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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 appreciate you guys coming on. We love when you can come on live, of course, and we know that's not always possible, but we appreciate you big time. Okay guys, it's Q and A Friday, always popular. We love your questions. This program is all about answering your questions, not just Q and A, but how many times during the week do I bring out studies that answer your questions? Okay, yesterday we had an afternoon session. We talked about melatonin and the way they worded it is melatonin is bad for you and really what the study was showing, and I'll answer it because somebody's asked this, who did this? Why don't I do that right now? It'll give me a chance to do this. Let me see if I can get to, because somebody asked.
There it is. Kevin, you asked, sent in an article about melatonin and associated with heart failure, and really when you read the study, Kevin, it really isn't the melatonin causing heart failure. It's people that are on melatonin for a long time that have heart failure, but it's not the melatonin, it's the insomnia, the lack of sleep. That's what's associated with the heart failure. Okay, so when you read the study properly, that's really what it's saying. What they were trying to do is scare people from taking melatonin. Now, having said all that, you know what I think of melatonin? Well, if you don't, I'm going to tell you again, okay? Your body makes melatonin. The best way to get melatonin is not in a supplement. It's when the sun is out, get in the sun.
Now you don't have to get vitamin D from the sun. It could be in the middle of winter. You know how John Denver used to sing sunshine on my shoulder, makes me happy? Well sunshine in your eyeballs gives you melatonin. Gives you melatonin, and then a very, very pitch black room at night tops up your melatonin. Isn't that amazing? But it's got to be pitch black. That's why it's the only mask I recommend you put on is the one to cover your eyes, okay? At night so that you have pitch black and then your melatonin is topped up. Do I like melatonin as a supplement? No, I'm not big on it. First of all, it's got a shelf life. Usually it's not effective after a period of time. Again, I'm not big on it. I find if you can get your cortisol down, that is much more effective in insomnia than melatonin as a supplement, but I do love melatonin from nature, how your body produces it primarily out of your pineal gland, your third eye. Okay, that was Kevin.
Beverly, "could you explain, Dr. Martin, how vitamin D is made?" Well, look, you've got vitamin D3 and vitamin D2. Okay? D3 is from the animal kingdom and it's made from lanolin, L-A-N-O-L-I-N, lanolin from sheep wool. Okay? And it's not synthetic. It's completely natural, and cholesterol is part of the byproduct in that vitamin D3 when they make it. That's vitamin D3 from the animal kingdom. You can get vitamin D2 from the plant kingdom, but not nearly as bioavailable. Okay? That's why we use vitamin D3. That's why I recommend vitamin D3. And the best way to get vitamin D3 of course is in the sun, but good luck in most of the world, unless you're living in Florida or Arizona. You can get melatonin, but you're not getting vitamin D because you got to be not butt naked, but you got to have your arms and legs exposed. Those are your big solar panels for vitamin D, naturally from the sun. But you can live without the sun. Ask the Eskimo or the Inuit. They get their vitamin D3 from the fat and cod liver oil and all that saturated fat that they eat. They get their vitamin D3. The problem with that is you better be eating that stuff every day to top up your D3. So the best is the sun. The second best is supplementing with the natural vitamin D3, and we recommend you take it with K2.
Okay, Marianne. "A number of years ago, I had a hair analysis done. I have more recently been taking selenium to support my thyroid. Looking back at my hair analysis, I realized my selenium count was too high." Now Marianne, I'm glad you brought it up. Do I like hair analysis? Yes. Is it everything? No. I used to tell people, when I do live blood, it's a tool in the toolbox. It's limited. It doesn't tell you everything. Hair analysis, it's good, but it doesn't tell you everything. And if you read that your selenium was high, good Marianne, why would you want your selenium to be low? Is it too high? How can you have too high selenium? Your thyroid doesn't work without selenium. I know we talk about iodine and that's good. I like iodine too, but I always tell people you need selenium for your thyroid to work properly.
