Welcome, Dr. Eric Berg.

Thanks so much, Tony.

You know, it's so exciting that things are finally coming out of the woodwork because, I mean, even when I was in practice, it seemed like the people who had the flu are the ones who got the vaccine.

So there's a high correlation.

So anyway, today I want to talk a little bit about the difference between true prevention and Screenings because there's a huge confusion.

I'm sure most people have seen that little pink ribbon That's all over the place billboards and ads and the slogan is exactly the same It's like catch it early because early detection saves lives but For most people, again, we have this confusion that we think screenings are prevention.

And I even had that mixed up as well.

What's happening?

I, I, I've been, like, on a mission to help people change their diet, and then just when you figure that out, right, you help a lot of people, you have someone comes in that it doesn't work, right? It's not working.

And, uh, then it forces you to look outside the box and you discover something else.

So I have two neighbors, uh, that help me out a lot, and they literally, one is a chain smoker, the other one chews tobacco, and they, they get their food from the Dollar General, okay? I mean, it's like pure junk, yet they're seem to be pretty darn healthy, and I don't understand why.

Well, now I understand why.

These guys are literally outside all day from early morning to night, and they do physical work.

Physical work is actually better than exercise for reducing stress, mental stress.

If you could just give an overview of your favorite nutrients to put into your environment and then maybe some of the nutrients we think are healthy but you recommend getting them out of your environment.

So for people who don't know you, give them a little history on you and then also how you got to be doing what you're doing now.

Well, I really appreciate you even taking a different viewpoint than conventional medicine.

The system could be a lot better.

I was very, very sick when I was 28.

I'm 31 now and I'm being very sarcastic because I'm 61, but I'm way healthier now than I was when I was 28.

So I hit bottom very young, lived on pure junk food.

I had all these weird things happened to my body.

So I'd love to hear your take on all that.

If we, uh, the environment's being controlled in ways that we don't understand, then how can we, um, what, what are these acts of rebellion that we can undertake to reclaim some autonomy or personal authority? I think the

best way is just to, um, let's take a look at this thing right here called the cell phone.

Um, we will constantly, I don't know.

I don't know about, let me ask you, if you lose your cell phone, do you kind of panic? Do you like, Oh my gosh, I need my cell phone.

I don't know if you're that attached to it, but it's definitely, uh, It's like, I have to have this, this is my life, right? And an average person per day checks their email about 160 times a day.

And so think about how many interruptions that is, how many distractions that is for our life.

So that's just one simple thing that I think people are not even aware of.

sorry i said a lot there i didn't know what i was talking about till i

Thanks, Dr. Berg, for writing the book and for all that you've been doing and all the fights that you've been part of.

Thanks, Tony.

I really appreciate it.

Since we're talking about RFK being a dangerous person, I think those people who accuse someone of that are usually doing it themselves or being dangerous.

I mean, let's just talk about the dangerous environments that we live in, and specifically the ones that engineer our environments for addiction.

I mean, there's literally engineers engineering our environments for addiction all over the place.

And I want to touch a little bit in relationship to... children, addictions, food, social media, et cetera, because people have this idea that addiction is about pleasure because it feels so good until you come back to it, but that's absolutely not true.

Thanks for coming on again.

So thanks, Eric, for writing the book and for being such a great partner.

Thank you so much, Tony, for that great introduction.

I do want to piggyback on one chapter out of that book, which has to do with an environment that children unfortunately are stuck in, which is basically the environment of sitting in front of a screen.

If you take a look at what's the average time a child sits in front of a screen, this is going to blow you away.

It's actually nine hours.

This is more than they get sleep and that they're sitting in front of the screen.

And so it's devastating.

And thanks for coming on again.

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That's one of the problems.

So that's kind of, uh, one of the challenges.

But I was gonna say, I think one of the big things that, uh, I stumbled on with these environments is that, uh, like even if you go to the grocery store, you might have this idea like, "Wow, we have all these choices." There's thirty thousand items in the grocery store and, uh, but really the majority of the ingredients are only three.

Got sugar starches, which are sugar [laughs] and seed oils, and a lot of them are made from corn, soy, and, uh, wheat.

And so that's really-- we don't really have as many choices as you might think.

It's really...

