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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone. How are you? And welcome to another live this morning. Hope you're having a great start to your day. We always ask that, but I mean it. We really appreciate and we know some of you get up so early in the morning to watch us live. We appreciate that. Okay, part three of a three part series on medications. Now this one is a love hate relationship, okay? I talked about PPIs, proton pump inhibitors, the side effects, dangerous, dangerous medication, okay? Prilosec nex, IM the others, and I told you why. Okay? I don't have a good relationship with that med because I've seen the damage of that med. And the longer it's been out, the more they see the side effects of that meth. And I understand you got acid reflux. It ain't no fun, but you got to use that drug as a bandaid only and then get off of it.
You got to fix the acidity in your stomach. Okay? That's one. Then yesterday we talked about another class of medication. And this one I hate guys because the whole premise is wrong in my humble opinion, okay? And that is statin drugs, Crestor, Zocor, Lipitor. I talked to you yesterday about all the side effects. I talked to you about how they look for love in all the wrong places. It hasn't even put a dent into heart disease. So I'm just giving you information, guys. You got to make those decisions. I can't make them for you. Now, today we're going to talk about antibiotics, okay? And what have I said on the doctors in podcast? What did I say on the doctors in radio show that I had for 20 years before doing a podcast? And I said, this guys years and years and years ago when I didn't have a radio show, but I did a lot of media because I wrote books. You write books, you get yourself a publicist, a media person, and you're on TV and radio big time. It's amazing. Okay? I used to do a lot of that. So I've been talking about antibiotics for a long time. Here's my statement. The greatest discovery of the 20th century has become the curse of the 21st.
The curse of the 21st century is an antibiotic. So for me, Dr. Martin, it's a love hate relationship. Listen, antibiotics have saved millions and millions of people's lives. How can you not love them? And again, this is a big, but the problem with antibiotics is that the long term, and people don't realize this, they take an antibiotic for five days and it wipes out all your friendly bacteria. And a lot of people, well, the majority of people have been given bad advice when they take an antibiotic. They're not told that they wipe out all their bacteria in five days. They're not told that. They should be told that. And the more that we study the microbiome, your bacteria, the good and bad guys living in harmony with each other, the more we study that, the more we realize the importance of your microbiome. Now, like I said, I've been preaching this for a lot of years when people didn't understand what I even was talking about.
Because here's most people, I took an antibiotic, my pharmacist said, make sure you finish it because that infection might come back, finish it. But now they know that that's not right. That was bad advice because the antibiotic wipes out your friendly bacteria, all of it. And that makes an enormous problem in our society today, when you wipe out all the friendly bacteria. And so antibiotics, as much as we love them for saving people's lives, sometimes you have absolutely no choice. But I wrote about this guys 30 something years ago when I did my thesis on chronic fatigue syndrome. I talked about the overuse of antibiotics. It was almost invariable with people who got chronic fatigue syndrome. I wrote about it. It wiped out their friendly bacteria, and they got a called leaky gut. You should have seen the look when I used to tell people you got leaky gut.
And then they would go to their doctor and then they would say, Dr. Merton told me I had leaky gut. Now go back 30 years. Their physicians would go crazy, leaky gut, no such thing. And then I used to say, you got a yeast infection because when you wipe out your friendly bacteria, you get an invasion of a third army. I call it the Trojan horse, a fungal infection. Now ladies, you understand this more than anybody else. You take an antibiotic and you get a yeast infection. Happens a lot, right? Common. You get a yeast infection down in the privates, okay? Urinary tract or whatever. You get a yeast infection. Oh yeah, I took an antibiotic. But guys, what I talked about years ago is you get a yeast infection and you don't even know it because it's not necessarily giving you any symptoms. It just happens that you get an invasion of fungus, candida, albicans, it gets into your bloodstream.
And doctors used to argue about that. If you ever had a fungal infection in your blood, you would die. Yeah, maybe you're not going to die right away. They're thinking of sepsis. They're thinking, you got an infection in your blood, you're going to die. Dr. Martin's crazier than a hood. All they used to say he's crazy, that guy. But I used to preach it, and of course I had a radio show, I was on the media and people would go ask their doctors, nah, that don't happen. But now we know at a hundred percent that I was right about that. I was right about that. And years ago, I used to tell people, okay, I used to tell the public, when you take an antibiotic, make sure two things. One, you take a probiotic with it and then afterwards double it up
One. And secondly, don't finish the antibiotic, meaning that the second the symptoms disappear, stop it because you don't need it anymore. You're just, and guys, here's a real problem that I used to scream about. I got a loud voice, right? I used to scream about this when dentists said, you're coming in for dental work. You need to take an antibiotic before you get here. Oh, I hated that. Why are you starting the invasion of the Trojan horse before you go see your dentist? And now, the FDA Health Canada, the College of Physicians ins surgeons are telling doctors, you're overusing antibiotics. Hello? It's 2025. Now we got all these super bugs like C difficile, go to the hospital. The most dangerous place in the world to go is your local hospital.
