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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. We appreciate you guys coming on with us and it's always a treat to have you with us. Okay, let's get to the questions. Okay, let's get to the questions. Sonia is asking, how can you unplug a eustachian tube? Okay, you get plugged up in an ear there, no fun under the sun. Well look, I mean if it's been a while, you're asking is it okay to take a nasal prescription or an antihistamine? That's what they usually use, some kind of antihistamine to unblock. Look, if it's been going on for quite a while, then you can look at different things. Like if you look at anti mucus, like in a natural realm, I would be using cetin and I've often found if you elevate the nitric oxide with keratin, so you put navit all and keratin together, that can be a really powerful antihistamine, natural antihistamine.
You might have a few people on here just saying, here's what I do. I've had eustachian tubes blocked up where you're in a plane and you get that real pressure in the ear. But in terms of long-term eustachian tube, if it's been a long-term, then I would use that natural cursin and combination with natal. The other thing, like you were saying, using an antihistamine temporarily, be careful with antihistamines even over the counter ones. There's a fair amount of side effects to that and you don't want to get on that long-term at all if it does it in a few days and then that helps. I got no problem with that. Okay, now Sabina, thank you Sonia for the question. Sabina, my son-in-law eats EMC, eggs, meat, and cheese. Good for him. Works out his armpits, will soak constantly and nowhere else is sweating. What can you do about this or what causes that?
Well, look, I mean it's the way he is has nothing to do with eating eggs, meat and cheese or anything like that. It's strictly the way he's built. A lot of people do a lot of sweating. Sometimes it's only in the armpits and I hate to use any chemical or whatever to try and stop that. I know there's doctors sometimes they'll put you on a Medicaid. I don't like that stuff. And look, I don't think there's any magic to fixing it either. Sabina, I've seen that. I mean as long as I've been in practice. Some people they just sweat. Some people get sweating of the hands and I mean it just can be embarrassing for them or underarm sweating. I never seen anything in my opinion at least that ever fixes that or any quick fix. There's just nothing in my opinion, I haven't seen it.
If there's something out there that natural that you can do, go for it. Annie, my son was born in 2022. Okay, so he's still a little pup. He got peruses, okay, that's no fun. Like a whooping cough. And December of 2022 and due to low oxygen was on antibiotics and had a febrile seizure, which look, a baby having a seizure, it's always a scary, scary thing, but if it's due to fever, it's febrile. I've never found that to be a big, big issue. Kids, their temperature can rise crazy and I wouldn't worry about it too much. Now what can you do? Well, if you're breastfeeding, mommy, you make sure you're taking, what are we in? We're at the end of 2023, so you probably, you're finished breastfeeding. Now I'd give a drop of vitamin D. The best is vitamin D. Okay? I like vitamin A too.
I wouldn't give the baby vitamin E. You can give baby cod liver oil very good for the immune system. So that's what I would look at, Annie. And don't worry about the febrile seizure. There's no long-term effects of that that I've seen. Trina, if type one diabetes runs in the family and the child is starting to experience symptoms, is there anything to do to stop the progression? Well look, type one is autoimmune. It's different. And that's a very good question. Look, type one is autoimmune. Type two is what they call adult onset diabetes. That happens in children by the way, especially in this day and age. Look, at the end of the day, the best thing, even if it's autoimmune, you want that child to lay off sugars as much as possible. I know it's not easy with kids, but sugars are disruptive whether they're in type two or type one.
And usually when type one, I get them on a very high eggs, meat and cheese, the best foods for a type one diabetic. Best foods obviously for type two, but even in type one. And the thing is, I would do because any autoimmune Trina always starts in the gut, leaky gut. And remember, autoimmune starts in the gut, fix the gut, okay, fix the gut. But at the end of the day, eating wise, they just do so much better. Look, they probably can't go without some carbohydrates, but they do really well with eggs, meat and cheese really well. Evelyn. Hi Dr. Martin. Well, hello to you. My husband and I have eaten low carb for decades. Very smart. Have done the reset twice. Last one in November, my husband had a colonoscopy. Today they removed two polyps. Okay? He was diagnosed with diverticulosis, told to increase his fiber.
