Dr. Martin has mentioned before how health care in North America is a management system that puts little emphasis on prevention. They wait until you’re sick before jumping into action!
To receive an official diagnosis of diabetes, you need your blood glucose to be a certain number. By this time, you’ve been sick for some time. Diabetes is the last thing that happens in your body, not the first.
Join Dr. Martin for an anatomy lesson showing how insulin is connected to every part of our bodies. He discusses prevention and why you need to pay attention to the early warning signs before you have diabetes.
TRANSCRIPT OF TODAY'S EPISODE
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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone. And once again, how are you? How's your day going? Hope you're well. Okay, now I was going to continue this so... but I'm not going to do that because yesterday I had a chance to watch a presentation by our dear friend to this podcast, Dr. Angela MacKewn. And maybe what you could do, doc, is sort of post that if you want, so they can go watch your presentation on YouTube. And I really, really enjoyed it. Very practical. What a refreshing take. And like I said, I really enjoyed it. So you gave me an idea because when I was listening to this... You know how important insulin is, and you talked about something that just, it got me yesterday because you've talked about C-reactive protein and that's a test of inflammation. But you were talking about there's a connection between your grip strength, it's directly proportional to your C R P, your C reactive protein, meaning that if your grip strength is not good, it's a sign that you have inflammation in the body.
Okay? Because C R P is one of the blood tests that I love, I love it because it shows me, when I look at it, I'm looking at what I call the silent killer. Now we got to go a step back. We got to go a step back because inflammation, as we always say at the Martin Clinic, is not Houdini. It just doesn't show up. There's a reason for inflammation in the body. And guys, let me just give you a quick definition. If you fall and scrape something, you scrape your forearm falling, well, you see it right in front of you. Inflammation, redness, right pain. But you know, even see some, once that starts healing the scarring or whatever, now think about that process occurring inside your body, in your blood vessels, in and around your organs. Inflammation. See, inflammation. Look, you hurt yourself. You scraped yourself, or you have an infection, you have a virus, okay? Your body's ambulance system comes running out. And that's why you feel so terrible because you're, let's say you have a bug and your sinuses are inflamed and you got a headache and you, you're feel well and you a little bug like that, can you put your right to bed and you can hardly lift your head off the pillow and you don't feel good. And part of that whole reaction is inflammation. Your body's ambulance system is bringing more blood supply, more enzymes, more antibodies, more everything to the site.
But isn't it interesting, and this is why I want to bring it a step back. At the Martin Clinic, we have three seeds of disease, three of them, and they're very interconnected. But this morning, guess what I want to talk to you about, insulin, insulin resistance, and its far reaching effects on the body. Obviously one thing, what happens, insulin when it is hot over a period of time, the cells in your body react to it. They don't like it. They don't want it coming around. And what that does, it creates a response in the body called inflammation and inflammation is very destructive, left unabated. Okay? But you got to come back. You can't start with inflammation. Medicine, you know… even there's been books written in the last 20, 30 years on inflammation and I really appreciate it. But they don't tell you why. What's the primary cause? Food, insulin, that hormone, it's your friend until it's not. But I want to show you the connection to every part of your body and what I'm doing this morning, because again, I got the inspiration from Dr. MacKewn. So I give her credit. She just stirred up my passion for prevention. So let's go and let's look. Let's do an anatomy lesson and we're going to call this diabetes before you get diabetes, okay?
Before you get diabetes. Now remember, diabetes is the last thing that will happen in your body. Not the first thing, it's the last thing. Why is that? Because you see, your body is fearfully and wonderfully made. Your body understands even before you do how toxic sugar is. It just amazes me when you think about what I just said, how that has not turned medicine on its head. Doctors on their head, nutritionist and dieticians on their head and big pharma on their head, but they didn't get the memo because our system, our so-called healthcare system waits until you're a diabetic. So you know how I say leaky gut, leaky skin, leaky gut, leaky joints, leaky gut, leaky lungs, leaky, leaky, leaky right? And everything from your brain to your toes because your gut. And that's by the way, leaky gut is one of the seeds of disease and even leaky gut and insulin are connected. And I'll bring that to you in a minute.
