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Dr. Martin: Well good morning everyone, and once again, welcome to another live this morning. Hope you're having a great start to your day and we sure appreciate you guys when you can come on here. When you can come on live, that's great. Okay, we understand not everybody can. The nice thing is these things are turned into podcast. The Doctor Is In Podcast or you can rewatch this on Facebook, okay? The Doctor Is In Live Facebook and we appreciate you guys coming on. Okay, let me just see here. We're going to look at a few studies or articles, okay? So it's sort of article or study Monday, okay?
Here's an article that I read on the weekend and I found it very interesting. A recent study, actually it was an article on a study that came out in pediatrics. Antidepressants. Antidepressants like SSRIs are up 130% in girls. Prescriptions for antidepressants up in the last few years, 130%. And boys, they dropped 7%. Now this was interesting. This was in pediatrics, and I got to ask questions. When I read this, surprising? Not really. I think we overmedicate people. Listen, I get it, that if someone is severely depressed or severe anxiety and they want to put 'em on meds, it just bothers me that doctors never seem to get into the cause, the cause. Like me, when they're saying girls are really going through an enormous amount of struggles mentally. Like I asked the question why?
Well, to me, I'm going to give you my take on it. I always do. I give you the headlines and then I give you my take on it. 130% increase in prescriptions of SSRIs in girls, and the prescriptions are down in boys. Holy smoke, something's going on. Well, here's me. Okay, here's me. It's horror-mones and SSRIs are not going to fix it. They're a bandaid at best. They're a bandaid at best. Why is it that you and I live in a world where there's an increase of 130% of prescriptions for antidepressants? By the way, SSRIs by the way, have a black box warning on them. Guys, I was around when these things came out in the days of Noah, as my grandchildren say. No, no, in the 1970s when SSRIs came out, there was a black box warning on them. Here we are 50 years later and the black box warning is still there.
You know what the black box warning is on SSRIs? Oh, increase your risk of suicide. You get suicidal thoughts big time. There was a black box warning, and today there's still a black box warning. And they're giving them to girls like candy because they're not measuring their hormones. Their horror-mones. And I tell you from my perspective, what is it today that we say all the time? There's too much estrogen in the world for women and men as they get older. Too much estrogen, not enough progesterone. And then they put you on an SSRI because your estrogen's going through the roof and your hormones are raging in teenage girls. And I used to see this in my office if I didn't see it a thousand times, and I mean that I didn't see one of them. And we could help, we could help by balancing out their hormones, not putting them on SSRIs.
Now, I'm not saying, okay, you know me guys, I'm not saying that nobody should ever go on an antidepressant or an SSRI. I'm not saying it, okay, I'm not. But what we found out in the brain is so different than what has been happening for the last 50 years. You know what we found out, again, bring you, and I know you get tired of probably hearing it, I bring you to the summer of 2022 when mental health was turned upside down, from Alzheimer's to depression, anxiety, bipolar, schizophrenia. It was turned upside down in the world because they looked at all the studies. So it was a review of all the studies and those are the best studies, the studies that review all the studies. And they said this, they came out with it. Well, Alzheimer's is not plaque. Bipolar, it's not chemistry, it's energy. What? It's energy. The brain has thousands of mitochondria. Battery packs and energy levels have everything to do with mental health.
So when the battery packs, your mitochondria, when the mitochondria are not putting enough energy out, ATP, they're not getting enough energy to put it out. They're swimming in the wrong fuel. That's a huge issue. So an SSRI, serotonin receptive medication, it's not getting at the root of the problem, it's just masking the problem. It's a bandaid at best, but it's amazing to me that ever since 2022 when that came out in the summer of 22, you guys know this. We did several programs on that at the time. It's almost like it's been forgotten because the pharmaceutical industry, you think they're not powerful? My word, and they almost haven't skipped a beat. The recent study, 130% increase of antidepressant for girls. They're hormones are raging. They got too much estrogen compared to progesterone.
And remember, there's so much estrogen like hormones around. Chemicals, forever chemicals, microplastics, they mimic estrogen. No wonder we're so out of whack and we brought this up in the last couple of weeks. They're over drugging women in pregnancy. Many of these women are put on SSRIs in pregnancy or before pregnancy. You think that doesn't affect the baby? And I know there may be a time to put somebody, but can you at least do a metabolic blood workup to see if there's an energy issue and too much estrogen and not enough progesterone? A patient used to come into my office, a young lady or whatever, they had to answer a lot of questions. They had to answer a lot of questions. Why? Because we looked at them holistically. Questions gave me a lot of answer. You asked questions to get a lot of answers. I just can't understand doctors when they don't ask questions. That's how you diagnose. It's not just blood work. I mean blood work's part of it, but you got to look at that patient holistically. Ask questions.
