The Dr. Berg Show LIVE - February 27, 2026

Welcome back everyone. I'm here in a secret location uh out of my office and so uh we're going to do the show like this. Hopefully you can hear me. Anything I say is not meant to diagnose or replace your medical care. Check with your doctor before implementing any of the suggestions that we're about to tell you. And let's dive right in. There's a lot of questions. Uh Steve, over to you. All right, very good. Dr. Berg, uh let's see. Let's start off with Vincent from Rumble. What is the best way to relieve ulner nerve pain in the left arm and shoulder caused by invertible disc herniation? One of the best ways to kind of get it to work a lot better is to um take the mirror image on the opposite elbow and find the exact point on the left side that's on the right side and start massaging. You're going to find a one spot that is the epicenter, the the most intense, the most severe, and you start massaging that is on a a gradient just a little bit at a time. What you're going to notice is the uh the side that was hurting before starts to feel a little bit better. And this has to do with u a technique. I'm not going to get into the history, but it's the circuitry on the left side of the body electrically is connected to the right side of your body. And that um you can affect one side by working on the other. And so it kind of um resets the brain and uh gets rid helps you heal and get it's great for pain and inflammation. So just work on the opposite side. Exact mirror image. All right, hope that helps. Let's go to Mama K from YouTube. What's the best thing you can do for excessive bloating and gas? I do regular fasting for five days a week. Please help. So, ex excessive gas um that usually it's your digest. You need to actually go back to the original diet. You need to find out what she's eating. And of course, the biggest thing that causes gas really for a lot of people is the fibrous food. So, if you actually lower the fiber, your gas probably will go away. All right. Very good. Uh, let's see. Let's bring up our first quiz question of the day. Not knowing our schedule. And there it is for you, sir. So, why don't you uh read it off to me, Steve? Uh, well, actually, I don't know if I could see that here. Yeah, I could barely see it. Maybe you could read it to me, Steve. Happy to do so. Okay. First question of the day asked to the audience. True or false? Stretching makes your muscles permanently longer. So audience, let us know your thoughts on that one. And let's move back to the audience where Salem from YouTube says, "I'm a vitiligo patient. Please share your best advice on how to treat this condition." Thank you. Yeah, that's the autoimmune. So what you have to do is you have to beef up your vitamin D. There's a great uh some great data that if you use uh 20 to 30,000 you uh units of uh international units of vitamin uh D with magnesium and K2 that will probably give you uh great uh before and after benefits. So uh it's really u to help support the immune system. So higher doses of vitamin D3. Let's go to Donna from Facebook. What's the best way to address the horrible pancreatitis? Um, pancreatitis is usually a more serious thing. You need to try to find out the cause. You have to do evaluation of what else is going on. Um, so it's it's it's more I mean to be able to answer that question on a live show, you have to actually have a lot more data. So I can't answer. I will say this though, if if nothing shows up, uh check the liver and the bile ducts because sometimes the gallbladder um the duct join together right before they hit the small intestine. And sometimes a problem with sludge in the bile ducts uh will cause a backup of the pancreas and cause pancreatitis in which case tutka is a natural remedy. But other than that, there's so many things that could cause that I I couldn't I can't even begin to tell you. All right. All right. Well, good luck with that uh journey. Cyber Granny from YouTube. Is it okay to take your probiotics along with Eluterai yogurt? Yes. In fact, you could even take one capsule of my probiotic and add that or even have a separate culture. It it works. It's a whole different uh series of microbes, but you can actually grow it and multiply it um uh by powers of huge magnitude power. So, I mean like like by you can go from 30 30 million to, you know, in the billions. It's just it's crazy. So, uh yeah, go ahead and try that. All right. Very good. Here's one for you. Rob from YouTube. Do you have any information regarding Vikings disease uh aka uh Dupatrin's disease? Ever heard of that? Yeah, I don't I don't have a lot of experience in that disease. I'm sorry. Couldn't help you on that one. All right, Rob. Uh, good luck with that. Hope you find out something helpful. Uh, let's move on to OLAD from YouTube. What's your thoughts about removing a low functioning gallbladder? What are the pros and cons? A very oft. Well, you realize before you take that out, there's a lot of uh complications that can happen and especially just with a lack of bile, lack of concentrated bile, a lack of regulation of the release of bile in your intestine, which then gives you a whole other bunch of problems you have to solve because then we can't extract the the fat soluble nutrients from the food as as well as anymore. So we can't pull we can't u um make vitamin D or actually cuz you can't absorb it. You need bile to absorb it from the food. So then it doesn't end up in the body. And then also the omega-3 fatty acids, you don't you don't get that. So there's so many problems. So I would try to do whatever you can to get the gallbladder to work. Uh usually it's related to diet. uh you have to fix the diet, but also as a supplement, you know, the bile ducts can fill up with sludge, in which case you would need something to kind of clean those out. And believe it or not, that's actually adding more bile to the system, uh like tuck, something like that. Uh but ultimately, uh the liver makes bile salts and so there could be something going on. You need to support the liver, but also you also have the microbes that can make secondary bile salts, too. So it could be a more of a microbiome issue. It could be a liver issue. These are all the things that you have to look at. It's um I think we're all just so focused on the medical model, which is like you have a symptom and you want to get rid of it when you have to really look at the whole picture and there's a whole cascade of things you have to go back and back in time to see what is the root cause. And this is why we're doing this to try to kind of