Okay, so let's go from the brain to the toes. Diabetes of the brain. Before you're a diabetic, officially for a diabetic, you have to have a certain number for blood glucose. And remember, your body is dedicated 100% dedicated to keeping your blood sugar low. So if you were to have, and don't do it, it's been done, but don't do it. You can eat 20 donuts, okay? Now don't do it. But you could have a mountain load of sugar and an hour later just about your blood sugar will be, look, it'll be higher than it should be, but it's still going to come back within normal limits, okay? So you can't wait till your blood sugar… because people monitor their blood sugar. Okay? I get it. That's the pharmaceutical industry. They make a fortune. What's it cost a buck to every time you check your blood sugar, I get it.
And if you don't pay for it, the government pays for it. So we all pay for it. And I don't want your blood sugar to be constantly high, but that's not, that's a lagging indicator here. Really what I want to talk to you about is how you can monitor your insulin rather than your sugars because it will give you indicators ahead of time. So from your brain, you get diabetes in the brain. 2005, first time it was ever mentioned was three diabetes, which is Alzheimer's. But before that, before Alzheimer's, there's obviously a connection because that's what they called it. Now that isn't so popular today, I wonder why type three diabetes because it doesn't fit the narrative of medicine. Your brain is so sensitive to glucose, it'll do everything to keep sugar away from your brain unless you insist on eating it all the time and then eventually insulin don't work.
And that's what affects the memory center, the hippocampus of your brain. But don't stop there. Your hormones, the hypothalamus in your brain is affected. And Doc MacKewn mentioned this yesterday, PCOS hormones, your ovaries are sensitive to sugar. Polycystic ovarian disorder. In men, erectile disorder… horrormones, those are food problems. Do you know that PCOS is a food problem? It's an insulin problem. Even medicine oftentimes treats PCOS polycystic ovarian disorder with metformin, a drug for blood sugar. I used to get hundreds a year, hundreds a year of women coming into my office with horrormones. They had way too much estrogen and way too much insulin. And I said, okay, here's what we do. We're going to start with your diet. We're going to cut out the carbs, we're going to cut out the sugars because it's going to affect your brain where it all starts. Memory, hippocampus, hypothalamus, which controls your horrors. You want to be hormones and not horror hormones. You better start in the kitchen. You better start with your diet, your brain, your eyes, diabetes of the eye, diabetes of the brain, even without the official diagnosis, diabetes of the eyes. Listen, insulin, glaucoma, insulin, diabetic retinopathy, obviously insulin. It's diabetes of the eyes before they give you a diagnosis or sometimes after. Obviously diabetic retinopathy is very common, but that just shows you how sugar is toxic to your eyeballs. Hearing tinnitus, your body is buzzing.
Your body's trying to tell you insulin is high. There's inflammation even in the middle ear, but inflammation against, not Houdini, it is diabetes of the ear, diabetes of the ear, diabetes of the skin. Skin tanks. You see a skin tag on your body. Your insulin's high. What? My doctor never told me that you got a skin tag. Your insulin's high. You have insulin resistance. Your body doesn't like insulin. Hello? You there? The body's talking to you. Diabetes of the skin. What do you think neuropathy is? Diabetes of the nerves. Yeah. Now you can have low b12. I can give you a neuropathy, but one of the biggest causes is diabetic neuropathy. A lot of people nerve, they go, I got dark. I got perverted like feelings in my hands and my feet. Diabetes of the nerve roots. We all know about diabetes of the limbs and circulation. What is that got to do? What is the thing? What do you mean circulation doc? Well, I know, but sugar is so destructive to your blood vessels. You only have to ask a diabetic. A full diabetic knows all about having circulation problems, especially in the distal limbs.
