Doctor Berg explains the science

Yes, I’ve put on a few pounds whilst avoiding excessive exposure to the public during the lockdown. People often say that you should breakfast like a king, but I’ve learnt that’s nothing the case if you’re trying to lose weight. Over the past year, I’ve tried to reduce the few extra pounds, even forming a What’s app group of friends to join me for accountability, but for the first time in my life, those few last pounds settled around my middle and refused to budge. But it wasn’t my weight loss goal that brought Dr. Berg to my attention. This is how he entered my world. Towards the end of June 2021, full pain began in the area of my left kidney. It grew in intensity day by day. It was like labour pain with no delivery date. By the end of the week, I found myself in the Accident and Emergency department of my local hospital being scanned for kidney stones as I have a history of stones. The scan detected lots of small stones in the right kidney but nothing in the left where the pain was. I was told that the stone had passed and was sent home with opiates to manage through pain. But still rolling in pain two days later, the kidney stone theory didn’t seem right. In desperation, I told my symptoms to a nurse friend, who, after some questioning, suggested that I could have shingles. I returned to the hospital and this was confirmed as the rosy rash on one side of my body had now appeared. I was told that the pain could last for weeks or months and was prescribed an antiviral snd more opiates followed by medication used with epileptic and stroke patients. So where does Dr Berg come into this? Well, both my sister and my daughter separately sent me links to Dr Berg’s YouTube videos of how to get rid of shingles pain quickly. Dr Berg explained the science and methodology. The cure included building the immune system and massaging the mirror image to where the pain was. Full of doubt and scepticism, I tried anyway, as by then I’d taken so many painkillers that I had to return to the hospital to have my liver and kidney functions checked. To my amazement, the massage gave me respite from the pain enough for me to start reducing the painkillers. Before the end of the third week, my pain was low enough to completely stop the painkillers. I have not taken any for the past ten days and residual pain is immediately controlled by the massage method. I emailed my doctor to let him know, as he had previously told me that he was treating some patients with shingles who had had it for over six months! I was so relieved and happy to be getting over shingles so soon that I started watching Dr. Eric Berg’s videos and soon came across the ones on intermittent fasting and the keto diet. It seemed so incredible to me that eating fat could lead to weight loss, but I have such faith in Dr. Berg that I have started following his advice and educating myself on the science of weight loss. I have taken the before photo, I’m working on getting more sleep and I’m trusting my tape measure more than my scales. I will update in 6 weeks before school reopens. I’m pretty confident that I’ll get off that plateau and reduce that belly, thanks to Dr Berg.