Did you know that close to 300,000 people a year die of iatrogenic disease in the United States? That’s dying from the side effects of medication. Dr. Martin thinks that number is crazy and cautions listeners to be careful with over-the-counter medications.
Dr. Martin looks at an article pointing out the potential kidney and stomach damage from using ibuprofen regularly. It’s not good and can lead to renal failure if you’re not careful.
Dr. Martin also comments on several other studies about resistance training, the positive impact of sunlight in prostate cancer and the role of diet in cognitive function in Alzheimer's patients.
TRANSCRIPT OF TODAY'S EPISODE
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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone. Once again, welcome to another live this morning. Let's just see if everything's good here today, okay? And we sure appreciate you guys coming on this morning. Thank you for that. Little announcement. Our American website and products to our US friends is open today, and if you go to martinclinic.com, if you're in Canada, it'll be on our Canadian site. If you're in the USA, it's open. martinclinic.com. If you're in the USA, that American website will come right up. We're starting with our top four products in the USA and the rest are coming, but what is it? Navitol, Cortisol, our probiotic. So we're very happy. I'm telling you guys, it is just the way it is. It takes a long time to get stuff done, but it's ready to go. Okay? We love you guys. We thank you for your patience and we appreciate it big, big, big time. Okay, so all my US friends, folks that watch us here, okay, this is for you.
Okay, now, I told you about this the other day and I went and found it. This is my dissertation. This is my thesis on chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia. Done in August. It was published August 22nd, 1996. Chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia, free radical damage. I talked all about that. Anyways, I found it the other day. So I said, ah, and then you guys know that this book came out of it. I published this shortly thereafter, Steps to Fight Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia. That became a book, and it actually was a huge big seller at the time. Okay? Out of print now. Anyway, I just thought I would tell you about that. Now, okay, now I want to look at a couple of headlines, just some of them are actually articles and the others are just studies, and then we'll just make a little comment on some of them and run them by you. I usually do this on Tuesdays. I call it News Headline Tuesdays, at least in my head I do, but today is Thursday, but that's all right.
Okay, now, ibuprofen. Okay, ibuprofen over the counter, ibuprofen, like Advil and others. Two big problems and they talk about this in the article that even though this product is over the counter, you need to be very, very careful for two reasons when it comes to ibuprofen. One, your kidneys. And the article goes on to say that it can be very damaging to the kidneys in a very short period of time. So be careful. And what it does, it pools blood in the kidneys, it pools it there, and it causes blood to back up and could lead to renal failure. I'm going to tell you something guys, that you don't hear this very often, but when they talk about the dangers, like at least once a week, I have to calm people down when it comes to, oh, Dr. Martin, my B12, my number is crazy high, or Dr. Martin, my vitamin D is very high, okay? I mean, my doctor's going crazy. It's toxic. And I am just going to tell you, I'm just going to tell you that the waiting rooms in the emergency departments are not filled up with people because their vitamin D is high or the B12 is high.
I can tell you, and this is the latest statistics, not one person, not one person. This is American statistics in the US was hospitalized since the year 2020. And before that, I don't know, I didn't have the stats. Well, I probably did for my radio show. Not one person was hospitalized because of high vitamin D or B12 for that matter, not one person. Now, there's probably one or two people in the hospital because they drank too much water. I guess it's possible, but the point I'm making is how safe vitamin D is and B12, and I recommend them to everyone and their dog. You guys know that, yet I read this article, I flagged it yesterday on ibuprofen and every day in the USA every day, now they got 340 million people. So I'm not telling people you can never have an Advil, okay? I am not saying that, but this article is talking about the dangers and it's more prevalent than people think.
