1355. L-Glutamine: Gut Health’s Best Friend

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Dr. Martin:  Well, good morning everyone. How are you? 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, as usual, as you get your notifications here this morning. Thank you very much. And I'm going to get my chart. Hold on a minute because this morning we're going to talk about the small intestine and very specifically we're going to get into L Glutamine. Okay? And I want to go over this because of a research paper that came out about L-glutamine, but let me show you something first. Okay? So for those folks that are listening to a podcast, I'm showing just a chart, my old chart that I went to school with of digestive issues, but I just want to show you coming right out of the stomach, okay? There's your stomach. Remember very, very, very, very acidic in the stomach, or at least it should be.

Big problem in our world today, the stomach is not near acidic enough. You know why you use it or lose it? People are eating the wrong foods and they've gone over to generally the plant kingdom and manmade foods, and that's not good for your stomach. I'm not saying plants are no good, but if you live on them plus the manmade middle of the aisle's grocery store food, you are going to change the pH of your stomach because your stomach was designed to eat eggs, meat and cheese, and you need a lot of acidity for that, and that's what your body was designed to eat, okay? Now then your food, as you eat it going through the stomach, goes into your small intestine. Now, the small intestine, you got to look at it differently because people don't visualize this, but if you were to spread it out, it's about 400 square feet.

It's about 400 square feet. That's where all of your absorption of your food takes place. The small intestine is a very, very important place. So I just wanted to show you that most people don't think of it unless you got problems with them. By the way, that small intestine has a lining there, okay? And that lining is full of villi. Okay? What is villi? Guys? I keep this with me all the time, okay? Again, for those listening on a podcast, I'm showing a shag carpet. A shag carpet. So you got about 400 square feet of a shag carpet, and the shags are called villi, and the absorption of your food takes place in there. So picture in your mind a shag carpet and in between the shag, what do you call 'em, shags in between these little villi are supposed to be very, very, and it's microscopic guys, a very, very tight junction. So put your fingers together and lock them both hands. Put your fingers together and lock them, and that should be very, very tight in there.

And the only thing that gets through from your small intestine into your blood. Now remember, your blood is the river of life, okay? It's the river of life because your blood not only brings you all your oxygen in the form attached to hemoglobin, it brings you all your nutrients, your blood, it's a river. It brings you water to all your tissue and nutrients, and that comes through that very, very tight, tight, tight junction of your small intestine. Now, here's good news. Every three to five days, you regenerate those tight junctions every three to five days. Now, if you don't change your habits, they come back the same way, okay? They come back the same way. Now, I made some notes this morning. Maybe I'll share them if you can read them. But what I'm talking about, okay, that junction here, okay? These junctions in between the VII here, okay? You see that renewed every three to five days, and what renews them? There's a substance that renews them. I'm leaving a blank. What renews the VI, the junctions in between these villi? Think of a shag carpet. What renews them?

Okay, here's another clue. It's an amino acid. Now your body produces this amino acid, Carol, it's not glutathione. It is not glutathione, although that's very important. It's L glutamine. Yeah, when you eat steak gerdy, you got it Glutamine and probiotics, because they go together glutamine. Guys, when you hear the word glutamine, it's an amino acid that your body produces, but 30% of it, 30% of all l-glutamine that your body produces is produced in where the small intestine. Now, what I want to do is tell you what l-glutamine does for your small intestine, okay? First of all, l-glutamine in the small intestine increases your white blood cells, okay? It actually helps to activate your white blood cells, your white blood cells, okay? You got red blood cells. What do they do? They carry oxygen. What do white blood cells do? They're your defense mechanism. It's part of your immune system and especially you got mass MAST, white blood cells that release histamine.

You have T cells, your navy seals that are your first responders to infection and that, but they rely on L glutamine and what energizes them? Vitamin D, I've taught you that before, right? White blood cells have antennas. They're looking for the sun, they want vitamin D, it charges their batteries. Okay? So now picture in your mind again, the small intestine, which is really, really important. And the nutrient, the amino acid that is essential for your small intestine is L-glutamine, okay? L-glutamine. Now the other thing that it does, and because it activates white blood cells, small intestinal bacterial overgrow, okay? A lot of people have that. How do you know when you get SIBO or sifo? You know us. We like to call it SIFO rather than SIBO medicine calls it sibo and we call it sifo, small intestine fungal overgrowth, because really that's what it is.

