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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone. Once again, welcome to another live this morning. Appreciate you guys coming on if you can. Okay, let's get to the questions. Okay? So Shelly's asking this question, "is coarse ground black pepper hard on the lining of your gut?" Nope. It's actually very good for you. One of the things that black pepper does, it helps you to absorb vitamins, specifically, specifically curcumin. The problem with turmeric and the extract, which is curcumin, they're not easily absorbed. The body don't take it in, not that they're not good for you, of course they're good for you, but you need them to be absorbed properly. And that's why in our curcumin, we use that black pepper extract. It makes all the difference in the world bringing in curcumin. And guys, just took a little bit on curcumin because I saw a new study yesterday, curcumin in cancer. You're not going to hear it on the mainstream, but it is a tumor buster. Very impressive. This new research. But again, the problem with curcumin needs to be absorbed properly for it to be effective in the body. No, black pepper, it won't affect your lining of your gut. It's actually good for your gut. Not going to destroy your friendly bacteria. Okay. Thanks for the question, Shelly. We appreciate it.
Joanne is asking a very good question on interstitial cystitis. Man, I saw that a lot in my office. A chronic bladder condition, 95% women and can be very painful. Always that urgency feeling they got to go to the bathroom all the time. Pain, sometimes painful, intercourse. It's just very unwell, recurring and chronic. Here's what I did in my office with which I got real good results, but I always used to tell my patients with this diagnosis, and it was always women. I'm trying to think if I've ever seen a case in a man. Maybe once or twice, maybe. They usually, before the bladder bothers a man, it's their prostate. But a woman, the bladder is a breeding ground. It's part of just that anatomy of a woman. And here's what I used to tell them right off the gate. I said, "Look, this is a fight. It's long term." It didn't happen overnight and it's not going to happen overnight that you get better with this. You got to be religious and determined to fix this. It's affecting your quality of life big time.
But here's what I know about it. Okay? Here's what I know about it. What they don't tell you, and you can Google this if you want, on interstitial cystitis, the lining of the bladder, but why? Okay. Why? Well, I'm going to tell you why, and I have no doubt that this diagnosis is the right diagnosis. They're always full of yeast. And interstitial cystitis is like a perfect storm. So usually, and this has been a history, recurring antibiotics for bladder infections. And then the first one might've been a bacteria. There's always bacteria involved. If you take a, I used to do this in my office. I take a urine test, and they always had leukocytes, extra white blood cells in their urine, but it wasn't because of bacteria. Bacteria might be there. But it was always the lining was full of yeast. It was fungus. And you take an antibiotic, yeah, it gives you some relief, but it comes back because it's a yeast. It's a fungus. It lines the bladder. So that's one of the keys. You got to just kill the yeast. One, the diet. No more sugar and no sugar molecules holding hands.
So they went on the 30-day reset, the eggs, meat and cheese. No sugar, no carbs, 30 days. Then we allowed them to put some vegetables back in and limited fruit. Okay? And you don't feed it. Then broad spectrum probiotics. I tell you, I had women taking six broad spectrum probiotics every day, seven days a week. This is a war. Two, oil of oregano, antifungal, antibiotic, antiviral, antiparasitic. A lot of people don't realize that oil of oregano is all of the above. People ask me about parasites all the time. I said, "Well, the oil of oregano is antiparasitic. It's God's gift to us." Okay? Well, you got to do oil of oregano. That yeast is growing there. And a lot of times these women were low in progesterone. Remember, progestation, progesterone is a very important hormone in a woman. So is estrogen. But a lot of times when you look at smooth muscle, your bladder is a smooth muscle and that bladder starts to lose its elasticity. One of the things that helps it a lot was progesterone. So I was giving out a bioidentical, even if they were younger, I had them on our menopausal formula. What to dim out the estrogen, the extra estrogen and elevate naturally their progesterone. That would help. So that was pretty well the way I handled it. And I said, look, you're in for a long run, but it's going to help. And in some cases, completely reversed, but certainly a lot better. So that was my protocol. And I thank you for the question. Okay? And that was Joanne.
