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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. We appreciate you coming on and we love you dearly. Okay, let's get going. Now, what today is study day. Three new studies on Alzheimer's, dementia, and today is all about studies brand new hot off the presses. Here's one. Gut inflammation linked to Alzheimer's. Gut inflammation, leaky gut, leaky brain. Where have you heard that before? Leaky gut, leaky brain, right? We talk about that all the time. What happens when the gut, the lining of the gut, your gut blood barrier. Okay? You have a protection of your blood. Micro-sized food belongs in your blood. It gets delivered to all the cells in your body in the 50, 60,000 miles of blood vessels that you have. But you have a barrier there, you have what we call the southern border. You have a northern border between your blood and your brain. The southern border is between your gut and your blood.
Guys, this is the most fascinating area of study in medicine. It really is. And that is of what we call the microbiome. Actually, a new study about that just came up, but we won't comment on it today. We're just going to go and talk about the study that shows that gut inflammation is linked to Alzheimer's. Yeah, it sure is. How do you think toxins get up into the brain? They start at the southern border, the leakage that happens. How does that happen? How do you get inflammation in the gut? How do you get permeability in the gut? Well, the gut lining, the border guards are not there. The microbiome has been changed usually through the use of antibiotics, non-steroidal anti-inflammatories, NSAIDs, and we'll talk about a study on Roundup and herbicides and pesticides. Well, they deranged the microbiome guys. And then you get gut inflammation. You get leaky gut, you have things transported in your blood that don't belong there. And if your southern border is compromised, your northern border can be compromised. And that is the leaky gut. Leaky brain. Things get into the brain that don't belong there. Okay, so it's a link. Leaky gut is linked to Alzheimer's. Yeah, I wouldn't disagree with that. Okay, gut permeability.
That's one study, let me get to another one on Alzheimer's because there's three of them this morning. I want to comment on. One egg a week. This is a new study, one egg a week. Man, that's not a lot of eggs, but just one. And probably because of choline in an egg, lowers Alzheimer's risk by 47% according to this recent study. One egg. Egg, and this study says just one egg. Well, how long have we been talking about eggs and how good they are for you? They have a lot of things in eggs, right? It's a very complete food, okay? Very complete. But only one egg a week lowers Alzheimer's by 47% according to this recent study. Okay, let me get to another one on Alzheimer's. I got a lot of studies that we're going to talk about. Here it is.
Now, I posted this, but we haven't talked about it yet. Vitamin C, the real one and Alzheimer's. Listen to this. A study in the Journal of American Medical Association. JAMA. Look at this headline. Don't want to get dementia? Drink coffee. Coffee. Now, I always say, I don't like to say I told you so. I say I don't like to and then someone the other day posted that, Dr. Martin, you're always telling us that. I told you so, but I told you so. Coffee guys, listen to this. Okay? 25% decrease in dementia. They followed 80,000 people over years. A 25%. Those people drinking coffee, three to four cups a day were 25% less likely to get dementia. Hello? What has coffee got to do with dementia? Well, coffee is a powerful, powerful antioxidant. It's a powerful anti-inflammatory, all good for the brain.
And I've been touting the benefits of coffee since the 1970s when everybody was saying it was acidic. No good for you. It will dehydrate you. It's terrible. Don't drink it. It's not good. No, no. It's very, very, very, very, very good for you. And study after study after study, after study comes out and says things like this. 25% decrease in dementia over decades in heavy coffee drinkers, raw numbers, 70% less diagnoses of Alzheimer's. Wow. Okay, let me do one here. Colorectal cancer in drinking, but not coffee. Although coffee is good to prevent colorectal cancer, coffee and cancer are incredible. The protection you get, not only Alzheimer's but cancer. So drink your java, drink your coffee. Don't feel guilty. It's a gift that God gave you. Now enjoy it, okay? Enjoy it and don't let the naysayers get to you because there's a lot of them.
Okay, colorectal cancer and drinking, but this is not drinking coffee. This is drinking alcohol. The NIH studied this, 88,000 adults studied. Here's what they concluded. Two drinks a day. Two drinks a day, doubles your risk of colorectal cancer. Of colorectal cancer. Be careful out there, okay? Drink coffee and less alcohol. But there's a lot of studies coming out now because they used to say wow in moderation. Not really. Just be very careful, okay? I'm not telling people not to drink. Well, I'm telling you to drink coffee, but I don't tell people not to drink alcohol unless you're on the reset for 30 days, no alcohol. Why is that? While we're emptying the liver, alcohol gets processed in the liver just like high fructose corn syrup does. Okay? So that's the study. Okay, let me get back. I got more.
