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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone. How are you? And once again, welcome to another live this morning. Hope you're having a great start to your day. Okay guys, I am going to talk to you today about your parathyroid gland, okay? Now look, if you're listening to this on a podcast, envision how small they are because I'm going to show my audience here live how big your parathyroid, para thyroid, beside the thyroid, they're right beside it. Okay? Now, can you see this? It's a grain of rice, okay? A grain of rice, very small, right? You can barely see it, but that's right beside your thyroid gland and it's a very important little wee gland. Okay? I think I was going to do a series on what's small but important. Remember yesterday we talked about the adrenal gland. Very small but very important because of cortisol and your parathyroid, it manages your calcium levels in your body. Very small, but very important. You want these things to be working properly.
Now, let me just talk to you about some of the things that we see. Okay, guys, listen to me. You need calcium, but you need calcium in the right places, okay? When calcium gets into the wrong place, you're in trouble. Okay? So calcium is good in your teeth, in your bones, and you need some in your blood. You don't need a lot, but you need some. You need some in your cells, you need some calcium in your cells, but you don't need too much of it. And a big problem in our society today, big problem is too much calcium. People have too much calcium in the wrong places, and that's what we're going to talk about is calcium in the wrong places. Okay?
Now let me say this. You have calcium and you have magnesium, okay? You have calcium and you have magnesium. You have other things, but magnesium. Magnesium counterbalances your calcium. Very important. Magnesium, really important. We're going to talk about this too. The other thing is vitamin K2, I always talk to you about that vitamin. It's sort of the Rodney Dangerfield of vitamins. It doesn't get a lot of respect. People don't know much about it. They mix up vitamin K, K1, and K2. They mix them up and they think they're the same and they're not the same. Okay? You need calcium, you need magnesium, you need vitamin K2. You need vitamin D too, by the way. It has a lot to do with this vitamin D, okay?
Vitamin D is important not only for calcium, but almost everything else and you and I know this and we've been talking about vitamin D for a long time, and every time I read a study on vitamin D and I go, why isn't the world, why are 80, 90% of the population have low levels, not optimized levels of vitamin D. Anyways, that's for another podcast. But today we're talking about calcium, its importance. But in this day and age in which you and I live, there's way too much calcium in the wrong places. Okay, so let's go over that. Let's go over where calcium, which belongs in your bones, belongs in your teeth, and it does belong in your cells, but not much of it. And when it gets displaced, calcium gets displaced and put in high amounts in the wrong places. You get calcification, you get inflammation in the wrong places. In the wrong places, calcium wins, but you lose. You don't want that.
So let's start, let's start in the heart. Think about this for a minute, okay? You've got a whole class of medications called calcium blockers, and they do that. They do that for blood pressure and even renal problems, your kidneys, calcium in the wrong places. Now, one of the best blockers of calcium, the best blocker of calcium is magnesium. It's sort of the antidote to it. Whenever you think of calcium, what keeps calcium at bay is magnesium. So we'll talk about that. The other one, again, the one that is the traffic cop, we always talk about insulin being a traffic cop, and it is for sugar. It says to sugar, you can't park in the bloodstream, but you know what vitamin K2 does? It's a traffic cop that says calcium, you can't park in the bloodstream because if you do, you are going to calcify blood vessels.
When you look at plaque, okay, you've heard the word plaque, well, not plaque on your teeth, although you can get plaque on your teeth, but the invisible plaque is what you find in arteries, okay? You don't know. People, they get an ultrasound done or whatever, or imaging done and they find out their carotid artery is calcified. How many times have you heard of that? The carotid artery going up to the brain. It's calcified. How did that happen? How did that happen? Again, that's calcium in the wrong place. Heart attacks, calcium in the coronary arteries. When you hear about that, oh, you got to blockage, people had stents put in, why did they get stents put in? Well, the coronary arteries have become calcified, okay? Calcified.
So when you think of kidney disease, okay, the renal arteries have become calcified, they get hardened. And remember, one of the biggest antidotes to that is magnesium. Whenever I heard magnesium, I heard the word relax. Okay, relax. When I hear the word calcium, I think of hard, calcified hardening. You think of magnesium softening, and the biggest calcium blocker is magnesium. Okay? So when you think of aging too, think of aging. You ever seen a joint or maybe you guys know what this is? When you get bone on bone, you ever hear that? Oh, my knee is bone on bone. My hip is bone on bone. We live in a day today, and I guess it's because people to some extent, there's more orthopedic surgeons and you got a bad knee, they give you a knee replacement, you have a bad hip, and they have, when I was a kid, there were no such thing as those things, right? I mean, I know I'm old, but today, and look, modern medicine, I mean they do some wonderful things, but why in the world would you need a hip replacement or a knee replacement? Well, it's bone on bone. It's calcified.
