The Dr. Berg Show LIVE - February 20, 2026

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome back, everyone. We're here with another Q&A. There's a lot of people that have a lot of questions, so I always like to jump right in, but I have to make a disclaimer. We're not diagnosing you. Check with your doc before implementing any of these lifestyle factors that may come close to curing you. You haven't heard it from me. Check with your doctor and see if it's okay to, you know, change your diet, et cetera. Well, I think it's a great idea, but I digress. Let's go. Good morning, world. Let's go to iBed from Yahoo, excuse me, from, excuse me, iBed Yahoo from Rumble. These handles are hilarious. I'm dealing with neuroendocrine tumors and prostate cancer, I'm sorry to hear that. What would you do if you had those very conditions, doctor? Well, one thing I would do is the more severe it is, the more radical I would get into prolonged fasting because there's one thing that's very different between tumors and cancer and healthy cells. The cancer cell is living on the edge. It's like barely, it's very sick. So if you take away its resources by going on a fast, like as long as you can fast, I mean, some people do it even 21 days or even longer, but maybe you don't do that initially. But the point is that if you take away the resources, the cancer will not be able to survive. But your cells, your healthy cells can adapt very easily to that. So that's one advantage. And then my most recent video on cancer goes into more of the diet because you can't fast forever. So eventually you have to eat. So what I did is I laid out what to eat based on your type of cancer, because there's a lot of different types of cancer and each one can behave slightly differently. Certain ones need different fuels. So it's a cool strategy because it tells you what to eat. And then you every so often you rotate the diet because that way, by the time the cancer adapts, which it always tends to adapt, you're already off to another diet. So you keep going back and forth and rotate it. I think that would be the sanest solution because when you go to the doc and you ask, what should I eat if I have cancer? They go, oh, it doesn't really matter. Really? Not true. Well, easy for them to say. Let's go to Christina from Rumble. Regarding taking high doses of vitamin D before surgery, is the recommended 50,000 IUs come with one dose in one day? I would do it if I would do like three days before I would do 50, and then the next day I would do 50,000, and then the day of another 50,000. I mean, some doctors prescribe like 500,000, And you're just creating this boost to not let it take a long time to get into the cells, but to just saturate the body really fast and then have better outcomes. So that's what I would do. I would probably three days before, 50,000 each day. I think that would be a good strategy. Wow. Encouraging. Here's a general question. Becky from Facebook, what's the best remedy for heart disease? Wasn't specific beyond that. most heart disease is a problem like 90% is a problem with clots not actually plaquing per se but clotting and that usually happens because there's something inflaming your arteries in which case you need to look directly at what you're eating and the safest bet is to go low sugar and starches. Okay. I'm talking about junk food and seed oils. Remove those three things, seed oils, sugars, and starches. Start eating healthy, go low carb, do intermittent fasting and pull yourself out of that risk factor because heart disease, you know, parallels metabolic disease. And that basically means you've been, your carbs have been way too high for too long. a really good test that I think everyone should have at some point when you're with your doctor, have them do a fasting insulin test because you can have normal blood sugars for 15 to 20 years, yet have a real big problem as a pre-diabetic because insulin is grabbing all this sugar and pulling it out of your arteries really quick. Well, it would be really good to know where you're at because you want to be between two and six. That's where you really want to live. You don't want to get up to eight or nine or 10. Some people even will tell you that, oh yeah, 20 is normal. Oh, really? That's way too high. So you want nice, low insulin. That means that your carbs are low and it's not, your pancreas is not overworking. And that way it'll keep you not just out of diabetes, but heart disease as well. All right, very good. Let's move to our first quiz question for the day. And there it is, Dr. Byrd. Okay, which effect would be more noticeable first when taking collagen? I'm talking about the collagen powder. Would you see changes in your skin first or the joints? All right, folks, climb on that as we know you will. Let's go back to, this is a hilarious handle, Hoor, the hero from YouTube, can fasting make GERD worse? On some people, they do have some acid reflux, okay? But most people actually have an improved situation. But a lot of times when you change your diet and you stop eating and you could have, you might not have enough stomach acid and it gets more concentrated and it just starts coming up. You also have, you're not eating, so your gallbladder is not contracting. So you might get more concentrated bile, which could even kind of come up into the stomach and up even through the top valve as well. So it's rare. It can happen. I wouldn't let that discourage you. I would watch my videos on it because there's a way to correct that. But you want to be able to determine, is that GERD coming mainly from acid or is it coming from bile? Or there's other possibilities. Like for example, the valve is controlled by vitamin B1. B1, you might need a little bit more when you're doing keto or even fasting. So if you're not taking B1 and you're already subclinical, you don't have that much, it can actually show up as a deficiency and it can show up in your valves being a problem like top of the valve on the stomach. So you might need more B1. So anyway, I did a video on that to be able to determine and try to figure that out, you can watch that online. All