Dr. Martin answers questions sent in by our listeners.
Some of today’s topics include:
- Sleep apnea
- Moringa
- Ehlers–Danlos syndrome
- More men with Parkinson's
- Eating whole seeds
- Sciatic pain in lower back
- Immunotherapy for cancer treatment
- Christianson syndrome
- Cellular benefits of C15
- Gluteal tendinopathy
- Causes of low sodium
TRANSCRIPT OF TODAY'S EPISODE
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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone. Welcome to another live this morning. Q and A Friday, which is always a lot of fun. Okay, Thomas, "a neighbor died yesterday at age 73. Healthy and active farmer. Cause of death, sleep apnea, died in his sleep. Can you ask Dr. Martin?" You're asking him, "has he heard of this?" Yep, I've heard of it. It's rare. Okay, because usually people die of the complications of sleep apnea. So we have taught here on this program for years, we've talked about sleep apnea. Remember my book, Sun Steak, Steel and Sleep, that's right on the title of the book. By the way, on sale right now, martinclinic.com on sale. 15% off that book. Okay, so you want to get it. Everybody should have a copy of that book. I don't mind preaching it to you because it's true. Very practical. Good for you. There's a chapter in there on the blood tests you should get and you need to keep that as a reference because I tell you what numbers to look for. Okay? So that chapter alone is worth the price of the book, okay? Sun, Steak and Steel and Sleep.
So getting back to Thomas' question about his neighbor dying in his sleep, apparently very healthy, but he had sleep apnea. Was it silent or did he know about it? Now remember what I've said to you, sleep apnea, one of the major causes of sleep apnea is insulin and insulin resistance. Okay? You literally get, and guys, I didn't make this up, you might've thought that this comes only from me, but I didn't make this up. This is science, but you don't hear about it much. Fatty tongue. There's a reason they give you a device in sleep apnea. That's to get oxygen to your brain. But what is the main cause of that? That is the thing that I look at, and I've been saying this for years, it's fatty tongue. The number one cause of sleep apnea is insulin resistance. Insulin is a growth hormone. It makes things grow. It stores fat, okay? And so yeah, it's rare where you actually die in your sleep because usually you die, if you die in your sleep usually you've had a stroke or a heart attack. Fatal, but sleep apnea, yeah, I've heard of it thomas, rare, but it happens.
Okay, Margie, "what does Dr. Martin think of moringa?" Well, again, Margie, you have to understand something again about me, and I've said this a lot of times, but I'll repeat it just because we always get new listeners and new viewers on our program, so I do a lot of repetition guys. If you've heard this before, well you're going to hear it again. One, I had a radio show before I did podcasting. I never even heard of podcasting. Even when we started podcasting, I didn't even know what it was. My son says, dad, we're podcasting. You're going to reach more people than the radio show. Even though the radio show was very popular, but with podcasting, you can go around the world and you can listen at any time and it's huge, huge advantages. I didn't know what he was talking about so much, but I trusted him. But when I had the radio show every week, and I'm not kidding you, I would have a new product come across my desk and people were asking me a lot of times to promote a product. I was in practice, so if some patient told me that this really helped them, I was interested, but I wanted to see, and I was a guy to compare everything, okay? Because I've been at practice, I was telling somebody yesterday, okay, almost 50 years of seeing people, seeing patients and having to get results.
So you show me something, I'm interested in my practice days, but I needed to compare it to what I was using in my protocols and moringa. I heard about it. Was it great compared to what? It was supposed to be wonderful for blood sugar, wonderful for your hair, skin, nails. Yeah, I wasn't against it. I compared it to what I know and so for me, a lot of things got compared to Navitol or pine bark extract and I put that up at the top and then I compared other things to it. So again, my rule of thumb was it's good. Some things are better and the best. That's the way I did things. Okay? Probiotics, people showed me probiotics. Take this one, take that one. I said, well, my son and I formulated our own probiotic. I just took the best of all strains, all the research we've done, all the clinical stuff we did and we put it together and made a formula. To me, it's the best. I haven't seen one better. So I compare everything to that and moringa is alright, but it's not the greatest thing around. There's better things than that. Okay, so again, you ask, I'm going to give you my opinion because I wasn't all that impressed. I mean, what the results that people talked about, and remember, I'm going back a long time now.
