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the calls because there’s a lot of them

a leandro you had a question about the

ketogenic diet go ahead you’re on the

air hey good how are you yeah I’m good

so I’ve been doing the ketogenic diet

for about a month now and you know I

really enjoy it

my only concern with is that so while

I’m dropping weight I noticed most of it

is coming off of my upper body which

wouldn’t be a problem but most of the

fat in my body is sword in my glutes and

legs

so my upper body is looking less

proportional to my lower so I was

wondering like what can I do to fix this

yeah I’m sure

I’m sure most of it is because you know

while growing up I wasn’t really

participating in much sports and I was

playing a lot of video games so that’s

important you know that you know if you

can answer that question for him I’d

really appreciate that’s my first

question and then my second question is

how exactly am I supposed to use the

ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting

to build muscle and like size with two

meals a day when I thought that they

were both used to get lean and drop away

should I aim for a certain number of

calories and probably do like 75 percent

fat 20% protein 5% cards if not what

would you recommend that’s my second

point are you doing two meals right now

yeah I got I started off like at four

meals I was doing a lot of different

things but uh I said intermittent

fasting which which has been helping but

yeah like like I mentioned a lot of it

facts coming off of my upper body hold

are you I’m 26

okay and can you give me a quick example

of what you eat as one of the meals so

in the morning I typically have like

three eggs bacon with like half of an

onion tomato I like a lot of vegetables

really like with broccoli too and cheese

and I’m like for my second no I’ll

typically have like five cups of salad

or organic salads with like some

Parmesan cheese

ranch Organic ranch and some chicken or

steak okay oh and I have Quito coffee

too

okay good and you have that in the

morning the Quito coffee right yeah okay

actually drinking it right now okay

great right alright so let’s just talk

about that there’s a couple things that

I would recommend you know you’re

talking about spot reduction or kind of

losing weight in a certain place

unfortunately it’s very difficult to you

know always lose weight where you want

to lose it usually comes off the usually

comes off the midsection first sometimes

it’s the upper as well you’re not going

to be losing muscle mass you’re going to

be losing fat but especially with

women’s like it’s a big concern because

they’re losing weight and midsection but

their their hips are still the situation

the the thing you’re gonna have to do is

you’re going to have to give it more

time but you can also add some high

intensity interval training to the key

to in a minute fasting because that will

especially if your lower extremity you

start working those muscles some of that

weight is not just fat it’s all it’s

like atrophy so that will help you

greatly the other thing if you want to

take it to the next level

is do this high-intensity full-body

workout when in the more a little

earlier in the morning so now I’m not

recommending this for everyone if they

have a blood sugar issue but if you do

this when you’re fasting the workout boy

it just it just accelerates everything

just like almost it just sucks that fat

right in it because if your body is just

demanding more energy so it goes after

the fat reserve because before I was

talking about having it right right

before you eat during the meal the

window of eating and then maybe just

right after to have the fuel but some

people are seeing more changes if they

do it in an empty stomach I might want

to try that unless your blood sugars are

an issue you can always improve things

to by probably that that coffee I would

because sometimes that fat or butter or

coconut in the in the coffee can you

know act like a meal so you might want

to just to coffee a little cream and

then nothing else and that will help

you the other thing that’s gonna help

you retain muscle protein you need and

I’m going to talk about this more on the

board in a little bit but you need

potassium to grow muscle you need

potassium to retain muscle and so you’re

doing the vegetables that great you

might want to add a little bit more

potassium as a supplement just to speed

things up but honestly overall I think

you just need to give more time and

eventually it’s going to go after your

legs because you your body tends to go

after the midsection first or the upper

body first unfortunately all right

thanks for your call hey Morini I think

it’s marine from Australia you had a

question in Quito and travel hi dr. Berg

I think you’re awesome and thanks so

much for taking my call yeah I have two

quick related questions about traveling

overseas on the keto intermittent

fasting diet firstly I’m very happy

eating this way is the health benefits

are tremendous and although I’m not

interested in having any cheat days I

will be going overseas in November

flying from Sydney to London across to

the US and flying back home from New

York there’ll be many hours on the plane

and I would normally not think twice

about fasting but with 24 hours plus

travel and transit times in the first

leg of my journey alone I will have to

eat at some stage and traveling in coach

well to be honest the foods pretty

crappy and the salads are way too small

and mostly unhealthy and so what would

you recommend me do and secondly do you

have any tips for staying healthy when

flying so I don’t pick up any bugs and

for taking supplements what would be the

most essential supplements you recommend

taking on vacation and maybe you could

do a video on this topic - that would be

awesome thanks again dr. Berg you’re

welcome Thanks

good good question this is always a

challenge because you’re flying the the

food on the plane is all carbs there’s

no no other way then you’re gonna have

to bring something on the plane you

normally I’ll go for nuts and I’ll do

that like if I’m in a situation where

I’m like oh gosh what am I going to do

usually there’s little shops that sell

nuts but the problem is that some of the

nuts always have MSG or sugar so I will

do peanuts and I will buy a back and

I’ll probably just use that as my

protein there is a good amount of

protein in there but if you have the

ability to carry on some food I would

bring nuts and seeds as your basic thing

maybe even some cheese would be great

too it’s hard to bring anything else

that’s hard to bring a salad but you

could bring a powdered green drink you

can do the wheatgrass or just get a

powdered green drink that would be your

salad because it’s almost gonna you

can’t bring a salad on the plane unless

you can buy something now in certain

airports there’s a there’s like those

