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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone. Once again, welcome to another live this morning. Hope you're having a wonderful start to your day. We appreciate you guys coming on and it's always nice when you say hello and we try to say hello back. Okay, let's get going. Carmel is asking about polymyalgia rheumatica. Arthritic poly means everywhere, multiple places, and this often comes in an acute attack, a severe inflammation pain. I remember patients coming into the office and they couldn't unbutton their shirt, lift your arms, had trouble lifting their arm. They couldn't get their arms over their head with polymyalgia either rheumatica or arthritic cuff. You know it's autoimmune a lot of times after a virus and I go after it from an inflammatory perspective. First of all, anything autoimmune is leaky gut. Probiotics don't feed the bears, no sugar. And I love the combination of Navitol, curcumin, vitamin D.
Vitamin D is very anti-inflammatory guys. And I used to have patients with polymyalgia rheumatica because I always found they were low in vitamin D. I do the hammer with them actually. Okay, 20 to 50,000 I use for three days and then I'd bring it down to about 10,000 I use. So that's Carmel what I recommend. John, my wife has bronchitis and emphysema. Okay, and what's the question here? Her oxygen is going down. You're on Navitol now. I like that. I would add with the lungs vitamin D, get her levels because I'm telling you it's a big factor. And then the other thing that I recommend, especially with lungs is curcumin, so you might add that John to the regimen. Okay, Shelly, what is Dr. Martin's protocol for? Someone who just had a mild heart attack? Let me give you the reasons why I'm going to say this.
I have 'em on Navitol. Why opens up blood vessels? Nitric oxide, you hear about it on the TV or whatever beats. Okay? A supplement of beets to open up nitric oxide while Navitol is much more powerful than that. So I love that pine bark extra famous for it and plus it's an antioxidant. It protects the blood vessels from further damage. I'd have them on high DHA, lubricate. Lubricate and DHA is the best lubrication. Anti-inflammatory too, of course, but it lubricates the blood vessels. So that combination percumin you could use too. I like curcumin, but that's the big thing. Okay, Shelly, get off the sugar. Sugar elevates your triglycerides and lowers your HDL eggs, meat and cheese. Cecil nurse took my stethoscope on my right neck, her a murmur. She says I have high blood cholesterol. Your triglycerides 1.27. Not bad. HDL 2.5 better. Okay, so your blood pressure is high.
Well, one 90. Yeah, look, your first number, I don't care about as much. I'm not saying I don't look at it, but I'm more interested in what your second number you're not showing me anyway. It's hard for me to give specific medical advice when you're not my patient. I'm just talking in generalities. Okay? She told me I have thickening of the heart lining. You're 84 years old. Possible. How would they find that out? Either through an MRI of the heart ultrasound. They do a calcium artery test now and CAC coronary artery calcium test. Okay, what it is. And they might want to do that to have a look at the amount of calcium in around the heart. Marissa, is coconut water good to drink every day? Well, it's an electrolyte drink I have no issue with. And if it's real coconut water, nothing at it. Okay, real coconut water, nothing at it. And it has some natural sugars in it. I got no problem as an electrolyte drink. It's a good electrolyte drink. Yeah, I got no problem with it. I know it has natural sugar in it. Don't live on it, but as an electrolyte, I like it.
Okay, Gloria, what do you think of dental implants for somebody who had cancer and is in remission? Well, listen, I'm not worried about the dental implant. Look orally. Here's what you do, okay? Keep care orally. The best thing, take probiotics internally, those bacteria, different strains, go to different places that helps you. Anything you are exposed to, we live in a world. If you think you're getting away from it, good luck. Okay, so the dentists, I mean what are they doing with implants? Are they caps? Are they taking all your teeth out and putting in implants but orally, good bacteria, probiotics, oil or oregano? Nothing better orally than that. Okay, take care of that. Thank you very much. And that was Gloria rfa, how are you? I would like to ask Dr. Martin for his advice. His friend has got prostate cancer, okay? If yes, could he write the dosage for Europe as he won't know how to convert them? Raphaella, send me that email. Okay? Again, if you don't mind because if you want specific doses, ah, maybe I can do it.
