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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone, and once again, welcome to another live this morning. Hope you're having a great start to your day. We sure appreciate you coming on. I won't be able to say hello today. Don't have another device with me, but you know who you are. Good morning. You know who you are from coast to coast in North America. Okay, coast to coast. It's always amazing to me the folks that come on from the West coast of both Canada and the United States. Guys, you have no idea how much I appreciate that when you can come on live and you got to get up at what, five 30 in the morning or whatever my word. Well, we just love you dearly, and we thank you for being the greatest audience. Like I said, and I mean this, the smartest audience in podcasting is my audience. How do I know that?
Because I test you all the time and you guys get the answers all the time. You're too stinking smart. No, I love it. Okay, and again, guys, even last week I had someone say, I wish Dr. Martin would go back into private practice. Well, listen, I never say never because I'd never say never, but I would tell you this, okay? I reach more people today than I did in private practice. Now remember, for 20 years I had a radio show, but even then in radio, you're limited to some extent, even though it was syndicated. And even though I did a lot of radio shows in Windsor, Ontario, Ottawa, Toronto, we went across Canada pretty well. I did a lot of radio programming in Western Canada, but podcasting is much different. You get a much wider audience, and of course you can listen to this anytime, even if you don't get on live.
This is a podcast that you can download on your favorite smart device. So we appreciate that and we appreciate you. Okay, so I just want to tell you that I want to talk about our new book for a second, and that is coming to a theater near you very quickly. Thanks for signing up. Those who have signed up while we've ordered more books, the publisher, okay? So we don't want to run out, but the first print is going to go very quickly and we appreciate that. Again, thanks to you guys. If you haven't signed up yet, I don't know, I may be a little biased, but I think it's the best book we've ever written. I'm going to do probably Monday, depending on whether we have enough questions like tomorrow's q and a Monday possibly. I'm going to do a little what's in the book.
I'm going to show you a typical day in the 30 day devotional, health and spiritual, and I think you'll really enjoy it. It's going to be so practical and it's applied to everyone. Okay? So again, coming soon, sign up ahead of time. You'll get special notifications. You'll get your book in your hands first, and I tell you folks for this year, I just can't think of a gift that you would give to someone you love, a friend or a neighbor or whatever, just to give them a gift of health. Easy to read, very practical and very understandable. And you know me, okay? I write the way I talk. I write the way I talk, and I had people, I don't like that. I don't like your grammar. I don't like the way you do it. Yeah, I know you're a teacher. I love teachers, but okay, they're shooting for perfection.
I'm shooting for my audience. I want my audience to understand because health, if you get into the weeds and stay in the weeds, that book is written for doctors. And even then, I've told you this before, but I did several years where I was on a contract with a company that provided medical education for doctors, because every healthcare professional goes through this every year. They have to have so many hours of postgraduate education to keep up their licensing. So this company I worked for, they provided a venue, and for them at least, it was in Toronto or Montreal, and physicians would come because in a one day, two day setting, they got all their education requirements for the year. So it was very convenient for them. Now, they probably do it on Zoom, but at the end of the day, they would go to these conferences.
And for years, I was one of the speakers, and I remember the first time that I went to speak at this, it was all doctors, okay? All medical doctors. And I thought, am I going to change the way I talk to reach these people? You know what I decided? Hey, I'm me. I'm not changing. I had a radio show. I knew how to communicate with a lay person, and I said, you know what I'm assuming? And I was right. By the way, I'm assuming they know nothing about nutrition, and guess what? I assumed they know nothing. They wouldn't know a protein if it slapped them in the face. So I did nutrition 1 0 1, and I would bring up cholesterol and I would bring up all the hot topics. And you know what? I'm not saying this to flatter, but you know what? At the end of the day, they always had a vote for who was their best speaker, and I usually won because I didn't get into weeds.
I just gave them practical. I said, you're in practice and you don't know anything about food, and I know that you haven't been taught anything in medical school, but I said, in the next hour, I'm going to teach you a whole lot and I'm going to make it where you can understand it and that you can start applying some of the principles that I'm going to talk to you about. And I gave them an education as fast as I could on what people were missing in their diets. The complete paradigm shift that I had seen in my practice over the years, the amount of sugar that people consumed compared to what it used to be, even when I was a kid and I said, the world's changed and we've changed the soil, we've changed the flour, we've changed the sugar, we've changed the oils, and that's made enormous impact on our health. And that's what I would doodoo.
