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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone and welcome to another live this morning. Good to have you on with us as usual. You guys are great. Thanks for coming on. Let's do part three on, we're going to just stick to sugar today, I think. I want to give you another reason, okay? We talk about this not having sugar. When you're on the reset, one thing you're not eating is sugar. You're not drinking sugar, you're not eating sugar. You do that for 30 days. Unbelievable how good that is for you. I used to tell my patients this all the time. If you do nothing else and cut out sugar, watch what happens. Okay? Watch what happens. And the more they look at this, the more they look at this, it's amazing what happens inside your body when you just cut out sugar.
Now, new study out on something that we talk about on this program a lot. And that is nitric oxide. So think of nitroglycerin, explosion. Now think of people that used to suffer and even now with angina, which is a spasm of the heart. Lack of blood supply, the heart goes into a spasm, you get angina pain. What we didn't know when I was in school in the '70s is how nitroglycerin worked. Okay? We knew about it, but we didn't understand how it worked. And then it was in the 1980s and they won a Nobel Prize in medicine for this. They discovered a molecule that you and I have in our bodies, fearfully and wonderfully made. It's a molecule called nitric oxide. And it's found. It does a lot of things, but one of the things that creates is what they call vasodilation. What does that mean? It just think of an explosion, nitroglycerin, opens up your blood vessels. Now, this is significant. And you can imagine, like me, in the 1980s, when I found out that we had this molecule in our body called nitric oxide. So immediately I started talking about that and the importance of it and how to elevate your nitric oxide in your body.
But one thing we know is that sugar is destructive to nitric oxide. Now, we teach this almost daily. Okay? This is in our new book, Rebuild Your Temple. We talk about this, but I don't think there's a book that I've ever written that I didn't talk about the dangers of sugar. And what sugar does, okay? Your body knows this. The world out there doesn't know it because they don't care to know it. But you and I know that sugar is so toxic. Your body is dedicated to keeping your blood sugar within normal limits. Take out your blood out of your body and measure the sugar in it. You can do that. You know that little glucose monitor. You can measure your blood sugar at any time, but you'll find out that, and they've done this. Don't you do it. Don't try this at home. Eating 20 donuts. Okay? And taking blood sugar before, during, and after. And within an hour or two after you've had 20 donuts, don't do this at home. It's already been done. You know what you find out? Your sugar is back to normal, unless you're a diabetic.
What is diabetes? Diabetes is sugar left unattended. That's what it is. That's why blood glucose goes up. Sugar left unattended in the bloodstream. Well, your body is dedicated. I mean, super dedicated to never allow that to happen. You never want to have sugar unattended. So if you think sugar is good for you, well, you just don't understand the human body. You don't need sugar. Your body is dedicated to getting sugar out of the bloodstream because your body knows, and you guys know, that sugar is so destructive to blood vessels. It starts with blood vessels. And I always use the example of diabetes, right? A diabetic. It's sugar diabetes. Not protein diabetes. Oh, you ate too much protein. It's not that. Okay? It's not that. And sugar affects your nitric oxide. Okay? So let me just give you a little bit of background again, just so that you and I are on the same page.
One of the things that they discovered with erectile dysfunction in men. Okay? Why? Nitric oxide. The little wee blood vessels, the blood supply. And ladies, you have that blood supply too. Okay? But man, I mean, it became a big thing. If I would've been a prophet or the son of one, I would've invested in dialysis for kidneys and maybe the little blue pill. Right? Why? Because it became so popular. Billions and billions of dollars for men to buy the little blue pill. Well, what was it? What causes that? Nitric oxide. Remember, nitric oxide, explosion. A little molecule inside your blood vessels on the lining of your blood vessels that opens up, vasodilates your blood vessels. Sugar is the opposite of that. And why is that? Okay, think about this for a minute. Sugar, glucose. Okay? One of the words in glucose are, if you split it, is the word glue. Sugar is sticky. True or false? Well, spill some sugary drink on a counter. Leave it there. And the next morning or whatever, you're going to find it's pretty sticky, isn't it? You better clean it up. Right? You drop a soda on the floor. It doesn't take long. It gets very sticky. What is that? The glue in glucose. It's sticky. That's what it does inside your blood vessels, my friend. It's so sticky.
Besides the fact that over a period of time, it will destroy blood vessels. Not only because it's sticky, that's for nitric oxide, but it will literally destroy blood vessels. That's what sugar does. And I always rest my case, guys. I rest my case. Anybody wants to argue, anybody that wants to fight, and there are a lot of people that love to argue about this because they believe in moderation. They believe in it's all right, your body is, you can have it. You can have a donut. You can have a fruit drink. And I've always said, "No, don't do that because sugar is destructive." I'm not saying you're never going to have sugar, but don't try and justify it. Not with me anyway. You think I don't understand that? I like sweets or whatever and someone tells me that in the office, people would tell me that. "Well, doc, how about just a little bit?" I said, "no, stop it." I just tested you. Your insulin is too high. You have insulin resistance. Your triglycerides are too high. Your HDL cholesterol is too low. Your A1C is too high. I used to do the blood work, guys, and then I would deliver the message. I never couched it. I wasn't even a nice guy when I delivered blood work. I'm not trying to be your friend. I'm your doctor. So I'm going to tell you the truth.
