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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone. Once again, welcome to another live this morning. Notice that I got my tuque on this morning. It's cold. Love you guys dearly. Thanks for coming on. We appreciate it and before we talk about anything else, I posted it this morning on the private Facebook group. Coffee wins again this time for AFib. Okay, AFib, we've talked about AFib a lot. It's a lot more common today than it used to be. AFib has been around for a long time. But one thing I know for sure, the number of AFib and one of the biggest problems in AFib. I've said this for many a years, people are not eating enough red meat. You're not eating enough steak and because of that, your heart pays a price for that. And you have also, I've seen it so many times, a lack of magnesium. Magnesium's not in the soil. If it's not in the soil, it's not in our food. So a lack of magnesium.
Another very important factor in the heart and its rhythm, it's an electrical grid, is B12. And again, because people don't eat red meat, and there's other reasons that people are low in B12, I know that it's a finicky vitamin, hard to absorb on the best of days, but when people don't eat red meat, you're in trouble with B12. The other one is coQ10, and I always talk about the importance of the five Cs, especially when it comes to your heart. The five Cs, carnitine, carnozine, coQ10, creatine. Give me the other C, close your books. Give me the other C. Okay, carnozine, carnitine, creatine, all found in the animal kingdom, guys. Okay. coQ10. Yeah, your body makes coQ10, but your body will make less of it if you're not eating red meat, okay? That's why I talk to you about this all the time. Okay, so what else was I going to say? Okay, coffee. Is that the other C? Coffee? Well, it's a C. Okay? It's a C, coffee vitamin C, the real vitamin C.
So they're showing, and what is it in coffee that would help with atrial fib? Okay, well, coffee is a powerful antioxidant, okay? Very powerful antioxidant, okay? It's got a thousand phytonutrients in it. You know guys, isn't that a beautiful gift that we get? In my office I used to tell patients, okay, I'm going to change your drinking habits, okay? I'm going to change your drinking habits. You want to do two very important things for your health. Okay, doc, what should I do? Drink water and drink coffee and stop drinking everything else. You like coffee? I love coffee. Enjoy. It's a gift. Receive it. Don't believe all the nonsense about coffee because it was always, it's acidic, Dr. Martin, it's acidic. I heard that in the seventies. I heard it in the eighties. I heard it in the nineties. I've heard it all throughout the two thousands. Coffee's acidic. No, it's not okay. No, it's not. It's acidic before you drink it, when you drink it, your body turns it alkaline. Okay?
So for all you pH gurus, coffee is alkaline when you drink it, okay? The bean is acidic. So what? So is a tomato. Does that mean tomatoes are no good for you? Right? It's acidic, but your body buffers it. Vitamin C, the coffee. Okay, let me just, I got to get my book out here because I can't see the scroll. Sun, Steak and Steel. Where's the five Cs in steak? Hold on, I got to missed one and I can't even think of it. Oh, hit my head. Choline. Okay, so think of acetylcholine between the synapses of your brain, well choline. And when people think of choline, they usually think of eggs, but steak has a lot of choline, and I'm sorry, I forgot it. I need more choline. I had a steak last night, by the way. It was so good. And all I think of when I'm eating it, not only is it tastes good, how good it is for you.
Okay, so back to coffee for a minute. Coffee. You know how I used to say for years, there's 150 studies to show how good coffee is for you? It's well over 200 studies now, enjoy. AFib, have coffee, four cups of coffee a day. That's the sweet spot. If you're like me, anytime after noon for me, it used to be in the evening. Now the older I get, I need to have decaf, but it's the bean guys that is good for you. Okay? So if you got to, some people got to have decaf, okay, enjoy. Okay, so that was one of the things that I wanted to talk about this morning because it was, hey, I posted the NBC news article, but I actually read the study a few days ago before they put it out. Okay?
