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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone. Once again, welcome to another live this morning. Hope you're having a wonderful start to your day and you're all ready to listen Linda's and Larry's. We love having you on. If you can, say hello. Now, I re-listened. I'd seen this before and it was Dr. Cali Means, M-E-A-N-S, testifying before Congress. And I just watched yesterday, I watched it again. So I want to take some notes on the state of health in the USA. And as my mother used to say, it ain't pretty. It ain't pretty. Oh my word. So I actually jotted it down because I said, "This is crazy. Who would've thought that we could be so bad in North America when it comes to health?" So let me give you a few statistics that she mentioned before Congress. Six out of 10 adults in the USA ... and guys, Canada and the USA, the statistics are just the USA is 10 times bigger than Canada in terms of population. But we got a huge problem with our health in Canada too. I mean, listen, we are overwhelmed. The hospitals are overwhelmed in Canada.
Okay, here's some of the statistics. They are more than frightening. Six out of 10 adults have chronic disease. The average American sees 28 doctors in their lifetime. Okay? Number three, the average American takes 14 prescriptions a year. Medication. 50% of the adult population will be diagnosed with mental illness in their lifetime. Either depression, severe anxiety, Alzheimer's, dementia, mental health. 74% of the population is overweight or obese. Okay? 74%. Here's the teens. This is the teenagers in North America. 18% have fatty liver. And again, I just remind you guys that when I was in school in the 1970s, we didn't even know what fatty liver was. We knew what cirrhosis of the liver was. But fatty liver wasn't even in our medical books. Did you know that?
Prediabetes. Okay. Remember, diabetes is the last thing to happen. I never liked the term pre-diabetic. I used to tell my patients, "You're on the Titanic." Okay? It's not pre-boarding. It's not thinking you're going to go on the Titanic. You're on it. Well, how do I know that? Well, I take your A1C. I looked at your blood sugar. I looked at all those things and you got metabolic syndrome, you're on the Titanic. Okay? But for the sake of this particular doctor, she said prediabetes in teens, 30% of the teens have prediabetes, meaning that their numbers are already heading in the wrong direction. As teens, overweight or obese amongst young people, teens, 40% of them. Okay?
And then she went on to say, "There's an increase in cancer, not a decrease, an increase. An increase in heart disease, an increase in depression, increase in autoimmune, increase in Alzheimer's, increase in diabetes, and increase in kidney disease." Okay? And I asked the question and we sort of answer it every day, don't we? Because guys, one thing about our program, we don't shy away from why because I'm always a why guy. What happened? With all the money we spend, we should be the healthier people in the world, but we're far from that. It's scary, these statistics. And I've said this so many times on this program, and I used to say this on my radio show. Years ago, all the tea in China will not save us from what's become catastrophic. You read these statistics, and if that doesn't shake people to the core, because I'm going to just say it. We're looking for love in all the wrong places. We're throwing jello at the wall to see what sticks.
And what I want to do is just go through all this. You know me, rinse and repeat. Rinse and repeat. Because why? How did this happen? How did we get so bad? I mean, we got electric vehicles, they drive for us. The next thing that's going to come around is like my great-grandchildren will probably have a robot working for them. The advancements in the world is crazy. Like AI and all that, it just boggles my brain. I'm a senior man. I can't even phantom what's going on and what will happen in the future. But I'll tell you something. All the tea in China is not going to even put a dent in what's going on in our health. And government, they just throw money. They just throw money at it. And I know I'm speaking to the choir here because you guys know that when it comes to responsibility for your health, it's up to you.
You know the analogy I like to use, you're in the plane and they say in the event that you need oxygen, in the event that you need oxygen, those masks are going to fall right out of the ceiling. Don't worry about it. It's coming down on their own. Okay? I've never been in a plane where that happened. I hope I never will. And you know what they tell you? You put that mask on first before you help someone else with their mask. You got kids or whatever. You got to do it first. And when it comes to health, you got to do it first. You got to look at you. And guys, I can tell you that my passion has been to educate. When I had the, I don't know how many patient visits I had, 100,000. I don't know. Never counted. But I was an educator, even in my office. I want you to understand what's happening to you. Why? Why it's happening. What you can do about it. Here's a plan, a plan to succeed, not to fail.
Now guys, look, I talk about longitivity a lot. Okay? Especially I get older. Yeah. Longitivity. How to help yourself in that sense. But I'm more into quality than quantity. Quality of life. As I get older here, I'm really concerned about my memory, of course. Who isn't in this day and age? I don't want to lose my memory. It's not like we never had senility before. That's what we used to call it. He's senile. But today we got a problem, Houston. Wow. And like I said, I just jotted down some notes and I looked at these statistics and well, crazy. So again, just for the sake of review, for most of you, right? Why do we have such a crisis? And I wrote down nine things. Maybe I got more. I don't know. You know this about me again. I'm a food guy, so I'm going to start with this. I'm going to start with this.
