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Dr. Martin: Well, good afternoon everyone. And once again, welcome to another live this afternoon. We got a lot of studies we want to look at, talk about. Now, this was an interesting article. Have you guys heard of the blue zone? I actually was in a bookstore the other day and I saw a book on the blue zones and it's supposed to be the healthiest people in the world. And really what it's pushing is veganism or vegetarianism and certainly not eating from the animal kingdom. So if you ever see that, take it with a grain of salt because they compare it, for example. So we'll give you, for example, in, oh, what's the name of that place in California? Anyway, there's a lot of Seven-day Adventists. That's where it started. Okay so they said, hey, they're pretty healthy people, and they compared them to Utah where there's a lot of Mormons.
And seven-day Adventists generally are vegetarians, although I think they do eat meat, but a lot of them don't. They're more vegetarian. And the Mormons eat meat. And they compared the two populations in this study and they say, in reality, the Mormons live just as long. They eat meat. But you know what the two groups had in common? Okay. The Seventh-day Adventist and the Mormons, you know what they had in common? They don't smoke and they don't drink. So I'll tell you, if you don't smoke and you don't drink, statistically, that is very, very effective. So it was interesting, I'm reading this, and obviously I've looked at the blue zones and whatever. The healthiest people in the world are in Japan and they eat a lot of meat. And Hong Kong, they eat a lot of meat. I was there. They eat a lot of meat, a lot of fish.
Anyhoo, so when you read anything about the blue zones being the healthiest, one thing about whether it's the Mormons or the Seventh Day Adventists are people that go to church, it's a community and that has a big effect on your health. That's been proven over and over again. Okay. So they try to study here. Number two, okay, how many I got? See how many we get today. I got nine. We'll see how many we get to. So they did a little study giving money for fruits and vegetables for diabetics. Okay? They gave them an allowance. So this was a study. They said, "Look, we're going to give you extra money. You're buying fruits and vegetables and we'll see what the results are on your A1C and your blood sugar and your insulin." You know what? Didn't move the needle. Their outcomes weren't better. Why didn't they call me? I could have told them that.
Guys, when you have diabetes, you have an allergy to sugar and anything where sugar and sugar molecules are holding hands. So when I had a diabetic patient in my office, tens of thousands over the years, I limited their fruit big time. I limited certain vegetables big time. And I changed their diet to the eggs, meat, and cheese diet for them. What a difference that made. And again, we tested with blood tests, A1C, glycated hemoglobin. And I was very, very interested, of course, in that. What a difference that made. So they should have called me before they did this study. Fruit and veggie prescription for diabetics didn't move the needle. It didn't help them. Even as a diabetic, you have to limit your fruit. I like berries, but you can't live on that stuff when you're a diabetic. You just can't. You need the protein. You need animal protein and animal fat.
Okay, a new study on coffee. Never heard of it. You know me and coffee, vitamin C. You've heard it on this channel for years and years and years. Steady, steady, eddy. When they told us that coffee was acidic, I pushed back and said, "It don't move even the needle in acidity." No, it don't. And this new study says it protects and regenerates stem cells. It also protects your telomeres. You know what telomeres are? Within the little strands, almost like a tip of a shoelace. The plastic tip they put on a shoelace? Telomeres. Or a wick on a candle. The wick. The longer your wick, your telomeres, the longer you live, unless you get hit by a bus. And we didn't even know. I can tell you, being in school in the 70s, look, I never stopped studying guys. But I got to tell you, in the 70s, telomeres, what's that? Didn't even know. Didn't even know. Never heard of them. And nobody ever talked about them. And you can look at any medical book that I ever had or biology book or whatever. You never even talked about that. Okay? So telomeres, coffee protects.
