I Lost 70 POUNDS of Body Fat Eating 5 Foods Every Day 🔥 Dr. Ken Berry

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Medical Doctor Ken Berry shares his journey of losing 70 lbs (over 31 kg) and reversing his pre-diabetes. His secret is combining intermittent fasting with an exclusive diet of five foods: beef, butter, bacon, eggs, and organ meats (heart, liver). He also explains why diet accounts for 99% of fat loss, while exercise only contributes 1-2%.
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At my worst, most unhealthiest, I was 297 pounds, A1C was 6.2, so well into pre-diabetic,
working on becoming a type 2 diabetic, chronic joint pain, chronic reflux, severe reflux,
dandruff, allergies, itchy skin, everything was inflamed and I felt miserable.
That's Dr. Ken Berry, and he was describing himself.
Now he reveals how a 49-year-old, 300-pound pre-diabetic family doctor lost 70 pounds
and completely reversed his health, using 5 specific foods and a unique timing of his
meals.
No hunger, no calorie counting.
Food 5 is the one almost nobody talks about, and it's the one that changes everything.
Dr. Berry wasn't living like this because he was lazy or uninformed.
He was doing exactly what his medical training told him to do, and it was making him fatter
and sicker every month.
I was a pre-diabetic, I had an A1C of 6.2, I mean I was on the cusp of becoming a type
2 diabetic back when I almost weighed 300 pounds.
When I had chronic heartburn, when I had dandruff, when I had my knees in the mornings, I walked
around like an 80-year-old man, that was all self-inflicted.
But I had no idea, and I was a young doctor, right, and you couldn't tell me, and I was
like, what, what, no, come on, I know what I'm doing, I took nutrition in medical school,
right, I know I'm supposed to eat lots of whole grains and jog, and drink skim milk
and eat lots of fruit.
And so that's what I was doing, and I was getting fatter and sicker by the month.
A doctor, following his own advice, deteriorating.
So he did something almost no physician does, he questioned everything he was taught.
And when he went back to his medical school notes, the entire nutrition education he received
to treat a healthy adult, it fit in three sentences.
Number one, eat lots of whole grains.
Number two, eat no saturated fat.
And number three, jog.
Like that is the totality of my medical school nutrition education on how to just give a
normal guy with a wife and a job and a family and a dog and a recliner, this is what I should
tell him to do.
So he tried the opposite.
For 30 days, he ran one experiment on himself.
At the end of that month, and I hate to sound snake oilish, but everything was better.
Every single thing without exception was better.
That 30 day experiment became a framework, and Barry turned those five foods into a four
word rule he now teaches to millions of people.
And the fifth is the one that takes good nutrition and turns it into something extraordinary.
We'll get to that.
First, let's start with the food doctors have been most wrong about, eggs, and specifically,
which part of the egg you've been told to eat.
Because for years, Barry gave patients the exact same advice that was quietly working
against them.
Do you ever question some of the things you're doing?
All the time.
But that is the proper mindset.
Because when you're doing that, you're open to other possibilities, to other options,
to tweaking this way or that way, right?
And we were actually making a video, a recipe video, and I said as a joke, you know, there
are still people who eat egg white omelets to this day, and they think they're doing
a great service to their health, right?
And they probably are making egg white omelets for their children, thinking that they're
really getting them a head start in life, not realizing that they're depriving them
of much needed fatty nutrition.
The yolk.
That's where the nutrition lives.
And for Barry's own family, his kids, his wife, even their dogs, the equation is simple.
If you're truly hungry, your body always wants one thing.
I have not ever walked to the refrigerator and thought, I'm so tired of meat and eggs.
That just doesn't happen if you're truly hungry.
The human body always, always wants meat and eggs when you're truly hungry.
And this is where Barry's preparation gets specific.
Barry doesn't just eat beef.
He has a method he uses almost every single day, and it turns an ordinary meal into something
he'll explain in a moment.