It's yeast, it's dysbiosis, it's yeast getting into the small intestine and taking over almost every, without exception in my opinion, anything you can think of, autoimmune comes from that area there. It comes from a sefo where back to the shag carpet, back to the shag carpet, we're yeast invades here, yeast invades and the VII are compromised. And now you get stuff because those tight junctions are affected. You get stuff coming in the blood that doesn't belong, yeast gets in the blood, bacteria can get in the blood heavy metals can get in the blood lead, mercury, cadmium. How can you have heavy metals? Well, this is your primary defense guys. If this is compromised, if your small intestine has been compromised, you got stuff going into your bloodstream that doesn't belong. We call that leaky gut. Leaky gut, leaky skin. Look at anything on the skin. Dermatitis, eczema, psoriasis, okay? It's leaky gut.

Leaky gut, rosacea, leaky gut. You got to fix that. The good news is every three to five days you get a new lining, but you got to fix it because it'll just come back the same way. And by the way, I've shown you this before. Let me do it again. When they look at the small intestine in people that have autoimmune disease, okay, this is very interesting. I brought this to you in the past, but I keep a modern rug, okay? Healthy, the shag carpet, it's healthy. Even though I'm stuck in the seventies. Shag carpets, right? You remember that? We don't see them anymore unless someone is stuck in the 1970s. But what happens in autoimmune, and this has been shown that the small intestine changes microscopically, guys, okay, you go from a shag carpet, okay, with your vii, lots of L glutamine here. The junctions are tight, the border, I like that illustration.

The border is sealed. You can't come across only that which has a passport. You can only get into the blood if you have a passport, digested food, food, all your nutrients, all your minerals, water, they can come into the blood. But if you have a good tight junction, small intestine, nothing else gets in. Now, my illustration, you go from a shag carpet to a tight carpet, tight. I don't mean tight. I mean it don't have any shags. And they've shown this in autoimmune diseases, okay? Lupus and Sjogren's and Parkinson's and ms, and you name the autoimmune, their small intestine becomes like a modern carpet. Doesn't have those villi, they're not the same. They've changed. And the tight junctions are loose, guys. That's what leaky gut is. Now, how do you get leaky gut? What changes that? The number one, and I've been saying it for 40 years or more, the number one reason that the small intestine, the tight junctions get changed is due to antibiotics. Because antibiotics change the bacteria, the microbiome. Because what goes on in that intestinal lining, not only do you have those tight junctions and they need L glutamine to G glue them L-glutamine, glues the gaps, but so do probiotics. They go together.

That's why I am so focused on the gut at the clinic. And Tony, Jr and I, when we worked together, we used to talk about this all the time, the seeds of disease, the seeds, what is the real cause of why we're so stinking sick today? Leaky gut insulin. And we put in oxidative damage, we're rusting out, we're aging quickly because of what we eat, mostly the environment and that too, but we really focus in on two of them. In my practice, I was focused in like zeroed in, lasered in because 99% of the people that came to see me had either that when they had problems, they had either leaky gut or insulin resistance. They had too much insulin.

Okay? Too much insulin. And I got to add hormones too. I saw a lot of that. Okay? Now, so when you are small intestine and you can regenerate it, this is why I am so, so big on regeneration, okay? The three R's in your gut, replenish, replace, and regenerate, okay? Replenish your microbiome, replenish those friendly bacteria regenerate every three to five days. So give that small intestine, give it the help it needs, okay? Give it the help. It needs help to tighten up those junctions. My wife loves sewing and knitting, but think of knitting. Knitting that small intestine. You can do it. You can regenerate it. This is why I tell people, okay, I tell people all the time. I told people all the time, I told my patients, I told my audience on the radio show, you know what? You are fearfully and wonderfully made. You can regenerate, replace, regenerate, replenish, okay? You can do it. And your best friends for the small intestine, first of all, lay off the sugar. You have to think of anything that's going on in that small intestine. You got a yeast overgrowth. Usually the Trojan horse gets into the small intestine. It don't belong there.

It doesn't belong there, not in any kind of numbers. Yeast gets there. It compromises the small intestine even more. We call that sifo. And you get bloating. And you know how many people, millions and millions of people, they've got all these food intolerances. And I get this question asked to me at least once a week, doc, should I get tested for food intolerances? Well, don't pay any money for it. You do it. Track your food. I just had eggs, for example. For some people, I feel sorry for them, but they can't have an egg. And that's because the carpet, the shag carpet of the small intestine been compromised. It's probably full of yeast. And so your body sees something coming in and it goes, what is that? And a lot of times, guys, a lot of times too, you got to go one step further, okay? You got to go. Let me bring my chart out again. I just want to show it to you. I want you to visualize this if you can. If you're listening, okay? I want to show you, okay? Before food gets in the small intestine, there's a small intestine. You see that? Okay? What's before it? Stomach. And a lot of autoimmune conditions start in the stomach before the gut because food doesn't get, you see that acid in your stomach, you got more acidity or should have more acidity than a lion.

