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The Dr. Berg Show LIVE - January 2, 2026

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "The Dr. Berg Show LIVE - January 2, 2026", an episode of Dr. Eric Berg DC published January 2, 2026 (1 h 6 min, about 9,459 words). It mentions 9 people, works and ideas, including Alan Burke, Ioni 8, Tatiana Gabriella, Aahu, Hawaii, Halo 1234.

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What is discussed, and when

  1. – 10:00: Ioni 8, Tatiana Gabriella
  2. – 20:00: Alan Burke
  3. – 30:00: Aahu, Hawaii, Halo 1234
  4. – 40:00: Alan Burke
  5. – 50:00: Black Seed Oil, Zim Reena

Notable quotes from "The Dr. Berg Show LIVE - January 2, 2026"

  • And let's start off with Ioni 8 from YouTube. Will homemade sauerkraut juice break my fast?
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  • All right, very good. Let's go to Gabriella from Rumble. Which nutrients are necessary to optimize vein health and proper circulation?
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  • All right. That is exciting. By the way, Dr. Burke, I guess it's time to talk about your app. We haven't spoken to that since last year. Is that a place to go? Can people download it on Android and iPhone?
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  • Sort of thing. Let's go to our first guest today. It's Tracy. She's checking in to us from Aahu, Hawaii. Go ahead, Tracy with your one question.
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  • United States. So, thanks everybody so much for checking in. Let's go now to Halo 1234. I'm getting deep tissue massage to get rid of golfer's elbow pain. It's not working…
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  • I started taking black seed oil supplements. I wanted to try your product, but I need something for the road. What are the benefits of black seed oil and do you have any plans to.
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  • And let's move back to Zim Reena from YouTube. Should we be taking magnesium supplements if we are experiencing low blood pressure? I know I am deficient, but I get dizzy whenever I take.
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Full transcript with timestamps

Welcome back. I told you I'm going to see you next year and it's already next year. So, welcome back. Uh, thanks for being on. Anything I say is not meant to diagnose or replace your medical care. Check with your doctor before implementing any of the suggestions or things we're going to talk about. With that being said, Steve, let's dive right in. There's uh actually a few questions lined up.

I think there are. Happy New Year to you, sir, and everyone around the world. And let's start off with Ioni 8 from YouTube. Will homemade sauerkraut juice break my fast? No. No. There's not enough calories in there. Um I think it's a super uh great idea. Um because you're feeding see the the unique thing about the sauerkraut sauerkraut juice especially if it's raw. Um and I save after I eat the sauerkraut I save that juice and consume it over time because it's probably one of the most powerful probiotics you could take. It's a combination of not just bacteria but yeast friendly yeast. It is in a certain pH that survives the acidity of the stomach. So it has certain properties that can actually bypass that. It's loaded with a lot of other phytonutrient u phytonutrients to feed and support the microbiome.

Um it has lactic acid and it's also loaded with something called vitamin U which is um smethyl methionide. Not that you need to know that but that's something that is a great remedy for ulcers and building up the lining of your colon. I mean it's it's next level stuff. So yeah, everyone should be consuming the juice on that whether they're fasting or not.

All right, very good. Let's move on to pay acif from Rumble. How can I go on a 3-day fast if I have to eat something to take my 500 mg of niacin? I would break it down if it's in a tablet, just crush it up into small little little sizes. You don't have to take nasin with food. Now, of course, it's going to diminish the flushing response. So, just take a small amount and then spread it through the day, but you don't need to eat um eat it with food if you have small amounts. Like, I would say probably 100 milligrams. You shouldn't flush too much.

All right, very good. Let's go to uh Gabriella uh from Rumble. Which nutrients are necessary to optimize vein health and proper circulation?

When you were dealing with uh either artery or vein, it's pretty much the same thing. You need sufficient amount of um collagen and the co-actors that build collagen. Vitamin C is at the top of the list. The trace mineral called copper is at the top of the list. Um so those are some key nutrients to support the the structure of the vein. Also realize that in the circulation you have a very thin uh wall that um is uh sensitive to what you put in your body especially uh sugar and glucose stuff. So um one of the the thing that actually is very important is something called nitric oxide to support that that inner layer and uh a couple ways you can do that.

Arugula supports that. uh beet juice will support that also um cacao that's raw chocolate powder will support that you can put that take that in the morning or something like that or uh just getting the uh exposure to the sun from the infrared will increase nitric oxide and vitamin D will also increase nitric oxide

all right very good alive 28697 is the handle as of yesterday all tortillas sold in California must include folic acid that's an interesting question is this good or bad? Please share your thoughts on folic acid and tortillas. [snorts] I would a lot of people have a genetic issue that involves um they don't have the enzyme to convert that folic acid to folate the active form and so it can create problems. Um I have videos on this. Uh I personally would not consume products that have this synthetic folic acid in it. And of course that's all the refined grains and corns and stuff like that. So I would uh I wouldn't consume it if I were you.

