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Dr. Martin:Â Well, good morning everyone. Once again, welcome to another live this morning and hope you're having a great start to your day. We certainly are, and hope you've had your coffee, vitamin C, the real one. Now let's get back to these questions. Okay, like my shirt, like my shirt, eggs, meat and cheese. That's always the answer. Eggs, meat, and cheese. Okay, now let's get to the questions here. This is from Dale. Dr. Martin, have you viewed any reports regarding turbo cancer? I've read many, many reports on turbo cancer. Look, you know, my overarching principle on cancer, we're not winning cancer's worse than ever. We've developed some new treatments that probably are a little bit promising, but at the end of the day, let's be honest, we really haven't made a dent in cancer, and cancer is still killing way too many people, and it seems from the research I've been looking at, I know that's happening, but I really think the government, I'm hoping, okay, I don't know if this is going to happen or not.
I can imagine the pushback. I'm cautiously optimistic on people now looking into everything that happened during the virus, everything that happened, and at the end of the day, we shut the world down. I was not happy about that. You guys know that I was preaching that if we would just give everybody and their dog vitamin D, I felt it would be superior to anything else, and I meant it. I was dead serious about it, and it turns out I was right about that. One of the consequences I think has been a cancer and taking off and young people, especially getting these turbo cancers and no fun. I'm hoping that there's going to be like a real commission on us looking at all of this just so it never happens again. Do I think it was because of the vaccine and all that? I don't know.
I can't be 100% sure, but all I know is that there's a lot of evidence that seems to point at that, but I think we need to look into it, don't you? I think we have to be transparent and have a look and see what happened. What were some of the regulations, what was behind all this and all that. Look, I know it's controversial, but you guys know me. I never stopped through the whole time of shutting the world down, talking about what I thought would be very, very inexpensive, and getting people's immune system built up and taking care of oneself, okay? About wearing the real mask, vitamin A, vitamin D, and vitamin A. Okay, thank you for the question. And that was Dale, right? Yep. Anna, I think I have silent reflux. Yeah, you and millions of others. I've done the reset and low carb for four years.
Sometimes it's better, sometimes it's worse. Clearing throat and a lot of phlegm. Done a lot of research and came across Dr. Aviv. Okay? I don't know him or her, and he said, okay, it's a him. Eggs and meat and cheese or coffee are high in acidic on the chart and make it worse. Okay, well, here's where I disagree with Dr. Aviv. In all due respect, coffee, eggs, meat and cheese are not acidic, are not acidic. Now, they may be slightly acidic on a chart, but you have to understand, and Anna, I mean this, you have to understand something. Your body has the ability to make foods alkaline.
So when you have silent reflux, by the way, acid reflux, silent acid reflux, here's what that's caused by. I think it's important to go through all of this. You're asking a very good question and you're bringing up something that I've been talking about for over 40 years, and that is why we have so much acid reflux today, whether it is silent or not, the number one reason we have so much acid reflux is not because we're eating eggs, meat, cheese, and drinking coffee. It's not that at all. As a matter of fact, we're eating less of that than we used to 40 years ago. We're eating less meat, we're eating less eggs, we're eating less cheese than we used to 40 years ago. Why are we so acidic or acidic reflux? Because we don't have enough acidity. You guys know this. I talk about this all the time.
You use the acidity in your stomach or you lose it, use it or lose it. Just like your gallbladder. Use your gallbladder, eat fat, and if you don't, you're going to lose your gallbladder almost invariably. Why do we have so much acid reflux? Because we don't use our stomach for what it was designed to eat. You know what your stomach was designed to eat, to eat eggs, meat and cheese, not to live on vegetables. Your stomach isn't made for that. I'm not saying you can't have any. I'm just telling you, you don't need a lot of acidity for vegetables. You're not a cow. A cow has four stomachs so that they eat grass, they eat grass, they need four stomachs. If you're eating vegetables and fruit and carbohydrates and grains, you don't need a lot of acidity for that, but your stomach was designed to be more acidic than even a lions.
