Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. The absolute most painful thing that I've ever experienced in my life was a kidney stone.

So this is a while ago before I had any awareness about health or diet.

So one night in the middle of night, I think about three o'clock in the morning,

I was rudely awakened by the most severe pain I've ever experienced deep inside my body.

So I got up, went to the bathroom, and just laid on the floor for about 30 minutes,

trying to get relief. This pain was visceral pain. Now, visceral pain is some internal pain that you can't really tell where it's coming from exactly. It's very vague,

but it was extremely severe. I was nauseous. I felt like vomiting. I didn't know what the heck

was going on, but it felt like something

inside my body was like in a vice grip and there was tremendous pressure and internal back pain

that I just could not relieve no matter what position I got in. It would kind of come in waves.

It would kind of feel better and then worse. And I just wanted to sleep because I was so exhausted. And I didn't want to take any medication initially, at least, until later. I'm like, give me the morphine. And I didn't want to wake up my wife, but it just got to the point where I had to figure this out to see what the heck was going on. So I woke up, Karen, I said, honey, could you just take me to the hospital right now? She says, can't you just wait till the morning? I woke up Karen. I said, honey, could you just take me to the hospital

right now? She says, can't you just wait till the morning? I'm so tired. I said, no, we need to go right

now. I am dying. And so she drove me to the hospital. And I will say, there's nothing like

kidney stone pain that causes you to lose your sense of humor real fast.

Now, the pain from kidney stone can happen in a lot of different locations in your upper,

lower part of your back.

Usually because the kidney stone is on one side, you're going to feel it either on the

right side or the left side and it can shoot on the side or right into your groin or

in the lower abdomen. It can feel like the pain is a

little bit higher up like it could be a gallstone, but it's actually a kidney stone. And it can make

you very nauseous and want to vomit. Now, the interesting thing about a kidney stone is that there's

not any pain receptors in the kidney itself. There's a lot of pain receptors in the ureter,

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