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Dr. Martin:Â Well, good morning everyone. How are you? Hope you're having a great start to your day. I want to do a couple of things, just, we'll go through them pretty quickly. A couple of studies here, and we'll get caught up on studies that I have flagged. Okay, Encouraging Results Using a Protocol of Vitamin D and Omega-3 in Type I Diabetes. Okay? So this is a study showing very encouraging results in a combination of vitamin D and omega-3 in type I diabetes. It lowered all their markers of diabetes. Now, a couple of things. Type one diabetes is autoimmune, okay? The pancreas isn't working, their insulin isn't working, and they need insulin to live. Okay? So some of the marvels of the pharmaceutical industry are these things, okay? Where you have type I diabetes.
Now, here's me, I treated a lot of type I diabetes, autoimmune, and again, what I did in my office is I looked for deficiencies, and here's what I saw in type I diabetes, most of the time, not all of the time, but almost. Number one, they had leaky gut. Autoimmune, leaky gut, had to fix that. Leaky gut. They had a huge amount of fungus, so we'd fix that, number one. Number two, they were low in vitamin D, almost invariably. They had low levels of vitamin D. They had low levels of magnesium, almost invariably. Low levels of vitamin B12, almost invariably, okay? And low levels of omega-3. So it doesn't surprise me that a protocol using vitamin D and omega-3 supplementation in type I diabetes really helped them. It doesn't surprise me. Anyway, I wanted to bring that to, that's type I diabetes, autoimmune.
A new study on curcumin. Okay? A new study on curcumin, and the study was found in the journal Cell Biochemistry. Okay? Here's what it found. A new study with curcumin and diabetes. So now we're talking about type two diabetes. Here's what they found. Curcumin, okay? Now let me say this again. Curcumin is an extract of turmeric, the spice, turmeric, and turmeric is good. The problem is it's not very bioavailable for your cells to pick it up. Curcumin, on the other hand, is very, very bioavailable, and it has to be attached to a black pepper extract, a pepper extract in order for it to be useful or bioavailable to the body. Okay? So curcumin, they're showing in this study just came out in the journal of biochemistry, Cell Biochemistry. It lowered blood sugar one, it increased insulin sensitivity. So what is the opposite of that? Insulin resistance where your cells are going, insulin, get out of here. Get out of here. Okay? Whereas if you have insulin sensitivity, you're sensitive to insulin. That's a good thing because you don't need a lot of insulin, and a lot of people, 93% of the population are resistant to insulin, and that creates a cascade of problems.
Now, it lowered blood sugar, curcumin, it increased insulin sensitivity. It calmed inflammatory cytokines because when you have diabetes, you also have an inflammation response. It's an inflammation response to elevated blood sugar and elevated insulin. Your body responds to that by creating inflammation. Curcumin lowered it. It lowered those pro-inflammatory cytokines. They found that it protected the organs, the heart, the liver, the kidneys from damage from diabetes. What gets affected by diabetes? Circulation. The first thing that gets affected is circulation. Blood vessels. They get damaged. Sugar damages blood vessels. Sugar is so toxic, and your body knows it, that it is dedicated to keep your sugar levels in a very, very tight range, and if it goes above that, sugar damages blood vessels. The first thing they damage are capillaries. That's why diabetics have so much trouble with their eyes. Why do diabetics have so much trouble with kidneys? Circulation. Eyes? Circulation. Why do diabetics have 50% more likelihood to have a heart attack? Circulation. Peripheral artery disease, diabetics lose their limbs, circulation. You see what I'm saying?
Okay, and what curcumin does according to this study, it protects the heart, the liver, the kidneys from. The lungs, even. This is what it's saying here, okay, from diabetes. Fifthly, it lowers triglycerides. Curcumin lowers triglycerides. What do you want to get low? Cholesterol? What do you want to get low? Cholesterol or triglycerides? Now, you guys know the answer to this, but I'm asking anyways, for the new folks that join us on a daily basis, what do you want to have low? Triglycerides, Annette. Yep. I'm doing a little test. Okay, Carol? Yep. Anybody else? Yep. Oh, my audience. Sherry and Anne and Cheryl and Yvette. I'm laughing inside because you guys are too smart. I can't fool you. Yeah, you all got it. Norma, Judy. Rita is saying, you want low A1C. Yeah, you want low A1C, but I was comparing triglycerides and cholesterol. What do you want? Low triglycerides. Curcumin, they said lowers that. And the sixth thing that it did in this study, it improves the function of beta cells. Now, beta cells is where your insulin comes from in your pancreas. Your beta cells, okay?
