17 Signs Your Body Needs More Nutrients: How to Address with Superfoods
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 17 January 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Today, we’re going to look at seventeen different superfoods and the nutritional deficiencies they can help fix. We’re going to examine the deficiency, the symptoms, and the superfood solution!
1. Scaly, flaky skin
•Caused by an omega-3 fatty acid deficiency or by consuming excess omega-6 fatty acids
•Increase cod liver oil, fish oil, or salmon
2. Eyelid twitching and general twitching
•Calcium deficiency caused by alkalosis
•Drink one tablespoon of apple cider vinegar in a glass of water a few times a day
3. Pink toothbrush after brushing your teeth
•Mild case of scurvy (vitamin C deficiency)
•Consume bell peppers or raw sauerkraut
4. Panic attacks
•Related to a vitamin B1 deficiency
•Take nutritional yeast
5. Constipation
•Take castor oil
6. Decreased libido and erectile dysfunction
•Caused by a zinc deficiency
•Consume more oysters or red meat
7. Bruising
•Vitamin K1 deficiency
•Add more dark, leafy green vegetables to your diet
8. Menopausal symptoms
•You need more cholesterol to build hormones
•Consume more grass-fed butter
9. Anemia
•Vitamin B12 or an iron deficiency
•Consume more grass-fed, grass-finished beef liver or red meat
10. Muscle loss
•Caused by consuming junk food and other foods low in amino acids
•Consume more red meat
11. Slow thyroid (hypothyroid)
•Low selenium
•Eat one Brazil nut each day
12. Insomnia
•Magnesium deficiency
•Add more spinach and almonds to your diet
13. Can’t see in the dark/night blindness
•Vitamin A deficiency
•Consume whole pasture-raised, organic eggs
14. Lower back pain
•Vitamin D deficiency
•Take cod liver oil (also provides vitamin A and omega-3 fatty acids)
15. Puffy eyes
•Potassium deficiency
•Consume avocado and decrease carbs
16. Prolonged muscle soreness
•Vitamin E deficiency
•Consume raw sunflower seeds and leafy green vegetables
17. General weakness
•Sodium deficiency
•Add more Himalayan sea salt to your diet
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| 0:00.0 | Now today I'm going to show you 17 different deficiencies that you can handle or correct with 17 different |
| 0:07.0 | super foods. So I'll show you the symptom, the deficiency, and the superfood for each one. |
| 0:11.5 | But here's the big problem with this. You may have the tendency to want to |
| 0:14.4 | evaluate friends, family, people in the street. Please don't ever mention my name when you do that. |
| 0:21.5 | So don't do this. You know, honey, I notice that you have some flakiness, some |
| 0:27.0 | redness right around your nose right there. Have you had that checked? You know, Dr. Berg said that's an |
| 0:31.5 | omega-3 fatty acids and you probably should be eating more fish or oh you know you look like you have some puffy eyes there |
| 0:38.8 | Dr Berg said that could be a potassium deficiency so you may want to eat an avocado so use it on |
| 0:45.9 | yourself friends but just don't mention my name all right number one |
| 0:49.7 | scaly flaky skin now this can be the nose, it could be anywhere on the face, it could be |
| 0:55.2 | anywhere in the body. That is usually an omega-3 fatty acid. Now it could be that you're not consuming |
| 1:01.0 | enough of these omega-3 fatty acids, or it could be that you're not consuming enough of these omega-3 fatty acids or it could be that you're |
| 1:04.4 | consuming too much of the omega-6 fatty acids which they both compete so if you're doing |
| 1:09.4 | too much of the seed oils the other stuff won't work. |
| 1:13.3 | And I would say that out of all the foods that create the most damage on your body, not just |
| 1:16.8 | your skin, it's the seed oils. |
| 1:19.4 | It can actually make you gain weight. |
| 1:21.1 | It can create insulin resistance, it can create arthritis, and it's in so many different foods. |
| 1:26.5 | Start consuming more fish oils, calder oil, but salmon is loaded with it. |
| 1:30.8 | All right, number two, twitching underneath your eyelid or anywhere in the body. |
| 1:36.1 | Now as far as a nutritional deficiency, it's not really nutritional efficiency even though it is a problem |
| 1:41.9 | with nutrition, it's a problem with calcium that's not able to be |
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