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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. We certainly are. And hello to everyone and nice to have you on with us this morning. Let me start off with, we're going to talk, we're one of our favorite subjects. Call cholesterol. Have I ever talked about cholesterol before? A million times. Okay, a million times. And I mean it guys seven days a week, either on our Martin Clinic, private Facebook group. And if you're not part of that, I don't know why you're not part of that, would you be, please sign up. We love that little community there. Well, it's not that little. We got about 22,000 people in the private Facebook group, but I talk about cholesterol every day. People ask, why is medicine, okay? I'm just going to talk to you about this for a minute. Why is medicine obsessed with cholesterol? Why is medicine even today in 2025, why is medicine obsessed with cholesterol? Why? Because they have a medication to lower it.
And in spite of all the evidence, in spite of if you do any kind of research and investigation, and we bring it on this program all the time, in spite of all that, the world is hook, line, and sinker. Obsessed with cholesterol and medicine has not changed an ounce when it comes to cholesterol. I mean literally the needle has not moved. It's still the most prescribed medication of all time. And that is a statin drug. So when you hear the word statin, it is a cholesterol lowering medication. Why is medicine obsessed with it? Because they found a medication, statin drugs that can lower cholesterol. And the overarching principle is if lowering cholesterol would get rid of heart disease, we would've done it already. It would've happened already. What is still the number one killer of North Americans? It's not cholesterol, it's heart disease. How could we have not even put a dent in heart disease?
We haven't put a dent in it. It's worse than ever because we're looking for love in all the wrong places. We are obsessed. When I say we, I don't mean me. Medicine is obsessed with cholesterol. If you go to 99.9% of doctors, they still are obsessed with your numbers. You're lipid and they're looking at the wrong numbers. Okay? And why is it cholesterol and not triglycerides? Why is it cholesterol and not triglycerides that they're looking at? Because they don't have a medication to lower triglycerides. And when you go to medical school, you ask anybody, just ask anybody that's gone to medical school, they're still teaching what they taught 50 years ago. We need to get your cholesterol down, otherwise you're going to have a heart attack. They scared the living life out of you. And for a lay person, I can understand the fret, I can understand it.
You're a lay person. You go into a doctor's office and they warn you you're going to have a heart attack unless you get that cholesterol down. That's pretty intimidating. You got to be pretty confident to stand up to that. And guys, I'm not telling you what to do. I don't tell people what to do. When I was in practice, I would say, here's five questions to ask your doctor. I'd write them down or they wrote 'em down and I said, go ask your doctor. And I'm obsessed. Okay? I'm obsessed with your triglycerides and your HDL. To me. It's not even close. What causes heart disease? You're much better off to know your triglycerides and your HDL. And I'm telling you something guys, if you and I don't mean you if they insist on lowering cholesterol, especially the LDL cholesterol because that's what that medication does. Statin drugs, lower LDL cholesterol study after study after study, okay, what else? Lowers LDL Cholesterol. You want to lower your LDL cholesterol. Do it at your own risk. Here's what lowers it, obviously, statin drugs, Lipitor, Crestor, Zocor, they lower your cholesterol. Is that good?
Okay. Now listen, what else lowers your cholesterol? Your LDL. I mean, okay, snacking lowers it. Did you know that snacking will lower your LDL cholesterol? Okay, let me finish Processed carbs. You eat a lot of processed carbs, it'll lower your LDL cholesterol. Yeah, snacking and eating crappy carbs will lower your LDL cholesterol. Do you think that's a good thing? Okay, what raises your LDL? What raises it? Okay, eating less frequently, like intermittent fasting, well actually raise your LDL lowering your carbohydrate intake will raise your LDL. The opposite of what they're trying to do. I want you to raise your LDL. You want to die young, lower your LDL. That's a fact. By the way. It might make your doctor happy when you lower your LDL, but it isn't going to make your body happy because you're doing the wrong thing. And I know that's hard to understand because like I said, the whole nutrition, the whole food industry, the whole medical industry, the whole pharmaceutical industry, they believe the same thing.
Cholesterol is a boogeyman. Cholesterol is a bad guy. No, it's not. Every cell in your body needs cholesterol. Every cell in your body needs cholesterol. Your brain is made up of cholesterol in DHA. Two things. Your brain needs cholesterol and DHA. Two things. Your eyeballs need cholesterol and DHA fat. Why is medicine obsessed? Well, I'm telling you the other thing they're obsessed with. And these are connected by the way. They're obsessed with blood sugar rather than your insulin. Why? Because they have a medication to lower blood sugar and that gets passed along the whole chain. Like I said, the food industry, the pharmaceutical industry, the medical industry, and then the lay person. 99% of all lay people, they're not even one ounce equipped to question their doctor. Remember where I come from, guys? Remember when you get my age, nobody from my parents' generation questioned their doctors.