Do you know that close to 300,000 people a year in the US die of iatrogenic disease? You know what that is? The side effects of medication. 300,000. That's crazy. Now, again, guys, put it in context. I understand that, and I'm not trying to tell people not to ever take medication. I'm not doing that. If you need an antibiotic, you take an antibiotic, it can save your life. I'm not against that. Do everything natural that you can obviously, and I've told people before, you need an antibiotic. You got to raging infection going on. Don't fool around with that or cellulitis or something. I have natural protocols for that. But if it's not mitigating it, you need an antibiotic. Okay? Let's do the best of both worlds, right? Like surgery, well, you need it. What can I tell you? I don't throw the baby out with the bath water, but let me say this, be very careful. People think, oh, it's over the counter. That means it's well tested and for safety, no. Well, it is and it isn't because they have severe warnings for kidney damage, and the other one is stomach.
Now, I'll tell you what antibiotics do for the stomach and the bowel. They can ruin your stomach big time, ruin your bowel big time, so you need to be taking probiotics. But this one says ibuprofen can destroy the layer of mucus in your stomach, and that is a very serious problem because you won't be absorbing, you're going to get rid of the intrinsic factor that you need to even absorb B12. It'll change the pH of your stomach. You want your stomach to be very, very acidic. Okay? Now, that was one article. It was interesting. Let's talk about resistant training. New study out on resistant training. Get strong. I was telling someone yesterday, get strong, get your legs strong. You've got back problems, especially low back problems. Your muscles are like a grid. The stronger your muscles, the more they dig into bones, latch onto bones and strengthen bones. So if you have degeneration in the spine, it's very important for your muscles to be strong. Get strong.
And now we're talking like muscles are a metabolic. It's like having another organ guys, that's on your side. Muscles, okay? Get strong, lifting weights. This is resistant training, or let me show you what I got here. Okay see that? These are pushup bars. Pushup bars, and you just get on the floor and do pushups. Very good. You don't even have to go to a gym and really, really effective. I like them. They're easy. Well, they're not easy to do when I got to lift my own weight, but they're so good for you. Now, listen to this. When you do resistant training, if you do less than 60 minutes a week, you have a 15% decrease in all cause mortality. You have a 19% decrease in cardiovascular mortality. Now, a lot of people talk about aerobics for your heart. That was a big thing. Aerobics. Aerobics the treadmill and running and whatever. I got no problem with that guys, all I'm telling you is cardiovascular, a decrease in all cause cardiovascular mortality by 19% if you do resistant training, and that is if you do it less than an hour in a whole week, 14% decrease in cancer mortality. Do they tell you that? Guys, I emphasize this a lot. Get strong. Get strong.
Okay, here's another article. Here's the headline on the article. Reduce Risk of Advanced Prostate Cancer with Exposure to the Sun. They took two groups and followed them for years, and they measured the amount of sun that people get in these two groups, and the one with the least amount of sunlight had much more serious. Obviously, men, prostate cancer and advanced prostate cancer, it spread much more rapidly without the sun. Don't be scared of the sun. If you're not getting enough vitamin D and enough sunlight, it's worse than smoking. I brought you that article last week. Worse than smoking, if you're not getting out in the sun. Now, we haven't seen a lot of the sun. It's out today. Okay? So you should be still supplementing unless you live in Florida or Arizona, you should be still supplementing with vitamin D until you can get three or four days of sun. And remember, your biggest solar panels are on your arms and legs when they're exposed to the sun. Those are your biggest look, all sun is good. Every area of your body needs it. It's good for you, including your eyeballs if you can. Don't wear sunglasses, especially for about a half an hour. Let your eyeballs get some sunlight, and you can do that in the winter too, of course, right? And your levels of melatonin will go up. Okay, so reduce risk of advanced prostate cancer with exposure to the sun, headline.
Now, this was interesting. This is a study again, but I just read an article on the study and that is if you take someone with Alzheimer's, they've been diagnosed with Alzheimer's, and ask them, it's interesting, ask them to draw a clock. I flunked art, so if you ask me to draw a clock, I'm not sure if you could tell the time with it. Believe me when I tell you that, but you know what I mean. That would be simple. Draw a clock with all the numbers on it. If you ask someone with Alzheimer's to do this, they will have great difficulty doing that. This is the article talking about a study was done on this. If you ask an Alzheimer's patient to tie their shoes, it's very difficult for them, and I can understand that. I'm just reading you the headlines of the article, so I didn't make up these tests. These are tests that are done. Okay? I didn't know that.