All right. Very good. I think that sounds right. Retro CF from YouTube. I water fast 27 hours every week and for 3 days straight every month, but I'm not seeing the weight loss result that I had hoped for. What advice do you have to improve my weight loss? There's [snorts] a couple other things you want to look at. Um, when you eat, what do you eat? How low are your carbs? The lower to zero, the better. Do you have stress? Is that stress interfering with your sleep? How much activity are you doing? When you're eating, are you eating a tremendous amount of food? Uh, what kind of uh intermittent fasting cycle do you do when you're eating?

um how much fat are you consuming? Like if you if you just don't go if you're try struggling losing weight, just eat the normal fat that comes within the protein. Don't add additional oils and fats. And um these are all just things that I would uh look at. But I think you're doing a lot right. Uh the other last point I want to bring up is um if someone is menopausal and they're doing what you're doing and let's say they're doing everything right and let's say they have a lot of extra weight to lose in their legs or thighs or buttocks.

Uh I did a video on this and uh sometimes um what that looks like fat or cellulite is actually atrophy. the fat has taken over the muscle and we don't really have the muscle structure. A lot of the the the the extra weight on the lower part of your body gets burnt off with uh it has to be localized. So, you have to work your legs a lot. And if you don't have a lot of muscle, that means you don't have a lot of mitochondria. It's going to be really hard to burn up that energy. So, that being said, um you want to really work the legs and instead of focusing on losing weight, focus on building muscle in your legs. And the way that you know that's happening is your strength is improving. Takes time.

And then once the muscles get to a certain level, it'll be easier to burn off that localized fat around your legs.

All right. Very good. And this is the official first question of the new year, doc. There you have it.

Okay. True or false? Peripheral neuropathy, which is like numbness or tingling in the feet, is a nerve problem.

All right, audience, climb on that one. And let's go to Bomac 23 from Rumble. Which test would you take to get the root cause of all issues? Metabolic analysis or the 513 methylon genes test. You heard of those, doc? Which pathways should I test for the most conclusive results? just wants a one-sizefits-all uh test. I guess I think there's you're asking the right question. There's a couple tests. Of course, uh a DNA test just kind of tells you your vulnerability. It doesn't tell you root cause. It just tells you what your weaknesses. But if we take a look at all the root causes, um we're dealing with um nutritional deficiencies.

There's a toxicity factor. There is um an insulin resistant problem factor which is probably the best test for you to get. And uh that's called a uh you can do a fasting insulin but even better than that if you can get a homir which measures um a couple things but it mainly measures how much insulin resistance that you have. Insulin resistance occurs um because of you you're doing a too many frequent foods, too many refined foods and and also seed oils as well. And and it's probably at the root of many different um metabolic problems. It is like one of the most common ones. So that I would do that test. It's called homir to be able to pick up u that root cause. Um, and this relates to a a further question that we'll get to soon.

All right, that's exciting. Let's go to Skolan one from Rumble. What are your thoughts about taking lipoplavonoids, lipoflavonoids, excuse me, for tonitis? it it may or may not help depending on your your diet because um all the remedies that you take for certain conditions um a lot of times they mimic drugs because that's where drugs a lot of drugs come from is they they mimic plant-based phytonutrient type things. So when you do these different flavonoids, they're anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, they can help. But if your diet is not correct, then it's going to be expensive urine. That was my problem. I used to take hundreds of vitamin pills, just literally stacking them up, and I was not getting any better. So, they would have worked if my diet was better. So, I would really focus on that. Uh very soon we're going to be releasing something that's going to be very exciting this year that will help uh really um narrow

down on the root cause of a lot of issues. So stay tuned for that. I'll keep you in the mystery.

All right. That is exciting. By the way, Dr. Burke, I guess it's time to talk about your app. We haven't spoken to that since last year. Is that a place to go? Can people download it on Android and uh iPhone?

There's two apps. One is um All My Videos. It's Dr. Berg videos. and you can just, you know, listen to them in the car um running, walking stuff, so you can just kind of hear them because it's and of course they're playing the um I have the audio and also the video. Uh I mean I I take long trips and I'm always listening to YouTube videos. I'm listening. I'm not watching when I'm driving. But um that's one thing, but I have another app called Dr. Berg Junk Food uh meter which uh looks at the three most common um ingredients in all junk foods. starches, that's hidden sugar, sugar, and seed oils. So, you can quickly scan something and pick up how much of those items are in it and uh look in your pantry, in your fridge, and really be able to [clears throat] identify without making this really complex uh what you should stay away from.

All right, very good. Well, our astute audience as usual is right on the first question, which asks, true false, peripheral neuropathy is a nerve issue. And 97% of respondents say that that's false. That's interesting. And 3% say it's true. Who's right? It is false. Now, I know some people are going to go, "No, it is a nerve problem." Well, it might be manifesting in the nerve, but it's definitely not a nerve problem. This is why when you treat it and they treat it with anti-depressant medications, they treat it with all these medications and also gabapentin all these different meds which basically numb the pain.

But that's not the problem. The problem with neuropathy is in your vascular system. It's in the micro tiny capillaries because you have so much it's usually diabetes or pre-diabetes or too much sugar flowing through your your blood vessels and what happens that creates the damage on the microirculation and stops the circulation the blood flow to the nerve. So this is why treating the nerve doesn't work. you have to treat what's happening deeper. And what's really interesting about this topic is that um when you consume a lot of glucose uh into the blood vascular area, you create something called insulin resistance. And now we have a situation where you have all that extra glucose is unavailable to you. It literally shuts it down. So you basically starve the nerve to death. So what the nerve does, it goes into a protective plan B where it reroutes a different fuel source outside of the mitochondria

and it starts to produce kind of a a rudimentary type energy which is glucose. But the problem is that pathway only produces 2 ATP per one glucose compared to in the mitochondria you had 32. So now we're literally in a situation where we're your poor nerves cannot get energy anymore. So, what comes to the rescue? And just I'm just going to let you know right now, there is one key nutrient that comes to the rescue that can flip the switch and reroute that pathway back into the mitochondria to increase the amount of ATP so that nerve can get energy. And that is B1. But it comes with a twist because you have to take it in a fat soluble version because uh most B1 is water soluble. So you want to take it what's called benotamine.