We are overfed and undernourished. You know what metabolism means? Your metabolism is how you take food. You got to eat. Okay? Someone once said, eat to live. Not live to eat. Well, I married an Italian girl and boy, I live to eat. Now, we're overfed and undernourished. Our metabolism, how your body turns food into energy. That's metabolic. Okay? That's your metabolism. That is at the root of what we're talking about here. The whys. First of all, we're eating way too much for what we need. Okay? Obviously, you look at the rates of obesity. Leave the planet, pretend. Okay? With Elon Musk, let's say his father, in the '70s, and you could leave with me and we took a spaceship and we lived up in Mars for an example. You left in the '70s. We come back, it's 2026, and we go, "Holy smokes. What happened? Why are people so big?" And I don't mean tall. Go to the mall. Look at people. It's crazy compared to when I was a kid or even a young adult. What happened? Why?
When I hear these statistics, I'm a why guy. Why does this happen? And you know what, guys? I've lived long enough. I've been in practice long enough to know the whys. I watched it. I watched it happen right before my very eyes. I never thought it would be this bad, ever. I'm not a prophet nor the son of one. To look down the road, okay? I'm not a prophet nor the son of one. If you would've told me this is what happened in the 1970s when I graduated, I'm not saying I would've laughed, but I would've been very skeptical that we would have chronic disease the way we have. And we'd have to ask the question. Why? And I start with food because metabolic disorders is a energy issue. Food gets turned into energy. We're overfed and undernourished.
We got gummed up mitochondria. Our battery packs in every cell in our body. When you overfeed and you undernourish, boy, the cells, they pay a huge price and right at the level of your mitochondria, your battery packs. You produce, I don't know, somewhere around 90 pounds a day of energy, ATP. Your mitochondria are working all the time. But what's happened is we overfeed the mitochondria. We gum it up. Guys, for every action, there's a reaction. So when you're eating and your body's taking in nutrients, or at least it should, but if it's only taking in empty calories, they're still calories nonetheless, but they're devoid of nutritional benefits.
So your energy plant, especially in your brain, but those mitochondria in your brain, because they take 25% of everything you eat, think about that. Everything you eat, 25% goes up here in your brain because it's headquarters. It's Washington. It's Ottawa. It takes taxes. It wants the first 25% of your food, even though the brain is only 2% of your body weight. Yeah, but it's headquarters. We got an energy problem because your mitochondria, your battery packs, they're getting bad energy. And we've changed. Okay, think about this. Okay? Why is this happening? Well, overfed and undernourished. We're giving our mitochondria. Food might taste good, but your body never could thrive with that kind of food. Okay?
And so you make energy, but there's a big but there. It's like you got a fireplace and you're burning wood. That's a good thing. You don't want that wood to escape within the fireplace. That's all right. But you take fire and you take it outside of the fireplace. You take that log and just put it in the house and it's burning. Now you got trouble, big trouble. And that's what happens inside the body because your mitochondria were never meant to be bombarded. And that's why we create what we call so much free radicals. That's why we have so much inflammation in our bodies. It's bad metabolism because of bad food. That's the biggest thing. There's other factors we'll get into it, but you've got to start with food because it's an energy problem. We've added, and just let me look at my notes because I want to see where I'm going to talk about sugar. Let me do it right now because I got to start with that. And guys, I know this is repetition for you.
High fructose corn syrup, the antichrist of sugars. Okay? High fructose corn syrup. It didn't even exist before 1980. Okay? High fructose corn syrup. Like there was corn syrup, but never a high fructose corn syrup made by man, made in a lab, made in a vat, and it's in everything now. Coca-Cola switched, Pepsi Cola switched. Every food company in the world switched because it was cheap and it was addictive. High fructose corn syrup. And oh, it sounds healthy. Corn, fructose. But it gets metabolized. Again, metabolism. It was never meant for the human body. It's an artificial sugar that makes a beeline for your liver. I wrote it down. Fatty liver, 18% of teenagers got fatty liver already. I saw it in my office. I saw fatty liver in kids I never thought I would ever see the day. Why? Why?
200 pounds near every North America on average consumes near 200 pounds. A dump truck load, you think your body's mitochondria was ever meant for that? You think your liver was ever meant for that? We were never meant to drink juice. Okay? They weren't giving out smoothies a hundred years ago. Okay? You can have a fruit. You want to have an orange? Go for it. Don't drink it. Your body wasn't meant to drink fruit, eat fruit, and limit it. Okay? And then they come up with this sugar right out of the, I hate to say it, like the pit of hell. And it's almost demonic how bad it's made our health and our bodies were never meant for it. Never. And devoid. Okay? So there's bad, but then there's devoid. Like most foods today are devoid of nutrients. We have an amazing lack of vital vitamins and minerals in our food. Just a fact.