Ruth, she is currently on Lexapro. That's an antidepressant. She wants to wean herself off, okay? I can't tell you to do that. I heard you say that probiotics could assist people with anxiety. Well, they do because there's a huge connection between your gut and your brain. Okay? There's a huge connection, and the biggest thing in anxiety between the gut and the brain is the vagus nerve, your 10th cranial nerve, and the way to help that, the best thing is through the gut because they are connected. You've got more serotonin, you've got more feel good hormones in your gut than you have in your brain. That's just a fact. So I always work on the gut. Now, anxiety, I created a cortisol formula because if you're wired inside, okay? Oh man, oh man, that's a big problem in our society. Look, it's been around since man has been around, anxiety has been around since man has been around, right? Paul the apostle, wrote about anxiety in the book of Philippians, be anxious for nothing, but in everything with prayer, supplication and thanksgiving, make your request known unto God. Okay?
So anxiety's been around guys forever and when you're wired, okay, the best thing, yeah, probiotics would be good, Ruth, but I'd have you on our cortisol formula. It was made for that and you can take it with your antidepressant. Let me just say something, Ruth, about antidepressants. They were never ever meant to go long-term with that. There was a black box warning on them when they come out. I remember I was in practice when the first antidepressants came out and there was a black box warning. This is to get you through a difficult period, but it's not to be used long-term, and that lasted for about a year or two, and then physicians and psychiatrists and whatever started using them long term and people have been on 'em for 25, 30 years. Just understand, Ruth, there's major side effects to that. You got to mitigate that. Some people, they stay on. Like I said, I'm not someone to take people off medications. I am a guy that gives people information so that they can make wise decisions. I like giving information when people are not my patients. I'm not in practice anymore. I give information for educational purposes. And if you're making a decision, Ruth, to try and wean yourself off of that, I would have you on. Yeah, yeah, I'd have you on probiotics too. I'd have everybody on probiotics. Everybody. You got a dog? Your dog should be on probiotics, everybody. Okay? Thank you, Ruth. That was a good question.
Okay, Marion, Ehlers–Danlos syndrome. Okay, and that's a rare genetic disorder. Yeah, no fun. What are you asking? Oh, I read a study, Marion. This is what was coming in my brain. It wasn't even a study, it was a case history of someone with this syndrome, okay? Ehlers–Danlos syndrome, which is a connective tissue, can be deadly syndrome, connective tissue disorder, genetics, very serious joints, loose and organs, connective tissue is affected by it, but I read about it was just a one patient article. I read about it this week. Isn't that funny? You're asking the question. I read this article. This person went on the carnivore diet, okay? I don't even know if they were using any dairy at all, okay? And what she was saying is that she was a whole lot better. Now, that's not science per se. That is a testimony. Would I try the reset? Absolutely. I have everybody. Everybody should do the reset. If you live on this planet, you should do the reset and it's good for you because it lowers inflammation, it lowers your insulin, it lowers your triglycerides and elevates your HDL and you name it. But I'm just telling you a testimony that I read this week. Maybe you can Google it and read it for yourself. Where did I read that? I can't even remember now. Okay, that was Marion. Thanks Marion.
"Dr. Martin was talking about fungus in the brain." Yep. "I used to work in neurology and saw that about 99% of our Parkinson's patients were men. Any reason for this?" I would only speculate Parkinson's is more men than women. I can't even remember the percentage of it. I could look it up. You saw that in your instance, Sherry, you saw a lot of it in men, 99%. I don't think it's that high everywhere, but it's certainly more men than women. And you know me, I've talked to you about, okay, why do we see so much more Parkinson's today? Parkinson's been around a long time. Why do we see more of it today? What's the connection? Why today? And I believe it's heavy metals in the brain carried there by yeast, okay, and leaky gut, leaky brain started in the gut. I think it's the overuse of antibiotics, environmental factors.
Guys, like I said to you a million times, I'll say it again. I'm big on the environment, not on the climate, okay? The world's gone crazy on climate. I'm big on the environment. We live in a toxic soup. It's just the way it is on planet earth. It's a toxic soup, and I'm not planning on leaving, but I don't bury my head in the sand either. We live in a toxic soup. That's why I want everybody on probiotics. Okay? Why men more than women as far as Parkinson's? I don't know, but I think it's a hundred percent that everyone that has Parkinson's has got a major leaky gut and have a major fungal in infection. Some say parasites, but I say yeast, it's fungus. Okay? Still leaky gut. Thank you for the question, Sherry. And by the way, you need to detox on one of the best things to do is empty your liver and keep your kidneys flushed, flushing out.
