High Carb to Low Carb to Keto to Carnivore | Dr. Ken Berry

why don't we just do like a test question what would you have for breakfast nothing yeah yeah yeah nothing do you have any lunch no okay I'm usually one meal a day yes usually somewhere between 5 and 7 p.m. typically so we are here with dr. ken berry the author of lies my doctor told me and that's a pretty compelling title it was meant to be yeah why don't you tell us the impetus for right so my entire medical career starting in medical school I kept hearing these things that were taught to me as medical truth medical facts that would stick out to me is not making common sense and sometimes in medical practice things that make common sense are absolutely wrong and so but I was so busy as a medical student and as a resident training I didn't have time to actually go do the research on these things so I kind of just filed them away for further thoughts in the future and that's kind of where the book started even as a medical student things I'd be told that just didn't make any sense to me I'm like really is that true I can't believe that's true but I didn't have time and so after and then so then I started to practice and I really didn't have time and after a few years in practice I kind of got everything where I wanted it and I was able to start doing some research on these things that I'd learned years ago was fact and then the more I started looking at other things that I'd been taught as fact turns out they're they're probably not true either and so the reason I chose the word lies instead of myths is that you know if your hairdresser tells you oh you should you should eat more whole grains because they're good for you she doesn't really have any fiduciary responsibilities to you she just needs to fix your hair right but if your doctor who's taking an oath and who's a licensed professional it's his job to know what's best for the care and feeding of human beings if he tells you something that's not factual and that's actually harmful then that's worse than just a myth or it's worse than just a mistake it's his job to no one if he if he chooses not to know because that's what doctors we were busy yeah you're busy but are you really gonna give till some person whose life depends on what you say just something the first thing that comes to mind or what you saw on the news last night or what you read in a magazine or which you were taught twenty years ago and you haven't given it any thought that's not really your job as a doctor or a healthcare professional as a provider your job is to know that what you're saying is the most factually based it also makes common sense and it's also backed up by the research and so that's what I tried to do with Liza's is look at the research but then also consider the common sense of the situation put those two together and see what I came up with okay and so it really does sound like the average doctor is at the very least just kind of behind the curve when it comes to the the newest research what would you say the percentage of doctors having actually read recent medical papers or actively reading medical papers you know per week or per month per day basis you mean read the entire study or just read the abstract and the conclusion the whole study we were just actually talking about this last night if I was able to give a thousand doctors a truth serum injection so they had to tell the truth and I said how many studies have you read the complete study from front to back and looked up one or two of the citations of the most important citations and not just read the abstract which is a summary and read the the conclusion of the abstract which is the summary of the summary I think the percentage would probably be less than five percent less than probably half a percent I'd say five doctors out of a thousand in over the last 12 months I've actually read a complete study and looked up a couple of the citations and then we if you want to talk about how many doctors out of that thousand actually looked at the supplementary stuff looked at the actual crunched numbers from the study that would be zero out of a thousand maybe one of a thousand if we're lucky one more question on that thought what was there some piece of information that was kind of the he caught the the the needle that broke the camel's back you know you found this one thing out and said okay now I have to write this book a well there's mold one's but the probably the main one is as I moved from the standard American diet to then a paleo diet than a low-carb high-fat diet then a carnivore then a ketogenic way of eating more and more I started to look into total cholesterol and LDL that we were all taught that without a doubt was the most important risk factor for heart attack and stroke that that people could have if you had high a total cholesterol in high LDL that was the ultimate risk factor and so you had to take a pill for that and so the more I looked into the research the less I found that can that compelled me to believe that any longer and the more I looked the more other risk factors looked like they were obviously much more important than LDL and total cholesterol and so I really started to research that and when I found out that basically Big Pharma was making billions of dollars a year off of pills that millions of people were taking every day that probably wasn't decreasing their risk of heart attack and stroke in any meaningful way that was probably the straw that got the camel in trouble and I was like hey I can't I can't do this anymore I've got it I got to talk about this out loud great there was this one quote from your book I wanted to see if I could get a comment on so you you said if it if you feel like I'm tiptoeing around just telling you that taking a statin is stupid and it is not protecting you from a heart attack and may actually be hurting you in other ways would be correct yeah yeah and then so when I wrote the book I was trying to be a little more subtle in my advice about whether or not you should take a statin in order to lower your risk of a heart attack and stroke but I'm much less subtle now because as I continue to to come to conferences look like low-carb Houston and keto con and keto fest and here the leading minds in the field really tear apart the hypothesis that saturated fat will increase your risk of heart attack and stroke and that having a high total cholesterol and high LDL increase your risk of heart attack and stroke it just becomes silly after you've really dove deep into this topic there's no research that supports that at all and obviously the common sense of what humans ancestrally ate doesn't jive with that at all and so over the last few months I've become increasingly less subtle about my recommendation for statin drugs and who should take them and who should not so you were talking about how what led you to writing the book was the transition from the Senator American diet and you went into paleo to low carb high fat and then ketogenic is there any recent developments yeah actually there is and so I really feel like that ancestral paleo is this if you had did a Venn diagram right and then within that is the ketogenic Way of eating and then I think for for at least some people a smaller even more appropriate diet is the carnivore diet which is basically eating fatty animal products fatty meats and so I'd seen a couple of guys doing this and they had great success with muscle tone with with health or markers of inflammation got better chronic complications like psoriasis heartburn etc kept getting better and better and I kept hearing this and I thought you know I like to research I like to experiment I'm gonna try carnivore for a month and just see