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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone, and once again, welcome to another live this morning, Q&A Friday. How are you? Nice to have you on. We love you guys. Thanks for coming. We appreciate you more than you know. Okay, let's get to some questions here this morning. Joanne is asking about sweeteners, not artificial ones, but the sugar alcohol ones. She's asking about erythritol. I talk about this a lot. Monk fruit. "Does it elevate blood sugar?" No, doesn't elevate blood sugar, but some of them elevate because of the sweetness. Okay? Stevia, they don't elevate your blood sugar, so that's a good thing, right? But some of them elevate insulin because of the sweetness of their taste and the body responds by sending in some insulin. Look, overall for me, when you're on the Titanic, I have to say this guys, when you're on the Titanic metabolically, don't worry about the deck chairs around you.
If you need to use some erythritol, monk fruit to sweeten things, I'm not going to blow a gasket over it, okay? I'm not because I want you to focus. I want you to eat eggs, meat, and cheese for 30 days, and I want you to cut out all the sugar for 30 days and then when you get beyond that, you want to use some sweetener. I talked about this last week. The best sweetener you could use really and don't overdo, it would be a maple syrup and honey, like raw honey. You're going to use a little bit of a sweetener? Got to have it in my coffee? Why don't you use that at least it's 100% natural. Now, remember, I'm a big guy on watching your insulin, so a teeny weenie, teeny weenie, yellow poke and dark bikini, little wee bit of that stuff if you're going to use, but I like the natural sweetener better, like monk fruit is natural. Stevia is from the root plant. It's natural. I don't particularly like the taste of stevia, but that's just me. Okay? If you have to use some sweetener. Anyway those are some of your options, okay? It's not the end of the world. I like the big picture especially, and then once you're really got yourself eating properly and you've introduced back some fruit and vegetables into your diet, but you're living mostly without sugar at all, you're doing really well. You want to add a little bit of a sweetener? I'm not going to blow a gasket over it, okay? That's my answer. Okay? Thank you for that.
Dana. "My friend has AFib and has been taking Xarelto." Okay, which is a blood thinner, by the way. "She also takes Navitol. She just found out she should not be taking pine bark." I don't know who told her that. Pine bark extract, Navitol. I've been using it for 40 years. It's not a blood thinner. You know what Xarelto does? It thins your platelets. It thins your platelets, and if you've had a stroke or you have AFib and they're worried about you getting a stroke, they want to thin your blood. Now, of course, Xarelto and others, they come with a boat load of side effects including bleeding, internal bleeding, the opposite of what pine bark does because pine bark elevates your nitric oxide. It opens up your blood vessels. It's an antioxidant. It protects your blood vessels. It doesn't thin your blood. I know that sometimes you see that, but that's not what it does at all. Okay? You're on a blood thinner in terms of natural. The only thing, if you were on a blood thinner, I'd tell you not to, maybe not to do it if you weren't under a physician's care is maybe not take nattokinase, okay? But I know they do it and I'm glad you asked. Okay? I'm glad you asked, but it doesn't do that. It's like they tell you you're on a blood thinner. Well, don't take omega-3 or high DHA or whatever. Why? It protects your blood vessels. It lubricates your blood. It doesn't thin your blood. Water thins your blood. You're not supposed to drink water. Anyway, thanks Dana.
Jen, "what is my opinion on eye floaters? Parasites?" Meh, I guess it's possible. I never looked at that. Floaters to me, anything with the eyes guys has to do with circulation. It's blood vessels behind your eyes. You get floaters, you got trouble with circulation in behind the eye. I've always said it. Floaters, cataracts, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy. I don't care. It's circulation. That's why I like the combination of high DHA because your eyeballs are made of DHA. It lubricates those blood vessels and then I love Navitol, the pine bark extract. It opens up the nitric oxide. It protects those blood vessels in the eye, and I put those two things together and I proved it to ophthalmologists. I proved it to optometrists that would, listen, this is the best combination you can do for your eyes, including floaters. It's possible I guess that they're parasites, but that was not my experience in my practice, okay? It really wasn't for me. Okay? I know some people say that, but I don't necessarily agree with that.
Okay, Lise, "what are the best vitamins for ADHD for someone over 40?" Navitol, crosses the blood brain barrier. High DHA. Your brain is made up of DHA, probiotics, leaky gut, leaky brain, leaky gut, leaky brain, and cut out the sugar, food wise. B12, brain. It's a brain vitamin, vitamin D. It's a brain vitamin. That's what I would do Lise.
