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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. We appreciate everyone who can come on when you can, and we thank you for doing that. Okay, guys, I want to finish up what we talked about yesterday. Yesterday we talked about doing the reset and what will happen immediately, as soon as you cut out sugar, nevermind changing fuels and you feel better and you're giving your body a detox and emptying your liver and all the things that the reset does, but just eliminating sugar. So yesterday we went over that. Right away, you decrease your risk of diabetes. Right away, big, big difference on the heart because salt is not hard on the kidneys. Sugar is. And you retain salt when you're eating sugar. So we went over that yesterday and here's a study, by the way. Okay? Here's a study that I looked up afterwards yesterday and it says reducing sugar, eliminating sugar has a better effect on blood pressure than even medication for reducing blood pressure. Just eliminating sugar.
Now, where have you heard that before? How often have I talked about that? Eliminating sugar. Okay. The study was a small study, by the way, but you know what I mean? You think the pharmaceutical companies are going to do a study like this to say that if you eliminate sugar, it's better than our blood pressure medication and without the boatload of side effects, by the way? Okay, now let's continue on. And then we talked about weight loss. We talked about lowering your triglycerides. Again, this is heart and even the weight loss heart lowers your triglycerides and elevates your HDL. That's really important. We went over the dynamics of that. Headaches and we talked about dehydration. And again, because your body holds onto salt, right? Sugar dehydrates. And then we talked about better hormones when your liver is empty, you're not driving your estrogen through the roof. And we talked about that. And then we talked about better sleep.
We talked about not feeding the bears, and that was a big factor. If you weren't with us yesterday, we were talking about decrease, and I saw this in my practice all the time, decreasing urinary tract infections. Okay? Not feeding the bears. And what are the bears? Yeast or candida. Remember, the invasion of the third army usually happens after antibiotics. You take an antibiotic for a bacterial infection in the urinary tract and you know what? It kills the bacteria, but now you get a yeast. And if you feed that yeast with sugar, you're going to get recurring urinary tract infections. It's like a vicious cycle. Saw this for years. And skin. One of the biggest factors in aging is a condition called glycation. Sugar glycates. It attaches to collagen and damages. Collagen. It also damages red blood cells because you can measure that's what A1C means. What is A1C? Okay. It's a measurement over three or four months. You know why? Because you can measure sugar because you know what it does? It glycates your hemoglobin in the middle of your red blood cell. It attaches to it. It glycates it. It ages it. And that's what happens to your skin. So just by eliminating sugar, what a difference that makes.
And again, guys, I bring you back to habits. You're used to, I got to have my sugar in my coffee and you're not reading labels. I know my audience isn't like that, but the world out there, they don't even know. Now, I've done this with you in the past, but I want to talk to you about a study. I think I've done two or three podcasts around this topic because it was a Danish study in 2010. So in 2010, I flagged this study. I don't know if anybody else was talking about it, but I was even on my radio show. This was something else. Okay? I often say there are studies that blow my socks off. This was one of them. It blew my socks off. 2010, Danish study. Okay? From Denmark. Okay, let's read about it. Okay? So what they did, it was for six months, no food changes at all. There was four groups. All they did was change what they were drinking. One of the groups was given one liter of soda, like a Pepsi or a Coke. I don't know which one. They just said soda. Okay? A sugary soda with high fructose corn syrup. One group. Okay? The other one was given whole milk, fatty milk. Okay? The other group drank water. Only water. It's the only drink that they drank. Okay? And fourthly, the other one drank diet soda with no sugar at all.
And then they studied these people for six months. And here's what they found. Okay? So you've probably heard this before or maybe you haven't. Okay? Let's do it again. Here's the study. And nothing changed in their food. No change in their diet. Only what they were drinking. Do you think that drinking and what you drink is important? Listen, Linda. Listen, Larry. A soda. One liter of soda a day. Sugary soda. High fructose corn syrup. In six months, they gained 22 pounds. In six months. Nothing changed. Had nothing to do with exercise. Had nothing to do with their diet. Only what they drank. The soda, 22 pounds. Okay? Milk. All they did, they weren't milk drinkers. They made them drink milk. No change. They didn't lose any weight. They didn't gain any weight. After six months. Water. Okay? They drank water. You come out of my office, you were drinking water. Okay? And the men, I don't like water. I said, "I don't care if you like it, you're going to do it because you got blood as thick as molasses and listen to me and you'll thank me later." It's a habit. Get used to it.
Anyway, the water group, all they did, they drank water, a liter of water a day. Okay? They lost five pounds. 22 pounds with the soda, milk, fat milk, no change. Water lost five pounds in six months. Only changed. Diet soda. Okay? They gained three pounds. So is diet soda a better alternative to drinking sugar? A little bit, but I don't like that stuff. Okay? And I'm just telling you the results. Don't shoot the messenger. Okay? I remember on the radio show. Dr. Martin, you're too hard on us. I'm just giving you information. You got to make choices. Not me. Okay? Not me. Okay? And by the way, okay, here's what they learned about diet soda. Okay? Any diet soda. Here's what they've learned. It changes your microbiome. That's probably where the weight gain comes. And even though it's not elevating sugar, it elevates insulin. So your body gets tricked with diet soda. Okay? Why does it get tricked? Well, there's a sweet taste to it, even though it's a no calorie sweetener that's put in there. But your body's tricked and it's still releasing insulin. Well, insulin is a fat storing hormone. Remember that.