It's not Afghanistan. I don't know. Name a dangerous place that you can think of. Well, it ain't there. It's your hospital. Why? Because it's the home of super bugs, including C difficile and what a name they gave it. C difficile. That's French for difficult. Ta difficult. Why? Well, the bugs develop a resistance. And that's a major problem that antibiotics don't work like they used to. And we see so much more. Okay? I don't know what the stats are exactly, how much more sepsis we see people, they get an infection, then they get sepsis and they die from it, or they get on the verge of death. They go in for a minor operation, and it's the overuse of antibiotics. It's the overuse. Guys I talk about and I talked about, okay, I'm just going to get a book out so I can show you. See that it's upside down to you. Or the writing is okay. See that guy on the top there? Does that look like me? That don't look like me? Who is this guy? I'm on the back of the book.
That book was written a long time ago on chronic fatigue syndrome. Okay? And here's the French version for my Quebecer friends bajo. If you read this book, and you'll find out what I talked about in the Trojan horse invading way back then, because when I did my thesis on chronic fatigue syndrome, we had interviewed over 500 people, and almost invariably, I think it was over 90% of the 500 that had chronic fatigue syndrome officially diagnosed chronic fatigue. I didn't diagnose it. They were diagnosed by a physician and reluctantly to fibromyalgia go back in the eighties, late eighties and the nineties. Doctors were very reticent to even give you the diagnosis because a lot of doctors thought it's just women. It's just their hormones. They're just depressed. They're just, I used to go on TV and radio and scream because women were falling through the cracks and nobody was taking them seriously. This chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia. Anyway, I talked about the results of our surveys and that over 90%, I think it was 95% of 'em were on antibiotic treatment before they got chronic fatigue syndrome, either as children, lots of antibiotics. You've been on lots of antibiotics. Oh yeah, years. I had sinus infection. Acne. You wouldn't believe how many people were given antibiotics for their acne. They still are today, months and months and months.
Oh yeah. But Dr. Martin, it cleared up my skin. I know, but it's a double-edged sword. It wiped out all your bacteria. You weren't told that. And then what we found is there was a huge connection years later, not only the chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia, almost every autoimmune disease. Why do we see so much autoimmune today? I'll give you three guesses in the first two. Don't count. Why do we see so much autoimmune today? The double-edged sword of antibiotics are one of the main culprits of that. And nobody talks about it. I brought to you, because today you hear about Ivermectin, right? I hear about it every day. Dr. Martin Ivermectin, ivermectin, what about this? Should I take it? Friend's got cancer? Should they take Ivermectin and Well, I'm almost calling it a designer drug because it becomes so popular and I'm not against it. I told you that the other day.
Okay? I told you that the other day. But it's because the theory is that all cancers are parasitical. And I've seen it on the internet and whatever, and YouTube, and they're talking about it. But go back 40 years ago, I was telling you it ain't parasites, although parasites might be involved. It's leaky gut. And you get the invasion of the Trojan horse, which is yeast, it's fungal. And I was in Dallas, Texas, ready to go on a TV show. This was years ago. And I had written another book. And this guy, Dr. Simonin or Ky, it was Simon Sea from iie, was saying, all cancer are fungal. They're yeast.
Okay. Boy, I was shocked. There was someone saying it. So guys, am I saying don't take an antibiotic? No, I'm not saying that. Okay, I'm not. As a matter of fact, over the years when I was in practice, people would call me up because they were my patients or whatever, doc, I got a bladder infection. Should I take an antibiotic? Is it burning? Yeah. Well, take an antibiotic for a couple of days. Make sure you're taking your probiotics. Make sure you're taking oil of oregano. And when the symptoms go away, when the burning goes away, stop. Anyway, I got a lot of pushback on that. But back to leaky gut for a minute, okay? Because almost every day I do some form of talking about leaky gut, where the microscopic lining of your gut, the barrier that's there between your gut and your blood, your blood should be pristine.
The life of the flesh is in the blood. Your blood, no blood, no life, right? Of course, you need your blood to be pristine, and you have barriers to protect. You've got the blood brain barrier microbiome. You've got your gut blood barrier, microbiome. And as long as you've got as many friendly guys as you have bad guys, it's called you win. I call it the invisible war. You guys know that. Every book I write, I talk about leaky gut, every book. I've never gone through a book that I haven't talked about. Leaky gut from my first book that I ever wrote, leaky Gut, when people weren't talking about probiotics, I was talking about friendly bacteria. And I'm sorry you love yogurt. I love dairy. Okay? Dairy farmers, you owe me. You owe me because I'm your biggest fan. I love dairy. Now, don't drink milk unless you got one of those cows in the backyard.
