The Dr. Berg Show LIVE - February 20, 2026

Welcome back everyone. We're here with another Q&A. Uh there's a lot of people that have a lot of questions, so I always like to jump right in, but I have to make a disclaimer. Uh we're not diagnosing you. Check with your doc before implementing any of these lifestyle factors that may come close to curing you. Don't you haven't heard it from me. Check with your doctor and uh see if it's okay to, you know, change your diet, etc. Well, I think it's a great idea, but I digress. Let's go. Good morning, world. Uh let's go to IED from Yo Yahoo. Excuse me. Uh from excuse me, I Yahoo from Rumble. These handles are hilarious. I'm dealing with neuro uh endocrine tumors and prostate cancer. I'm sorry to hear that. What do you uh what would you do if you had those very conditions, doctor? Well, one thing you what I would do is the if the more severe it is, the more radical I would get into prolonged fasting because there's one thing that's very different between tumors and cancer and healthy cells. The cancer cell is living on the edge. It's like barely it's very sick. So if you take away its resources by going on a fast like as long as you can fast I mean some people do it even 21 days or even longer but maybe you don't do that initially but the point is that if you take away the resources the cancer will not be able to survive but your cells your healthy cells can adapt very easily to that. So that's one advantage. And then my most recent video on cancer goes into more of the diet because you can't fast forever. So eventually you have to eat. So what I did is I laid out um what to eat based on your type of cancer because there's a lot of different types of cancer and each one can behave slightly differently. Certain ones need different fuels. So, um, it's a cool strategy because it tells you what to eat and then you every so often you rotate the diet because that way by the time the cancer adapts, which it always tends to adapt, you're already off to the another diet. So, you keep going back and forth and rotate it. I I think that would be the sest solution because when you go to the doc and you ask what what should I eat if I have cancer, they go, oh, it doesn't really matter. really true. Well, easy for them to say. Let's go to Christina from Rumble. Regarding taking high doses of vitamin D before surgery, is the recommended 50,000 IUs uh come with one dose in one day? I I would do it if I would do like three days before I would do 50 and then the the next day I would do 50,000 and then um the day of another 50,000. I mean, some some doctors prescribe like 500,000 and you're just creating this boost to not let it take a long time to get into the cells, but to just saturate the body really fast and then um have better outcomes. So, uh that's what I would do. I I would um probably 3 days before 50,000 each day. I think that would be a good good strategy. Wow. Encouraging. Uh here's a general question. Becky from Facebook. What's the best remedy for heart disease? Wasn't specific beyond that. Most heart disease is a problem like 90% is a problem with clots. Not actually plaquing per se, but clotting. And that usually happens because there's something uh inflaming your arteries, in which case you need to look directly at what you're eating. And the safest bet is to go low sugar and starches. Okay? I'm talking about junk food and seed oils. Remove those three things. Seed oils, sugars, and starches. Um start eating healthy. Go low carb. Do intermittent fasting. and uh pull yourself out of that risk factor because heart disease, you know, parallels uh metabolic disease and that basically means you've been your carbs have been way too high for too long. Um, a really good uh test that I think everyone should have at some point when you're with your doctor, have them do a fasting insulin test because you can have normal blood sugars for 15 to 20 years um yet have a real big problem as a pre-diabetic because insulin is is grabbing all this sugar and pulling it out of your your arteries really quick. Well, it would be really good to know where you're at because um you want to be between two and six. Okay, that's where you really want to live. You don't want to get up to eight or nine or 10. Some people even will tell you that, oh yeah, 20 is normal. Oh, really? That's way too high. So, you want nice low insulin that um that means that your your carbs are low and it's not your pancreas is not overworking and that way it'll keep you not just out of diabetes but heart disease as well. All right, very good. Let's move to our first quiz question for the day. And there it is, Dr. Bird. Okay. Which effect would be more noticeable first when taking collagen? I'm talking about the collagen powder. Uh, would you see changes in your skin first or the joints? All right, folks. Climb on that as we know you will. Let's go back to this is a hilarious handle. the excuse me, the hero from YouTube. Can fasting make gird worse on some people? Um, they do have some acid reflux. Okay. Uh but most people actually have an improved situation. But you know a lot of times when you change your diet and you stop eating and you could have you know you might not have enough stomach acid and it gets more concentrated and it just starts coming up. You also have you're not eating so your your gallbladder is not contracting. Uh so you might get more concentrated bile. Okay. which could could even kind of come up through the into the stomach and up even through the top valve as well. So, it's rare. It can happen. Um, I wouldn't let that discourage you. I would watch my videos on it because there's way to correct that. Uh, but you want to be able to determine is that gird coming mainly from acid or is it coming from bile or there's other possibilities like for example the valve is controlled by vitamin B1. B1 um you might need a little bit more when you're doing keto or even fasting. So, if you're not taking B1 and you you're already subclinical, you're not you don't have that much, it can actually show up as a deficiency and it can show up in your valves being a problem like the top of the valve on the stomach. So, you might need more B1. So, anyway, I did a video on that to be able to determine and try to figure that out. Um, you can watch that on online. All right, very good. We are proud to bring in our first uh guest for