NEVER Start Your Morning With This (Destroys Your Liver)
Is breakfast the most important meal of the day, or should you skip it altogether? Stop the morning habits that harm your liver and try my liver health tips to improve liver function and overall health instead.
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0:00 Introduction: Your morning routine and liver health
1:21 Insulin resistance and liver function in the morning
2:12 All-American breakfast side effects
4:41 Liver damage and high insulin
7:20 Breakfast and liver health tips
8:32 More health tips
What if I told you that eating breakfast is one of the worst things you can do for your liver health?
At night, when you sleep, you’re fasting! Your liver releases stored glucose and enters a repair mode called autophagy while you sleep, and when you eat breakfast, you interrupt this process. Your insulin levels are lowest in the morning, and fat-burning is directly linked to low insulin levels.
Eggs and bacon are a good breakfast, but most people consume more carbs, which stimulates insulin production. Breakfast for most people includes foods such as sweetened yogurt, juice, cereal, pancakes, waffles, muffins, toast, jelly, hash browns, and more! This creates a massive blood sugar spike, setting you up for a day full of blood sugar swings.
Many people eat eggs and bacon with their carbs and assume it’s fine as long as they’re getting protein. Although protein can help lower blood sugar, it does not reduce insulin levels.
Chronic high insulin can have the following effects on your liver and overall health:
• Inability to burn fat
• Keeps the body in fat-storing mode
• Sodium retention
• Increased hunger
• Inflammation
• Visceral fat
• Iron retention
• Halts ketosis
• Fibrosis of the liver
• Increased androgens
• Fatigue
• Nighttime urination
• Increased cortisol
The best breakfast is no breakfast! Eating two meals per day with no snacks and following a keto diet forces your body to use ketones for energy, so you can easily go from one meal to the next without being hungry. When I stopped eating breakfast, I noticed improved mental capacity and mood, and I immediately lost weight!
Try eliminating carbs from your breakfast and diet, and don’t eat in the morning if you’re not hungry. Keep pushing your first meal closer to lunch time until your body adjusts. This will be incredibly beneficial for your liver health.
Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:
Dr. Berg, age 60, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals and author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media.
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Dr. Eric Berg received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1988. His use of “doctor” or “Dr.” in relation to himself solely refers to that degree. Dr. Berg is a licensed chiropractor in Virginia, California, and Louisiana, but he no longer practices chiropractic in any state and does not see patients, so he can focus on educating people as a full-time activity, yet he maintains an active license. This video is for general informational purposes only. It should not be used to self-diagnose, and it is not a substitute for a medical exam, cure, treatment, diagnosis, prescription, or recommendation. It does not create a doctor-patient relationship between Dr. Berg and you. You should not make any change in your health regimen or diet before first consulting a physician and obtaining a medical exam, diagnosis, and recommendation. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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Thanks for watching! I hope this helps you identify the morning habits that harm your liver so you can replace them with a healthier morning routine. I’ll see you in the next video.
I have never felt hungry on a morning so this makes a ton of sense. My parents literally had to force me to have breakfast growing up
Yes, me too. I was harassed for not wanting breakfast.
Same here, but they thought they did the right thing. ❤
@Worsrol.Oh most definately haha we’re just all trying to do our best whilst being misinformed by those in charge
same
When you don’t feel hungry, there’s no need for an meal and it would be unhealthy to force feed yourself. But when your hungry you should eat something, that’s you body telling you that it has not enough nutrients. When your body doesn’t have enough nutrients stored, or when you are very stressed, you may don’t have enough nutrients to keep your body and brain functional. That can cause many physical and mental health problems. And also, Dr. Bergs analyses where based on ultra processed food, not a natural diet. There are many studies that show that eating ultra processed food is extremely unhealthy, not only in the morning, but I have never seen any study that shows that eating a natural diet in the morning is unhealthy.
I eat some pieces of low sugar whole grain waffles and boiled eggs every morning and I feel much better than when I eat nothing and I never had any problems with it. But when I eat ultra processed food in the morning, I feels like it’s pulling out nutrients of my body instead of giving me some.
Dr. Berg is not wrong with his statement, but also not entirely correct.
Fasting is life changing🎉 Thank you for waking us up to health awareness sir
I REALLY struggled with weight from 13 to 17 and those mainstream diets were absolute torture. Fat free cardboard carbohydrates, unseasoned ultra processed frozen meals and bland small snack packages. I swear I was more hungry in my entire life trying to endure those lifeless diets than I ever was after, even a 30-day water / coffee / tea fast. Like they give you just enough processed carbs to keep that artificial hunger train at its peaks and valleys and no wonder the results never last! No lessons to be learned about what you were eating before just that this current stuff STINKS and no one can or wants to sustain those kinds of diets. It was honestly 100% easier for me to fast than endure that torture haha!
i have to take tablets twice a day and they require food, so i do about 11 hour fasts
should kids skip breakfast as well? at what age does this rule apply?