When you see little spurs, if you've ever looked at an x-ray, the knee is bone on bone, you'll see spurring, what we call spurring, and that's just calcium deposited. The body says, ah, I don't want you to move that anymore, so I'm going to calcify it. Don't move it, don't use it. It's going to hurt, so I'm going to stop you from, and that's what bone on bone is, guys. So it's part of the aging to some extent, and it's part of what your body will lay down in order for you not to move a certain joint. Calcium. Look, calcium's your friend until it's not until you have too much of it. So even in your kidneys, you get calcified. I can tell you ladies, when you get a chronic cystitis, the bladder gets calcified. That smooth muscle is calcified. Is that good? Nah, it's not so good when you get stones. Okay? Kidney stones, they're calcified, even oxalates, okay? They're not specifically a calcium stone, they're an oxalate stone, but it still got some calcium in it.
So, it's all part of a process and again, calcium is your friend till it's not. When it's deposited in the wrong places. When calcium is deposited in your joint, that's not good. In your bone, it's alright, but not in a joint. Like how many people, they get frozen shoulder or whatever and the joint becomes calcified. Even in the arteries in your eyes. Here's what I learned in school about your eyes, blood supply, okay? Blood supply. It's key to your eyes and your eyes lasting your lifetime without macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy, or cataracts, or glaucoma, all of that has to do with blood supply and the blood vessels become calcified. And an optometrist or an ophthalmologist or even any doctor that looks into your eye, what they're really, I mean they're looking at more than blood supply, but one thing that becomes obvious in the eyes as the eyes age prematurely, it's calcification.
So calcification in the wrong places creates ossification or calcification in blood vessels, and that affects your heart. It can affect your brain, stroke. Think of carotid arteries. It can affect your joints, it can affect your kidneys and what calcium does when it's not your friend, it creates an inflammatory response in the body. When you're dehydrated, by the way, okay, you know me in water, vitamin W, you're dehydrated. The vast majority of people are dehydrated. They don't know it. Any medication, any medication, even nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories like Tylenol and Advil and Naproxen or whatever it is, Aleve, whatever that will dehydrate a person. That dehydrates a person, and what happens is you get a calcium buildup, you lose your magnesium, you lose your potassium, you lose those minerals, but you don't lose calcium. Calcium gets built up especially in the urine and that's very, very detrimental to your kidneys. I talked to you about stones and other things, okay?
Dehydration concentrates calcium, so one of the best things you can do is drink water. I like a little bit of salt water, okay? Put a pinch of salt, electrolytes. That's why I like spring water because it has minerals in it. But dehydration is a big problem with calcium. Dehydration is a big problem. Now, any medication, especially when you get a blood pressure medication like diuretics, you know what that does? It flushes out all your fluid. Somebody asked me yesterday, Dr. Martin, what is congestive heart failure? Okay, well, the heart muscle, okay, it's not pumping properly and you build up fluid. So a lot of times what happens is a physician will give you a diuretic and that flushes out the fluid around your heart, around your legs and their diuretics. The problem with diuretics, one of the side effects of diuretics, it's getting rid of all your magnesium.
Remember your antidote to calcium buildup. What is an antidote? One of them is magnesium. That's why I love magnesium, guys. Magnesium is like a calcium blocker. I was reading this article the other day. You need 10,000 times more magnesium than you need calcium. Magnesium is essential. It's like a blocker. It's like a calcium channel blocker saying, calcium, no, no, no, no, no, no. You belong in bones, you belong in teeth, and I can't let you take over cells. I can't let you take over blood vessels because what you do when you get into the blood vessels is you harden them. Magnesium relaxes things, okay? Got the memo? Magnesium, it's the antidote. It's the one that keeps calcium at bay and then you have parathyroids. That little grain of rice, I can't even find it. It was so small, I had it here somewhere. It's there not to allow too much calcium in your bloodstream. Okay?
And then, okay, guys, listen, think of nature. Think of what God does. God gives you calcium, okay? In food. Think about that, okay? You obviously need it, but never, okay? When you're eating in the animal kingdom, which you should, it should be your primary, your first choice, not salad. Okay? I know you like your salad, okay, I got the memo about that, but your salad has K1. Eggs, meat and cheese have vitamin K2. Think about that. How could that be bad for you? When you eat calcium, I never want you to supplement with calcium ever. You don't need to supplement with calcium. You do need calcium, but God put it in with K2 and K2 is the traffic cop. It says, okay, you're eating some calcium in cheese, okay? We all know dairy has calcium, right? Everybody knows that, but it wasn't without vitamin K2 and very few people know about that.
You see, it's the way it's meant to be. Yeah, you're taking some calcium, but what K2 does, it says calcium. Yoohoo, listen, Linda, listen, Larry, calcium, Larry calcium and Linda calcium. Listen, you can't stay in the bloodstream. Got it? You can't, come with me. I'm the traffic cop. Okay? Insulin is the traffic cop for sugar, but vitamin K2 is the traffic cop for calcium and it says calcium. If you stay in the arteries, you are going to calcify the arteries. What do you think plaque is? You are going to harden the arteries. You come with me, okay, so you're eating cheese, the vitamin K2 says to calcium in your cheese, this is good, but you're with me. Come here and I'm going to park you where calcium is good, away from the blood vessels of your eyes, your kidneys, your heart, your carotid arteries. You come with me and I'm going to park you where you belong in the bones.
