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Dr. Martin: Well good morning everyone, and once again, welcome to another live this morning. We sure appreciate you guys coming on, and we thank you for that. Thank you for the friendship to this program. Thank you for your faithfulness to it. Okay, so a new study on vitamin D. I'm not going to spend a lot of time on it because it seems to me that every day I could have a new study on vitamin D. This one is with cognition, memory, brain, test it. Okay, and here's what they did. They followed 2,600 adults over the age of 50. I've got three today. I have three children, shouldn't call 'em children, adult children that are over 50. 3 out of 4 of my adult children are over 50 years old. I've been just amazed how time flies, amazing to me. Anywho, my daughter, Stacey this morning, I just texted her. I said, I can't believe you're 50 years old. My word.
Okay, anyway, so what they did, okay, isn't it interesting that they look at this because if you're over 50, you're not quite a senior, okay? But this study looked at 2,600 adults and watched their vitamin D levels and the lower their vitamin D, the worse their memory was. Cognitive decline, vitamin D. It's good guys for everything. Think of almost everything in your body, every organ in your body, your immune system, vitamin D. Just pretend you are a solar panel and then listen to this, okay? I'm going to bring you a study here. I got a migraine yesterday because I read this thing. Okay, here's where I got my migraine. So we're reading above vitamin D levels and cognition and the importance, right? And then I read an article yesterday, okay, you might not think here's the headline. You might not think you need to apply sun protection on a plane or at the nail salon, but according to dermatologists, you do. Can you see the migraine starting?
It's not enough to lather yourself up with sunscreen, but now they're telling you, well, you can't even get on a plane because just in case the sun would come out above the clouds. You see guys, when your premise is sun is the boogeyman, I think Bill Gates said, let's try and block the sun, and then you get study after study after study. Over the years, I brought you well over 200 studies on vitamin D and the sun and the importance of that for every aspect of your body, you have low levels of vitamin D. You're not going to do well, and more and more studies are showing you don't even need good levels of vitamin D. You need optimized levels of vitamin D if you want to fight cancer, and again, no one is telling you to burn in the sun, no one. But I learned in chemistry class in high school that when you put chemicals and you add heat, you can blow up the lab. You put chemicals on your skin and you add heat, not good.
As a matter of fact, the FDA has pulled, I don't know how many, 50 different sunscreens off the market because of their carcinogenic effect. I get a migraine, guys. I read an article on we're not using sunscreen enough. Won't be long, we're going to have snow here in Northern Ontario. You know what this article said? Well, when it's snowy out, you can get reflection from the snow and maybe you should have sunscreen on. Guys. I'm not kidding you. I'm not kidding you. So what is it?Are dermatologists, right? Or the vitamin D levels being optimized for your health from your brain to every organ in your body? Your immune system doesn't work properly without it. You have antennas going up from your T cells and your natural killer cells to fight cancer. I don't know.
But again, guys, I got to tell you, I've been consistent about vitamin D for a long, long time. I've never backed off on it. I've never backed off on the importance of the sun and how good it is for you. You remember during our pandemic, I was screaming like John the Baptist in the wilderness, would you please get outside and get in the sun? They were closing the beaches and I was screaming. Anywho, I don't want to relitigate all that. I just can't get over. Then here we are in 2025 and we're still talking about sunscreens. Man, oh man, when you wonder, how come we've been so duped? Well, there's a lot of money behind that. When you think of the big companies that make sunscreen like Johnson & Johnson and their dermatologists preaching nonsense in 2025, still you get 20 minutes of sun. If you can get in there longer than that, then without burn, then cover up, but don't cover over sunscreen. I don't like it. And the more they research that, the more I'm right about that.
Anywho, I got this study, vitamin D deficiency. Here's the headline, accelerates cognitive aging. Vitamin D deficiency accelerates cognitive aging. You need to optimize your vitamin D. Okay, what did I do in my office? Somebody asked me the other day and I said, okay, let me talk about this. Although I probably bring this back up on this program on a daily basis, what did I do with my diabetic? My practice changed. I specialized in the eighties, nineties mostly. Okay. I saw a lot of things on a daily basis, but eighties, nineties, chronic fatigue. I really did deep dives on chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome. They were sort of new conditions. Fibromyalgia. That was me. And what I did is I wrote books about it, okay? Chronic fatigue syndrome, the modern woman's curse. Writing books on fibromyalgia.
Okay, so you can imagine you write books, you get on tv, you get on the radio, and then people contact you because I had a protocol for chronic fatigue, what to do about it, why you have that. I talked about adrenal gland exhaustion. I'd been talking guys about cortisol for almost 40 years, and then it started in the late nineties, early two thousands, I started to see a lot of diabetes where it used to be rare. Now it was becoming very, very common and I saw a lot of it. So we measured insulin in blood work. We love the A1C, blood glucose too, but I was much more interested on your average A1C, and now research is bearing that out. That is a key number. And so I sort of really became a specialist in diabetes. Not that I was an endocrinologist, but I saw a lot of diabetes and my key with a diabetic or a pre, because I used to tell my pre-diabetics, you're really a diabetic, okay? There's no such thing as pre, and the reason I said that is because if you're pre, you're already a diabetic.
