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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone, and once again, welcome to another live this morning. Hope you're having a wonderful day and a good start to it. We sure appreciate you guys coming on and thanks for doing that. Okay guys, let's get going. So the title of this podcast that we're going to do this morning is Where has All the Calcium Gone? Okay, where has all the calcium gone? I could make a song into that. Where has it gone? And the reason I want to bring this out is the correlation. I am reading several studies on the correlation between brittle bones, osteoporosis, and atherosclerosis. Now, last week we really went into a dive on atherosclerosis. We went into it quite a dive. We looked at atherosclerosis, and in the meantime I've been just sort of looking at studies. And what's interesting is there a real correlation between brittle bones and atherosclerosis.
So let's talk about that this morning. Okay? Atherosclerosis, by the way, okay? Sclerosis of the arteries. Atherosclerosis, okay, hardening of the arteries. Isn't it funny? Here's the paradox. Hardening of arteries and softening of bones. Not supposed to be like that, right? The hardening of arteries and the softening of bones. Now, where has all the calcium gone? Okay, so one out of five women have osteoporosis, one out of five in their menopausal years, it's not good. Now, the leading cause of disability amongst seniors is osteoporotic spines and hips. Now I've seen it in other joints. I've seen it in knees on x-ray, whether osteoporotic, meaning very little calcium left in the bones and the correlation between that calcium utter bones and calcium in your blood vessels where calcium doesn't belong. Okay? Now medicine has responded by giving out one the number one supplement still today, okay?
You would think the number one supplement would be probiotics. It probably should be, but it's not. The number one supplement is calcium. It's too bad. And the other thing, so doctors often will recommend calcium supplements. Don't take those. I don't recommend that. Not at all. Okay? I'll tell you what I recommend in a minute. But the other thing is they recommend these drugs for osteoporosis, not good because the side effects of them, first of all, they do not build proper bone. They just don't. I mean these things have been around a long time and they really haven't worked at all. They don't build bone that lasts first of all. And second of all, the side effects of these medications are legion. Many, many, many side effects. I was reading the other day, and we put this out on an email that rotting of the jawbone is one of the common side effects of these drugs for osteoporosis.
So folks, we got a calcium problem, we got a calcium problem, it's calcium in the wrong places. The correlation between osteoporosis and atherosclerosis, it's a calcium problem. And what's happening in our society today is we have much more calcium in our blood vessels than we have calcium in our bones. Calcium's not getting to its intended destination, and that's very dangerous by the way, very dangerous. And it's not just women, but very common in women. So when you're losing calcium out of your bones, osteoporosis, that calcium is going somewhere it seems and it's not in the right place and that's in your blood vessels or in soft tissue, it's not good. Okay? So the number one cause of disability amongst seniors, there's nothing that will take from your quality of life is when you've got a bad hip, a bad back, bad knees, right? Take away your quality of life big time.
Okay? Now I want to talk to you about one of the best things you can do. I'll talk about a couple of things, but I want to start off with a vitamin that gets no ink. Vitamin K two, not vitamin K one, vitamin K two. You know it's interesting because if you look at the history of vitamin K two, do you know that I think it was 50 or 60 years ago, they didn't even know the world didn't know that vitamin K two even existed. They knew about K one, but they didn't know about K two. Now, K one guys is found in the plant kingdom. So when you have a salad, you're getting vitamin K one. Is that good for your bones? Absolutely not. Had nothing to do with bones. You're getting calcium. Okay? You're getting some calcium in your salad, but I hate to tell you it's not getting to the intended destination, okay? You're going to get some oxalates, but it's not going to get into your bones because it has K one and K one. I'm not saying K one's no good because you need vitamin K one even to coagulate your blood. You need vitamin K one.
