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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 appreciate you guys coast to coast in Canada, north America, and we get some from the Netherlands. Okay, Michel cold intolerance. So she's asking about it. Let me give you a few reasons why you could have a condition called cold intolerance, and it doesn't even have to be that cold, but you have a real intolerance to cold. I've seen that many a time. And again, there's different things that could be causing it. One of them is anemia. If you have a low red blood count, that can be a cause. Okay? So Michelle, look at all these things. Low B12 can cause cold and total a low functioning thyroid, even with normal numbers, but the thyroid's not functioning properly. Your thyroid is your furnace, your thyroid is your metabolism.
Your thyroid is very, very important. If that's not functioning properly, you could have cold intolerance. Okay, low B12, low iron, anemic. What else? Autoimmune, possibly autoimmune like renals could cause it. And one of the big factors that people don't talk about is cortisol. Cortisol, I've seen it before. Stress hormone. It slows the thyroid to a crawl. When cortisol's high, you can't convert T four to T three. Your thyroid is not getting what it needs to function properly. So there's a lot of strings attached to the thyroid. Okay, thanks for the question. Me, shell or Michael, I don't know. Amanda. Amanda's been following eggs, meat and cheese since she's a smart girl. Okay? My trainer mentioned I may not be eating enough carbohydrates. I understand the carbs aren't preferred party approved, but if I need to incorporate some, look, you got three kingdoms of food.
You have the animal kingdom superior at the top, not even close. Then you have the plant kingdom, fruits and vegetables. Then you have manmade kingdom, your bad oils, processed packaged foods, process devoid of a lot of nutrients, and very high in omega six. Avoid like the plague, but if you want to incorporate some carbohydrates, you don't need to eat bread or noodles or anything like that. Just have some fruits and vegetables. Okay? I got no problem with that. Like I said, try and avoid as much as you can. Avoid the manmade kingdom, manmade fruits, stick to the animal. And when you're doing really well and you want to incorporate some carbohydrates, I'm not a no carb guy. I only am to fix insulin resistance. That's 30 days. Some people go farther than that, no problem at all. But if you want to incorporate some fruits and vegetables, I got no problem with that. Okay?
I'll tell you where your trainer is wrong is that you need the carbohydrates. Okay? And that's just old fashioned, 100% propaganda. Okay? That's what it is. I get it. I understand it. But to say that it's needed, it's not, I'm not saying don't do it, I'm just telling you you don't need it per se. But you can certainly add some carbohydrates. Do it by the plant kingdom. And I know grains are plants, but you really be careful of adding any bread or anything. You make some sourdough bread and real sourdough. Yeah, okay, but don't live on it. Thanks for the question, Amanda. We appreciate it. Iris, chronic constipation, drink coffee. The best fiber in the world's coffee. The best fiber in the world is coffee. Get on probiotics, especially a broad spectrum probiotic. Very, very helpful. Constipation. I'm not big on loading up with fiber.
I don't like that. So I like bone broth. Bone broth can be very, very good because of its L-glutamine factor in regenerating the gut. And look, you got to always look like if it's chronic constipation, usually the thyroid's not functioning properly. Get on our thyroid formula, stimulate that thyroid clamp that has a big effect on peristalsis, the movement of the feces in the bowel, thyroid, and drink water H2O. A lot of people dehydrated. They just don't drink enough water. Okay, mercy. Oo, thank you for the question. Okay, let's go back to my iPad here. What does Dr. Martin think? This is Lisa Black seed oil. I like it. I like it in combination with other things. Okay? I'm bigger on oil of oregano than I am on black seed oil. Not that I don't like black seed oil. I do. Okay, so you have good, better, best. Okay? And I would say black seed oil is good. It's very good especially, but the best oil of oregano. How do I know that? Practice, clinical practice.
I was telling a group yesterday, I spoke on a Zoom meeting yesterday with our dear friend Maureen from Boca Raton. It was really good, lots of good questions. And I said to the man, I'm not a researcher, but I had 50 years of clinical practice and that I liked because I was able to compare things, what worked and what didn't work as well. And guys, almost nothing under the sun. That was new in my practice because I've been around for so long. And again, I'm just giving you my clinical experience. So I like black seed oil. I really do. Okay, thank you for the question Lisa. And Lisa also said many use it with oreg no oil. Yeah, sure. Hey, I got no problem with that. Absolutely not sil. Any circumstance where you would recommend DiUS Earth? I don't even know how to pronounce it.