Don't do that like I understand. Okay? I've seen diverticulosis lots, lots, lots. And as a matter of fact, a lot of people that came to the office in my practice days, I diagnosed diverticulosis because they didn't even know diverticulosis. They didn't even know they had that. And here's what I did. Always without exception, if I ever saw a case, whether they were already diagnosed or whether I diagnosed it, diverticulosis pouches in the large intestine. Hello. You know what I would do? I got 'em off fiber. I said stop drink water and drink coffee. Best thing you can do for diverticulosis and you don't want anything. Get caught up in that intestine, large intestine. Then I would have them on bone broth with the L-glutamine to regenerate the gut. It's amazing. I get it with doctors, they're thinking, you got pouches, okay, you got little pouches and they can get blocked up with feces and then you can get diverticulitis.
I understand what they're thinking because they're thinking, well, if you have more fiber, you're going to take out and eliminate all that feces in there. The opposite is true. You need more water. And the other thing is when I saw diverticulosis, almost invariably it was women, not men. Although men, some men got it, it's more rare in men. And the reason it's not rare in women is because they like their salad, they dunked them, right? And I got to have my chicken and salad and I used to tell 'em, you're not a rabbit, okay? What? You're not a rabbit. You don't even have an enzyme to break down salad. You don't make cellulite, you don't make it. And I know you like your salad, I get it, but it's roughage salad is roughage. You ever seen spinach get caught in the teeth? Well, it gets caught in those little pouches.
Matter of fact, it even makes those little pouches. And then I would tell 'em, you're not a squirrel. What? Well, you don't have to put away nuts and seeds for the winter, do you? No. I said, well, stop eating them Now you can have some flax seeds. Now, if they had a lot of trouble with diverticulosis, I wouldn't even put 'em on flax seats for a while until that healed up. But most of the time, if you look why we see so much diverticulosis today compared to when I was in practice in the seventies, why is it so much more common? Why do we see so much more IBS? Because people believe they can't live without fiber. That's why. And they're serial nuts. You know what I used to call some of my patients, I said, you're a serial nut, not a serial killer. You're a cereal nut.
What? Well, you like cereal. Why do you like cereal so much? Well, Dr. Martin, I need my fiber fiber's overrated. Okay, and look, I know I get a lot of pushback about that, but I'm right. I always say, okay, why do we see so much diabetes today? Hello? Because we're eating 200 pounds of sugar a year and we're carbo holic, right? And why didn't we used to see that before diabetes was always around, but why is it an epidemic today? Do you need to be a rocket scientist to figure it out? And why are we so much more today getting diverticulosis? Why are we seeing so much more digestive in IBS things? Why, why, why, why? I'm a y guy. Why is this happening? Well, we bought the lie, cholesterol, bad fiber, good cholesterol, bad eggs, meat and chase fiber. You need that. And the world went crazy listening to that stuff.
Okay? Anyway, sorry to pontificate, but I get excited. Okay, Stu, and by the way, Evelyn, when you tell your husband that I really am happy that he is a good eater, okay, look, they saw polyps. He had diverticulosis. Was it bothering him without the colonoscopy? Did he even know? That's a question out of Evelyn. If you want to sort of let me know, I'd like to know whether he had any of those symptoms or not. Okay, Sue. Hi, my name is Sue and I'm a sugar diabetic Type two. Okay. Hi Sue. I want to get off meds. Okay, I'm on meds. I'm going to my doctor this week. I will get a complete set of blood work. I'm wanting to know what Dr. Martin thinks of taking berberine to help with lowering my numbers. Also, I started putting one quarter teaspoon of cinnamon. I love cinnamon in my coffee with a teaspoon of coconut oil and salted butter.
I would like to know, well look, don't start by coming off your meds. The biggest thing soup is this the biggest thing? Do you like eggs? Do you like meat? Do you like cheese? Live on it. If you're a diabetic, those are the foods you can eat. Okay? You can have some vegetables, very limited fruit, okay? Don't have a lot of fruit. You're a sugar diabetic. I'm glad you wrote that down by the way, Sue, I'm a type two sugar diabetic. That's what you are. So eliminate, it's not moderate, it's eliminate sugar, eliminate it. You and sugar don't get along. You and carbs don't get along. So when it comes to taking like berberine, insulin balance, cinnamon, I like it. I got no problem with it, but that's not the key. The key is what you put in your mouth every day. Okay? The supplement is good.
