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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone, and once again, welcome to another live this morning. Nice to have you come on if you can. We love you. Okay, I want to talk about, we'll see how many studies we get to, but hot off the presses. Some new studies, couple of articles I found interesting. Okay, before I do that, let me answer a question because somebody asked me this question the other day and I didn't get to answer it. Okay, "Dr. Martin, why do I crave sweets after a meal?" Let me use this illustration so that you understand it. What goes up must come down. When you load up on carbs. Insulin. Remember, carbs are turning to sugar rapidly, right? It's at the speed that food breaks down into sugar. Speed is everything. So when you have a carb meal, pasta, rice, cereal, anything with sugar added, juices, whatever, okay?
Why do you crave sweets? Well, insulin comes in because sugar is now in a no parking zone in your blood vessels. Insulin won't allow it to stay. There has to come with insulin says, you come with me. You understand? You got to get out. It takes the sugar out of the bloodstream. Your blood sugar was very high. Insulin has a job to do. It takes it out, your sugar goes down. What goes up must come down. Now you're craving sweets. And the way to fix that, the reset, I've had thousands of people tell me after doing a 30 day reset, which you're eating no carbs and no sugars for 30 days, okay? What happens is there, you realize how you were fluctuating your blood sugars all the time, up, down, up, down. Insulin is got a job. It has to take sugar out of the bloodstream. That's its job. It must store it.
So when you do that in that yo-yo fashion, you're eating too many carbs. Your sugars skyrocket. For example, in the morning, you start with oatmeal. You know what happens? Your sugar spikes big time. Insulin comes racing in, takes the sugar out of the bloodstream from the oatmeal, okay? And now your sugars tank, and you are going to crave, you're going to be hungry, have bacon and eggs in the morning, have sausages and eggs in the morning. You know why? Because your blood sugar will remain steady. Insulin will be pretty well on the sidelines. It's got nothing to do. So it's food choices guys. When you eat protein and fat in nature, the way God gave it to you in an egg, in meat, in dairy, okay, good dairy, cream, butter, cheese, what happens? Well, there's very little sugar created. So what happens? Insulin's on the sideline doing nothing. That's what you want. You want insulin to have a part-time job, not a full-time job, okay?
You need insulin, don't get me wrong. It's on your side. It will save your life, but you don't want it working all the time. That's what happens with people when they make the wrong choices in food. They've been lied to, you've been lied to, okay? That's what we do on this program. We undo the lies because they're lies. Oh, you need the grains, you need the fiber. We'll talk to, I got a new study on fiber. Okay, we'll talk about that. Okay, so this was answering a question, Dr. Martin, why do I crave sweets after a meal? That's why, it's the fluctuation, the blood sugar. Insulin can't help it. If people insist on eating carbohydrates, you have a piece of bread and it's breaking down into sugar in nanoseconds, okay? It's just the way it is. Bread is just sugar molecules holding hands. That's all it is guys. Like bread, it's fast food.
Now, sourdough is better, Rosie's bread is better. Don't doubt about that. But you know what I mean, guys. It's at the speed that food breaks down. That's so important. When you have a steak, don't break down quick, insulin's on the sideline. You're having hamburger, great, except the bun. Now you need insulin. Now you need a lot of insulin. Leave the bun behind. Okay? That's what it is. Thank you very much for the question. I didn't even write down who asked me that, their first name, but I said, okay, I'm going to answer the question because I forgot to answer. Okay? And what did I tell you yesterday? Don't leave home without it. For me. I don't, my senior card, I forget.
Okay, a new article on vitamin E, exercise, especially muscle. You can exercise and not have a lot of muscle. Exercise is always good. But you know on this program, we always talk about building strength, build muscle. And this article is saying it, okay? Vitamin E exercise, not just movement. It's building an endocrine powerhouse. Muscle is an endocrine powerhouse. Okay? Now, this study went on to say it's a full body communication system. Your muscles communicate with your brain. They actually help regenerate the brain. So when you do leg day, remember that's brain day too. There's a huge connection. Talks to your brain, talks to your fat molecules, okay? Stronger, sharper, healthier muscle. And I always use the example of, you ever seen a sumo wrestler? Okay? Japanese sumo wrestlers, people that, how can they even move? They're so big. But when they analyze a sumo wrestler, you know what they have? They have so much muscle, they're so strong that they don't have diabetes. How do you like that?
You look at them and go, my word, they're out of shape. No, they're not. Well, I don't think they can run a mile. All I know is when they analyze them, because they have so much muscle. And muscle means storage space for carbohydrates, for sugars. They have a lot of storage space. But a lot of people that are obese, for example, they have sarcopenia. They don't have enough muscle. That is a double whammo for people. When you are bigger and no muscle, a lot of people are big, but they have very little muscle. And you can be very tiny and have no muscle. And you know what? You're no better off. Oh, doc, I'm skinny. Yeah but you could be skinny fat. You are sarcopenic, you have no muscle. And when you have no muscle, everything is in trouble, including your brain. There's a real connection that they're between muscle and brain, real connection. And like I said, you can be skinny as a rake and be very unhealthy. You can have visceral fat around your organs and you wouldn't even know it. And you have no muscle.