Deb is asking about, "Dr. Martin, what do you think of the Dutch testing?" Well, I did it. Okay. Dutch testing is dry urine. These labs that do Dutch testing, I like it. It was a tool in my toolbox. It wasn't everything because people ask me this a lot because I used to teach it and that was live blood cell analysis, live cell analysis. Here's what I used to say about it. It's a tool. Did I like it? Yep. Was it everything? Nope. Not everything. And the problem with Dutch testing too, you need all of these symptoms because I would never allow anybody in my office. You just couldn't come in. It was a big X. Not that anybody, well, I think one or two people argued. Why have I got to fill out the form? You know my name, you got my name and my personal information, but I'm not doing a medical history. I said, "Well, then you're not seeing me. Go see someone else." I'm history. I want your medical history. I have a questionnaire and I want you to completely fill it out. We used to tell our patients, "Get here a half an hour earlier than your appointment." Why? Because you're going to fill out a questionnaire and there's no if's, and's, and but's about it.
So when you do Dutch testing. Look, I used to, and not that I did too much of it, but I always had kits in my office that if you wanted extra testing, okay? You wanted extra testing because we had everybody's blood work already. We did a hormone testing, we did cortisol testing, we did it all. But if you even wanted more, I used to work with a lab and I say, "Look, it's going to cost you 600 bucks." But I said, "Full disclosure. You pay me, I pay the lab, and the lab gives me a $200 check back for referring the patient." I said, "I've got the kits if you want them." But very few people wanted to do the extra. They already did everything. They'll just confirm what I'm already telling you. But the biggest key, again, when it comes to that is really you need all of your symptoms because I've always said this, and you guys know this, whether it's the thyroid, whether it's your ovaries, whether, I don't care what it is. Symptoms trump the lab.
Medicine has been hijacked by the lab because, oh, everything is normal. Well, I don't feel normal. I feel terrible. Well, your blood work is good. Okay. So what? Why do you think I was so busy all the time? Patients never came to me first or rarely. Okay? I was always, "Dr. Martin, go down. I'm getting no results on all my hormones and my..." You name it. And I heard about this guy. I was usually the last stop, not the first doc. Now, once they saw me, I usually could convince them that I ought to be the first stop. If you need medical intervention, I will send you there. I worked with doctors when they would work with me, but I used to. I'd get a case in and say, "Eh, no. I'm going to get on the phone with your doctor. I want more testing." Okay? Anyway, thanks for the question. That was Dutch testing and that is something that I liked. It was part of the tool kit. Okay. That was Deb.
Theresa, "does too much protein, like on the carnivore diet, convert to glucose?" Well, everything really does convert to glucose. It's at what speed? Okay. So guys, you know me, I talk about this all the time, fuel. Change, fuel. You're living on carbs, mostly. Your macros are upside down. You have carbs and fat. I want you to switch your diet to eat protein and fat. When you do, you're changing fuel. Look, everything at the end of the day, a steak breaks down into glucose, but it's at what speed? Then your body can handle it. The problem is we live in a world today. Food breaks down like this, processed. Ultra processed foods and carbs and sugars, and it's in nanoseconds, and your pancreas is going crazy, secreting insulin. Look, when you eat a steak, your pancreas is in Hawaii on a holiday. I used to say that on my radio show. Send your pancreas on a holiday. It needs it. It's been overworked. Send it.
And then you might as well send your liver out too on a holiday, because you're going to give... If you eat a steak or eggs or cheese, good dairy, your liver is... Loves it. Loves it. Because they changed the food pyramid. They came out. It was all influenced by cereal makers and Dr. Kellogg's and all those other guys. And they had an agenda. Cholesterol was bad. And you need glucose. Look at your brain. You need glucose. No, you don't. No, you don't. Okay? I'm not saying you'll never have any glucose ever. I'm not saying that. I'm just telling you. That was me screaming. John the Baptist in the wilderness of nutrition. That was me. There wasn't many. Hello? You're eating the wrong food. That was me. And the world went crazy on cholesterol. The world went crazy on cereal because you need fiber. If you don't get enough fiber. Most digestive issues, but 70% of the population or more. I said, "You're eating too much fiber. Why do you want a bulky stool for?"