Okay, that was a study in the journal Cell Biochemistry, okay, on curcumin. Okay, here's another one. 116 teenage boys and girls were put into two categories, and half of them, half them out of 116 kids already had stage one hypertension, meaning that young people, they were starting that hill of high blood pressure. Kids, teenagers, boys and girls. Guys, if you think for one minute that we're winning the war in health. It's beyond me, okay? It's beyond me. 116, this was a study, 116 teenage boys and girls, half had high, the start of high blood pressure. And also the ones that had high blood pressure were already starting to have arterial stiffness. Their blood vessels, their arteries were losing their elasticity. The endothelial layer, the Teflon layer of their blood vessels in their arteries were becoming stiff. They were losing their slipperiness.
Guys. I read these studies and nothing shocks me anymore, but this is shocking. These young people, they had no idea. They were just put into a study. Their blood pressure was measured and half of them were already on. If you're 65 or whatever, probably 60, 70% of the population have some form of high blood pressure over the age of 65 or 70. Much more common. Certainly not good for you. It's never good to have high blood pressure. It's never good. Imagine at young people, and it's already starting to affect their vascular health. It's starting to affect their elasticity of their blood vessels. They're starting because that's the first step in atherosclerosis. Okay? Now, we spent a fair amount of time talking about atherosclerosis a couple of weeks ago. Remember, where has all the calcium gone?
Now, let me go on a little rabbit trail just for a sec. I'll come back, I promise. Okay. Yesterday, someone talked about vitamin K2, and their naturopath was concerned about vitamin K2 in vitamin D, and I don't understand it. Vitamin K2 puts calcium where it belongs. Vitamin K2 is important for hardening of the arteries. Atherosclerosis, I don't understand it. I know it's a fat soluble vitamin, but there's never been any, I've never seen in all my years, ever. I know why you're sick. You got too much vitamin K2. Vitamin K2 is found in butter. Vitamin K2 is found in dairy. Vitamin K2 is found in cheese. Vitamin K2 is found in eggs. Vitamin K2 is found in meat, and vitamin K2 is essential to get calcium out of your arteries and your soft tissue and put them in your bones where they belong. Calcium doesn't belong in your blood vessels, okay?
And okay, here's what they did with these kids. Okay, let me continue on. 116 teenage boys and girls, half had high blood pressure. It shocks me. The half that had high blood pressure were characterized by people who drank sweetened beverages, soda, fruit juices. They go to the mall and they get these fruit juices. All it is, is fructose. Sad. It's very sad. They were characterized by two things. They were big time sugar consumers, especially sweetened beverages, okay? Teas, iced teas, and they go into Starbucks and other coffee shops. You know me. You know how much I love coffee, and when I see young people in a coffee shop, I go, they're getting the memo from the Martin Clinic. They must be listening. Go get a coffee. It's good for you. But no, they're not drinking coffee. They're drinking these sweetened drinks that have more sugar in it than a Coke has or a Pepsi has. It's crazy.
And what they're showing is the direct association between those sweetened drinks and high blood pressure and arterial stiffness, the early signs of atherosclerosis. Wow. Wow. The other half that had normal blood pressure were people, two things. One, they didn't consume sweetened drinks, and two, they were exercising. The other group was sedentary. And also these 116, half of them, when they did cognitive performance tests, their cognitive tests were lower than the group that didn't drink the sweetened beverages and did exercise. Guys, what is our world going to? It's already 93% of the population have trouble with insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, which is characterized by high blood pressure, higher than normal blood sugar, higher levels of uric acid, low HDL, cholesterol, high triglycerides, belly fat.
Guys, what a world we live in. If we don't turn this ship around, all the tea in China, all the money in the world's not going to fix it. The answer is the elephant in the room right in front of us, and we get a study like this. Sad isn't it? It's sad, sweetened beverages. Don't let your young people, don't let your kids or your grandchildren drink that stuff. They want to drink a smoothie? Make it Dr. Martin's perfect smoothie. I'm going to prove that to you tomorrow with another study. Make it a Dr. Martin's perfect smoothie with cream, with cream. Fat and fat don't make you fat, dairy fat is good for you, okay? Dairy fat is good for you. You need protein, you need fat, and you want to lower carbohydrates, especially when they come in the form of sweetened drinks. The worst thing is that high fructose corn syrup that goes directly to the liver. Okay?
Okay, guys, we'll be back tomorrow, Lord willing, okay? Send in your questions for Friday. I gave you a little test this morning and you guys passed with flying colors. I'm telling you, I'm going to give you honorary degrees, okay? So stinking smart. That's my audience. Okay guys, we love you and we'll talk to you soon.
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