And then came out the Titanic story. You're on the Titanic. Okay? And you might be dancing. You might not care. You might be looking up at the stars, but you're in trouble. You're in trouble. So you and sugar and anything that has sugar molecules holding hands like bread and pasta and cereals and rice and muffins and bagels and, oh, Dr. Martin, it's whole wheat. It's multi-grain. Who cares? It's your sugar molecules holding hands. You and that food don't get along anymore. You never did, but now you're on the Titanic and you need to do something because I'm not your friend. I love you. I care for you. I used to tell patients this. If your child or your grandchild goes into the middle of the road and there's cars coming. Oh, Susie, maybe if possible, maybe Susie, maybe Johnny, maybe you should consider maybe getting off the road. No, you scream it. Susie, get off the road. And I don't care if there's even spit coming out. If you love someone, you tell them the truth. There's cars coming. And this is why, guys, why do you think I'm so dramatic? Why have I got a one track mind, it seems, with sugar? It's sticky. It decreases your nitric oxide, your blood vessel. So high blood pressure. The number one cause, I'm telling you, it's not the only cause of high blood pressure.
Think about this for a minute. Okay? You're not getting the vasodilation of your blood vessels. And it's amazing. When you do the reset, how many thousands and tens of thousands of people, oh, my blood pressure went down. Yeah. Why? Well, nitric oxide. Sugar went down. Nitric oxide goes up. I know it sounds simple because cardiologists, God love them, but guys, cardiologists, you cut back on salt. You hear me? Salt. Don't blame salt for what sugar does. Salt doesn't affect your blood pressure. Well, the only way it could is if you were dehydrated and you weren't drinking any water. Can I give you a little tip? Why are diabetics thirsty all the time? Think about it. Right? It's one of the signs of diabetes. It's thirst. Well, you need water. It's trying to dilute the sugar. Sugar's high in the bloodstream and the river needs to flow to lower the sugar. And that's why the best way to test for diabetes, I still think it's the best way to test for it. Yeah, you know me. I love A1C. I love looking at blood sugar. I do. But guys, the old fashioned way of sugar in the urine, I don't know how many times when we did the urine analysis, I'd stick my bony finger out at that patient. I said, "You got sugar in your urine, my friend." You already hit the iceberg. Get into the life boat. Nitric oxide. Very important. Okay?
Now, I want to bring to you because the research on this is pretty incredible, guys. And again, on this program, we talk about this a fair amount and that is the disorder and one of the biggest killers in our society today that we hardly ever heard of before. Well, look at guys, you got to go back for me. Okay? Remember, I graduated in 1974 in the days of Noah, as my grandchildren will tell me. Okay? But remember, Alzheimer's, was there dementia? Yes. Did we know anything about it? No. 1970s. It was rare. It wasn't like it didn't happen. Senility, right? We studied sinility. A person became senile, but today it's a major problem. It's one of our biggest fears in society. Take a survey. This has been done. Take a survey. And what are people scared of? Losing their memory. How many of us have seen loved ones or family members or people that we know or whatever, and they got Alzheimer's, they got dementia. And it's a sad state of affairs, isn't it? Well, what happens? A Nobel Prize was given out. Remember in my radio days, a Nobel Prize was given out. And this was big news on my program. In 2005, I mean, I preached it. I was John the Baptist, preaching about this Nobel Prize and medicine given out to people who discovered that Alzheimer's was type three diabetes. That's what they called it.
And today, you could Google it, but good luck anybody talking like that. They don't like that. The food industry, you think they liked that? The pharmaceutical industry, you think they liked that? They went down a one lane highway, one way. And it all had to do with plaque. Amyloid plaques in the brain. And they spent billions and billions of dollars to prove that theory and to find medication to help the amyloid plaque, the protein. And I was John the Baptist in the wilderness, hello? It's type three diabetes. It's sugar. It destroys nitric oxide. It's sticky. It's blood flow to the brain. Not enough nitric oxide. Blood flow to the brain. Sugar is sticky. And a brain that's swimming in a fuel that it can't use. Right? Talk to you about this so many times. You're swimming in the Atlantic ocean. Okay? Visualize it. Are you drinking the water? Nah. And when the brain is full of glucose, okay? It's the wrong fuel for a lot of reasons. And your body's dedicated to getting sugar out of your bloodstream. And then you develop insulin resistance in the brain. And insulin can't cross the blood brain barrier anymore. And sugar is destructive to blood vessels. They call it small vessel disorder. Those little blood vessels in the brain.