the day and his name is Matt. Matt, where are you calling in from today? I'm calling from uh Oregon, Westland. Yeah. Wonderful. Well, go ahead with your question for Dr. Berg. So, uh I have a uh what is called a saberic kerattosis. So, uh all of these spots are are just uh you know coming up on my head. And I've tried different remedies uh at the dermatologist office. uh uh they ma mostly uh recommended that I do a liquid nitrogen. I did that, but it didn't really work. So, I saw some of your videos where you were talking about moles and and uh but it's not really a mole and I just wanted to know if there's any kind of oil or something. I I searched online. I looked into your video where you said you could also apply garlic and online the the answer says no. you going to burn them and all of that. So, just wanted to Yeah. get an answer from you since you didn't really address this specific condition. Yeah. So, we're dealing with uh uh uh keratossis and the skin, which is um carrot involving keratin. Keratin is one of the proteins in the scalp um also in the hair. So, um what what I would do I I always like to look at these from the inside out. uh because there's a couple things that regulate uh the formation of keratin um in the body and I would kind of look at that is maybe that's where the problem is. Uh it could be a zinc deficiency. That would be the number one thing. Number two, I would uh highly investigate if you're doing any seed oils because seed oils compete with the omega3 fatty acids which are super necessary for the follicule of the hair and the skin and the hair itself. The follicule is like the little root or the the the air the space around the root and it needs uh zinc, omega-3 fatty acids and the elimination of seed oils. Uh but the big probably the big lever for you is going to be higher doses of vitamin D3 because vitamin D3 is the kind of the regulator of a lot of these uh proteins and uh I think most people when they get it tested on the blood it shows normal but that only checks the inactive. Um most people have problems inside the cell. I've done 280 videos on this. So, I think you should take at least maybe 20,000 IUs of vitamin D3 with some zinc and then just give it uh a couple weeks and see if it starts to improve. Then you know, okay, that's what I need help with. Um, also the question is, does it improve during the summer months or not? All right. Okay. Uh, yeah. So uh the thing is is I shave my head and uh so does it have anything to do with UV light sun? Do I need you know to keep my head covered? No. No. I think the the sun and the uh infr first of all the UV will give you vitamin D. Also the infrared from the sun can actually help. I think the sun's going to help you as long as you don't allow it to burn. Okay. Uh, and then of course, you know, really make sure if you're shaving your head, make sure that whatever you're using is super clean that doesn't have anything that's going to irritate it. Very good, Matt. Thanks for an interesting question. We hope that um that that finds some relief for you. All right, let's go. And and one and one one little thing instead of rubbing garlic juice or or gar any type of onion juice into the hair um a real safe one for your scalp would be um would be something that is um I don't know if you've heard of um castor oil. Castor oil um if you get it unrefined is uh a really good solution for many issues on the scalp and the skin. And that's a it's non-toxic and it it has anti-inflammatory properties. Uh that's another little thing that might help you more than anything prescribed because you know then it has chemicals and side effects etc. All right, Matt, good luck. Oh, wait a minute. Matt, I think you have one more question. I think we got some time. Go ahead with your followup there, Matt. Go ahead. Uh, what about red light therapy? Would you recommend that or not? Highly, I highly recommend it. Red light therapy. There's uh different uh frequencies that create different effects. For example, um you can find frequencies that are good for healing uh joints, uh reducing inflammation. Uh you can also find frequencies that uh create effects on the skin cosmetically. Um but what's interesting is inside your mitochondria you have these little these little things that um are like photo receptors. They actually uh receive light and you can actually improve the mitochondria from this red light which is mind-blowing. So this is why the sun is good for the mitochondria and this is why people feel better also uh in the summer and or if they go on vacation they get a little more sun they feel better than in the winter of course or of course if you're in Portland Oregon you have a lot of sun 24/7 or pretty much all year round. All right Matt thanks again for a good question and Matt this question is for you too. I hope you had time to ponder it. It was quiz question number one which asked the audience which effect would be more noticeable first when taking collagen skin or joints and let's see 80 60% of our respondents say it's the joints and the la other 40% say it's the skin uh are the is the audience on to something doc they're on to something. Uh what what happens with the collagen is a lot of people take it to get rid of wrinkles and help their skin and things like that. um that takes a long time, that takes uh some months, but the but the joints you might see uh changes with your joints a lot faster. So, when you're taking it um and like, yeah, oh, I tried it for a week, it didn't work. Realize you're probably going to notice in the joints first and then the skin. Okay, very good. Let's see. Let's go to the Swiss 1291 from Rumble. Any thoughts on torine supplementation for people over 50? Torine, I guess. Yeah, torine is good for um it's it's an amino acid that is good for certain types problems with sleep if you don't get into the delta wave sleep. Also, early morning insomnia. Some people take it for that. Uh and it has other benefits. Here's the thing. It's one of those there are a million different supplements out there and even the amino acids they sell them separately. Even the the trace minerals they sell them separately and people are always wanting to know okay should I take this individual amino acid? Should I take this individual trace mineral? It's like the blind leading the blind. It's we don't really know. We don't know. You might want to