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Dr Eric Berg confusing advice

TrevA said:
Dr Berg is not a medical doctor, he got his degree in and was a practicing chiropractor
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My chiropractor also obtained her chiropractor degree the U.S., in Los Angeles, after completing a five year course. She may not be a medical doctor but I was surprised when she told me how many of her course modules were shared with the medical students.

Looking at the course schedule for Southern California University of Health Sciences (https://www.scuhs.edu/academics/los-angeles-college-of-chiropractic/course-schedule/) I note that at least they study nutrition:
Biochemical Nutrition 135hrs
Clinical Nutrition 180hrs

Doesn't seem like a lot, unless you compare it with the pre-clinical course structure of a medical degree at somewhere like the University of Oxford (https://www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/study/m...ure/pre-clinical-course-structure-description) where they don't seem to study nutrition at all.

Dr Berg also taught as an associate professor at Howard University in the Health Department (Nutrition), so probably not a complete charlatan, but maybe a bit, looking at the supplements he sells.
 
JohnEGreen said:
The most frequent descriptive word I found when researching the good pseudo doctor
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I'm not offended, although the thought of a quack teaching as an associate professor at Howard University in the Health Department (Nutrition) is hilarious. I wonder if all those students realise they're paying good money to be taught by a quack.

Admittedly I have an open mind, not so much my brains have fallen out . . . yet. Who does one believe? Dr Berg or those that call him a quack. https://www.drberg.com/main/negativecomments
 
DavidGrahamJones said:
I'm not offended, although the thought of a quack teaching as an associate professor at Howard University in the Health Department (Nutrition) is hilarious. I wonder if all those students realise they're paying good money to be taught by a quack.

Admittedly I have an open mind, not so much my brains have fallen out . . . yet. Who does one believe? Dr Berg or those that call him a quack. https://www.drberg.com/main/negativecomments
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Having read all in the link you gave I have to be honest and say that I am surprised that anyone could acheive a professorship using that level of English. It reads more like that of the writing by someone for whom English is a second language.

I was not a fan of Berg's before reading the information in the link, I'm even less of one now.
 
All I can say is Howard University is not too fussy on who it takes either as staff or students many of whom come with below average B grades.

Ancel Keys taught at Harvard and these days his science is not thought too highly of either.
 
steveis36 said:
Hi all
I just watched a youtube video by Dr Eric berg and he was talking about blood sugars and he said "A normal blood sugar should be around 60 to 100 before meals and can spike up to 140"

Holy ****

Surely please this is not right!
Ive listen to the part of vid twice now, please can someone else listen or watch "how to fix a slow metabolism"

Am i wrong or have i missed something
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Just divide by 18
 
Well, I guess Dr Berg has enough cred to gather a lot of speakers for his keto conference. Maybe he's not such a hopeless quack after all? A blogpost recapping Day 1 of the Keto Summit conference.

https://gipsybot.com/2018/10/14/keto-summit-day-1-recap/

My personal impression, for what it's worth, is that he's been doing his own thing for quite a long time and has only recently been introduced to the wider world of keto that happened without his input. He's only recently started interacting and interviewing the lchf/keto people that most of us were already aware of. I think he's so used to being treated as an outsider that the whole keto scene came as quite a shock to him but now he's embracing the wider community. JMHO.
 
Guzzler said:
Having read all in the link you gave I have to be honest and say that I am surprised that anyone could acheive a professorship using that level of English. It reads more like that of the writing by someone for whom English is a second language.
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Changing from third to first person is sloppy, makes me think he didn't write it. I'll have to ask my friend, a retired English, Drama, History teacher and author for an opinion.
 
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