smoothie places Jubilee or I can’t

remember the name of them I remember

going up to them and saying listen I

need to get a kale shake and of course

they don’t know how to make that so I

will say all I want is a little bit of

berries and a lot of kale and good

amount of water and I will show them how

to make it and they’ll make this kale

shake and that’s one thing I’ll do but

the thing that they’ll do is they won’t

put enough water so it becomes very very

thick and they’ll put ice cubes I want

to fill the thing with water put all the

kale in there with a little bit of

berries blend it up really good and

that’s that’s one tip so you got the

powdered green and you got the kale

shake and there are some restaurants

that have decent salads and protein but

I would bring your own nuts and seeds

and just make sure that maybe like

pecans would be good walnuts

but I wouldn’t being bring cashews but I

think that’s a good idea bringing the of

doing a video on that and I think that

was I think oh yeah to protect your

immune system yeah when you get on the

plane there’s all these people hacking

and coughing and there’s germs and

microbes and things like that people

what will set you up for a low immune

system to get a microbe would be like

any type of stress in your environment

if you’re stressed out and I used to

pick up every single bug when my immune

system was low so there are some things

that you can do not necessarily to

avoid the germs being exposed to your

body but to be able to just to build up

your immune system one is vitamin D so

you can start taking vitamin D like a

week before that’s really really

powerful and then of course vitamin C

just make sure the vitamin C that you

take is not just synthetic get the one

with a food base with a bioflavonoids or

just don’t get this synthetic vitamin C

will actually kind of bulletproof you in

a sense all right well thanks for your

question that was actually a good

question hey Jim you’re from Ohio go

ahead you to question a maintaining

weight on the Aikido yes dr. Berg thank

you I am 50 years old I’ve got down to

the weight that I want over about a two

and a half month period I actually

started out with the Atkins because I

didn’t get find you but about halfway

through so I’m down to the point where I

want to be I don’t want to lose any more

I’ve lost my belly fat I’ve got about a

32 inch waist so I feel really good

about that I’m very active running

biking so my question is how do I

maintain it all right like to stow

intermit fat yeah and I do that twice a

day 18-6 so yeah how do I maintain and

does it harm me to go in and out of

ketosis good question well the whole

goal Jim is to build up a health reserve

so your you’re not on a diet you just

are operating off these principles of

you know low crap sugar you know all the

junk food but building up a health

reserve over time well your system is so

healthy you can get away with an

occasional going off the program and

eating certain things I mean some people

can’t afford that but when you build up

a health reserve you know you have no

fatty liver and out of medication

everybody all the indicators are good

energy sleep blood pressure all those

are awesome and then you can afford to

go off of it so there’s a there’s kind

of some some gradient points from here

to here as far as how much you can go

off and is it harmful well let’s say

you’re doing alcohol a little too

frequent

well you just like taking that liver and

you’re just like whip lashing it over

and over and over again so it can create

some problem

so it’s really a judgment call with you

as long as you’re building up and you’re

having all the nutrition and avoiding

some of these chemicals GMO foods I

think you’re gonna be you can go you can

afford to go off a little bit more but

it’s it’s not harmful to continue the

key to intermittent fasting over a long

period of time now some people don’t

want to lose any weight anymore they hit

their weight well then just increase the

quantity of food and maybe just a little

bit more fat with the meals and maybe

even just one more meal

maybe not but and then you’ll actually

it may slow down the weight loss the

other thing that you want to think about

when you do this is that you’ve been

doing this I think for two to four

months somewhere in between there it

takes like you may have to do this for

six months to eight months to really

build up and know that you have a health

reserve where you can go off more

frequently but you just kinda have to

play around with it and see how how you

do and if you go off the program and you

can monitor it by various factors like

blood sugars subjective how you feel

stress levels just quality of your

cognitive function to see how much you

can get away with but I don’t want to

get fanatical about it but you know the

coal-hole goal is to fill up your body

so you don’t have to worry about an

occasional going off the program thanks

for your question Jim hey Rachel you’re

from New York you had a question your

hair is too dry yes actually my hair

keeps breaking and splitting and getting

a lot of knots now I normally have

elbow-length hair but within the last

year I’ve had to cut my hair to like a

mini afro and I’ve gone to the

dermatologist I’ve gone to you know the

internist and the most they’ve told me

is that you know my iron is in normal

range is just on the low side of that so

the last four months I’ve been taking

iron but I’m not seeing a difference in

my hair quality mm-hmm okay good let’s

talk about that I think I think what you

need is to go mainly right into more

healthy fats the fact that I would

recommend to have really good hair

would be GLA okay gamma linolenic acid

GLA it’s from borage will that you can

get it from evening primrose oil and

black currant seed oil hemp oil but get

the borage oil and that should you can

get it in little tablets so it’s

preserved and start taking that that

will help your hair a lot because those

essential fatty acids are really good

for soft wonderful hair prevent

splitting and for for skin skin health

too so that’s their I would go and and

don’t forget to takes either consuming

fish oils or the cod liver oil because

the fats what will help the dryness it’s

not a dehydration not necessarily a

trace mineral but it’s the healthy fats

all right Rachel thanks for your call

hey Dan you had a question you’re from

California yeah I’m quite asking about

how do you add that to the meal that the

protein is not providing enough to curb

the carbohydrates cravings there have to

be pure fat or is it just predominantly

fat and what are some examples good

question so Dan yeah because it’s like

even when you go out and let’s say you

get a hamburger or you buy him here at

the store I mean they sell it it’s hard

even fine fatty or hamburger it’s all

like ninety percent there’s one company

that you can order online I’ll actually

