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Dr. Martin: Well good morning everyone and how are you? Welcome to another live this morning. The Doctor Is In podcast and live Facebook. We appreciate you guys big time. Where would we be without our audience? Okay, let's get to our questions. This comes to you from the first one I'm looking at this morning, Angie. Okay, "what would Dr. Martin recommend testing the biomarkers of fibrinogen and homocysteine," and Angie recently went to the hospital, had this tested homocysteine was high and so was her fibrinogen. Okay, let's talk about that a little bit, Angie. Okay. When they do fibrinogen, what they're doing is checking out clotting factors and they're looking to make sure your blood's not so thick that it could easily clot, and they do that test for a couple of reasons, fibrinogen.
One of them is making sure you don't have blood clots, especially in your lungs coming usually from the legs. They'll test that, fibrinogen. If it's high, they're suspicious. Okay? The other reason that fibrinogen is checked is for carcinoma, especially like pancreas, pancreatitis, gastric carcinomas. Okay? Cancers they check that. It's not the only test they do, obviously, but fibrinogen is something. You got to rule out those things, you went to the hospital, they probably ruled all that stuff out, I would think, Angie. Secondly, you talked about homocysteine. Okay, now what is it? Let's talk about homocysteine just for a minute. You know that I wrote in my book, Sun Steak and Steel, I'll get it out. See that? So in Sun Steak and Steel, I talk about homocysteine. It is a test that a lot of doctors don't do this test when they should.
So homocysteine, why it's dangerous because homocysteine is a measurement. The clearing of amino acids, okay? I don't want to get into the weeds, I just want you to understand what I'm talking about when they test that, okay, think of homocysteine, think of your fireplace. Let's say you got a fireplace. The smoke ought to go up the chimney, right? But what if the chimney is blocked? Smoke comes back down. That's really what's happening in homocysteine. When it's high, it damages your blood vessels, especially the smooth muscle. Yesterday we talked about, I'll show you a picture of it again, okay? For those who are watching live, okay, see the blood vessels, okay, I got out my atlas. See the blood vessels right at the lining. We talked yesterday about nitric oxide and its importance. Okay? Well homocysteine, when it is high is damaging the little lining of your blood vessels. Makes you more susceptible for clotting, makes you more susceptible for heart attack and stroke and you can measure it. It's called homocysteine and it's not supposed to be high.
Now what lowers homocysteine? How can you lower it? The biggest thing in lowering homocysteine is B12. So when you're low in B12, your homocysteine can go up. B12 helps to lower. That's why again, I talked about what are my two favorite? Well, three, four, I got lots of favorite vitamins, but you guys know me. What are my favorite vitamins? Vitamin S steak. Steak will lower your homocysteine. Why? Because it contains B12. You eat steak, your homocysteine goes down. You take B12 as a supplement, methylcobalamin, homocysteine goes down, okay? And I like, you know me, vitamin C, coffee, the real vitamin C. Vitamin D, the sun. Okay, so you guys know all lot. I'm just repeating. That's Angie. Thanks for the question.
Salia, "if you have ever received a vaccine of any kind," okay, "does it ever leave your body?" Well, vaccines by nature, okay, Salia, it's a good question. Vaccines by nature are made not to leave your body. A vaccine, I always used to like the word in school, bordetella pertussis, okay? You know what bordetella pertussis is? When I was in high school, I took Latin. I hated Latin. Okay? I hated it and medicine is Latin. I don't hate medicine, but I hate the big words they give. You got bordetella pertussis. What is that? The whooping cough. So when they give you a vaccine with bordetella pertussis for the whooping cough, they're actually giving you a little bit of the whooping cough with the idea that in that vaccine your body is going to flag, bordetella pertussis, and your immune system's going to flag it and say, hmm, I am now building immunity for bordetella pertussis.
Do you understand? That's what vaccines do. They're meant to stay in your body. They're meant to sort of give you a code to protect your body from the measles. You know all the vaccines that they give, right? They give a flu shot every year. That's a vaccine, except they always get it wrong. They always say, oh, we think this is what it's going to be this year, and they get it wrong 90% of the time. Okay? I'm not going to go into guys, vaccines, the pros and cons of them, you know me, I am huge on you building your immune system. Do you want to talk about me? That's what I do. Build the immune system. Okay, now let me see here. Let's get to another question. That was Salia asking the question about vaccine. Very good question. I want you guys thinking I appreciate it.
