Dr. Martin answers questions sent in by our listeners in today's episode.
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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone. How are you? Once again, welcome to another live this morning. We appreciate you guys coming on here. Thank you for your faithfulness. Guys, we love you. Thanks for coming on. We appreciate it. Okay, back to questions. I didn't get finished completely the other day, so let's do that this morning. Karen is asking about taking 15 milligrams of zinc with two milligrams of copper with it. Well, you don't hear me talking about that too much. Okay, Karen, and I'll tell you why. Okay? It's not that I'm, I love zinc, by the way. I love zinc, I love copper, but I've got to tell you something. If you're eating eggs, meat, and cheese, you're going to get zinc. The only people I ever found deficient in zinc were people with either severe digestive issues, not enough acidity in their stomach possibly, and the other one was people that were vegetarians or vegans. They don't get zinc. Zinc is found in the animal kingdom.
Copper, by the way, you need copper, you need a trace of it. You don't need a lot of it, but that's found in a steak, guys, that's why you don't hear me talking so much about taking a supplement of it. There are certain things that you can eat where you get everything, okay? And zinc is one of them. When you eat a steak, when you eat an egg, when you eat dairy, you get zinc. So again, you want to supplement with zinc, okay? I'm all right with that, but I'd rather you eat it. And it's the same thing with copper, okay? You get traces of that. You don't need a lot of copper, but you don't have to swallow pennies to get it. Eat from the animal kingdom. I'm not saying you can't have any vegetables or fruit. I'm not saying that, but you're not getting zinc from that. Okay? So if you want, go ahead.
Okay, Trish. Okay, now we got three, at least three questions that I can read about PPIs, proton pump inhibitors. Okay, so Trish is talking about having silent reflux, so she's not getting heartburn per se, but she's getting a lot of silent reflux, usually phlegm, right? "Doctor prescribed a PPI, could not tolerate it due to diarrhea." And she's asking, okay, "how many ultra digest and probiotics should be taking for how long?" Okay, couple of things. Okay, so if you're having trouble with silent reflux, remember whether it's silent or not, you don't have enough acidity in your stomach. It's the opposite of what doctors think. Doctors think you got too much acid, therefore we're going to give you a PPI to turn off the pumps. The acid pumps in your stomach, we'll turn them off. Well, you don't want to do that because you're just making it worse, and I understand whether it's silent or you have major acid reflux. It's no fun under the sun. I understand that. I talk about this all the time. The PPIs, they come with a boatload of side effects.
The more they study it, osteoporosis, the more they study it. Even cognitive and dementia. Why? Because when you decrease your acid in your stomach, you don't absorb your vitamins or minerals that you need. You don't break down protein that you need. That's why you need very, very acidic stomach, okay? So yeah, you want to do it. It's going to take time. Take digestive enzymes with every meal. It really helps. Cut out your sugar, the sugar, what it does, and crappy carbs, it elevates your pH. You want to have a very low pH in your stomach, okay? And food is a big thing. If you cut back on your crappy carbs and your sugars, your acidity in your stomach will get better on its own. Digestive enzymes, probiotics, big time. Okay? I would do it to start, two digestive enzymes with every meal, and then I would do three to six probiotics a day for at least a month. Food, be very careful. Supplements, yes, okay, and our digestive enzymes, by the way, come with a built-in oil of oregano and is meant to fight off SIBO because a lot of people have small intestine. They call it bacterial. We call it fungal, an overgrowth in the small intestine. You want to kill that off too. That's where you get all the bloating and a lot of digestive issues. Okay? Thank you for the question. And that was Trish.
Now, Claude, I dunno, did I answer this the other day, Claude? I don't remember. "Side effect of PPIs be higher triglycerides." I've never heard that before, Claude. I can't see. I'm trying to think of the connection. You're not breaking protein down properly with a PPI. I'm not going to say yes, I'm going to say I guess maybe, but I don't think so. I've never heard of it where PPIs actually affect your triglycerides and your cholesterol. Not really. Most of that is done in the liver, not in the stomach. Okay, okay Claude, thank you. That was a good question. It got me thinking.
Okay, here's Michelle on PPIs. "How am I to get off of it? What is the best way to wean off the PPIs?" Again, understand that the underlying condition is the opposite of what doctors think because they think you're making too much acid. And that's really not what's happened because the problem is your stomach isn't acidic enough and now your stomach starts to produce more acid to make up for, so you really want to start with the diet. Like I said earlier, get off the carbs, do the reset. It has helped thousands, if not tens of thousands of people help with their stomach acidity. They couldn't get over it. They never understood the connection and digestive enzymes with every meal, depending on what your symptoms, you might want to take a little bit of either apple cider vinegar, again, just to make your stomach more acid or balsamic vinegar. Okay? So way of weaning off those PPIs.