But I like yogurt. But you don't take yogurt for friendly bacteria. One little capsule of probiotic. You'd have to eat 16,000 yogurts, four ounce yogurts. And most yogurts, they flavor them. They put sugar in them. I can't stand it. Leave it to the food industry. Oh, yeah. But Dr. Martin yogurts kind of tastes like sour. Yeah, yeah, but it's good for you. I love dairy. You guys know that. Anyway, so what's the moral of the story? Antibiotics. The double-edged sword. The biggest factor is leaky gut. Leaky gut. You get a fungal infection, you can get leaky sinuses. The yeast can get into your brain. And remember, fungus and yeast is a carrier. It loves to carry things like lead and mercury and cadmium and aluminum into the brain. It carries it. And if you don't have enough friendly bacteria, it'll get across the blood, blood-brain barrier. And why do we see so much today? Autism, it's incredible, guys. They're talking about in California, what is it, one out of 20 or what? But I'm a Y guy. Why is that happening today? Why are these kids the canaries in the coal mine?
And I'm not saying it's the only factor, but it's a major factor. It's fungal. How did that happen? Mommy was on antibiotics. Baby gets on antibiotics. They're not taking the probiotics to fix the dysbiosis. It's a big issue today. Okay? It's leaky gut. Leaky gut, leaky brain. Why do we see so much Parkinson's today? Why do we see, in my opinion, why do we see so much a LS like Lou Gehrigs? Why do we see so much Ms? Other than a lack of course, lack of vitamin D usually goes with it. Why do we see so much of it? Why did I see that epidemic of chronic fatigue syndrome? It was like a perfect storm for these people, but one of the main things was antibiotics. People on antibiotics for years sometimes, and doctors, they meant, well, I just don't want you to get an infection.
Okay, I get on tangents, but I got to say it anyway. Okay? There was an antibiotic that drove me crazy. It was called spr. It was in a classification of antibiotics, and they were given out like candy to women, especially urinary tract, some men for an infection of the prostate. But women, they were taking this stuff like candy for urinary tract infections, and that gave me a migraine. I said, you know what? There ought to be a black box warning against that medication. I said, they can use other antibiotics, but it's stubborn. So we got to use spro. Ooh, you don't know how many times I saw people in my office with the side effects of SPR years later, blood cancers years later. I used to ask the question, were you ever on spr, severe autoimmune, severe tendonitis and joint with almost unexplained? I used to see it with spr. You know what? They finally put a black box warning on that type of medication, but they're still using it. They're still using it when they can use something safer. Oh, yeah, but this one worked. Yeah, you got rid of the infection, but it killed you. You died of something else. Oh, anyway, don't get me going. Get me going on that. Okay. So again, make sure you don't misunderstand what I'm saying, okay? Please. Okay. If you need an antibiotic, you take an antibiotic. You hear me?
So don't go say, Dr. Martin told me not to take it. I never said that. And listen, it's hard for me because I'm not in practice anymore. So for me to say, stop your antibiotic when the symptoms, that is just giving my opinion on a general classification of a medication. But research has shown that, by the way, better to stop that medication when the symptoms disappear. Anyway, you got to discuss that with your physician and your pharmacist. Okay? I just got to put that out there because I don't want to be known for giving personal advice when I'm not your physician. I'm giving you educational advice, so make sure you understand that, right? Okay. Just make sure you understand that, guys. I'm on your side, by the way, okay? Sometimes people think, well, gee, you're picking on me. I said, I'm on your side. I love my audience.
I'm just trying to give information. And by the way, in case you didn't ever know this, I'm very opinionated. I've got strong convictions. And again, on antibiotics, it's not like I haven't said it before. I didn't just make this up. I've been warning, warning, warning people, I've been warning the world that would listen, we got a problem. Houston, here, we're overusing these things and people are not replacing their bacteria. And yeah, there's no light on the top of your head that goes off and say You're short. You're short. You don't have enough friendly bacteria. And people don't know anything about it, and nobody tells them anything about it. Now, my audience, we know better, but the world out there, they don't know any better. And the antibiotics are in the soil. They're in the food. They give it to the animals. They overdo it. You got to take care of yourself.
There isn't anyone here listening. Not one person listening. Even your dog is your dog listening. They need probiotic. You need probiotic. The world in which we live. You need a probiotic, and it should be broad spectrum with many different bacteria because you got to replace, they wipe out all your good ones. You got to replace that. And I didn't even talk to you about other things that destroy your friendly bacteria. Okay? I took a deep breath. Okay, so those were the three classifications meds that Dr. Martin is warning about. A warning, PPIs, proton pump inhibitors, and the side effects are severe down the road. Statin drugs for cholesterol and antibiotics. Okay? They're that little trinity that I'm warning, giving you info. Okay? Now, what's tomorrow? Q and a? Okay, Q and A. Who doesn't love Q and a?
People love Q and a. I like q and a. I'm used to Q and a. I had a radio show people would phone in Q and a. Dr. Martin, what about this? What about that? What about this? What about that? And it was always popular. People liked it. People are very interested in their health today compared to what it used to be Before it was, well, whatever my doctor says, whatever my doctor says, okay. My doctor says Nutrition ain't important. When your doctor's crazy and you can tell 'em I said so. Okay? No, people are very interested. Send in your questions and send it to info@martinclinic.com. That gets to me, okay? We love you. Talk to you soon.
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