This is why benotamine is the ultimate antidote to peripheral neuropathy especially if you change your diet, get out the sugar, correct the diabetes with the low carb. But the benthotamine fixes the environment, the whole whole ball of wax because it allows the nerve can finally get energy. You're getting and you're getting less of the byproducts from all the different lactic acid buildup and octive stress and the toxicity from the sugar. So, it's really uh such a simple ultimate solution. But if you Google this, you won't find it.

What you're going to find is all these treatments that are late chain events and they're like, "Let's wait till you have the problem and let's cut off the toes. Let's let's numb the pain." Like, they're not going to root causes at all. Uh so, unfortunately, uh we're trying to get this information out there. So, definitely spread the word because if anyone has peripheral neuropathy and they're not taking benottoine, unfortunately, they're just suffering unnecessarily. All right. So many u incidents of that sort of thing. Let's go to our first guest today. It's Tracy. She's checking in to us from Aahu, Hawaii. Go ahead, Tracy with your one question.

Hi, Dr. Berg. Uh I wanted to ask, how do I safely get off of Leinipril and Amlapine, my blood pressure medication? Well, first of all, I feel really sorry for you have to live in an environment that's you probably had to get the towel on when you got out of the pool today because it was probably that cold. Um, as compared to what we are right now in the middle of January or not in the beginning of January. Um, so, um, I'm going to just first say I can't tell you to come off a medication, but this is my advice. If um if someone's on blood pressure medication, my question is okay, is anyone addressing the root cause? Because that's kind of you want to fix the root reason why you have it.

So then coming off of it is just a natural thing. So you have all these different medications for blood pressure that really mimic um magnesium, calcium channel blockers. What is that doing? It's mimicking magnesium. Magnesium controls calcium. Um, also magnesium lowers cortisol [clears throat] as in beta blockers that that's a the blocking adrenaline. So, um, there's three primarily primary things in addition to getting on the right low carb plan is number one, potassium, vitamin D, and magnesium for blood pressure. If you were to do that and your blood pressure would come down, then what you do is you find a doc to kind of wean you off uh gradually. Now there is um I am going to be putting uh I finally found uh uh some doctors that I really trust as far as u medical doctors that are more interested in the diet than anything else and so they work with people coming off medications. I'm

I will put that group on my website soon. So stay tuned for that because, you know, don't come to me for take uh telling you to come off medications. I can tell you how to fix the root cause, but then you work with the doc to kind of wean off of it.

All right. Very good. Well, thank you so much, Tracy. Enjoy that beautiful weather down there. And Tracy, you stay tuned, too, because we're going to now ask quiz question number two. And there it is, Doc.

Why do some people feel worse after eating healthier foods? climb on it. Audiences. And by the way, you only had one true false today, audience. The rest four, you're going to put your thinking caps on because they are questions. And speaking of the audience, let's go through a list of all those that are joining us in the new year. So, we'd like to say a happy good day and happy new year to all those viewers joining us from the UK, Canada, Mexico, CIT. Haven't heard from them, I don't think ever. Honduras, Egypt, Iran, the Philippines, the Netherlands, Japan, Chile Israel um Ghana Oman Sweden Ireland, the Virgin Islands, France, Trinidad and Tobago, Poland, Aratria, Portugal Greece America Samoa Australia becan Switzerland Bermuda Germany New Zealand Vietnam Muldova Panama Finland, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Peru, Bulgaria Tanzania Lebanon Armenia the Czech Republic, Pakistan, Denmark, Belgium, Malta, Norway. What a list.

Thanks for joining us everybody. Ethiopia, Ukraine, South Africa, South Korea, Romania, Italy, Costa Rica, Austria Scotland Panama Slovakia Iraq, Colombia, and all across these United States. So, thanks everybody so much for checking in. Let's go now to Halo 1234. I'm getting deep tissue massage to get rid of golfer's elbow pain. It's not working enough though, as I still have pain. What else can this poor golfer Halo do?

Here's a really good tip. Um, stop working on the area where you have the pain. Work on the exact opposite elbow. Do the same deep massage and watch that pain go away. Uh, because it's on a circuit and and it's a kind of a stuck pain flow. Um the other thing that you could do uh is if you have elbow pain on the right side, not just work on the left elbow, but work on the musculature more on your arm, tricep and bicep. Okay? Work out those. And um also then step back and ask yourself, okay, am I a golfer? Am I doing this repetitive motion? How can you know like even with me I switched my mouse on my computer because I realize I'm literally holding this contracted state of my my forearm all day long and I'm like wow. So there's a different mouse that you can hold. It's like uh like you're shaking someone's hand and it's like I just actually I just got it and I'm like wow this is a game changer. Uh and then also

uh you know eliminate anything that's causing inflammation like the high carbs, the seed oils. Um and I won't mention any names so you can just see right here. Um and uh I think um that that should do it. All right. Very good. Let's go to Ann from YouTube. What can cause sudden creiness I guess on the arms and sagging biceps? I've been exfoliating and adding moisturizers and I've started with some supplements. What do you suggest? She doesn't give us a hint on her age, but whatever.

