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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, guys. How you doing? Okay, you know what? I forgot a few questions yesterday. I reviewed it. I said, oh, I got them all, but I missed a few, so I'm going to answer a few of those today, but let me just talk about vitamin D just for a minute. If you don't get our newsletter via email, okay? We send out a couple of newsletters just going into deeper dives on studies. Studies. If you didn't get that study, that new study on vitamin D this morning, you got to go and sign up, okay? Now, sometimes maybe it's in your spam or whatever. If you didn't get it, check that out. I don't, you know what? I know guys, nothing, but I do know this. You're going to want to read our newsletter.
We just put out extra information. Sometimes I can't get to all of it on our programs, but wasn't it an interesting study this morning? Let me just pontificate for a minute or two on vitamin D and heart attack, how it cuts on heart attacks by 52% in this study. Vitamin D in your heart, every cell in your body, my friend has an antenna for vitamin D. It's looking for the sun, and it's so important to get your vitamin D levels. Now, someone asked this morning because I saw does someone mentioned on the private Facebook group, they really enjoyed the email, but someone asked, well, you didn't answer the question, how much should I take? Well, that depends. Okay. It depends. When I was in practice, I can tell you exactly how much to take. Why? Because I knew your vitamin D levels. But listen, and we make emphasis of this all the time, vitamin D, I know the world.
They're so scared of it, but it's so good for you. If you just get in the sun for 20 minutes, you get 10,000 IUs. How could that be toxic? How could that be toxic safely? What I take on a daily basis is between five and 10,000 IUs. Okay? I'll cut back in the summer when I don't need it. And you know what? The best thing that you can do, and I mean this one of the blood tests and I talk about it in sun, steak and steel, I talk about getting a blood test done of your vitamin D. Find out you might have to pay for it. It's worth it. If you saw the research and this in people that were under 40 NGML, that's American numbers of vitamin D, okay? Equivalent to a hundred NMOL dash L Canadian numbers under a hundred Canadian under 40 American, your heart's in trouble. Most people are under that. And what we recommend at the Martin Clinic and what we recommend on the doctors in podcasting, not only to get tested, but to make sure your vitamin D levels are optimized from your brain to your toes. You need it. This is a significant study on heart disease and having a heart attack. For heaven's sake. Heart disease is still the number one killer in our society today. It shouldn't be, but it is. We haven't even made a dent.
And who whatever a thought that vitamin D is good for your heart. Well, I did. It's good for your brain. It's good for your heart. It's good for everything, good for your immune system. It's not just for bones, doctors bones. Oh, and be careful. It'll kill you. It's so toxic. It's radioactive. No, it's not. And what we mentioned there that when you hit 70, you're four times less likely to pick up vitamin D or not less likely, just less amount of vitamin D that you can pick up off your skin sucks getting old, doesn't it? I'm in that group, but I measure and I monitor my vitamin D levels and so should you, okay? And like I said, somebody asks me all the time, it's what I can tell you that I do. I can't tell you how much to take, but I can tell you how much I take. Okay? Five to 10,000 I use every day, okay? Starting in September, right through till May Canadian, because we only have a few months of summer. I talked to a guy the other day and I said, listen, you're out in the sun. You're getting your melatonin beautiful.
Now, I said, you want to know where your solar panels are? He didn't know this. I said, your arms, okay? These are solar panels and your legs exposed to the sun shorts, okay? Now you can't do that in the middle of winter in most places. So you need to supplement and you can do both and make sure your supplement of vitamin D contains vitamin K two. We talk about that. Okay? I just wanted to hit up. That came out of the American Heart Association, man. Oh man. Very important. Okay, Roxanne wanted me to talk about the vagus nerve, not Las Vegas, your 10th cranial nerve. Well, Roxanne, I do talk about it because it's the connection between your brain and your gut. Okay? Gut your brain and your gut. It's your 10th cranial nerve vagus nerve, and it's how your brain and your stomach talk to each other. You ever had butterflies? You are worried. Ooh, okay, you're upset. What happens? Well, your stomach, because your vagus nerve connects your brain to your stomach. You get butterflies, you get maybe even nausea and your stomach's upset. What's that got to do with your emotions? A lot. Now listen, in your stomach, in your bowel, you have more serotonin there than you have in your brain, but there's a connection. They talk to each other through the 10th cranial nerve, okay? And it's an important one, the vagus nerve. Okay, got it? Okay, that was Roxanne.