Look, I got no problem listening to that. It had its day under the sun. Okay? This is again, I think every Friday I do this because people asking me about something, and I remember when everybody was saying the best thing to do is take Dimitrius Earth because it's good for parasites, it's good for a detox, it's good for this, it's good for that, okay? And people ask me about it on my radio show every week for about maybe two months. I got the questions about that. I hear it's great from everything from cancer to parasites. And I said, well, I'll tell you what, be careful because it coats the stomach. I don't particularly like that because I think it will change the pH of the stomach. And I said, I've read the research on it. Some patients loved it and I had others that never got much results.
So I don't know if you want to try it, you never going to hear me recommended from this venue because I never saw the great results that people were talking about. I just didn't see it duplicated in my practice. So I'm not saying it's going to hurt you. I was more concerned about the coating of the stomach. When you take it, you can use it in a pool, for example, to filter the water and that. But I don't necessarily think it was necessarily made for human consumption. But if you like it, go for it. I'm going to kill you. Okay, thank you very much. And that was still Beverly. Dr. Martin, you talk about the hammer dose of vitamin D. I love that vitamin hammer it. The first sign of a cold, a bug hammer it. 50,000 IUs of vitamin D three days in a row.
Okay, beautiful. I've seen it work. I remember a colleague of mine, Dr. Rona, he loved that hammer and he brought it in. I remember he did a small study. They gave people with severe pneumonia in the hospital, 50,000 IUs and he did it for seven days. And he said the group that got that with the pneumonia and they were all on respirators or whatever, came off and the other group struggled, and I don't think he actually published the study. Did he do it? I know he talked to me about it and I really, really liked that idea. So three days, 50,000 I use. Can you divide it? Yeah, if you want. I don't care. Same. It's just 50,000 iu. I've taken it in one shot. I've done it several times. It really makes a difference. Now don't tell Health Canada that I said that. They don't like that.
Richard thanking me for telling them about cholesterol. Okay, let me see. And Richard really did well on the reset. Good for you. Down to 230 pounds and what do I think of fasting? One meal a day, fasting and fasting for 72 hour fasting. Well, look, I like fasting. I like intermittent fasting. If you go 14 hours without eating, so you eat in windows, let's say eight o'clock in the morning, six o'clock at night, you got 14 hours of not eating and that's good for you. I love it. Eating once a day, no problem. You feel good? Good for you. Just eating one meal a day. I like that. I got no problem with that at all. Okay, 72 hour fast. Look, I don't actually recommend that. I know that others do. I'm a little hesitant on the 72. Look, if you just get the diagnosis of cancer, the doctor calls you in and he said you got cancer doing a fast for 48 hours, okay? And maybe 72 hours at that time. I got no issue with it. But generally I don't think you need to do that. Okay? I know people that some people they don't eat like on a Friday or whatever. They do a 24 hour pass. Hey, go for it. Okay? Long term, like that long, 72 hour unless you got cancer and even then I would say probably 48 is better. Okay? Thank you for the question, Richard, and good for you. Good for you and your health goals.
Ann is asking if I could talk about ferritin, low ferritin, and actually I've got a couple of questions on ferritin. If you're pale is a ghost and women, you're the worst for this, and if you have low energy, you are exhausted. You are pale as Casper the ghost. Here's me, okay? In the office, okay? I was very observant. I had a lady tell me one time, quit looking at me. She said I was in her space. I was just looking at her eyebrows. You see, I was looking at her hair, I was looking at her skin. I said, let me hold your hand. I was look at her nail. I said, stick out your tongue. I want to see it. I was right in their grill because I was playing with their thyroid and she actually said, get out of my space. I said, you're at the wrong place. I'm touchy and feely and observ. I am looking at you and any doctor that doesn't look, and that's the problem. I had some patients tell me they go to their doctor, the doctor's got their back turned to them and is on the computer. My word, how can you do that? I was observant. And I said, even without looking at their blood, you're anemic. What? My doctor didn't say that. I said, I'm telling you, Casper, you're anemic and you need to fix that.
