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Dr. Martin: Welcome. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to another live this morning. Hope you're having a great start to your day. As we get going here, I am going to bring you that study again just because I want to break it down. So here it is. Okay. A new study, okay, on magnesium and breast cancer. So I brought this yesterday afternoon in the afternoon session, but I'll talk about it again here today, but we'll go into a little bit more detail on this. New study shows if you have an increase of magnesium in your tissue, your risk of breast cancer goes down quite a bit. Magnesium and breast cancer. So what I explained yesterday was what the study said. The authors of this study were saying they're not sure exactly why, but their theory was that because magnesium decreases inflammation, C-reactive protein, magnesium will lower that to some extent and decrease in oxidative stress.
They felt that that was the reason for magnesium, and I didn't go into a lot of detail, but let me go into a little bit more detail about magnesium and what it does. Okay, so here's my little theory on it, and I've been talking about magnesium for centuries. It seems it's important. We don't get enough of it. It's not in our soil like it used to be at all. So food, if it's not in the soil, guys, it's not in the food generally. So when I talk about magnesium, I talk about supplementing with magnesium, okay? I love citri, bg, glycinate, anything with an eight at the end of it because it's been chelated, meaning it's ready to be absorbed. But let me give you a little take on, because magnesium is a natural calcium blocker.
When they give you medications for high blood pressure, congestive heart failure and whatever, they often give you what they call a calcium blocker in terms of medication. But magnesium is a natural calcium blocker. Before I get into the heart, because that's important for the heart, and we'll talk about that in a minute, but let me just reference breast cancer first, and I wrote this in my book, sun Steak and Steel. Where do I have it? I have it here. I have a copy here. Available still in Canada. So why don't you pick this book up? It's a great reference book. I talk about what they found in breast cancer to be a factor is oxalates, calcium, oxalates, kidney stone, calcium, oxalates. You can get uric acid stones, but the most prevalent stones, 75% of kidney stones are calcium stones. Their oxalates, and I've talked about oxalates in the past.
So one of the things when you go on the reset for 30 days, no oxalates because you're not eating. I'm not saying you should never eat vegetables. I'm not saying that. I'm just saying a lot of them, like spinach for example, have a lot of oxalates and there are studies showing that one of the things in breast cancer is the presence of calcium oxalates. So when they say that when you're magnesium, when they measure it is increased, you have a less risk of breast cancer according to this new study. That could be a big factor without them even mentioning it in the study because magnesium does a lot of things, but it is a natural calcium blocker. Now, guys, you know this with me, okay? You know this with me. Do I love calcium? Yep, I do. Okay, I do. You need calcium. Your bones need calcium.
I mean, it's not the only thing your bones need, but you need calcium. The problem with calcium is if you take it as a supplement, it will stay mostly in your blood, will not get to the intended destination. That's why God has given us eggs, meat and dairy, cheese, cream butter. Why? Because you got calcium. You got a lot of calcium in dairy. Everybody knows that well drink your milk. You need calcium. Yeah, I don't like skim milk. I don't like 2%. If you got a cow in the backyard, go ahead and drink it. I love cream. We talked about this yesterday. I posted it on Alzheimer's, right? The more fat you have in your diet, the better it is for your brain fat head. Take that as a compliment. If I call you fat head, you're a friend of mine, okay? You want to have a lot of fat Alzheimer's. The brain shrinks like a prune. That's just a fat, no fat, okay? So calcium's important guys, again, in nature, God gave it to us. You have an egg. You got a lot of calcium in there with the transporter. K2, okay? It's important.
