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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone. Nice to have you on this morning and we appreciate you joining us live when you can and we appreciate our audience like you wouldn't believe, and thanks again for making the Doctors in podcast so popular as you get your notifications this morning. So let's call this news Behind the News. Okay, so you guys know that I like to look at health news, see if there's anything new out there that we can sort of pontificate on. Here's one out of China. This is a Chinese study and they looked at this over a long period of time and here's the headline, vegetarians don't age well, vegetarians don't age well. And guys, you know our overriding principle here, overarching principle, I'm big into Whole Foods. I really am. So I don't believe anybody gets fat or unhealthy because they're eating fruit and vegetables. No.
Okay, you want to have vegetables. You're not getting unhealthy generally from that. It's when you put them at the top of the food chain and you neglect the eggs meet and cheese, that's when you're in trouble because you're just not getting the nutrients that you need. That doesn't mean you drop dead immediately, but look, if you're going to be a vegetarian, then you actually, this happened yesterday, so might as well talk about it. Former patient and their daughter because of carbon footprint. That's what they told me, their daughter, because of carbon, she's worried about her footprint and you can see me getting a migraine, can't you? The migraine started. So when I heard that their daughter, because of worried about her carbon footprint, no longer is eating animal product. Now that gave me a migraine on the spot. I lose my breath sometimes. It's so shocking that people would be so influenced by stupidity. I feel sorry for kids. You're getting that kind of education that the problem on the planet is animals. You can't eat them. You can't have a steak. Are you kidding me?
Your body would design for it. Your nutrition profile, all the nutrients you need are not in fruits and vegetables. I'm sorry. They contain some of them. So now you're going to have to, and I told the parents that this young lady, I hope she knows, but she probably doesn't. She's now going to have to supplement the rest of her life. She's going to have to take iron, B12, several amino acids. You're just not getting it. Don't try and fool yourself. You're not, man. Propaganda drives me crazy. I watch it happen and I say, did they not listen to the doctors in No, this young lady doesn't. For sure. Anyways, I just, oh, I said, and then I, after that conversation, I'm reading this article out of China and I go, yeah, even the Chinese are figuring it out. You are meant and designed to eat animal products, the fat, the protein.
Okay? Yesterday I talked to you about this because it was one of my things in training, and I wrote about this in several books. Learn to be a Sugar Detective. When you read a label, find out what they're adding and the worst thing they do is add high fructose corn syrup. Couched in what? 90 something. Different names. We talk about this all the time. The difference between fructose and glucose. As a matter of fact, they're trying to get, and I read an article, this, I might as well talk about another article. I was going to mention it later on anyway, I read an article said, what's the difference between glucose and fructose? And the was going on to say, who cares?
There's not a lot of difference. There is an enormous amount of difference between glucose and fructose. Fructose and I mentioned this the other day tonight when we talked about high fructose corn syrup 10 times. Okay? Remember last week when I brought out the toast? You remember, don't be toast. And I was using toast as an illustration of glycation. Okay, glycation. What is glycation? It's toast inside the browning and the outside. Even your skin, it is glycation is wrinkles. Don't be toast. And the example of a rib cage of a young person like ivory white, and then you get a 90-year-old and the rib cage, it's brownish, it's glycation, and we talked about A1C and that's why I love the A1C because it measures glycation.
Okay? A1C measures glycation because sugar molecules attached to your hemoglobin. Your body is so fearfully and wonderfully made. It knows more than we do. Why? Because your body knows that sugar left unattended in the bloodstream is extremely dangerous. You have an organ call your pancreas and a hormone called insulin that is dedicated to take sugar out of the bloodstream. It's a traffic cop. Sugar, come here, can't park there. Don't park in the blood. Your body knows that. And we like, oh, sugar in moderation. It's good for you. You need it. You don't need it. Insulin says to sugar, come here now. Okay, here's a problem.
When we switched sugars, we went from glucose to fructose. Metabolically, they're different. You know that because we've been teaching that there. It's like alcohol. It takes a B line for your liver. Fructose does bears. Remember we used the illustration of a bear. We have bears in Northern Ontario here. We had so many one year coming out in Sudbury. My sister said they're buying condos. There was so many of them, but they come out and right now in my hometown, it's blueberry season. Well, the bears love blueberries. They'll eat up to, I didn't know this years ago, but I've known it for quite a while, that bears will eat up to 30,000 blueberries a day.
Yeah, you know what? They're getting ready for hibernation. They're getting ready. They're going to get really fat. You have a few blueberries, you'll never get fat. Okay? I love blueberries. I love berries. They're good for you, but you ain't eating 30,000 of them. But you see what fructose does to a bear. Guys, fructose is different, and when you eat a fruit or you eat a blueberry or you eat a raspberry or a strawberry or whatever, there's no problem with that because you're eating it. It's when you drink it fructose. And that's what Pepsi did and that's what Coke did, and that's what Mountain Dew did, and that's what they all did. They switched from sugar to fructose. High fructose corn syrup. One thing we know you see, because when you're using fructose, we talked about this. Fructose packs that liver up like nobody's business, okay?
Fructose packs the liver up like nobody's business. So you want to really, really read labels and just assume when you go in the middle aisles of your grocery store or you look at any soda or whatever, they switch the sugars. They went from glucose to fructose. Big problem fructose, as we talked about earlier on an earlier program, fructose drives oxidation, aging fructose drives glycation. That's why I love A1C when someone's A1C is going up. Okay? So if your A1C is up over 5.4, you're on the Titanic of metabolic syndrome. You're starting, you're on the Titanic. It looks nice. Oh, the Titanic. Yeah, except that it's floating in dangerous water butters. Okay? That's why I love A1C because it measures glycation and fructose glycations 10 times more than normal sugar. Not that normal sugar's good for you because it ain't, but fructose toast and the guys, again, you know that I separate eating a fruit. You can have an apple. An apple a day doesn't keep the doctor away. Steak a day keeps the doctor away, but you can have an apple. You want to eat an apple, eat it. Don't drink it.