try it. see if it works. I am the poster child for trying things. Okay, so I've tried everything. This is why I have a warehouse of things that I tried. Uh the good news, the very good news is uh I'm going to be releasing at least to a small group of people next month, a tool. Uh it's an app that allows us to really finally figure out what do you exactly need for your body cuz people are different. What's going to move the dial? Uh what's the least amount of things you should be doing or the things that will create the most change? Because you can't really assign everything of the same value. Like people tell you, you know, oh, you just need to do everything like, well, everything is not that important. I think it's really important to figure out that one thing that makes the biggest change and then go to the next thing. And this is kind of what u this app is going to do. I'm really excited about it because uh it's going to help people get rid of a lot of confusion especially because so many people are given the wrong things to do and then they spend all this time, money and wasted effort and it didn't work. That's the problem. Uh so this is why even when I'm answering these questions, it's hard to give you an answer bas and I'm looking on my experience. I'm also asking more questions to try to kind of narrow down what you might want to try. But this particular app is going to allow a large group of people, like hundreds of thousands of people to test different things to see what really works and what doesn't work and also what works for you because not everyone uh is the same. So anyway, I'm excited to release that and we will be reaching out for a smaller group of individuals in March to test this out. But I've been working on a year with this project, so it's it's going to be quite next level. All right. Very good. Well, we're excited to present the next question to our astute audience. And there it is. Quiz question number two for the day. True or false? Most uh probiotics get destroyed at the stomach level due to the acid in your stomach. All right, audience, climb on that if you will. In the meantime, audience, who is our audience? Let's demonstrate it by saying a good day to all our viewers joining us today from the UK, Canada, Mexico, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Germany, Greece, Romania, Israel, Scotland, Poland, South Africa, India, Tanzania, Vietnam. Welcome Vietnam. Haven't heard you from a while. Oman, Ghana, Norway, Pakistan, Greece, Bermuda, Switzerland, Japan, Spain, Panama, Ethiopia, Finland, Singapore, the Czech Republic, South Korea, Ubekistan, Honduras, France, Cashmere, Italy, Austria, Sweden, the uh, excuse me, the Virgin Islands, Armenia, Belgium, New Zealand, Brazil, the Netherlands, Peru, Slovakia, the Virgin Islands, Kuwait, Costa Rica, Denmark, Iraq, American, Samoa, Ireland, And finally all across these United States, thank you world for joining us in our collective uh vigor to live a healthier happier life. That is terrific. And let's see, let's go to uin from rumble. I take magnesium glycinate. What's your opinion of taking about taking bis glycinate bis? Yeah. Uh magnesium by glycinate versus glycinate are the exact same thing. So yeah, they're either or they're they're basically you can take either version. They're both the same thing. They're a combination of magnesium and glycine, which is a a way to deliver it into the body. Interesting. We're learning. Okay. You might uh let's see. F17 from Rumble. Would you recommend hormone replacement therapy for women with early menopause? I used the lotion briefly and developed a uterine polip. Is that related? There's always side effects. So I my whole thing is um did you try everything else first? There are certain precursors to make hormones. uh DHEA um there's you know is and then you know just like with um testosterone replacement estrogen replacement really research what are the long-term effects how can I prevent them and then try to do things naturally first it is true as you age these hormones do plummet and also the normal levels the the normal ranges of these hormones are based on averages es of the population. So, they're comparing you to the average sick person, right? Which doesn't make sense. It doesn't mean you're normal. It means you're average. So, um this is why it's it's really hard to know if if something is um do I really have low hormones or not? Or or maybe I do and it says I'm normal. But um I I think yeah, when you're dealing with estrogen replacement therapy, it's going to put you at risk for um polyps, even fibroids. And so that comes with a package. So um I guess I would just tell you to research and see if that is actually true. And then of course, if it if it's causing polyps, you're going to have to try a different way. Okay. Well, sticking on uh with testosterone or hormones, let's take it from the male perspective. Steve from Facebook, not me. What's your take on testosterone therapy? Well, I think it's good for some people. Uh I think um you know, you have the pellets and you have the micro injections and you have the creams. Um if you're going to do something, I would do it bioidentical. Uh one of the challenges with pellets is that you get this sustained testosterone. It doesn't come up and down. So you could uh develop some problems you have to check. Uh sometimes you have uh what's high hemocrat which is too many red blood cells that that occur. So you have all these benefits but then all of a sudden you end up with like your blood's too thick which one solution that people do is they give blood four times a year and that just could solve it. And then other people go to the micro doing so it's more natural and it doesn't create this high spike. So, there's all these little, you know, with all these new things that you take, it comes with a package. You have to be able to counter it. Um, and do your blood and and and weigh out the advantages and disadvantages. Um, but of course, if you're if you're low on testosterone, you know, make sure that you do all the right things first, like, are you taking enough zinc? Are you exercising? Are you sleeping? A lack of sleep will literally tank your your testosterone big time. Um, so anyway, that's my two cents on that. Interesting. Thank you, Dr. Burke. All right, let's uh answer quiz question number two, which asked of the audience. True