah um I’m an adrenal type

and I’m taking all this supplements I’m

taking a vitamin D at 3 and k2 and your

film Emma for a hair loss

I mean your hair and I’m taking a sink

that’s jobs that there has copper in it

that way because my aunt our split ends

as well but my hair is key I keep losing

my hair ok I’m in ketosis as well and I

dream it admitted fast in as well ok so

the first question we want to know again

let’s just use this as an example when

exactly did you start losing hair um

like a month ago pack over ok now what

happened exactly just before this what

did you start a facet you changed

something what a

or just before you start losing here

well I stopped weaning ketosis I went

off the diet and I didn’t it’s out of

the festival the vacation was over I

went back to the diet ok so that shaven

even up the change was you went off the

ketogenic de or you went back on it I

went off for a little bit but yeah it

was awesome to lose hair just right

before I went off the guy I stopped on

taking your what’s called your minerals

trace minerals if I run out of it so I

stopped taking there and then start

taking it when I got the new order ok

great so there’s a couple tips I’m going

to recommend you know it’s always

amazing it’sit’s when you think about

its really simple you want to find out

there’s always a change it occurs just

before the change and in your case you

ran out of the trace minerals the trace

minerals basically are there to help

proteins form in the body you cannot

make proteins hair nail skin muscle

without trace minerals and so that’s

that activates the enzymes to initiate

it so obviously hopefully you put that

back in but when you go into ketogenic

diet and you really get into ketosis and

you’re doing it for a period of time

your proteins should normally improve on

your body ok so if they don’t then that

means you haven’t gotten into ketosis

yet I like to combine in a minute

fasting with ketosis because that will

really severely increase hormones like

growth hormone to preserve muscle mass

protein loss and all that so like even

take a diabetic they’re in what’s called

a catabolic state where your body’s

breaking down protein fashion is

building back up so we’re kind of

switching way over here getting rid of

the insulin resistance getting rid of

problems of insulins increasing growth

hormone and so I think you want to add

the raw material which is the trace

minerals make sure you’re doing the

collagen make sure you’re doing B

vitamins you might

mean more nutritional yeast and that

should bring it back but whatever

actually improved the hair will keep

improving you just got to go back to the

successful actions but typically it

sounds like the change was you dropped

out the amino acids so put that back in

and touch base with us Nestle next week

to see if if that helped you okay so we

have another question from North

Carolina

I think it’s rubia you to question are

you on the air yes good morning good

morning hi okay I have two questions

about the ketogenic diet so I’ve been on

it for about three months and I have

seen many benefits I’ve lost about 25

pounds and but every since every time

you know whenever I started I’ve been

experiencing some constipation like I

don’t have a ball my bowel movement

every three or so days and I wanted to

like I’m taking a lot of potassium your

wheatgrass juice and I’ve you know

worked on getting more probiotic and and

I still haven’t seen any changes this is

my first question my second question is

my husband who does not need to lose

weight he also wanted to to start the

diet just for health but you know he was

on it for like two days and he lost like

five pounds so you know what can we do

for him to be on a diet on the ketogenic

diet and not lose weight okay good

question I have a quick question for you

as far as we look at before you won the

ketogenic diet and after the ketogenic

diet tell me what’s the big difference

with you are you eating a lot more

vegetables than you normally do are you

adding vegetables that you don’t

normally eat like kale now I did kale in

the first week and that did not do well

with me so doing more like spinach

cabbage sauerkraut and you know just

vegetables that I used to eat before

like cucumbers and tomatoes and

mushrooms and things so with the kale

did not do well okay so is there any

change with the vegetables on now that

you’re in a ketogenic that you didn’t

before or was everything exactly saying

before and after well I would say just

be a mouse before I would eat like a

little salad and now I’m eating salad

for you know lunch and dinner okay salad

okay so what we’re going to do is we’re

going to have to just test it out

because there’s a couple causes of

constipation you’re already doing a lot

of potassium that’s great that could

that could handle but apparently in your

case it’s not healing you’re doing the

probiotics what happens though when you

go on this this program that I’m

recommending I’m recommending seven to

ten cups of vegetables these fibers and

the vegetables feed the microbes and if

these microbes are not used to that much

food you can overwhelm them and you can

pretty much kind of shut them down and

everything kind of backs up because

they’re not able to keep up with the

digestion so chances are the reason why

you’re constipated it’s just you’re

overwhelming the system with so much

fiber from the vegetables so do an

experiment for three days cut down the

quantity of vegetables keep in the

fermented ones maybe steamed some but as

far as the raw ones cut down the

quantity and see if that doesn’t handle

the constipation okay that should handle

it and in the meantime well just do that

and in the meantime if that doesn’t

handle it call back next week we’ll tell

you what to do but in the meantime

you’re going to have to take some type

of laxative healthy natural laxative to

keep things going because it’s more

dangerous to be backed up for three days

than it is to take a laxative okay now

as far as your husband goes I always

like to add in a minute fasting with

ketogenic diet the problem is you will

lose a lot of body fat doing this for

some people that’s not a problem but for

some people they’re trying to gain

weight unfortunately if you if you want

to really kind of keep your weight up

you’re going to have to either increase

the quantity of food that he’s eating

adds a little bit more fat and he may

need to add berries and maybe a sweet

potato to this program

now it might pump amount of ketosis but

still for some

people that are trying to gain some

weight that might be the area to go

after okay so that’s what I would

recommend hey Mike you’re on the air

you’re from Pennsylvania go ahead hi dr.

