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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone, and once again, welcome to another live this morning. Hope you're having a great start to your day and nice to have you on with us and we always appreciate it. You have no idea how much we enjoy you guys. Now, I got so many studies this that came out this week. I don't know where to start. Okay, I don't know where to start. This was a headline. You might've seen it. I actually get almost every study that's ever come out sent to me, whether I talk about them or not. That's another thing. But I got this study before it hit the headlines. But let me see. Did I actually post this? I think I did. Here's what it says. Long-term statin drugs linked to heart disease. Now, let me say this, okay, statin drugs work. They work what? They work, they lower cholesterol, okay?
So they work. And if cholesterol happened to be the problem, then a miracle occurs because I remember in the eighties when they started bringing out statin drugs in 1997 is when Lipitor came out. I remember it like it was yesterday. This is a miracle drug. And guys, some of you have been following me for just about 40 years. Consistent, consistent, consistent. Because I always believed that cholesterol is not the problem in heart disease. I said it 40 years ago, I didn't believe it. Even when the marketing came out on these statin drugs, and I mean big time, Pfizer came out with Lipitor. And as you know, following this program, the number one selling revenue medication of all time, I believe it's now in $2 trillion, not billion but trillion in revenues, 25%. I remember reading this, this is several years ago, 25% of Pfizer's operating budget was sustained by the sales of Lipitor. Just one drug. They made a fortune. But now after how many years? Now again, I got this on my feed that comes to me all the studies, but I saw it on mainstream media. Here was the headline in mainstream media, long-term statin drugs linked to heart disease. My word, what linked to heart disease. What it came out to prevent heart disease. It was hailed as a miracle drug because it lowered cholesterol.
But when you look for love in all the wrong places, look, I remember a guy coming into the office, this is 25 years ago. He came into the office and I said, okay, why are you here? He said, doc, I can't even lift my arms. I thought he was joking a little bit. And I said, well, let me see. And he goes, he couldn't lift his arms at all. I both. So I said, well, were you in a car accident? No. And okay, when did it start? He said, it started a couple of months ago. It's got worse, worse and worse and worse. And I said, I asked the question. I'm not kidding you. This is 25 years ago. I said, are you on statin drugs? He didn't know what I was talking about. I said, are you taking medications to lower cholesterol? He said, yes. I said, get off because you have a condition called rom bold LAIs. And he looked at me like I had five heads, not just two. No, seriously what? I said, well, you got muscle damage. It's well established. Rmbo, Theis say that fast five times within two weeks of getting off his statin. And I'm not telling people to get off his statins. I was in practice and that person couldn't even lift his arms. I said, okay, and tell your doctor you're getting off. And within two weeks he could lift his arms. That was one problem.
But you know what they're finding now? You know what? They're out. You want to lower cholesterol. You do it at your own peril. You want to lower cholesterol. And I know the whole world went for it. The whole world. Everybody in the world, 99.9% think that cholesterol, here we are in 2023 and they still think that cholesterol is at the heart of heart disease. It's at the root. It's a problem. Cholesterol, bad. Well, the premise was wrong. I believe that even in the 1970s when they were trying to teach me that cholesterol was bad, I said, no, why? Your body makes cholesterol. Cholesterol is everywhere. Every cell in your body has cholesterol. Why would that be the bad guy? And even in the seventies, we knew that 85% of your cholesterol, your body made it. And cholesterol in terms of food is found in the animal kingdom.
That's why they kept telling you, no butter. Margarine for heart disease. Don't eat red meat. That's bad. It's full of saturated fat. No fat. Guys. Here we are headline. You know what it does? It actually makes things worse. It calcify arteries. One of the reasons it does that, and if you follow this program for any length of time, you'll know this. Okay? You'll know this. One of the things that statin drugs does is it fools around with the vitamin K two synthesis. What is vitamin K two? What did I always teach you guys? K two. God put calcium with K two, right? Is calcium good? Yep, but only surrounded by K two. When you eat a piece of cheese, you have calcium with vitamin K two. When you eat meat, you have calcium. Do you know you have calcium in meat? Did you know that? Yeah, you do with K two when you have butter calcium, K two eggs, calcium K two. See, that's the key. I've said this for 50 years. K two. Everybody was talking about K one.