Okay, I think Catherine was asking about enlarged prostate. Well join the cast of million and not for you, Catherine, obviously you don't have a prostate, but your hubby does. And I'll tell you the number one thing that makes the prostate grow is estrogen. The womanly hormone. Because when men's estrogen goes up, their testosterone goes down. So one of the best things that you can do in terms of eating is eat a steak because steak elevates your testosterone. You want that man, because testosterone is good for a man, and we don't have enough of it today. We have too much estrogen as Arnold Schwarzenegger used to say, you're a girly man, you've got the girly hormone, and that makes for a benign prostate growth. Doesn't have to be cancer, but for the very same reasons that women get breast cancer, men get prostate cancer.
I've done this for almost 50 years. You know what I've said? Women breast cancer and men's prostate cancer are identical twins. One in the female population and the other one in the male population. And what we've seen in the last 50 years is breast cancer is out of control guys, but so is prostate cancer, breast cancer in women. One out of five or six women in their lifetime will be given a diagnosis of breast cancer. It's crazy. And over the age of 51 out four men, okay? One out of four men will get prostate cancer. Why have the numbers gone crazy? I'm a Y guy. Why does that happen? I asked the question to myself and I said, well, what's changed in the world? Estrogen, all the chemicals, all the fertilizers, all the pesticides, all the microplastic, everything mimics estrogen. We call them through the roof in the world today.
And no wonder we have so much breast cancer and so much prostate cancer. Women, you need estrogen a hundred percent. You need it. Men, you don't need it, but women, you need it. The problem is you got too much of it. Too much of it. And so I don't like estrogen. We talked about this yesterday when someone asked a question on the Kennedy files, and that is they've now taking the black box warning off of hormonal therapy. What do I think about that? Well, it's synthetic and I think there's a better way. I want women elevate their progesterone. Makes a huge difference for them. So what do I recommend? You got an increased prostate, dim, dim it out, dim that estrogen out. Really important. Okay? Really important to do that. Dim it out with dim and ling's, flax seeds. Really, really good to reduce the prostate.
Okay? Really good antioxidants. That's why I love Navitol. It's a protector. It's a cancer protector of your cells and prostate cells and breast cells down with the estrogen. Get your vitamin D levels up for every cancer, every benign tumor or benign hyperplasia, which is the growth of the hormone. It's normal by the way, in men, as their testosterone goes down, their prostate's going to grow, grow, grow. I died the other night laughing. A guy on TV said, I was just dying the way he said it. He said, the only time I don't have to pee is when I'm peeing. That's a man's prostate. You can be up several times a night because of it. Okay? And women, your bladder, okay, estrogen too much. Okay, thanks for that question. And that was Catherine about her husband.
Lucy. Lucy was asking a good question about. And you know what? I think I'm going to put this with Kevin. I'm going to combine these two because Kevin makes a good point. He ends his question. But what's a fellow to do? I like that, Kevin. Now, I don't know if this is Kevin, the mayor or another Kevin, okay? I don't know. Wasn't told to me, but it's a good question because Kevin is asking, well, we live in a world where Dr. Martin, you always talk about eggs, meat, and cheese. But unless they're grass fed and Lucy's asking, what about cheddar cheese and the orange cheese? And listen guys, listen, this is really, really, really important, okay? It's the overarching principle of my thinking and the way I operate. Okay? So this is important, Kevin, Lucy, listen. Listen, Lucy, not Linda.
Listen, Lucy, in a perfect world, we'd all go back living on a farm, having a cow in the backyard, no pesticides, no herbicides, no grain fed, beep, no chemicals. We would have milk coming right out of the cow, which is really cream, and we would have cheese, 100% natural and everything else. But here's the big, but we don't live in that type of world. So you have to understand where I'm coming from, okay? You have to understand where I'm coming from. The vast majority of people, they can't. They might not have the means. They might not. I don't want for me, there's good, better, best, okay, good, better, best. You want to get everything organic, everything. Your beef, your eggs, your cheese, your dairy.
Everything's organic, and you're growing your own fruits and vegetables. There's no herbicide and no pesticides and yada, yada, yada. Great. I'm happy for you. I mean, but we don't live in that kind of world. Most people don't. And most people can't to some extent. So do you understand what I'm saying? It's better for you to eat a piece of meat because some people will. They come after me above bacon. What about the nitrates? What about them? It's celery powder. What about it? All I'm saying, is this still good for you? And it's so much better. We live in a world with the biggest problem in this world is not the lack of organic. It's insulin, it's sugar, it's all greens that are holding hands. They're sugar molecules.