I used to see thousands and thousands of patients that were devoid of vitamin B12. "Oh, Dr. Martin, my B12 is normal." Says who? The hundred year old B12 test that was meant for mice and not men. Like my B12 is normal. You know what? You almost have to bring a physician to a dentist to have their teeth drilled without anesthetic in order for them to take B12 seriously today. Your body doesn't operate properly without B12. It just doesn't. It's such a metabolic vitamin. And 70, 80% of the population are walking around. They don't even know it because no one's told them that their devoid of B12 or their B12 is enough for a mouse and not for them. And nobody tells them anything because it's not important. You see, the world got hijacked, guys. And this is important because you got to look at the underlying factors here. The whys.
The world got hijacked. Medicine got hijacked. By what? Big pharma and big food. Conglomerates that run the world. Look, there's some good people there. I know that. There's so many good doctors. They all specialize. Imagine going to medical school for the amount of time that they go to medical school and they don't learn a lick about nutrition. A lick. Well, that's somebody else's department. We'll give it off to the dietician who's been bought and paid for all of their education, bought and paid for by the pharmaceuticals and big food. That's why they put a heart on a box of cereal. It's sponsored by the Heart Association. Who is sponsored by? Who gives them money? That's why they'll tell you that fruit loops is better than bacon. Where do you think that came from? And they drill down on it. They make it part of a narrative.
Where do you think, guys, cholesterol hoax came from? Big pharma and big food. And we have a media. Thank God for social media today. Thank God that I can come on here on social media and have a program. I had a very limited influence in radio because even though my show was syndicated, you're limited. You write books? Yeah. It's good. You can influence people, but you're limited. Because the big narrative is whatever you do. Don't eat steak or red meat. You know why? Because it's acidic. It's cancer producing. It's full of cholesterol. It's bad for your heart. It's bad, bad, bad. Where do you think that comes from, guys? And then the media, they're bought and paid for, you see? If you don't believe me, watch the news. Anybody watch the news anymore? Or just watch TV shows and watch the pharmaceutical industry. 80% of ABC, NBC, CBS, CBC, whatever it is. 80% of their revenues comes from the pharmaceutical and the other comes from big food, just about.
And when they say, okay, this is a fact, guys. When they say, ask your doctor if this drug. Think of Wegavy. Wegovy. Wigavi. I don't know how you even say it. Ozempic. Don't think of any other drug for a minute. Just think of those two. They're the biggest thing I wish I would have invested in that, guys. In Wegovy or Ozempic, bought stock. Look what they get to it. Everybody knows about it. I can't even watch a hockey game. And those commercials are on for Wegovy and Ozempic. They buy the media, guys. They buy it. You think someone from the media is going to have a negative view of GLP-1 medication? The big hits on the hip parade today? Guys, I know my audience already knows this, but you know me when I say I get a migraine. Okay? When I see stuff happening that frustrates me, I get a migraine. Because I look and I go, "why is this happening? Why is our health in such bad shape? Why?" That's why. We're overfed and undernourished.
Go into the middle aisles of the grocery store. My, oh my. Well, we don't live on farms. We just don't anymore. And everything now is processed and devoid of nutrients generally. Crazy. Well, that was one part of the show. Did I get past number one? Not completely. I want to go into the whys, okay? But I had to give background. We got so many new listeners. Remember, this live is turned into a podcast, so we get millions of views. And so I got to repeat, but like I said, I watched this testimony and I got a migraine. I got a migraine. I said, "man, oh man. How can things have turned so so in our health?" We spent gazillions of dollars and it's getting worse. In Canada, you got to wait 24 hours in the emergency room. And all their emphasis is on treatment and early detection. No prevention because there's so little talk of food. It's coming. It's coming around. I'm a little bit more optimistic in terms of people are starting to teach a little bit of nutrition in medical schools. I wonder if they'll ask me to teach. I doubt it. Anywho.
Okay, guys. We're going to continue. Okay? We'll continue with this theme because I wrote down nine things and I got the number one. Okay? I got the number one. Okay. You know what Friday is, huh? It's Q&A. We got Q&A Fridays. Always, always so popular. So guys, don't be shy. Okay? Ask questions. Sometimes you will ask questions in the scroll here. Guys, I see the scroll, but I don't read the scroll when I'm speaking. Okay? Once I start the show, once I've said hello to you, you ask questions on there. I don't see that. Okay? I might see it afterwards. If I look, but you got to ask me questions and send them to info@martinclinic.com. Okay? Because we'll answer your questions. I will. I promise. Okay? I'm an open book guy. You're going to get my opinion. Sometimes that's not always popular, but that's all right. Okay. Guys? Okay. What we're planning, planning is another afternoon session. So we did one yesterday afternoon. We're planning another one tomorrow afternoon. Okay? So is this to be continued tomorrow afternoon? Yeah, maybe. I might have something new, so I don't know. Okay, love you. We'll talk to you soon.
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