I got a question, by the way, was it yesterday? Anyways, it wasn't part of Q and A, but let's do it again. I know a lot of this is repetition for you dear folks, and I appreciate you guys having patience. But every day, guys, every day there's new people on this program. So obviously there's going to be repetition, lots of repetition. But one of the questions was asked again, "Dr. Martin, I know what you say," okay, "cholesterol is not the boogeyman. Cholesterol is not the problem. Cholesterol doesn't cause heart disease." Okay? So that's me and I have been consistent for how long. How long have I been consistent on it? Well, as long as you've known me, I was John the Baptist in the wilderness in the 1970s when the nonsense started to come out about cholesterol, and the cardiologists were telling us to skip the butter and use margarine. Why? Cholesterol, okay, no more butter. It's got cholesterol.
Eat less meat, and if you do, if you're going to eat meat, chicken is better than steak. I watched them say it. Chicken is better than steak. Why? It's lean and don't eat the skin. It's lean. Hamburger, get lean meat, right? Why? And even then, be careful because it's going to give you a cholesterol. Okay? So take the less fatty cuts. And by the way, guys, cholesterol is only found in the animal kingdom. Cholesterol is not found in plant kingdom. Therefore, what happened? Well, religion took over. Religion took over. The religion of vegetarianism and veganism, and now it's so common, and they use the argument, well, fruits and vegetables don't have any cholesterol. They don't have any saturated fat, right? They use that argument and they use the pH argument. You know how many times I've heard that? Cancer, pH, Dr. Martin.
Do you think I don't know about pH? Do you think I don't know that your blood needs to be slightly alkaline, but you have this buffering system between your kidneys and your lungs and your body knows how to keep it tightly regulated, tightly, tightly regulated, and people, well, the pH, and that's why you need an alkaline diet, Dr. Martin, an alkaline diet. And by the way, you need to spend extra money and drink alkaline water. You won't hear it here. You won't hear it here because it's not science, guys. It's not true. Do I want you to drink water? Absolutely, I do. You guys know that? But I don't want you to drink water for the sake of your pH. I want you to drink water for the sake of hydrating and moving the blood. Your blood is the river of life, over 60,000 miles of blood vessels. You need water to move it, okay?
And the alkalinity of water, because once it gets into your body, believe you me, it's doing its job and water takes a beeline to your blood vessels. Water, okay? Look, you want to spend extra money on water? Do whatever you want. I love mineral water because that's natural water. Really important. Okay? Really important. And so it always comes back to the question about cholesterol. Well, Dr. Martin, I know what you say about triglycerides and your HDL. I understand that you've taught that so often. Low triglycerides and higher HDL, okay? Got to be at least equal to your triglycerides and better if it's higher than your triglycerides, okay? I tell you guys, that's a really important indicator. Oh yeah, okay, but Dr. Martin, you don't talk about LDL cholesterol and my doctor said my LDL is high. Good, especially as you get older, especially as you get older.
So let me just repeat what I've talked about on this program over and over and over again. Let's repeat cholesterol. Let's start with LDL, okay? And I want you to just in your mind, I often do this in my mind, I divide, okay, what do doctors think and what is true? Okay? LDL cholesterol, large density lipoprotein cholesterol, okay? The so-called bad cholesterol. Let's talk about that. So divide it. What do doctors think? Okay? Doctors think it clogs your arteries. Okay? That's what they think. LDL clogs your arteries. Okay? Number two, it causes heart attacks. We know that not to be true, but that's still what they teach and it's still what they say. Okay? Not true, because if it was true, we would've got rid of heart disease already. We would've got rid of heart attacks already because the number one selling medication of all time lowers LDL cholesterol, okay? It must be lowered. Here's the doctor, must be lowered at all costs, going to lower it. Why? It's bad.
Boy, it's hard to change that thinking. Again, it's bad cholesterol. It's not good cholesterol, it's bad. Okay? High is bad, high is bad. You got high LDL? Bad. According to doctors, okay? According to cardiologists, 99% of them and it needs medication. We have a medication called statin drugs and you need to take them. Otherwise you're going to have a heart attack. Now your poor lay person. How do you argue with your doctor and they scared the living life out of you, you're going to have a heart attack. That's not true, but it's part of their DNA. They can't help it. It's their training. They can't help it. Okay? Here's what's true about LDL. So now you've divided your sheet, right? Here's what they say. Not true, and here's what's true about LDL cholesterol, okay? Here's what's true about it, okay?