right, very good. We are proud to bring in our first guest for the day, and his name is Matt. Matt, where are you calling in from today? I'm calling from Oregon, Westland. Yeah. Wonderful. Well, go ahead with your question for Dr. Byrd. So I have a, what is called a seboric keratosis. So all of these spots are just, you know, coming up and on my head. And I've tried the different remedies at the dermatologist's office. They mostly recommended that I do a liquid nitrogen. I did that, but it didn't really work. So I saw some of your videos where you were talking about moles and but it's not really a mole and I just wanted to know if there's any kind of oil or something. I searched online. I looked into your video where you said you could also apply garlic and online the answer says no you're gonna burn them and all of that. So just wanted to yeah, get an answer from you since you didn't really address this specific condition. Yeah. So we're dealing with keratosis in the skin, which is involving keratin. Keratin is one of the proteins in the scalp, also in the hair. So what I would do, I always like to look at these from the inside out because there's a couple of things that regulate the formation of keratin in the body. And I would kind of look at that as maybe that's where the problem is. It could be a zinc deficiency. That would be the number one thing. Number two, I would highly investigate if you're doing any seed oils because seed oils compete with the omega-3 fatty acids, which are super necessary for the follicle of the hair and the skin and the hair itself. The follicle is like the little root or the space around the root, and it needs zinc, omega-3 fatty acids, and the elimination of seed oils. But probably the big lever for you is going to be higher doses of vitamin D3 because vitamin D3 is the kind of the regulator of a lot of these proteins. And I think most people, when they get it tested on the blood, it shows normal, but that only checks the inactive. Most people have problems inside the cell. I've done 280 videos on this. So I think you should take at least maybe 20,000 IUs of vitamin D3 with some zinc, and then just give it a couple weeks and see if it starts to improve then you know okay that's what I need help with also the question is does it improve during the summer months or not okay yeah so the thing is I shave my head and so it does it have anything to do with the UV light sun Do I need, you know, to keep my head covered? No. No, I think the sun and the, first of all, the UV will give you vitamin D. Also, the infrared from the sun can actually help. I think the sun's going to help you as long as you don't allow it to burn, okay? And then, of course, you know, really make sure if you're shaving your head, make sure that whatever you're using is super clean. That doesn have anything that going to irritate it Very good Matt Thanks for an interesting question We hope that that finds some relief for you All right let go And one little thing instead of rubbing garlic juice or any type of onion juice into the hair, a real safe one for your scalp would be something that is, I don't know if you've heard of castor oil. Castor oil, if you get it unrefined, is a really good solution for many issues on the scalp and the skin. And it's non-toxic and it has anti-inflammatory properties. That's another little thing that might help you more than anything prescribed because, you know, and then it has chemicals and side effects, et cetera. All right, Matt. Good luck. Oh, wait a minute, Matt. I think you have one more question. I think we've got some time. Go ahead with your follow-up there, Matt. Go ahead. What about red light therapy? Would you recommend that or not? Highly. I highly recommend it. Red light therapy. There's different frequencies that create different effects. For example, you can find frequencies that are good for healing joints, reducing inflammation. You can also find frequencies that create effects on the skin cosmetically. But what's interesting is inside your mitochondria, you have these little things that are like photoreceptors. They actually receive light and you can actually improve the mitochondria from this red light, which is mind-blowing. So this is why the sun is good for the mitochondria. This is why people feel better also in the summer and or if they go on vacation, they get a little more sun, they feel better than in the winter. Of course, if you're in Portland, Oregon, you have a lot of sun 24-7 or pretty much all year round. All right. Matt, thanks again for a good question. And Matt, this question is for you too. I hope you had time to ponder it. It was quiz question number one, which asked the audience, which effect would be more noticeable first when taking collagen skin or joints? And let's see, 60% of our respondents say it's the joints and the other 40% say it's the skin. is the audience onto something doc? They're on the something. What happens with the collagen is a lot of people take it to get rid of wrinkles and help their skin and things like that. That takes a long time. That takes some months. But the joints, you might see changes with your joints a lot faster. So when you're taking it and like, yeah, oh, I tried it for a week. It didn't work. realize you're probably going to notice in the joints first and then the skin. Okay, very good. Let's see. Let's go to the Swiss 1291 from Rumble. Any thoughts on taurine supplementation for people over 50? Taurine, I guess. Yeah, taurine is good for, it's an amino acid that is good for certain types of problems with sleep. If you don't get into the delta wave sleep and also early morning insomnia. Some people take it for that. And it has other benefits. Here's the thing. It's one of those, there are a million different supplements out there. And even the amino acids, they sell them separately. Even the trace minerals, they sell them separately. And people are always wanting to know, okay, should I take this individual amino acid? Should I take this individual trace mineral? It's like the blind leading the blind. We don't really know. We don't know. You might want to try it, see