About 10 years ago, I was feeling extremely fatigued and had other symptoms as well. I just felt awful. I finally talked myself into seeing a doctor. I was hesitant because I had already developed a negative view of the medical community by that time. After telling the doctor of my symptoms, she proceeded to prescribe me Zoloft. I was LIVID!!!! I was NOT depressed....I knew there was a root cause to how I was feeling. I asked her about tests that could be done to pinpoint whatever was going on. She said no! What a crappy doctor! I got online and found a functional medicine doctor (something I had wanted to do to begin with, but knew my insurance wouldn't cover it). This doctor spent an hour+ with me going over my full history, and then tested my blood for everything you could imagine...hormones, nutrients, etc. Guess what? I was ANEMIC!!! And very low in Vit. D. Those two deficiencies explained ALL of my symptoms. The ignorant first doctor could have easily tested my iron since the first symptom I mentioned to her was extreme fatigue. If I had trusted her, I would have taken a mind-altering DRUG and still would not have addressed my root cause. Shame on her!!!! I also learned (from the functional med doc) that my iron absorption was very low as well. Within ONE WEEK of taking iron (with C) and D3, I felt almost back to normal. We have to advocate for ourselves, even if it means paying out of pocket. Much of the medical community can no longer be trusted!
Paying “out of pocket”…Quoting my mom here = “Pay for the Dr ‘s next Cruise or Invest in your Health.” “You are investing in your well being never an expense”.
The second most common deficiency in the world, is Drs who understand the interactive nature of the human body. In Canada, before I abandoned the medical system, the rule for medical appointments was “only one symptom can be discussed per appointment”. If you had more than one symptom, you were quickly labeled a hypochondriac. Thanks to Dr. Berg, there are now 18 million people who are learning how little the legacy medical system knows about wellness. ❤️❤️❤️
So true in the United States also. When I took mom for her appointment she said while I'm here can you help with something else. He said No just make another appointment. Well my mom is in her 70s and it isn't easy to get her to go to the doctor. So she was just like oh for get it. So ridiculous.
My wife has been diagnosed with arthritis for nearly as long as I have known her. She has scoliosis (pretty severe) and had corrective surgery with bars placed in her back. I guess the doctors just saw scoliosis on her paperwork and decided she had arthritis. We finally got a doctor who did the necessary bloodwork and found out she was severely low in many nutrients. It turns out her body simply doesn't hold onto minerals well at all. We bought her a great vitamin complex that (starting with vitamin D to allow absorption of other minerals) eliminated nearly all of her pain within a month. She sometimes has problems consistently taking it, but it's allowed her to begin considering her health on a larger scale. She has lost 40 lbs since she is now able to exercise and feel something other than pain. Sorry for the long comment, but vitamin deficiency is a serious problem and MD's do not consider it enough.
You're a brilliant husband (or brilliant wife - apologies if I made an assumption) . It's great that you take so much interest and care in her health. She's blessed to have you as not all partners are so attentive to the other's needs. Wishing you many happy and healthy years together ❤️
@@kickie6323 start with vitamin D. Without it no other vitamins can be absorbed. Eat real fats (butter, etc.) Not just vegetable based oil because they don't transport vitamins the same. She takes Source of Life women's liquid from Natures Plus. It feels wierd to recommend a specific product, but I think it's a good one, and free from pretty much all allergens as well
@@ritalawson7020 sounds good. Celery isn't very expensive either. I am trying to include more oregano also because it is supposed to help with mucus and sinuses. Here in the south it's always sinus season
I'm a functional nutrition counselor and mental health counselor. I tell my clients all the time to follow you. I love how you empower people to take their health in their hands and advocate for themselves with their doctors.
How did you get into that combination of fields? ...btw my daughter a rising college sophomore is thinking psychology is her area of passion career wise I am terrified for her. 😮
I started out as a masters in counseling. After some years, I took "Full Body Systems " with Adrian Nagasaki. This made me a functional nutrition counselor. Since then, I have taken continuous training in both topics. What leads you to be scared for her?
Excerpts: Symptoms of iron deficiency: • Hair loss • Arrhythmias • Fatigue and weakness • Dark circles under the eyes • Restless leg syndrome • Difficulty sleeping • Low cold tolerance • Split nails • Trouble concentrating • Fibromyalgia We need iron to help build hemoglobin and thyroid hormones, to make dopamine, and to keep nerve impulses working correctly. There are many different causes of iron deficiency. However, it's more common to have non-anemic iron deficiency than anemia. This means that the lack of iron isn't affecting the blood yet, but it's affecting other parts of the body. Iron deficiency causes: • Not consuming enough iron (animal products) • IBS • Inflammation • Stress or trauma • Bleeding or ulcers • Low hydrochloric acid • Menstruation • Gastric bypass surgery • Excessive exercise • Antacids • Fibroids • Pregnancy • Breastfeeding • Puberty • Eating disorders • Phytic acid • Tannins (tea, coffee, red wine) • Chocolate • Polyphenols (turmeric, red wine) • Polymorphism • Too much calcium or magnesium • Infection • Oxalates It's best to get your iron from your diet before jumping into taking an iron supplement. Foods rich in iron are red meat, liver, and shellfish. However, liver pills or spleen pills could be good supplement options. You also need to work towards identifying why you're iron deficient so that you can fix the root cause. If you have too much iron in your body, you can try natural remedies, including: • Distilled water • Turmeric • Cocoa bean • Black tea • A phytic acid supplement (IP6) • EDTA Thank you Dr Berg and meowgratulations to your channel with 18 million Catscribers! 😺👍
I saw doctors for years for the pain I was in. Excruciating pains throughout my body. I was treated like someone who wanted drugs. Although I never was prescribed it and never asked for painkillers. Finally I found a dr that encouraged me to take iron, vitamin D, and magnesium. I have been for about a year and most of my pain is now gone. If I stop taking vitamins, I will have an even worse flare up of pain. Vitamins. That's all I needed. Doctors who don't believe patients should find a new profession.
