The Dr. Berg Show LIVE - March 6, 2026

Welcome Back everyone. We're here with another show. Anything I say is not meant to diagnose you. Check with your doctor before implementing any of the suggestions that we're going to talk about today. All right, Steve, over to you. Okay, very good. And speaking of doctors, we have one coming from Rio. He's in the midst of seeing patients, so we're going to try to get him on for you. And uh doctor, if you would go ahead with your one quick question, Fernando for Dr. Bird. Go ahead and turn on your audio, sir. Hello, good morning. Uh, here in Brazil, we are on the colon cancer awareness month, the blue navy blue march. I think in US too. As an endoscopist, uh, I'm a medical doctor. We normally focus on the importance of screening colonoscopy for everybody with 45 year old or not. But colonoscopy is a tool for secondary prevention. I'd like to know your opinion on that and how can we act as health care professionals in advising our patients for primary prevention. I love I love uh what you're what you're asking. Uh Steve, if you could just clarify uh I want I I missed something in the very beginning of the basic question, but I what I heard was that you want some information on prevention, which I want to talk about, but I want to make sure I get your question. So, Steve, you did you get what he Well, talking about colonoscopies and whether they're the efficacy of a colonoscopy is correct. Did I get that right, doctor? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Because we focus here as doctors only in you know looking for a doctor and perform colonoscopy as a pre prevention prevation tool. But a colonoscopy is a secondary prevention because we look for you know lesions lesions that you can find lesions that are not cancer and we prevent by taking off these lesions but right I'm asking for a primary prevention like diet, exercise or something like that. Thank you. Yes. Now I understand. Let me answer that because I think you're you're probably a very very uh I think it's one of the most important um types of doctors out there if if you have um the knowledge of the basics on on what goes through the digestive system when we're talking about food, right? And unfortunately, a lot of the GI doctors omit the the lowhanging fruit, the elephant in the room, which is basically the diet, especially when we get into polyps, inflammation, irritable bowel syndrome, potential colon cancer, all of that. I I really think that you're bringing up a super important point. So, let's just chat about that for a second because roughly at least 80 or 90% of um chronic illness is is directly related to some of these root causes. Uh especially when we're talking about poor health and diet. So, you have people that um um they get screening and they don't really it's not on the radar. all of a sudden they have a p-up, they get it removed, but then like what do you do to prevent it from coming back? What do you what do you do for the gut? There are so many things to do. The most important thing that you should realize is that and do more deep dive into the microbiome in the gut um is literally 10 times the amount of cells in our entire body. It it uh and not it's not just about helping you digest. It makes vitamins. It defends you. It's responsible for 80% of your immune system. You have this gut lining, this wall, this mucous layer that protects uh from those microbes. And then the inside of the body that that mucous layer gets destroyed with various things like for example emulsifiers in foods. Uh I did a video on this that kind of wears down that that mucous laying layer. So, so when you start uh dealing with patients, you should definitely start getting into what do you eat? And uh and and you'll quickly see the relationship, especially uh with so many people that can't even tolerate uh fiber anymore, and we're going to be talking about that in one of the quizzes. um they'll start eating what's supposedly healthy and then they get inflammation to the point where um they need to do something like carnivore just to eliminate that uh irritation over and over and over again. Um, I used to have a lot of digestive problems and I would have been a perfect uh patient for uh kind of a mainstream GI doc because I I always had gut pain and of course I was eating a lot of the things that create irritation and it relates to uh three things mainly. uh the grains, grains uh especially gluten for a lot of people, especially the modern grains, modern wheat, uh destroys the gut. And then you have the seed oils. Uh seed oils by themselves, depending on if it's coldress or not, is one thing, but most people consume them heated and that gives off a very toxic thing called an aldahhide, which then destroys the gut and your cells. Uh and then you have, you know, the massive amount of uh hidden sugar is called starch. So you have all these refined starches, modified food starch, all of this ends up in the gut and these poor microbes have to deal with it and then you get excess fermentation and I think a really good um doctor to study is Dr. David Williams uh super gut and start learning about that and start recommending your patients to go on fermented foods, sauerkraut on a regular basis, uh kefir on a regular basis, yogurt, not the sweetened, uh eliminating the sugars, the refined grains, and then um you will have probably one of the most successful practices because it all starts with food and uh so many diseases emanate from the gut. um especially autoimmune. So, you're sitting on something that's super important. Um and and just one last thing because there's a lot to be said about this topic. Um one wonderful thing that I use for gut irritation would be um zinc carnosine. It's a wonderful uh remedy for so many different GI problems, but uh I have a lot of videos on that. But thank you for your uh interest in this. uh we need more doctors that are looking outside the box because um the way it's approached now is just total management of symptoms way downchain nothing upchain as root causes. It's great Dr. Prao. Thanks so much for taking time out of your busy schedule and seeing your patients for those important questions. We appreciate it. If you got time Dr. Praau, here's quiz question number one for the day. And there you go, Dr. Burke. True or false? Sardines are are good for you, but they are high in mercury. True. True or false? Ouch. What do you say audience? Let's go to speaking of the audience, let's