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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone. How are you? Once again, welcome to another live this morning and hope you're having a great start to your day. Guys, I love you, got to get going or I'll never get through these questions because it's Q and A. Okay, and Janine is asking the question, "I wonder which sites you use to get studies you conveyed to us?" I used to have a service that would send me every study that was ever published. A lot of that I dismissed if it wasn't relevant, but now I use mostly PubMed, Cochrane, it's easy on PubMed. Just go to their website. You're going to look at any study. I mean, there's tens of thousands of studies, so that's what I do. I am reading, I don't know how many studies I read in a day, and again, sometimes I just glance over them. Sometimes I go into a deep dive. That's what I do. You can do it though. If you want to look at studies, I would recommend probably PubMed, but a lot of the stuff there, I'm not saying it is not important, it's just probably less important. But you want to go there? You can go.
Okay, Heidi, "what is the best supplement for a person who has a genetic predisposition for high lipoprotein A?" Okay, now Heidi, listen. I'm probably the wrong guy to ask for that, okay? Because lipoprotein, okay, you got large particles, you got small particles, cholesterol, and like I said, I'm probably not the right guy. I don't want to lower your cholesterol. I think it's a smokescreen. I think medicine got focused in on cholesterol a long time ago and they can't get off of it. It's like they're addicts and they're addicted to cholesterol. Let me give you a little bit of background. A few years ago when LDL, they did a lot of reviews of all the studies of cholesterol and having lower LDL, did that give you less heart disease? Not even a bit. Statin drugs have been a colossal failure, I just got to tell you, colossal failure.
And so when LDL, because they have a medication to lower LDL, okay, that's what statin drugs do. They lower LDL. And like I said, when they did Cochrane, you can look at all these studies when they really looked and analyzed to death what lowering your LDL did for heart disease. It wasn't good guys. So you know what they did? You know what the pharmaceutical companies did? They pivoted and they went into what I call the weeds and they started talking about small particles versus large particle cholesterol. And in order to save their bacon, they were making lots of bacon on the backs of society by the whole thing about cholesterol. And they didn't want to get off of it because it's a cash cow.
Now listen, I know there's a lot of good people in the pharmaceutical industries, but if you were honest about it, just be honest. That's what I tell doctors. Just be honest. What have statin drugs done in getting rid of the number one killer in our society? What have they done? What have they achieved? It's been a complete failure. Heart disease is worse than ever. If cholesterol was at the root of it, we'd have got rid of it already because we've been lowering cholesterol for 50 years. I watched it happen. I was screaming like John the Baptist in the wilderness, you're looking for love in all the wrong places. Look, every cell in your body's got cholesterol. You need cholesterol, you can't live without it. Your brain is made up of cholesterol. Someone calls you fat head. Take it as a compliment. You need cholesterol and they're lowering cholesterol. Okay? If that worked, why is heart disease worse than ever? Because it's the number one selling medication of all time. Statin drugs.
So Heidi, look, you came to the wrong guy. Here's what I'm interested in. I'm interested in your triglycerides. Those are fat balls. I want you to have low triglycerides and high HDL cholesterol, and if you have high LDL cholesterol, good for you. You're going to live longer. So if you want to lower your cholesterol, I don't buy it. It doesn't save anybody's life. As a matter of fact, when I was in practice, if you'd have seen the amount of side effects people that are on statin drugs that come to see me, it works all right. I mean, statin drugs work. They work a hundred percent. They lower your cholesterol, your LDL, but how many people with rhabdomyolysis, which is a muscle wasting. I saw that a thousand times in my practice. I saw people with memory issues because you're lowering cholesterol. I saw people with all sorts of side effects of statins because statin drugs, lower coQ10 and coQ10 is essential for your mitochondria, your battery packs.
Where do you have a lot of battery packs, especially? Brain and heart. And it lowers that. It lowers the ATP of the mitochondria because of coQ10. And there's no argument about that because if you watch advertisements in the United States, there's advertisements for coQ10 and they're telling you to take, oh, if you take a statin drug, make sure you're on coQ10. And then they recommend which coQ10, you should be on. Ubiquinol. Anyway, Heidi, I thank you for asking the question, but like I said, if you're asking for a supplement to lower cholesterol, I don't want you to lower cholesterol. I want you to elevate HDL, I want you to lower triglycerides if you want to do that. Well, the best one out there is high DHA, but you just got to understand where I come from. I know that's controversial, by the way. I understand that.