So, yeah, I think it's important to um on a nice gradual gradient is the the solution is going to be more exercise, but uh probably building more muscle. The way that you build more muscle is uh uh more tension, more um higher amount of weights, uh less reps, uh you know, exercise to failure. But, but here's the thing. If you're older, you got to do it very gradually because you don't want to hurt yourself. But um you do want to build up those muscles because what happens, what you're countering right now as you age is um something called sarcopenia, which is a loss of muscle mass as you age. So learn from other people who go through it. Like do whatever you can before you even get to that stage to maintain it.

My whole goal is to get more in more fit uh as I get older and to counter this because I see it in other people. I'm like, "Okay, I'm not going down that pathway." So, um try to do more and more and more to the point where um you're countering not just gravity, but just the aging process which you know starts to dissolve your muscles and you start losing your your skin starts to become paper thin, that type of thing.

All right. Very good. It is an interesting question. Kuzio, if I'm saying your name right, sir, from YouTube, why does eating every fruit upset and irritate my gut? Yeah. Um because you're actually it's it's it's higher amount of fructose and you're introducing something to the microbes which you're going to get more of a fermentation and that's going to create uh more gas more tension uh a distension in your gut. Uh I don't do well with fruits myself so I'll get more digestive issues and that relates to a lot of other microbiome imbalances. So, um, there's a lot of the fruits nowadays are are not fruits that we had long ago.

They've been kind of bred to be more sweet, um, like apples and and a lot of fruits. I mean, um, take a look at the, um, more ancient fruits. They weren't nearly as sweet.

Interesting. Okay, let's go to King Mom from YouTube. How can I deal with social anxiety and IBS? big question.

So, [clears throat] there's a there's quite a few things that we can talk about, but I think um [clears throat] because of time, I would basically start taking ashwagandha. Uh I would start to go go on long walks, get a little bit more sleep, uh take more B1. These are all things that will will help anxiety in general. Also, before you go to bed, um, a lot of times people having like they're just running through all these problems and all these um, unfinished projects in their head when they're sleeping, so they don't sleep.

So, uh, I recommend before you go to sleep, just write down every single project that is not complete. So, you get it out of your head on paper and then list all the problems, put them over here, and deal with them the next day. But uh I know that can affect sleeper too.

All right, very good. Let's go to Peter from YouTube. Does NAC work for advanced cataracts? With two drops of 1% solution twice a day in each eye be effective, how long would it take to see an improvement?

It's really really important to differentiate between the two different types of NAC. Okay, the NAC the one that you want for the for the cataracts is N acetal carnosine, not cyine. Make sure of that. Okay. And then there's certain drops that you can take. There's different concentrations, different products out there. They I mean they sell them for dogs like and it's even hard to find it for humans, but I mean you look at the success story for for cataracts for dogs, it's like off the charts. So, uh, what it doesn't work for humans. So, um you would just find something and then it'll just read the directions and then you know whatever concentration it'll tell you one or two drops a few times a day and then um I I have a in a video I explain how it works but it's a the n um an acetal part is a delivery of the carnosine and the carnosine is next level that goes in there starts to do its magic

There's another remedy with carnosine, zinc carnosine for ulcers. It works like a charm. So, um it just to me it's just fascinating. So, I I do a lot of videos on this and you can watch more on the cataract video.

All right. Very good. Well, our audience has dealt with quiz question number two which asked, why do some people feel worse after eating healthier foods? That sounds strange. And 55% of our audience says it's because of gut biome adjustment. 20% say it's because your body is detoxing from eating unhealthy foods. 15% say it's because of of the blood sugar rebalancing. Boy, these are all lofty answers. 10% say it's because of food sensitivity uh to the foods that are good for you like uh cruciferous foods. Any answers in there that are correct?

The answer is what's your definition of healthy? And this is where we get into uh the problem is that you know what what most people say is healthy. We like if you take a look at these healthy these superfoods, okay, what are you going to see? The kale shakes. I used to promote them. You're going to see maybe some chia seeds, flax seed, healthy, you know, almonds and all these superfoods, right? And then you eat them and you're like, "Wow, I feel so bloated." And sometimes if it's even like whole grains is healthy. So um so many people have irritable bowel syndrome where if they were to eat that with all that fiber uh that's going to irritate them and make them feel worse. So even like now they'll have these super food bars and you consume them and you feel like you're pregnant after you eat them. So basically that's why people and it honestly if you take if you ask me what is the healthiest food I'm going to tell

you uh probably um red meat because so many people when they start eating that and I'm not telling everyone to do carnivore I'm just saying that when you start eating more red meat you're going to notice like wow I'm not bloating I feel better my blood sugars are better I'm getting more nutrients I have more energy especially grass-fed grass-finish I found um hamburger from the health foods. Well, it's not the health food store. It's another It's like a Whole Foods, but it's not Whole Foods. Um they have this hamburger with added um organ meats, heart and liver.

Oh my goodness, do I feel good when I eat that. I was like, "Wow, I have so much more energy. I don't even taste the organ meats." So, I bought everything they have in stock and I froze some of it. But and then the next round that I do with butchering my animals, I'm going to add that the organ meats in there. But um a lot of people do better when they're not adding a lot of different um fibers and stuff to the meal. And so you might want to try that. I I eat a lot of animal protein. I eat a lot of different cheeses.

