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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone. Once again, welcome to another live this morning. I hope you're having a wonderful start to your day and to your week. Good to be with you. And we got a few more questions that we need to get to from Q&A Friday. We'll finish that up today. Let's start with Katherine. Okay. Katherine's asking about ... I don't even know how you pronounce this, Katherine. Okay? Shilagit. Shiligit. I don't know. It's spelled S-H-I-L-A-G-R-J-I-T. Okay? And it's a sticky substance. Oh, I've read about it years ago. It's got minerals. It's an antioxidant. It comes from those high mountains. I don't know. I'm certainly not negative on it, Katherine. And the reason I don't want to be too high on it either is because I'm trying to think if I even had anybody in the office that I saw over the years that even tried that stuff.
Maybe. Might've been a few, but not many. So for me, when you ask me something that I don't have a lot of experience, I know what it is. I know that you can get it in supplement form either in the powder. I don't even know if they put it in capsules or not. I don't know. Some stuff just comes and goes. Okay? So in terms of popularity, I don't think that's one that's ever hit high popularity because I never saw ... Look, I had a radio show for 20 years and every product, believe you me when I tell you that, was sent to my desk in order that I would talk about it or promote it on a program. And listen, there's very few substances or supplements or whatever that I either didn't hear about either from patients or whatever, guys. Okay? So that one there, I don't know what to tell you.
Look, if you want to take it, certainly go for it. If you ask me about the most powerful antioxidant ever, you're going to be a close fight between coffee and pine bark extract. Those are the things I was very familiar with in practice. I would ask them this question. You like coffee? Yeah. Well, you're going to like me because I want you to drink it. You're doing the reset. There's two things I want you to drink on the reset. Only two. Water and coffee. Coffee is part of the reset. What? Coffee is part of the reset. Water is part of the reset. Coffee and water. People love that. You mean I can have coffee? No, you can't have it. You must have it. How do you like that? You'll thank me later. Okay. That was Catherine. Thanks. This is Mara. I have no gallbladder according to Mara.
Okay? Not me. Her. She doesn't have a gallbladder. Okay. Well, there's a problem. Okay? And usually with gallbladder, it's 90 to 10. You use it or you lose it. Why do women lose their gallbladder? Some men do, but mostly women. Why? Because they went fat free. And they didn't eat enough fat in their diet. Their gallbladder got all gummed up because the gallbladder is just a little pouch. It's a little reservoir for bile. It needs to be empty every day. That reservoir should just dip bile into the intestine, small intestine. Okay? It's an emulsifier for fat. It helps your body absorb fat. You need a gallbladder, but you can live without it. Why? Because bile is not made in the gallbladder. Bile is made in the liver. But if you don't have a gallbladder, well, now you got to be careful, a little bit more careful with fat because you're not going to break it down as easily.
This is why I highly recommend digestive enzymes more than anything else. Okay? More than ox bile, more than anything. You need enzymes. And when you get a broad spectrum enzyme formula like ours, you're going to break down fat. We put a lot of lipase and different types of lipase in there. It's broad spectrum. We put a lot of different proteases in there because again, you want a broad spectrum to help you digest. Now the question is asked here by Mara. "I take digestive enzymes when I eat my bacon, eggs, and cheese for breakfast. You're a smart girl, Marla. Okay? I also take high DHA just before eating. Okay. Do the digestive enzymes help break down the high DHA? Yeah. Yeah. Enzymes are on your side. Okay? We all make enzymes to break food down. The problem is, and they're pancreatic usually. And the problem is that as we get older too, we don't make as many.
It's just the way it is. It's part of the aging process. We don't make as many digestive enzymes, not as powerful. And this is why I love digestive enzymes, but yeah, it helps to break down the fat and the DHA so that you absorb it even better. No problem with that. Okay. That was Mira. And Cher, she's asking me about oxbile. I have a hard time processing healthy fat. She doesn't have a gallbladder. Okay. Well, there's two in a row. Yeah. You're doing the right thing. Take digestive enzymes. Oxbile, look, I'm not against it, but you need those enzymes, much more important than oxfile. Okay? Much more important than that. You need those enzymes. Okay. Deborah, I don't want to miss this one. Okay? I have some deep scratches from my cat.
Okay. Should I get a tetanus shot? Is it advisable? Well, look, I never tell people they can't do anything or whatever. I just put information out. If you ask a doctor, okay? If you ask a doctor and they're honest about it, have they ever seen tetanus, like witnessed it themselves? You know the rusty nail sort of story? I used to ask this question a lot. They've never seen it. They heard about it. When I was in school in the '70s, I heard about tetanus. It'll get locked saw and very dangerous or whatever. But did I ever see a case in all my ears? Nope. Have doctors ever seen a case? No. But they still give out the tetanus shot. Never listen. One thing you ought to be doing is oil of orego. Okay? Oil of oregano. That's the best antifungal, anti-parasitic, anti-everything that you can think of.