You need acidity in your stomach, okay? You got it. You need acidity. We don't use it. We lose it. Then you get acid reflux because if your stomach and your body is fearfully and wonderfully made, if your body senses that your stomach acidity is not acidic enough, proton pumps start producing more acidity. You know what happens with that? Goes up your esophagus. You can have it belching and indigestion and acid coming up, or you can have the silent type, okay? You can have the silent type, which you got to understand that first part before I tell you about the second part, okay? So let's follow a piece of steak for a minute, okay? And Dr. Aviv says, well, that makes your acidity in your stomach worse. No, he's actually wrong on that, and here's why. Let's follow a piece of steak. You eat steak, okay, let's follow it.
Get gets into your stomach. It's full of protein and fat, okay? Not carbs, full of protein and fat. Exactly. Designed the way your body is meant to eat, live on protein and fat, saturated fat, which is very, very good for you. So here's what happens. Gets into your stomach, and if your stomach is working properly the way it should has a lot of acidity in the stomach, and the only place you want to be very acidic is in your stomach right there, okay? To break down that protein and fat, break it down into amino acids and break that fat down, and then it gets into the small intestine where your body produces bile and sodium bicarbonate. Baking soda. Baking soda to do what? Turn that alkaline once it's been mulched up, okay? You don't want that acidity coming into your small intestine, but your body has bile.
It alkalizes your small intestine, baking soda, alkalizes your small intestine. You don't want baking soda in your stomach. You want acidity in your stomach. When steak gets to the small intestine, guess what happens? It becomes more alkaline, not acidic. Coffee's not acidic. Once it gets to your small intestine becomes alkaline. Your body knows exactly what to do. So I push back against Dr. Aviv. I don't know him, but I push back. I understand because I got taught too. Red meat is acidic, coffee is acidic, cheese is acidic. That makes it bad. No, it doesn't. No, it doesn't. You have to understand there's no food in the world that has got as many vitamins, minerals, protein, amino acids than a steak. Nothing in the universe has that except a liver. I don't like liver, so I don't talk about it, okay? There's nothing on the planet that is better for you.
Eggs are not acidic when they get into the small intestine, not even one bit. So the problem is in the stomach, Anna, the problem is in your stomach, and I don't know you and I don't know, you've been eating good for the last, I don't know. What did you say here for the last four years? Well continue to do it, but I guarantee you, if you have a silent acid reflux, you weren't eating like that before that, and you change the acidity in your stomach, instead of becoming very acidic, your stomach became more alkaline. You didn't want that. Your body wasn't designed for that, and that's why we see people that live on sugar and carbohydrates. One of the biggest problems they have is acid reflux, silent or otherwise, and you have no idea, Anna, how many tens of thousands of people over the years that when they changed their diet and they went to eggs, meat, and cheese.
Not only that, but that's primarily what they were eating. Their stomachs got a lot better. You are not meant to live on vegetables and fruit. You're not. You're not meant to live on the plant kingdom. You're not a rabbit. You don't even have cellulase, which is an enzyme that breaks down fruits and vegetables. You don't have it. You don't make it. Now, that doesn't mean you can't have any. I'm not saying that, okay? I'm not saying that, but that at the end of the day has been the biggest issue. It's the biggest issue when it comes to your stomach, and I've been screaming this for a long time because I know biochemistry, and that's how your body works. You weren't given an acidity between 1.5 and three for nothing. Think about it. Anyway, I know I get charged up, but I'm glad Anna asked the question.
Like I said, I don't know this Dr. Aviv, but he wouldn't be the first, nor will he be the last to tell people that eggs, meat, and cheese are acidic and that's what makes it bad. No, it doesn't. No, it doesn't. Your body has an enormous ability to turn foods alkaline once they get past your stomach. You have to understand pH because a lot of people make a living telling people about pH and they don't know what they're talking about. I'm sorry. Oh, Dr. Martin, what about cancer? Cancer can't live in an alkaline environment, but your body has the tremendous ability, first of all, your blood. It doesn't allow hardly any change, and your body is slightly alkaline when it comes to your blood, and it's only when you get ketoacidosis when you're dying. That's how a doctor knows pretty well that you're on your way out.
