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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

The Mind-Blowing Benefits of Berberine

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

There are a lot of wonderful herbs and remedies out there—but berberine takes it to the next level. Learn more about the benefits of berberine.


DATA:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3660979/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925443911002316

https://examine.com/supplements/berberine/research/





Transcript

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0:00.0

There's a lot of different herbs and remedies out there that create effects, okay?

0:04.9

Maybe multiple effects, but Berberine takes it to the next level. Berberine is a chemical that

0:11.7

comes from different plants, and it's most known for its effect on blood sugars, lowering your blood

0:18.9

sugars, helping to make insulin more sensitive, attacking insulin resistance, okay? Which, by the way,

0:26.6

is at the heart of most health problems, including a fatty liver, a blood pressure,

0:32.4

high triglycerides, including oxidative LDL, which actually creates a lot of damage on the inside

0:39.2

layer of your heart. And Berberine has a very powerful potent effect directly on the interior wall

0:45.6

of your arteries, called the endothelial layer. So it can suppress that oxidation that's happening

0:52.8

that's creating plucking. So it actually helps shrink plucking. And anything that helps insulin

0:58.5

resistance is going to shrink your midline, your weight circumference. Berberine has anti-thrombotic

1:05.2

effects. It improves the symptoms of Alzheimer's, which is type 3 diabetes. And it greatly improves

1:11.4

the dawn phenomena where you would wake up in the morning with your blood sugars too high,

1:16.4

because you have severe insulin resistance, which is really a problem with glucose,

1:21.2

neogenesis, which is the production of new glucose from other things like protein and fat.

1:28.0

Just think about it a diabetic, right? They have high blood glucose. And you might think that the

1:32.0

only reason their blood sugars are high is because they're eating too many carbs. But that's not

1:37.5

100% true. One big reason why their blood sugar is high is because their liver is making a lot

1:43.5

of new sugar. It's called gluconeogenesis because their insulin resistance is so bad. And this is

1:48.7

why Berberine is equivalent to metformin, okay, the main medication they use in type 2 diabetes,

1:55.0

but without the toxic effects. Now let's get into some other things that Berberine can do. It can

2:00.5

activate vitamin D conversion to the active form. When you take vitamin D or you're converting

2:08.1

sunlight in your skin level or you're converting your own vitamin D from the sun,

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