Selenium, I know you talk about Brazilian nuts or other people. I said that's nothing compared to the selenium you get from the plant kingdom. Eat eggs, meat and cheese, and you're going to have good amount of selenium and your thyroid. It's one of the reasons that so many women have trouble with their thyroid. They don't eat enough from the animal kingdom. They live on plants. Plants are good, but they don't have everything and they miss way too much and your thyroid will suffer because of it. And you look at a salad and you think that's the best thing on the planet. No it ain't. No it ain't. Eggs, meat and cheese. I wouldn't stop. Why are you stopping taking selenium? I don't understand it. I understand why you did it because of your hair analysis, but like I said, hair analysis I like, okay, for heavy metals and things like that, I like it. I used to use it at one time, but I did specific blood tests and that and urine tests and saliva tests that I found better than a hair analysis.
Okay, that was Marianne. This is Francis. "What does Dr. Martin think of pumpkin oil for hair regrowth?" Well, don't bet your farm on it. Look, I like pumpkin oil. If you find it works. I had a lot of men tell me maybe a little bit, it was never dramatic. You want to use it, go for it. I got no problem. It's certainly not going to hurt you. You rub some pumpkin oil. It's supposed to block DHT and I never saw with thousands of patients over the years and then people telling me about pumpkin, nobody ever said that's the greatest thing since invention for hair growth. I mean guys, for me, there's no magic in hair growth. The best that I've seen in my practice years is what I observed and what others observed was bone broth. And it makes more sense to me because bone broth is if you take out a hair strand and you analyze that, it's about 98% protein and bone broth is the best protein in the world. It's collagen protein. And if you're going to do anything for your hair, and like I said, thousands of patients found, you know what? My hair is thicker, my hair is better, but no magic guys. There's no magic. I never saw it. Every time this works, run Forrest, run, they're lying to you, okay? These shampoos that have pumpkin oil in it, and I've seen it. Different shampoos, and this is all going to make your hair grow. Generally. I haven't seen it. Okay? I don't want to be negative, but I just want to tell you the truth, okay?
Judy, "having calcium crystals in my left knee, very painful." Yes, they could be. "How do I get rid of this?" Well, listen, here's what I would do. Do it for a month. If it doesn't work in the first month, it's not going to work in the second one. Combine Navitol. That's very anti-inflammatory, okay, and curcumin. Put them together. If you want, put high DHA too because that'll lubricate your joint, but Navitol, curcumin, four and four every day. So that's eight capsules. Some people found it and you could actually see the research on curcumin and knee pain. Okay? There's actually research on it, but I found in my practice you put those two things together. But if it didn't work in a month, it ain't going to work in the second month. Okay? I said give it 30 days. See what happens. I'm giving you a loading dose and see what happens. If you're asking natural, that's what I recommend, okay?
Marie, "I've seen on Facebook that drinking hot cocoa," cocoa? Is it cocoa or cocoa? "Every day was beneficial for our hearts." Yeah, there's some research that's showing cocoa is cocoa. What do you call it? Is all right. I'm not big on guys. Why you got to drink stuff? Drink coffee and drink water. Like a piece of dark chocolate. I mean 99% dark chocolate cocao, or whatever it is. I know they're different, but you know what? You want to go for it? Go for it. I got no problem with it. Is it the greatest thing since sliced bread for your heart? I don't know. Okay, I've seen some studies that seem to encourage it. I'm not against it. Okay, thanks for the question. That was Marie Judy asked about the calcium crystals in her knee.
Maria, "if coronary artery disease is calcification in the arteries," okay, yeah, it's a plaque, calcification. The arteries lose their flexibility, they lose their Teflon layer, "then can remove the buildup with anything and not take statins?" Well, statins, okay. Statin drugs have been a colossal failure. They really have, okay? At the end of the day, they should have got fired a long time ago because really heart disease is worse than ever. It's because they're looking for love in all the wrong places. Cholesterol is not at the root of heart disease. If it was, we would've fixed it by now. Cholesterol is a good guy. It's on your side. And when they say you got bad cholesterol, they really don't know what they're talking about. I know that they say it, but cholesterol is not the boogeyman and it's not the bad guy. It's actually on your side. And yes, it's in your blood vessels. So when they see cholesterol, they go crazy. But of course it's in your blood vessels because cholesterol transports all your hormones. You couldn't even get vitamin D without cholesterol. Did you know that?
