What Your Doctor Won’t Tell You About Keto | Ken Berry on Health Theory

Dr. Ken Berry, family physician and author of Lies My Doctor Told Me, joins Tom to discuss his evolution from whole grain fanatic to carnivore.   SHOW NOTES: Why you must lead by example [01:21] How to avoid nutrition dogma [03:59] How the Standard American Diet came to fruition [05:08] The importance of experimenting on yourself [07:05] Why drinking milk is problematic [12:10] Why eating wheat is problematic [15:02] Are veterinarians ahead of doctors?[18:26] How nutritional research allows for bias [19:14] The biomarkers you need to track [21:58] Why elevated blood sugar is a huge problem [25:26] How to use exercise to mitigate your blood sugar response [30:23] The myth about vitamin D in breastmilk [31:44] Does sun exposure actually cause skin cancer? [33:53] Why doctors are more likely to diagnose serious diseases [35:15] Why low cholesterol is a problem [36:10] The efficacy of the carnivore diet [37:10] The only cholesterol numbers you should care about [40:18] Why you shouldn’t be scared of eating salt [42:48] What is the carnivore diet doing to your microbiome? [45:13] The one thing Ken recommends to improve your health [46:47]