I agree doctors that don't listen and are not concerned or convinced by your symptoms shouldn't be doctors there's quite a lot of them in Netherton surgery Dunfermline
I started having medical issues in my early 20s. I’m now 37. I was told time and time again that it was in my head. I was told I was hypochondriac and also that I was mentally ill. This went on for YEARS. I knew something was medically wrong. Every test I got that got me my diagnosis was testing that I personally asked doctors for and I don’t believe I would have ever found out what was wrong if I wasn’t advocating for myself. I had extremely low ferritin of 2 and low iron of 10. My b12 was also low at 200. I found out after years of fatigue, hair loss, and extreme aches that I had pernicious anemia and iron deficiency anemia caused by autoimmune atrophic gastritis. It caused me to develop SIBO as well from achlorhydria from atrophic gastritis. It isn’t fun to live with but I’m sort of proud of myself for figuring it all out without little help from doctors. I have since been able to find great specialists for my rare conditions with these anemias.
Good for you for staying with it long enough to find out for your body what was wrong. BELIEVE WHAT YOUR BODY IS TELLING YOU!! I knew my Dad, Mom, and Sister had all been tested and treated for allergies. When I decided that I was probably not going to make it for another 5 years I decided to start with an allergist. I lived in a small town but we took the Houston paper, and lo and behold someone did a half page write up, with a picture, in the Sunday section. All I could deduce was that someone thought this Allergist walked on water!! I was able to get in to see Dr Jacob Siegel several months later and after tests found out I was more allergic that the rest of my family put together!! And then a woman I'd met in the allergist's office sent me a tape from a Doc in Birmingham where he speaking at a medical conference on Candida, so I also went to see him also. Both did their own research and published in NE Journal of Medicine and the Lancet. This was before Big Pharma had control of both publications. Dr Truss also published 2 books, The Missing Diagnosis, and The Missing Diagnosis II. I'm 80 now and still have a lot of health problems but I can beat them back with a low carb Rotary Diet. My husband had always told me my migraines were in my head, I told him he was right! lol But I learned to take my allergist's advice to listen to my body, it would tell me when something is wrong.
Watch his other video on anemia. He describes what you are but calls it something else. Then gives the remedy for it by naming the exact supplements to take to heal it.
My friend has an allergy to iron and can’t take tablets or infusions. She takes black strap molasses instead and it works as she has blood tests all the time. Side effect was that her periods are no longer painful
I am 70 years of age. My mother use to line us up weekly for a spoonful of Black Strap Molasses, which she learned from her mother. Back then, people relied more on Mother nature and herbs than prescriptions.
Medical gaslighting happens ALL THE TIME. I had hypercorticolism caused by an adrenal tumor. I saw over 10 doctors from cardiologists to endocrinologists to naturopaths, acupuncturists, general practitioners . My symptoms were so obviously Cushing’s syndrome but they didn’t believe I had any of those symptoms because I wasn’t “fat enough”. Since I had multiple symptoms I was labeled as a hypochondriac (it’s even in my medical file “hypochondriac”). Instead of believing me they decided to brush it off as anxiety since I was also diagnosed with anxiety 20 years ago. If anxiety or depression is in your file, they won’t give you the time of day. Anyways, it took 5 years and countless doctors for one of them to finally take me seriously and prescribe the right tests and imaging and BOOM there it was. A cortisol producing tumor that was slowly killing me. Moral of the story: I don’t trust “experts” or the medical system anymore.
Im scared i have something similar. I beg for a screen or picture but they say they see no need in it. Physical exams today wont ever show you whats inside. People are dying from doctors who wont take them seriously, in my cause cause im "young".
My bf has cushing's syndrome. We figured it out just last year. He's always had a host of problems, which didn't "pin down" easily. Until we happened to look up cushing's syndrome. Perfect match of symptoms all the way down the list. Hypochondriacs are people who read about symptoms, and then imagine they have those symptoms. But many MANY people are simply trying to figure out what matches existing symptoms so they can hopefully fix it. And usually are very frustrated because they can't find a solid match in symptoms. There's a big difference.
@@kathrynck it’s a horrible disease and for some people it can take a very long time to get diagnosed because medical professionals are unable to think critically. For some reason men are also diagnosed sooner than women. Perhaps they’re taken more seriously when it comes to medical diagnosis. Glad he figured it out. It’s so hard to live with and recovery isn’t a walk in the park either. I’m still suffering 2.5 years after this surgery from the effects of adrenal insufficiency and electrolyte imbalance and POTS.
@@MABO07 Agree on the doctors. Between some doctors being "holier than thou" in mentality, and the medical industry itself being outright ghoulish, I'm just about done with modern medicine. Glad you got the tumor taken care of though!
Thank you SOOOOOOOO MUCH for making this video!!! In 2021 I had almost every symptom you listed and more. I was bedridden. I missed 5 weeks of work. My kids thought I was gonna die. I went to 12 doctors (3 ER’s) and all except one believed me when I said, “it feels like I have a deficiency”. One ER doctor said it was anxiety. Of course I disagreed with her. I googled nonstop with my goldfish brain. I found Dr. Esa Soppi’s medical literature on iron deficiency without anemia and it fit me like a glove. I studied it and everything I could about iron and how to treat it. In my case i was having shortness of breath and brain zaps and probably needed an IV. I supplemented heavily (I studied it first) I fixed myself and 4 days later I could walk to the mailbox. 9 days later I could work again. After about 8 months I got my ferritin up to the optimal level of 100 (I test myself now) and my hair started growing like crazy and I feel like I haven’t felt in decades. I now have zero trust in western medicine. It’s sad that so many people probably feel like it did and haven’t found the answer. Thank you for making this video!!!
