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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. I had a question that I did miss the other day. Okay. So I went through it. Dr. Martin, how do I know if I'm in perimenopause? Okay. Look, some people fail through perimenopause. Women, they're well balanced. And I mean, they get some changes, obviously, as their body is changing, but nothing severe. I'm just going to give you eight things that I saw in my office pretty frequently in perimenopause. Okay? So men, you get andropause. Women, you get perimenopause. Okay?
But again, it doesn't always have to be this, but ones that their body was really changing and they couldn't figure it out so much. Anxiety, exhaustion, cycle changes, skin and hair changes because the thyroid's affected. Everything can slow down. Brain fog, hot flashes, night sweats, joint pain. That was a surprising one. People get joint pain and perimenopause. So again, what I did in my office in my practice days, we tested all these things. We tested estrogen and progesterone. And that's the key, guys. The key is that balance. When that gets out of balance, of course estrogen is going down. If you're going into menopause or perimenopause, your estrogen is coming down. Medicine looks at that and says, "We got to add estrogen." But at the Martin Clinic, I didn't like the use of estrogen, only because of the potential enormous side effects, especially in cancer, because cancer needs fuel.
And you got two growth hormones that are very much involved in cancer, men's cancer, women's cancer. Insulin, growth hormone. Estrogen, growth hormone. What balances estrogen is progesterone. And when estrogen is dominant, it doesn't mean you got, "Oh, I got so much estrogen." It's not that. It's the teeter totter. It's estrogen and progesterone. If estrogen is higher than progesterone, even though it's coming down, but what if progesterone is coming down? Progestation, progesterone. Think about that. Pro babies. Well, you're not going to have a baby. It's coming down. If it comes down below estrogen, you got problems, Houston. You have an imbalance. That affects a lot of things like I just went through eight symptoms. But one of them is thyroid because when estrogen is dominant, the thyroid slows to a crow. And cortisol is involved there. Why? Because when stress, cortisol, the stress hormone, it robs progesterone.
So progesterone even goes down further if you have stress. If progesterone goes down, estrogen is dominant. That's what we mean by estrogen dominance. And therefore, you get what we called in our office horrorhormones, not hormones, horrorormones. It can affect your sleep. Night sweats, weight gain. You get anxiety. You get brain fog. I used to have women tell me, "Well, my thyroid has slowed down, doc." I said, "Did your doctor tell you that? " No, just because my metabolism isn't slow. It's in a coma. I had a lot of patients with good sense of humors. It's in a coma. I look at food sideways and I gain weight. Yeah, well, the thyroid slows down and your body reacts to that in the sense that you can get joint pain. I saw that a lot of times. Okay? So that was a question that I forgot to answer on Monday.
Okay? Now, okay, let's get to some new studies here. A new study on high fructose corn syrup. You ever heard of it? Who talks about high fructose corn syrup more than me? I've never met anyone because I've been screaming about that sugar for a long time, since the '80s. High fructose corn syrup. Oh, it sounded so good. High fructose corn syrup got to be good. It's fructose? Well, that comes from fruit. That must be good. Corn must be good. Okay? No, just the opposite. Just the opposite. And what they're showing in this new study, that particular sugar affects the heart. High fructose corn syrup affects the heart. Now, that's not surprising to me. And it ought not be surprising to you, my audience.
Because here's one thing that we teach. Okay? Very important. What happens in the liver doesn't stay in the liver. I should go over all our sayings. Over the years, saying. One of them is what happens in the liver doesn't stay in the liver. What? Well, because high fructose corn syrup makes a beeline to your liver because it's a fructose. It's like alcohol. It's metabolized in the liver. High fructose corn syrup, unlike glucose. By the way, okay? Table sugar or glucose. It's one molecule of fructose and the other one of glucose. Well, high fructose corn syrup is all fructose. Does a lot of damage in the body because what happens in the liver doesn't stay in the liver. The fact that it's now there's associating it with heart disease. Hello. Why?
