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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

6 Foods That Can Kill You

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

There are obvious foods that can kill you, like refined sugar and carbs—but that’s not what we're going to talk about today.


Today, I’m going to cover six surprising foods that can kill you and a few potential natural antidotes.


The top deadliest foods:

1. Pufferfish (fugu)


2. Death cap mushroom


3. Korean baby octopus


4. Green potatoes


5. Raw chicken


6. Foods containing cyanide:

• The seeds or pits of apples, peaches, pears, and apricots

• Bitter almonds

• Cassava


It’s best to avoid any of the above at all costs.


If you do somehow consume death cap mushrooms, milk thistle and NAC are two potential antidotes that may help.


Methylene blue is another potential antidote that has been used to help counter cyanide poisoning.


DATA:

https://www.britannica.com/story/7-of...

https://news.ucsc.edu/2017/03/mitchel...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today we're going to talk about the six foods that can kill you.

0:03.7

Okay, now I'm not going to talk about the obvious foods that can kill you, like the refined

0:08.3

sugars, the refined carbohydrates, like grains, refined oils like seed oils.

0:13.7

Now I'm going to talk about some other foods that I haven't talked about in the past,

0:17.6

and I think you're going to find this quite interesting.

0:19.4

So the first food that can kill you is basically consuming a puffer fish. It's a Japanese delicacy called

0:28.7

Fugu. Now these Japanese chefs have to go through special training to have a special license to be able to

0:36.7

cook this food correctly because the lethal dose is so tiny. It's like a drop of a pinhead that can actually kill 30 people.

0:48.0

And if you don't prepare this correctly, this toxic chemical called tetrodotoxin, which is a neurotoxin that will

0:54.6

paralyze your lungs, accumulates in the ovaries, the intestines, and the

0:58.5

liver of a puffer fish and it's 12 hundred times more lethal than cyanide.

1:05.0

So be careful the next time you consume puff or fish.

1:08.4

All right, number two, the death cap mushroom.

1:11.7

Now, there are a number of deadly mushrooms out there but death cap is

1:17.2

number one. In fact 90% of all deaths from mushrooms come from this death cap.

1:23.6

And this can happen either consuming it raw or cooked.

1:26.3

And the most deadly toxin of several of the toxins

1:29.4

in this mushroom is called Alpha a manatin. And what it does is it starts creating necrosis of the liver and

1:37.0

eventually the kidneys.

1:38.3

You start off with jaundice and then seizures and then you go into a coma and then you die. And if somehow you live, you know, they can do a

1:46.2

liver transplant but it pretty much destroys your liver. Check this out. This is what happens.

1:50.1

The first stage does not begin until 6 to 12 hours after ingestion.

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