or false? Most probiotics get high acid. 85% of our respondents say that that's true. 15% say no, they're fine. Yeah, they do. they do uh you know most the great majority I would say above 90% get destroyed at the stomach level. Now um this is why you want to get a probiotic that is um that actually has been designed to pass that stomach acid level and there's different types of microbes that can survive. There's different packaging of that capsule that can survive it but the whole goal is to do some type of receding. That being said, um I did a video on this and I can't even find it by the way. I don't even know what I titled it after, but uh I should probably do another one because it's super important. Um there are benefits um for these pro from these probiotics and probiotic foods that are not even about receding your gut of new bacteria. But just by changing the environment that you that you have in your gut that allows for the right ratios to come back in balance. I mean this is like the reason I like that concept is it fits our own lives which we're not living in an environment that is aligns with how our biology was developed from. We live in this modern artificial environment. So, you're basically living in you're swimming in a fish tank, which is really toxic. And um we don't get enough sun, we don't eat real food, we don't get enough physical activity to mimic what our our bodies were designed on. So again, the term for this is called ancestral mismatch. I'm going to be doing a lot more videos on this and I think it's a really great way to diagnose someone's lifestyle to figure out what's wrong with them. We just look we just do a little comparison uh you know what what are you doing now and let's let's compare that to what your body uh was designed to live in you know and look back and forth to see where the gaps are. And uh I would say most people it falls into two areas but not everyone and that's going to be sleep environment as well as uh food environment. So but if you can um uh change your environment and include changing the microbes environment um boy that's a that's some lowhanging fruit that you can actually get results very quick. All right. Very good. Uh, speaking of very quick, our audience is terrific with answering our questions today. Thank you so much for keep it moving through. And there's quiz question number three for them. Okay. True or false? Most chronic inflammation happens because the body can't turn inflammation off. All right, audience. What do you think? We know you'll speak to us. Let's go to our old pal, Channel 4 Lynn from Rumble. If uh I have a candida infection and consume almost zero carbs, guest is on keto, will my pancreas stop secretreting amalayise over I hope I said that way, amalayise over time. Please share any research you've done about this. Thank you. She says, so the pancreas is two parts. One is an endocrine gland. It makes hormones and another one it makes it's an exocrine gland that makes enzymes. And because you're lowering your carbohydrates does not turn off the enzyme portion of that pancreas, it probably will improve it. So, no, by going on a low carb, you're not going to end up with lower amounts of um enzymes in your pancreas. You probably have more. Okay, very good. Let's go to Kim from Facebook. Uh, what if taking magnesium glycinate makes you feel bad? What are the best alternatives? doesn't describe her symptoms. Well, um yeah. So, it's it's hard to diagnose that because it could be the source of magnesium glycinate. Um I'll give you an example. Um I have to pay more to pull out certain maltodextrin and other bad things out of the uh the um the flow agents that they make these vitamins with. So, I have to pay extra to make sure they don't have them. And I am shocked to find out when I talk to the manufacturing companies like, "Wow, you're you're the first person to ask for that." So, I already know it's in a lot of supplements. So, you're getting all these extra things that you don't really need in these supplements. That's number one. So, that could be one of the things. The other thing is that maybe you're taking at the wrong time. Or um uh like for example, uh some people take vitamin D and they they get tired. Well, they should take it before bed then. or some people take vitamin D, they it wakes them up and take it in the morning. Um, so these are just all factors, but there's other types of magnesium. Magnesium citrate uh would be something that maybe you want to try and see if that works, but don't take magnesium oxide. All right, you've been warned. Okay, let's go to our next guest. This is Yasim coming to us from Jordan. Uh, Yasine, go ahead with your one question for Dr. Berg, sir. Hello, Dr. Berg. Um actually I have um familial cholesterol. I discovered this at 25 and um I'm trying to eat healthy. I tried statins but I have like u I have intolerance for statins. I have severe muscle pain and I stopped them. And um I'm recently started PC uh SK9 inhibitors but they are not lowering the my LDL enough. Um I have good readings on HDL, triglyceride. Um I'm taking supplements like magnesium glycinate, vitamin D, and in general I have good readings. Uh except that LDL is not going low enough. So I want to see if you have any recommendations. um um supplements, uh food, anything you could help me with. Thank you. Sure. So, one thing that people don't realize um is when we're talking about LDL, we're talking about um we're actually talking about cholesterol. Cholesterol is always packaged in a protein. And LDL is a delivery system. And there's actually two different types of LDL. And if you just check the LDL total, uh you're not it's not going to tell you a lot of information about what's really going on in the body. Uh unless you do what's called an advanced lipid profile test, which I highly recommend, advanced lipid profile, right? And you want to look at deeper what's going on with LDL, especially if you have good triglycerides and good HDL. Do you look at um the particle size? And there's two different types. There's pattern A, which is large buoyant particle size, and then you got pattern B, which is small, dense. Okay. The the p the pattern A, the big ones are not dangerous. They're not pathogenic. they're not going to evade your arteries. The small dense will. So, chances are uh you have uh the the large buoyant LDL. And this has a lot