But one thing I have been is consistent. You just can't get me to move on it because everything that I ever read and everything that I understand, why do you want to lower cholesterol? I don't get it. It's like blaming the police because they're at the crime scene. It's like blaming the firemen because yeah, they're at the fire. Of course they're there. They're the good guy. They're not the bad guy. They're only there to help. And it's one of the reasons that a lot of people have trouble with their hormones because cholesterol is FedEx trucks, US Postal Service, Canada Postal Service, Amazon trucks, and whatever trucks you can think of, they're delivery trucks and they got a wagon in the back when they deliver. You know what else they do? They hitch their wagon to triglycerides in order to bring them back to your liver to be processed. Again, why do you want to disrupt that? I know that was a rant, Heidi, and I thank you for asking. Cholesterol, never in my opinion, ever, ever killed anyone. Never gave them a heart attack, ever. That's me. Okay, thank you very much, Heidi for the question.
Okay, Nancy, Stevens syndrome. Well, that is when you get a reaction to medication. That's when I saw it. I mean, sometimes very serious could kill you. Reaction to an antibiotic. Other medications, you get a severe reaction. Allergic reaction. You get Stevens syndrome where you break out in blisters or whatever. Well, first thing to do, stop the med big time. You might have to get yourself to a hospital. So they put you on an antiallergic drug to cut down that histamine. And if you ever get that, anybody ever get first thing you do, get on probiotics big time. I would have 'em on quercetin and Navitol. I like the combination to lower the histamine. Okay? But I mean in the meantime, if it's dead serious, one off the med two, get medical help. Okay, Nancy, thank you for that question.
Joanne, how are you, Joanne? "I've been on HRT since I'm 50," hormone replacement therapy, "and now I am still on a HRT bioidentical." I like bioidenticals. I don't like the synthetic HRT. Usually they're giving you horses' urine. You ain't a horse. A horse is 10 times bigger than you are and they give you horses' urine synthetically and I don't like it. I've been preaching against that, but I did bioidenticals when I was in the office. Here's my little asterisk. I never used estrogen. I don't like estrogen because the world is full of estrogen. You got already got too much estrogen, even if you're in perimenopause or menopause and your estrogen levels have gone down, I understand that, but you're still surrounded by xenoestrogens and I don't like estrogen. It's a growth hormone, and I don't like anything inside your body growing, especially tumors.
So I don't like estrogen. I like progesterone. I like progesterone. A bioidentical progesterone. I like it. Our menopausal formula elevates your progesterone and dims out those xenoestrogens, okay, because of dim. So Joanne, is it safe to stop? Well, yeah, it's safe. I don't know if your bioidentical includes estrogen, I wouldn't do it. That's me personally. When I was in practice, I didn't recommend estrogen. I don't recommend estrogen. I never have recommended estrogen. I never have. I get it why doctors do it, but I don't recommend it. I saw lots of issues even with birth control and all that when they were giving you estrogen from synthetic horses' urine. I hated it then and I hated it now. In a bioidentical is different. The estrogen is more of a natural estrogen, but I don't think you need it. You need progesterone. That's me. Consistent, consistent, consistent. I was in practice for so long, I was a woman's doctor for horror-mones. I saw a lot of it, and that's me.
Okay, let me see, back to the questions and thank you very much, and that was Joanne. Theresa, "please Dr. Martin bring up the Harvard studies on sugar." Well, look, I think it was 1967, I don't remember exactly what year it was. You can Google this and look at the sugar industry. I think it was 1967. Correct me if I'm wrong. They paid money to Harvard doctors, researchers to lie. Researchers lied and people died. You know what they did? They paid researchers to blame fat, out of Harvard, to blame fat instead of sugar for heart disease. And they lied. They paid the money. You know what, guys? I just got to say this. A lot of research today, there's a lot of money involved. For example, in the cholesterol industry, you know what? If you pay for research like pharmaceuticals, they pay for research, but they want you to get the results they want to. And look, I'm not saying all research is twisted, of course it's not. But I'm just telling you.
So the sugar industry, okay, because people were starting to come onto them, they paid Harvard researchers, fat, to lie and say that fat causes heart disease and not sugar. People lied and people died because of that. Because people were lowering their fat intake and they upped their sugar intake. And it went up to we're near a dump truck load every human being in North America on average is a dump truck load. When I was a kid, 25 pounds, when my children were kids, 50 pounds. And now my grandchildren 200 pounds and great-grandchildren near 200 pounds plus, they changed the sugar to high fructose corn syrup. Guys, people lied to us. They lied to us. And that was one of the things about the, you can connect that too, by the way, to the cholesterol hoax, because cholesterol, fat, right? So people lied.
