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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, and we sure appreciate you guys coming on here. Thanks for coming on guys. We love you. Okay, let's get started. I want to talk to you about a new study just came out and here's the study. Here's the results of the study. Added sugar, okay, listen to this. Added sugar remains a significant, okay? This is the headlines of the study. Added sugar, so you know what I'm talking about. All those foods where they add sugar to it, almost everything in the middle aisles of your grocery store, almost without exception, they add sugar. So listen to what it says. This study says added sugar remains a significant independent risk factor for arthritis, arthritis, added sugar and arthritis.
Let me dwell into this a little bit. Not that, my audience certainly knows this when we talk about this. There's a process in the body. It's called glycation. It's protein being attacked, amino acids being attacked by sugar. It's called glycation. Now, I'm going to give you four French names that have had a significant impact on health research over a lot of years. Okay? Louis Pasteur, you remember that name? The father of bacteria, okay, Louis Pasteur. And then there was Antoine Bechamp who believed in the body's soil, the body's immune system rather than the bacteria, wasn't so worried about bacteria or viruses, he was more worried about your immune system. I always liked Antoine. That's my French name by the way, Bechamp. I always sort of sided with him, although he lost the narrative with, Pasteur won and the world went silly on bacteria and viruses rather than building up your immune system.
And then there was a guy by the name Maillard, M-A-I-L-L-A-R-D, Maillard, and he talked about this process called glycation and the damage glycation does inside and outside the body. And then I add the fourth Frenchman. A guy that I actually met, a tremendous scientist called Jacques Mascalier, and we've talked about him in the past. I don't know the man that really discovered through research, pine bark extract, Jacques Mascalier. So Frenchmen have made a big impact on our health. Now let's get to Maillard and glycation because this study is saying added sugar has a significant impact on arthritis. Look guys, you have an old bobo, an old injury to a joint, and if it doesn't clear up and if the scar tissue doesn't leave, you can have a crippled up joint. There are millions of people suffer from that osteoarthritis in a joint. It can become bone on bone.
What people don't realize is that diet has a big effect on that because the diet added sugar. Sugar is so toxic to the human body, it's toxic. And this study shows how toxic it is on joints because it wears joints down. Now listen, guys, think about it just for a minute. You get this. What do I mean by that? Well, you get it because you go to the dentist and there isn't a dentist in the world that would tell you, you know what I want you to do to have healthy teeth? I want you to have sugar. Even as a kid, I remember that as a kid, my dentist telling me, whenever you have sugar, make sure you go and brush your teeth to get that sugar off your teeth. I didn't know much, but that's what the dentist said. You want to have your mouth full of cavities. Well keep eating sugar without brushing your teeth. What did they know? Well, sugar's destructive. Destructive in your mouth, very destructive.
You take any part of anatomy in your body and sugar is destructive to that. I can't think of anything in your body that says, you know what in moderation, sugar's good for me. Nah, nah, glycation. It's a process of destruction caused by sugar. Glycation is sugar. And guys, we talk about this all the time because we know that sugar is so toxic and that your body understands that much more than society does. Your body understands it. Your body is dedicated to getting sugar out, out, out, out of the bloodstream. Can't stay there. Imagine that your blood vessels is a no parking zone for sugar. What? I mean it, can't stay there. And your body says out, get out. And the reason is because it doesn't take long for sugar to destroy blood vessels. So your body is dedicated to keeping your sugar in such a minimal dosage inside your blood vessels. Why? Sugar's toxic.
And this is saying sugar is toxic to your joints. Now you're eating an apple. Is that toxic? No. Even though you have some sugar in there, you have some fructose in there. You're having an orange. Am I talking about that? No, I'm not talking about that. But if you drink apple juice and you drink orange juice, well that's different because you're loading your body up with sugar and now your insulin has to respond. Get that sugar out of your bloodstream. Can't stay there. It's in a no parking zone and sugar left unattended in your blood vessels will start destroying blood vessels rapidly. And you know who finds that out, especially, are diabetics. Whenever you hear of glaucoma, cataracts, macular degeneration, I'm telling you folks, that's caused by sugar destroying the highways and byways of blood vessels behind your eyes.