Now, here's the gist of it. When you put these Alzheimer patients, you change their fuel. You go from a high carbohydrate, which most of them eat to a low carb, high protein, fat diet, eggs, meat, and cheese. You know what happens? They can draw a clock and tie their shoes. According to this most recent study, I think it was out of the University of Utah. Take a person with Alzheimer's, ask them to draw a clock or tie their shoes and then force them or whatever. I don't know exactly how they did it. They changed their diet, high fat protein the way nature asked you to eat, eggs, meat, and cheese, and wow, cognitive. It's not a cure, folks, it's just that they got better. The brain needs the proper fuel. I've spent the last couple of sessions talking to you about the nutrition profile that you're missing when you live on fruits and vegetables on the plant kingdom. You just don't get it. You don't get the nutrients, you don't get what your brain needs. Don't let anybody fool you about that, okay? They can draw a clock and tie their shoe laces, okay? I don't know if I could draw a clock now. Wouldn't look like a clock. Okay?
Now, this was another article, okay? Out this week, mental health cannot be separated from physical health. This is the article, and that was the headline. Mental health cannot be separated from physical health and what the article went on to say, let me read some of it. Stress, anxiety, and depression are often downstream, are often a downstream effect of nutritional deficiencies. Mental health cannot be separated from physical health. Stress, anxiety, and depression are often downstream effects of nutrient deficiencies. Here we are talking about deficiencies again, okay? Now they go on to spell three of them in this article. Nutrient deficiencies, nutritional deficiencies in mental health. Almost always common. Let's see if my audience already knows the answer to this. Okay? Close your books and tell me what those three things would be, okay? According to this study, now, I would put in four things, but if you get three of them.
Okay, let me see. Kathy, you're right, B12 is one of them. Okay, let me see here. Look at Kathy again. omega-3, vitamin D and B12. Well, they didn't mention omega-3, but I would've had it in there, Kathy, for sure. I would've had four because I used to do this in my office all the time, measure DHA. Yes, they didn't put it in, but you got it. Vitamin D. Gerti, yeah, you got probiotics. Yeah, they got leaky gut for sure. Magnesium. Absolutely. Okay, so here's the three, and you guys are so smart. I love it. Okay, now, okay, here's the deficiencies according to this article. Magnesium, vitamin D and B12. Okay? Now I would add the DHA and Gerti, you are right, because I never seen any kind of mental health, especially chronic from depression to anxiety, schizophrenia, bipolar that didn't have leaky gut. In all the years I did testing in my office, I would tell you that that is a certainty. A certainty is leaky gut, so therefore probiotics, but they didn't measure that. They didn't measure deficiency in the microbiome, although there have been studies showing that the microbiome of a depressed patient would be different for sure. They're doing lots of studies now on microbiome, and I find it fascinating. Okay, so they got in this article, magnesium, vitamin D and B12.
Yeah, I was reading, again, this, I put this to memory years ago, anxiety in the heart of man leads to depression. Even the Bible talks about it written thousands of years ago. Anxiety in the heart of man leads to depression. Proverbs 12:25. Okay, so are the articles I wanted to bring you, and again, the announcement today, which is May the 8th, 15% sale on the American side. So if you live in the USA and you go to martin clinic.com, it'll pop up. And if you have any questions, of course, you can call or ask for support from our staff, okay? And yeah, if you're in the States to get that book. You see, right now it's not possible because it was published in Canada and we'd have to have it published in the States so that there wouldn't be a tariff on it. Right now, we're hoping that gets regulated, but right now it's not.
Okay, guys, have I told you lately how smart you are? I know I tell you every day how much I love you, right? I mean that, but have I told you lately how smart my audience is? I can ask them anything and they get the answers right. Okay, beautiful. Okay, beautiful. I appreciate you guys more than you know. Now tomorrow, Q and A Friday, Q and A Friday, tomorrow. Okay, so send your questions in. Many have come in already apparently, which is great. Okay, we love that. Okay, we'll talk to you soon. We love you dearly.
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