THIS Ruins Your Health!

In this interview with The Epoch Times, I discuss my approach to health and a wide range of topics, from RFK Jr. to the healthy ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting. Don’t miss my expert health tips in this exclusive interview!

knowledge Doc is a nutritionist and chiropractor specializing in healthy eating and Alternative Healthcare more broadly he has published over 6,000 videos and amassed 13 million followers on YouTube and has trained over 2500 doctors and Healthcare practitioners and how diet can impact your health when you reduce carbohydrates it then forces your body to go after your own fat as fuel so for weight loss it’s great and for other things it’s good too in this episode we discuss his approach to health from superfoods to intermittent fasting and get his thoughts on Bobby Kennedy as HHS secretary I think if if we are going to make some changes we have to first of all make people aware of these hidden ingredients and start to get them out of your diet this is American thought leaders and I’m Yan Kell Eric Berg such a pleasure to have you on American thought leaders well I’m really happy to be here I’ve watched your show for many years and so thank you for having me on well so let’s talk about disease and health in America we spend here in America an incredible amount per capita on Healthcare but the outcomes compared to the amount that’s actually being spent seem pretty low now why is that yeah you’re you’re right because we spend 4. 5 trillion and we have the worst Health you know I think that I’d like to just kind of give everyone a a bird’s eye view of what I think the situation is because it’s really kind of simple simple when you step back and look at it it’s like on the on one side you have big Pharma okay they’re helping provide the solutions to our medical problems and on the other side we have big food or the junk food and they’re both kind of funneling down this way and right in the middle you have the medical establishment the system that we’re operating off right now and the Paradigm Shift basically if you want to get healthy you just take this pill for your symptom but if we look at The Chronic disease most of that comes from our diet and alra processed food calories it’s the junk food right that’s the majority of problems so when you look at it these medications are basically treating the symptom of the junk food we don’t really bring up the diet in that consultation with the doctor when the doctor evaluates someone they’re not really diving into what they eat when I was in practice in Alexander Virginia for 30 years I would um I would all day long the first question I would ask is what are you eating someone came in with a problem whatever it is when did it start what did you eat just before that I had a patient who went to several doctors including the emergency room and spent out of pocket $40,000 for her heart problem she had angina and uh no one asked her like what did you eat just before you had the symptoms it was a series of really bad Banana Splits right in like every day for like 3 days in a row and all I had to do is is just change her diet and all that angina went away they couldn’t find anything on the test and defined for me junk food because I actually think that might mean different things for different people in order to Define junk food you really have to Define what food is first to compare it because it’s kind of hard to talk about junk food without knowing what food is food is that which is eaten to sustain energy the growth and repair of tissue nourishment that’s what the Latin word for food means if if we compare that to other things that we’re eating like junk food can junk food actually sustain life can it repair our bodies can it help us grow the answer is no you’re taking a food that’s so refined so processed so dead there’s nothing else in it they take all the nutrients out of it they put a couple synthetic vitamins in there you have a lot of byproduct and chemicals it’s so refined it just can sit on the shelf for a long time is that food I don’t think it is junk food is is not food it’s something else and it’s composed of mainly three things we have the refined sugars the refined seed oils and the refined starches which is basically hidden sugars and of course that’s like the main three ingredients but then there’s food coloring and then there’s flavorings that you add on to it you have preservatives so if you look at the ingredients of a lot of these Foods it’s the same ingredients with the different flavors different colorings different packaging if over 50% of the population is consuming junk food adults and over 63% of teenagers are consuming these Ultra processed foods then how we’re going to be able to create Health you can’t this is really at the root of chronic disease we’re not eating things to sustain life and this is why we have the chronic illness let’s talk a little bit about these 30 years that you were in practice I understand you were a chiropractor uh primarily but then of course you uh sort of branched out from there um can you give me a picture of that please I had no intention of kind of getting into what I what I am to now because I I I would literally eat pure junk food all the way up until I was like 28 years old and uh I got away with it for so many years but then it caught up with me but the only thing green that I ate I think was pistachio ice cream and lime green Jello-O but other than that I never ate a vegetable never ate anything healthy and so I was going along and uh getting away with it until started getting in my 20s and all of a sudden I was like arthritic in my fingers and my back I had chronic fatigue syndrome I I I was just I couldn’t sleep I started going downhill in fact my wife was like you don’t look too good you look kind of gray and almost greenish and I was very I was going downhill so um of course it was a good and bad thing the good thing was it it kind of woke me up to eating healthily and figuring out things because I stumbled on what to do to correct things but if I never had that experience I never would have got into Health at all I stumbled on a book called mastering the zone and I didn’t even read the whole book I just read the introduction and it said something about insulin and avoid carbs and eat high quality protein so the next morning I had a buffalo burger instead of my cereal which I thought was really bad for you at the time because it causes you know cancer which is totally a lie so I ate that and it was almost like someone just literally took a helmet off my head and I could actually think clearly I was like oh my goodness this is amazing the way I was trying to solve my problems back then instead of changing my diet I would just be taking this supplement doing colon cleansings and detoxes and we’d be driving down the street my I would tell my wife hey there’s the health house let’s go in there and then come back with a a whole bunch of vitamins and it wasn’t working because the foundation wasn’t there so tell me about the ketogenic diet there’s some people that you know I even medical professionals who say it can become dangerous MH explain to me how this works yeah in real simple terms um you’re basically just eliminating the massive amount of carbs that people eat and um so because when you reduce carbohydrates um it then forces your body to go after your own fat as fuel for weight loss is great and for other things it’s good too the average person that’s not overweight has literally 100,000 calories of fat on their body so they can they have a lot more um stored energy for running on fat than they do from the dietary source of calories if you don’t tap into your own fat then you’re going to be dependent on the next meal you’re not going to be able to go long before you’re hungry so when you start shifting off to the ketogenic diet which is basically it’s the breakdown of fat into ketones as an