And women, it can be menses. Very heavy menses. You know how many young girls I saw that were anemic? They come in and I said, man, you got to start eating some steak. And girls, a lot of the young girls, they buy the religion of veganism, okay? Because said, well, Dr. Merton, I can't have anything that's got eyeballs. They couldn't eat the animal king. I said, well, you're going to be on iron, my dear. You need B12 and you need iron. I'm sorry. I would rather you eat it. But if you're not getting it in food and you're not going to get it. Popeye didn't get iron from spinach. He lied. Popeye lied. You don't get strong with spinach. You don't get the heme iron. You need heme iron. Okay? So I had a lot of patience taking a liquid. I liked it in a multi, we used to call it blood blues in the multi nutrient and oh, so hard to make that stuff.
Anyway, coming to a theater near you. I asked about it yesterday, okay? So I was very observant. But other things, if you got a rapid heartbeat, if you hear a lot of times with patient comes in, I hear that swishing, that swishing sound in my ears. I said, your heart rate is going up. It's trying to move blood. You don't have enough hemoglobin, you don't have enough ferritin, you don't have enough iron, you don't have enough B12. And I never like just iron without B12. Okay? So thank you for the question. Too many vegans, too many vegetarians. I'm sorry if they're doing that. I used to work with them by the way. I said, okay, but from now on, listen to me. Listen, Linda, I would tell a vegetarian or vegan, you need B12 every day for the rest of your life, okay? B12 every day for the rest of your life, you need it and you're going to need vitamin D every day for the rest of your life, and you might need a liquid iron maybe every day for the rest of your life. You ready? You don't eat steak. That's what happens. Okay? I love the question, and that was Anna.
Joanne, I have bronchitis and been given an antibiotic. My question is, should I take a probiotic at the same time? Yep, yep, yep, yep. Double up your dose. If you're taking an antibiotic, take a probiotic and if you want to take it with it, I don't care. I mean it like if you've got a good probiotic that you're taking, hopefully ours, antibiotics can't even kill those friendly bacteria. They're so hardy anyway, you can take it with it or if you want to separate it an hour after or whatever. But if you're on an antibiotic, and I usually recommend one to three probiotics a day, go to six for a week, two weeks up to a month. If you've got any issue with digestive trouble are yeast and you're worried about yeast or fungus coming in after, kill it, man. With high doses of probiotics, you can do that. You can't take too much probiotic, by the way, because we're talking trillions of bacteria You have in your body.
You can never take, oh, I'm taking too much probiotics. I'm getting sick. Impossible. Impossible. Okay, Mer, ku, Joanne Sedalia. Hi, Sedalia, and did I pronounce it right or wrong? I don't know. I like that name. Hi Sedalia. I've been losing a lot of hair over the last two years. Thyroid, thyroid, thyroid number two, not enough protein. Not enough protein. Not enough protein. Your hair is 99% protein and women and thyroid, low functioning thyroid. The eyebrows, the hair is thin. Like I said, guys, I'm very observant, okay? I'm in the airport just sitting, waiting for a plane. People come by, I watched them. I can tell so much. I see women and their hair is thinning thyroid. I don't do that, but I could. Okay, thinning eyebrows, thyroid low B12, okay? Get on bone broth for hair, okay? That's what I recommend.
And get your thyroid going, sed, okay? Get on the thyroid formula. Okay? Marlis 75-year-old friend that has early stage prostate cancer. The cancer clinic has offered fiducial seed implants. You know what that is? That is sending radiation into, so they puncture little, it's like a biopsy. They put these little seeds of radiation to kill the prostate cancer. Look, one of the issues I have, okay, so you're putting radiation right there. And guys, look, I'm not your personal physician and so I'm giving information, okay? So you got to just take information for what it's worth and you have to make decisions. And I get that. So your friend, that's what they're offering. It's not as invasive and whatever, but to me, when you make those punctures, if you have prostate cancer, you are taking it out of, you know how I always say that?