I got no problem with it, but I'm telling you at the end of the day what you got trouble with is food. And so you got to pick the foods that really help. And by the way, the reset started with diabetic patients. I created the reset, the metabolic reset to lower insulin. I gave it to my diabetic patients. I didn't tell 'em to come off meds ever. I didn't do that. I said, look, your doctor I think will take you off the meds if you can show them that your A1C is down to normal, your blood sugar is doing really well and get it under. But I always reminded them, you have an allergy to carbs and sugars, you have an allergy to it. You don't do well with it. And so don't fool yourself, don't let anybody tell you anything different because the world out there, Tony Jr and I traveled yesterday, we were together in the car and talking and I said, isn't it amazing that we have a food industry that doesn't care about your health?
And then we have a medical industry that doesn't know anything about food. Here we have diabetes, it's a food problem. It's not genetics, it's food. Yeah, you might have some genetic weakness. My dad was a diabetic, my grandfather a diabetic and we got diabetes coming out our ears in my family. But at the end of the day, it's a choice of foods, okay? It's a choice you have to make and it is not fiber. Fiber is not going to fix your diabetes. Elimination will fix your diabetes. So you have to eliminate, not moderate, eliminate. Okay? Thanks for the questions. We love it. It gets me going, it gets me excited. Okay, good for you. Tyson. Does your probiotic strains effectively metabolize oxalates from foods or existing oxalates in the body? I'm trying for the most part to be on a low oxalate diet to detox mercury, but want to probiotic to detox oxalates.
Well, look, Tyson, yes. Here's good news. Okay, here's good news. Our broad spectrum probiotic was made to detox. It was made to keate. It'll chelate oxalates, it'll chelate mercury, it'll chelate lead, it'll chelate cadmium because the way probiotics work, okay, you have different strains that do different things. So if you want to take a broad spectrum probiotic now that means you got at least 10 different strains. Now in our formula we have over 10, we got 12 L rhamnosus and L reuteri. Those are two specific bacterial strains that really detox. They go after yeast because you are looking at oxalates. Tyson, I would have you look at fungus more than oxalates. Now you want to go on a low oxalate diet, then you're literally eliminating fruits and vegetables, okay? A lot of people do it on the reset anyways because they go 30 days without that stuff.
But I'm much bigger on getting rid of yeast fungus. Candida new study came out yesterday. I was reading it last night on yeast and fungus in the brain of Parkinson's. Now I knew that before, but this one is even confirming it more what gets up into the brain? How does that heavy metal get up into the brain to cross the blood brain barrier? It must be transported by candida or fungus. That's why I'm so big on leaky gut. That's why I'm so big on fixing the gut so that stuff doesn't get in. If you have oxalates, look, I find oxalates can be very hard on kidneys, bladder, gallbladder. Anyway, thanks for the question, Tyson. I hope I answered it properly for you. Andrew, Merry Christmas. Same to you. Could the doctor please comment on soy? Well, I don't particularly like soy. I don't like soy oil, which is one of the favorites of my hateful eat, I call it.
Okay, the hateful eight of those vegetable oils, canola oil, soy oil wrap seed oil, grape seed oil, they're meant for your car, not for you. Okay, so soy, I don't particularly like, okay? I'm not big on soy. Now I don't mind soy, iso, flas, which is an extract. It's different, but I'm not big on soy, okay? And that's why vegans and vegetarians, they love their soy, but not meat, not me. I like eggs, meat and cheese. Now you asked me another question there wouldn't flax No see flax and I get it. I know why they people comment on flax and say a lot of people, gurus say flax isn't good for you because it can elevate your estrogen. No, it's just the opposite of that. Soy elevates estrogen. Flax because of lings. I know they call it a phytoestrogen, but it's got lings that block estrogen.
