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Dr. Martin: Well, good afternoon everyone. Once again, welcome to another live here today. We are so happy that you can join us. Okay, now, we're certainly not having a storm. We're having cold weather, but I've talked to you in the past about the perfect storm of cancer. I was discussing this with someone yesterday, the perfect storm of cancer. Okay? What is that? Well, insulin, the food hormone. Cancer cells have 10 times more receptors for insulin than ordinary cells. They need energy. They're ravenous. We learned that back in 1928 with Dr. Otto Warburg, a German scientist telling us that cancer was ravenous. So it's a perfect storm of insulin.
And it's amazing to me, this is what I was saying to this lady yesterday. It's amazing to me that in 2026, the talk about food and cancer doesn't exist with 99.9% of all oncologists. If you talk to an oncologist about food, they get glassy eyed. And the reason is because they don't see the connection with food. Okay? I've told you the story in the past where an oncologist called me and she was a little bit upset with me because I told her patient and my patient not to have sugar. So she actually called me. I give her credit and she was upset. I could tell. And I said, "First of all, slow down." I said, "I'm not a child. Slow down. That patient you're talking about, I sent her to you." What? Well, I'm the one that referred her to you. Why? Because not that she had a mammogram. In my office, I did thermography and especially one of her breasts. It didn't look good. So I said, "Well, you need to get this checked out."
Anyways, she ends up at the oncologist and sure enough, there was a tumor there, but she couldn't understand, this oncologist, couldn't understand why I was talking to this patient. I said, "Okay, we got cancer. One thing for sure, you better cut out sugar." And this oncologist almost lost her mind. I said, "We've known this since 1928." I said, "But secondly, can I ask you a question?" And she said, "Yeah, go ahead." I said, "You have a PET scan in your office, right? In your hospital." I knew they had. And she said, "Yeah." I said, "Do you know how it works?" She said, "Well, tell me. " I said, "Well, they give you sugar. They give you glucose. They're injected into you, or they make you drink a cup of it. " And I said, "If you have cancer, you light up like a Christmas tree from your head to your toes, wherever the cancer is, sugar goes." I said, "I didn't know that. " I said, "Well, you think sugar's important?" Maybe I was right about let's not eat it if you've been given a diagnosis of cancer.
Anyway, so what I'm saying to you, cancer's a perfect storm, guys. It's a perfect storm. In all of my experience, I can't say that I've ever seen an exception to it. There was too much insulin. That's why a diabetic, by the way, is 50, 60% more likely to get cancer. What does diabetes got to do with cancer? Has a lot to do with it, has to do with sugar, has to do with insulin, because you can't get diabetes unless you first have insulin resistance. So cancer's a perfect storm of food, insulin, anything that drives your insulin up is dangerous. People that insist on eating crappy carbs, bread, pasta, rice, cereal, sugar, sweets, pastries, muffins, bagels, drinking juice or whatever, drinking skim milk, it's just sugar, sugar molecules holding hands. They break down very quickly and cancer loves that. It feeds on them. And like I said, we've known that since 1928, but buried.
Why was it buried? Because again, food and disease, according to most doctors who've never taken an ounce of nutrition courses in medical schools, they don't see the correlation. Insulin. Then I'll give you another growth hormone. It's called estrogen. And estrogen just doesn't drive women with cancers, although it does. I had physicians, oncologists, gynecologists. Well, Dr. Martin, first of all, we did the biopsy and the cancer cells were estrogen negative, as if that was going to change my mind. I said, "I don't care what the pathology said." Estrogen is a growth hormone and estrogen always, always makes things grow. You got a woman, they have estrogen. You got a man, unfortunately today, there's very little testosterone around. It's teeter-totter. When men don't have enough testosterone, their estrogen goes up. And doctors, again, they don't even think of that. They don't think of estrogen in a man's cancer, prostate.
But like I've told you guys a million times, breast cancer and prostate cancer are just a two-headed coin. They're twins. One's a girl and the other's a boy, but they need insulin and they need estrogen. And then I'm going to tell you about another hormone they need. Cancer the perfect storm. You know what it needs? Cortisol. I go back to, and guys, I'm not kidding you about this, okay? The very first book I wrote on was Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. It was one of my biggest, best sellers ever. Had a publicist. Chronic fatigue was hot. Nobody knew much about it. I had written my thesis on it and I seen an epidemic of it in my practice, including my own wife. And I saw thousands of CFS patients, chronic fatigue syndrome. They didn't even call it that. Yuppy flu and Epstein-Barr. And they had all these names for it.