I eat uh fermented kefir, sometimes Bulgarian yogurt. Um, I'll do fish. I'll do sardines. I'll do uh canned wild caught um um it's cod uh cod liver. So, I'll do a lot of that food. And then also do fer a lot of fermented food like uh Bubbies brand pickles. I love that. I'll do that probably every day. Sauerkraut, other fermented vegetables. So, uh but I will also do a salad here. uh not every not 10 cups anymore. So I have a smaller salad and um but those are the some foods that I I consume on a regular basis and I don't have any bloating with them until I add a bunch of nuts.

Wow. Okay. Well, here's a question for you. Is there any deficit to freezing meat or other foods? And I don't think you have any choice most of the time, but does that matter?

No. No, I would not worry about that at all. Okay. Very good. Let's go. Fact. In fact, uh, you know, I have literally I have quite a few freezers full of meat that as it's been in there for like two years and it's totally fine. Um, so it's frozen like Yeah, I I wouldn't worry about it.

Well, I really don't. I got a freezer full, too. Here you go, Dr. Burger. Here's quiz question number three for the audience.

Why do some people feel fatigued after sleeping sufficiently? All right, audience, whatever your thoughts on that, we welcome them. And let's see. Let's go to U BM2084 from YouTube. I have serious frozen shoulder. Ouch. What can I do to resolve that terrible thing? So, in the frozen shoulder, you have these adhesions with a fashcia, probably scar tissue in there that will hold it in one position. You're not going to fix that with vitamins or minerals. You're going to have to do have someone go in there and do some myofascial stretching and more invasive stretching um on a very small gradient because it's going to hurt when you do this, but you want to keep stretching the fashcia until you release that uh those adhesions in there. So, it's a process. It takes time, but it will eventually happen.

All right, very good. Let's go to um uh one of our guests. Hazel, can you hear us? And can

we can you got kind of a rotten video, so I just want to introduce you to the audience briefly, then I'll take you back to Dr. Burke. Go ahead with your one question, please. I've developed vitilago and um immune I've also hashimotus which is in control and about so what I do [clears throat] um well what's the word not show Okay, I sort of have the gist of your question. Um, Hashimoto's and vitiligo, both of them have one thing in common. They're both autoimmune issues. Okay, which means that they should respond very well to higher doses of vitamin D3. There are I think four doctors in the United States and there's other doctors around the world that have learned the choleim protocol which is a higher doses of vitamin D3 because you can then check your parathyroid gland and but just so you know um especially for vitiligo there's been some really great case studies on this um it's worth worth trying out for yourself uh having

about 30,000 IUs of vitamin D3 of course with the K2 the magnesium zinc uh but um about 30,000 IUs of vitamin D3. There's been um some really good results with that. So, I would definitely do that because that's going to help the immune system. The same thing with Hashimoto's, you want to do high doses of vitamin D3, but but I would also add selenium. Selenium will lower the antibodies to your to various aspects of your thyroid biochemistry and uh it will also help the conversion from T4 to T3. Uh that's selenium. Uh those two things would be very great. And of course on top of all the other things uh that you should do like getting rid of grains, getting rid of gluten, getting rid of sugar, eating healthy. But uh I think that's where I would start. I did a video I don't think I've done one on vitiligo in a long time. Um but I there's a my recent one on the Hashimoto's. You should watch

that as well. Okay, Hazel. We hope that helps. Thanks for joining us. Let's go to Mimi from YouTube. Can nervous system uh dysregulation be postural and what should I do for related stress and panic? A lot of people have, you know, suffering from anxiety these days.

Yeah. So, yes, you're you're when you go into a fight orflight mode, your posture becomes more protective and down here. um you're you're kind of like your breathing is more erratic. Uh your sleep is off. You're not in a relaxed state. The muscles are more tense. So, it's really um you know, the problem with anxiety is it pulls you out of the present and um then you're like, "Oh my gosh, I'm in this posture again." So, it's hard to kind of okay, just relax. But focus on the breathing through your nose. Slowly in and slowly out. And don't worry about counting. Just slowly in, slowly out.

And um through your nose with long walks in nature. Try to get sun. Take more B1. Take magnesium. Sleep more. These are all really key things that you should focus on.

All right. Very good. Let answer quiz question number three. At least the audience did. And it asked of them, why do some people still feel fatigued after sleeping sufficiently? And 60% of our respondents say it's because of a nut nutrient deficiency. 20% say it's adrenal issue. 10% say it's because of low vitamin D. And the final 10% say it's due to high insulin levels. Boy, all sorts of things could be run with wrong with you. Any geniuses in these answers? So, [clears throat] so I've had people that sleep nine hours and they're exhausted and yet and yes there's the long COVID thing. I don't want to talk about that in this answer to this question because I I want to focus more on this other reason which is really common.

If your [clears throat] diet is off, you are going to lack certain biochemical co-actors. That's vitamins and minerals um that help you sleep and help you really recover when you're sleeping. Because if you're just laying in bed, not really going through the deep delta wave cycles of nonm and REM, then you're going to wake up just as tired as when you went to bed. So, all of you were right with um you know, eating more carbs. Carbs put you in a sympathetic dominant mode. if they affect your sleep, so they raise cortisol. This is why keto uh lowers the sympathetic response. Low carb is very very good for for sleeping uh and also not eating too lately or snacking especially. So that's really important.