Diabetes, by the way, I always taught this is the last thing to happen. It's not the first thing to happen with your blood sugar. It's the last thing to happen. Why? Because your body is dedicated to keeping your sugars in control. Your body's dedicated to it. You have an organ dedicated to it. That's how important it is to keep your blood sugar under control. And so I taught that. Well, your A1C, it's 5.7, 5.8, maybe six, and my doctor says, you're not a diabetic. Well, don't wait because you really are. Your body is in a diabetic state. Don't wait for the diagnosis because the diagnosis will only really put you on medication, and sometimes they were put on medications by the time they got to me. They were on metformin, and you know what metformin does? It makes you pee out sugar. That's how it operates. You pee it out. I used to educate my patients, educate, what is diabetes? What is it? Let's talk. I want you to understand.
Okay, so I said, first of all, don't be duped. Diabetes is a food problem. You have an allergy, you have an allergy to carbs. You and carbs don't get along anymore. You never really did, but now you don't get along. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. I used to tell my patients, that's the way it is. Education. Education. They never really knew that. Well, I thought, doc, it was genetics. Well, genetics might load the gun, but the carbs are pulling the trigger. You might have a weakness. Everybody has weaknesses. Mine is blood sugar too. My dad was a diabetic. My grandfather a diabetic. We had done a lot of diabetes in our family, but that doesn't make you a diabetic. It's impossible to become a type two diabetic unless you're a carboholic. It's impossible. So education, education, education.
Once we had all their blood work and their urine testing, saliva testing, we did all the hormones and whatever, now they got nutrition 1 0 1, every one of my patients, you got nutrition 1 0 1, okay? Now people say, I'm an anti carb guy. Well, I'm not anti, but if you got trouble with blood sugar, you better be an anti carb person. Okay? So I taught them. The world out there is going to tell you. Medicine will tell you. Nutritionist will tell you, gurus will tell you that if you're a diabetic and they like that pre-diabetic thing, you need to eat now in moderation. I said, no, no. You take that word out of your vocabulary and use the word elimination. You must eliminate carbohydrates, eliminate them. And then I put a little asterisk there. I'll get to that in a minute.
Okay, so we had a talk. I showed them what turns to sugar rapidly because you see, I don't eat a lot of sugar. Yeah, you do. I don't. Don't even add sugar to my coffee. I know, but when you're eating bread, pasta, rice, cereals, you're just eating foods where sugar molecules holding hands. A piece of bread. Oh, Dr. Martin, it's 12 grain. I know, but you're a diabetic and 12 grain is just sugar molecules holding hands. It's sugar. Pasta. Dr. Martin, I get the whole wheat pasta. I don't care. You're a diabetic. You can't eat that. It turns to sugar rapidly. Don't be duped. Don't fool yourself. Here's the education because this is what is going to fix you, okay? You don't go to an AA meeting as an alcoholic and they tell you, well, you know what? A little bit of moderation. You do well with moderation. No, you don't. You do well with elimination.
And we have millions and millions and millions of carboholics today, and they live in the middle aisles of their grocery store. They think fiber is the best thing ever invented. No, it's not. It's overrated. You're still breaking down foods into sugars rapidly, and your body can't handle that anymore. It never really could, but now it can't. Get the memo? You see, that's what I did. Education. I said, look, you got a loaded gun to your head. When you eat carbs, you're playing Russian roulette. You're not going to get away with it. You have to change your diet. You have to. Now you're going to hear other voices. I saw it a gazillion times. I'm going to eat what I want and take Metformin says the diabetic. I need a chocolate bar because my blood sugar's going down. I'm on medication like insulin or even getting the injections like ozempic and wegovy or wagovy or whatever they call it vy. You're getting a temporary fix. It's not going to end well.
Diabetes never ends well, it just doesn't because diabetes, and I teach you guys this all the time. You guys know this by heart. But anyways, repetition, repetition, repetition. Sugar cannot park in the blood stream. Sugar can't park there. It's a no parking zone. Okay, so you got five liters of blood, and if you were to empty it because your body's so dedicated to getting sugar out of your bloodstream that you empty it. You can have 10 donuts. Don't ever do this guys, but it's been done. Have 10 donuts in a row. Take your blood sugar an hour later or less, your blood sugar's within normal limits. See, doc, I'm fine. I can eat whatever I want because my blood sugar comes back to normal. Yeah, because your body knows more than you do. Your body knows more than endocrinologists do. Your body knows you can't have sugar stay in your bloodstream. It can't park there. Why? Sugar is so destructive. It destroys blood vessels. It's the first thing that it attacks.