So you see, that was me crying in the wilderness, guys. And I wasn't trying to win a popularity contest. I learned this in 1974. Okay? You know what I learned? Don't try and impress the medical establishment. If you live your life like that, they're never going to be impressed with you anyways. And I said, no. And you know what, guys? Remember, I had a good background. My father, my grandfather, they pushed back against the establishment. My dad, diabetic. I love the story. 1968, he pushed back. He said, "Son, listen. It's sugar diabetes." When I went to school, they changed the name. Why? You think the sugar industry liked when they called it sugar diabetes? Oh, it's your genetics. Well, genetics might load the gun, but your diet's going to pull that trigger. I can tell you that. Anyway, I get on diatribes, guys, because you got to understand, that's me. I pushed back. I've been pushing back for 50 years. It's not true. Too much protein, you're going to kill yourself with too much protein. Well, nobody ever died from too much protein, but they sure die from too much carbohydrates, too many sugars.
And guys, I'm not saying never eat a carb. I'm just saying that you don't want to live on them because you weren't meant to live on them. Think of, what was that guy? Stefanson or whatever. He went to the Arctic and he found out what the Inuit were eating. We used to call them Eskimos and he couldn't get over it. They're just eating blubber and they eat the organs and they live on that stuff. They eat even eat their eyeballs. Anything they could get with fat and protein, they loved it. And he couldn't get over it. He wrote about it. They did experiments. He came back, they put him in a hospital in New York. He said, "Put me in there for a year and feed me, but you feed me the right way." And you know what happened after that? The nice thing about Google, you can Google it. Okay? I'm a history buff. Even in nutrition. What happened? That's why I talked to you about Dr. Kellogg's. Who was he? He was a nut bar. I'm sure he meant well. He wanted everybody off animal protein and fat. He didn't want anybody eating that. He said, "I'll kill you. " He invented his cereal. Where do you think cereal came from? And the whole world went stupid.
And then the cholesterol hoax. The whole world went stupid. They went from butter to margarine. I was screaming. What are you doing? My doctor. Somebody sent me something yesterday on cardiologists. I said, "Did they ever get anything right?" They never took an ounce of nutrition and they're going to tell you like, oh, that's what the study I read. Dr. Martin's going to have a migraine. They sent me that where the American Heart Association, whatever, and they recommend get off red meat, okay? Because we don't like it. And I go, "Yeah, did they ever get anything right?" They told us to get off salt when they should have told us to get off sugar for high blood pressure. They told us to eat margarine. Cardiologists did. "Oh, you're going to have cholesterol problems." See, the animal kingdom has cholesterol. Yeah but so does every cell in your body. You can't even absorb vitamin D without cholesterol. Ooh, I'm getting a migraine. Okay. That was Theresa. Theresa, love you.
Barbara. Love you too. "Do health benefits apply to decaf?" Yep. It's the bean. Now, I do recommend, and I say it all the time, the Swiss water process for decaffeinated coffee. They don't use chemicals, and you're going to get the best of the bean. But decaf, a lot of people can't have ordinary coffee. I can, but I certainly can't have it after 12, 1 o'clock in the afternoon there. I could have coffee five minutes before going to bed when I was younger. Not anymore. I got to have a decaf. Okay? And it's the bean. It's still vitamin C. The best. That was such a good question. That was Barbara. You know me, Barbara. When I want to talk about coffee, I get excited. I always tell people. It's a gift. Why are you fighting it? It's a gift. And again, want to hear the lies? They lie, lie, lie. Coffee is a diuretic. No, it's not. Coffee is acidic. No, it's not. Not when it gets in your system. Your body buffers it. You got baking soda inside your body. Coffee's not acidic. It helps you. Anyway, I know you guys are on my side, but they're just some people, they stick to the old stuff and they double down on it. I used to tell people, "I'm giving you my opinion." And God gave you a brain. Listen to both sides and figure out what's the truth.