And guys, I got to tell you something. I did this on my radio show for a long time. I was livid. Livid. When the makers of Celebrex, they hid research that showed it killed people. Listen to this. Celebrex was a medication they gave for arthritis and anti-inflammatory. Okay? Oh, it really works. Oh yeah, it does alright. And it killed at least 50,000 people because it gave them a heart attack or a stroke. Did you know that? Celebrex. Google it. And you know what happened? Well, they had a fund, so they put 5% of their revenues away to pay claims. Do you know that not one person went to prison? Not one. Nobody went to jail. At least some said 150,000 people died. I know for a fact that at least 50,000 people died from a lie that they knew about. I think it was Pfizer. Can you imagine? They got away with it. They had put money away to settle claims. How could people sleep at night?
You see money talks and the sugar industry, they knew. They knew, I'm going to say 67, but I could be wrong on the year they knew that sugar was destructive. Okay? My dad, diabetic, a year later, 1968, you know what they called diabetes? Sugar diabetes. My dad said to me, son, I can't have sugar anymore. I am a sugar diabetic. What was the culprit? Cholesterol? No sugar, but the food industry, the liars, liars, pants on fires and the pharmaceutical industry, and they've done good things. So don't throw out the baby with the bath water. But I'm telling you folks, people will lie to your face and because it's health, and go back to the sixties, guys, go back to the seventies, guys. Go back to the 80s, you know what? There was no shows like this in those days. There was no Dr. Martin's on a podcast with millions of downloads. I had a radio show, I yelled.
You know what I'm getting at, guys? That's what I'm getting at. It's the liar, liar pants on fire. And there've been a lot of lies. And this is what I try and do on this program is I try and undo that stuff, but I still get a migraine when I talk about the makers of Celebrex. My word, they finally took it off the market. But nobody went to jail. Not one person. I don't even think they got fired. They knew. They knew. That's what bothers me. Remember now the whole world went for it. The whole world. Sugar, moderation. Fat, bad. You know how many women went fat free? The whole food industry, even today, try and go get fat in yogurt or whatever. Fat makes you fat. No, it don't. Sugar does and sugar is toxic. Your body knows it, but the world doesn't know it anyway. Oh, okay.
Cheryl, "can Dr. Martin define the gut wall?" What? I do it all the time. Okay snd Cheryl's asking for an individual thing because she can't take a probiotic. It makes her nauseous. Okay, Cheryl, look at me. You're weird. No, I love you. Okay, you're asking a good question. The gut wall. Well, you got the gut blood barrier. Okay? I talked about it yesterday. Okay, for those who missed our afternoon session yesterday, I talked about this. You got a southern border between your gut and your blood, and she was asking if she could take a probiotic via a suppository. Yeah. Would it get to the intended destination? Maybe a little bit. It's probably not the best way to take a probiotic, but Theresa, if you can't take one orally, I mean another way to make a Dr. Martin's perfect smoothie and open up a capsule and blend it. Anywho, if you can't take the actual capsule, take the powder. Try that, Theresa. It'd be better, in my opinion, than even a suppository. But hey, I'm not against that. I mean, if that's, you want to do that, go for it.
Now, the barrier, well, okay, you have a little lining, okay? It's so microscopic. You couldn't see it with your naked eye if your life depended on it. But you got a lining there, and it's one cell thick. And I talked about it yesterday because it's often compromised by antibiotics, even by stress. All the pesticides and the herbicides and the artificial sugars can disrupt the microbiome and give you a leaky gut. All the plastics, they can disrupt the blood gut barrier. And by the way, that's the southern border. You also have a northern border, and that is your blood-brain barrier made up of the same type of thing, it's submicroscopic. But it really has a lot to do with your bacteria and your microbiome, and that gets compromised. That's why I'm telling everyone, if your address ends with planet Earth, you should be on a probiotic. In this day and age with the environmental stuff and everything that you and I are exposed to, and you ain't leaving the planet to get away from it unless you're going with Elon Musk to Mars and live there. And maybe you won't need a probiotic in Mars, okay? Maybe, I don't know.
But you need one if you live on planet Earth and if you think you're not exposed, well, Dr. Martin, I don't drink out of a plastic. I don't have any plastic. Everything's glass or whatever. You're still surrounded by it. It's in the water, it's in the air. It's micro plastic, and you ain't getting away from it. I had a lady tell me in my clinic one day she was leaving for Costa Rica and never coming back. She was going there to get away from all the toxins in Canada. And I looked at her little face and I said, it sucks to be the rest of us. She thought I was going to be happy for her. I said, you think you're getting away in Costa Rica from plastic? I said, it's in the ocean. It's on Mount Everest. It's everywhere. And for the rest of us who can't move to Costa Rica and have your own little island there, you better get on probiotic. Because like I mentioned yesterday, L reuteri and L rhamnosus bind themselves. Those little bacteria, you know what they do? They bind themselves to chemicals and to toxins and to plastics. They bind themselves to it and they destroy it. Isn't that beautiful? Anyway, I get on these rants, guys. I can't help myself. That was Cheryl. Thank you very much. I appreciate it.