And then also um getting the the key nutrients to to help sleep. That's vitamin D, magnesium, and zinc. Those three are probably the most important for a quality sleep. All right, very good. Good old Red Baron's back to us with a question from YouTube. I started taking black seed oil supplements. I wanted to try your product, but I need something for the road. What are the benefits of black seed oil and do you have any plans to make it available in the capsule or pill form? Thank you, Red Baron.

I don't have any plans um to make it in a capsule form. Um I wanted it just in the liquid and uh and it's definitely um a challenge for some people. However, what does it do? Um it's one of those those um remedies that literally does everything. It's almost like you'd almost have to answer that what doesn't it do? It has ant it has so many different properties is a unique unique history with how long it's been around with all these different cultures using it. uh and the very harsh elements that it had to survive and it had to create uh certain chemicals to protect itself and help it survive because of the harsh climates. And then what [clears throat] humans can do is piggyback on that and take that black seed or oil and actually get the benefits from the survival mechanism from that plant. So, it's um anti-inflammatory, antioxidant.

Um I mean, I'm not going to make any claims on here, but um you can watch my latest video on it, but it just it's next level as far as what it can do. It's like there's a couple remedies that I'll use when nothing else works. That's one of them. Another one is Tutka because it's like it does so many different things in the body. It's just quite remarkable. All right, very good. Let's move on, doc, and we'll go to quiz question number four for the day. And there it is.

Why do lab tests rarely indicate any nutritional deficiencies? Audience, your answers, please. Okay. And let's uh move back to Zim Reena from YouTube. Should we be taking magnesium supplements if we are experiencing low blood pressure? I know I am deficient, but I get dizzy whenever I take magnesium. Doesn't indicate which type, like gluconate or whatever.

Right. Well, first of all, it could be because you're taking the wrong kind. You want glycinate. Um, that's one. Also, you have to realize that unfortunately, a lot of u magnesium powders and even some of the pills, they have this added maltodextrin as a as a spray agent. They don't tell you that. Um, they don't even list it on the label. That's one. Number two, that can create dizziness. But also I think to for low blood pressure the most important thing is to increase your salt. Add more salt. Um that's what I would do. Um and that should stabilize everything. It's kind of like one of those missing things that everyone's been so focused on too much salt that now they're not getting enough. Um yeah.

All right. Very good. Let's go to Gloria from YouTube. What are the best supplements to treat boils? Well, that sounds never mind. Go ahead. So, I've been really uh successful in just having the person focus on getting their blood sugars corrected because I remember in practice there's literally almost every person with a boil, they were either eating too many carbs, drinking wine too much, or had some type of blood sugar issue. So, I don't know exactly the the mechanism. It's just an uh observation and I do notice that once you correct the blood sugars they tend to go away. So something I would try.

All right, ladies, you are exempt from the following question. Nolan from YouTube, what's the best way to reduce the size of the prostate?

Well, the first thing is to avoid uh things that are um anabolic which make things get bigger. And there's certain hormones that are more anabolic. And the big one is insulin. So you want to reduce your carbs and frequency of eating. The next one is estrogen. Now when you consume milk, I'm not talking about cheese. I'm talking or or even like fermented milk products. I'm talking about actual milk. people do, you know, men do notice that their prostates tend to enlarge if they have that because there's certain growth hormones in there. Um, you never see in these older cultures, um, you never see them drinking just milk. Now, you do see them fermenting milk for sure, but not just straight milk, um, because milk was, uh, more designed for, um, younger babies.

Um but and and this also explains why um a small baby can handle lactose where an adult can't uh because it's a lactose intolerant type thing. We just don't have the enzyme. But uh that being said um I have a v I have videos on this and um when men get uh older their testosterone goes down but the relative ratio of estrogen goes up. So we have all this these plastics nowadays that are creating an estrogenic effect. So you want to be careful of what type of water you drink. Like tap water better be filtered. pull all these forever chemicals and plastics out of the environment. It's really hard. Um, start eating cleaner and then also reduce your carbs and um, and there's also natural herbal things that you can take to reduce the prostate.

Also, one last thing about that, so many uh, men think that they're they're getting up through the night is a prostate enlargement when actually sometimes it's not. It can just be uh a problem with insulin resistance, which actually just makes you want to pee more at night. I did a video on this. So, the best way to correct that is to stop snacking at night and also between meals and you'll you'll you will see a significant difference if you did that.

All right, very good. Let's go to Anasa. I think her name is from YouTube. What's the best remedy for dry eyes? So typically you have vitamin A deficiency, but there's also a lack of zinc could block the ability to absorb vitamin A. So it could be zinc or vitamin A. Um I used to have really dry eyes, but it wasn't coming from either one of those. It was coming from my blood sugar issues and also a lack of protein. So as soon as I fixed my diet, that that eye problem went away. Um, but again, this is the perfect example of if you took vitamin A, which I don't recommend taking as a supplement or you start eating more foods with vitamin A, you probably won't see much difference. If your diet isn't corrected, so fix the diet and then see if you still have that problem. And then you can add some vitamin A foods, liver, butter, cod liver oil, um, and and then shellfish for the zinc and see if that

helps you. All right, very good. Uh, thank you audience, you astute people, you for ripping through these. So we asked to the audience quiz question number four, which is why do lab tests rarely indicate any nutritional deficiencies? And 68% of our respondents say it's because the tests only measure serum levels of nutrients. 28% it says because the tests do not reflect cellular levels. You talked about that doc of nutrients and 10% say uh that the tests aren't as thorough as a doctor might have us believe. Who's right on that doc?