It was almost like what we're consuming almost 200 pounds of sugar a year, and I would have to teach 'em some of the basics again, even to doctors. Well, sugar is toxic. They looked at me like I had two heads. Well, I said, you should know that. Ask a diabetic sugar toxin. And I would remind them what insulin does, and it was a refresher. Well, for most, it was almost like they'd never, they're so compartmentalized. They take everything in packages and they never look at the big picture of things and medicine. One of the biggest mistakes in medicine, in my opinion today, is all the specialists that we have, everybody specializes. I was talking the other day to someone about silent reflux.
Okay? What? My doctor's never talked to me about that. Well, I said, if you go to an ear, nose and throat doctor, they're not looking at your stomach. They're looking at your sinuses, your ears, nose and throat. But I said, it could be coming up from your stomach. And unless you've seen a GI doctor, nobody communicates with each other. They're specialists and they have their own area. And it's so hard to find a doctor today that is into functional medicine, like they look at the whole body holistically. And I used to try and teach that to look at that, that things are connected. Anyway, why did I get into that? I don't know. I can't remember. Okay, I have got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 studies or topics I wanted to look at. So we're not going to get to all of them, but let's talk about a couple here.
One, there is a correlation, a new study, a correlation between restless leg syndrome RLS and Parkinson's. And they say on this study that the link is dopamine, restless legs. People who get restless leg syndrome are much more susceptible according to the study to get Parkinson's later on. And they looked at the connection and trying to figure out what's the same in Parkinson's and restless legs, and they talk about the hormone dopamine. Anyway, I don't know so much about that, but let me talk to you about restless legs first before I talk to you about Parkinson's. I have personal experience of restless leg syndrome. I used to suffer from it. I called it the Eeb GBS of the legs when you go to sleep, but your legs don't, and I'm telling you, it can be major in terms of disruption. I used to really suffer from that.
I'm talking 35 years ago. I go to bed. I tried to go to sleep and my legs wouldn't. The EB gbs, I called them. That was my term. And I tried a lot of things. Being in natural medicine, I tried a lot of things. Here's what I found, and this is for me. So let me just tell you my personal story. And a lot of people found this out too. It's microcirculation in my opinion. Okay? Those little capillaries in your legs, not enough blood supply, in my opinion. I'll tell you why. Mine went away, and I've never had it since. I've often told you the story of my wife and pine bark extract, chronic fatigue syndrome. It was dramatic for her within a few days, and she threatened my life if I didn't find her more pine bark extract. Friend of mine, a colleague of mine sort of talked to me about it.
He said, it crosses the blood-brain barrier. I've been reading the research on it. He said, I recommend you try it, get it from Europe, and I got it in from Europe. I gave it to my wife before I would give it to any of my patients. And Presto, it was dramatic for her. It didn't fix everything. It's just that she felt so much better within a few days. And then she threatened my life. If you threaten my life. But if my wife threatens my life, I take that seriously. Okay? I know who the boss is, the little Italian stallion that I married 53 years ago this month. I don't forget that anniversary either if I know it's good for me, but her brain fog lifted it. She had more energy. And the rest is history, because I wrote several books about it. The Bark With the Bite was one of my first books, and I started studying and finding Pine bark extract because I couldn't believe it.
But when I took it at first, I didn't take it because I had a very limited amount and my wife got that amount. But a few months later when I had a supply chain coming where I could get it bottled for me, I started using it in my practice and my patience, and I took it. I didn't take it for the Restless Legs syndrome that I had per se, but I took it because I had it and I had it in, I wouldn't say abundance, but I had enough of it, and I was actually using it in my practice with great results, by the way. Incredible, especially with energy. But you know what happened within a few days of me taking it, I didn't have restless Legs Syndrome anymore. Gone. I had to think about it. What did I do? It's gone. Oh, I took it.
Pine Bark. We named it Navitol. Navitol is just a Latin name for energy, and my restless legs were gone. Now, let me connect the two again, Parkinson's, because that's what research is showing. There seems to be a connection between people that get restless leg syndrome and Parkinson's. What could it be? What could it be? Well, guys, microcirculation brain, remember, you have a blood brain barrier, and your body is so smart, you're so fearfully and wonderfully made. Nothing should get across here. Any toxin should never get into your brain. How do they get into the brain? Leaky gut, leaky brain. I've talked to you about this a million times. Here's what I found in Parkinson's. Whenever I saw Parkinson's patient and they were diagnosed, by the time I saw they were already officially diagnosed, they would come into my office to see if I had any help for them.