You see if you are a vegetarian, you know what you're telling your bones. I don't care about you. Oh, Dr. Martin, I hear that's so good for you. Well, who told you that? That's propaganda. There's no vitamin K2. Yeah, you'll get some calcium in spinach in your salad, but without K2. So what happens? Yeah, you got calcium. You know where it stays? In your blood vessels. Why do you want that? You don't want calcium staying in your blood vessels. Think of the traffic cop. Can't park there. I'm going to park you where you belong and when you see hardening of the arteries, calcium in the wrong places. So the best food, think about this for your heart. What is the best food for your heart? A steak or eggs or cheese, butter.
Somebody had on the private Facebook group, dairy farmers, thank them. Hey, tell the dairy farmers that you know, you owe me. Dairy farmers owe me. I am the farmer's best friend, the dairy farmers, every time. Last night I drove by cows, okay? Cows eat grass so you don't have to, okay? I love cows. I love what they produce. Okay, so you tell your dairy farmer friend. Oh, Dr. Martin talks about you guys all the time. Yeah. Now, I don't care about milk unless you have that cow in your backyard, okay? You got a cow in the backyard, you go ahead and drink milk. You don't need to drink milk. Okay? A baby needs milk from mummy, not from a cow. Anyway, I don't want to go down that road too much because it's not because it's controversial in my mind, but it's just, anyway, so let's get back to calcium.
Calcium and its effect, especially on blood vessels because it got parked in the wrong place. Calcium parked in the wrong place. It ain't good for you at all. This is why I am big on eating from the animal kingdom. Dr. Martin, there's cholesterol. My doctor called me about cholesterol. What am I going to do? I know, I know, but they're looking for love in the wrong places. Cholesterol isn't the boogeyman, and I know cholesterol is only found in the animal kingdom. Do you think I don't know that? You'll learn that the first day in nutrition 101. Where is cholesterol found? In eggs, meat and cheese and dairy. Yep. Cholesterol is found in the animal kingdom. It's not in the plant kingdom, but you got to understand, even in medical textbooks, before the cereal companies and big pharma got involved in cahoots with each other, cholesterol was your friend.
It wasn't a bad guy, and we spent 40, 50 years lowering cholesterol and heart disease is worse than ever. We should have spent our time and resources lowering calcium in our bloodstream, not cholesterol. Blaming cholesterol for heart attack is like blaming the police at a crime scene. They're not the bad guy. Is a fireman the bad guy at a fire? It's not the bad guy. It's there to repair. Why do you think cholesterol is always around your blood vessels? Well, it's got a job to do. It's a repair mechanism. It brings your hormones. Of course it's found in the blood. Guys, the culprit is calcium, hardening of the arteries, calcium stayed in the wrong place. The antidote, eat eggs, meat, and cheese because you're going to get vitamin K2, it'll take the calcium and park it in your bones.
Drink water so you're not dehydrated and calcium is sitting in your kidneys and taking over and forming stones and calcifying. Drink water guys. You want magnesium and the best magnesium is magnesium citrate or bisglycinate. It is a calcium blocker. You're having a heart attack and they'll give you magnesium to take you out of spasm. Take your heart out of spasm. You think of, for example, atrial fib. We see that today, 50 years ago, I'm not saying there was in people in atrial fib, but today it's like an epidemic today. Well, first of all, one of the problems is medication. Most meds strip you of your magnesium, so there's not a calcium blocker there.
You know where you have the most magnesium in your body, by the way? In your left ventricle, the tissue that has the most magnesium is your left ventricle in your heart. You need magnesium, guys, you need vitamin K2 and nobody talks about it. You need water H2O and only water is water. You know me on that, okay? Yeah. You need vitamin D too, not D two, but D three. You need the sun. You need the sun. Vitamin D. It's so good for your heart, it's good. And vitamin D is good for your bones. Any doctor knows that. Okay? Did I want to say anything else? Okay, so that little grain of rice, your parathyroid, okay? I know it's so small. Imagine. Hey, how your body operates. My word, it's fearfully and wonderfully made, isn't it? Your body. Think about it. It's unreal. I love it.
Okay guys. Oh, I'm breathing. Okay, guys, we love you dearly, okay? We love you dearly. Now, I'm going to take the day off tomorrow, okay? I'm going to take a day off tomorrow, but we'll be back Friday morning with question and answer Friday, okay? So tomorrow off and we'll put a notice up. You can tell your friends, okay? Thanks for watching us live, guys. I mean that. We appreciate that, okay? We love all our audience and those who cannot watch us live and they watch the video. You'll see how many are on with us this morning. I think we're in 362 live right this moment, okay? Okay. Now two hours will be over 2000, okay? And then by the end of the day, near 10,000 people because they view it, but they couldn't watch it live. And so they view it or they'll listen to the podcast on their smart device. Okay? You got a smart device, you got a phone? It's a smart device. Okay guys, we love you dearly, and we'll talk to you soon.
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