put a link down below when I get home

today that you can buy like seventy five

percent back which is wonderful so the

goal is to have fattier you know meats

if you’re doing that now the other thing

to add fats I normally go I either will

make a keto bomb with from coconut or

butter and almond flour and have a lot

of rest recipes online or I’ll do I’ve

ekkada as my fat I do a lot of almond

butter I’ll do like nuts pecans I’ll do

a lot of P cons I might take the

sugar-free chocolate chips and I’ll put

them in almond butter or a peanut butter

and that will be my fat so you’re going

to have to just add more of that fat you

can do coconut oil

but like what are you gonna eat it

straight so you would I would do more of

a peanut butter type thing and that’s

usually gonna handle your hunger over a

period of time so that’s what I would do

but yeah you’re gonna have to add more

fat until the point where you’re not

hungry

good question Dan hey Jose you’re from

Nebraska go ahead you had a question

about the adrenal formula yeah I just

found you Oh a couple weeks ago I have

done some friends who told me about

doing high fat low carbs and I’ve done

that for a couple of months but the

thing I’ve struggled with for years is

my legs at night and it’s not restless

leg syndrome but I feel like the muscles

on my legs are pulling off and they are

very very painful at night and I don’t

know what I need to be doing okay good

so here’s the thing I far as the adrenal

goes because the adrenal affects the

lower extremity in the body the best

formula is the cortisol adrenaline

cortisol support formula that’s that

would really help you in addition to

that it’s usually going to be potassium

so I don’t know if you’re doing you’ve

only done this for two week two weeks so

you’re gonna probably bill of your

potassium reserve you can do them with

the electrolyte powder that I have or

and a lot more vegetables so like 7 to

10 cups of vegetables because without

the potassium and the muscles get achy

and things like that so that’s one thing

now if that doesn’t work for some reason

here you’re taking this electrolyte and

it’s not working then you need more

vitamin E but get a natural vitamin E

complex okay that should handle the rest

of the majority but there’s one last

thing that people do need if like a

small percentage of time because I’ll

always try the most common thing and

then okay if that doesn’t work we try

this and then the last thing that you

can try if nothing else works and this

will probably this is the icing on the

cake is manganese manganese get up

chelated manganese supplement manganese

is basically good for achy muscle and

joint but it

good for disk problem it strengthens

your ligaments so that could be an one

last thing that I would use on occasion

and boom it’s just handled but I

wouldn’t go right to that first I would

do the adrenal then potassium and then

vitamin E and manganese as your last

option I think that should help you hey

Angela you’re from Louisiana

you didn’t question about Kido and

Hepburn go ahead

yeah something on the ko genic diet for

about two or three weeks now but I have

a lot of past with my stomach and stuff

and I’ve noticed that the heartburn in

my chest has been really bad and I’m not

sure if it’s an ulcer or not I’m also on

the road a lot I’m a truck driver and

I’ve looked at your videos and I was

trying to find the floor filled pearls

but I can’t find that I just wanted to

know what you suggested okay do you do

you did you notice your heartburn is

worse on the keto or did you have it

before it’s worse recently okay

how many meals a day are you eating I

was eating one big meal a day Wow okay

is the heartburn when you eat or an

empty stomach empty stomach oh okay so

it’s not it’s not really but it’s

constant almost okay is there any chance

that you might have an ulcer yes it’s a

possibility I’ve had them in the past

but I haven’t been to a doctor or

anything recently so it’s possible yes

okay so let’s talk about this is this is

another great question let’s just

pretend you have an ulcer okay if you

eat and you have an ulcer you should

feel better with eating okay so like

sometimes you might feel better if

sometimes you might not but but if you

start dumping apple cider vinegar down

your throat you’ll feel worse especially

an empty stomach if you have an ulcer so

that’s one way to quickly find out yeah

I have an ulcer I a grated without cider

vinegar but typically to get rid of

heartburn we need to certify the stomach

because if the stomach is not alkaline

enough the top valve on the top of the

stomach won’t close and the acid squirts

up so we have acid reflux and then we

have heartburn right so it could be you

know the same situation where you don’t

have enough acid so the thing that I

would do if I were you is I would start

taking the opposite of vinegar with my

meals and see if it gets worse it gets

worse we know we have an ulcer then we

have to back off that now we have to

heal the stomach lining and to do that

chlorophyll pearls is good it’s a

standard process product if you search

standard process on Amazon you’ll find

it you can probably try to find a health

care practitioner or call the company

bit expensive but it’s called

chlorophyll pearls standard process and

then you would suck on those until

they’re almost kind of real thin and

then swallow them and they’re kind of

just coats the entire lining of the

stomach and that’ll start healing it the

other thing that’ll work

really good and you can get this from my

site as the is the wheatgrass juice

powder that is a lot of chlorophyll - -

and you could take that and that starts

to help heal the area but then you can’t

really dump any acid down there so

you’re gonna have to kind of heal the

system over a period of time once it’s

healed after you know a period of time

like it could take two or three four

months then you start adding in the acid

but yeah so heartburn means that well if

you have an ulcer that means that you’ve

had a pretty bad health problem for a

long period of time because it’s it’s to

get an also you have to be pretty

unhealthy so it means you probably ate

poorly but I love the fact that you’re

doing one meal a day I think that over

time it’s going to help heal things you

might have to consume as part of your

vegetables more of the fermented foods

to make it easier to digest but those

are some of the things that I would

recommend you might have to take more

enzymes - if you can’t take an acid just

to help you as this thing heals all

right good question hey Megan you’re for

North Carolina go ahead you had a

question

low carbs make you dizzy

I got antibiotics cipro and a whole

bunch of stuff started happening to me

so the only thing that doctors were

saying to me is that I needed to lose

weight so I had hair loss I had hormone

problems I had insulin resistance