I was always fascinated looking into a person's eye, always fascinated because there was so much blood there, so many blood vessels. It's like driving in Toronto highway 401, highway 407, highway 403, highway 404, highway whatever, okay, the Don Valley parking lot. I used to live right off the Don Valley parking lot when I was going to school. Even in the seventies, the traffic never moved. Okay? But sugar is destructive to blood vessels in behind the eye. Sugar is destructive to your skin.You think smoking's bad? Sugar's terrible for your skin. Why? Glycation. Sugar attaches itself. I'll give you an example of glycation that you guys know this, but we will repeat it again.
Whenever you get your blood test done, this is so important guys. I want you to get this done every time you get blood work done. If the doctor didn't mark it, make sure they do. You want to know your A1C. Why? Because that is a sign of glycated hemoglobin, the little hormone inside your red blood cell that is like Velcro that attaches itself to oxygen. You can actually measure glycation. What? You can measure it because sugar attaches itself to the hemoglobin. It glycates the hemoglobin in a red blood cell. And you can measure that. I love that test. I love A1C. I know there's others that you can do your fasting insulin, your fasting glucose. I like all that, but I love A1C. Why? Because it talks to you and talks to me about glycation. And the research is pretty convincing.
If your A1C is above 5.4, you got trouble with insulin resistance. Yes, but you really have trouble with glycation. Your blood vessels are starting to be damaged. Your skin damaged, okay, your red blood cells damaged. Okay? Glycation, joints. Imagine that joints are damaged by glycation and sugar is the cause of glycation. You want to do anti-aging because we could do programs on anti-aging and the length of your telomeres and staying as young as possible in spite of your age. Okay? One of the best things you'll ever do for anti-aging is cut out sugar. It's so destructive. Joints, eyeballs, circulation, teeth, skin, brain, brain. Sugar is destructive to your brain. Why? It shrinks it. Shrinks, shrinks, shrinks. It expands your belly and shrinks your brain because the brain is swimming in fuel that it can't process.
I always use the example, you're swimming in the Atlantic ocean, but you're not drinking it. Your brain is swimming in sugar. Your brain goes, I know, but I can't use that. And the area that shrinks the most is your hippocampus, hippocampus. I don't care what you call it. All I think of is campus memory center. Sugar is so destructive to the memory center of the brain. It glycates it. It shrinks it. Guys, you want to know one of the reasons that today, look, I've been around the sun a long time, many times around, and I've studied the thyroid for years and years and years and years. Why today? Think about this for a minute. Why today do we see so much trouble with the thyroid? Why is it that the thyroid is working it seems like on half of its battery life, thyroid, especially in women.
Now, there's horror-mones involved like estrogen dominance. I know that, but I'll tell you something else. It's called in your brain. It's called the hypothalamus. It's an area of the brain that really controls your hormones, thyroid, adrenals, okay? And sugar affects and glycinates not to the same extent that it does with the hippocampus, but it also affects the hypothalamus and it slows the thyroid to a crawl. And women because they're scared of, not my audience, but generally women are scared of fat, but they love sugar. They see Laura Secord and they want to do a swan dive. That glycates the brain guys. It shrinks the hippocampus, especially the memory center of the brain. But I want to remind you that the Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded to the researchers of diabetes who called Alzheimer's type three diabetes, sugar, my friend, since 205.
I reported that in the days of my radio show like it was no tomorrow. Headlines, headlines, headlines, sugar, destructive to the brain. And people thought I had two heads. Sugar's destructive to the brain and to hormones and to the thyroid gland. Sugar, added sugars, read your labels. You can't even eat yogurt today where they don't add sugar. Now you can get Greek plain, nothing added. But you know how the food industry loves to do it. They add it and then they couch it. They give it a hundred other names and they get away with it. But it glycates. It glycates the skin, the brain, the joints, the teeth. And let's get to the gut. Start with the stomach. You know what sugar does in the stomach? I'll tell you what it does. It changes the pH of the stomach. Sugar changes the pH of the stomach. The only place you want to be super, super, super acidic is in your stomach. It's contained. That acid ought to be contained and very acidic. It would burn a hole. The hydrochloric acid in your stomach would burn a hole in your dining room table. It's that acidic. You want that.
Sugar elevates your pH to make your stomach more alkaline. You don't want that. Why? Because your stomach is a furnace. You need that to break down protein and amino acids and your B12. And it's very important. This is very important. It's one of the reasons today that we see so much, one, H pylori. Dr. Martin, what are you talking about? I'm talking about a bacteria that ought to be laying dormant in your stomach. And when your pH of your stomach is very, very, very acidic, H pylori cannot raise its ugly head. But if your pH and your stomach goes up H pylori, what can really, really get activated. That's what sugar does, my friend. It changes the pH of your gut. And it's amazing when people stop eating sugar, how much better their digestive tract.