That's why I'm always, always, always consistent, consistent, consistent. Talking about flax seeds, I like flax seeds because they have a hundred times more linens, blockers of estrogen than soy does. Soy elevates estrogen, flaxseed blocks, extra estrogen. Look ladies, you need estrogen, okay? Makes you a woman. Problem is the imbalance of it. So thanks for the question. Much appreciated. Andrew. Flax is good. Soy, not so much. Kelly for us Canadian people heading to Mexico for a holiday. Good for you. You're getting out of dodge, okay? And you're going to go get some sun. Hallelujah. Good for you. I like that Vitamin D, you don't want to burn. I get it. Okay? And be very careful. Look, the best cover up first day or so, 20, 30 minutes. Okay? You might be able to go longer. I'll tell you the people that can go longer. This has just been my experience and there's research now showing that what I've been saying for years, I'm right about why people can't get in the sun today. Near much are burned very rapidly. They're not only carboholics, but they're vegetable oil LICs, almost any fast food that you can think of. It's cooked in the wrong oil, okay? It's cooked in the wrong oil and today it's 30 40 to one ratio between omega six, which is those vegetable oils.
Like anything in the middle aisles of your grocery store, almost everything elevates your omega six. And the problem is with omega six is if you got low Omega-3 compared to high omega six, you got inflammation and that affects your skin and now you're much more sensitive to the sun. That has been my experience. People that do the reset, find out that you can get into the sun longer. But here's me, start slow and look, you can still enjoy the sun. Just cover up. Wear a light long sleeve shirt, okay? Very light material cover up. You don't want to burn. Wear a wide brim hat, okay? And you can still enjoy. You go into the water. I don't like sunscreen. Look, I like coconut oil. Bring some Rivera with you if you have Rivera. I find that to be very effective because it's got pine bark extract and that.
But again, internally I'm big on when you're taking antioxidants like natal, your skin is better prepared for the sun. But the biggest detriment is that vegetable oil. I mean, but you can put some coconut oil on too. Maybe a little bit of zinc if you really got to protect yourself. And I get it, you know what? You go down, you get in the sun, you haven't seen the sun in months and months and months and now you're in it and you want to enjoy it. I want you to enjoy it too. Just don't burn in the sun. Okay? Okay, Ella. I think I said that right. Rafaella or Ella, is there anything that can help fix a twisted gallbladder? Well, listen, I'm going to say something. I have never in my 50 years heard of a twisted gallbladder. I've heard of a stone gets caught and you got sludge in your gallbladder, but I can't say I've ever heard of a twisted one, but if you have that, you got to be careful if it's actually twisted or whatever because I never worry as much about the gallbladder is what I worry about.
If you get a stone between the gallbladder and the pancreas and that gets logged in that duct there, that can be serious business twisted one eye. I need more time to time. It makes her feel sick. I don't know what a twist, I mean it. Somebody tell me. I just haven't heard of it. Twisted gallbladder is the duck block. Give me more information. I'll give you a better answer Raphaella. One thing I always say about gallbladder, by the way, this is very, very helpful over the years, okay? Remember gallbladder is a little reservoir. Use it or lose it. People that have gallbladder problems, they didn't use it. They don't eat enough fat and eating the wrong fats, no good either. The wrong fat is that like I just talked about, all those foods that are made in that stupid oil that's meant for your car.
Okay? One, the other thing is I really find helpful for gallbladder, don't eat at night. It's amazing what happens. The people have trouble with their gallbladder. If they stop eating at night, no snacks. And if they can eat within the window and go 14 hours, 16 hours or whatever without food, it really helps the gallbladder. Okay? Thank you. And I would take a little bit of lubrication oil, like a little bit of either coconut oil or olive oil too. I find that lubricates anyway, rap. Give me some more information on there. Sylvie, can a reset cause an inflamed lymph node that is tender hertz? I'm told it's a reactive lymph neuropathy via ultrasound. No, I mean it shouldn't cause it. Your lymph nodes can get swollen usually because you have an infection. I guess it's possible that you're detoxing and your lymph nodes are helping you to detox and one of them's become swollen.
I never worry too much about lymph nodes swelling up, especially if it's just temporary. But no, I wouldn't say that Sid be that it came from, it's just coincidence. The reset doesn't do it. We've had tens of thousands of people doing the reset and I can't say that I've ever heard that. Okay, Patricia, do you think we should ask for a lipo protein to be checked and having blood work done? No. Okay, I'm just going to say this, okay, and don't look, I'm opinionated, so I'm going to say it. When you get your blood work done and you want to look at your lipid profile, what am I interested in? I want to know what your triglycerides are and your HDL. I'm telling you this, lipoprotein A, lipoprotein B, it's in my opinion, is just another way to get people on medication when they don't need it.