But what I did with them is what I did with every patient, and that is we look for deficiencies, we look for biomarkers. I was a biomarker tester, so we did all the biomarkers and we measured leaky gut. They always had it. I can't even think of an exception. One, two, because of that leaky gut, they had heavy metal. Now, I used to test for that mercury, lead, cadmium, aluminum. I tested for it. I did urine tests for it. They were filled with heavy metals in Parkinson's and usually with mercury, because we could distinguish with the testing what heavy metal it was. They weren't loaded down with lead. They were loaded down with mercury. And mercury is so tox. You put a mercury in a lake, the lake, and I always said about Parkinson's, that these people were canaries in the coal mine. For whatever reason, a lot of people have heavy metal and don't get Parkinson's, but they had lots of heavy metal.
It got across the blood-brain barrier because the same thing that causes leaky gut changes the microbiome. And now your border is compromised if your southern border is compromised. What do I mean by that between your blood and your gut? You got a little barrier there. It's invisible. You can't see it, not with the naked eye. You can't see it. You need an electron microscope to see it, but nonetheless, it's there. Unfortunately, in medicine, and here we are today in 2025, most doctors still don't recognize leaky gut. They don't recognize it. They've never been taught it, one, and they don't understand it today, like the microbiome, the bacteria, the invisible war that goes on in your body. You might not see it, guys. You can't see it. This is part of my new book, by the way. You have an invisible war. You don't see it.
It's going on in your body, whether you acknowledge it or not, it doesn't matter. It's still happening. You can be ignorant of it, and you can say like a lot of doctors, even today, if you said, oh, Dr. Martin said, I had leaky gut. I heard this for 30 years. Dr. Martin's a quack. Well, Dr. Martin said, I had fungus in my blood. You don't have fungus in your blood. If you had fungus in your blood, you'd be dead. You know how many times I heard that? I used to tell my patients, would you shut up? Don't go to your doctor and tell 'em you have leaky gut. The sparks are going to fly in the office. Stop talking.
Just fix it. Your doctor's not going to help you with that anyways. Oh, I used to tell 'em to shut up. I loved them, but I had to tell 'em to shut up. They were just starting a war for nothing. Why are you doing that? Just trust me. You got leaky gut. It's fungal. It gets in there. It's the Trojan horse. Yeast gets into their bloodstream, and if you are compromised in the southern border between your gut and your blood, you're going to be compromised in the northern border, the blood brain barrier microbiome. It allows yeast to carry heavy metals into the brain. Heavy metals need a carrier and fungus, candida. That's what it does. So when I saw a Parkinson's patient, I was always so hopeful if I could get them early. Unfortunately, I usually saw it when they were well advanced in Parkinson's.
But at the end of the day, I said, look, I'm just going to do my thing. I'm going to tell you what your deficiencies are. I'm going to tell you if you have any heavy metal, I'm going to tell you whether you have leaky gut. I'm going to tell you whether you have any deficiencies like B12, vitamin D. I'm going to tell you all those things. If you got trouble with your insulin, I'm going to be able tell you because we did our A1C and I'm going to talk to you about your thyroid because we tested your thyroid. We did it differently. We did a different B12 test. As a matter of fact, we did it all mostly different, but it didn't matter at the end of the day, if I had a Parkinson's patient, these things were consistent, heavy metals, leaky gut, low vitamin D, extremely low, B12 at the cellular level, extremely low, very low, usually in magnesium, but they had leaky gut and Parkinson's, a neurological disorder, a neurodegenerative condition.
And the correlation that this study is showing is if you got restless legs, you better be aware, okay? You better be aware. Anyway, I wanted to just tell you my story about restless legs. I had it when something's personal. Not everybody that took Navitol got rid of their restless legs, but thousands did. I had testimonies that did, so that I recommend it big time, big time. I recommended it for Parkinson's, was one of the things I recommended for a couple of reasons. One, it crosses the blood brain barrier, and two, it elevates your glutathione. So glutathione, your body makes it. But in Parkinson's, it was extremely low. So one of the ways I elevated glutathione besides the reset, because the reset empties your liver. If your liver is empty, you're going to produce more glutathione. You want to detox, empty your liver. You can take milk thistle.