But when it comes to your bone health and atherosclerosis, which is calcium in the wrong places, you need vitamin K two. Now, hardly anyone talks about that vitamin. I remember 30 years ago talking about vitamin K two in nature on my radio show radio, the doctor is in radio program a long time ago talking about would you stop taking calcium as a supplement? Stop. People thought I had two heads. The most popular supplement in North America is still to this day. This is why this is happening guys too. It's every day. I got to repeat it, but medicine in general knows nothing about food and nothing about supplements. They really don't, okay? They know nothing about food and nothing about supplements. They get an hour of nutrition in medical school and certainly less than a half an hour on supplements to most physicians, they won't tell you not to take vitamin D.
Well, a lot of them would, but some of them, yeah, you can take vitamin D but just never take over a thousand IUs because you're going to die. Okay? So why is calcium become so, why is it the number one selling supplement of all time because of a misunderstanding of calcium? Guys? What have I've always told you? Eat your calcium. Eat it what? Eat it. When you eat eggs, you get a lot of calcium. Everybody knows that when you eat cheese, dairy, you get a lot of calcium. Everybody knows that, right? You learn that in grade school probably. So eggs, meat and cheese, you're going to get a lot of calcium, lots of calcium, but it's calcium surrounded by, okay, vitamin K two. Now why is vitamin K two essential in nature when you're eating calcium? Okay, why is that essential? Because, okay, there's two reasons.
Vitamin K two is so essential, okay? One is called osteocalcin, okay? Osteocalcin. It's like a magnet, okay? It's like a magnet and osteocalcin, it attracts calcium to it. Osteocalcin in your bones and in your teeth, calcium in your teeth, right? That's where it belongs in your bones. Okay? So it's called osteocalcin that attracts, it's like a magnet. It attracts calcium into your spine, into your skeletal system and your teeth. Okay? Got that one. The other one, it's a protein and it's called MGP, capital M capital G, capital P. I don't want to get into the weeds, I just want to tell you, okay, osteocalcin, it's a magnet in vitamin K two MGP is a broom. Okay? You know me, I'm always looking for illustrations in my head. That's the way my head operates. I'm always, always looking for illustrations. So one is a magnet, you got a magnet in your bones looking for calcium.
It's called osteocalcin. The other one is MGP. And what that does, it sweeps calcium out of your blood vessels, out of soft tissue. It doesn't want calcium in there, but you need vitamin K two to get those two things. That's how vitamin K two operates and we don't talk about it, but when you eat cheese, you got calcium with the two things you need. Vitamin K two is producing osteocalcin, the magnet for calcium and the broom for calcium. It sweeps calcium out of your blood vessels. So guys, when I tell you when studies show that when you losing bone, osteoporosis, when you lose bone, there's a huge correlation to atherosclerosis. Now you're getting that calcium that's hardening your arteries. And you know what the problem is with atherosclerosis guys, when they call heart disease like a silent killer, women, listen ladies, this is for you for a minute, ladies.
When I was in school in the days of Noah, heart attacks were for men, okay? Heart attacks were for men. Women didn't get heart attack. It's not that they never got it, it's just that they never talked about it. When I was in school, heart disease was a man thing, not anymore, and it's very silent, especially in women heart disease, silent, no symptoms. They don't even have high blood pressure, but their arteries are calcifying. That's called atherosclerosis and menopausal women, pre menopause and menopause are very susceptible to it and medicine today, they still don't talk about the cause. You know why? Because heart specialists are so ingrained about the boogeyman being cholesterol, they don't talk about calcium. Oh, that's for the orthopedic guys. Osteoporosis. That's orthopedics and medicine has become so specialized guys that they miss the boat. You read these studies on the correlation between osteoporosis and atherosclerosis and you got to go in a deep dive to even find these things, but there's a huge correlation. It's not on cholesterol, it's not cholesterol. Hardening of the arteries is not cholesterol blaming the firemen because they're at the scene of a fire. Of course they're there, they're on your side. That's cholesterol, it's on your side. Calcium in your blood vessels, not so much.