to do with another confusing topic which I should do a video on which is um people that respond in a in a given group. There's always someone that responds more than other people. And you might be that person. It's not bad. It's just that your body has more of that floating through the body, but it's not creating a problem because it's bigger. I think the more important question if you didn't want to do that test was that would be this. Are you going on a low carb diet? Because that really will determine if that LDL is is really bad for you or good. If you're on a low carb diet, you might have high LDL, but it's not going to be a problem. But if you on a high carbohydrate diet and your LDL is high, chances are you're going to have the bad kind that will create a problem. In which case, you need to instead of taking a statin, why not change the diet? Uh, which is important. So, again, I don't know what you're eating, but that's some general information. Y, thanks. And also watch the video I just I also wa I watched the video I just released on on LDL and cholesterol. Um, I didn't title it that, but I recently released a video. Watch that because I cover this exact point. By the way, we appreciate all the time our guests spend sitting in in the green room, so to speak. So, thank you for an interesting question. And so, we'll get to you here shortly. But in the meantime, this is for everybody watching. Let's uh answer quiz question number three. It's a true falser which asks, "Most chronic inflammation happens because the body can't turn inflammation off." 72% of our respondents say it's false and 28% of them say it's true. More smart answers in mixed in there, doc? This is a really interesting topic. Um, I didn't release my video on this. No, I did not release this video yet. But, uh, here's what happens. Most people have, uh, in their mind they think, "Wow, I have just too much inflammation." Okay, that's my problem. No, no, that's not the problem. The problem is it's not turning off. Inflammation is controlled by the immune system and inflammation actually should come up and then it should come down as a cycle to heal something. So the question is like why would someone have chronic inflammation that just constantly there won't go away which is very very very very damaging. um well, usually they're missing the the thing that turns it off. Now, of course, it could be that you're living on a high carb diet and sugar or you're smoking or you're creating inflam you're creating reasons for the inflammation, but if you're not and your diet's good, your environment's better and inflammation is there, it could be that you're just you're missing the off switch. So there's actual molecules called uh one of them is called resolin that actually turns off um this uh inflammation and it just so happens these molecules that turn it off really are part of the omega-3 fatty acid structure. So uh cod liver oil, fish oil, uh krill oil, um fish eggs, all these things are loaded with the omega-3 fatty acids. Um, and so you may need to do higher amounts of it. So, one thing that I know, um, I had some other people do that were pretty successful is to take take a little cod liver oil every 3 or four hours through the day for several days in a row and to really saturate the body with enough of those uh, resolving molecules to turn off the inflammation. And then if it turns off your inflammation and you start feeling better, then we know that's really your problem. You're you just have a a problem with the off switch. Now again, it this won't work if you're on a higher carb diet. You have to go low carb. So uh because that alone will create inflammation. All right. Very good. Let's go to quiz question number four for the day. Interesting one. If if magnesium is necessary for making energy, which it is, then why did why does it help with sleep? That's an interesting question. All right, let's go to G. Sister from YouTube. What are your thoughts about the benefits of hydrogen water there? There's a there's a lot of people that love it um and they're doing it. Uh so that's obviously it works. Uh I I have a hydrogen machine. I tried it. It didn't do much. It's not becauc It could be, you know, again, I'm a human guinea pig. It's It could be not because it just doesn't work. It's just that I didn't really need it. So, there's a lot of research right now going on with hydrogen. Uh just like other things like ozone and oxygen and CO2. These are all fascinating. I'm looking into them. Um, but it's one of those things where I I talked about at the very beginning, there's there's a million different remedies out there, but what is the one that's going to move your dial and and when we have this app, we'll be able to figure this out with enough people, enough testing. Um, but in the meantime, it's it's a big guess. It's a guessing game. And uh I have the advantage of kind of being connected to a lot of people and seeing things. So, uh I'm like again I I think people they should try it and see if it works for them. Um so you might find something that's like wow this is like mindblowing. This has really helped me and uh but you might find it didn't work. So again um that's one way to see if something works without trying to do some expensive you know lab test and uh try to find out if it's going to work or not before you try it. It's, you know, this this is why I like supplements. You could a bottle of supplements don't cost nearly as much as in a very huge expensive test. All right, let's wrap up with our all male lineup today. Now, next we have Sahel and Sahel, where are you coming from? Where are you calling in from? Hi, Dr. Burke calling in from Abu Dhabi. Uh first of all, massive thank you for you like I followed your recommendation of 10,000 IUs and a year ago I followed this to get rid of my lower back pain and since then it's vanished. So thanks a lot for that thing and uh since then I preach everyone about your videos uh thing. So right now as it's allowed with only one question but actually I had two. Uh one was the first core concern is about essential tremors. Actually my entire family has it, my father has it, one of the uncle has it, few of my cousins have it and I'm afraid my 15year-old son started showing like quick small signs of it like sometimes. So any take from your side about that and another go ahead. Uh another was uh about the