get more data to help you think a little differently versus just what medicine does is like, oh yeah, you have blood pressure here. What medication would be best for that? Well, okay. Well, do we get to the cause ever? No. All right. Very good. Let's go to our first guest today. And this is uh Beth from Mississippi. Go ahead with your one question for Dr. Berg. Beth, hi Dr. Berg. It's an honor to talk to you. Um my question involves something that I believe affects thousands if not millions of people that have had their gallbladder out. And it's something that I don't think people talk about. Speak. Now, I had mine out 20 years ago before I became holistic. And it was a very traumatic event and surgery. So, 20 years on and I'm I'm holistic. I'm clean. And there is a phenomenon of dumping that affects a lot of people. Now, in my case, I know stress brings it on, but as clean as I am, I would love your suggestions. That is a real tough one because uh the only you don't have a regulator of bile. So everything kind of trickles down from the liver and depending on what's going on with those those little ducts, the bile ducts, you know, you can have more or less. When you have too much bile coming down, then that creates diarrhea, it creates a lot of other issues because we have too much bile. So in which case the doctors are going to recommend certain medications to slow that down. So, it's one of those real tricky problems because how do you naturally slow down the bile? And um I guess I I would try to just optimize the situation as much as possible and and maybe your liver might be making too much bile because there's the the feedback loop down into the large intestine. There's something down there that's not quite right. Um some other people that have the gallbladder removed tend to gain more weight. they have more metabolic issue because bile has other purposes as well. So, you know, we we don't need too much. We don't need too little. Um, so I I hear what you're going through. I don't really have a simple solution other than just try to optimize what you have there. Um, and do the best you can, but um, yeah, having um, that issue is, um, quite challenging to say the least. All right. Well, good luck with that, Beth. Thanks for chiming in with us and we'd love to hear back from you on some positive results in the future. Let's go to Ling Feather from Rumble. Since taking your B1 and magnesium glycinate, my sleep has improved and surprisingly my constipation is gone. What's the connection? And she says, "Thank you." And and magnesium glycinate connects with not actually I found it's not even just 300 biochemical processes, but 600. So, it's involved in making sure the brain doesn't get too overly excited. It's involved in helping the brake pads of the brain called GABA to help you sleep at night. It's involved in making sure that your muscles don't have enough or have too preventing it from having too much calcium that causes too much contraction. I mean, try to sleep with a Charlie horse. You can uh there are multiple ways that magnesium helps you sleep. Um, one of the interesting things, well, you know what? You, you just asked a question that relates to one of the questions I'm going to ask, so I'm going to hold off on that. But I will just say there are layers and layers of things that magnesium connects to help you sleep. Not to mention the form of magnesium you're taking is magnesium glycinate. The glycinate is glycine. And glycine um by itself helps you sleep. it it helps uh it's a commonly deficient amino acid that a lot of people are deficient and also it'll help uh GABA increase as well. So um I I I take it before bed on a regular basis because without it I don't sleep as well. All right, very good. Speaking of questions, we have an answer from the audience in the first one which was a true falser asking stretching makes your muscles permanently longer and 99% of our audience say it's false and 1% who are you stand up say it's true. Who's right? So this is a very interesting question because they they've measured people that can do the splits and people that are really stiff that can't. And the muscle length is almost the same. It's it's identical. They've had people uh put them under anesthetics and um doing surgery and put the range in a full range of motion that they can never go into if they're awake. So really what's going on with stiffness of the muscle? It's it's your nervous system is in a protect mode. And to get more flexibility, you have to convince the nervous system to not be so in in protect mode. Stretching uses brute force against that. And it's it's workable over time, but there's much better ways of getting the muscle to to pull it out of this uh protective mode. It's really a a neurological um thing. You have to make it safe for the body to move. And so, uh, I'm going to be I'm going to do I've done other videos, but I'm going to I'll do another video on this because I think it's important, especially if you want more flexibility. Uh, you may want to not just do the stretching. There are much better ways of convincing your nervous system that it doesn't have to stay in protect mode. Now, that being said, there's other things that cause stiffness as well, and that could be a limitation with your joint. you can have problems in the joint itself, scar tissue from an injury that can that you're going to have to work on that too. And I have a lot of great data on that. But if you don't have any injury with the joint and you're trying to give more flexibility, uh then you basically it's a neurological thing. It's about convincing the nervous system to let go and elongate. And there's many different thing many different ways to do that. All right, very good. Let's go to Jones D from YouTube. Why can't your supplements or healthy keto fix man boobs? What's actually works to fix them? That is an excess uh estrogen usually coming from plastics or some chemical that makes estrogen. It could be soy products. So there um you know you'd want to consume things or take things that are anti-estrogenic. And uh uh maybe you want to also increase uh testosterone by doing a testosterone protocol to help balance those things out. Um but it's not just a matter of a pill. It's you have to really understand what's happening even in your fat cells. You have um an enzyme called aromatase that's converting testosterone to estrogen. And you might have maybe you have too much fat that's making too much more of that enzyme. In in various videos I talk about how to uh take natural things to inhibit that enzyme so you have less estrogen. Um