You become ketoacidosis, and that's not ketosis. That's ketoacidosis. Completely different. Okay, thanks for the question. Much, much appreciated. Maj, why do I feel bunched up socks under my toes? You get that feeling? Well, you got the start, I believe of neuropathy maj. That's what neuropathy is like, and one of the things I did in the conference for doctors of natural medicine, I was teaching what happens insulin downstream, okay? Meaning that, okay, so often we, before any kind of diagnosis of diabetes, you get signs of insulin resistance downstream. One of them is neuropathy. Now you can get diabetic neuropathy and you're already a diabetic and you get neuropathy, nerve pain, but a lot of people get neuropathy and they have no idea why they get neuropathy, but that's often because sugar, the first thing that it destroys is blood vessels and blood vessels feed your nerves, blood vessels feed your nerves.
So when those little capillaries get affected because of sugar, it can have an effect downstream like in your toes. It can have an effect on your skin. It can have an effect on your liver. It can have an effect on your kidneys. It can have an effect on your brain. Way before diabetes, way before diabetes. Diabetes are the last thing to happen because your body is dedicated to regulating your blood sugar. It's dedicated to it. Your body knows that sugar is toxic. The world doesn't know it, but your body knows it. Your body doesn't trust sugar at all, and it won't allow it to stay in your bloodstream. Why? Because it'll destroy your blood vessels, and that's why even downstream people get trouble with their eyes. They have no idea. Well, sugar destroys eyeballs because it destroys the circulation way sometimes way before the diagnosis of diabetes.
People, they walk around, they have no idea because, oh, my blood sugar is normal. That don't mean nothing. Okay? Thank you for the question match. Lynn is asking a very, very, very, very good question. Okay, Lynn, what are you asking? Is TSH important thyroid stimulating hormone? Is it important? Yeah, it's important, but it's important to understand. Again, here's Martin Clinic teaching on the thyroid. I'm going to put it in a nutshell for you, okay? I'm going to put it in a nutshell for you. TSHI like looking at, and if you buy my book, sun, steak and Steel, where is it? Right here. And by the way, it's in its second print we've sold out, okay? The good news is it's coming back, okay? It's in print as we speak. Sun, steak and steel. This is going to make a great Christmas gift. We should have it back in stock very, very soon.
Very, very soon. We sold out guys, and I thank you for that. Okay? Sun steak and steel and sleep, but in here I have a chapter on blood tests. I talk about the TSH, and it's just Dr. Martin's 50 years, a little bit less than that of experience of looking at blood work. I looked at tens of thousands more than that, a patient's blood work over the years, and I found a little secret when it comes to your TSH, it's in the book. It's a little clinical experience, but let me give you a little teaching on the thyroid this morning, okay? Okay, with bullets, TSH is important, but it's not everything. Why is that? Because the thyroid is a puppet. Now, here's what's more important than your TSH symptoms, okay? Symptoms, because you can have slightly elevated TSH numbers and your doctor will say, well, that's normal. It's still within normal range, but remember, the thyroid numbers are from here to eternity, okay? I don't rely on numbers, although like I said, with my experience, I found there's a little secret sauce when it comes to the TSH, and it's almost always true, but it's never true without looking at symptoms.
My dad taught me that if it walks like a duck, it talks like a duck. It's a duck. If your thyroid is not functioning properly, you'll have the following symptoms. Maybe all of them. Some of them do and maybe some of them, but I always, when you came into my office, you wouldn't see me until you filled out a questionnaire, and then you'd come into the office and I would observe. I would look. You were in my space. A lady told me that once. She said, Dr. Martin, you're in my space. I said, no, no. You're in my space, and when I get close to you, because I'm looking at your eyebrows, I'm looking at your hair, I'm looking at your skin, I'm looking at your eyes. I want you to stick out your tongue at me. I'm looking at your tongue. I observe, oh, doctors, the art of medicine is being lost today because they're on their computers and they ain't looking.
It bothers me. Anyw who? Dry skin, hair loss, eyebrows, thinning hair loss. Now, men, who cares if a man loses hair? Who cares? We're from another planet. It don't mean nothing. I had so much hair until I was about 50, and it started thinning out. Jeepers. But women, ladies, never normal unless you're 80 and above. It's never normal. Do they have a thinning hair? Your hair is your glory. The Bible says, and that's true, a woman's hair. I used to look, I used to watch constipation. How many women cry out Dr. Martin? I'm constipated. Well, the thyroid has a lot to do with that because the thyroid is your gas pedal. Your thyroid is your metabolism. Even the peristalsis, you know what that is? You got little hairs in your bowel that's moving the feces along, okay? I hate to gross you out, but even then, they don't move properly and you can get constipated, okay?