I had all that so I went on this major

diet about three months ago and lost 45

pounds in two months and all I was

eating was whole fruits and whole

vegetables nothing in packaging and I

was eating some nuts and some peanut

butters but for some reason I had

allergy issues on top of that it seemed

like everything that I put in my body my

throat was itching or I had an ache

under my right rib so I did a ton of

probiotics and stuff like that to try to

counteract that and now I’m able to eat

the soy and other nuts and stuff like

that but before I look three months ago

I wasn’t able to eat any of that

have you seen any more videos on what to

eat I’ve seen a few of them I was

wondering if there was any way that you

could maybe um do like a nutrition

counting nutrition chart for like daily

you know use because that would be so

beneficial yeah okay yeah I already have

a lot of videos on the nutritional

profiles of a lot of different foods but

here’s the thing Megan it sounds to me

like you have hypoglycemia and the thing

that you’re missing is the more of that

dense

protein whether an egg or even an animal

protein now if you’re a vegan I

understand that but it sounds like your

low blood sugar so when you go to low

carb and you don’t have the right

proteins it’s very hard to fix it so you

feel kind of like low blood blood sugar

in that and insulin resistance will

cause hypoglycemia

I would honestly go to my site in

a little booklet it’s very inexpensive

it’s very easy read that’s kaha to burn

fat it gives you the basics of what to

eat and just read that you can read it

in probably an hour get all the basics

of what you need to fulfill not just the

nutrition but the macros as well so you

need the micronutrients and the

macronutrients in the right combination

I think it’s a real easy problem to

solve start watching more of my videos I

probably would do you’re gonna have to

fix the hypoglycemia so to do that you

don’t want to do 5 6 small meals a day

you want to do start with 3 and then

eventually go down the 2 2 meals and I

think that’ll help you but you’re gonna

have to add more high-quality protein to

your meals and of course in fat because

the way you’re doing it now

because the teeth one of the things this

protein will increase insulin a little

bit but it also stimulates an another

hormone called glucagon which actually

helps regulate your blood sugars to

between meals so you need to see more

protein so try that nega and I think I

think you’re gonna get a lot of success

very fast you’ll probably just feel

instantly better hey William you’re from

Texas you had a question about keto and

elevated cholesterol hey good morning

doctor thank you so much for your work

sir um it’s been a big impact in my life

so I did blood work a couple weeks ago

I’ve got the numbers the good news is my

triglycerides are low my overall

cholesterol number is 362 my LDL is 284

and my HDL is 58 my glycerides number

was 99 and what is it ok got it

alright so um how long you been on the

keto are you on the keto ok so yes yeah

I began looking at following you

December 1st last year ok and and so

it’s been kind of process you know it’s

like you know I was doing to kind of

like maybe like five days on 2 days off

and then say beginning in the summer

like no sugar like sugars gone

which i think what else to tell you are

you doing in a minute yes I’m trying to

do yes I’m trying to do you know no more

than like two meals a day and also you

know observing your window like I say

you know start 11 so you know it may

have a good left and an early evening

meal I guess what I wanted to tell you

is I am consuming a lot of half-and-half

and heavy cream like in the morning I’ll

have a couple shots of espresso and then

I’ll have like a cup or more of

half-and-half and heavy cream Wow all

organic so I’m gonna try to figure out

what your recommendations would be so I

feel like I’m I’m you know feel so much

healthier I’ve lost 30 pounds that’s

December December first I just wanted to

see what your what you would say about

those numbers okay great

I think overall I think you’re doing

great and I the fact that the

triglycerides are going down means that

you’re you could be less concerned about

cholesterol in fact that you should

watch that all the videos I have on

cholesterol because I explained there’s

two types of lvl one is the big fluffy

the other one is the small dense

particles and you you may just have as

you’re losing weight you’re releasing

this cholesterol from the fat cells so

the LDLs are not going to be an issue

because you have to have that fat come

out of your fat cells and that might

just be totally normal especially if

your triglycerides are low the biggest

concern with cholesterol is if the

triglycerides are high but you’re not I

don’t think you can have a problem I

mean you know if you eventually can’t

get the cholesterol down then get a test

to see if it’s not a genetic issue and

then that’s a whole different topic but

why don’t you just try to maybe cut down

the heavy cream because even though it’s

probably grass-fed it’s probably organic

it’s still pasteurized cream and

obviously it’s a lot of half-and-half or

a lot of cream to consume dairy I would

only recommend this a small that try to

get your fats from a different source

you can do it nuts peanut butter almond

butter avocado not as much there

you what happens to your cholesterol you

might do better on that it is true some

people do not respond as well on dairy

especially if they have a casein allergy

or a lactose problem and and then I have

them come off that and especially if

there’s a diabetes type one or even type

two they don’t do as well with dairy but

you can do some really good grass-fed

organic cheese that would be way better

than that cream so those are things I

would do watch all the cholesterol ones

because you’re gonna probably find some

information that you needed to know

about alright thanks for your question

so then we now we have sue it’s Sujata

from California you your mom’s b12

levels are very high right yeah got it

and you’re wondering what you can do

yeah I’m wondering if I should worry

about that girl yeah there’s there’s a

there’s a test that I would do it’s

called MTHFR test a genetic test that

your mom may have a problem with some

genetic issue which relates to b12

folate folic acid things like that I

don’t want to get too into it but I have

a video on that right down this these

words M th fr and write that down and go

ahead and watch my videos on that and

then you can actually get a genomic test

if your mom has that defect then she

needs to change some of the foods that

she’s consuming make sure there’s no

synthetic vitamins and then start taking

certain types of B vitamins that are a

little bit in a different form and that

could be the thing that’s gonna actually

really help her that’s the thing that