Here's one. I'm not going to say I told you so. Okay, I won't say it. High uric acid. Now, where in the world has uric acid been talked about more than The Doctor Is In podcasts? I don't think anywhere. But in my clinic days, and I've added this to the list of metabolic syndrome, okay? Used to be 2016, 88% of the population, 2020, 2022, 93% of the population in North America has some form of metabolic syndrome, meaning that they got trouble with insulin. That's what it means. They have insulin resistance. And here's what I said. Well, not just me, but here is the blood work that shows you and symptoms, biomarkers, slightly increase in blood sugar, increase in blood pressure, increase in belly fat, high triglycerides, low HDL, okay? Those are the signs of metabolic syndrome.
Now, at the Martin clinic, what I do is I added a couple just because of my clinical experience. One of them was B12. People are low in B12. B12 is a metabolic vitamin. It does a lot of things. And I found consistently when insulin was high, insulin resistance was high. B12 was low. I added vitamin D as a marker. When vitamin D was low, insulin almost invariably was high. Insulin resistance. And then I added another one, and I talk about this a lot, and that is uric acid. Uric acid is a normal marker in your blood and it's part. Uric acid, everybody has uric acid. It's part of the Krebs cycle. It's part of your energy production. And the problem with uric acid, and everybody thinks uric acid is gout, yes, but not always. As a matter of fact, the majority of people that have high uric acid don't have any gout at all. But, and the big but here is they have trouble with insulin.
And this study is saying, listen to this. This is a groundbreaking study. It's very important. And the association between, guys get your uric acid levels checked. I talk about that in the book, Sun Steak and Steel, uric acid is part of the testing that I recommend. Doctors, God love them. They're not thinking uric acid unless you have gout. If they're suspicious that you have gout, they're going to check your uric acid. But this ought to be one of the most important metabolic tests. Why? Because uric acid, listen to the study now. In 67,256 people watched over years. High uric acid leads to a very prevalent risk of increased carotid atherosclerosis. Okay? Now let me say that again.
When your uric acid levels are high, you don't necessarily going to get gout. You could, but not necessarily. And they're high because it's not necessarily the amount you're making, it's the amount you're not clearing out of your kidneys, right? Like think of kidney stones. 75% of kidney stones are oxalates. 25% of them are uric acid stones. But again, physicians uric acid. If it ain't gout, they're not worried about it, but they should be. Why? Because it's part of metabolic syndrome. One and two, it is a factor in hardening of arteries. These specifically in this study talked about atherosclerosis, hardening of the artery, the carotid artery in your neck between your heart and your brain, right? Carotid, very important. And you can scan those. They're easy to ultrasound the carotid arteries to see if there's any, but there's a huge link between uric acid levels being high and atherosclerosis of your carotid arteries.
One of the ways to prevent high levels of uric acid is to lower your insulin, lower your sugar. And guys, you know this because I've told you this before, and I've reported on this before, that high fructose corn syrup, which is the sugar of choice, which is the antichrist of all sugars. Why? Because it's metabolized differently than glucose is. The fructose, the high fructose corn syrup is metabolized in the liver and it drives up uric acid. It drives up uric acid. And this is another reason for the reset because we talk about in the reset, it will lower your levels of uric acid. Well, uric acid, I'm not necessarily just aiming at gout, we're aiming at atherosclerosis hardening of your arteries. Guys, this is significant. This is a significant study. And it's not just a few patients. 67,256. Like guys, this is unreal. Okay? This is unreal, guys. Okay?
And Doug is saying, if you have low uric acid and have gout, well listen, if you have a gout attack, if you have crystals, that's not the time to test your uric acid because during an attack or if you have inflammation from gout, uric acid levels will actually be low. The best time to check uric acid is when you have no symptoms at all of gout. And again, uric acid just ain't gout. The vast majority of people with high levels of uric acid don't get any gout at all. But it's a marker. It's a biomarker. It's a very important biomarker. Okay? So I said, okay, we got to flag that, and we have. Now high uric acid levels associated with an increase in carotid atherosclerosis. Okay, well, we got rid of that study.
Here's another one. Dark chocolate, not milk chocolate. Dark chocolate improves insulin sensitivity. Insulin, you want to be sensitive, okay? I've been accused of not being sensitive. Dr. Martin, you're not sensitive. I'm very sensitive. You just don't know me. But you want to be sensitive to insulin. Why is that? Because if you're sensitive to insulin, you won't need a lot. You don't want to be resistant to insulin. So the more sensitive you are to insulin, the better off you are. Okay? And this says dark chocolate improves insulin sensitivity. A hundred grams of dark chocolate will do it for you and help. So if you're going to have a little wee, and I mean a little incy weency, teeny weenie, yellow polka dot bikini size of dark chocolate, not much. And I mean real dark chocolate.