go to social social media where 7in from YouTube, what's your opinion on eating pineapple? Yeah, it's pretty sweet uh for most people. Um if you don't have a metabolic uh problem, if you do not have a problem with insulin resistance, which is rare, uh maybe you can get away with it here and there, but again, typically our bodies uh if you go back in history, uh ate fruit seasonally and they didn't uh eat it as we didn't have the sweet that we have now. So things have been uh hybrid uh changed uh in a way that u the fruit nowadays is very very filled with uh way too much sugar uh versus in the past it wasn't as sweet like take a look at like watermelon and bananas and all these other things like they used to be very very downgraded with with sugar but now they're they're bred for sweetness because it's what people want. So that being said um it's easy to consume a lot of pineapple. I'm not saying it's the worst thing to eat, but I I would, you know, have it in small amounts here and there if you're going to consume it. All right, very good. Let's let's go to our next caller because she's also sort of in a tight spot. She's in a car, but she's not driving. So, uh that's good. Sariah, go ahead with your question for Dr. Berg, please. Hi, Dr. Berg. Um my question is um well I've been diagnosed with pro my protr um my L4 and my L5 they're um protruding so they call it protruding of the disc my L4 and L5. Um I wanted to know what um what I can do for that to get it fixed. I'm not for surgery but I wanted to know also your thoughts about that. Um, so yeah, I've had this for about three years now and so it's been diagnosed now as that. Yeah. So there's degrees of protrusion and uh some people um have it so severe that they have to get surgery. You apparently you don't because it comes with a comes with a package. It comes with a lot of complications. So, um I would do everything you can and I'm going to tell you some things to do to prevent surgery because um there you know there's a there's a point of limitation where that disc has uh broke off and now it's floating your spinal cord and it creates a lot of issues but uh I think uh a small protrusion can be reversed. Uh a couple things lumbar distraction there is uh inverted tables. Uh I like the one that inverts you by your knees. I have one of those uh tables. I don't even know the name of it, but you actually you go into it and you hook your knees on it. So, you're hanging upside down and you do this slowly at first and then on a regular basis, you're creating body weight traction on your lower back. It's wonderful. There's also places you can go to get lumbar distraction where they can actually give you traction in the lower back. Um, I think really important to um watch my videos on the lumbar spine to use various uh um things like little lumbar rolls that you can get that curve back because a lot of times the protrusion happen because of the dynamics of the back doing too much sitting etc. maybe an old injury. Um but I I also have a protrusion as well but I have no pain because I work on it. I do a lot of stretching. I do a lot of um work on the lower back to strengthen the muscles on the back because when you get that protrusion, it can create a weakness and then you don't you kind of you baby it and then you get atrophy and then that worsens it. So um consuming the right foods, the trace minerals, collagen, boron, manganese, vitamin D3, avoiding sweets, all will reduce inflammation as well uh to create more space in that uh lower back uh spinal column and also the the nerve roots. These are things I would uh I think you could completely reverse it with diet and exercise and doing certain techniques. Absolutely. And um that's what I would do. Very good. Sariah, thanks so much for coming to us from the passenger seat of your car. We appreciate it. And that means you s uh Sariah can look at quiz question number one, which hopefully you tried to answer. And it asked to the audience, true false. Sardines are good for you, but they're high in mercury. And 98% of respondents say it's false, 2% say it's true. I hope it's false. It's false. So, you are correct because what happens um it's called bioaccumulation where the small uh the big fish eat the smaller fish, they eat the smaller fish, but sardines don't they eat plankton, which means there's not a lot of uh mercury involved. So, um, plus they're high in the mineral, trace mineral called selenium, which actually binds with mercury. So, you're getting such small amounts of mercury. It's like 0.0 I think it's 03 or 031, which is per um I think parts per million. So, it's super small amounts. And if you compare that to tuna or compare it to swordfish, like it's like 40 to 70% less mercury. So, you don't have to worry about mercury. Sardines are um super healthy. I'm doing a video on it. Uh, and they have something really amazing because when you're trying to get rid of inflammation, um, it's not that you have too much inflammation, but a lot of times it just never turns off because the cycle of healing just keeps going. I mean, it's incomplete. It doesn't turn off. There's certain molecules called um resolins. They're called they resolve the or they complete that whole cycle of inflammation. And uh it just so happens that um those are in the omega-3 fatty acids. Now, if you take a supplement, um, realize you're probably only going to get 200, maybe 250 gram, uh, milligrams of the omega-3, but with the with the uh, sardines, you get virtually like 900 milligrams per can. So, there's a video that I'm going to be releasing soon uh on what would happen if you consumed three sardine, three cans of sardines every single day for 5 days. Well, I know one thing for sure. You'd literally have 2700 milligrams of omega-3 fatty acids, which is a therapeutic dose, which it's very unlikely you would have any inflammation at all probably by the second or third day. it'd be just completely gone and wiped out. So, anyway, stay tuned for that video. And sardines are a great way to get your omega-3s. Okay, so omega-3 uh supplements, are they good or or are you really falling short? Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Uh like I like the cod liver oil because it has vitamin A and vitamin D. And if you're trying to create a therapeutic dose, okay, uh realize you have to take more than just what's on the label. Sometimes you have to 2x or 3x it to get higher levels versus just the typical amount. Um, unless you're just trying to maintain something. And the reason I brought that up is because, you know, sardines are are like what, $2 for a can of sardines. Here we go. Right here. Here's some sardines. And uh it's it's pretty next level as far as uh the omega-3 fatty acids. So, I think I think um they're underappreciated, Steve. They're they're not talked about enough. And I think uh people need to start consuming more of them. Well, I'm gonna start with that. I'm gonna hold my nose and ram them down as soon as I get a a little can. Let's go to Michael from Facebook. One little point about that. I I would make sure that you have it with the skin and with the bones in extravirgin olive oil because sometimes they put it in soybean oil. I'm like, you just ruined it because now we're adding the the omega-6 fatty acids to counter the omega-3 because they compete. Now, do you have to go to some exotic store or would that be in a normal chains? No, you can just you can just f just start reading the label and just you'll you'll find them. Wow. Kind of excited. Michael from Facebook, I have alipcia barb. Is this something that can be reversed and if so, how? I I don't know, but uh I would try I would try using various things. Uh one of the most important things, especially for alipcia, which is an autoimmune, is higher doses of vitamin D3. Make sure you take the trace minerals. Uh make sure uh you watch my latest video on that because there's there's a lot to be said. Uh sometimes the micro needling is um beneficial because you're stimulating um or breaking up some of the scar tissue that's developed and that's why sometimes the head is kind of shiny because you develop the scar tissue in there and and uh you have to break that up. Um infrared is another thing that's pretty next level to help stimulate the hair growth. All right, very good. Let's go to quiz question number two for the day, doc. There it is. What is the most important question to ask anyone who is doing poor poorly healthwise? So you so you have a friend, a family member, they're not doing well. Uh they don't know what to do. They come to you. What is that? What's the one most important question you should ask them? All right. Well, maybe this next question relates to that. somehow user name number one is his handle or hers um from YouTube. What are your thoughts about the carnivore diet for someone with chronic fibromyalgia pain wouldn't hurt. Um but but here's the catch 22 with with carnivore. I I would um do you have any gut issues? Um if you do, uh that's when I would recommend a carnivore. But but here's um fibromyalgia, there's a couple things about it. Um, is it on just your right side? Okay. Because in practice, people come in, they didn't really have fibromyalgia. They had there uh they had sludge in their bios and I would give them tuta and it would just clear it right out and all of a sudden all their fibromyalgia would want go away because um you kind of plug up uh the ducts, the liver gets backed up, it refers pain to the right shoulder, it can go down the arm and it feels like fibromyalgia, but it's actually just a gallbladder problem which you need to also change the diet. Uh but the other thing too with a classic fibromyalgia that goes along with chronic fatigue syndrome is usually um a virus that is come out of remission an old virus like epstein bar virus or cytolo virus they tend to come come in and out of remission during stress situations and they don't come out as a full infection they come out as a partial infection. So, just enough to tell your immune system, uh-oh, there's something coming out of uh out of sleep here. We better create more inflammation. And now all of a sudden, you got this achy joint thing and you got you're sore all over the place. The way you want to attack that is to strengthen the immune system because stress causes cortisol spike, which suppresses the immune system. So you need to do things to wake up the immune system by doing whatever you can to eliminate the source of your stress and start eating healthily. Uh start walking, get in nature. Um one of the best ways to lower cortisol is to increase oxytocin from that um elutery yogurt that I have a video on. You should look that up. But there's a yogurt you can make um that you magnify this aluttery and it's a microbe in your gut that just is next level. It'll just really help reduce your stress. So it's another great health hack. Great. Let's go to Heidi from Facebook. I have a hard time losing weight. I'm a diabetic and my blood sugars uh levels are constantly high. Heidi doesn't mention the uh fundamentally, you know, her diet plan in this. Well, let's just talk about that sardine fasting like you're only eating three cans of sardines a day for 5 days. Watch that video that I will be releasing in a couple weeks hopefully um because it's being edited right now. But what they found that was so remarkable in Barcelona that it was over I think it was over 500 people. They split them in two groups. Both had the same diet. One group, all they did was add two cans of sardines for the whole week. The other group didn't get any sardines, and the risk from diabetes went down dramatically. So, if you're trying to fix your blood sugars and you want to kill two um birds with one stone, let's say you want to lose weight and help your metabolic issues, sardines are are next level. And you can do that that program because you're going to force your body to go in ketosis, which is going to start to run your body not on sugar anymore, but on ketones. And that's one way to um keep yourself out of trouble and help your blood sugars. Very good. Okay. Okay. Well, the audience took this one seriously with some lengthy answers for quiz question number two, which asked question, what is the most important question to ask someone who is doing poorly healthwise? And 60% of respondents say the primary question to ask is what are you eating? That's what I thought. 15% say it's how often are you eating? 10% say it's are you eating ultrarocessed foods? 