Debunking the Worst Medical Advice You’ve Ever Been Given | Dr. Ken Berry, MD
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
What's one of the biggest myths that doctors are still falling for?
Food doesn't really matter. The majority of chronic disease in America today is directly caused by your diet. If you want to lose fat, you've got to cut the carbs. That's just as simple as it gets.
So if everything that you've been fighting for is right, does that mean that millions of Americans have been made sick by official medical advice?
Absolutely. The USDA, the FDA, the AMA, the ADA, the AHA, all of these organizations are complicit. When I took the oath, I meant it. And I had been harming people by giving them the ADA medical advice. I had been making diabetics sicker, pushing them closer to kidney failure, closer to the amputation by the words coming out of my mouth.
Today's guest is a doctor who says that he spent the beginning of his career making people sicker instead of healthier, not because he didn't care, but because he trusted the medical guidelines and the science that he was taught. He now believes much of that guidance was driven by weak evidence, industry influence, and a healthcare system built to manage chronic disease instead of prevent or reverse it. Joining me today is Dr. Ken Berry, a board-certified family physician, best-selling author of Lies My Doctor Told Me, and co-founder of The Proper Human Diet. Today, we're talking about whether we've been misled about cholesterol during pregnancy, why you have rosacea, why your retina keeps detaching, how to become osteoporosis-proof, why women are struggling with insulin resistance, what the change from PCOS to PMOS means, why you're on the same diet as your friend, but you still can't lose weight,
and how there is more freedom outside of health insurance than with it. Watch this episode on Culture Apothecary via Spotify or Real Alex Clark on YouTube. Please welcome the legendary Dr. Ken Berry to Culture Apothecary. If tomorrow you became America's Surgeon General, what is the first piece of nutrition advice that you would delete from every government website?
Whole grains are in any way a health food.
Why do you say that?
Because bread is made up of starches and inflammatory protein. And some people can eat bread, and they don't really have an inflammatory reaction. But the carbs, the starch that breaks down into sugar, that counts for everybody. Now, there are less bad versions of bread. So if any of your viewers at home are making their own sourdough bread, if they're grinding their own grain.
Oh, yeah.
We're all about that on this show. So definitely that is the least bad bread option. But I've been studying nutrition for years, and that study has taken me into the fields of anthropology and archaeology and history. And bread, without exception, has always been a poverty food. It's always been a starvation food. Never in human history has bread been a health optimization food. So when people say something like whole grains are so nutrient dense, they obviously have never looked up the nutrition in bread. There's a long list of foods that are much more nutrient dense and not only nutrient dense, but the nutrients are actually available to be absorbed by your body.
You are a medical doctor. How much training on nutrition did you get in medical school? And how did that compare to pharma training in medical school?
Yeah. So 99.99% of my training in medical school and residency was pharma training. We did at the University of Tennessee have one nutrition class. unlike many medical schools. And this was back in, what, 1998. Jeez, that was a long time ago. And so for one hour a week, two days a week, for half a semester, we had a nutrition class. But 99% of that class was teaching us how to treat somebody who had been in a house fire. And they were in the burn unit and they couldn't eat. And so we intravenously fed them or somebody who had been in a vehicle accident and smashed their face and couldn't eat. So we had to feed them intravenously. But to your point, as far as just the feeding of a human out in the wild, maybe one hour out of the entirety of medical school.
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–24:06
2
Why does Dr. Berry argue that food and diet are the root cause of chronic disease?
24:06–33:03
3
How did Dr. Ken Berry’s personal health epiphany change his medical practice?
33:03–48:43
4
What is the evidence Dr. Berry cites for low‑carb, ketogenic, and carnivore diets improving health?
48:43–1:24:22
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