So, uh, maybe, um, we don't have to go through all nine, but maybe just hit some of the highlights of these different environments that people need to start thinking about.

Dr. Eric Berg, I would love to spend some time interviewing you, learning from you, and if possible, even combing that magnificent head of hair that you're maintaining if you're available and amenable.

Absolutely.

I'm looking forward to having you put your fingers through my hair.

So I want to talk about this little book right here.

It's called Change Your Environments.

And there's a little fish in a fishbowl.

And I want to talk a little bit about one little section of this book that I think it's kind of interesting because we're living in this illusion of choices, an illusion of choices.

Great to have

They're able to do this for the same amount they

were spending on ultra-processed food.

So thank you, Dr. Berg, and welcome.

Thanks so much, Tony.

I really appreciate it because today I want to talk about one of the chapters in this book, which has to do with chemicals.

And that piggybacks on what Callie said, but with grass, or you can call it gross, whatever you want to call it.

So for those of you that don't know what this is, it's a massive loophole.

It's been going on since 1958.

So welcome, Dr. Berg.

Thanks so much, Tony, and I see that you have it in the back of your shelf, so well done.

And, uh, Sally Fallon spoke at, at my, uh, office, 1991, um, in San Diego, so that was, uh, quite some time ago.

And so she's going strong.

Uh, that's kinda like when I originally started learning about whole foods and Weston Price.

Amazing data.

Um, also, there's gonna be, uh, Joe Solitren's doing a, a rogue food conference coming up this weekend.

It's great to have you on again.

Thanks, I appreciate it so much, Tony.

And as we've been talking for quite some time about this topic of what Maha really is standing for, I think the big thing that comes up that I wanna just kind of ding in is the children, right? We're trying to make children healthy.

uh in all different levels getting back to lifestyle factors and i want to just touch on this glp-1 drug and our kids because it's people need to know about it and i think it's in the wrong direction um in 2020 Roughly about 8,700 young teens were given a GLP-1 drug.

By 2023, that number exploded to 60,000.

It's like almost a 600% increase just in three years.

So during that same window, prescriptions for every other drug in that age group dropped by 3%.

So thanks so much, Dr. Berg, for the work you do and for coming on again.

Thank you so much, Tony.

I really appreciate it.

Uh, I wanted to share some, uh, I think is very interesting information on the source of where people, uh, get their information, their health information.

They usually go online.

They Google.

They use AI.

Always great to have you here, always great to think through these things with you.

Welcome, Dr. Berg.

you so much tony i really appreciate it you're doing an incredible job so we all just want to support you as well listen a while back i i sat down with a very interesting individual who was a food scientist and this person worked for the largest junk food company in the world so i really was curious like I asked her, I said, what did you guys talk about when you're coming up with a new product and you're around this boardroom? Like, what do you guys discussed? And she's like, well, that's why I quit.

I said, what? And she said, yeah, it's pretty much a conversation about how do we design foods to get people to keep eating it? And I wasn't surprised, but it's really all about we have to get people to have this what's called a bliss point, which is the perfect combination of chemicals, salt, sugar, and fat to create just an explosion in your brain.

You know, what happens is like she just quit because she has kids and she says, I don't want to do this for my kids anymore.

And what I realized is ultra processed food is not just cheap food.

It's not just poor quality junk food.

It's something more than that.

Thanks for coming on yet again.

know probably somebody from every family in the country how they can support their own health with practical strategies so just an incredible thinker writer researcher uh you know and a key maha visionary and he's working on a groundbreaking book called change your environments because our current environment all of them is just making us sick so dr berg thanks for all that you're doing and welcome

Tony, thank you so much.

And on that note, I do want to talk about something that's a really pressing problem in society right now.

And that's one of the biggest questions online is mothers and fathers wondering about their children with vaping and the toxicity with vaping.

I want to cover some misconceptions on that because I keep getting that over and over and over.

I think it's very timely right now because we're trying to change environment.

We're trying to get rid of the toxins out of the environment.

And I look forward to just working with you for years and years.

Thanks for coming on again.

Thanks so much, Tony.

Definitely want to get that book myself.

That looks like a great one.

Yeah, but we're just ready to publish that very soon.

We're almost there.

You know, last spring, something strange happened online I want to share with everyone.

