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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone. Once again, welcome to another live this morning. Hope you're having a great start to your day. Okay, let's get going. Now, I want to tie these two stories guys together, two studies, and I'm going to give you what I believe is the overarching principle. So here's the headlines on one of these studies. People with Parkinson's, so a neurodegenerative disease of the brain, people with Parkinson's or IBD, and I'll tie this together in a minute, may be deficient in similar types of good bacteria. So people with Parkinson's and IBD, which is inflammatory bowel disease, maybe are deficient in good bacteria, certain strains of good bacteria. And the second study, and like I said, we'll tie this together, studies show ADHD, ADHD might increase down the road dementia risk. So people that have ADD or ADHD have a much more likelihood of getting dementia later in life. The connection, okay?
So let's talk about this. And by the way, in that second study with ADHD, what they're finding, one of the things they find is iron accumulation in the brain, both in dementia and ADHD. Okay, got that? Okay. Now let's tie this together. What is my overarching principle? Obviously we're talking about primarily leaky gut. Okay, so Parkinson's, neurodegenerative disease, okay, IBD, inflammatory bowel disorder. They check the microbiome and what did they find? Well, the microbiome is deficient in certain strains of good bacteria. And guys, you know this, there's a war going on. It's invisible, but it's a war nonetheless inside your body and it's a war that you can't see, but is there nonetheless. And as long as you have in your microbiome guys, which you got trillions of bacteria, and as long as you have more good guys than bad guys, you win. It's called you win.
And go back even 20 years, so few people were talking about the microbiome, but I was. I was talking about the importance of good bacteria. This is why at the Martin Clinic, when I was in practice, Tony Jr. and I, we used to talk probiotics to people, friendly bacteria, replace them, replace them, replace them, and now the more they study the microbiome, the more they're studying the connection between your gut and your brain. The gut and the brain. You've got a blood-gut barrier and you have a blood-brain barrier. They're very similar. We didn't know much about the blood brain barrier except we knew that certain medications especially would go across the blood brain barrier. You got to a protective barrier there, and it's really made up of bacteria that are on your side. So when someone gets Parkinson's, MS, there's a huge connection back to the gut, okay?
Now I want to bring this farther. I want to bring this farther. One, iron. Okay, so you have an iron accumulation in the brain for ADD, ADHD and dementia. They're finding iron in the brain, but that's not all they're finding. You need iron, by the way, right? You don't want to be iron deficient, but how does iron get up here? How does it get in the brain? How did it get past the blood-brain barrier that would accumulate in your brain? How is it then when they did autopsies on Parkinson's patients? How did all that heavy metal get up there? Mercury, you put a drop of mercury in a lake and you contaminate a lake. That's how toxic mercury is. Aluminum's even more toxic than that. How does that get up into your brain? Well, it crosses the blood brain barrier. How does it do that?
That's what I want to talk about because when you really look at it, one of the substances that carry heavy metals into the brain is what? Yeast. Yeast is a carrier. Fungus is a carrier. Okay? How do you get fungus? See, I want to go right to the root of the issue here, and guys, you know me. I've been seeing this for a long time. What statement did the Martin Clinic make for 20 years on my radio show, The Doctor Is In on my podcast. I got to say this expression at least once a week, okay, at least. Antibiotics, the greatest discovery of the 20th century is the curse of the 21st. Did I not say that? Have I not said that? Many, many, many a time? Am I against anti antibiotics? No, but, and they should come with a black box warning on them. They don't, but they should because what happens? They wipe out your good guys with the bad guys.
You take an antibiotic for five days, you've wiped out all your good guys. They're gonzo. Okay? You got rid of the infection. How many women have been put on a series of antibiotics because they had a bladder infection over and over and over again? And I get it, but people have no idea because nobody in the mainstream is telling them that there's a double-edged sword to those antibiotics. You are going to get an overgrowth of the Trojan horse that comes in once you don't have enough friendly bacteria, and especially some of the strains like L reuteri and L rhamnosus and a couple of others. When you lose those, when those are gone, you are much more susceptible to yeast coming into your system and a little bit of yeast in your gut. Okay? Maybe you get a little bit of bloating. That's not the end of the world, but what if it gets into your bloodstream? It becomes a carrier.