10% say how's your quality of sleep? and 5% say, "Thank you for all this, Terry. Um, have you tried fasting?" And that's the whole kaboodleoodle. These are wonderful questions. Okay? And and you should ask them, but there's another next level question. So, this is super important. Write this down. If you like helping people, this question will probably allow you to help more people than you've ever helped. You ready for this? Write this down. If you've checked out, check back in right now. Are you ready? I don't think you guys are ready for this. Maybe I'll talk about this next week. No, I'm just kidding. It's this question. When did it start? Actually, it's two questions. When did this start? What happened just before that? What What was the change right before it started? Okay, that it could be food. It could be a stress event. It could be a change of environment. It could be something. But that gives you the key goal that you need to really figure out what happened. Now, let's say for example the person, oh wow, I'm doing great and they actually improved their health. When when did that start? What did you what change did you make? Oh, I went on a low carb diet. Okay, good. Now we know what to strengthen and keep doing. But I'm telling you, you would think this question, these two questions would be asked more in the area of health, but they're not. They're not focused on. It was so simple. People would like think that, wow, these are how did you figure this out? I just asked two stupid questions and then you find out what changed because there's always always something that happened right before you start having the problem. And sometimes it's delayed, but most of the time it happened right before. And you can identify that and um it's amazing and it's I'll give you just one example. U one lady uh was spent $40,000 out of pocket, okay, at the hospital because she had she's going through what she thought was a heart attack. They didn't find anything. It took me a minute to ask her these two questions. This is when did that start? Two weeks ago. What day? Uh Monday. What time? I guess I'm asking more questions, right? Five o'clock. Okay. What What did What happened right before that? And she goes, "Oh, yes. I I I ate this huge banana split and um I never ate that." And I'm like, "Wow." lay down on the table and uh I kind of uh did some work on her her gallbladder and things like that and massage and stuff and all of that heart attack symptom went completely away. it just kind of obstructed her gallbladder and her liver and she probably already had some sludge there. But the point is that um that was an expensive lesson and uh you got to don't assume the most rare thing right off the bat. You know, look for the lowhanging fruit and this is how you do it just by these few questions. All right, very good. Okay, good old Queen Anne from Rumble. I made your homemade sunscreen last year. It's now 14 months old. Is it still effective? Um, I don't even know what you use because I don't even remember talking about it making a homemade sunscreen. So, you'd have to refresh my memory on that video. But, uh, I'm usually against sunscreen. Now, maybe you're talking about uh something that doesn't protect you against the sun, but something that's uh moisturizers, the sun if you're uh the skin if you're getting sun, because I'm very much against um the sunscreens. Um unless you have very fair skin. Uh I'm not also um for people getting burned either, but the point is that um uh I think the severity of vitamin D deficiency far outweighs anything anything that uh uh that would be um bad for the sun to affect you. And I don't mean to comment too much, but I'm I'm 72 and I got burned to a crisp as a kid. Peeling skin, you know, dangers and so on. And not to say that that's healthy and but I haven't gotten melanoma. Knock on wood. So I'm not sure that's just an absolute death sentence. It's not wasn't good. But we didn't know about that in that time 50s or 60s. So So let me just point on that because I think some people are going to have questions. So if you take a look at uh the the trend of melanomas, okay, uh skin cancer, this is the big concern that people have. Um, in the 80s they introduced a massive campaign to get people to be afraid of the sun and to add sunblock and all this other stuff. Well, if that was the real cause, if sun was the real cause, then why does the trend keep going higher? You got to look at the data. I mean, explain that to me. And the other thing is um people get melanoma also um not just on the areas of exposure to sun, they get it on other areas that have never been exposed to sun. My theory is that there's probably other things going on. Um and I think vitamin D, getting enough vitamin D might possibly help protect you to a certain degree. That's just my theory. Uh time will tell if that's true. All right, very good. Let's see. I tell you the audience will tell if this is true or not. And there is quiz question number three for the day. True or false? It is not possible to remodel an arthritic stiff joint. And when I talk about remodel, I'm talking about rejuvenate or repair it. I'm talking I'm not talking about surgery, okay? Like non-surgical. Thank goodness. Okay. Chrissy from Facebook. What's the best way to heal from grief? I'm sorry, Chrissy, you're going through something. Honestly, I think uh the best is the technique dynetics and you should look up look that up, get the book, read it. But that that's one of the best things to get rid of losses and grief out of any technique. I know. The other thing you can do is change your environment as much as possible so nothing reminds you of that loss, you know, with pictures and stuff because it just kind of brings up uh a terrible, you know, feeling of bereiement, it's called, which by the way is probably the most devastating uh thing for your heart. It increases the risk of heart problems because it's so it's such a stress. If you look at all the types of stress, losses, grieving is the number one. So, it's something that unfortunately everyone has to go through. Um, but changing environment, trying to keep your mind off it would be very therapeutic, too. All right. Well, Chrissy, I'm sure the hearts of all the audience and our staff are with you on that. Hope you get through that. Okay. Let's go to um let's see. Sharon from Facebook. Is fasting recommended for someone with chronic gastritis and intestinal metiplasia, if I said that right. Totally. because you're going to introduce uh a lot of survival genes are going to kick in to tell to start to heal the area. Plus, we're allowing the digestive system to take a break and it doesn't have to work so hard. Um you know, this whole idea that we have to constantly nourish our body is false. Our bodies were not designed on constant nourishment. Our bodies were designed of intermittent nourishment with highdensity foods. So you will