if it works. I am the poster child for trying things. So I've tried everything. This is why I have a warehouse of things that I tried. The good news, the very good news is I'm going to be releasing, at least to a small group of people next month. A tool, it's an app that allows us to really finally figure out what do you exactly need for your body? Because people are different. What's going to move the dial? What's the least amount of things you should be doing or the things that will create the most change because you can't really assign everything of the same value. Like people tell you, you know, oh, you just need to do everything. Like, well, everything is not that important. I think it's really important to figure out that one thing that makes the biggest change and then go to the next thing. And this is kind of what this app is gonna do. I'm really excited about it because it's gonna help people get rid of a lot of confusion, especially because so many people are given the wrong things to do. And then they spend all this time, money, and wasted effort, and it didn't work. That's the problem. So this is why even when I'm answering these questions, it's hard to give you an answer. And I'm looking on my experience. I'm also asking more questions to try to kind of narrow down what you might want to try but this particular app is going to allow a large group of people like hundreds of thousands of people to test different things to see what really works and what doesn't work and also what works for you because not everyone is the same so anyway I'm excited to release that and we will be reaching out for a smaller group of individuals in March to test this out, but I've been working on a year with this project. So it's going to be quite next level. All right, very good. Well, we're excited to present the next question to our astute audience. And there it is. Question number two for the day. True or false. Most probiotics get destroyed at the stomach level due to the acid in your stomach. All right, audience, climb on that, if you will. In the meantime, audience, who is our audience? Let's demonstrate it by saying a good day to all our viewers joining us today from the UK, Canada, Mexico, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Germany, Greece, Romania, Israel, Scotland, Poland, South Africa, India, Tanzania, Vietnam. Welcome, Vietnam. Haven't heard you from a while. Oman, Ghana, Norway, Pakistan, Greece, Bermuda, Switzerland, Japan, Spain, Panama, Ethiopia, Finland, Singapore, the Czech Republic, South Korea, Uzbekistan, Honduras, France, Kashmir, Italy, Austria, Sweden, the Virgin Islands, Armenia, Belgium, New Zealand, Brazil, the Netherlands, Peru, Slovakia. The Virgin Islands, Kuwait, Costa Rica, Denmark, Iraq, American Samoa, Ireland, and finally all across the United States. Thank you, world, for joining us in our collective vigor to live a healthier, happier life. That is terrific. And let's see. Let's go to Omelin from Rumble. I take magnesium glycinate. What's your opinion about taking bisglycinate, B-I-S? yeah magnesium by glycinate versus glycinate are the exact same thing so yeah they're either or they're basically you can take either version they're both the same thing they're a combination of magnesium and glycine which is a way to deliver it into the body Interesting. We're learning. Okay. You might, let's see, F17 from Rumble. Would you recommend hormone replacement therapy for women with early menopause? I used the lotion briefly and developed a uterine polyp. Is that related? There's always side effects. So my whole thing is, did you try everything else first? There are certain precursors to make hormones, DHEA. there's, you know, is, and then, you know, just like with testosterone replacement, estrogen replacement, really research what are the long-term effects? How can I prevent them? And then try to do things naturally first. It is true as you age, these hormones do plummet. And also the normal levels, the normal ranges of these hormones are based on averages of the population. So they're comparing you to the average sick person, right? Which doesn't make sense. It doesn't mean you're normal. It means you're average. So this is why it's really hard to know if something is, do I really have low hormones or not? Or maybe I do and it says I'm normal. But I think, yeah, when you're dealing with estrogen replacement therapy, it's going to put you at risk for polyps, even fibroids. And so that comes with a package. So I guess I would just tell you to research and see if that is actually true. And then of course, if it's causing polyps, you're going to have to try a different way. Okay. Well, sticking on with the testosterone or hormones, let's take it from a male perspective. Steve from Facebook, not me. What's your take on testosterone therapy? Well, I think it's good for some people. I think you have the pellets and you have the micro injections and you have the creams. If you're going to do something, I would do it bioidentical. One of the challenges with pellets is that you get this sustained testosterone. It doesn't come up and down. So you could develop some problems you have to check. Sometimes you have what's called high hemocrat, which is too many red blood cells that occur. So you have all these benefits, but then all of a sudden you end up with like your blood's too thick, which one solution that people do is they give blood four times a year and that just could solve it. And then other people go to the micro dosing. So it's more natural and it doesn't create this high spike. So there's all these little, you know, with all these new things that you take, it comes with a package. You have to be able to counter it and do your blood and weigh out the advantages and disadvantages. But of course, if you're low on testosterone, make sure that you do all the right things first. Like, are you taking enough zinc? Are you exercising? Are you sleeping? A lack of sleep will literally tank your testosterone big time. So anyway, that's my two sense on that. Interesting. Thank you, Dr. Berg. All right, let's answer quiz question number two, which asked