7 Stupid Health Mistakes

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 7 July 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

1. Accepting the wrong health advice as fact

Just because someone is a doctor doesn’t mean you should trust them blindly.

2. Depending on protein powder for protein

Protein powder is incomplete compared to animal protein. It doesn’t offer the vitamins and minerals needed to stay healthy.

3. Treating symptoms and ignoring the cause

This is the main problem with the medical system. Healthcare practitioners prescribe medication to fix a problem instead of addressing the root cause. This is especially problematic when treating chronic disease because if you get off of the medication, the problem does not go away.

4. Focusing on salt reduction to reduce high blood pressure

Instead of focusing on salt reduction, which will cause weakness and other problems, focus on increasing potassium. Potassium keeps your arteries healthy and flexible.

5. Choosing unsaturated fats over saturated fats

Unsaturated fats like seed oils are highly refined and are in almost every ultra-processed food. Avoid them!

6. Avoiding red meat

Humans have been eating red meat throughout history. It’s rich in vitamins and minerals and should be included in a healthy diet.

7. Only reading nutrition labels

Nutrition facts can be confusing and misleading. You have to read the ingredients! Look for sugar, hidden sugars, seed oils, and starches. Starches are worse on your blood sugar than actual sugar. Many products that contain starches have 0 sugars listed in the nutrition facts.

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0:00.0	There are seven stupid mistakes people make regarding their health.
0:05.3	Number one, getting the wrong advice and then accepting that advice as a fact.
0:11.0	You know, you go to the doctor and they might ask you about what you're taking and you say I'm taking these vitamins, I'm taking magnesium, etc.
0:17.3	And they're going to just kind of go, oh you don't need that, you can get that from your diet.
0:20.9	And then you accept it as a fact.
0:23.0	Unfortunately, just because someone has an MD behind their name or even a PhD behind their name
0:28.0	doesn't mean they fully evaluated all the information. They haven't even looked at it. They just tell you their
0:33.9	opinion and then you accept it. So that would be a big mistake. And this definitely
0:38.8	relates to a vitamin D deficiency. There is so much valuable information about him indeed that's buried deep into the literature.
0:47.0	And if you just do a superficial look at the first three pages on Google, you're probably going
0:52.0	to find all sorts of bias information and oh yeah
0:55.3	Vitamin D doesn't do anything and we get enough from our diet or the sun and that is just terrible
1:00.1	information because so many people have vitamin D resistance.
1:04.5	So the normal typical amounts, even if it's like 2,000 IUs are not going to do anything.
1:10.4	They'll never be able to achieve this therapeutic effect.
1:13.0	Number two, a person is depending on all their protein requirements from a protein powder.
1:20.0	And it's not complete compared to animal protein, you're not getting vitamins or minerals or other things that are in animal meats.
1:28.0	Now the other thing that comes with that is when you just consume meat and you're thinking you're getting all of your
1:34.3	proteins. Did you realize that out of all the proteins in your body, 30% is
1:39.9	collagen. There's not a lot of collagen in meat. Now if you eat a tender steak for example, you're only getting like 1 to 2 percent.
1:47.4	Collagen. All right, number three, basically a problem with medicine. The whole system, you treat the symptom, you don't really get rid of the cause.
1:54.7	Now I'm not talking about the doctors that are mending a bone from a fracture or if you go to the
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