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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone, and once again, welcome to another live this morning. Hope you're having a wonderful start to your day, and we sure appreciate you guys coming on with us when you can live. Of course, and we understand not everybody can do that. Reminder, tomorrow is q and a, get your questions in. Okay, I want to talk this morning. We're going to do a couple of things. I just read a new study on gout. The gout is up over 300%. I know why. I know since the 1980s, gout is up 300% now. Gout has been around as long as mankind has been around. It's been well documented in any history of medicine that you look at. Some very famous people, including Napoleon, had gout. Okay? So it's not like it hasn't been around. It's been around for a long time, but it's the numbers of gout that have skyrocketed.
Now, again, I know why I've done programming on this before, but when I saw the new study, I said, I just got a comment on it again because a lot of people are confused about gout. It used to be called the king's disease. It seemed in the dark ages. It was only the elite that would get gout. The peasants didn't, okay, so they called it the king's disease. I remember studying that when I was in school in the 1970s about the king's disease and the king, according to the studies at the time or whatever, the king was eating too much meat. Purine was the cause of gout. Well, it's not, and I used to argue that even back then. So let's go back 50 years and again, do I get pleasure in going against the grain? Maybe a little bit, but it's like diabetes. My dad was a diabetic, so when they told me in school that moderation for diabetes was the thing, you had to be careful that your sugars didn't go too low.
And I was taught in 1968 with my dad telling me, son, it's sugar diabetes. I never forgot that. Never forgot that. And when I went to school and they tried to teach me, now we're going to call it type two diabetes, adult onset diabetes. That was just a smoke screen. That was just the powers to be the food industry, the pharmaceutical industry, pharmaceutical. They were trying to, you know what? It's genetics. It's not your fault. It's not reversible. You have to live with it and therefore you've got to take our drugs and food really has nothing to do with diabetes. Yes, it does. It's everything because it's sugar, diabetes. Now, gout, it's not purines. It's not purines. It's not meat. It wasn't the king eating too much meat. It was the king drinking too much wine and beer. It wasn't even the alcohol. It was the fructose.
And now we are 40 years past the invention of the antichrist of sugars man's invention, taking sugar and twisting it and making a molecule, high fructose corn syrup. It's made in a lab and I've been screaming like John the Baptist for 40 years. That's not a good sugar. It's fructose. It's a liquid. High fructose corn syrup. They put it in everything. A Coca-Cola, Pepsi Cola. They changed the sugars. Not that sugar was any good. It's just now it's a hundred fold worse because that fructose is directly responsible for the 300% increase in uric acid fructose, which makes a beeline for your liver. The byproduct of that is uric acid. By the way, everybody makes uric acid. Everybody. It's a byproduct. It's part of the kreb cycle. That's all right. You make uric acid, but if you are consuming high fructose corn syrup that's going on steroids, that production of uric acid and your liver being gummed up makes that worse. Your kidneys can't get rid of it. You can't secrete enough of it.
Therefore, that's why doubt's gone up so much at the doctors in podcasts. You know what I've done? Please have the doctor include, because sometimes they don't do it. They don't look at it because they don't look at metabolic syndrome. 93% of the population have metabolic syndrome, and yet very few doctors talk about it. But one of the things that I include in that list is your uric acid levels. It's a factor. And if your uric acid levels are high, it's a sign you have metabolic syndrome. There's no doubt in my mind about that. We already know in metabolic syndrome. Let's just refresh our memory because you guys are smart. My audience knows these things. If you're new to this program, what I'm going to give you this morning, life saving information, you need to know this. It's lifesaving metabolic syndrome is characterized by these blood tests, high triglycerides and low cholesterol, not high cholesterol, low cholesterol, low HDL, cholesterol. When you look at blood work, get that, it'll save your life. If your triglycerides are high and your HDL cholesterol is low, you are in deep doo doo. You got to fix that.
It's part of metabolic syndrome. It tells you, you got a problem. Houston, we got a problem. Your mitochondria, your battery packs are not working properly. You have insulin resistance and gout is a sign of insulin resistance. That is the bottom line of it. And gout is a symptom, by the way, of high uric acid. Now, a lot of people don't get that symptom, but I want you to check your blood work. If you're getting blood work, insist on it. Please check my uric acid because again, even the vast majority of people that have high levels of uric acid don't even get gout and doctors. Again, you just have to understand their training. Uric acid, the only thing they think about is gout. They don't look at metabolic syndrome. I hate to say it. Most doctors don't even know about metabolic syndrome. They don't know that 93% of the population in North America are on the Titanic. They don't get trained in prevention. They understand insulin, but they don't understand insulin resistance. They don't understand the connection between insulin resistance and heart disease, cancer.
