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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone. And once again, welcome to another live this morning. Hope you're having a wonderful start to your day. We appreciate you guys coming on when you can and watching us live, if it's possible. And we appreciate you big time. Okay, let's get going. Now, I just want to talk about what's happening in the USA. And I got to say, guys, I have to admit this, I never thought there would be any changes occurring. I really didn't. I hated to be negative, but I've been around a long time. And when it comes to food, I figured, nah. But now they're talking about, they flip the food pyramid and I heard someone yesterday, I believe it was yesterday, it might've been the day before, talking about how this is a bad thing. They don't like Kennedy at all. They don't like the way things are changing at the NIH, the National Institute for Health. They don't like the idea that the pyramid, the food pyramid has been turned upside down. They don't like it.
Well, they wouldn't like me that I can guarantee it because I've been talking about this for a long time, that we have it wrong on food. And there's a paradigm shift occurring in the United States. I don't know if it will filter up to Canada or not. I don't know. But it's hard to change people's minds. But yesterday when I read this, pushing back against the changes, I thought about the statistics in the United States, and they're the same in Canada, by the way. Okay? We just have less of a population, but it's the same stats and it ain't pretty, as my mother used to say. Okay? I love my mother's expressions. Okay? And one of them was, "and it ain't pretty." It ain't pretty. What we've been doing isn't working. Okay? I just pulled out the stats again.
Well, you guys know this because we talk about it every day, just about. 93% of the population in North America are on the Titanic when it comes to their health. 93%. I didn't make that percentage up, by the way. 93% of the population have some form of metabolic syndrome. Okay? That ain't pretty, guys. What we're doing isn't working. All the tea in China's not going to pay for our health and we don't have a healthcare system at all. We don't in Canada and we don't in the United States. You don't have a healthcare system. You have a disease care system. You get sick. They take care of you. They talk about early detection in cancer. How about early prevention in cancer? Okay? The population plays Russian roulette.
And listen, 93% metabolically unhealthy. One. Two, 60% are either diabetic or pre. Now guys, you know what I say about pre all the time? Is there really a pre? Remember now, diabetes is the last thing that happens in your body. Not the first thing, it's the last thing. Okay? And the reason is because your body is dedicated to keeping your blood sugar low. Okay? But the world doesn't know that sugar is toxic, but your body sure knows it is. It is dedicated. You empty out your five liters of blood on any time of the day, and you'll find less than a teaspoon of sugar in your blood. Why? Because sugar's toxic. And yet, here we are. And these are stats. 60% of the population are either diabetic, already diagnosed, or they're in what they call the pre-diabetic stage, which is diabetes, guys. It's diabetes. Like I said, diabetes is the last thing to happen. Never the first. Okay?
60% of the population, listen, have hypertension or what they call pre-hypertension, meaning it's elevated blood pressure, but it's not considered dangerous yet, but it's still elevated. And 70% of the population is either obese or overweight. Houston, we got a problem. And I've been preaching this for a long time. Go back to my radio days. I was preaching this. What we're doing is not working. I used to tell people on the radio, tell patients time to get off the Titanic. Some of them had already hit the iceberg physically. So I just wanted to make comment on that because I saw someone pushing back against the changes in food. It's amazing to me that people would even try and defend what's happening. But when you understand that big food, I always try and bring you guys behind the scenes how the world operates. Big food, big pharma. And they buy the media. They buy it. They advertise like nobody's business. Big food, big pharma. And the results are staggering. And you go against that and try and change that. Not easy. Like I said, I don't know if it'll happen in Canada where they'll change the pyramid.
Anyway, that is some stats that I pulled up. They're readily available, by the way. Okay. Let me bring you a little story I was reading yesterday, this article. I kind of remembered it, but I sort of needed to have my brain refreshed. Now, this happened in 1911, guys. Okay? Now, what's significant about 1911? Well, the Martin Clinic was founded by my grandfather in 1911. Okay? So David Martin, my grandfather, okay? 1911. We've been around a long time. I'm third generation and Tony Jr. is fourth generation, Martin Clinic. We've been around a long time. And my grandfather, he was light years ahead of his time. I never knew him, I met him, but I was just a baby. He died in 1952, and I was born in 1952 about six months before my grandfather died. Never knew him personally, but boy, did I ever hear about him. Even when I was in practice, "Oh, your grandfather, he could fix anything." Okay? That's 1911.
But I want to tell you a story about 1911. Okay? Two explorers, one British and one Norwegian. And they were in a little contest to race to the South Pole on two dog sled teams. And they had a race to the South Pole. Okay? One guy's name, the British guy was Robert Falcon Scott. And the Norwegian guy was Roald, R-O-A-L-D, Amundsen. Interesting story because you read about it. And they took off on the same day in November of 1911 to reach the South Pole and Amundsen got there first, the Norwegian team. Now, this is significant, guys, because I mean, you got to go searching this because they don't talk about so much what happened. Okay? Two teams, but their provisions were different. Food was different. Amundsen and his team, they believed back in 1911 to go to the South Pole in the cold temperatures, they needed to bring food with a lot of fat. And they did. They had fatty meat, butter, loads of it, and fat everything.
