1. Green potatoes 2. Nutmeg 3. Green raw almonds 4. Undercooked red kidney beans 5. Brown rice 6. Undercooked bloody burger 7. Cherry pits ...in case you don't have time to watch (this very informative video) to the end. You're welcome.
1. Green potatoes 2.Nutmeg 3. Green raw almonds 4. Undercooked red kidney beans 5 Brown rice 6 Undercooked bloody burger 7. Cherry pits. When I was a teenager I used to eat green raw almonds, not too many of course and nothing happened to me. Also I thought that rice in general contained cyanide not only brown.I admit that nutmeg surprised me.
To save you the time: 1. Green potatoes 2. Nutmeg 3. Green raw Almonds 4. Undercooked Red Kidney beans 5. Brown Rice 6. Undercooked bloody hamburger 7. Cherry pits
Thanks. It's a pity all these EXPERTS on the internet didn't just do what you have just done. Made a list of "BAD" ?? They are all the same ..... The word BABEL rings a bell.
Nutmeg? I'm from the Caribbean. We hv used Nutmeg for centuries. Suitable amounts that is. It's quite medicinal amd actually relieves my headaches rather than aggravating them
Same here. I use it in my porridge, coffee, iced coffee, shakes, etc. and it can ease nausea when traveling long distance by car. I’m sorry but this just seems like it’s targeted to promote Keto. I love his videos but nahhhh. Nah buy dis one 😞
@@Azimi001 but nobody is gonna eat a whole bunch of nutmeg. You grate a little bit of it for certain recipes or you can buy it it powered form like cinnamon.
0:10 #1 Green potatoes 1:30 #2 Nutmeg 2:15 #3 Green raw almonds and cashews 3:35 #4 Undercooked red kidney beans 4:50 #5 Brown rice 7:13 #6 Uncooked bloody hamburger 8:20 #7 Cherry pits Then My Chanel Bro! : )
Very real warnings. You rarely find green potatoes. You do, sometimes, though, and its serious. I have experienced that. You never find or eat green almonds! You only use a trace of nutmeg. You are so right to warn, Dr. Berg
Nutmeg is used for better sleep and has lots of other medicinal properties . I always use in smaller quantity like just grate it equal to one or two pinch While making winter dessert recpies and never had issues
@@emh8861 You don't have too, but the point is that that is everything in HIGH quantity can harm you or kill you. Even breathing kills you slowly over the year due the oxidative stress 🤣
Exactly! Most recipes I have ever used only call for a pinch and up to 1/4 tsp (rarely 1/2 tsp) nutmeg at most, and that is for many servings. NYT ran an article and here's an exerpt: "The study also explains how much is considered toxic, saying that 1 to 3 nutmegs, or 5 to 15 grams (that's 1 to 3 teaspoons), is the reported toxic dose. This intoxication usually passes in 24 hours, the report says, though in some cases psychosis has set in for up to six months." Still need to keep it away from small children and overly adventurous teens, though.
My grand mother ate mostly potatoes and beans in her meals and she died at 98 years old without any other diseases. Maybe because they weren't genetically modified
I like the way the doctor just starts right into all of the items that he's talking about and doesn't drag it on forever not too many are doing what he's doing so God love them
Nutmeg in about a pinch is perfectly fine. Who has nutmeg everyday, anyway? All beans should be cooked properly, good for digestion. Brown rice soaked for about 2 hours & washed, is good to eat.
To reduce the arsenic in your rice, first give it a good rinse. Place the grains in a fine mesh strainer and pour water over them until it runs clear. Cook the rice in excess water, at a ratio of one cup of rice to six cups of water, and drain any extra leftover once the grains are tender.
@@NJLev he said to drain the water out when the grains are tender. That’s how they cook it back in the villages in my country. I was surprised when I saw it, believe me, it’s not mushy at all, it’s well done and not sticky. It’s a great technic.
@@Drberg what do you mean especially brown rice? If farmers spraying pesticides on brown rice making it toxic than you know white rice is toxic too. Make it make cents not change 😂. Never like doctors. Always giving half truth and leaving out the other.
I come from Central America and I heard many women use to drink the water from undercooked red beans (the water when they first boil) to provoke a miscarriage, now I understand how it works.
Any food produced in the US should avoided. Most are full of transfats and way too much corn syrup and salt. I know this because I watch a lot of ewetube vids and see how being hugely obese is considered normal.
As a scientist. As a molecular biologist, and as someone who worked years on cutting edge biology, Dr Berg never, ever, in my opinion, delves into pseudo science. His work is always first class. While there are always alternative science, research, studies etc. that may be opposite of his comments, the things that he discusses..... the things that he has opinions on, are for the most part brilliant, and I wish him well. I am a proud member of the Dr Berg fanclub. Thank you sir!
@@xana5649 What a bizarre accusation! Have you been watching too much Princess Bride? Just exactly what did I say that seemed to you to be a lie? I assure you, my credentials are impeccable. World famous university education (Vandy), world famous biotech supplier(Biorad), and world famous cutting edge genomics company(Affy)..... Are you saying, then that Dr Berg's posts are lies?
@@xana5649 Bueno, mi amor. No hablo Portuguesa, solamente castellano, pero seguro que no tienes bastante vello púbico para ser in RUclips. Lo siento, chicitin.
As a Slavic woman, I was taught of everything what this doctor said since childhood. In my family this knowledge is obvious....I never appreciated this as much as I do now. Feels like no one spoke of it to people around for long years Edited: in my family we throw green potatoes out without hesitation
@@francisdec1615 I'm from Russia and I knew only about poison in green potatoes. I even tried to eat 1 or 2 raw nutmegs (plus some powdered) in my childhood to get a psychoactive effect.
@@raphaelmutili forgot to mention that I hit a platue from end of November.. So December I took it easy and continued with usual routine. This year want to take it a notch higher and do what the Dr. Said in his platue video. 👍
@@aggreyondeyo that's amazing! I lost 39kg last year just by cutting out Soda and Mcdonalds, and I tried to walk 10000 steps every day. I eat around 3000 calories per day, 267g of carbs, 263g of protein and 90-100g of fat.
Your stomach can’t break down the pit to get the stuff he is taking about out and into your blood. Take what this guy says with a grain of salt. Some stuff is great some stuff…..eeehhhh.
In Nigeria there is what we call foreign rice. when I eat it, I bloat and my stomach is in acidic pain. So I avoided rice for long but I love eating rice with lettuce, kale green peppers onions etc. so I opted for the rice grown in Nigeria which wasn't long grain and still quite wild. I got it, washed it thoroughly, soaked it for like 3 hrs and cooked it. since I started eating that rice, I never felt the pains again, in fact my stomach felt healed. I realized it is the soil, west African rice is grown with its rivers, very good soils, little wonder it has been the regions staple food. Well I eat our rice 2 times a week with a lot of raw green leafy vegetables, tomatoes onions etc
@let Quinoa is good but we don't grow it here. As a matter of fact I don't think it has a name in any west African language, well not sure of other parts of Africa. Here we grow something similar, it is called fonio.
Very informative! I never knew that a high usage of nutmeg and the arsenic levels found within brown rice can contribute to the lethality of these food items. Moderation is key. Thanks for sharing this!
I am so relieved that I do not consume any of these things that you just mentioned Dr. I will pass this information to my mother because she does eat some of these foods. Thank you for the information.
Balance...everything is a balance. I've lost 40 lbs over the past 12 months (now at my target weight), and I'm keeping it off while eating things like potatoes, rice, breads including pizza, even fruits. What I've learned? Just don't eat those things everyday at every meal, and fast. I typically skip breakfast. For me the idea of completely giving up ALL starches is not reasonable, or necessary. Balance...everything is a balance.
I have always preached and still believe in the food square. Too much of anything is bad and even sugar foods can be balanced out with veggies or exercise or both. Everyone's body is unique and each person needs to study and figure out what works best for them... and while I don't endorse unhealthiness, if eating thirty times a day and becoming a human blob is your ambition, go for it if that's what you really want. And if you wanna be a living stick figure, again, your body your choice. I am content with my 235lb dad bod.
My dad had a high fever last Sunday and had to be admitted to the ICU of the local hospital. Apparently his doctor found E Coli in his blood stream and he was in sepsis shock. Although the doctor said he was in critical condition with heart failure also, he has made a remarkable recovery within the course of four days. Now that he is conscious he remembered that he had eaten at a tasty local Chinese beef restaurant but with pretty poor sanitary conditions and he suspects that’s where he got the E Coli poisoning from.
I don't go to most Asian restaurants because of all the seed oils they cook in. Mexican restaurants are similar. Find some good recipes and make them at home.
About the rice and arsenic. I’ve researched this. It totally depends on where it is grown. He is right, it’s in the soil. It also is affected by irrigation methods. You can actually look up which places have more or less arsenic. The least amounts are found in California, Malawi, India and Pakistan (basmati), and Thailand (jasmine rice) You can also get rid of arsenic in rice by soaking and rinsing, and cooking it in more water (then drain it).
I rinse it with cold water then tip a kettle full of hot water on it, even though I eat Australian brown rice, doesn't hurt to be safe in this scenario
The uncooked red kidney beans aren’t the only beans. I got food poisoning from the same toxicity when I did not soak another type of uncooked beans long enough or cook them long enough . I forgot if it is white beans or something else. I committed and had abdominal cramps. So that uncooked red kidney beans is super true. This is why my grandma would soak beans for hours and hours not just to get rid of starch but that too. She would like cook beans for hours too. Thanks for your video,Dr. Berg. 😎👍🏽
@@HH-gv8mx I think canned ones are safe because they have been soaking in liquids and boiled. But cans can have BPA. Plus, calcium choride is a bad preservative. Whole Foods has safer canned beans. Not as good-tasting as Goya Beans though.