Debra is asking, "would you please ask Dr. Martin," okay, "if oil of oregano taken orally will help with excessive phlegm in the back of the throat?" Okay? "I had a CT scan of the sinuses and there is a cyst and excessive phlegm, especially when I'm sleeping." Look, yeah, you put your head back, this is me, okay? Because that's postnasal drip, a lot of that, okay, listen, a lot of that actually starts in the stomach. Because again, that can be silent acid reflux, and all you're getting is phlegm in your throat. I've seen it happen. So Deb, take care of your stomach. Digestive enzymes, probiotics, if you have a yeast or a fungus in your sinuses and it's draining backwards, oil of oregano, big time, don't feed the bears, cut out the sugar. You'll notice when you cut out sugar and look, you have to find if there's anything else bothering you. For some people with postnasal drip dairy bothers them. Usually not cheese, usually not butter, but dairy. Okay? You got to figure that out. Just be your own doctor. Do the elimination test. See if there's any foods that bother that death in your life. And like some people, no, that's not what it is, okay? Because doctors will say, well, you might have an allergy to dairy. Yeah, you might and you might not. I'm usually not big on ditching dairy, but switching dairy, a lot of people who can't tolerate dairy can tolerate butter without even any issues at all, and that's dairy. They often tolerate cheeses, but they can't tolerate yogurt or milk and look, I mean, part of it maybe is pasteurization, okay? But you got to figure that out, so be your own doctor. Do the elimination, is it silent acid reflux giving you a lot of phlegm or is it a fungal in your sinuses that is coming backwards? Postnasal. Okay, figure it out and treat accordingly. Thank you Deb for the question.
Okay, Joanne, "my son was diagnosed and had surgery for diverticulitis." Ooh, that can be very dangerous, right? I've seen it happen with diverticulitis that you get sepsis, okay, so diverticulosis are little pouches, especially in the left side of the descending colon, okay? And you get pouches, that's usually the place, and you know what gets caught up in the little pouches? Feces, it's not going out. A lot of times seeds. So when your doctor says Joanne to your son to increase his fiber, I'm the opposite of that. Fiber irritates. You've already got a sunburn. If you have diverticulosis, you already got a sunburn in your gut, in your bowel. It's irritated. You've developed little pouches. You know what I find with fiber? Makes it worse, and that's why any of my patients that had diverticulosis, I had them on my fiber. What? Yeah, water and coffee. That's it. That's where I say fibers overrated because I find fiber. I understand why doctors think this way, okay? They go, well, you got little pouches and they get infected or impacted, and therefore we got to put more fiber in there to get that cleaned out that don't clean you up. That just bulks up your stool.
In my opinion, and I've done this, when I say thousands guys, I mean it over the years. I got patients off fiber because they were told, oh, you need more fiber brought to you by Kellogg's. That's what I used to say in my office. Where did you get that? I said, I'll tell you where you got it. Brought to you by Kellogg's, the cereal companies that were trying to tell you to eat more fiber. Okay? Where do you think that came from originally? Dr. Kellogg's. Okay, cereal. Okay, I'm the opposite of that. The fiber you need is to wash out, okay? Not to bulk up, but to wash, water, coffee, I'm telling you. Okay? Patients thank me later. Okay? Patients thank me later. I said, you'll thank me later. Get off the fiber. We're going to make your diverticulosis heal and for you, I don't want you on any seeds. You're going to have some flax seeds, you guys know I love flax seeds. We'll grind them up, put 'em into a powder, okay? Till you fix up the diverticulosis. Thank you very much. That was Joanne. You mentioned that fiber is overrated. Yep, it is big time.
Okay, John. Now, John, I don't know if you got this right or not. This is the first time I've ever heard this in my life, okay? But maybe that's what they're saying. Let me tell you what John says. "Dr. Martin speaks on needing an acidic stomach." Yeah, like a lion, okay? Very, very high acidity, which is a low pH, by the way. Now, think about that right now. John says, "many new journals for cancer, we need an alkaline stomach because of inflammatory reactions and not acidic." Well, I think that's the craziest thing, John. I've never seen that by the way. Can you please share that with me because it doesn't make any sense. Now I understand the difference and I've done podcasts on this guys, the difference between acidic and alkaline, but we're talking your blood, is that what they're talking about, John? Because the acidity in your stomach, you need acidity. It's the only place, okay? Your stomach is the only place you want to be acidic. You don't want to be acidic anywhere else. Your blood, it's slightly alkaline, and if your blood becomes acidic, you're dying. That's what ketoacidosis is. It's not ketosis, it's ketoacidosis. And when your kidneys are shutting down and you're on your way out, you go into ketoacidosis.