what happens and that was about seven months ago and after the month was completed I had lost seven more pounds heartburn which had plagued me my entire adult life he got about 80% better with keto didn't really get better with paleo got about 80% better with with keto and I've been hardcore carnivore I'd say 98% carnivore for the last seven months I have zero heartburn and for me that's that's a little bit of heaven and if anybody's ever suffered from heartburn it's not fun it's not you know he's like oh it's heartburn no it really hurts and it's really you know it impaired my ability to speak I'd have to swallow at to clear my throat and it literally impaired my ability to communicate with patients and then I was trying to do some YouTube videos as well and it would I would I could see myself having the the kind of the GERD swallow trying to get everything where it needed to be so I could say the next sentence and after I've been carnivore I don't have that anymore at all it's just completely gone Wow really interesting if you have any you know maybe ideas on what the mechanism I think based on my ancestral heritage my DNA I have a lot of very large percentage of Neanderthal DNA I have a lot of Nordic Scandinavian scotch-irish but basically the northern latitudes and so you can imagine if you think just common sense about this what did they eat eight nine ten eleven months out of the year right it's cold there there's no there's no fruits and berries and guavas and mangoes and orange there's none of that right and so for for the vast majority of their entire life they ate fatty meat and then if they could find some veg or if they couldn't find any meat they might eat some veg and once a year they might have a few berries or a few some little fruit or something but for the majority of their entire life the majority of their entire year they ate fatty meat that's what they lived on and I think that you know over the last 50 years we've been told to eat the standard American diet that's not enough time for our DNA to catch up and to actually cope with that but I think my ancestors lived at northern climates for at least a hundred thousand years and that's enough time that's enough generations for things to start to matter what you eat and I think that's why I was I was being inflamed by at least some if not all of the vegetables and when I removed that final carbohydrate source from that from my diet I feel great my body fat percentage hasn't been this good since I was in my 20s and I'll be 50 next month so you might have known that but yeah I'm about to be a grown man next month or in December and so my muscle percentage I seldom workout but it's like I just naturally put back on the muscle that a human would have if you fed that human the right diet so this kind of very it's very interesting and so I've extended my one-month carnivore experiment and now it's I'm in my eighth month because I feel great and I haven't you have yet to have a bad side effects all my inflammatory markers are perfect all of my lab markers that I care about are perfect my total cholesterol and LDL or both sky-high but I don't care about that because I don't believe their risk factors for heart attack and stroke Wow well and it's funny that you say that because uh when I when I first met you at the conference that yeah well you look a lot more muscular than you're doing your videos yeah I don't say no maybe it's the camera maybe it's carnivore yeah interesting and so it kind of sounds like the point is the carnivore diet may work for you depending on your jeans or your rider ancestry did you take a 23andme test I did yeah that's how I and my wife and I both did and so she has a lot more equatorial DNA she's Spanish she's Tiano she has a lot of equatorial heritage and therefore she tried carnivore and she didn't really enjoy it and but she still she eats a fatty meat heavy ketogenic diet right and so she has some vegetables and they do fine for her she's still she looks great she's lost weight she feels greater inflammatory markers are all normal and so probably for her DNA it's appropriate to have a little bit more veg than it is for me okay and one last question on that line so is there any other markers that might indicate like okay you have a more carnivore tuned I guess genes may be one of the eight Boies yeah yeah I would look I would look at your your 23andme or some some DNA concern that would look deep into your DNA I would look at all the inflammatory markers I would look definitely at your insulin and glucose metabolism markers some of the markers on your lipid panel I would look at like your triglycerides in your HDL both of mine are splendid on carnivore and then you could also look even deeper and I'm sure there are tests we haven't even discovered yet that would look even deeper but I think at this point in our medical knowledge every marker that matters carnivore makes my markers better and I don't know if that applies to every human but I think it it applies to a certain percentage Wow okay so I guess a final point to end on would be something like like maybe if you're interested in it and you don't have any other reservations toward Earth let's just say if you're interested in why not just try it for a month right yeah really want to confirm beforehand you could take a look yeah and I think it's a valid argument to see you know a lot of people say oh Kido is that's bad for you kiddos comprised entirely of whole real foods so you're basically saying that real food is bad for me real food that humans have been eating for two hundred thousand years are now bad for me that's what you're saying if you say that and then the same goes for carnivore which I consider to be a subset of the ketogenic way so eating real meat whole meat that humans have been eating for at least two hundred thousand years as homo sapien sapien that's now bad for me somehow even though my DNA is completely used to that and it's been needing that our entire existence on this planet now it's bad for me you see the code that just doesn't that is making any sense when you look at it that way and so but people talk about carnival and Kido like they're a fad diet or like there's some new thing or it's some kind of untested thing human beings having been eating keto and carnivore for two hundred thousand years it actually they actually are the appropriate human diet the diet we've been eating for the last sixty years is actually the fad yeah that's a great point it's kind of you know you hear a lot of people say oh there's no evidence behind exactly yeah every every couple for the last two hundred thousand years eating keto and carnivore has successfully reproduced otherwise I wouldn't be sitting here nor would you if there was one failed reproduction because keto or Carnival was bad for us you wouldn't be here nor would I but we are here and so it must be a pretty darn good diet if it's kept us reproducing and not being extinct for at least 200,000 years somewhat so longer yeah that's that's another great point at the very least we can see me trim using Colin's erectile disfunction does not I totally agree okay well thanks so much doctor my pleasure yeah so if you if you just search for for dr. kinder kindy barrier ken berry MD you can find me on YouTube Facebook that's where I do the majority of my work I'm also on Twitter and I do a lot more on Instagram now that I finally figured it out what the hell Instagram actually is but that's you can find me if you search those okay yeah I'll manse my pleasure

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Length: 15min 41sec (941 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 21 2018

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