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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. We certainly are, and I hope you had your coffee. Okay, now I want to talk about some articles that these are not research as much as articles, and I've got at least three studies I want to talk about. Okay, so this was a good article that I flagged on what cardiologists guard the most. Now I have done, and you've probably seen if you've followed me for any length of time, we write emails too. Now, if you're not getting our emails, you need to get them, okay? So go to martin clinic.com, martin clinic.com and sign up for the emails, okay? Because we send out a lot of information on emails that sometimes I just don't cover here. And a lot of people like the emails because they keep them.
There's a lot of information on there, but I talked about many a time what cardiologists get wrong. What do they get wrong? Well, usually when they make a blanket statement about something, they're always wrong. Now, I'm not telling you to avoid cardiologists. Well do as much as you can to avoid them. But I'm not saying that cardiologists, when you are sick, you're having a heart attack or you've had a heart attack, okay, I get it. Okay? But when it comes to them making statements, I can't think of one time that they've been right When they make a blanket statement about something and they always get it wrong, and this article talked about that. It says what cardiologists guard the most, meaning that they don't want to dismiss things that they should dismiss, and let me go over them and then I'll bring you another article, which we'll touch on.
This, what cardiologists guard the most, statin drugs, statin drugs, they guard it with their lives. In my opinion, statin drugs should have been put in the waste paper basket a long time ago. That's my opinion. They haven't even made a dent in heart disease, not even close. And studies have been done. They've been around a long time. So you got a long-term Studies shows that in terms of increasing your lifespan, it ain't worth the number one selling medication of all time have been statin drugs. Imagine that. And today, 2024, almost 2025, and we guard them. They guard them with their lives. I'll tell you. Well listen, it's the number one selling drug of all times. So it's not just cardiologists when, and guys, this is repetition for most of you. You know it. Am I interested in cholesterol? Yes. Don't say I'm not interested in it. I want to see your cholesterol number. I want to see your lipids.
So when you get a lipid profile done, when you get a CBC done, a blood test done and they do your lipids, I'm interested, they're significant, but what are they looking at? Doctors are trained total cholesterol and especially LDL looking for love in all the wrong places because what they ought to be looking at is your triglycerides and your HDL. Those are the most significant, and I've said this many a time and now they come up of new ways of looking at LDL, APO or APO or whatever, lipoproteins, LDLA or B. To me, it's all a smokescreen because cardiologists, the specialists in heart disease are hooked on statin drugs. It's part of their protocol and there's very few people that ever escape a visit to a cardiologist and that won't come out with a prescription for statin drugs. My opinion, what a colossal failure they have been, and I'll come back to that in a minute after I go through the list of what this article said, the cardiologists guard with their lives, okay?
The second one, seed oils, they still have the, because this comes from cholesterol too. If you go into your grocery store and you look at the hateful eight, that's what I call 'em, those oils that are in the middle aisles of your grocery store, Canada's gift to the world, canola oil, which is a seed oil, and it's a cotton seed oil and it sounds good. Cotton seed oil, canola oil sounds good. The reason cardiologists guard this and love this is because there's no cholesterol in it. There's no cholesterol in that oil, cholesterol bad. Therefore, seed oil's good. Safflower sunflower, grape seed, soy oil, okay? Cotton seed oil, which is canola. You know what Canada does? We export that oil. We make so much of it. We're making the world sick with this seed oil that is meant for your car, but cardiologists guard it. They guard it.
Listen, where do you think guys? Margarine came from? Margarine. Where did that come from? Hydrogenated all. Who invented that? Well, the food companies did, right? It looks like butter, right? Even today, people still use margarine. Well, it's cheaper than butter. Do you know that your body doesn't know what margarine is? It doesn't know what it is. What is that? When it gets into your gut, your body goes, what is that stuff? It's not food. Oh, yeah, but cardiologists will tell us there's no cholesterol in margarine. There's cholesterol in butter. Butter. Bad margarine, good. Since the 1970s, I've been screaming John the Baptist in the wilderness about the stupidity of margarine. Butter is a perfect food, perfect protein, lots of fat, and especially lots of vitamins, including vitamin K two. Vitamin K two helps you not to have a heart attack. What? Yeah, because it gets rid of calcium in your blood.
Calcium don't belong in your blood vessels, calcium belongs in your bones and vitamin K, two, every time you have butter, think about that. Don't ever, ever, ever use margarine or even those plant oils that pretend they're butter, stay away from that a hundred miles away. Don't touch it. Your body doesn't know what it is. It ain't good for you, but it's tightly guarded. Okay? Now again, I'll go to my parents' generation, man. They bought that hook, line and sinker, okay? Not my dad, but my parents' generation and our generation too. We bought the cholesterol stuff. Now, will the younger generation get duped? I think so. And the reason I say that is there's so much money involved. If you have the number one selling medication of all time, do you think you want to lose that they're in cahoots with the food industry that want to sell you that oil in all their foods in the middle aisles of the grocery store. That oil never gets bad. It lasts forever. Like I said, it belongs in your car.
I think I brought you an article one time way back that they used a canola oil or whatever to actually run a flight on a 747. They used it as fuel, like true story. Okay? They guard it. They guard it. Now they guard sugar, cardiologists, guard sugar, they guard it over salt. You see, salt has become a bad guy. Again, think of my parents' generation. You got high blood pressure, you better lower your salt. You got heart disease, cut out your salt, eat foods with no salt. You see that salt shaker there? Throw it out. It's giving you heart disease. No, it's not. Sugar is sugar will affect your kidneys. Sugar will make your body hold onto salt, creating edema. The culprit is sugar. But the food industry, you think they want that? No. So cardiologists guard lie, they guard it. You can sugar in moderation never hurt you, but they scream about salt and you're very salty by the way, or at least you should be. Salt is on your side, guys. Your tears are made up of salt. Your saliva is made up of salt. There's a lot of salt in your blood. You need salt. Cardiologist, guard.