Sugar is so destructive, guys. It's sticky, number one, and it lowers your nitric oxide. Can't open up, can't open up. So when nitric oxide is low, okay? Let's just stick with Alzheimer's for a minute. Blood flow, we talked about that. Okay? Can't open up. Okay? Can't open up. You can't uptake the glucose. Nitric oxide helps with glucose uptake. Well, think about it. Opens up your blood vessels. The more your blood vessels are opened up, the more insulin can uptake your sugars and park it. Blood vessels is a no parking zone. Insulin's job, like the traffic cop, is to take sugar out of the bloodstream. It's dedicated to it and park it anywhere but the blood. You guys know this. It's just repetition of teaching. Okay? When you elevate nitric oxide, okay, think about this for a minute. You elevate nitric oxide, your blood vessels open up. You know what happens? You have more blood supply. When you have more blood supply, you know what happens? You have less inflammation.
Now, we talk about inflammation all the time. It's not Houdini. Very destructive over a period of time to blood vessels, inflammation, because it's not meant to stay there. Inflammation is on your side if you have an injury or an infection. Of course, you have a body's ambulance system. Well, what if it stays there? Well, it's not good. It's destructive. Those enzymes and all that protein and whatever, the extra blood supply, that's good with an injury, but not over a long period of time. That's what inflammation is so damaging. That's why inflammation is, they say it's at the root, but I never said that. Okay? Like even in medicine today, they go, inflammation can be very damaging. It's at the root of heart disease and cancer and Alzheimer's and that. Well, they're partially right, but it's not the root of it. There's a reason that inflammation is there. Like I said, it ain't Houdini. Sugar is a big thing and a lack of nitric oxide. So nitric oxide lowers inflammation. It opens up blood vessels. The blood can flow. It can flow back to the heart through your vascular system. Decrease oxidative stress. Okay? You know what that is. Rusting out. Inflammation and oxidation are two sides of a coin. They go together. So you lower that when you cut sugar down.
So all these things have an effect on the brain. I'm not saying there's no plaques, but that's not the cause. How do you get plaques in the brain? Like think of MS. It's plaques in the brain. What is Parkinson's? Well, it's a form of dementia. Plaques in the brain. Heavy metals got in there. How did they get in there? Again, and the more blood supply you have, that's why exercise is good. Okay? So let's talk about this just for a minute as we wrap up. What elevates your nitric oxide? Well, eliminate sugar. Eliminate the sticky stuff. The glue. That's why the reset's so good for you. It's one of the reasons. 30 days, no sugar. And then you'll find out. I get this feedback. Remember, the reset's been around for quite a while. The 30 day reset. Eggs, meat and cheese. I did it in my office, guys. I did it in my office. So I got all the feedback. I didn't send it out to the public until I knew it worked in my office and all the testing that we did. And they said, "This is incredible." I started out with only diabetic patients doing the reset. I said, "You got an allergy to sugar." What? An allergy. Stop it.
Then I gave it hormonal. I gave it, you name it. There was very few people ever that came into my office and if they had problems that didn't leave with the reset, I said, "You're going to start with food. We're going to reset your body. You know why? Because we're going to lower that insulin. Your insulin's going to take a break. And at the cellular level, you're going to thank me later because your cells are going to say, I was so tired of you insulin. You're always coming around. You give me a migraine. And your cells are going to regenerate. Those mitochondria within your cells are going to thank you because you're changing fuel. You're eliminating the sugar. And number two, now you're adding all the high octane 99% octane foods. And your brain especially, it thrives with the right fuel. There's so little debris. When you eat the right fuel, there's just not a lot of garbage. When you eat the wrong food, you got a lot of garbage. A lot of debris. You want to clear that out.
You know what elevates nitric oxide? The sun. Sun, steak and steel. Elevates nitric oxide. The sun, vitamin D. When you can't get the sun, take vitamin D with K2. Take vitamin D. Every cell in your body wants it. Vitamin D. Good for the brain. How can it be good for the brain, doc? Well, because it elevates your nitric oxide. You get sun on the skin and your nitric oxide gets better. Okay? Negative, eliminate sugar. Positive? Vitamin D. Nitric oxide. Why do you think one of the reasons I love pine bark extract, Navitol? Crosses the blood brain barrier. But it's one of the best ways to elevate nitric oxide. Proven. Opens up blood vessels. That's why it's good for blood pressure, but it's really good for protecting the brain. It's an anti-inflammatory. Elevates nitric oxide. And you see it advertised on TV. You see advertising for beets, right? Have beets because it elevates nitric oxide. Yeah, that's good for you. I'm not saying don't eat a beet. Okay? But I like pine bark. The research is done on nitric oxide with pine bark extract. Okay. There's more to it, but I thought I'd bring that out to you this morning.
Okay, guys. Send your questions in for Q&A Friday. If you haven't got your book, hot off the presses is Rebuild Your Temple. If you got the book, get into our book club, the private Facebook club, because I'm going to go in there live Friday morning. Okay? And I might do some other stuff there. I'm just figuring it out in that group. And that's because it's a book club and you're welcome to join. Okay? You made this a number one health book in Canada and we're going hard to make it number one in the Unitited States. It's a great book. The feedback has been good, guys. Thank you for doing that for us. Okay? I think you'll enjoy this book. I mean it. Okay? Okay, I'm going to breathe and we love you guys and we'll talk to you soon.
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