So, the more we study muscle, the better we like it. And you could be my age and gain strength. It's not too late. Get started. Get cracking. Oh, no, that's for eggs. Well, eggs will help your muscle. Okay? That was a study. Okay, let me see. I got that. Let me knock that one off. Aggressive use of another thing on the negativity of antibiotic. Where have you heard that before? On this program. Now, I always put a little asterisk here for those new listening. Here's the Martin Clinic. Here's the Doctor Is In, antibiotics, have saved millions and millions of people's lives. Okay? So I'm not against them. I'm against the overuse of them. The studies are incredible, incredible. When they've honestly looked, you have to understand, I've been around since the seventies. And boy, if you talked against antibiotics in the seventies, I mean they would run you out of town. But I always said no antibiotics had a double-edged sword because I understood. And even back in the seventies, the microbiome, I didn't understand much about it compared to what I know today.
But the microbiome gets affected and remember this, okay? This is what this study is saying. Aggressive use of antibiotics. They become a mood disruptor. Anxiety. One of the causes is disruption of the microbiome. Your gut. Remember, you have more serotonin in your gut than you have in your brain because people think mental health issues, they think brain, brain chemistry. True. But don't forget your gut because your gut has more serotonin than your brain has, and they give you s SSRIs to uptake the serotonin, but you have more serotonin in your gut, and thus the antibiotic, it wipes out all your friendly bacteria. It gives you a condition of dysbiosis, and that creates the invasion of the third army, yeast or fungus. You understand? And that disrupts your serotonin. Who knew that antibiotics. The double-edged sword, right? They're just finally getting at this stuff. Aggressive use of antibiotics, disrupts the microbiome, can be a major factor in mood disruption, anxiety creation. Leaky gut, leaky brain. Okay?
Here's another one. Vitamin D and B12 status in vegetarians and vegans. It ain't good guys. It ain't pretty. This study came out of Beijing China and participants who only ate vegetables and fruit and no meat, no dairy, no eggs. You know what happened? 88% of the participants were severely deficient in vitamin D, fat soluble vitamins and B12. So here's the memo, guys, out of the study of China, and I talked to someone the other day, actually, they're a vegetarian. I said, can I change your mind? They said, no. I said, okay, can I give you some advice? Yes. Okay. I couldn't change their mind, but they said they'll take some advice. You need to be on B12 the rest of your life. Take it every day. Take about four or 5,000 micrograms every day. I said, okay, I'm just giving you advice. I guarantee you are low in B12. I guarantee it. It's impossible that you're going to have enough B12. Okay, got the memo?
Okay, now you need to take vitamin D. Even if you're in the sun, you need to take vitamin D. Why? Because vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin and you're going to be low in it, deficient in it. Take vitamin D. You need to take heme iron. Why? Because Popeye didn't get strong because he was eating spinach. Popeye got strong because he was eating meat. I guarantee you. You need to take the heme iron because the iron you get from vegetables won't be enough. And it's not like you're going to drop dead if you're vegetarian or vegan. It's not like you're going to drop dead right on the spot. That's not what happens. It's slow, but it is going to get to the station. It's a slow train, but it's going to get to the station. And if you're deficient in B12, I'm sorry, you're in deep, deep doodoo. Doctors, B12, it might be high. They don't know what they're talking about.
B12, your brain don't work without it. Your metabolism doesn't work properly without it. Your nerves, it's a nerve vitamin. It's a brain vitamin, vitamin D, Sun, Steak, and Steel. Remember that book? You can still get it. Canada, what am I telling you? Well, vitamin D, you need it. How could the Inuit, how could they be all right in vitamin D? They never see the sun. Well, when they do, they're not taking their clothes off to get vitamin D. You know what? They eat it every day. They have cod liver oil. They eat the organs and they get all the vitamins and the B12 and that they need, okay?
Number four, PPIs, black box warning. You know what PPIs are? Proton pump inhibitors. Look, it's one of the most prescribed. And now you get it over the counter, right? You don't even need a prescription for most PPIs like the purple pill, Nexium or Prilosec, or you name the medication, you can get over the counter. They're proton pump inhibitors, right? They stop acidity. And when you got acidity, oh, that's no fun. You got a heartburn. Oh, terrible. And you take a pill, but you're not fixing the problem. But it's not even that you're not fixing the problem, but it's worse than that. Here's a new study on PPIs. We always knew that once you take a PPI, you're not absorbing the food that you're even eating properly. You're not going to get B12. B12 is a finicky vitamin at the best of times. You're taking a PPI. Nope, nope. You better be taking B12. Your vitamin D, your B vitamins. You're not going to break 'em down, guys. PPIs, that's the problem. It's one of the big problems.