Now, Scott and his team didn't believe in that. They believed in a balanced diet with lots of carbs, less fat. They brought meat, but it was non-fatty meat. Okay? Now here's the story, guys. Incredible when you look at it. Amundsen not only raced there and beat the other team, Scott's team, he got there first, but when they got there, remember they got to come back. He got there first on December 14th and January 17th of 1912, the Scott team got there. Now, this is recorded, guys. Recorded history. They wrote it down in their annals. Amundsen's team came back. They did well. And both teams, in terms of calories, were consuming 4,500 calories a day. And I've always said this, and you guys know this, if you followed me from any length of time at all. I don't care about calories. It ain't calories. It's fuel. It's fuel.
And this proved it because Scott's team, the British team, when they got to the South Pole recorded right down in their annals, they were exhausted. They were running on fumes, constantly hungry. Even though they had enough food, they were constantly hungry. That's what they wrote. Okay? Extreme fatigue, extreme frostbite. And compared to the Norwegian team, it was like night and day. And guess what? On the way back, Amundsen team made it home. The other team didn't. They didn't survive. They had the same amount of food, but different quality of food. Okay? So when you hear me preaching, like I do 24 and seven, it seems, fat don't make you fat. It ain't calories in and calories out. It's quality of food. Okay? And this team, Scott's team, they love their biscuits. Sounds British, doesn't it? Not cookies, biscuits. They love their biscuits, except you know what? That didn't cut it. It didn't cut it in extreme cold, but fatty meats did. Blubber.
Why do you think the Inuit, guys? And I mentioned this to you so many times. You study the Innuit, study their diet and you go, my word, how come they're not all dying of heart attacks? They eat so much fat. Well, fat don't make you fat. Fat don't clog your arteries. Sugar does. And anything that turns to sugar rapidly does. I read this story. I hadn't read it in years yesterday again. And I go, "Wow, I just got to talk about this." First of all, I was interested in the date in 1911 and then just about the details of these two crews, unbelievable. But you guys know this. You guys know it. The world don't know it. Okay? I'll give you an example of this, okay? Let me get it out because I think I have it in front of me. I want to tell you about, and guys, what do I always say? Eggs, meat and cheese, right? Eggs, meat and cheese.
Now, you're going to the South Pole. Would you bring chicken or steak with you? Chicken or steak? Can people ask me this, Dr. Martin? What about processed meat? Like a hot dog? Like bacon. They tell you to avoid that. Not me. No, there's better. Again, good, better, best. Okay. Is chicken good? You bet your boots, it's good. It's certainly better than a granola bar. Chicken is good, especially fat around the chicken. But people like to have lean meat. And look, I got no problem with that. You want to have chicken good, but don't compare it to steak, because it's not comparable. And it comes back to what we're talking about in this 1911 story. Okay? Let me tell you, and this is just what I wrote down. Okay?
Beef, steak, has 78% less omega-6 than chicken. Chicken has a lot of omega-6. Now listen, like I said, do I like chicken? Yep, I do. Okay? Is it better than beef? It's not close. It's not close. 125% because I'm going to give you the C's. Okay? If you read my book, Sun, Steak, and Steel, I talk about the C's that are in meat. Beef, very little in chicken. Okay? That's why I say sun, steak, and steel all the time. It has 125%, beef has 125% more creatine than chicken does. People ask me this every day. "Doc, what about creatine?" I like creatine. "You do? Why don't you talk about it so much?" Well, it's because it's in steak. It's in steak. Yeah. So I'm not telling you if you want to take creatine, take creatine. But if you want to know where it is in food, it's in your steak. A little bit in eggs, but it's a steak.
So creatine, and there's a lot of research on creatine, but you know me, I'd rather you eat it than have to take it necessarily with a supplement. 125% more creatine, 233% more carnitine. Again, people ask me about carnitine. Doc, should I take L carnitine? I like it. Are you eating steak? Well, I like chicken better. Well, I'm just telling you. You got 233% more carnitine in steak. You got 2,275% more carnosine. Another sea in steak rather than chicken. 160% more iron. Heme iron, the one that you absorb. 500% more zinc. Is zinc important? You bet your boots zinc is important. I love zinc, guys. But again, you say, Doc, well, you don't talk about zinc that much. Well, I talk about steak, don't I? Every day. Every day. You want zinc? Eat steak. Okay. 285% more taurine, L taurine an amino acid. 500% more CLA. That's a tremendous fatty acid, by the way. Dairy has a lot of CLA. Chicken, not so much. Steak, yes. Lots. 1400% more K2.
You know how much I love K2, right? That's why you love eggs, meat, and cheese, because you get a lot of K2 and you get a lot more. 1,400% more in steak than you do in chicken. A vitamin K2? Beautiful. And 733% more B12. Yeah. Guys, some people are going to push back. I know because they like their chicken. I like chicken too. It's like when people say to me, "Doc, can I have a tea?" Yeah, well, why would you drink tea when you can drink coffee, which is so much better for you? I know it's a matter of taste too, but in terms of value, it's not even close, guy. It's not even close. And it's the same thing with chicken. Okay? It's the same thing with chicken. It's beautiful, but it ain't steak. I just got to bring it up because again, I love reading. I love getting you the latest and the best.
What's tomorrow? Q&A Friday. Okay? So send your questions in not too late. Send them to info@martinclinic.com. We'll get them on air. Okay? So you got questions. I love that. We're Q&A people here. Okay? I want you guys to be educated, so Q&A. Okay? The Bible says, study to show thyself approved unto God. Okay? So study, guys, so that you guys, you make up your own minds. Okay? I give out information and I'm very opinionated if you haven't figured that out yet. Okay. Guys, we love you guys and we'll talk to you soon.
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