The MOST Dangerous Diseases that Don’t Give You Symptoms

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Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 11 October 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Many chronic diseases have no symptoms for 15 to 20 years! Common diseases like type 2 diabetes, liver disease, and kidney disease often have no warning signs until they’ve significantly progressed. Discover the top diseases with no symptoms and learn how to avoid them.

Disclaimer: Dr. Eric Berg received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1988. His use of “doctor” or “Dr.” in relation to himself solely refers to that degree. Dr. Berg is a licensed chiropractor in Virginia, California, and Louisiana, but he no longer practices chiropractic in any state and does not see patients, so he can focus on educating people as a full-time activity, yet he maintains an active license. This video is for general informational purposes only. It should not be used to self-diagnose, and it is not a substitute for a medical exam, cure, treatment, diagnosis, prescription, or recommendation. It does not create a doctor-patient relationship between Dr. Berg and you. You should not make any change in your health regimen or diet before first consulting a physician and obtaining a medical exam, diagnosis, and recommendation. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

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0:00.0	Hello, Dr. Burke here. Today we're going to talk about the most dangerous diseases that don't give you many symptoms.
0:06.1	Now, if you take a hammer and hit your thumb and you have pain, that's going to be an immediate symptom, right?
0:11.6	But a lot of other symptoms, which we're going to talk about, are way late on the chain of events.
0:17.5	In fact, there are no symptoms for 10 to 20 years with high blood pressure. Type 2 diabetes
0:24.5	takes 15 to 20 years before you start noticing major symptoms. Liver disease. In some cases,
0:31.0	you could have 75% damage in your liver before you even get a symptom. Kidney disease, it's even more
0:37.3	dramatic. You can literally
0:38.6	run your whole body. I'm talking about filtering all your blood on one kidney. The body survives
0:43.9	and just a small percentage of our organs. It's incredible. In fact, a lot of times it takes up to 90%
0:49.7	of the damage before you start noticing significant symptoms of late stage kidney disease. Now, what about
0:56.1	atherosclerosis? This is placking in the arteries. You're not going to notice very many symptoms
1:01.1	until 70% is blocked. There's so many people that go to the doctor and they find their arteries
1:06.6	are really shut down, but they don't really have any symptom to know that that's happening.
1:12.4	What about colon cancer? I know quite a few people who ended up with stage four without even
1:17.9	having any symptom at all. And it's really mind-blowing as you go to the doctor to actually
1:23.4	turn off your warning signs to get rid of your symptoms. They treat them directly. They don't
1:29.2	look into root cause of these issues. They give you a medication to manage the symptoms so you don't
1:35.1	feel them. And then a lot of people, when they actually get this later stage warning sign,
1:39.7	is they either ignore it or they consider it a normal part of aging, normal fatigue, normal stiffness,
1:45.4	normal high blood pressure, because everyone is on a blood pressure medication,
1:49.3	getting up throughout the night urinating, normal belly fat, normal craving for sugar or frequent
1:54.7	hunger. This next part is going to get really interesting. And then I'm going to go into
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