Blood sugar is so destructive even before diabetes. But obviously diabetics, once you're a full-blown diabetic, I always tell people, if you've actually been given the diagnosis of a diabetic, there's good news and bad news. There's good news and bad news. The bad news that if you rely on medication, okay? And I'm not telling people not to take their meds, okay? Please don't come at me like that. But all I know is that if you rely on medication and you're a diabetic, you control your blood sugars with medications you're in deep doo doo. You're done like dinner to some extent. It will not end well because meds, God bless them, they were originally meant to be temporary from metformin to ozempic to you name it. They don't end well because you're not fixing the problem. You're managing blood sugar. Damage is being done whether you manage it or not.
When you get the official diagnosis of diabetes, and this is what I did in my clinic for tens of thousands of people, tens of thousands. We must put you into remission. We must put you into remission. Not cured. Okay? I don't like that word. You're cured. No, it's like an alcoholic. You're not cured, but you're sober and you've been sober for whatever that amount of time is. And as an alcoholic, you can't even have one drink. Now, think of a diabetic. The problem is sugar. It's not genetics. Genetics, yes, to this extent. Okay? My dad was a diabetic, my grandfather was a diabetic. And when I look at my, not so much my grandfather, but my dad, I see myself here. I am 71 years old, and I look in the mirror and I go, holy moly, I look like my father. It scares me almost. I look like him. They didn't call me Tony Jr. for nothing. I look like my dad. Okay? But genetics can be overridden. Yeah, you have a weakness. Who doesn't? Everybody has a weakness of some sort, right? We all have weaknesses, but you need to override that. That's why I'm big on overriding genetics. “Oh, Dr. Martin, it's genetics.” Uhhh, no it's food.
I have put tens of thousands of people and I mean it, into remission. And the lecture was very, very brutal. Very brutal. When they came into see me, and I had a lot of physicians referring patients because when they heard about my reputation, they were saying to them, well, go see him. This is your last resort. Go see that. Dr. Martin, he might be a quack, but I would give them the lesson. You have an allergy. What? You have an allergy to carbs. I give them the cat story. Now you guys know the cat story, true story. In my office, years and years and years ago, a lady came in, terrible allergies. I mean, I thought she had a cold. She was sneezing, coughing, barking like a little puppy <laugh>. Coughing. Barking. Eyes are watering. And I looked at her blood and I said, well, look at all these mass cells. I turned around to her, I'm looking at the screen. Then I turned around to look at her. I said, you have an allergy? She said, I know. That's why I'm here, doc. I said, okay. What are you allergic to that you know of? Oh, she said, my cat. What? I said, get rid of it. Oh, doc, I can't do that. Get rid of my cat. Well, I said, if you don't get rid of your cat, I can't help you. You've got to get rid of the allergy. When you are a diabetic, you have an allergy to carbs. You and carbs don't get along. You have an allergy to it. It's one of the hardest things in the world to admit to. And you go, doc, what do you mean? You mean I can't have ice cream? Nope. You mean I can't have cookies? Nope. You mean I can't have sugar? No. You mean I can't have cereal? No, you can't. Why? I said you have an allergy. That's what diabetes is. What? Yeah.
Now I don't know. Is that brutally honest or not? And I said, I'm sorry, but that's the truth. That's the truth. And I'm not trying to win a popularity contest in my office. I said, you came to see me. Now I'm going to give you the bad news. And here's the good news. I always gave them the good news. You can fix this. 100%. You can drive your diabetes into remission. What? Into remission. Your drugs are here. I promise you, if you do this right, if you take this seriously, you're going to put diabetes into remission. What? <affirmative>.
Now, I couldn't go home with these folks. I couldn't go home with them. I used to tell 'em, now did you hear my voice? Whenever you're looking at a crappy carb, like a piece of bread or a treat or whatever makes you stumble, listen to this voice. Pretend I'm right beside you. Hello. Don't do it. Don't do it. And you can do it because I'm telling you, by the next time I see you in this clinic, which will be in about 30, 40 days, we're going to do a follow up. And I promise you that if you do this, it will change your life so dramatically. You'll first of all understand that I'm right. You'll understand how much your body will improve. And I don't care how old you are, from your brain to your eyes, to your ears, to your nerves, to your circulation, to your kidneys, to your heart, to your joints, because you've got diabetes of all those things, your muscles, even your grip strength, all of it is going to improve.
