528: How to Lose Weight & Heal the Body With the Proper Human Diet | Dr. Ken Berry
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
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🗓️ 28 March 2023
⏱️ 130 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/528drkenberry
Dr. Ken Berry (IG: @kendberry.md) is a practicing family physician. He is a passionate advocate of health on his YouTube channel where he has over 2 million subscribers. Ken is the author of the bestselling book, Lies My Doctor Told Me.
He takes pride in working with the real people of the world in continuing his mission to bring an end to the obesity and type 2 diabetes epidemics, along with bringing awareness to such issues as thyroid health and hormone optimization.
Cutting back on carbs could be the solution to getting rid of the extra weigh you’re carrying around, stick around to learn more!
In this episode, we discuss:
- You’ve been given the wrong diet information
- What is the Proper Human Diet?
- Can we turn off epigenetic switches?
- Focus on building muscle
- How to transition to the Proper Human Diet
- Symptoms of carbohydrate withdrawal + how to fix them
- Salt is NOT bad for you
- Consuming blood is ancestrally appropriate
- Should you drink mineral water?
- Ken’s opinion on detox products
- The REAL price of food (by weight)
- Conventional beef is healthier than processed food
- How much carbs does the average US adult consume per day?
- A snapshot of Ken’s diet throughout the year
- The strict carnivore diet + why you should avoid milk
- Free up mental bandwidth by eating beef, butter, bacon & eggs (BBBE)
- Supplements you need on the carnivore diet
- What Ken eats on a typical day
- Ken shares his weight loss journey from high carb to carnivore
- Time to unlearn false beliefs about nutrition
- Ken’s mission to help more people using the internet
- Intermittent fasting + Ken’s “feasting window”
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Related links:
Dr. Ken Berry - Lies My Doctor Told Me (book)
Follow Dr. Ken Berry on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube
Dr. Ken Berry & Kim Howerton - Common Sense Labs (book)
Listen or watch Mark Sisson previously on TUHP (episodes #178 and #416)
Dr. David Sinclair - Lifespan (book)
Keto Chow - Electrolyte Drops & Tablets
Loren Cordain - The Paleo Diet (book)
Dr. Robert Atkins - Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution (book)
Listen to Dr. Shawn Baker previously on TUHP (episode #379)
Dr. Shawn Baker - The Carnivore Diet (book)
Related episodes:
Follow This Diet to Reverse Insulin Resistance & Type 2 Diabetes | Dr. Ahmet Ergin (SugarMD) #526
Everything You’ve Been Told About Weight Loss Is Wrong! (Do This Instead) | Dr. David Ludwig (#516)
Intermittent Fasting Is the Key to Weight Loss | Dr. Jason Fung (#467)
Dr. Paul Saladino on The Carnivore Code (#400)
370: John & Molly Chester – The Biggest Little Farm
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on the ultimate health podcast and with those four basic principles of a |
| 0:04.6 | proper human diet, I think that the vast majority of people 80% maybe a little more can |
| 0:10.9 | immediately start to turn around the number on the bathroom scale. They can start to immediately |
| 0:17.2 | reverse their elevated hemoglobin A1C or their elevated triglycerides. They can start to reverse |
| 0:23.1 | their fatty liver. They can start to lower their blood pressure and many other health markers |
| 0:29.1 | immediately start to move back towards the normal range when they honor these principles. |
| 0:40.8 | Hello and welcome to Ultimate Health Podcast episode 528. I'm Jesse Chapus and I'm here to |
| 0:46.3 | take your help to the next level. Each week I'll bring you in-depth conversations with health |
| 0:51.0 | and wellness leaders from around the world. This week I'm chatting with Dr. Ken Berry. Ken is a |
| 0:56.0 | practicing family physician. He's a passionate advocate of health on his YouTube channel, |
| 1:01.0 | ReS over 2 million subscribers. Ken is the author of the bestselling book Lies My Doctor Told Me. |
| 1:07.3 | He takes pride in working with the real people of the world and continuing his mission to bring |
| 1:11.9 | an end to the obesity and type 2 diabetes epidemics, along with bringing awareness to such issues |
| 1:17.9 | as thyroid health and hormone optimization. Enjoy learning how cutting back on carbs could be |
| 1:24.0 | the solution to getting rid of the extra weight you're carrying around. Highlights of our conversation |
| 1:28.9 | include how to transition to the proper human diet, salt is not bad for you, should you drink mineral |
| 1:36.0 | water, free up mental bandwidth by eating beef, butter, bacon, and eggs, or BBBE, and supplements you |
| 1:44.1 | need on the carnivore diet. As always, if you'd prefer to watch versus listen, this full interviews |
| 1:49.8 | available over on YouTube, you can get there by going to ultimatehelppodcast.com slash YouTube, |
| 1:55.0 | be sure and subscribe while you're there so you don't miss any of the action. |
| 1:58.4 | If as you're listening to this conversation, you can think of somebody in your life that could |
| 2:02.0 | benefit from this information, please share it with them and help them along their health journey. |
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