You need calcium by the way, but you don't want it in your blood hardening your arteries. The key is a vitamin. It's called vitamin K two. It's found in nature, my friend. It's found in eggs, calcium and vitamin K two together, they love each other. Meat, calcium and vitamin K two cheese, calcium, vitamin K two. Isn't that beautiful in nature? God gave it to you to eat it. What's good for your bones and also good for your heart and your blood vessels because calcium with vitamin K two will not stay where it doesn't belong. That's the correlation. Where has all the calcium gone? Well, we live in a day and age. It's like an epidemic of osteoporosis, calcium out of the bones and into the bloodstream in atherosclerosis. What do you do? What do you do? You got weak bones. Dr. Martin, don't I need calcium?
Nope. Well, you do, but you want to eat it. You don't need calcium as a supplement. Eat it and one, eat your calcium with vitamin K two. Okay? One, two vitamin D. We all know vitamin D is good for your bones, okay? So get in the sun a hundred percent. Everybody's telling me this morning, it's sunny out. Well go get your 10,000 IUs, 20 minutes of the sun, get out there and if you have osteoporosis, you want to take vitamin D with K two. That's why we put K two in our vitamin D because calcium, everybody knows that vitamin D helps with bones.
Everybody knows that. Even doctors, that's all they know. They limit vitamin D, by the way, almost all of them to ah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's all right for your bones, okay? But don't take too much, you're going to die. But vitamin D with K two is essential, so eat your calcium with vitamin K, two eggs, meat and cheese because dairy gets a bad wrap, but I'm not into that. Switch dairy, don't ditch it, switch it. Okay? I have these expressions and I've had them for a long time. Don't ditch your dairy. Switch it. You need dairy, you need it. So one food, two vitamin D with K two, okay? Vitamin D with K two. And I've talked to you a lot in the past about the importance of vitamin D by the way, and heart disease, your heart and your blood vessels. Remember what I tell you all the time, you're a human solar panel, okay?
You're a human solar panel. Every cell in your body is looking for vitamin D. It's amazing. They don't teach you that in medical school. Imagine you a human solar panel. Your heart, even your mitochondria, your battery packs within your heart are looking for the sun, your immune system, your circulatory system. Eat calcium with vitamin K two, take your vitamin D with K two, really important for bones and your blood vessels. Exercise. If you have osteoporosis, you need the real vitamin E exercise and for your bones. Guys, I talked to you about getting strong all the time. I don't care if you're 80 years old, get stronger, get strong. Ger muscles will save your bones. Muscles will save your bones, their anchors, and the more you anchor in with muscle strength, the more it attaches itself into that bone, muscles attach into those bones and the bone responds by getting stronger because it has to anchor.
It's an anchor. Guys gets stronger. Do what you can to get stronger. That is so key for osteoporosis and atherosclerosis. Get stronger guys. It really makes a difference. Okay, I just thought I'd bring you that this morning. I get excited about research that's out there and how little it's talked about the correlation between osteoporosis and atherosclerosis. Where has all the calcium gone? Okay, guys, we got a great week as you know. And Friday is what question and answer. Friday, my American friends are asking me if I'll be on tomorrow July 4th, and I will say, yes, we're planning on doing a live tomorrow morning. Okay? Get your questions in. Guys. I love when you question, ask questions, okay? Question and answer. A lot of these things come out of questions. By the way, you know how many times I get asked, doc, can I take calcium as a supplement?
Get asked that all the time because my doctor wants me to take calcium or wants me to take these bone building medications. What do you think of them? Okay, I get asked that all the time. Okay, I'm breathing. Okay guys, we enjoy you. Thank you for coming on. Share this a little bit of housekeeping share. So by the end of the day, we'll be up near 10,000 views of this life, okay? Tell folks about the doctors in podcasts on their favorite smart device, okay? Tell 'em and share, guys. That's how this works. By the way. It's our audience that makes this show so popular and tell your friends about it because they're often going to get information. They just will not get in mainstream guys. They just won't do it. Okay? We love you. We talk to you Soon.
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