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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone. How are you? Okay, I am on the road, but I'm still going to do a podcast this morning. Let me just see if I put my microphone on here. How are you guys doing? Nice to be on with you this morning. We appreciate you taking your time out of your busy day and we love you guys. Thanks for coming on and I got a few studies I want to talk about this morning. Just a couple of announcements. Friday is Q and A, so get your questions in to info@martinclinic.com, info@martinclinic.com. We'll get your questions to us for Q and A Friday often turns into Q and A Monday. Okay? So get your questions in.
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Okay, let's look at, yesterday we were talking about diverticulosis. Remember that someone on the Q and A had asked about it and this person actually lost 13 inches of their colon. That's no fun at all. Can you imagine that the perforation there in those little, see what diverticulosis is, is you got little pouches in the intestine and they can become infected because the feces can get caught in there and cause an infection. But I'll tell you what else can get caught in there. Spinach, just, that's why I told folks whenever they came to see me with IBS ulcerative colitis most of the time, and they didn't even realize this, they were eating way too much fiber, including spinach. Now, I've always said this about spinach. Okay guys, Popeye lied. Popeye lied.
Popeye didn't get strong eating spinach, okay? He didn't. He said he did, but he didn't. It wasn't spinach, it was meat because spinach, you have nutrients in spinach like calcium and iron. They always talk about iron and spinach, but you know what? You don't even get that. You don't get the iron really from spinach. You know why? It's not the right type of iron. You need heme, HEME, iron, that's the iron that your body absorbs, not in spinach, but in steak. Now they both start with S, but vitamin S, the real vitamin is steak. You want to help your bowel? Eat steak, not spinach. I had thousands, I don't think I'm exaggerating. Over all my years in practice, I had thousands of women, mostly women, not all women, but mostly women get off their salads in order to save their bowel. I said you weren't built for that. Your stomach wasn't built for that.
We talk about that all the time. Your stomach has an acidity that's for steak not for, and if you want to eat salad, well have it once in a while, but don't live on it, especially if you have bowel problems, you just got to get off. The fiber is overrated and spinach. Now let me say something here, okay? I don't know if I've ever said this. I probably have. You know what people bring up? Okay, let me do something here. Okay? Let's spend a couple of minutes on this topic. What's better for you? A hot dog. Okay? Forget the bun, okay? Just the hot dog or spinach? What's better for you? I know the hot dog is not the greatest source of meat. I understand that. Okay? But if you throw away the bun, I'll tell you something. The hot dog is better for you than spinach is.
Here's what they threw in my face all the time. Well, Dr. Martin it's meat that like bacon and they have all those nitrates and I mean that like lunch meat and deli meat. That's no good for you. I'll tell you, it's a lot better for you than spinach is. What? I know it goes against the grain. But listen to this. Do you know that spinach has 80 times more nitrates than a hot dog does? You didn't know that? Yeah, and oxalates very, very high in oxalates and guys, I'm not saying you can never have it, but all I am saying is this. I don't like when people bring fake news to me and they say, well, I mean, come on. Okay, you talk about a steak, okay, we all agree steak is good for you. Okay, well, we don't all agree, but I know my audience does, but a lot of people don't realize that the amount of nitrates that are in salad because they always think of bacon. Well, I'm looking for bacon without nitrates. What? 80 times more nitrates in spinach than there is on a hot dog.
I'm not telling you to live on hot dogs either. I'm just telling you when people throw that at me, you see most plants, and people don't realize this either. Most plants are not edible. They self-protect themselves like oxalates and you just don't go in the bush and eat a plant, do you? Right? Most of them have their own protective mechanism including nitrates and oxalates. And so again, I'm not saying don't eat it, I'm just saying don't live on it. So I want to bring that out because somebody said that to me the other day, even on our site. Well, Dr. Martin, what about the nitrates in lunch meat and all that? Well, lunch meat is a whole lot better for your kids and your grandchildren than a granola bar is because that's what granola, I am sending them to school with a granola bar. I mean, that's not good for you. That's not good for you, okay?
Here's another study. Protecting your bones during menopause. This is a study on osteoporosis and I learn something guys every day, okay? So if you ask me Dr. Martin, I'm worried about osteoporosis, okay? And you're a woman, you should worry about osteoporosis, okay? Thinner. It's not always women that are thin, but when you're thinner, usually your risk of osteoporosis is slightly elevated, okay? Menopausal women, osteoporosis is elevated, there's no doubt about that. So what do you do? Well, I talk about that all the time. Well, your biggest thing, and even medicine would agree with this is vitamin D. Okay? You need vitamin D because that's really helps bones and especially vitamin D with K2.
So when you are eating eggs, meat and cheese, guess what you're getting? You're getting vitamin D in the food and vitamin D is in the animal kingdom and you get calcium. The most bioavailable calcium is not in spinach, it's in meat, it's in eggs, it's in dairy. God wants you to eat dairy, so don't cancel dairy, okay? Switch dairy. I want you to switch dairy, I don't want you drinking milk for your bones. You don't need to drink milk. Eat butter, eat cheese, eat yogurt if you want, okay? Plain Greek because it's good for you. It's a lot of protein, but you got calcium, you've got vitamin D and you've got vitamin K2. It's right in nature. God put it right in nature in those foods for your bones. So I've been saying that for 50 years and more, okay? You need vitamin D, you need calcium from food, not from supplements with K2. Food with K2 and vitamin D with vitamin K2 because K2 takes calcium and puts it where it belongs.
