27 Low Cost Ways to Upgrade Your Meal (10X the Nutrition)
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Discover the top nutrient-dense foods to add to your diet and the best ways to improve nutrient intake. Simple changes can improve nutrition and fortify a nutrient-dense diet. Boost your health with more nutrient-dense meals today!
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Increase nutrient-dense foods in your diet with these 27 healthy food tips!
1. Add extra-virgin olive oil to your salad to help extract fat-soluble vitamins.
2. Add black pepper to your food, and when consuming turmeric, to increase absorption.
3. To maintain healthy blood pressure levels, increase nitric oxide by consuming beets, arugula, and beet juice powder.
4. Increase cabbage intake for vitamin U and sulforaphane.
5. Consume sauerkraut for more vitamin K2, which helps keep calcium in the bones and out of the soft tissues.
6. Drink 1 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar with water before a meal to acidify the stomach and increase protein digestion and nutrient absorption.
7. Consume sea salt before bed for better sleep and 84 trace minerals.
8. Consume shellfish once per week for the trace minerals zinc, selenium, and iodine.
9. Consume broccoli with mustard to enhance sulforaphane.
10. Drink green tea for EGCG, which benefits many things, from weight loss to cancer prevention.
11. Add butter to your vegetables to help extract phytonutrients.
12. Consume dark chocolate to support microbes and increase nitric oxide.
13. To increase digestive juices, consume bitter vegetables first, such as dandelion greens, arugula, swiss chard, and kale.
14. Go for a walk after you eat to burn off extra sugar.
15. Consume garlic for allicin’s potent anti-cancer properties.
16. Add sage, thyme, rosemary, or garlic to meat when you cook on the grill.
17. Soak nuts overnight and dry them in the oven to enhance nutrients and digestibility.
18. Consume high-quality animal protein such as grass-fed meat.
19. Eat a protein-rich breakfast to boost cognitive function, increase energy, and reduce cravings.
20. Follow a low-carb diet with intermittent fasting.
21. Focus on getting enough collagen by consuming bone broth, animal skin, or collagen powder.
22. Consume sardines, cod liver, cod liver oil, and fatty fish to increase omega-3 fatty acids.
23. Add high-quality raw cheese to your diet.
24. Add cheese and nutritional yeast to your salad to increase B vitamins.
25. Consume cooked tomatoes to increase lycopene.
26. Consume onions for the anti-inflammatory compound quercetin.
27. Avoid refined sugar and starches.
Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:
Dr. Berg, age 60, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals and author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media.
Disclaimer:
Dr. Eric Berg received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1988. His use of “doctor” or “Dr.” in relation to himself solely refers to that degree. Dr. Berg is a licensed chiropractor in Virginia, California, and Louisiana, but he no longer practices chiropractic in any state and does not see patients, so he can focus on educating people as a full-time activity, yet he maintains an active license. This video is for general informational purposes only. It should not be used to self-diagnose, and it is not a substitute for a medical exam, cure, treatment, diagnosis, prescription, or recommendation. It does not create a doctor-patient relationship between Dr. Berg and you. You should not make any change in your health regimen or diet before first consulting a physician and obtaining a medical exam, diagnosis, and recommendation. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we're going to show you how to make any meal 10x more nutritious. I'm going to show you |
| 0:04.8 | 27 different ways that make your food more nutrient dense. Let's start with number one. Combining |
| 0:10.2 | extra virgin olive oil with your salad. Extra virgin olive oil is one of the better fats to use because |
| 0:15.9 | it's going to help you extract fat-siable vitamins too, like vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E, vitamin K1, vitamin K2. |
| 0:23.4 | Really make sure you're getting the real olive oil because a lot of times it's corrupted with |
| 0:27.8 | added soy oil or canola oil. When you consume this extra virgin olive oil, you should feel a little |
| 0:34.0 | kind of a burning, itching thing in the back of the throat. Number two, |
| 0:37.6 | adding black pepper to various things, especially turmeric. Let's say, for example, you're making |
| 0:43.0 | a meal with curry or you're making a meal with eggs and you add turmeric. Unfortunately, |
| 0:48.7 | turmeric doesn't release a lot of its active compound curcumin, but when you add black pepper, you increase the |
| 0:55.8 | absorption by 2,000%. Next one has to do with nitric oxide. This is involved with keeping |
| 1:04.4 | your blood pressure low. Nitric oxide also helps you increase blood flow through your brain. Beats |
| 1:09.8 | have a lot of nitrates that turn |
| 1:11.2 | into nitric oxide. But if we compare beets to arugula, arugula has three times the amount of |
| 1:17.6 | nitric oxide to beets. In order to bring up the nitric oxide and beats, you'd have to |
| 1:22.2 | consume it in a beet juice powder form. One thing that I do several times a week is I have an arugula salad |
| 1:29.3 | with extra virgin olive oil, so I get that extra benefit of nitric oxide as well. Number four, |
| 1:34.9 | cabbage. The reason I'm bringing up cabbage is because cabbage has this very unique vitamin |
| 1:40.9 | called vitamin U, which has to do with its ability and its quality of improving ulcers, |
| 1:48.0 | both in the small intestine in the stomach. By eating cabbage, you get this extra sulfurophane |
| 1:52.1 | that helps you in many different ways, including helping you detoxify your liver. If we roll into |
| 1:57.7 | number five and we consume fermented cabbage as sourcrow, we get some really cool |
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