Because when the liver gets gummed up, because what happens, high fructose corn syrup goes to the liver. It's metabolized there. It's turned into fat. When the Costco parking lot, the liver gets full. What does your liver do? It sends out that fat, extra fat in the form of triglycerides, three fat balls. Tri. Glyceride. Fat. Okay? So fat balls get increased in the blood vessels. That's not good. That's not good. That has a direct effect on your heart. High fructose corn syrup ain't your friend. And I was reading another study. Hold on. Let me see if I can just take it out here. We now eat, okay? This is an article written by a scientist who says, "We now eat in two weeks. The amount of sugar our ancestors ate in a whole year." Okay? We now eat in two weeks. What our ancestors a hundred years ago ate in a whole year. And we don't realize it, and especially our kids, because people are taught to count calories rather than look to see if there's any added sugar.
If added sugar is added to any foods in North America, you can bet your bottom dollar that is high fructose corn syrup. Why? I always say it. It's cheap. It's made in a lab and it's addictive. The food industry is dedicated to addiction. It's dedicated to it. They have scientists. They brought them over from the tobacco industry. That's how it started. And they were scientists. And they were food scientists and well, cigarette scientists at one time, nicotine. And they said, "Oh, it's not addictive." They lied straight to your face. I remember my dad coming home 1962. How do I know that? Because I was 10 years old.
And my dad literally stepping on the wastepaper basket and taking his cigarettes, Buckinghams, a full pack. Okay? I didn't know what he would do when I was 10. And he threw them in the garbage. I remember all my siblings were looking at my dad like, "He just flipped his lid. What? What are you doing? You know what he said to us? I found out that cigarettes caused cancer." What? I was only 10, but I had big plans to start smoking as soon as I could because my brothers did. My older brothers were all smokers. I said, "I want to be like them and smoke." I was trying to figure out how to steal my mother's ... I didn't like my dad's because they didn't have a filter on the tip. Buckinghams. I wanted to steal my mother's Peter Jackson. I was planning on it. My dad puts them in the way, but you see, he figured out that the tobacco industry was lying to him.
Remember when doctors gave cigarettes to their patients? Here, take a puff of this because it will cough out all your phlegm. You remember that? Well, you got to be old or older to remember that, but that's a fact. Nine out of 10 doctors smoked camels. Yeah? Advertisement in the magazine. Okay? This is true. But these culprits, they flipped to the food industry and they lied about everything. The sugar. Then they've invented a new one, high fructose corn syrup. They said fat makes you fat. So they got away from saturated fat. They said, "No, that's saturated. That's bad for you. Fat will clog your arteries." No, it won't. Sugar will. Sugar is destructive. Fat don't clog your arteries. Fat doesn't do that to you. Now, fat fats are no good for you either because they create inflammation in the body, right? Way too much omega-6 versus the omega-3.
Anyway, we now eat in two weeks the amount of sugar our ancestors ate in a whole year, a hundred years ago. An article. Okay? I kind of liked it. Said, "Man, man. What kind of a world do we live in? " So cardiotoxicity is the headline from high fructose corn syrup. Not good, is it? Okay. Not good. And good luck in changing that. And it's amazing what happens. When people get on the reset, I know many of you are on the reset still, and you started again in February or whatever. It wasn't everybody in January, although we had a big crew. Congratulations to those who went and did the reset. We're up to probably 200, 300, 400,000 people that have done the 30-day reset. And when you do the reset, it's amazing.
So I spell it out in the book, Sun, steak, and steel. I spell out all the benefits. There's a lot of them. Okay? Hyhructose corn syrup now linked to cardiotoxicity. Very, very damaging sugar. Okay. Here's another one. Ketogenic diet and cognitive function. Good news. Guys, I'm not a prophet nor the son of one. But I'll tell you what. For years and years and years, I was telling people in my office the whole idea of the reset had to do with changing fuels. Okay? Go to your body's preferred fuel. Okay? Because your body, if people insist on loading up with carbohydrates, your body's got no choice but to burn carbs. And you guys know this, but for all the new folks, I give illustrations. Okay? So two of them that I have given over the year. One, airplanes. Two, wood stoves.