Your body makes 85% of your cholesterol. So, to get rid of plaque, okay, one eliminate sugar because that calcifies, that damages your blood vessel. See, calcium is just a deposit trying to repair, okay? And don't take a calcium supplement because calcium, you don't want it in your blood. You want it in your bones where it belongs. Okay? So your body knows how to do that, especially when you're eating eggs, meat and cheese. Not only does it have cholesterol, but it also has vitamin K2, which helps to get rid of calcium. So that's why I love vitamin D with K2. Okay? I want you to eat K2 because you're eating cholesterol. When you eat an egg, you've got lots of cholesterol in there. That's not bad for you. It's actually good for you because cholesterol helps to repair. Cholesterol helps to lubricate, okay? And for decalcification, okay, I like the K2, so eat it, eat lots of it, and it'll help decalcify your blood vessels. It really does. Okay? It really does.
Okay, Cheryl, burning mouth syndrome. I've seen it a lot. Usually, usually Cheryl, usually, not always, usually, you have low levels of B12. Your numbers might say hey my B12's pretty good, but you're not absorbing it because the blood test doesn't tell you about the cellular level. That's where B12 needs to go to your cell. So always look at B12 whenever you have anything around your mouth burning. The other thing I found is leaky gut. Leaky gut, burning mouth sometimes. Fungal, a yeast, candida in your body and your body's sort of reacting to it and partly through a condition we call burning mouth syndrome. I've seen it. So probiotics working on the gut, even bone broth working on the gut can help burning mouth syndrome and especially check your B12, okay?
Anna, "how long can I take DHA and Navitol for?" Forever. Forever. I do. I take it every day. DHA and Navitol I take every day. You got to understand, okay, for me, there's a couple of things that I really emphasize. DHA for me personally, okay? Because other people, you'll take DHA for different reasons. When I think of DHA, I think of my brain, okay? Because my brain is made up of that fat. What? Your brain is made up of cholesterol. Oh, beautiful. Good. Eat cholesterol, okay, one. But your brain is made up of a fat and the number one fat in your head is DHA. Why wouldn't you take it? I want this to work properly. At my age, I want to preserve my brain and that's why I love DHA. And then when you combine it with Navitol, why is it so good for you? Well, because Navitol increases your nitric oxide, opens your blood vessels. If you open your blood vessels, it's the same with calcification you were asking earlier, but when you open, nitric oxide is a molecule that opens up your blood vessels and Navitol elevates that.
Besides Navitol is a powerful antioxidant, protects the brain, protects the blood vessels in the brain, protects the synapses, the synapses, the whatever apses you want to call it in your brain, the grid in your brain is protected. Okay? So that's one. Two, I look at DHA for my eyeballs because again, your eyeballs, the fat around your eyeballs is made up of DHA. And I've shown any ophthalmologist or optometrists that want to be objective. I'll put up a combination of Navitol and DHA for eyes compared to anything else on the planet, and I mean it. And watch the difference when you take DHA for your eyes. How many people, thousands and thousands and thousands of people have found the results from cataracts to macular degeneration to you name it in the eyes because your eyes are made up of that fat and the blood vessels behind again, Navitol. The DHA lubricates and the Navitol opens, okay, opens the blood vessels. Now the other one is your heart. DHA, lubrication to those blood vessels and Navitol, again, nitric oxide. So brain, eyeballs, heart, joints too. But think of the process and how it works.
Okay, let me see. Now let's go here. Oh, Anna was talking about cataracts too for the DHA and Navitol, yeah. Joanne, "Dr. Gundry's bio complete 3 probiotics, prebiotics, butyrate. What's your opinion on the product?" It's probably very good. You know what's better? Our probiotics, there's nothing better. Takes eight weeks to make every strain. Our manufacturer, you don't know how many times they have reached out to us and say, can you please make it easier to make? Nope, won't compromise. The right strains, the right amount, the right strains, the right amount, the right type, which is soil-based. You can't get rid of those friendly bacteria. They are so hearty and they are made to get past the digestive tract, your stomach, the acidity there because of their quality, proven. So I got no problem with Dr. Gundry's. If you want to use the second best. Now you guys know this. Am I biased? A hundred percent I'm biased. Am I right? A hundred percent. Okay, look, you asked, I'm going to tell you, okay?