And most doctors thought it was in between women's because it was a women's condition. Okay? Men didn't get chronic fatigue, although they did, but not much. When I wrote my thesis, the research at that time was 95 to five. 95% women, 5%. I was saying something that was groundbreaking. You know what I said? The chronic fatigue syndrome was an adrenal gland exhaustion. The adrenals became exhausted, adrenals on top of kidneys. And I remember doctors looking at me like I had two heads. Why? Adrenal. Well, these women don't have Cushing's. They don't have Cushing's disease. They don't have Addison's disease. So why are you talking about adrenals? Well, I said, "Listen, what we're finding out with these women at the time was they were under a lot of stress, and they weren't built for that." I mean, they were in fight or flight. That's what I said. They were in fight or flight for a long period of time. Your body's not made for that.
And the major symptoms of chronic fatigue, there was four of them. Okay? There was four of them. Fatigue, obviously. But I used to tell patients, "You got no charge left in the batteries. Your battery's done. Okay?" Your car, if you don't have a battery, I don't care what you can have the best motor in town, but you better get it started with a battery and your batteries right at the end. So they were exhausted. They had brain fog. They had a sleep disorder. Even though they were exhausted, they weren't getting recuperative sleep. They felt like they could sleep all day, but they couldn't sleep. They never would get a REM sleep. And this had been proven, by the way. In those days, I theorized on it.
And fourthly, they had fibromyalgia, severe pain. Most of them had severe pain, and fibro went on to have its own disorder, but I never agreed with that, by the way. I never did. I said, "No, no. Fibro pain unexplained was associated with adrenal exhaustion." Okay? I tell you the story to bring it to cancer, because like I said, this is in the 80s and 90s and adrenal. Like what are you talking about, Dr. Martin? I don't even know what you're saying. Adrenal. Why are you talking about that? Well, now cortisol is very well known today, isn't it? You can actually ask the average layperson. They'll tell you what cortisol is. It's the fight or flight. And what I found in chronic fatigue syndrome never got turned off. They were either stressed environmentally, emotionally, and a lot of them had leaky gut. Even back then, leaky gut, nobody even knew what I was talking about.
So well, they got an overgrowth of fungus. It comes in through the body and leaky gut. Cortisol has a major effect on that because your body is in. And my friend, I just want to say something. I know it's a long story to bring it back to this one, but I never found in cancer patients where they didn't have high cortisol. The stress hormone was through the roof. And what cortisol does, it pours gasoline on the fire of inflammation. It actually pours gasoline on insulin. You can fast and measure insulin. Okay? Fast for 24 hours and measure insulin. Well, if you're not eating, your insulin is going to be normal, but not if you're stressed. If that stress isn't being turned off, you know what happens? Even your insulin is elevated. You're resistant to insulin. That's why most people, they walk around, they don't even realize that their insulin is elevated 24 hours a day. They have a condition called insulin resistance. And because they're stressed, they probably eat bad too. Stress, it's a perfect storm.
So you have food, insulin. You have the womanly hormone called estrogen. Testosterone doesn't cause cancer. Estrogen does. And then you sprinkle cortisol. It's a hormone out of your adrenal gland. Think of it. You're being chased by a lion. Okay? Your cortisol's up. That's all right. You happen to get away. Your cortisol comes down. But what if it don't come down? What if it stays up all the time? Well, that affects your digestive tract. Think of it. All your blood's going to your muscles because you're ready for the fight or flight. Well, that's a diversion. What happens is that your blood isn't going into your gut properly. It affects your digestion. It can help cause leaky gut. You get leaky gut. Now you have an invasion into your bloodstream of things that don't belong there because your border guards are not managing the southern border.
And then you have fungus, yeast, candida comes into the system. Now that's sort of autoimmune because your body's trying to fight that. A lot of times the leaky gut comes through the use of antibiotics. This is where leaky gut is usually involved in cancer. Almost always. You got bad food. You got bad hormone. You got bad cortisol that never gets turned off. And you got leaky gut. You have an invasion of foreign substances like yeast. You could actually Google this. I was actually on a TV show with them. But he said, "All cancers are fungal based. They're yeast." He said, "He does biopsies and pathology and he said they all got fungus around them." How did that get there? Leaky gut. That's how it gets there. The yeast don't come out of nowhere. Leaky gut.
So you see the perfect storm, guys. And this is why, for me, my protocol, which I gave to thousands of patients that were already up, they rarely ever came to me first. Some did because they were just getting a checkup and I did a biomarker testing. I did 40 tests or more. Blood, saliva, urine. We looked at everything, just about. But unfortunately, for a lot of times, I had patients that already got the diagnosis of cancer. Cancer was already in their body. I always used to like to say, "I'd like to see you before you got cancer so that we can turn your body into a fighting machine. Let's build up your immune system and all that." And even after, you get the diagnosis, again, like I said, I was talking to someone that already diagnosed with cancer. And I said, "Well, if I was you," because I'm not in practice anymore. So for me to give advice, I give educational advice. Individual, well, I'm not in practice. So I like to educate my audience so that they can make choices.