Okay, so they got prostate cancer, right? Doses for Europe, okay? They can't get our product. Okay, that's what I mean. How much DHA would you recommend? I'd recommend like to shrink a tumor. Our high DHA has almost 3000 milligrams of DHA in two capsules. I do about 6,000 if they can. Milligrams of DHA, specifically DHA a day for tumors. Okay, what else do I want? I want curcumin about a thousand milligrams of curcumin a day. I would have them on vitamin D, 10,000 IUs a day of vitamin D. Always get their vitamin D levels checked because for prostate cancer, let me just show you because I talked about this the other day. So in Europe, make sure for cancer, get your blood work up to vitamin D, your de hydroxy, 60 to 80 NGML, hope you got a pen. And in NMOL dash L, not dash, whatever that is there. One 50 to 200 minimum one 50 to 200 NMOL or 60 to 80 NGML. Okay, mercy cast and probiotics tell 'em to take lots. Francis cataract surgery. Okay, what's the question? But I wonder what Dr. Martin thinks of this blurriness and fogginess six weeks after surgery. That's possible. I've seen that happen. Look, Francis, just stay on what you need to stay on. What's the best thing for your eyes?
Navitol pine bark extract opens the blood vessels. Protects the blood vessels. DHA, okay, what does it do? Anti-inflammatory. Lubricates those blood vessels in behind the eyes. I showed thousands of patients with that combination of DHA and Navitol pine bark. Combine them for eyes. Okay, could take a while. I don't know what you're on, but make sure you're on that for regeneration, Francis. Okay, Caroline, can you discuss causes and solutions for low blood pressure while causes of low blood pressure? Anemia can cause low blood pressure. Thyroid issues can cause low blood pressure. You got to find out what's causing that. And a lot of times they were low in B12, they were borderline anemic or their thyroid had slowed to a crawl and their blood pressure had gone down. Okay, so those are the things I look for. Fix those things. Thanks Caroline.
Martin, I like your name. I would like to know to help my 14-year-old daughter with very bad acne. Okay? In my practice days, boy, young people loved me. I showed 'em how to fix their acne. Okay? Here's why. Okay? They get acne horrormones, one leaky gut, two guarantee fix the leaky gut. They usually have a lot of fungus. I know they want antibacterial soaps and all that. I don't like that stuff. I never have. I never have because it's not getting at the root cause too much estrogen. Okay? Too much estrogen, not enough progesterone, estrogen dominance. And they often get, I don't know if she has picos or not, polycystical, polycystic ovarian, but a lot of times that estrogen drives that because that in a woman will elevate her testosterone, dim it out. By the way, no sugar. Don't feed the bears probiotic. Broad spectrum. Ours are coming to a theater near you. I just got word. They're coming back.
Oh man. Oh man. I've had a migraine for how long? We haven't had a month or more. I've had a migraine. Drives me crazy. Anyway, those strains hard to get, but it's coming. Okay. Probiotic. I'd have her on bone broth. Why? Because it regenerates the gut. It really makes a difference in that. Okay, I'd have her on oil of oreganos. You can do that right on her skin. You can do it internally and externally. That's what I would do. Thank you very much. And that was Martin. I really liked that name. Rebecca, how are you? Did Dr. Martin know about acute confusion? Migraines usually in kids. Are they associated with long-term diabetes or cardiovascular disease? No. Well, I'm trying to see the connection. Look usually with migraines. Okay, any kind of migraine usually. Okay, here's what I saw. I always look for deficiencies. Okay?
In migraines one, they were usually low. In magnesium two, they usually were low in B12 three, oftentimes low in vitamin D. That's what I saw in migraines and a lot of times estrogen dominance, too much estrogen. So I'd block that out with dim, dim it out. Flax seeds often they were dehydrated a lot of times. Oh, Dr. Martin, I drink water. Yeah, but you need more salt than that water. You need some electrolytes in magnesium. So I would put them on magnesia associated with long-term diabetes. I got to look it up. I mean, I'm trying to think of what the connection, you know me, I always connect things to insulin, so possibly. Okay, possibly.
Shelly. I think I just mentioned that. How much Navitol would Dr. Martin suggest for someone who had a heart attack? What A heart attack I would be doing for Navitol a day. Do it for at least a month, maybe two months to help heal and DHA flow. How do you feel about dandelion root extract? I like it. I've seen some good studies on dandelions. My father-in-law, he used to have a dandelion salad. Okay? My father-in-law, Italian and he liked dandelions and I said, I'm not eating that stuff. Are you kidding me? Salad dandelion. But there's some good studies on dandelion and I got no problem with it. If you want to have that, go for it. Okay? I like pine bark extract better. That's me. I just got much more experience with that. But I got no problem with dandelion root. Mary. I'm sleep deprived. Who are you?