comes at self the top of my head so

that’s the most likely problem so go

ahead and try that and let me know how

you do hey Chris you’re from Kansas City

you had a question about adrenal body

type and supplements yes sir thank you

for taking my car man I’ve been watching

for a couple of months I love you and I

I’ve been on keto for about two months

I ordered your adrenal pack I’ve been on

it for about a week now I also ordered

the gall bladder formula and I also have

picked up milk thistle and so I’m adding

this because I’ve been suffering from

indigestion

lots of belching since I was about 17

and I’m 43

Wow so I was wondering um I was

wondering that full well for one I’ve

had tremendous stress over those years

and I’ve been trying to lose weight

forever me and my wife have been doing

key talk about seven months we do a lot

of weight training mixed with a cardio

right now and I haven’t dropped a lot of

weight but I’ve been dropping body fat

percentage time and gaining a lot of

muscle um so my question is that how do

I know what taking the adrenal pack with

the gallbladder thing gallbladder pill

and also milk thistle how do I know

exactly what’s working and also the keto

makes me a little bit have a little bit

more in a gesture which I think is the

fat I’m sure um kind of what your

suggestion with that would already be in

on keto for a month yeah good question

are you doing in a minute fasting not

really I mean no I don’t I don’t kind of

because I don’t start eating until about

1:30 and afternoon we work out fasted

but I don’t I’m kind of eating until

about 11:00 cuz I’m a musician so I’m up

till 11:00 and 12:00 1:00 any morning

sometimes okay so Chris there’s things

that are really really really important

and there’s stuff that’s kind of lesser

important so I just want to talk about

the most important thing the adrenal

package is exactly what you need for the

stress so you could take those as

recommended

but there’s something probably a little

more important to talk about you need

something that may not be get enough

supplements right now and that would be

the digestion formula which is the

absolute vinegar plus because that has

in it two things outside of vinegar

pills with betaine how to chloride in a

50/50 ratio you probably would benefit

from like like right now probably five

of those before a meal and the reason

for that is because

indigestion stomach problems are really

it’s a lack of pH and stress will

deplete that and over time as you age

it’ll go down that will give you the

most improvement you can’t even release

bile without a strong acid in your

stomach so so you may or may not feel

better initially with the gallbladder so

you want to test it out but once you fix

the stomach you will but you want to

take the gallbladder after the meal and

in the meantime before you get that you

can take start taking more episode of

vinegar 2 tablespoons and some water

before each meal ok and then take one

before you go to bed that’ll start to

acidify that stomach that’ll probably

make them biggest difference ok that’s

number one number two the intimate of

fasting is probably the biggest thing

that you’re missing now and the most

important thing that you want to plug

into this formula especially for you

because if you actually don’t eat for a

period of time and you let’s say you eat

at one a really good meal and then have

another one and that’s it no snacks and

add more fat as needed you’re gonna give

your system such a chance to drop that

insulin and lose so much more weight but

more important than that is to you’re

gonna give the gallbladder and your

digestion a sense to reset and rest and

recover just like you would if you

worked out and that’s going to be the

your saving grace because that’s going

to really help reset the digestion

because people that don’t intermittent

fasting it just puts a lot of stress in

the digestion so it never really heals

and the gallbladder have a chance to

concentrate its bile so then when you do

eat boy you have all this amazing bile

to digest all those fats in that food so

simple problem bite the bullet focus on

the in a minute fasting within the next

month or so see if you can do gradually

just two meals and watch the

improvements gonna just be off the

charts alright good question hey Joe

you’re from Texas you had a question

about a few things go ahead you’re in

there I can’t really see what you’re

asking but go ahead okay yes I had a

question about

HSD 1 & 2 like if you got any

supplements I saw you had a video about

chia seed and and that

getting right there and I was wonder if

you could talk more about it and I’m

also taking l like L icing yeah laughing

yes

now HSV what yeah that’s the that herpes

employed Oh Oh got it yeah got it

okay good question so let’s just talk

about the best thing for herpes well

that’s really a viral thing so there’s a

couple of things we talk about viruses

to put that virus back on the mission

the thing that just pops out right away

is the vitamin D so either Sun or

actually in a supplement d3 start taking

that d3 that’s gonna actually put the

thing back in remission the other thing

is you need is trace minerals there’s a

plant-based trace minerals that you can

get that you take in liquid and you

start consuming that that’ll help this

virus to and then in addition on top of

that you need to do all the recommend

recommendations that I’m recommending

with keto and intermittent fasting

because that’s going to lower your

insulin that’s going to keep your virus

in check you can’t kill a virus so you

all you can do is keep it in remission

so you al licensing is okay but it’s not

nearly as powerful as keeping your

insulin low doing the keto and

intermittent fasting which is what’s

we’re talking about today and I think

that will protect you so thing about

viruses is long stay healthy you’re

gonna be fine so your goal is just to be

super healthy thanks Joe so mark you’re

from Kentucky you had a question your

grandmother wants to get off this

warfarin or coumadin yes sir and this

was David you’ve been a huge impact on

myself but my entire family I’m mean my

girlfriend my mother my father all of

our friends my dream is that all of us

have been following you for probably the

last eight months awesome and we’ve all

seen wonderful wonderful results my

mother is completely off diabaté

diabetes medication she just stopped

probably three weeks ago and has not had

to take a drop of insulin sets

wow that’s great though really really

amazing stuff but my grandmother her

doctor keeps going back and forth with

her

about her blood thickness you know she

has to go once a week if it’s too thick

if it gets better because she increases

her apple cider vinegar intake then they

say all will you boy it’s great you can

eat you know or you can we can drop this

back a little bit but she loves salads

and we want the you know more salads and