I don’t understand your frustration with the ER dr’s. I have PCOS, and went one night when a few hours after I’d been bleeding very, very badly for months and months, and my dr got the results back for an iron, hemoglobin etc test, and said i needed to go the ER to have a blood transfusion. I did go, and I was talking to the ER dr who said ‘ands why do you think the bleeding is causing the anemia?’ I wanted to hit this man in the head with a brick… He finally got my results back for my iron and all that stuff, and my red blood cell count and said ‘we’re going to type you right now and call the blood bank. You’re going to need a few pints of blood tonight!’ They gave me two bags of O+, and I began to feel better and started breathing easier after the first bag finished. By the end of the second bag, I didn’t feel like I was lifting a 50lb bag of flour when raising my arm to even bring my hand to my face to itch my nose. I’m glad you were able to fix yourself and get back to your life.
@@insekta1701 I’m glad you were able to get help. I needed an iron transfusion so bad but getting them to even look at iron was impossible because I wasn’t anemic. Look at us now though 😃
I felt extreme fatigue, had nightmares, felt sensations of falling and nausea. I went to the doctors and my doctor said it may be anxiety and gave me medication. I researched into Iron deficiency and had a feeling it could be this. I decided I would not take the medication and would instead take Iron supplements. In the process of this I asked my doctor for a blood test for Iron and vitamins. Somehow they forgot to check the Iron but after nearly 1 month of taking Iron supplements I am feeling much better. Thank you for this video. It helps so much
I went to a doctor in Michigan for a prostate problem. That doctor totally ignored my prostate problem and prescribed an aspirin a day for high blood pressure. That doctor did absolutely nothing for my prostrate problem. I found out later with my own research that men with prostrate problems are deficient in zinc. With more research I found out that green peas have a lot of zinc in them , so I eat a lot of green peas now and take a zinc supplement and that has eased my prostate problem GREATLY. The allopathic poison drug pushing doctor that wanted me to take too much aspirin DID NOT TELL ME ABOUT THAT. In medical school for the most part they don’t teach doctors about nutrition. Good food is actually medicine , and prescription meds are actually poison in my estimation.
Our son was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. We were trying to ease his symptoms by following a specific diet. One day I was working with a general oncologist and asked him if there're any suggestions he would give me. He said they had only one 30 minute lecture on nutrition, but spent months discussing drugs. Here's your answer, your Dr has no clue of how to help you naturally. Plus, pharmacy companies pay his wage.
Also start taking milled Flaxseed/Linseed. My father was diagnosed with prostate cancer 11 years ago now and has not had to have treatment yet. It was recommended by the Cancer Nurse. His hormone levels have slowly risen over the years but to the level where he needs treatment. My husband is taking it too. it's also got the most non soluble fibre of any grain, and the best source of all the Omega Oils, 3,6,9. Something else to get checked out is your selenium levels as most of the world tends to be deficient in that too. It works well in combination with Zinc and Magnesium. It also lowers the bad Cholesterol and raises the good Cholesterol so it is definitely something worth adding to you diet. No more than one ounce per day though. I just pop it into a large glass of water, stir it around and knock it back. Tastes a little bit nutty. The reason for taking no more than one ounce is that it contains cyanogenic glycosides and if you were to take more than this, we're taking 2 ounces or more, it will bind in the body with water and make cyanide. Which would not be safe. Anything can be dangerous, it just depends on the dosage. A couple of bananas gives you all the potassium that you need as well. I hate them and have to get it from other veg. Also Aspirin doesn't lower high blood pressure. It can be helpful for older people in stopping heart attacks but, it has more risks than benefit if taken in higher doses. It's banned for children in the UK and not recommended for anyone unless as a mild blood thinner for older people to help prevent heart attacks. Diet and nutrition prevent far more than a lot of medicines can fix.
@robertcross7571 that makes me very glad that I live in Ireland where we have small farms and our locally grown veg. I know which farm my beef comes from, and it's always grass fed and they're out all year round. We still mostly eat seasonally and it's lovely, as you get to look forward to things coming into season. Also they still practise crop rotation here so that there is no need to be pumping man made fertilisers into the ground. It might be a more antiquated of fashioned type place but our fruit and veg is nutritious and our meat raised in a humane manner, have good lives and are slaughtered locally so as to cause them the least stress possible. I hate bananas personally but get my potassium from other sources. I also do not microwave things as much as possible, as they've proven that this destroys nutrients in the food as well. Industrial farming is helping to destroy our world. But please do take in the information about the Flaxseed/Linseed and please do your own research which will confirm this as well.
@robertcross7571 I was just explaining that to my Dad When he was a kid fruits and vegetables were so much more nutritious than they are today. Depletion of the minerals, microbes/ beneficial bacteria has been killed off by the use of chemical fertilizers pesticides and other poisons. Genetically modified products are inherently less flavorful less sweet and less nutritious
It really gets down to the reality to be your own doctor With access to the internet as videos such as Dr. Berg's It self education,a never ending journey. Mainstream medicine doctors and medical"plans" are all weaponized platforms to extract money I started learning natural medicine in my teens. Now in my 60's I still learn I simply do not go to doctors....only once to a naturopath
I've heard this from every doctor in the last few years: "You ARE getting older..." to explain: apnea, joint pain/arthritis, hearing loss, hair loss, and pretty much every problem I talk to doctors about. I'm 53 years old, exercise 45 min a day walking, 20 lbs over weight, and otherwise in good health. They might be right, but they are also 100% consistently trying to shut down conversations by explaining away my concerns as "you didn't realize you were getting old". I've so far avoided CPAP by losing weight and using an oral appliance. Avoided high blood pressure meds by the same measures. And avoided pre-diabetes meds by the same measures. They just want to fill me with products, not manage my health. That's the danger we all face, older or not.
