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Dr. Martin: Well good morning everyone. Once again, welcome to another live this morning. Hope you're having a great start to your day. We certainly are. I've had my vitamin C, how about you? I never get tired of that. Okay, so what we're going to do, because this comes out of questions, okay, "Dr. Martin, I got my blood test back," and you're smart because you know how to interpret your blood tests. You found out that your triglycerides were high and your HDL was low, okay? Triglycerides, three fat balls, they were high. Your HDL was low. And guys, when I look at blood work, did it for years, constantly looking at when you gave me lipids, when I look at blood work and I look at lipids, your doctor generally, okay, some of them are keeping up with the research, most are not. And unfortunately they got it backwards because they're looking at total cholesterol. They're looking at cholesterol is being the bad guy, and that shouldn't be the case. The bad guy is triglycerides. The bad guy is triglycerides when they're high.
And it's like a teeter totter guys. When triglycerides are high, generally 99% of the time your HDL is going to be low. It's a teeter totter. High triglycerides, low HDL, okay? You've got high HDL cholesterol usually your triglycerides are going to be low. Okay? Now I explain all that in my book. Sun, Steak and Steel. A lot of people use this as a resource because I talk about eight critical blood tests. Very important guys, in this day and age, you want to take care of your health, your own health. You can't fix anybody else's, but you can fix yours. And when it comes to triglycerides and HDL, I want to talk about what to do if you get blood work back and your triglycerides are high. Now, what is the average there? And again, I really don't want you to send me your blood work because I'm not in practice guys anymore. I used to accept that blood work. I want you to be able to look at this yourself, okay? Because first of all, if I asked you to send me in your blood work, it never would end. Okay?
I mean, we got just on Facebook, we have 90,000. We're going to have a party soon. 90,000 followers on Facebook. On our podcast, we're into the millions. We got three or 4 million downloads on our podcast. You can understand, guys, I love looking at blood work, by the way. I do, but it would never end. It got to a point that, I mean, I'm looking at blood work all day and then commenting on it. I'd rather do an educational thing so that you guys can look at it, okay? So generally what you want, okay, generally you want your blood, your triglycerides. Men, I usually would aim for under 150, 1.50 in Canada and women, if you can get your triglycerides under 1 or under a 100, you're doing a good job. But again, I don't worry about that quite as much as the ratio. So it's really important. Low triglycerides and higher HDL or at least equal. But what happens when triglycerides are high? The HDL sinks like the Titanic.
Guys, let me just say this and I'm going to put it out there. You guys know it, but I'm going to say it again. People don't die of heart attacks because of cholesterol, unless it's low. High cholesterol doesn't give you a heart attack, okay? It's not high cholesterol that gums up your blood vessels. It's not true. It's triglycerides. Fat balls. Okay? Three fat balls make up a triglyceride. Tri, three, glycerides, fat, three fat balls. Now, it's important you understand this. Fat doesn't make you fat. Fat doesn't give you triglycerides. You understand that. It's really important to understand that, and this is why so often because when you don't understand nutrition, like most physicians, I hate to say it, but they don't. The whole pharmaceutical industry, fat makes you fat. Stop eating eggs, meat and cheese. Stop eating the steaks. Stop having coconut oil. Stop. It's fat. Fat's bad. No, it's not. No, it's not. You get high triglycerides by eating sugar, carbs.
When your liver gets full of sugar, that's been made into glycogen. The body releases from the liver triglycerides. Everybody's got triglycerides guys. Your body will use those fat balls for energy, but you don't want high triglycerides, okay? And you want high cholesterol. Why? Because cholesterol's on your side. HDL cholesterol, so is LDL by the way, so is LDL, but let's just focus in on HDL, high density lipoprotein. Your body needs that cholesterol for everything. But secondly, what it does, it hitches its wagon, it think of it as a transport vehicle. It hitches its wagon to triglycerides in your blood, so cholesterol's on your side, cholesterol, saving your bacon. It's taking triglycerides out of the blood and bringing them back to the liver to be processed. You want those transport trucks on the highways and byways of your blood vessels. They're doing their job. I mean, on the way there, they're delivering your hormones. You need cholesterol.
This is why women, one of the reasons women have so much trouble with their horror-mones, they don't eat enough fat. They're eating salad. You need cholesterol. You need HDL to be on the highways and byways, they'll take triglycerides out so you can actually measure this. You can measure it. You can know. So you get your blood work. Take out my book and read chapter. What chapter is this? 10 or listen to this podcast over again. Okay, so your liver converts all the excess carbohydrates, bread, pasta, rice, cereal, sugar, sweets, pastries, juice, milk, cow's milk in the grocery store. Unless you got the cow in the backyard, white Pepsi, it'll convert that stuff to triglycerides trying to get the extra stuffing out of the liver. It sends it into the bloodstream. Very dangerous.