The way I typically do it is I'll throw two pounds in a giant cast iron skillet, and I
will put two pounds of ground beef in there, chunk it up, cook that, when that's almost
medium rare, then I'll crack my eggs into that, and then I'll mix all that up and kind
of make a big scramble with that.
Two pounds of ground beef, eight to twelve eggs, one cast iron skillet.
Then he adds two things to that pan that most people never think about, and this is where
food two meets food three, four, and five all at once.
When Barry says butter, he's not talking about a condiment.
He's talking about a food group, and the specific reason it's in his framework is something
most people have never considered.
That's just the fat component of the dairy, right?
You take away the lactose and the other sugars, and you take away the proteins of the milk.
You're left with just the fat component of the milk.
And for some people, they're so sensitive to the dairy proteins that they have to actually
clarify the butter and just only use ghee, right?
But the vast majority of people can eat butter and...
Dairy fat without the inflammatory dairy proteins.
That's the logic.
And the proof isn't just Barry's own labs.
It's what happened when he challenged a husband and wife to eat nothing but these four foods
for 30 days straight.
Bacon.
Not a cheat food.
Not a treat.
A cooking staple.
The fat Barry uses to grease the cast iron before every meal.
And when he offered to pay someone $1,000 to prove that you could gain weight eating
all four of these foods freely, something unexpected happened.
You think I can't binge on beef, butter, bacon, and eggs?
Watch me.
And I've actually had YouTube channels take me up on that, because I offered one YouTube
channel $1,000.
It's a husband and wife team.
The two crazy Ketos.
I said, I'll give you $1,000 if you eat nothing but beef, butter, bacon, and eggs, and you
can gain weight.
And they're like, challenge accepted.
And I didn't make a bet with them, because I didn't want their $1,000.
I just offered that reward.
And after a month of gorging on beef, butter, bacon, and eggs, they both lost more weight
even than they had lost on Keto.
30 days.
Unlimited beef, butter, bacon, and eggs.
Both lost more weight than on Keto.
Because when your only choices are protein and fat, your satiety hormones do the work
for you.
Now, food 5.
This is the one that nobody talks about, and it's the one that turns a good meal into what
Barry calls a literal superfood.
I always put either some pluck seasoning, which is seasonings made with organ meat,
or I'll put some Redmond's Real Salt.
And then sometimes I'll put some salty mineral drops in and just sprinkle it on there, because
it tastes salty.
And then also, we try to get our ground beef to include the heart and the liver.
Especially when we harvest a cow, we always tell the meat processor, all of our ground
beef needs to have heart and liver, spleen, lung.
The kidneys, I can taste them.
I don't like that.
But if you just put some liver, not a lot, you cannot taste it.
It just tastes like ground beef.
And you've now turned your ground beef into a literal superfood that has more nutrition
than any food on planet earth.
But it's typically 2 pounds and maybe 8 or 12 eggs cracked in there, scrambled together,
always cooked in bacon grease, always with some daily minerals and some butter on top.
Liver in the ground beef.
Organ meat seasoning.
Cooked in bacon grease.
Finished with butter.
That one bowl contains more concentrated nutrition than almost anything else you could eat.
And it tastes exactly like ground beef.
Now let's talk about when he eats it.
Because timing is half the protocol.
Barry doesn't eat in the morning.
He doesn't eat at noon.
He works first.
Hard physical work.
And eats only when his body gives him a clear signal that it actually needs food.
I got up, I had a cup of coffee, and I went and I moved the sheep to a new paddock.
I cut some trees down.
All fasting, right?
I was doing, literally lifting 80, 120 pound logs, making a brush pile.
I do that daily.
That's every day for me.
That's my workout.
I don't have a gym membership.
And so then somewhere between 2 and 4 p.m., whenever I start to, what did I say earlier?
When I start to truly feel physiologically hungry, I'll come in and I'll take a shower
because I'm really stinky when I come in from this 96 degree, 100% humidity Tennessee summer.
Take a shower and then I'll break my fast and it's anywhere between 2 and 4 p.m. typically.
First meal between 2 and 4 p.m.
Fasted until then.
Every single day.
