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Dr. Martin: Well good morning everyone. Once again, welcome to another live this morning. Nice to have you on with us. We appreciate it big time. Okay, let's get going. You know what, I got seven new studies that came out and let's just pontificate a little wee bit on each one of them, okay? So I think I got seven here that I marked out and the first one is brain injuries linked to higher risk of brain cancer. Okay, so this was a study done. Folks who had brain injuries are more susceptible to brain cancer. Makes sense, right? Makes sense. Guys, here's what I've always, let's say in the last 20, 25 years have recommended for brain injuries. I saw a lot of them and I put those patients that I saw with brain injuries on high DHA.
So this would be twofold, okay? High DHA actually regenerates the brain, and why is that? Well, because the fat in your brain, someone calls you fat head. Take it as a compliment. I always say that, but the type of fat that's in your brain is a DHA fat. Why would anyone tell you not to eat a DHA? That is found in fish. That is found in meat. DHA, you get a steak, think DHA. Fat so important, it regenerates the brain and people with brain injuries are linked to higher risk of brain cancer. Well, then you get a double protection because the DHA, and I've shown this to you guys in the past, is a tumor buster. DHA is a tumor buster. Very important. Brain injuries linked to higher risk of brain cancer. Okay, so we talked about that.
There's two studies on vitamin D. Oh, have you ever heard of vitamin D before? Okay, listen to this one. Vitamin D lowers the risk of melanoma. So what is melanoma? Well, melanoma is the worst of all's skin cancers and melanoma, by the way. Okay? This is just a fact, and a lot of people don't like this because I've been around long enough to tell you that there's a war on vitamin D. There's a war really on the sun. I was reading an article the other day about Bill Gates. He'd like to be able to block the sun. Guys we're solar panels. Your body is a solar panel. Every cell in your body has an antenna for vitamin D. Your immune system won't work properly without vitamin D. Your T cells and your natural killer cells are waiting. They have an antenna for vitamin D, especially solar operated. You are, I am. There's a war going on on that. The war in Canada on vitamin D is incredible.
Vitamin D study lowers melanoma risk. The very thing that they tell you to get out of actually will save your bacon when it comes to melanoma, the deadliest cancer of skin cancers of melanoma. It happens to people mostly who work indoors, not the people that go in the sun. Now, I never recommend going out and burning like a lobster in the sun. I don't recommend that. But sun is essential. It's essential. So vitamin D lowers melanoma risk and look for a vast majority of the population, they need to get on supplements of vitamin D because they don't get enough sun, okay? If you're, it's not your fault. You're working indoors or whatever, five days a week, you go to work or whatever, and you don't get enough sun, okay, well you need to supplement with vitamin D, and in the winter. It won't be long, okay, where I live in Northern Ontario, Canada, it won't be long that you're not going to get enough vitamin D from the sun.
Now listen, there's a lot of benefits to sunlight, whether you're getting vitamin D or not. There's a lot of benefits to that. I bring you that why it's important because even going outside sunlight ups your level of melatonin, every cell in your body still likes it, but you're just not picking up the vitamin D you need. Therefore, you supplement. And it won't be long now that I'll be recommending everybody and their dog to be taking vitamin D as a supplement. Now, if you live in Florida and you get out in the sun every day, okay? And the other thing is make sure you get measured. This is a lifesaving test guys, is vitamin D. Your doctor doesn't know that. Most doctors don't know it. If they only read all the studies on vitamin D, they'd be taking your vitamin D levels every three months. But you do it, you are in charge of your health. You do it. If you have to pay for it, it's an investment that is worth it. Don't wait on the government to pay for it. Don't wait for insurance to pay for it. You do it. It's important.
I'll give you another vitamin D study. So vitamin D lowers melanoma risk. Now there's basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma. Those are skin cancers. Don't burn in the sun, but I'm telling you that you can train your skin to up your levels of sun exposure. And this is my opinion, never, ever, ever put those chemicals sunscreens on skin. Just don't do it. The research is overwhelming that that stuff causes cancer. And when the FDA, and it takes a long time for the FDA to react to anything, when they start pulling sunscreens off the shelves, you know it's bad, cause they never do it. But they did it. A lot of sunscreens got pulled by the FDA. They wouldn't have been pulled in Canada, in my opinion. Canada doesn't do that. Health Canada here is too beholden to the pharmaceutical industry.