You eat cheese, you have calcium in cheese, lots of it with the transporter, K2 because K2, what it does, it takes calcium and puts it in the bones. That's why I like vitamin D, even with K2, because vitamin D will increase your calcium level. That's why it's so good for your bone. Nobody argues with that. It's very important for bones, but I used to say with the assumption that you're eating eggs, meat, and cheese, because that's where you are going to get vitamin tea two, not K one. K one is in the plant kingdom. Is K one bad for you? No, it's not bad for you. It's good for you, but K2 is better for you because it takes calcium. Magnesium is a calcium blocker natural, but K2 is what brings calcium into your intended destination, which is your bones and teeth. You don't want calcium in your arteries, guys, because that's atherosclerosis, it's plaque.
What do you think plaque is? It's calcified. That's what plaque is. They always blame cholesterol for plaque while blaming cholesterol. Yeah, cholesterol is always going through your blood. It's always going to be present in your blood vessels, of course, right? They're Amazon trucks or whatever kind of truck you like the best. They're going on the highways and byways of your blood vessels. What does cholesterol do? It transports. What does HDL do? Well, it has a wagon on the back. You've seen those transports with two trailers. Well, the second trailer is to pick triglycerides. That's why, again, cholesterol is good for your heart. It's not bad for your heart. I got to study. We might get into it today on cholesterol. Okay, so magnesium guise is a natural calcium blocker. Is that more important than its anti-inflammatory properties? Maybe. Maybe. And it blocks oxalates. That's why magnesium is so good for your kidneys. I mean, magnesium is good for your blood vessels all around. Why? Because magnesium relaxes your blood vessels, right? You guys know me when I say magnesium, I say relax. I used to say that to my kids, okay? Daddy used to say Relax because they were getting uptight or they were being bad when they were young. And daddy with my voice. I used this with great success.
Relax, and they'd look at daddy meaning, cool it. Okay, guys. Magnesium is really, really important. Okay, so let's go through a few things that magnesium does other than blocking oxalates, which is really, really, let's talk about insulin because we're magnesium helps in insulin and insulin resistance. Remember the cells, the cell walls, when you're a carbo holic, your cell walls, your muscle cells, your fat cells, your liver cells especially, they get so tired of seeing insulin coming around, but insulin's got a job to do. Remember, if you got sugar in the bloodstream, insulin says, Hey, you can't park there. No more parking. It's a no parking zone. Okay? Can't park there, okay? I don't care if you have a disability parking pass, you can't park there. Why? Because sugar is so destructive to blood vessels. Your body knows that medicine doesn't. They don't even know it because if they knew it, if you had diabetes, they'd say, well, you and sugar don't get along, so stop eating it.
But they don't want to fix it. They want to manage it. So what do they do? Well, you're a diabetic. You need medication. They don't even talk to you about food. If they did, they would say, well, maybe you better cut back on red meat. No, when you eat steak, your insulin's on the sidelines, it doesn't even have work to do. So when it comes to diabetes, magnesium is good. It's good for you. It's good prevention because it's sort of a gatekeeper at the cell wall, and it facilitates the entry of insulin. It facilitates. It makes it easier because insulin, knock, knock, knock on the cell ball, Hey, I got sugar and I need to park it, and when cells get tired of hearing from insulin, they develop like a coating and saying, I hate you insulin, and that's what diabetes is. It all starts with insulin resistance anyway. Magnesium allows that glucose to go inside the cell. It's a facilitator. How do you like that? Okay, it's a facilitator. Very good for you. We talked about kidneys already. Magnesium helps because it gets rid of oxalates, and again, blood supply, it relaxes blood vessels. I always tell you that blood vessels become spasmodic, especially with high blood pressure. Well, magnesium relaxes the blood vessel. Anxiety, adrenals, right?
Cortisol, where does it come from? Your adrenal glands add adrenal on top of kidneys and they secrete cortisol. Your stress hormone, and everybody has cortisol. Everybody, and cortisol is on your side till it's not. Cortisol is a friend until you use it too much, then it becomes an enemy. Magnesium helps with cortisol, okay? It does because magnesium relaxes. Okay? Think of it. It's a relaxant and it binds itself to serotonin, the feel-good hormone that you have more in your gut than you have in your brain, by the way. But magnesium is important for that. Magnesium's important in sleep. Why? Again? Because it hitches its wagon to GABA and helps you to relax. It relaxes your muscles. This is why years ago, I used to tell all my patients, well, you're having trouble sleeping. One way to prepare for sleep, you can take a magnesium supplement, hot bath of magnesium salts, okay?