If insulin is present in your blood, remember in my book, Sun, Steak and Steel, and in my book, Two Hormones that Want You Dead. I talk about insulin and insulin is a jail guard. If it's present in your bloodstream, impossible to lose fat. In my book, I got a picture of fat is in jail. Okay? And the jail guard right in front is insulin. It won't let you release fat. Okay? So when you drink water or coffee, because coffee lowers insulin response, it lowers it. I told you guys this for years and years. People, coffee, it's acidic. It's going to dehydrate you. You're going to lose all your minerals. And I said, "Well, it's better than metformin. Having it with your meal, you're going to secrete even less insulin." Said, Dr. Martin, because that's what the research shows with coffee. Okay? That's how good coffee is for you guys. It acts like metformin, the drug they give for diabetes. Okay, so we talked about that.
And remember now, okay, I just want to bring you a little bit more about glycation. Okay? Remember, glycation comes from sugar. Sugar attaches to protein, like collagen, skin. But not only that, sugar. It damages your, again, this goes to blood pressure. It damages your endothelial. That's your Teflon-like lining of your blood vessels. Glycation damages that. Okay? What does that do? Well, that has a big effect on blood pressure, on atherosclerosis, on men, ED, erectile dysfunction. Sugar. Well, again, I always say this, if you don't believe me, ask a diabetic. What do they have trouble with? Glycation. That's what glaucoma is. It's glycation. Blood supply. Atherosclerosis gets into the eyeballs. You got glaucoma. You got cataracts. You got ED men. Retinopathy. Stroke. Think of all the things that sugar does. Okay. Again, this is repetition. This is repetition. But I got to give you my clinical observation. Remember, I was in practice almost 50 years. Okay? I know I'm an old goat, but being an old goat gives you lots of experience and clinical experience.
I used to tell colleagues and gurus and over the years, "Yeah, you do research. I got clinical findings." Meaning I had real patients with real results looking at blood work every day, every day, every day. Looking at blood work, looking at biomarkers, looking at hormones, looking at all that stuff. Okay? That's what I used to do. And I did it for years. Okay? You get some experience. And I want to tell you with kids, okay? Because I didn't specialize in kids, but I saw thousands of kids over the years. Okay? And kids are smart. They really are. And I had to educate the parents. Okay? Tony Jr. and I were talking yesterday. I don't even know how it came up we were talking about. He said, "Dad, when you bring an animal, you bring your pet to a vet, they got problems in their bones, on their skin or whatever." The vet always said, "Well, what are you feeding your dog?" Then you go to a medical doctor, almost all of them. They don't even ask you. "What are you feeding your kid?" They don't even ask. They want to put them on drugs. They got ADD or ADHD and they're bouncing off walls. Teachers know this. "What did you eat this morning?" "Oh, I had my Cherios." Well, that wasn't good. Right? That wasn't good.
So for me, what I did in my office, okay, I talked to parents. I said, "They're leaving the house with the wrong food. You don't want to be giving them sugar in the morning." And I know it's convenient. This child happens to be a canary in the coal mine, and I used to talk to them about three things that sugar does. So they came into my office and the child, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10 years old, whatever it was, 12 years old, whatever. Kids are smart. They know what they're eating. They don't know the effect of it, but they know what they're eating. So I said, "yeah, okay, let's change your breakfast." And I said, "Here's three reasons. When you eat meat in the morning, you like eggs?" "Oh, I love eggs." "Good. Let's start your day with eggs, bacon and eggs, sausages and eggs, okay? And I don't want you having cereal. "What?" "No, I don't want you having any cereal." You don't get away with it because what happens is that cognitively, and they've proven this, the hypocampus, the memory center in the brain, sugar shrinks it.
Now, on the other end, far end of that spectrum is dementia, Alzheimer's. Sugar, remember Alzheimer's is type three diabetes. In diabetes, insulin can't keep up with the sugar. Remember what insulin's job is? Sugar, you're in a no parking zone. You cannot stay in the blood. Come with me. I'm going to store you. Even in the brain, that's what happens. So you've got a sugary diet and eventually your insulin can't take the sugar out. It can't cross the blood-brain barrier properly and you develop insulin resistance. And so in the brain, the sugar there. So what have I always told you? Your brain is swimming in fuel that it can't use. That's Alzheimer's and the brain shrinks, shrinks, shrinks. You get fat. Sugar makes you fat, but it shrinks your brain, cognitive. And behavior. Sugar turns kids into the Tasmanian devils, really affects their behavior. And generally they're canaries, remember they're the canaries in the coal mine. It doesn't happen to every kid. Even if kids, they seem to get away with it. They won't get away with it forever.