But my protocol hits on everything that we just talked about. Food, cancer hates steak. It don't love steak. It hates steak. And some people throw this back into me. Well, doctor, what about glutamine? Because the body, the cancer, yeah, sugar and then glutamine. I said, glutamine schmutamine. You don't get glutamine in that fermentation process that cancer uses. It's not coming from eating glutamine. It's just a byproduct. So eliminate glutamine don't mean nothing. What you should do is really eliminate the sugar. And that's why I tell people cancer hates steak. It hates it. It can't feed on it. There's nothing to feed on. A cancer cell can't live with steak. It can't. It's not fuel for them. Cancer needs glucose. So don't give it to them. So let's cut that out. And then I say, "Well, okay. Now we hit that." And I said, "we're going to dim your insulin down. We're going to dim your estrogen down. We'll dim it down. Get it down. It's a growth hormone. We're going to get your cortisol down. You got to get cortisol down because cortisol is pouring gasoline on that tumor." Believe me when I tell you that.
Okay? So you have that side of the protocol and you got to fix leaky gut. And don't feed the bears. It's again, back to sugar. You don't want to feed the fungus, but you got to patch up the gut. That's where I'm big on probiotics. So then on this side of the chart, you got, "okay, doc, what do I do in terms of your protocol? You talked about food. You talked about hormones. What about supplements?" Well, obviously probiotics, obviously. And you want your immune system to work. Your biggest thing is getting your immune system on high, high, high alert. And you need vitamin D for that. And you need to get to a certain number. It's science. You can take your blood work and you got to get to a certain number. In the United States for cancer, you got to be 60 to 80. I even like a hundred NGML. I used to tell my patients that. You got to get that vitamin D up to that number. And in the Canadian side, 200 to 250, at least.
You want to fight cancer? Vitamin D. If you can get the sun, beautiful. Okay? If you can get the sun, beautiful. If you can't get the sun, you're probably going to need to supplement and take your vitamin D with vitamin K2. Okay? But you need to up your vitamin D. Like I'm telling you guys, if vitamin D was a drug, everybody and their dog would take it. But because it's a supplement and because the governments, especially in Canada, are scared, skinny of it, and the pharmaceutical companies don't want you going within a thousand miles of vitamin D because they think it's toxic. And it was all BS guys from the beginning when they started the whole toxicity vitamin D. They never seen a case of it. What happens if you're toxic? Not that you've seen it, but what happens? Well, you might get a kidney stone. Yeah. I doubt it. The studies have been done.
I was on the vitamin D council. Not that I did any research, but I read everything on vitamin D. They did studies. 50,000 IUs a day, every day, seven days a week for six months. And you know what? They still weren't toxic. 50,000 IUs a day. It's such a red herring. They're gaslighting us with the vitamin D stuff. Okay. Yeah. Someone said, my son's doctor told him 1000 I use the most he can take a day. Yeah, that's what nonsense is out there. It's crazy insanity. What did I tell you through COVID? What did I tell you guys? The best shot they could have given you was a vitamin D supplement. They were closing the beaches in Florida and I was screaming blue murder. "Bring everybody to Florida. Let them sit on the beach in the sun. Virus can't survive." What do you think they did with tuberculosis? Bring you out in the sun until the pharmaceutical industry took over. Then no more sun. Oh no, the sun will give you cancer. The sun will give you skin cancer. No, it don't. You know where you get the deadly skin cancer? Where the sun don't shine. People with low levels of vitamin D, they get skin cancer. That's a fact. But facts don't matter. Narratives do.
Anyway, okay, guys, we love you dearly and sincerely, and tomorrow is Q&A. Okay? Q&A tomorrow. And then if you're in Canada, you can still get Sun Steak and Steel. We have the new book out, Rebuild Your Temple. Flying off the presses, guys. Fantastic. Thank you for that. Appreciate it. Lots of good feedback on it. As a matter of fact, tomorrow morning, I'm going to do a little devotional on our private Facebook group. It's a book club and we got a lot of feedback about that. You want to join that? Happy to have you come on. Okay? I do a little 10, 15 minute devotional in the morning before Q&A. So I'm on twice in the morning. Okay. We love you guys. Thank you for the feedback. We appreciate it. Thank you for being so loyal to the program. Thank you for putting up with my shenanigans. That's always appreciated. And yep, we love you. Okay. Talk to you soon.
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