Epsom salts or magnesium salts, take a hot bath with magnesium salts, but an hour before you're going to bed. A lot of people find that effective for the heart, magnesium's important. One of the biggest things that I saw over the years in heart, especially atrial F, what's really gone into a different stratosphere in terms of numbers is atrial. F my word. We see a lot of atrial fib, and I talked about this on many of podcasts before, because atrial fib, the numbers are crazy compared to what it used to be. And here's me, okay, here's me. Your heart's a muscle. Your heart is an electrical grip. That's why I'm big on water. Water and electricity. Think about it, right? You want to produce electricity, you need water. Niagara Falls. You guys know that, okay, water's good for the heart. Not only blood volume, but the electrical grid.
That's why I like a touch of salt and magnesium. Sodium. Why? Well, because it's a grid, and I believe what happens in atrial fib where the electricity is out of whack, I think one of the biggest problems is low magnesium, because again, I'm a Y guy. Why are we seeing so much atrial P? I think another reason is because of the overuse of statin drugs. It weakens the heart. It weakens the muscle. It weakens the amount of coq 10. You guys know this. I've been consistent talking about coq 10 without coq 10, guys, your mitochondria don't work properly because you need coq 10 for a TP, which is the production of energy. You got more mitochondria in your heart and your brain than anywhere else. You need a lot of battery packs for your heart to function properly. There's coq 10, but magnesium's important for that too.
Think of it, okay? Downstream from the heart when they talk about coronary artery disease, and now they do the CAC test, right? Like where they take imaging of your coronary artery and they can see if you have any calcium. Well, what's a natural calcium blocker? Magnesium, by the way, people ask me about that test all the time because now you can get an imaging of your coronary arteries. I like it, but what do you do about it? Medicine often wants to put you on a statin drug. I don't like that because it's not going to fix the problem. It's going to mask the problem. It doesn't fix it. Cholesterol is not the boogeyman. Calcium, calcified arteries. Think of your carotid artery. Calcified. What helps that? Magnesium. It's a natural calcium blocker. I like that. I like elevating nitric oxide. I often use with heart patients over the years.
A combination of magnesium with atrial fib. I gave patients magnesium. I gave them coq 10 ubiquinol. I gave them Navitol because it's elevates your nitric oxide, opens up the blood vessels, works really well with magnesium, and then I had them on, of course, vitamin D, always vitamin D in the heart. There's so much research on that. And high DHA to lubricate the blood vessels. I'd do all of the above if I had trouble with a year L fib or heart disease, okay, so remember that. Okay? And magnesium, by the way, because it's a calcium blocker. Think about your ladies. Think about your bladder. Mostly with women. Mostly with women. They get bladder issues. That bladder starts descending. Well, that's progesterone and a lot of it that's true. And magnesium, the smooth muscle depends a lot on magnesium, gallbladder, smooth muscle. Okay. Anyway, I thought I'd bring that up.
Somebody asked me the question on Friday, but I get it almost every q and a, Dr. Martin, what do you think of Ozempic or VY or vy? What do you call it? I don't know. What do they call it? It don't matter to me what they call it. It's what I call it, okay? You know what I mean by these GLP drugs and I started give an answer and I just want to reiterate it because again, here's the problem. This is the most popular medications of our time right now. GLP ones, peptides, they're the most popular medication weight loss, and mankind is always looking for ways to lose weight. If they can do it easily, they'll do it. Guys, there's no magic, but these medications are like magic. They work, they work, but with a big butt. Here's just the facts, guys. Here's the fact. I don't mind repetition because people ask me, we got lots of new people. We talk about that.