Mary wants to talk about GFR. You know what GFR is? Glomerular filtration rate, kidneys. Rosalinda, Niagara Falls, Andrea in Niagara Falls, go to Niagara Falls. My daughter was there last weekend. I said, was the water running? Yeah, 24 hours a day. Yeah, I think so. I said, there's your kidneys. So if your glomer has gone down 67, she says, this is Mary. Okay, that's not terrible. But when your GFR is going down, your filtration of your toxins is going down. That means you have kidney stress. Now, if it gets right down below, I can't remember, 10 or 15, then now you've got severe kidney disease, but you have kidney stress, Mary, and you need to drink plenty of water. And I'll tell you what destroys your kidneys more than anything else. A lack of water dehydration, yes, numero uno and numero duo is sugar, honey. So get rid of it because that destroys your kidneys. And if you don't believe me, ask a diabetic, sugar is destructive, not salt, sugar. Okay? You cut that back and your kidneys will thank you. Okay, will, thank you.
Now, I thought I had somebody else asking me about kidney. It's Linda. Yes. Yes, it works right beside Mary. You know what it says? I would like to know what a DFR test is for. Okay? Remember, it's checking your filtration of your kidneys, and why is it so high you got high? Well, better to be high than low. Linda. Linda, listen, better to be high than low. Now, if it's very high, sometimes I've seen it. Sometimes that could give an indication that possibly you're a diabetic, but generally high is better than low. If your doctors ain't worried about it, you ought not to be worried about it. You're filtrating. All right? Okay, you're filtrating. All right? Big time because you don't want to be low filtration. That was Linda. Okay?
Elaine is asking, "Dr. Martin, your perfect smoothie," and it is perfect. What a tremendous meal replacement. You're on the reset, you can use a Dr. Martin perfect smoothie. Your kids, Dr. Martin's perfect smoothie. Your grandchildren, Dr. Martin's perfect smoothie, high fat, no carbs. Couple of berries. Okay, couple of berries. And for kids, you want to put a little teaspoon of honey, I allow it. You're on the reset? I don't allow it. Okay, but for your kids and grandchildren, and they think they went to McDonald's to get a milkshake, that's how good it is. And you put protein. My favorite protein, oh, by the way, there's a lot of studies that have been coming out. I was going to mention this yesterday, but I forgot on protein powders, especially the vegetable protein powders, okay? The pea protein or whatever, lots of lead in there. They studied several brands and lead con. That's why I like bone broth guys. The bone broth protein, it's the highest collagen protein that you can get. It's a bone broth protein. That's why I like to add it to Dr. Martin's perfect smoothie because it's so good. And by the way, to repair the gut, it helps to repair leaky gut, protein because of L glutamine very high in L glutamine. It's a repair mechanism for your gut, okay?
Now I got to get to another question. Let's do one more, and I guess we're going to have to do question answer Monday. Carol is asking about HOMA-IR test. I like it. HOMA-IR test. It takes an average and calculator of your fasting insulin versus your fasting sugar, and it gives you a number. And I can't even remember what the number should be. I haven't seen that in a while, but I don't mind it in terms of looking for insulin resistance. That's what the IR stands for at the end of the test. But I'll tell you something for me, okay? And it's just because I've been around the block a long time, long time, many times around the block in terms of practice years.
The best, most accurate test for me, and I think research bears this out. Look, you can do fasting insulin, you can do fasting glucose. I get that. I'm not against it. If you get that done, good for you. But the best, in my opinion, test to look for insulin resistance is the A1C, okay? The A1C test, and that is the glycated hemoglobin test. Why? Because sugar latches on to hemoglobin and you can measure it. And when it's above 5.4, you got insulin resistance. Lower the better but 5.4 is the cutoff mark in my experience. And anything above that, you have insulin resistance. If you're at 5.4 and below, you're pretty good. I like that test better than the HOMA-IR test, okay? On calculation. Like I said, I like it. I just like A1C better.
Okay, guys, we love you dearly, sincerely, and every other way. Okay? We'll finish up these on Monday. Hopefully if I don't rent too much, because I usually do. But guys, that's me, okay, I'm just a ranter and some of the questions set me off, which is good, I think. Okay, no guys, we love you and we'll talk to you soon.
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