Dr. Berg’s Anti-Aging Seminar

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welcome to the anti-aging seminar today we’re going to answer a question is it possible to reverse the aging process or at least slow it down I believe it is so before we get into how to do that I want to talk about a big problem in healthcare we’re running into right now and that has to do with there is no prevention it’s all treating symptoms it’s not preventing anything so let me just show you something right here this is a book um called Frank N MD endocrinology and we’re going to talk about the adrenal gland because there’s an aging hormone it’s called cortisol and cortisol will make you older and so you need to know about it you need to know how to undo it and slow it down and this is what it says the normal adrenal gland has an enormous functional Reserve indeed the adrenal deficiency does not become clinically manifest until 9/10 of the adrenal has been rendered unresponsive now what does that mean that means that before it shows up in a blood test it has to be 90% destroyed you see the problem if you wait for your adrenals to be showing up on a blood test it’s too late and the same thing goes with um the heart does anyone know the first symptom of a heart attack over 50% of the time well guess what it is it’s actually there is no symptom it’s death you just die so sometimes your body gives clues some times your body does not give Clues you really can’t go by symptoms same thing with the liver your liver has to be almost completely destroyed before it shows up in a blood test so what we’re going to get in today is some of the problems some of the solutions in relationship to the anti-aging cycle all right there’s two situations you have right here you have creating Health okay versus treating disease so the medical model is this over here treating disease and that’s that basically what they do I want to set up a new model and that’s called creating health and avoiding disease it’s completely different what we want to do is we want to stay over here at how do we create Health well through your Foods the nutrients in your Foods the type of exercise the Sleep the things you’re doing to reduce stress all these things are creating health and of course the counter creating of the health is just the opposite you know it’s what you’re putting in your food as far as junk Foods bad foods artificial things alcohol not sleeping stressing your body out all those things are counter creating your health but there’s also something else and that has to do with doing nothing all right doing nothing is counter creating your health because if you do nothing it’s your body’s going to fall apart so if you sit in the couch all day you’re not going to create any health are you you’re going to counter create your health so here’s the thing here’s the problem with treating the disease model what happens is that the doctor says you have to wait you have to wait 6 months months and we’re going to test you again so every six months we’re going to test you we’re going to test you until you have this disease well by the time you wait you’re already going to have it so my suggestion is that we actively and aggressively create your health now because the odds are against you do you realize that cancer takes 20 years to grow in your body before even shows up on a test 20 years that’s two decades so you really can’t wait and then because when you wait and then you actually are diagnosed it takes incredible energy to undo this thing in fact when you get chemotherapy the success rate after 5 years is only 2% so the disease model treating the disease model doesn’t work it’s very very expensive and the prognosis is not very good and there’s a lot of side effects because the drugs create other complications what I suggest is we do this we really focus on this C Health thing because this is all if you want to know about anti-aging it’s right here it’s all about creating your health it’s about creating your cells healthier it’s like building this thing up that will make you younger I’m doing it personally in about three years I’ll be 50 I feel like I’m 20 but when I was in my 20s I felt like I was 90 so I’ve been actively building up my health and creating my health and I will tell you that this model really works so my goal with you is to make you more aware of this right right here put your attention on this okay because every single day whether you know it or not you’re either creating your health or you’re counter creating your health which is basically creating disease so there are little actions that you can do each day that make a huge difference but there’s really two mistakes that people make number one is waiting until they have a problem and men are notorious for this because they tend to be more Macho or they wait they don’t want to admit that they have weaknesses and I treat uh small percent of men but only because their wife dragged them to my office and then they decide okay I’m ready to do something about it but women tend to be more responsible hopefully you men in the audience are going to be more responsible today but what we want to do is we want to not wait anymore we want to take action waiting never works because sooner or later you are going to have a health problem I know some of you have uh parents or grandparents in your family right now that just out of the blue got sick and now all the family is sucking into trying to help this person so waiting always leads to more problems down the down the road so that’s that’s mistake number one mistake number two is that you have no Health goal or your goal is too small it’s like what is your health goal well I don’t know I’m just going to wait till see what happens to my life in a couple years my goal for my body is to get younger every year that I get older does that sound like a good idea yeah absolutely because if you do that if you actively create on your health then guess what what happens to this disease State you avoid it in fact when it’s like learning Kate then no one wants to fight you you’re actively countering and bulletproofing your health for the future and so that way you take yourself out of the risk factors and out of the state where your doctor’s saying hey let’s wait in six months and let’s test you and see when you have it so then we can treat you with a drug I want to aggressively actively promote and create a health Reserve that you are totally bulletproof for the future now let’s talk about the three mistakes that people make repetitively over and over and over without really knowing they’re making a mistake the first mistake is these things called antioxidants and I know some of you are taking them vitamin E and vitamin C and the and I guess the Chinese herb tea that you’re drinking and the gko baloba and all that stuff well let me explain something the whole free radical theory is a myth now before you reject that because I was the guy that was pushing that at one time thinking that there’s these free radicals going around destroying our body making ourselves older until I started to go and read some of the studies that were done on these antioxidants so let me read you a couple these are scientific studies that will show you that these um the antioxidants either don’t work or they make you worse check this out here’s one the alpha tofal that’s vitamin E beta uh keratin that’s vitamin A prevention study this was done in 29 9,000 people okay it increases taking antioxidants increase the risk of cardiac death stroke and risk for coronary events okay the the trial will stop early all right the next one called The Poet prevention study done in 751 people neither beta katene or vitamin C or vitamin A reduce the incident of tumors or PPS or prevented any PPS okay and then we had another study the physician study this is shows no difference in the incident of malignant cancer stroke or cardiovascular dise