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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone, and once again, welcome to another live here this morning, and let's see if you get your notifications. And we appreciate you coming on. You know how much we love you, right? Okay, I have got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 things I want to talk about this morning. I'll answer a few questions that people asked that I saw that we'll have enough for question and answer Friday. But let's talk about this is, okay. A couple of studies I want to talk about before we get to a couple of questions that people ask me on there, men. Okay? Listen to this. This is the first study I want to just talk about for a minute. Men with more visceral fat, okay? You know what visceral fat is, of course fat around your organs, okay? This is a study that showed men with more visceral fat have a higher thrombogenic risk from excessive clotting.
So having visceral fat causes, at least in men for them to have more of a clotting effect in their blood. Now, clotting guys is good if you cut yourself, you want to be able to make sure your body has got clotting factors and it will stop you from bleeding to death, okay? It clots. The problem with clots is that they can be very dangerous if it's over clotting. You got very dangerous for a stroke or a heart attack and clotting thickens up your it, coagulates your blood. You can think about it for a minute, right? What does that do? Well, that thickens your blood and visceral fat. So I'm just going to take up a picture here again, of my five pounds. I use this all the time. When men, here's what they're showing. When men have visceral fat around the organ, you can be skinny as a rake and have visceral fat, visceral fat around the organs, not a good thing. And there's a connection to the blood. Now, probably because when you got visceral fat, the inflammation that ensues would thicken the blood, would thicken the clotting factors in the blood, okay? I'm trying to think of another way that might happen too, but definitely with the inflammation, as we always say at the Martin Clinic, is not Houdini, it just doesn't just show up. There has to be an underlying condition for someone to get inflammation.
Inflammation is the body's response. When you have insulin resistance at the cellular level, the body responds to that with an inflammation process. When you have visceral fat, your body sees this as a foreign invader and thus you create inflammation and you can get clotting, extra clotting, okay? You combine that clotting with most men, and they don't realize this, most men are dehydrated. They don't drink enough water. I'm not saying all men, I say most men, I used to measure viscosity of the blood, thickness of the blood, and I often would tell patients, look, you know that blood, there you got, okay? It's the river of life and a river in order for it to move needs water, water. And so often, okay, so visceral fat men with visceral fat have a higher thrombogenic risk, excessive risk of clotting, okay? Again, clotting is not bad for you when you need it, but you don't want your blood to be thick and clotting when you don't need it. Now you're in trouble. Okay? Number one, number 2:00 AM. This is a headline. AM sunlight improves declining eyesight. Now guys, what do we talk about when we talk about sun steak and steel? The sun, especially in the morning. This study is showing the sun, especially in the morning, really helps with your eyesight if it's declining.
So I never used to wear glasses before I was 50 years old, okay? I didn't need them. Now I need glasses. Not so much for me to see distant, but when I read, I got to have my glasses on, just I can't read without them. Okay? So I need them. That would be declining eyesight, okay? Now, the good news for me is that my eyes when I get tested are very good for my age. The optometrist tells me, fantastic. Okay, good for me. And I attribute that by the way, sun steak and steel and navit, all for the eyes high DHA for the eyes, especially. Fantastic. And I proved that by the way, to hundreds of optometrists over the years. Look, give your patients pine park extract NAL high DHA, because it's all blood supply. Anyway, the sun in the morning, okay? Helps study, says, helps with declining eyesight, the sun.
Now, don't look straight in the sun, of course, but the sunlight guys, the sun, and we talk about this so much, oh, is there anything the sun isn't good for, including melanoma? Anyway, what the sun does, and we've talked about this again a lot, is when you get morning sun, okay? When you get morning sun, especially, your body makes more melatonin and it stores it so that you sleep better. Melatonin is wonderful. Not so much as a supplement, but your body makes melatonin. And guess what? Sunlight in the morning and dark at night. The only mask that you should wear. Now, two masks. There's two masks that you should wear, okay? The only mask that you should wear is a mask around your eyes at night, pure darkness. And why? Because it's been proven you are going to secrete more melatonin. The darker your room, the more melatonin.