Thank you for the great work that you've done and for all the help you've been to Maha.

Thanks for writing this book and welcome back on.

Thanks so much, Tony.

I really appreciate it.

I just want to there's some interesting things that led up to this writing of this book, because.

Started out as a chiropractor.

Everyone that came in with, no matter what they had, back pain, headaches, fatigue, I had this one tool that I would use on them and I would get good results, but there's always a percentage of people that didn't work.

I then started using nutrition and diet And again, got even better results, but not necessarily with everyone.

And thanks for coming on time after time, and hope you have a great day.

So, Dr. Berg, thanks so much for all the work you do, and thanks for coming on again.

I really, I appreciate it.

Thank you, Tony.

So yeah, let me just ask you a question, Tony.

Like when we get sick, Where do we go? We go to the doctor, right? The most trained, the most credible, the most educated, trusted in the person in the field of health.

But what I stumbled on recently was just mind blowing.

I don't know if you know this, but the average doctor only gets 1.2 hours of nutrition training per year in medical school.

So thank you so much.

So thanks so much, Eric, for all the work that you've been doing, and great to have you on for the 22nd time.

Thank you so much, Tony.

I really appreciate it.

I remember, uh, waking up in the morning with my neck completely sore like I'd just worked out really bad.

I'm like, "What is going on?" And I look in the mirror, and there's this huge bullseye thing in the back of my neck.

And so went to get tested.

I had Lyme, and, uh, I started...

So thanks again.

Mm.

So retinol only comes from, like, things like red meat and, uh, liver and, uh, egg yolks and butter.

You can't get it from plants.

So you got vitamin A, which is really important in even making, uh, antibodies to help, you know, tag viruses and pathogens.

It's kinda like a little guy that goes out there and, uh, identifies who's the bad guy and the good guy.

So, uh, so vitamin A is really, really important.

And then you have, um, what about iron? You have a different form of iron in red meat.

Why don't you tell me what we found in your fatty acids that really resonated or surprised you or inspired you?

What is the promise of this new administration from y- in your view?

RFK is, um, he's a non-politician.

He's gonna be a really good person to get in there to cut the umbilical cords between the cozy relationships and the co- of the conflict of interest between industry and the government.

Right now, this whole f- the food guidelines are associated between who has the strongest lobbyist.

And so there's too much influence from industry in our food system, in our medical system, in the research of drugs.

He's gonna clean it up.

And of course, they're gonna attack him for this, but it's gonna be a really vital change to remove this conflict of interest and be- have more transparency so we can actually focus more on the root causes of health issues.

But, uh, one of the things that we've discussed, uh, before privately is vitamin D. I discovered it really as an, such an important thing during the COVID-19 pandemic, where, you know, people with higher levels of vitamin D just had a lot better outcomes on average.

Thank you for all the help, just the round-the-clock help that you've been to the Maha movement and for just being just such an incredible warrior for public health in this country.

Thank you so much, Joni.

I really appreciate it.

And I thank you for also leading this important movement.

So I appreciate that.

I want to touch on the millions of kids now that are on SSRIs, antidepressant medication, because People don't realize, like we have millions of kids starting these drugs at the age of eight, nine, or even 10 years old.

It's even hard to believe.

I

Thanks for coming on this show each week, and welcome.

Thank you so much, Tony.

I really appreciate that.

Uh, so I did something recently that I wanna share with everyone.

Uh, I took the six places almost every single person gets their health information from, nih.gov, Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, WebMD, Healthline, and Wikipedia, and I put them side by side, and I started looking at them, and what I found was, like, bizarre.

These are all different websites, different writers, different layouts, but it's the exact same information, just different packaging.

But it's all the same conclusions, same treatment recommendations.

We're talking about how to change the culture.

But, um, yeah.

Speaking of, I wanted to talk about toxins for a second, because right now there's a really pu- really huge push to, you know, detoxify and stuff like that.

And my viewpoint of that is like, yes, for sure, we need to lower that, but toxins can affect the biochemical pathways.

But I, I wanna let you know, if...

You can actually push through those, those pathways by increasing more nutrient-dense foods, too.

So, um, you know, you have two things.

I can isolate you into this perfect environment, which is h- impossible, and, uh...

Oh, please.