I'm just reading the article and I'm giving you the bullets because the fourth one, cardiologist guard the plant-based diet. Okay? Now remember something, okay? I think it's important. In medical school, they don't learn much about nutrition except that steak is bad and broccoli is good, okay? Steak is bad, eggs are bad, butter is bad, but broccoli is good. Okay? Now, I like broccoli, okay? I have a grandson named Brock and I call him broccoli. Okay? Now I actually like broccoli, but I never compare it. Well, I shouldn't say never. I have compared it. Give me the vegetable that people think is the number one vegetable in the world. A lot of people picked broccoli. I remember I did this on my radio show 20 something years ago, and we had a survey. Give me the number one nutrient dense vegetable and broccoli was number one. Okay?
So I'm only telling you what people chose. And then put it up against a steak, put it up against eggs, put it up against dairy, like cheese butter cream guys. Hello out there. It's not even close. The nutritional profile, the bioavailability of the vitamins of the protein, of the amino acids, it's not even close guys yet. Cardiologists guard the plant kingdom. And that's why you'll see on Netflix, you'll see it on other venues. The vegetarian are vegan diets. And I'll tell you, it came in big time in the eighties and early nineties, big time, and people bought it getting away from the animal kingdom because cardiologists see the animal kingdom. Well, that's where cholesterol is true. They're right about that. And if you don't think you need cholesterol, I don't know what to tell you. They guard the plant-based diet. They guard it.
I had a discussion with a physician recently, and I was listening to her give advice to someone and she said, I hate to tell you this. She said, I'm quoting, I hate to tell you this. You're anemic. Okay? You better eat some more red meat. She said, I hate to tell you that because she was taught that red meat is bad, but she agreed that that's where you get your heme iron. She didn't know it was heme iron. She just said, yeah, there's more iron in red meat. You better eat some more of it. But I hate to tell you that I got an instant migraine. My head was exploding. And then I remember they don't take nutrition in medical school. And if they did, even if they did, every guru just above that I know who have the same credentials as me, still teach that the plant kingdom is better than the animal kingdom.
You know what I told you yesterday, what Mark Twain once said, the best education is the one where you undo your education. Look, I got trained and taught by traditional. They were smart guys, PhDs in nutrition, and because of the cholesterol scare in the sixties and seventies, and Dr. Ansel Keys and guys like that who became famous because of their war on cholesterol. I mean, that'd been going on for a long time. Guys since the 1950s when I was a little boy and when I went to school, my education, I'm telling you, they were starting to tell you that plants were better than the animal kingdom. And I questioned that right out of the gate. I said, well, your body's made up a cholesterol. Your brain's made up a cholesterol. Your eyeballs are made up a cholesterol. Every organ in your body needs cholesterol. Cholesterol ain't a bad guy.
Where are you getting that? But today, 50 years later, and they're still teaching people, cholesterol is the bad guy. You need the plant kingdom because the plant kingdom doesn't have any cholesterol. Go to the North Pole. I'm looking out my window right now. I think I'm living very close to the North Pole. We got a foot of snow here and it ain't stopped yet. Okay? We didn't get the memo here in Northern Ontario about climate change. We got a snow store. But go to the North Pole and live with the Inuit and start teaching them how bad cholesterol is for you, and they'll think you're a nutcase. What? We live on cholesterol. We live on fat. We eat blubber all day long, and we eat every organ that a seal owns and we drink the oil. And if you don't introduce McDonald's to them fast foods, they're the healthiest population guys. They're the healthiest population around. Okay? Seriously. It's only when they start eating white man's food that they get sick.
What cardiologist guard the most. Statins. We'll talk about that tomorrow because there's another article. Seed oils, toxic sludge. That's what it is. If you saw the way they have to make a seed oil, the processing that takes place, you'd never touch that stuff with a hundred foot pole sugar over salt plant-based diets. And then the last one, let me finish with this LDL cholesterol. Now I talked to you already about it, but they guard that. They look at that and they still do it today in 2024, they look at LDL. LDL became the bad guy. LDL is bad cholesterol. No, it's not. No, it's not, but they say it is. They've never been able to link LDL with heart disease, but they sure can hammer it down. That's what statin drugs do you know what satin drugs do? They will lower your cholesterol. I lowered my, remember the old commercials of the firemen coming down the fire pole in the fire station coming down on that pole and then giving everybody in fire station high fives, I lowered my cholesterol. You want to die young, lower your LDL.
We've had a lot of years to study this, guys. Let's lower LDL cholesterol. It's the least we can do for heart disease. Hasn't even made a dent, hasn't even made a dent looking for love in all the wrong places. I'm sorry. I know that's controversial. I know that if we had a vote, I'd get voted out, but I can't help but tell you what the truth is. And you guys have to admit one thing, anybody that's been following me, some of you out there have been following me for 25 years, radio and whatever, and you'll admit, I've been saying this since the day I was public. I set it in my office for 50 years. Okay? Friday is question and answer Friday. So send your questions in, right? Yeah. info@martinclinic.com. Guys, don't leave your questions up here, okay? On the scroll you're asking them, and I appreciate that. But would you please send those questions in if you want me to deal with it, send them in. info@martinclinic.com. Okay? We appreciate it guys. We love you dearly. We'll talk to you soon.
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