Okay, we'll talk about that one. This is a fact. People on average, we'll stay on this medication, medications for one year. That's the average, and then they stop. Why do they stop? Side effects. Side effects. Stomach and bowel paralysis. That's how these peptides work. They slow down peristalsis. They affect your hunger hormone. The problem is that a lot of people stop because they get major, major digestive issues. I had former patients of mine tell me they went on the medication and it was given at one time, by the way, to diabetics. That's what the medication was for. Avi and Ozempic were diabetic medications with a boatload of side effects to diabetics. One of them was major digestive issues, exploding diarrhea with no warning. That's what former patients have told me about, man. Oh man. I mean, it was embarrassing, and I would have accidents with no warning whatsoever, and suicidal and depression big time. Well, it plays with your hormones. You got more hormones in your gut than you have in your brain guy. Well, there's a major side effect to that. It can be.
The other side effect is when you stop, you get your weight back, and there's reasons for that. One, you didn't change habits. This is why guys, the reset was so different. Somebody, we talked about this the other day. Dr. Martin, my daughter only lost five pounds. She's frustrated. First of all, five pounds is big. Five pounds of fat, okay? Not muscle. Because when you go on the reset, you lose fat, not muscle, and you want to lose that visceral fat, especially that fat. The reset aims at that, at visceral fat around your organs, and you go, doc, I only lost five pounds. Well, holy smokes. You know how much five pounds is? It's a foot long and six inches thick around your organs. That's what you're losing. And I often told patients like, would you throw away the scale, please? I'm trying to fix insulin for sure, and insulin resistance, absolutely.
That's the key. But the other thing that the reset and tens of thousands of people would give testimony to this, no, because of books, probably a hundred thousand people easily would give testimony to this doc. I found out that me and carbs don't get along. We don't get along. I love them, but they don't love me. I love carbs. I could live on carbs. Yeah, you could, but you won't live long, and you had to figure that out. That's why the reset, because once you get in around that second, third week, you go, man, oh man, my body's burning a better fuel. I feel better. My brain feels better, my liver. Not that you think about it much unless it's disease, like the liver empties out, your triglycerides come down, your HDL goes up, your inflammation goes down, and all of those things, and you realize, man, I didn't realize what those stink and crappy carbs were doing to my body until you cut it out.
But you see, if you try and circumvent that by taking a medication, the second you stop the week comes back because you haven't formed that habit, you haven't realized your bad relationship to crappy carbohydrates, and that's 93% of the population. By the way, 93%. So the medication, I talk about it all the time. It works. That's why Hollywood loves it. It works, but with the big boatload of side effects, you do not change your habits and what you lost, and this is facts. You lost muscle and you didn't lose fat or you lose a little bit of fat, but it's mostly muscle. That's not good. You don't want that. And we all know about Muscle on the Doctors in podcast. It is an organ that's on your side. Okay? Tomorrow afternoon, rebuild your temple. Do you got the book yet? Tens of thousands have. Okay?
Thank you for that. We appreciate it. Friday morning, I do a little devotional in the Rebuild Your Temple Book Club. Somebody asked yesterday, Dr. Martin, why didn't you have a book club for your other books that you wrote? I should have. I should have had a book club for the other book I wrote. Maybe we will open up a new one with Sun Steak and Steel. We can go back and forth with that, but we also have our private Facebook group, the Martin Clinic Facebook group, okay? We got 25,000 people in on that. I think our 26,000 people in the private Facebook group, 90,000 followers on this podcast. When I do Facebook and millions of downloads on The Doctor Is In Podcast on your favorite smart device. Okay? Give us a five star rating. You know why I say that? It helps because when Facebook sees it and when Spotify sees it or wherever you download your podcast, they share that Facebook shares. When you share, they share. That's just the way it works. I didn't know that until somebody told me. Okay? We love you guys. We'll talk to you soon.
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