This might answer some of the next question, but I'm just going to say it anyway. It's interesting. You go to the doctor, you get a blood test. They're focusing on certain pathologies and diseases. Vitamins aren't emphasized at all. They're not looking for nutrition, nutritional deficiencies. There's that disconnect there. And even if they were, they're not going to be found in the blood, in the serum, in the blood. uh especially when you get into minerals like potassium, magnesium, 99% of that is deeper inside your cells where um the serum is not going to reveal that. So you could be very deficient and have normal blood levels and like think you're fine. So this is just another uh kind of a blind spot when we're dealing with nutrients and you know what you can't measure you know it's kind of becomes out of sight out of mind like you just don't think about it or measure easily. So it does take some

some deeper testing to measure actual nutrient deficiencies and mineral deficiencies. Um I've I've really delved into this area so I know a lot of people are deficient. Um, but it's an area that it's not easy to test. It's not routinely tested. It's not going to show up in a blood test normally uh for the most of the key nutrients unless you're specifically testing for vitamin D. And even then, you're looking at the precursor. Uh, you're not looking when you measure vitamin D in your blood, you are not looking at the vitamin D inside your cells. You're looking for the thing that turns into the active form. So, if you have a problem with conversion of that vitamin D, which a lot of people do, um you can go, "Oh, yeah. I'm normal." No, you're not. It's not converting. So, again, this is a whole topic that I like talking about because it's interesting and there's a a lot of people that are

nutrient deficient and don't even know it. All right. Very good. Well, we're going to go to Channel 4 Lynn, who I previously called Chanel, and our Grimaran producer Terry corrected me. So, channel 4 Lynn from Rumble. How much of your magnesium glycinate should I be taking to meet the RDA? Well, just given the fact that you probably eat eat certain foods that have some magnesium in it, right? Let's just say that uh one scoop a day would give you like 350 um if you're doing the powder. And then um so that would be enough. That would be enough. Now, if you're trying to um deal with more of a sleep problem or more of a Charlie horse problem, then you should take more or a migraine headache. But the point is that um typically one scoop and I take mine in the evening um after dinner and I'll just uh take one scoop, dissolve it. It doesn't it won't dissolve with uh cold water, but it still doesn't matter

because you just mix it up, slug it down, and uh you're good to go. That'll give you enough.

All right. Very good. Quiz question number five, the wrap- up for the day in questions. There it is. Doc,

why does conventional medicine not focus on root causes? I'm sure we know a lot about that. Uh let's go to Rose's Dream from YouTube. I have severe ADHD. Welcome to the club and wondering how I can best manage it naturally and avoid my midday energy crashes. My energy peaks in the morning and then it's gone until I go to bed. Poor thing. What can we do to help Rose?

I had that. So um [clears throat] realize that the brain needs energy constantly to think to remember to have attention to have cognitive to stabilize your mood and there is no storage of energy in the brain. You don't st like in the body you have fat to be stored. In the liver you have glycogen to be used as energy. Your brain doesn't store glycogen. Doesn't store fat that you can use. It's fatty but you can't use it for energy. So it's completely dependent on what's going on in your blood. So what you told me indirectly is you have a blood sugar issue. And so you might be eating a lot of sugar, but um there could be insulin resistance there creating this up and down type thing. The solution is to go to two meals a day, go up with your animal protein, meat, red meat would be best, and then add a little bit of um vegetable or fermented stuff or cheese. And what's going to happen is your body will then go into

ketosis. Guess what? That is a preferred fuel by your brain. Your brain will thank you. It'll be happier. Your blood sugars will be leveled off nicely. And then for whatever sugar that is not coming from the diet, your body will easily make that. But your body does so much better with ketones, especially if you're if you have blood sugar issues. And uh that will help your focus, your attention. Uh, one of the things I've already talked about this in the first part is there's a key nutrient that switches you over to allowing the mitochondria to get more energy uh from the normal mitochondria and that is B1. So, this is why B1 enhances the efficiency of the motor so you can get more energy to your tissues so they're not starving all the time. So, these are just uh things I are no-brainers you should know. You should be applying that immediately.

All right, very good. Let's go to Tracy from Rumble. How to fix my 70-year-old mother's double vision. Yeah, I need more history. I need more data. I I I don't know what's happening. I I mean, um there's a lot of different reasons for that. Um so, I can't really give you any advice. I would need details.

Yeah. Okay, Tracy, maybe you can come back with us next week's show. All right, let's go to OJ from YouTube. I still have small seizures. I take 500 milligrams of Kera and 300 milligrams of Gabapentan. Are there any alternative approaches you would recommend when it comes to controlling this uh seizure condition? One of the best things that works for that is going on hardcore keto, getting your ketone levels as high as possible. And one way to do that is also not just low carb but more fat in the diet. Okay, you'll get and then add exercise and that actually greatly helps um seizures, epilepsy, and they even do it in hospitals, but I would do it the healthy version, the the version that I recommend.

