Dr. Ken Berry presentation: Principles of a Proper Human Diet
Summary
TLDRThe speaker, a former overweight pre-diabetic physician, shares his journey and insights on the proper human diet, emphasizing the importance of ancestral eating patterns. He argues against the standard American diet and processed foods, advocating for nutrient-dense, low-carb, and anti-inflammatory foods. The talk also touches on the benefits of fasting and the need for a diet tailored to individual physiology, concluding with the speaker's personal transformation and a call for audience engagement.
Takeaways
- 😀 The speaker used to be a pre-diabetic, overweight family physician and attributes part of this to being mistaught about nutrition.
- 🌾 The speaker suggests that a proper human diet (PHD) should be self-evident and similar to the diets of other species, which are species-specific and not scalable or factory-made.
- 🍽️ A PHD is described as low in carbohydrates and possibly allowing for a vegetarian lifestyle with sufficient animal protein intake, although it might be challenging.
- 👕 The speaker humorously points out that clothing buttons can indicate dietary health, suggesting that a proper diet should not cause clothing to become tight.
- 🔍 The importance of reducing carbohydrate intake is likened to turning down a knob to address health and dietary goals effectively.
- 🚫 The speaker argues that a PHD should be free from inflammatory foods, which are common in the standard American diet.
- 🍇 The speaker discusses the modern manipulation of food, such as cloned bananas, as opposed to ancestral foods that would have been consumed 15,000 years ago.
- 🧠 The necessity of understanding anthropology and paleoanthropology to determine the proper diet for humans is emphasized, as traditional medical education often lacks this.
- 🏭 The speaker criticizes factory-made foods and suggests that a PHD should be nutrient-dense and not merely for pleasure.
- 🍎 A PHD is described as satiating, which contrasts with the business models of large food corporations that may not want to produce truly filling foods.
- 🏥 The speaker implies that a PHD can improve health markers and conditions like type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and obesity, moving towards normal levels.
Q & A
What was the speaker's previous condition before adopting a proper human diet?
-The speaker was a fat, pre-diabetic, and miserable family physician.
Why does the speaker believe that many people have been misled about proper nutrition?
-The speaker believes people have been misled due to being mistaught about food, both in medical school and by cultural influences like their grandmother's teachings.
According to the speaker, what is the basis for determining the proper diet for any species, including Homo sapiens sapiens?
-The speaker suggests that the proper diet for any species can be deduced from the veterinary literature and by observing the natural dietary habits of animals.
What is the speaker's opinion on the role of carbohydrates in a proper human diet?
-The speaker believes that a proper human diet should be low in carbohydrates, and that carbohydrate intake should be adjusted like a knob to meet individual health goals.
Why does the speaker argue that a proper human diet is not factory-made?
-The speaker argues that a proper human diet should consist of natural foods that grow, crawl, run, jump, slither, and fly, rather than processed foods made in factories.
What is the speaker's view on the possibility of a proper human diet for vegetarians?
-The speaker thinks it is possible for vegetarians to have a proper human diet if they include plenty of fish, eggs, and other ethically acceptable animal proteins.
How does the speaker describe the relationship between diet and inflammation?
-The speaker describes a proper human diet as being uninflammatory, and suggests that many modern foods are filled with inflammatory substances.
What is the speaker's stance on the modern banana and its relation to ancestral foods?
-The speaker points out that the modern banana is a clone, different from ancestral fruits, and that most fruits and vegetables in supermarkets today have been selectively bred to be larger and sweeter, unlike their ancestral counterparts.
What does the speaker suggest is the role of fasting in a proper human diet?
-The speaker suggests that fasting has a role in a proper human diet, as it provides the body with a downtime for maintenance, similar to a factory's downtime for equipment maintenance.
How does the speaker relate the proper human diet to health markers and chronic diseases?
-The speaker believes that a proper human diet can improve health markers and reduce the risk of chronic diseases like type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and obesity.
What is the speaker's advice for those new to the concept of a proper human diet?
-The speaker advises new individuals to first implement the strategies of a proper human diet before starting to fast, as fasting should come naturally once other aspects of the diet are established.
Outlines
🧬 Rediscovering Human Nutritional Needs
The speaker, a former overweight pre-diabetic physician, shares his journey of nutritional enlightenment, highlighting how he and many others were misinformed about proper eating habits. He emphasizes the importance of understanding our species' dietary needs, drawing parallels with the diets of other animals and suggesting that a proper human diet should be intuitively known, unlike the confusion surrounding human diets today. He humorously engages the audience to recognize themselves as Homo sapiens sapiens and ponders the implications of our ignorance towards nutrition, which has led to modern health epidemics.