Rita. "I came across a statement from Google on Paloma Health," never heard of them. "At the bottom of the page and said that flax seeds should not be consumed excessively for thyroid health." Well, I know why they say it because they look at flax seeds as phytoestrogens, but flax seeds are different, guys. I've taught you this over the years. Why are flaxseeds Dr. Martin's favorite seed? Because they are a hundred times more lignans in flaxseeds. What does that do? That blocks xenoestrogens. It's actually very good for your thyroid because estrogen, when it's in dominance, in comparison to progesterone, if it is dominant. And that's a big problem in our society today, not only for women, for men too, too much estrogen. Why? Well, we're surrounded by xenoestrogens, from microplastics to herbicides to pesticides. It's in the soil, it's in the water, it's in our food, it's in the air, it's everywhere. Estrogen is a growth hormone and it'll slow your thyroid to a crawl. That's why I like dimming it out and lignans in flax seeds, which a very unique ratio a hundred times more than any other seed, it blocks the bad xenoestrogens. That's why I love it. That's why it's good for your thyroid. It's the opposite of what they say. Okay, I know why they say. They're wrong. I'm right.
Pierre, "Moringa. How much to take?" I don't know. I remember this is going back 20 years more than that. Moringa. It was the hottest things. Hottest supplement was moringa. It cured everything from warts on your nose to pimple on your toes. I mean, that's what they said. I didn't dislike it. I understood the components of the moringa plant. I like pine bark better. I like it better as an antioxidant. It's more powerful. I like it better for nitric oxide, which is your blood vessels, opens up your blood vessels for blood pressure for better circulation. I like it better. I like it better for elevating your glutathione, which is your Velcro that your body makes. Pine bark does it better than moringa does. So do I like it? Yeah, I like moringa. You want to use it? Yeah. Go ahead. How much? I don't know. I don't know what to tell you. Google it if you want to use it or if you have a bottle, it'll tell you how much they recommend. I just like good, better, best when it comes to supplements. Okay?
Good, better, best. That's the way I operate, and so I know what I'm very familiar with. In my practice, you were in my practice. I didn't want anybody to go into the weeds. Okay, so I didn't let like what about this? What about that? What about this? What about that? No, I say no. Listen. For 30 days, I want you to change your diet and if you were deficient in B12 or vitamin D or any deficiency, you fix it and I said, okay, you're fatigued. I'm putting you on Navitol and you'll thank me later. Are your cortisol was high? I'm putting you on cortisol formula. Why? You'll thank me later. I was very, very, very specific. You got problems with leaky gut? You're going on probiotics, okay? This is what I am not requesting. Well, you came to see me now. I'm very specific. I'm going to tell you exactly what you should do. Okay, that was Pierre.
Lucille. Lucille has been battling a cold all week, and I don't know where you are at even today, Lucille, I don't know when this question came in. First sign of a cold, you sort of feel it. Oil of oregano, couple of drops. Okay, I got a little spray bottle. I make oil of oregano and a little bit of salt water, and I spray it in the back of my throat at the first sign of a cold. Is it ever good. Man, oh man, that stuff is unreal. And then I would recommend you do the hammer of vitamin D. Okay? The hammer, 50,000, okay, so if you have our vitamin D 50 drops not droppers, drops. Every drop is a thousand IUs. Fifty, 3 days in a row. Unbelievable results with that hammer. Okay? Hey guys, I've been around a long time talking about vitamin D, a long time. Oil of oregano, vitamin D. A lot of people like vitamin C, not me. I like coffee. No, but seriously for a cold, nah, no hammer vitamin D guys, because your T cells are waiting for it, your immune system is waiting for it. Okay? Give it the hammer. Okay? That was Lucille.
Babita is seeing small gray hairs. Babita happens to the best of us. Okay? Now you're talking, I think, Babita. I don't know how old you are. You're looking at premature gray hairs. Okay? Now, when it comes to your hair, I'm a big guy on protein because that's what your hair is. You take a strand of your hair and 99% of that strand is protein. When you don't eat enough protein, your hair weakens. Okay? Now there's a lot of factors. The biggest thing I think in premature graying is usually a lack of B12. Okay? That's been my experience. B vitamins, yeah. Not eating enough steak, not eating enough eggs, meat and cheese, but a lot of people are gray. They get gray early in their lives. It's not a big deal, okay? It doesn't mean necessarily a huge deficiency. There can be some deficiency. Remember when you came into my clinic, I used to look for deficiency. I didn't look at your gray hair. I looked at deficiency and we'd fix those, and sometimes people say, you know what, doc? My hair's not, gee, I am getting back my natural color again. Well, maybe, maybe not. Okay. Anyway, Babita, okay? She's using tweezers to take them out. Love that.