of the audience, true, false. Most probiotics get destroyed at the stomach level due to high acid. 85% of our respondents say that that's true. 15% say no, they're fine. Yeah, they do. They do just, you know, most, the great majority, I would say above 90% get destroyed at the stomach level. Now, this is why you want to get a probiotic that actually has been designed to pass that stomach acid level. And there's different types of microbes that can survive. There's different packaging of that capsule that can survive it. But the whole goal is to do some type of reseeding. That being said, I did a video on this. And I can't even find it, by the way. I don't even know what I title it after, but I should probably do another one because it's super important. There are benefits from these probiotics and probiotic foods that are not even about reseeding your gut of new bacteria, but just by changing the environment that you have in your gut that allows for the right ratios to come back in balance. I mean, this is like, the reason I like that concept is it fits our own lives, which we're not living in an environment that aligns with how our biology was developed from. We live in this modern artificial environment. So you're basically swimming in a fish tank, which is really toxic. And we don't get enough sun. We don't eat real food. We don't get enough physical activity to mimic what our bodies were designed on. So again, the term for this is called ancestral mismatch. I'm going to be doing a lot more videos on this. And I think it's a really great way to diagnose someone's lifestyle to figure out what's wrong with them. We just look, we just do a little comparison. You know, what are you doing now? and let's compare that to what your body was designed to live in, you know, and look back and forth to see where the gaps are. And I would say most people, it falls into two areas, but not everyone. And that's going to be sleep environment, as well as food environment. So, but if you can change your environment and include changing the microbes environment, boy, that's some low-hanging fruit that you can actually get results very quick. All right, very good. Speaking of very quick, our audience is terrific with answering our questions today. Thank you so much for keeping moving through. And here's quiz question number three for them. Okay, true or false, most chronic inflammation happens because the body can't turn inflammation off. All right, audience, what do you think? We know you'll speak to us. Let's go to our old pal, Channel 4 Lynn from Rumble. If I have a candida infection and consume almost zero carbs, guest is on keto, will my pancreas stop secreting amylase over, I hope I said that way, amylase, over time? Please share any research you've done about this. Thank you, she says. So the pancreas is two parts. One is an endocrine gland. It makes hormones. And another one, it's an exocrine gland that makes enzymes. And because you're lowering your carbohydrates, does not turn off the enzyme portion of that pancreas. It probably will improve it. So no, by going on a low carb, you're not going to end up with lower amounts of enzymes in your pancreas. You probably have more. Okay, very good. Let's go to Kim from Facebook. What if taking magnesium glycinate makes you feel bad? What are the best alternatives? Doesn't describe her symptoms. Well, yeah, so it's hard to diagnose that because it could be the source of magnesium glycinate. I'll give you an example. I have to pay more to pull out certain maltodextrin and other bad things out of the flow agents that they make these vitamins with. So I have to pay extra to make sure they don't have them. And I am shocked to find out when I talk to the manufacturing companies, like, wow, you're the first person to ask for that. So I already know it's in a lot of supplements. So you're getting all these extra things that you don't really need in these supplements. That's number one. So that could be one of the things. The other thing is that maybe you're taking it at the wrong time. Or like, for example, some people take vitamin D and they get tired. Well, at least you take it before bed then. Or some people take vitamin D that wakes them up and take it in the morning. So these are just all factors. But there's other types of magnesium. magnesium citrate would be something that maybe you want to try and see if that works. But don take magnesium oxide All right You been warned Okay let go to our next guest This is Yasin coming to us from Jordan Yasin go ahead with your one question for Dr Berg sir Hello, Dr. Berg. Actually, I have familial cholesterol. I discovered this at 25 and I'm trying to eat healthy. I tried statins, but I have intolerance for statins. I have severe muscle pain, and I stopped them. And I recently started PCSK9 inhibitors, but they are not lowering my LDL enough. I have good readings on HDL, triglyceride. I'm taking supplements like magnesium glycinate, vitamin D. In general, I have good readings, except that LDL is not going low enough. So I want to see if you have any recommendations, supplements, food, anything you could help me with. Thank you. Sure. So one thing that people don't realize is when we're talking about LDL, we're talking about, or actually talking about cholesterol. Cholesterol is always packaged in a protein, and LDL is a delivery system. And there's actually two different types of LDL. And if you just check the LDL total, it's not going to tell you a lot of information about what's really going on in the body, unless you do what's called an advanced lipid profile test, which I highly recommend advanced lipid profile, right? And you want to look at deeper what's going on with LDL, especially if you have good triglycerides and good HDL. Do you look at the particle size? And there's two different types. There's pattern A, which is large, buoyant particle size. And then you got pattern B, which is small, dense. The pattern A, the big ones are not dangerous. They're not pathogenic. They're not going to evade your arteries. The small dents will. So chances are you have the large buoyant LDL. And this has a lot