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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone. Welcome to another live this morning. Hope you're having a wonderful start to your day. We love you coming on live if you can, as you get your notifications here, okay, let me see. I'm just going to go to our questions this morning. Okay, so Michelle has a fat malabsorption problem. I was told to avoid a high fat diet to help. However, I've been following Dr. Martin for years and I was wondering on his thoughts. Okay? It might've been caused by a strong antibiotic whenever I've seen a fat absorption syndrome. Either the person has got a short bowel just born that way, or they have pancreatic insufficiency. I've seen it with celiac. And so Michelle is saying it all started with strong antibiotics. Yeah, I would agree with that. I was wondering if I can still eat steak and eggs. I don't see why not.
Listen, if you're not getting symptoms, Michelle. Okay, so here would be the symptoms usually of fat Mel absorption, right? You get diarrhea, severe bloating, major digestive issue. If you're not getting that when you eat a steak, you're still going to get a lot of protein and a lot of nutrients out of it. You might not be absorbing necessarily all of the fat, but you might look at maybe a little bit leaner meats like leaner steak or chicken or whatever. It depends on your symptoms, Michelle. Okay? If you're not getting a lot of symptoms, if you were a patient of mine, I would've had you on pancreatic enzyme, digestive enzymes, big time to absorb as much fat as you can, the lipase, okay? That kind of thing. So yeah, I hope I answered your questions. Let me get back to it now, Janet. Okay, Janet, last week asked the question about maximum number of supplements daily, and I didn't know her supplements.
Now she's telling me she takes Navitol and cortisol. Well look, maximum, they're both water-soluble. I'm not worried about maximum so much. Janet, like, listen, I've had people, and I'm not kidding you, so much stress in their life, so much anxiety. I had them for a couple of weeks or a short period of time. I can remember patients in my office, they were taking eight cortisol capsules a day. They were that badly stressed and they found that helpful. What were the side effects of that? None. Navitol. Look, you're getting a big dosage of Navitol. I mean, I started out with pine bark extract at 25 milligrams. That's what you got in a capsule of pine bark. Now we put what, 320 or 340 milligrams per capsule. It's water soluble. I don't know what the maximum is. I mean, I've had people take six Navitol a day.
They had so much inflammation or so much exhaustion and fatigue. Look, again, I individualized it because I was in practice. Now I'm not in practice. Well, but maximums, they're very well tolerated. That's all I would say. Your maximum amount be. I took this much and I got nauseated. Okay, cut back. So I don't know, Janet, that's the only way I can answer your question because I've got a lot of experience over the years in practice of doing it and really I never encountered maximum. It's like DHA. I've had people with cancer take six or eight, DHA. That's a lot of fish oil, a lot of DHA, but what's the side effect of it? It's only good.
Okay, Bulah. What do you think of berberine? I like it. I like berberine. Couple of years ago, I think maybe three or four years ago, it was the hottest thing. And remember, bah, I was in the radio business for a lot of years and there was things coming on the hit parade every month. It was something new and I was forced to talk about it. Obviously I had a radio show, people would ask me, okay, and it was hot, hot, hot. Berberine. I like berberine, I like Burberry. I really do. I've seen the research on it. I like it to me, okay? And again, this is me, my opinion, I like a combination of things better. If we could ever get back, and I know we're working on it in Canada with the government in the United States with the FDA, I love our formula because what I did, and we formulated this at the Martin Clinic, was insulin balance.
And I like that because I could prove, because remember, we measured insulin. We measured, I wasn't guessing, product had to work because we measured, if I gave you vitamin D, well, what's your vitamin D levels? After I gave you, let's say 10,000 IUs, B12, same thing. We measured it. We tested it. So I was very big. I remember this is going back 30 something years on alpha lapic acid and insulin. Very, very good. The research, a friend of mine, Dr. Passwater, he wrote a book on alpha lapic acid and how it balances out your insulin. And he was a researcher, really, really good guy and I liked it. I always believed in alpha loic acid. I liked cinnamon for example. Really important combo of that. And magnesium. I like combination when it comes to insulin, but ine got no problem with it. You like it, no problem at all. Okay, thanks for the question. That was Bulah I think.