"They just want to fill me with products, not manage my health." You said a mouthful. They get kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies depending on the amount of prescriptions they write.
I went to an overweight doctor, and she desperately wanted to put me on high blood pressure meds. I was just borderline at the time. She never once mentioned anything about my diet or exercise.
"You are getting older", " you DO have underlying conditions ", and my personal favorite " are you SURE you are not deptessed?".I'm so tired of being told these things -or contradictory things that I'm ready to stop seeing a!! Drs. :(
Thank you Dr. Berg. I quit taking ANY perscriptions in the '90's because of bad effects plus not trusting most doctors. I take a cabinet full of supplements, including remembering to eat beef liver for the iron at least 2-3 times a month. My Nephrologist tells me at age 86 that he believes I'm the healthest patient he has.
As a fellow doctor all I can say is that hearing a professional, that is more experienced than me, denouncing the "its all in your mind" routine used by many of our colleagues and focusing on the importance of a good medical history and differential diagnosis is refreshing. In my opinion, medical gaslighting is a real thing and labelling all symtomps as "mental" dooms the patient to delayed diagnosis and decreased quality of life more times that we can ever imagine. What makes a good doctor, first and above everything else (even adequate knowledge), is caring about the patient. A non-diligent doctor is more dangerous than a medically uneducated one that cares. At least the last one will seek a more experienced doctors help or revisit his books and recap his knowledge. Its also nice to see a doctor giving a spotlight to nutrition habits/ alimentation as they indeed affect human physiology in many ways and not all physicians consider them as factors that are influential to disease or are even trained to recognize and treat them. P.S.: Apart from Fe, ferritin and general blood count I find TIBC a test very useful in solving anemia conundrums.
@@tamararomo5258 total iron binding capacity, it is the max quantity of iron that can be attached to transferrin (the glycoprotein that acts as bloods "transport wagon" of iron to the whole body).
@@kostasl1808 Appreciate your help, but sorry this is like trying to understand Chinese😔. Sorry guess I'm having one of my blonde moments lol ( course I am so I guess I'm entitled haha).
@@pamelatimbush3762 Ha ha, me too but not blonde, I get that “Total Iron Binding Capacity” or TIBC is something some doctors know about (not sure if it is a pill or?), but it helps the body to to use more of the iron. Maybe..hmmm
Thank you Dr. Eric. My hair had been falling for a while. I took your advice and ate iron rich foods and after the 4th day my hair stopped falling. You're God sent. My sister listened to your other video about effects if potassium difficiency. She was struggling with high blood pressure symptoms. She bought powdered potassium and dranked it with water when she got dizzy. After a few minutes she felt better.
Thank you for saying that medical issues are not always in the mind. In 2020 I got Covid, was sent to a Hematologist where in my 50s I was told I had an active case of G6PD Deficiency. My whole life I'd been told my fatigue and constant illnesses were psychological. It was anemia and a blood disorder. Thanks Dr Berg.
Me too I've been given antidepressants for years.. then one fine day i found that my ferritin is terribly low... I stopped all other meds, now on vit d3, k2 and zinc ... Willing to get some blood because iron pills jst add to my IBS.
There are four types of iron supplementation stay away from pure ferrous iron. Try chelated iron, iron in floradix liquid supplement is a plant based high iron source. There is a water packaged from wales very high iron content you drink one pack per day. Try different things some iron will work and not flare your ibs. Research it.
@@FatimaZahra-oe6br I’m glad you’re feeling better. It’s amazing how stopping all your prescribed meds and taking Vitamins/supplements has helped you. I’m familiar w- Vit. D & Zinc and I may know this, but right now I’m drawing a blank- lol, what is K2?
@@shoppingrb9544 He is the most real one if you consider the vast amount of information he shares about the human body and how various deficiencies affect it.
@Shopping Rb: Since Dr Berg is helping people all over the world heal their illnesses, he is most certainly a "real doctor." Dr Berg is more of a real doctor than any M.D. that I've been treated by. Dr Berg helps people get healthy, not cover up symptoms.
I agree 100%! “…your degree is just a piece of paper, your education is seen your behavior, attitude and character.” -Thomas Jefferson Dr. Berg is SO MUCH MORE of a PHYSICIAN than any medical doctors out there. He genuinely cares about us and our wellbeing.
@@shoppingrb9544 most doctors aren’t these days mate ,when the were most needed they hid behind there lap tops refusing to see anyone just saying this man is trying to help at least
I was fatigued everyday laying in bed until I went to work in the afternoon and couldn’t figure it out. I overdid it in the gym many times and over the years I took too many antacids. After researching my chronic fatigue and watching Dr. Berg’s video I found out I was iron deficient and started taking iron supplements and now I have my energy back to normal.
@@RepublicOfWesternCanadaNOW Been taking iron supplements twice a day since then but I’ve been reading that it could take several months before my red blood cell count goes back to normal. My energy is improving and waking up less tired now. I was also on a daily aspirin routine for my heart and I think that could have caused issues with my iron deficiency. I stopped that also recently.
You have this many subscribers because we trust you more than our own doctors, our doctors are not educating us at all, we have to be an educated patient in order to be able to go in and talk to these people so they can figure out things the right way, because a lot of these doctors cannot put the connection of two and two together, they're specialties and they keep thinking in the box instead of how things are linked.
I was prescribed iron pills that made me extremely constipated but then I done my research and learned that eating organ meats (chicken livers I love them) and beet juice along with B12 the kind of dissolves under my tongue and fixed all of my issues...love you videos Dr Berg ❤️
Iron and B12 supplements are also recommended for Iron Anemia Deficiency. That can affect both men and women. In the past, it was revealed that women needed Iron more than men. Perhaps so in younger men, but not so in older men. Men need Iron too. But, not so much as women though.