Bergen yeah I just want to say thanks

for all the videos that you put out too

it’s a great source of information my

pleasure and my question is about apple

cider vinegar a few months ago my

glucose levels were way out of control

so I immediately started eating low carb

and that was working to a point and then

once I found out about apple cider

vinegar I started taking in it was

actually working so it got me back down

to normal but my main concern is with

its effect on the tooth enamel so what I

do is I drink it through a straw try to

keep it off my teeth as best as I can

and I rinse my mouth afterwards but but

still I’m kind of concerned that you

know if I’m taking this long term I

guess one of my questions is it’s safe

to do long-term and is there anything

else I can do to make sure that it’s not

going to wear my teeth enamel away yeah

good question Mike here’s the thing

there’s a couple things you can do yes

when you do this outside of vinegar and

by the way episode the vinegar is a pH

of 2.5 I mean that’s close to battery

acid it’s so acidic your stomach page is

between 1 & 3 absolute vinegar is 2.5 so

that’s extremely acid and so you always

want to drink it through a straw you

don’t want that stuff in your in your

mouth because it can break down the

calcium because acid tends to release

calcium from the system it makes calcium

more mobilizing you don’t want to do

that so yeah a straw will be fine now

you also have this acid going down your

esophagus for most people it is not a

problem because you’re diluting the

outside of vinegar in water 1 to 2

teaspoons per glass of water I’m talking

about 12 ounce not an 8 ounce so now

we’re not getting the concentration of

acid anymore okay so it’s pretty much

doing so it should be fine down the

south because if used a straw there’s

not

going to be any problem if you’re

concerned then you just get it as a as a

pill form that’s one of the reasons why

I created something called them it’s

called op cider vinegar plus I added a

powdered upset uh vinegar with the

betaine hydrochloride which is um Siddha

fire in a tablet and it’s kind of

protected so there’s not a lot of acid

on the outside so you swallow it goes in

the stomach boom you’re fine there’s no

more problem it won’t create any

irritation at all but it keeps your

stomach acid but I will say that as you

age the pH of the stomach goes more

alkaline more alkaline you lose your

stomach acid that’s why an older person

can’t digest you know red meats they

have problems with gas they start

becoming anemic they can’t get the amino

acid so it’s just really really

important add that and there’s a plus to

help with a fatty liver plus to offset

some of the fat that you’re consuming

from the ketogenic diet so you want to

keep it in there but I wouldn’t be too

concerned unless you have a tension on

it okay so those are some options that

you might want to try thanks Mike hey

Susan you’re on the air from Michigan go

ahead hi thanks so much for taking my

call

I’m calling for a couple of reasons I

have followed on your plan for a year

and I felt great and I’ve advised others

and got a lot of people that I know

feeling wonderful the last six months

haven’t been just wonderful started

gaining still feel great but just

gaining and I know that it’s because of

the death of my dad but I was just

wondering is doing intermittent fasting

and adding that extra stress on my body

is that possibly what’s going on and

then also if you could speak about left

shoulder pain sure okay so I have a

question six months ago you remember

when you started gaining weight right

okay was it dead I started yeah with add

a coincidence with adding in a minute

fasting or no I’ve done intermittent

fasting no I did intermittent fasting

for like a year and a half now okay so

that’s not a new thing

no so the new thing is you lost your dad

correct okay yeah so that just kind of

narrows it down to the what’s happening

with cortisol and the adrenals and

stress so let’s just talk about that you

know if we take all the stresses that

you can experience losses will hit the

adrenals damaged Reno’s more than

physical trauma now if we take emotional

trauma or physical trauma

what really damages is that is the

suddenness of the shock someone telling

you very fast you know this verse is

kind of slowly easing in and letting you

kind of process it or even in a car

you’re sitting in the car and you get

rear-ended you don’t even see the car

coming and next thing you know you wake

up in the hospital that is very very

serious stress versus you see the car

coming you’re bracing yourself you get

hit that’s much less of a stress so it’s

really the shock of a loved one being

lost or the shock of being impacted what

that does to the adrenal is it it causes

the adrenal to raise cortisol cortisol

then releases insulin causes and bumps

you out of ketosis that’s probably the

most likely cause so there’s a couple

things you can do number one every

single day you have to do long hour

walks that’s the type of exercise you

need long walks you’re not listening to

the music you’re not with anyone you’re

just getting space you’re just looking

out there just getting your space okay

that’s number one number two make sure