Okay, let me see. Peggy is asking, I've been doing EMC for three years. She gave me her food sensitivity results. She's sensitive to EMC, okay, according to her food sensitivities. Now, let me give you, I think I did this last week anyway, but I'll give it to you again. When you have sensitivities, if you get a blood test for food sensitivities, I never was high on that. I'll tell you why. Because I had a lot of patients that insisted on me doing food sensitivity tests and I worked with a lab in the United States. I would send their blood work down to a lab and I would warn them ahead of time. Well, you might not like what comes back. First of all, they gave me 600 bucks because that's how much that test costs in those days, and it was a great lab by the way, and the lab would send me a reimbursement for 200. So the doctor made $200 out of $600. But I used to tell the patient I was right up front with it. I said, you want to give me 600 bucks? I'm going to get 200 of it because the lab will pay me a fee. Plus when the results come back, you're going to find out generally that you're sensitive to things that don't bother you at all, but they're going to show up on that sensitivity test.
That's why I used to try and save people $600 and I said, why don't you be your own doctor? What? Will you be your own tester? You have an egg, does it bother you? No. It may be come back on a sensitivity test that you and eggs don't get along. I don't believe it for a minute because your body will tell you, oh, doc, I have dairy. I don't do well with dairy. Well, there you go. You don't need 600 bucks for that for you got your answer. But some people insisted. So I'm saying here, okay, for example, because you're saying the testing came back Peggy, and you're sensitive to the EMC, that means you're sensitive to eggs, meat and cheese. How do you feel you're getting some upper right region pain that may be your gallbladder. I mean, have they not done an ultrasound on your gallbladder, on your liver? Look, I've had people that I've got them to cut back on fat because it was bothering them.
Their gallbladder was all sluggish or they were starting to form stones and I modified their diet. I love eggs, meat and cheese. But I would go, well, you've got to go a little bit leaner. You might not be able to get the amount of fat that another person can eat, but this is Peggy, what I'm saying to you, okay, if you're being bothered, well that's different. But if you're not being bothered by foods and then some sensitivity tests tell you, I remember Tony Jr. Had fun with this. Okay? I died laughing because he sent this blood work in for his food sensitivities. It came back. The only thing that he could eat was fish and he hates fish.
Everything else came back hot. Like don't eat it. We were on the ground laughing in our office laughing according to this son, you can't eat anything but fish. Like he was hypersensitive to everything, but food didn't bother him. He just, anyway, okay guys, that's me. And I know I'm going to get pushback because some people, while I live and die by that sensitivity test, and I don't, I never did. I said, be your own doctor. You'll figure it out. Foods bug, you stop it and then maybe you'll be able to, because I know a lot of people couldn't eat eggs, bothered them. They took probiotics, they lowered their carbs, their stomach got better, their bowel got better, and then they could eat eggs again. I've seen that maybe not a thousand times, but a hundreds of times they couldn't have dairy. It bothered them. Now they can have dairy. It doesn't always happen, but it often happens after you fix your gut. Anyway, thanks for the question.
I'm very opinionated as you notice, but it's who I am, man. I just got to give you my clinical experience. So sometimes I go against the grain, but I I'm trying to save people money, okay, Theresa, high blood pressure, very through the day. I'm on three minutes and the numbers are not always consistent. I understand the old days numbers were higher. Yeah, they changed the goal. You have to be around as long as I've been around since the 1970, and so the goalposts have changed, like one 30 over 90 used to be normal. Now they're going to put you on a mint because why? Well, the pharmaceutical industry has got involved. I'm much bigger on you taking care of your blood pressure if you can nuero uno, cut out sugar. Sugar is very destructive to your blood vessels. Sugar will make your kidneys hold on to salt, sodium. That can elevate your blood pressure. Okay?
Having low levels of nitric oxide can elevate your blood pressure having low levels of vitamin D because it elevates nitric oxide can be a factor in blood pressure. So Theresa, I like natural, but I never ever, ever told the patient to get off high blood pressure medication. I said, let's see if you can control your bp. A lot of times they could. And then well with your doctor stalk them. Now, it's not always easy to convince a doctor once they're on blood pressure medication. Well, they say, oh, it's working. Let's keep you on it. They don't even think for a minute about the boatload of side effects of that. They should, but they don't. So yeah, the goalposts have been moved and you're on three different medications, Theresa. Yikes. Yikes. Okay, now let's see. That was Theresa Stephanie, I would like to ask, okay, this has been asked before, Steph, but I'm a rinse and repeat guy.