Yeah. With the sluggish, I used to call it a sluggish thyroid. It's not diseased. It's sluggish, not working at the rate it should. A loss of appetite. For some people, even though they're not eating that much, they have weight gain, they're gaining weight, they look at food and gain weight. They don't even have to eat it. You know how many women that came into my office, I mean, they were gaining weight and weren't eating, and they're always mad at their husband. He is losing weight. I eat less than him. I told you men are from another planet. Ladies, don't compare yourself to them. Okay? We got our own issues, but we rarely have thyroid issues. We do get it, but not like you do because the thyroid is a puppet and it's connected. It's connected to your ovaries, man. It's not connected to our testosterone, but you ladies, your thyroid is connected to your ovaries, your estrogen and progesterone, big time, okay? Loss of appetite, weight gain, brain fog, even the brain ain't operating properly. Everything's slowing down. Anxiety, okay? I used to watch for that. Fatigue, irritated easily. Okay? Those were the symptoms of hypothyroid, low functioning thyroid. What causes that? Well, like I said, horror hormones, too much estrogen, not enough progesterone, okay? Oh, by the way, another one in pre menopause, irregular periods, what causes the thyroid to slow down to AC crawl? Let me give you a few.
Remember, the thyroid is a puppet. It's got a lot of strings attached. Number one reason in women is too much estrogen, not enough progesterone. It's an imbalance at the ovary level, and that can happen, by the way, with the birth control pill. Too many women are put on the birth control pill given estrogen, disrupting that balance between estrogen and progesterone, okay? Don't shoot the messenger. I'm just telling you what I saw over the years. Stress too much cortisol over a period of time. You know what cortisol does? Cortisol robs your progesterone. Ladies stress over a period of time, we'll slow that thyroid to a crawl. Why? Because your progesterone is down to almost zero and your estrogen, even if you think, oh, I don't have a lot of estrogen. My doctor said, I don't have a lot of estrogen. I'm perimenopausal. Yeah, I know that.
The only issue is they're not comparing it to the right thing. They're just looking at estrogen levels. That has nothing to do with it on its own. You got to look at estrogen and progesterone that'll slow that thyroid right to across. So stress was one of the biggest and stress high levels of cortisol over a period. Your body wasn't made for that. Your body wasn't made for high levels of cortisol going on and on and on, okay? Leaky gut, leaky thyroid. Why do I say that? Because about 20% of your T three, which is the hormone that your thyroid really needs to work properly, is made in the gut. So if you have SIBO or I like it better to be called sifo, small intestine, fungal overgrowth, you're in trouble. You're in trouble. The thyroid will slow down. What if you have fatty liver? Your thyroid will slow down.
A lot of women and men, but a lot of women in this area, they have fatty liver and nobody told them they're carbo holics. They light their juices and they're drinking fructose that goes right to the liver, packs the liver up of fat. You could be skinny as a rake and have fatty liver. That'll slow your thyroid down because T four to T three, 80% of it's made in the liver. What happens in the liver? Don't stay in the liver. It ain't Vegas. Got it. Okay. And autoimmune. A lot of people have autoimmune, okay? And when you have autoimmune, first of all, you got leaky gut, but that can slow the thyroid to a grow Hashimoto's, slow the thyroid to a grow. The thyroid is an important organ, guys, but it don't operate on its own. You got it? Okay. You ain't going to get teaching like that.
Most people don't look at the whole picture. They don't look at the big picture. Unfortunately, in medicine, what's happened today, everybody specializes in medicine, right? You got to see 20 doctors before you get a real diagnosis. No, but seriously, and they're no good at subclinical. If your numbers are way off your TSA, oh, you got this or you got that, but they're no good when it's subclinical, your numbers are still in the normal range anyway. Okay? Thank you. You guys agree? And can you explain calcium and calculated calcium and blood work? Yep, I can explain it. They measure calcium. Calcium don't belong in your blood a little bit. It belongs in your bones. What happens if your calcium is too high in your blood? Well, there's things they look at. You could be dehydrated. The number one reason is you got little glands on the side of your thyroid called your parathyroid.