I am currently 4.5 months pregnant and would love to see a video about what to eat for pregnancy from Bergs perspective. I can't really do keto right now and I most certainly can't fast.
@@Drberg I took note of all my other ate when pregnant with me and my siblings and she ate mostly fish diet when pregnant with me. She stayed away from it when pregnant with my brother and ate some with my sister. At school I gave no problems, my brother a lot and my sister some. Sometimes I wonder if that is a link to the fish. Also I was bottle feed and my uncle wasn't. He is always sick or ill but I think that has to do with whatever my mom gave me when in her belly. Well if you have videos on that let me know. Thanks
In eastern Europe apricot kernels are consumed especially for cancer treatment due to the effects from natural content of amygdalin/cyanide which is known to kill cancer cells. My mum used to tell me that as kids, she and her 6 siblings used to eat 5-10 every other day as they grew up in a farm and grew their own fruit, veg and a few animals. Way healthier living than myself! Disclaimer; if you’re considering adding apricot to your diet, please do your research and don’t dive in as your body needs to build a tolerance slowly… starting with 2-3 is okay. PS; some variants are very bitter
Interesting presentation. Since I was a kid in the 50’s we were taught to never eat the green potatoes; any green uncooked or roasted nuts; any fruit pits. A whole nutmeg was never seen. And bloody, undercooked meat is a total NO 🤢.
Doctor why brown rice? Iam eating it for many years and our doctors said that brown rice is better than white rice Please clear this dr berg. Im following you for ur advices 😢
We love green raw almonds in my culture. But ofcourse its seasonal so they're only available for couple weeks in a year. We eat them washed and dipped in salt, like a snack. And honestly, I don't know anyone who has gotten sick or died from it but...it's good to know.
On the contrary, people from the Hunza Valley in Pakistan eat the apricot kernels along with a healthy diet and they live a long life. Alternative medicine uses bitter apricot kernels (vit B17) for cancer treatment but it is cheap and not good for big pharma. I had a non-cancerous cyst in my hand and I was going to have it removed through surgery but I did start eating 2 to 3 bitter apricot kernels a day for almost 2 weeks and now it is not visible, so no $urgery for me.
Dr Berg, you are right on point🙏. Two years ago, I ate undercooked red kidney bean. I was having excruciating stomach pain after that. Not knowing what was wrong with me, for three nights, I was in pain can’t sleep the whole night. I thought I was going to die. I went to see the doctor, the doctor thought I was having IBS Problem. The doctor sent me for ultrasound and scan trying to look what was wrong with my stomach. The result came back, they couldn’t find anything. So, no medication was given to me. and finally I feel well after a week or so. For the past 2 years, I didn’t know why I was having so much pain. Today, i watched your video. I finally got my answer . Thank you so much doctor. I appreciate everything you done. I learn a lot from your video. Keep it coming and thank you for sharing this beneficial information. 👍🙏❤️👍
As an Asian we eat kidney beans and rice by the gallons and never ever have I or my family past or present being poisoned by it. I've heard eating leftover rice is poisonous - we eat leftover rice by the buckets!! 😂 Have done for generations! where do people come up with some of this nonsense??
Mostly fear porn and people think they will live forever. Also 1st world problem a they have all the materials of the world and they need to worry about death!
The Yghani1 I agree with you. We need to do our own research and stop listening to the so-called expects, they don’t always know what they are talking about. I and family have eaten brown rice and kidney beans for years, no one has gotten sick. Such nonsense!😂
My husband's cousins live in Austria. They grow cherries and eat tons of them WITH PITS. They believe the pits are super healthy. They are VERY HEALTHY and have been doing this all their lives. I've never gotten into it, but believe me, I know several people in their 50s who have swallowed thousands of cherry pits in their lives!
Dr Berg is partially right about eating cherries. Yes, two pit cherries have enough arsenic to kill the average person. However, you will have to masticate or grind the pits down to fine partials to release the arsenic. So keep on eating your whole cherries, but just swallow the pits.
Dr. Berg thank you. However I would like for your channel to kindly clarify that nutmeg itself is not going to kill you rather it should have said “large quantities of nutmeg”. In the Caribbean we use nutmeg for a lot of meals without issues. Nutmeg is very nutritious and by listing it you could be preventing persons from ever even trying it. Everything in moderation as they say. Thanks for your hard work.
Strange! My mother ate 30 years almost everyday brown rice, and meat or chicken once per month, she's 90 now. Three of her younger sisters already died, they were everyday meat eaters.
Eric, there was a doctor who treated hundreds of patients with cancer with laetrile (natural cyanide) from bitter almonds and apricot seeds. I have tried these before and I did get a headache so the cyanide is real. Interesting thing is the laetrile seems to "know" when a cell is being devoured by a tumour and only releases the cyanide into the damaged/tumorous cell. It is basically nature's chemotherapy. patients have been able to eat up to 50 a day, which makes them sick, but it kills the cancer before it kills the patient and the damage/recovery is, as far as I know, more gentle. My headache was only an hour or so. This was shut down by the germ theorist mafia but the testimony of all his patients still stands as testimony to the effectiveness of natural cyanide in a controlled dose.
Very interesting! Regarding the cyanide, I read that apricot almonds (within the pit) contain cyanide, but it's not free cyanide. It's part of a bigger molecule called nitriloside, consisting of cyanide, benzaldehyde and glucose, also known as vitamin b17. Human cells take them in, and inside there are two enzymes interacting with the nitriloside. The first one, called beta glucosidase takes it apart to its component, yielding cyanide, benzaldehyde and sugar. This enzyme is present in small amount. In a much larger amount there's the second enzyme, rhodanese, which convert cyanide and benzaldehyde into molecules that are good for the body, relaxing, improving blood pressure, and more. On the other hand, cancer cells contain great amount of beta glucosidase and no rhodanese, therefore nitrilosides entering those cells become large amount of cyanide, with no rhodnanese to neutralize them, hence they kill them. Bottom line, in the apricot case, as in apple pits and more seeds, the cyanide is a good thing, as it's part of many other entities and processes. I wonder if it could be the case also for green almonds and cherry pits.
B17 definitely seems to help against cancer...but once I ate about 20 apricot kernels as an experiement...I got a really bad headache for about 3 hours, and felt like passing out...actually I wanted to pass out to stop the headache ; ) Anyway after drinking lots of water and a few hours, I was fine ; )
The man who discovered oxalic acid died from sorrel soup, which contains very high levels of oxalate (oxalic acid). Spinach and chard are also very high in oxalates as are almonds. Many wild plants such as purslane and lambs quarters that are often foraged for food are also even higher in oxalates.
My mom told us about cherry pits when we were kids. My brother accidentally swallowed one once and my mom called the doctor. He told her, "This too shall pass." 😂 This was back in the 70s.
Nutmeg permanently sorted out my insomnia. I started having trouble sleeping after a major surgery a few years ago. It seemed to me that it was the general anesthesia that caused it, but I can't be certain. I wasn't able to sleep normally for a couple of years. I tried every natural remedy I could find and eventually I had to ask my doctor for some sleeping pills because I wasn't able to function. One day, I found out about nutmeg and its dangerous side effects if overdosed. The sleeping pills (which I agreed with my GP I would only take 2-3 times a week) were giving me bad side effects, so I decided to give nutmeg a go. I used quarter of a teaspoon 10 minutes before going to bed. It worked like a charm. I stopped taking the sleeping pills and started taking nutmeg every night. After a few weeks I stopped taking it, because I felt I didn't need it anymore. I was right, the insomnia was gone and I haven't had any trouble sleeping since.
My grandpa ate boiled potatoes every day of his life and lived to 93. And he was thin. Green potatoes are bitter and most people wouldn't eat them anyway. But potatoes are not a bad food and contain vitamins and minerals that are good for you.
OpMmom, I just wanted to say for better information green potatoes are actually rotting and it's the gas that comes from the potatoes. I hope this helps.
@@debbiefinney5779 Rotting potatoes can indeed be lethal. My husband's brother and his wife died from the toxic gases when they got trapped inside of a cellar where potatoes were stored and rotting. I think the gas was methane. On the other hand, when I was a kid, I used to ask my mother for a slice of raw potato when she was preparing potatoes to cook in a meal. I liked the taste of raw potato, and still do. It was also nice and crispy and crunchy, which I also liked. Never had a problem, but I never got anything green, either.
NUTMEG is used in INDIA generously in betel leafs called paan. The Nutmeg is used for insomnia, digestion. Myself used it by grinding a SMALL piece with water and consuming it for Insomnia and generally felt great. Note:Herbs/medicines should be used for a week or once in a while if needed. Not for life long 😉
Nutmegs aren't used in betel leaves at all. You are probably mixing them up with betel nuts, or supari. Supari and jaiphal are completely 2 different seed, the former grows on a normal tree and the supari grows on a palm tree . And yes too much of nutmeg can be toxic. I've read it elsewhere too.