What do I mean by that? Well, go to your airport. When we were kids, we went and we'd be fascinated because the plane, we'd watch the planes coming in and then taking off. I'm talking about in the 50s guys at our local airport. It was fascinating to me as a kid. But I tell you, go to the airport and you'll see trucks fueling jets. Okay? What do they do? Well, they go to the gas station and they fill up their trucks and they want to save some money, so they put in 87. Okay? I filled up my car yesterday. 87. The engine's designed for it. I even Googled it or AI'd it. I don't know. And yeah, you can put premium fuel in, but it ain't going to help that engine. Not going to make the engine last longer. That engine was designed for 87. I read that. Okay? But your body's not designed for 87. Your body's designed for 99, like a jet. It's jet fuel. That's what they fill the jets with. It's 99% uptake. Those engines need that kind of fuel.
And you get on a plane, you don't know the pilot, probably not. And you trust. Why? Well, you're trusting that those engines are going to get you off that runway into aerodynamics of the wings, right? You need that thrust. Guys, your body was designed for 99% octane. Now, it will run on bad fuel. It will, but it won't run well. Your mitochondria, your energy packs. Okay? Your energy packs in every cell of your body, you have mitochondria. You got lots of mitochondria in your brain cells. You got lots of mitochondria in your heart cell. You got lots of mitochondria in your muscle cells. And those are your battery packs. You run on batteries. Okay? So it's a better fuel.
And the food industry tries to tell you, "Well, you know what? You need grains and you need fiber." And I used to tell patients, or on my radio show, "That's overread. Grains are overrated because ... " What did I bring out years ago? This was something. I was looking up some old notes. Wheat toast. Okay? So you go to the restaurant and you're having bacon and eggs and they go, "Well, what kind of toast do you want? You want whole wheat?" And 90% of the people go, "Yeah, well, that makes sense because it's better. The whole wheat is better than white bread. Got to be better." Right? No. Here's Dr. Martin. It's worse than a chocolate bar or a Snickers bar, the wheat toast. That's how much sugar is going to happen when you eat wheat toast. Yeah. It's just sugar molecules holding hands. Okay?
So now back to few. Your body was designed to burn ketones. Well, like I said, ketones are only burned when you lower your carbohydrates. It's just the way the body operates because I'm going to bring you to the illustration now of a wood stove. Okay? Carbs, bread, pasta, rice, cereal, sugar, sweets, pastry, whatever. Carbs are like paper and twigs. You have a log cabin. It's been cold. You want a fire going. Yeah, you might use a little paper in twigs, but you don't want to heat your house with that. You want logs. Well, meat, eggs, cheese, butter, are logs on the fire. That's how it works. If you eat carbs, you'll never, ever get into burning ketones.
Give you another thing. The vast majority of people in North America walk around 24 hours a day. Listen to what I'm saying now with elevated insulin, even when they go to bed. Because they're carboholics and insulin has got a job to do. It's got to take that sugar out of your bloodstream. It has to park it. Either in the Costco parking lot, your liver, muscles, or fat cells. Those are the destination of sugar. It has to be parked. Okay? And because people load up on carbs, insulin has to hang around. I'll give you an example. You have pasta for supper. I love pasta, by the way. Okay? I married an Italian. You think I'm stupid? I love pasta. But don't fool yourself. Okay? Insulin, you have pasta, let's say at six o'clock at night, 6:00 PM. Well, insulin at 10:00 PM is still working to take that sugar out of your bloodstream and to store it.
And then what happens? Okay? So that's just on a heavy meal. And I'm not telling you never to have pasta. Okay? Don't come after me. I'm just telling you the truth. I remember a patient coming in the office and they said, "Doc, tell me the truth. Tell me the truth." Well, the truth is this. Okay? Your cells, because if you're a carbaholic, they resist insulin. They're tired of it. Like if you have a piece of chocolate cake on your birthday, who cares? I mean it. Who cares? But if you have sugar and high fructose corn syrup and crappy carbs every day, what happens in the body and the biggest problem in our society in terms of disease is this, is your cells at the cellular level resist insulin. They go, "I hate you. " You come around all the time. You're a bad neighbor. You keep knocking at my door. I'm tired of you. Get lost.
