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

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

From Ten Thousand Miles by Vic Pepe

April 6, 2026 · 1h 5m

About this episode

Dr. Ken Berry discusses the misconceptions about food and nutrition that may be harming our health.

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…

People in this episode

Host: Vic Pepe

Guest: Dr. Ken Berry

Topics covered

  • human diet
  • metabolic health
  • nutrition advice
  • carnivore diet
  • processed foods
  • cholesterol
  • diabetes

Keywords

  • human diet
  • metabolic health
  • carnivore
  • nutrition
  • processed foods
  • cholesterol
  • diabetes

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Lies My Doctor Told Me, The Atkins Diet Revolution

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