Okay, Elaine, "is it unhealthy to eat whole seeds themselves?" So you're not a chipmunk and you're not a squirrel, okay? I'm not saying you can't have any seeds. You know me. I like flax seeds because of lignans and what they do to lower estrogen, which is a big problem in our society today, men and women, way too much estrogen in the world because there's too many xenoestrogen. See, I get back to the environment again, from air fresheners to hand sanitizers to plastics. We got a hundred thousand chemicals that have been created since World War II, and the vast majority of them are in our kitchens, they're in our homes, they're synthetics, there's everywhere, there's pesticides, herbicides, they're all over the place. They're in our food, that's in the water. Good luck trying to get rid of all of it. You can't, so you have to put your body in the best shape possible. You need to have a lean, clean fighting machine, your body, your immune system, keep an empty liver. Make sure your kidneys are working well.
One of the best ways to keep your liver clean is to get off the crappy carbohydrates and get off the sugars. The same thing with your kidneys. Get off sugar and drink a lot of water. Only water is water. So I got on sidetracked is coming back to seeds. The problem with seeds, okay? And like I said, I love flax seeds because they block extra estrogen. The problem with seeds is that your large intestine not made for that, okay? I think it's one of the reasons people eat too much salad and too many seeds. It's one of the reasons that we see so much diverticulosis today. I used to get patients come in, they had diverticulosis and maybe even had bouts of diverticulitis and they're little pouches in the colon. And I say, well, you know what? You're not a rabbit, you're not a squirrel, you're not a chipmunk. Why are you eating so much salad? Why are you eating so many seeds and nuts? Okay, again, I'm not saying you can't have any. I'm just saying don't live on them, okay, thank you for the question, and that was Elaine.
Okay, Penny. "I would like to know if it is true that folic acid has to turn to be a methylate, methylfolate before it can be used by the body." If you have the mother M-T-H-F-R gene, you know what? That is so overrated. I hear about it Penny, almost every week. Somebody asked me that and the internet is wonderful and so is Google and all this. They're wonderful things, okay? So I'm not even suggesting for a minute you get rid of all that stuff. All I'm saying is sometimes you read stuff and look, the methyl, for example, B12 methylcobalamin, it's a better form for sure and you absorb it better. But if you have that gene, what did they do before they even tested you for the gene? To me, now it's too much. Some people make a federal case out of that and I don't. Okay? If you eat good and look our multi nutrient, everything's chelated in there, it's good for you. The folic acid, no. Anyway, I just think that's overrated. Penny, and that's me.
Tony, I'll never forget your name, Tony, and this may be a girl. "Can I relieve sciatic pain from your lower back?" Yeah, no fun eh. Sciatic is no fun. Okay? Think of your sciatic nerve. It is the biggest nerve in your body. It is huge. And I'll tell you, when that thing becomes inflamed, there's almost no pain like it. It is horrendous. And I would be on all natural anti-inflammatories like curcumin, Navitol, but when you got sciatica, if it's bad, you need treatment. And there ain't no cure in one. Oh, I got sciatica and I cured it by doing this thing one time. No, you didn't. If you did, that was a miracle by God, not by any kind of treatment. Sciatica. Very serious. Now, okay, there's worse conditions because you can have worse when you have severe degeneration or spinal stenosis. All I'm saying is it ain't no fun and do everything you can anti-inflammatory wise.
Jacques, "what do I think of immunotherapy for cancer treatment?" Well, I don't know. I've read all about it and all that. Has it got some promise? Yeah. Is it the cure for cancer? No. Is it promising? Perhaps. I'm a little skeptical of immunotherapy. It's more targeted for cancer and I'm big Jacques on no matter what, I got a protocol, especially never to get cancer and to prevent it. I'm big into prevention, not detection, not that I'm against detection of cancer, of course I'm not, but I'm much more into prevention of cancer. Okay, medicine now and then they have a treatment immunotherapy. And like I said, I'm not against that, but is it the be all and end all? I don't think so, but I'm certainly not against it Jacques, but I really am big on even if a patient has cancer on some of the protocols that I recommend. And that is first of all in food, absolutely no sugar. None. Zero. Nada.