but there's it's not just a simple pill solution. You have to understand what's causing it. And there's something that you're exposed to that's estrogenic that's doing it. And it could be any number of things. So anyway, I would start watching my videos on uh endocrine disruptors, uh my older videos on estrogen and how to balance that out. All right, very good. Good luck with that. That is a little heartbreaking for guys. Okay, let's go to quiz question number two. It's a true falser and it says the following. The RDA recommended dietary allowance is designed to give the optimal amount of a vitamin for peak health audience. Is that true or false? Let's go back to uh social media where hidden G1 from Rumble asks, "I have chronic gastritis caused by H pylori stress and duodentis do whatever." You know what I'm talking about. I have the wall thickening, bloating, and pain. Ouch. I haven't taken any meds yet. Do you have any suggestions? I guess the doadum there. So, so the microbe H pylori they discovered this uh causes ulcers and this microbe is naturally in most people's body and it comes out of remission when our when the environment is just right. Um it actually produces ammonia which is super alkaline so it can survive better because the stomach is super acid. It's like battery acid. So it can't really exist in a normal stomach acid. So, we know we definitely know that your pH of your stomach is not acid enough, number one. Um, but we can't necessarily acidify it right now because you probably have gastritis and you have irritation. You might have an ulcer, whatever. So, what do you do? Uh, there's a couple things to actually heal the ulcer and it's one is called zinc carnosine. Amazing remedy. Uh also vitamin U which stands for ulcers. This is an older name of a vitamin that this is long ago. This is what they found in cabbage juice. So uh cabbage has uh it's called uh smethylion. It's a natural remedy that um actually helps heal ulcers. So you might want to try either sauerkraut or just uh cabbage for your condition. And then also um sulfurophane and broccoli sprouts uh tends to suppress H. pylori microbe and that's another thing you could take. So I would do that for a while to help heal the stomach while you're also eating healthily. Uh, and then once that's healed up, you're probably going to have to acidify the stomach because that microbe can go back in remission, but you have to change the environment around the microbe to fix it. All right, very good. Our wonderful producer Terry always covers for me on my horrible grammatical errors. It's douadonitis was what I was trying to say in error. Let's go to Sherry from Facebook. Thanks, Terry. What's the best protocol to measure testosterone levels? So you can do a blood test and um there's free testosterone and total tes testosterone. I would recommend um probably the most important thing would be the total testosterone more than the free um but also there's um uh another test in the liver um that looks like the like it's a sex binding globbulin hormone which is um you can get that tested as well that allow that tells you if you the liver is re releasing this free estrogen or not because if the liver uh is damaged you could release too much estrogen you know and it could be a problem. So there's um so when you're checking your um your testosterone of of course total testosterone but again you asked a question that is going to be part of my one of my questions coming up soon so I'll have to fully answer it later. Um and I'm tempted to answer it now but I'll have to wait. But yeah, I would just check the total testosterone and um realize this um that the reference ranges for normal are based on the average population. Uh and aka average does not mean healthy. 88% of the population is metabolically sick. So these averages you're getting are based on those people. So, it doesn't they're not trying they're not actually basing out on healthy people. Wow. So, yay. I'm sick like everybody else. Congratulations. All right, let's go on. Speaking of questions, uh to quiz question number two for the day. It's a true falser. The RDA, which is recommended daily allowance, is designed to give you the optimal amount of vitamin for peak health. And the audience, 100% good for you, uh say that that's false. Uh what say you, Dr. If it wasn't 100, I would fall off my chair because those RDAs are 100 years old. They're completely outdated. They're only designed to um pick up um amounts that would prevent serious deficiency diseases, not diseases, but a deficiency. So for example, magnesium um that amount was established to prevent a serious deficiency with magnesium like seizures, something like that. And this was in 1997. It was not designed to give you the optimum amount. It wasn't designed to satisfy any therapeutic to give you any therapeutic effect. So in reality um these these normals were based on population weights as well like females that weigh 133 and men that weigh 166. If you convert those numbers to even my weight 195 um that would come out to I would need an RDA of 600. But again that's not therapeutic. So, for a lot of people, and this is going to come full circle to the question that um someone else asked, a lot of people are taking magnesium and they're going, "Yeah, I don't I think I feel a little bit better, but I don't really feel a lot better." They still have anxiety. They still have insomnia. They still have cramping and uh Charlie horses in their their feet. They still have atrial fibrillation, um etc., etc. If they were to take maybe 250 or 300 milligrams several times a day, spread it out and get up to 600, 700, 900, 1,200, which is probably more what you need, you will satisfy all those biochemical pathways and you will start to notice huge changes with your sleep, anxiety, muscles, tension. So, one of the big challenges, it's not that it didn't work, you just didn't take enough of it. So, that's very valuable information because I'm not just talking about magnesium. Definitely vitamin D, B1 especially. Then, the RDAs for vitamin B1 are 1.2 milligrams. Are you kidding me? Like, that's not even enough to fortify one little receptor, let alone fix the whole deficiency. If you have like problems with your autonomic nervous system, let's say you stand up and you get really dizzy, it's called POTS, a condition, or you have other autonomic issues from being a diabetic, and you're just taking the RDAs, it's going to be a joke. You're not going to see anything. So, this uh it's why it's so important to take enough of the right thing if you're trying to create a therapeutic effect. But