But listen to this study. So it's part of my seven studies. I'll bring it up right now. Vitamin D during pregnancy, and again, you'll hear about folic acid, you'll hear about prenatal vitamins and pregnancy vitamins. Hey, at least they know. At least they know you need to supplement during pregnancy. Physicians know that, but they don't know about vitamin D in pregnancy. And let me give you the most recent studies on vitamin D you need. Okay? So keeping levels. This is studies that have been done on pregnancy, okay? If your vitamin D levels in a woman 40 to 60 ng/ml, what is that? That's the American number between 40 and 60. In Canada, those numbers are 120 to 150 M-N-O-L-L, okay? Measurements, vitamin D, your dehydroxy. Should they be doing this during pregnancy, doing the vitamin D testing? You bet your boots.
Do they do it? No, they don't do it, but they should because the study says, okay, if your level during pregnancy, if the levels of vitamin D are between 40 and 60, which refers to in Canadian numbers to 120 to 150, you want to get those levels up there. There's a decrease of premature birth of the baby. Preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, vitamin D and diabetes, gestational diabetes, and a decreased risk of having a C-section. Holy moly, that should be earth shattering news to help out with pregnancy. And I used to recommend four to 8,000 IUs depending on what the blood work was showing me for pregnancy. And it's good for the baby's development.We're not even talking about the baby as much as mommy, but the baby, the brain development, omega-3, the high DHA. Mommy is delivering that healthy fat to baby in the placenta. Vitamin D lowers melanoma risks. Vitamin D during pregnancy keeping levels at least higher than normal is very, very, very good during pregnancy.
Okay, so those are those two studies. This is a study that I read, I don't know, a few days ago. Having a purpose in life is linked to lower dementia risk. Having a purpose in life is linked to lower dementia risk. This is a study of 13,000 adults over five years. Those with the greater sense of purpose are less likely to develop dementia. Yeah, purpose is something, isn't it? It's a big thing. It just makes sense, right? Just the connection between your body, okay? Your body and your soul. Think of that. By the way, Tony Jr and I are writing a book right now on that, okay? The connection between your body and your soul. A lot of people don't think about that, but there's a big connection. When you have a greater purpose in your life. A lot of people, they don't have that. And it's so important emotionally, it's so important, even for that connection to the brain and the development of dementia.
Anywho, okay, that was the study came out. I found it interesting, doesn't surprise me. Okay, talked about that. And again, any exercise you do, anything, you move, good for you. Exercise, vitamin E, okay, at the Martin Clinic, vitamin E, The Doctor Is In Podcast vitamin E. We love it. And then we tell you the best of all the exercises. All of them are good. The best, get strong. The more we learn about muscle, the more we realize that it's one of the greatest storage bins that you can get for metabolic syndrome. It is on your side. You want to be stronger, your muscles. Okay? Now here's what another study is saying on exercise. When you fast. So doing exercise before eating seems to be better for autophagy. What's autophagy? Your self-cleaning oven where your body gets rid of toxins. Self-cleaning. We know your brain has autophagy. It has its own system. It's called your glymphatic system, the self-cleaning oven of your brain. When that works when you're sleeping, right? Sun, steak, steel, vitamin E and sleep.
That book we talk about sleep, the importance of it. And your brain detoxes. It has its own system when you're sleeping. Do you think that sleep is important? You bet your boots, but fasting, exercise seems to be better for autophagy. Exercise, I don't care when you do it. It's good for you. Okay, good for you for doing it and it's good for you, all of it. You want to walk? I love walking. You want to go to the gym, get strong. I love it. You want to have a little gym in your home and you've got pushup bars or you've got whatever, elastic bands, stretching bands, resistant bands, all of it good. Okay? All exercise is good. Vitamin E. And boy, have I been preaching that for a long time. Okay? I started regular exercise. When you're a kid, but I was in high school and my dad found out he was a diabetic. He started jogging. We didn't even know what jogging was. I thought my dad had flipped his lid in 1968. The only people that ran were running away from the police. My dad got up every morning and started running. What? I said, dad, what are you doing?