Okay, that was Jacques. Cecille, "I eat three eggs a day." Well, good for you Cecille, "and I take DHA upgraded." Good for you Cecille, "and my HDL is still low at 1.7." Now Cecille, let me correct you here, okay? Let me correct you here because how do you know it's low right? Now maybe you do know it's low compared to your triglycerides. I need to know what your triglycerides are. And then there's optimize HDL numbers. Look, I shoot for higher HDL than LDL, okay? I want to know your numbers. So like post your numbers. If you posted it here, go on the private Facebook group and give me your triglycerides because you're saying something to me at 1.7 and maybe they're low compared to your triglycerides, right? Are your triglycerides higher than 1.7? That's not good. You see what I'm saying?
I need two numbers because if you just give me one number, I mean you could give me triglycerides and if they're look. In a woman, I like triglycerides to be under one. I really do. It doesn't have to be there because again, I never take triglycerides just on their own. I don't like taking HDL just on their own. Now I know you probably know that Cecille, and you just said they're low, so it must be because you're looking at getting them two, two and a half times higher than your triglycerides. I'm pretty sure you're thinking that, but I don't know that for sure. And I want you to send me, post it like I said, if it's you, don't mind putting it public, post it so that I can look at it and then I'll give you a better idea. You're doing the things to get your Cecille, your HDL up already, eat a lot of eggs, meat and cheese, but I need to know your other number. Thank you.
Marilyn. "What supplements for someone with Christianson syndrome?" That's a rare genetic syndrome. Now I had to look that up. Let's see what I got on there. I can't remember now. It's a rare genetic disorder. You're more at risk for, let me look it up again because I can't even remember. It's so rare. I think I've read that once about 10 years ago. Okay, I can't remember. I don't want to give you advice on something. Do you want me to google it? I can Google it, but let me answer another question before I come back to it. I'll Google it and then I'll give you a better answer. Okay, Marilyn, I'm coming back.
Karen, "what are your thoughts on cellular benefits of C15?" Well, C15 is fatty acid. Again, Karen, I'm going to give you the same answer that I give almost to anybody, when you bring me a product like that C15, and you go and Google it, and some people on there tell you it's the greatest supplement you can take. I don't buy it. I think there's a lot of hype there. It had a little bit of its day in the sun. I don't know, a couple of years ago people were asking me about it all the time and I said, I don't know. Give me some clinical research on it. But I'll tell you something. You see what I do, Karen, is I compare it to high DHA oil, nothing like that. And the proof is your brain's made up of DHA. Your eyeballs need DHA, your heart needs DHA. DHA is the long chain fatty acid. They're no longer chain than DHA, and that's what makes it so absorbable. So the C15, I see it. I'm not saying it's no good. I'm not saying that. I just think there's stuff that's better. That's all I know. The research on DHA and cancer even incredible. Unfortunately, it's not general information, but unreal, okay?
Joanne, "can you take too much vitamin K2?" Well, I've never seen it. It's a fat soluble vitamin, but I've never seen, oh, I know why you are sick. You got too much K2. Nah. Remember, the best way to get K2 is to eat K2. When you eat an egg, you get vitamin K2. And God did that for us. Why? Because when you eat calcium and you need calcium, not in a supplement because it doesn't get to its intended destination. That's the problem with calcium. Do you need calcium? Of course you need calcium, but we need to eat calcium. Vitamin K2 is right in an egg. It's right in meat. It's in the animal kingdom only. Vitamin K2 is found in the animal kingdom. So when you're taking vitamin D as a supplement, when you eat vitamin D. You can eat vitamin D, eggs, meat and cheese, vitamin D, the sun is the best, but you can eat it.
And the problem with eating vitamin D is you better do it every day, otherwise you're not going to get enough. And that's why I'm a big guy on supplementing with vitamin D because vitamin D is a biomarker for your health, and it's almost the number one biomarker. It's so important. But vitamin K2, it's in nature and vitamin K2's biggest job is to take calcium and put it where it belongs in your bones, in your teeth, and out of the bloodstream. It's a bouncer. Vitamin K2 does not allow calcium to stay in your bloodstream so that you calcify your blood vessels. You don't want that, right? You want calcium in your teeth and in your bones, not in your blood vessels. That's what vitamin K2 is. Can you take too much of it? Well, I guess so. Now K1. Okay, that can thin your blood. You get K1, vitamin K1 in the plant kingdom. Okay? And if you live on salad, you're thinning your blood too much, okay?
