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Dr. Martin: Well, good afternoon everyone, and how are you? Different time. Okay guys, good to have you on. So what I am going to do Mondays and Thursdays until further notice, we're going to do afternoon sessions, okay? Afternoons on Mondays and Thursdays, we'll remind you just to keep you in the loop. Do you know that today we went over 89,000 followers on Facebook, okay? 89,000 followers on Facebook, and we're almost at 5 million downloads of The Doctor Is In podcast. Okay? We're almost at 5 million. Guys, thank you for that. We appreciate it. Okay? We appreciate it.
Now, over the weekend, I was looking at a book that I wrote, and it's been, I can't even remember what year it was, 2014. So 11 years ago, my son and I wrote this book, Are You Built For Cancer? Okay. And it's kind of interesting. I just went through it. I sort of forgot half the stuff that I said, but if I was to summarize it, and that's just what I want to talk about this afternoon. I don't think there's a day. I know I got asked today about cancer. Okay, people want, doc, what should I do? And of course, and I've got some very strong opinions, but I think I just want to summarize this book, Are You Built For Cancer? Okay, written in 2014, which seems like yesterday to me. Time flies. Anywho, 2014 and three, I just sort of looked at it and I said, well, if I had to put it in big, big pointers, what would be the three biggest points that I would make? And they all start with an 'i', okay? Are you built for cancer? They all start with an 'i'.
Now, some of you guys are going to guess this even before I say it, okay? Numero uno, insulin. So way back in 2014, I was talking about insulin big time in cancer. Insulin is a growth hormone, okay? So insulin. Inflammation, the second 'i', and the third one was immune dysfunction. So if I was to just put that book in short form, those are the three main things that I hit upon. I talked about cancer and food, that's insulin. I talked about cancer and inflammation. Inflammation guys is on your side til it's not. If you get an infection, you want inflammation. It's the body's ambulance system. But cancer is inflammation without a bug, not a bacteria nor a virus. And inflammation is present and inflammation is very destructive, left unattended. And thirdly, immune dysfunction. Obviously the immune system is not working properly.
What I talked about in the book, again, I sort of forgot that I went into some detail on the Warburg Effect of cancer. Back in 1928. Otto Warburg, a German research scientist, had a theory about cancer. And he said, cancer is ravenous. Cancer cells are ravenous. I'm quoting him. They are searching, they're hyper-focused on fuel and especially fermentation. Now, let me explain that just for a second. I think most of what turns milk into yogurt? I don't know much, but I know how milk turns into yogurt. How does cabbage turn into sauerkraut? Okay, and how do you make sour dough bread? Now I was laughing, okay, because my wife was making sour dough bread and right from the starter and I called it, I said, oh, oh, Rosie's in the lab again. I called the kitchen the lab because I said, man, you got all the utensils or all the lab stuff is out because you're making sour dough bread. And here's what I know about it, guys. I don't know everything about stuff like this, but one thing I know, you got to start with a bacteria and you got to feed that bacteria, right? You got to feed it.
And milk, for example, the bacteria will feed off the sugar in milk. That's how you make yogurt and cabbage to sauerkraut and sourdough bread. You start with a starter kit and containing the bacteria, you got to baby it and heat it, baby it, cover it. It's finicky. Like sourdough bread, Rosie was telling me, I mean, it's not easy to make sourdough bread. It really isn't. It's very finicky and it's a much better bread, guys. Now listen, if you got trouble with insulin, like I'm not. Sourdough bread definitely is better. It's a lot less carbohydrate. But I really try and encourage people to be very careful with any kind of bread. I love bread, and I know what the Bible says, man shall not live by bread alone. But Tony Martin could. If I had my choice, I'd live on bread. I could easily live on it. I love bread, okay? But it don't love me. I'm a carboholic. I know that. I can't live on that stuff, okay? I can't. And neither can you, by the way. And we live in a different world today. Okay?
Now I'm going to get back to this fermentation because it's very important to understand this. Otto Warberg said, okay, that a cancer cell survives on fermentation. That's its method of energy, it's fermentation. And that's why sugar way back, imagine guys, way back in 1928, there were people telling others to lay off sugar, even back then for cancer. Cancer needs fuel number one and its fuel of choice is fermentation. It is oxygenation and sugar. Sugar, not ketones. There's been books written guys over the years. I was one of them that talked about the ketotic or very, very, very low carb diet for cancer. Why did I talk like that? Because of what I knew about Otto Warberg. And then I can tell you something, I know this for a fact and you won't hear it because people don't talk about it. Do you know that a cancer cell cannot survive on ketones? And when you're not eating carbs, cancer can't thrive because cancer needs glucose. It needs sugar, not ketones.
