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Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. So today we're going to talk about how to diagnose your friends, family members, and

your neighbor's tongue by way of the color of their tongue.

No, you don't want to do that.

I'm just kidding.

And of course, when I say diagnose,

we're just talking about clues of potential underlying causes.

This is not a full diagnosis. The color of your tongue can give you valuable

information on what's going on internally. So let's go through the different colors. If the tongue is

bright red, it could be a folate deficiency. This is a

Vitamin B9. It could be B12 deficiency. It could be scarlet fever. You usually get scarlet fever between ages 5 and 15 years old.

Or a very rare disease, Kawasaki disease in children children you can get something called

Strawberry Tongue. Next one is purple tongue. This is very poor circulation. Now

this is similar to the blue tongue where you can have just decrease oxygen hypoxia.

This is just more poor circulation simply because you're getting a buildup of the Venus blood which is not oxygenated.

Okay, white tongue is usually candida or some type of fungus or yeast.

Now, one of the most important things for candida is you must, if you ever want to get rid of Candida, you have to go

zero sugar and very low carb because yeast fungus mold fungus, mold, candida, love carbohydrates, especially when you get into milk sugars, so you must avoid that. You need to do keto, and that's going to help you. Now if the tongue is dark or black,

it could be some medication you're taking,

or you're doing chewing tobacco or smoking excessively

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