in your house you don’t have too many

things reminding of your dad like

pictures on the wall because it just

kind of keeps it going number three you

want to make sure that you add another

hour of sleep do things enhance the

quality of sleep that you have now to

work on the physical adrenals you

probably already have my massage tool

but I would recommend doing acupressure

for the adrenal system

I would also nutritional recommend

product called adrenal and cortisol

relief I just released something called

adrenal fatigue advanced formula don’t

take that one that one’s for a low

cortisol you have probably high cortisol

so that one is for more r3

this really burnt out people people that

have no more cortisol left you have too

much so those are some things that I

think that are going wrong I don’t think

the problem is with your eating I don’t

think in a minute fasten is going to be

more of a stress to you it takes stress

off the body especially if you do it

correctly and you’re not hungry and you

lost your appetite and you’re feeling

great so I would keep in the things that

were successful but just focus on the

adrenal probably the acupressure is

going to be the most helpful to you all

right thanks Susan all right so then we

have a dori dori tah from Florida go

ahead you’re on the air

good morning that’s the work I love your

program and I have a question about the

nutritional eat type nutritionally I was

I find out I’m allergic to eat a couple

years ago so I’m wondering if I still

consume goats no personally I don’t know

yeah yeah you’re going to be you’re

going to you’re going to react to that

because you have an allergy to yeast

unfortunately you can’t do the yeast so

now the problem is why you’re going to

get your B vitamins so you’re going to

have to find some other sources non

yeast make sure they’re natural you can

have to look at the label get the B

vitamins that are the cofactors they’re

called cofactor B vitamins but

unfortunately that’s one source the

other source of B vitamins that are

really healthy believe it or not is

liver now you can do actual grass-fed

liver saute with onions or you can take

grass-fed liver pills to get your B

vitamins just a tip you don’t have to do

that but I’m just trying to give you an

idea all right thanks for calling hate

Milan you sound familiar I think you

call before go ahead you’re on the air

yes thanks dr. Berg about two weeks ago

I came down with an a urinary tract

infection and while trying to fight the

infection I drank a lot of water with

your electrolyte powder in it and by the

end of the second day my kidneys started

hurting so I stopped taking the powder

and it went away you know after

a day so I was just wondering if it’s

possible to have like an overdose of

that electrolyte powder where it’s like

too hard on your kidneys or something

good question so are you a hundred

percent sure that you had a UTI the

symptoms seemed to point that way I

didn’t go to a doctor because you know

have an aversion to doctors I did the de

Manos and cranberry juice and all that

stuff but I was drinking a lot of water

and also the electrolyte powder can you

tell me the symptoms yeah go ahead tell

me the size I so unable to control my

urine and you know so I had to stay real

close to the bathroom

burning and and that type of thing okay

and then of course I had like fever type

symptoms too or is just me I was down I

was sick okay did you have any type of

pain uh in your abdomen anywhere not not

not necessarily no not that I could

think of now was it was there any blood

in the urine

no not that I’m aware of I did not see

any okay but it was sort of cloudy you

know like it gets with attract

infections the first one I’ve ever had

in my life so yeah my wife’s had them in

so we sort of you know figured out what

it was yeah so so it’s here’s the thing

with electrolyte powder it has the thing

that it has that’s different than other

electrolytes powers it has a lot of

potassium potassium is usually

protective on the kidney so typically

wouldn’t necessarily cause pain I mean I

guess you took massive amounts it could

but typically what that will do it tends

to flush the kidney it tends to help

clean stuff out of the kidney so maybe

it maybe was flushing something out but

the point I was going to make on some

people and this happens with the

ketogenic diet is there’s issue with

stones kidney stones and when you start

a ketogenic diet when you do

intermittent fasting

sometimes you can it could increase your

tendency to get stones

actually if you’re doing some of the

foods like even too many nuts or spinach

things like that are chocolate that’s

even on Sweden some of those are high in

oxalic so either you can develop oxalate

stones or uric acid stones now what will

happen this symptoms from a urinary

tract infection are very similar

sometimes to stones I mean you can even

have a fever feel nauseous almost

vomiting from a kidney stone and what

happens is kind of at you but the thing

that kind of struck me that was

different is you didn’t have the

abdominal pain like normally would have

within stone maybe because it can cause

back pain but it can also create all

sorts of problems with like if there’s a

stone coming out and what happens is

what you want to take is electrolyte

