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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 sure appreciate you guys coming on, and we're going to follow up here with Q and A. As you can see, I'm not in my studio this morning. I'm in a hotel room, traveling at a conference here, and good to have you guys on, and we love you dearly. Okay? You guys know that, right? And guess what? It's Q and A. It's Q and A again, because I didn't finish 'em all up on Friday. We'll do that today. Okay, let's see. Are we ready to get going here?
Okay, let's go to Debbie. Debbie's asking about the lipoprotein gene. "All my blood work came back good," talking about cholesterol, "but doctor still wants me on a cholesterol pill because of this gene." Well, Debbie, look, I never, ever tell people not to take medication or whatever. I don't do that. But let me discuss what's happening here. Okay? And this has only been going on for a couple of years. For the last 40 years, 50 years. Cholesterol is at the root of heart disease according to medicine. Have they been right about that? No, because, well, first of all, people that have heart attack, the vast majority of them have normal cholesterol levels. That's just a fact. Okay? That's just a fact. And number two, if cholesterol was at the root of heart disease, we would've got rid of it by now because the number one selling medication of all time, our statin drugs, Lipitor, Crestor, they're number one. Hadn't even made a dent in heart disease because heart disease is worse than ever.
So I always say they're looking for love in all the wrong places. That's what they're doing. They're looking for love in all the wrong places. And when it comes to heart disease, they're blaming cholesterol because they're at the scene. It's like blaming the firemen because they're at the scene of a fire. They're not the bad guy. Cholesterol is in your blood, well it's in your cells. Cholesterol is in your brain, cholesterol is everywhere. You can't live without cholesterol. So the idea of lowering it is a new idea in the last 50 years. I mean before that, I give you the history of Dr. Ancel Keys, and he started it. One guy, one guy, and the world went stupid. And they followed this one guy. And apparently on his deathbed, he repented in sackcloth and ashes that he led the world on a low fat diet, cholesterol's at the root of heart disease.
And I've written, what? 20 something books. By the way, we've got a new book coming out. Won't be long. Got the word yesterday. By the end of November, our new book is coming out. Okay? Tony Jr. and I, I've written it and you're going to love it. It's a great book. I'll give you a little bit more detail later. But there isn't a book that I've ever written that I didn't talk about cholesterol, and I've been consistent saying it's not at the root of heart disease, never has been, never will be. And cholesterol is not the bad guy. And there's no such thing as even bad cholesterol like LDL. Why did they name LDL as bad cholesterol? Because they had a drug for it. They had a medication to lower it. Of course it had to be the bad guy, but the numbers of heart disease is worse than ever.
So to answer your question, Debbie, after that long roundabout, let me come back now because people are really questioning this whole cholesterol thing. Now they have to get to what they call the particle size of cholesterol lipoprotein and the small particles versus the large particles. And you got a gene for the light bulb protein. I don't buy it. I don't buy it. When medicine gets into weeds, they get in there and they make it so complicated. They're trying to sell you something. And so you have a gene. Heart disease is not genetic. Genes might load the gun, but it don't pull the trigger your lifestyle. And I'm going to do this, Debbie, because you told me your blood work is good. And when you tell me that, I think you mean what I mean by good blood work when it comes to your lipids.
Guys, if your triglycerides are low and your HDL, your HDL is high, high density lipoprotein, look at those two numbers. You want to give me total cholesterol, I don't care. You want to give me even your LDL, I want that to be high too by the way. You want to get into the weeds. I don't go into weeds on cholesterol because that's what I see them as. Weeds. If your triglycerides are low and your HDL is higher than your triglycerides, because usually what happens when your triglycerides are high, you're almost like a teeter totter, almost no exception to it. Your HDL will be low. That's dangerous because that's metabolic syndrome. That's part of it. And that's me, Deb, that's me. Now, I'm sorry. I can't change my mind on it. Look, I probably read 20, 30 articles a day at least.
And you want to send me research? I'll look at it. I mean, I do. I study it. But my premise is cholesterol, this is me, has never, ever, ever been the bad guy. Because you learn this in biochemistry, cholesterol, your body can't live without it. And their FedEx trucks or Amazon trucks or any kind of trucks, they're on the highways of your blood vessels. Of course, they deliver all your hormones. You can't even be a woman without cholesterol. You can't be a man without cholesterol. They deliver your hormones. They're not bad guys. They're only bad, cholesterol's bad when it's too low. The people that live the longest have the highest cholesterol. That's me. Okay? That's me, Debbie. Thanks for the question. Much appreciated. Okay, let's go to the next one.
Laura, "with all the recent news on Leucovorin for autism, can Dr. Martin tell us his thoughts? What is it and is it worth trying?" Okay, look, let me just say this because I think a lot of people have misinterpreted what I said. We all know what happened. It was big news that they came out. Was it last week or the week before? They made an announcement in the US of A led by Robert Kennedy Jr. okay? And guys keep politics out of it. People, they get politics. They don't like certain people and they dismiss everything. What did I say here on this program? Listen, I've been studying autism for the last 40 years with ADD and ADHD and autism. Do you know how many are thousands of kids I saw in my practice some so severe nonverbal to hyperactivity and ADD. Listen, in someone is giving us information. Why do you dismiss that?
