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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone. How are you? Welcome to another live this morning. Hope you're doing well. Okay, let's get to our studies. 4, 1, 2, 3, 4. Well, five one's not a study. It's an article that I read yesterday, I believe the newest side effect from Ozempic or Wavy. What are they? GLP ones Classification. You get injections. They were meant for diabetes and now have began. You know what I've said about it? A major CRA Hollywood. I call it a designer drug. And it's amazing to me, and I get it. I get it guys. I understand people that really struggle with their weight and I get it. It's no fun. So what they turn to a medication and design for diabetes, and you just got to understand there's a price to pay for these medications. They don't come without major side effects. Now, this one is brand new hot off the press.
The newest side effect is called Ozempic feet. I guess it really makes your feet age. Now, I kind of laugh when I read it like, man, we don't worry about our feet too. At least we don't worry about the look of our feet to go get a man. I'm not saying they never do it. I have done it a few times. Get a pedicure just to get my nails cut. But ladies, you're usually very interested in your feet and what your toes look like and that kind of thing, right? I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say that, right? Well, here's a side effect. I kind of laughed. I chuckled a little bit. It's called ozempic feet. And I guess your feet really age. Well, you know what happens, guys? Let me just say something. Fat serves a purpose, okay? Fat serves a purpose. That's why there's a lot of side effect to this medication called ozempic face.
The aging fat serves a purpose. You want extra fat, but estrogen, for example, one of its characteristics or one of the things that it does, it helps the body store fat, like women to get less fat percentage than a man, you never want to do that. Look, it's nice to be in shape, but women need extra padding. Their skin needs, and that's just normal. It's the way we're built. So Ozempic has a lot of side effects and the more they use it, now we're a couple of years down the road of this designer drug and millions of people are on the medication. Here's a couple of of thumbs that have come out that are really important for people before they start. One, when you stop the medication, your weight comes back. Because generally what's happening is, yeah, it works. Weight loss. But if you have not changed any habit, if you haven't changed your fuel, and guys, you know me, I've been around for a long time and I preached the same thing for a long, long time. You know what that is? Change fuels. If you change fuels, if you go to protein and fat instead of carbohydrates loading up with carbohydrates and switching fuels, your body will thank you. If you don't do that and you go calories in, calories out, a lot of people do that still today, very popular. Calories in, calories out. You're missing the whole point on weight loss. It's fuel. Folks, if you give your body the right fuel, your body will burn fat as fuel. That's what you want.
When I say you, the population, if the population loads up on carbs, you need a lot of insulin for that. It's just the way it is. You need a lot of insulin. And insulin is a fat storing hormone. If you lower your insulin levels by eating protein and fat in nature, the way God gave it to us in eggs, protein and fat, meat, protein and fat and dairy, good dairy, protein and fat. Very little car. There's very little car. So what is that? Well, now your body is going to use that as fuel, but it won't store it as fat. When you eat a carb bread, pasta, rice, cereal, sugar, sweets, pastries, juice, whatever you're eating or drinking, carbs turns to sugar rapidly. Insulin is needed and you don't use it as energy right away. Insulin stores it as fat. When you take insulin out of the equation, you still need a little bit of insulin.
When you have an egg, you still need a little bit of insulin, but it is sitting on the sidelines hardly doing a thing. Folks, that's science. That's why weight loss. Listen, I had a weight loss clinic. I understand weight loss. I read everything there is to read on weight loss, but you have to look at the science of weight loss. You have to understand how insulin operates. And when you lower your insulin, you lower fat. Insulin is a fat storing hormone. It takes sugar and crappy carbs or whatever, and it stores it as fat. If you don't believe me, go to your mall today and just sit there and observe people. Look at the size of people, what happened to us? Well, one of the worst things is fructose, high fructose corn syrup. And you add that into almost everything that people eat today, and then the fact that it's high carbohydrate.
And by the way, people don't get fat on fruits and vegetables. They just don't. So I'm not against fruits and vegetables. What I'm against is people putting them on the top of the food chain. They're not your best nutrient dense foods. You want to lose weight, eggs, meat, and cheese because you're going to get healthy. At the same time. Your hunger will be satisfying. You're leptin. You're not only taking care of insulin, you're taking care of leptin and ghrelin. What? Well, you're taking care of hormones that tell you you're hungry. You're managing the, you're taking care of a hormone that tells you you are full. And that's really important. I never just aimed on the reset for insulin. That's the main hormone for sure. But I really was after leptin and ghrelin. You fix when you eat the right foods, your body was designed to eat eggs, meat and cheese.