Okay, Elaine, "cracks at the corners of the mouth." Here we go again. See the mouth, the mouth, the mouth. Well, this for sure cracks around the corners. Are you missing something? A lot of times it's that B, the B vitamins, especially B12, when you get cracks around your mouth, you're not absorbing. This is why your acidity in your stomach is not good enough. It's not acidic enough. And that's why I want you to eat eggs, meat and cheese. Cut out the sugar, fix your leaky gut too with probiotics. But you need to be absorbing better. And that's why I would recommend you take digestive enzymes. Our digestive enzymes at every meal, every meal take digestive enzyme so that your body will break down the proteins into amino acids, break down the fats and the lipase does that. And then you've got your amylase to break down your carbohydrates properly, okay, and your lactase to break down any dairy properly that you're eating. Get the broad spectrum digestive enzyme and take them every day. Watch the difference. And make sure you're eating enough eggs, meat, and cheese. And you probably need B12.
Joanne, "my last vitamin D tests were 299 nmol." Okay, that's good. That's a good number because you're saying it's toxic. No, it's not. Okay. That's not toxic. They use the word toxic, but they've never seen it. Okay, Joanne to be at 299 on your vitamin D test. 299 is a good number in Canada, in the United States it's too high. But again, what happens when it's high? Do you drop dead on the spot? Do you get sick? "Malade?" No. So I would say Joanne, yours is optimized. Now you're taking 30,000 IUs every day. I don't know if you need that much. Okay, "I'm hoping it helps with my psoriasis." Okay? And you're taking Joanne, I'm sure probiotics too, right? But you see you're not toxic at 299 Canadian, you'd be about 150 or so in American numbers. Okay, let me get that, somebody asked that. Diane, you asked a question about vitamin D. Your husband's test is 75. You're asking is it good? It depends where do you live? If it's in the US of A 75 is excellent because it's a different measurement. But if you live in Canada, 75 is enough for a mouse, because the numbers in Canada are two and a half times the numbers in the USA. It's just different measurement. So 75 Diane, if your husband lives in the USA, that's a good number. I like that number. If he lives in Canada, he's very low in vitamin D. He's far from optimized, okay? So it depends where you live.
Okay, Kathy, "where can I get a blood analysis done?" Well, I would Google it, Kath and keep this in mind. I talked about this last week. It was a question that we handled last week. Look, again, I like traditional blood tests better than I like live blood testing. I have to admit it. I did both. I like live blood testing, but it's just a tool in the toolbox. And I find when I trained practitioners and when I did train them, I showed them, look, you need to learn and I would teach them, if you have a client coming in, make sure you get their blood work before they come in or during the assessment and analyze their blood work, their CBC. And again, those eight tests, remember the book, Sun, Steak and Steel? There's a chapter in there on how to interpret your blood tests.
You can do it, but I used to train practitioners for them to do it. Measuring the ratio between triglycerides and HDL. A1C, very important. Uric acid, very important. Okay, ferritin, very important. B12, very important. Vitamin D, very important. Get all those numbers if you can because those are very, very accurate. And then if you get a live blood test done, I like it. I said this last week because there's benefits to getting live blood cell. You can see if your blood is thick as molasses, but make sure your practitioner, you're going in there on a fast. You shouldn't be eating for at least six hours so there's no undigested fat in your blood. But I like live blood. It's a tool in the toolbox. Okay? I'm not against live blood testing, it's just don't take it on its own because then they start seeing stuff that's not in there. Okay? And I didn't like that. That was very good question. That was Kathy.
Elaine, "would the reset protocol help with venous insufficiency?" Well, it would help. It's not going to fix it. With venous insufficiency. Yeah, lay off the sugars because that helps. As far as supplements, I like Navitol, high DHA. Anything with blood supply, anything with the valves not pumping back that blood to your heart in the veins, yeah, they help. And the stockings help. You might have to do all above, drink a lot of water. It helps but cure? Meh, you ain't curing it. Okay? As far as I'm concerned. That was Elaine.
