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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. Okay, did you get your book yet? Rebuilding Your Temple? Got it right in my paws right here. I noticed a lot of you yesterday got delivery of the book so it isn't being delivered in the United States. Give it a day or two, but it's coming because it's being shipped out in the United States too. We love you guys. Thanks for making it number one, bestselling health book in Canada, by far. I guarantee it. Okay, you guys are unreal. We're we already got the book into second print. Okay, already should be delivered very quickly the second print of Rebuild Your Temple, I wrote it with Tony Jr. and thank you for making it such a great success.
Okay, now let's continue yesterday. So this is part two of 10 habits that guarantee sickness. We spent a little bit of time on these yesterday, so let's, we'll finish up today. Okay, I think, I promise. Well, I don't want to make a promise, but I think we will. So we talked about food in two out of three that we dealt with yesterday. We talked about treat. If you don't treat protein as optimal, you're guaranteeing sickness. If you don't prioritize the animal kingdom when you're eating, you're guaranteeing sickness. You just cannot get everything your body needs if you're not into the animal kingdom.
I'm sorry, because people scrolled yesterday that they were, they had family members or whatever, vegetarian, vegan, you're not going to change their mind or whatever and listen, hey, at least give 'em some advice. You know what? You better supplement the rest of your life. You're not getting B12, so you better know that. You're not even getting most of your B vitamins. You better know that, and you're not getting heme iron. You better know that. You're not getting all the amino acids that you need. You better know that. I go over eggs, meat, and cheese all the time. Eggs, meat and dairy. Good dairy butter cream. Not, milk, cream, okay, because it's good for you. Dairy, I don't like ditching dairy. I like switching dairy because people drink milk and unless you have a cow in the backyard, but if you do have a cow in the backyard, good for you. Drink the milk, and I mean it because otherwise all I want you to drink.
I used to get this through the noggins of my patients if I could. Drink two things, drink water and drink coffee, okay? You don't need to drink anything else. Water and coffee. That's it. It'll simplify your life. Don't drink anything sweet. Okay, so number four, guaranteed to be sick if you don't prioritize sleep. Okay, got to prioritize sleep. Treat sleep like your life depends on it. So when I wrote the book, Sun, Steak and Steel, there was another chapter in there and actually was on the cover of the book. Lemme see if I got any luck here. Yeah, I do. When I wrote the book, Sun, Steak and Steel, you'll notice on the bottom and sleep, and I meant it. Okay, prioritize sleep otherwise you're going to be in deep doodoo. Why?
Because when your body is sleeping, not sedated. Okay? Remember, there's a difference between sleep and sedation. Millions and millions of North Americans take a sedative to sleep. Don't do that. Don't do that. Have you ever had an operation, you ever been put under? You ever been sedated? Well, even the sedation, okay? I listened to a podcast the other day and the guy who's talking about being sedated for a surgery and you better detox that because he was showing on brain scans the effect that has on the brain. It damages the brain sedation. Now, he said, you can regenerate it. And I love that and I know that you can regenerate guys. You can regenerate the brain, but you can't regenerate the brain if you're not sleeping.
You have to get into the five stages of sleep and especially into the REM stage, the rapid eye movement stage of sleep. And the reason you guys know this, I talk about it all the time. Your brain especially has a self-cleaning oven, but it only works when you're sleeping. Your brain has its own lymphatic system. It's a drainage system. I didn't know that in the 1970s when I was in school, just came out in the last few years. Oh, if you wonder if you're fearfully and wonderfully made, I mean, just look at the glymphatic system. Your brain's so important. Think about it. Headquarters so important that you have been given a self-cleaning oven in the brain, but it only works when you're sleeping. And if you're sedating, it doesn't work. So doc, I can't sleep. Well, you're not sleeping. You're sedated. You know Ambien or whatever the other thing, well, I just take a quarter of one to go to sleep.