to do with another confusing topic, which I should do a video on, which is people that respond in a given group. There's always someone that responds more than other people. And you might be that person. It's not bad. It's just that your body has more of that floating through the body, but it's not creating a problem because it's bigger. I think the more important question, if you didn't want to do that test, was that would be this. Are you going on a low-carb diet? Because that really will determine if that LDL is really bad for you or good. If you're on a low-carb diet, you might have high LDL, but it's not going to be a problem. But if you are on a high-carbohydrate diet and your LDL is high, chances are you're going to have the bad kind that will create a problem. In which case you need to, instead of taking a statin, why not change the diet, which is important. So again, I don't know what you're eating, but that's some general information. And also watch the video. I also watched the video I just released on LDL and cholesterol. I didn't title it that, but I recently released a video. Watch that because I cover this exact point. By the way, we appreciate all the time our guests spend sitting in the green room, so to speak. So thank you, Yassine, for an interesting question. And Sahel, we'll get to you here shortly. But in the meantime, this is for everybody watching. Let's answer quiz question number three. It's a true-false or witch-ass. Most chronic inflammation happens because the body can't turn inflammation off. 72% of our respondents say it's false, and 28% of them say it's true. more smart answers mixed in there, Doc? This is a really interesting topic. I didn't release my video on this. No, I did not release this video yet. But here's what happens. Most people have, in their mind, they think, wow, I have just too much inflammation. Okay. That's my problem. No, no, that's not the problem. The problem is it's not turning off. Inflammation is controlled by the immune system. And inflammation actually should come up and then it should come down as a cycle to heal something. So the question is like, why would someone have chronic inflammation that just constantly there won't go away, which is very, very, very, very damaging? Well, usually they're missing the thing that turns it off. Now, of course, it could be that you're living on a high carb diet and sugar or you're smoking or you're creating inflammation, you're creating reasons for the inflammation. But if you're not and your diet's good, your environment's better, inflammation is there, it could be that you're just, you're missing the off switch. So there's actual molecules called, one of them is called resolvent that actually turns off this inflammation. And it just so happens these molecules that turn it off really are part of the omega-3 fatty acid structure. So cod liver oil, fish oil, krill oil, fish eggs, all these things are loaded with the omega-3 fatty acids. And so you may need to do higher amounts of it. So one thing that I know I had some other people do that we're pretty successful is to take take a little cod liver oil every three or four hours through the day for several days in a row and to really saturate the body with enough of those resolving molecules to turn off the inflammation and then if it turns off your inflammation and you start feeling better then we know that's really your problem you're you just have a a problem with the off switch. Now, again, this won't work if you're on a higher carb diet. You have to go low carb because that alone will create inflammation. All right. Very good. Let's go to quiz question number four for the day. Interesting one. If magnesium is necessary for making energy, which it is, then why does it help us sleep? that's an interesting question all right let's go to g sister from youtube what are your thoughts about the benefits of hydrogen water there's a there's a lot of people that love it um and they're doing it uh so that's obviously it works uh i i have a hydrogen machine i tried it it didn't do much it's not because it could be you know again i'm a human guinea pig it's it could be not because it just doesn't work. It's just that I didn't really need it. So there's a lot of research right now going on with hydrogen, just like other things like ozone and oxygen and CO2. These are all fascinating. I'm looking into them. But it's one of those things where I talked about at the very beginning, there's a million different remedies out there, but what is the one that's going to move your dial? And when we have this app, we'll be able to figure this out with enough people, enough testing. But in the meantime, it's a big guess. It's a guessing game. And I have the advantage of kind of being connected to a lot of people and seeing things. So I'm like, again, I think people, they should try and see if it works for them. So you might find something that's like, wow, this is like mind blowing. This has really helped me. but you might find it didn't work. So again, that's one way to see if something works without trying to do some expensive lab test and try to find out if it's going to work or not before you try it. This is why I like supplements. A bottle of supplements don't cost nearly as much as in a very huge expensive test. All right, let's wrap up with our all-male lineup today. Next we have Sahel. And Sahel, where are you coming from? Where are you calling in from? Hi Dr. Berg calling in from Abu Dhabi. First of all Massive thank you for you like I followed your recommendation of 10,000 IUs and a year ago I followed this to get rid of my lower back pain and since then it's vanished so thanks a lot for that thing and since then I preach everyone about your videos so right now as it's allowed of with only one question but actually I had two one was the first four concern is about essential tremors actually my entire family has it my father has it one of the uncle has its few of my cousins have it and I'm afraid my 15 year old son started showing like quick small signs of it like sometimes so any take from your side about that and so another go ahead uh another