🥗 The Principles of a Proper Human Diet
Continuing the discussion, the speaker delves into the concept of a proper human diet, advocating for a low-carbohydrate, nutrient-dense, and anti-inflammatory diet that is species-appropriate. He argues that such a diet should be based on whole foods that grow, crawl, jump, and fly, rather than factory-made products. The speaker also touches on the possibility of a vegetarian version of a proper human diet, provided it includes sufficient animal proteins. He shares anecdotes from his past as a physician to illustrate the challenges of advising patients on weight loss and the importance of reducing carbohydrates for overall health.
🍌 The Evolution of Food and Its Impact on Health
The speaker explores the evolution of food, particularly how modern fruits and vegetables have been selectively bred to be larger and sweeter, diverging significantly from their ancestral counterparts. He discusses the impact of these changes on health and inflammation, noting that a proper human diet should be ancestral, nutrient-dense, and satiating. The speaker also candidly admits his own dietary indulgences that do not strictly adhere to his proposed principles, demonstrating a balanced and realistic approach to diet and health.
🌾 The Industrialization of Food and Its Consequences
In this paragraph, the speaker criticizes the industrialization of food, suggesting that factory-made foods are problematic for a proper human diet. He argues that such foods are often designed to be non-satiating to boost profits, rather than nourishing. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of nutrient density and satiety in a proper diet, and how it can lead to improved health markers. He uses the example of the movie 'The Game Changer' to illustrate misconceptions about historical diets and the importance of deeper understanding in making dietary choices.
🚫 The Elimination of Chronic Diseases Through Proper Nutrition
The speaker discusses the potential of a proper human diet to alleviate and even eliminate chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and obesity. He argues that these conditions improve significantly when inflammatory and carbohydrate-rich foods are removed from the diet. The speaker also introduces the concept of fasting as a natural part of a proper human diet, suggesting that it provides the body with downtime for repair and maintenance. He advises newcomers to focus on implementing other aspects of a proper diet before attempting fasting.
🤝 The Community and Personalized Aspect of a Proper Human Diet
In the final paragraph, the speaker emphasizes the community aspect of a proper human diet, encouraging audience members to connect with local food sources and to take an active role in understanding their food's origins. He argues that a proper diet is not scalable for mass production and profit, and instead should be personalized to an individual's physiology and biochemistry. The speaker invites audience interaction and questions, fostering a sense of community and shared learning.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡pre-diabetic
💡misled
💡Homo sapien sapien
💡proper human diet
💡inflammatory
💡carbohydrates
💡ancestral
💡nutrient-dense
💡fasting
💡inflammation
💡ketogenic diet
💡carnivore diet
Highlights
The speaker used to be a pre-diabetic and miserable family physician, attributing his condition partly to being mistaught about proper nutrition.
There is a proper diet for various species, including Homo sapiens sapiens, which the speaker believes has been forgotten by modern humans.
The speaker argues that humans are the only species that has forgotten how to feed themselves properly, leading to various health epidemics.
A proper human diet is not factory-made and should consist of foods that grow naturally, such as fruits, vegetables, and animal proteins.
The speaker believes that a proper human diet is low in carbohydrates and can be adapted to vegetarianism with sufficient animal proteins.
The speaker humorously recounts his past struggles with weight and the common advice given to patients, highlighting the ineffectiveness of generic diet advice.
A proper human diet should be uninflammatory, contrary to the common belief that diet cannot significantly impact inflammation levels.
The speaker emphasizes that a proper human diet is ancestral, meaning it should consist of foods that were available and consumed by humans more than 15,000 years ago.
Modern fruits and vegetables have been selectively bred to be larger and sweeter, deviating from their ancestral forms.
The speaker criticizes the lack of nutrition and anthropological training among doctors and the medical industry's focus on profit over health.
A proper human diet is nutrient-dense and should not be consumed solely for pleasure, unlike many factory-made foods.
The speaker argues that satiating, nutrient-dense foods are not profitable for large food corporations, which prefer to produce less filling, more addictive products.
A proper human diet should improve health markers and reduce the risk of chronic diseases, unlike the standard American diet.
The speaker suggests that type 2 diabetes and other chronic conditions can be significantly improved or eliminated by adhering to a proper human diet.
Fasting is a natural part of a proper human diet, allowing the body time to repair and maintain itself, as seen in anthropological studies.
