The 10 Root Causes of Inflammation - Dr. Berg

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let’s talk about inflammation most of the inflammation that a person has actually is being caused by their own immune system and we really have just two basic uh phases of inflammation you have the acute phase and then you have the chronic phase where you have this incomplete healing inflammation is there to try to heal something but if there’s a constant stimulus which I’m going to cover all of them today you’re not going to get to a point where you can actually resolve it so I want to cover all of the different uh things that can occur and then I’m going to cover all the things that you should do to resolve it the number one selling drug in the world is an anti-inflammatory drug so a lot of people have inflammation but most autoimmune cases actually originate in the gut I did a separate video on that if you didn’t see that I will put that down below but let’s start with number one gluten okay that’s in grains gluten really tears your stomach up there’s a morphine like substance when you have this immune reaction so in reality it can numb the area so you don’t feel feel it while the damage goes on and I’m talking about damage in the gut lining to the point where you start getting leaky gut and then we have particles of protein from your food that can invade through this immigration and bypass this immigration Wall go right into the lymphatic system and boom now we get this immune reaction so gluten is behind so many different issues okay and then we also have food allergies like intolerance to milk sugar but that’s not necessarily a true allergy a true allergy involves a protein like an allergy to casine which is a protein in milk so just by taking a person off Milk boy all sorts of things can clear up number two ultra processed food ingredients now yes you have the artificial colorings and artificial flavorings and the preservatives and all that and other chemicals which may create a lot of irritation and problems but not to agree that these three ingredients do that are made from industrial processed corn okay they go through huge uh series of chemical reactions to the point where they no longer resemble the original corn and then you put that in your body and you’re going to get a lot of what’s called free radical damage Envision just spinning a like a plate right now on my finger it’s spinning around and we have these little weights on it right and if I took a couple weights off it would be lopsided it’s not going to spin correctly it’s going to fall off and might just create some damage wherever that is so that’s what a free radical is I don’t want to get distracted synthetic sugar is bad you’ve heard of corn starch and maybe modified food starch this maltodextrin highly reactive in the body and so it behaves like a sugar but it’s classified as a starch and then we have the deadly seed oils which are again highly refined here you take this Omega 6 unsaturated uh fat which is very unstable okay and then you’re gonna put it under heat um what keeps it stable in that food I mean it’s literally dead people think of you know alter processed foods or junk foods are like the saturated fat in a burger for example well a lot of people do dirty keto and they go to a fast food place they eat the burger not the bun and they seem to do okay you know it’s the bun with the burger and the ketchup and the soda and the fries all together that creates the problem and this is why if you’re trying to heal the body and get rid of inflammation you don’t want to keep consuming these seed oils you want to get on the saturated fats those are the ones that are stable you want to cook with taow you want to use coconut oil extra virgin olive oil you don’t want to use vegetable oils especially when you use heat all right number three viruses a lot of people have um certain inflammatory conditions that come and go that’s because a virus kind of can go in remission and out of remission it could be triggered by your menstrual cycle it could be triggered by stress and so stress is a huge factor in this topic so we’re really dealing with this hormone called cortisol because if you were to raise your stress the cortisol comes up cortisol actually suppresses your immune system so it kind of shuts it down and it allows this pathogen this virus to come out and wreak havoc to create problems so stress puts your immune system to sleep there’s people that have major losses and that can really create a huge problem with viruses come out of remission and here they’re taking all this vitamins and they’re taking eating really good foods is not working because of this darn stress situation that they’re in one thing that can help with this is vitamin D because viruses also have a very sneaky strategy of blocking vitamin D in your body but vitamin D is very important for viruses zinc is also important as well all right number four insulin res resistance okay if you’re doing a lot of snacks frequent eating and you’re doing carbs you can get insulin resistance most of the population has insulin resistance when I used to have insulin resistance boy I had arthritis all up and down my spine so much worse than it is now I mean I could barely feel it now but so many people have told me once they get on keto and they do in fasting their inflammation goes away I mean you should just know about that the next one is just not enough cortisol let’s say for example you went through chronic stress for many years or um you had prazone for a period of time what happens you develop what’s called a cortisol resistance to the point where you don’t have enough cortisol and then the body becomes inflamed and the remedy is vitamin D number six old injuries and that is me okay I had a lot of old injuries and it really has to do with a lack of motion if a joint doesn’t move or if you don’t move you’re sedentary you will develop inflammation arthritics need to keep moving I do a tremendous amount of exercise for that reason that’s what really forces me to get out there I do massive exercise and when I do that I feel so good especially if I I run up hills and things because I can expand my chest which opens up the back part of the thoracic spine the neck it just feels great all right next one sludge in your bile duct a super concentrated cholesterol material okay what keeps it from becoming a stone is bio salts and when it starts to get stuck in your bod ducts it backs up into the liver and causes pain in the right shoulder or in your romboid back here or in your neck that can be corrected by a healthy diet next one is iron too much iron some people feel so much better when they give blood because they have a a genetic problem that they retain too much iron especially men one thing about iron doesn’t get out of the body very easily so if you’re consuming like supplements you might not even connect the dots but that can be the reason why you feel worse one way to know too is if you maybe consume a lot of red meat and you just feel worse from that because there has a lot of iron that’s just one thing or or you eat liver and you feel worse it’s not very common most people feel better when they do red meat all right next one I want to expand on this hypoxia situation this is a lack of oxygen if you have uh chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD in your lungs you can have hypoxia you’re not getting the oxygen hypoxia causes inflammation because here you have this hemoglobin that carries oxygen right if you don’t have enough iron or B12 to hold that oxygen you become anemic and that is a form of hypoxia and then of course injuries create hypoxia theosis of the liver that would create a hypoxia situation or even a clogged artery okay there’s a really good remedy and I might as well just tell you right now it’s called toatal it’s a type of vitamin E to help donate electrons to all the oxidation and it’s a good r