The Dr. Berg Show LIVE - August 13, 2026

Eric Berg (5:08)

Welcome back, everyone, we're here with another Q&A. Anything that I say is not meant to replace your medical care, check with your doctor before implementing any of the suggestions. And I always like to just jump right in, Steve, and get through as many questions as possible.

Steve (5:23)

I think that's the best approach. Let's start off with Steph from YouTube. If you have a bilary colic issue, I hope you know what that is, I don't, is gallbladder removal the only remedy?

Eric Berg (5:37)

I don't know. I don't have all the details.

Before you head for gallbladder out, make sure that you get an official informed consent, which really tells you the benefits and the harms and the side effects, the long-term side effects, alternatives. Is there no chance for possibly dissolving stone? Because sometimes the doctors will say, well, no, no, that's been proven. You can't dissolve a stone with bile salts, but there's research out there. They maybe they didn't see it. So I would think really hard, do your research, not just Google it, but just really go in deep to find out, do you really need that gallbladder out? Because it comes with the package.

Steve (6:24)

It does. And spare gallbladders are in shortage of them, as you mentioned. Let's move on to Visha from YouTube. What is the best way to recover from a horrible tibia fracture? I added horrible.

Eric Berg (6:39)

I feel for you. It's very painful. Obviously, you're probably in a cast now, and then you take the cast off, and then all the muscles are going to be atrophied, and then you're just going to have to do rehab for a period of time and build it back up. That's pretty much, you know, in addition to eating healthier, taking vitamin D and magnesium, I think that it's just going to be a rehab, especially when they, if they cast, and that affects the joints on that side, whether it's the hip or the knee or the ankle.

Boy, what happens over time is it kind of throws your gait off, so you want to make sure that you do a lot of myofascial stretching after that to balance things, because, you know, 20 years later, all of a sudden, why do I hurt on my hip? Because you've been compensating for this atrophy that you didn't really kind of rehab fully.

Steve (7:39)

All right. And this person's handle is a barber from YouTube, but doesn't tell us whether it's a male or female, and here's where I think it's important. I'm dealing with low iron levels. What's the best approach to deal with it? And also, tell us about your vitamin C product. Just, I guess, curious in general.

Eric Berg (7:56)

Yeah, probably, you know, one question, right?

You can probably just look it up online about the vitamin C. I have a lot of data in there, but as far as iron goes, honestly, unless you're menstruating, unless you just had a car accident, you lost a lot of blood, I would, I'm going to do a video on this, because if you start taking iron and you don't really need it, it can create more problems because it's very difficult for our bodies to get rid of iron. So for most people, the problem is other things like copper is low and copper tends to help regulate and protect iron in certain places. Iron is very reactive if you can't get rid of it, and pathogens eat it. So it's a very interesting topic. I will do a video on it to give you all the data, but if you need iron, I would get it from your food. I would not get it from a supplement because the form of iron you're getting is like very toxic. So you'd get it from like eating a little liver here and there or red meat.

Steve (9:13)

All right, very good. Let's go to DMO from YouTube.

He has or she has a left leg that is swelling up from my ankle to my knee. It only happens in the left leg. Is there anything she can do to help support that condition?

Eric Berg (9:30)

So when you get into edema on one side of the body, there's several questions that you have to find out about like, is there a problem with your left kidney? Or is there more a problem with the heart that's backing up the fluid? You know, check with your doctor on that. But typically to edema, if it is truly edema, you know, going low carb is going to be your best bet to get rid of the excess fluid. I would try that first. There's also something called lymphedema, which happens in one leg as well. So that's a different protocol.