I keep telling my grandmother you need

the nutrition from all of your greens

but her doctors just adamantly opposed

about her taking in what would be good

for her so that they can continue to

keep her on warfarin so she’s taken

probably about ten tablespoons of

vinegar per day to try and kill what the

warfarin but because she has that leaky

valve and the prolapsed heart she needs

that she needs to do something different

so I was wondering do you have a

recommendation so that we can finally

get her off this warfarin yeah good

question first thing I’ll make a little

disclaimer anything I say is for

educational purpose check with your

doctor before taking my recommendations

okay got the other way now let me just

give you some education to something to

research I recently did a video I did

release it on vitamin B for you should

watch that that that’s a nutritional

yeast and that actually helps tone the

heart and helps with murmurs and helps

leaky valves and things like that

most people are taking the coumadin to

thin the blood it’s like it’s like a rat

poison kills kills rats but they it

blocks the clotting factors which is

vitamin K okay and then what happens is

that usually you take it if you have

atrial fibrillation because you don’t

want to develop a clot you should also

watch the recent video on preventing TI

a because I talked about the nutrition

that will help with that I think if we

go deeper you need to focus on the real

reason why she has a leaky valve and

that would be the B vitamins so yes

absolute vinegar is important but

probably more important is nutritional

yeast that’s the thing that I would

recommend nutritional yeast so you get

the B vitamins to help that area the

other thing was far as thinning the

blood naturally vitamin E will do it on

natural vitamin E okay and the fish oils

of real good version

liver wealth not yea cod liver oil

virgin color oil that would actually be

very good to thin the blood so those are

all things that you can look at and in

the meantime for vegetables I did a

video on kuma Tim you and I actually

gave a list of all the vegetables that

she can have like yellow vegetables and

orange so you can have more of those

right now make a salad out of that and I

think that would actually help her as

the transition to kind of correct the

initial reason why she needs she’s on in

the first place okay

alright cool hey Nick you’re from Texas

you had a question yes sir and like

everyone else I want to start by saying

thank you I mean I’ve been doing this

for about two months the Kyodai and

without your information I mean I would

not be here League where I’m at right

now so really think awesome thank you

I’ve lost unfortunately Nick you’re

breaking up I don’t know what’s

happening

but I tell you what Nick maybe you can

email me that question at dr. Berg at

dr. Berg

dr. dr b ER g { dr b ER g calm

unfortunately you’re breaking up and i

wanted to hear that question but i think

it has something to do with keto diet

and too much protein so so let’s just

i’m just gonna guess at what you’re

asking and then i’m gonna go to the

board and i’m going to talk about

protein in general in fact let me just

go to the board and talk about that now

because I think that’ll actually help

alright

so too much protein so there’s a couple

points on protein that you need to know

we have the amount of protein so you

don’t want to go more than six three to

six ounces and the reason for that is

that anything more will spike insulin

okay so we want the quality but people

are concerned about well I need to keep

my muscle mass I need to

this well did you realize that the

mineral that actually will help your

muscles be retained and grow because I’m

not just talking about becoming

bodybuilders but I’m talking about like

if you have atrophy let’s say you’re

menopausal and you have atrophy of the

muscles like your female or men and you

want to get this muscle back this

collagen not just muscle but all

proteins hair nail skin ligaments the

main thing that people need is potassium

if your potassium deficient you cannot

make your muscles grow okay you’ll have

you won’t be able to get you know big if

you’re trying to actually get more

muscle mass and you won’t be able to get

rid of the atrophy so all of these like

athletes that are especially

bodybuilders are taking all this protein

like massive quantities of protein and

they don’t have a new potassium they

don’t get anywhere so potassium acta is

involved in almost every single enzyme

of protein synthesis where you take

amino acids into protein so we need

potassium and that and then secondly

look at this we got the we have insulin

is the key here’s the here’s the door

insulin is a key that controls protein

in the cells so without insulin you

can’t get protein in the cells to make

body tissues and protein so if you have

instant resistance pre-diabetic like

most people you’re not you’re going to

have a protein problem so to lower the

need for insulin to fix instant

resistance guess what you need potassium

interesting so you need forty seven

hundred milligrams now if you’re a you

have rheumatoid arthritis or you have

really bad adrenals or some type of

inflammatory condition

you’re gonna need price 6,000 milligrams

okay and bananas don’t cut it you’re

gonna have to get them from vegetables

so even at some vegetables even if you

did six or seven to ten

you’re still not you’re still gonna be

short of potassium unless you have real

quality vegetables avocados beet leaves

kale things like that and that’s why I

was recommend a couple times a week you

know do your kale shake with a lot of

these other greens in there put the

other greens in there don’t just have

like a low quality like a Caesar salad

type you know iceberg lettuce or just

romaine you need like a lot of other

stuff in there so we need a lot of

vegetables and you can even enhance that

with electrolyte powder I have a really

good electrolyte power just with

potassium citrate there’s a thousand

milligrams per serving you can add that

in there just to put the icing on the

cake don’t talk about icing so so we

have that okay then we have certain the

hormones that are involved in protein

synthesis we have growth hormone we have

glucagon growth hormone is the

anti-aging hormone it is the hormone

that preserves your muscle protein and

all your protein and so the goal is how

do we trigger growth hormone well heavy

exercise short duration high intensity

okay exercise sleep we’ll do it in a

minute fasting we’ll do it

lowering your stress we’ll do it okay

glucagon will also be triggered by heavy

exercise and in a minute fasting as well

and moderate amount of protein so we

need that moderate amount of protein we

don’t want too much so we have the the

diet but you know you may find that

you’re consuming enough potassium in

your diet but your stomach acids are low