And so I don't care so much about ketosis, like you know me, you don't hear me talking about, well, you got to get into ketosis. I don't care about that as much because all I know is this, if you change fuels and you're eating eggs, meat and cheese, you're going to be burning ketones. Your body will burn ketones. I don't care about strips, I don't care about measuring it. I really don't. I don't care about that. All I know is cancer is ravenous and it's looking for glucose. And so even in 2014, I was talking about the Otto Warburg Effect of cancer and what we knew. So when anybody asked me, and like I say, I probably get asked every day. I used to get asked every radio show. I get asked almost every podcast on cancer. Doc, what should I do? My brother's got cancer, my sister's got cancer, my mother's got cancer, my child has cancer, whatever.
And by the way, guys, I think it was President Nixon that declared in 1974, if I'm not mistaken, he declared the war on cancer, and guess what? That was the year I graduated. Guess what? We haven't even made a dent in cancer. We really haven't because the treatment hasn't changed. It really hasn't in the last 80 years or whatever it's been slash and burn it's radiation and chemotherapy. And some of it is more targeted. And I get that. I understand that the results might be slightly better, but at the end of the day, guys, we're not winning the war on cancer. We're losing the war. Cancer costs us trillions of dollars, but even more importantly, millions and millions of people's lives every year to that dreaded disease.
Now again, cancer's complex in this sense, okay? In this sense. Look, you got renegade cells, but one thing we know about those cells, they cannot survive on ketones, one. And cancer cells have 10 times more receptors. So take a cancer cell. When I used to draw cancer cells, I used to draw like a free radical cell with a very damaged edges and damaged mitochondria. Those battery packs are all damaged. And in my mind, that's the way I did it. And I always said in my mind that cancer cells, you couldn't see them, but we know this for a fact, have 10 times more receptors for insulin than a normal cell. A cancer cell has radar looking for insulin. How do you cut your insulin down? Very uncomplicated, cut your carbohydrates down, cut those crappy carbohydrates down, and you're cutting your insulin down. You cut your insulin down those receptors on those cancer cells, well, okay?
So we talked about fermentation. We talked about how cancer grows and what kind of fuel it needs. I talked about that way back in 2014. It's important to know that. And like I said, guys, I got a three or four pronged approach. Okay, let's talk about inflammation. Well, inflammation's not Houdini, it doesn't just show up, but insulin will elevate inflammation and inflammation will elevate insulin resistance. Coming back to food again, inflammation's really important. Now guys, you know this. I posted this and for those who are new on this program, we'll post it again. You see what omega-3 does, especially high DHA, what it does to tumors, it's a Trojan horse. It's a Trojan horse. And when tumors, okay, not the cancer cells as much as the tumors, they're looking for lipids. And when they get the high DHA, they allow the Trojan horse to come in and destroy tumors. That's incredible.
And besides what DHA does to lower inflammation. A bad diet guys creates a lot of inflammation in the body. Crappy carbs releases a lot of cytokines and inflammatory response. And you know another big driver of inflammation is leaky gut. When you have garbage that leaks into your bloodstream, your body responds to it with a low grade inflammation, almost like you got an infection, but it's low grade. Your body's responding to it. Okay? So we got insulin, then we have inflammation. And the third 'i' is immune dysfunction. It's a perfect storm. The immune system has been suppressed and the immune system is not doing the job it should be.
Now, let me give you some things on your immune system. Again, we'll go to food and I've taught you this and we knew this as back early as I'm going to say 2005, it might've been even a little earlier than that. You know what we knew that when you take a soda, for example, a can of Coke or Pepsi or whatever you like, Seven Up, ginger ale, whatever it is, got sugar in it, especially high fructose corn syrup because that's what they did in 1980. All those sodas switched their sugars, but what they're showing is that will put your white blood cells, you drink a soda, put your white blood cells to sleep a siesta. The sugar in there will put your white blood cells to sleep. Now, there's nothing more important for your immune system than your body's ability to fight cancer. And one of its primary tools is T cells. Navy seals. They see cancer cells a nail attack, but not if they're asleep.