They understand insulin and diabetes. They understand that fourth one, but you know what I talked about with Dr. Joseph Kraft, okay? The guy was a genius. He was what we call the father of diabetes because there nobody that did research on diabetes like Dr. Joseph Kraft dinner, not Kraft Peanut butter. Someone said to me, Dr. Martin, when you say Kraft, that's more Canadian, okay? Because craft peanut butter, which is very popular in Canada, but as far as they know, you don't get that in the States. Crap. Peanut butter. Okay, anyway. Crappy dinner. Crap dinner. You know what I mean? Anyway, guys, Dr. Joseph Kraft said this after doing autopsy, after autopsy, after autopsy, autopsy on diabetics, he said, and I quote, there is no one that gets heart disease, that isn't a diabetic. What? He said, yeah, atherosclerosis is diabetes, undiagnosed in most cases, people that die of a heart attack.
This is Joseph Kraft. He said you were a diabetic and you didn't even know it, but you're dead now because he discovered that on autopsy. Guys, that should have been headlines. But one of the signs of insulin resistance, high triglycerides, low HDL, high uric acid. I put that in there, okay? You're not going to read that anywhere else. I am confident that I'm right about that, confident about it, because like I said, you go back with me to the seventies, and I used to fight the idea of purines the king's disease. It's meat. It's not meat, it's wine, it's soda. Let me prove it to you. I'm going to prove what I just said. A man who gets G diagnosed, and again, you can't get gout without high uric acid hyperuricemia, leave it to medicine to give it a big name so nobody understands what they're talking about. I was told by my nuns in high school, you want to get into medicine? You better learn Latin. I hated Latin. I hated it every minute of it. But Latin was invented to keep the peasants from understanding what doctors are talking about.
Anyway, the study. If a man, okay, let me read this here. This was in this study. If a man who suffers from gout hyperuricemia just cuts out drinking soda, pop in Canada, soda in the United States just stopped drinking soda with high fructose corn syrup. You see in the eighties, Pepsi, Coca-Cola and the others, they all switched their sugars. They went from glucose to fructose. It's been a disaster. But let me finish a man who just cuts out soda. You know how many patients I got to cut out soda? Well, Dr. Martin, I just have one Pepsi a day. Yeah, with 14 teaspoons of high fructose corn syrup in it. I just have one a day. It's better than diet soda, isn't it? Dr. Martin, you pick your poison. But if you think for one minute that your body was made to drink a soda with 14, I remember doing a TV show one day, okay? I'd written a book, the New Slim You. Okay? I had a publicist, so I was on a TV show. You know what I did? I said, I want you to get me a bowl of sugar with a spoon and a glass of water. Put it on the set.
And as I was being interviewed, it was a program in the USAA Morning show. That's what it was. And I said, okay, I'm going to show you a soda. I used the word soda and not pop. Okay, now count with me. 1, 2, 3, 4. And I could tell my host, like his eyeballs were falling out of his head. He told me, I only have one Pepsi a day, Dr. Merton. That's all right, isn't it? Isn't that moderation? And I showed him one. I showed the audience. I sold a lot of books after that on just getting rid of sugar. I didn't even get a chance really to talk about the type of sugar. It was high fructose corn syrup. Now, back to the study. You know me, I get off on rabbit trails. If a man just cuts out soda, he reduces his risk of gout by 85% soda. I add to that list, but I'll get there in a minute. Women, if they get rid of soda, okay, 74% decrease in the risk of gout. Gout is up 300%. Gout is through the roof, and that's gout. But uric acid, it's just about 93% of the population where there's elevated uric acid. They don't check it, not routinely. Why not? All they can think of is gout. Well, you don't have gout. Why do I go to check your uric acid levels? Because it's a sign of metabolic syndrome. And guys, I try and teach you this all the time. Read labels, because they don't have to tell you they're using high fructose corn syrup in their products.
The labeling laws, I hope Kennedy in the US of A, I think he's going to do it. He's going to make companies tell us if they're using high fructose corn syrup in Canada, good luck. Petition Health Canada. Make them tell us the truth on a label. It's sugar now, but it's high fructose corn syrup. It's the antichrist of sugars. Guys, even table sugar. 50% of it is fructose, and that gets diverted. It's broken down differently. We have an enzyme that sends that fructose off to the liver. Very damaging. So back to metabolic syndrome. I've added uric acid to the list that ain't official with almost anybody else. I've never seen it anywhere else, just me, but I think I'm right. And then, okay, let's just go over it. Metabolic syndrome, 93% of the population, slightly elevated blood sugar according to medicine. You're not a diabetic. You might be on your way, but you're not a diabetic.