You get that wonderful, isn't it? It's wonderful. And that's why for me, when you see all the side effects of wavy or whatever, which way you want to pronounce it or pic, you get a lot of side effects guys. There's no shortcuts. There's no shortcuts. And they've proven one, you get off that medication, your weight comes back and they're trying to minimize. They don't want to talk about that. Ozempic face. Ozempic feet. I kind of laughed about that one. Ozempic gut. It affects mobility. That's how it works. That medication, how does it work? Okay, how does it work? It affects mobility in the gut. It affects peristalsis. It slows peristalsis down, okay? But now you're playing with your body. Now you're playing with the way your body works. Now you're playing with peristalsis, which moves the food along and you're affecting that and it's slowing it down. So that's why they use it as a diabetic drug because it slows the response. It slows down peristalsis, so it has less effect on your blood sugar. But the problem is you can have some major, major, major digestive issues and they can become permanent. If you know anybody on Ozempic, by the way, or wavy, you tell 'em that Dr. Martin said they need to be on probiotics. Besides that, they should be anyways, but they need to be on that to try and mitigate the side effects of ozempic.
And remember, fat has a place in your body. Fat's not terrible. You need fat. You need fat in your skin. Getting rid of fat, you're going to age too quickly. Anyway, that was one. And by the way, another side effect, major side effect is the brain. What is it there? Major depression, suicidal thoughts. Go way up with these GL one medications, okay? Anyway, designer drums, that's what I call 'em. It's a designer drum. It's hot Today, if I was a prophet or the son of one, I would've bought stock in those meds because who knew that they were going to use them diabetic medication and use 'em for weight. Okay? If you're looking strictly as an investment, your stock portfolio would've went way up. But guys, I'm a realist. And when you play with nature, there'll be side effects of it. Okay? That was the first story.
Gut and sleep apnea. Okay? This is from neuroscience.com. Changes in the microbiome affect sleep apnea severity. Here we go with leaky gut. Leaky gut, leaky brain. We really went into that yesterday, didn't we? Leaky gut, leaky brain. And they're showing that the gut and even changes in the microbiome have a major effect on sleep apnea. Now guys, if you've done or go to any of my podcasts on the doctor is in, go to any of those podcasts. We often talk about sleep apnea and insulin. Okay? I've shown you studies where insulin is a major effect in sleep apnea. Like sleep apnea didn't even exist. Well, if it did, I don't remember ever reading about it. Of course, I read about sleep and we studied sleep to the extent that we could in the 1970s or whatever when I was in school. But sleep apnea, I never even heard the name.
I think they made it up. It's a new name to it. And they devised machines that work to bring extra oxygen up to the brain while you're sleeping. And it seems that every second person got sleep apnea. Where did that come from? Well, in my practice clinically, it was amazing to me when I got people off insulin resistance when I told them how to lower insulin resistance. When patients went home and they listened, Linda, and they listened, Larry, and they got off the carbs and they got on the reset, it was amazing how much better their sleep apnea got. Well, because you lower insulin, remember, insulin is a fat storing hormone and it gives you fatty tongue. Your tongue gets fatty, and that could have an effect on the amount of oxygen that goes up to the brain. Proven, proven guys. Now they don't talk about that.
Medicine never talks about causes. They only talk usually about, here's how we manage it. We're going to give you a machine. You have to sleep with this machine because if you sleep apnea can be very dangerous. Yeah, sure it can. People with sleep apnea are generally not very healthy. Generally they're not healthy puppies and they're much more at risk for heart disease and stroke. Why? I'm a Y guy. I was with my little great granddaughter the other day. When you're a great grandparent, you're at the back of the bus. I can't get past the grandparents, you're at the back of the bus. But my little great-granddaughter. Anyways, for the few seconds that she paid attention to me, she's as cute as a button. Anyway, everything is why, and you just want to eat her. She's so cute. Why grandpa? Why? Well, I'm a Y guy.
I always ask the question why? If we have an enormous increase in sleep apnea that I didn't even study about when I was in school in the seventies, why? What's changed? Okay? It's like autism, right? In school, I got some of my old medical books here with me. Look up autism, you won't find it, okay? And today, it's an epidemic, right? Why we have no fix for autism. But I want to know why we have so much autism. That's me. And you've heard my theories. I'm a big guy on causation. What causes it? And I think the major cause is the microbiome. It's a change in the microbiome. And that's what they're saying here about sleep apnea. It's a factor. I'll tell you guys, you put insulin resistance and leaky gut together and you got the vast majority of conditions that we see in our society today.