The speaker advocates for a species-specific, person-specific diet that works with an individual's physiology and biochemistry for optimal health.
Local, non-factory produced food is preferable as it allows consumers to know and trust their food sources, enhancing accountability.
Transcripts
hey
y'all how you
doing first a little about me and then a
little about you so I used to be a fat
pre-diabetic miserable family
physician and part of that was my fault
but part of it wasn't my fault because I
had been mistaught
definitely in med school and residency
but previously by my beloved granny
Barry who taugh taught me what food was
and I think many of us share that same
story we we were mistaught we were
misled we've forgotten who and what we
are as a
species and I think once you come back
and revisit that and and make peace with
what you are and who you are the
principles of a proper human diet become
self-evident almost now about you raise
your hand if you identify
as
homo sapien sapien who identifies as HSS
okay good so we know from the veterinary
literature that there is a proper canine
diet for dogs it's it's known there's no
ifs answerer but Purina has some input
on that but basically if you want a very
healthy dog you feed them a specific
diet same for cats same for cows same
for
sheep could that that also apply to Homo
sapiens
sapiens probably
right let's talk about that so why do we
need to even talk about this because we
we seemingly the
only species on the planet who's
forgotten how to feed
ourselves we don't know what to eat
there's this huge debate you never when
when Nisha and I are hunting deer in the
woods we never see a small group of deer
having a slap fight over whether they
should eat the Clover or the Fescue or
the weeds it's like they just
know intuitively they just know
instinctually this is why we have to
talk about this because our ignorance
and forgetfulness about what a proper
human diet is has led to epidemics of
all these conditions and many
more a proper human diet is not a
fat when I'm out in the in the pasture
with the sheep they never get really
riled up about you know what we're not
we're we're going to be clover-based
we're not going to eat grass
anymore by God we're not eating any more
weeds they don't do that they just eat
the nutrition that they need and I would
opine that a proper human diet for human
beings is also not a fat I think it is
the proper way you and I should both
eat a proper human diet is not Factory
made it is not scalable it grows it
creeps it crawls it runs it jumps it
slithers it
flies that's a proper human diet if
there's any extra steps added it's
probably
not
PhD a proper human diet by definition is
low in carbohydrates and I have I have
quite a range of carbohydrates I think
that it's possible to eat a proper human
diet as a vegetarian if you're including
Plenty of Fish plenty of eggs plenty of
animal other animal proteins that that
are okay with you ethically I think it's
possible I think it's difficult but I
think it's
possible some of us like this
previously morbidly obese family
physician uh so I'll tell you a funny
story so used to this button was the
button that was in danger of
popping okay and so I would going into
an exam room with a patient who was
overweight pre-diabetic whatever and I'd
be like look
Jerry and women women know this this
break and eye contact men don't get it
as often and I would say Jerry you're
going to have to move more and eat less
okay you got to lose some weight and
Jerry's eyes he would break eye contact
and look at this button for just a tenth
of a
second
unconsciously couldn't help it he's like
what the
fu okay now if any button in danger it's
often this button on a proper human diet
and I think that's the way it should be
for all of us but some people can
tolerate more carbohydrates than others
and that's why I think about the
carbohydrate intake as a knob just like
the knob on your stereo do your your
stereo still have knobs probably not
right I need to have a slide or
something but if you're doing PhD and
you're you're not getting your goals you
need to turn down the carbon tape that's
probably the answer for the vast
majority of questions a proper human
diet is
uninflammatory and many people when you
start talking about keto carnivore how
your inflammation gets better they
literally think you're full of
a diet can't do that you have to
have pills for
that but absolutely our diet is filled
with inflammatory things now some of
these things are more inflammatory for
some people than for
others right there are some of you in
this audience who can tolerate some
oxalates and some lectins and some
Fates right and there are others of you
that if you even think about them you
become
inflamed but if you're eating the
standard American diet that's by
definition high carbon inflammatory you
feel so miserable that you can't get any
feedback from your body at all right
it's like an alcoholic who's drinking
three fifths of whiskey a day and you
give him a shot of beer and you're like
did you feel
that no didn't feel
that no but if that guy's been dry for a
year and you give him a glass of beer
he's going to feel that that's what
happens when you INF remove the
inflammatory processed high carb junk
food from your diet is you actually get
to start to hear that ancestral
ancient
voice saying yeah I feel really good
when I eat that way but if I eat this
not so
much that's important you should listen
to
that a proper human diet is ancestral
now we we sometimes when we're trying to
create things we have to pick arbitrary