autoimmune like uh use of detoxifiers like emothione or curcumin C complex. I haven't found any videos of yours particularly in that one. So that would be my second question actually. So with autoimmune diseases which is the second question I always recommend the chimre protocol which you're using high doses of vitamin D3 with magnesium and K2 and all these other factors um very important um to put that autoimmune back in remission. Now these other things you mentioned curcumin and rveratrol these are all good things to help with inflammation in general but the vitamin D factor for autoimmune is going to be key with selenium. Now, with the tremor situation, um I I should probably do a video on this, but if we take a look at um we have a uh a neurotransmitter issue with the tremors. And so you you see people with Parkinson Parkinsonism, Parkinsonisms, which basically is like uh they they have tremors and things like that. Um, but also you have people that don't have that that actually have these resting tremors, in which case I would do high doses of B1, natural B1 to help uh build up the acetylcholine in the body to see if that can't get rid of it. Now, especially if it's just on one side of the body. uh other tremors are uh they usually have a problem in the part of the brain that's involved with dopamine. I've talked extensively about that dopamine would um so which dopamine is involved with like motivation and movement and things like that. And if you have a problem with it, it's like things like you lack you stumble and you shuffle and you have resting tremors. I I I don't think that's the problem. I think I would recommend the high doses of um B1, natural B1 for a period of few months and see if that doesn't resolve the tremors. Um and then go from there. Um yeah, I think I'll stop there. There's a lot more to talk about on that topic, but I don't want to go too far in the woods. Great. Thank you so much. Great call, Sahel. And I appreciate all your time join us. And so, Sahel, if you've been watching, uh, we asked quiz question number four, which asked of you in the audience, if magnesium is necessary for making energy, then why does it help with sleep? And that is an interesting question. 65% of our respondents say it because magnesium relaxes muscles. Uh, 25% say it's it lowers cortisol and 10% say it also enhances cell functions that improves sleep. Okay, good. So magnesium is the co-actor, the helper in uh making ATP energy. It doesn't necessarily give you more energy like nervous energy. It doesn't give you more energy than normal, okay? It just brings you to your capacity. It kind of gives you all the raw material so you can make the normal amount of energy you need. So um but it's also good for sleep in in that it helps reduce cortisol. It helps uh the muscles um relax because calcium is contraction, magnesium is relaxation. And there's literally like 300 more things that will it can do in the body. But and some of those are related to sleep, some of them are just related to other things. But um it's not going to wake you up. But it does take a good amount of energy to get in a resting state and sleep. Um, if you take a sick person who who who also, you know, has a dysfunctional body, like they they have a problem sleeping. So, it takes it takes sometimes a healthy body to be able to sleep uh soundly and comfortably. All right. Very good. Let's go to Redskins fan from Rumble. If you have B6 toxicity, how long will it stay in the body once you discontinue it? It should go it's it's water soluble, so it should go through pretty quick, maybe a few days, but just make sure that you it's not the source of B6. Uh make sure you want to act the active form. Um but it's not going to be an allergy. people don't have an allergy to vitamins, but it could be some type of a genetic uh problem where you you can easily get too much, especially if it's synthetic. Um, so there's all all sorts of other things to look at relation to B6. I mean, B6 is another key co-actor for so many different u biochemical reactions that like you can't really live healthily without it. So that's interesting. I might add to that. I had it and I think it is genetic or whatever. Uh and I got uh neuropathy from it. I went to a neurologist and he said, "My god, your B6 is off the charts." And Dr. Berg recommended benotamine and I moved back on it and my little toes are coming back to life. So it really does work, but it took a while for that uh peripheral neuropathy to calm down. But I'm 72 so it can still happen. Uh and I'm on the road again. Thank you Dr. Burke for your recommendation because by golly, it worked. And good luck to you fan from Rumble. Let's go to MNA from Facebook. What are the risks if we have high levels of vitamin D? What uh steps can we take to reduce those levels? Haven't heard much about that. So, so the the first thing we have to do is define what high levels are because you'd be shocked to find out anything above like 80 nanogs per milliliter. Some doctors will say that's too much. That's toxic. which it's show me the data that that's toxic. Um it's very very very rare to have a toxic level of vitamin D3. That's number one. And the people that did have the toxic levels were on hundreds of hundreds of thousands of IUs of vitamin D3 for months. And even then I think uh the toxic effect can also occur not not even from the vitamin D from a lack of the co-actors not enough magnesium uh zinc K2 things like that. So that's one thing because if you're operating off of oh I'm I need like only 30 or 40 um you know nanograms per milliliter and you think that's normal you're operating off of the wrong information. and you're going to be on the low side. And and by the way, they're only testing the inactive. But to to really make sure that uh you don't run into a toxic level, get your parathyroid hormone tested because parathyroid hormone is a good uh indicator to know what's going on deep in the cells because, and I'm going to just tell you this right now and try to simplify it because this is really important. uh vitamin D is has a a function of making sure there's enough calcium in the blood. It's really important because not just for your bones, but we need calcium for communication between the cells. So our bodies really tightly control that. So if you don't have enough vitamin D, you have a backup system, the parathyroid