@TrumpWonThrice Even if it’s best (definitely best not to eat cereal, pancakes and muffins, starchy processed glucose bombs) you’ll have the world working against you 🙁 The child and adults will act like you’re actually starving them and probably say it’s super dangerous, quite a minefield to navigate unless they’re home schooled.
I’d guess they’re probably fine to eat whole food breakfast, avoiding processed garbage foods. A lot of Burg’s advice is pointed at us adults who spent too much time eating terribly, like we were taught, children’s bodies don’t need as strict a change in direction as we do to help the decades of damage.
No doctor here but it would make sense it’s best to avoid feeding them the typical breakfast junk foods and prepare something healthy
For us, muslims fasting is normal. We fast on Monday and Thursday and then on the 13,14, and 15 to detox our body.
I never been a breakfast person. Lunch is my breakfast.
coffee and milk all AM 💯
Same here.
Same to me
should kids skip breakfast as well? at what age does this rule apply?
same here. even when i didnt know all this, i rarely had breakfast in the morning and usually ate 1 or 2 meals a day.
I eat bacon eggs for breakfast sitting outside in the morning sun when it doesn’t rain…it’s a great way to kickstart the morning ready for work
Bacon is one of the worse things you can eat for heart health, processed fatty meat.
@trevorh1711generally yes but if you have access to wild pork somehow, it’s good for you. Also, fat (specifically saturated fat) is not inherently bad for you unless you have low activity levels. Fat only converts into bad cholesterol if you let it, or if you have a condition.
Fact: ( if you paid attention ) you don’t need breakfast!
@Hopeful-w7h I need breakfast and lunch because I don’t eat dinner
@trevorh1711 that’s not true that’s a myth
It’s in the name “Break Fast”
Which sounds like a good thing u til you know how beneficial fasts can be
We can do “Break Lunch” aka Brunch 🫶🏼
Well, back in the days dinner would be done by 6pm..
Yes, and people actually used to have breakfast because they *worked*. They were not sitting all day at the desk, gabbing, tippy-tapping, glued to the screens, driving their butts in comfy cars. They were working as hard as a pair of oxen. Nice, manual job where you start before the dawn and by midday you are feel faint from all the exhaustion. Plowing, digging, chopping wood, carrying gallons of water in buckets, mucking out, feeding farm animals, walking absolutely everywhere, not sleeping for a month because it’s the lambing season and you have to stay alert practically 24/7 until the last ewe delivered. Not getting any sleep at all for 48+ hours because your coal heap needed constant tending. That’s when you really need to have a breakfast. Try and go without any sleep for 2-3 days and fast at the same time (it’s quite an experience!). Fasting was done by monks who did get their “beauty sleep”, who sat around and read books.
@littlelamb4054 sorry dude, “Brunch” is the combination of breakfast and lunch..not “Break Lunch”..nice try though
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should kids skip breakfast as well? at what age does this rule apply?
Can I just drink Milk ?
Your knees will thank you, amongst other things.
Give yourself most of the credit! You took the commitment and did the work! Dr. Berg educated you!
I don’t get hungry tell 11am after getting up at 5 I eat 2 meals a day and it works for me.
Same
Hi, that sounds like a great routine! Eating two meals a day starting at 11 am after getting up at 5 can work really well if it keeps you energized and satisfied. Keep listening to your body, it’s clearly working for you.
We get up at 5 and eat supper at 5, greek yogurt, bananas, tea during day, We eat supper, never breakfast dinner and supper
I started skipping breakfast a couple of years ago. I usually don’t eat any food until I’ve been awake for usually 4-5 hours. I have 2 cups of black coffee, a TBL. spoon of EVOO and every other day, I chop up a clove of raw organic garlic with a little honey on a spoon and swallow it down. I don’t really miss skipping breakfast. It’s just a lifestyle change that takes getting used to! Dr. Berg is such an asset to our health!
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I’ve heard about coconut MCT oil in coffee is helpful for the ketogenic diet, too
should kids skip breakfast as well? at what age does this rule apply?
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@moony77 a little fat boost, probably a nice flavor too. You should try organic coffee
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But in this case I have to disagree with Dr. Berg. Yes, when you don’t feel hungry, there’s no need for an meal and it would be unhealthy to force feed yourself. But when your hungry you should eat something, that’s you body telling you that it has not enough nutrients. When your body doesn’t have enough nutrients stored, or when you are very stressed, you may don’t have enough nutrients to keep your body and brain functional. That can cause many physical and mental health problems. And also, Dr. Bergs analyses where based on ultra processed food, not a natural diet. There are many studies that show that eating ultra processed food is extremely unhealthy, not only in the morning, but I have never seen any study that shows that eating a natural diet in the morning is unhealthy.