boundaries and so if humans had access
to it and they ate it more than 15 ,000
years
ago that's ancestral so full disclosure
I drink coffee that's 100% not
ancestrally
appropriate okay I I love butter and
heavy cream not ancestrally appropriate
according to my own definition so
disclosure but if you're still having
problems on low carb or keto ketovore or
carnivore you need to apply this
law this principle because this is the
one that's probably going to be help you
get over I can't tell you how many times
I've had somebody on keto carnivore come
to me and like my inflammation is still
crazy I'm I'm not reaching my goals and
and I'm like do you like cheese and
they're like oh hell yeah
cheese let's talk about that and so the
the bananas the modern banana is a clone
you know you understand every single
banana in every Supermarket everywhere
in the world
today is the exact same
banana they are they are cloned there's
no there's no nothing we took charge of
the banana hundreds of years ago and we
came up with the Cavendish and said yep
that's it and so every banana plant
around the world that's used
commercially is a clone of that original
plant we've done this hundreds if not
thousands of times with all the fruit
all the
berries no answer cestal barrier of
fruit from 15,000 years ago in any way
resembles the fruit and veg in the
supermarket
today there's even uh Zoological
evidence that animals not humans animals
selectively breed fruits to be larger
and
sweeter yeah true story
so when I first started this I had very
little nutrition training in in medical
school had zero
anthropological training
paleoanthropology I didn't even know
what that was archaeology sort of maybe
Graham hanock I've heard of
him but in order to come up with these
principles I've had to dig into all of
those silos that are not my home base I
had to dig all of that out and bring all
of that together to come up with these
principles and the average doctor
doesn't think they even need any
nutrition training but if you start
asking them how many books are papers
have you read about anthropology
paleoanthropology crickets start
chirping because they they don't like
why the hell would I even why don't even
get it how can you know what the proper
diet for human beings is in modern times
if you don't know what we ate 15 30
100,000 years ago because that's
probably important right cows have been
eating grass for millions of years and
so if Purina or some Mega Corporation
comes out and says oh no we've got the
perfect cow food for cows it's only $129
for a 50lb
bag you're going to be like no it's
pretty obvious grass is the proper Bine
diet we don't need that
product a proper human diet is very
nutrient-dense okay anytime you're
eating
something just for pleasure that's
that's probably not PhD now you can
definitely eat a ribey for pleasure
definitely but it's also one of the most
nutrient-dense Foods on the
planet okay and I
apologize to our most of the vendors out
here but we don't need a factory to make
food if your food came from a factory
that's a
problem okay I had one of the vendors
introduced himself and he was bragging
about his his little product out there
had 14 scientists and two nutritionists
working on this product for 3
years and I was like yeah that's some
then yeah I'm
not definitely not going to drink that
yeah okay excellent thank you um thanks
for the heads up I don't think he meant
it as a
warning but that's how it came
off a proper human diet is very
satiating now do do you think that
Kelloggs and General Mills and craft
Hines and mandes do you think those big
guys do they want to make satiating
food think about that what would that do
to their profit model if they made food
that was very filling and satiating and
kept you full for
hours a proper human diet satiates you
moves all of your hunger and satiety
hormones to The Sweet Spot so that when
you've eaten enough you get a ancestral
signal to stop eating you're done you've
had enough and then you don't get hungry
again for a long damn
time that's important I think that
matters a proper human diet optimizes
your health so how many of you guys saw
the movie The Game
Changer remember that
movie they were bragging about the
diet that the Gladiators ate in Rome
they ate beans and rice lagum that's
what they they they were the rock stars
of Rome who knows what the Gladiators in
Rome what was their societal
status slaves and prisoners prisoners of
War
yeah that's what digging into
archaeology a little bit history a
little bit these other
um areas of study that's what how you
benefit from that cuz if you didn't know
better cuz you saw you know Russell Crow
he was hot as
hell you're like well okay Gladiators he
was a star they they are stars I should
eat beans and
rice you see how that works but if
you've got just a little deeper layer of
understanding of how the world works and
how it has worked for a long time you'd
be like yeah they were slaves I don't
really want to eat a slave diet a
prisoner
diet but invariably the slave diet was
always grains sugar too ERS legumes
beans and rice we got tired of that it
was rice and beans because it keeps it
keeps the slaves
alive keeps them healthy enough to work
a
little keeps their belly full so they're
not complaining or
rebelling but does it do anything for
their are you worried if you own slaves
about optimizing their health not really
really right so an a proper human diet
optimizes your health it's not just B
filler doesn't just taste great it also
nourishes your
health and a proper human diet improves
your health markers and I should add a