was about the autoimmune like uh use of detoxifiers like emothion or curcumin c complex i haven't found any videos of yours particularly in that one so that would be my second question actually So with autoimmune diseases, which is the second question, I always recommend the columbri protocol, which are using high doses of vitamin D3 with magnesium and K2 and all these other factors. Very important to put that autoimmune back in remission. Now, these other things you mentioned, curcumin and resveratrol, these are all good things to help with inflammation in general, but the vitamin D factor for autoimmune is going to be key with selenium. Now, with the tremor situation, I should probably do a video on this, but if we take a look at, we have a neurotransmitter issue with the tremors. And so you see people with Parkinson's, Parkinson's, which basically is like they have tremors and things like that. But also you have people that don't have that, that actually have these resting tremors, in which case I would do high doses of B1, natural B1, to help build up the acetylcholine in the body to see if that can't get rid of it. Now, especially if it's just on one side of the body. uh other tremors are um they usually have a problem in the part of the brain that's involved with dopamine i've talked extensively about that dopamine with um so which dopamine is involved with like motivation and movement and things like that and if you have a problem with it it's like things like you lack you stumble and you shuffle and you have resting tremors i i don't think that's the problem. I think I would recommend the high doses of B1, natural B1 for a period of a few months and see if that doesn't resolve the tremors and then go from there. Yeah, I think I'll stop there. There's a lot more to talk about on that topic, but I don't want to go too far in the woods. Great. Thank you so much. Great call, Sahel. And I appreciate all your time joining us. And so, Sahel, if you've been watching, we asked quiz question number four, which asked of you in the audience, if magnesium is necessary for making energy, then why does it help with sleep? And that is an interesting question. 65% of our respondents say it because magnesium relaxes muscles. 25% say it lowers cortisol. And 10% say it also enhances cell functions that improve sleep. Okay, good. So magnesium is the cofactor, the helper in making ATP energy. It doesn't necessarily give you more energy, like nervous energy. It doesn't give you more energy than normal. Okay, just brings you to your capacity. It kind of gives you all the raw material so you can make the normal amount of energy you need. But it's also good for sleep in that it helps reduce cortisol. It helps the muscles relax because calcium is contraction. Magnesium is relaxation. And there's literally like 300 more things that it can do in the body. And some of those are related to sleep. Some of them are just related to other things. But it's not going to wake you up, But it does take a good amount of energy to get in a resting state and sleep. If you take a sick person who also, you know, has a dysfunctional body, like they have a problem sleeping. So it takes sometimes a healthy body to be able to sleep soundly and comfortably. All right, very good. Let's go to Redskins Fan from Rumble. If you have B6 toxicity, how long will it stay in the body once you discontinue it? It should go, it's water soluble, so it should go through pretty quick, maybe a few days. But just make sure that you, it's not the source of B6. Make sure you want the active form. But it's not going to be an allergy. People don't have an allergy to vitamins, but it could be some type of a genetic problem where you can easily get too much, especially if it's synthetic. So there's all sorts of other things to look at in relation to B6. I mean, B6 is another key cofactor for so many different biochemical reactions that you can't really live healthily without it. So. That's interesting. I might add to that. I had it and I think it is genetic or whatever. And I got neuropathy from it. I went to a neurologist and he said, my God, your B6 is off the charts. And Dr. Berg recommended benfotamine and I will move back on it. And my little toes are coming back to life. So it really does work. But it took a while for that peripheral neuropathy to calm down. But I'm 72, so it can still happen. And I'm on the road. Again, thank you, Dr. Berg, for your recommendation. because by golly, it worked. And good luck to you, Red Skin Fan from Rumble. Let's go to Myrna from Facebook. What are the risks if we have high levels of vitamin D? What steps can we take to reduce those levels? Haven't heard much about that. So the first thing we have to do is define what high levels are because you'd be shocked to find out anything above like 80 nanograms per milliliter, some doctors will say that's too much, that's toxic, which it's, show me the data that that's toxic. It's very, very, very rare to have a toxic level of vitamin D3. That's number one. And the people that did have the toxic levels were on hundreds of, hundreds of thousands I use a vitamin D3 for months. And even then, I think the toxic effect can also occur, not even from the vitamin D, from a lack of the cofactors, not enough magnesium, zinc, K2, things like that. So that's one thing. Because if you're operating off of, oh, I need like only 30 or 40 nanograms from the leader and you think that's normal, you operating off of the wrong information you gonna be on the low side And by the way they only testing the inactive But to really make sure that you don run into a toxic level get your parathyroid hormone tested. Because parathyroid hormone is a good indicator to know what's going on deep in the cells. Because, and I'm going to just tell you this right now and try to simplify it because this is really important. Vitamin D has a function of making sure there's enough calcium in the blood. It's really important because not just for your bones, but we need calcium for communication between the cells. So our bodies really tightly control that. So if you don't have enough vitamin D, you