But here's the new study. Okay? Here's the new study. You get kidney damage and they're saying it's very dangerous because there's no symptoms. Your kidneys start shutting down and you don't even know it until it's too late. According to this new study on PPIs, proton pump inhibitor. And guys, you know me here at the Doctor Is In. What have I said to my audience? You have to understand where I come from. And I've said this so consistently. What have I said? The problem with people is they think they're smarter than God and they go, well, meat, bad. Eggs, limit, butter, meh. That's what they do. Be careful with that. They get you cholesterol. But here's what's happened, guys. Your stomach pH should be more acidic than a lion in the 1.5 range of acidity. That's enough to melt. If you took your stomach acidity, if it's working properly and put it on your table, it had burn a hole in it. That's how acidic your stomach should be. Very acidic, more than a lion.
Now, I've never followed a lion around. I don't know if you have, but here's what I know about lions. They eat meat. They live on it. They're not vegetable people. Lions go around and they look for meat. They're meat eaters. So they have a very acidic stomach for that, because you need acidity to break down meat. Humans have more acidity or supposed to have more acidity than a lion. What does that mean? Well, it means you're supposed to be eating meat. That's what it means. And when you don't, your pH changes. I've seen this 10,000 times in my office. You're a carboholic. Your stomach wasn't made. It doesn't mean you can't eat any carbs. I'm just saying it wasn't made for carbs. It was made for meat. And then what happens? You don't eat it because you've been indoctrinated or someone gave you religion.
Guys, vegetarianism and veganism is a religion. I used to have young ladies, especially, I can't remember if I've ever seen a guy, but young ladies, they come into my office, Dr. Martin, I can't eat anything that's got eyeballs. I used to grab their little face. Can I change your mind? You need to eat food with eyeballs including fish. Fish. I'm sorry. It's the way your body was designed. And I always use this proof in the pudding. Okay, salad. Dr. Martin salad. I heard that a million times a salad. I love my salad. I said, yeah, okay. But a cow eat salad and it has four stomachs. It's called rumenation. Over and over and over and over. They regurgitate their salad, their grafts. They got four stomachs. You don't have four stomachs, you have one.
And that is a huge problem today in our society because people have bought it that you're not supposed to eat meat or limit your meat and this kind of thing. And what they find out is they get acid because their body's saying, well, the pH in the stomach has gone up. It should be going down. It's gone up. It becomes more alkaline. And now your body says, oh, well, I better produce more acid. So what does it do? The proton pumps, they secrete acid, lots of it. And then it goes up your esophagus and you go, I got a heartburn. Isn't it amazing when people cut out sugar and they start to eat the diet that they're supposed to eat? What happens in the body and proton pump inhibitors? Yeah. Oh, I feel better as long as I take a pill. But the results are in folks and they keep coming in. It's a disaster in the long run. A disaster for your body, brain, kidneys, bones. You need those minerals. They need to be absorbed in your stomach. You need all those vitamins. They need to be broken down in your stomach and absorb into your small intestine.
Okay, might as well do this one and let me close with this. Okay, let me close with this one on fiber, okay? Because they're connected here. Fiber's overrated, guys. I've always said that. And I know that goes against, pardon the pun, the grain of most people, including gurus. Oh, you need fiber because it feeds your friendly bacteria. No, it don't. It's so overrated because when you have fiber, it doesn't get absorbed in the small intestine. It actually blocks a lot of that absorption of your vitamins and minerals in your small intestine. It's way overrated. So Dr. Martin, I won a prize. Oh, what was your prize? Well, I had the biggest stool. I didn't know there was a prize for that. Yeah, I won. I got the biggest stool. What does that do? It blocks absorption.
I'll tell you how many thousands of people that had ulcerate of colitis that had diverticulosis or diverticulitis and IBS, and you know what I did? You're going on the reset and I don't want to hear you about it. Don't argue with me. Trust me for 30 days. Get off all the fiber you're eating. Well, Dr. Martin, I won't be able to go to the bathroom. That's the point. We're going to slow that down. You drink coffee and water and trust me and get off all that fiber and watch how much better your diverticulosis gets and watch how much better your IBS gets and watch how much better your ulcerative colitis gets. You're irritating your bowel. I wasn't popular. I wasn't trying to win a popularity contest. I was trying to help people get better.
You know what tomorrow is? It's Q and A, Q and A Friday. Okay? For those on our private Facebook group, our little book club with Rebuild Your Temple, I'm going to do a little devotional live tomorrow, okay? At 8:00 AM. So if you do have the book, join us on that. Okay? I think you'll enjoy it. Tomorrow is Q and A. So send you questions in. It's not too late. info@martinclinic.com. info@martinclinic.com. Okay guys, we love you dearly, sincerely, and every other way you know that we love our audience. Thank you for being so faithful. We appreciate it. Tell your friends, okay, love you.
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