The REAL Human Diet vs. What Big Food Wants You to Believe

Is Everything You Know About Food WRONG? | Dr. Ken Berry on Carnivore, Proper Human Diet & Metabolic Health** What if your doctor has been giving you the wrong nutrition advice your entire life? In this eye-opening episode of *10,000 Miles*, host Vic Pepe sits down with Dr. Ken Berry — board-certified family physician, bestselling author of *Lies My Doctor Told Me*, and one of YouTube's most trusted voices in metabolic health — to break down why the foods we've been told are healthy may be slowly destroying us. Dr. Berry shares his personal journey from weighing nearly 300 lbs and being pre-diabetic in his mid-30s, to reversing his own metabolic disease through diet alone — and how that experience transformed his entire medical practice. --- **In this episode, you'll learn:** - Why sugar, grains, and seed oils are the three ingredients wrecking your health - What the "Proper Human Diet" spectrum really looks like (low carb → keto → carnivore) - The anthropological case for eating red meat that no one talks about - Why the American Diabetes Association's diet made Dr. Berry *more* sick — not less - The truth about cholesterol, statins, and heart disease - How ultra-processed foods are engineered for profit, not your health - Why vegetable seed oils didn't exist before 1910 — and what that means for your body - The connection between ancient foods and modern brain health --- **Resources mentioned:** - *Lies My Doctor Told Me* by Dr. Ken Berry - *The Atkins Diet Revolution* by Dr. Robert Atkins - *The Paleo Diet* by Prof. Loren Cordain - *The Primal Blueprint* by Mark Sisson - *Guns, Germs and Steel* by Jared Diamond - American Diabetes Society: [americandiabetessociety.com] --- **Connect with Dr. Ken Berry:** YouTube: Search "Dr. Ken Berry" Book: *Lies My Doctor Told Me* Community: Ken's private member group (link in his bio) --- **Connect with Vic Pepe & 10,000 Miles:** Subscribe for new episodes every week Like, comment, and share if this opened your eyes --- **Timestamps:** 00:00 – Introduction 01:22 – Dr. Berry's background & personal health crisis 05:18 – How he discovered the proper human diet 08:57 – Responding to skeptics: Where are the studies? 12:58 – The ancestral argument for eating red meat 17:00 – America's diet 250 years ago vs. today 21:15 – Why grains, sugar & seed oils are dangerous 28:22 – Vegetable oils: a 100-year experiment on humanity 37:27 – The "why" behind avoiding sugar and processed food 45:17 – The profit motive behind ultra-processed food 53:35 – Could the world sustain a carnivore diet? 01:01:33 – How Dr. Berry built a YouTube channel that changed lives --- *#CarnivoreDiet #ProperHumanDiet #DrKenBerry #MetabolicHealth #KetoDiet #LowCarb #Type2Diabetes #FoodIsMedicine #10000Miles #VicPepe*