Okay? Because lipoprotein, that's not giving you a heart. I'll tell you what gives you a heart attack. I'll tell you what really increases your risk of stroke. If you have high triglycerides and low HDL cholesterol, that's the best indicator ratio of all of the cardio profile I say. And then inflammation, CRP C-reactive protein. But guys, that's why I'm always interested in triglycerides and you want your HDL to be at least equal with your triglycerides, but even better if your HDL is high and your triglycerides are low. Anything else guys to me is a smoke screen. It's a smoke screen to get people on medication. You want to send me your lipoprotein? I don't care. Should I be taking bile salt for my pancreatitis? No. I take digestive enzymes and lay off the sugar pancreatitis, no sugar, no carbs. Now your pancreas is going to get a holiday.
You have pancreatitis, which can be very serious by the way. Okay? Very serious pancreatitis, it can kill you because that pancreas cuts out and don't work properly. You're in deep trouble. But pancreatitis, why do we see so much of it today? People are carboholics. That's why pancreas was never made for the dump truck load of sugar that people eat every year and the amount of crappy carbs that people eat. Well, nobody ever receives so much pancreatitis. I would be on digestive enzymes more than anything else and then lay off the carbs. Okay? Thank you for that question. Just same much appreciated clue. Okay, my brother's 2-year-old daughter since birth heavy runny nose. Okay, so why? Probably because there's an allergy maybe to dairy. I don't know if the baby's got a lot of times with that chronic, chronic phlegm and runny nose in a child.
I get the parent to get the child off dairy and I don't mean cheese, I mean milk. Okay? They don't need milk anymore. They need water. So I mean, if you're asking, that's what I would do. First thing, I am an elimination guy. Let's find out if there's anything that's bothering the baby. It's possible that it's cheese, but I doubt it. Usually it's not. It's usually they're drinking milk and they just don't have the enzyme to break that milk down. And by the way, they want milk and they're going to switch 'em over to goat milk or something like that. If you could get whole milk from the cow in the backyard, I bet you there wouldn't be any allergy at all. But that's what I'm suspicious of. Yes, they want to remove the tonsil, but at the end of the day, I don't think it's the tonsil.
There's something bothering that baby. Why are the tonsils so inflamed? Any who? I always try and go back to the root cause. Okay, thank you so much, Claude, for the question. I would have that baby on probiotics too. Okay, Bonnie, we know someone's suffering from calcification in the tendon of the shoulders like cat, they lift their shoulders and they got crepitus. That's the cracking sound or whatever. Yeah, maybe calcification. You can have those in your tendons, you could have that in the joint. You can have that in your knee joints. You can have it in your hands, you can have, no, you're asking about vitamin K two as a supplement, not for that. Vitamin K two takes calcium out of your blood. That's different. So when you have a piece of cheese, it's got vitamin K two, it takes calcium and puts it in your bones.
You don't want calcium in your tendons, right? But that is more, you need therapy. I like anti, if we can ever get our inflammation formula back. It was so good for that. And I like curcumin, but not vitamin K two. Not for that calcium in the tendons. If it's in the blood, yes, you want to get rid of plaque. That can be very, very helpful. Thank you, Bonnie. I appreciate the question and listen to this. It's the last one, Deborah. My husband takes 5,000 micrograms of B12 and it has helped a little with his ringing in his ears. Yeah, get him on Navit all two. What else? Because navit, what it does. Okay, I'm big on B12. Anything with nerve, anything nerve root. I'm a big B12 guy, okay? A lot of times I combine it with navit all because what navit all does, along with B12, it elevates nitric oxide.
Vitamin D elevates nitric oxide. Anything that will open up those blood vessels into the middle ear can be helpful in ringing in the ear. Here's the other one that I found in tinnitus or whatever, often assigned, worth checking, not always often assigned that that patient has insulin resistance. Their cells are resistant to insulin and when they do the reset, they find their tinnitus is better. All of the above. Look at those things.
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