Frances. "Hi, Dr. Martin." Well hello to you Frances. Okay, and you're saying, "the fat in EMC food." Okay, I like this question. It's a good question. "What happens to fat when you eat it?" Okay, she says, "I know food doesn't make you fat, but what happens to all the excess fat that you eat?" It turns to oil. It lubricates. Okay, when you eat fat, you're eating steak and you got fat on it, okay? Does that fat get stored as fat? No. It'll get stored as ketones, which is actually very good for you. It's sugar that gets stored as fat. That's the problem. Okay? Sugar gets stored as fat because it's turned to glycogen. Okay? So your premise is wrong. So think of oil. You're lubricating. You can run out of gas in your car, but don't run out of oil if you know what's good for you. And that's why fat is so good for you in your body because when you eat fat, you're lubricating. Fat's good for you. All your fat soluble vitamins are in fat, okay? And fat don't make you fat and fat don't clog your arteries. You see that all comes back from the old cholesterol hoax and the calorie hoax. It's all calories. Fat's got so much calorie that can't be good for you. No, it's a better fuel by far.
Okay, Marissa, let's see. We'll do a few more. "Dr. Martin, can you please discuss what we should do after the reset?" Well look after the reset. You fixed insulin resistance. Now you can add the plant kingdom. You can have some fruits, you can add some vegetables. You don't have to stay on eggs, meat and cheese only forever. Some people do, but most people don't. And they can add in the plant kingdom. One thing you've learned, okay? One thing you've learned, and I don't think there's any exception to this, I never saw it in my practice, any exception to this. When you do the reset, you know what you find out? You and carbs don't get along very well. You didn't realize that maybe, but now you do. You know what when I eat a big carby meal, I don't feel so good. I don't get along that well with that.
Now am I saying you can never have any carbs? No, but you should eat from the animal kingdom and the plant kingdom. And when I say plant, even some grains a little bit like if you want to have, after the reset, you have a slice of sourdough, real sourdough bread, okay? Just don't live on it. Don't live on it. And that's why the 30 day reset is 30 days because it takes 30 days to fix insulin resistance. And it takes almost 30 days to form new habits. And it takes almost 30 days to find out you and carbs don't get along. And then when you find that out, well now you've changed your thinking. You've changed your cells at the cellular level. They're used to burning good fuel. It's changing fuels. Carbs are like paper and twigs in a wood stove. Do you think you're going to heat your house with paper in a wood stove? Little twigs? No, logs, eggs are logs, meat are logs, cheese logs, dairy butter logs on the fire.
Now, fruits they burn pretty quick, but you can have a few fruits. But an apple a day doesn't keep the doctor away. A steak a day keeps the doctor away. Okay? So you can, you want to have an apple. Have an apple. I mean it. Don't live on it. You want to have some broccoli? Go for it, after the reset. Why don't I want it for 30 days? I want to fix insulin and I want your body to use only one type of fuel. I want your body to be burning ketones, burning a better fuel. There's a reason for my madness, okay? There's a reason I set it up like that. I originally created that diet for a diabetic. And then like now, 93% of the population are pre-diabetic. 93 because if you have metabolic syndrome, you really are a pre-diabetic, meaning that you and carbs don't get along. That's what it means. Simple as that. You and sugar don't get along, sugar, honey. Okay?
So if you understand that, you go, okay, I get it. And now for the rest of your life, you know what the truth is, isn't that beautiful? You know what the truth is about food. You'll never be lied to again. You'll be told this, but you won't believe it. Oh, moderation that's what is the best for you. No, it's not okay. No, it's not. And so if you have a piece of cake on your birthday, okay, have a piece of cake on your birthday, but don't live on cake. Don't live on muffins, don't live on bagels. Don't live on that stuff. It's your sugar molecules holding hands. That's all it is. So you're back to sugar again. You go, nah, I can't have that. So you realize that. You see, it's you taking control. There's a reason for the reset. There's a reason for it. And it works in almost everything you can think of. I mean it. And I doubled down on that because it's so effective. You got to eat anyways. Eat the right food.
And then you can add because I've had people tell me, well, I need, Dr. Martin, I need more variety. Variety is the spice of life. It isn't in your marriage, is it? Variety is the spice of life in your marriage? No, it's not. And neither is it in food. Okay, guys, we're over time. Okay, how many more do I got? Yeah, I got enough for Monday too. Okay, so Monday Q and A okay? Q and A. We love you dearly folks. Talk to you soon.
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