It's a transporter. If doctors in a way, I hate to be that negative, but I got to be negative for a minute. If they had their way, you wouldn't have cholesterol. You learn this in high school for heaven's sakes. You need cholesterol. It's in every cell in your body. Every cell in your body has cholesterol, your brain's made up a cholesterol. You can't even pick up vitamin D even from the sun without cholesterol, God doesn't trust you. Your body makes 85% of your cholesterol. Whether you eat cholesterol or not, God doesn't trust you. Looking down the corridors of time, he said, oh boy, here we go. They started this cholesterol craze and people are not going to eat their cholesterol, so therefore we better make it for them. 85% your body makes.
LDL cholesterol. The more they research it now you know what they're seeing? Holy smokes. Is it ever a big part of your immune system. LDL cholesterol is a big part of the immune system. Yeah, okay. Especially in the elderly. So the higher your LDL is, okay? Because people ask me this almost every day. Almost every day I get a question about cholesterol. Yeah, but Doc, what about my LDL cholesterol? I said, well, what is it? Well, it's high. I said, that's good. You'll live longer. If you're a senior and you have high LDL cholesterol, your family ain't collecting on the life insurance anytime soon. Okay? The higher your LDL, especially when you get older, guess what? You're going to live longer. It's a predictor of long life.
Here's a question I get. I'm not saying all the time, but I get it fairly frequently. Dr. Martin, when I eat the reset, okay, when I go on the reset, eggs, meat and cheese, my LDL goes up. My LDL goes up Dr. Martin. Good. That's what I was aiming for. I want your LDL to go up. I don't like to say it out loud too much. People don't understand that because LDL's the bad guy, LDL's the boogeyman, but we're aiming to get it up. It's good for your immune system. It's good for your transport of your horror-mones. One of the biggest problems in women, especially women, when they avoid eating red meat, they don't eat it much. They eat their salad instead. You know what happens? The cholesterol, yeah, cholesterol goes down. Not a good thing. Not a good thing because you need those Amazon trucks. Okay?
Let's just use Amazon for a minute, okay? You need those Amazon trucks on the highways and byways of your blood vessels to what? To transport hormones. Men, you want testosterone to go up? Get your cholesterol up, okay? LDL. It's required. It's required. And folks, if there was no medication to lower LDL cholesterol, like a statin drug, they wouldn't even be talking about it, okay? You wouldn't even be talking about it. So is cholesterol the bad guy? Nope. It's a good guy. And you want to show me total cholesterol you want to show me? I call this getting into the weeds. They got your apo and lipo and those small particles versus large particles. Guys, I don't buy it. I just don't buy it. I haven't seen good research on it at all. And to me, it's just another reason why they want to keep you on statin drugs. I tell you, they're not giving up without a fight, and I'm not even optimistic that we're going to change the world.
What I am optimistic about is you. I'm optimistic about you. Why? Because you're smart. You take information, you study, you listen Linda, and you make decisions based on that. And you know what? People around me, I'm surrounded still. It can be family, it can be friends, it could be my colleagues or whatever. Well, Dr. Martin, you're a quack. I don't disagree, but it's whether I'm right or not, that counts. I see myself as a teacher, a teacher. I know I go against the grain. I know that it's not always popular, but I've been doing this a long time, guys. Okay? A little practitioner. A little clinician, a nobody. But when I went media wise, started writing books, had my own radio show way before podcasting. You know what? My audience got bigger, but I was always consistent.