I was telling a story. This is the time of the year that it won't be long training camps. Well, as a matter of fact, here in Sudbury, the junior team, their training camp opened this week, so the end of August. And I had brothers that were going to junior A camp. They were older than me. So I was always fascinated by the athleticism of my older brothers. They were all good athletes. But I was telling the story the other day of training camp before they went to training camp to play hockey. All the guys from my hometown, all the guys that were going out for junior, even the NHL camps got together. Okay? So you're talking in 1966 or maybe even earlier than that. So I was younger and I used to go watch them and they would meet in Timmins at the Hollinger Park, and it was kind of funny. They were all out of shape and a lot of them were smoking and they had their sweats on and they all brought a towel and they couldn't even run around the track. Even once, I can't remember any of them doing, running around. They were all dying.
And they said, well, training camp, we'll get in shape at training camp. This is only a start. But today, the athletes, man, oh man, they're just in like 12 months of the year. They're just in tip top shape. So exercise, my dad started running, guess what I did in 1968? I said, dad, wake me up. I'll go with you. And I never stopped exercising after that. I was what? 1968? What was I? 16 years old and I'm 73. I've never stopped exercising. I've never stopped. Now I don't jog anymore, but I go to the gym, I work out, okay, I walk every day. I walk. I love walking. So anyway, exercise better for when you do it. Fasting is better for autophagy, but it's always good, better for the self-cleaning oven of your body to get rid of toxins if you do your exercise. Now, some people find they can't do exercise unless they have like a Dr. Martin's perfect smoothie before that. That's all right too. Okay? Just giving you studies.
Where on this planet do people live the longest? So somebody asked me this the other day. I'll give you a new study that just came out. People asked me the other day, they were asking about blue zones. Dr. Martin, what do you think of the blue zone? I said, well, I don't think much of the blue zones. Okay? Why? Because they're saying, well, that's where people live the longest. Well, that's not true. And Blue Zones are part of a sort of a religion of vegetarianism and veganism. They live the longest. No, they don't. And again, this study just confirms what other studies have said. Okay? You want to know where people live the longest? If you guys want to answer that before I answer it, okay, where do they live the longest and where do they live the shortest amount of time? I'm giving you a test. Greece, a fact, Japan, close, Okinawa, Japan, Sardinia, Italian, Costa Rica. Nobody's got it perfectly yet, but you're doing good because you're on the right track. Okay? I like that.
Do you know where it is? Hong Kong, number 1. 85.77 years average. Okay, Hong Kong. Now, lemme tell you something about Hong Kong, okay? And you guys, some of you guys said Greece and all, that's Mediterranean diet, but the Mediterranean diet's got a lot of meat in it. And let me tell you, on average where they eat the most meat. Hong Kong. Now what's the lowest average age? It's India. Now there's a lot of reasons for that, okay? But what country eats on average less meat than anywhere in the world? Any other country in the world? India, don't shoot the messenger. Some people get really uptight about this because they have a religion. It's vegetarianism and veganism. That's a religion, folks. It's not based on science. And I've always pushed back against that. You know I have. And that bothers some people. Okay? I get it. I just want you to be healthy. So I'm going to tell you the truth. Hong Kong, 85.77. India, 72 years average lifespan, they eat the less amount of meat.
Okay, that was number six. Okay? And then seven. And this just came out, I read it this morning. I dunno if it surprised me. Coronary artery calcium test. Okay, so the CAC test, people ask me about it. What do you think of it? Well, I like it in a sense that it tells you how much atherosclerosis you have hardening of the coronary arteries. I like it. But here's what they're saying. Okay? Just a caution to it. 42 out of a thousand people that do that test develop cancer from the radiation. This is the study. Again, don't get mad at me, okay? I'm reading the study to you. The coronary artery calcium test gives you some risk of cancer due to radiation. Okay? 42 out of a thousand according to this study. Okay? Well, you got to protect yourself, okay? If you can from that test. But if you're taking it anyway, you got to weigh the risk. Okay?
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