570: The Proper Human Diet: What to Eat to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes & Lose Weight | Dr. Ken Berry
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2023
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/qIAEU1WXY_I
Dr. Ken Berry (IG: @kenberry.md) is a practicing family physician. He is a passionate advocate of health on his YouTube channel where he has over 2.5 million subscribers.
Ken is the author of the bestselling book, Lies My Doctor Told Me and he’s the co-author of Kicking Ass After 50.
Ken 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.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Debunking the Harvard study that says red meat causes diabetes
- High carb diets = type 2 diabetes
- Ken’s approach to reversing type 2 diabetes
- Low-fat meat can spike insulin
- Fasting insulin testing can predict type 2 diabetes
- Carbs increase triglycerides in the blood
- Humans evolved eating meat
- Saturated fat is not the culprit
- What causes heart disease?
- You’ll never see a vegan share their fasting insulin
- Visceral fat is a marker of metabolic disease
- How to measure your waist to height ratio
- Debunking the claim that red meat causes cancer
- Eat more fat to lose fat
- Is grass-fed beef better than conventional beef?
- The benefits of a Proper Human Diet
- The top 3 inflammatory foods
- Therapeutic benefits of ketosis
- Animal fats vs. seed oils
- The root cause of low testosterone
- Ken's sleep hygiene tips
- Try a natural approach before pharmaceutical drugs
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Related links:
Dr. Ken Berry & Zane Griggs - Kicking Ass After 50 (book)
Follow Dr. Ken Berry on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube
Listen or watch Dr. Ken Berry previously on TUHP (episode #528)
Dr. Ken Berry - Lies My Doctor Told Me (book)
Dr. Ken Berry & Kim Howerton - Common Sense Labs (book)
Dr. Ken Berry - Red Meat Causes Diabetes? New Study should Concern Carnivores (YouTube)
Listen to Dr. Shawn Baker previously on TUHP (episode #379)
Dr. Shawn Baker - The Carnivore Diet (book)
Carb Manager Keto Diet Tracker (app)
Neal Barnard, MD - Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Listen or watch Dr. Sean O'Mara previously on TUHP (episode #565)
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The Real Cause of Insulin Resistance & How to Fix It! | Dr. Robert Lustig (#542)
The 3 Biggest Fasting Mistakes & How to Do It Correctly to Lose Weight Fast! | Dr. Mindy Pelz (#533)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Ultimate Health Podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | Any disease you can think of that's chronic and progressive, |
| 0:06.0 | it's being caused by hyperglycemia, hyperinsulanemia, |
| 0:09.0 | and chronic inappropriate levels of inflammation. |
| 0:12.0 | Your default setting is good health. |
| 0:14.2 | And if you're not enjoying good health, |
| 0:16.4 | you're doing something that's tripping up your body, |
| 0:19.5 | that's tripping up your metabolism, that's tripping up your physiology. But the instant that somebody is like, okay, fine, I'll try this for 30 days. I'll do 60, I'll do 90. When they make that commitment, that's when the seeming magic begins and as soon as you start to do that your body no matter how sick it is currently |
| 0:39.7 | Immediately it says thank you. I'll get to work healing now. Well I know somebody right now |
| 0:45.3 | listening to this, their head is exploding, they're like this doctor just said to |
| 0:48.7 | eat more fat to lose fat. How the hell does that make sense? lose that |
| 0:53.2 | make sense. |
| 1:15.0 | Hello and welcome to the ultimate health podcast episode 570. I'm Jesse Chappas and I'm here to take your health to the next Podcast, around the world. This week I'm speaking with Dr. Ken Barry. Ken is a practicing family physician. He's a passionate advocate of health on his YouTube channel |
| 1:19.5 | where he has over two and a half million subscribers. Ken is the author of the best-selling book, |
| 1:25.1 | Lies My Doctor Told Me, and he's a co-author of kicking-ass after 50. Ken takes |
| 1:31.0 | 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, |
| 1:39.0 | along with bringing awareness to such issues as thyroid health and hormone optimization. |
| 1:44.0 | Highlights of our conversation include debunking the Harvard study that says |
| 1:48.6 | red meat causes diabetes, visceral fat is a marker of metabolic disease, eat more fat to lose fat, the top three |
| 1:57.1 | inflammatory foods, and the root cause of low testosterone. |
| 2:02.4 | As always if you'd prefer to watch versus listen |
| 2:04.7 | this full episode is available over on YouTube you can get there by going to |
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