power because of the amount of potassium

citrate that will literally dissolve the

stones and when it dissolve the stones

it can push crap out of the ureters and

the kidney into the bladder the key is

just drinking a little more water to

flush that thing out but it will help

dissolve stones the other thing that’s

interesting too is if you go for a jog

and you’re jogging and that stone is up

into the kidney and it’s kind of sharp

and it’s bouncing up and down it can

create blood in your urine so that could

be a way that you have blood in here and

Orick started having symptoms that are

kind of weird so anyway that’s just my

two cents I’m not sure exactly what

happened but I hope that answered the

question that thanks for calling hey

Lisa you’re on the air you’re from

Virginia Beach go ahead yes I did

question um just about a black cumin

seed oil yeah and I know it has a lot of

mega sick and mega three and mega nine

how good is that oil well black seed

black currant seed oil is awesome

awesome awesome

no cumin cumin seed oil cumin seed black

human feed okay well okay so that oil

black cumin seed oil is

mainly really good to get your

unsaturated fats which basically are

good for skin immune system also good

for the heart and providing more oxygen

they also help interact with calcium to

mobilize calcium and transport calcium

especially at people that get too much

Sun they can get sun intoxication if

they add that oil or any type of

unsaturated fatty acid oil like that

that will actually help protect them but

the other real big benefit is for

females and going through menopause

which I don’t know it sounds like you

could be going through something like

that I think that would be good for you

to take as well because it helps the

transition when a woman goes to

menopause they lose the function of

their ovaries and it puts more stress up

on the pituitary and we have this whole

hormonal stress so they do need more

oils they need more vitamin E they need

more nut oil seed oils so that also will

help you in the transition making going

through menopause so I would I would

recommend it I think it’s great

did you have another question about

fasting okay yeah is that all your

questions no I know it has a lot more

omega-6 than it has a mega three and

mega nine right so you want to offset

about that you want to add a little flax

oil to that to get to omega-3 or fish

alas all right yeah okay okay right

thank you thanks all right hey Kim

you’re from Michigan go ahead hi dr.

Berg good morning morning nice to talk

with you I just I want to thank you

really quick for all that you do for

everyone I’m down here about 15 15

minutes from Detroit and I’ve been

trying to search out an natural doctor

that would be supportive in helping me

keep my gallbladder every integrative

doctor I went to they said remove the

gallbladder because mine is full of

stones so I wondered if you have a

product or something you can suggest to

me of a way that I can keep my

gallbladder and get rid of all of the

stones because it is almost full

all okay all right so Kim let’s just

talk about that and again I have to say

this anything that I say anything I

recommend is not meant to curity medical

diseases probably check with your doctor

first this is just information food for

thought entertainment or data you can

present to your doc okay all right now

here’s the thing with the if your

gallbladder is completely filled it’s a

little bit of a borderline situation but

if you want to try to salvage that I

would start doing the gallbladder

formula in the gallbladder formula I

have it it’s it’s loaded with something

called purified bile salts that is the

very reason why you have stones in the

first place it’s a deficiency of bile so

you want to start taking that it also

has stuff to lubricate the valve so the

bile can still get through from the

gallbladder to the small intestine it

has stone root to help dissolve stones

as Petain hundred Lord has a whole bunch

of things to help with stone and I would

take probably two of those after a meal

I would also take the opposite of

vinegar Plus that I have because you’re

going to have to acidify your stomach to

increase your release of your own bile

through the liver without the Petain

without a strong acid stomach you can’t

release bile so we need a combination of

stomach and gallbladder the other thing

you need to do during the as far as

during the day is at least one a nice

blended shake with kale with beet tops

and parsley and maybe a cup of berries

okay and you blend it up with water

drink that that that’s what you’re going

to need is to really support that liver

to start flushing out some of these

stones and start dissolving the stones I

would get an ultrasound I would test an

ultrasound every six weeks to make sure

that they’re shrinking and they’re not

backing anything up your diet is going

to have to be absolutely perfect I

highly recommend in a minute fasting

because in a minute fasting is something

that will cause less eating less

aggravation to the gallbladder and more

concentration of bile itself so do those

things

think you’ll be quite happy hey guys

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okay guys we are back for that short