have a backup system, the parathyroid hormone, and it'll actually remove calcium from your bone and put it in the blood to keep normal calcium. So let's say you're wondering, oh, am I taking too much vitamin D3? Get your parathyroid tested. You want it to be low, okay? That means it's not trying to back up the system. If it's super high, then like, wow, maybe I'm taking too much vitamin D3. Start reducing it. So anyway, I just wanted to kind of give you an indicator to know if you're taking too much. All right. Well, I don't know if we gave away the answer, but why don't you consider this question, Dr. Berg, and see if it's worth putting to the audience or you just want to expand on it a little bit? Well, let's just, let's ask it because let's see who's paying attention, Steve. If vitamin D raises calcium in the blood, then what directs it to the bone? Audience, I've got every confidence in you. All right, let's go to Samuel from YouTube. How do I get rid of visceral fat? I am a diabetic of 38 years old with five years of dialysis and eight years since my kidney transplant. Ouch. Now I'm having heart issues. It's a complete chemistry nightmare. Help, says Samuel. Yeah, you need the right information. And the most important low-hanging fruit lever to focus on is reducing your insulin. I'd be really curious to know what your fasting insulin is. I would probably guesstimate it's high. You want that thing between two and six. And how do you get it down there? Well, you need to do zero carbohydrates, zero carbs, no carbs. That's carnivore. uh and uh but you know if your kidneys are a problem maybe you need to add some sauerkraut and maybe some cooked vegetables or some um some leafy greens with that now uh the other thing that is going to be even more important is to do intermittent fasting one meal per day is called omad one meal no snacking okay just do that and And come back in a month and tell us how much visceral fat you got rid of. It'll be a lot. Boy, that's neat. That's encouraging. Dave from Facebook, what do you recommend to prevent UTIs? And I think that's usually women's territory, isn't it? Yeah. Well, I would obviously there's, you know, you want to find the source of that. were you exposed to something? There's unsweetened cranberry juice that tends to help with that. There's various remedies you can do from that. But if there's microorganisms that are in the area of those tissues, there's a lot of different remedies to clean them out, but also going on a low carb tends to starve them off as well. So that's one thing that I would do. And then I would also add to the diet two glasses of one tablespoon of alpacida vinegar in each and spread them out through the day and start to change the pH of your body a little bit to see if that doesn't help clear out that UTI a little faster. All right. Very good. Well, let's see. I'm going to answer quiz question number five. Boy, that was fast. This might suggest that the audience was listening. If vitamin D raises calcium in the blood, then what directs it into the bones? 95% of our respondents say it's vitamin K2, and then the remaining 5% say it's magnesium. How smart is our audience this afternoon? They're pretty smart. It's vitamin K2, but you need magnesium as a cofactor for vitamin K2 to work. Wow. Interesting. So magnesium doesn't actually directly push it into the bone, but it's really important. I mean, do you know how many people are deficient in magnesium? It's massive. So now the K2 doesn't work. The vitamin D doesn't work. I mean, like it's, and they're trying to figure it out. You really, it's a biochemical thing. So again, the importance of magnesium, I can't can't underemphasize it enough or over, I can't emphasize it enough because it's so underemphasized. Wow. Okay. Well, here's something sort of shocking. Patty from Facebook, would you recommend sunscreen for someone who has a family history of melanoma? All of my siblings and my father have dealt with it more than once. Ouch. Is that genetic or what's going on there? so if you're especially if you're fair complected you got to be very careful but I wouldn't completely avoid the sun 100% I would just get small doses and then make sure you never burn but I would also beef up on your vitamin d3 and the reason I'm saying that is because this whole sunscreen thing which by the way is filled with chemicals like crazy and also the avoidance of sun, both of those things together in the 80s, did not decrease the numbers of melanomas. So what's going on with that? I do know that a lot of times melanomas occur on areas of your skin that are not exposed to the sun. So I'm not convinced that it's a totally 100% of the sun, you know, UV. Of course, if you burn yourself for many, many years, that's a problem. But I want you to flip the consideration on that. We're always concerned about the sun causing melanoma. What about all the concerns of not getting enough sun, the risk of that? Do you realize that actually will increase your risk of even certain types of cancer by a lack of sun. Let that sink in. That's interesting. But we don't hear about that. Our bodies were evolved in a lot of sun. So I'm not recommending getting burned, but definitely we need a lot more exposure to the sun. And I mean, just think about what happened in the early 1900s. We had sanitariums that you'd go to to get healing from being out in the sun in some resort. And then all of a sudden that disappeared when medicine came into the picture. But I am not buying and never bought that the sun is a bad thing. So anyway, that's my viewpoint on that. All right. Well, my viewpoint is that I think I speak for all men in our awe and gratitude for what women put up for us to bear children together. And Sharon, as an example from Facebook, Can you offer any help to alleviate severe menstrual cramps, which us boys don't have to put up with? Well, I would definitely beef up your magnesium levels a lot, and especially before a menstrual cycle. And I would add zinc in there as well, because what we're dealing with is a cramp that's affected by hormones. So let's give the body all of the magnesium it needs to create