Cancer, like a tumor for example. It's encapsulated even if it's small, small, small. Encapsulated. The problem I have with biopsies, I know why they do them, but the problem I have with that is they puncture it and medicine, they think that's a small thing because they're looking at the big picture and they just want to eradicate cancer. Whereas me, if it's encapsulated how many women have been given biopsies and breast cancer, it spreads. But again, guys, it's just my personal opinion. I would never tell a patient not to do something. I don't do that. I just want to give information from my point of view and it gives you, well, maybe choices. It gives you questions that you can question your oncologist or whatever. Look, if you get cancer, in our society in North America, they want treatment rapidly. I mean, they don't talk about prevention, but when man, oh man, they make a diagnosis and then they get aggressive.
I don't know. I've got a different opinion on that. But in all due respect, in all due respect for the other side, I do. I respect that. That's what they know. That's what they're trained. I had an oncologist talk to me one time and said, that's what we do here. I said, I know, but can I question it? No, I want to question it anyway, thank you Marla for the question. Cecilia varicose veins, the back of the knee. Well listen with varicose veins, I'm big on microcirculation. So varicose, sometimes you can't get rid of them, but I want you to augment your circulation one way or another. The best way is Navitol and then lubricate your blood vessels. High DHA oil, okay? I'm a big guy on that Navitol, I've seen it. Some people have said it made an enormous difference with the varicose veins, but not always.
But it's good for you because of microcirculation. It really is good for that because it elevates nitric oxide. So that's what I recommend. Cecilia Yvette, I didn't answer. She said, I thought I did this. Yvette, maybe I didn't answer. I'm pulling out my senior card. I saw this last week. She's saying, Dr. Martin, what do you think about clove water? Didn't I answer it? I guess I didn't. I got no problem with you drinking clove water. Maybe someone in the scroll. I think. Isn't that what I said last week? If you want to give personal testimony to clove water, go for it. I got no problem. I am trying to think out of all the years, did anybody ever tell me they were drinking? I know about cloves that they would be good for you. I remember, I think somebody said cloves in a tea, one of my patients years ago, but I just haven't heard about it that much, Yvette.
But go for it. I got no problem. Now don't replace that with your two liters of water, clove water. Go for it. I got no problem. That ain't going to hurt you. The benefits of it, you can Google it. I don't have that much experience with people say, well, this, fix this, this and the other thing. I don't want to tell you stuff I don't know. I haven't experience, I haven't had my patience experience, but I got no problem with it. Yvette, I mean you like it. Is it helpful? And maybe like you're getting stuff on your scroll that says you can drink it and they really like it. Okay, Diane is saying clove water is excellent for many things. Chewing on a clove is also very good. Chew and spit it out. So anyway, Diana, thank you for answering that. Okay, I just saw the Yvette, she lets it seep for 15 minutes and drink the water.
I got no problem. Yvette. I mean it. Tell me what you really think. It helps. I got no problem with it. Brianna, can you suggest a product to help my daughter increase her ferritin? How about steak? Eat steak? Yeah, blood boost or our multi nutrient? Very, very high in iron glucan. It's already keeling. That's why it's so good for you and it's coming back. We haven't had it for months to get one or two of the ingredients anyways. I hear yesterday that it's coming back soon. That's the best in my opinion. Okay. Oh, Cory's asking. See another question on ferritin. Can low ferritin affect the A1C? Yes, because A1C, think of what it is. It's glycated hemoglobin, so hemoglobin is in the red blood cell. It sticks to oxygen, and if you have low ferritin, that can affect your hemoglobin and that can affect your A1C for sure.
And without diabetes, you can have elevated A1C if you have low ferritin. So yep, it can affect that. Okay. It can affect that. Thanks for the question, Corey. Chris is asking what causes cracks in our tongues and what can heal the well? Usually for me, when I saw the roadmap on the tongue, there was a deficiency. Usually for me, they had a fungus. First of all, they had a yeast, a fungus, an overgrowth of candida. They usually were low in B12. Almost invariably they saw that. I'm trying to think of anything else. Low and B12 roadmap tongue. That's Chris, Natalie. I've heard conflicting advice online about how much water to drink with supplements. Is the amount of water the same when supplements should be taken with food as they are taking any time, even the Martin Clinic products do not give this information. Well, Natalie, have you ever seen our labels?
