This ONE Lie Causes 90% of Chronic Disease

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Over 90% of chronic disease stems from one lie taught to doctors, dieticians, nutritionists, and personal trainers worldwide. Glucose is the body’s preferred energy source! If glucose is so good for you, why does your body do everything it can to eliminate it from your blood?

The average thin person has about 100,000 calories of stored fat and only 1,700 calories of glucose. When you consume sugar, it’s removed from the blood very quickly, and the excess sugar is converted into fat. The body requires a small amount of glucose, but your body can make this small amount.

The single root cause of chronic disease is high glucose! Blood sugar spikes create inflammation on the inside of the arteries, leading to chronically high insulin levels to remove the sugar. The body compensates with insulin resistance to slow down the glucose that enters the cells.

Early symptoms of insulin resistance include:•Frequent urination at night•Brain fog•Loss of memory•Belly fat•Visual problems•Mood issues•Anxiety•Depression•Excessive hunger/cravings•Heart palpitations•Fluid retention in ankles and feet•Sleep apnea

These initial symptoms can ultimately lead to diabetes, dementia, cataracts, glaucoma, and macular degeneration.

People are not taught about the dangers of sugar and carbohydrates. In fact, most people aren’t worried about their high-carbohydrate diet because the food pyramid tells us that we should consume 65% of our calories from carbohydrates. This is a lie!

low-carb diet of less than 30 grams of carbs per day is one of the best things you can do to improve your health. One study showed a 90% success rate of ceasing insulin use in 10 weeks on a low-carb diet!
The food industry has created the lie that glucose is the preferred fuel because you can profit the most from refined carbohydrates!

Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:Dr. Berg, age 60, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan and is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media.

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0:00.0	90% of all chronic disease stems from this one lie, which is taught all over the world in universities
0:06.7	to medical doctors, dietitians, nutritionists, personal trainers. Ready for this?
0:12.3	Glucose is the body's preferred energy source. That's right, folks, sugar, it does the body good.
0:17.8	And cut, that was it. If glucose was so essential and so good, why does your body
0:22.5	do everything in its capacity to remove the glucose from your blood as fast as possible? From an
0:29.3	evolutionary standpoint, we would never have survived if we depended on glucose. Is that true, Mr. Cave,
0:36.3	man, sir?
0:44.8	An average thin person has about a hundred thousand calories of fat on their body. When you consume a lot of sugar, our body takes it out of the blood real fast and it's not going to burn it
0:49.6	all up. What happens to all this excess sugar when your body removes it from the blood? Does it
0:53.6	just evaporate?
0:54.9	Do you pee it out?
0:56.0	No, it gets converted to fat.
0:58.0	It is true that some of our body does require glucose, but it's a very small percentage,
1:02.8	and that can be made by our own body very easily.
1:06.8	Why does your body do everything in its capacity to remove the glucose from your blood as fast as possible?
1:15.1	Here we are told that we need to consume 50 to 60% of all of our calories being carbohydrates,
1:21.4	which turns into glucose. When you get your blood sugar tested and it comes out to be 80,
1:25.9	which is normal, guess how much sugar that is in your
1:27.8	blood? It's only a teaspoon. But think about how much sugar a person actually consumes on a daily
1:32.7	basis. You're talking about a massive amount of sugar. What is all that doing in your blood? Well,
1:37.2	your body is working like crazy to remove it. Think about the pancreas. What it has to do? It has to
1:42.7	just literally pump out this sugar.
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