The #1 Disease More Common than Heart Disease and Cancer

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

The incidence of autoimmune disease has tripled since the 50s and 60s. Let’s take a look at why that might be.

The immune system works to differentiate our cells and friendly microbes from external pathogens, viruses, and microbes.

Autoimmune diseases are typically caused by inflammation. Intestinal permeability, also known as leaky gut, is one of the most common culprits of autoimmune disease. When you have a leaky gut, food particles can leak out of the small intestine and confuse your immune system.

Chemicals from our environment can lead to inflammation in the gut. Most of the wheat in America is sprayed with glyphosate, which inflames the gut and destroys the microbiome. It also disturbs certain enzymes in the liver involved in detoxification.

If you have gut inflammation, you will have trouble absorbing vitamin D. Vitamin D is the most important vitamin for your immune system. Vitamin D is a powerful anti-inflammatory that helps to prevent autoimmune diseases.

Consumption of ultra-processed foods like seed oils, refined sugars, and refined starches also creates inflammation in your gut. Medications like PPIs can potentially contribute to autoimmune disease. Drug-induced lupus is directly linked to the use of PPIs.

Stress-induced autoimmune disease is very common. Many people experience a stressful event right before they develop an autoimmune disease. Stress activates cortisol, which paralyzes your immune system.

So what’s the solution?

1. Avoid seed oils and grains! Follow a keto diet and consume high-quality animal protein and healthy fats. Cook your vegetables and consume fermented vegetables. If you have bad gut inflammation, try the carnivore diet for a few months.

2. Consume 30,000 to 50,000 IU of vitamin D each day.

3. Consume red meat for L-glutamine or take a supplement.

4. Consume small amounts of colostrum.

DATA:

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

https://journals.lww.com/ajg/fulltext...

Leaky Gut Test:

https://truehealthlabs.com/product/le...

https://www.verisana.com/shop/leaky-g...

https://www.i-screen.com.au/tests/lea...

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0:00.0	Today I'm going to talk about a crazy epidemic of autoimmune diseases.
0:05.8	One out of every 12 people will develop an autoimmune disease.
0:09.5	One out of nine adult women will develop an autoimmune disease. It is way more common in heart
0:14.8	disease with cancer it's one out of 14. So since the 50s and 60s we have a 3X spike in
0:22.3	autoimmune diseases.
0:24.0	In this graph right here, you can see Crohn's disease going straight up,
0:27.5	you see MS, and type 1 diabetes.
0:31.5	So normally, the immune system has a very complex and difficult job
0:36.2	creating tolerance for our own cells. In other words, it has to differentiate our
0:41.6	own cells and our own friendly microbes and differentiate that from
0:48.0	external pathogens, viruses, microbes, etc.
0:52.4	And the hallmark of an autoimmune disease is really
0:54.8	inflammation.
0:55.9	So we have this inflammatory reaction because the immune system is
0:59.5	attacking it.
1:00.3	But I want to explain the single common denominator with all autoimmune diseases is this
1:07.4	intestinal permeability, leaky gut. The small intestine where 90% of all the digestion occurs and you have a little mucous layer, you have these little
1:16.2	villi and you have this single cell layer between the internal part of the intestine, food particles are supposed to be absorbed through that in a certain way.
1:25.3	But when there's holes, because there's leaky gut, we lose that immigration, that stamp of
1:30.2	approval, we allow things through that area and now we have a massive confusion.
1:36.2	We have things that are incorrectly tagged as harmful and then we have a cascade of effect that
1:42.3	can then lead to problems in any tissue in your body.
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