Way this is the first time I heard if you consume turmeric and you are vegan or vegetarian it might cause iron probs as I do try eat a lot of iron from legumes and veggie even its lower. But I am never visible in super low range on blood test. I did have anemia when younger and I was still eating meat. Definitely can tick list of restless legs, some sleepless nights, oh lowing cold can`t stand warm rooms , heating restaurant fasting always which is so embarrassing……so now I would love to know more details about turmeric intake stops iron …for vegans ….I have been taking turmeric capsules with black peper for better absorption on daily basis for yes quiet while , if anyone have more details about it would love to learn more….going investigating😅…always love all the food and chemical reaction science inside our body❤ never stop DR.
Congratulations Dr. Berg! I tell everyone about you. My liver enzymes were elevated, and high BP until I started listening to you. Last blood test everything was normal. I'm 62. Thank you!
Dr. Berg, thank you so much. I started searching the internet instead of looking for medical advice after I was called a hypochondriac by a doctor when my ferritin level was so low, that it was not detectable by a test. Thanks to you I am fit and healthy now and I stay away from medications, including the experimental injectable ones. I truly believe you saved my life.
indeed. I have lost all respect for the "modern medical system". as an fyi, the USA has the highest medical costs in the world, and a life expectancy LOWER than all other industrialized countries. that alone tells us that there is a problem with the current system.
@@jobob47 i lost all respect for the medical system when i watched a 'true story' movie called Lorenzo's Oil (1992 Susan Sarandon & Nick Nolte) - two parents found not just a treatment but a cure for a disease which our entire planet of medical experts couldn't even treat! i later learned just how criminal the global medical system is - Big Pharma deliberately refuses to research cures and will only treat symptoms, knowing full well that a healed person won't be coming back for more drugs! Big Pharma also 'bought and paid' for not only pollyticians, but also bought big medical institutions, thus modifying the way doctors are trained basically reducing them to legalized drug pushers further investigation brought me to the sad knowledge that the correct use of correctly prescribed Big Pharma medications outright kills approx 200k Americans every year (more than 5 million globally) and on top of that more than 150k are outright killed by human error in hospital - they do not die from their illness! the final nail in the coffin, so to speak, was the plannedemic and the shotclot! it seems there is no remedy for such a corrupted system
Among a couple of other recommendations, my UCLA Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia specialist told me to have B12 injections 3x weekly at my HMO, reaching what other doctors viewed as dangerously excessive. The UCLA doc told me to ignore the other drs. - and he was right. Within a short span I finally began to feel like a human again, and to function like one.
Congratulations Dr. Berg! You are the most brilliant, ethical, giving, caring Doctor that I have ever known. You've helped me change my life, and yes, I agree with going with 100 million in 2023. We appreciate your honesty and hard work. We love how you explain everything so well. Keep it coming.
For years, I had test after test to figure out what was wrong with me. I was tested for hypothyroid, always testing my blood levels, and they were ALWAYS normal! I started taking iron with vitamin C and my hair, my eyebrows, eyelashes started growing back, my skin was no longer as dry, wounds I'd had for several months started healing, my hands and feet warmed up, was less fatigued and foggy. It literally changed my life!
@@coppulor6500 I take 2 separate supplements, Women's Iron with folate from Windsor Botanicals and whatever vitamin c is available. I personally take 1000 mg vit. C.
Our doctors have their hands tied by insurance companies. I hear that a lot. We need to sue the insurance companies for interfering with our qualified doctors ability to diagnosis and treat disease.
My Dr has got to be around 80 years old. I'm in my 60's. I've been going to him about 30 years. He has instructed me to eat food that you have recommended and not comsume fast food, corn syrup and processed (grain, foods). I highly respect that man.
Thank you Dr. Berg, you have exactly described what happened to me. I was misdiagnosed with Fibromyalgia for years, suffered terrible muscle pains and a myriad of other symptoms, which all turned out to be corrected with a $7 bottle of iron supplement. I was elated but also devastated that so many years had gone by which I essentially lost all quality. I was in my early 30s all the way into my 40s before I received the "diagnosis". For all of those years, my blood count showed that I was just inside of the Normal range, and I asked every doctor if I should be concerned about that, and they all say, "no, you are find, you are within range." What I've learned from all of this is that my "normal" is nowhere near the bottom of the range. The pain was unbelievable. Hair loss, restless legs, smooth tongue, chronic chapped lips, etc. Had it all. Very sad. Now I'm in my 60s and am finally feeling better than in my whole life. Following you, Dr. Mercola and Medical Medium have changed everything for me. You each provide invaluable information. Thank you.
I actually knew a person who would pass out walking from doctors office To her vehicle. Her iron was barely in the low range of acceptable. Once she found a physician that knew somethong and treated her with more iron---she lived a normal life.. I prayed for a doctor for me, found him too. One of the best things i ever did for my health.
Thanks, Doc! Even with millions of subscribers you (or could be an assistant, don’t matter) find time to comment on or ❤ our comments, means a lot. We are blessed to have you here.
Doc Eric, I have been a subscriber for almost a decade. You are one of the doctor vloggers whom I absolutely trust despite several trolls/medical doctors who envy your 18 million legit subscribers. I don't care if you are a Chiropractor. The important thing is that you help us, your loyal subscribers, to maintain optimum health and wellness. Thanks is not enough, so I don't skip ads.
Shortly after I got married, I gave my sister-in-law a subscription to Science Digest. There was an article about an experiment done at a Texas university on iron levels. A large number of students were divided into 3 sections according to their blood iron levels, normal, low, and a control group. All 3 groups were put through stamina tests then the normal and low groups were given iron supplements. After a few weeks, they were put through the stamina tests again. No change for the control group or 1/2 of the normal group, as expected. The low group showed a marked improvement (expected) as did the other 1/2 of the “normal” group (totally unexpected). This article was published in the early 1970s.