And once you get past that third week, I used to tell them, you have to trust me. Now, I used to say, trust me, I know what I'm talking about. And you know, you can understand that they had all these little voices. Most patients had family around them. The ones with the gift of discouragement. You ever had family or friends like that? They got a gift of discouragement. Hey, don't listen to Dr. Martin. You can have a little moderation. I believe in moderation. Dr. Martin, when, what's his stuff about? Elimination? No, you're a diabetic. You have an allergy, you can't have it. I'd have it on this voice, on that shoulder. And on the other shoulder, they had the people around them who were discouraging them. You got to have a little sugar. Do you know that your brain can't live without carbohydrates? Bread… well just have whole wheat. Just change your rice. Make it dark rice. You don't have to listen to Dr. Martin.
I heard that a thousand times or more. I said, remember now no deviating from the plan. You must put your diabetes into remission. And you folks up there that are listening to me, and if I touched any one of your nerves, <laugh>, okay? Don't fool yourself. If you and carbs don't get along, don't fool yourself, okay? Don't fool yourself. Remember the alcoholic? Remember the drug addict? They can't have any. I used to tell drug addicts, you got to change your friends too. Change your friends. What? Yeah, your friends are not your friends. They're not really your friends. And you know what? Sometimes in your diet, you got to change your friends. You know the ones that talk about moderation. See how much fun I had every day I made it in my office was a fun day. It really was.
Not that it wasn't serious, it was serious. I think of one guy scared the life out of this guy, but I meant to. What I do in my office. And the old days were beautiful in a lot of ways because the best way to check and we don't do it anymore, is that simple chem strip in urine. You asked my staff, I was in love <laugh> with urine. Listen to, I'm going to, I know what you guys are thinking because yesterday I said Gatorade tasted like the original Gatorade tasted like urine. And they all said, you guys on the scroll were saying, how does Dr. Martin know what a urine taste like? I got a good idea. I used to test urine tens of thousands of times a year. And whenever I saw a little glucose in the urine way before blood sugar was high, they'd spill over that glucose, that sugar in their urine.
And you know what medicines got away from that? I wish they wouldn't. My dad used to rely on that in his practice. He'd see sugar in the urine. You're a diabetic. No, I'm not. Yes you are. I see that spillover urine comes first. When you're spilling out sugar, you're in deep doo doo and you got to change. Okay, guys? Oh, I enjoyed that. I hope you guys did giving you a little bit of blast from the past. My practice days. But I had a lot of fun, and I love people, and I used to love my patients. I love them enough to tell 'em the truth. I love you guys enough to tell you the truth. I'm sorry. And you've been taught wrong. The world's been taught wrong. They want to manage diabetes. You got to fix diabetes and put it into remission. That's your only hope, really. It really is.
Okay, now, for all you guys who started your shakes yesterday, your meal replacement, weight loss program with the Martin Clinic, how you doing? How's the taste of that shake? Isn't it good? Give it to your kids, your grandchildren. Make them a treat. They think they're at McDonald's having a milkshake, and yet they're getting the Dr. Martin's perfect smoothie as a meal replacement. You can do it. Kids don't necessarily have to do it as a meal replacement, but it's a good idea. Okay? What's the idea? You get to eat one meal a day, eat low carb, always eat low carbs. It's good for you. Okay? Eat low carb, eggs, meat and cheese, one meal a day, and then have one shake. Two, replace a meal. And if you need it, have two shakes. One in the morning or one at noon or whatever, which way you choose, okay? Okay. You got questions. Get them ready for Friday, send them in. Okay? We love you guys and I mean it… we’ll talk to you soon.
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