Natural antibiotic. Take oil of oregano probiotics. You got a cat? You got parasites. You got scratches, you got parasites. 100% for sure. Okay? 100%. Okay? So just put that in your crawl and say, okay, I got to take care of myself. Am I telling you to get rid of your pet? No. I'm not telling you to do that. I say, you want to live with your pet? You let it scratch you. You're going to have parasites. Oil of oregano, natural antibiotic probiotics. Everybody should be on a probiotic anyways, but I love oil of oregal. And remember, oil of oregano does not destroy your microbiome. It don't kill like an antibiotic does. A medication antibiotic will kill all your ... In five days, will kill all your microbiome. It'll kill it. It wipes it out. It wipes out the bad guys, but the good guys with it.
This is why I always recommend if you're taking an antibiotic, you take probiotics and double up, double up. You want to regenerate, replenish, renew. The three arts of probiotics. Broad spectrum. Different strains because different strains do different things. Okay? I'm using an antibiotic ointment, sodium chloride to keep the wounds clean. I don't know about ... If this is the first time, Deborah, the cat, okay, you got deep cat wounds. You got to be careful. You make sure that you never get any kind of cellulitis or whatever. Really be careful. Watch out. You're taking an antibiotic ointment. All the more reason to be taking probiotic. And put oil of oregano on there. I don't know about sodium chloride in terms of that. Okay? I like oil of oregano better. Okay. That was Deborah. Chantel, my 14-year-old daughter just tested positive for gluten. Okay? I used to say, okay, Chatel, let me finish because you're going to maybe dismiss what I got to say.
I used to say in the office, you can ask my staff. Gluten schmootin. Okay? Gluten smutin. Now I'm talking, go back 10 years, 15 years or whatever. Everybody was gluten intolerant. Okay? Everybody and their dog was gluten intolerant. Okay? And did I watch or listen to a video? I can't even remember. I must have watched. Yeah, I think I've watched it. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Talking about pesticides and herbicides, and that's one of the big reasons for all the gluten and the celiac that we're seeing. I don't know about that. All I know is that I found you start number one with the microbiome. You start with the gut. You got to fix the gut. Okay? So Chantel, if you're going to get a celiac diagnosis, okay. Well, now you got to watch for gluten, but remember now, if you go eggs, meat, and cheese, okay?
If you go eggs, meat, and cheese, almost invariably, your daughter will feel better. Okay? Now, you can get gluten-free products. I never liked them. Be honest with you, I never liked them. They were carb-loaded and I was sort of against that stuff. There was a whole industry. It's not so big anymore. Maybe I'm just missing out, but I don't see, oh, this is gluten-free. Well, look, if she's a true celiac, it's autoimmune. Start with the gut. I used to get really good results with celiac in my office. And I got them off the carbs. I got them off the sugars. I got them on probiotics. Big time, no sweets, no drinks, no fruit juices, nothing like that. And I got good results with that. Now, they have to comply. Not always easy. Anyway, her blood work is also showing low in iron. Yeah, she's not absorbing.
She's got a malabsorption problem there. I used to see that all the time. And again, you want probiotics, you want digestive enzymes, and we ever get our blood boost back. Oh, can't even call it that. Multinutrient. Oh, I get a headache. Eat steak. Okay. She'd been having stomach pains for a while, which led to the ultrasound showed bowel gas. Okay. Stomach pains for a while. Yeah, Chantal, your daughter, I'm telling you there's help. There really is help. You don't have to live with a gut like that. Okay? Anyway, get to the bottom of it. Okay. And that was Chantel. Carol, dermatomyositis. Okay? I was diagnosed November of 2024 out of nowhere. What are your thoughts on this? Carol? Well, it's much like lupus. Okay? Much like lupus. Affects the skin. It affects muscles. Can affect organs. Very serious diagnosis. Now, Carol, any autoimmune, okay? When you think autoimmune, which this is, it's an autoimmune, meaning auto.