hormone, and it will actually remove calcium from your bone and put it in the blood to keep normal calcium. So So let's say you're wondering, oh, am I am I taking too much vitamin D3? Get your parathyroid tested. You want it to be low. Okay, that means it's not trying to back up the system. If it's super high, then like, wow, maybe I'm taking too much vitamin D3, start reducing it. So, anyway, I just wanted to kind of give you an indicator to know if you're taking too much. All right. Well, I don't know if we gave away the answer, but why don't you consider this question, Dr. Berg, and see if it's worth putting to the audience or you just want to expand on it a little bit. Well, let's just let's ask it because just see who's being paying attention, Steve. If vitamin D raises calcium in the blood, then what directs it to the bone? Audience, I've got um I've got every confidence in you. All right, let's go to uh Samuel from YouTube. How do I get rid of visceral fat? Am I I am a diabetic of 38 years old with five years of dialysis and eight years since my kidney transplant. Ouch. Now I'm having heart issues. It's a complete chemistry nightmare. Help, says Samuel. Yeah, it's um you need the right information and the the most important lowhanging fruit lever to to focus on is reducing your insulin. It'd be really curious I'd be really curious to know what your fasting insulin is. I would probably guesstimate it's high. You want that thing between two and six. And how do you get it down there? Well, you go on a you need to do low zero carbohydrates. Zero carbs, no carbs. That's carnivore. Uh and uh but you know, if your kidneys are a problem, maybe you need to add some sauerkraut and maybe some cooked vegetables or some um some leafy greens with that. Now, uh, the other thing that is going to be even more important is to do intermittent fasting. One meal per day. It's called OMAD. One meal, no snacking. Okay? Just do that. And uh, come back in a month and tell us how much visceral fat you got rid of. It'll be a lot. Boy, that's neat. That's encouraging. Dave from Facebook, what do you recommend to prevent UTI? And I think that's usually women's territory, isn't it? Yeah. Well, um I I would um obviously there's you know, you want to find the source of that. Did were you exposed to something? Um there's unsweetened cranberry juice that tends to help with that. There's various remedies you can do from that. But if there's microorganisms that are are in in the area of that those tissues, you know, there's a lot of different remedies to clean them out. But also, uh, going on a low carb tends to starve them off as well. So, that's one thing that I would do. And then I would also um add to the diet a g two glasses of apple of uh one tablespoon of apple cider vinegar in each and spread them out through the day and start to change the pH of your body a little bit to see if that doesn't help clear out that UTI a little faster. All right, very good. Well, let's see. Um I'm going to answer quiz question number five. Boy, that was fast. This might suggest that the audience was listening. Uh, if vitamin D raises calcium in the blood, then what directs it into the bones? 95% of respondents say it's vitamin K2 and then the remaining 5% say it's magnesium. How smart is our audience this afternoon? They're pretty smart. Uh, that's it's vitamin K2, but but um you need magnesium as a co-actor for vitamin K2 to work. Wow. Interesting. So magnesium doesn't actually directly push it into the bone, but it's ne it's really important. I mean, do you know how many people are deficient in magnesium? It's massive. So now the K2 doesn't work, the vitamin D doesn't work. I mean, like it's and they're trying to figure it out. You really, it's a biochemical thing. So, um again, um the importance of magnesium, I can't underemphasize it enough or over I can't uh emphasize it enough because it's so underemphasized. Wow. Okay. Well, here's something sort of shocking. Patty from Facebook. Would you recommend sunscreen for someone who has a family history of melanoma? All of my siblings and my father have dealt with it more than once. Ouch. Is that genetic or what's going on there? So, if you're especially if you're fair complexed, you got to be very careful. Um, but I wouldn't completely avoid the sun 100%. I would just get small doses and then make sure you never burn. Um, but I would also beef up on your vitamin D3. And the reason I'm saying that is because um this whole sunscreen thing, which by the way is filled with chemicals like crazy, and also the avoidance of sun, both of those things together in the 80s did not decrease the the numbers of melanomas. So what's going on with that? Um, I do know that there's uh melan a lot of times melanomas occur on areas of your skin that are not exposed to the sun. So, I'm not convinced that it's a totally 100% of the sun, you know, UV. Of course, if you burn yourself for many, many years, that's a problem. But I want you to flip the the the consideration on that. We're always concerned about the sun causing melanoma. What about all the concerns of not getting enough sun? The risk of that? Do you realize that it actually will increase your risk of even uh certain types of cancer by a lack of sun? Let that sink in. That's interesting. But we don't we don't hear about that. Our bodies were evolved in a lot of sun. So, I'm not recommending getting burned, but definitely we need a lot more exposure to the sun. And um I mean just think about even what happened in the early 1900s. We had sanitariums that you'd go to to get healing from being out in the sun in some resort and then all of a sudden that disappeared when when medicine came came into the picture. But um I am I am not buying and never bought that the sun is a bad thing. So um anyway, that's my viewpoint on that. All right. Well, my viewpoint is and I think I speak for all men in our awe and gratitude for what women put up for us to bear children together. And Sharon is an example from Facebook. Can you offer any help to alleviate severe menstrual cramps which us boys don't have to put up with? Well, I would uh definitely beef up your magnesium levels a lot and especially before a menstrual cycle and I would add zinc in there as well. Um because what we're dealing with is a cramp that's affected by hormones. So, let's give the body all of the magnesium it needs