I always told you guys about coffee being the best drink that you can have for your microbiome in your gut. Like water, of course, but coffee is so good for your microbiome because it helps balance your microbiome. It helps with leaky gut. When people say fiber, I say coffee. Coffee is better for your gut than fiber is. And again, on this program, I've said it so many times that fiber is overrated. I hear it all the time. I hear it every day. I hear it coming out my ears on fiber and how good it is for you. And I push back on that. I push back on that because I always said fiber was overrated. And if I ever had a patient with IBS or diverticulosis or diverticulitis or Crohn's or ulcerative colitis or whatever. You know what I did? First thing I did at the office. When we had a diagnosis, I said, "You know what you're going to do? You're going to cut out the fiber. You're going to have to trust me for about 30 days and then you'll thank me later." No fiber. You're going to drink water and you're going to drink coffee. Fiber bulks up your stool. Why do you want that?
If you have a sunburn, do you scrape it? Put sandpaper on it? Well, if you have a sunburn inside your gut because your gut is irritated, why do you want to put more fiber into it? I had so many, especially women. The chicken and salad, I got to have my salad. I said, "Have you ever seen spinach? It gets caught in your teeth. Have you ever seen that? " Yeah. I said, "You know what? It's getting caught in your gut too. And it's irritating your gut. We're going to cut that out. Okay?" Maybe you can go back and have a salad here and there. But no, you got IBS. You have SIFO, small intestine fungal overgrowth. You have diverticulosis. That means you have little pouches. Guess where that stuff is going to get stuck? Yeah, in the little pouches. So you're going to drink water and coffee. Coffee wins, guys. What a gift. You mean one of the best medicines that you could take every day is a coffee? Yeah. Isn't that unbelievable? It's a gift right out of heaven. I go, "Man, oh man." I feel sorry for people that don't like coffee. "You don't like coffee? What's the matter with you?"
Okay. Anyhoo, higher meat consumption. Okay, here's a study. You wonder where I get these studies? Well, different places a lot of times, but I often go to... You can do this too, if you want to go to sciencedaily.com. People have asked me where do I get a lot of these studies? I flagged them, but this one here, okay? Let me read it to you. Higher meat consumption linked to 55% less dementia, meat and brain. The connection. The world went saturated fat stupid. The world went stupid on saturated fat. The world went stupid on cholesterol. Stupid. And the results have been catastrophic because they convinced people. Well, fat makes you fat and fat gives you heart disease and red meat. No, no. Dementia decreased in this study, 55%. Your brain needs fat. Your brain needs fat. Higher meat consumption linked to 55% less dementia. Eat meat for your brain.
Red meat is so good for you, folks. Okay? It is so good for you. So when you have a steak or a hamburger or roast beef, those are the best. When you have that, you're getting the five Cs, because somebody asked me this afternoon through the office. Someone was talking to one of our staff members asking about creatine. You can take a supplement of creatine, right? And they're asking my opinion on it. I said, "well, yeah, I love creatine. Eat steak and you get creatine. You get a lot of it." And you get carnozine and you get carnitine and you get another CoQ10. They're in the meat, guys. It's so complete. Fantastic. Somebody said, "well, what about vitamin C?" Well, you got vitamin C, not coffee, but you've got the other vitamin C in meat. Very bioavailable. Okay? Higher meat consumption linked to a 55% decrease in dementia. Study number five out of nine, maybe we'll get to nine. Let me see.
Large study in women, University of Buffalo. Muscle strength plays, let me read you the headlines of the study. Muscle strength plays a critical role in longitivity, meaning living longer, independent of how much aerobic exercise you do. I see a lot of seniors walking. Look at me. I see a lot of seniors walking, including me. I love walking. Okay? I do. It's good for you. One of the best things you can do for your blood sugar and insulin resistance is to walk after supper. But walking is good. You'll never get an argument with me on walking. But independent of that, living longer depends more on muscle strength. It plays a critical role. And guys, the more we study muscle, the more we study muscle, the more we realize just how important of an organ it really is.
I can remember, again, I always bring you back to my school days. Learned all the muscles of the body and memorized them. And a lot of them, I could still probably tell you most of them today by memory. And of course, once you're in practice, you use that knowledge, but never did we know for even a minute about the importance of muscle for storage bins. Well, we didn't know that in the '70s. We weren't taught that. How big of a factor it is in your metabolism, how your body breaks down food. Muscles has a tremendous importance in that. And the more they study muscle, the more they realize that in terms of a longitivity, it is so good for you. And I always tell people, just get stronger. You're 80? Get stronger than you are. It helps in so many ways.