heal so much better when you don't eat as frequent. What's the the big killer of all all bad habits is snacking. And this might be hard to believe, but if you go in a grocery store, they actually have various aisles that contain just snack foods. I'm not kidding. awful. Okay. Uh let's No, very good. Let's go to Ria Lures and uh I forget where you're from. Ria, where are you from? I am Hi. Hi, Dr. Berg. Um I'm from New Zealand. New Zealand. How exciting. Okay, go ahead with your own question for Dr. Burke, please. Um sir last year I was diagnosed with DTP or trombote trombocytoenic corpora and um I'm so scared to relapse. So I'm I guess my my question is how do I stop myself from relapsing? And um yeah, so my my blood this also shows that my my blood sugar is a little bit high on the diabetic side, but I'm not a a candy person. I don't eat um sugary food. I use raw honey for my coffee and um I don't eat bread and that's it. Great. Good. So, here's some quick tips. Um, there's a lot of hidden things that will affect your blood sugars. The fact that your blood sugars are high tends to be a little red flag, especially from anything related to um blood clotting and and issues with that or a lack of blood clotting. Uh, so um what I would recommend if I were you, uh, I would u completely bring your carbohydrates way way down to as close to zero as possible. What that would do is that's going to shift your entire fuel source to your tissues to more ketones and more fat which then will uh start to create more um of an anti-inflammatory effect and a lot of other benefits. Uh I mean that's what I would do not try I wouldn't maintain just a healthy what's called a healthy diet. I would go more severe in the lower uh carbohydrate diet and make sure those calories are very high quality. Um that's what I recommend to a lot of people and it's kind of getting to this basic this basic uh root cause which involves food and then of course there's a lot of other other causes that relate to that but that's where I would start if I were All right, thanks so much for joining us from New Zealand. I hope that helps and uh let's see Ria hopefully you were watching too because we are going to now answer uh quiz question number three which asked of you and others true false it's not possible to remodel an arthritic stiff joint and uh Dr. Berg mentioned that that doesn't necessarily involve uh surgery. So um let's see so 100% of our respondents say it's false. So there you go. Yeah, you're right. It is false. You can. You can. And this is this is uh I am taking my time with this because I really want to create um several videos in a series to show you something that is mind-blowing um to help rejuvenate an arthritic joint. And I would say there is animal studies, there's uh some human studies, not extensive, a tremendous amount of case studies, but uh if you piece all these little parts of this puzzle together, um I'm it's mind-blowing and I'm going to do a video on it. And uh if you have arthritis um you should watch this because it's an actual technique that anyone can do at home to be able to remodel that joint. And uh I wish I would have kn known about this in practice because it could have came in handy but they don't teach it in school. So, um, stay tuned for that, uh, series of videos, and I'll do it probably by body part, but it's next level. It's very I'm very excited about it. All right. Well, someone in the audience just said, uh, let's start off with the knee, asking for a friend. Yeah, I'm going to do the knee. I'm going to do the neck. I'm going to do the lower back. I'm going to do the elbow. I'm going to do the thoracic spine. um because it's so powerful when you understand uh why it works and then the the simplicity of it. Um I'm like why don't more people know about this? Well, I'll tell you in the videos why they don't know about it. Wonderful. We're waiting. D from YouTube, how can I get rid of calcified fibroids? So, as you know, as people uh get older, we tend to calcify. This calcium is an issue, right? Um well, one key factor is the severe magnesium deficiency. It's not there. The magnesium is not there to be able to control the calcium. So tend you'll tend to accumulate calcium. Um but um if you have a fibroid, uh you should watch my video on that because in addition to that calcium, you need to increase your vitamin D. And I have videos on why that's important. So, if you were to take a lot of vitamin D and a lot of calcium, that would be good. The RDAs for um did I say mag? Yeah, I think I said magnesium. Um you want a lot of magnesium and a lot of vitamin D. The RDAs for magnesium are completely outdated and they're designed just to give you the bare bones minimum, not a therapeutic effect. Um if you have anxiety, palpitations, atriofibrillation, cramping in your calves, insomnia, uh calcification of anything, you should be taking no less than between 600 to 900 or more milligrams of magnesium per day. Why? Because the way that they were uh basing the the magnesium is off of women that weighed 133 on average, which nowadays they lay weigh a little bit more, and men that weighed 165. I'm 195 pounds of solid muscle, of course. No, I'm just kidding. And uh so that's uh that brings up that RDA from 420 up to 600. That's just the RDAs. So, my body needs at least 900 to create any therapeutic effect. If you were to take the magnesium oxide that's in most of the studies, you couldn't get those high levels. Why? Because you're going to get diarrhea. And plus, you only absorb 3% of it. So, you'll never be able to create any therapeutic effect. That's why most of the studies that that are done with magnesium oxide are probably done on purpose to show that it doesn't work. But, you want magnesium glycinate. That's a good one. Um, and then you can get in a powder and you start taking more and you you spread it through the day and then watch what happens. Um, I'm experimenting myself and it's like I've never had that much of a wonderful sleep in my life. It's just like what the heck? I was because I was taking just the 400 and then I went up to 900 and uh next level. So, I'll take it like four times a day and I'll just split it up. All right. Very good. That's exciting. And this is exciting. One of your questions, quiz question number four. Go ahead and hit them with it, doc. Okay, this is a true or false actually. Um, the long hunzas were vegans. All right, true or false audience. Yeah, a little typo from yours truly. All right, and let's move on to um Oh, Queen Anne, who is talking about the sunscreen. I don't know if this sounds familiar, but referring to Dr. 