I was a guy. If you wanted to ask me 35 years ago, Dr. Martin, what do you think about cholesterol? I would've told you because what's nice about being my age? I watched the lies come about. They didn't even talk about cholesterol when I was a kid. They never talked about it. And then all of a sudden, holy moly, one guy comes on the scene, Dr. Ancel Keys, and he said, oh, I know why we're having heart disease. It's cholesterol and the whole world went stupid. Well, must be true. I saw cholesterol on an autopsy. Of course, you're going to see cholesterol in your blood vessels. Of course you will. It's a transporter. It's got a job to do. And by the way, it's really important, not on the LDL as much as HDL. You know what HDL does? It not only, it's a transporter of your hormones too, but you know what else it does? It's got a wagon on the back, okay? It's got an extra hitch with a trailer on it.
Listen to this. Really important. It's got a hitch on it. HDL cholesterol, high density lipoprotein, okay? It's got a hitch on its wagon to take away dangerous lipids called what? What is it? What dangerous lipids is HDL cholesterol got a wagon for, got an extra trailer with a hitch. Let me see if I can see any answers here. And guys, I know you know this. Rita, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what guys? If I could hand out PhDs, I'd do it. You got the answer right. Wendy, Maryanne, Gary, you got it, Rose. You got it. Gertie you got it. Sandy, you got it. Frances, you got it. Kathy said, oops, what was the question? Susan, you got it. Maria, you got it. Braheem, you got it. Guys, Laurie, you got it. It's triglycerides. You need HDL cholesterol to go through your blood vessels to pick up triglycerides, those fat balls that really have an effect on clogging up your arteries. And they bring them back for processing to the liver where they came out of in the first place.
When you eat sugar, not fat. When you eat sugar, your body stores it in the liver as glycogen, glyco, fat. And when your liver is stuffed up and there's no more room, you know what happens? Your body sends them out as fat balls, three fat balls, triglycerides. Those my friend are dangerous, not cholesterol, triglycerides. And dangerous is when you don't have enough HDL to go get them with their little wagon at the back. You see those transports on the highways and they got an extra trailer. Have you seen those? Think of HDL cholesterol. What's in the back bud? Triglycerides. I'm bringing them back to the liver to process them. Wow. I guess that's important. Oh yeah says the truck driver.
Really important because what causes heart disease or one of the biggest factors is not fat that you're eating, not cholesterol that you're consuming, it's sugar you're consuming. And those crappy carbs that turn to sugar. Oh, Dr. Martin, it's whole wheat bread. No, that's just sugar molecules holding hands and that'll stuff up your liver and your triglycerides are going to go up and that my friend is dangerous. Not cholesterol, triglycerides and low cholesterol because they don't have enough wagons. They don't have enough trailers to bring back. Got to teaching this morning. My audience, you guys, why do I even ask? You already know it. I do it for the new folks. Okay, guys, you just have to understand always, always, and by the end of this program today, okay, it'll be shared. It'll be up to seven, eight, 10,000 shares.
So it's teaching guys, it's always new and people don't understand. They've been taught the wrong way. Okay? Did you have fun this morning? I don't even know. What was I talking about? Cholesterol all this time. I love talking cholesterol. Okay, guys, I hope you appreciate it, okay? I hope you appreciate it. I love you guys. I appreciate you and smart. Oh my word, you're smart. I have so much fun just seeing if I can trick you. You can't do it. You're too smart. Okay, what's Friday? Q and A. Q and A. Guys, can I ask you to do something if you haven't done it? Would you guys sign up for our new book, Rebuilding Your Temple? Okay, guys, I'm telling you, what a great gift coming to a theater near you very soon. Rebuilding Your Temple with Tony Jr. and I and guys, I just tell you, you're going to love it. You're going to love it.
I know I'm tooting. I'm tooting my own horn, but I mean it going to make a great gift. You're going to love it. It's so practical. It's so good. We come at it to like 30 day devotionals, okay? 30 days with a teaching on health, okay? And a spiritual teaching just to build you up, to aim at your soul and your spirit to bring that up. I know it. You'll love it, okay? I mean that. You might say, well, doc, I'm not a religious person. Well, neither am I. I'm not religious, but we talk about relationships there and it's really good. Okay? You'll really appreciate it. Okay, so any questions? Well send you questions in, info@martinclinic.com for Friday's Q and A. Okay, Friday's Q and A. Love you guys. Talk to you soon.
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