Diabetes again, Martin Clinic, The Doctor Is In Podcast diabetes. Last thing to happen, never the first last. It's reversible because it's the last thing to happen, slightly elevated blood glucose. But you know me. I want you to test your A1C. Why do I love my A1C? Because it's so indicative. And if you're above 5.4, you got your feet getting on the tac, you're in iceberg territory. So slightly elevated blood sugar, slightly elevated blood pressure, and it ain't salt, it's sugar. It's fructose, not a fruit, not when you're eating fruit. I'm not talking about that. Okay? Belly fat. You can be skinny as a rake and have belly fat. It's a sign. It's a sign. Okay. I talked to you about triglycerides. I talked to you about your HDL. Those are key, key numbers. I've added uric acid to the list. Get that checked. Here's another one. Here's what I've added to the list of metabolic syndrome. Your dihydroxy 25 vitamin D levels. People don't know what their vitamin D levels are because your doctor only thinks of calcium and only thinks of osteoporosis, is the only thing that vitamin D is good for your bones and get out of the sun.
And who cares what your vitamin D levels are? Well, your body does cancer, does heart disease, does diabetes, does Alzheimer's does. They care about your vitamin D levels because it's a metabolic disorder. If your vitamin D is low, you're in trouble. If your vitamin D is low, your immune system can't work without vitamin D. It doesn't work properly. It's part of metabolic syndrome. And then I added another one, B12. Your body doesn't work without B12. It won't work properly. Your brain don't work. Your nerves don't work. If you're a diabetic, almost a hundred percent for sure, you got low levels of B12. I never guessed I tested Dr. Martin. My B12 is normal according to my doctor. Yeah, but that's for a mouse. You ain't a mouse, okay? In case you didn't know. Anywho, I wasn't going to spend the whole program on gout, but I just couldn't help myself because when I read that study, a new one, just confirming what I've been talking about for years and years and years, that it's a form of metabolic syndrome. And it's the wrong sugar. Man thinks they're smarter than God.
And one of the big issues too, by the way, is just not soda. It's people drinking today. It's crazy. The number one drink in North America, the number one drink, it's not soda. It's orange juice. I get a migraine when I see people drinking orange juice. God didn't want you to drink fruit. He wanted you to eat it. What a difference when you eat fruit compared to drinking it. Don't drink it. Drink water, drink coffee. And by the way, for gout, one of the best things you can do is coffee, but don't put sugar in it. Metabolic syndrome, okay? Another thing with gout, and we put this in our emails, hydrate with water. One of the best medicines to flush out high levels of uric acid because uric acid is processed in the liver and then excreted in the kidneys, and 25% of all kidney stones. It's amazing. People when they get off fructose and especially drinking fructose, how they get rid of kidney stones. 75% of them are oxalates, but 25% of them are uric acid stones.
People drinking fruit juice, and they go to the mall and they get those shakes, the fruit shakes and all that. I get a migraine. How much sugar in that? How much fructose is in there? And then they go to these coffee shops and they have a latte. I had grandchildren that were baristas or whatever they called them, working at Starbucks and Tim Horton's. And they said, grandpa, you should see the amount of sugar we add to those drinks. It's incredible. And then they already have the meat in some places, those drinks and they pour 'em out of a machine or whatever. They said, you wouldn't believe the amount of sugar in there. Oh, I believe it. And they're skyrocketing uric acid levels. And like I said, it's not just gout, it's metabolic syndrome. And that leads to heart disease. It leads to cancer, it leads to Alzheimer's, it leads to official diabetes. And I'm telling you, it's a big factor in autoimmune, a big factor with leaky gut. You get metabolic syndrome and leaky gut equals autoimmune disease. That's a whole other kettle of fish. We won't go there today.
Okay, guys, tomorrow Q and A. Very popular program. Okay? I love it too, guys. I'm used to that. I did it in the radio for 20 years Q and A. I used to be on with CKLW, Lynn Martin and guess what? We talked for a couple of minutes for an hour long program. And then she opened up the phone lines. I was used to it Q and A. Ask any question you want, okay? And then I'll pontificate. Okay? We love you guys. Thanks for being such a great, great audience. Our success, The Doctor Is In is you guys. Talk to you soon.
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