7 Things Destroying Your Health (And How to Fix It)

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

1. Loneliness

Loneliness related to social isolation causes a chronic elevation in cortisol, which leads to inflammation and an increased risk of heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure. Focus on nurturing at least 3 quality relationships. Prioritize regular social engagement and volunteering your time to help others. 2. Lack of sleep

Getting less than 5 hours of sleep can increase your risk of early death by 30%! It also increases your risk of weight gain, cravings, and diabetes by 2 to 3 times. Always aim for at least 7 hours of sleep.3. Refined sugar

Processed sugar and starch contribute to liver fat, obesity, Alzheimer’s, and inflammation. Cut sugar from your diet and follow a low-carb ketogenic diet. The Dr. Berg Junk Food Meter app allows you to quickly scan foods to identify the 3 key ingredients in most junk foods: sugars, starches, and seed oils. 4. Industrial seed oils

Seed oils create significant inflammation in the body. Avoid processed seed oils and choose healthy oils such as extra virgin olive oil, grass-fed butter, tallow, and lard. 5. Reduce visceral fat naturally

Visceral fat surrounds the organs and directly correlates with your longevity. Reduce visceral fat naturally by doing intermittent fasting and keto. 6. Stop snacking

Constant snacking makes it impossible for your body to repair damaged cells. Stop snacking and only eat when you're hungry.7. Nutrient deficiencies

A magnesium deficiency can lead to high blood pressure, arrhythmias, and muscle cramps. Magnesium is found in leafy greens and pumpkin seeds, or you can take a magnesium glycinate supplement. It’s said that 40% of people are deficient in vitamin D, but that figure could be closer to 90%! Vitamin D deficiency increases the risk of early death and leads to inflammation and depression. You need at least 10,000 IU of vitamin D3 daily. Low choline intake can cause a fatty liver and problems with memory and cognitive function. You need 550 mg per day, and the best sources are egg yolks and liver.Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:Dr. Berg, age 60, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan, and is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media.

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0:00.0	These are my top seven health tips. Based on science, most doctors ignore these. This first risk factor
0:06.8	is equivalent to smoking, not just one cigarette a day, 15 cigarettes every single day. Can you guess
0:14.0	what it is? Loneliness. That is a major stress on our bodies. Of course, there's different levels of
0:20.2	loneliness. You have a very severe level
0:22.5	where you just lost a loved one, which is going to make you very lonely. Social isolation,
0:27.4	it will keep the chronic elevation of cortisol going on. A lot of inflammation occurs with this.
0:32.4	This is why they're at risk for heart disease, stroke, and definitely high blood pressure.
0:36.4	Loneliness also shuts down
0:38.0	certain genes to your immune system, making you more vulnerable to developing cancer and getting
0:43.4	viral infections. Humans are very social beings, and when they don't have that social aspect,
0:48.4	all sorts of health problems occur. What would be the health tip that would come from that?
0:52.2	Quality relationships, at least three, that will lift you up is super therapeutic where you have a regular social engagement.
1:01.2	Another thing to do is volunteer and help some group or some person because it's very therapeutic to help another.
1:08.8	Let's go to number two.
1:10.0	Lack of sleep. Getting less
1:11.7	than five hours of sleep will increase your risk for early death by 30%. It two to three X's the risk
1:19.3	of gaining weight, craving foods, developing diabetes. It was revealed that there's brain aging
1:25.6	with people that don't sleep. What's the tip on that one? Get at least
1:29.8	seven hours of sleep. Let's get to number three. Refine sugar. That would be multidextrin,
1:35.7	modified food starch, modified corn starch, wheat flour, rice flour. That's all hidden sugar. It's one of
1:41.4	the key drivers for developing liver fat and obesity and
1:45.6	Alzheimer's. One of the biggest things that this refined sugar does and refined starch is making you old
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