Melatonin in the morning, sunlight, melatonin in the evening when you're going to bed, put a mask over your eyes. I do, I do. I don't want any light coming in here because of what I know about melatonin. Okay? Sunlight in the morning. And the other mask, by the way, just is your vitamin A mask steak because you have an invisible mask if you have good levels of vitamin A because it protects your eyes, protects your nose, your nostrils, it protects your mouth from viruses and bacteria, vitamin A, the invisible mass that I've called it. Have you got your invisible mask on? I do. It's called steak because it's got vitamin A, it's got zinc, it's got vitamin D, it's got cholesterol. You need that. You need cholesterol for fat soluble vitamins, sun, state, and steel. Okay? AM sunlight improves, declining eyesight. What do people do?
They wear sunglasses all the time. And look, if you want to wear sunglasses, all right? But at least give your eyes about 10, 15 minutes before you put the sunglasses on. I've gotten so used to the rays of the sun. I just rarely ever, I have a pair of expensive sunglasses. I just don't wear them. My eyes are used to it. I rarely ever, ever wear sunglasses. And look, I'm not telling you never to wear sunglasses. I'm not telling you that. I'm just telling you the research on sunlight and your eyeballs is incredible. Okay? That's all. Don't shoot the messenger. Okay? New research on dementia, new study on dementia. Are we interested in dementia? Big time. Is it because of my age? Yeah, partly. But I've been talking about dementia. Alzheimer's, the most common form of dementia. I've been talking about that for a long time.
A long time, okay, and what have I been saying about it? It's type three diabetes. Okay, so let's put that aside. I want to talk to you about this new research paper and it makes sense. Here's what they're showing. New research on dementia shows three deficiencies, okay? It'll be no surprise to my audience. New research on dementia have three deficiencies in common. One B12, vitamin B12, never heard of it. We talk about it all the time. And guys, optimize your B12 optimize. B12, very important. Okay? It's very important to optimize B12. So when they looked at dementia and they tested patients who were diagnosed with dementia, one of the things they found was that they were consistently low in B12. Surprised not me, not me. B12 is a vitamin that you absolutely need for every nerve in your body. Okay? Remember up here, guys, it's a grid, okay?
It's a grid, and you have all these nerve cells called neurons and they attach to one another with synapses and all of those nerves and those nerve cells need B12. It's the nerve vitamin. And today people are very consistently low in B12 for a couple of reasons. One, they don't eat enough red meat. Where do you find B12 in red meat? It's not really in the plant kingdom. And so again, as I do almost on a daily basis, I would tell you that if someone tells you not to eat red meat, run forest run, okay? Because how could that be? How could that be that a B12 is found in red meat and some guru or the media or a doctor tells you not to eat it?
I don't know if that makes much sense to me. I talked to you yesterday about how your body is designed. Your stomach is designed for red meat. Your colon is designed for red meat. A deficiency that they found consistently in dementia is a lack of B12, and your numbers should be, okay. Here's where Canada and the US are the same, 800 to 1200. That's the sweet spot of optimize b12. Okay? That's the sweet spot number for optimize b12. Guys, I had enough clinical experience to talk about sweet spots, okay? That's why I have sweet spots for vitamins. Here's what I shoot for, okay? And I don't want dementia. Do you want dementia? Of course, no one wants that. Well, you got to optimize your B12, and these studies are proving it. Number two, guess what they're missing? Guess what they're low in? Because they can measure this Omega-3 fish oil or steak oil. Did you know there's oil in steak? Yeah, Omega-3 oil, DHA and EPA are found in the animal kingdom. Let's hear it for the animal kingdom. Again, I'm not saying you can't get Omega-3 from plants. You can, but the best Omega-3, your brain is made up of it.
Your brain is made up of an Omega-3. Did you know that 60% of your brain is made up of an Omega-3? And we do this on emails sometimes. What's the difference in omegas? Okay, well, it's like different cars. All cars are good, but some cars are better, right? You pay a lot for them guys. DHA, your brain's made up of DHA. Again, another reason for the importance of the animal kingdom in food, your brain is made up of a specific fat called DHA. 60% of your brain is D. And what are they showing? Well, when people get dementia, their brain shrinks. They're no longer fathead. I like being called a fathead. Hey, Dr. Martin, you're a fathead. They mean to insult me, but I take it as a compliment.