Dr Berg. Brown rice is the best rice you can have. Its basically an American problem with your farming. Brown rice contains more vitamins and roughage than white rice and has been eaten for centuries in most of the world
its more a Texas and Arkansas problem....rice from other areas of the USA aren't arsenic laden....at least that is what I've been told and read about.....
That's true I don't believe his information brown rice is the best may be because he is on kito every body needs to be on kito too my mum use brown rice to cook and she is ok
Informative video as always. Cyanide in the pits is said to specifically target cancer cells and there are those who have said they were cured of their cancers by eating apricot pits or other similar seeds. It would be great if Dr. Berg could do a video on the effect of these seeds on cancer cells.
@@s.marshian8455 I don't know any sane person who would recommend that, but you are free to do that if you like. I wouldn't be surprised if tobacco is more effective and far less toxic than chemo in fighting any cancer. Even cigarettes are a far less dangerous drug since smoking takes many decades to kill you while chemo could do it in a few months.
Important - arsenic in rice is dependent on region it is grown. CA rice (Lundberg brand) is better choice and not rice grown in the South. Rice grown in India or Pakistan as well is okay. From the video Happy Healthy Vegan, I found that it is best to boil your rice in a lot of water - just as you would when you cook pasta.
I eat brown rice, too coz they say it's healthier alternative to white rice. It's still safe as long as it's organic, isn't it? I'm a bit confused now.
Apricot kernels and cherry pits (mahlab) have been used in cooking/baking in Europe and the Middle East forever...the heat renders them edible. Same for Cassava (yuca) root
Thank you for bringing awareness to these foods! I had all of the symptoms you mentioned after cooking kidney beans about 4 weeks ago. I felt like I was going to die!
As a raw meat aficionado living in France I take my life into my own hands every time I order Steak Tartare in a restaurant. Gotta live on the edge sometimes!
Dr. Eric Berg I am a fan of you as you really telling us in a simple way and in simple English. Lovely man. I am diabetic more than 7 years and on medicine and insulin too. But now I am listening your valuable videos and following you. God bless you I can not walk as I have knees pain and now I have new issue raised on my right hand and fingers swallowing and severe shoulder pain . Hope you will read my message and guide me get rid of my arthritis ❤
Having a Jamaican Mother we use Nutmeg always and she lived to age 72 and then came Covid 19 that killed her 2021. R.I.P Everything in Moderation. California 💛
She didn't die at home. She died in the hospital. Find out what the treatments were she received from the hospital. Research the treatments and then you will understand what happened to her and many others. I am sorry for your loss.
Hello Dr Berg. Im from Kerala in South India. 99.9 percent of us have been eating brown rice for centuries... and we consider it the healthiest and unadulterated form of rice which is THE staple food for South Indians. But considering that most exported brown rice actually contains added colour to look authentic...I have no.comments.
You've got to listen to what he's saying, brown rice grown in the USA is what his reference is to. Pay attention!!! It's not the rice that's poisonous, it's where it's grown the arsenic leeches into the rice.
I grew up eating raw cashews, if not in cups but a fistful. And also nutmeg . We Indians use it for various curries. And the amount used for a curry for 6 ppl would be a half or 3/4 th of a nutmeg.And brown rice is a staple food in the southern part of a state in India. They eat cooked brown rice daily with fish cooked in coconut oil. The place name is Mangalore in Karnataka State.
@@derpywho1394 I personally know a person who uses nutmeg powder in milk for her kid. She says in her native people use this to boost the immune system and is an alternate for a sugary , unhealthy chocolate drinks that we feed children . Nutmeg is used for various medicinal properties in India
@@guruk Yes. This one what Dr is showing is the same rice thats used there. I am not sure if he means par boiled or brown rice. But to a common audience he is mentioning brown rice .
Thank you Dr Berg for all the effort you put into these videos and getting the good word out.💪. YOU ROCK!!! Super helpful information broken down elegantly.
As a child growing up my mom used to give us Nutmeg in hot milk. She also cooked brown rice for us . As an adult I don't used Nutmeg but I sometimes cooked brown rice. In these times it's hard to know what will make anyone get sick .
@꧁ Tú Muy Bien ꧂ Dr Berg has said the brown rice is not good due to the growing process and its the pesticides used that make it Bad. So, it depends how and where it is grown.
@@saraswatkin9226 I didn’t do that knowingly, I did that unknowingly. I’m from former Soviet Union, unfortunately by the time when I ate green potatoes that’s the only thing we had at home to eat. I fried them before to eat, perhaps in that process most of the toxins were destroyed.
I was taught as a kid to cut off the green. Back before Health Canada became the Adventist controlled Death Canada, a potatoe serving was 1 small potatoe or half a large potatoe. I have noticed that potatoes have become much bigger over the decades. So a third of a potatoe would be a real serving. So that one potatoe a day average is way more than it would be 50 or 60 years ago.
One thing to note is that swallowing a cherry pit will likely do nothing, because the cyanide (technically in a compound called amygdalin, which your body has to break down, not gaseous HCN) is contained inside the pit. If you chew it your body will have access to way more of the amygdalin than the practically zero if you just swallow it whole. Birds swallow cherry pits all the time and they're fine. You probably don't want to do that either way but just know that if you or a child does happen to swallow one there's no need to panic.
I think on that list the only ones to strictly avoid are the green potatoes, undercooked burgers, undercooked kidney beans and the cherry pits. The others just need to be sourced properly and taken in moderation.
This should have been the language used for this video not this absolute can kill you when its not entirely the food itself but how its grow. Less clickbaity but at least it doesn't give these wrong assumptions that the food itself no matter where you get them can kill you.. Really, brown rice? Such an ignorant way of telling people what is dangerous based only on their own country's way of farming it.
In the Middle-East people love to eat whole green almonds before the kernel has been formed. It's delicious and refreshing. Sometimes the street vendors give you some table salt with them and you can dip them in some salt (like you'd do with radishes)... But of course this tradition is uniquely for sweet almonds. Early in spring you can also buy from street retailers a variety of plums which are eaten green before the formation of the kernel (sometimes with a pinch of salt, according to your taste) and they are refreshing and taste good. In oriental arabic, their name is "janaariq" (pronounced " janaari' " in countries like Syria, Lebanon or Jordan). If you go to these countries in early spring, don't miss the janaari' !
Organic brown rice from Northern California has less arsenic. Then cook 1 cup in six cups water until water is gone. Dr. Gregor has you tube on arsenic in rice.
I never knew nut meg was harmful. I grew up in a country that nutmeg and cinnamon are one of our favorite spices especially used in porridge and some homemade drinks. Maybe it depends on where it's grown.
My rule is if that community has a low death rate and many healthy elderly people then I stick with the ancestry nutrition. They've been eating that way and they're perfectly fine 🤷🏽♀️.
I remember that for a short period of time, young adults were huffing nutmeg powder to try to get high. I heard a news story about it and sorta chuckled. My friend gave me a whole nutmeg. I used it once, just a few scrapes across the zester and promptly lost it somewhere in my kitchen ever since.
Actually green raw almonds are pretty common here in Turkey and they are known as "çağla". You can find it pretty much in every farmer's market in season and I've never heard someone who got sick.
In your coffee, a little.nutmeg won't hurt. What the good doctor said about somebody who consumed a whole nutmeg....well you simply can't do that, it's too aromatic, and if anyone had the whole thing, then he was a nutcase.
Back in the 70's, there was an outbreak of food poisoning in an English primary school after the children had been given green potatoes by the catering staff at lunchtime. I don't know details, but there was a big scandal, and many children were very sick.
I just cut my meal size down and stopped all sugar while eating only between noon and 6 pm. I lost 60 pounds so far since maybe last Oct. I don't eat much pasta but still do. I feel quite a bit better in my disability now without the weight.
I love your videos they are very detailed and I've learned so much more from you because you make it easy to understand and kind of fun, not to fast not to slow. My only problem is the volume please turn it up even more, it's easier to turn it down but I'm on max volume and struggling to hear you. Other wise I love your content.
I heard that bitter apricot pits also contain the same cyanide compound. BUT some people use it as a potential cancer treatment. It came to be known as amygdalin, or Vitamin B17, and a semi synthetic version Laetrile.
potatoes also have patatin which I am allergic to. For 30 years I was diagnosed with gout. Twenty four years ago I was diagnosed with the onset of arthritis, the year 2017 I was diagnosed with gout, rheumatoid arthritis, irritable bowel syndrome, ulcerative colitis, leaky gut syndrome, etc.... Was on many meds and seeing specialists. I was about to go on permanent disability and went to see a naturopath. I had nothing to lose. He diagnosed a potato intolerance. I am no longer on meds. Potatoes are a member of the nightshade family, peppers and tomatoes. Peppers and tomatoes have solanine in them but no patatin. I can eat peppers and tomatoes with no side effects. Allergy Patatin is identified as a major cause of potato allergy.[5] It has found to be similar to latex, and when in contact with open skin, there has been an increase of immunoglobulin E which causes some allergic reactions and symptoms, such as asthmatic symptoms, or atopic dermatitis.[6] It is unclear as to why the plant does this, however it could be a potential defense mechanism against insects.[7]
Well, here in ND we have a limited variety of fruits, cherries are my favorite!! I have swallowed pits by accident and nothing has happened and it comes out in one piece. I have read before in order cherries to be poisonous you need to eat 3k pounds!! Cherries are anti-inflammatory and anti aging.