You can do a lot of things, okay, liver, but nothing. Nothing fixes it more than you emptying it. Get rid of this stuff out of your liver because this stuff fat attracts and gums up. Heavy metal, it'll gum up your liver, this fat in your liver, fat don't belong in your liver, okay? You got a little fat in your face. Who cares? Not a bad thing, okay? You got a little padding on your butt. Who, but you don't want visceral fat. You don't want no fat in that liver because that is a major attractor to heavy metals and toxins, and your liver can't function properly because it can't produce the glutathione that you need to detox. Gut the memo. So anyone tells you, doc, I want to do a detox, okay, then don't eat any sugar and don't eat any sugar molecules holding hands like pasta and cereal and rice and flour lay off.
Why? Because they're just sugar molecules. They're holding hands having a party. So get rid of that and you'll get rid of fat in your liver. People, they'll dream up concoctions to empty livers to clean them out. I said, well, you can take all the milk thistle in the world. If you got fatty liver that ain't fixing your fatty liver, you better empty it and your body knows how to empty it, but you can't keep filling it up with fat. Fat comes when you eat sugar. Now, fat, fat don't turn to fat in your liver. Sugar turns to fat in your liver, the Costco parking lot. So for a Parkinson's patient, and if you want to prevent Parkinson's neurological disorder, and guys, I can tell you something, the numbers are astounding. That neurodegenerative condition, Parkinson's, a form of dementia. Guys, why? I always ask the question, why, okay, I've seen Parkinson's for 50 years and it was there before me in practice, but why today is the numbers of Parkinson's going up exponentially?
Why? Why, why, why, why, why? More heavy metals? Yeah, maybe more leaky gut for sure. And remember, one of the starts of leaky gut. What is the number one asking questions? What's the number one cause of leaky gut? Okay, I can't even read your comments, but I know you know this. And for folks that are new for the first time on with us, new folks, thank you. We love you. And join the Martin Private Facebook group. Martin Clinic Private Facebook group. Please join it. Why? Because what a community that is continuous education, okay? Not just a podcast, but our group. We got a big family and man, oh man, I love our family on the private Facebook group, but for the new folks, what is the number one cause of leaky gut? You guys answered it. I think I'm confident, even though I can't see your answers today.
Antis number one cause, and is there a link? They link restless legs. I link antibiotic because guys, I was a history taker. I was a historian in my practice, man. Oh man. Oh man, you just didn't get to see me. Some people were upset. They came, they're here. I got to get to my appointment with Dr. Martin at least a half an hour before I see Dr. Martin. No, it would be more like an hour before. Okay, because you saw our waiting room. You filled out a questionnaire and I would not see you unless you filled it out and it was, you're asking so many questions. Yep. You got inside information. I want to know your history. And I asked it every which way but loose how to find out about you. I wanted to know your history even as a child. Really important to me. And then the next time you see, they still didn't see me because after they filled out the questionnaire, they had to get all their biomarkers tested.
I didn't do that. My staff did that. Where's Dr. Martin? Well, he's coming. Once we have all the results, the closers coming, the closers coming in. Actually, it was to open up your case and to tell you, here's your problems and here's how to fix them, including Parkinson's. Not that I say we're going to cure it, but here's what we found. Look, you know what I think about antibiotics. You can save your life. Greatest discovery in medicine of the 20th century, to me, it's not even close insulin, but it's not even close. Antibiotics have saved millions and millions and millions and millions and millions and millions of people's lives. Antibiotics. I love them, except it's a double-edged sword. It's got two sides to it. And doctors, they don't worry about the other side, but I do, because I saw it. It will cause disruption in the microbiome. It will cause leaky gut more than anything else. It will allow the Trojan horse to come in the fungus. Big, big problem in Parkinson's was the antibiotic use.
Nobody told them it wasn't their fault. They didn't understand. Don't wait around for medicine to figure things out. You figure it out. This is why I'm on daily educating guys. I look at it differently. I fully understand that, but you decide if I'm right or wrong, okay? You decide God gave you a brain use, okay? Tomorrow's q and a. That means get your questions in. Send them if you want. We'd love it. info@martinclinic.com, okay? Send your questions in. Don't put 'em up here on the scroll. First of all, I don't even see the scroll and during the program, even if I have another device, I can't see your questions. I'm focusing in on what I'm talking about. And the only time sometimes I'll look is to see if I give you a little quiz and then I look for some answers. And I thought I might be able to do it today, but I couldn't see it. I don't know why. Don't ask me why. Okay, grandpa, when were you born? In the days of Noah, you don't know how to do anything. You're right. Okay, guys, send your questions into Info Martin Clinic. Remember, the new book is coming. I preach it because you're going to want to have it. I mean it. You will not be disappointed in this book Rebuilding Your Temple, I promise you. Okay? You're going to love it. Talk to you soon.
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