to create a regulation of that calcium buildup because because what a cramp is, whether it's a Charlie horse or muscle spasm, it's too much calcium in the tissues. The way we get it out is by increasing the magnesium. All right, Dia Dobby from Rumble. Um, what's the best way to prevent muscle tears? Well, again, we're probably related to overuse, over exercise, lifting too much, jumping into a program too fast, uh, in which case we have to cut it back and go into it slowly, especially if you're not used to it. Um there's some great suggestions on um you know a combination of eating healthy uh having enough collagen in the diet with enough vitamin C to have the raw material but then to go into exercise on a very gradual level to the point where you can really build up your structure to be able to handle higher forces which I highly recommend when you get over 50 you need to start doing weight training because to prevent osteoporosis you need that walking is not going to prevent osteoporosis. You have to actually do some strain on the muscle itself. And uh one of the things that um that you can do is grab like some dumbbells, you know, heavy and and you work up to this too, but just holding weight while you're walking, doing hiking can greatly put more pressure on the on the areas of your body that develop osteoporosis and also strengthen ligaments and tendons a lot better. Um there's exercises that are more functional movements that involve um lateral movements and rotation to be able to really stabilize these tendons and ligaments, which I I think are super important and a lot of people will just tear them because they haven't built them up. All right, very good. Ellie from Rumble has a really interesting question. I sleep with a mask at night, uh not a CPAP. On the weekends, I get an extra 5 to 6 hours of sleep because of the mask blasts out the light. Am I ruining my circadian rhythm by using uh a blinding mask? No. In fact, it's a important uh thing to help you sleep because the contrast between the bright sun and the dark is what's missing in our modern environment. And to fix the sleep cycles, you get up, you get sun in the early morning, okay? And it doesn't have to be right away. It could be 9:00 or 10 in the morning. You get that bright sun for at least half hour, 45 minutes. And then at night, if you if you if your room isn't completely dark, you can wear the mask. I wear the mask and I you're basically sending signals to your brain is to turn off um anything adrenaline, things like that. And then you're increasing melatonin which is going to help you sleep. So I I I I'm all for the mask. I'm also all for uh earplugs. Um so you can actually have that environment that mimics um how our bodies were developed. And about two or three hours before bed, start dimming that light. Don't don't just have the lights on. So that light cycle completely underappreciated. Um, it's so important and the contrast. Uh, all right. Very good. Uh, another interesting question this time from Gail from YouTube. I'm dealing with bile reflux. The bile is traveling toward the stomach instead of the small intestines and she wants help with that. Does that make sense? Yeah. I've done a video on this. Um I think what I would do is um make sure you're doing your the bile release is triggered by various foods and you should watch my videos on bile deficiency bile ex all the bile videos I have you should watch that but uh so you have the production of bile and then you also have the contraction of bile from the gallbladder into the stomach. So, you probably are eating the wrong foods that are trigger triggering this uh that you need to um do more intermittent fasting, too. Because people that don't do intermittent fasting uh and they're eating even snacks in between meals um the the the system doesn't have a chance to really clean out effectively. So it backs up and that bile backs up into the stomach and it can even get up through the uh the valve on top of the stomach as well. So uh yeah, there's it's a it's a big deal when you have start having bile reflux and uh I highly recommend also checking for SIBO doing that protocol. I have videos on this. Um it's actually probably more common than you think. All right, let's go to Crystal from Rumble. Do I need to worry about hair loss by going on a 40-day fast? I plan to take electrolytes and trace minerals regularly. Any other advice you would share? Yeah, I would take the B vitamins. And uh let's say you start to notice like, "Wow, my hair is starting to fall out." Then just take a little bone broth. Okay? It's not that many calories. um it it won't uh necessarily throw you out too much, but it can go a long way into giving you a little bit booster with some amino acids to help your hair. All right, let's try to get one more uh question in this time from Stephen from YouTube. What is the best um uh regimen for removing toxins from the body is to obviously change your environment. But number two is is to strengthen your detoxification system by consuming things uh like cruciferous vegetables uh foods high in sulfur which by the way would be red meat. Yeah, that's right. A lot of the detoxifying uh mechanisms in your body need high quality animal protein. Yes. So the combination of protein with cruciferous I mean the perfect thing would be to you know have meat and sauerkraut that would really help your detoxification system enzymes and and to help you uh more than trying to take something to purge these toxins which come with a package and I've tried tried them many times. I don't like those. All right. Anything you'd like to share with the audience? Exciting things coming up, new videos, etc. I'm really excited about this uh it's called the wellness map and um it's a new app coming out. This is going to be mind-blowing because uh we will be able to have a tool with all the latest technology to figure out what matters and what doesn't matter so you don't have to waste your time and effort anymore. I mean, think about how much guesswork is done in the area of natural health and and medicine as well, which we won't touch on, but yeah. So, I'm excited about that. You'll hear more about that. Um, we're going to start with a small little pilot and um we're already testing it out. It's awesome. But this is going to be next level. So, until then, I will see you uh tomorrow on my next video release.