I have this problem exactly with kidney beans. I can’t have them freshly cooked or out of the can or any cross contamination with the juice. I get every symptom he mentioned. The vomiting and diarrhea goes on for hours and hours. It makes me feel like I’m going to die. Same thing with green beans fresh, canned or frozen. It’s horrific. Doesn’t matter how long they’re cooked or prepared they’re toxic to me. 🙄
Me too. I'm so sick with stomach pains . My health care advisor told me to soak it and throw off that water before cooking. I did but it never works so I stopped eating it.
Thank you Dr. Berg! I actually ate undercooked Red Kidney Beans in a slow cooker chili I made....had no clue you need to boil them...I felt poisoned! Horrible intestinal distress and diarrhea followed....it was bad....
When we were kids we loved preserved nutmegs and we just binged on them. They are preserved in sugar.... yummmm! Apparently great for lungs and treats respiratory infections
Dr Berg I always was given 1mg nutmeg with honey as a kid for bad tummy and inflammation. From Ayurveda to ancient medicines, nutmeg has been used as a potent spice to improve sleep,health, immunity and what not! It is packed with the goodness of minerals such as magnesium, manganese and copper and other essential vitamins such as B1, pl some clarification would be good.
1. Green potatoes
2. Nutmeg
3. Green raw almonds
4. Undercooked red kidney beans
5. Brown rice
6. Undercooked bloody burger
7. Cherry pits
...in case you don't have time to watch (this very informative video) to the end. You're welcome.
UGH Thank you!!!
Your the best ❤
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you!!
After watching this program, I've concluded that it's safest to live on just fresh air and sunshine !
Loool :) nice
But breathing leads to death !!!
I second that ..cause what's really safe??!
Dont forget the mask😬🎉
Oxygen is now available in market.
So, who knows fresh air and sunshine will be costly
1. Green potatoes
2.Nutmeg
3. Green raw almonds
4. Undercooked red kidney beans
5 Brown rice
6 Undercooked bloody burger
7. Cherry pits.
When I was a teenager I used to eat green raw almonds, not too many of course and nothing happened to me. Also I thought that rice in general contained cyanide not only brown.I admit that nutmeg surprised me.
Thx for saving me the mins. This list is almost common sense and a no brainer. I was only surprised with the brown rice, which I don't eat anymore.
The rice contains arsenic
Me too. I love nutmeg 🥲
Remember that all of these have to be consumed in large quantities to be deadly
@@lorenamcgovern Yes sorry my mistake I meant arsenic not cyanide.
Nothing safe anymore because of human being's greed.
Do you mean your parents or grandparents, in the 1950s, wanted cheap, easily available food? 🤔
To save you the time:
1. Green potatoes
2. Nutmeg
3. Green raw Almonds
4. Undercooked Red Kidney beans
5. Brown Rice
6. Undercooked bloody hamburger
7. Cherry pits
Thank you
Thanks. It's a pity all these EXPERTS on the internet didn't just do what you have just done.
Made a list of "BAD" ??
They are all the same ..... The word BABEL rings a bell.
Really thank you!
Thanks
Green potatoes . No white potatoes, there are no green potatoes, do not confuse people
Nutmeg? I'm from the Caribbean. We hv used Nutmeg for centuries. Suitable amounts that is. It's quite medicinal amd actually relieves my headaches rather than aggravating them
Same here. I use it in my porridge, coffee, iced coffee, shakes, etc. and it can ease nausea when traveling long distance by car.
I’m sorry but this just seems like it’s targeted to promote Keto. I love his videos but nahhhh. Nah buy dis one 😞
He Doesn't know what he's saying. Terrible information
Ya I am from india so we use it quite often in our food as well but I think what he means is the quantity. Should not eat too much.
@@Azimi001 but nobody is gonna eat a whole bunch of nutmeg. You grate a little bit of it for certain recipes or you can buy it it powered form like cinnamon.
My family is from Mississippi and we use it in some of our dishes as well
0:10 #1 Green potatoes
1:30 #2 Nutmeg
2:15 #3 Green raw almonds and cashews
3:35 #4 Undercooked red kidney beans
4:50 #5 Brown rice
7:13 #6 Uncooked bloody hamburger
8:20 #7 Cherry pits
Then My Chanel Bro! : )
But what
not Use Brown rice what to use instead of white rice???
Thank you.
@@hanishriker9402 Brown Basmati rice is very low in arsenic, or often has none at all.
Lol I just looked at your channels
.certainly you are a very brave man bro!!!
Man......
Very real warnings. You rarely find green potatoes. You do, sometimes, though, and its serious. I have experienced that. You never find or eat green almonds! You only use a trace of nutmeg. You are so right to warn, Dr. Berg
Nutmeg is fine and safe as a spice in amount as low as a pinch for 4 servings and Indians have used it for centuries.
Nutmeg is used for better sleep and has lots of other medicinal properties .
I always use in smaller quantity like just grate it equal to one or two pinch
While making winter dessert recpies and never had issues
@@emh8861 You don't have too, but the point is that that is everything in HIGH quantity can harm you or kill you. Even breathing kills you slowly over the year due the oxidative stress 🤣
@@shelly1828 Love it in my egg nog.
Jamaicans have been using nutmeg for centuries.
Exactly! Most recipes I have ever used only call for a pinch and up to 1/4 tsp (rarely 1/2 tsp) nutmeg at most, and that is for many servings.
NYT ran an article and here's an exerpt: "The study also explains how much is considered toxic, saying that 1 to 3 nutmegs, or 5 to 15 grams (that's 1 to 3 teaspoons), is the reported toxic dose. This intoxication usually passes in 24 hours, the report says, though in some cases psychosis has set in for up to six months."
Still need to keep it away from small children and overly adventurous teens, though.
That's why we soak Kidney beans overnight (here in India) and cook it well after. Never had problems with it so far..
That's what we learn in each cooking-class!
I know there is an antigen that humans cannot digest!
@@michelles1517 the thing is most crops and yields in America are GMO for some reason... That's why they're harmful for us
My grand mother ate mostly potatoes and beans in her meals and she died at 98 years old without any other diseases.
Maybe because they weren't genetically modified
@@fake-PSL and that reason is called greed and stupidity
I love how I don't have to listen to a bunch of blabbering talk like so many videos. He gets straight to the point and his videos aren't an hour.
He doesn't shut up
He’s video are always short so awesome
2 years ago and this video is still helping people.
Thank you Dr Berg.
Very welcome, so glad it is of help!
@@Drberg it is, and I'm glad I came across it... Bless you Doc.
I like the way the doctor just starts right into all of the items that he's talking about and doesn't drag it on forever not too many are doing what he's doing so God love them
He does it enough to get to ten minute mark
“the doctor”? That’s funny: he’s a chiropractor. Not a real doctor.
Why would anyone listen to a quacking chiropractor.
Nutmeg in about a pinch is perfectly fine. Who has nutmeg everyday, anyway?
All beans should be cooked properly, good for digestion.
Brown rice soaked for about 2 hours & washed, is good to eat.
Brown rice on it's own is way healthier than white. Like you said, prepare it right and it's fine.
I love nutmeg😮
Good to know thank you😊
Around Christmas, I tend to grind up extra nutmeg for my eggnog( non alcoholic type) and drink it
Daily lol
@@nadiamondI make pancakes with cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla as ingredients. Didn't know about nutmeg.
To reduce the arsenic in your rice, first give it a good rinse. Place the grains in a fine mesh strainer and pour water over them until it runs clear. Cook the rice in excess water, at a ratio of one cup of rice to six cups of water, and drain any extra leftover once the grains are tender.
What brand/kind of rice do you use?
@@nanapoku5259 Ben’s Original™ Whole Grain Brown Rice
6 to 1 water to rice ratio? I don’t even eat rice anymore but that seems disgusting.
Amanda Slay Thank you for your recipe!💞
@@NJLev he said to drain the water out when the grains are tender. That’s how they cook it back in the villages in my country. I was surprised when I saw it, believe me, it’s not mushy at all, it’s well done and not sticky. It’s a great technic.
When I see good people like you sharing life saving information, I feel good.
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Thank you. Glad to help you all.
@@Drberg what do you mean especially brown rice? If farmers spraying pesticides on brown rice making it toxic than you know white rice is toxic too. Make it make cents not change 😂.
Never like doctors. Always giving half truth and leaving out the other.
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I come from Central America and I heard many women use to drink the water from undercooked red beans (the water when they first boil) to provoke a miscarriage, now I understand how it works.
Any food produced in the US should avoided. Most are full of transfats and way too much corn syrup and salt.
I know this because I watch a lot of ewetube vids and see how being hugely obese is considered normal.
As a scientist. As a molecular biologist, and as someone who worked years on cutting edge biology, Dr Berg never, ever, in my opinion, delves into pseudo science. His work is always first class. While there are always alternative science, research, studies etc. that may be opposite of his comments, the things that he discusses..... the things that he has opinions on, are for the most part brilliant, and I wish him well.
I am a proud member of the Dr Berg fanclub. Thank you sir!
Ditto! ❤️
Liaaaaaaaar
@@xana5649 What a bizarre accusation! Have you been watching too much Princess Bride? Just exactly what did I say that seemed to you to be a lie? I assure you, my credentials are impeccable. World famous university education (Vandy), world famous biotech supplier(Biorad), and world famous cutting edge genomics company(Affy)..... Are you saying, then that Dr Berg's posts are lies?
