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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. Okay, let's get to the questions. Jerry is asking about vitamin B12. He's asking is there any truth that taking B12 helps to reduce mosquito bites? Well, I've heard it. I've heard it. Jerry's asking why? Well, B12 is good for everything. I mean people are so low in B12. I don't know Jerry, I mean one thing B12 does, it protects every nerve that you own the myelin sheet on your nerves. I don't know if B12, it's for that reason. I'm trying to think of others, but B12 is an essential vitamin. Okay? It's essential. People are very low on it, but I've heard the anecdotal evidence that B12 reduces mosquito bites. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know if any studies have been done, but I've heard that too. I don't know. Jerry. Not going to hurt you. You're going down to Costa Rica. I see.
And you want to look, bring your oil of oregano. Don't travel without it. Bring your probiotics. Don't travel without those two for sure. Okay, Jerry, thank you. Nancy wondered about my thoughts on wax candles that have essential oils in them. I like essential oils. I don't know. Some people are bothered by essential oils, fragrances, even natural ones, like essential oils. I like them. Some people are bothered by any fragrance. Is there any benefit to putting that in the air? I don't know. I like oil of oregano. Any other oil? No. Eucalyptus. My dad used to use a lot of that on sinuses and he loved eucalyptus. One of are my thoughts on it. Hey, go for it. If you like it, go for it. How much benefits you're getting from that? I'm not sure. Okay. I'm not sure. Leary is asking what foods that are supposedly anti iron.
Well, I'm going to tell you what's pro iron Foods that are pro iron are red meat, liver, steak, roast beef, hamburger, white, some pork because of heme iron, HEME, heme iron. That's the best iron. That's the iron that your body likes the best, okay? It's the most bioavailable iron. Now there are antinutrients. I have a whole chapter in my book, sun Steak and steel about antinutrients, that sort of chelate, even iron and those are in the plant kingdom. Now does that mean you can't have any plants? No, of course not. I'm not for that. If people like strictly a carnivore diet type carnivore, which has got lots of ink these days and very popular carnivore diets I like. Obviously I do like temporarily carnivore diets. Now if you can, and it's actually good for you if you stay on a carnivore diet, especially people with autoimmune and whatever, but I'm more on a level of thinking.
I like some fruits and some vegetables. My rule of thumb is that you don't live on that stuff. That doesn't mean you can't have it, and I know a lot of people just love their vegetables and love their fruit. Hey, I'm all right with that, but you have to understand that you don't get the iron. Some of those vegetables are actually anti iron to some extent, but I don't care if you have some vegetables. I really don't. I don't care if you have fruits. I don't want you to live on them. The sweeter fruits like bananas and that you sparingly because my overarching principle when it comes to food is insulin and insulin resistance. That's the key. Okay? That's the key. And you want to have the most nutritious orientated diet that you can have with the most macros, the most protein, the most bioavailable protein and amino acids, the most minerals, the most essential vitamins. That's in the animal kingdom, guys. So I teach that. I've always taught it. I will continue to teach it because the world has it upside down. They have plants, fruits and vegetables and grains at the top of the list. That's not should be the top of the list. I'm not big on grains too much either, but again, when you ask me questions like that, I'm not a carnivore, okay? Strictly carnivore. I like carnivore. I talk carnivore before they even called it carnivore.
Okay? I'm big on the animal kingdom guys, and you guys know that. I emphasize it. It ought to be the most important part of your diet. Eggs, meat and cheese. Dairy, don't ditch dairy. Switch dairy. You can have yogurt, plain yogurt. Somebody asked the other day, why is there sugar in plain yogurt? Well, it's because of the lactose milk naturally has some sugar in it. It's not a high amount, but the problem is today when you go to the grocery store and you get milk, it's denatured. Why is that? Well, first of all, it's pasteurized at a very high temperature and then second of all, they take the fat out of it, and when I was a little kid, milk had a lot of fat in it. You have to shake the bottles, and it was only in the late sixties and the seventies, they started coming out with this skim milk and fat free milk and all that.
That was the worst thing you could do to milk, and now it became white Pepsi, very sugary and devoid of fat. You see, fat don't make you fat and fat don't give you a cholesterol. Okay, well, it gives you cholesterol, but it's good for you anyway. Okay? You guys know that I repeat, repeat, repeat and leery. The question was are there vegetables that are anti iron? Yelp? I wouldn't worry about it too much, but don't live on them and you'll be fine and eat a lot of meat and you'll get a lot of iron. Okay, Shelly, what diet is best for a nursing mother? Eggs, meat and cheese. That's the best diet for a nursing mother. You got all the nutrients, you got all the protein, you got all your vitamins, eggs, meat and cheese. Nursing mom, baby gets that, okay, baby gets that. That's the best diet.