lot okay so look at this little pie
graph I recently used this in one of my
YouTube videos can you guys read those
can you see those okay so if I'm correct
that there is a proper human diet and if
I'm correct that this is the proper
human diet then when you apply this diet
when you stop the standard American
crap or the vegan diet or any other
number of diets the the high grain high
carb Mediterranean diet and you start to
eat this diet then you should notice
things like your A1C starts to go back
to normal your fasting insulin
triglycerides hdlc inflammatory
markers all that should start to return
to
normal if I'm right
right
so this py graph is the the hazard
ratios if you have this condition this
is how how big of a risk it is for you
to have a heart attack and this py graph
applies to all other chronic diseases as
well so if you have a diet that lowers
somebody's
LDL
okay is that a big deal according to
this from published research
do you see LDL on
there right right so LDL actually comes
in number 13 or 14 in this list that I
made this py graph
for wouldn't you want to fix the biggest
wedge of pie I'm just a
redneck we like to do things that matter
you want to spend the most of your
effort working on the stuff that's going
to get you the most benefit is everybody
okay with that concept it's I know it's
simple-minded so when you apply the
principles of a proper human diet type 2
diabetes goes virtually away in
literally every person it always
improves and in most cases goes
completely away now a vegan diet can
lower your A1C and they all tout that
from the heavens but it's usually two1
of a percentage point right and then
they get they they published 50 papers
based on
that but what about a diet that just got
rid of type two diabetes it's almost as
if type two diabetes is carbohydrate
toxicity syndrome and when you cut out
the inflammatory slow poison
carbohydrates type 2
diabetes goes away that almost makes it
sound like a a poisoning event not a
disease that we don't understand it's
probably genetic same for metabolic
syndrome hypertension obesity all those
things when you eat a proper human diet
they improve markedly if not go back
completely to
normal so all these things get better if
I'm right about what a proper human diet
is a proper human diet includes some
degree of fasting okay it's clear in the
anthropological
literature studying religions and
studying uh groups all over the world
there was always some
fasting in their daily life it was is
often known as starving because the
hunters didn't do great that day but
your body actually through the the eons
learn to use that as a downtime almost
like when a factory you don't work on
those huge presses when they're running
you you wait for downtime you shut them
down and then you can replace parts and
do maintenance our body kind of figured
that out millions of years ago and some
so I highly advise anybody if you're
just new to all this don't start fasting
first I think that's a good way to fail
and give up implement the other
strategies of a proper human diet
first fasting will just come because
it's natural we're all built to do it a
proper human diet is a species specific
person specific diet that works with
your body's physiology and biochemistry
to provide the best possible physical
and meal mental health that's my
hypothesis and we'll see in the coming
years if that hypothesis proves true or
not
it does not scale up again I'm sorry for
most of the vendors out here but you
cannot make a billion dollars a
year as a as a proper human diet food
manufacturer one of the things I love
about a proper human diet when people
are eating real meat and real eggs and
real veg if that's part of your PhD is
that you start to seek out local
ranchers you want to know the guy that
raised your cow or your sheep you start
to seek out local produce you want to
know who raised that and and and maybe
even look deeper in how they raised it
so see there's this unwritten law in the
South that The Closer you are to being
able to put your hands on somebody the
better they're likely to
behave do that makes
sense and so if you're buying food and
and the headquarters is in New York and
the distribution centers in San Diego
and the corporate offices wherever you
can't really get your hands on
anybody what are you going to do if they
slow poison you for 20 years and you
wind up with fatty liver not
much but if you're getting your food
from local sources you know the guy you
can go and have a chat with him as we
say in the
South if he's putting something in your
food that he shouldn't be putting in
your
food it's not patentable nobody's going
to make a a million billion
dollars on a proper human
diet how many members of our tribe do we
have here stand up if you're part of the
tribe stand up let me see
you
hey thank you guys so much for
supporting what Nish and I do thank you
guys so
much we're all we're going to meet up
with all the tribe members on on the
bridge at
1 if you didn't get the message so
that's just a short little taste of what
I think a proper human diet is I've got
a a few videos on my small YouTube
channel that you can check out and I'm
happy to take any questions you might
have from me uh this is
directly aimed at the the shy person
here who's like I want to say hi but I'm
afraid stop
that
I'm here for a reason okay I could have
flown in gave this talk and flow out
I've been here all week all all weekend
and I'm going to be here till this
evening so stop it grow up and stand up
and come say
hi thank
you
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