But insulin goes, knock, knock knock, knock, knock knock, knock. You again. Yep. Why? Well, I got to park the sugar that you ate. I have to park it. You got to open up because I can't leave sugar unattended. I must park it. And that insulin resistance gets worse and worse. So here you are. It's 10 o'clock at night. It's midnight. It's two in the morning. You're not even thinking of this, but your body, instead of resting and digesting, getting into the sleep mode, your cells are still saying to insulin, "Would you leave me alone?" And guess what? You develop a resistance. It gets worse and worse and worse. And that's what metabolic syndrome is. You can actually test insulin resistance to see where you're at. You can do it by blood work.
Doctors are not looking for insulin resistance. Doctors are looking for diabetes. Don't wait for diabetes, my friend. Don't wait. Get the book, sun, steak and steel. I explain this. Listen, you can check and see if you're on the Titanic of insulin resistance leading to metabolic syndrome and 93% of the population are there. And metabolic syndrome, okay, we'll talk about it in a minute. We'll go over the blood work again. I'm a rinse and repeat and rinse and repeat and rinse and repeat. Dr. Martin, you're so simple. You got a simple brain. Yep. You repeat all the time. Yep. I'm sorry. If you got the major problem in the world in terms of our health, happens to come from food, let's talk about it. I'm not ashamed of that. So metabolic syndrome, it's when your cells are so sick and tired of insulin, sick and tired. Leads to heart disease, leads to cancer. Leads to diabetes, leads to Alzheimer's, leads to autoimmune. Okay?
It's a disaster and it comes from food. And one of the biggest culprits is high fructose corn syrup. It's a huge culprit. But here's how you could know. You want to know if you're on the Titanic? Get your A1C tested. Okay? We had, I think it was somebody on our ... I was going through the scroll after and they said, "Dr. Martin, I've been on the reset and my triglycerides went down. Good for you. Here's a high five. My HDL cholesterol went up. Good for you. Here's a high five. My blood pressure's down. Good for you. Here's a high five. My blood sugar is down. Good for you. Here's a high five." She said, "But my A1C has come down, but it's at 5.8. I thought the reset would fix it. " Well, here's what I say. You and carbs don't get along at all, and you never will.
So you got to keep trucking, man. If your A1C is 5.8, that's all right. Like your doctor will think that's normal, it's not diabetes. We're not even talking diabetes. It'll come down. It's just going to take longer. Everybody's different. A1C usually is very much corrected with the reset. I mean, big time, but sometimes it hangs up there a little longer. It's just telling you that you didn't get off the Titanic completely yet. Isn't it better to know that? And I tell people, look, I'm here to pump your tires up. I'm not trying to discourage you. I'm just telling you one thing about insulin resistance, it's science. You can measure it. But the fact that your triglycerides went down and your HDL went up and your blood pressure went down. Man, oh man, give yourself a high five. But you ain't done. Your journey's not finished.
And guys, even with the reset, it resets. But I used to tell people all the time, I said, "Well, listen, you're going to find out something about yourself. You're going to discover something about yourself. What? You'll find out something personal. My name is Tony and I'm a carboholic. I found that out when I was on the reset. I didn't realize how many carbs I eat. My doctor said you have a granola bar. It's a granola doc. Isn't granola good for you? No. No. It's not. I see diabetics eating granola bars and I get migraines. You don't need that. Have an egg. They get lied to again by the food industry. It's crazy. That was on high fructose corn syrup and cardiotoxicity and ketogenic diet and cognitive function, the preferred fuel.
Okay. I got carried away, guys. Okay. Now, Friday Q&A. For those of you who had the book, Rebuild Your Temple, we are having a little webinar tonight moderated by "moi", okay? At 6:30 live. Okay? If you want to come in, we'd love to have you. Okay? I'll be on there live. Okay. Now, what else was I going to say? Can't remember. Okay. I just pulled out my senior card. Okay, guys, we love you dearly and sincerely, talk to you soon.
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