Exercise Scientist Critiques Dr. Berg's Dangerous Health Advice

[00:02] instead. Better not be exercise repackaged. >> How about a 4-second workout? >> That's a workout, Dr. Berg. I still hate working out, god damn it. >> 20 times in a given [music] day.

[00:14] >> Uh. >> Go for 15-minute walk after each meal. that's like 45 minutes of exercise a day. >> To burn off any sugar that you just consumed in your diet.

[00:26] >> That's not how it works at all. Jesus. >> It sounds like we were getting to the >> What would happen if you only ate sardines for 5 days? >> Who the fuck asks questions like this? >> On day five, you're probably not going

[00:38] to want to stop. Your mood is good, [music] you're not hungry, you're not >> God damn it. You're going to be craving everything other than fucking sardines. [music] If you follow Dr. Berg, any of

[00:50] the promises of his treatments to be effective are based on literally effective are based on literally make-believe.

[01:03] I have done many things in my life, and one of them is teach nutrition at Temple University in Philadelphia back when I was a professor there. I taught basics nutrition courses, and authored books on nutrition, and done seminars, and

[01:18] stuff. >> of you guys have ever heard not to eat who knows what that or else is, and crazy elves come and get you. That's take on a couple elves. I ate late at night. I kept waiting for them to show

[01:32] >> Which makes me a bit of a, oh, junior-level BS expert. But I'm nothing compared to the person we're going to be focusing on today, Dr. Berg, or as he's known in Jewish, Dr. Bug. >> Ugh, Bug.

[01:48] >> I'm not sure if he's Jewish. It doesn't matter. Do you know what matters? The validity of his claims. He's got some interesting claims. Is he full of BS, Or is he speaking the truth? We're sure sure going to find out together, aren't

[02:01] >> Let's do it. They're fun. >> They're so fun. I've heard great stories are. I've never seen them before. We're going to watch them together for the going to watch them together for the first time. [music] 3 2 1 clip watching.

[02:18] All right, the first clips are from a video that Dr. Berg made called 10x healthier food. I didn't know food health could be measured in multiples, but I learn something every day. And good news, there are 27 low-cost

[02:31] ways to upgrade your meal to get (in parentheses because you're dumb) 10x the >> Today we're going to show you how to make any meal 10x more nutritious. If

[02:43] you consume broccoli, add a little mustard to it. There's a certain enzyme broccoli >> Uh broccoli is beautiful when you zoom >> It's the greenest thing in the world. >> to allow the enhancement of something

[02:58] called sulforaphane, this key nutrient that helps a lot of things. Decreasing symptoms from Alzheimer's >> It's okay. We've got sulforaphane for >> Also decreasing symptoms from autism >> All right.

[03:12] >> Okay. Is it possible that this chemical liberated by the interaction of broccoli and mustard improves outcomes in these various disorders? It is absolutely possible.

[03:27] putting broccoli and mustard together is going to expose you to enough of this chemical to really meaningfully hit up these outcomes? Absolutely fucking not. Here is the nutrition

[03:43] charlatan playbook rule number 57. Take one compound with some one PubMed study about its beneficial effects in the cells of mice and then you assume that that compound just magically affects everything super

[03:57] well, pick one weird but healthy food and add another weird but is it even healthy? I don't know food that has that compound in it, combine them, and then compound in it, combine them, and then people are fucking just overjoyed that

[04:10] you have given them with nothing on your part that you ever did better health. Works every time. And by works, I mean it works to make you YouTube ad revenue >> Consuming your vegetables with added butter.

[04:22] >> Okay. We're being told, Scott, that adding butter to vegetables is good. >> Okay, I wonder what kind of fat-soluble vitamins we're going to be getting out trick. >> Because the fat will help actually

[04:35] >> Uh, very well. That's true. But, you know, frying things in butter tends to massively increase the calories and the cardiovascular disease risk. Oops. >> Number 12 is dark chocolate. But,

[04:50] there's something in dark chocolate that your microbes love. >> Scott, I want to bring your attention to something. something. The red blood cell-shaped blood cells

[05:02] everywhere highly imply this is in your blood. This person has two problems. One is they have a piece of dark chocolate in their blood. Two is they have sepsis, the infection of the bloodstream. Microbes don't live in your blood and

[05:16] eat shit there. That's in your gut, Dr. Berg. Berg. You would have learned that in fake degrees, but god damn, let's keep the shit semi-realistic.