Anywho, like I said when I read some article like that, have we lost our collective minds? These women, to me, that's abuse. That's abuse. And it was amazing in our office, the results we got. We balanced out estrogen and progesterone. We dimmed out the estrogen, we dimmed it out and we looked at that person holistically. A lot of times, even as young girls, they had a gummed up liver. And your liver is such an important organ. It get doesn't get the ink it should. But that liver is so important because if it's gummed up, your liver is a place where estrogen is stored. And when you have liver problems, if your liver is gummed up, and a lot of these young ladies and some men, but young ladies, their liver was gunged up. We saw that a lot in perimenopause too. Women that had breast tenderness and fluctuating hormones, they were all over the place. PMS, migraines, mood swings. What else did they have?
But young ladies can get that too. Periods all over the place. Skin acne. How many times did I see that? Thousands. Fibroids, weight gain. We used to just treat them holistically. We looked for deficiencies. Oftentimes they were low in B12. A lot of times their estrogen was coming out both ears. They had no progesterone or very little of it and their insulin was out of whack. You got to fix that. That's an important hormone. Insulin's an important hormone for balance. And they weren't eating enough protein and they weren't eating enough fat and they were eating junk food. A lot of them. We had to clean up their diets. Anyway, I read something like this recent study in pediatrics, antidepressants for girls is up 130%. I like that mean. Have they not got the memo? I feel sorry. I feel sorry for young women today being put on this and sometimes for a lifetime and told they have a mental health disorder when they really have a hormonal imbalance.
Anyway, remember your liver is the gatekeeper of estrogen. It's a gatekeeper. We used to look at that all the time and your thyroid gets messed up so often and the thyroid would be out of whack because T4 to T3, the hormone that you need for your thyroid to work properly gets converted in the liver. But not if it's gummed up, not if it's gummed up, living on sugar. Anywho ask questions. A lot of times too, I would see real deficiencies like in like I said B12, vitamin D, okay? Omega-3 very deficient. So we used to look at that holistically, okay? And just reading another article here on ibuprofen, well listen guys like acetaminophen or ibuprofen, you got to be careful. And the news studies on it is not good. Toxic for children. Toxic, we talked about toxicity during pregnancy, acetaminophen and ibuprofen. Be careful with those meds, okay? Use very sparingly.
Here's one that came out. I saw it on the weekend. Switzerland, bans mammograms, okay, Switzerland bans mammograms. Wow, and here's what they said, Switzerland. The risk of a mammogram outweighs the benefits. Hey, don't shoot the messenger. The risk of mammogram all the radiation. And this is what the government is saying outweighs the benefits. Now, I don't want to get into too much here because it's controversial and I think in Canada at least, and I'm sure in the United States it's overused. It's overused. But let's see what the fallout is. Switzerland Bans Mammography. That was a headline. Alright, let me see what other articles. Okay, the medical scam exposed, that was a headline, but that's what they were saying.
Okay, I wanted to talk to you about, you know me, okay, it's sun, steak and steel. But when I say steak, okay, you guys know me, okay? The poor man's steak is ground beef and it's very good for you, okay? It's very, very good for you. The hamburger is very good for you. The bun, not so much. So you can go and get a hamburger. Tell 'em to wrap it in salad and put cheese on top. No, but seriously, ground beef is good. B12. The world is so low in B12 because we bought into the stupidity that red meat's not good for you. Who was it the other day? See if I can find it. I got a migraine when I read this. Tufts University, okay, ranked Lucky Charms healthier than ground beef. I got an instant migraine. Instant. Lucky Charms. Imagine what kind of doctor, what kind of any healthcare practitioner, nutrition experts would ever say something as silly as that? Brought to you by, well, who makes Lucky Charms? I don't know. Is it Kellogg? Imagine someone would say Lucky Charms is better than ground beef. It's crazy.
Okay, but I was just thinking, okay, in ground beef you got the five Cs, carnitine, carnizine, coQ10, you've got all the things that your body just loves, okay? B12, all your B vitamins are in there. Phosphorus, zinc. Zinc. Zinc is so good for you. Vitamin A, vitamin D. It's all in ground beef. Enjoy it. Have it chili. I don't care. It's good for you. Iron, heme iron, HEME iron, the iron that your body absorbs. For you new folks, you know what I used to say? Popeye lied because he didn't get his iron from spinach. He got his iron from beef, ground beef, steak. No, but imagine Lucky Charms, it's better for you. Imagine in this day and age that that would still be lied about. I just have a hard time getting over that, okay? I have a hard time getting over that. I read it, I go, come on.
Surely Tufts University, why don't they call me, have me in for one day. I will put up Lucky Charms up against ground beef and we'll just have a scientific discussion about both of them and it ain't going to be close. Talk about propaganda. I feel sorry for the public that their so-called experts would say something as silly as that, but they're still doing it. Now my audience, well, we know better. We can actually have, well, I get a migraine, but you guys can have a chuckle. How stupid is that? Anyway, I better stop now because my blood pressure went up. Okay, we got a great week guys. Got a great week coming. We'll continue on. We'll see if I can find any more things that give me a headache. Silliness. Okay, Friday is what? Q and A. Get your questions in. We love you guys dearly, sincerely, and every other way. Okay, and every other way. We'll talk to you soon.
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