Um yeah, I would do that. All right, very good. Let's go to Jeie from YouTube. My daughter has a very has very heavy periods and has passed out from low blood pressure. Good grief. What could you recommend to help her with this condition?

Watch my latest video I did on the heavy periods. If you think about what a period is, it's a cramping, okay? Because of this estrogen imbalance. Um, I think right before the period, what's going to really help is to beef up the the magnesium. that's going to greatly help the cramping because it's a it's a muscle cramp. Also, uh in addition to that, beef up the vitamin D levels because vitamin D works with magnesium and in relationship to calcium as well. Uh so I would do that and uh watch my latest video on this because there is a fairly a method of keeping those cramps uh as low as possible. Um, trace minerals are also very very important like zinc and these other co-actors. So, I talk about that in the video.

All right, very good. Uh, Stephanie from YouTube. I have a polip on my cervix. My OB/GYN says it's not cancerous, but wants to take a biopsy of it. That's interesting. I'm hesitant about having surgery. Would there be a natural approach to reduce it or eradicate this polip?

[clears throat] do your research on how um what is the how common is it to have uh benign polyps as far as like what what's the percentage of it converting turning into a malignancy. I already did some of the research so you could see it's not very very common. So then what are the risk factors of doing a biopsy on that? is that is there a possibility of you know creating a situation look I would dive into the area get as much data as possible weigh it out do you really need to do that um you know what causes polyps we're dealing with the uterus which is uh basically like soil and there could be um just like with cysts and polyps and other things. You could probably um benefit by adding more iodine to the diet, keeping the carbs low, making sure that um you have enough vitamin D because vitamin D also helps shrink fibroids and uh it helps with endometriosis. What about trying that and see if it shrinks? Um,

anyway, I'm going to give you a little bit more when I answer this last question that we're everyone's going to answer, but I'm kind of withholding that right now.

Well, speak of the devil, here it is. And it asked our audience, why does conventional medicine not focus on the root causes? And uh, hang on just a second there. Quiz question. 72% of our respondents say because conventional medicine is profit driven instead of curri. 18% say it's because of the current model of medical diagnosis is too reactive and not proactive. And 10% say it's because there is too much reliance on standardized protocols for diagnosis. Yes, you're all right. Um I I think it it boils down to a timing problem and um it's just the system of medicine is um is late on the time time event of things. Uh they do screenings to wait for something to show up like blood sugar problems, right? Diabetes. But do you realize it takes 10 to 20 years before it shows up? Did you realize that uh dementia takes 10 to 20 years before it shows up?

uh high blood pressure, polycystic ovarian syndrome, the list goes on and on and on. So there really is no training um on identifying deeper into when things start in medicine. It's really about practicing medicine, which is looking for some visible thing and then managing that that symptom. Unfortunately, it's a it's a system that a doctor is in that you have to practice that and you're doing that. But when you look at it, it's like, wow, it's late on the chain of events. Why aren't they looking? Any other profession, I'm talking about engineering, uh, a mechanic for your car, they're paid to diagnose and find a root cause, but not in medicine. They get a they get a pass for that. they they're not looking at root causes. Um, incredible, incredible when you look at it. Uh, it's just the management of symptoms later on the effects and they're assuming that if you don't have that symptom, you're in a healthy state.

But this is really the omission, the gap in medicine. they they're not looking at this earlier upstream they call it effects

and uh in and not really kind of diving in and um confronting that but uh they're just not taught it's not in the school system and uh so you're not going to get get that. So the big question is what is a root cause? What are some examples of that? Well, unfortunately, um, even some of the medications are now a root cause of certain diseases. It's called a polyarm pharmacy where you're on a lot of different medications. Toxicity, you know, if you aluminum poisoning, mercury poisoning, lead poisoning, that can be a root cause. Uh, also insulin, high insulin could be a root cause, but that mainly relates to the diet. You're eating too much refined carbs and sugar or seed oils. So diet is at the top of the list and then but you also have nutrient deficiencies can be a root cause too. Magnesium deficiency, B1 uh is huge. B2, B3, uh vitamin C, vitamin D, all these are root causes. Um so microbiome if you have a lot of

antibiotics which is a drug uh and then it's killing off the microbes and all the problems that happen after that. Um so it's the earlier things that happen are the root causes and that relates to lifestyle and that's not really studied. Uh 1.9% of all studies are related to root are uh like lifestyle factors. So, it is the it's the um it's the hole in the bucket and uh it's simply the best analogy is you have a hole in your roof and it's leaking and you're putting this pail and you keep catching the water but you don't fix the roof. That's as simple as it can get.

All right. Very good. Well, guess what has happened? We've gone through an hour in the new year and Doc, any final words for the audience?

Words of wisdom. Have a wonderful, wonderful next year. I just uh I think it's going to be a great time to increase your health and your vitality and your fitness reserve. Uh and I guess my only uh advice would be to as you get older, have a goal of getting healthier and more fit. On that note, have a wonderful weekend.

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Who speaks in "The Dr. Berg Show LIVE - January 2, 2026"?

Dr. Eric Berg (Host), Tracy (Guest), Hazel (Guest), Mimi (Guest), Rose's Dream (Guest).

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In order: 0:00 Ioni 8, Tatiana Gabriella; 10:00 Alan Burke; 20:00 Aahu, Hawaii, Halo 1234; 30:00 Alan Burke; 40:00 Black Seed Oil, Zim Reena.

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