Too much insulin and too much leaky gut. Too many antibiotics have been used. Too many things that change that microbiome are B bacteria are getting wiped out. Environmental, yes, our food, the main thing, and antibiotics, our medications, they're wonderful except of the double-edged sword. Okay? So neuroscience changes in the microbiome affect sleep apnea severity. Yeah, I get it. I see it. That's a good one. Let me give you another one here. This hot off depresses eating windows, intermittent fasting. Here, they did a study on people that were eating within a 14 hour window. Okay? So six o'clock in the morning to six o'clock at night would be 12 hours, right? Well, people were eating 14 hours, so let's say six in the morning to eight o'clock at night. When we say eating windows, it doesn't mean you're eating every minute in those 14 hours. It just means you start to eat at a certain time and you finish at a certain time.
That's an eating window. You get it. You understand that? Of course. So what they're saying is this was a study done in 16 weeks following people. And what they did, people were eating in a 14 hour window and they went down to 10 to 12 hours. So meaning six o'clock in the morning had their breakfast and they stopped earlier. So instead of going to 14 hours, they went to 10 to 12 hours. You know what happened? Just this study without any other changes. No changes in their diet at all. Intermittent fasting, meaning that they shortened their window where they were eating and they lost 3.3 kilograms in 16 weeks without any other changes. Now guys, how many pounds is that? Want me to look it up or are you guys going to look it up? How many pounds is 3.3 kilograms? I mean, that's not a whole lot of wheat, but how much is that?
You want me to look it up? I don't know. You guys look it up. Anyway, okay, I just wanted to bring that to you. And guys, that's without doing anything else, that's all they did was shorten the eating windows. That's a lot easier to do, isn't it? I'm not saying it's the only thing you do. I don't like you eating just anything within window. I don't want you to do that. I want you to eat the right foods. But intermittent fasting, I've always liked intermittent fasting, and that's eating within windows for me. One of the best things you can do for digestion, by the way, this is one of the, you're going to hit two birds with one stone with this. Don't eat at night. Don't eat at night. So the earlier you can stop eating, I know it's not always possible for people, okay?
Your jobs or your family, look, I understand that, but I'm telling you, just a rule of thumb, two huge benefits of not eating at night. So let's say you stop at six o'clock and you don't eat till the next day at 6:00 AM in the morning, you got 12 hours. And a lot of people find it very easy once they get used to it, going from six at night to eight o'clock in the morning or even 10 o'clock in the morning. So intermittent fasting according to research, is according to research, 14 hours. But any kind of intermittent fasting will be helpful. And especially if you don't need at night, why at night? Because it helps with your rest and digest. You got two modes, okay? Your body has an airplane mode. It does. Okay? You know what airplane mode means on your phone? When you get on an airplane, they tell you you can use your phone, but put it into airplane mode.
What does that mean? Well, you're not getting any data. Your phone is resting even though you're using it, okay? It's not getting any data in. And when you do intermittent fasting and when you stop eating at night, I used to tell this, my gallbladder patients, any digestive issue at all, stop eating at night. Acid reflux. Don't eat at night. It's amazing what happens. Eat the right food, intermittent fast. Don't eat at night. Get into a habit of not eating at night because then your body goes into the rest and digest. And that'll have a major effect on your digestion. Weight loss, everything, digestive, weight loss and sleep because your body goes into another mode, rest and digest. Otherwise, your cortisol is up and you're into more fight or flight because your body is digesting. It's got to work and your cortisol goes up to get you working, to get your body working on the inside.
So there's a lot of benefits to eating windows. Shorten them up. And I'm telling you, I had a thousand patients over the years that I got them to change the habit of stop snacking at night, especially at night. Okay? I know it's fun. You're watching Netflix, I get it. You think I don't understand that? Of course I do. Right? Takes discipline. Like don't eat. I used to have patients tell me, doc, how can I watch a movie without popcorn? Okay, I know I said pretend. Okay guys, we got a great week coming up. Still some good studies. I've only gotten to a few of them and we'll get to more as we go along, which Friday q and a. So get your questions in to info@martinclinic.com. Lemme just say something to our us friends. Thank you, thank you. Thank you for your patience. When our products getting made in the USA for our American friends, coming to a theater near you. It is the last little bit of waiting on the FDA approval. It should have been done. We thought it would be done yesterday. Patients, and I'm telling you. Okay, just a reminder, a little bit more patience. It's coming. They're coming. Our great products, coming to a theater near you. We love you dearly, and we'll talk to you soon.
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