So Steph is going, how much Vitamin K two with vitamin D? Well, there's different schools of thought on that, okay, different schools of thought. My consensus is the perfect amount that we put in with our vitamin D for every thousand I use, I think it's 10 micrograms. Look, some will say a hundred micrograms of vitamin K two. There's different schools. You can go on Google and they'll give you an opinion, but it's just an opinion. It's just an opinion like what we know. Again with our vitamin D, with K two, we know you should be taking vitamin K two. And I always tell people, look, God put vitamin K two in food. So when you eat calcium in an egg, there's lots of calcium in an egg. There's lots of calcium in cheese and dairy. Obviously everybody knows that there's lot of calcium in steak, but God gave you vitamin K two to take that calcium in an egg in dairy and in steak and put it with the calcium.
That's why I don't like calcium supplements because they don't get to their intended destination. You want it to get to your bones and we'll answer a question. I saw it this morning on osteoporosis. I love vitamin K two. I really do, but I want you to eat your vitamin K two mostly. Now we put it in with vitamin D because vitamin D will elevate your calcium, which is good. It's all right. That's why they gave vitamin D for bones of course. But it's better with K two because K two will bring it to its destination. But you know what, again, if you eat eggs, meat, and cheese, and you take vitamin D as a supplement, generally that calcium that you're eating is going to get to your bones. Okay? You know what the problem is? People don't get enough eggs, meat and cheese, they just don't because they think it's, oh, it's cholesterol, it's bad.
I can't have too much fat's going to make me fat and eggs. My doctor said they don't even know what they're talking. They're doctors. You do, but they don't. Okay, so again, I'm not going to give you a definite answer on the vitamin K two. My research says I got it perfectly right in our vitamin D supplement. Other people said, you need more, maybe it ain't going to hurt you. Vitamin K two ain't hurting you. Okay, good for you. Everybody talks about K one. They don't talk about K two. Okay, thank you for the question, Stephanie. Phyllis, my daughter's been on the reset for 28 days and has only lost five pounds. Now, Phyllis, okay, just a couple of things that are really important. The reset is a change in fuel. Primary reason of the reset, metabolic reset is to get you off the Titanic of metabolic syndrome, which 93% of the population have.
Now it's the best weight loss eating plant. Why is that? Because even though it's not primarily for weight loss, when you are eating the right fuel your body, it will get rid of fat, not muscle. Because if you go calories in and calories out and you lower your calories, your body's not stupid. It will hibernate. And you know what? You're going to store fat and get rid of muscle. You'll lose water and muscle, and that's what happens in calorie restriction, five pounds. Okay? I'm going to show you, I don't even have my five pounds. This is one pound. You lose five pounds. Oh, it's only five pounds. You are losing five pounds of fat. Wow, that's a loss. A foot long and six inches thick. You only lost five pounds. I used to have patients come in duck. I don't lost five pounds. I said, would you throw away your scale?
It's like blood sugar. I'm taking my blood sugar every time I eat. Why are you driving yourself mental like that? I'm taking my blood pressure. They used to bring it to me, okay? In a book, you want to read my book, Dr. Martin of my blood pressure? No. You want to put me to sleep? I don't care what your blood pressure was a month ago at eight o'clock, nine o'clock, 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock. What do I want to know that for? I don't care. You're a secreting cortisol. You're making yourself crazy. I don't want to know. Now what I want to know is how we're going to fix you. So listen, I don't get too uptight when someone tells me they only lost five pounds. Look, everybody's metabolism is different, and sometimes you might have to tweak a little bit on the amount of fat you're eating, but generally remember, look who asked me the question.
I'm going to put these two together. I saw it. Ramon, let's do this together. Ramona is asking me this. I wanted to ask, is there any research surrounding the new weight loss drugs like wavy or manjaro or Ozempic? Oh, there's research, okay? Remember, these were diabetic drugs. They weren't weight loss drugs, and now they're designer drugs because Hollywood, they always do it at Hollywood. Hollywood, they'll do anything to lose weight, and they would have their mouth sewn, their lips put together so they couldn't eat just to get a part in the fill. So other designer drugs, like these drugs were made for diabetes, and now they're making billions and billions and billions of dollars of profit because they turned them into weight loss drugs, these GLP ones, okay? Here's the problem facts. The minute you stop and the average person will only be on these medications for a year, why? Side effects. They can't stand the side effects.