You know me and I've talked about autism a lot. My opinion, I think I'm right about it. It's the microbiome, leaky gut, leaky brain. That's my opinion. And I'll read anything you want to send me on a autism. And someone said, well actually, someone put this on there. Well, it's not even a crisis. Why did they make it a crisis? Are you kidding me? I didn't even know autism existed before 1970. I never even heard of it. And today, what is it? One out of 18, one out of 20 kids are born with autism? Guys, come on. Even if they, oh, like somebody put on our site. Well, they just didn't know how to diagnose it before. Listen, I've been around the sun many times and I can tell you as a practitioner, it wasn't that we missed it. It's today. It's crazy. It's an epidemic. Why? I'm a why guy and people get mad. They're getting mad at me. Dr. Martin, you're too simplistic and you're getting mad at me.
And what they said last week is there was a link between, and this drove people crazy. A link between autism and Tylenol. I didn't say it, but to dismiss that Johnson and Johnson who make Tylenol denied it. Of course they did. Can you imagine the liability they would have? But Harvard looked at a review of all the studies on autism and they said, they said, not me. They said that there's a link. It doesn't mean it's a hundred percent. They didn't say that there's a link. And all Harvard wanted to happen is that Tylenol and the FDA would put a warning out and people went crazy because it was politics. Who said it? Do you know that Tylenol recommended that you don't take their products during pregnancy? They said it even though they're denying any link to autism.
And what they're saying with autism, and we talked about this, Tylenol. Tylenol affects mostly liver, right? Advil, you guys know this. Kidneys generally, okay, they can affect both. But generally when I think Tylenol, I think liver, when I think Advil and its associates, I think kidneys. Okay? Now what happens in the liver? You make your glutathione. What is glutathione? Velcro. And it mops up. It mops up. So heavy metals and your biggest detox organ is your liver. And liver makes glutathione. And what they're saying is that it seems that Tylenol affects that. It affects that. And the other thing that they said, and somebody asked this question, so let me do this at the same time, because that's Laura on Leucovorin. Leucovorin is a synthetic version of a vitamin B9, okay? Folic and because of its makeup, it can bypass a suppressor and actually get into the brain.
So it's got some promise on treating autism. That was brought out also in that news conference. See, for me, I watch that news conference. Hey, give me information. It doesn't mean it works a thousand percent, it doesn't, but there's promise of leucovorin, it's a med. They said it's promising. They're looking at it. There's some kids that get really good results on. Hey, listen, what is Dr. Martin's rule of thumb? I used to tell my patients this. If I thought hanging you upside down from my roof at my office would work, I'd go and hold your feet and hang you upside down. When people have a chronic disease and there's even a little bit of hope, why wouldn't you want to hear about that? If you've got an autistic child? My word, okay, we have in our family some autism, my word. So Leucovorin or whatever they call it, it's showing some promise. I got no problem with it. It's certainly worth a try. Okay?
And on the Tylenol thing, I don't know why people were so upset with me like Dr. Martin, you're too simplistic calling out too much Tylenol. I said, Harvard said it. They looked at all the research. Now it's an association. It doesn't mean it's a cure or the cause. Tylenol is not the cause of autism, but it can be associated with it. So put a warning out. Hey ladies, during pregnancy, be very careful. You've got pain? And look, I am on your side, I get it. But you want to know the risk of Tylenol during pregnancy. Wouldn't you want to know that? Anywho, I just got a little uptight about it because I got people just like they came at me like, hold on a minute. But I want you to question, I want you to be smart. I tell you my audience, I give you information. I want you thinking. I want you to be smart, okay? And I don't mind the pushback, but just understand if you post something and it goes against what if I see it, if it goes against the way, I think I might give you a little bit of pushback, with love. I always do it with respect, and I know you do it with me with respect too. I love you, okay? You don't have to agree with me on everything.
Charlene, "what does Dr. Martin think about pumpkin seed oil as a supplement?" Well, look, I've had patients, a lot of patients have used that over the years. Men with their prostate pumpkin seed. I used pumpkin seed extract in our prostate formula that we used to have. On its own, like pumpkin seed oil. I had women use it for hair loss, even men for hair loss. Some found it to be helpful to some extent. I'm not against it. If you find it works, go for it. Okay, that's Charlene. Thank you.