The human body is a well-designed machine with interactive and overlapping systems. Not systems independent of each other in function. This video review of iron is very well done. When I was in medical school there was not any emphasis placed on nutrition and wholistic medicine. As a practicing MD of 27 years I've always taken that approach and it works. I really appreciate these videos.
I have hypothyroidism, issues with my intestines and an iron deficiency to boot. It took me years to get any doctor to run tests on me in order to hopefully find, not just what’s wrong, but how to make it better. It’s absurd to me why they resist so much to let us do exams and specific blood tests to figure things out! Even when we can actually afford to pay for them. There’s so many possibilities, which one applies to ‘me’? How can I know beside going online and trying to ‘work it out’! Which sadly, is risky. Doctors don’t always help and the internet isn’t always safe! I’m so glad I found Doctor Berg’s channel!! I now have knowledge I can at least test safely myself. Thank you. ❤️
Dr Berg you would have to be the best Dr in the world. Since following you I have studied and researched everything you tell us and you are magnificent! I have recommended you to many of my friends and family. Thank you and much love from Australia 🇦🇺
I just want to thank you for being there with your very special way of explanation for lay people and your sympathetic attitude that comes across which makes people feel very at ease. I have now watched many of your wonderfully informative videos and thank heaven you are there. The main point of my comment, however, is the affect of the GP situation, probably across the world by now, because of how GP's, doctors and other so called medical professionals, have handled the current 'experimental drug' circumstances of the last 2-3 years. I, for one, have become very dissolutioned with the intention of doctors, who have been financially incentivised to dish out these 'vaccines', and will find it extremely hard to go to mine, at any time soon because of my lack of faith in their capability to actually work for the people who pay them i.e. the public (which makes me wonder whether they really are educated on the subject of human health) or in reality, do they actually work for the recently exposed, financially motivated pharmaceutical industry.
Thank you for filling in a void that is sorely missing in today's medical and healthcare professionals/industry. Congrats on your viewership - you deserve it!
So in-depth , thank you! I think many of us including myself were told we weren't anemic but can be on the lowest scale of "normal" , this makes so much sense. I've added the iron fish with lemon and eat most "keto-vore" diet. I feel sooo much better, more clear mind and energy.It's so worth it to figure out what our bodies need, we are all different in ways but worth the time and effort to look outside the "box" of what we've been told to eat and what not. Blessings!
Dr Berg- your advice on vitamin B has been a huge help to me. I've run out and had to save up to get some more (given that I decided to find organic not chemically copied pills) and am still waiting for these to come from overseas. In the couple of weeks that I've not had these, the pain in my arms and legs, and especially the numbness in my feet has really become worse. Can't wait to get the new pills. My doctor's advice when I told him about these problems was to 'not worry about it.' That really helped- NOT! Two years later, he did give me a vitB shot but that didn't seem to do much for me. I do take Magnesium as well to help with the pain. I hope that won't cancel the vitB. Anyway, thanks for all your advice.
Dr. Berg , you said you have more than 18 million subscribers. Of course you do ! You are one of the best doctors worldwide ! 👍👍 keep up the good work. I love your videos !!! 👍👍
Going to see a hematologist was one of the best things I’ve ever done. He was able to interpret the values for all the components of my blood to properly diagnose and treat my iron deficiency anemia. I require iron infusions occasionally but at least I’m being taken seriously and closely monitored. This is extremely valuable considering that I suffer from digestive and gynecological issues that exacerbate my anemia.
I remember when I was a kid, in the 1970s, my grandparents would get b12 and iron "shots" at their doctor. Not even at a hospital, at his local gp office in town.
Same. My hematologist has to keep a close eye on my labs. I got iron infusions in April, and just tested low again, so they're scheduling another infusion. I have AVMs of the small intestine that interferes with iron absorption.
@@veekay9977 Arteriovenous malformations - which are small tangled up arteries and veins that come to the surface in my small intestine and have micro-bleeds off and on. They found them in my small intestine when I did the pill/capsule camera endoscopy. The capsule camera reaches areas of the intestines that can't be reached with regular colonoscopies.
Dr Berg, you are so right and understand how a patient feels when being told 'everything is in your mind'. I've seen a doctor who instead of helping to cure me, told me to stop thinking about my sickness. Wow! I didn't know we could think up a sickness.😄
Because of your articles, I Asked my GP to take a blood test. I flunked in all 6 blood/iron levels. I am getting iron infusions every 2 weeks for 4 weeks. Hope this help my multiple health problems.
Dr.Berg is bridge between allopathy and Indian ayurvedic system … He is explaining Indian ayurvedic system in modern science way …. He is genius … that’s how I can describe him…
Love the science, I'm blown away by how much science is really at the root of nutrition. If this science was mainstream in the health care professions it would be a very different world. On to 1billion subscribers Dr Berg, you go!! thankyou
There’s a reason why the “healthcare” system doesn’t approve of natural health... it is fully run/backed by the pharmaceutical companies. Natural health doesn’t make these companies any money, they profit off of people’s illness and ignorance... you CAN heal yourself naturally, they just don’t want you to know that. They want people to be reliant on their drugs/procedures. That’s where they profit, into the trillions.
I just wanted to thank you for providing helpful information at no charge. I am very grateful for your help. Other videos give you a 30 minute run around and don't provide the actual information that you need. Thanks again!
We need more doctors like you.. willing to explain issues. Unfortunately many doctors are time pressured by the establishment to see as many patients as possible in the least amount of time
18 million!!! No Dr. Berg....THANK YOU!!! You have such a great way of presenting all these issues in a calm, easy to understand and caring way. Thank you!!!
Dr Berg I'm a former patient of yours and been following you here for years. Didn't appreciate you then because I just wanted adjustments back then but man I am grateful for you now. You are the best. When you update information, that is unique, totally appreciated
Congratulations to all your success Dr. Berg. You are saving and improving lives. Your research, analysis and ability to make associations, presentation, bedside manner -- priceless.