They regulate the amount of calcium that's allowed in your blood. Parathyroid glands. You could have a disease like pageants, okay? But calcium is tightly regulated in your blood by your parathyroids, so if you have high calcium, and it's not from eating too much calcium, you don't get that from that, okay? Because in nature, when you eat calcium, you know where you get a lot of calcium in eggs, in butter, in cheese, in steak, eggs, meat and cheese have a lot of calcium, but always, always surrounded with the vitamin that it needed to take calcium and put it where it belongs in your bones and in your teeth.
You want calcium, but it should be with vitamin K two. And when people tell you, well, don't eat eggs because cholesterol, and when they tell you don't have butter, you should have margarine. Okay? And they tell you butter's no good because it's acidic run forest run. They don't know what they're talking about. Don't. When someone tells you not to eat steak, they don't know what they're talking about because you get calcium plus vitamin K two, right? In food, right? Right. In food, okay? You could have low levels for low calcium. You could have low levels of vitamin D. Okay, thank you very much. Who was that? That was Anna. Sharon, going to go fast. Now, my husband loves to play around with different herbs When cooking smart man, he wants to know what the benefits are of having oregano compared to oregano oil. I like the question.
It's very smart. Eat oregano. It's very good for you. Oregano is a tremendous spice. The difference is it's like turmeric and kirkin. Kirkin is an extract of turmeric. Is turmeric good for you? You bet your boots, but curcumin is better because it's much more bioavailable. It's very concentrated, it's supercharged. Turmeric is really, turmeric is good. The oregano is good. Oregano oil is better because it's, it's more concentrated the way they make oregano oil. If it's done properly, and I've been talking about oregano oil for almost 50 years, a great antibiotic. Antiparasitic, antifungal natures, God gave it to us. It is tremendous. Look, oregano is good. The oil is better, okay? Oregano is good. The oil is a supercharged, very highly concentrated, very high bioavailability. It is so good for you, and it don't kill your good bacteria, only the bad guys. How do you like that?
Okay, good question. Sherry has h pylori rye. What should she do? Well, a lot of people, Sherry, have h loori. If it's not bothering you, I wouldn't worry about it too much. I really don't because h pylori, I think I talked about this the other day, H and the herpes virus, okay, they're very similar in a way. Everybody has it, but if it doesn't raise its ugly head, who cares? It lays dormant, so does h pyl lide, by the way, now that's controversial statement I just made about h pylori, but I think I'm right about it. If it ain't bothering your stomach, I don't worry about it too much. The best thing for H lide is probiotics, oil of oregano, and I got it right here. Ultra Digest. All this was made for H by low ready guys. It was made for that. It's got all the enzymes and a broad spectrum of enzymes, but I put a few things in there like oil of oregano kills, h pylori, clove oil kills parasites in HP Lri, thme kills H pyl, lri, and this one is really important.
A little bacteria that's on your side called bacillus subtilis. It's really good for sibo. It's really good for h pyl, loori, sherry. Okay, crystal thrombo. Phlebitis. Yeah, the inflammation and the veins and the legs. Yep. Natal is the best because it elevates nitric oxide. It opens up the blood vessels and it helps in venous insufficiency. Okay? I would use high DHA to lubricate my dear Lubricate and Josie asking about blood clots in the lungs and legs. Did I do that the other day? Well, the best thing, natal, the best vitamin E walk. Keep moving. The worst thing for blood clots is a lack of motion. That's why people get 'em on airplanes. You get blood clots. It can go up into your lungs, traveling. You're sitting, get up, move, pump those legs, especially the calfs. One of the things to do for that is a rebounder.
I really like Rebounders. Really good for that. Okay, I think I'm done. Maybe a two. You know what? I can tell you what? I'm going to take these two questions. I'm going to take Maria's and Barbara's making a note, Maria and Barbara's questions because I'll talk about it tomorrow when I do some other stuff over time. Okay? Maria and Barbara, I'm going to take your question. We'll do it tomorrow. Okay, guys, thanks for all the questions by the way. Send them in info@martinclinic.com, okay? info@martinclinic.com. We love you guys dearly and sincerely, and we'll talk to you soon.
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