I mean when I say nobody, I mean the vast majority, they just, you're a doctor and they would bow down. My doctor said they never questioned it. My parents' generation never questioned their physicians. My generation rarely ever does better. Now why? Well, social media podcasting. Yeah, people are reading. People are listening. People are studying lay people are very interested in, I always tell people this, you know what people are interested in today? I can tell you their health. Their health. Why do you think we got 5 million downloads on? The doctor is in, I'm just a little guy. Somebody asked me yesterday, what is podcasts almost when you're my age? Well, I said I had a radio show for 20 years. Oh, radio, I understand. What is podcasting? I said, well, it's like radio. It really is except that you can listen to it whenever you want and it's far more popular.
And Tony Jr. I remember 20 whatever it was, 17 or whatever it was, I still had my radio show. And by the way, we used to do the radio show. He was co-host, meaning that when I wasn't there, Tony Jr. Did the show on radio. He was very good. I'm trying to get him to do podcasting. And he said, dad, yeah, you do it. But Junior, as you guys know, if you've come on to any of our, any of our things that we do online, you love Tony Jr. And the audience loved them. He's smart. He said to me, I don't know what year it was, 2017 or maybe a little earlier than I said, dad, we're going to start doing podcasts. What is that? All I knew was radio. Okay? I did TV too. Whenever I wrote a book, I did a lot of TV interviews in the day, a lot of that.
But podcasting, you can go around the world. You don't need a radio show. You go around the world. We have people from all over on here today. If I was on radio, well, good luck with that. You got an audience. Now, I had a syndicated show, but still it was limited. The internet's not. But guys on our podcasting and on our radio show beforehand, why I was controversial, I don't know. But I was Why? Well, because I went against the grain. People were starting to get interested in their health and I would say, well, look, I know you've been told to lower your cholesterol and doctors, they want to lower your cholesterol. So they tell you, well, here's what you do. One, you take a medication, a statin drug. Two, even though you're better off going to your plumber to get nutrition advice, your doctor will tell you, well, we better cut back on butter. Okay?
Now listen to this. I brought this to you a while back, but let me just say here. There's a guy online. He ate 720 eggs in one month. Okay? In 30 days he counted 720 eggs at his total cholesterol went down like, do you think maybe medicine got this wrong? Eggs are banned. You got to how many in my parents, especially my parents' generation. But even today they see bacon and eggs and it gives them a heart attack. It gives your doctor a heart attack. It gives your dietician a heart attack. Bacon with eggs. Did you see how much cholesterol is involved with that and the greasy fat? And when people had toast, well eat the toast. But I'd be careful with the bacon and eggs have the toast, especially if it's whole green. They were hooked on grains, obsessed with grains. You need your grains. You need to cut back on cholesterol. Oh yeah. And what did that give us? More heart disease than ever. Nevermind cancer and nevermind diabetes and nevermind Alzheimer's.
Just more heart disease and all the others too. Why they're obsessed with it. If I'm still around, Lord willing, I'll preach against this again and again and again and seven days a week, 365 days a year, even on Christmas day, somebody's going to ask me about cholesterol and that's all right. That's all right. You can ask. I mean it, you can ask, but there's an obsession if you understand that. And all the powers to be good luck changing, but health in my opinion is a you responsibility start with you. I talked about that yesterday. Start with you. You get educated, you get confident, and I'll give you as much information as I can. And I really don't want you to fight with your doctor, okay? I don't want people to fight with their doctor. I just want you to understand where they're coming from. You need a doctor. You get an emergency, you need a doctor, you get hit by a bus, you need a doctor.
But when it comes to food, listen to this doctor because they're going to tell you don't eat steak. I was reading a study, I can't even remember if I told you this a few weeks ago or not. The more steak you eat, listen to this. Okay? We talked about yesterday the L-glutamine. What has got the richest source of L-glutamine? Bone broth and steak. Steak. No food on the earth got more L glutamine than a steak. And we talked about knitting your gut. Okay? You know what steak does more than any other food? Maybe livers there. I don't know. All I know is about steak. Steak lengthens your telomeres.
Yeah, those little wick like substances that is in your DNA. And the longer your telomeres, the longer you live unless you get hit by a bus. Okay? So when people tell me I'm going to live till they're 120, yeah, well, good luck with that. Okay? I'm more interested in quality rather than quantity. Okay? Quality rather than quantity. I want quality of life. But you know what steak does? Lengthens your telomeres and it will raise your cholesterol. Steak will raise it. Woo-hoo. That's what you want. It will lower your triglycerides though. You see steak will lower your triglycerides and elevate your HDL and LDL too. Don't tell anybody because they're going to get uptight if your LDLs going up. But I don't get uptight. I don't get uptight. Okay, red meat, longer telomeres. Holy moly. Who knew? Okay, I got other studies on MS and the sun poor sleep shrinks. The brain will go into that. Oh, grip strength. You know how we talked about that? Okay, those are all other brand new studies. We'll bring them to you ASAP.
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