And when I was in practice, I used to tell people, I saw your triglycerides. They're high. You know what that means? You're a carboholic. Put your hand up and repeat after me. My name is Susie and I'm a carboholic. What? Yeah, you are. You can't fool your blood work. You got high triglycerides and HDL is low. You're in trouble. That's the major cause of heart disease. It's food, and that's never taken into consideration other than people that are, you go to the mall and you see someone that's stuck in the seventies. They got long sideburns. They think they're Elvis. They might even dye their hair black so that they looked like Elvis. Elvis died in what? 1977. But that's nutrition still. There's so many people that are hung up. They don't understand. Fat makes you fat, they believe that. Cut back. Oh, you got high triglycerides. Well, they usually don't even worry about that, but let's say they did. They go, well, you know what? You better cut back. You're eating saturated fat. Cut back on the saturated fat.
Go online. You'll still read that today. They're stuck in the seventies. I learned that in the seventies. Was it right? No, it wasn't right then. It's not right now, but good luck trying to get it to change. They still don't understand how your liver works. I mean, the proof's in the pudding. We got more heart disease than we ever had. We got more fatty liver than we ever had. When I was in school in the seventies, there was not even a term non-alcoholic fatty liver. There wasn't. It's not in my books. Today I see 10 year olds with fatty liver, or at least I used to. They're carboholics. 60, 70% of their diet is carbs. Kids, they get up in the morning, have cereal. "Oh, Dr. Martin, it's Cheerios. It's got a heart on the box." I know the heart on the box will remind you that if you eat this stuff, you're going to have a heart attack. It's got a heart on the box.
Has cardiologists ever been right about anything? They told you not to eat butter and eat margarine. They told you to lower their salt. They told you to take statin drugs to lower cholesterol when cholesterol is not the problem. Well, it is if it's too low, the very mechanism that your body uses to lower triglycerides, they want to lower it. They want to lower cholesterol. Imagine they're aiming at the wrong target and to change their mind, my word, it's so difficult. I sit in most conversations and I listen to people. Well, I listened to a guy yesterday on a podcast. He's very smart, and he said, well, it's your own folk. If you're eating saturated fat, Elvis stuck in the seventies, saturated. Saturated fat's good for you.
Okay, so let's talk. What do we do? Okay, what to do? You find out or someone in your family. Now, it's always harder when you try and preach, right? A lot of people don't like that, and I understand that. They don't want to be taught anything, and what can you do guys? Next. They're not listening. Okay? A lot of people don't listen. There's a lot of Linda's out there that don't listen. There's a lot of Larry's out there that don't listen. Well, if you don't listen, well next, talk to someone that listens and look, I understand this is going against the grain. I understand that. I understand I'm in the minority when I talk to you like this, but I'm telling you, the study after study after study after study, okay, so what do you do? You got high triglycerides. You got a lot of fat balls going around in your blood vessels. That's dangerous. Heart attacks and strokes. Okay? What do you do? Cut your carbs. Cut down on the carbs big time. You want to empty that liver and when you empty the liver. The only way to empty a liver, by the way, is to cut down on carbohydrate, sugars, breads, and pastas and noodles.
And don't fool yourself. You look at your numbers and go, okay, I got no choice here. Here's what I got to do. It's diet. Remove all fructose. Don't drink anything with sugar in it. You can have a Dr. Martin's perfect smoothie with a few berries and lots of cream. Yeah, that'll empty your liver. Fats not turned to fat in your liver. Fructose the worst. Lower your fructose completely. Watch out for the ketchups, the condiments, even yogurt, added sugar. Be careful. Pizzas and all that jazz. Read your labels on food. If you got high triglycerides, you're in trouble. Don't fool yourself. Don't try and talk yourself out of it. Well, my doctor never said anything about my triglycerides. He wasn't even looking. All he cares about is total cholesterol and LDL. Crackers, watch that stuff. Any kind of juice, sports drinks and all that. Just watch all that sugar. Cut it out, cut it out. Drink water like I talked yesterday. Drink water and coffee. That's it, you'll get used to it.
Oh somebody was asking about carbonated water. Okay, I like carbonated water. Okay? I do. It's a lot better than almost anything else, but it's not water in a sense that it's not flushing. You can have it. It's a treat. Okay? You can have it, but don't count it as your two liters, okay? You drink water. There we go. Now, remove fructose completely. If your triglycerides are high, high fructose corn syrup. The worst liver killer is high fructose corn syrup and alcohol. Lower alcohol. If your triglycerides are high, I'm sorry, you got to lower alcohol. It may not for you might not even mean moderation. I mean, just cut it out. I used to do that in my office. You're doing the reset. You got 30 days. Don't drink any alcohol. What? I mean it. I didn't say this was going to be easy. Anything worth accomplishing in life usually is tough. It's tough sledding.
If you got bad habits, they're bad and they're habits and it's not easy, but it's worth it. I had tens of thousands of people that I gave high fives to over the years. Why? Because I gave them high fives because they changed their habits. 21 days to form a habit. You find out 21 days. Yeah. You know what? Me and sugar, we don't get along that good. I thought I really like that stuff, but it don't like me. Yeah, you found out. I didn't like water, but I found out how good I feel when I drank water. Yeah. I eat very little carb now. I don't need them. Yeah, right. Yeah. Replace carbs. You see, guys, I'm not telling you not to eat. Well, I will in a minute, but replace, it's not like I don't want you to eat. I just want you to eat something different. I want you to go on a high fat, low carb, the rest of your life. What? The rest of your life. I want you to look at an egg and go, hallelujah. I love eggs and they're good for me. And there's no limit to them. Okay? I want you to look at meat, fish and go, that's free food for me. It's free. No counting calories. It's the best food in the world. Eggs, meat, and good dairy, cheese, butter. Lots of fat. Lots of fat.
