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Dr. Martin:Â Well, good morning everyone, and once again, welcome to another live this morning. Hope you're having a great start to your day and we certainly appreciate everyone coming on with us. Okay guys, this is a you s adult study on gout Now, really, really interesting. I think you guys will appreciate this study. It says, okay, first of all, here's the headline, okay, here's the headline. Gout is a major health concern in the USA and the reason they're saying it is because the numbers of people getting gout is really gone up big time. Okay? Now here's the interesting thing they said about this study. This is new guys, okay? This is new that if they look at blood tests, nevermind uric acid, but something that's associated with it. This is fascinating. They say in this study that insulin resistance is a major factor in gout. Insulin resistance is a major factor in gout, and they said the way they measured this insulin resistance is taking triglycerides, and we talk about triglycerides all the time on this program. They took triglycerides and glucose fasting numbers, put the triglycerides together, glucose fasting, and as triglycerides went up and glucose fasting went up, the sign of insulin resistance, gout goes up. Now guys, this is interesting study because listen, when you look at gout, I mean you go to any, Google it if you want. Okay, Google it. What are they going to tell you? Almost invariably that gout is a purine problem.
You're eating purines that gives you gout. This major study is saying no, what gives you gout more than anything else is insulin resistance. Now, true or false, we at the Martin Clinic, we at the doctors in podcast have been saying for years that we should include uric acid in metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is insulin resistance or high circulating insulin. I've been saying that for a long time and if you Google it, oh, gout is purines. When I was in school, it was the rich man's disease. It was the king's disease, only the king got it. The peasants didn't. The king got gout and gout has been well established by the way, guys for centuries and centuries, okay, well established, but they always said, well, it's the rich man's disease. He was eating too much steak. Nah, that wasn't the case. The king was drinking too much wine and beer and insulin and liver has a major effect on gout.
Okay? Now you can have high uric acid levels and not get gout. Everybody makes uric acid by the way. Okay, everybody, it's a byproduct of the Krebs cycle. It's a byproduct of fructose, but this major study says gout is a major health concern today. The numbers are not getting better, they're getting worse. And they wanted to figure out, okay, at the end of the day, why is it getting worse? Meat consumption is down 30%, and when they looked at it, they found out if they, your triglycerides, blood fats, tg, triglycerides. Now again, everybody makes triglycerides, but when triglycerides go up, that's not good. The triglycerides go up when your liver is full of fat and the body has to get rid of that fat somehow, so it sends out fat balls into the bloodstream. Now, doctors, we talked about this yesterday, doctors have been focused in on cholesterol for a long time, a long time, and I'm not optimistic that that's ever going to change.
They just got this, can't help it to look at cholesterol. Where I like to look at cholesterol too, but for different reasons, I like to look and make sure your cholesterol is high, not low, high. I want you to have low triglycerides. I want you to have high cholesterol higher than your triglycerides, that's for sure, okay? And there's a reason for that because if you have low triglycerides, it usually tells you that your insulin is good. Now, especially if you take your triglycerides and measure your A1C, I'm big on they're doing glucose fasting. You can do insulin fasting, but I'm really big on A1C. I like A1C because I've just determined over the years that A1C, which is an average of your blood sugar over a three or four month period, glycated hemoglobin A1C, it's when sugar attaches itself to your hemoglobin in your red blood cells, you can measure it.
And if you're above 5.4, which is certainly normal to doctors, but it's not normal to me, I know that if you're above 5.4 you are developing insulin resistance. And some people think it's even lower than that, but my sweet spot of all the years I was in practice and looking at blood work, I just sort of figured out, yeah, 5.4 on an A1C, you're right on the line there. If you're under that, good for you. If you're over that, you got insulin resistance. Okay, so a US adult study, people that are really looking at gout and questioning, they're questioning the narrative on, they're questioning the medical textbooks on gout. What causes it?
Why is it going up and up and up to the point that these researchers have said it's a major health concern in our society today. We're not beating it. We're losing the war on gout. And I'll tell you something else. Most people that have high uric acid levels, they don't even get gout, but they got dangerously high uric acid levels, meaning that the body is not flushing out. Your kidneys are meant to flush out that uric acid, and if you're not, that creates an inflammatory response. And again, why do you get elevated levels? Insulin, it's food and it ain't steak.
It's not steak, it's sugar, it's not steak, it's sugar gout. Major study. Now that's a headline. Good luck changing the narrative. Will this filter down to physicians, family physicians or whatever? Nah, probably not. And so their treatment is if you've got gout, you're on urinal medication to lower uric acid, but it's not getting at the root problem, change the diet, okay, change the diet. This is new research guys on gout. Why is it getting so bad? As long as mankind has been around, really there's been gout, but it's worse than ever. Okay, and why? Okay, so that's one. This is sort of headline Tuesday. Now 90%, this is another study. This is really interesting to me. It doesn't surprise me even one bit, but I found it interesting. Brand new study on vitamin D. Have you ever heard of vitamin D? Okay, I know you have and we talk about it all the time.
And if you listen to the powers to be our powers that are in the world today, they're scared, skinny of vitamin D, first of all, they're scared skinny of the sun, okay? Dermatologists haven't done the world a favor at all. As a matter of fact, they've made the world a lot more dangerous. I hate to say it, but they really have because they've always talked and they sing like a choir, that the sun will kill you, the sun will give you cancer, and the sunscreen is part of healthcare. No, it's not. It's the opposite. Anyways, listen to this study. 90% of adults, 90% of children in North America here, the headline are below acceptable levels of vitamin D in the bloodstream. Now guys, my motto has been for vitamin D are one of my mottos is test. Don't guess.