And the billions of dollars of lawsuits that are already out there on the side effects of wavy pic, whatever. Yeah, you lose weight, but you're losing muscle. You're not losing fat, you're losing muscle. And so at the end of the day, here's me, there's no magic guys. Magic in weight loss. There's no magic. Okay? These drugs, yep, they work. You'll lose weight. But at what cost? Okay, I have to say it. You guys know me. I want you to change your habits. I want you to change because here's another thing. When they stop the drug because of side effects, all their weight comes back. It comes back because that's what happens. You go very calorie restricted because the GLP medications, you're not hungry. You're playing with hormones. Guess what? The second you stop. That's why I'm big into lifestyle.
I always used to tell my patients this, when you're on the reset, you are going to find out after three weeks or less, you were a carbo. What? Yeah, you were a carbo holic. You'll realize, okay, this is part of the plan. You're going to realize at about the three week mark and earlier, man, oh man, I didn't realize how many carbs I ate in a day. One, two, how carbs affected me. I'm running on a different fuel. I feel so much better. My bowel is better, my energy is better, my brain is better, my joints are better, my stomach is better. And so you got to understand that. And that's why when I get a question like this, I understand the frustration if you have a scale, but if you've lost five pounds of fat, usually patients, because what we did in our office, we measured them. It wasn't weight as much as we measured them.
Well, look, you lost a couple of inches here, there and everywhere. That's better because that's much more permanent than your scale. I'm trying to make it a lifestyle when I get you convinced that you do better with protein and fat than you do with carbs and fat like a donut. Okay? This was my goal because it's a metabolic reset. It's so good. Blood pressure, blood pressure. Tens of thousands of patients have told me that, geez, doc, my blood pressure's normal. Hello? It was sugar. And then when you're finished the reset, you've formed a habit. I can tell you this is for a fact, like 30,000 or more patients, they're still eating, not no carb, but low carb. It's not having any carbohydrates. They're just not having many carbohydrates.
And I tell you, even on this morning, I bet you there's 150 people on just this morning that could give testimony to that they've changed their eating habits. So Phyllis, I'm not going to repent your daughter. Tell her to send me an email info@martinclinic.com and I'll pump her tires up. Okay? We'll pump her tires up like you're on the right plan, man. If you're strictly doing a weight loss thing and you want to go on a VY or whatever, vy, I don't know what you call it, who cares what you call it? You know what I'm saying, guys? I'm long-term looking down the path. I want your health. I don't want you to have metabolic syndrome that 93% of the population, and remember all of the chronic diseases come from that, all of them. So it's really important. Thank you for the question. And that was Phyllis.
Cheryl, is it true that allergy are causing dementia in Alzheimer's? They could be a factor. Cheryl. I'm big on allergies. I'm big on keratin and Navitol. Mein bark with keratin. The combination. I love it. Very, very powerful antihistamine. Yeah, look, I mean, there are medications that are worse than antihistamines for Alzheimer's, dementia, IE proton pump inhibitors, okay? For your stomach for acid reflux. Those are the worst in my opinion. And statin drugs for dementia and Alzheimer's because it lowered your cholesterol. And why do you want to lower your cholesterol? Okay, this is Cheryl. Linda, can you please ask Dr. Martin seasonal effective disorder? A lot of people suffer from that. Oh, the sun's out today. Hallelujah. The sun is so good for you, isn't it? Linda's talking about light therapy lamps. Yeah, I got no problem with those. Okay? If I lived in the North Pole, I think I'd have a light therapy lamp.
But yeah, sunlight, even on a cold day, guys, even though you're not going to get vitamin D, you're going to get melatonin. And melatonin is really important, okay? And your body makes melatonin at the site of the sun through your eyeballs to the pineal gland. Okay? Really important. So I got no problem with light therapy lamps. I really don't. Some people find them very effective. Lorna, a lady in the health clerk in the supplement department at the health food store passed out just about at the thought of Lorna taking a 10,000 IUs of vitamin D. Okay? Isn't it sad, guys? How vitamin D has been so vilified? You go in the sun for 20 minutes, you get 10,000 iu. How could that be bad? Oh, 10,000. Ah, you're going to die. Except they've never seen a case of it. Well, you might get a kidney stone.
