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🗓️ 7 February 2025
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Check out my interview with American Thought Leaders! I discuss my approach to health and a wide range of topics, from RFK Jr. to keto and intermittent fasting. You won’t want to miss this!
In this podcast, I’m interviewed by The Epoch Times, and I discuss many of the health concerns Americans face today. America spends an incredible amount per capita on healthcare, but the outcomes are not adding up!
Big Pharma and Big Food both contribute to this health crisis. Chronic disease primarily comes from a diet composed of ultra-processed foods. Doctors prescribe medications to treat symptoms that come from the junk food diet, rather than addressing the diet.
Junk food is not food! It’s composed of refined sugars, seed oils, and starches along with colorings, flavorings, and preservatives. Junk food does not sustain life and it’s at the root of chronic disease.
Some people claim that the ketogenic diet is dangerous, but this is untrue. The keto diet involves the breakdown of fat into ketones as an alternative fuel. When you reduce your carb intake, it forces your body to use your fat reserve for fuel. Keto is great for weight loss and can help combat insulin resistance.
When cigarettes lost popularity due to health concerns, tobacco companies bought up the junk food industry. These companies produced profitable food junk food made from dent corn and other cheap materials. A high-carb diet has become normalized for major profits.
RFK Jr. is a non-politician who may be able to sever the relationships between the food industry and the government. Food guidelines are of the utmost importance because the consequences trickle down to the schools, hospitals, assisted living homes, and other places that feed the most vulnerable.
More doctors are beginning to consider food and the whole body when managing disease, moving away from the symptom management model.
It's important not to overlook the function and importance of vitamin D, turmeric, magnesium, and grass-fed red meat. Focusing on disease prevention by building health rather than treating disease is most effective. Eating real food is the most important thing you can do for your health.
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0:00.0 | They find these loopholes and they try to cheat the system and it's called organic, but is it really organic? |
0:05.0 | Eric Berg, popularly known as Dr. Berg and the Knowledge Doc, is a nutritionist and chiropractor specializing in healthy eating and alternative healthcare more broadly. |
0:16.0 | He has published over 6,000 videos and amassed 13 million followers on YouTube and has trained over 2,500 |
0:22.6 | doctors and healthcare practitioners in how diet can impact your health. |
0:26.9 | You've reduced carbohydrates, it then forces your body to go after your own fat as fuel. |
0:32.6 | So for weight loss it's great and for other things it's good too. |
0:35.8 | In this episode, we discuss his approach to help, from superfoods to intermittent fasting |
0:40.1 | and get his thoughts on Bobby Kennedy as HHS Secretary. |
0:43.5 | I think if we are going to make some changes, we have to, first of all, make people aware |
0:47.7 | of these hidden ingredients and start to get them out of your diet. |
0:52.2 | This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanya Kellick. |
0:57.0 | Eric Berg, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders. |
1:01.0 | Well, I'm really happy to be here. |
1:03.0 | I've watched your show for many years and so thank you for having me on. |
1:08.0 | Well, so let's talk about disease and health in America. We spend here in America an incredible |
1:17.3 | amount per capita on health care, but the outcomes compared to the amount that's actually being |
1:21.9 | spent seem pretty low. Now, why is that? Yeah, you're right, because we spend 4.5 trillion and we have the |
1:29.2 | worst health. You know, I think that I'd like to just kind of give everyone a bird's eye view of |
1:34.4 | what I think the situation is, because it's really kind of simple when you step back and look at it. |
1:39.7 | It's like on the, on one side, you have big pharma, Okay, they're helping provide the solutions to our medical problems. |
1:47.4 | And then the other side, we have big food or the junk food. |
1:50.3 | And they're both kind of funneling down this way. |
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