magnesium is a big one. It's it's you know if you if you check your magnesium and your blood you'll never figure it out because most of it is inside the cell. 99% of it's inside inside the cell. So you could be severely deficient and have normal blood. And then some people will say, "Well, you just need to do a what's called a red red blood cell magnesium test." Oh, really? So did you realize that you don't have mitochondria in your red blood cells? So most magnesium in your body is in the mitochondria, which you don't have in your red blood cells. So that would not be a good place to test either. So really the only way to test it either e is either a biopsy or um to do injections with magnesium and then check your urine over a period of time which no one's going to do that. It's a pain in the butt and it's very complex. So anyway, this is an interesting um missing piece of information that is really off the radar because we're not you can't you can't really test magnesium very easily. You have to go by symptoms. All right, very good. Well, we've got our next guest who's literally coming from the green room and uh his nice fell's name is John. And where are you calling in from? I forgot. John, I'm in Boca Raton, Florida. Nice. Okay. Hey, would you go ahead with your one question for Dr. Burke, please? I will. Hi, Dr. Burke. Thank you for having me on. This is a privilege. Uh, if a person eliminates all fiber and their gut markers improve, like no more bloating, uh, much less gas, better stool consistency, lower inflammation. How do you interpret that within the current microbiome model? Yeah, th this is the area that um you you have people that will say that we have it all figured out. There's so much mystery and missing information, incomplete information about the microbiome. Uh we don't have a clue really. Um so, you know, people will tell you, well, micro microbiome can only live on fiber. Absolutely. That's um not actually true. Our bodies are designed to adapt. These microbes can go uh eat different foods. It they can eat certain parts of the collagen in food. Apparently they um uh in fact adding the fiber to a person with uh inflamed bowel uh you can aggravate the situation. So many people are consuming fiber and they end up with GI problems. Um so this is this is why uh the carnivore came and and people thrive on that. So, uh, my whole thing is like, hey, go ahead and experiment with different diets. See what works for you because, um, what works for one person won't work for someone else. You can't tell, uh, someone that what diet they need because people are different and they have different issues. They have different microbiome. So, um, basically, we don't really know. So, it's it's over time, I think we'll we'll figure this out more and more, but uh you got a very complex uh mystery in your gut. And so, that's all I'm going to say. All right, John, we're all pulling for you. Thanks so much for a great call. Let's move on to Bernice from YouTube. I'm 52 and I was told I need both shoulders replaced because uh I no longer have cartilage in those joints. I'm u bone on bone. Is there a way to naturally regenerate cartilage in Bernice's case? I don't know. I don't know. Um there's there are limitations of matter. You have age. Bone and bone is really hard. Um I I would my viewpoint is I would try I would I would uh not just do um passive or nonweightbearing flexibility exercises. I would also really uh do everything I could to help improve what you have. Um, I I'll give you some ideas of what you could take. There's um, of course, collagen, uh, enough vitamin C to make it work. The trace minerals, especially copper, manganese, I would take, uh, something called MSM that will support the joint. A lot of people see benefit from that. I would take higher doses of uh, cod liver oil. I would I would take a lot of it and just see if that doesn't take the inflammation down to see if you if you could manage it without doing that surgery. It's a big surgery. So, um these are all things I would look at because um you know the worst place to get a second opinion for surgery is another surgeon, right? You want to just get other viewpoints. Again, my whole thing is like if you need it, great. But let's try things. Let's try things first. And there's I do know people that have bone on bone that uh seem to manage it fine. There's also uh stem cell type things that you could do possibly from bone marrow. Um so I would try to exhaust these other options first. Good. Sounds like great counsel. Let's go to quiz question number three of the day. It's a true falser and it asks most medical research is focused on discovering the root cause of the disease. That sounds suspicious. What say you audience? And let's move on to Aldo from YouTube. What do you Excuse me. Do you have any advice for stopping binge eating? Boy, I feel for you, Aldo. Yes, I do. Um, I have a lot of advice. The first first bit of advice is if I walk in your house right now and I look in your fridge or I look in your pantry, are there any snacks in there? Get them out, shoot them out, replace them. That would be step number one. That might take you a couple days, but get rid of the snacks. Why? Because unless you change your environment, you're going to be tempted. You You can't fix those addictive craving things with self-discipline or motivation. It It's too It's um your body is going after them as a survival mechanism. And it's kind of like if you look at a prehistoric person running up against a beehive and seeing all this honey, it's like, "Wow, oh wow, survival." So, we have all this concentrated sweet um our bodies are naturally going to go for it. Um from just setting up that whole addictive thing. And I've done videos on this. You're you're basically every time you do it, you strengthen this learning process. And so then if you try to resist it, your body will increase cortisol. It's going to put you in stress. So now you're going to be like now you get to a point where you're not even eating it for pleasure. You're eating it for to get some relief from the stress build up from the withdrawals. So you have to get it out of the house. When you go to the grocery store, go there when you already ate and you have a uh a little list of what to buy. do not deviate from that list. I know this might be shocking even to Steve that they have if you were to walk in a grocery store, they actually have entire aisles of what is called um snack foods. In fact, they have multiple aisles of snack foods. This is not natural. Our bodies were never designed to snack this much. And so