But you understand what I'm saying? You've got cognitive and then you have behavior and the kids bouncing off the wall. The kids bouncing off the walls. And then they want to put them on Ritalin. How many millions of prescriptions of Ritalin, sedation have been given to kids, not looking at the long-term side effects of it. Like that guys was malpractice big time, Ritalin. Malpractice. I was screaming in the '90s, in the '80s, screaming like John the Baptist in the wilderness. I was so angry about that. Kids giving medication and they never even looked at food for kids. Sugar is destructive for children, especially those who are the canaries in the coal mine. Okay? So one, cognitive. Kids, you adults, you too. Two, behavior. Amazing what happens when you cut out sugar in a child's diet. Amazing. And they got to be on board with it. It's not easy. I didn't say it was easy. They're surrounded. We live in a world that's surrounded and all the advertisements for cereals and for ice cream and for all the junk. It's hard. I get that. I'm a parent, I'm a grandparent, and I'm a great grandparent. Okay? I get it.
Thirdly, most people don't talk about this. In kids, but in adults too. Sugar disrupts the microbiome. And when you disrupt the microbiome, which is mostly not only, but mostly found in the gut, you affect the gut-brain axis. Okay? Axis. The blood brain axis. Remember, your brain and your gut are connected through the microbiome, through your vagus nerve, your 10th cranial nerve, you're connected. You get butterflies in your stomach because you're nervous. What do you think that is? Well, that's your vagus nerve. You see, sugar feeds the bad guys. Sugar feeds bad bacteria plus yeast. Remember, I always talk to you about yeast. The Trojan horse, the invasion of the third army into the gut, and kids are feeding fungus. Fungus. Here's what it does. It grows. Yeast grows, guys. Put it in bread. What happens? Right? It grows. It multiplies. Okay? But that's what it does inside the gut. Plus yeast now proliferates, crosses the southern border, your gut. And then crosses the northern border. The brain, the blood-brain barrier. Okay?
I studied the blood brain barrier in the 1970s. What did I know about it? Well, not much. All I knew is there were certain medications that went across the blood brain barrier. And that's usually when you get side effects if you have a med that goes across the blood brain barrier. And we studied that and we didn't know too much. Now we know it's the northern border. Your body has a border to protect your brain. It's a microbiome border. The same microbiome that's in your gut is in your brain or before your brain, the blood brain barrier. And so this is why kids, they are living on sugar and it feeds them. So you know what I'm saying, guys? And then remember what yeast does too, by the way, fungus does this. And you may not hear this elsewhere, but you're going to hear it on this program in repetition. You know what yeast does, the fungus? It's a carrier. It carries heavy metals across the southern border in your gut, the gut blood barrier, into the bloodstream, and then past the northern border, bringing mercury, lead, cadmium, aluminum, microplastics into the brain.
You see, kids are canaries in the coal mine. And if they're fragile at all, and they don't even talk about nutrition with kids, it drives me mental, guys. Okay? It drives me mental, right? It's tough, isn't it? Being a parent and a grandparent? Tough. It's tough to talk to your kids about nutrition, but kids are smart. And first of all, they want to see how you're eating, right? Anyway, okay. And by the way, let me just say one thing because it's in my notes here. Insulin resistance in children, which is very common, by the way, are five times more likely to have psychosis. Kids with insulin resistance, okay? Their cells are resisting insulin. They're tired of seeing it because they are carboholics and sugarholics. They're five times more likely to develop psychosis. You think there's no connection to food, guys? And this is why they're talking. Okay, I don't want to get into too much detail here, but this is why they're talking about a ketotic diet for depression and schizophrenia. We already knew what it did for epilepsy.
Okay, guys, what's tomorrow? Q&A Friday. Tomorrow's Q&A Friday. Okay? So send your questions in and we're going to take your questions tomorrow and answer. Okay? Did you get your book? Rebuild Your Temple. If you haven't got it, get it. Why? People are really enjoying it. And if you do have it, please join our book club. Okay? It's on Facebook. Rebuild Your Temple. Okay? Join us because tomorrow morning I'll do a little teaching, a little devotional at 8:00 AM Eastern. You can always watch it later, but if you can, I'll be on early at 8:00 AM Eastern in that private Facebook group. I did one last week. Okay? That's Friday mornings.
Now, the book, Sun, Steak and Steel, do you have that? This has got the 30-day metabolic reset. Now listen to my American friends. Not available yet there. Okay? Can't get it across the border right now and ship. Okay? But to my Canadian friends, okay? Sun, Steak and Steel. It's available in hard copy here. Okay? Get a copy of it because in here you have the metabolic reset, how to do it, why to do it, what it does. I have all the notes that you want. Okay? Plus there's a chapter in there on all the blood tests I want you to get from your doctor and how to interpret it in a sync simple language. Sun, Steak and Steel. Okay? In Canada only in the hard copy. Okay? It will be available in the USA, but not yet. Okay? Not yet. I'll let you know. Okay. Enough advertising. Okay, guys, you guys are wonderful. Thanks for being good friends to this program and good friends of mine. I consider you my friends and we love you dearly. Okay? I mean that, talk to you soon.
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