so you might have low acid as you age

you decrease your stomach acid and then

you can’t absorb the potassium the

minerals and you can’t break down

protein so that could be another common

cause especially some of the callers

today we’re talking about they have

heartburn indigestion I think they have

low stomach acids and so even if you

have an ulcer

you’ve still low stomach acids we don’t

want to add acid in there at first we

have to heal it then we need to

recertify so you can start absorbing

protein and minerals okay another common

cause of potassium deficiency is

diuretics especially thiazide thiazide

it’s called a diuretic basically will

deplete your electrolytes specifically

potassium and people take diuretics to

lower blood pressure well guess what if

you deplete your potassium gessie you

end up with high blood pressure because

potassium lowers blood pressure okay

does that make sense alright let’s go

back here I just wanted to kind of cover

some things there and come right back

here so Jennifer you had a question

you’re from South actually South Dakota

you had a question in Quito and body

odor go ahead hi yes um thank you for

taking my call I believed I had

struggled with insulin resistance and

finally had the lab work done a couple

months ago that confirmed it and one

thing I’ve noticed over the last couple

of years particularly as I sit at my

office by the end of the day and over

the last several months I’ve noticed an

increase in body odor I don’t really

notice it at home or while I’m doing

activity it’s just at the office and

it’s embarrassing because I I deal with

the public and a lot of people yeah okay

okay so there’s a couple things that you

want to make sure of in and out of all

the things I’m going to talk about some

of these might not apply but just these

are potential reasons you have body odor

in the transition in the key to

adaptation to burning fat there will be

some release of ketones in the urine and

other parts of your body that could be

coming out and that means that the

ketones sometimes have a certain odor to

them that could be one thing computing

the breath or whatever but that’s only

an Aikido adaptation as you do keto for

a period of time that goes away because

you start becoming more efficient you’re

burning of all the ketones so the odor

goes away but in the transition that

might be the fact so you have to be

careful about too consuming

too much protein okay that’s number one

so don’t have any more than you know six

ounces you might even do better with

five ounces or even four ounces so just

check that and then the other thing is

you want to start increasing the

quantity of vegetables to the diet to

start countering some of the waste

product from the ketogenic diet it’s a

different different waste product so

start beefing up that and then the other

thing that I would recommend is kind of

double or triple the dosage of the

wheatgrass juice powder and the reason

for that is it’s a it’s a good

deodorizer it’s a good cleaner and

there’s a lot of chlorophyll and that is

the thing that you need to kind of

counter that odor I just did a video I

think it was like stinky your hand but

you can actually watch that because that

would also apply to the odor but you

really need to kind of adjust what

you’re doing it’s it’s either you’re

doing too much too much fat or too much

protein okay so lower that and increase

more vegetable and until that odor goes

away thanks for your question Jennifer

hey Greg you are from Virginia

go ahead you had a question about

something yes I had a question about

pyro knees disease I was wondering can

you tell me the the plaque of the

fibrous tissue that builds up in the

penis area is that something that can be

resolved without having an operation

yeah honestly Greg yeah I’ve never I

don’t have enough experience to tell you

how to address that honestly but I can

just tell you offhand plaquing in

general is usually a protein issue a

fibrous issue and so it may not pertain

to your problem but in general there’s a

lot of fibrous tissue extra protein

plaquing that can grow in different

parts of the body and the absolute best

remedy for that is an enzyme called

sarah pep taste you can look it up you

want to get it in at least a hundred and

fifty thousand I use taking an empty

stomach and that’s one of the best

things to kind of clean up and remove

fibers plaquing throughout any part of

the body that shouldn’t be there it’s

great for cirrhosis as well okay Greg

thanks for your question then we have

another question from pansy no it’s

actually yeah how are you okay so you

have a teat of flu okay you said you had

keto flu no no I have a benefit for

belly fat got it yes and I tried to do a

ketogenic diet mm-hmm but it makes me

more okay got it

so here’s here’s the here’s the thing

about the keto

honestly that keto is one tool to use to

help weight loss because you’re lowering

carbs and that’s really good and some

people get great results from that

there’s other tools that you can use one

is in a minute fasting so I would go for

that that’s even a more powerful tool

than keto so I would go to three meals

no snacks

two meals no snacks and maybe even one

meal if you can do it if you really have

a slow metabolism the other tool that

you can add to it is addressing the

eating plan based on your body type in

the new book I’m releasing I actually

even talked about that so we’re

combining a bunch of strategies it’s the

combination of powerful strategies that

help people get healthy

versus why why just use one and then we

can add high-intensity interval training

as another tool to get healthy we can

also provide all the nutrients for your

basic requirements that’s another tool

we can also get rid of body problems

that’s another tool but for you I think

I would focus on the intermittent

fasting because that’s what you’re

missing and that would take you to the

next level especially if you’re trying

to lose belly fat because that if you

have belly fat all that means is you

have too much insulin okay and you get

to drop it in a minute fasting is the

most powerful tool but thanks for thanks

for calling okay so now we have another

question from Jaron from Tennessee you

had a question

electrolyte formula question oh yeah

yeah no you let you like that doesn’t

have caffeine in oh good question

absolutely not in fact that’s it you

know there’s so many drinks out there

these energy drinks 5-hour energy drinks

which has liked between

215 245 milligrams of caffeine I mean to

caffeine alone will rev up your adrenals

and create all sorts of problems since

you have the monster drinks and all

these other things so no mind it has no

caffeine and there’s no sugar and it

also has no multo dextran which is has

the highest glycemic index of anything

so I had the pariah to make sure that I

mean it’s such a routine thing that