the the most deadly thing that you can do is snack at night and also between meals. And so, but if it's not in the house, if you don't have any snack foods in the house, then it makes it more difficult. You have to drive to the store. So, that's kind of like you're like, yeah. So, we want to add friction to that. So, right after dinner, you have a big sign right on your refrigerator. It says kitchen closed. Now, also, um, another thing that can help, there's two things. One is uh to take about 250 to 300 milligs of magnesium four times a day and also take something called NAC. It's a remedy. If you take both of those, uh those will also help uh the body urges that you have for those addictions as well. All right. Such weakness. When I go to the grocery store, I go straight to the alalfa sprout owl and just stand there. That's the kind of discipline you see here. Let's go on to Rebecca from Facebook. What advice can you share for thyroid issues in middle-aged women? Thyroid issue is usually an autoimmune now nowadays. It's like 90% and uh selenium is is the key mineral for that. Increasing selenium, increasing vitamin D, eating healthy. Um not necess if it's not autoimmune, then maybe maybe you need more iodine. Um, but you should watch my last video that I did on um, thyro hypothyroidism because that'll give you more data. Um, it's not just about taking selenium. It's about really increasing the health of the whole thing. So, but uh, there's a lot of reasons why people have thyroid issues nowadays compared to before and you will learn that in the video. All right, very good. Let's go to quiz question number three. Another true falseer and it asks most medical research is focused on discovering the yeah go ahead sorry Steve you were gonna answer that right that yes sir uh and the illustrate so most medical research is focused on discovering the root cause of disease and the audience 100% again say nope that's false are they correct this this is actually shocking and well done on the uh getting every getting that right everyone because typically we think scientific research is about uh Well, they're finding the cause of sickness, right? Disease, right? No, no, no, no, no. You It's It's not about that. It's about um trying to find out if drug A uh improves with with I'm sorry, this disease A improves with drug B. They're looking about efficacy and uh safety and is it safe enough to put on the market. That's really what most of the this is about. or even like they could probably do a if a re natural remedy, whatever. We're going to test to see if that produces a result better than a placebo. Okay, that's what it really what's what it's about. When you get into um diet, it's virtually almost impossible to do because how you going to double blind someone when they're eating food? you going to like it's it's like really really hard and you have many many many different variables with food you don't just have one thing right so if you're doing a randomized control trial on they what what I mean what these studies do is they filter out they adjust for lifestyle factors they literally eliminate all these causal things and to see if this one variable that they're looking at is influenced by something So I mean the whole uh design of that study is really revolves around drug research not causation. And this is why they'll keep saying well um it doesn't prove causation. It just proves um you know association or um um you know something that is uh that's associated or or works along with something. So, um, I'm going to do a video on this because, um, this will explain a lot of stuff you hear in the news where, oh, we just found out, uh, the eggs cause heart disease. Oh, no, we didn't find it out. Like, the whole time you you didn't know. You didn't know. It just was associated. It wasn't it didn't cause anything. So, unfortunately, I want to just kind of really give the basics of like what research is for and what it's not for. and and what I suggest that should be done to be able to really figure things out because I mean take a look at how much money is spent on randomized control studies, observational studies, and how much of that showed any causation with diet. I mean, I will say there's might be one or maybe two studies that showed, you know, a pretty strong tendency to be a cause, but other than that, I mean, like, this is why it's very difficult to um to figure things out by using the the methodology or the system of doing medical research. It's just it's just not set up for that. Interesting. Okay. Well, we're set up for quiz question number four, and this is the one that's not a true false. If Ozimpic helps you lose 50 pounds, improves insulin resistance, lowers cholesterol, and reduces inflammation, what's the drawback? Are there any drawbacks on that audience? Can't wait to hear your opinion on that. Let's go to Rio Gracia from YouTube. How can I remove gallstones naturally? My mom is 64 and I don't want her to get surgery. One of the natural remedies is to increase bile salts. I would take them with the food after the meal and I would take something on empty stomach called tutka. And what's what a gall stone is, it's a super concentrated cholesterol stone and um where you don't have enough bile. So if there's not enough bile, the the cholesterol turns into this thick sludge and then eventually turns into stone. So adding more bile to the diet uh can actually help thin it. And in addition, you need to do things for the liver to produce more bile. You need to do things for the gallbladder to be able to contract better. So, I have a lot of videos on this topic. Um, but having not enough bile is uh gives you a lot of problems down the road, believe me. final guest for the day. Let me get your audio, ma'am. And this is Elaine coming to us. Elaine, thanks for joining us. And go ahead with your one question for Dr. B. Hi Dr. Burke. Um, I want to ask you about bio reflux, especially for people posttotal gastroctomy surgery because I had TG due to gastric cancer four years ago and uh, bio reflux has been a side effect since. Western medicine's ability to help has been limited. Um, I have incorporated lifestyle changes but still experienced episodes. But the most quality of life issue is that I have nightly pain in the stricture area which significantly impacts my sleep. So do you have any suggestion that could potentially help me and people like me? Yeah. Yeah. So there's a there's two things and I do understand the frustration with this because they created an anatomical change that now leaves you with this backup problem of bile and um and it