This week on the Health Made Simple Show, we answered all the questions that we couldn’t get to last week. 

Dr. Bart answers your questions about weight loss, surgical implants, health on a budget, vertigo and so much more. 

Thank you to everyone for sending in your questions! We’re looking forward to doing this again.

Watch the live show below:

Dr. Bart Answers…

What is the fastest way to lose weight? 

If we can get rid of excess pounds on our body that don’t belong there, that’s awesome because that means we’re leveling up our health. There are going to be two things involved here.

Do these two things for 30 days and you will be lighter – not by starvation, but because you have a better lifestyle. 

1. Lower your overall net carbohydrates.

Net carbs are the carbohydrates listed on the package minus the fiber. So if you’re looking at a banana and its total carbohydrates at 35 grams, subtract the four grams of fiber. You then have 31 grams of net carbohydrates. Get your daily net carbohydrates under 70 grams. Every single day. 

2. Use some level of a fasting schedule.

Fasting gives a time out for the gut, and its down-regulates insulin. Ideally, if you’re a female, get comfortable with 14-16 hours of the day fasting. If you’re a male, try to fast between 16-18 hours a day. You want to build this up a little bit. There’s no snacking either.

When you eat, blood sugar goes up, and when blood sugar goes up, insulin is released.

Insulin is a fat-storage hormone. So if you want to lose weight, lose fat, you have to make sure that the insulin is not being released. So the less often you eat, the less fat you gain.  

I’m a college student, and I listen to your show but can’t always afford all the supplements. How can I make health affordable? 

This is a great question, and I get this all the time because supplementation can be expensive. Even if you can’t eat organic all the time, look for greens and proteins. Eat clean.

If you’re on a budget, the number thing I’m going to tell you to do is to go to the grocery store and buy apple cider vinegar. Do about a teaspoon a day. In college is where your gut health usually starts to get destroyed.

So if you do about a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar a day that would be massive for you. It will help you with candida, yeast, pH imbalances, and digestive health. I’d also get gluten out of your life. 

If you just did that, you’d be lightyears ahead. If you wanted just one supplement, it would be Catalyn. It was the first supplement designed in the US. It has vitamins, minerals, and almost everything you need.  

Do you have any tips for suffering from vertigo? 

 We want to figure out when and how that vertigo is coming out. So, I’ll just throw out some things because I’m not having a direct conversation. With vertigo, think dizziness. 

If your vertigo is the type of vertigo that happens when you change positions, like if you’re bent over in a yoga posture and you come up quickly, typically this is an adrenal issue. Your adrenal gland can not keep up with the change in blood pressure.

When you’re leaning over and your heart is closer to the ground, it’s easy on your adrenal glands because the circulation is going that way. The moment that you stand up, you increase pressure and stress on your heart. So, your adrenal gland should work very quickly.

If you get dizzy or lightheaded, that’s a sign that your adrenal glands are not able to keep up.

Some adrenal support supplements are Desiccated Adrenal and Drenamin. The best herbs for healing the gland are ashwagandha, rehmannia, and licorice root.

Now, there’s another type of vertigo. You can have predictable vertigo from turning your head in one direction, but when you turn the other way, it doesn’t happen.

That usually means that you have a crystal that is stuck in your ear. In our ears, the crystals sway in the direction that we tilt our heads and create a floating balance. That’s what a cat has to help it always land on its paws. It’s called the righting reflex. 

If we have a crystal stuck, we get vertigo. That’s easy to fix. If you go to your chiropractor, he or she will give you an adjustment to free that crystal up.  

Can you please educate me on nutrition response testing? How does that work? 

That’s a great question. Nutrition response testing is a type of muscle testing. All muscle testing comes from applied kinesiology, and the Godfather of applied kinesiology is Dr. George Goodheart. 

Nutritional response testing is when a practitioner will test your muscles to get a neurological reflex on things that you’re toxic to, allergic to, and what nutrient deficiencies you have. 

This will look like a practitioner pressing against your extended and flexed arm. As you both resist each other, the practitioner will then push on your liver.

If it causes your arm to go weak, that signals to the doctor that when your liver takes in stimulus, it takes energy away from your arm. 

That moment of neurological stimulus suggests that there’s something wrong in the liver. Then you can test and literally give vitamins while you do it.

If someone is having liver issues, I’ll start with vitamin B. The patient takes vitamin B, and all of a sudden the arm gets strong. There’s an art to this practice. 

If the body doesn’t have power, there’s always a reason behind it. It doesn’t just give up one day.