You and millions of others. Cortisol in control. Okay, improved. But you're not there yet. So I'm on two types of meds and my blood pressure has not changed. 1 69 over 95, 95 is high. That's definitely a high blood pressure, but it hasn't changed on meds. I don't know what to tell you. Can I die? Make your blood pressure go high. No, not really, Mary. I'm just trying to figure out, you've changed your diet. Of course. Do the reset. Look sleep deprived. I mean, and you're already on cortisol. Maybe try upping that a little bit more. That'll help your blood pressure too. Cheryl, I take four magnesium in the evening to help me sleep. Well, it's quite a bit, but I cannot take the cortisol control. I feel sorry for you, but hey, you can't. You can't. What can I tell you? Should I take more magnesium?
Well, you could try it Cheryl. Listen, four magnesium you're already getting. I don't know if it's our magnesium. What kind of magnesium you taking? Citrate or bg? Glycine. I don't even know how to pronounce it. Take more. Look, magnesium not going to hurt you. Sometimes with citrate you get a loose stool. You're not going to overdose on magnesium. Cheryl, find out what your vitamin D levels are too. It's a big factor because without vitamin D, a good dosage, your body's not producing enough melatonin. And I would say that to Mary too. Check your vitamin D levels, vitamin. Find out they need to be optimized. Brenda's talking about her eyes. She's having cataract surgery in three months and you seem to be doing everything. You're taking DHA. You're asking me whether she should have one eye done or two. Well, you don't have any vision deficiencies in the left.
It's hard for me to tell you, Brenda, if you've opted for one. That's nothing wrong with that. I don't see any big issue with that. You're doing everything I would do as far as your eye health. I mean really. I like what you're doing. Okay? You should do very well with this surgery. You might not need it in the other eye. Okay? Lois is asking about her voice. It has changed significantly. Okay? And they checked her vocal chords. Apparently I had a scope and it came back clear. Okay, so they did. They checked your vocal cord. Sinus can have an effect on that postnasal drip. Then they scope your stomach to see if you had a silent acid reflux because that can affect your voice. Okay, so I would have you on Lois, digestive enzymes for your stomach. Good for you anyways. And probiotics for this because I don't know, in case you do have postnasal drip, I love probiotics and oil oregano, Florence, A friend was diagnosed with osteoporosis and prescribed vitamin D in a gel form.
Will this be as effective as liquid? Well, not unless it had K two in it. See our vitamin DI got a bottle right here. It's vitamin D three with K two and K two is important because it takes calcium and puts it in the bones. So with osteoporosis, vitamin D is great, but you want K two with it to bring it to the bones, get it to its intended destination. That's very important. So I don't know what kind of gel they're on. I know it's vitamin D, but is there K two in it? I don't know. You tell me Dina, I'm on vacation. Well lucky you. And swimming in salt water. Do I still need to take magnesium? Well, they're not really magnesium salts in seawater. Now seawater is very good for you. You're on vacation, you, you're in the ocean. Beautiful. Okay, it's so good for you. The vitamin D from that sun is so good for you and you're topping up your vitamin D magnesium. Well, you're not really bathing in magnesium. If you were in a hot bath with Epson salts, that would be magnesium.
So if got your magnesium with you, take it. It's good for you. Okay, Georgia, why does someone get heart palpitations? What to do about? Well, a couple of things could do it. Cortisol could do it. Okay, stress hormone. That can give you a heart palpitations. Possible low levels of B12 can give you a heart palpitations. Low levels of magnesium can give you a heart palpitations. Low levels of coQ10, you're not eating enough. Steak can give you palpitations. So there's a checklist there, and that's what I usually would look for. I go through that checklist in the office. So okay, flow. If humans weren't designed to eat carbs, okay, I love it. Flow. Why would there fruit in the garden of eat? Okay, this is good. I like your question. Okay, now I've been studying my Bible for 40 years more. Okay?
So I'm just going to give you a little take, okay? Combining nutrition in the Bible, okay, so the Garden of Eden, okay, and by the way, they were told, see that tree over there, don't touch it. Okay? The fruit there, don't touch. It wasn't an apple. I don't know. Okay, don't matter. Okay, look, your body was designed and remember too, okay? Adam and Eve, they were designed to live forever, so they weren't ever going to get sick as long as they obeyed. God. Look, I don't want to get into it too much, but that's what the Bible says. And they disobeyed and then their bodies changed, okay? Their bodies changed. They were never going to get sick. They were never going to die. Now they get sick and they die. Now again, go through the genealogies and until the flood man lived, like Methuselah lived till he was 969 years old. Okay?