break that short commercial break that

was pretty much no commercial hey Jill

you’re on the air you’re from North

Carolina go ahead hey dr. Berg I take

all your take all your supplements I

have for about a year and I’ve been

transitioning into intermittent fasting

I’ve been doing it for a couple of weeks

um and I had watched your video on what

to drink that’s appropriate for

intermittent fasting in the morning and

I wanted to find out is it is it okay to

do your organic raw wheatgrass juice in

the morning and it not kick you out of

your fast and I also do maca powder and

noni powder if you know anything about

those is it okay to do those in the

morning and is it okay to do those on

ketogenic great Thanks thanks for your

question so yeah absolutely I do the

wheatgrass juice powder I mean the

wheatgrass juice powder it doesn’t have

a lot of sugar it’s it’s mixed in a what

it’s a liquid it’s a drink it’s a

seriously concentrated nutrient infused

drink that you can you can do and you’re

talking like a teaspoon it’s not going

to bump you go to ketosis I take it as a

multivitamin mineral trace mineral amino

acid everything and that’s my vitamin so

you mix it with water a teaspoon it will

not bump you out of ketosis it’s a

really good thing you can also add your

maca powder and your no need powder not

a problem

it’s a powerful antioxidants nothing to

worry about

and just one point about that the one

teaspoon is equivalent to one tray of

wheatgrass

so it’s actually a very very good thing

to take when you’re enjoying a minute

fasting and ketosis because it allows

more of a cleansing effect to decrease

any type of potential for bad breath

that you might get from the all the

waste products coming off of the body so

it’s a purify or a detoxifier but mainly

it’s it’s for the nutrition

for your skin and it’s like kind of a

substitute for coffee because it will

bring your energy up so I would

definitely recommend it okay thanks

hey Denise you’re on the air from

Mississippi hey dr. bird

I’ve been doing the ketosis for about

three weeks now and I started doing an

intermittent fasting the last week and a

half I was thinking about adding the

wheatgrass powder but I am on coumadin

for factor v Laden and with it being

dark green I don’t know is that

something that does have a lot of that

vitamin K where it would interact with

coumadin yeah good question yeah it is

loaded with vitamin K so some people

what they do is they just take one

teaspoon and they get with their doctor

to adjust the dosages of chromatin

unfortunately cumin is an a vitamin k

blocker and so it’s there because

vitamin K is a clotting factor so they

doctors don’t want you taking it so I

would just check with your doctor said

listen if I take this can I just raise

the curtain a little bit and keep taking

because the benefits of wheatgrass are

huge but if not then you can’t take it

because it’s so loaded with vitamin K I

mean it is the vitamin K product

unfortunately there’s a video I did on

all the foods that you can consume that

low in vitamin K so you might want to

search out that video I think it’s just

search dr. Bergin kuma Tim thanks Denise

okay Jonathan you’re on the air you’re

from Oregon

thanks hermit butter burger I have to

simple I hope questions for you but

quite diverse one is to do with

potassium and I started taking some

potassium tablets five of them but I

noticed that that’s about 10% of the

daily recommended dose and I just

thought to myself any recommendations of

foods that might be rich in potassium

and I could you use food rather than

top-end on that side that’s question

one in question - Jonathan you clicked

off can you hear me okay I can’t really

hear you but I’m just going to answer

the question so I don’t know your second

question but I can see it’s cycling

versus walking so maybe I’ll just guess

on that but the first question is how do

you get your potassium from food and

this is I do a lot of videos on this

what you need to do is you need to

consume seven to ten cups of vegetables

as your base okay now you can get also a

potassium that might not even hit your

your maximum potassium but your other

foods that you eat even protein will

give you potassium chicken fish beef

like a serving of that well it’s 300

milligrams potassium believe it or not

so that will add to you their nuts will

add more potassium but if you want to

get a lot of potassium you want to do

beet tops beet tops kale make the shake

with a little bit of berries with water

blended up you will get some serious

potassium from that I mean a lot but

basically you have to start eating more

vegetables okay now the question about

cycling versus walking I think you need

a combination of both I do cycling I

brought my bike everyday it doesn’t rain

and snows but I will do biking I do

sprints and then I’ll coast back and

forth I just love it and then I also do

a lot of walks I mean maybe not every

single day but I will go on a 45-minute

walk almost every single day and just

and it’s different than my workout it

might be just before or after I do the

other biking but I really do well on

those walks so I would recommend both

hey Kristin you’re from Tennessee go

ahead you’re on the air Kristin okay

Kristin we’ll come back to you let me

just make sure okay can you hear me from

Dallas okay so let’s take a one-minute

break sorry about this we’ll come right

back and one

minute

all right hey Kirsten can you hear me

Kristen all right

Kristen you can’t hear me right now so

we’re going to figure that out let me

see if KK can you hear me now yeah so we

basically have a little technical

difficulty apparently the internet a

little bit slow unfortunately but tell

you what just we’re going to do one more

break okay I want to try to fix this

don’t go away I’ll be right back

hey guys hey listen we’re just still

trying to figure out this Darrin phone

thing but in the meantime let’s go to

the board and do a little presentation

here because I have another board under

camera that we can actually continue

give you a little more education anyway

one thing I wanted to point out and I

just created a video on this is a

there’s all been a lot of confusion on

using your own like your blood tests

your urine test and to be able to

analyze those so in the next probably I

guess two weeks I’m going to be creating

a lot of videos on that topic but if you

take a look at it you know you drive a

