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What Your Doctor Won’t Tell You About Keto | Ken Berry on Health Theory

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory

Impact Theory

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🗓️ 13 December 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Ken Berry, family physician and author of Lies My Doctor Told Me, joins Tom to discuss his evolution from whole grain fanatic to carnivore. Thrive Market: Get 25% off your first order and a 30-day free trial at www.thrivemarket.com/health Whole 30: Order the cookbook here: https://www.amazon.com/Whole30-Cookbook-Delicious-Totally-Compliant/dp/0544854411 ButcherBox. Use the discount code: "IMPACT" at www.butcherbox.com to get 20$ off and FREE BACON SHOW NOTES: Why you must lead by example [01:21] How to avoid nutrition dogma [03:59] How the Standard American Diet came to fruition [05:08] The importance of experimenting on yourself [07:05] Why drinking milk is problematic [12:10] Why eating wheat is problematic [15:02] Are veterinarians ahead of doctors?[18:26] How nutritional research allows for bias [19:14] The biomarkers you need to track [21:58] Why elevated blood sugar is a huge problem [25:26] How to use exercise to mitigate your blood sugar response [30:23] The myth about vitamin D in breastmilk [31:44] Does sun exposure actually cause skin cancer? [33:53] Why doctors are more likely to diagnose serious diseases [35:15] Why low cholesterol is a problem [36:10] The efficacy of the carnivore diet [37:10] The only cholesterol numbers you should care about [40:18] Why you shouldn’t be scared of eating salt [42:48] What is the carnivore diet doing to your microbiome? [45:13] The one thing Ken recommends to improve your health [46:47] DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: Lies My Doctor Told Me by Ken Berry: https://amzn.to/2UFkIH9 The Four Hour Body by Tim Ferriss: https://amzn.to/2QNsH5P FOLLOW KEN BERRY: YOUTUBE: https://bit.ly/2EqW3kF INSTAGRAM: https://bit.ly/2ruxg6O WEBSITE: https://bit.ly/2GawTZ1

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, welcome to Health Theory.

0:05.8

Today's guest is Dr. Ken Barry.

0:07.9

He's a board certified family physician who has treated over 25,000 unique patients from

0:13.8

newborns to centenarians and everything in between.

0:17.5

He's also the author of the controversial book, Lies My Doctor Told Me.

0:22.0

A book he became obsessed with writing after realizing that much of what he had been taught

0:26.1

in medical school about nutrition was just flat out wrong.

0:30.0

After years of research and getting his own health in order through a bespoke ketogenic

0:34.0

approach, he began challenging the medical establishment and trying to separate fact from fiction

0:39.1

and help his patients achieve optimal health.

0:42.0

But what I want to talk about is how this all started for you being a doctor that himself

0:47.4

was overweight.

0:48.4

What did that trigger in you and how did that start this whole ball rolling?

0:51.8

So I was raised in a very poor family, but a very proud family.

0:57.1

The parable that I grew up hearing was the parable of the preacher who was caught in the

1:03.1

bar and when the congregation said, what are you doing?

1:07.0

Dude, and he said, you do as I say, not as I do.

1:10.8

And that was the defining parable of my childhood.

1:14.0

Don't ever be that guy.

1:15.8

And so I kind of grew up with that philosophy, you lead by doing.

1:21.3

You lead by example and you lead the way.

1:24.2

And so a few years into my practice, I became very, I was almost 300 pounds.

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