And that's not a modern biohack.
Barry says it's actually what humans did for the majority of our history.
He found this while going deep into archaeology and anthropology.
Do you know that before the Middle Ages, it was considered sinful to eat more than two
meals a day?
It was frowned upon socially and religiously.
That's where the definition of the word glutton came from, is if you ate three big meals a
day and snacked around, you were a glutton and people would socially shun you.
You would literally, you could get excommunicated for that because people just knew that's
not how you're supposed to eat.
You shouldn't eat when you first wake up in the morning or so in different cultures it
might be you eat breakfast and midday and that's it.
Or you eat midday and evening and that's it.
That was just standard for all of the major cultures that ran planet Earth.
You didn't eat three meals a day with snacks in between.
You would be shunned in polite society if you did that.
One or two meals a day.
Eating only when truly hungry.
No breakfast, no snacks, no social eating out of obligation.
That is how Barry has lived for years, and it's what he credits alongside the five foods
for everything that followed.
Now here's the piece that most people watching this are probably waiting for.
What about exercise?
It's hard to admit when you're wrong.
You know that's true, but today in this video I'm going to admit to you an error that I
made in the past and bad advice that I gave to my patients.
It's about exercise and weight loss, and I got it wrong, and I think many healthcare
providers and health improvement gurus out there get it wrong, and I want to discuss
this with you and help you understand the link between exercise and weight loss.
I'm Dr. Ken Barry, a family physician with 20 years of clinical experience, and I was
He used to say exercise was 10-20% of the equation.
He was wrong.
The actual number from the research shocked him.
Exercise for weight loss probably only accounts for 1%, maybe 2%, of your success towards
that goal.
So that means that there's something else that's going to give you 98 or 99% of the
benefit of weight loss, and it ain't exercise, it's your diet.
It's the foods that you should eat every day, and it's the pseudo-foods you should avoid
every single day.
That is 99% of the battle when it comes to weight loss if you're overweight or obese.
One to two percent.
That's exercise's contribution to fat loss, which means the motivation, the willpower,
the money.
99% of all of it needs to go toward food.
Exercise comes later, after the weight is already moving, and Barry says when you get
there, you won't even have to force it.
So what does this actually look like after years of eating this way?
Here's Barry, answering that question directly.
When I eat lots of fatty meat and butter and bacon and eggs, I feel amazing.
All my numbers in my labs, which I get checked every six months, look exquisite.
The man who was nearly 300 pounds and pre-diabetic in his late 30s.
Labs now exquisite by his own description.
The method?
Five words.
Beef, butter, bacon, eggs, and organ meats.
Practical protocol.
Ken Barry's proper human diet.
Daily blueprint.
Morning.
Black coffee.
Farmwork.
Walking or any physical activity.
Fully fasted.
No breakfast.
Breakfast.
2-4pm.
When physiologically hungry.
Not by the clock.
Meal one.
Main.
Approximately 2 pounds ground beef, cooked in cast iron, with heart-slash-liver mixed
in.
Plus 8-12 eggs, cracked and scrambled together.
Cook in bacon grease.
Season with pluck organ meat seasoning and redmond real salt.
Finish with butter on top.
Meal two.
Optional.
Approximately 6-7pm.
Approximately 1 pound ground beef, plus 3-4 eggs.
Only if truly hungry again.
Snacks.
None.
Social eating is fine if the food is right, but never eat unless genuinely hungry.
Rule.
If it ain't beef, butter, bacon, or eggs, don't eat it.
Seafood optional.
Sardines.
Mackerel.
Anchovies.
Exercise.
Not for weight loss.
For health.
Walk.
Move.
Do physical work daily.
Add structured training after significant fat loss is already underway.
Organ meat shortcut.
Ask your butcher to grind liver and heart into your ground beef.
You cannot taste it.
Or use pluck organ meat seasoning for the same effect.
Supplements Barry uses daily.
Redmond Real Salt.
Electrolytes slash minerals.
Pluck seasoning.
Organ meats.
Salt mineral drops.
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