Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast.

Where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing

healthy weight.

Hey guys, today we're going to talk about the common threads between the real big healthcare

problems out there.

Heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's, autoimmune diseases.

I've talked a lot about diabetes, we'll touch on that a little bit, and there's other

ones, but these are the main ones, so let's first talk about heart disease.

What happens in the blood vessel of someone with heart disease is they start developing

plaque, okay?

And the plaque is built up with cholesterol, and the person has usually high LDL, and that's

called bad cholesterol, supposedly bad cholesterol.

But in reality, LDL is low-density lipoprotein, okay?

It has cholesterol in it, but this is a protein, okay?

And there's this huge focus on cholesterol, but not any problem with protein.

If we take a look at a plaque, it's composed of cholesterol, calcium, and proteins, okay?

But people don't say to avoid protein, and they don't tell you to avoid calcium either,

right?

Even though calcium makes up this plaque, they really target this thing called cholesterol.

Now, the thing you need to know is, before this piece of plaque develops, there's always

something that starts it, okay?

And it's usually some inflammatory situation going on, there's some type of damage in the

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