I eat some pieces of low sugar whole grain waffles and boiled eggs every morning and I feel much better than when I eat nothing and I never had any problems with it. But when I eat ultra processed food in the morning, I feels like it’s pulling out nutrients of my body instead of giving me some.
Dr. Berg is not wrong with his statement, but also not entirely correct. It’s a bit of a one size fit’s all solution.
I might even suggest that, if one followed YouTube medical advice — especially on Nutrition and Glucose — The average person at home could outstrip in knowledge what professional doctors claim to know.
Breakfast for me is a glass of hot water with a squeeze of lemon.
Me too
Wow i guess i’m not only one who does this,how odd and crazy. And i thought i’m crazy for doing this, guess this is sign from God to continue this
Same
Drinking it right, now! 😊
why hot specifically?
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What about women? Should women be fasting overnight and to lunch time in luteal phase?
That puts more stress on the body, raising cortisol and those of us women who have prolonged raised cortisol then have a disrupted HPA axis causing pmdd? Im unsure
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*best meal to eat
I wake up at 5.30 a.m., get a black coffee ☕ to open my eyes.
Once at work, at around 9a.m., I’m hungry and have my first high nutrient dense meal that keeps me satiated up until 2.30 p.m. more or less. I have my second and last high nutrient dense meal and that’s it. I do spontaneously I.F. because I won’t be hungry for 17 hours…
* Off Topic Dr Berg what do you think of those Vibration Plates & Grounding Mats advertised everywhere?
I only eat dinner, black Coffee for breakfast. I love good vegetables with meat for dinner. For 65 years, good. 👍🏻.
I quit sugar after watching your videos. Now I have this never ending energy all day, and I don’t get up to pee at night anymore.
Isnot sugar in every fruite? does that mean , they are dangerious as well .
How was your experience quitting sugar? Was it challenging?
@perfect_chaos4217 No, because that sugar is bounded in the the fruit and your digestive system can only absorb it slowly over time. For the same reason whole grain products are much healthier than normal bread.
@Shadow25720Thanks for taking the time to respond.
Awesome job..
I’m retired, don’t have to go to work, so I have brunch, bacon and eggs, no carbs, usually skip lunch, sometimes it might be a piece of sausage at 2pm, eat early dinner about 5:30, usually a steak, nothing else
The trouble is I get dizzy and weak when I skip breakfast. I usually don’t eat sweets in the AM.
Stop eating unnecessary carbs and switch over to fat for fuel and the problem will solve itself.
I had the same issue. Start by eating a couple of eggs. You’ll then be able to push them later and later until youre fasting until lunch.
Maybe some electrolytes when you wake up can help
4 teaspoons of virgin olive oil before bed or when waking up…. with Luke warm water to ease the burning sensation in the throat
@peacefulheart1431 Nah that is pure torture, it’s so gross you won’t do it after one try.
Don’t be like me… fasting all night and all day and a be a fool going into the sauna and almost got a nasty dizzy spell lol…eat something before the sauna if not you might faint 😂
I stayed too long in the Sauna at the gym. When showering afterwards, I fainted! If I am on holiday where there is a Sauna, keepingan eye on the time, I never stay longer than 10-15 mins. The Steam Bath suits me more if there is a choice
Ended up crawling into the middle of the street where a stranger called an ambulance because of too little salt after cutting out sugar/meat/dairy/etc. I had fainted about three times while disoriented and alone and trying to just get out of my bedroom. Fell off my five stair porch and got a large cut on my forehead. It was crazy. And I thought I was the healthiest I had ever been. Please be careful people!!! Guys like (the great) Dr. Berg have all the information but it’s not always possible for them to include every possible risk factor. And ultimately we’re making massive dietary changes without personal feedback (unless we engage and ask questions). Not knocking anything or anyone but… yeah… I had a scary event in November 2025. I was completely fine with an IV about 30 minutes later. But I learned a valuable lesson from that about salt. For whatever it’s worth. ✌️
I sauna every day, never eat before and have fasted for at least 20 hrs by the time I go in. I’m on OMAD and have no issues. I’m 57.. Try drinking some electrolytes it might help. Start with short saunas and build up to 20 min. I generally feel amazing doing it in a fasted state.
@ChristopherStockton-r9iOMAD?
@henrymunro7857One meal a day
As my 105 year old grandfather would always say, “ everything in moderation”
My mom also she used to say that❤
The ingredients in foods sold today are not the same as they were when he grew up. I think that changes some things.
That’s just not true
That may have been true in your grandfather’s days, but today’s food is poisoned with chemicals and excess sugar.
Everything in moderation – including moderation.
I agree with you.
Finally someone explained this.
If I eat breakfast, I am done for the day. It makes me so exhausted.
But what do you consume?
Quite a contraste with the medieval period for the majority of people when eating was a luxury, now we are killing ourselves with food.
I quit eating all together. I’m as light as a feather now and feel so free!
😂😂