You got to eat your salad to get vitamin K one. I said, no, you got to eat eggs, meat and cheese. They get vitamin K two. Vitamin K two takes calcium that you're eating and puts it where it belongs. It doesn't let it stay in your blood vessels. You don't want calcium in your blood vessels. But guess what happens? Hey, I'm only quoting studies here. Okay, you can go look it up yourself. The statin drugs they find out now affect K two and it stops K two from taking calcium out of your blood. Oh yeah, but Doc, I got low cholesterol. I was online last night with a former patient. Why do you want to have low cholesterol? Why? Well, my doctor, I know. I know you're under a lot of pressure. Let me see those triglycerides. Let me see your HDL. And you want high LDL two.
But anyway, that's what this study says that it's actually uhoh. It's working. They lower your cholesterol. All right? Now, why do you want to do that? Okay, so one of the biggest factors according to this study, and by the way, it was a study looking at a lot of studies, it plays with that synthesis of K two and K two can't do its job in the presence of statin drugs. It can't do its job of taking calcium out of your blood vessels. Why do you think we put K two in with our vitamin DK two, the Rodney Dangerfield? It doesn't get a lot of respect because people don't know what it does, how important it is. And you get it in food in the animal kingdom. Now, hot off the presses. Remember when I was talking to you about rmbo? Theis, okay, muscle damage. Now listen to this. The pathway to muscle damage is through your, you guys know this before I say it. What damages the muscle? They're called your battery packs. What damages your muscle? You guys know this? Your battery packs mitochondria. Mitochondria. Now listen, listen, listen, listen. Linda, any Linda out there? Yes, mitochondria. Now listen to me. I want to say this. Your mitochondria, okay, where do you have the most mitochondria? Number one place. I'm waiting.
Where do you have the most battery packs? Okay, come on guys. Anyway, not in the stomach, brain and heart. Girdie. You got it right? Okay. Now listen. Why do you have more battery packs up here and in your heart than anywhere else in the body? Think about it. Well, energy. You see, brain is headquarters. Your brain needs a lot of mitochondria. Why? Because this is headquarters energy produced to make your brain work. So you know what they're finding now? Mitochondria are getting damaged by statin drugs. So K two down. It doesn't work properly in the presence of medication. Two, I talked to you about rhambotheism, why does a heart medication affect your muscles? Because of mitochondria in the heart, they're damaged by statin. That is well established guys. You'll even see commercials on statin drugs telling you to take coq 10 Ubiquinol, right? There's one on television that says it's a physician. Says, my favorite supplement is coq 10 ubiquinol.
And he doesn't tell you why. He just says, when you're taking a statin drug, you should be on coq 10 quinol. Now, I've been telling people that for over 40 years, okay? You're taking a statin that's between you and your doctor. I'm not telling you not to take it, but if you are taking it, you better take coq 10. You got that? Why? Because coq 10 and only ubiquinol, not ubiquinol, ubiquinol will protect your mitochondria in your brain and in your heart. Now, listen to this, okay? Listen to this. Hot off the presses. Again, not part of this study, but part of another study that statin drugs, hello are very significant when it comes to a LS Amniotic Lateral sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's disease. There's a huge correlation between a LS and the use of statins. Now, they're going to bury that. I mean, I just can't see that ever becoming public knowledge.
You're going to have to dig or follow me, a LS man that is becoming like an epidemic. Today is A-L-S-A-L-S man that used to be rare. Lou Gehrig's disease, rare disorder, terrible. It's a terrible, terrible disease that kills you. But it has to do, guys, I'm telling you, it has to do with those mitochondria in the brain because not only for your memory, you know how many patients I saw over the years that had memory issues? I said, well, look, I know you're trying to lower your cholesterol. I know that you and everybody else, but it ain't true. Your brain is made up of cholesterol. Why do you want to lower it? Ooh, guys, you wouldn't believe how I used to have to bite my tongue all the time, okay? Because you had these people coming in, they didn't know any better and they can't question any doctors or whatever, and they don't know. They're just trusting.
