The "What is Money?" Show Why Calorie Counting Fails Almost Everyone w/ Dr. Ken Berry
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Jan 27, 2026 Dr. Ken Berry, a board-certified family physician and popular nutrition educator, shares his shift from conventional medicine to ancestral low-carb and carnivore approaches. He discusses why calories-versus-hormones thinking misleads people. He explores vitamin D, insulin resistance, plant defense chemicals, seed oils, GLP-1 drugs, and practical lifestyle and supplement choices.
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Calories Are A Misleading Paradigm
- Calories measure heat, not biological mass, so "calories in, calories out" misframes weight regulation.
- Ken Berry reframes weight as mass balance driven by hormonal signals like insulin and leptin.
Prioritize Diet And Play
- Fix your diet first: remove added sugar, grains, beans, and seed oils to improve health dramatically.
- Fill half to all of your plate with meat, eggs, and fish and go outside and play vigorously often.
Phytochemicals Explain Unexpected Benefits
- Plants evolved defensive phytochemicals (lectins, oxalates, phytates) that can harm sensitive humans.
- Lowering plant phytochemical load (low‑carb/carnivore) explains broad symptom improvements beyond weight loss.