can really I hear you typing in the back Steve. Um I can also what happens when it comes up in the stomach or even the uh into the esophagus it can create irritation. But two things. Number one, there are different valves that you have that in the small intestine, that little valve that comes out and also higher up that that do are are influenced by the autonomic nervous system, their smooth muscle. And what I would do if I were you, I would increase the amount of B1, natural B1, like probably 40 to maybe 80 milligrams of natural B1, not the normal 1.2, which is not going to do anything. The B1 naturally will help the the control over the smooth muscle, which I think is where your problem is. I think you have a valve problem now. So we need to have more control autonomically from B1. Now B1 also has a co-actor which is magnesium which I would also increase that as well. And then the second thing I would do and I have this in several videos. It's super powerful. I used to do it all the time. Um you know you've had surgery into that area of your lower intestine. There could be some scar tissue in there. There could be some some trauma. There could be some protective spasms going on. So, um, I show people in some of the videos how to gently take your hand and just start massaging underneath the rib cage on the left and the right and find those little areas of tightness and try to release them because that that can give you tremendous relief, especially if you had surgery to anything in that area. Um, but but do it on both sides and watch my videos on that. Uh, I know that that will probably help reduce the discomfort at night especially. Elaine, thanks so much for a great call. It was so sweet of you to include others and how others can be helped. I think that's very altruistic. That's wonderful. Uh, let's see. Let's go to Raina from YouTube. What can I do to help my 11-year-old with hypothyroidism? Well, the same same thing is that um, you know, let's first evaluate what are they eating? Are they doing high carb? Are they getting enough trace minerals? Are they getting nutrient-dense foods? Are they supporting the foods with their gut? Are they getting enough sun so they can actually have enough vitamin D to help prevent autoimmune issues, which is normally the case for hypothyroidism. So I would definitely, you know, maybe even find one of the four doctors in in the US that does the coe protocol, which is the high dose of vitamin D3, especially if it's 11 year olds, so they can regulate the amount um so they can get the right right thing. But those are some some quick answers that I would recommend. All right, very good. Let's go to answering quiz question number four. asked if Ozimpic helps you lose 50 pounds in improves insulin resistance, lowers cholesterol, and reduces inflammation, what's the drawback of using it? Sounds too good to be true. Well, the audience thinks so as 58% of respondents say it oympic drawbacks include side effects such as gastrointestinal issues. 32% say once you take start taking it, then the weight will return. That's awful. and 10% say can it contri it can contribute to muscle loss. So very good answers and I think everyone is correct. Um I I think they should have done more educating people before they let the cat out of the bag and just got pushed this idea of taking a drug for weight loss because the average person over a course of a little over a year will lose about 50 pounds. That's pretty good. That's amazing. You will actually have improvement with your your insulin resistance. You'll have less inflammation, less cholesterol. So, it's like, wow, this sounds great. Uh, but after a year of being on it, uh, and you lose your 50 lbs. If we look at those 50 lbs, that's not all fat. Okay? 40% of it you was was muscle loss. Now, when you get off the drug and over the next year, you don't you don't they found you don't necessarily gain all of the weight back. You gain back twothirds of it, but not only was those 2/3 all fat, but you then gain a little more fat, and you still lost the muscle. So, the muscle doesn't come back. Now, muscle is the metabolic machine for your metabolism. So now you're in a pickle because now you don't even have the machinery to burn fat. And so now they're they're trying to get everyone to just get out the rest of their life. Well, there are massive side effects with the thyroid, with your vision, with the digestive system. So it's a trap. Uh so I'm going to release a video to um to help people. As you can hear my dog barking, I'm going to tell him to be quiet out there. Um, I'm going to release a video on this of how to do this naturally to help people um curb their their temptation to go after the easy route. There are many things you can do uh these um um that you can mimic this system without having to do the the forceful way with this drug which has a very powerful effect over certain biochemical things. All right. Well, I think I speak to the audience and myself. We love Charlie. That's his dog. And here's quiz question number four. Final true false. If your blood test shows your Excuse me, quiz question number five. It's the final one. True, false. If your blood test shows you're within normal range, you're nutritionally healthy. Is that true or false? Audience. And let's go on to Giddy from Facebook. What can I do to eliminate psoriasis on the soles of my feet? Ouch. Well, that's another vitamin D. That's an autoimmune vitamin D deficiency. Um, I I would definitely in addition to that, make sure you consume no grains or gluten completely. Get rid of uh any gluten. Um, and and do the eating plan that I recommend, but also um if you can um beef up your vitamin D3 to levels of maybe 20 to 30,000 I use with the magnesium and D3 um and K2. That would be very, very smart. All right. Very good. Go to Regina from YouTube. What do you think of the benefits of taking oregano oil and black seed oil? Do you have any brand recommendations if you like it? Yeah, I don't have any brand recommendations, but I think those are two really good natural antibacterial things. They're good for the immune system. They have a lot of other benefits. Um, I would consider them like a natural antibiotic. Um, but of course, uh, you didn't hear that from me, but I think they have properties that mimic antibiotics without the side effects. All right, very good. Wendy from Facebook. What are your recommendations to fix or help AIB? That from all the data I looked at is a severe uh magnesium deficiency. And this is what I said before when you're trying to fix the magnesium deficiency, create a therapeutic