Okay, Lois. My mother's name was Lois. Lois, okay, "what if anything can I do to try and heal from adrenal burnout?" Okay, look, okay. I wrote a book on adrenal burnout. I've said this for a long time, but I think I'm right. I was the first guy that said about chronic fatigue syndrome, the actual syndrome of chronic fatigue, which was characterized by severe fatigue, severe brain fog, fibromyalgia symptoms. I know they separate fibromyalgia from chronic fatigue, but I believe they are two sides of the same coin. I am convinced of, okay, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue. I put them together two sides of the same coin and sleep disorder, exhausted, but don't sleep properly. Don't get that recuperative sleep. Those are the main symptoms. Debilitating fatigue. There was an epidemic of it back in the late eighties. I did my thesis on it. I mean I studied it inside out. I studied that my wife had it. Adrenals.
When you think adrenals, what do you think? You think cortisol. Cortisol, cortisol is important. You need it and it should follow what we call your circadian rhythm. Meaning that your cortisol's higher in the morning and then goes down gradually during the day to very low levels at night if it's right. But what you're saying, Lois, is that yours is always low. Your cortisol is low. Yeah. Well, your adrenals are exhausted. I used to tell my patients, your battery packs have absolutely no charge left. And so I developed a protocol, Lois, I developed a protocol over the years. If you look on our website and go to teaching on hormonal storm, you're a category five. When your adrenals are exhausted, you're category five and there's a lot of factors in it.
The thing that I would suggest to you, the most lowest is start with food. I can tell you when your adrenal glands are exhausted you and carbs, you're going to crave carbs because your body wants a quick fix. Give me something fast, give me something quick. I used to get my patients on the reset. Give your body the best fuel, eggs, meat and cheese. Even when your blood sugar going up, your blood sugar going down, your blood sugar's going up, your blood sugar's going. That's part of adrenal gland exhaustion. You want a quick fix and don't give yourself a quick fix because you just making it worse. It's not easy. This protocol is not easy because you're exhausted. If I was to check and I almost guarantee it Lois, if I was to check all of your biomarkers that I used to do biomarker testing in my office, if I was to test all that, yeah, your cortisol would be low, but your cortisol is out of whack. Okay? One.
Two, your thyroid has slowed to a crawl. Your B12 ordinarily is very low. It may be normal, but it's in that low end. Your vitamin D levels low, your inflammation markers high. And if you want, send an email into info@martinclinic. Give me all your numbers and let me look at 'em. I don't do it so much. I don't do it forever. Could you imagine we got almost 89,000 followers on Facebook. I just can't answer everything. But if you put it out there just and I'll, those numbers are not good, but just generally, but start with food. And one of the ways, by the way, I discovered pine bark extract. You should be on that without exception. The best thing for adrenal gland exhaustion. We have a cortisol formula. Yes, for sure to be on it. Whether your cortisol is too low or whether your cortisol is too high, it doesn't matter. It's a balancer. But Navitol, pine bark. It is the one supplement that I discovered years and years ago to go back 35 years ago that really helps with adrenal gland exhaustion. I think I was the first guy, Lois. Okay, because people thought it was the yuppie flu. They thought it was a virus. But if you have adrenal gland exhaustion. Yeah, no fun under the sun.
Okay, that was Lois. Tina's asking, "why do platelets tend to drop during pregnancy?" Well, I think it just, your body has an enormous ability, Tina, think of the protection your body gets when you're pregnant. Okay? Fearfully and wonderfully made things change. You don't want any clotting to happen. And that can happen during pregnancy and it's one of the reasons your platelets would go down. Platelets are sticky. They stick. They make sure you don't bleed and lose blood. Yeah, it's one of the reasons that in during pregnancy that the tendency for platelets is to go down very normal.
Uwe, U-W-E. I hope I pronounce that right. "What is Dr. Martin's thoughts on Plexus Slim?" You know what? I'd have to Google it because what is it? The only thing I'm telling you, when you see slim at the end, I'm not telling you to run Forrest run, but if it's telling you you just take this supplement and you're going to lose weight rapidly, run Forrest run. Okay? There's no magic. Now you have all these GLP-1 medications that are injections, Wegovy, you name it, coming on the scene now and what do I think of those meds? Not much. Designer drugs and quick fixes. Yeah, with a boatload of side effects. Guys, you got to eat anyways. Well then eat the right foods. I'm a fuel guy. Eat the right fuel. Pretend you're a wood stove. Better to run a wood stove with paper and twigs a fireplace. Nah, you want to heat your home, logs, eggs, complete nutrition. Meat, complete nutrition. Good dairy, butter, cheese, cream. You got a cow in the backyard. Whole milk. Complete nutrition. That's what the best thing is for you. Okay? And I don't know about this product you're talking about. There's a lot of talk on berberine, our insulin balance if we can ever get it back. I get a migraine. They help regulate blood sugar. But again, you can't out supplement a bad diet. You can't do it. I'm a food guy. Start with food. Okay, thank you Uwe.