So we talk about that. You guys know this and you understand that, okay? Even the world out there sort of understands it. They don't understand vitamin K2 too much because they don't talk about it. And again, K2 is found in the animal kingdom. It's not in the plant kingdom. So we have it right in nature. And what would the other thing that you do for your bones? Well, magnesium, magnesium's important for the absorption of your calcium, okay? It's important for magnesium. So we talk about magnesium all the time. Here's one though. It's a new kid on the block as far as osteoporosis, because this study has said, I didn't know it. I'm always learning something. So if I say to you, quercetin, Q-U-E-R-C-I-T-I-N, quercetin, quercetin.
If I say that to you, what do you think? I wish I could read your answers because you guys know this. Quercetin, ahh, quercetin, Dr. Martin, that's for allergies. Why? Well, it's an antihistamine. It helps to block the histamine coming from the mast cells. MAST, mast cells, those are white blood cells that give off histamine Now, okay, so when you take an antihistamine, quercetin in nature, I love, by the way, in allergies, I've done this for years. I love combining quercetin with pine bark, Navitol, okay? Very powerful combination in terms of antihistamine. So when you look at quercetin, you think antihistamine. Now you might also think this is sort of new too. I probably brought this to you in the past, but along have I known about quercetin and uric acid, gout, it helps in terms of uric acid.
Look, everybody makes uric acid, but quercetin helps to lower uric acid. Now again, you need some uric acid. It's just a byproduct in the body. It's a byproduct. Everybody makes uric acid, but if you don't get rid of it, your body is made between the liver and the kidneys to get rid of uric acid. Now, uric acid isn't necessarily gout. A lot of people do get gout and it's a much more prevalent condition. Look, gout has been around for as long as man has been around and they called it the king's disease and the reason is because usually the peasants didn't get it. The rich people and the king, they got it and they said, well, king, look at him. He's eating red meat. No, it really wasn't that he was drinking too much wine and beer. You see, drinking too much wine and beer because again, fructose has a big effect on uric acid. What happens in the liver don't stay in the liver. Okay?
So I've taught you that in the past, and quercetin helps to decrease levels of uric acid. Uric acid is important because here at the Martin Clinic, you know what we've done at The Doctor Is In podcast, we've added uric acid as a blood test. If you read our book, Sun, Steak and Steel and Sleep and coffee and salt, it's all in there. But we talk about in our chapter on blood tests, we talk about adding your uric acid levels because usually when they're elevated, even without gout, you have metabolic syndrome. It is a factor in metabolic syndrome. I've added that, okay? I don't know if anybody else has ever added that to the list, but I have. What else did I add to that list? Vitamin D to metabolic syndrome and B12 to metabolic syndrome, that high triglycerides, low HDL, slightly elevated blood pressure, slightly elevated A1C. These are all indicators of metabolic syndrome. Quercetin lowers uric acid.
Now here's another thing. Hot off the presses, a new study on quercetin, who knew? It says this, okay? That quercetin is very effective in preventing osteoporosis in menopause. So quercetin is very effective in preventing osteoporosis in menopause. Wow. So add it to the list. I'm kind of surprised by that. Who knew? You know what folks I'll tell you something. When it comes to health, I read everything I can. I have more information thrown at me during the day, okay? You have no idea and I look at every headline and if I find it, I flag it and I read it. I read the studies, I read the articles. I read, read, read, read, read. And I'm always learning because science, real science is observation, okay? Real science, you know "the science is settled," not on everything otherwise it's not science, it's not settled.
I was reading, we talked about this yesterday, I went and looked at some studies on mammograms and the use of them. I'm always learning that. I want to know. I want to know what the stats are. Is it really worth getting a mammogram done? Okay, I was reading a study yesterday on colonoscopies. Is it really worth it? You have to look at the side effects of it, the possible side effect versus the benefits of it. Okay? Anyways, I am reading articles on that. We'll do some shows on some of those talk. Well, we already did it on mammograms versus thermography yesterday. I answered the question yesterday, so you'll have to wait. That'll be a podcast by the end of the week. Now, so quercetin I would add it to the list if you are looking to prevent. The study is pretty impressive on quercetin and menopausal osteoporosis, okay? It actually helps to protect your bones.
Okay, so guys, I wanted to do a little bit of a shorter version this morning, okay, because on the road and I've got to get to meetings. So let's just remind everyone about Friday, send in your questions to Q and A, okay? Q and A, send you questions to info@martinclinic.com, info@martinclinic.com. Don't be shy, ask your questions. Okay guys, we love you. We thank you for putting up with my shenanigans at times, a lot of times, but we appreciate our audience here, big time. Love you dearly. Talk to you soon.
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