[05:30] they'll take care of you. >> Well, that's all the science I need to know about. Scott, we learned that dark chocolate has things for microbes and because they take care of you.

[05:44] >> Garlic. And garlic is very potent anti-cancer because of this compound >> Yo, what's up, allicin? I thought allicin was just a white girl's name, >> This allicin is only activated when you crush it. So, what I recommend you do is

[05:56] you crush the garlic, wait [music] 10 minutes, then eat the garlic, 10 x'ing minutes, then eat the garlic, 10 x'ing or 15 x'ing the effectiveness of allicin >> I wonder what that actually does to

[06:10] cancer risk. I wonder if anyone's ever studied this before. I bet that if you consume way more garlic and even wait 10 to 15 minutes before you eat it, the effect on overall population cancer risk is going to be negligible or

[06:24] non-existent. But, what do I know? I'm just speculating on the spot. Dr. Berg just speculating on the spot. Dr. Berg definitely did his research.

[06:36] exercise, do this instead. Better not be exercise repackaged. Dr. Berg's there shocked that 15 minutes exist. >> If you hate exercise and you don't have time to work out, this video is for you.

[06:52] >> It's so good. >> It's so good. >> Jam-packed with it. >> The exercise that they're doing doesn't align with their biology. Just hear me out.

[07:05] Folks, humans are 99.9% identical to one another biologically. When you have exercise differences, they

[07:17] are going to be subtle. They are not going to be grand re-architecturing of That doesn't happen. But, I know your biology makes you hate exercise and never works for you. Let's find out what Dr. Oz, I mean, Dr. Berg

[07:33] >> How about a 4-second workout? >> That's a workout, Dr. Berg. I still hate working out, god damn it. >> Uh Hey, what are you up to? Do you want to

[07:46] eight workouts while you're at the club. Weird. Do you want to go to a meeting? Nope, eight workouts still. Huh, I got you. So, instead of just working out once very intensely, you ruined your whole day by working out 20 times that

[07:59] whole day by working out 20 times that day. Guys, this is some bullshit. >> [music] >> workout, where there's jumping rope or goddamn seconds? >> [laughter]

[08:12] then what? You going to start sprinting again, or are you done? You got to go and pick up jump rope and do 4 seconds of jump rope 20 fucking times a day? dedicated time for as little as 20

[08:26] minutes to just do like alternating muscle groups with distributed compound exercises, take minimal rest, boom, 20 minutes a day, 2 days a week, you're well on your way to working out. Working out is so straightforward to do at this

[08:40] that if you're still not interested in know what I got for you. Well, apparently Dr. Berg has work out every second of your life for 1 femtosecond at a time. That's realistic.

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[09:21] a very big benefit. Have a look around, click on links, and buy stuff. All right, back to the video. >> 15 minutes every week of weight training your muscles. >> 15 minutes of weight training per week

[09:37] absolutely can cause muscular improvement. You get way more benefit if you do about 20 minutes twice a week. And really the difference between those practically is almost nothing. So, not bad advice.

[09:50] >> Better advice than not. >> Soleus push-ups. >> It's a type of exercise. Jesus Christ. Scott, you hate exercise? Here's other types of exercise. >> What's the soleus muscle? That is

[10:02] >> one of your calf muscles. >> You guys see that top fluffy bulgy part? That's the gastrocnemius. That's not the [music] soleus. You guys see that middle part that goes all the way down and that white like lighter part in the distal

[10:16] area? That's actually the soleus. They can't fucking highlight the right muscles, you guys. Nobody's at the wheel. We all make mistakes. Dr. Berg just happens to make a lot of them or he's a fucking snake oil salesman

[10:30] charlatan fucking online doctor. I don't know which one it is though. I'm curious. >> Walking after each meal. >> Each meal? I'm too busy to do exercise, but now I have to do exercise after each

[10:43] meal. Make it make sense, guys. Please. >> Go for 15-minute walk. >> Man, 15-minute walk after each meal? That's like 45 minutes of exercise a >> To burn off any sugar that you just consumed in your diet.