Your body is turning on itself. How does that happen? Why do we see so much of it today compared to what we used to? Look, autoimmune's been around a long time, guys. Okay? It's not like I never saw autoimmune in the 1970s. Of course I did. Rheumatoid arthritis and Sjogren's and Hashimoto's and Graves, the autoimmune disorders of the thyroid. I saw it. Of course I did. But not like today. Not like today. Today, autoimmune is crazy like epidemic. And here's my theory, and you have to understand where I come from. I have a theory on autoimmune, and I believe I'm right about it. It always starts in the gut. Leaky gut, leaky skin. Leaky gut, leaky lungs. Leaky gut, leaky brain, MS. Leaky gut. Leaky brain. Parkinson's. These, in my opinion, are autoimmune. The body turns on itself. Now, my theory, okay? Leaky gut causes an invasion of fungus.
I call it the third army. An invasion at the southern border, your gut, between the blood-gut barrier. Now, the number one culprit, in my opinion, okay? The number one culprit for all of this are antibiotics. And guys, again, for all the new folks listening to me, please listen carefully because people accuse me of stuff that I didn't say. I have always said that antibiotics are the greatest discovery in medicine, even better than insulin. Why do I say that? Because they've saved millions of people's lives. Okay? They really have. But there's a double-edged sword to them. Antibiotics wipe out. Your good bacteria. You take an antibiotic, your infection goes away, but you don't realize because it's an invisible war that you have a war going on inside your gut, especially there.
And when there's no friendly bacteria or very few friendly bacteria to protect your gut, blood barrier, they're part of it. Okay? You have a leakage. Now, medicine fought this for years. Medicine, anybody that ever used the term, remember, I've been around a long time, guys. Okay? I used to say this on radio. Go back. 30 years, 35 years. Talking about leaky gut. I did it even with in chronic fatigue syndrome. I talked about adrenal gland exhaustion and leaky gut because I saw it all the time in people with chronic fatigue. There's an invasion. The Trojan horse comes into the body. Now, everybody has some yeast. Everybody has some candida. Okay? That's east. It's a fungus. It starts a process. And I call these people that get autoimmune. It's the canary in the coal mine. And there's an invasion of a species and it overwhelms the body.
And remember, yeast and fungus is a carrier. It hitches its ... Just like cholesterol's a carrier, but it's a good carrier. Yeast is a bad carrier because it loves to hitch its wagon onto toxins. Yeast is a toxin in abundance. And then it takes heavy metals like mercury, lead, cadmium. It can hitch its wagon to it and even bring it across the northern border, the blood-brain barrier. Now, this has been my theory for a long time. I haven't bent. I read anything that I can read and I'm still very much convinced. Now, there's other reasons that the gut gets compromised. It's not just antibiotics, but that's the number one thing. Okay? There's herbicides, pesticides, microplastics. Do you think your gut was made for 200 pounds of sugar a year? Like a dump truck load of sugar? No. High fructose corn syrup. We thought that it went straight to the liver and then we find out that it creates havoc in the microbiome too.
So man introduces a sugar that your body doesn't even really know what it is and it messes up even in the microbiome. Okay? So that's why when you come out with a diagnosis of, what do you even call it? I don't even remember. It's an autoimmune disease. But you see, for me, I was a history taker. I always loved human history and I love your medical history. I was big on that in my office. You didn't get away from me. You didn't get even to see me unless you were telling me about your health. Go back to even your childhood. I want to know. And one of the things that was consistent in well over 90% of the patients with autoimmune, the overuse of antibiotic. And there's non-steroidal anti-inflammatories like NSAIDs. People that lived on Advil and even Tylenol, they don't call it necessarily an NSAID, but it is.
Okay? And it affects the microbiome guys. And that's an ecosystem. And you need as many good guys as you have bad guys. So that's my theory on autoimmune. Okay? Then don't feed the bears. If there's yeast, you get off all sugars, all sugar molecules like bread, pasta, rice, cereals, all those same juices. They're just sugar molecules holding hands. And they break down into sugar and they feed Candida. Don't feed the bears. Do you remember that statement? Gee, I wrote a book about 30 years ago about that. Don't feed them. Okay. Is that it now? I think I hit everybody. I think I did. I just want to make sure ears I go through. You know what? If I missed out, would you let me know? I think I did everybody. I really did. Yeah, I think I did. Okay. So guys, we got a good week.
Well, shortened week a little bit, right? Christmas week. My plan to be on tomorrow, Christmas Eve, Wednesday, and then Friday. So we'll take Christmas day off and then back on Boxing Day for Q&A. Okay? Or if I don't get any questions, we'll do a session. Okay. Now, have you got your book yet? Okay. Thank you for the thousands that have. We appreciate it. Okay. Rebuild Your Temple. Okay? It's out in Canada and the USA. Thank you for your support. We appreciate it. Tony Jr. and I want to thank you. Okay? And did I tell you how much we love you? I haven't. Not in a while, but we really do. Talk to you soon.
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