Congratulations on all your subscribers Dr Berg! Makes me proud to have been one of your followers for many years 😊 Keep doing what you do spreading the word about nutrition ❤
Was so iron deficient I passed out and was brought to the hospital. I was anemic. They wanted to give me a blood transfusion but I elected to just get intravenous iron instead. It worked and now I take oral iron every day. Been okay over a year now. Always check it in your yearly blood test.
Congratulations on the 18 million subscribers🎉🎈 Thankful and grateful for your help in my homeopathic healing ❤ People’s mouths drop when I tell them I healed (medication induced) polycystic kidney disease and NAFLD with anti inflammatory FOOD for five years, gluten-free three years and supplements. Dropping sugar was the hardest. I kept the faith❤
@Steve Zubal ay ay ay! Are you drinking the Coolaid? 🤪without listening to the entire video. Yup, simple arithmetic: add up all subscribers in the different languages
Sadly, most farmers don't pay attention to iron content... and if it is the wrong chelation, it doesn't help plants either. This is actually also a huge systemic problem in agriculture. I bet the proper chelation form would be more beneficial for human health as well.Thanks Dr Berg! Congrats on 18+ million! That's awesome!
Thank you for this valuable information. My hemoglobin dropped 2 points in a year, I was/am fatigued, but other than iron studies my oncologist (I have CLL) said I was fine. I am losing so much hair I've made the decision to shave my head (devastating). I had no idea there was a non-anemic type of deficiency. Thanks for the link, which I will read. Thanks for the hope. Thanks also for continuing to find answers and for sharing information. I wish doctors would continue to learn. I developed superficial thrombophlebitis last year and have been hesitant to take iron tablets as I do not want to increase the chance of further clotting issues, but it appears it might be just what I need.
DR BERG, your Chinese channel is very good and watched by Chinese people around the world, not just in Taiwan. It is incorrect to say your channel is translated into Taiwanese. Taiwanese is just one of the many spoken Chinese dialects, not the written form. There are 2 written forms of Chinese: (1) Simplified Chinese used in China and Singapore, and (2) Traditional Chinese used in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and overseas Chinese worldwide, including Korea, South East Asia, USA, Europe, etc. Your existing Chinese channel is in Traditional Chinese, which is reaching Chinese viewers worldwide. Just want to provide a broader perspective for you in case your Chinese translation team overlooked and did not inform you. The Chinese translation is excellent. Your Chinese channel could easily be converted to Simplified Chinese to create a second Simplified Chinese Channel to reach even more people - potentially Billion of Chinese all over the world. Thank you so much for you & your team's contribution. ❤
Dr Berg you have become my doctor! My local doctor was killing my mom with so many medication! You have saved our lives with your videos and your Dr. Berg supplements which we take daily!!!! We recovered and are feeling great! No more Doctors and no more Big Pharma poison! We so love you!!!!!!! You deserve all the subscribers who follow you and more will come!!! You are God sent!!!! Just love you!!
@@lonigirl8807 A proper, healthy diet over time will allow most people to stop taking most medications. Food is medicine. But, it's easier to pop a pill than eat super healthy, day in-day out, forever.
@@lonigirl8807 I got off of my medications by using a clinical pharmacist through my regular doctor. My blood work was so good that she agreed to help me get off the meds. Perhaps you have a doctor that will help you, but if you don’t, don’t give up just get another doctor.
@@pinkgummybear766 Agree, myself and everyone I know say doctors just want to put you on a pill if you don't have any obvious ailment like a broken bone or strain. I will add if anyone reading this is curious about eating a truly healthy, nutritious diet, check out cronometer. It's a free to use app/site that measures all the micronutrients of your daily food intake. You can specify which nutrients it shows and it adds percentages to the easy to understand graph 📊 as you add your food you eat. Very helpful to see deficiency in your diet. I've got my diet 100% of all key nutrients by using these staples of my daily intake- 4oz ground beef, 1oz veal liver, 3 raw egg yolks, large cup of broccoli 🥦, 1oz pumpkin seeds, 2oz cheddar. Those foods will cover 80-90% of RDA (recommended daily allowance)...but in reality most real nutritionists agree that US RDA's are too low.
Thank you Dr. Berg, this video is very informative. My daughter was seeing two doctors for her fatigue and PCOS symptoms that never got treated and she just was given thyroid medication which she did not need, turns out she desperately needed iron. This diagnosis was given by her current Dr. After two doctors dismissed her. The dr said the main issue with her is her low ferritin that was never detected by the two previous doctors she was seeing.
@@Drberg Eric.... I write from my ''experiences'' and of course these experiences produced the realizations: revelations. What I write is only- always my reality. I speak for no one knowing well that not two universes are alike. Today I had my first raw veggie salad; cabbage, tomatoes, lots of broccoli sprouts, red bell-peppers, kohlrabi which I love because as Hungarian we ate this veggie: lemon juice, olive oil from Sicily . loved it. It was about 3 cups and totally filled me up and where one could put a hamburger after this?
You've earned every one through your research, diligence and solid perseverence. And I'm now going to live a very long time due to your channel and i will be paying that forward🙏
I am chronically anemic since childhood and the fatigue one feels when the levels are low are unimaginable. Now I am also diagnosed with hypothyroidism but the supplements work great.
I'm not vegetarian or even vegan, dog knows I love meat and eat it often, but I suspected I was low in iron. I started taking a low dose (28mg/week) a few weeks ago, I'm feeling so much better, it's incredible.
