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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone. Once again, welcome to another live this morning, and maybe you can tell or not I'm on the road Anyway, we're going to do a live anyways, and I'm outside here today. Now, hi. Here in Sudbury. They're having another snow storm for heaven's sakes. But I always tell you guys, I'm not so worried about the climate. I'm worried about your environment. Okay? Not only your environment, of course I specialize in what you eat, but I am very big on the environment, those xenoestrogens that make us fat and sick, okay? A lot of chemicals. We live in a different world. Plastics and xenoestrogens, obese estrogens, estrogen is the growth hormone, and we got way too much of it. Okay? So let's get to a few. The other day I was discussing, well, this weekend I was discussing what sugar does, and just because somebody was defending it, and I said, well, listen, I've been around a long time. I got to give you a little history to this guy. You guys have heard this before. Nothing new for my audience, but for him it was new. I said, listen, this is the history of sugar.
And in the 1950s, we consumed 25 pounds of sugar a year in the 1950s, okay? Nope. Guys, don't worry about the sound okay around me. I'm outside. I'm on my deck. Okay? In 1950s when I was a little boy, Canadians and Americans consumed 25 pounds of sugar a year. In the 1970s, all my four kids were born in the seventies. Now you got another generation. What were they consuming? 50 pounds a year of sugar and my grandchildren, okay, another generation. What are my grandchildren consuming 150 to 200 pounds of sugar a year. I got great grandchildren. It's not any better. So I was just discussing in generalities what sugar does. It's eight times more addictive than cocaine, okay? Eight times more addictive than cocaine. It's a big problem in our society. Our bodies were never meant to consume that much sugar. And the worst thing, okay, there's a couple of things that have happened, but the worst thing is it's not just sugar.
We're consuming. It is high fructose corn syrup. We change the sugar and that sugar is very destructive. Do you know what guys? There's absolutely no reason on this planet for anyone to consume high fructose corn syrup, okay? And sur saying, yeah, it's snowing. It's snowing morning from Dowling in the Sudbury area, okay? 200 pounds of sugar and especially the high fructose corn syrup, which takes a direct root to your liver. So let's just talk. Here's what I explained to this gentleman. I said sugar. He was my age, so he's sort of living in moderation. Everything in moderation, like sugar in moderation, carbs in moderation, protein in moderation, fat, hardly any at all. Okay? The only thing he didn't want you to have in his mind was any fat, because fat wasn't even in moderation. Cut out the fat. I said, no, no, you got to cut out the sugar.
And I said, look, sugar in the brain of a child, and he agreed with this statement because he's a father and a grandfather. Okay, so I said, sugar in the child of a brain, what happens? Well, he said they go wild. Yeah, ADD, ADHD, big time. I said, you know what sugar in the brain of an adult does? No. I said, well, Alzheimer's dementia. I said, did you know that in 2005, a Nobel Prize in medicine was given out to the people that called Alzheimer's type three diabetes? He was shocked by that. I said, well, I had a radio show back in those days, and I pontificated on that for quite a while because it was quite the finding. And I said, guess what? The pharmaceutical industry buried that. They didn't want to hear about it, okay? They didn't want to hear about it because Alzheimer's to them was tau, TAU proteins. It was scarring on the brain in those synapses, and we got to develop a medication to go get it. No, it's sugar in the brain, my friend. It's type three diabetes. They won a Nobel Prize in medicine over it. Okay? Sugar, let's just go down the road. We all agree. Every dentist in the world will agree with this statement. Sugar in the teeth is cavities, right? You eat, go brush your teeth because they know sugar destroys teeth. Enamel. True or false? That's a true statement. Every dentist knows that, right? Every dentist knows that.