Now, cancer, okay? You know what's acidic, is sugar. Sugar destroys your kidneys, and that will make you more acidic, even though you have all the buffering systems in the world because your pH in your blood has to be very, very, very much controlled. Big time. You have all sorts of buffering systems in your body. Okay? Sodium bicarbonate, baking soda. Now, if you can show me where they're saying they want your stomach to be alkaline. I have never, ever, ever heard that John. Never. Blood, yes, stomach, no, because that would even make cancer worse if you're not breaking down your proteins. If you want an alkaline stomach, you're not going to digest properly. That can't be good for cancer. I don't get it. But John, if you have those articles, would you share them with me at info@martinclinic? Send me the references or whatever. I can look it up myself. I just never heard that before. Again, I've heard of blood pH changing that. You want to be slightly alkaline in your blood, yes, but not your stomach. Anyway, John, you might be teaching me something, I just don't get it. I really don't, but I'm glad you sent it in.
Okay, Norma, and again, this has got, boy, we getting a lot of questions about this, okay, I think I might've answered this the other day. Butyrate, B-U-T-Y-R-A-T-E. Overrated. Oh, you need butyrate. Yeah. When you eat steak, you get butyrate. Okay? Because they tell you, well, you need more fiber and fiber it feeds your friendly bacteria and it's like a prebiotic. The best prebiotic you can ever get is a steak because your friendly bacteria loves steak. Cancer hates steak. Your gut loves steak, okay? Yeah, because you want the breakdown of butyrate. Well, you need a steak. Again, fiber's overrated. Now I know I'm in the minority by far. I know that, but I've been consistent. I said it all along. Go back into the 1970s and the cereal companies made everybody stupid. What did they do? Well, bacon and eggs are no good for you. You got to eat our cereal. We'll even put a heart on the box. Yeah, if you eat it, you're going to have a heart attack. Okay?
Go down the middle aisles of your grocery store and see how many cereals there. And for dieticians for years, they thought Cocoa Pops we're better than eggs. If you don't think I'm telling you the truth, I am. I used to scream like John the Baptist, are you kidding me? That Frosted Flakes are better than bacon and eggs. Oh, yeah. Oh yeah because they got fiber. That's why you need oatmeal. Well, you're not a horse, and if you are a diabetic or a pre or anything close to it and you're eating oats and oatmeal, you're making a huge booboo. It'll spike your sugar up to 20. You know how much insulin you need when you have oatmeal? Dr. Martin it's fiber. I know, and it's way overrated. Okay. Alright. Lemme see. Did I answer the question or did I just go on a diatribe? Yeah, that's Dr. Steven Gundry. Look, doesn't mean I don't like the guy, I just disagree. Not on everything, but on that, I do. Look, guys, fiber has been around for a long time talking about it. I just never bought it. I never bought it, okay? I never bought it.
Okay, Marlene? Okay, this is a good question. Marlene's going, I don't understand you Dr. Martin. Okay, why on earth? She didn't say that, but I'm saying it. Marlene is going, "why is it that healthy fruits and vegetables or legumes are not included in the reset?" Well, I answer that in the book, Sun, Steak and Steel. I answer that question, why for 30 days, okay, remember, Marlene, that this is a temporary, it's a 30 day program. I'm trying to reset your insulin. The big factor is insulin resistance. I'm trying to give your bowel a holiday, cut out the fiber, okay? I'm not saying you can't introduce fruits and vegetables and some legumes afterwards. No problem. I'm not against fruits and vegetables, okay? You have three kingdoms of food. You have the animal kingdom, you have the plant kingdom, fruits and vegetables, legumes, and then you have man's kingdom of food made with seed oils. They're manmade. Those oils were made for your car, not for your body.