dosage. You can't just use the basic RDAs. You have to use way more. And so I would take probably four times the normal amount that's recommended. But here's the key is the type of magnesium. You want to take magnesium glycinate because you get that helps you absorb 80% of it. If you take the wrong kind, which is magnesium oxide, which you'll find at the drugstore and the people, the reason why people like that is that you just have to take one pill. You can cram that much in there. You're only going to absorb 3% of it. So that 400 mgram tablet, you're going to get like 16 milligrams. It is ridiculous. you're not going to see the results, but you will get diarrhea. So then you can't beat you can't increase it. Most of the research on magnesium is using this magnesium oxide. This is why it's not really on the radar by the medical profession because it show that it doesn't really do much. Well, that's because they're not using a therapeutic effect, which you need a lot more. There's there's a lot of data out there that I've seen even like older research that you that's been suppressed on depression, on high blood pressure. on cramps, on atriofibrillation, on anxiety and sleep issues of just taking more of magnesium. Magnesium is seems to be also involved in making energy. So, think about this, right? You have you make a lot of ATP, a tremendous amount. And then you have people that exercise a lot and you have athletes, they're not take they're not keeping up with the amount of magnesium that the body is demanding. And on top of that, if you drink alcohol or eat junk foods, the demand for magnesium goes so seriously high. Um so this is another interesting uh area that's a blind spot for so many people that if you just give the person enough magnesium they they seem to start getting results when before they didn't. I mean one more thing on this like there there's certain um like dep they have drugresistant depression that's just blows my mind. That's your diagnosis drug. Yeah. It just doesn't work with drugs. Well, that's because the lack of the drug wasn't didn't cause it in the first place. Why don't you try taking a lot of magnesium and even vitamin D and see if your depression doesn't lift? Um, the same thing with uh 90% of hypertension is called uh primary hypertension uh which basically means unknown cause. What? You don't know what caused it? Well, just take take more potassium or magnesium or vitamin D. So anyway, um it's very obvious to me what to do to turn things around. Interesting. All right. Well, we're going to turn around the last question for the day and our audience is aligned like the planets. They seem to have a consensus among them where the question asks if your blood test shows you're within normal range, you're nutritionally healthy, 100% of them say that's nonsense. What do you say, Doc? You're correct. It's nonsense because um the RDAs are again um or this is the blood values right so yeah blood values are based on averages and uh an average person is sick do you want to be average no you want to be optimal so uh this is the challenge with reading different things like and they've also changed the values the normal values even on blood glucose and then overnight all these people were diabetics they changed in on cholesterol overnight sold billions of dollars worth of statins. So I am very suspect with um with these changes in normal ranges and also and looking at the normal ranges is you need someone that's a good uh person that can evaluate and take in consideration uh where they get these normal ranges. The same thing with the IQ, your IQ like um those that has been changing over time as well with your IQ and uh I think they take the average of the population and then uh that's uh that's normal, you know? I mean like anyway, don't get me started, Steve. All right. Well, this is going to get uh me started. Ellie from Rumble, I recently turned down dessert after lunch and my friends asked if I was on a diet. I responded, "No, I'm resetting my dopamine receptors." Her expression was priceless. Thank you, Dr. Burke. And I believe that, too. I get depressed more than I get fat when I eat like that. So, dopamine is the uh it learns it helps you survive. It learns from survival things. And think about this like uh so many of these artificial like if you let's say you drank alcohol and uh and you felt more relaxed, you felt more social. Wow, this is good. So what you're learning from that is alcohol is survival. That's what dopamine learns. Oh, I ate junk food. Oh, I feel better. I feel comfort. Oh, survival. Boom. Oh, I took um cocaine. I feel more energetic. Survival. That's what dopamine is. So then if you the more times you do it, well smoking is the worst because if you take a how many puffs on one cigarette and then you smoke the whole pack, that's a lot of training in the dopamine. So you're basically in a trap. You set yourself up for a trap. And um I'm going to release a video very soon on how to get out of that drop because understanding what's happening with dopamine and then uh how to deal with the withdrawals and how to deal with the the body urges. It's it's like it's very simple when you understand the mechanism. Uh but we're basically a fish living in a fish tank that's toxic and uh it's in our face all the time. So you have to really work on your environment as well. Change your environment. So, um, probably not if you're an alcoholic, you probably not want to work in a liquor store. Good counsel. Uh, that was a terrific observation, Ellie. I think let's go to Pamela from Facebook. I wake up with leg cramps when trying to sleep. What supplement would help relieve this condition? Or you got any other ideas, Doc? Magnesium glycinate, but I would take um you can do either tablets or powder. Um, and you take that several times a day. Okay? Um, so your amounts are maybe 600, 800 to 900 milligrams. And then start fortifying all these these buckets that are that need magnesium. And then when you get them filled up, um, you'll start to notice like, wow, my muscles are better now. because now uh magnesium can finally control the calcium. The calcium is what's contracting the muscle. Magnesium controls that. So it's an it's an excess of interstitial calcium. That disregulation with calcium is common in so many conditions. Look what happens when we get older. We calcify. It's all about this calcium. But it's not really about calcium. It's about the controller magnesium. All right. Very good. Let's go to the handle is the awareness society from YouTube. What's your opinion on taking supplements while