It will transport heavy metals into your tissue, into your brain, because the same compromise that you get from an antibiotic in your gut will affect the brain because of the blood brain barrier. And now the toxins with the transporting effect of the yeast will bring mercury, lead, cadmium, accumulation of iron in the brain. Your body knows how to get rid of that, but not if it gets into the brain. And the problem is, okay, we overuse antibiotics. Everybody knows that. Every doctor in the world knows I shouldn't be giving you an antibiotic, but okay. Now look, if we would save antibiotics for when they are needed, we'd be a lot better off today. I don't know how many studies I have looked at that they're saying that we got so many resistant bacteria now because of the overuse of antibiotics, even medicine agrees with that.
Why is it when you go to a hospital, one of the most dangerous places to go. Look, even as a visitor is in a hospital? Why? Well, the superbugs that are there, the superbugs like C difficile, okay? You know what the word difficile means? Difficult. Very difficult to kill. You can't kill it because it's developed a resistance. It's got a coating to block the antibiotic from killing it. Why? We've overused it. Now back to Parkinson's, back to ADHD and back to dementia. What happens in the gut has a major effect on the brain. One of the worst things you can do is antibiotics without a probiotic. You can take this to the bank. If you are not taking a probiotic in the world in which you and I live, you're making a mistake, and I don't mean yogurt. I'm sorry, I don't. You want to eat yogurt, Greek plain yogurt? Go for it. I want you to, you know me, don't ditch dairy. Switch dairy, but don't put that in your "cocumbre" up there, your brain that okay, this is all I need.
I'm sorry guys. We don't live in that kind world. We live in a toxic soup surrounded by heavy metals, by plastic, by xenoestrogens and every chemical, and it is just the world in which we live. You can't get away from it. You got to take care of your immune system. There isn't a vaccine, there isn't a medication, there isn't anything coming or already here that's going to save you from the planet in which we live. Okay? And this is why I told you guys many, many a time. I don't want to be political, but I got to make a political statement. I really don't care so much about the climate. I care about the environment. And more than that, I care about you and I want you who live on planet earth to understand that you're surrounded and you can't get away from it. A toxic soup in which we live. I want you to take care of yourself, you to build your immune system, and we'll talk about that. I want you to do it. You got to start with you, okay?
I tell you the story all the time. When you fly in an airplane and they tell you in the rare case that you would need oxygen on this plane, put the mask on you first before you help someone else. I like that. It's not being selfish, it's being smart. Take care of yourself. What did I say during covid? What did I say when everyone was talking about vaccines or this, that or the other thing? I said, I'm not so interested in that. I'm interested in you and your immune system. You take care of you because if your immune system is working and part of that immune system, as a matter of fact, a huge part of your immune system is your body's detox, your body's ability and your body's microbiome is one of the greatest parts of your immune system. And people have compromised because of the major thing is antibiotics. But let me tell you another thing. Let me tell you another medication. This is really important.
So we all know what antibiotics do. They're on your side till they're not. When they wipe out your good bacteria, you better replace it and you got to replace every day. Okay? One antibiotic, wonderful. Save millions of people's lives, right? Let's give them credit where credit is due, but it's a double-edged sword. Here's another one, Tylenol. You know what Tylenol does? Yeah, doc, it kills my pain. Yeah, yeah, I know it does. But there's side effects. One of the things, yes, it can compromise your microbiome, not like an antibiotic will, but nonetheless, but the biggest thing it does, it decreases your glutathione. Now, you got to take a Tylenol once in a while, okay? I'm not asking anyone to leave the planet. All I want you to know is I know, and I mean, when I was in practice for almost 50 years, people come in and they lived on Tylenol. I said, I got to tell you, I know you got headaches. Let's get to the root cause because Tylenol destroys your glutathione.