Well, here's the research on that. 50,000 IUs one, do the hammer. You got to do the hammer. I did the hammer. 50,000 IUs a day, the hammer's for three days, 50,000 iu a day of vitamin D, six months every day, seven days a week. You don't have to do it, guys, because it's been done. And you know what? Didn't even form a calcium stone. It's so crazy. The war on vitamin D and people buy it. Imagine in a health food store, not even knowing enough. The research had been done. Vitamin D, first of all, the numbers in the 1920s, people were taking more vitamin D than they take now, but there's a war. You have to understand. It's propaganda they want to take over. The pharmaceutical companies want it, and they pay for the FDA and they pay for Health Canada. They pay for it. So guess what? They want to give you a prescription because it's for your own good, right?
Guys, they're crazier than hoot owls. They don't know what they're talking about. The waiting rooms in the emergency departments, they're not full of people. I know why you're here. I know why you're sick. You take too much vitamin D when they do take a test and they see your numbers are high, they pass out. You got high vitamin D. So what's that mean? You're going to die? I don't think so. No one ever has before. You mean I'll be the first one. No one's died from vitamin D. No one. Not ever. That's a fact. It's a hormone. It's not really a vitamin. Anyway, crazy, crazy, crazy.
Okay, let's see. I want to see if I can finish Sharon. Gluteal tendinopathy, pain in the butt, and it's no fun. Right around your hip there and your butt. Listen, I like the combination. Okay? I'm very big on kirkman and Navitol. I like combining the two. Okay? In the states, you can get our inflammation formula in Canada, but those are the two biggest ingredients, okay? Okay? Yeah. Gluteal tendinopathy. No fun. Ette the thyroid's out. Yeah, we're trying to get it in as soon as possible. I'm taking a statin now with Dr. Martin's probiotics. Okay? Can I manage a thyroid without your supplement and a statin? Like I don't understand Leet, what you're saying about the statin in your thyroid. What's the connection there? Maybe it was given to me the wrong way. So clarify that for me. Would you Leet, because I can't answer your question.
I don't understand the connection between taking a statin drug, which is to lower your cholesterol and your thyroid. I shouldn't say I don't understand it. There's really no connection. Why would you want to take a statin drug with a thyroid? But give me a little bit more detail, okay? And I'll answer info@martinclinic.com. Melissa, my 17-year-old has very bad cholesterol. Melissa, you see my migraine Now if they did blood test and he's got hypercholesterolemia, okay, so that's what I say. So what now? They're going to scare the life out of him. Try and get 'em on a statin drug. But what I'd like you to do, if you can do this for me, Melissa, is send me in his blood work at info@martinclinic.com. Make sure I know who it is. Let me see his triglycerides and his HDL. That's what I'm interested. I have to do it every week. Talk about cholesterol. Cholesterol lowering medications.
Okay. Sandra, 73 years old. Good for you. You're a puppy. You're younger than me. She's been classified as osteoporosis. You know what? I'm going to do a whole program on this because osteoporosis, they changed the goalposts. It happened while I was in practice. All of a sudden they had a big meeting and they decided, well, this number on bone density is osteoporosis. They just decided that at a meeting. Guess who was there? The pharmaceutical company that was making a drug for osteoporosis, which by the way doesn't work. It builds bone, but not good bone. I mean, vitamin D and K two will do better than that. Eat eggs, meat and cheese. That will do better than that, in my opinion. Okay? Get strong. Strong muscles. Strong bones. That's a fact. That's a fact. So get strong. You want to build bone, build muscle, and you don't have to be Arnold Schwarzenegger. Just get stronger. You can use bands and get stronger for your bone. But they made osteoporosis out to be a big disease today because they changed the numbers. I watched them do it. I was screaming blue murder on my radio show.
Okay, let me see. I think I'm done. Yeah, I think I'm done. Okay. Wow. We got it. Okay. Okay, guys, tomorrow afternoon, session 4:00 PM Eastern. Okay? Just announcing it ahead of time. You got your book? Sun, Steak and Steel available in Canada. Rebuild Your Temple in Canada and the USA. If you want to join, you have a book and you want to join our little club, book club that we have Rebuild Your Temple. Well join us, okay? I do a little 10 minute, 15 minute devotional on Friday mornings there, and you're more than welcome to come and join us, okay? Okay. We love you guys, and we'll talk to you soon.
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