Listen, I've been around a long time. I was in practice a long time. I had thousands of people that just didn't get a good night's sleep. It was one of, and think of the quality of life when you can't sleep. You have to prioritize that, put everything on your side to get a good night's sleep. And the more research that is being done on the brain especially is incredible and what sleep does. You have to prioritize it. You have to work on it like your life depends on it because it does. How do you like that? It does. Okay and I used to tell my patients, you're not sleeping at night, right? Yeah, I'm not. Well get a nap during the day. Well doc if I get a nap during the day, I can't sleep at night. Well, holy smokes, you just told me you don't sleep at night.
If you're not sleeping at night, lie down during the day because you do get the autophagy, your self-cleaning oven will work during the day. I mean, it's not ideal to sleep your day away. That's not the point. The point is, when you fall asleep naturally, even if it's during the day, your self-cleaning oven will turn on. And so hey, if you ain't sleeping at night, my friend, and by the way, you know that because I've talked about this many a time, a power nap is actually quite good for you. I used to amaze my wife when I was in practice for all these years. When I came home for lunch after I would prioritize a little power down. I don't know how I did it and I can still do it. I mean, I can fall asleep in five seconds and within about 15 minutes because I had to get back to the office. I had patients waiting on me. I woke up, I don't know, my clock just said, hey stupid, get up.
But I was in such a habit and I'm still in that habit. I can lay down, get a little power in that and regenerate. And I know when you're exhausted. And I dealt with chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia, which always, usually 99% of these people have a component of a lack of sleep. They just don't sleep properly even though they're exhausted and in fibro, they just don't sleep properly. It's one of the symptoms of fibromyalgia. And then today add sleep apnea, right? You got sleep apnea. I'm not kidding you guys. You can go look at my textbooks. I got 'em some of them to the right of me here. Sleep apnea. I didn't even learn that in school. I'm sure maybe it was around, but nobody, you couldn't measure it, I guess. I don't know. But today it seems like every second person. And guys, here's the major cause of sleep apnea. It's called fatty tongue. It's insulin. It's insulin resistance. Anywho, prioritize sleep. Prioritize sleep as if your life depended on, okay? So that's number four.
Number five, stress. Okay? Lower stress. That it ain't easy, especially in the day and age in which we live. Okay? The day and age in which we live. We live in a day and age. I've never seen anything like it in our society. We are so stressed out. It's incredible. Okay, you guys know this because I've written books. I did an interview. I said, listen, I'm just going to give you a little bit of history of my books and it'll tell you a lot. Okay? Not only about my practice, but it'll tell you a lot about where society is going. Okay? I said, I wrote my first book on chronic fatigue syndrome 35 years ago. I don't know, can't even remember. It was so long ago. And so I talked about energy and fatigue, and I think I was the first guy to talk about adrenals affecting the energy. Your adrenals add renals on top of kidneys. You got two little organs called your adrenal glands, and they secrete primarily cortisol.
And I remember talking about cortisol in the eighties and nineties and people, what are you talking about? I never heard of it. What's cortisol? This is the book I wrote. Okay? This is a republished in French. Guys between the two books, hundreds of thousands of these books were sold on chronic fatigue and it was all about adrenals. How and especially the modern woman was affected by cortisol, stress, the stress hormone, which was meant to have a part-time job. Because really cortisol, I know it works because it's part of your circadian rhythm. And yes, cortisol is always secreted, or at least should be in the morning a little higher, gets your blood sugar, gets you going, wakes you up, and that's normal. That's part of what it's supposed to do. And then at night, it's supposed to be right down to nothing almost. Okay? You don't need cortisol, I think.
Well, you shouldn't, but the world today, we got cortisol 24 and seven. Stress and your body doesn't know the difference between environmental stress and you're being chased by a lion. It doesn't know that. It just says, hey, secret secrete cortisol. And then you got social media. You know what? And I said this, if you were following me during COVID, the biggest thing was not the virus. The biggest thing was cortisol. What do I mean by that? I never seen people so stressed out. Well, of course, of course. We were told to stay inside. Your neighbor was your enemy. Don't go outside. Don't go into anybody's house, don't get together. Don't go in the sun. Don't get on the beach. I was on the beach in Florida when they closed Florida down, I was there and I was John the Baptist screaming, hello?! The best way is the sun.