a regulation of that calcium buildup. Because what a cramp is, whether it's a charley horse or muscle spasm, it's too much calcium in the tissues. The way we get it out is by increasing the magnesium. All right. Dia Dabi from Rumble. What's the best way to prevent muscle tears? Well, again, we're probably related to overuse, overexercise, lifting too much, jumping into a program too fast, in which case we have to cut it back and go into it slowly, especially if you're not used to it. There's some great suggestions on a combination of eating healthy, having enough collagen in the diet with enough vitamin C to have the raw material, but then to go into exercise on a very gradual level to the point where you can really build up your structure to be able to handle higher forces, which I highly recommend. When you get over 50, you need to start doing weight training because to prevent osteoporosis, you need that. Walking is not going to prevent osteoporosis. You have to actually do some strain on the muscle itself. And one of the things that you can do is grab like some dumbbells, you know, and you work up to this too, but just holding weight while you're walking, doing hiking, can greatly put more pressure on the areas of your body that develop osteoporosis and also strengthen ligaments and tendons a lot better. There's exercises that are more functional movements that involve lateral movements and rotation to be able to really stabilize these tendons and ligaments, which I think are super important. And a lot of people will just tear them because they haven't built them up. Very good. Ellie from Rumble has a really interesting question. I sleep with a mask at night, not a CPAP. On the weekends, I get an extra five to six hours of sleep because of the mask blots out the light. Am I ruining my circadian rhythm by using a blinding mask? No. In fact, it's an important thing to help you sleep because the contrast between the bright sun and the dark is what's missing in our modern environment. And to fix the sleep cycles, You get sun in the early morning. And it doesn't have to be right away. It could be 9 o'clock or 10 in the morning. You get that bright sun for at least a half hour, 45 minutes. And then at night, if your room isn't completely dark, you can wear the mask. I wear the mask. And you're basically sending signals to your brain is to turn off anything, adrenaline, things like that. And then you're increasing melatonin, which is going to help you sleep. So I'm all for the mask. I'm also all for earplugs. So you can actually have that environment that mimics how our bodies were developed. And about two or three hours before bed, start dimming that light. Don't just have the lights on. So that light cycle, completely underappreciated. it's so important and the contrast. All right, very good. Another interesting question, this time from Gail from YouTube. I'm dealing with bile reflux. The bile is traveling toward the stomach instead of the small intestines, and she wants help with that. Does that make sense? Yeah, I've done a video on this. I think what I would do is make sure you're doing your, So the bile release is triggered by various foods. And you should watch my videos on bile deficiency, bile exercise. All the bile videos I have, you should watch that. So you have the production of bile, and then you also have the contraction of bile from the gallbladder into the stomach. So you probably are eating the wrong foods that are triggering this, that you need to do more intermittent fasting, too. because people that don't do intermittent fasting and they're eating even snacks in between meals, the system doesn't have a chance to really clean out effectively. So it backs up and that bile backs up into the stomach and it can even get up to the valve on top of the stomach as well. So yeah, it's a big deal when you start having bile reflux. And I highly recommend also checking for SIBO, doing that protocol. I have videos on this. It's actually probably more common than you think. All right. Let's go to Crystal from Rumble. Do I need to worry about hair loss by going on a 40-day fast? I plan to take electrolytes and trace minerals regularly. Any other advice you would share? Yeah, I would take the B vitamins. And let's say you start to notice like, wow, my hair is starting to fall out, then just take a little bone broth. Okay. It's not that many calories. It won't necessarily throw you out too much, but it can go a long way into giving you a little bit booster with some amino acids to help your hair. All right. Let's try to get one more question in this time from Steven from YouTube. What is the best regimen for removing toxins from the body? is to obviously change your environment. But number two is to strengthen your detoxification system by consuming things like cruciferous vegetables, foods high in sulfur, which by the way, would be red meat. Yeah, that's right. A lot of the detoxifying mechanisms in your body need high quality animal protein. Yes. So the combination of protein with cruciferous, I mean, the perfect thing would be to, you know, have meat and sauerkraut. That would really help your detoxification system enzymes and to help you more than trying to take something to purge these toxins, which come with a package. And I've tried, tried them many times. I don't like those. All right. Anything you'd like to share with the audience, exciting things coming up, new videos, etc.? I'm really excited about this. It's called the Wellness Map, and it's a new app coming out. This is going to be mind-blowing because we will be able to have a tool with all the latest technology to figure out what matters and what doesn't matter, so you don't have to waste your time and effort anymore. I mean, think about how much guesswork is done in the area of natural health and medicine as well, which we won't touch on. But yeah, so I'm excited about that. You'll hear more about that. We're going to start with a small little pilot. And we're already testing it out. It's awesome. But this is going to be next level. So until then, I will see you tomorrow on my next video release. Thank you.