And I've always said this, okay? I knew this in the '70s about osteoporosis, for example, which is a big problem. Look, men, it's not that we don't get osteoporosis. Of course we do, but women, you get a lot more incidents of osteoporosis than men do. And one of the biggest things, and they rarely ever talk about this. They'll talk about taking calcium, but the pharmaceutical companies have taken over osteoporosis, by the way, by pushing products like Fosamax and other bone builders. It gives me a migraine guys. It really gives me a migraine when I see those commercials for osteoporosis. One of the best things you can do is just get stronger. And again, you don't have to join a gym. If you want to, good. Good for you. Okay? Good for you. But get stronger.
You can get elastic bands and use your body weight, use resistance. You can wrap it around a pole or a bedpost or whatever and do strengthening exercises. Guys, you have no idea how good that is for you. And the more they study it, the more they look at it. Like I said, large study in women, muscle strength plays a critical role in longitivity, independent of how much aerobic exercise they do, whether you walk, and I want you to walk. A lot of people can't walk as they get older, got bad knees or bad hips or bad back or whatever. I'm so thankful I'm able to walk. I love walking. But guys, I do not neglect these puppies right here. Okay? You see them? I always tell my grandchildren, "Well, to get across the border, I need special permission for the guns." And of course, they die laughing. But no, guys, you want to be strong. You want to be strong. Okay. That came out of the University of Buffalo.
Okay. Let me just see where we're at. We can certainly do another one. We talked about this the other day, location, location, location, belly fat. This is in science daily. Belly fat linked to heart failure risk, even in people with normal weight. Okay? So in my practice days, I was very observant. I looked at people, they come in, "This guy's weird. He's looking at me big time." Well, you know what? Any doctor, I was trained properly. You know what? Observe. I'm looking. I want to see your skin. I want to see your eyebrows. I want to see your hair. I want to see your nails. I want to see your muscle. I want to see all that. And so I was very observant. And I want to see where you got your fat, location, location, location, like real estate. The problem, we talked about this, we spent a couple of days on it on podcasts is where you got that fat, that visceral fat.
If you got belly fat, generally you got fat around your organs. You can be as skinny as a rake and got belly fat, and that is going to heart failure risk. And one of the reasons I tell you this, okay? Because when you have belly fat, when you have fat around your liver, when you have fat around your pancreas, you can't see that. You can't see that. You don't know that. But one of the ways of knowing is look at your belly. That's fat. And belly fat there, visceral fat releases cytokine because your body responds to the fat, because it's an invasion. Your body sees that fat, unlike let's say you've got some fat in your butt. Okay? Well, you got some fat on your thighs and people are much more worried about that kind of fat than visceral fat, but they should be far more worried about visceral fat because the body sends off in that location when it's around your organs, your body sends off, it's sort of an immune reaction because it sees that fat as a foreign invader.
So it releases a cytokine storm and that creates inflammation. And we'll talk about inflammation because I have a study on inflammation. Three out of five people die from chronic inflammation. I agree and I don't agree with that. Inflammation is there, but inflammation is not Houdini. There's a reason that inflammation, like when they say it's at the root cause of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, strokes, are rooted in inflammation. Well, I put my hand up and I say, "Nah, you got to take it a step further. Insulin, okay? Fat." Remember, insulin's a fat storing hormone. And so belly fat is linked to heart disease risk even in people with normal weight. Their weight is good, but they got belly fat. Okay? Fight the fat of the bad location. You want to have some fat, of course, your body, but it's the location, location, location. Where is it? Around your heart? Around your pancreas? That's a big problem today. Fat around the pancreas because it's there. Very, very negative for health.
Okay, guys. How about we call it a day and we're on Lord willing tomorrow morning. Okay? Lord willing tomorrow morning, we're back on with you. And Friday is Q&A. Okay. We plan on doing a Thursday afternoon session again this week. Okay? Thursday afternoon session. Okay, guys, we love you. We'll talk to you soon.
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