Here's David. Okay, talking about glutathione. Okay, "what are your thoughts on immunoCal if you've heard of it?" Oh, I heard of it alright, David. There's very few things I haven't heard. What ImmunoCal is, I mean, listen, I was approached 25 years ago, at least that long to promote immunoCal, which was a whey protein isolate. I remember looking at all the research on how it elevated your glutathione in your body. I liked it. You know what I didn't like? Here's David, here's me. I didn't like the price of it. It was so expensive. And in those days, I was already using pine bark to elevate glutathione. Empty your liver, you elevate glutathione. So no, I'm not against it. I like their research. It was good. I just found it enormously expensive. I don't know where it is at today in terms of it still costs you an arm and a leg.
And like I said, for me, I know how to get glutathione, elevate it. First thing you do is empty your liver because your liver will make glutathione and eat steak, not bread, okay? Empty your liver and pine bark extract elevates glutathione. Proven. So I like that. And it gives you all these other benefits too. So listen, yeah, I know all about immunoCal, David. I had a radio show, Dave, I had a radio show. And when you have a radio show, everybody and their dog sends me information and they wanted me to either promote it or talk about it. And so yeah, I remember immunoCal very well. I remember a couple of reps coming to talk to me and wanting me to endorse the product on my radio show. And I didn't do it, but it's not because I didn't like it. Okay, thanks for the question, David.
Joanne, "is avocado oil, just as good as olive oil?" Look, if you Google it, it'll tell you like avocado has got a higher smoke point, meaning you can cook with it. Here's me, and I think I'm right about this. I like olive oil. I like bacon better. It's got the same oil, oleic acid. That's me okay? Bacon, olive oil, the same oleic acid. I like bacon better, but I like olive oil. I really do. I like avocado oil. Okay, it doesn't denature. It's very good. If you read about it. I say, well, you can cook with it because you can get it to a higher heat than olive oil. I never really bought the fact that olive oil has a low smoke point. I don't see it. I'd never seen olive oil denature. So I like olive oil. I like bacon better. I like avocado oil. It's a good oil. I got no problem with it. Okay, I got no problem with it. Is it as good as olive oil? Yeah, I think so.
Okay, Jackie, "I know that EMC fixes fatty liver." Well, you're a smart person, Jackie. "Is it okay to eat fats if you're having some upper right pain, possibly gallbladder?" Well, you got to be careful with gallbladder. Are you forming stones? Have you got gallbladder sludge? Be careful. Doesn't mean you can't eat meat, but you might have to watch the fatty cuts. I like fat guys. I like fat on my meat. And Jackie, remember the rule of thumb. The only reason you got trouble with your gallbladder is because you didn't use it for a long time, especially women. Now they can have hormonal problems too. If you have a lack of progesterone, you can get gallbladder problems because progesterone is really important for smooth muscle. And your gallbladder is a smooth muscle, just like your bladder is. Bladder, gallbladder, they're smooth muscles.
And when your progesterone goes down, the bladder can descend. The gallbladder can get sluggish and form stones. But the biggest reason you form stones is because use it or lose it. When you eat fat free or low fat, you're making a huge booboo because your body wasn't designed for that. Your body was designed. That's why you have a gallbladder. God gave you a gallbladder to use it, and it's a storage space for bile. And you need bile, okay? Because it emulsifies fat. When you don't eat fat, you're making a big mistake and your gallbladder will get gummed up and you can form stones. That's the number one reason.
So women often get double whammos because their progesterone goes down often after a baby progesterone, pro baby hormone left in the placenta. And guess what doesn't come back fast enough. I don't know how many hundreds of women that I knew about lost their gallbladder after having a baby, but it's usually a combination of low use of not eating fat and eggs, meat and cheese. And they went the low fat diet craze, which the world went stupid. Remember with cholesterol and fat. Fat makes you fat, Dr. Martin. Fat will clog your arteries. No, it won't. Sugar will clog your arteries. Not fat. And fat don't make you fat. Sugar makes you fat. And any food, that's just sugar holding hands. That's what makes you fat. Okay?
Last question, Diane. "I have pain in my right hip when I put weight on it." That's no fun. Okay, Diane, "what supplements should I increase first?" Well, look, Diane, because what's going on, you got some degeneration in there. Find that out for sure. Right? And oftentimes the best is vitamin D with K2, you got to have the K2 with it to put the calcium in your bone where it belongs. Anti-inflammatory. I like the combination of Navitol and curcumin. I put them together. People really like that. But I always tell people, look, if you got degeneration in the hip joints, okay, it's severely degenerated. Look, do everything you can to try and alleviate that, but sometimes it's at the point of no return. Okay? So if you want Diane, give me more information and just send it off to info@martinclinic.com, okay? I'll give you a little bit better of an answer.
Okay guys, thank you for putting up with my shenanigans. I'll be on again tomorrow, Lord willing, and then I think it's Thursday I'm traveling back and therefore will not, because I'm going early in the morning. We'll not do a program. So just keep that in mind. We'll post that, by the way. Okay? So thanks for listening guys. Send your questions in for Friday already, okay? info@martinclinic.com. Those questions come to me and we love answering your questions. Love you dearly and sincerely, we'll talk to you soon.
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