Okay, Jackie, this is coming back to last week, Jackie. I didn't understand what she was saying because the first time I've ever heard this in my life last week, Jackie said she found out she was allergic to candida albicans. Well, everybody's got candida albicans in their body, so she comes back and says, well, a doctor tested her and said that's what she had. She had a positive reaction to candida. You got leaky gut 100%, and I would suggest to you, okay, now that you're giving me more information, Jackie, you got an overgrowth of candida. The fact that you showed sensitivity to it, I don't call that an allergy. You have an overgrowth to it and don't feed it. Candida albicans lives on junk. It's a sugar eater, it thrives. Don't feed the bears. Remember my t-shirt? Remember I wrote this in several books, don't feed the bears. Sugar feeds candida. But you never get candida overgrowth unless microbiome has been compromised either through antibiotics generally. That's the number one reason that you would get an overgrowth of candida. You wiped out your good guys taking an antibiotic along with your bad guys, but then the Trojan horse comes in, so treat it sort of like you got an overgrowth, and that's what I would tell you to do. Don't feed it. Probiotics, big time, Jackie. Okay?
Janet, another autoimmune. She says, I've got connective tissue autoimmune. Yeah, leaky gut, a hundred percent. You got an overgrowth. You have the invasion of the third army. 100% Janet. Okay, and so do the above. Don't feed it. Fix leaky gut. Probiotics, digestive enzymes, oil of oregano. We have the oil of oregano in our digestive enzymes. You can take it orally and don't eat sugar and get rid of all the crap in your diet. Okay? Oh she wants to know how to raise ferritin levels. I get asked this every week. B12. Okay, B12 and eat steak. Lots of it. When I say steak guys, I mean red meat, okay? Like you want to eat hamburger, eat hamburger. You want to eat roast beef. Eat roast, beef. I consider bacon a red meat, okay, pork.
Okay, Michaela. "Really desperate for some help in incorporating Navitol or anything else from the clinic that would help the above condition. It's been about a month now that my sister living in the Dominican ate fish and got a bug. Both her and her brother and my sister are definitely way worse. They feel cold, hot." Man oh man, you've been infested. Okay, like a Lyme type of thing, right? She also had Lyme for years. Okay, well, she had a compromised immune system, so build up the immune system. Big time. Janet, I would have her doing the hammer of vitamin D. Big time. Oil of oregano every day. Broad spectrum probiotics. She's got leaky gut, guaranteed. You've got a bug, you've got a parasite. Don't feed it. Don't give it any sugar. You've got to put your immune system on high alert, a complete detox. And not going to be easy. Not going to be easy. I'd even get her on some cod liver oil for the vitamin A.
Okay, Ghislaine, how are you? Last ferritin numbers were 300, not bad. CRP, A1C were good. Ferritin a little bit high, but I'm not worried about that too much because this, I'm thinking it's an insulin or inflammation might be a lot of times with ferritin, it's the liver. The liver got some fatty liver, but I think you're a good eater, so yeah, it could be insulin resistance for sure. Your A1C is good though, so I'm not too worried about it. Ferritin can go up sometimes with an infection, a low grade bug that you might not even be aware of. Again, fatty liver. I've seen that a lot with ferritin. If I think of anything else, I'll spell it out.
Regina. How are you? She's got a bacteria. Okay, I've seen it in my practice. Okay, Regina, so you're asking about a certain bacteria. It's sort of rare after two weeks, but you got to fight it, Regina. Okay, so if you've contacted this bug, do all of the things that I talked about, probiotic. You're healthy. You've been healthy, generally, don't feed it. Oil of oregano, big time. High levels of vitamin D. Put your immune system on high alert. Probiotics.
Okay, Carole. Carole has a sister. Lots of people have sisters. "Congestive heart failure who overreacts to Navitol or caffeine of any kind. She gets severe heart palpitations each time she tries to take it. Why is that?" Well, she's unique. I have thousands of people with congestive heart failure that take Navitol because it's good for them. Look, if you are an individual and you get heart palpitations because you take Navitol, hey, what do I always say? Put your thumb up. You got a different fingerprint than everybody else. There's 8 billion people on the planet and no one has your fingerprint. No one. Just you. You're unique. You're wonderfully made. Sometimes a little weird. Okay? Some people say, well, doc, I can't take Navitol. Well, millions of people do. Can't take pine bark. Well, you're unique. Don't take it. Why would you take it if you don't feel good with it? But 99.9% of the people do. Your sister, she can't have caffeine. Well, there's no caffeine in Navitol, but some people can't take caffeine. I know that. I feel sorry for you. You can have coffee, but it's got to be decaf. That's all right. It's the bean that's good for you, and I have heard it before that some people can't take Navitol. It's rare. I feel sorry for you. I've been taking it for 40 years. It is so good. It is so good for you inside and outside, good for your skin. It's so good for your brain that crosses the blood brain barrier, but if you can't take it, you can't take it. Don't worry about it. Just you or your sister, tell your sister I love her.