Nevermind what it does lower down, okay, lower down into the gut. SIBO. It's not even SIBO. Small intestine bacterial overgrow. That's not even that. It's small intestine fungal overgrowth, CIFO and CIFO is the biggest cause of fungal overgrowth in the small intestine is what? Sugar. It feeds the bears. It feeds yeast and fungus. It's so distraught. And I'll tell you something else guys, because they always talk about fiber. And I get a nasal thing when I say fiber because you hear it all the time. Every guru I've ever met, fiber, fiber, fiber, fiber, nah. Lay off sugar and it's amazing how much better your gut will be. Lay off sugar and you'll find out how much better your gut will be. Why? Because the microbiome, your bacteria, the ecosystem inside of you, you disrupt it with sugar, it disrupts it. It feeds the wrong army. Your good guys can't feed off sugar. It's so disruptive and it affects that.
What about the liver, right? Your brain shrinks, your liver grows full of fat. Sugar has to be taken out of the bloodstream and it has to find a parking spot. That's what insulin does. Finds it a parking spot. You don't have a lot of muscles or they're all filled up with sugar. You know what happens? That goes to the liver, the Costco parking lot. Most people walk around, they have no idea that their liver is full of fat because they don't always see it. See sometimes that fat, okay, I am showing you a pound of fat here, okay? Sometimes that fat. I know thousands of patients over the years, they were skinny as rakes. Dr. Martin, I must be in good shape. I said, well, no, you're not. We took your A1C. Your A1C is high. That means you got glycation going on and you are depositing fat into your liver. What? I'm skinny. It don't matter. You got lots of fat around your organs, you just don't know it. You are skinny fat and fat in the wrong places.
You don't want fat in your liver. You don't want your liver gummed up. Sugar will gum up your liver. And when your liver is gummed up, think of your liver. It's your detox organ does a lot of things, but it's really, really good at detoxing. But not if it's full of fat. You can't produce the glutathione you need. Glutathione is like Velcro in your system. It attaches itself to all the heavy. Guys, you and I live in a toxic soup. You need your liver to be clean. Stop eating sugar and your liver empties itself. Isn't that beautiful? I know people, doc, give me a detox. Give me a detox. Okay, stop sugar, go on the reset. I guarantee you your liver will empty within days. That's how it operates.
So again, guys, go, any part of your anatomy and sugar affects it. So I read a new study on arthritis. Am I surprised? Nope. Nope. Because I know what sugar can do to a joint. Orthopedic surgeons that open up joint talk about caramelization of a joint. That's glycation. I said, man, oh man. Your joints are like, you've got rough edges on there and it's caramelized. What? Yeah, that's what sugar does, guys. Okay? That's what sugar does. One more. You know what sugar does to you? We already talked about what it does to your stomach and your stomach guys, I'm telling you, is a big, big part of your immune system. If the pH of your stomach is good, you got a huge defense against bacteria, viruses and yada, yada, yada.
Let me give you another one. You know what sugar does? Proven, proven. You drink a can of soda. You know what your white blood cells are doing? Your T cells, your natural killer cells, they go to sleep. I remember on live blood, okay, you see these bacteria in the blood and the white blood cell was snoozing. And then I'd get patients and I said, man, look at this. Your white blood cells are so active, it's incredible. Look at them chasing down a bacteria. You can actually Google that and watch it. I used to see that every day in my office. It was one of the advantages of doing live blood. You got to look at blood cells and some of them were in siesta. I said, you're eating too much sugar. What? You're eating too much sugar. Your white blood cells.
Guys, cancer. It's not genetics, it's immunity. You and I fight cancer every day. You want your immune system firing on all cylinders. Well, one way to help, cut out the sugar. Cut out the sugar. Got the memo? You got the memo? You want to have a little bit of fruit. I don't care. I mean it not during the reset, but afterwards have some fruit. I don't care. I mean that. Eat it. Don't drink it. You weren't meant to drink juice. You were meant to eat an apple and eat an orange. Not drink it. But Dr. Martin, it's Tropicana. I heard that a million times. Tropicana, I don't care. It ain't no good for you.
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