You want a lot of fat in here, okay? You want a lot of fat in between your ears up here, you got it. And Omega-3, they can measure it. And people with low levels of Omega-3 not so good for their memory. The third one, you know the third one, what is the other deficiency? One is B12, the other is Omega-3, and you know the other one, it always comes back to vitamin D, doesn't it? I used to do live seminars, lots of them, okay? Travel all over the place and do live seminars after writing a book or whatever, I traveled all over North America doing seminars and even into Europe and Asia and that kind of thing. Anyway, they always asked me questions. There was always a question and answer. I love doing that. Afterwards, I'd put on a presentation or whatever, and sometimes I would get to a conference or a seminar and I grab one person and I say, when I ask you a question, just put your hand up and give the same answer every time and use vitamin D.
Just say vitamin D, scream it from the back because it's the answer almost for everything in your health. Vitamin D. Okay, what a vitamin. It's not even a vitamin really. It's a horror mode. No, it's a hormone. Vitamin D. What are they finding in dementia? People have low levels of vitamin D. Not surprising, not at all. Your brain and the rest of your body is a human solar panel. Oh, I can't emphasize enough. The importance when the sun is out, get in the sun, don't burn, get in the sun, and people have burned, by the way, usually they're usually consuming way too much of the bad sugar because of glycation and bad oils. Those seed oils that are found in every fast food and in the middle aisles, your grocery store, those bad oils they make for bad skin and people burn easily. Now, look, I don't want people to burn in the sun. I really don't.
I don't, but it's not even close. The advantages of the sun compared to the dermatologists. They did something in the eighties. They hired a marketing firm and to go after the sun that it's a skin cancer, skin cancer, and put on all these chemicals on your skin to block the sun, sunscreen and sunblock. Terrible stuff, terrible stuff. And the FDA finally took a couple of hundred of them off the shelves because they were, you know what it would take to convince the FDA, that something is carcinogenic. My word. It must have been real bad for them to start pulling a lot of those sunscreens off the shelves. Shelves. Terrible stuff. Anyway, I never liked it. Never liked sunscreen.
You want dementia? Stay out of the sun and you'll get dementia according to this research. Okay? Let me just see here. Okay, let me answer a few questions. Okay? Here's one. I saw this yesterday. The patient has gout, and the doctor told me not to eat red meat. Well, your doctor is stuck in the seventies with Elvis Presley. Okay? Your doctor is stuck in nutrition that is 50 years old at least because your doctor doesn't keep up with the research, they don't understand. And here's my point. Let me just prove it again, okay? I don't want to just say something without getting you to think about what I'm saying. Gout is up 300% since the 1980s. What? It's up 300% since the 1980s. Listen to what I'm going to say. Red meat sales and consumption is down 30%. Gout is up, red meat consumption is down.
And here's the kicker when it comes to gout. Here's the kicker. What was introduced in the 1980s as a substitute for sugar, high fructose corn syrup, what I call the antichrist of sugars, a manmade sugar, high fructose corn syrup, and not coincidentally, a 300% rise in gout, high levels of uric acid, which by the way, okay, which by the way is a sign that you have insulin resistance, and there's nothing that will give you insulin resistance like high fructose corn syrup. It's in everything. They add it into everything. It's addictive, it's cheap, and they don't even have to tell you they're doing it. The food industry that my friend, is why gout is on the rise. So here's what I tell my patients, and I did for years when I was in practice, lay off the sugar and never especially drink sugar like orange juice, an apple juice and pineapple juice or whatever. Don't drink that stuff. You're not meant to drink it. You're meant to eat. You can eat fruit, but don't drink it.
Don't drink fruit. You can have a few berries in Dr. Martin's perfect smoothie. That's different because fructose goes to the liver and the liver. A byproduct of fructose is uric acid. It's part of the kreb cycle. Everybody makes uric acid, but when your liver is jammed up and you have insulin resistance and the Costco parking lot is full, it's one of the manifestations of insulin resistance. And a lot of people have, by the way, a lot of people have high uric acid levels, and not everybody with high uric acid levels gets gout, but having high uric acid levels are urate. It's not good for you. It's a sign that you have insulin resistance. It's a sign that you have metabolic syndrome. Okay? There's another question in there, but we'll answer that tomorrow. Okay, guys, thanks for coming on. We appreciate it. Sorry about the technical difficulties at the start of the program. Who knows why? I have no idea. If you know the answer, tell me I'm teachable. Okay? We love you guys dearly. Okay, and tomorrow's question, answer Friday, not too late. Get your questions in. Okay? We love you. We'll talk to you soon.
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