Bring all Canadians. We would've spent less money by flying every Canadian to Florida to lie on the beach. It would've cost us less than what it cost our society during that virus. And it was amazing how cortisol affected people. Anxiety. We're still dealing with the effects of that. How many millions of people were put on SSRIs for antidepressant, anti-anxiety medication. And it's so important for your body not to be in that stress mode. And I know we live in a world, and if you got got family dynamics, that's one of the reasons I wrote that book Rebuilding Your Temple. There is so much in there, and it's not even Rebuilding Your Temple. I say it every time. Rebuild Your Temple. I talk about that, put in all effort into lowering that cortisol, because cortisol pours gasoline on the fire of inflammation. It's an accelerant. It messes up your hormones. It messes up the thyroid. It robs progesterone and it puts people into a metabolic storm.
Just cortisol will elevate your insulin resistance. Just cortisol, even without eating can do it. That's why a lot of people are frustrated. They can't lose wheat and they don't know why. They say, doc, I'm doing everything. What's your stress hormone? Like cortisol. Cortisol. You know what it does? It elevates your blood sugar. What goes up must come down when insulin is present. You can't lose fat. It's a jail guard for fat. Insulin is a hormone. I mean, it's a jail guard. Fat can't escape. So prioritize sleep. And by the way, when you're not sleeping, your cortisol's up. When your cortisol's up, you're not sleeping. No fun under the sun. But we live in this world. We just, okay, we live in this world. The world's different. It seems like the planet is spinning faster. Everything happens fast, right? Okay, de-stress, okay, destress.
And I'm going to do number eight. I have on my hit parade over here, but I'll do it now because one of the ways of de-stressing, and this has been proven by the way, is exercise. Vitamin E. Vitamin E. When you go for a walk, you're lowering your cortisol. It's a factor. You're lowering your insulin too. So I love vitamin E move, okay? And by the way, my take on cancer, and you've heard this before, but that's all right. It's repetition. My take on cancer, there is almost no exception to this. Cancer doesn't appear in a vacuum, guys. It doesn't appear in a vacuum. It's usually a perfect storm. And one of the main factors, and I've done this in my books, talked about this a lot. One of the main factors is cortisol. Why? Because stress pours gasoline on the fire of inflammation.
Breast cancer, I don't think I ever saw a case when I did the history behind and there was always some type of traumatic event involved. Separation, divorce, finances, family dynamics, a child is sick, a father is sick, a mother taking care of with Alzheimer's or whatever, you're a care and then boom, breast cancer. I almost never saw an exception to it. The stress hormone, not under control. Cortisol was given a full-time job. So do everything you can to protect yourself from that. Be aware. Awareness helps a lot. Education helps a lot. It does because you're aware, and this is one, okay, I'll get back to the number eight in a minute. You know me, I'm all over the place, but okay, just because I want to talk about taking control of your own body as a point.
I emphasize this and guys, I know I'm preaching to the choir today. You guys are interested in your health. It's amazing to me, even in this day and age with so much information that people are not interested in their health or they rely on their doctor. My doctor said. Well, look, tell your doctor I love them. Okay? Say, Dr. Martin loves you, but I want you to be a doctor. Okay? I want you to take care of yourself. My analogy, you're on the plane and they go through the thing. The stewardess is up in the front telling you what to do, and you're not even half listening. And hey, I've flown so much of my life that I can get up and do it. What the stewardess does. But one thing she does say, or he or she does say every time, and they say in the event that you need oxygen, okay, you put that mask on, it'll drop down from the ceiling of the plane and you put it on first. I like that. That's health.