They're just trusting. And I didn't want to burst their bubble. I didn't want to play the bad guy all the time. I was very respectful of people. I said, look, you might consider, at least if you're going to stay on the statin drugs, okay? Please, please protect your mitochondria in your brain and in your heart. Take coq 10. And how do you get coq 10 in food? Steak? What are you talking about? Isn't steak bad? No steak's good. Sun, steak and steel, they made a boogeyman with the wrong thing. Cholesterol, you can't live without it. One of the reasons that women have so much trouble with their hormones and they get hormones is because they don't have enough cholesterol. They didn't provide the 15% in their food because fat makes me fat, and fat gives me cholesterol and salad is better than a steak. Oh, I might use a little chicken once in a while.
I heard that 10,000 times. Hey, imagine heart disease. It gets worse. We haven't even put a dent in heart disease. We haven't put a dent in it. After all these years of cholesterol bashing, we haven't put a dent in heart disease. Matter of fact, it got worse. Someone should get fired. I don't know who to fire. Who do we fire? I love sports. If you lose and you're the coach and you continue losing, you get fired, don't you? Right? You never like to see somebody get fired? I don't. But if you lose in professional sports, you're out of here.
I did a lot of coaching in my life, okay? Okay. Aaa, hockey and all this and that. When you're at that level, you better win. I got fired. I was expected to win, and I did a lot of winning. But when you had losing seasons, and guess what? I got fired. But we should be firing someone. Heart disease is worse. Now, I've talked to you about what the real cause is of heart disease, right? What causes that calcification of your arteries? What's the worst culprit? Not that it's shocker. Insulin. Insulin is on your side till it's not until you use it too much, and it causes a cascade of problems including heart and brain. Okay? So muscle damage, K two, synthesis, Bram, oh boy, you know me and struggling with big words. Somehow I got that one right?
No, but guys, I get uptight because man, I hate being lied to. You have no idea. I would rather you look me in the eyeballs and tell me the truth, okay? I mean that tell me everything. Tell me the truth. Don't try and sugarcoat it. Will we ever see a day in my lifetime, I doubt it, where the pharmaceutical industry will put their hand up and say, you know what? We made a mistake. Do you think it'll happen? I never say never, but one thing I won't do, I won't hold my breath on this one. These articles can come out and they can even make the mainstream. And I don't even think it'll put a dent in the sales because what's happened in medicine, who should be guardians, should be protectors of your health. They won't believe it. Cardiologists won't believe it. They're so programmed, and it starts on day one.
In medical school, it actually starts in undergraduate, but I mean it in medical school. Day one, they start the mantra. Cholesterol bad. Get those numbers down. We have a drug to lower LDL. Let's lower LDL, and it works. And if people tell you their side effects live with the side effects, we're stopping you from having a heart attack. You know how many doctors scare the living life out of their patients saying, if you don't take these, you're going to have a heart attack. I shake my head. I'm just a little voice crying in the wilderness. John the Baptist. Hello. You out there? Listen, I am not out to change the world. I'm really not. I'm out to give you info. God gave you a brain. Use it. You want to challenge me, challenge me. I'm all up for it. You want to show me that I'm wrong? Show me that I'm wrong. Okay? But like I said, I've been saying this for a long, long time as a public service and research, it's coming out. It ain't good. It ain't good. And you know what guys? Not easy to convince people, okay? It's not easy to change people's minds, but you can give 'em information and let them see what they do with it.
Let them see what they do with it. Any who? If I had a watch that told me to breathe, they would've told me to breathe a long time ago. I get high blood pressure when I talk about stuff like this. I mean it unbelievable because it takes my breath away when I see nonsense. And then you get these studies and go, holy moly, are you kidding me? A LS, are you kidding? Memory out the door. Diabetes. I didn't even tell you what it does. Well, I talked to you the other day about what statins do in terms of it gives you insulin resistance even if you don't eat sugar. And insulin resistance gives you inflammation, and inflammation starts damaging blood vessels. Yikes. Yikes. Okay, share this, guys. Share it. This is one you should share. Share it with your friends. Let 'em listen. They might not change their mind, but at least give 'em information. Maybe they'll be well equipped to go talk to their doctors. My word. Okay, guys, again, I'm breathing honest, okay? And my headache's gone away. My blood pressure's come down. Okay? We love you guys more than you know. Hey, did I ever tell you how smart you are? Okay. You know how smart you are. You guys are unbelievable. I mean it. Talk to you soon.
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