's formula which is olive oil, coconut oil, aloe vera, and zinc oxide. Is that more of a treatment for skin or does that sound like yours or is she mis you know? Yeah, that's more of a um maybe I title it as a sunscreen. Okay. I think I might have titled it and you are correct. Uh it's been a while because now I'm it's starting to come back. It's an older video. Uh I know someone's going to say you just did that last month, but that's not true. But um no, that's an older video. Um, yeah, that's a that's a great great way uh great things to use if you're going out in the sun because you're going to you're going to give the skin sun more the skin more protection for sure and then you're not going to use the the massive amount of chemicals that the sunscreens use, which is just ridiculous. So, I highly recommend you use your own, make your own homemade and uh don't get the chemicals put on your body because uh I mean some of these names you can't even pronounce. All right. Very good. And so just to confirm to she to follow it up with is it still any good after 14 months of sitting around on the shelf? I think so. I think so. Um I would you know usually some of these oils might go rancid. Um but I would but you're doing a you're using um a saturated coconut oil and it's uh it it might be preserved but sometimes I would smell it and does it smell rancid? You know um I don't know. I I I I think if you're using co was it coconut. What what else was in there, Steve? I know. Zinc oxide and what else? Zinc oxide and aloe vera. I think I erased it. Trying to remember from memory. Aloe vera. Yeah, that probably Okay. If it was aloe, probably is not going to last that long. So, I I would just redo it. Okay. Yeah. When you're getting your sardines, dear, go get yourself some aloe and the rest of it and and that'll be great. Okay. Let's go to Mia from YouTube. What would be the best remedy for deep vein thrombosis? That's a dangerous one, I think. Yeah. So, um we're dealing with um problems with clotting with these um deep vein thrombosis problems. And there's a couple things that I highly recommend. Um reducing your stress, number one, and number two, getting more walking, which will actually because your your your Venus system doesn't have a pump. So, we want to keep that that circulation going really nicely. But but the big thing, and I've done a video on this, is you have to reduce your carbohydrates because if you take a look at the people that are really at risk, it's the diabetics because they're they're they have all this sugar sugar going through their uh circulation. It puts you at major risk for clotting factors. Um so, you want to go on something called the low carb diet. And it's um there's a name for it. It's called keto. All right. Very good. Let's go now to Randall from Facebook. Can a rotator cuff tear be healed naturally? Ouch. It depends how much of a tear. If it's a slight tear, absolutely. If it's a complete tear, you're going to need surgery. Um but there are a lot of people that have tears uh in various parts of their body including the knee. Uh that sometimes it surprises me how much they can heal because there was a a younger lady who u had a complete tear in her knee and it healed 100%. I was like wow. So, um I'm always of the viewpoint of like let's let's try everything we can to see if there's something that can be done about it before we jump into the surgery. So, um having the right nutrition, keeping that joint in moving correctly without trying to overdo it and just let it do its thing, uh I think for some people, of course, you know, when you're 18 years old, um you could pretty much heal from anything. Um, and so I remember those days, but um, but if you're older like Steve, No, I'm just kidding. Um, you might um need to do more than the average person. Yeah. And I'm still very childish, so I think that that counts. Yeah. Biological factors. Yeah. Let's go to quiz question number four. And it's a little typo here. Sorry, audience. It's a true falser. The long hunzas were vegans. And 84% of you said that uh that's false. they ate meat on special occasions. And 16% say it's true. The Huns did eat meat. Um, but they also had uh tubers and they had something uh seasonal apricots and uh so they had uh various things that were available to them. Um, but they had a tremendous amount of exposure to sun, uh, good good air, a lot of exercise. Um, but they did have meat. Steve, they were not vegans. They were not vegetarians. All right. Very good. Let's go to uh, Carol from YouTube. I have median nerve damage in both hands, and when I close them, they feel very tight. Is this arthritis? What can I do to restore the flexibility? Speaking of your video, yeah, I I can't really tell you that that video because I want to release it and surprise you. But in the meantime, I think um you know, did you get a nerve conduction velocity test that showed obstruction of a nerve at some point or somewhere in your body? Is it coming from the neck? Um are you sitting behind a desk? Uh sometimes a neck problem can create that. Maybe you go to a chiropractor to get it checked out. I would those things you need more data. You know, are you using your hands a lot? Typing. These are all questions that we have to find out to get uh more of an idea what to do. But I would definitely start doing massive stretching on your wrists and your elbows and your shoulders and especially your neck and see see if that can help you. Okay, very good. Let's go to our final one last thing. One one last thing, Steve. uh if there is a chance that you have some peripheral neuropathy issues uh there's a great remedy mainly uh people take it for paristhesia or problems uh with the nerves in the feet but also in the hands as well. So one thing that you possibly could take is is a nerve support formula for uh with um benotamine and alphalic acid. Okay, go grab some. All right, let's go to our final guest of the day, Mckela from Edmonton, Canada, an area you're familiar with. Doc, go ahead with your question for Dr. Berg. Mckela. Hi, Dr. Berg. I have a friend who is uh 77 and she had both hips replaced about a year and a half ago and since then she has swelling mostly in the ankles, legs, and sometimes the wrists if it flares up. um and she takes water pills to manage that while watching sodium, potassium