That liquid is really bad. So A1C is a real good measurement for that, and as A1C goes up, you got glycation. When that goes up, that is a huge, huge indicator of metabolic syndrome. And metabolic syndrome is the driver of what? Heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's, diabetes, autoimmune, and that wrong sugar, by the way, on its way from the gut to the liver connection, okay? The gut liver axis damaged the gut because nothing else guys. It feeds candida. It feeds candida. Now, let me talk about that a bit. Imagine a problem like candida albicans that is not studied in medical school. I remember some of my, I used to tell my patients, now shut up. Here's what I meant by that. Okay? Would you quit trying to convince your doctor? They used to go to their doctors and they said, Dr. Martin said, don't do that.
I used to tell 'em, would you shut up? You're just waving a red flag in front of their faces. Dr. Martin said, listen, I was busy. Of course, I had a radio show, right? And people, they had to go straighten out their doctors. I didn't want them to do that. Okay? I wanted to straighten you out, but I wasn't aiming at physicians because they don't listen. Linda, imagine going to medical school all the years they go to medical school and they don't learn about yeast. They don't even learn about the microbiome. When I used to talk about probio, let's go back 30 years, doctors thought, they always thought this, that Dr. Martin was a quack. Okay? They said that I'm a whack, okay? I remember talking to a physician one time and I said, I'm not out to convince you you're not. I said, no, you don't.
Listen. If I tell you something, are you going to listen? No. You think I'm wasting my breath on that? I said, I educate. I'm an educator. I educate my patients in my office. I teach them. I teach them nutrition 1 0 1. I teach them about leaky gut. Leaky gut, okay, go back. Well, even today, do you think they studied leaky gut in medical school? That's why they don't even talk about candida. If candida slapped a physician in the face, they wouldn't even see it. What whatcha talking about, right? They don't know anything about leaky gut. They don't know anything about the Trojan horse, and I'll tell you something, there's nothing that feeds candida albicans like high fructose corn syrup on its way to the liver, like alcohol on its way to the liver. It feeds the bad guys. It feeds the invading army of candida yeast fungus. Oh, if you got fungus in your bloodstream, tell Dr. Martin, go back there and tell Dr. Martine crazier than a del because if you got fungus in your blood, blood, it would kill you. Yeah, well, they're right. It'll kill you, but it's a slowdown. It ain't fast. It's slow, and candida albicans carries about 180 toxins. It's slowly poisoning our system, but I'm going to tell you something about candida. The biggest way, by the way you get it, it's induced by medicine.
Why? Everybody has a little bit of candida. Did you know that? Yeah, a little bit. They're like a friendly neighbor. They're not bothering you, right? But one, how does it overtake? How does the Trojan horse come into your body and tie? Antibiotics are the number one reason, and women would know this because they'll take an antibiotic for a bladder infection, and then more often than not, they get a yeast infection. How did that happen? Well, you wiped out all the good guys and you introduced the third Army, candida Albi caps, but people don't realize it's not just women that get a yeast infection. Men get it and they don't even know they haven't. 90% of things that end up on your skin from a dermatitis to psoriasis to eczema, you know what it is? It's fungal, it's candida, it's leaky gut, leaky skin. Yeast can get into your joints, yeast can get into your lungs.
Yeast can get into your sinuses. Yeast can get into your brain. Yeast can overtake your gut and give you sibo, which we know is really small. Intestinal fungal overgrowth. It's a fungus, it's a yeast, and you take an, because I'll give you an example. Sibo. You know what? They give you an antibiotic because they say, well, it's bacterial. No. Oh, you know what? I feel a little bit better. Then it comes back with a vengeance. Why? Because the fungus grows, the candida spreads and it takes over. I'll tell you, millions and millions of people got yeast, sinuses, yeast in the brain, yeast in their bladder, and they get recurring infection and oh, it's a bacteria. You've got leukocytes in your urine. The doctor goes, oh, you got a urinary tract infection? No, you got a yeast infection. Yeah, the e coli might be sitting there.
It might be, but there's an underlying coating there. Fungal yeast and fructose, high fructose corn syrup, not an apple high fructose corn syrup, that manmade syrup, that manmade sugar. It feeds that like nobody's business, and it's a cousin to mold. Anybody know what mold is? Of course you do. Is mold good for you in a bathroom? No. Is mold good for you in a basement? You can't even see the invisible spores. That can be very, very detrimental. It's one of the biggest challenges in medicine today, and one of the reasons is the overuse of antibiotic. Yeah. Anywho, how did I get on this topic? No, and I read, guys, I read these studies, I read these articles, and I just want to scream. Here we are today, we're in 2025, and they're still not teaching nutrition in medical school. Here we are in 2025, and they're still not teaching about candida in medical school. Here we are in 2025, and they're still not teaching leaky gut in medical schools. They're just starting and don't hold your breath to realize, you know what? Probiotics are not a bad thing. Probiotics have become mainstream, guys. I've been talking about this for 40 years. 40 probably more. It's becoming mainstream. You hear it all the time, right? They still don't learn about it in medical school.
Okay, guys, we got a great week. You guys are great. You got so much patience with me. I appreciate it. We love you dearly and sincerely, and we'll talk to you soon.
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