[10:57] >> It's like we haven't even got to the good part, Mike. >> All right. Here's the thing, guys. When you eat food, it takes minutes. I mean 30 minutes minimum in most cases to hours until that meal goes through your

[11:14] esophagus, into your stomach, into your small intestine, eventually into your large intestine. While through the small intestine, all of the digestible products go in, go into first pass metabolism through the liver, and then

[11:26] get out to the rest of your body, and then to your fat stores. That is an hours-long process. If you walk immediately after you eat, what you're pre-existing carbohydrate. You are not burning any of the food that you just

[11:40] ate. Man, it's just not an instant process. This is backwards nonsense. >> I was trying to talk to my wife about >> And his wife's like, "Shut up." I'm kidding. That's mean. I don't know.

[11:52] was thinking [music] about building a climbing wall that I have to get to my office by climbing around the room. That way I can get a good workout and I don't

[12:04] But, she didn't really go for it. I'm going to still work on her. Maybe she'll let me do it. >> She's like, "You're insane." is good. This is good. This is good. This is good.

[12:17] >> Unreal. Scott, we need to get in that pipeline, man. >> This is a class of diet called an elimination diet, where you eliminate foods. Elimination diets are done for one good

[12:29] fucked up and allergic from cuz it's everything down. You slowly start reintroducing food. You get the symptoms back. You can pinpoint exactly what food is causing the problem. Here's another

[12:41] is causing the problem. Here's another good reason to do an elimination diet. do wackadoodle diets all you want. They don't teach you real good health don't teach you real good health practices at all. What they do is make

[12:55] get off that diet. You're going to have nothing to do cuz you haven't been practicing eating fundamentally good diets, and you're back in the same place you were except probably a little bit lighter and healthier cuz Jesus Christ,

[13:07] going to be able to eat enough food to sustain yourself. [music] It's going to get disgusting real quick. The only big advantage of sardines is they tend to be packaged with salt. And you could say, "Hey, I'm going to be pretty hydrated."

[13:19] But, do they have all of the other electrolytes that you need for maximum hydration? They don't, pimp. I'm really sorry. But, guess what [music] does? Element, the sponsor of this video. Here is my exact instruction for what to do,

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[13:58] that other than this is the love of my life and he's amazing. Try it today. sardines for 5 days? >> Who the fuck asks questions like this? sitting around and we were like, "You know what? I'm I'm tired of not doing

[14:13] eating sardines for 5 days straight. It's paining my existence to be sardine-free for 5 whole days, Scott." >> On day one of eating just sardines, of course you're going to have water,

[14:26] >> What? I thought it was only sardines. Electrolytes? Scott, is he pushing >> If you want to drink tea or coffee, you can do that. [laughter] too, you're totally good, man. Just have a sardine. And honestly,

[14:40] you don't feel like sardines, you don't even have to eat them, but you still >> And so you could call this a sardine fast. >> It's not a fast, you guys. You guys

[14:52] fast [music] when you don't eat. Everything else is a special diet. It's not a fast. It's the sardine elimination diet. everything other than sardines. >> The first 2 days might be a little bit

[15:07] >> Maybe. At the office, yeah, that's great. At how you doing?" You're like, "Good, good." They're like, >> "Why do you smell like sardines?" It's a long story. Actually, it's a really

[15:21] >> You're going to have mental clarity on day two. pissed because you're only eating sardines. But, Scott, have you considered that if you were a successful Asian-American lawyer CEO in an amazing

[15:37] great time no matter what you ate? >> I know, and he's like draped in golden >> Fucking man. I don't know what you do for a career, Scott, but this man runs shit. >> You're going to just start feeling like

[15:51] very, very focused, and your sleep is going to be better as well. it's cold outside, you'll go out there and you just don't feel this cold.