car you have a dashboard you have the

gas pedal you have the overheating

indicator you have the fuel gauge of the

speedometer you have all these

indicators that you can allow you drive

your car right so you and you want to

use those as feedback to see if things

are working right and what happens is in

medicine we also have indicators we have

a1c which is the average blood sugars

for three months you have blood sugars

sugars so this should be like five or

less blood sugar should be a hundred or

less and then you have blood pressure

120 over 80

you have pulse rate that should be 72

you have temperature which should be

ninety eight point six C of all these

indicators that give you feedback to

know if your body is working correctly

the problem with medicine is they don’t

use these indicators to see why they’re

abnormal they don’t look at what’s

behind what they represent they may

basically treat the indicator they treat

the dashboard speedometer like for

example your a1c is high they give you a

drug high blood pressure there’s a drug

high pulse rate a drug a fever an

aspirin that is the problem

so we don’t use these indicators as

clues in polling a string so what we

want to do is we want to realize that

these are indicators these are symptoms

but the problem is they’re not very

profitable to find out the real reason

and corrected the real profit is keeping

these things confused and managed so you

can be on that pill and that’s why they

kind of design these medications to last

24 hours so that you can keep taking

them so it’s not it’s like very very

expensive to get help get people healthy

nowadays puts a lot of people out of

jobs but anyway I mentioned really

interesting on a recent video on LDL

that being bad cholesterol and and when

you go on a ketogenic diet or you go on

intermittent fasting sometimes your LDL

will go higher and that freaks people

out and so like oh my gosh my

cholesterol my bad cholesterol is going

up LDL is the cholesterol going from the

liver to the arteries okay in the cells

HDL the good cholesterol is from the

cells or your arteries back to the liver

but they’re really not bad or good so

LDL is just an indicator that your body

is requiring more cholesterol in the

cells and the arteries for some reason

and there’s really two types there’s

pattern a and there’s pattern B pattern

a is like the large buoyant fluffy

cholesterol that’s not LDL that’s not

necessarily to worry about because it’s

just floating through the body and it’s

required by themselves pattern B is the

real small little cholesterol very dense

that can get into the cells and it’s

involved in the clotting mechanism and

repair action and so when you have high

LDL s you don’t they don’t differentiate

a from B it’s basically telling you the

combat combination so if you have more a

than B then that’s normal and you might

be on a medic

agent for no reason so the question is

how do you determine if you have more a

than B or more B than a what you do is

you look at your triglycerides that’s

the blood fat if the triglycerides are

high and the HDL is low then that means

that you have more B okay so B would be

high triglycerides low HDL okay so

really honestly all you really need to

do is make sure your triglycerides are

normal or low and your HDL s are high or

normal okay and then you have to worry

about it because that means that your

body is is it’s not the bad type of

cholesterol it’s not even bad it’s just

it’s not the cholesterol that’s doing

any type of repair at that point if your

LDL is high and your triglycerides are

normal or low I’ll just put a decrease

here and your HCL’s are normal or or

high then you have the a and it doesn’t

really matter how much LDL you have even

if your cholesterol is real high it

doesn’t matter because think about it

when you are losing weight okay a fat

cell is composed of triglycerides and

cholesterol so you’re burning all these

triglycerides but you don’t burn

cholesterol it’s not burn so that

cholesterol has to release from the fat

cells well guess what’s going to happen

to your blood you’re going to have high

levels of cholesterol so you have high

levels of cholesterol because that’s

coming out of the fat cell through the

liver through the gallbladder being

dismantled by bile that’s a good thing

we want that to go out of the body so

anything extra you buy to either recycle

or get rid of so that’s why you don’t

have to freak out with this cholesterol

problem really the only danger is that

you have high B and what causes high B

is sugar high insulin refined

carbohydrates mainly

so if you’re doing the right evening

plan you’re going to be fine you have to

worry about it the benefit of in a

minute fasting is that you don’t spike

insulin you actually eat less frequent

you keep insulin low you heal insulin

and the cholesterol eventually goes down

because everything starts healing

because what happens is like

carbohydrates that you eat convert to

cholesterol insulin turns sugar in to

cholesterol and triglycerides okay so

that’s one thing and then the other

point I was going to make is the purpose

of cholesterol and I have a whole video

series on this I think it’s like four

different series the purpose of

cholesterol is to help heal and we’ll go

back to the camera now well is to help

heal the body of any type of lesions

provide for steroid health provide for

cell membrane material and that’s a

necessary thing and your body makes

303,000 cap milligrams every single day

that’s a lot of cholesterol so people

don’t realize that they need that

cholesterol alright let’s let’s see if

this works now Margie you’re from Denver

go ahead you’re on the air okay

hi dr. Burdine I’ve been taking your

products for over a year or two now and

my question is what would you recommend

for dry skin my face is super dry yeah

okay so that’s a really good question

Margie what you should take you need you

don’t need more water you need more oils

you need I would take a combination of

flax oil and maybe chia seed oil okay

start taking that and maybe even fish

oils but those oils are the oils that

you need to make the skin less dry okay

good question now Elaine you’re on the

air you’re from Virginia go ahead hey

dr. Berg like the only Nielson here and

suck hard jigna oh hey I’ve got some

good news for

riah but I’m happy guess why why because

for the first time in a year I woke up