@@dalerichardson7202 liaaaaaaaaar
@@xana5649 Bueno, mi amor. No hablo Portuguesa, solamente castellano, pero seguro que no tienes bastante vello púbico para ser in RUclips. Lo siento, chicitin.
I love the way this doctor tells you what's what, explains it in an easy to understand manner, and doesn't bait you along forever. Get right to it! ❤
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this Doctor is full of crap ge doesn't know what is talking about
As a Slavic woman, I was taught of everything what this doctor said since childhood. In my family this knowledge is obvious....I never appreciated this as much as I do now. Feels like no one spoke of it to people around for long years
Edited: in my family we throw green potatoes out without hesitation
The video is probably for the typical US audience. Most people in Europe already knew this.
@@francisdec1615Totally agree; I knew none of these things and living in USA..
@@francisdec1615 I'm from Russia and I knew only about poison in green potatoes. I even tried to eat 1 or 2 raw nutmegs (plus some powdered) in my childhood to get a psychoactive effect.
Thanks doc. Watching and following you from Nairobi, Kenya. Started IF 7 months ago and started exercising .. Iv lost 22kg. Thank you again.
Wow... Amazing kaka
@@raphaelmutili forgot to mention that I hit a platue from end of November.. So December I took it easy and continued with usual routine. This year want to take it a notch higher and do what the Dr. Said in his platue video. 👍
@@aggreyondeyo that's amazing! I lost 39kg last year just by cutting out Soda and Mcdonalds, and I tried to walk 10000 steps every day. I eat around 3000 calories per day, 267g of carbs, 263g of protein and 90-100g of fat.
@@aggreyondeyo Thats amazing... How do you manage plateau coz sometimes I feel am stagnant on the process. I would like to loose 50kgs this year.
We had cherry trees and I ate a TON of cherries growing up. Also ate most of the pits, too - still alive and well after 40 years.
Your stomach can’t break down the pit to get the stuff he is taking about out and into your blood. Take what this guy says with a grain of salt. Some stuff is great some stuff…..eeehhhh.
Me too lol
Not explained very well as to how the stomach breaks down the whole pit versus crushed or masticated. Big difference.
As long as you chew the Pitts, they have natural anti cancer b17
@@gary96397 Exactly, that is why I also eat apple seeds and apricot seeds sometimes.
In Nigeria there is what we call foreign rice. when I eat it, I bloat and my stomach is in acidic pain. So I avoided rice for long but I love eating rice with lettuce, kale green peppers onions etc. so I opted for the rice grown in Nigeria which wasn't long grain and still quite wild. I got it, washed it thoroughly, soaked it for like 3 hrs and cooked it. since I started eating that rice, I never felt the pains again, in fact my stomach felt healed. I realized it is the soil, west African rice is grown with its rivers, very good soils, little wonder it has been the regions staple food. Well I eat our rice 2 times a week with a lot of raw green leafy vegetables, tomatoes onions etc
Yes. I always eat rice with green veggies. Not gonna stop eating rice.
QUINOA is good and healthy as well. 😊
@let Quinoa is good but we don't grow it here. As a matter of fact I don't think it has a name in any west African language, well not sure of other parts of Africa. Here we grow something similar, it is called fonio.
Chinese rice does me the same.
Yea mostly just stick to African food. Western food is poison
Very informative! I never knew that a high usage of nutmeg and the arsenic levels found within brown rice can contribute to the lethality of these food items. Moderation is key. Thanks for sharing this!
Good information Thanks so much doctor
Brown rice? They said it was good for diabetics.
Moderation in all things, 🤷♀️
Parboil the brown rice
There are extensive benefits to eating nutmeg also.
I am so relieved that I do not consume any of these things that you just mentioned Dr. I will pass this information to my mother because she does eat some of these foods.
Thank you for the information.
I don't eat ANY of these things. I used to. I definitely don't eat uncooked meat🤢
@@GlobalAdventurer Right!
Uncooked meat just ain't right...same with raw oysters definitely not worth the risks 😩😖
Balance...everything is a balance. I've lost 40 lbs over the past 12 months (now at my target weight), and I'm keeping it off while eating things like potatoes, rice, breads including pizza, even fruits. What I've learned? Just don't eat those things everyday at every meal, and fast. I typically skip breakfast. For me the idea of completely giving up ALL starches is not reasonable, or necessary. Balance...everything is a balance.
I agree 💯
every thing in moderation-my husband's saying.
@@bgueberdenteich5206 Yep!
@@kmf18-k8i 👍
I have always preached and still believe in the food square. Too much of anything is bad and even sugar foods can be balanced out with veggies or exercise or both. Everyone's body is unique and each person needs to study and figure out what works best for them... and while I don't endorse unhealthiness, if eating thirty times a day and becoming a human blob is your ambition, go for it if that's what you really want. And if you wanna be a living stick figure, again, your body your choice. I am content with my 235lb dad bod.
Love this guy, a real doctor. Diamond in the sand in 2022 world of medicine.
Totally agree ! Just LOVE him. I have recommended his videos to lots of people !
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Thank you, Dr Berg.
@@s9292 hell yeah lol
My dad had a high fever last Sunday and had to be admitted to the ICU of the local hospital. Apparently his doctor found E Coli in his blood stream and he was in sepsis shock. Although the doctor said he was in critical condition with heart failure also, he has made a remarkable recovery within the course of four days. Now that he is conscious he remembered that he had eaten at a tasty local Chinese beef restaurant but with pretty poor sanitary conditions and he suspects that’s where he got the E Coli poisoning from.
Tasty, you say.. that would be MSG 😮
Bad sanitary conditions, yet he still chose to eat there 🤨
@EuroWarsOrg77😢g🎉2😮o😮i😮888😢y
Avoid dodgy Chinese restaurants.
I don't go to most Asian restaurants because of all the seed oils they cook in. Mexican restaurants are similar. Find some good recipes and make them at home.
About the rice and arsenic. I’ve researched this. It totally depends on where it is grown. He is right, it’s in the soil. It also is affected by irrigation methods. You can actually look up which places have more or less arsenic. The least amounts are found in California, Malawi, India and Pakistan (basmati), and Thailand (jasmine rice)
You can also get rid of arsenic in rice by soaking and rinsing, and cooking it in more water (then drain it).
Who wants to eat brown rice in the first place?
I rinse it with cold water then tip a kettle full of hot water on it, even though I eat Australian brown rice, doesn't hurt to be safe in this scenario
Thanks for the information
@@crazyprophet3276 I eat brown rice it's better for you then white rice
@@Sloppyjoe7390 this video just proved it isn't, rice isn't good for you, it's a grain.
The uncooked red kidney beans aren’t the only beans. I got food poisoning from the same toxicity when I did not soak another type of uncooked beans long enough or cook them long enough . I forgot if it is white beans or something else. I committed and had abdominal cramps. So that uncooked red kidney beans is super true. This is why my grandma would soak beans for hours and hours not just to get rid of starch but that too. She would like cook beans for hours too. Thanks for your video,Dr. Berg. 😎👍🏽
@Hum4n_4ft3r?4LL Really? Fresh peas too? Lentils too?
I just see organic red kidney beans from the can I use those to cook with my egg whites or a toss in a salad
@@HH-gv8mx I think canned ones are safe because they have been soaking in liquids and boiled. But cans can have BPA. Plus, calcium choride is a bad preservative. Whole Foods has safer canned beans. Not as good-tasting as Goya Beans though.
@@reginafarias dried peas only
Also add baking soda or ginger to the soaking water.
I am currently 4.5 months pregnant and would love to see a video about what to eat for pregnancy from Bergs perspective. I can't really do keto right now and I most certainly can't fast.
I don't know I hear so many things like don't eat sushi or too much fish I ate sushi moderately and fish a lot and no issues
please search it out - I have one
@@Drberg I took note of all my other ate when pregnant with me and my siblings and she ate mostly fish diet when pregnant with me. She stayed away from it when pregnant with my brother and ate some with my sister. At school I gave no problems, my brother a lot and my sister some. Sometimes I wonder if that is a link to the fish. Also I was bottle feed and my uncle wasn't. He is always sick or ill but I think that has to do with whatever my mom gave me when in her belly. Well if you have videos on that let me know. Thanks
@@Drberg
Seriously? You couldn't add a link for the poor girl? Come on man.
Baby number 6?
In eastern Europe apricot kernels are consumed especially for cancer treatment due to the effects from natural content of amygdalin/cyanide which is known to kill cancer cells.
My mum used to tell me that as kids, she and her 6 siblings used to eat 5-10 every other day as they grew up in a farm and grew their own fruit, veg and a few animals. Way healthier living than myself!
Disclaimer; if you’re considering adding apricot to your diet, please do your research and don’t dive in as your body needs to build a tolerance slowly… starting with 2-3 is okay.
PS; some variants are very bitter
Indians have been using Nutmeg as a spice for centuries.
I will never quit Keto,I feel so much better,no more anxiety,or high BP,no more bloating,it even cured my hital hernia
Interesting presentation. Since I was a kid in the 50’s we were taught to never eat the green potatoes; any green uncooked or roasted nuts; any fruit pits. A whole nutmeg was never seen. And bloody, undercooked meat is a total NO 🤢.
Doctor why brown rice? Iam eating it for many years and our doctors said that brown rice is better than white rice
Please clear this dr berg. Im following you for ur advices 😢
We love green raw almonds in my culture. But ofcourse its seasonal so they're only available for couple weeks in a year. We eat them washed and dipped in salt, like a snack. And honestly, I don't know anyone who has gotten sick or died from it but...it's good to know.