Okay, that was Carole. Patricia, okay, "could you review the lifestyle strategies you would suggest for a diagnosis of breast cancer?" Well, remember I do this all the time, and I'll repeat, rinse and repeat. Rinse and repeat. Breast cancer, all of them are driven by estrogen. It's a dominance. Prostate cancer. It's the twin of breast cancer, okay? They're driven by two main drivers, estrogen and it grows, grows, grows, including the prostate and insulin, the food hormone. It's a growth hormone. Breast cancer. My experience, I've written about this many a time. Generally in breast cancer, very low in vitamin D, way too many oxalates, women that live on salad and spinach and almonds. Always, in my experience, always major stress. Cortisol pours gasoline on the fire of cancer cells. Pours gasoline on them. I used to do history taking all the time in my office. Talked about trauma, emotional trauma, separations, divorces, finances, children gone astray, care for a loved one, like a parent, really pours the gasoline on that fire of inflammation and cortisol through the roof. Okay? Oftentimes a bad diet, too much sugar, too many carbs that break into sugars rapidly.
Cancer needs fuel, guys, it's ravenous. It's looking for sugar. Low levels of vitamin D, almost invariably, that's what I've seen. There's the etiology of breast cancer and guys, prostate cancer is just the twin. It's almost always the same, okay? Generally, that's what I have seen in my practice year after year after year, and I always said this about breast cancer, we're losing the war. It bothers me. They wear pink every fall and it gives me a migraine. I want to get rid of breast cancer too, but I can't stand when they take the money and they don't do anything with it. 90% of it is on advertising and marketing. The research on breast cancer, my word, we're still in the stone ages of it. I refuse to wear pink. I mean, why wouldn't they do some on vitamin D and breast cancer? Oh, no, because it's hijacked by the pharmaceutical companies. Anyway, don't get me going. Okay, let's see. Maybe one or two more because guess what? We'll have to do Monday. Okay? That was Patricia. Thanks Patricia. We appreciate it.
Jay Marissa, "is there any risk to our bodies in long-term ketosis?" No, not in regards to people doing the 30 day reset, but in regards to people eating this for a permanent lifestyle. Look, I'm not even suggesting you do it. You can be in ketosis forever. Okay? I make the point. I bring you back to the Inuit, okay? And this has been studied, guys, okay? They don't eat carbs, they just don't. Well, they do today because the white man introduced him to our food like McDonald's. No, I am serious here. Arctic Explorers who studied these things, never seen a population as healthy as the Inuit. They couldn't get over it, and then they ate because they had no choice. They were stuck in the Arctic. They ate like the Inuit did. Fat blubber. They wouldn't even eat bad meat. They'd just give it to the dogs if it didn't have any fat on it. They ate fat and blubber and seal and organ meat, and they were constantly into ketosis. They didn't have fruit trees. They weren't eating fruits and, no ketosis is actually good for you.
Now, I'm not saying that you're always going to be in ketosis. You know what I talk about all the time. Changing fuels. If you are eating eggs, meat, and cheese, and that is the majority of your diet, you're doing a very good thing for your body because you're using high octane. Whether you're into full ketosis or not. I never got uptight about ketosis. Okay, I didn't. "Hey Dr. Martin. I did my strip." I get a headache when I hear that. "I did my strip. I bought strips and I'm out of ketosis today." I said, "but would you stop measuring that? You're giving me a migraine. You're driving me crazy." Just eat good. The best measurements is not ketosis. The best measurement is your A1C. Your best measurement is your triglycerides. Your best measurement is your HDL. Your best measurement is your blood pressure. Your best measurement is not ketosis. I understand ketosis, believe you me, I do.
But when they tell you ketosis is not good for you, they don't know what they're talking about because it goes back to medicine and they get crazy because you got ketones in your urine. You know what that means? You're into ketoacidosis, you're going to die. They didn't know what they're talking about. It's not ketoacidosis, it's ketosis. It's different. Ketoacidosis means you're dying. A type one diabetic or type two can go into ketoacidosis and die. Their body is turning on itself and eating away at the muscle. That's ketoacidosis. It's not ketosis. The ketotic diet has been around as long as man has been around, but again, I don't care about the measurement of ketosis. I really don't. I really don't. I want to see your numbers of your A1C. I want to see that go down. Then you know you're eating right. You know what I'm saying guys? When somebody tells you ketosis is no good for you, run Forrest, run. I dunno what they're talking about. When your brain runs on ketones, they're converted to your fatty acids in your brain. That's good for you. You eat a steak, you have an egg, you have dairy, good dairy, like cheese and butter and cream. Your brain loves that fuel. Fat.
Okay, we got more questions, so we got to do it Monday. Okay, guys? Okay, couple of housekeeping. Don't forget new book, hot off the presses, right? Rebuild Your Temple. Number one on the hit parade. Okay, and we thank you for that. You'll love that book. If you're in Canada, you can still get Sun, Steak and Steel and Sleep. Makes a great gift. It really does. Okay, we love you dearly guys. We'll talk to you soon.
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