Okay? Do you like watching nature shows? I do. Okay. I like watching nature shows. I like watching a lion. Okay? The king of a jungle. They're straight carnivores, let me tell you that. And yet, they don't have as much acidity in their stomach as you do, or at least you should do. So if anybody, any Joe Blow, any guru, anyone tells you that you are not meant to eat red meat and that red meat is acidic and red meat gives you colon cancer and red meat rots in your gut. You know many times I heard that a million and a million times. I said, you need to get your brains checked.

You're wrong. You're wrong. It's not true because your body was designed to eat meat. So don't let anybody tell you that it's not true. It can't be true on design. And by the way, don't stop at the stomach. You could start at your teeth. You're meant to eat meat, and if you don't eat enough meat, it'll even ruin your teeth. It'll ruin your jaw. I look at people, they're vegetarians or whatever, and I said, you're going to lose your jaw, man. You're meant to clamp down on meat. And then another argument I make is your intestine.

You're not a cow. A cow has a lot more intestine than you do. You got a short one comparatively, because it's not meant to be eating all that grass salad, which is fiber, which is overrated. You're small into intestine, wasn't made for that. Your bowel wasn't made for that. You have a relatively short bowel, not meant to ruminate in there for 20 years like a cow, okay? It's not meant for that. Your small intestine is meant to take all your nutrients in and you can regenerate it quickly. You get a new lining every three to five days. Those cells are regenerated, but you got to change. You got to fix it. And this is why I'm so big on L glutamine with probiotics, guys. L l-glutamine is therapeutic. Why do you think I love bone broth so much?

Make your own bone broth or we can provide it for you. Have a shake. Dr. Martin's perfect smoothie. You want to regenerate your gut? Take a scoop of bone broth powder in Dr. Martin's perfect smoothie. Your kids that have got gut issues and bloating and they got bad skin and they got acne and all this and that. You put probiotics and L glutamine together and watch what happens. It's incredible. I'll tell you folks, I got results like you would not believe when it comes to the gut, because I went right at the source. I went right at the problem. If someone has yeast coming out, the wazoo coming out their ears. Oh, we talked about it yesterday in an email, didn't we? The sinuses, it's full of yeast. If it's chronic, it's fungal. It loves moisture. It's a cousin to mold.

But when you regenerate that gut, the border gets sealed. And I like to start even with the stomach because I want your stomach acidity to come back. I want it to be so acidic. If you took that acid, you could burn a hole in your kitchen table. That's how powerful. And that's how acidic that stomach should be. People are walking around. Nobody's told them they don't have enough acidity in the stomach. They don't have enough L glutamine in their gut. And the way our IES is made for that too, I put extra L glutamine in there that was formulated to regenerate, replace, renew. I like those Rs regenerate.

It's a combination. Probiotics, have you ever heard of them? I know you have. And then of course, one more thing. Okay? One more thing. When the acidity in the stomach is good, and you can regenerate your stomach too, lay off the stinking sugar and quit being a vegetarian or a vegan. You can have fruits and vegetables, but don't live on them. That's what I tell people. Don't live on them. You weren't meant to live on those, okay? Fruit or God's candies, enjoy. I got no problem with that. Not during the reset. The reset is there to fix your insulin. It really helps with leaky gut too.

So when your stomach is right and your small intestine is right, the border has been sealed, you know what happens? Boy, you're just absorbing all those nutrients, okay? And for skin, I am going to show you, I think if I can find it. Case history here. Yeah, I'll find it. I have it here somewhere. I'm sure I do. Okay. A case history, one of the worst skin conditions I've ever seen and what I did and what the protocol was. Okay, what a difference. Okay. Did you have fun with me? This stuff, guys. Turns my crank. I love it. Okay. It turns my crank. Okay, you got any questions? Get 'em ready for Friday and maybe Monday, two days that I answer all your questions. Some people accuse me of not answering their questions. If I don't see it, how can I answer it? Maybe I didn't see it, and I'm a senior. You have to go easy on me. I pull that senior card out every day and I go, I'm a senior. That's why I forgot. Okay? I don't mind pulling that out. I earned it. Okay, guys. Now remember, if you got a birthday or whatever and it's your birthday, let us know. We don't mind saying happy birthday to you, okay? Okay. Okay, guys, we love you dearly, and we'll talk to you soon.

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