One of the worst ways to compromise your immune system is the food that you eat. That's why I'm so big on eggs, meat and cheese. I mean, if you got cancer, you want to be eating eggs, meat, and cheese, and I mean almost zero carbs almost. You can have a few berries. I wouldn't be having a lot of fruit. You can have some veggies, but I wouldn't have a lot of them. Okay, so T cells, you don't want to put them to sleep, but you know what activates T cells? You know what activates your immune system? What has a hundred times? Remember I talked about the cancer cell. It's got 10 times more receptors than a normal cell for insulin. Okay? Your Navy seals have a hundred fold antennas. What are they looking for? The sun, vitamin D.
Your T cells have receptors for it, and when you can't get in the sun, you better take vitamin D. It's a biomarker. It's one of the most important biomarkers for cancer is low levels of vitamin D. And I brought you study after study after study that if you optimize your vitamin D levels. What did I bring to you a couple of weeks ago that if you can get your vitamin D levels to 80 ngm/Ls in the United States, which would be over 200 in Canada of nmoL/L, okay, vitamin D, oh, it gives me a migraine when I think that doctors don't even test for it, I get a migraine. It should be a cancer test. Oh, you're under 80, you're in trouble because your T cells, your immune system is supercharged by vitamin D, the sun.
Now the best way to get vitamin D is the sun of course. You get 10,000 IUs in 20 minutes in the sun. If you have your solar panels, your arms and your legs exposed. Well, good luck with that if you live in Northern Ontario in the winter. You ain't getting vitamin D from the sun, you better take it. One way of elevating vitamin D, by the way, is eating fat soluble food. Let me give you an example. The Inuit formerly called the Eskimo. How did they get vitamin D? They never saw the sun, right? Well, they ate it. Now the problem with vitamin D, when you eat it, you better eat it every stinking day. And they were eating cod liver oil and seals and all the fat soluble vitamins. They were getting vitamin A and vitamin D, but they had to top it up every day. It wasn't like they were taking days off from eating that stuff. They had to eat it every day to keep their vitamin D levels up. That's proven.
It's easy for us because all we have to do is take a supplement, take vitamin D with K2 guys. And I personally at this time of the year, I'm easily at eight to 10,000 IUs for me. So you have a dysfunctional immune system that's like a perfect storm for cancer. And guys, let me just say this. I was just thinking about it today as I was rereading this book. Okay? I'm going to bring some stuff to you. There's some good stuff in here. I sort of forgot that I actually put in here. But guys, let me say this, okay, let me say this. Cancer's a perfect storm. Insulin, inflammation, faulty immune system, okay? With the fourth thing. And it don't start with an 'i'. Cortisol, your stress hormone. It's a perfect storm of that guys, usually.
When you look at cancer, I was a case history guy. You couldn't get anywhere near me to see me as a practitioner unless you filled out a long, long questionnaire. And a lot of times it was repetition to some extent. But I wanted to make life easy for me in order to read your history. But I wouldn't see you without a history. My dad taught me that. Ask questions. You want answers, ask questions. And so I was always asking questions. I want to know about your childhood. I wanted to know about your medical history. I wanted to know of your hormonal history. I wanted to know of your even stress history. You know how many times I heard? Well, when I think about it, about five years before I got cancer, went through a real traumatic loss of a loved one, loss of a spouse, or care for a loved one, an aged parent, or a child that was sick. Family dynamics, financial separation, divorce. Guys, I get that out of you because they said, well, that's part of your story, man. It was part of your story.
And cortisol over a long period of time, high levels of secreting that stress hormone, it's on your side until it ain't. And then that can really suppress and pour gasoline on the fire of cancer. And so I wrote about that in 2014 about the importance of keeping cortisol down and realizing when you're going through a real stressful period. And one of the lowest hanging fruits, by the way, and when it comes to cortisol is sleep. Your cortisol's high, you don't sleep. You don't sleep, your cortisol's high. But sleep is a low hanging fruit. It really helps with cortisol if you can get a good night's sleep. That again brings you back to melatonin. Not melatonin as a supplement, but melatonin from the sun, sunlight during the day and a dark room at night. Get a good night's sleep. Talk all about that. Okay? So I just thought I'd bring that to you. Okay? Remember, cancer cannot survive on ketones. Change fuels, eggs, meat and cheese. Change fuels. Cancer can't survive. It needs glucose. Fermentation. Remember that. And so these are important things.
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