If you can get the fatty meat and eat the fat. What? Yes, fat head. Take it as a compliment because it will help to lower your triglycerides. Okay? Yeah, you can even have some olive oil. You like olive oil? I like olive oil. You know what's better than olive oil? You guys know the answer to this. It's bacon. Eat bacon because it's got the same oleic acid that olive oil has. Olive oil is good. I like it. I mean it. If you insist on eating a salad, make sure you put olive oil on it. Soak it. Okay. Now, omega-3, if you got high triglycerides, please take a supplement of omega-3 and the best. Well, you know what I'm going to say? I'm very biased, guys. Okay? I admit to my biases, I'm very biased. The best to lower triglycerides, and I've proven it to people. A lot of people say EPA. I say yes, I like EPA, but I like DHA better. And that'll lower your TGs. It'll lower your triglycerides. Yeah. The more fat you get, the healthy fat, in omega-3, you'll lower your triglycerides. You'll lower your triglyceride.
Studies have shown 30% reduction in just supplementing, and I saw it every day in my office. Take this high DHA. You want to take a medication, well, it's not a med, but it's a supplement, and I'm aiming right at your triglycerides to get them down. And by the way, it's a teeter totter. Your triglycerides will come down with the high DHA and EPA and your HDL cholesterol is going to go up. Healthy heart, healthy brain, healthy blood vessels, lubricate. Muscle, I can't tell you enough to get strong, metabolically, muscle. The storage bins of your body really make a difference. Well, first of all, your body will use those. Insulin will use your muscle to store, because think about it, you got a lot more muscle and room in your muscles than you have in your liver. Your liver is one little, you've got muscle all over your body, your leg muscles, your arms, get stronger.
The more bin that you have, the more bin room that you have, the more your body has space to store glycogen, converted carbs, storage, build muscle, your triglycerides will go down. Intermittent fasting. Okay? Now I'm just going to give you some studies that show you if you want to lower triglycerides. You know me in intermittent fasting. I like it. And the point is with this is we're not meant to be grazing all the time. That came from the food industry. Of course, Kraft and Pepsi and those companies, of course, they wanted you to eat all the time. Eat. You need to graze. No, you are not a cow. Cows graze. We talk about this, eating in windows, but I'm going to be very specific for triglycerides. Here's the research guys. You've got to be 16 hours without eating. So if you stop eating at six o'clock at night, right? 12 would be six in the morning. Even 12 hours is good for you. Don't eat at night. You know me. You want the self-cleaning oven at night to be working in your brain.
Well, don't eat at night because you want to be in the rest and digest. That's good. So you can go 12 hours. Yes, good, go 14 hours better. But for triglycerides, this is research. You got to be into 16 hours without eating. Now, that can be difficult for some people. I get that. I'm just telling you the research, so fasting, intermittent fasting or eating in windows, I find with me, if I don't eat at night, oh, do I feel like eating at night? Of course I do. Right? It's called Netflix syndrome. We eat. You go to a movie, you want to eat popcorn. Did I say this is easy. It's not easy. It's worth it, and you form habits, right? But the research on intermittent fasting is clear. You're into the 16 hour stuff to lower triglycerides. Okay?
Tomorrow we'll talk about elevating and some of these are redundant, elevating your HDL. But if you go through that, okay, cut way back on carbs and sugars. Do the reset. It's the best way to get your triglycerides down in a hurry. Eliminate all fructose, high fructose corn syrup, fructose. Don't eat a lot of fruits. Not that fruits are bad. It's just that if you want to lower triglycerides, get off the fructose for a bit. Don't pack up that liver at all and replace the carbs with healthy fats, eggs, meat and cheese. Get strong. Get muscle. Any movement's going to be good for triglycerides, but muscles are the best for triglycerides. You want to go for a walk. I love when you go for a walk. I love you and exercise is great. Any movement is going to be good for you, but this is very specific when it comes to your triglycerides. Get on the fish oil. Really important. And that intermittent fasting that we talked about.
Okay, did you have fun? Okay, I did. I think I might be on the for a couple of days, but we're still doing our programs, okay? We're still doing our programs, so look for us, okay? Tell your friends. Guys, because you share this. This is why we're up to 90,000 followers. Just about 89,000. What did I read? 900 and I think 78 today. Followers on Facebook. Okay? We got over 20, almost 25,000 people in our private Facebook group. What a family. It's like, I know all of you. And then tell people about, look, a lot of people can't come on live with us and tell them about The Doctors Is In podcast. Let 'em know. Let 'em listen. Then they can make up their mind. Nobody's got a gun to their head, right? Some people don't like me. I don't know why. I thought I was likable, but some people don't like the message. Okay? It's alright. I love you anyway. I mean that. I love you anyways. Okay, talk to you soon, guys.
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