So that's why in a sense, I don't even like keto foods because if you go to the grocery store, you go to Costco or whatever and you get into the keto foods, well, they use a lot usually of so-called vegetable oils. You can run your car on that kind of oil. It irritates your gut. It creates inflammation in the body. I don't want that. I'm trying to reset the body. That's why it's called a metabolic reset. And for 30 days no sugar, you're not going to have any fructose for 30 days. Now fructose when you eat an orange, I can live with that, but not on the reset, not for 30 days. Why? I'm trying to empty your liver. Fructose gets metabolized in the liver. I'm trying to lower your triglycerides. I'm trying to elevate your HDL cholesterol. There's a reason for my madness, okay? I'm doing it for a reason. There are several reasons. The number one is to get rid of insulin resistance so your cells, when you're not eating fruits just for 30 days, your insulin sitting on the sidelines, you're regenerating your pancreas, okay?
I like to tell the story of, what was the name of that actor? Ashton Kucher or Kuchen or Kucher? Can't remember his last name now. Okay? The founder of Apple died of pancreatic cancer. He lived on fruit, okay? He lived on it and then they wanted to do a movie about him and they got this. Ashton, I can't remember, okay? Every day I pull up my senior cart, okay? Ashton Kushner, thank you very much. And I pull up my senior card, which is my driver's license, and I say, well, I'm a senior. I forgot. I can't remember his name. All I know, you know what happened to him? He almost died. He did the movie and to really do the movie, he said, all I'm going to live on is fruits and vegetables and mostly fruit. He almost died. He got such severe pancreatitis that he almost died. So you see why I want you off fruits for 30 days? You can do it. I want to reset that pancreas. There's always a reason behind my madness, guys. Okay? I didn't just take this out of nowhere.
Remember in 1968 when I was 16 years old, I learned all about diabetes, watching my dad, and my dad didn't have sugar anymore. He had a few fruits, but he lived on steak. My dad in 1968, and he kept saying to me, son, it's sugar diabetes. Sugar diabetes. Okay, dad, that was me. I went to school. I got taught differently. I don't care. I knew my dad was right. I got taught differently. When I was doing my PhD in nutrition, I got taught differently, oh, you need fiber. You need sugar. Your body's going to die if you don't have carbohydrates. I got taught that and I go, nah. I was going, nah, that ain't true. We got a major issue in our society today. It's called diobesity and 93% of the population have trouble with insulin. 93% was I right? Was my dad right? A hundred percent. And that's why I doubled down on it, tripled down on it, quadrupled down on it. I just keep hammering it. Eggs, meat and cheese, eggs, meat and cheese. You want to have some fruits? Go for it. I mean it not during the 30 days though.
And remember, how do bears get fat? I'm listening. How do bears get ready for hibernation? Blueberries. That's how they get fat. Okay? The fructose. The fructose. They get fat. They eat up to 30,000 blueberries a day. Okay? Somebody counted, not me. We had so many bears in Northern Ontario one year that there was no blueberries that were coming into town. You know what my sister said? There's so many bears, they're buying condos. Okay, thank you very much. You have to understand, and I try and understand so many new people on all the time. I'm a rinse and repeat guy, and I want you to understand where I'm coming from, why I do what I do. And you got to go back to when I was 16 years old. Remember the Martin Clinic was founded in 1911. Go back a long time. Okay, let me see. I might be done. That was Marlene. I think I got everything here. I think I'm done. Okay, let me know if I missed anything.
Oh, somebody asked on there. Let me just do this. I should have wrote your name down. I think it was yesterday or whatever it might've been Saturday, asking about is the reset good for the thyroid, especially with Hashimoto's or hypothyroidism? You bet your boots it is. Again, thousands of patients that I put on the reset found their thyroid functioned a lot better. Food has a lot to do with your thyroid and where you get the major conversion of T4 to T3 for your thyroid happens in your liver. And when you empty your liver, does it ever make a difference with the thyroid. Plus, when you're not eating sugar, the axis between your hypothalamus and your pituitary gland really, really gives it a big time boost when you cut out the sugar in your body and your brain, the hypothalamus to the pituitary for your TSH. Big difference. Thanks for that question. Okay. I should have wrote your name down.
Okay guys, we've got a great week. Okay? We got a great week coming up and there's a lot of new studies out I'm going to be commenting on Friday is Q and A, so not too early to get your questions in. Okay. Let me ask you this. If you live in Canada, you got the book Sun Steak and Steel? Not Available in the United States at this time. Okay? We're trying to make it available. We're trying to do that. Rebuild Your Temple. Have you got that? That's in Canada and the United States. Number one health book, okay, and it's out and you can get it. Okay, we love you guys. We'll talk to you soon.
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