You take care of yourself. You learn everything you can. You don't have to have a Ph D, although I've given you guys an honorary degree. You can tell everybody, hey, I've got a Ph D. Dr. Martin gave it to me. The University of Martin Clinic, the University of The Doctor Is In Podcast. That's where I got my Ph D given to me. Because you guys know more than the average bear. You're smart. My audience, you think I'm flattering you? No, it's true. But you see what I mean by that? If you don't take charge of your own health, you are guaranteeing to be sick almost for sure. Almost for sure. Okay, let's get back, stress. You know what to do, do everything you can to get your cortisol down. Give it a part-time job, not full-time, part-time. And prayer, meditation, health. Okay? It does, proven.
Okay, now number six, even though I've skipped around, eat less sugar, right? You guys know that, okay? Don't blame salt for what sugar did. Don't blame cholesterol because we do for what sugar did. Sugar is so destructive. We teach this weekly, if not even more frequently than that. Your body is dedicated, dedicated in spite of yourself, in spite of what people eat. You can eat 20 donuts, don't do it. But this has been done. And your body will go into survival mode. And that donut is turning into sugar rapidly. I mean in nanoseconds. And you know what your body does? It's secretes an enormous amount of insulin to get sugar out of the bloodstream. Sugar is disruptive.
The world doesn't know that because, oh, you need some sugar. I mean, your brain, your brain doesn't even work without some glucose. That is so much nonsense. They don't even know what they're talking about. Okay? If your body needs glucose, it'll take a piece of steak and turn it into glucose if it needs it. Don't you worry about getting enough sugar. You don't have to worry about that because your body is dedicated to keeping sugar out of your bloodstream because your blood vessels pay the price of sugar left unattended. That's what we teach at the Martin Clinic. We've been teaching that to you guys for eons of years. Why? Because it's facts.
And diabetes, for example, is an allergy. It's a food allergy. What? I never heard that before. It's a food allergy. Diabetes is your body hates sugar and any food that is sugar molecules holding hands, bread, pasta, rice, cereals, juice, store-bought milk, muffins. Dr. Martin they're whole wheat! Who cares? It's just sugar molecules holding hands. They're on a date and they're going to turn to sugar rapidly. And your bloodstream goes, I can't have that. Insulin says. You can tell it's Christmas time around here. Okay? Why do I know that? Well, there's a cop at Costco, he's outside on the street coming in to Costco in our hometown and directing traffic, okay? And whenever I see a cop directing traffic, I think of insulin.
You might think something else. I think insulin, because you know what it's saying? Hey, you come here, you go in and you stay over there until I call you. Okay? And that's what insulin guys, that's what it does in your body. You can't have sugar stay unattended in your blood stream. It's extremely dangerous to your blood vessels. Got the memo? Your body knows that. Don't you think it would be better if you cut sugar out? Yeah you know grandmas eh? Grandma, okay, my wife's grandma, she makes butter tarts. Okay? At Christmas, not any other time. Just at Christmas. Well, she said it's Christmas. I know but I said I can't eat that stuff. Do I like it? Oh my word. You know what the toughest word in the English language is? No, I can't have it. I want it. I can't have it.
Okay, guys, did I get through every, no, I didn't even talk about water. Okay. But I dunno. There's a couple of more. Maybe we'll spend one more session on it. I don't know. We'll see. You know me and talking. You can never shut me up. Okay, guys. Okay, what's Friday? Q and A, Q and A. Send your questions in info@martinclinic.com. info@martinclinic.com. We appreciate the questions. Friday's always fun, isn't it? And the oftentimes goes into a Monday because I didn't get to all the questions on Friday, and why don't I get to all the questions on Friday? I talk too much. You're not going to change me. My wife tried, she hasn't been able to do it yet. Okay? We love you guys. Thanks for tuning in. We appreciate you. Your honorary degree is in the mail. I mean it about you guys are so stinking smart. I love it. Okay, we'll talk to you soon.
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