And so sugar is destructive to enamel teeth. I knew that in the 1950s and my mom's saying, brush my teeth. Okay, sugar in the teeth, very disruptive. Sugar in the stomach. What sugar in the stomach will make your stomach alkaline? What sugar in your stomach will make your stomach more alkaline? You don't want that. You want your stomach to be acidic. You want your stomach to be more acidic than a lion's stomach. People have a hard time believing that a lion doesn't have as much or shouldn't have as much acid. You want guys acidity in the stomach, not anywhere else, just the stomach because that acidity helps break down food. That acidity is one of the gateways. It's a gatekeeper so that bacteria like H pylori, and c difficile and other bacteria and viruses don't get into your body because your stomach is not only there to break your food down and to micros size it and to put it into a mulch and to break protein down, you need acidity.
You know what sugar does? Makes you alkaline. What? I thought sugar made you acidic. Yeah, it does everywhere else, but not in your stomach. It makes your stomach alkaline. This is why the vast majority of people get acid reflux. They don't get acid reflux. They have too much acidity. They don't, don't have enough acidity because they're carboholics. They eat too much sugar, especially high fructose corn syrup, which really ANGs the stomach acidity. I've you that you guys know it. The rest of the world doesn't even know that the rest of the world is Don't you eat red meat? Red meat is acidic. No, it's not. Red meat's not acidic. Your body knows how to buffer red meat. That's why you have baking soda. That's why you have a gallbladder for those of you who still have it. But guys, your stomach is so important.
It's such a big, but sugar destroys what your stomach is supposed to do, and the only reason you get acid reflux coming back up in the stomach is because you don't have enough acidity. So your proton pumps start pumping out that acidity to make up because you're eating too many carbs and too much sugar. And so I talked to him. I said, well, and this guy had acidity. Oh, I get a lot of acid. I said, well, like Tums ain't going to fix it. Prilosecs not going to fix it. It will just mask it. As a matter of fact, it's worse when you try and lower your acidity. Why are you trying to lower it? Fix it, get off the carbs, get off those crappy carbs and sugars. Okay, so sugar in the brain. What? Kids, ADD, ADHD, adults, Alzheimer's, type three diabetes. I should have gone to the eyes after the brain.
I went right to the teeth. I meant to stop at the eyes. What is sugar in the eyes? Glaucoma. Retinopathy. Cataract. Sugar in the eyes is so destructive, okay? It damages blood vessels. You see your blood sugar is tightly regulated. If sugar is left unattended in the back of your eyes, in the bloodstream, those highways and byways in the back of your eyes, you know what happens? Glaucoma, retinopathy, cataracts. These things are caused by food primarily. Okay? Sugar in the stomach, we talked about, let's go a little farther down. Sugar in the gut. Sugar in the gut, the same sugar that rots your teeth, rots your gut. One of the biggest things is what we call sibo, small intestine bacterial overgrowth. The problem isn't the bacteria. Well, as a matter of fact, I call it sifo, small intestine fungal overgrowth. It's a yeast, it's a fungus.
You get bloating, you don't feel good foods bug you. Well, you know what that is my friend? That is sugar feeding the yeast. That's why you got that big problem. It's amazing what happens to people. They talk about the FOD map diet, and I get a migraine when people start talking to me, I say, you're missing the whole point. The whole point is cutting sugars out. You're feeding the bears. You know my expression in Northern Ontario, there's signs on the highways, don't feed the bears. What? I've never fed a bear in my life. What do you mean don't feed the bears? Okay, but when I say that, I mean, don't feed yeast that's sitting in your gut. Don't feed it. It only lives on sugar. So what does sugar do? Especially high fructose corn syrup. It feeds yeast fungus. That's why your gut is rotting. And I'm going to say something that I think is really important here. Okay? When we talk about colon cancer, because colon cancer, especially colorectal cancer, is on steroids these days. There's so much of it. When I was in school, I studied colorectal cancer. You know what? Old men, women didn't get it. Old men got it. I'm an old man.