Well, blood vessels, guys this, think about this for a minute. Blood vessels is that important, doc? Yeah, it's important for your brain. Blood supply, type 3 diabetes, Alzheimer's, what? Blood supply. Eyes, blood supply. Heart, blood supply. Kidneys, blood supply. Limbs, blood supply. They don't even teach this in medical school. Sugar doesn't belong in your bloodstream. Incy weency, teeny weeny. What was that song? Yellow polka dot bikini. That amount of blood sugar, just a teensy weensy bit, because your pancreas is dedicated to getting rid of sugar out of the bloodstream and parking it because the bloodstream is a no parking zone. I used to tell my patients, look at me. See this face? I'm talking to you. You and sugar don't get along. You and carbs don't get along, so don't fool yourself. I'm not telling you you're never going to eat another carbohydrate in your life. I'm not telling you that, but you need to understand how you and food have the relationship you have, and you need to understand that.
Education provides choices and they don't do it. Medicine's not into education. They're into prescriptions. Well, I'll take care of your blood sugar. Here's a prescription, not education, cause they go home and they still have toast. As a matter of fact, they're told, well, you know what you need carbs. You need fiber. You're a diabetic and you need carbs. No, you don't. Your brain won't work without carbs. They still teach that. Here we're 2025, they still teach it. I get a migraine again. I was adamant. 25 years later, sometimes even my own hometown, I get people, they come up to me and they tell me, doc, do you remember me? A little bit I think. I got a good memory. I'm good with people. I'm good with faces. But I said, yeah, but your name, give me your name again. Oh, yeah, yeah, doc, you taught me. Look at my grocery cart. Look at all the meat in there and look at the eggs. Look at the butter, look at the dairy. Notice no sugar in my basket. I love it. That's what education does, guys.
Now, it doesn't always work. You can bring a horse to water, but you can't necessarily make them drink it. I had people, not many, but I did, had people that come, you know what, doc? I can't do that. I can't do it. You know what I used to say? I said, it's not that you can't, it's you won't. I said, you can form a habit in three weeks. I took enough psychology in university just to be dangerous, but one thing I learned, I learned that it takes three weeks to form a habit, and then six weeks, you cement it. It becomes part of your DNA. I said, it's a good thing to form habits, change your diet, look at food differently, and you might be a lone ranger in your family. You might get it from all sides because Dr. Martin, he's a kook. He drives a quack mobile. He's crazy. You can't live without carbs. Well, you could. I'm not telling you you can't, but you could. Okay, you could.
It was education. Education. I said, learn to read labels. Look at every label. But I said, if you got to look at labels, look for sugar. Dr. Martin, I love my soup in the grocery store. Read your label. Lot of sugar in lots of soups, lots of sugar added. Crackers, ketchup, relish. Read your labels, added sugars, and then of course, one of the biggest things I did with them is now we're going to change your drinks. That was fun. We're going to change your drinking habits. Oh, yeah, yeah. You like coffee? Yeah. Well, that's very anti-diabetic, it's medication for you. What? Yeah, drink a coffee with your meal. Don't add sugar to it. Don't even put milk in it. You can put some cream. I taught them that. Drink water and drink coffee. No more juice. It's amazing. You simplify life and doc, I love variety. Well, you're a diabetic. You and variety don't get along. Okay?
A lot of people, I'm bored, Dr. Martin, I'm bored. You always want me to have bacon and eggs in the morning. I'm bored. You're going to have to give up to be healthy. You and pancakes don't get along. You and toast don't get along, so don't fool yourself, okay?And I said, it gets easier. Look at eating as an investment. It's a necessity, but make an investment in your health. Eat the right foods. Anyway, somebody asked me the other day, I said, you need to get a PhD in food. You need to get a PhD in food, and I give you guys my audience. I already given you an honorary. You can tell people, hey, I'm Dr. Susie. Why? Because I got a PhD from Dr. Martin, an honorary one, because you know more than 99% of dieticians, 99% of every physician I've ever met, they don't take nutrition and dieticians they drink Kool-Aid. It all comes down from Dr. Kellogg, so to them, red meat, still bad red meat, bad today, 2025.
They'd rather you have a piece of whole wheat bread than a piece of meat. Who's right? You know the answer to that. That's why I give you an honorary PhD from the University of The Doctor Is In Podcast. I should make up some diplomas and send them out. Anyway, okay, guys, having fun, okay, we love you dearly. We got some good studies. What am I talking about? We put out an email today on gout. We can talk about that. How to reprogram your liver, a new study on that. Insulin resistance. Study after study on that, we'll look at a few more. Anyways, lots of stuff I got on my agenda, and Friday is Q and A. You know what that means? You need to send your questions in to info@martinclinic.com, info@martinclinic.com. We love you, talk to you soon.
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