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On the contrary, people from the Hunza Valley in Pakistan eat the apricot kernels along with a healthy diet and they live a long life. Alternative medicine uses bitter apricot kernels (vit B17) for cancer treatment but it is cheap and not good for big pharma. I had a non-cancerous cyst in my hand and I was going to have it removed through surgery but I did start eating 2 to 3 bitter apricot kernels a day for almost 2 weeks and now it is not visible, so no $urgery for me.
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If someone steals my almonds they die cause I kill them.
our bodies process cyanide quickly. there is one youtuber who ate some cyanide. he took safe ammount of it and had no long term effects from it.
Dr Berg, you are right on point🙏. Two years ago, I ate undercooked red kidney bean. I was having excruciating stomach pain after that. Not knowing what was wrong with me, for three nights, I was in pain can’t sleep the whole night. I thought I was going to die. I went to see the doctor, the doctor thought I was having IBS Problem. The doctor sent me for ultrasound and scan trying to look what was wrong with my stomach. The result came back, they couldn’t find anything. So, no medication was given to me. and finally I feel well after a week or so. For the past 2 years, I didn’t know why I was having so much pain. Today, i watched your video. I finally got my answer . Thank you so much doctor. I appreciate everything you done. I learn a lot from your video. Keep it coming and thank you for sharing this beneficial information. 👍🙏❤️👍
Maybe you could let your MD know (if they are open to patient input!) to help subsequent patients.
And now I understand a source of witchcraft
This video is 🔥
So doctor didn't even gave you pain medicine? Wow They are useless sometimes
Never undercook any type of beans,,,make sure they're well cooked
As an Asian we eat kidney beans and rice by the gallons and never ever have I or my family past or present being poisoned by it. I've heard eating leftover rice is poisonous - we eat leftover rice by the buckets!! 😂 Have done for generations! where do people come up with some of this nonsense??
Mostly fear porn and people think they will live forever. Also 1st world problem a they have all the materials of the world and they need to worry about death!
The Yghani1 I agree with you. We need to do our own research and stop listening to the so-called expects, they don’t always know what they are talking about. I and family have eaten brown rice and kidney beans for years, no one has gotten sick. Such nonsense!😂
I agree with you.
@@sharon-qc3gn he said don’t eat half cooked kidney beans
Ya, I have been consuming rice for 60 years. Still alive and eating more rice.
My husband's cousins live in Austria. They grow cherries and eat tons of them WITH PITS. They believe the pits are super healthy. They are VERY HEALTHY and have been doing this all their lives. I've never gotten into it, but believe me, I know several people in their 50s who have swallowed thousands of cherry pits in their lives!
If they are organic then it's ok I think
I have been eating cherries with pits my whole life and all I ever got was some stomach pain bc I would eat like 1kg of cherries a day lol
😂😂❤
@@crystalhealing847being organic has nothing to do with it.
Dr Berg is partially right about eating cherries. Yes, two pit cherries have enough arsenic to kill the average person. However, you will have to masticate or grind the pits down to fine partials to release the arsenic. So keep on eating your whole cherries, but just swallow the pits.
Dr. Berg thank you. However I would like for your channel to kindly clarify that nutmeg itself is not going to kill you rather it should have said “large quantities of nutmeg”. In the Caribbean we use nutmeg for a lot of meals without issues. Nutmeg is very nutritious and by listing it you could be preventing persons from ever even trying it. Everything in moderation as they say. Thanks for your hard work.
Thank you. I was sitting here wondering abt the nutmeg I just bought. I'll keep it, thanks to you. Its just a powder.
He says if you use nutmeg don't use a lot at the end of that section. I do wonder if you'd see any symptoms if you're eating it in every meal though
Jesus Christ!!! Did you listen to anything he said???
U think this man takes his research with play!!!
Please watch it in full and correct yourself.
Blackeye peas almost killed me.
@@lolaBee9 Indians eat it for centuries. Its fine.
NUTMEG is used for medicinal purpose in South Indian as it is called "Jathikai" in Tamil ☺
What ailment is nutmeg used for ?
Strange! My mother ate 30 years almost everyday brown rice, and meat or chicken once per month, she's 90 now. Three of her younger sisters already died, they were everyday meat eaters.
I'm convinced a balance diet is the way to go.
Im eating brown rice since 2014
"... red kidney beans..."
All of Louisiana: "Oh no! Anyways..."
Eric, there was a doctor who treated hundreds of patients with cancer with laetrile (natural cyanide) from bitter almonds and apricot seeds. I have tried these before and I did get a headache so the cyanide is real. Interesting thing is the laetrile seems to "know" when a cell is being devoured by a tumour and only releases the cyanide into the damaged/tumorous cell. It is basically nature's chemotherapy. patients have been able to eat up to 50 a day, which makes them sick, but it kills the cancer before it kills the patient and the damage/recovery is, as far as I know, more gentle. My headache was only an hour or so. This was shut down by the germ theorist mafia but the testimony of all his patients still stands as testimony to the effectiveness of natural cyanide in a controlled dose.
And the results of those patients?
Can you share the link to the study? Was it recent?
I remember a hospital in tulsa?? Was curing peeps, they shut them down, confiscated all the records bc it was a approved treatment. MedicalMAFIA
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Chad Green was the boy
1978 time frame. Cured.
Very interesting!
Regarding the cyanide, I read that apricot almonds (within the pit) contain cyanide, but it's not free cyanide. It's part of a bigger molecule called nitriloside, consisting of cyanide, benzaldehyde and glucose, also known as vitamin b17. Human cells take them in, and inside there are two enzymes interacting with the nitriloside. The first one, called beta glucosidase takes it apart to its component, yielding cyanide, benzaldehyde and sugar. This enzyme is present in small amount. In a much larger amount there's the second enzyme, rhodanese, which convert cyanide and benzaldehyde into molecules that are good for the body, relaxing, improving blood pressure, and more.
On the other hand, cancer cells contain great amount of beta glucosidase and no rhodanese, therefore nitrilosides entering those cells become large amount of cyanide, with no rhodnanese to neutralize them, hence they kill them.
Bottom line, in the apricot case, as in apple pits and more seeds, the cyanide is a good thing, as it's part of many other entities and processes.
I wonder if it could be the case also for green almonds and cherry pits.
Yeah, this is what I call sensationalizing potentially dangerous “foods”
EXACTLY
B17 definitely seems to help against cancer...but once I ate about 20 apricot kernels as an experiement...I got a really bad headache for about 3 hours, and felt like passing out...actually I wanted to pass out to stop the headache ; ) Anyway after drinking lots of water and a few hours, I was fine ; )
@@ant777live too many all at once...
@simone ambroise How do you know? Yes I felt half dead
The man who discovered oxalic acid died from sorrel soup, which contains very high levels of oxalate (oxalic acid). Spinach and chard are also very high in oxalates as are almonds. Many wild plants such as purslane and lambs quarters that are often foraged for food are also even higher in oxalates.
My mom told us about cherry pits when we were kids. My brother accidentally swallowed one once and my mom called the doctor. He told her, "This too shall pass." 😂 This was back in the 70s.
LOL, loved the no nonsense of the 70's.
@ Tess Moore Same. Kids these days would not make it through the 70s.
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“This too shall pass.” 😂 Priceless!
But won't the hard shell of the pit prevent the cyanide from coming out?
Nutmeg permanently sorted out my insomnia. I started having trouble sleeping after a major surgery a few years ago. It seemed to me that it was the general anesthesia that caused it, but I can't be certain. I wasn't able to sleep normally for a couple of years. I tried every natural remedy I could find and eventually I had to ask my doctor for some sleeping pills because I wasn't able to function. One day, I found out about nutmeg and its dangerous side effects if overdosed. The sleeping pills (which I agreed with my GP I would only take 2-3 times a week) were giving me bad side effects, so I decided to give nutmeg a go. I used quarter of a teaspoon 10 minutes before going to bed. It worked like a charm. I stopped taking the sleeping pills and started taking nutmeg every night. After a few weeks I stopped taking it, because I felt I didn't need it anymore. I was right, the insomnia was gone and I haven't had any trouble sleeping since.
My grandpa ate boiled potatoes every day of his life and lived to 93. And he was thin. Green potatoes are bitter and most people wouldn't eat them anyway. But potatoes are not a bad food and contain vitamins and minerals that are good for you.
OpMmom, I just wanted to say for better information green potatoes are actually rotting and it's the gas that comes from the potatoes. I hope this helps.
Yup its a staple food.
Cut the green off I have done this when I happened not to have potatoes in never have we had trouble
And very good for the heart .
I try to eat potatoes every day.
I love them .
@@debbiefinney5779 Rotting potatoes can indeed be lethal. My husband's brother and his wife died from the toxic gases when they got trapped inside of a cellar where potatoes were stored and rotting. I think the gas was methane.
On the other hand, when I was a kid, I used to ask my mother for a slice of raw potato when she was preparing potatoes to cook in a meal. I liked the taste of raw potato, and still do. It was also nice and crispy and crunchy, which I also liked. Never had a problem, but I never got anything green, either.
NUTMEG is used in INDIA generously in betel leafs called paan.
The Nutmeg is used for insomnia, digestion. Myself used it by grinding a SMALL piece with water and consuming it for Insomnia and generally felt great.