Francis. "Can you explain how a three week old baby can get a urinary tract infection?" Well, there's a couple of ways. Okay, mommy, it happens is on an antibiotic baby, even in the placenta gets affected by that. Baby not coming through the birth canal. A C-section for example, not getting the bacteria that they need, the friendly bacteria. I mean there's things like that that happen. And a three week old baby, they'll probably put the baby on an antibiotic. But I hope mommy is breastfeeding and mommy's taking probiotics. She can put a little bit of probiotic right on her nipple. Okay? Would be good for baby. Those are usually what happens, Francis.
Charlene, "my CT scan showed I have thyroid nodules." You and millions of others, Charlene, you and millions of others, people have nodules on their thyroid. Okay? And ankylosing spondylitis, which is an autoimmune disease, which affects the spine and you get what they call a bamboo like spine. Okay? I used to see it on x-rays, ankylosing spondylitis. I always used to say this. Okay, you got ankylosing spondylitis. It started with leaky gut. Any autoimmune started with leaky gut. Leaky gut, leaky spine. There's a connection between leaky gut and ankylosing spondylitis. Now what were you asking me? What do you think of the nodules? Well, usually when I saw thyroid nodules, the thyroid was not up to snuff. Now there could be a lot of reasons for that. Okay? We just talked earlier about adrenal glands. When your cortisol is too high, it robs your progesterone. When you rob progesterone, that affects the thyroid. Estrogen goes up. Estrogen dominance. You're not converting T4 to T3 properly. The thyroid slows to a crawl often with nodules.
And remember, okay, there's two growth hormones. Insulin will make your nodules grow, grow, grow and estrogen. Too much of a woman, even in men, grow, grow, grow, get estrogen down. Flax seeds, dim it out. Our menopausal formula has dim. DIM, dim out the estrogen, the bad estrogen. You need estrogen, you're a woman. Don't worry about estrogen in a lot of ways. You've got lots of it, too much. That slows the thyroid to a crawl. Men, your prostate. How do you think it grows? Insulin and estrogen. Okay, and let me just see here. And well, my hair is thin. Yeah, your thyroid is sluggish still. Charlene, make sure you might be finding that your cortisol is very high too.
Yousef, "how long does it take to see a difference with omega-3 on blood work once you start taking it?" Well, it depends. It depends what kind of omega-3 you're taking. You can measure omega-3, which is a beautiful thing. I like it. But it depends. Everybody's different than that sense. If you're taking a real good omega-3, if you're taking high DHA, I usually notice a difference in blood work within a month of taking it. If you take a high quality omega-3, and guys, you know me, I talk about this all the time. The best omega-3. There's a lot of cars on the road. There's a lot of cars on the road. But if you want a Maserati, you got to take the high DHA, look at your labels because omega-3, there's lots of it. There's a lot of companies, there are a lot of, look, I love omega-3. I love when you eat omega-3. When you eat a steak, omega-3, especially the grass fed, You have fish, omega-3, right? Even omega-3 is in the plant kingdom. You got omega-3. But the best are the long chain fatty acids. The longer that chain of fatty acid omega-3, the more bioavailable it is, the more you absorb it. Okay, got it? Okay, thank you, Yousef.
Danny, "what advice would you give in regard to sun allergy I developed over the last two summers?" Yeah, I feel sorry for you Danny. So cover up. Okay. A lot of people with lupus, they can't get in the sun, but they still got to take vitamin D. Take it as a supplement. And remember, even if you're not going to go and suntan Danny, even when it's sunny out, like it's sunny out here this morning, okay, not bright sun, but it's still sunny out. And if I look outside, I am getting melatonin because just the presence of the sun. And you look and your eyeballs take in and in the third eye, your pineal gland, you're accumulating and producing melatonin. People think of melatonin as a supplement. Yeah, I don't even like it as a supplement. Okay? I'm not big on melatonin as a supplement. I'm big on melatonin. Your body produces it, the sun. So Danny, if you have an allergy to the sun one, I feel sorry for you, two, you still need the sun, but you can't just go and suntan, you've got an allergy. And usually, usually Danny, you got leaky gut too. Usually you're messed up their leaky gut. That doesn't mean you're getting digestive symptoms, but there's a leaky gut. Maybe fungal. In my practice days, I would've figured you out.
