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🗓️ 17 November 2025
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These dangerous food additives are designed to get you hooked! Find out about the hidden toxins in your diet that could be taking a serious toll on your health. Avoid these ingredients by any means necessary!
0:00 Introduction: The most dangerous ingredients in the world
0:23 Why are these toxic ingredients so addictive?
3:06 10 deadly ingredients in processed food
6:00 Seed oils and your health
12:05 Download the Dr. Berg app!
How do they turn cheap, toxic ingredients into a highly addictive food? The worst food ingredients often have the following components:
•Devoid of protein
•Create a blood sugar spike
•Artificial flavorings
•MSG
•Manipulated texture
•Good mouth feel
•Bliss point
•Signals the release of dopamine
•Pleasure when eating
Avoid the following toxic ingredients, often found in ultra-processed foods.
1. Trans fats
Some foods still contain trans fats. This ingredient is even worse when combined with refined carbohydrates.
2. High fructose corn syrup
This synthetic sugar goes straight to the liver, contributing to a fatty liver and insulin resistance. Sweet drinks made with alcohol cause significant liver damage and affect the brain, nervous system, and heart. Seed oils exacerbate this problem.
3. Sodium nitrate
This is a preservative found in bacon and hot dogs, and it becomes increasingly toxic when heated.
4. Fried potatoes/burnt toast
Adding heat to a starch creates toxic byproducts such as aldehydes and acrylamide. These toxic ingredients cause inflammation in the body. Starch or sugar combined with protein creates AGEs, harmful byproducts that damage your arteries, eyes, kidneys, and brain.
5. Artificial sweeteners
Artificial sweeteners have a toxic effect on the body, especially the microbiome.
6. Glyphosate
Glyphosate is patented as an antibiotic and classified by the WHO as a probable carcinogen.
7. MSG
Monosodium glutamate affects the hypothalamus in rats, causing them to overeat and become obese. This ingredient can make low-quality food taste better than it really is.
8. Phosphate
This stimulant can contribute to arterial calcification, especially if you don’t have enough vitamin K2.
9. Potassium bromate
This ingredient is a bread conditioner and is classified as a probable carcinogen.
10. Synthetic flavoring
The ingredient “flavoring” consists of hundreds of chemicals used to manipulate your sense of taste. Chronic consumption of artificial flavors can dull your appetite for real food.
Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:
Dr. Berg, age 60, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals and author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media.
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.
Thanks for watching! I hope you’ll avoid these dangerous food ingredients. I’ll see you in the next video.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we're going to discuss the 10 most dangerous ingredients in the world. |
| 0:05.6 | The main issue with some of these ingredients in junk food are not really the ingredients. |
| 0:11.3 | It's really something much bigger. |
| 0:13.4 | It's the intention behind those ingredients. |
| 0:16.0 | They all have one purpose to get you hooked. |
| 0:19.5 | It's all about getting you addicted because they had to solve a |
| 0:23.3 | problem. How do you take cheap industrial so-called food, but it's just chemistry, it's chemicals, |
| 0:30.6 | modified food starch, right? How do you get people to eat this? In order to get someone to be |
| 0:35.6 | hooked or addicted to something of such lower poor quality, |
| 0:40.9 | you have to deplete it of protein because protein actually satisfies you. If there was protein |
| 0:47.4 | in junk food, you would only eat a little bit. If there's no protein in certain foods, |
| 0:52.6 | you'll keep eating until that protein is satisfied. |
| 0:55.3 | So you rarely see protein in junk food. |
| 0:58.2 | Number two, you have to create a blood sugar spike. |
| 1:02.0 | So you have to raise a blood sugar so it comes down. |
| 1:05.0 | Because even though you're filled and you just ate, the body is going to want to have more sugar. And this is why someone that has a |
| 1:14.3 | sugary breakfast meal could be hungry an hour and a half later, which is insane because they're not |
| 1:19.1 | really hungry. And then they also have to add flavoring, but they don't use like one flavoring. There's |
| 1:25.2 | literally over one to 200 different chemicals in flavoring that has |
| 1:31.3 | nothing to do with stimulating your tongue receptors, and it has everything to do with stimulating |
| 1:36.9 | your brain receptors for all sorts of bizarre flavorings that your brain is totally confused. |
| 1:43.5 | So it's kind of like a brain explosion of |
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