It's the rapid breakdown of food in your body that drives insulin through the roof. And insulin resistance is at the root of all disease, including heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's, diabetes, obesity, fatty liver. So you have to understand, guys, I look at the big picture. Okay, here's the illustration I used to use in my eye. You are on the Titanic. Don't worry about the deck chairs. Get off the boat or turn the boat around. And then afterwards, after you've turned the ship around and you haven't hit an iceberg, you're in clear waters, then you can start playing with the furniture on the Titanic, meaning that I'm going 100% organic. Good for you. I'm happy for you. I mean it. Okay? I'm going to buy a farm. Good for you. I'm happy for you. I'm going to raise my own chickens. Good for you. I'm happy for you. I mean it. I'm going to go out and get my eggs every morning. Good for you. I'm happy for you.
Do you understand where I'm coming from? And I mean, I love if you can do it, but meat isn't bad for you. Any kind of meat isn't bad for you. It's better than having a granola bar. I can tell you that. And I still haven't found by nutritionally measuring it, there isn't a fruit nor a vegetable that is as high in nutrition content. There isn't a fruit nor a vegetable in the plant kingdom. That is as high as any piece of meat that you bring to me. Just check out the nutrition value of, so you see what I'm saying? Because a lot of people, the cows and they're being grain fed and it's mass production. I get that antibiotics. I get all that. I get all that. But if you think your fruits and vegetables haven't been tainted, I'm telling you, I mentioned this. I don't think I go a week by where I don't talk about plastic microplastic. It's in everything. It's everywhere. You're accumulating it every day, whether you like it or not. Whether you live in Costa Rica on your own island, or you're on a holiday in Punana. We don't live in that type of world.
We just don't. Now, I want you to be very cognitive, very, very conscious of what you're looking at in food. And there's better of everything. Like I say, good, better, best. If you can get to the best all the time. I am on your side. But like I said, I always wanted people to get the big picture first of their health. They were in such trouble and they didn't know it when I did all their biomarkers and all their blood work. And we found out that their insulin was through the roof, insulin resistance, inflammation markers, their vitamin D was low. Their B12 was low. They were in deep dooo, and I wanted them to focus on turning the ship around. And thus, in terms of food, it was eggs, meat and cheese. Cheese meaning butter, cheese meaning dairy, cheese meaning everything. But grocery store milk, stay away from it a hundred miles an A one or a two.
You don't need to drink. You don't drink it. You drink water and coffee. There you go. Thanks for the question. That was Lucy. And Lucy was asking about monk fruit. Yeah, I got no problem with it. Not going to elevate your insulin as far as I know. So that was Lucy and Kevin. What's a fellow to do? I'm glad you asked guys. It's a good question to ask that. Okay. And I'll push back. I push back against people that have given up on eggs, meat and cheese. They think it's not good for them, and they live on the plant kingdom. They're making a big booboo. A big booboo. They're not right about that. And I push back all the time, and even if I'm John the Baptist in the wilderness alone doing it, I'll do it. Okay. Judy was asking about NAC, the amino acid L cysteine.
Look, as far as I know, I'd have to look it up. This has been a couple of years now that you can't even get it in Canada unless you have a prescription for it. I don't think you can get it in the States either. I'd have to someone clarify that. You want to take it NAC as a supplement. I don't think you can get it, can you? It seems to me that the FDA pulled it and that you couldn't get it because it's a drug. They use it as a drug, even though it's natural. And you know what they use it for? At least this is years ago for acetaminophen poisoning Tylenol, too much Tylenol. A lot of people get very sick from too much Tylenol and they get very unwell and they give them NAC. But somebody that knows more than me, I should have looked it up, but I didn't.
But what I do remember is that they pulled it. You couldn't get it as a supplement. So maybe look on Amazon if you can. Would I recommend it? I don't know why, unless you're being poisoned by, I think there's better antioxidants than that. Okay. For me personally. Anyway, that was a good question, Judy. Okay, anybody else? I think I got all the questions. I hope I did this time. Okay, and then we talked about the vitamin D today. Then we got a great week, guys. There's a lot of stuff that I haven't even talked about. I meant to get at 'em last week and I never did. Okay. We love you dearly and sincerely. What an audience. You guys are so great. Have I talked to you about my book recently Rebuilding Your Temple? I am going to do a little teaching on that tomorrow, I think, because I've got one here.
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