Should I get my breast implants out? & Breast health 

This is a big topic because I’ve seen more women in the past year get explant surgeries. The number one reason people are getting their implants out is that they are concerned with having a foreign object in their bodies.

Yet as a practitioner, I will say that getting an explant surgery doesn’t make you healthy. If a smoker stops smoking, they’re not immediately healthy, they have to go do healthy things. 

If you’re thinking about getting your implants out, I want you to think about how you get your breasts healthier. If you’re going to have surgery, (any kind) you need to have a pre-surgery plan and a post-surgery plan. 

Pre-surgery: You need to get your body absolutely clean.

I tell my patients you have to at least do a ten-day cleanse before any surgery because you’re about to down-regulate your liver massively. You’re about to disrupt your circadian rhythm and disrupt your hypothalamus gland. Take milk thistle, turmeric, etc. 

Post-surgery: Now we have to get all those chemicals and drugs out of your body.

Milk thistle again, that’s going to clean out and repair the liver. Turmeric will down-regulate inflammation. Typically, I’ll use something called SP Cleanse, which will clean out the lymphatics.

If we’re going to have our breast implants out, we also should have a high awareness of what our breasts should feel like and what nutrients we should get regularly for breast health.

Iodine is probably the most important nutrient for breast health. 

However, the challenge in our country is that most of us are massively defiant in iodine, and iodine will help us fight off cancers and support our thyroid, whose job is to clean blood. 

We also have to understand what’s going on with the breast tissue.

The lymph nodes around breast tissue are oval and kind of flat, which makes them easier to get squished when they’re compressed with bras. That changes the lymph flow. We need to have iodine in our system to help move things in and out of our breast lymph nodes. 

Men and women should learn how to palpate their own breasts and chests to feel for lumpy tissue.

If you have lumpy tissue, this is an abnormality and is the beginning of that tissue starting to break down and turn into something else. 

How dangerous do you think vaping is versus smoking? 

What we can’t do is compare one really bad thing to another really bad thing because then we’re going to make one of them look good. They’re both bad for us.

Vaping brings another level of chemicals to the body, so just avoid it. The only way to move off a bad habit is to move towards a good habit. 

More people seem to be getting Parkinson’s disease lately. Do you have any ideas on how to prevent this?

We do keep seeing more of Parkinson’s. I think from 2005, we’ve doubled or tripled the number of people who have it. Parkinson’s is a degeneration of the central nervous system.

Specifically, it down-regulates your ability to use motion.

Dopamine regulates our emotions, it also starts a movement and stops movement. This deregulation of dopamine is why we start to see tremors and leaning forwards in those with Parkinson’s disease. 

Three things come to mind right away when I think about this.

The first is pesticides.

When you guys hear me talking about non-GMOs, this is why I say it. Pesticides in our foods get into the brain, create scarring, and impact our brain negatively. Fifteen years ago, we started using GMOs in our food and now we see Parkinson’s cases going through the roof.

Number two: There are some connections to head trauma in those with Parkinson’s disease. 

Number three: type 2 diabetes.

There is a definite link between Parkinson’s and type 2 diabetes. This means we need to clean up our diet, reduce sugar, and reduce carbohydrates. We want to do everything we can to get these out of our diet. Things like Parkinson’s and dementia are inflammation in the brain.

Dr. Bart also answers: 

[9:50] What does the effect of chewing gum during intermittent fasting have? 

[11:18] What can I put on chapped lips that aren’t full of chemicals? 

[14:53] Can apple cider vinegar be used for dogs as well? 

[15:45] Is there such a thing as too many supplements for dogs? 

[25:40] Any thought on mouth taping for mouth breathers? It has helped my sleeping because supposedly when your mouth is open, your body is in fight or flight mode. 

[43:21] What are your thoughts on getting botox? 

[51:36] Are there any vitamins and supplements that shouldn’t be taken together and are there supplements you can overdose on?

[53:41] In your opinion, what vitamins and minerals are good for chronic fatigue due to a bad circadian rhythm? 

[56:50] Can you go over your sun protection protocol including the timing? 

[59:55] I read online that steaming and draining kale in your smoothies reduces oxalates and that adding calcium and magnesium supplements also reduces oxalates. What calcium and magnesium do you recommend?

[1:10:08] What are your two to four supplements that you suggest for everybody as maintenance for your overall health?

Making Health Simple

What is one action that we can take today after this episode to move us toward becoming superhuman? 

Repeat the words “I love me” all the time. I love me and therefore this is why I’m doing this.

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