Old men get colorectal cancer, not young people. But today, you know what it is? Young people. The age used to be 65 and up and now it's 40 and up even earlier than that. How can that be? What's happening? Sugar, 200 pounds of it. A dump truck load of it. Your gut wasn't made for that. It's not red meat that causes stomach cancer. Our bowel cancer. Why do we see so much pancreatic cancer today and colorectal cancer today? Come on guys. It's sugar man. Meat consumption has gone down 30% in cancer's gone up. Some cancer's up 300%. Why? Now? Sugar in the gut is what? Sifo IBD, inflammatory bowel disease. What do you think causes inflammation in the bowel more than anything else? Sugar. Sugar. Rosalinda says she puts real maple syrup on apple. Okay, but be careful. I love maple syrup, but be careful. Okay? Okay, we got time for a couple of more sugar on your skin. What sugar in your skin? There's nothing that causes more glycation. You know what a GE apostrophe S is?
It's glycated end products. What is that? It's when the body starts to gly and that can affect your eyes. That can affect your skin. That can affect your tendons. That can affect your joints. So sugar causes glycation. Okay? Now, let me prove to you what I'm saying is true. There's a blood test and you guys know I love this blood test. What's it called? A1C. What does that mean? A1C. What is that? Well, it's sugar attaching to your hemoglobin. Where's your hemoglobin? In your red blood cells every time you breathe. Okay, do a breath with me. Take a breath. Okay, what just happened there? Well, your red blood cells, okay, you've got billions of them just went into your lungs and the hemoglobin, that little hormone in the middle of that red blood cell picked up oxygen can live with without oxygen, okay? And then red blood cell goes from your lungs and then goes to every part of your body and delivers that oxygen.
Okay? But you know what sugar does? Sugar hitches. Its wagon to the hemoglobin in your red blood cells. You can actually measure it. It's called your A1C, okay? The red blood cell sugar attaches to the hemoglobin and they can actually measure it. That's why you know how much I love that. I love measuring glycated hemoglobin. Okay, so that's on your skin wrinkles on your red blood cells, glycated red blood cells, okay, sugar in the blood. Well, you know what that is? What's sugar called in the blood? Diabetes when it's too high. Sugar in the blood, diabetes. It's amazing to me. Here we are. We have a whole industry. Let me just see. I think I wrote this down this morning. 1 billion people in the world are obese. 537 million people in the world have diabetes. And look, you can have genetics that make you more susceptible to diabetes. I do.
My family's got a lot of diabetes, but that doesn't make you a diabetic, even though you maybe have genetics. I used to talk to the indigenous people in Canada. I did a lot of work with the indigenous because I sort of specialized in metabolic syndrome and metabolic syndrome was a big, big problem with the indigenous people, the First Nations. I did a lot of work with them. I said, listen, you got to go back to eating the way you used to eat. What? Well go back, live off the land. What did your ancestors eat? Slushies. They laughed. Okay. I said, you guys have genetics for diabetes and you'll never become a diabetic if you just go back and eat the way you're supposed to eat. You're not supposed to live on sugar. What? I said, no, you're not. Okay, so sugar in the blood, it's diabetes.
It's a scourge in our society today, we're talking about all these other things, but chronic disease, our really food disorders, chronic disease, heart disease. Well, you know what sugar in the heart is? It's a heart attack. You know what sugar in your blood vessels is? It glycinates your blood vessels, atherosclerosis, heartening of the arteries, heartening of the arteries doesn't come from meat. It comes from sugar. Sugar in your joints. You know what? Orthopedic surgeons have come out with a new term, okay? It's called caramelization of your joints. It comes from orthopedic surgeons. That's sugar, my friend. Sugar like it destroys your teeth and destroys your eyes and destroys your brain, and it destroys your gut. It destroys your skin.
Sugar destroys joints all by that process of what we call glycation. It destroys your blood vessels, not only behind your eyes but your big vessels. It destroys the endothelial level, that Teflon level, that Teflon in your blood vessels. Your blood vessels should be slippery, not sticky. Sugar makes them sticky and then they calcify. It's not cholesterol. Anyway, that was my little conversation this weekend with a senior just like me, who knew nothing really about food. Anyway, I thought I'd just sort of relay the message. I know you guys know this, but it's good to do a review of these things and just look, if you do nothing else that I love the reset so much, why? Because you're not eating sugar for 30 days, no sugar. Your body will thank you and you'll thank me later. Okay, guys, we love you dearly, and we'll talk to you soon.
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