with no pain I’ve had an impingement or

for the past year and so it makes

working out hard

Wow but I have some some good news for

you and I have a question for you okay

one is I’ve been using the electrolyte

powder with the wheatgrass lemon uh-huh

and I put it in the blender with some

lettuce like a huge handful of lettuce

okay and I put two scoops of each add a

little bit of water in ice and that

makes the best smoothie and then my

energy is just off the charts Wow okay

so what kind of lettuce want them to

know that I made a small video because

people have been asking me about put it

on my youtube not YouTube but um

Facebook page it’s like maybe a minute

long 30 seconds something like that but

it’s just that’s all that’s in there and

it’s all I need to get me through the

day so you put lettuces and like regular

lettuce it’s uh the spring to spring

that I never thought about that that’s a

great idea I’ll have to see that video

yeah it’s huge and it’s it’s a huge

fistful and so I’m getting everything I

need Wow great so for some of the

supplements I take but here’s here’s the

thing up because I’m really psyched

about this okay so I’m really going to

be hitting it hard now with my

exercising because I really haven’t done

anything of two months okay just because

of the shoulder I mean I really had to

take it easy

but anyway so here’s the question when I

take my supplement and I’m doing

intermittent fasting um when is the best

time to take these supplements yeah good

question Alain let me just answer that

now typically most the supplements don’t

have to be taken with food unless you’re

taking something that’s related to

digestion like the gall bladder formula

so all the other ones could be taken

anytime now if you take any type of fat

soluble products like vitamin D vitamin

k2 d3 k - that type of thing those must

be taken with like a meal like when

you’re eating some fat okay so because

they’re fat soluble but most of the

vitamins it really doesn’t make a big

difference so take them

anytime unless so related to digestion

thanks for your question I’m looking

forward to watching that video - hey k

you’re on the air you’re from Dallas hi

dr. Berg hi I love you I love your

product I haven’t been able to sleep for

years and years and my nasal congestion

is a big problem that I have experienced

watching all your videos and taking the

cortisol and the day and the night has

helped a lot and even changing all my

night I’m a vegetarian

I eat between 6 & 7 and it had helped me

a lot a lot but the left side of my

nasal cavity

I still struggle and I had I have had

breathing problems like struggle

breathing because I don’t sleep I

haven’t been sleeping well but I now

with these products it has helped and I

have slept well in last couple of weeks

but the cavity the nasal cavity is still

life and I have used nasal drop for

years and years and years and last two

weeks some nights I haven’t used I feel

good about that I have slept well but

the nasal cavity is still there

sometimes not every day but some day so

is there any advice on there sure let’s

talk about that cake couple things one

is that you want to do a neti pot with a

little bit of garlic a little bit of

garlic juice in there and oregano oil

those two are really good antifungal and

they’ll go up in there and then I’ll

help that the other thing is I just

created a video I didn’t release it yet

on a a really amazing thing for your

sinuses and your lungs for a mucus and

it’s basically called a salt inhaler

search it on Amazon and get one they’re

very inexpensive they’re a little

inhaler you take this little looks like

a neti pot and you put salt in there sea

salt in the bottom and it breathes

because it has holes in it and you

breathe it in through your mouth and you

let it out to your nose and what happens

all these ions from 84 to 90

we trace minerals go into the system and

dissolve as an antibacterial the mucus

and the fungus and they make it so it’s

very a natural way to be able to open up

your passages and breathe and especially

before bed you would do this for about

5-10 minutes make sure you just don’t

breathe like too deeply because you

might get hyperventilate you just want

to breathe normal and just let it get

through the whole system the lungs and

the sinuses you’re going to sleep really

good when you do that because it’ll help

you with with congestion anywhere in the

respiratory and it’s great for people

with sleep apnea so go ahead and get one

is called a salt flush okay

no it’s called the salt inhaler that’s

right use the Himalayan salt and it

comes in a kit thanks Kay hey Dale

you’re on the air you’re from Orlando um

hi dr. Berg thanks for taking my call

sure but for the longest time I’ve been

getting some very severe cramps in my

calf at night and I have I think that

most days I eat the quantity of

vegetables that you suggest I also take

400 milligrams of magnesium glycinate

every night before bed about three weeks

ago I added your adrenal night formula

and your wheatgrass and your

electrolytes powder which I do two

wheatgrass and electrolyte during the

day I heard once that you occasionally

recommend calcium for calf cramp these

haven’t eased up on me and I was just

wondering of what you would suggest give

it a good question down so you had to

think about these these muscle cramps

typically it’s potassium or magnesium

okay and you’re taking the electrolyte

power that shouldn’t get rid of that

because those electrolytes are involved

in the muscle contraction relaxation but

calcium is another it’s also in there in

small amounts but calcium could be

another reason why you you’re twitching

or even sodium so it could be one of

them you’re going to

hit it eventually but you may want to

just try some calcium and see if it goes

away calcium citrate that’s in the

electrolytes but it’s not as much my

electrolyte powder is heavy on the

potassium which is the most common

reason but now let’s say you do all

these things and the twitching still

doesn’t go away then we know your pH is

off and we need to add outside of

vinegar to acidify you to mobilize these

electrolytes but go ahead and try some

calcium and see if it doesn’t zap it and

make a go bye-bye and it’s rare but that

could be a common thing okay hey thanks

for your call hey Andrea you’re from

Illinois go ahead you’re on the air

Audrey oh um Audrey yeah hi dr. Burke um