Now, let me just give you another thing, A little bit of negativity on this. I think it was Lindt chocolates were recalled because they were finding heavy metals in the chocolate like mercury and lead and cadnium. What? Listen, I just report the news guys, okay? So I don't know how pervasive that is, and I'm very careful, guys, but it got to be a very, very, and you don't do it during the reset, but if you get 88, 98%, like my wife calls it exlax, she said, that ain't chocolate. How can you eat that? It tastes like exlax, but I'm just reporting guys. So if you wanted a little snack, and I mean a little one, very, very dark chocolate, okay? I'm just reporting the news, guys. Okay, let me see now.
Okay, this is another one, brand new on vitamin D. Okay? Vitamin D. And this is just an article, so it wasn't research. It's commenting on the research. This is an article. It says here, over 900 studies show vitamin D exerts. I'm just quoting the article, exerts a powerful anti-cancer effect on all cancer types. Hello, vitamin D, the sun, sun, steak and steel, vitamin D, 900 studies on cancer, okay? Show vitamin D exerts a powerful anti-cancer effect on all cancer types. And then it said that this went on in the article, it was just Germany. The study said this about Germany. Vitamin D could prevent 30,000 cancer deaths per year in Germany if people would just take vitamin D or get in the sun. That's what the article said. Looking at all the studies, 900 of them, they figured just in Germany, vitamin D alone could prevent 30,000 cancer deaths a year. Holy smokes. Yeah, sun, steak and steel. I know I'm a simple guy.
Let me do one more. And this is coming from the Linus Pauling Institute. Now, you know Linus Pauling, right? I've talked to you about him before. Had a big effect on our studies in the 1970s when I was studying nutrition and vitamins and minerals and all this. Linus Pauling was making headlines. He became famous. We studied Linus Pauling, and he won a Nobel Prize in medicine because of his work with vitamin C. And then I said at the time, well, he only missed out by one letter in the alphabet. He talked about C, I talked about D, but he was a smart man and he talked about vitamin C and cancer back in those days. Okay? Did some great work.
Now, the Linus Pauling Institute, they're still around. Linus Pauling is not, but the institute is that he established and they do research. And here's the research that came out of the Linus Pauling Institute, sunscreen factor of eight. You go to the pharmacies or whatever, and you're looking for sunscreen. Don't do that. But I know people do. And here's what the institute said. If you use a sunscreen factor of eight, which isn't high, when you look at sunscreens, it lowers the amount of vitamin D the body produces by 95%. That's the headline sunscreen factor of eight, which is very low. Usually people are using 20 or even 50 lowers the amount of vitamin D the body produces by 95% out of the Linus Pauling Institute.
Now, you know my take on sunscreen, add chemicals to skin and then add heat. Not a good combo, not a good combo. I learned that in high school when I just about blew up the lab. Once I added the bunsen burner, I was fooling around. Add heat to chemicals on the skin. And by the way, you don't even need heat for sunscreens, for example, to be absorbed into your body, but usually you wear it because you're going in the sun. Now you're adding heat. Not good, not good. And as a matter of fact, there's been a major recall in the last couple of years of sunscreens, and this is the word from the FDA, not from Dr. Martin. Okay? Here's the word from the FDA. They're carcinogenic. Yeah, they're carcinogenic. And they're not even talking about adding heat to them. They're just talking about the substances themselves. Johnson and Johnson and others, they're carcinogenic. We're taking 'em off the market.
Now, the FDA to react to that, my word has got to be bad, but they're not even talking about when you add heat to it in the sun, what that does to the body. Linus Polling Institute, sunscreen factor of eight, lowers the amount of vitamin D the body produces by 95%. You're blocking the benefits of the sun, vitamin D because you're all worried about skin cancer. But when you don't have enough vitamin D, what do we talk about? 900 studies show vitamin D exerts a powerful anti-cancer effect on all cancer types. That's in the news, folks. The news behind the news. Okay, tomorrow, morning session, okay, we're going in the morning. Friday is Q and A again. We did three Q and A's. Well, I promise you guys, one thing, I will answer all your questions. So if you have questions, don't be shy Q and A. Remember, I did a radio show for years and all it was was Q and A. Okay? So I'm used to that. Ask your question, okay? We love that. Sun, Steak and Steel still available in Canada. Order up a copy. Okay? Remember those blood tests, even uric acid. I talk about that in that book. Rebuild Your Temple.
And by the way, okay, we mentioned this yesterday afternoon. Olga, a dear friend, okay, to this program. A dear friend in our group, the Private Martin Clinic Facebook group. Olga was a big part of that, and she passed away yesterday. Okay? So we're prayers out to her family and her friends. I know that Kevin met with her. Kev, what, a year ago or more? Was it last summer? I don't remember exactly when, but I know that Kevin went out east and met with Olga and others from our private Facebook group. Okay? The Martin Clinic. If you're not part of that, make sure you join. Okay? If you have the book, Rebuild Your Temple, remember Friday morning I'll do a little devotional. We have a little prayer time and people really appreciate that, okay? We love each other here, big time. Okay guys, we love you. Talk to you soon.
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