And you can add some fruit. You can add some vegetables. I've got no problem with that. Nursing mom, baby will like, but the key is that protein, the key is that healthy fat. Okay? You want those fat soluble vitamins, mom, they're in the fat foods, eggs, meat and cheese. That's where you get your fat soluble vitamins. Vitamin A baby needs that Vitamin D baby needs that. Vitamin K two baby needs that. Okay, and best for baby and mom. Yep, both. Okay. Linda, what does Dr. Martin think of Ozempic? Well, I call it a designer drug. Linda, very popular. Now you can hardly get it. It's so popular. It was a medication designed for diabetes. You get weight loss with seppic. It can be pretty dramatic, but BUT. But lots of problems with ozempic, lots of problems with those designer. Weight loss drugs. Hollywood made them famous and now you can hardly get at it because so many millions of people.
Because people, what they want is magic, okay? Weight loss, they want magic and it works. The problem is, and this is facts, you lose weight, but you lose muscle and not fat metabolically, that's not good for you, okay? And I can understand the frustration. Listen, I've been in the nutrition business for 50 years. I understand when people have trouble losing weight and they're big and they want something that works. The problem is it can destroy your stomach. The problem is down the road, I'm telling you, I'm telling you, you're going to see a multitude of cancers come and all sorts of problems with that medication because it's exactly that. It's a medication. It affects the peristalsis, it affects your microbiome. It's got legion amount of side effects, and it's not even aiming at like if it was losing fat rather than muscle. Muscle. Metabolically is one of the greatest things that you could use in your body.
When you know me, I've been talking about muscle and the endocrinology of it. It's like you have another organ, you have another hormone organ that's on your side. If you have muscle, it makes a huge difference. We live in a different world. We live in a world full of sugar. We live in a world that's insulin, insulin, insulin and insulin resistance and all the chronic diseases that come from that. And you have something in your body that we didn't even know about 50 years ago, how good it was you. You have muscle and the more muscle you have, the better it is for you. Sun, steak and steel, what is steel? Muscle build muscle. Endocrine wise, it's one of your best friends. Its stores glucose into glycogen. It's a storing place. It'll help you to resist insulin resistance. It'll help your pancreas, it'll help your liver.
It takes away from your liver. It takes fat away from your liver. Why? Because your body will store it. As long as you have muscles, it'll store it in your muscles. When you are making glycogen and then you have a weight loss drug that yeah, you lose weight, but you lose muscle. You don't want that. You don't want that. So I know it's popular, but you can't convince me that it's good for you. I'm not convinced. Like I said, I feel sorry for people. I do. I'm on your side, but I have to warn it's not the panacea that they claim it is and they're already proving me right when we go down the road of this or they're going to prove me even more, right? I wish I was wrong, but I know I'm right about it. That's what I think of Ozempic and wavy and others.
Okay, Marilyn, what do you suggest for peri oral dermatitis? Well, look, what does it come from? If you have peri oral is around your mouth, peri oral around the mouth and you get dermatitis, which is inflammation of the skin and usually red, patchy red bumps and stuff around the mouth. When I see that, usually one you got leaky gut 100%, you better fix that. I've often seen peri oral dermatitis with people. Low B12, low vitamin D. Okay, those things and leaky gut fix, patch it up. Okay, new study on I saw the other day, maybe I'll bring it out this week on Cursin and leaky gut helps to repair it. Leaky gut, but you can't do it without probiotics either. Okay, patch it up. Okay, that was Marilyn. Dorothy is asking, what is the name of a bacteria you get in the hospital? C diff.
It's actually Dorothy. Easy to remember. Think of difficult, difficult to kill. C deficit. That is the bacteria that you find in hospitals. I've always said this, where is the most dangerous place to go? Your local hospital, not the Middle East, your hospital. Now listen, don't get this wrong. Now I'm going to put a little disclaimer. Of course, when you're sick and you're hospitalized, thank God for hospitals. True or false? Of course that's true. So don't think Dr. Martin is crazy when he says the most dangerous place in the world is your local hospital, but it's you go in, your immune system is already compromised. Generally you go in for surgery or you go in for whatever, and c difficile is found in there and there's a couple of reasons for it. One, here's me, here's me. You're in there. Your immune system's already compromised, okay? Number two is the overuse of antibiotics. Where do they use a lot of antibiotics in the hospital? You can't blame them. They're worried about infection. The problem is you get a double-edged sword. Yeah, it kills bacteria, but now the bacteria, they resist it and they build a coating and they resist the antibiotic. That's what c difficile is. It's a antibiotic resistant bacteria. It kills thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people every year found almost exclusively in the hospital. That's why I say that.