Okay. Joanne's son diagnosed with a JAK2 mutation. Yep. No fun under the sun. It's a bone marrow condition, a genetic defect, and they make way too many blood cells. It affects the bone marrow and can lead, okay, leukemia. I know cancers, what else? I've seen it in people with Crohn's, but very serious. Look, here's me. Okay? You have to understand it didn't matter, Joanne, what you came in with, because let's say your son had come into my office and he had this condition. Well, that's medically done. Big time respect for that. Now I'm going to do my testing on them. Okay? So I did a complete workup. And then what I did is I looked for deficiencies and problems. I would fix those problems and get the person, put everything on their side. If they were missing, for example, vitamin D, they were taking vitamin D. If they had leaky gut, they usually did. You fix that. They were usually, even though their red count was high, they were defective in B12, usually. So you know what I'm saying? That's what I did. I went on what they were missing. Were they low in magnesium? Were they low in omega-3? And then I would fix the things that they were deficient in or were suffering from like a leaky gut, for example. We'd go after that. And you know what? I always said I put my results up against anybody's because based on the testing that we did, cortisol, for example, and testosterone, we just fixed those deficiencies. And you know what? A lot of them got better, not cured. But anyway, thanks for the question. It is much appreciated.
Okay. Let's see. Back to the drawing board. Okay. Susan put herself on activated charcoal for five months. Susan, listen, I'm not in practice anymore. If I was in practice, I would've said, "Call me first before you do that." I get why activated charcoal. And listen, guys, I tell you this almost every Friday. I had a radio show for 20 years. Activated charcoal had its day in the sun. What do I mean by that? Well, for about a month on my radio shows, activated charcoal, somebody must have said it or whatever, said, "This cures everything from pimples on your nose and warts on your toes." Fixes everything. Take activated charcoal. I said, "Don't be so fast with that. " I don't particularly like it. I know that it coats the stomach and it's supposed to take the toxins out of your body. I said, "No, I don't like the science behind it. Why do you want to coat your stomach?" I didn't like that.I want to fix the stomach. Coating it, don't fix it. Okay? You weren't meant to eat activated charcoal, in my opinion.
And it had its day in the sun, and then it's still around, obviously, but you know what? You want to detoxify. Okay. And you were using it, Susan, for different to bulk up your stool. I would have had you on something different. And look, it's not the end of the world. It's me. Okay? I don't particularly like it because I don't like the science behind it. You want to get rid of heavy metals, empty your liver. Your liver is built to get rid of heavy metals. You want to get rid of heavy metals and this kind of thing? Fix leaky gut. Fix your yeast because that's a carrier. So that was me. That's why the liver, if your liver is empty, folks, believe you, there's nothing that'll detox you better than your liver.Your kidneys are involved too. That's why I'm so big on water and cutting out sugar so your kidneys function properly because they're the last stage. You pee it out.
Okay. I didn't answer the full question because I was on a diatribe. Any suggestions of what to do? Yeah, stopped after reading activated charcoal. Susan, I agree with that. Did you read what I had to say about it or someone else? I'm not big on it. Okay. Suggestions? Well, again, now bulking up the stool, I like probiotics at the end of the day because probiotics, they do everything for digestion and you should be on digestive enzymes too. Okay? Don't leave home without them. They're like American Express. They're just so good for breaking all the food down and fixing the bowel and probiotics. And there's nothing that knits for the leaky gut, but it also helps you with the end stages of digestion.
Okay, let me do one more. Let me just see how many I got. We got to do Monday too, guys. Oh yeah, for sure. Okay. We got to do Monday. Donna, thyromine intolerant. Okay? She's thyramine intolerant. Okay. Well, what is thyramine? Whenever you see INE at the end, it's an amino acid. To break down a protein at the last state, you have an amino acid, a very important part of your body. Okay? I love amino acids. You guys know that. She's asking. My research shows that bone broth is bad for you. Well, look, if you have that particular thyromine intolerance, would I have you on bone broth? Maybe not. Maybe not. I haven't thought about it. Now I'm thinking about it. I'd have you on probiotics. Absolutely. What else would I have you on? Digestive enzymes. Big time. Okay. With lots of protease. Our digestive enzyme's got six, seven different types of protease in it and amylase and lipase. It's a broad spectrum. I would do those two things. Yeah, bone broth, I don't know. I'm not conclusive about it, but I wouldn't start there with bone broth with you. Okay. That was Donna. You know what, Donna? If you think it'd bother, I wouldn't be on the bone broth. You know how much I love bone broth. Okay. I really love it. If it simmers for too long, maybe not for you.
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