Okay, let me just see here. Okay, that was Danny. Thank you very, very much. By the way, any kind of allergy, get on quercetin, Navitol. I love that combination. Laura. "Is Gaviscon considered a PPI?" I don't know if it's considered exactly, but Gaviscon sort of coats your stomach. Okay? I look at it as like a paint over top of acid. I don't like anything that decreases your stomach acidity is not something you really want and they were never meant to be long-term uses, including Gaviscon. Okay? PPIs, they turn off your proton pumps. You don't want that. You want to be more acidic, not less. Okay, now let me read your question. Okay? "Are there better cuts of meat to buy?" Yeah, of course there is, right? There's good. All meats are good. Better. Okay, better cuts and best steak. I'd put liver up there, but I don't like liver. I know it's good for you, but I don't like it. Okay? But I love steak.
There's nothing better than a steak. It's the best. It's better than fish, but fish is good. Okay, good, better, best, okay? So ground beef better than chuck. "What is the best cut to get for red meat?" Okay, better than chuck ground beef. Yeah, I'd say probably again, look at that scale. Okay? But all beef is good. All of it. And the fat. When you get ground beef, I know they take the fat out of it. I want to scream. I love butchers, but they've been butchered because butchers, they're being told take the fat out of it. Looking for lean ground beef. Why do you want lean ground beef? It's good if it's not the best. Okay, fat don't make you fat. Fat don't give you heart attacks. Yes, it will give you cholesterol.
Deborah, "I bought Nature's Bounty." Okay, what do you want to know? I'm trying to answer your question, Debbie. I got to read it. The label reads cholecalciferol, that's vitamin D3 and menaquinone. That's your K2. Okay. Is it good? Yeah, it's good. I'm biased. Okay. You're asking me Deb, and I'm biased. Yeah, look, there's good, better, and best in supplements too. Okay? And the reason the Martin Clinic makes its own supplements is because I was in practice and I wanted the best. And my son, who is a biologist and smarter than his dad, we are formulators. Okay? And so, no, I like it. Angie, you're all right. You're good. Okay. It's not the best though. I'm very, very biased. No, you got a good product.
Okay, Debbie, and Susan, "can specific drugs cause gout? My friend has never had this before and came out of the blue." Well, gout often does come out of the blue. Okay? Specific medications, like gout is more complicated than that. Obviously high uric acid levels, but a lot of people with high uric acid levels don't get gout. But uric acid is more of a biomarker. We like it. I write about it in my book again. Sun, Steak and Steel. The measurement of uric acid, because I have put it in the category of metabolic syndrome. I look at your HDL, I look at your triglycerides. I'm very interested in that much more than the other cholesterol numbers. I want to know your HDL. I want to know your lipids, your triglycerides. I want to know your A1C. I'm very, very big on that. Okay? Never to be over 5.4 and belly fat and vitamin D. I put that in there. I put B12. Biomarkers. Biomarkers, okay. Can specific meds cause gout? Can they cause a flare up? Maybe. I got to think about it. Okay, I got to think about it.
But gout often comes out of nowhere. People, they think they hurt themselves or they, what is this? And it's very, very, very painful for gouty arthritis. But the biggest cause of gouty arthritis today, the biggest cause is insulin resistance. And why has it gout gone up 300%? We called it the king's disease. Drinking too much wine, not eating red meat. Oh people, oh, I eat too much red meat. Nah, it's insulin. It's insulin resistance. Plus the fact that you're consuming high fructose corn syrup usually. High fructose corn syrup goes directly to the liver and if you can't flush out the byproduct of that, which is uric acid, they will accumulate, your kidneys are under stress and you can't get rid of all that uric acid. And guess what? It can crystallize and form gout and the crystals, yikes, when they get inflamed.
Okay, let me end this here. Again, let me just see how many we got to go. You know what, I got to do another session. Got to do another session. Yeah, let's do a Q and A Monday and I'll, okay guys, thanks for sending in all your questions. You guys are incredible. We love you dearly and sincerely. Have a great weekend.
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