There's a lot of things that bug me, guys, you know that you can hardly get tested for vitamin D. If there was a test that the government, if there was a test that every doctor should routinely get and demand is that we all get our vitamin D levels, our D hydroxy 25, we should get that tested once or twice a year minimum. And in Canada where we have universal healthcare, the government should pay for it if the doctor orders it. Now, two things. One, you can't get a doctor to order it because the only thing they think of generally, okay, is not vitamin D and your health, they think of vitamin D and your bone health. That's all. It's for your bones. Why do you want to get your vitamin D levels checked? You don't have osteoporosis. You know how many thousands of patients told me that? My doctor said, why do you want to get your vitamin D levels checked? Because if you got low levels of vitamin D, you're going to die young.
That's the equation in medicine. Vitamin D is essential for your health. Now you guys know that I'm preaching to the choir, but nonetheless, this study comes out and says 90% of the population, I always said it too, didn't I, didn't I 80, 90% between B12 and vitamin D People just don't get enough of it. They just don't, and I don't want to guess. I'd like you to test folks. If you want to invest in your health, then pay for the test if you have to. Vitamin D, here's the study, 90% of adults and 90% of children, so that means everybody, 90% are low in vitamin D. Here's the acceptable levels of vitamin D, okay? Now, again, this is important guys, because what a doctor will say is normal isn't always ideal, okay? These are good numbers. Now listen, if you are below 40 to 60, nng, M, L, that's American numbers, nng ml 40 to 60 in the US of eight, if you are below 40 might be considered normal, but it's not, not your immune system not working properly.
If you're below 40, your immune system will not work properly because you're a solar panel, your brain to your toes solar panel, and you need vitamin D for it to operate at optimize levels. Your immune system just won't operate properly unless you in the American numbers are above 40 NG ml. In Canada, it's between a hundred and 150, a hundred being the lowest number acceptable. NMOL dash large L, okay? NMOL, okay? That's how we measure in Canada, the vitamin D in the United States, it's NGML. Don't get into the weeds. If you get it tested, either country you're in, look at your numbers because you'll be in the 90% of the population if you're under 40 in the United States. I like it at 60 by the way, and up me that's optimized, but I'm just going to follow this study, and in Canada, minimum bare minimum 100 and they go to one 50. I like one 50 and up, okay? That's my sweet spot. If you read my book, sun Steak and Steel, I talk about those numbers on vitamin D, okay? The sun.
The sun. Now this summer where I live, we got lots of sun. It's been wonderful. It's not always the case. And guess what? Fall is coming in Canada. What does that mean? Not a lot of sun, okay? Not a lot of sun. I don't worry about climate as much as I worry about sun. I don't care about that temperature as much as I care about that sun up in the sky and it won't be long. I'll be taking a supplement of vitamin D guys. I know it's repetition, repetition, repetition, but this study is saying it's unreal, the low levels of vitamin D, and that's because we are scared skinny of the sun, and now there's a war on vitamin D as a supplement. They're all so concerned that people will be overdosing on vitamin D. How about underdosing on vitamin D? How about underdosing? If we understood like you guys do, the importance of vitamin D in the immune system, the importance of vitamin D for your brain, the importance of vitamin D for your heart, the importance of vitamin D for nitric oxide, your blood vessels, the importance of vitamin D.
I tell you guys, I'm going to say something here and I'm telling you that you'd almost eradicate cancer with vitamin D, but I know it's not going to happen because it's too hard to get people to change their minds on vitamin D to change their minds about the sun. I was like John the Baptist screaming in the wilderness for 50 years on the sun. Everybody, especially my parents generation, get out of the sun, get out of the sun, use sunscreen, never go in the sun without sunscreen, and I used to scream in 20 minutes, you get 10,000 IUs. At least get that your eyeballs need sun. Now, don't look directly in it, but if you want to increase your melatonin levels, you don't take melatonin, you get the sun, your body makes melatonin, your eyeballs. Why do you think you feel so much better when the sun's out?
Guys, come on. Oh, I like when it's rainy and gloomy. I'm not saying we need rain too, but I'm just saying guys, okay, two new studies and I got more, boy. Oh boy, oh boy. There's so much research that I look at every day that just sometimes I just get overwhelmed. The one on gout, I said it. I've been saying it for so long. Gout is an insulin problem. It's not a purine problem, it's an insulin problem and vitamin D, we are extremely low in the world. Extremely low because we've been given a boatload of lies about the sun and the dangers of it. It's amazing to me those numbers again, okay, I'll post it. By the way, 40 to 60 nng ml, which is the American numbers and Canadian numbers, 100 to 150 NMOL, capital L dash capital L, okay? And don't get in the weeds. You don't have to just know some certain numbers, guys.
Anywho, somebody is saying they're trying to block the sun. You want to give me a migraine? Our world is so crazy, I just can't get over it. The stupidity of the imagine blocking the sun. My word sun, steak and steal. Have you got the book? Get the book. Okay, guys, let me give you a little, I'm going to post this too. I just did a podcast with Lisa Fisher. Okay, Lisa Fisher. I just did a podcast on cortisol. I'm going to post it on our private Facebook group and anywhere else I can post it if you want to listen to that, okay? It was on the Lisa Fisher podcast and we talked about cortisol. I'll think you find it very interesting, so I'm going to post that if I can. You're asking a lot from me for me to do stuff online, okay? Okay, guys, we got a great week. Come and get your questions in for a question and answer Friday. Talk to you soon.
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