and the rest of the internet suggestions. So my question is what would you recommend for people who are struggling with that type of swelling to number one get rid of it permanently if possible and number two maybe like resetting that whole system so that you can stop taking the water pill which deals with the symptom but doesn't really deal with the the problem. You're asking a really great question. I love um I love this topic because I've done a lot of videos on on swelling. And so one of the biggest things you need to know that like when they when you approach uh the general medical profession with swelling, they'll tell you well reduce your salt and um because salt retains fluid and that's kind of what they talk about. But there's a couple more things you need to know about this. uh potassium and sodium work in a ratio and an average person doesn't even come close to what's needed as the RDAs for potassium 4700. That's the RDAs. We probably need a lot more. Uh an average person, if you just look at your diet, you're not even getting maybe maybe 20% 30% of that. So if you increase your potassium levels um and not worry about your sodium that fluid will start coming off. That's number one. The other thing is the diet. When you start reducing um carbohydrates and you start going on a low carb diet, you instantly dump a lot of extra fluid. I'm talking like 11 pounds of fluid probably in the first couple weeks because you're retaining that fluid with the higher sugars in the body. Okay. And then for the joint situation, uh MSM is a really good um thing to help uh for joint pain and stiffness. It seems to be one of the better ones that you can do. There's there's other things, too. And then there's one last thing. This is really important. If you can get your friend to have more therapeutic levels of omega-3, I've talked about the sardines, but you can just do like cod liver oil and and uh you can take more of that to get at least 1,000 milligrams of not the oil itself, but the omega-3s. If you look on the label, it will probably say like 200 250 milligrams. So just take that four times a day and then watch what happens over a course of a week to the stiffness because that's where you start to really turn down the inflammation. And if she had her hips uh replaced or have, you know, bone on bone with the hips, chances are it's happening in other joints as well. All right, very good, Mckela. Thanks and good luck with your friend's health. and McKela, why don't you watch this too for fun since you're online with us? And it is quiz question number five of the day. Go ahead, Dr. Bird. Okay. If plants with fiber are so good for our gut, then why do some people get bloating when they consume them? Audience, we're waiting. Aeroy He, what a name. Just kidding. That was rude. Aero He very nice name from Facebook. I followed you since um uh 15, now 21. and I had ACL surgery recently. Um, fast forward 20 hours or fast fro 20 hours a day. I don't know what that means. Is this fasting? Oh, I'm sorry. I do know what it means. 20 hours a day and for uh eating. Uh, is fasting okay for recovery? And which supplements would you do with his ACL reconstruction? I would definitely do collagen. I would definitely do vitamin C. Those two together are going to be probably very important. add the vitamin D and magnesium. That's your program. Um, with the knee, you want to keep it moving. You want to keep it passively moving and some gentle u movement. You do not want to immobilize the knee when you're trying to repair it. Um, fasting is next level because you're going to turn on genes that are going to activate repair and that's what you're trying to do is repair it. So, those are some things. The interesting thing about um collagen powder is it doesn't tend to affect blood sugars. It doesn't tend to turn into sugar like other amino acids in certain protein does. So, um and this is why when I do my morning fast, I take the collagen powder and I'll put a scoop into my coffee. It dissolves. It's sitting right there. It's an easy thing. I don't have to think about taking because it goes right in there and dissolves. I don't even taste it. And now I have my collagen because you have to realize the tendons, the ligaments, the fascia, um the cartilage, it's all of this is collagen based. And if you eat meat like most people, you're eating muscle meat. It has between 1 and 3% collagen. So where are you getting your collagen? Um we don't eat nose totail. don't really eat the gristle on the um the chicken bone anymore or if ever uh we don't have the skin on the the fish or the chicken. So, so these are things that um I think I would recommend. Wow. Used to be really earthy gnawing on everything. Ariel from Facebook, what are your thoughts about eating every few hours to heal the adrenal glands? So, counter to the fast. Absolutely a thousand% no do not do that. Um that will actually slow down your healing. It'll cause cause more uh spike in insulin. Adrenals will do worse. Uh when you eat frequent and you definitely spike the blood sugar, you're activating the sympathetic nervous system. That's the flight or fight. So if we're trying to calm down the adrenals, do not snack. Okay? Three meals a day or two meals a day are fine, but to support the adrenals, you need to support them with lower stress, long walks in nature, um change your environment to something that's less stressful. Don't watch the news anymore. And um also um get better sleep. And I have a lot of videos on that. Uh ashwagandha is a really good adaptogen for stress. Uh I highly recommend it. And uh also B1, if you have a low tolerance to stress or any of the autonomic nervous system dis uh problems like POTS or you like where you get up and you feel dizzy, higher doses of B1 is what you need. So uh that's another little secret to helping someone with an adrenal issue. All right, let's go back to YouTube where MM2 asks, "What's the best way uh to reduce swelling this time in the lymph nodes? It's the same answer. It doesn't matter where you have the swelling. Um do the same actions. Increase potassium. Um cut down carbs. Um same same exact answer. All right. Very good. Well, here speaking of answers, let's go to quiz question number five, our final one, which asked to the audience. Uh if plants with fiber are so good for our gut, then why do some people get bloating when they consume them? And 82% of the respondents say it's because those folks have SIBO or microbiome issues. 