[16:03] [laughter] You're going to be freezing to death cuz you ain't eating hardly shit. Sardines in normal doses do not produce some kind of crazy thyroid reaction. This is not reality, folks. You'll probably just be staring at an

[16:17] empty refrigerator wondering what the fuck happened to your life. Oh, look, >> You're not going to be hungry. >> I can almost promise you you will be sardines per day. I can almost guarantee it.

[16:30] >> Your appetite's going to be gone because your body is flooded with ketones because you're finally burning fat.

[16:42] compound effects. >> How are they compounding? >> You have more weight loss. You got a happy brain. know this is clinical shit when he's calling it happy brain. That's

[16:57] definitely a real thing. >> Your mood is good. You're not hungry. >> You're going to be craving each one with male and female options. You get them all and can use them as often as you like, even building off of them to make

[17:10] your own customized versions for only about a dollar a day. Click on the the started. >> Flexible joints, a hardcore deep sleep bright. >> Look at that man, Scott. You ever see a

[17:26] has only sardines ahead for the rest of his life? >> That's it right there. Guys, are you tired of knowing about the fake causes of neck and shoulder pain? Doctor Berg has the real causes, and

[17:40] Doctor Berg has the real causes, and it's three X's that are colored yellow that are bleeding red things into your body and that connects to someone who is body and that connects to someone who is inside of a sack tied to a tree.

[17:58] your scapula, it's probably not coming from your spine. >> That would be ridiculous. The spine is where all those nerves originate from. Who would ever think spine? No, it must be something else.

[18:10] college >> Chiropractors, half of you are great. make-believe nonsense. Sorry. >> Try to fix my shoulder problem, and it never worked. I did not understand the

[18:24] body and the gallbladder. >> I'm sorry. What? >> 80% of tightness, spasm, pain in this whole area, this is where you might feel it, but it's not coming from this area.

[18:38] >> 80% >> 80%? I'm sure that's substantiated by some sort of study or even inference. Scott, I knew it was the gallbladder. Who are we kidding? Now look, there is such a thing called

[18:53] referred pain. When one of your organs hurts, sometimes it doesn't hurt in the organ, it hurts somewhere else. That definitely happens. Is it likely to explain 80% of your neck and back pain that your gallbladder is causing cuz you

[19:06] Almost certainly not. >> What What going to be doing is you're going to be manually massaging this area to take some of the congestion out. to take some of the congestion out. >> What? Self manual gallbladder massage is

[19:20] pure fucking nonsense. Where the fuck is your gallbladder? You're not going to find that shit. You didn't go to medical school. Neither did I. What the hell is going on? Do doctors can't pinpoint that shit with just their hands? This is

[19:34] fucking outrageous. >> Back and forth to the point where you feel a knot, okay? And you're just going to hold pressure there, and then you're going to start [music] noticing your right shoulder and see if it

[19:47] loosens up. Okay. >> Scott, what's a knot? >> Uh it's like what you tie in your shoelaces. >> Yeah, I don't have any of those in here.

[20:00] Okay. All right. Notice I received exactly the viewers, the intended target of this video. I don't feel my fucking neck, Dr. Oz. I mean, Berg.

[20:15] Folks, we have way more videos to shit talk. We're calling it here. Dr. Berg, talk. We're calling it here. Dr. Berg, if you ever see this video,

[20:27] by being helpful and truthful and telling people what actually works. And telling people what doesn't work. For you know, science. And even inference. Makes sense. We all make mistakes. We're all on some bullshit

[20:40] every now and again. I'm not perfect. But I generally tend not to make shit up whole cloth as a matter of policy. If you follow Dr. Berg, maybe you can look up at some science as well. Because some of the promises, many of the

[20:55] promises of his treatments to be effective, are based on literally I'm going to go pretend some shit into existence and make a lot of money on YouTube doing it. Dr. Berg, [music] you are rated a person

[21:09] who says lots of bullshit things out of 10. know if I'm feeling that vibe currently. As a human, you're as great as any of information, I'm not sure how what you're doing is

[21:22] legal. See you guys next time. a while and be upset at the state of the world. What are you going to do? Well,

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