manufacturing companies use in formulas

that I had to say no I don’t want any of

that crap so it’s a you’re just getting

these minerals in a good form its flavor

with stevia okay which is totally fine

and a little natural flavoring which is

awesome

so when you take it you’ll actually you

won’t have any like weird after case or

anything like that so it’s very good

tasting so good question

hey Muhammad you’re from your on the air

you had a question about keto and liver

enzymes you’re from Kuwait yeah doctor

work

I’ve been following you and your videos

really great two weeks two years ago I

was really informed and I lost a lot of

weight and family reunions weddings etc

just got me back on it again am I on my

carbs it’s been about a year again and

it’s really hard for me I see it very

hard to get back on keto this is number

one number two I have been propagating

about the keto diet to my friends to

families and to extended people that I

meet in general and I have been telling

them about this and there are some

people with medical background they do

stop me tell me what about your liver

enzymes would have you checked your

liver enzymes so I’m really confused and

I just recently watch your video about

the video on I’m sorry the yeah your

video on what the heck or what what the

hell about the hell food and that’s yeah

well that’s where they’re promoting

surprisingly promoting things like carbs

are not not you have carbs are good for

you and and other and fat fat are bad so

just want some insight and what to what

do they mean when they mean to saying

liver enzymes and and how am I supposed

to test for liver enzymes over here yeah

good question you yeah

so first of all I will guarantee that

whoever said that doesn’t understand

keto what their what they’re doing is

they’re mixing up or confusing the keto

diet with another condition called

ketoacidosis which is a diabetic type

one problem you don’t have diabetes type

one so you can do nutritional ketosis

very healthily and not have any issues

keto diet takes stress off the liver

okay especially if you’re doing and like

I’m saying with all the vegetables so

they just don’t understand it so you’re

when you get opinions from people who

don’t understand something or are not

expert in it you’re gonna get the most

wild opinions it’s kind of like going to

a medical doctor for nutrition advice

well do they have any training at all

well their biochemistry training but not

in the area of nutrition they don’t have

it especially with these diets too so

go to them for medical conditions but

when you go into Quito I wouldn’t even

bring it up because they’re gonna just

give you their confusions on what they

think it is and how bad it is and

whatever I mean think about it if

everyone went on keto and in a minute

fasting and start losing weight and got

off their medication guess who’s gonna

lose a lot of money the pharmaceutical

companies the food manufacturing

companies so you really have to get your

own first-hand knowledge not secondhand

from someone who doesn’t even understand

it but the bottom line it’s the best

thing for your liver because it’s you’re

actually stripping fat off the liver

you’re improving enzymes you’re getting

off sugar I mean just let’s take the

opposite let’s take a diabetic who has

is living off of sugar fuel look what

happens to their liver fatty liver look

what happens their kidney they end up

with a dialysis so again it’s just

someone that you it’s like you can take

it with a grain of salt they don’t you

understand in fact what I like to do is

I’d like to say okay so what part of the

keto diet will affect the liver

negatively what what’s the function of

insulin you’re gonna find out some of

these experts don’t even know what it is

now that documentary on what the health

is complete utter BS because what

they’re talking about is the you can you

can eat sugar you can have sugar in fact

you can improve diabetes with eating

sugar I’m like what what planet are you

living and it’s absolutely not true and

so if that’s true then everyone that’s

eating sugar that should keep eating

sugar because can improve your diabetes

and come off the saturated fats that’s

why I’m doing live Skype calls with all

these people that do this eating plan

and you can see what happens to their

blood Sugar’s their cholesterol their

diet I mean I’m getting tons of them and

you can watch them and some people say

that’s anecdotal these are real people

you know versus a study I don’t want to

get into the study wars with people

because they’re not even interested in

listening to opposing sides they already

have their mind made up so honestly I

would only bring this up with people

that are willing to learn something new

and don’t have fixed

the ideas alright hope that helped okay

then Yvonne you’re from Texas you had a

question you’re our last caller good

well my question is I have atrial

fibrillation and I was just wondering I

hate this medication that the doctor has

me on for this I was just wondering if

it was something else I could do to

improve this or to get off this

medication because I’ve been doing

intermittent fasting now for about two

months and I feel great the only

medication I have is for this a fib is

there anything that I could do to help

this along yeah good question the

research that you want to go into to

study more to get more knowledge on is

electrolytes and specifically potassium

and even magnesium but mainly potassium

and atrial fib there’s a lot of research

done by the medical community on this

and just increasing more potassium to

correct atrial fib I mean think about

what the electrolytes do they support

the nerve and muscles okay now the

pacemaker of the heart that controls the

rhythm of the heart the muscle of the

heart will fibrillate when it doesn’t

have electrolytes specifically potassium

so we need so much potassium and it’s if

you go to the doctor and get your

potassium checked and it comes out

normal they’re just checking the

potassium in the blood

normally 98% of all potassium is in the

south’s not the blood so unless you do

an intracellular potassium test you’ll

never see these deficiencies so you can

get in or sell your potassium test if

you want just to confirm that and show

that you’re low or you can just start

taking more potassium a lot more

vegetables and that eventually will

improve that but that’s there you want

to go there’s even some great books on

atrial fib and potassium that I would go

into studying that till eventually you

can come off that stuff hey guys you

guys had some wonderful questions I I’m

excited about you know your interest and

your great

compliments I want to thank you so I’m

doing a convention for the next few

weeks so until then keep watching my

videos because I’ll release two a day

and have a wonderful weekend thanks

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