And if I had anything to do with hospital administration, I would be giving every patient that came in, probiotics, vitamin D, and I mean massive doses. You're in the hospital you need, and they could test it in two minutes, but they don't do it, but they should. I would be giving you vitamin D. I would be giving you vitamin A, okay, D, NA, okay? Not your DNA, but vitamin D and A for your immune system if you're in the hospital to fight C difficile and to get you better probiotics, vitamin D, vitamin A. And I'd have oil of oregano around everywhere in a hospital. You want to clean, clean with oil of oregano. That's the other thing they do. They over clean in the hospital. I know guys. Okay, we talked about this before. You've got your body and then you have outside bacteria. So I'm big on getting your body resistant to infection, building your body's immune system.
You know that. I talk about that all the time. On the other hand, one of the things we have to live with bacteria, and I don't like cleaners, and this is what they do. All the chemicals and all the xenoestrogen cleaners that they use, especially in the hospital, no wonder they're super bugs. So thank you for the question. That was Dorothy, and I was mentioning the C difficile in regards to PPIs. Well, there's C difficile and then the other one that I mentioned with PPIs is H pylori. So C difficile is pretty well in the hospital. That's where you get that h pylori. Everybody in my opinion, has h pylori, but most of the time it's dormant. It's almost like a herpes virus. You get the chicken pox, you got a herpes virus, but it's supposed to be dormant. It's just in your body. Your body codes it and goes, okay, go to sleep Now, don't come back.
Stay there. Stay asleep until your immune system not working. Then you get the herpes. But the same thing with h pylori, okay? You have it everybody, in my opinion, everybody has it, but it should stay dormant. If you have good stomach acidity, that's the key. You see, even your stomach acidity is a huge part of your immune system. If you have a very, very acidic stomach, really acidic, well, no bacteria can get past that. H pylori can do anything. Even c difficile has trouble bypassing the stomach. That is very acidic. The problem is most people today, because of their diet, they don't eat the right foods. Their sugarholic, their carbo holics, their pH goes up in their stomach and that's not good. One of your major lines of defense in your body's immune system is your stomach. God gave you a stomach that's got more acidity in it than a lion has.
Okay? As far as I know, lions only eat meat, but we have even more acidity than a lion because we're supposed to eat meat. And because we got away from it and people meet Dr. Martin, that's acidic. No, it ain't. It'll make your stomach more acidic. You have more of an acidic stomach. Guess what? You are going to fight infection a lot better. All sorts of infections that come in through your mouth and your nose, your eyes, and you got a defense in your stomach that that stuff doesn't get passed. And even food poisoning. Think of it, salmonella and others. If you have a good acidity in your stomach, you got a good chance you'll never get sick from that kind of stuff. Anyhoo, did I answer your question, Dorothy? Okay, I think I'm just about done here, Linda. We love Linda's. I was told that with my blood work, I have too many red blood cells and my blood is thick as molasses and to stop eating red meat and eat more veggies.
You know what, Linda? I just got a migraine from your question. I'm not blaming you. I'm glad you sent in the question, but I just got a migraine when I hear your red blood cells. Well, you've got too many red blood cells, eat less red meat. Well, let me say one thing. Am I ever glad? Am I ever happy they acknowledge that red meat has something to do with your red blood cells? Sure it does, but it ain't because you're eating too much red meat that you're getting too thick of blood. Number one, cause of thick blood is a lack of H too old. That's the number one cause never ever, ever seen a case. And I used to measure this. I've never seen a case. I know what's your problem? You eat too much meat and your blood is too thick. That is silly.
And that comes from people that don't know a thing about nutrition that's silliness. So you want healthy blood, eggs, meat and cheese, the most nutrient dense food, okay? It's the way it is if you're not dehydrated, okay, Linda, if you're not dehydrated and you're drinking enough water and you're getting some electrolytes in your water, make sure, like I said, that's the number one cause it's the way you are built and your bone marrow, your spleen making red blood cells and they're thick. It's the way you're built. It'll be good if you ever get a cut because you'll clot up real quick, but you don't want thick blood like that. So make sure you thin it out and make sure you have enough nitric oxide. Keep your blood vessels open. Lots of water. Nitric oxide. I love navit all. That's the first thing I would have you on. Okay, Louise. Why is it when a person walks the knee bends quick every time it happens just in one leg and the foot hits the floor and they keep walking? I don't know. Louise, I dunno. Is it clicking what happened?
I don't know. Yeah, I need more detail than that. Louise. I don't know how to even answer that question. Okay, I think I have everything else that has been done. Yeah, I think so. Guys, thanks for the questions. We appreciate it. We love you guys more than you know. Okay, and what's Friday question and answer Friday. So I got a lot of studies to, we are going to talk about this week, but if you want your questions asked on the Friday and often Monday podcast, then send it into info@martinclinic.com. Give us your feedback. We love it. Thank you for being such good friends to the Martin Clinic. And if you're not part of the private Facebook group, then please join there. Okay? Please join there. We love to have you. Okay, talk to you soon.
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