Yikes. Okay. I mean the laws for labels in Canada, I mean they are absolutely crazy. I mean the writing, you need a microscope to read the labels. They want so much information on 'em. I'm not going to start putting water. How much water to drink? No, it don't matter. Okay, it don't matter. You can drink a lot of water with supplements, whatever it takes to get them down. Okay? I got no problem with that. Look, the sweet spot with water is 64 ounces or two liters, okay? I drink half a liter in the morning, even before I get started. I drink 16 ounces of wata in the morning and I take my supplements. Sometimes I divide them, but the amount of water, no, you're not going to dilute. You can't drink enough water to dilute the supplements you're taking. Okay, so it's a good question, Natalie.
I thank you for it. Lynn is having sudden tension type headaches, new symptoms of aura, migraine zigzag, Lyme in the eye, more frequent hormonal, perimenopausal hormones. Here's where I've seen migraines and they can come out of nowhere. Horror hormones, imbalance, too much estrogen, okay? Fatty liver. The liver gets gummed up with fat and then with toxins can give you migraine. Okay? Low magnesium, okay? You have low levels of magnesium. I always add B12 because I've seen it too many times. So have a look at that, Natalie, but you need to get your estrogen balance. That's why I'm big on dim. That's why you should be starting the menopausal formula with a high dosage of dim and then eat flax seed every day. Put 'em in a smoothie or flax seeds because they have high lings and lings block, extra estrogen. Dim it out. There we go.
Thanks Lin. Mary, the Canadian government has announced the sale of unlabeled cloned meats coming in the very near future. Can you give us your opinion? Well, I don't know Mary. I don't know yet. Okay, with the clone meat, is it going to be different in nutritional value? We live in a crazy world. We imagine cloning. I don't know. I'm not sure yet anything that I've Googled, and that's all I can do right now. I've never had cloned meat as far as I know. What is the nutritional profile of it? I don't know. I wish they wouldn't play around with nature. I wish they wouldn't, but we live in a crazy world. What can I tell you soon as I get some real information, not just propaganda one way or the other. Let me get back to you. I really don't know you, okay? I don't know.
I'm ignorant. Okay. How many more I got to do Monday? I got to do Monday. Okay, so Joanne, let's do this last one. My husband and I have been faithfully following your program for five years. Smart girl, feeling great, thanks to you. Well, you're welcome. My daily aim is to get under 20 grams of carbs, okay? Elevated cholesterol before. No worries. Triglycerides are beautiful. Last month, sir, triglycerides went up to 1.3. No problem. What was your HDL? Joanne, you need to tell me what your HDL is. I don't like looking at triglycerides on their own. If you don't give me your HDL, because that's really important. Now we shoot for women under one, but even then, I don't care about that near as much as I care about the ratio between your triglycerides and your HDL. As long as you got more FedEx trucks or Amazon trucks, HDL on the highways and byways of your blood vessels in your blood, they're taking that triglycerides back to the liver to be processed. And so I need to know that if you went up to 1.3, I wouldn't worry about it a bit. As long as your HDL is good, that's what I want to see. Okay?
So make sure, Joanne, you send your HDL number to info@martinclinic.com. It will get to me and I will tell you what I think. I'm not too worried about you, okay? But you got to get me that number. Mercy KU guys, we love you dearly. Have you signed up for our new book? Okay, I'm actually going to do a lesson, come right from the book. You're going to love it. Okay? We'll do it next week. Not Monday, I don't think, because we got too many questions to get to, which is good. We want questions. I could do a q and a every day. Okay, I can do a q and a every day. Popular programs are Fridays and a lot of times Monday, q and a, q and a q and a. People ask you questions. I love answering questions. I had a radio show open line. We didn't even filter the calls. Dr Martin, what about this? What about that? Anyway, I'm used to it. Fire away. Okay? And sometimes did you notice today I said, I dunno. Clove water? I don't know. Sounds good to me. Cloned meat. What about it? I don't know yet. Let me do a deeper dive. Okay? I don't know. I don't know what to tell you. I hate the thought that they play with nature, but what am I going to do? Okay, love you guys. Talk to you soon.
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