Note:Herbs/medicines should be used for a week or once in a while if needed. Not for life long 😉
I think betel nut is used in betel leaves. Nutmeg is जायफल.
Nutmegs aren't used in betel leaves at all. You are probably mixing them up with betel nuts, or supari. Supari and jaiphal are completely 2 different seed, the former grows on a normal tree and the supari grows on a palm tree . And yes too much of nutmeg can be toxic. I've read it elsewhere too.
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Myristica fragrance jaji or jadhikai is used in medicine with ashwagandha and other ingredients as aphrodisiacs. The quantity is much less.
You are correct
please always include closed captions for those who can't hear so well thanks
Dr Berg. Brown rice is the best rice you can have. Its basically an American problem with your farming. Brown rice contains more vitamins and roughage than white rice and has been eaten for centuries in most of the world
its more a Texas and Arkansas problem....rice from other areas of the USA aren't arsenic laden....at least that is what I've been told and read about.....
Dr. Berg has me confused now. 😕 But happy I can still have Spanish rice!
That's true I don't believe his information brown rice is the best may be because he is on kito every body needs to be on kito too my mum use brown rice to cook and she is ok
I put chinese soy on my rice so it gets brown because then it’s more healthy and tastes better
Yeah not sure about the brown rice.
🤦🏻♂️ I’ve heard for years that brown rice is healthier than white rice.
But thanks, doctor.
Parboiled rice is healthy
@@sidkimuwallif4597 No rice is healthy even if arsenic free.
If you’re fat, there is no “healthy” rice
I like parboiled rice 😊😊..
Informative video as always.
Cyanide in the pits is said to specifically target cancer cells and there are those who have said they were cured of their cancers by eating apricot pits or other similar seeds.
It would be great if Dr. Berg could do a video on the effect of these seeds on cancer cells.
Many other benefits as well. The amygdalin in bitter almonds has numerous beneficial effects. Recent review articles cover this.
Like when you swallow apple seeds and immediately need to smoke an entire pack of cigarettes to kill the toxins.
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I don't know any sane person who would recommend that, but you are free to do that if you like.
I wouldn't be surprised if tobacco is more effective and far less toxic than chemo in fighting any cancer.
Even cigarettes are a far less dangerous drug since smoking takes many decades to kill you while chemo could do it in a few months.
G. Edward Griffin wrote a book about it. "World without Cancer: the story of vitamin B-17"
Yes I agree! Especially since I've heard of many benefits of apricot seeds. Was wondering, why Apple seeds weren't on the list as well?
Brown rice ?! Really ? I’m tired of this world
Me too, i though brown is healthier than white... 😢
So funny way to said it Same here
What about organic BR
NO be tired of this type..information
The irrigated water from rivers are a bit toxic. So all rice grown through irrigation may have toxic substance.
Important - arsenic in rice is dependent on region it is grown. CA rice (Lundberg brand)
is better choice and not rice grown in the South. Rice grown in India or Pakistan as well is okay. From the video Happy Healthy Vegan, I found that it is best to boil your rice in a lot of water - just as you would when you cook pasta.
Barbara Monsolino Thank you for the video info! Then you strain it? Stay well.
I rinse my rice until the water is clear. Twice as much water as rice to cook... I wonder if that helps...🤔
Soaking for atleast 2 hours, boiling in a lot of water and then draining that water.
@@auberjean6873 yes, straining the water after boiling is important.
@@JustJoyHowdy Boil the rice as you would boil pasta. A lot of water. don't buy rice grown in South US. - California rice is better choice.
I eat organic brown rice all the time. When blood tested for arsenic it was found to not be a significant problem.
I used to eat it daily non organic
I eat brown rice, too coz they say it's healthier alternative to white rice. It's still safe as long as it's organic, isn't it? I'm a bit confused now.
@@mamijin rice as a plant naturally absorbs arsenic ... search duckduckgo rice arsenic for more details info ... or RUclips
I love how calm he is whilst lecturing on convulsions and death ☠️❤️🔥
True. He does not want to scare you to death.
its not true please study vitamin b17 seeds of fruits and you will see it will kill cancer cells
How should he act about "reality" ?
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@@juliannerose296 lol
In his book Little Doctor the Swiss Dr Vogel promotes brown rice as a panacea against many health problems.
Apricot kernels and cherry pits (mahlab) have been used in cooking/baking in Europe and the Middle East forever...the heat renders them edible. Same for Cassava (yuca) root
Thank you for bringing awareness to these foods! I had all of the symptoms you mentioned after cooking kidney beans about 4 weeks ago. I felt like I was going to die!
oh no i just consumed half a nutmeg in my jamaican carrot juice
Brown rice too Idont think so i have been eating for quite sometime most people recomended for good health esp diabitics.
Wow, I can't believe they've used arsenic since the 40s !
Uh , that was UNCOOKED Kidney beans 🫘 🤨
@@esterwyman - No . . . it says "under-cooked" rather than 'uncooked'.
As a raw meat aficionado living in France I take my life into my own hands every time I order Steak Tartare in a restaurant. Gotta live on the edge sometimes!
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I can't eat anything on my plate that a good reputable vet can have back on its feet....must be no pink and dead. 😏
If it runs red, I won’t eat it. I can do pink center, but no red juice. Juice must be brown. I despise medium or rare. Must be medium well.
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Having a Jamaican Mother we use Nutmeg always and she lived to age 72 and then came Covid 19 that killed her 2021.
R.I.P
Everything in Moderation.
California 💛
Sorry for your loss 🥺❤️💪…May she RIP
She didn't die at home. She died in the hospital. Find out what the treatments were she received from the hospital. Research the treatments and then you will understand what happened to her and many others. I am sorry for your loss.
@@simonsays8935 Hi my Mother died at home thank you
Hello Dr Berg. Im from Kerala in South India. 99.9 percent of us have been eating brown rice for centuries... and we consider it the healthiest and unadulterated form of rice which is THE staple food for South Indians.
But considering that most exported brown rice actually contains added colour to look authentic...I have no.comments.
You've got to listen to what he's saying, brown rice grown in the USA is what his reference is to. Pay attention!!! It's not the rice that's poisonous, it's where it's grown the arsenic leeches into the rice.
You are not eating brown rice.. You are eating parboiled rice.. Both are different
@@sajithss92 that’s what he is also saying. His complaint is not about the rice which is grown in Kerala, he referred something which is grown in US.
True I ve been eating the brown rice from India and USA and never had any problems..I shocked when I heard him about brown rice in killer list😪😪😪😪😪
Could not will
I grew up eating raw cashews, if not in cups but a fistful. And also nutmeg . We Indians use it for various curries. And the amount used for a curry for 6 ppl would be a half or 3/4 th of a nutmeg.And brown rice is a staple food in the southern part of a state in India. They eat cooked brown rice daily with fish cooked in coconut oil. The place name is Mangalore in Karnataka State.
I love nutmeg. In ayurvedic medicine it's used in warm milk to help you sleep. I love brown rice too. No white bands on my fingernails yet.
@@derpywho1394 I personally know a person who uses nutmeg powder in milk for her kid. She says in her native people use this to boost the immune system and is an alternate for a sugary , unhealthy chocolate drinks that we feed children . Nutmeg is used for various medicinal properties in India
I'm west indian, and we use an abundance of nutmeg.
In mangalore we use a different kind of rice.... Red boiled rice and not brown rice.
@@guruk Yes. This one what Dr is showing is the same rice thats used there. I am not sure if he means par boiled or brown rice. But to a common audience he is mentioning brown rice .
Thank you Dr Berg for all the effort you put into these videos and getting the good word out.💪. YOU ROCK!!! Super helpful information broken down elegantly.
Dr Berg, physician to the World, helping millions, one patient at a time! Bless you, thank you.
I agree💯💖🙏🏾
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Not on this video.
He is not a physician, nor an MD. He has a doctorate in nutrition, so it is legitimate to be called doctor. He has disclosed this in his website.
he does not help anyone. but the opposite.
because the truth is...you can eat anything as much as you want and still healthy...
I'm surprised with the brown rice. We really should be very careful to what we eat. Thanks doc Berg for this information.
and I thought the brown rice was good I don't understand I thought the white rice was really bad brown rice to
Me too. I decided to make a diet and few days ago I bought brown rice and I ate .The taste for me wasn't really good.
We consume mostly brown rice. I don't know what to feel about this ☹️
I just made brown rice and kidney beans for dinner
@@santacollins9276 Brown rice is good but depending what soil it was grown because any plant grown on a contaminated soil the plants also absorbed.
As a child growing up my mom used to give us Nutmeg in hot milk. She also cooked brown rice for us . As an adult I don't used Nutmeg but I sometimes cooked brown rice. In these times it's hard to know what will make anyone get sick .
Every page on internet says brown rice is better than white rice. So I bought a big bag. Now doctor Berg says it can kill me. Wt 😒
@@aychingao replace rice with quinoa instead.. its a complete source of all vitamins and minerals the body needs
I'll give you hint. Eat brown rice or white. Milk with nutmeg or not. You will still die. You're welcome.
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@꧁ Tú Muy Bien ꧂ Dr Berg has said the brown rice is not good due to the growing process and its the pesticides used that make it Bad. So, it depends how and where it is grown.
Believe it or not, Dr Berg when I was little kid I ate green potatoes, here I’m 65 years later, still going strong.
Surprised you lived so long with such a risky attitude.