Five years ago my blood test showed low iron and hemoglobins. I was referred to a specialist who said I needed iron infusions. I always check my insurance to see if I’m covered. They said they would check and call me if any problem. No calls so I went in on the appointment day. The receptionist knew nothing about my insurance. They set me down and brought in a drip which they said would take about three hours! I asked the head nurse about my insurance. She called the insurance department and told me they would pay one thousand dollars a session. She said you also pay a one thousand dollar deductible!!!🤦🏻♀️😧 I asked how many infusions I would need. She said four and then a blood test to see about more!!😧 Four thousand dollars- twelve hours and four appointments!!👎🏼 I cancelled everything and am now taking iron supplements and getting blood tests. It’s not improving but has stopped going down. MY doctor says it may be a slow process. It always is for more money 💵 I’m 77 and need good health care. Can’t get it without BIG premiums!!
Congrats Dr. Berg! I’ve probably contributed to your fandom 😆 I live in Taiwan and have shared your mandarin translated channel to many of my family members and friends! And I just bought your supplements too!
I can't tell you how many times I've gone to a doctor for help with an issue and after they did testing they told me I was perfectly fine. And they would then treat me as if I were a hypochondriac. If they only knew how long I had suffered before I finally decided to go get checked out, they would realize I'm far from a hypochondriac and that exact reaction is why I've delved into natural healing and mostly self diagnose and self treat with herbs and supplements. One example is I've broken almost all of my toes at some point, my pinkie toes multiple times. Hairline fractures always, but still. One has been broken so many times it's now permanently deformed. My last Primary who I somewhat trusted decided to do some free x-rays, because I mentioned the one was still tender and I was unable to bend it without immense pain. Well, the x-rays showed zero residual damage and he said it was a "perfectly healthy and normal looking toe." I still had a lingering discoloration in the skin from the last break that was extremely tender. That was the last time I went there. I haven't been back to even a wellness check since.
Great Video as usual Dr B, but let's not forget one of the lesser known symptoms that is associated with iron deficiency... Oral issues (increased cavities, ulcers & gum infections, gum & tooth pain, tongue soreness or pain, swelling).
Doc berg is bringing revolution in medical industry.. he has completely changed my perspective on merely addressing the issue to holistic healing.. forever grateful to have found you. Gratitude 🙏❤
Congratulations! You deserve more than that number, for you are a book of health. You are informing people to be healthy and/or to become and stay healthy.
Had the same issue with my mom, Dr told her she was depressed, she was always tired couldn't even go to work anymore or get out of bed, I took her to get IV vitamins. Dr even put her on disability for 2 months, I kept looking for answers, get her blood work test and she was critically low on vitamin D, she had to get vitamin D shots once a week for 4 weeks and spend up to an 1 hr under sun aroun 11:30 am, she's been on D3 K2, magnesium, vitamin C and her regular med ,thank God she is doing so much better. Never go with 1st diagnosis you here,always find the cause to fix the issue, don't cover up the symptoms
I have been diagnosed with iron deficiency anemia over twenty years ago. My ferritin was always extremely low. I have been taken strong iron tablets usually at least once per year to bring the levels up and they would go down sooner or later after each course of treatment. All endoscopies, ultrasounds and iron absorption came back normal Recently I came across the old professor that specialises in haematology. He ordered some blood tests I have never been asked to do before such as: prothrombin time, prothrombin index, INR, fibrinogen concentration, factor VIII activity, von Willebrand's factor activity and antigen of von Willebrand's factor. My results came back either normal or higher than norm that professor concluded as a good news. He said that indicates the leak of vascular medulla - that causes tiny but regular bleeding out internally. Not enough to die (hurray) but enough to loose ferritin level. Advice and treatment from professor - first bring the ferritin level back to 50 (norm 13-150, but professor said the lower norm is way to low). Slow treatment - 100 mg of Iron ( I take Sorbifer Durrules) on empty stomach plus three times per day after meal - one tablet of Rutin that seals up vascular medulla. Once the ferritin is 50 I can stop the treatment and keep taking Rutin twice per day. Sorry for the lengthy comment but I thought I would share. I am quite amazed that after two months of the treatment with Rutin my ferritin level is so good, in fact never has been so high since I have been diagnosed.
You can’t uptake iron properly if you have low Vitamin D3 or your gut wall is damaged by grain consumption. You’ll also have low calcium levels despite consuming dairy foods. Heal the gut and optimize vitamin D3/K2 levels. Iodine helps, too. Eat seaweed for this. I use Wakame and Arame.
Thank you Dr Berg! ❤ So much more information is needed for this topic, i find my whole life I've experienced very dismissive doctors, it's literally the "too hard basket" for them. I have Thalassemia Minor (yes I know this is a completely different topic, but you can imagine my level of tired), in addition to this, ever since I gave birth 8 years ago, I've been on a non stop rollercoaster of iron deficiency, ferritin deficiency (either or at any given time). I consume so much red meat, I'm surprised i haven't turned into it 😂 but apparently the absorption problem is a lot to do with my Thalassemia. Anyways, I'd love a video about Ferritin deficiency vs Iron deficiency and treatments, or even anything on Thalassemia Minor (which no doctors I've ever been to can understand). 🇦🇺
The reason why you have a lot of subscribers is because you speak clearly so everybody can understand you even if they are not fluent in English. God bless you for the good job you do.
Congratulations Dr. Berg. You are a good teacher and you do your best for us. I followed your advice on Keto diet and on exercise , and I lost 18 lbs in 4 months. I used to eat sugar free cereal, No bread, little bit of rice and Pasta, low fat, and a lot of fruit. I used to walk on high intensity with lift on treadmill for an hour. I didn’t lose weight. I am glad that I saw your video and I follow your diet. Thank you so much
My husband and I have been drinking Stinging Nettle tea daily for a year. Stinging Nettle is rich in protein, minerals, iron and vitamin C. My husband's blood work came back with too much iron so I yanked him off the tea. I still drink it because I run low on iron. The point is that to me it is proof the Stinging Nettle will help in boosting iron since that was the only thing he was doing different.