What's glutathione? It's Velcro. Your body's Velcro. Your liver produces glutathione and it attaches itself. Glutathione attaches itself to toxins including heavy metal, including fungus or yeast. You see your body has a detox process, okay? It has a detox process. One of its biggest detoxers and antioxidants is a product that your body actually creates. It's called glutathione. Tylenol kills it. It destroys glutathione. So when you are tempted to give your kids or your grandchildren some Tylenol, think about that twice. I'm not saying never do it, okay? You've got a real bad ear infection and no, listen. You think I'm human guys, you think I don't, and I'm a grandpa and a great grandfather, but I'm just telling you always look at the side effects. And there's a way to fix that. There's a way to mitigate the disaster of medications. There's a way to mitigate it. I'm not the bad news bearer. I'm the good news bearer. I want to give you guys good news so that you take care of yourself first. First. Then you can help others, but you do it first. Okay?
So Parkinson's, why do we see so much of it? Why is it getting worse and worse and worse and worse? Why are these neurological like MS? Why? Why? Why ALS? Why do we see so much more Lou Gehrig's disease than we ever used to? Not that it wasn't around. It's like it's on steroids today. I'm telling you. It's what gets in past the blood brain barrier. Toxins including yeast, parasites. If you have a good blood brain barrier and you have a good and very healthy microbiome in the gut, nothing bad gets in. Your body's smart. It knits this little barrier, this little microscopic lining that protects your blood from invading species. And when you have the right amount of friendly bacteria. What's the best thing for your gut? Well, steak. Why do I say that? You guys think I'm crazy, but maybe I am. But let me give you my reasoning.
Why do I say cancer hates steak? Nobody else will say it. Why do I say it? Well, it's full of L glutamine, the number one source of L-glutamine. What does L-glutamine do? Well, it's amino acid that knits, reknits the gut. It helps the blood gut barrier. It reknits it. It puts a new zipper on it, plus, okay? There's two things. Friendly bacteria. The more friendly bacteria you have, the more you have border guards at the blood gut barrier and the blood brain barrier, you want border guards, okay? You want border guards. You want them to stop stuff from coming in. And if anything does get in, you want glutathione. Okay? Glutamine. What does that do? It reknits. It regenerates your gut. Okay? That's why.
And where do you get the most L-glutamine? Steak. Sun, steak and steel. Steak. You think I'm kidding, guys? I'm not kidding. Okay? You cattle people. You owe me. I talk about you all the time. You owe me. I used to tell the makers of oil of oregano. You owe me, okay? But you want to regenerate, and then you want to keep your liver clean. See, your body already has a detox process. If your liver is empty, it's going to make a lot of what? Glutathione, okay? L-glutamine, steak, glutathione, when you go low carb, what? Yeah, when you lay off the sugars and you eat very low carbohydrate, you know what happens? Your liver empties itself and an empty liver will produce a lot of glutathione. Velcro that takes the heavy metal, mercury, lead, cadmium, aluminum, iron.
See, we're seeing a lot more iron accumulation today. Well, look, a lot of people are low in iron too. Their ferritin's very low, and they're very low in B12, and they walk around they look like Casper the ghost. But there's a lot of people that are accumulating what we call hemochromatosis, and that is a condition where people are accumulating iron, and that iron can be in the brain. Okay? How do you get that? Fatty liver. Too much fat in the liver. Do you know what I'm saying guys? Do you know what I'm saying? You see to me, I connect these things. What happens in the gut happens in the brain. What happens in the liver will affect the brain. This is why I talk to you about the reset all the time, because when you empty your liver, your glutathione skyrockets. When you eat steak, your L-glutamine repairs your gut. And cancer cells hate steak. Hate it. Unlike where you'll read from certain gurus that red meat will kill you. No, it won't. It will save your bacon.
Okay, guys, we love you dearly and sincerely. Friday is what? Q and A. Send your questions into info@martinclinic.com. Okay guys, you guys are tremendous. Have a wonderful day. We'll talk to you soon.
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