@@saraswatkin9226 I didn’t do that knowingly, I did that unknowingly. I’m from former Soviet Union, unfortunately by the time when I ate green potatoes that’s the only thing we had at home to eat. I fried them before to eat, perhaps in that process most of the toxins were destroyed.
I like this guy, so mellow, smart.
I was taught as a kid to cut off the green.
Back before Health Canada became the Adventist controlled Death Canada, a potatoe serving was 1 small potatoe or half a large potatoe.
I have noticed that potatoes have become much bigger over the decades. So a third of a potatoe would be a real serving. So that one potatoe a day average is way more than it would be 50 or 60 years ago.
Too much contamination in our soil and gm food
In Asia, we eat brown rice and nutmeg with liquorice powder.
Sounds good. I love nutmeg and licorice.
One thing to note is that swallowing a cherry pit will likely do nothing, because the cyanide (technically in a compound called amygdalin, which your body has to break down, not gaseous HCN) is contained inside the pit. If you chew it your body will have access to way more of the amygdalin than the practically zero if you just swallow it whole. Birds swallow cherry pits all the time and they're fine. You probably don't want to do that either way but just know that if you or a child does happen to swallow one there's no need to panic.
I think on that list the only ones to strictly avoid are the green potatoes, undercooked burgers, undercooked kidney beans and the cherry pits.
The others just need to be sourced properly and taken in moderation.
This should have been the language used for this video not this absolute can kill you when its not entirely the food itself but how its grow. Less clickbaity but at least it doesn't give these wrong assumptions that the food itself no matter where you get them can kill you..
Really, brown rice? Such an ignorant way of telling people what is dangerous based only on their own country's way of farming it.
Doc, you are looking younger and fresher everyday. You are doing a good job and God is showering you with blessings 🤗
In the Middle-East people love to eat whole green almonds before the kernel has been formed. It's delicious and refreshing. Sometimes the street vendors give you some table salt with them and you can dip them in some salt (like you'd do with radishes)... But of course this tradition is uniquely for sweet almonds. Early in spring you can also buy from street retailers a variety of plums which are eaten green before the formation of the kernel (sometimes with a pinch of salt, according to your taste) and they are refreshing and taste good. In oriental arabic, their name is "janaariq" (pronounced " janaari' " in countries like Syria, Lebanon or Jordan). If you go to these countries in early spring, don't miss the janaari' !
Street food 🤮
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Organic brown rice from Northern California has less arsenic. Then cook 1 cup in six cups water until water is gone. Dr. Gregor has you tube on arsenic in rice.
I never knew nut meg was harmful. I grew up in a country that nutmeg and cinnamon are one of our favorite spices especially used in porridge and some homemade drinks. Maybe it depends on where it's grown.
No, it just depends on how much you ingest and most people will never reach the toxicity levels because it takes *A LOT!*
In parts of the world where it is hot and humid, these spices are essential to kill pathogens in the foods even in the stomach.
One of the spices for Biryani is nutmeg!
My rule is if that community has a low death rate and many healthy elderly people then I stick with the ancestry nutrition. They've been eating that way and they're perfectly fine 🤷🏽♀️.
I remember that for a short period of time, young adults were huffing nutmeg powder to try to get high. I heard a news story about it and sorta chuckled. My friend gave me a whole nutmeg. I used it once, just a few scrapes across the zester and promptly lost it somewhere in my kitchen ever since.
Actually green raw almonds are pretty common here in Turkey and they are known as "çağla". You can find it pretty much in every farmer's market in season and I've never heard someone who got sick.
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Exactly because NO ONE eats as much as you need to eat to be poisoned.
What happens if you put nutmeg in your pipe and smoke it?
In Greece we also eat them, I guess these are sweet almonds not the bitter almonds and it's ok? That's what I understood
I had been adding a little ground nutmeg to my ground coffee here and there for a while. I had no idea high doses were poisonous! Very interesting.
SAY NO TO NUTMEG: POISION: BEST NOT TO CONSUME!!!
In your coffee, a little.nutmeg won't hurt. What the good doctor said about somebody who consumed a whole nutmeg....well you simply can't do that, it's too aromatic, and if anyone had the whole thing, then he was a nutcase.
Cinnamon is so good
No on actually, explains, what is considered a high dosage of nutmeg . I’ve only ever used a small amount to flavor my food . It’s Yummy 😋
Back in the 70's, there was an outbreak of food poisoning in an English primary school after the children had been given green potatoes by the catering staff at lunchtime. I don't know details, but there was a big scandal, and many children were very sick.
Nutmeg ?😳 That one REALLY surprised me.
Very interesting presentation!
Thanks for the info on red kidney beans. It's good to know that no one has ever died from eating them, but they can kill rodents. Very informative.
Someone died in the UK from cooking red kidney beans in a slow cooker.
It doesn't get hot enough to destroy the toxin.
Cool I, I hate Rodents 👍🏻
It is funny! 😂🤣
So we shouldn’t ever eat brown rice? I was always told it was so healthy and white rice is so fattening
Apparently in America it isn't.
White rice becomes sugar when ingested.
Thank you for this Awesome Update. You just never know....
I just cut my meal size down and stopped all sugar while eating only between noon and 6 pm. I lost 60 pounds so far since maybe last Oct. I don't eat much pasta but still do. I feel quite a bit better in my disability now without the weight.
I love your videos they are very detailed and I've learned so much more from you because you make it easy to understand and kind of fun, not to fast not to slow. My only problem is the volume please turn it up even more, it's easier to turn it down but I'm on max volume and struggling to hear you. Other wise I love your content.
People eat a lot of green raw almonds in Turkey. Everybody eats that when it is season. Never heard about any problem.
Especially with salt after school!!! And my name is that too:))
I m turkish and i grew up eating tons of green almonds when i was young. Never had any issues 🤔
I think the precaution is related to Bitter Green Almonds and not the Sweet Almond that we buy or pick from our trees.
Totally agree i dont like roasted almonds i like when they are green fresh💚
I heard that bitter apricot pits also contain the same cyanide compound. BUT some people use it as a potential cancer treatment. It came to be known as amygdalin, or Vitamin B17, and a semi synthetic version Laetrile.
potatoes also have patatin which I am allergic to. For 30 years I was diagnosed with gout. Twenty four years ago I was diagnosed with the onset of arthritis, the year 2017 I was diagnosed with gout, rheumatoid arthritis, irritable bowel syndrome, ulcerative colitis, leaky gut syndrome, etc.... Was on many meds and seeing specialists. I was about to go on permanent disability and went to see a naturopath. I had nothing to lose. He diagnosed a potato intolerance. I am no longer on meds. Potatoes are a member of the nightshade family, peppers and tomatoes. Peppers and tomatoes have solanine in them but no patatin. I can eat peppers and tomatoes with no side effects.
Allergy
Patatin is identified as a major cause of potato allergy.[5] It has found to be similar to latex, and when in contact with open skin, there has been an increase of immunoglobulin E which causes some allergic reactions and symptoms, such as asthmatic symptoms, or atopic dermatitis.[6] It is unclear as to why the plant does this, however it could be a potential defense mechanism against insects.[7]
Thank you doctor berg. This is really a EDUCATING VIDEO. We all eat this foods almost every week or every month.
Is that what happened to your brain?
We do, too. So good!! 😋
Well, here in ND we have a limited variety of fruits, cherries are my favorite!! I have swallowed pits by accident and nothing has happened and it comes out in one piece. I have read before in order cherries to be poisonous you need to eat 3k pounds!! Cherries are anti-inflammatory and anti aging.
I have this problem exactly with kidney beans. I can’t have them freshly cooked or out of the can or any cross contamination with the juice. I get every symptom he mentioned. The vomiting and diarrhea goes on for hours and hours. It makes me feel like I’m going to die. Same thing with green beans fresh, canned or frozen. It’s horrific. Doesn’t matter how long they’re cooked or prepared they’re toxic to me. 🙄
Me too. I'm so sick with stomach pains . My health care advisor told me to soak it and throw off that water before cooking. I did but it never works so I stopped eating it.
Soak it overnight and discard the water
Do you have any problems eating lettuce, peas, lentils, or soy?
I use to have that problem until I soaked them over night and rinse next day thoroughly
@@suzanneswett4811 I do I avoid grains, beans and lentils
Basic Mexican diet: corn tortillas, guacamole,salsa& beans ......😊 All can be self grown ingredients.
Thank you Dr. Berg! I actually ate undercooked Red Kidney Beans in a slow cooker chili I made....had no clue you need to boil them...I felt poisoned! Horrible intestinal distress and diarrhea followed....it was bad....
That's terrible! Who Knew right? Glad you made it through it:).
I always go for the tinned stuff for that reason
@@msmontana1961 Thank you!
When we were kids we loved preserved nutmegs and we just binged on them. They are preserved in sugar.... yummmm! Apparently great for lungs and treats respiratory infections
Great for pain!
Dr Berg I always was given 1mg nutmeg with honey as a kid for bad tummy and inflammation. From Ayurveda to ancient medicines, nutmeg has been used as a potent spice to improve sleep,health, immunity and what not! It is packed with the goodness of minerals such as magnesium, manganese and copper and other essential vitamins such as B1, pl some clarification would be good.
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And Ayurveda says to stay away from onion and garlic which could make you tired. 🤨
@@truenokill garlic??? Not true!
Love to listen to your talk!❤
Great, thanks!