fasting? Namely, Sheila Jit. Did I say that right? I think you Yeah, they don't have a lot of calories and I highly recommend you do that because um normally most people have some subclinical deficiencies of nutrients and if you're not eating it makes it worse. And so now um if you're going a fast with a deficiency that could be a problem, especially with electrolytes, especially with sodium, not having enough sodium, but also the B vitamins, too. Um, so if you're especially if you're doing a prolonged fast, take your supplements. Uh, but um, let your body rest and get the be the advantages of this fast, which go way beyond weight loss. It just goes, you know, stem cell uh, anti-aging properties, um, repair, regeneration, rejuvenation, uh, better immune system, the list goes on and on and on. All right, good. Robin from Rumble is asking, "Is orange peel infused water better for us than regular water? there any problems with orange peel? I I don't I don't know. I don't know if uh I don't know. I don't um I mean obviously you want to do an organic orange peel. Uh I don't know how much of that kind of rubs off and and is significant or not. Uh I do know there's a lot of boflavonoids underneath that peel that uh can help you especially with veins circulation and uh capillaries. All right. How about Susan from YouTube? Does your probiotic reach and help the colon? Yes, because it survives the stomach acid and so you do have that survival so it can kind of go down into the digestive tract. There's a time release mechanism in there as well. And uh part of those microbes um most of them support the large colon and then there's some that support the small as well. Normally, we don't want these microbes in the small intestine, right? Good. Let's go to um third sister from Rumble. I've been taking 5,000 milligrams of biotin daily for 5 to 6 years for improving hair growth. Not sure if it's making a difference. Do I need to taper it off or what else would you recommend for her hair falling? Well, the the problem with just taking one thing over a long period of time, especially biotin. Biotin is kind of in the in the family of the B vitamins. So, it might be beneficial that you add maybe the B complex in a natural form. I think it would be helpful too if you if you're trying to improve your hair. We want to realize that biotin is the co-actor to help uh the keratin, the protein in the hair. But there's other co-actors that come from trace minerals like zinc and copper uh and all these trace minerals that are really important too. So having enough raw material, having the co-actors, raw material being protein, and then also vitamin D, uh which is a it's not even really a vitamin, it's a hormone that actually is involved in hair and skin big time. All right, let's go to Michelle from YouTube. Is magnesium and maybe specifically what kind good for menopause? What would be the recommended daily dosage of magnesium? Whatever. Yeah, I I I think it is good for menopause and in fact um it's good for a lot of other conditions too. I would recommend the average person that's average. It's not healthy. I would not just do the 400. I would at least double it. Okay. 800 because um the more I look at this like the more that magnesium is one of those co-actors that allows other vitamins to work too like vitamin B1 you doesn't work without magnesium. Uh vitamin D doesn't work without magnesium. Uh so magnesium works with potassium. Magnesium works with calcium. So, there's so many different little pieces of the puzzle related to magnesium. Um, that uh but it apparently is not helping my impulse to create strangulization therapy with my dog. Uh, but I I'll just have to withhold that temptation that Charlie's barking again. Well, Charlie has a question. I just couldn't quite understand what he was asking, but he's sincere about it. Dela from He'll see he'll see a he'll see a a truck about a mile away and he'll start barking. Good for him. Well, he's protecting his parents. Dela from Rumble, what's your thoughts about taking cortisone shots for shoulder pain. I do not like those. That's a trap because as Yeah, it's it works great. But then you're getting rid of all the healing because you're getting rid of all inflammation. It's it's too powerful. And so it's a temporary relief, but then what happens when it comes back? Well, you need more. And then the more you take it, the more it destroys the joint. I've seen people that had way too much cortisone over a period of time and literally they don't have a joint anymore. So it also there's a lot of side effects, tons. Cushing syndrome is one of them, which are your your face gets wide. I I can speak from experience. I I took uh steroids for poison ivory every single year for 10 years in my 20s till a point where it didn't work anymore. And so I was like, "Oh my gosh." And it kept coming back worse and worse and worse. So I'm against uh steroid shots. I think I would try something I would try other things and I would only use that as the last ditch effort uh because of how potent it is. it it also suppresses your immune system too. So it leaves you susceptible to developing viral infections. It also um mobilizes a lot of glucose and you can even develop diabetes as a side effect because you have all this glucose coming from the cortisol. So anyway, I'm I'm very very hesitant about steroids. All right, be careful audience. Uh let's try one more question for the day. Dave from Facebook. Could a regular m regular massages have a benefit on her function of her nervous system? What do you think of massage? Oh absolutely absolutely. Uh I highly recommend it. And also um uh I used to get u raling which is a very painful heavy massage but I I it's helped me because I have old injuries. I I do a combination um of a lot of myofascial stretching. Um I'm really into stretching. That's uh can give some similar benefits to massage too. But the combination I think would be awesome. All right. Very good. I really like to thank our audience and also the people in the green room. They hung in there with us and had some great questions. And just as as usual, another show from questions around the world. Do you have any announcements for our audience? Uh doc? Well, just the announcements. I am going to get the wire, the cable, the um the um fiber that was cut to my internet. I'm going to get that repaired today. Uh and then I will be able to be back in my studio. But um yes, some great things coming down the pike. Um uh thanks for watching my videos. I appreciate you so much. Have a wonderful weekend. I will see you next week. Same place, same time.