So it different and the body, your body was made to eat meat. I always prove that. It doesn't mean you can't have fruits and vegetables, by the way, I never said that, but your body was designed for meat. The length of your colon, the acidity in your stomach, the fact that you don't have four stomachs like a cow. I try and prove that all the time that man was made. Your acidity in your stomach is more acidic than a lion's acidity. So you were designed to eat meat originally. I don't know. Did anatomy change because of the fall? I think so, because you don't live till you're 969 years old anymore. It went by the way from very high numbers to post flood 120 years and then three score in 10. Okay? That's 70 and with grace 80. So that's just the history and the genealogy I'm giving you. But your body was designed for meat. Your teeth. See these, they're meant for you to eat meat, okay? Eggs, meat and cheese, and you can have some fruits. I didn't tell you you couldn't eat fruit. I just don't want you to live on fruit because you weren't designed to live on it, okay? You weren't designed to live on it so you can eat it. I like berries.
It's not an apple a day. Keeps the doctor away. It's a steak a day. Keeps the doctor away. But you can have an apple, you want to have an orange, eat it, don't drink it. So I'm very consistent. Okay? Now for 30 days on the reset, that's a different puppy. I got a reason for that because if you have metabolic syndrome and you're in the 93% of the population that have some form of metabolic syndrome, you got trouble with insulin and therefore, and your cells at the cellular level are resisting insulin. I am out to fix that. And I've proven it that if you do a 30 day program, you change your resistant at the cellular level to insulin. What does that do? Lowers inflammation, lowers the amount of insulin that you need. It reshapes and empties your liver. It's good for everything from your brain to your toes, from your joints to your nose.
So I love the question, okay? Because guys, I want you to think, I want you to know your anatomy, even to the extent that you should know it, and even what you can't see, like your stomach, it was designed. You don't need that kind of acidity like at 1.5 or whatever, acidity. If you are eating fruits and vegetables, you don't need that. What you do need is a long colon and four stomachs, and you need an enzyme called cellulase. You don't have it, okay? If you're living on fruits and vegetables, I know many people do. They think they're doing the right thing. I push back on that. I always have and I always will. I always push back on that. You can have them, but don't live on them. That's what I tell people. Okay, you want to have some vegetables? Hey, go for it. But don't tell me that broccoli is better than steak because that ain't true. Okay?
Don't tell me that salad is better than eggs. Is that not true? Don't tell me any vegetable you can name is better than eggs, meat and cheese, not nutritionally it. So that's what I'm saying. Flo, I love you. Thanks for the question. Okay? I want to see if I can get through this. Let's get through with it. There's only got three months. Janine, would my husband recommend doodoo? You recommend? He wants to gain some weight, okay? Most people want to lose weight, but your husband and he's 84, give him a high five for me because you say he's in good shape, but he can't gain weight. Well, why does he want to gain weight? Because he's very tiny, right? Yeah, but you don't want to just put on fat for the sake of fat. Now, 3% milk, that's not fat enough. Tell him to drink cream. But I don't want him to get fat for the sake of fat. I want him to build muscle.
What he needs to be concerned with is staying strong because muscle is the driver. It keeps you moving and the stronger you are, I don't care so much about weight, I really don't. Strength. Does he have good grip strength? He's in good shape at 84. Can he get off the ground? If he's on the floor, can he get up by himself? He's in tremendous shape. So again, don't be desperate to put on, throw the scale away. Who cares? Get strong. That's me. Okay? And I'm right about that, by the way. Okay? He shouldn't be desperate to gain weight. Why is he desperate? Tell him to get strong. Okay, Jeanne, thanks for the question. We love you dearly.
June, my doctor says that my cholesterol is too high. Okay? And once you give me pills and you said no, okay, I like you June. Then he mentioned my A1C is 6.5 not too high. You and carbs June don't get along. So lay off. You say you're doing all right, but you're eating too many carbs. Get your A1C down. You eat a lot of egg meat and cheese. You got to eat more eggs, meat and cheese and less carbohydrate. You're not processing them. I don't sleep well, that can be a factor. Sleep is so important, isn't it? Okay. A lot of people don't sleep well. 70, 80% of the population never get into that deep sleep. I was ready for a low dose of metformin. I don't, it depends. June, how you're feeling. I mean, you know me, I love A1C. I find it to be the best test you have. Insulin resistance. I'm not big on medication, but you want to try it. You make sure you're taking B12 if you're on Metformin, because you're not going to be able to assimilate B12. Okay, thanks June.
One more question. Is it possible to reduce eye pressure? Yes. It's the last question. Oh, by the way, who was that? That was Judy. Yes, natal. DHA. Because the pressure has to do with blood supply. Always. Always look to blood supply. So blood vessels behind the eye, open them up and lubricate them. And it's amazing what happens inside, including reduced pressure. Thank you for all those questions, guys. We got through them. That means Monday's not q and a, unless you send me a pile of questions over the weekend. No, but hey, we really appreciate you guys more than you know. Yeah, we love you dearly and we'll talk to you soon.
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