Okay, let's see if we can finish up. Why not? I think we can, hold on. Yeah, a couple of more here and we're finished up. PCB liver disease. This is Brenda. Okay, what is that again? That's the primary biliary cholangitis. Okay, that's a genetic disorder. But if I had that, Brenda, okay, if I had a diagnosis, keep your liver clean, lay off the sugars, lay off the crappy carbohydrates because it's an autoimmune disease. Leaky gut, leaky liver, fixed leaky gut. Probiotics, bone broth. Again, get rid of the yeast in your body. The fungus, the Trojan horse came into your body, all of the above. Drink lots of water. Keep your kidneys flushing. Keep your liver empty. There you go. It's a disorder. But I have seen it a few times in my practice.
Lo, "gluteal tendinopathy." I think this are two weeks in a row that people have asked me that, but Lo is trying to, she saw an ad for probiotic in postmenopausal women. Well, probiotics are for everyone. And yeah, in postmenopausal women, probiotics, certain strains do different things. They help, your gut's connected to everything. Now, gluteal tendinopathy, that's a problem can happen because of hormones. You get a real weakness in your glutes, your bum muscles, okay? Have you ever injured a glute? No fun, right? You can hardly sit down and you go for a ride and you're trying to get off the injury. Your bum, your glutes, I've seen tearing in there. Okay? Get at it. Deep massage. Get somebody that knows what they're doing. Anti-inflammatory and hip ping goes soothe root when they eat eggs or soy. That's interesting. Eggs shouldn't bother you, but if they do, then avoid. Soy, meh, I'm not big on soy. It'll elevate your estrogen.
Okay, Andrea, CT scan of adrenals, her daughter, okay, she may have adrenal exhaustion. Possible. What is your protocol? Well, listen, I wrote a whole book on adrenal exhaustion. Chronic fatigue syndrome is adrenal exhaustion. Okay? My protocol is everything I talk about. Get off the sugars, get off the crappy carbs, eat much more eggs, meat and cheese. Okay? Very, very important. What else? Usually their sleep is affected. What you can do, Andrea, send me some more details of your daughter at info@martinclinic.com. I can share with you the rest of my protocol, but I usually, they had leaky gut, so I had to fix that with probiotics, like I said, they usually got a major fungal infection. Could be to antibiotic use when they were younger. Very common. And you got to regenerate that body. And one of the best ways is the reset. If you can get an 18-year-old to really take care of food, it'll make a big difference.
And then Babita, "what can be done with low sodium? What causes low sodium?" Usually Addison's. Look, Babita this is important. Okay? You could have low sodium levels and it not even bothering you. I need to know that because usually doctors, when they see low sodium, they're thinking, Addison's, that's adrenal, by the way. Cushings, that's adrenal, by the way. Okay, the adrenal glands, but that's a disease. So are they worried about that? Another reason you can get, are you getting diarrhea? Are you vomiting? That can give you low sodium. Give me a little bit more information, Babita, and then I'll be able to give you a better answer.
Okay, I'm going to look up one thing. I can't remember if you can bear with me here, Christiansen. Okay? It's a rare genetic disorder primarily affecting males, causing and, oh, yes, yes, yes. See, I read about it a long time ago. And intellectual disability, speech, neurological and behavioral issues. Okay? Yes, yes, yes. Look, those are people, it's almost like you treat them like autism, leaky gut, I'm sure they have, this is a genetic thing, but still, okay. You tried that gut brain connection. I would have 'em on high DHA, I would have them on navitol. I would have them on big time probiotics. Those would be the big things that I would have those patients on. Usually in males. Yeah. Okay. I knew I'd read about it. I just forgot about it. Hey, I'm a senior. I forget.
Okay, guys, we love you. Thanks for the Q and A. Anybody that didn't finish answering, send in more information to info@martinclinic.com. Okay? And I'll try and give you a little bit more detailed answer because sometimes I don't have enough information. Okay? Like Cecille was asking about her HDL being low. Well, compared to, I need to know what were your triglycerides number. I got to have that. Otherwise, I can't give you a good answer. Okay, guys, we love you. We'll talk to you soon.
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