Ep7 - Ken Berry MD on the “Lies My Doctor Told Me”
The Fat Emperor Podcast
ivor cummins
4.8 • 766 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2019
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Ken D Berry, MD is a Family Physician, Speaker and Author based near Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Ken has been practicing Family Medicine in rural Tennessee for over a decade. He is board certified in Family Medicine, and has been awarded the degree of Fellow, by the American Academy of Family Physicians. Having seen over 20,000 patients during his career of all ages, he is uniquely qualified to write on both acute and chronic diseases. More and more, Dr. Berry has focused on the chronic diseases caused by the Standard American Diet and Lifestyle, and has made it his mission to turn the tide on the epidemic of Type 2 Diabetes, chronic inflammation and dementia.
TRANSCRIPT:
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INDEX/CONTENT
00:00:41 “Lies My Doctor Told Me” - new edition releasing
00:03:17 Wholegrains are healthy for the serfs?
00:06:19 Vegetable Oils will help population health? What about Milk and Dairy?
00:15:26 Best basic blood tests to flag our epidemics
00:30:30 Best way to assess cardiovascular risk
00:33:49 Core actions to take for health – works for almost anyone
00:48:46 The weight-loss lies – and the best exercise
00:57:55 Cholesterol put into context
00:59:12 “No matter what age, you are always an athlete”
01:04:36 The clever guys who took their own advice to age gracefully
01:08:00 Hashimoto's and thyroid, autoimmune afflictions and the immune system as “a hive of angry bees”
01:16:04 Wrapping it up – diet and nutrition is king
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And so if milk were truly this nutritious food for adult animals, there would be some bird or some ferret or some opossum somewhere through the millennia that would have adapted and they'd be sneaking up and they'd be sucking the teeth of the cow and the barn getting that excellent nutrition. |
| 0:22.2 | Welcome to the Fat Emperor podcast. |
| 0:24.9 | I'm your host, Ivor Cummins. |
| 0:26.9 | We're supported by the Irish Heart Disease Awareness charity, |
| 0:30.0 | which advocates a simple CT scan to reveal your CAC score. |
| 0:34.3 | So know your score and take action to prevent that premature heart attack. Everything you need to know will be right here. |
| 0:43.7 | And we're on. And some of you out there may have been told maybe some little white lies by our doctor, maybe not intentionally. |
| 0:53.3 | But today we're going to talk to a man of truth, |
| 0:56.1 | a doctor who always says it as it is. |
| 0:59.4 | Welcome, Dr. Ken Berry. |
| 1:02.0 | Hey, Ivo, we're good to see you again, brother. |
| 1:04.4 | Yeah, great stuff. |
| 1:05.5 | We met at a few conferences now around the world so far. |
| 1:08.8 | We have. |
| 1:09.9 | Yeah, always good conversations. So that little reference at the |
| 1:14.3 | start there was to your book, Lies My Doctor Told Me. So maybe we could start off with a few |
| 1:20.4 | little white lies that slip out from time to time. Sure. I just had someone email me today and say, I just read your book, Lies, |
| 1:29.4 | my doctor told me, and I found quite a few typos. And I was wondering if you'd like for me |
| 1:34.3 | to proofread it and send you a list. And I said, thank you, but no, actually Victory Belt |
| 1:41.5 | Publishing is picked it up. And they're going to be issuing a corrected, typos corrected, |
| 1:47.0 | second edition with five extra chapters, |
| 1:49.6 | full color, all the bells and whistles, |
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