10% say it's because of low stomach acid uh uh low stomach acid. And 8% say it's because of bad bacteria in the food or gut. Those are pretty lofty answers. I think I think you guys are really smart because what happens is you got it's a lot of confusion for people. People say, "Well, it actually will help you." No, avoid it. It'll hurt you. It really depends on your body. If you have pre-existing inflammation in the gut, okay, and you add more fiber, you're going to find it could create more problems. If you have an imbalance with your microbiome and you add a lot of fiber, especially the wrong fiber, you can create more fermentation. If you have microbes in the wrong place in your small intestine, you can develop small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. and adding more fiber will just feed them. So, it really has to do with the context of and these additional things. Um, but fiber, uh, if you don't have a gut issue, if you don't have SIBO, um, there's people that are thriving on on a variety of different fibers. Um, there's some research. Um and again this is all unknown territory so it's going to be you know it's more of an experiment but um there was a a really interesting re researcher who would consume because it was based on a piece of research that if you added 30 um different vegetables in a week um it gives more variety and it would feed the microbiome. So that was the thought. Well, he went 30 a day and he blended them and he ate them and he said he felt better. These are all things that um we're still experimenting on. There's still a theory that if you have more of a gut uh diversity, it's better than having just a couple microbes. Um so anyway, there's a lot of uh interesting opportunity for more research in this area. All I will say, Steve, is if you have gut issues, you should probably not do a lot of fiber. If you don't, try it. See if you feel better. Um, see if fiber helps you. Good. Well, that's hopeful. Let's go to Karen from YouTube. How does apple cider vinegar help with weight loss or does it? It does. It uh it acts as a even it can actually turn into you can use it as energy, too. Um, but um it actually helps support uh your gut microbiome. It greatly helps support your blood sugars. It helps reduce hunger. Um, so it can help your digestion. Um, there's uh I've done a lot of videos on this. It's just an extra thing that will actually assist in you losing weight. So, I wouldn't neglect it. Uh, is it significant? Um, I can't tell you if it's significant, but let's just say it will help you. All right. Very good. Let's go to Paul from Facebook. What supplement would you recommend to replace lowd dose uh aspirin? I have a stent and had a mild heart attack four years ago. What do you think, Doc? Yeah, I mean there is uh salicylic acid in willow bark but it's not very potent. It's not very potent uh to to act as a blood thinner. Uh I think uh a combination of garlic is would black garlic would be beneficial. Uh some people are using something called nato kynise. Um but you have to get with your doctor to kind especially if they have you on another medication because it can counter it can be counter to that. But I think garlic would be a good one and also some toatrinols which actually naturally thins the blood. These things won't thin your blood too much. They'll just thin you to normal, prevent the clotting. Uh the most important thing to really take in consideration more than any supplement, any blood thinner, is your diet. You do not want to go on a high carb diet because that's where you get problems with the clotting. I I done tons of videos on this. So, um go low carb, do it the healthy version. that's going to create create the the heavy uh lifting on this problem. All right, very good. Um, don't know if you want to touch this one, but Laura from Facebook, is it okay to consume collagen after you've been after you've had breast cancer? Assume she's in remission. Yes, I think it's totally fine. Um, not a problem. I wouldn't worry about it. But I I watch my video on the cancer because when you survive cancer and then you want to keep it gone. Um you have to work at it. And there's a my last video on cancer I did. I'm surprised they didn't take it down, but I'm glad they didn't because or else we have to put it back on Rumble. But um what you want to do is you want to take the specific type of cancer you have because cancer is very very heterogeneous. It's very different. You have different types of cancer that have different types of fuel. It's not all the same thing. Um and you have to tailor make um kind of a rotational eating plan based on what type of cancer you have. And um has there ever been a study on this? No. Um, but does it make sense? Yeah, if you watch the video, it makes sense. It's what something you can do. Versus what some people will say is like, well, there's no research yet, so don't so don't worry about it because there's no research yet. So, unless there's research, you don't have to do it. Um, like, wait, so the diet's not important? Um, I disagree. The diet is important with cancer because the cancer lives on certain things. Why would you want to feed the cancer? And um anyway, uh don't get me started, Steve, on that. All right. Well, thank you Michaela and Sariah uh and Ria and uh Dr. Prao for uh joining us today. Thanks for everybody for answering the questions. You're the best audience in the world and all the um social media stuff. So with that, uh Doc, we're excited about some of your new videos coming out. Do you want to recap those? You got anything else for audiences for? Yeah, I got some really really exciting videos, especially with uh remodeling the joint. I mean, why am I so interested in that? Because um I have a lot of joint issues, a lot of arthritis. So, I've been doing it. It's the the results are mind-blowing. So, uh, I'm excited to do these videos, but I'm taking my time because I wanted to present it so everyone can understand it and simplify it as much as possible without any big words and give you the exact uh, exercises to do for the joint. On that note, have a wonderful weekend. I will see you next week. Actually, Steve, you know what? Hey, we stopped it. Go ahead, Doc. You know what I just realized, Steve? Um, I am not. I'm going to be traveling next next week. So, I'll see you in two weeks. I completely forgot about that. I won't be in my studio. Oh my goodness. All right, audience. Enjoy the close again. Here we go.