Dr. Berg Evaluates Tara Shimer Symptoms (Part 1)

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[Music] hey guys we’re back with another interview and this time we have Tara and Tara is the owner of the ketogenic Baking Company and I the way I found out about her is I online I I saw this incredible I think it was sneaker snickerdoodle granola and I wanted to check it out so I ordered it and I was like blown away so I had to contact her and see how she made this so that’s how we we met but so you you also had some health issues so don’t want to actually kind of kind of just use as an example of how a good evaluation would go and some of the pitfalls that a lot of times the doctors when they evaluate people they just basically list your symptoms and they connect with what remedy that you’re supposed to take and you gave you gave me a little history so I can see what’s happening like you go to these doctors and you just you don’t really dig deep and to find the cause right so can you tell me like I have some questions number one was there a point in your life that you were actually fine and you didn’t have any health problems I want to say no probably probably before age 13 I was maybe decently healthy I don’t think I had any notable symptoms that were consistent well see this is always important because there’s always a time that things are going along and then they get worse so the 13 to be interesting and I think doctors don’t ask this got enough because there’s always something that was triggered now the first thing that comes to mind when you’re 13 is that you probably are going through puberty your menstrual cycle maybe you can tell me is that when your first period was around there was it earlier first period was 12 and it was pretty normal but 13 was when I actually began so I developed an eating disorder okay so this is what I wanted to know about because you know you gave me your history but I want to know is there anything behind this scene so an eating disorder and was that did you notice that your cycle was off first or you just developed an eating disorder right away and then all of a sudden things started to go out of it out of whack my cycle was actually there pretty normal from what I understood to be normal at the time I think looking back I can see maybe there was already some estrogen dominance going on just based on the cramping as well as the flow so once the eating disorder happened was when it disappeared for two years right okay so that was the first thing that the chain reaction and then as far as eating disorder how long did that last how did that how long that problem last anorexia continued through high school until I was about 18 and then I developed bulimia though it wasn’t until a few years ago that that stopped so from age 13 to 18 you basically went in a very low-calorie type thing yes got it so we got all sorts of nutritional deficiencies that can happen and then with bulimia how long did that last see I’d say six six years okay six years and did you also go on low calories as well and oh yeah okay so that that would explain so we have quite a few years of that body stress and what’s your age now 28 28 okay so so just to kind of summarize some of the symptoms that you told me there was a you had hep-c right okay and then you had a blood sugar issue I think you said your blood Sugar’s were 177 right yes so that’s some serious blood sugar issues you got a metformin you’re still on that Foreman right I was diagnosed with PCOS got it for those people that never heard of that that’s polycystic ovarian syndrome it’s a condition where the ovaries are developing little follicles a little cyst and then there’s higher levels of androgen okay going on and there’s facial hair things like that I don’t know did you get those symptoms as well I’d actually had no symptoms the loss of period that’s one of the reasons why I’m considered to be this serious my case okay so just a little side point on on that when you went to the doctors obviously did your research probably what did the doctors tell you that’s causing PCOS I was not told what was causing it actually and when I requested metformin because I’d done my own research I was told no and that birth control was the answer Wow interesting and when you researched online I would imagine did you find any causation to that like will cause up the causation behind the misinformation no PCOS Oh lutely and I had already begun a ketogenic diet so I had already started to see my blood sugar fall it was when I found the blood sugar the 177 that shot me into researching and figuring out the insulin issue was that was that a rest was that a fasting sugar 177 it was it was six hours after eating half of a quest bar so Wow Oh carb you know yeah so so basically what causes PCOS is insulin resistance is high insulin that’s really what causes it so because high levels of insulin converts to androgens so that’s that’s that connection at the time - you had other symptoms like rage and depression and all that - right yeah okay so then you want an intermittent fasting and that cleared right up so we in it so we know it was blood sugar those and this is I did a video on this - where you have all these mood issues mood disorders that people are taking psych drugs when in fact it’s just a blood sugar issue also you had the hair loss constipation weight gain fatigue right and yes I was prior to intermittent okay got it now also they found your t3 was slightly lower right got it and so you’re on are more that’s a natural thyroid hormone which is way better than synthroid and then you also had IBS right yes still still would say that I do there was some suspected SIBO he want to mention and I’m so I wasn’t actually tested for it because I wasn’t interested in having all that sugar for but um but my symptoms matched up and I did end up doing an herbal protocol and I haven’t had symptoms of SIBO since then okay and then also oh yeah your insulin you did the intermittent fasting and your the depression just vanished and then three months you lost thirty pounds which is quite amazing I didn’t have to make any effort Wow well but currently you have high levels of progesterone right yes okay and then chronic high levels of cortisol yes and my estradiol is very low so now we have low estradiol okay and I’m gonna come back to that in a second but you’re still on metformin which is for a pre-diabetes or insulin resistance and also an armorer for thyroid let’s see also you had digestive issues or do you have currently have digestive issues well actually it was your Apple Center video that taught me well a few years back and that started me realizing that it was a low acid issue so since then I’ve done I’ve done some things like you know slow down how I eat or when I eat and chewing you know chewing more but still taking the apple cider vinegar I also supplement with HCl and then I had a test that showed my pancreatic output was just low in general so I began taking digestive enzymes okay so as long as I have those things my digestion is okay got it okay do you get any pain or tightness right here in your upper back like upper right shoulder not consistently but occasionally and I have suspect while I’ve been told my gallbladder is under under outputting as well that’s what I was gonna ask you about because the gallbladder you get a lot of those videos it goes right to the right shoulder and sometimes even cause headaches I mean people that have even pain in their hand or the right side it’s all gallbladder okay so we have that oh and terrible insomnia right mm-hm that’s my biggest symptom I think other than the law of the MN areia okay yeah no no cycle so and then you also keep melatonin doesn’t help in fact your melatonin is high okay so you’re basically melatonin doesn’t help all right [Music] okay so now so basically when I evaluate this I’m looking at all this data and I’m trying to putting in litt