I’ve been having like severe bloating

after like I ingest pretty much anything

and that’s one reason I switched even

just once a day um I don’t know what is

causing it I I was taking the apple

cider vinegar plus but after I ran out I

started doing the tablespoon of apple

cider vinegar and water 30 minutes

before my meal and I’ve been doing

nutritional yeast about a tablespoon and

I’ve been adding the radishes because I

heard that root vegetables are good for

digestion so I’m just kind of stumped on

what the problem is because I I blowed

up and I end up looking like nine months

pregnant okay ha you said you’re eating

just one today yeah okay and you’re but

you bloated after that now question do

you have constipation no okay

are you eating a lot of vegetables that

you don’t normally eat uh no actually

the only vegetables I really eat are

just salad and radishes okay I don’t

have much Christopher is really okay is

there any food that you know is more

bloating than other foods no actually

anything will bloat me like even if I

have like a bulletproof coffee in the

morning that old that’ll do it yeah okay

so here’s the thing there’s a couple

things you’re doing the right

thing without soda vinegar and some

people they have something called

hypochloride ria which is just low

stomach acids and they need to take more

of the outside of vinegar plus and some

people i mean you might even have to

take five with a meal just to start to

acidify you so you can start to work and

then also add the gall bladder formula

which is the bile after the meal to add

that I mean that’s the main one that

handles bloating is the gall bladder

formula I don’t know if you’re trying

that but that’s something that I would

highly recommend so let’s say for

example you do that and it works great

good problem solved you take it over a

period of time and then you might not

need it after that because your body has

adjusted but let’s say you’re still

bloating okay then I would look at

building up your floor out your good

bacteria in your gut to help you with

bloating let’s see we’re still bloating

then I would check for food allergies

and make sure that there’s no nothing

that is that you’re allergic to that’s

creating a problem okay and so those are

things that you can do as a quick quick

tip but that should help all right

but I’m glad you’re doing once a day

because that will give you a system a

chance to reset hey Jackie you’re from

Miami go ahead you’re on the air

hey dr. Berg thank you so much for

taking my call oh my goodness I am

trying to get a grasp on this

intermittent fasting and three meals a

day no snacking concept for I’m you know

I’m 53

for the past I mean before I turned 50

that is I was able to manage my weight I

felt great with eating every three hours

because that’s what they would tell us

for a fast metabolism if you don’t eat

every three hours you’re going to kick

yours are going to kill your metabolism

some kind of freaking out yeah so okay

so that’s the question

I just want to make sure yeah I just

want to make sure that my I’m not

killing my metabolism okay I’m gonna go

to the board and explain this okay so

check this out this is a very important

thing here

very important intimate of fasting is

probably one of the most powerful tools

you can eat and conventionally the

traditional diets say eat every three

hours right wow that’s one way to create

diabetes three hours I mean if you think

about it our bodies were not designed to

eat that frequent and so every time and

here’s the data every time you eat you

spike insulin okay

diabetes is too much insulin

pre-diabetic is too much insulin too

much insulin will create insulin

resistance which is a pre-diabetic so

let’s say you eat you spike you spike

insulin insulin comes in there and

pushes your blood sugars down now you

end up with a little bit of a lower

blood sugar guess what you’re going to

be hungry you’re going to have more

appetite to eat more so eating makes you

more hungry it slows your metabolism

because it raises insulin if you want to

lose weight you have to lower insulin so

it’s false data that you need to eat

every three three days it’s like the

worst advice I mean take a look at a

sumo wrestler what do they do the fat

themselves they eat three every like two

hours okay it’s a great way to gain

unhealthy fat so you go from every three

hours to three meals a day that’s the

first goal no snacks how do you do it

you add more fat at the end of the meal

to go longer okay you do that until your

body feels comfortable with that then

you take it one step further than you

don’t eat in the morning until you’re

hungry and you try to go for hours in

the morning and till your first meal do

that for a while until you feel

comfortable you’re adapting to that what

are you eating at this point you’re

eating your own fat because you’re in

the fast okay Suzie you’re going to know

you’re going to be hungry it’s going to

throw out the fast but you want to keep

going until you can go all the way in to

the point where like you might not eat

until 12:00

like 11 or 12 and that’s your first meal

okay is that bad no it’s good and then

you can you can then eat and the

eight-hour window okay or and then start

shortening until you have like five hour

window and then a four hour window so

now you get to the situation where

you’re you have a four hour window of

eating doesn’t mean you’re grazing all

the time but you’re eating within that

period of time then you’ve got a 20 a 20

hour fasting period can you imagine

fasting for 20 hours what that does to

growth hormone belly fat weight loss

brain cells it actually increases brain

cells so I’ll go back over here

neurogenesis is I mean fast intermittent

fasting and fasting will cause

neurogenesis which is an increase of

your brain cells incredible so I hope

that helped Jackie hey Christian you’re

on the air you’re from Nashville go

ahead yeah hi dr. Bowen so happy to talk

to you I’m so thankful for all your

videos you’ve taught me so much and I’ve

read your book and I’ve been on this

health journey for about six years but I

have a lot of back and neck problems but

they’ve gotten so much better but my

biggest question is today is I have this

foot that just hurts all the time now it

just doesn’t seem to go away and it’s in

the middle of my left foot on the top

part like if you came up the top of my

foot right in the middle and it’s some