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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone. And once again, welcome to another live this morning. Hope you're having a great start to your day. Hope you can come on with us. Nice to have you on. Okay, so let's get to the questions guys. Thanks for all the comments, okay? Just come back from Martin, Tennessee. When I asked the conference, I said, did you name this city after me? Did you name this university, The University of Tennessee, Martin, after me? And of course, no, but we had a great time in Martin, Tennessee. And what a conference. Really great. And we really want to thank Dr. Angela MacKewn, who is a professor of psychology there, and the conference was on mental health. Very, very good. And I just thank you for the invitation there to the folks that came out. We had some of our followers that came in from West Tennessee to join us. And so it was nice to put a face to some folks that join us on a regular basis here at The Doctors in live Facebook and podcasts. Okay? So again, thanks. Really enjoyed it. There's Doc MacKewn, she's on with us this morning. Well, Doc, we love you. Thanks for the invitation. Really enjoyed it. And maybe we'll do that again sometime. Okay? Really appreciate it.
Okay, so back to the questions, guys. Okay, so the other day on Thursday, I sort of forgot I was traveling Friday. Thursday, we did Q&A and we'll continue. Garnet, "can you discuss hemorrhoids?" Well, they're a pain in the butt, aren't they? Yeah. I mean, look, they're varicose veins. Okay? So yeah, you see it in men too, of course, varicose veins, but a lot of times women get varicose veins. And what you see in the legs is what's happening in the butt, varicose veins. And hemorrhoids can be internal or external. And again, what causes that? Well, there are different causes. This has shown people that deal more with constipation in their lifetime are much more susceptible to varicose veins. Sometimes there are no reason for it. I saw it a lot, by the way. I had a lot of people complain about that. I put them on Navitol because Navitol is really good for microcirculation. And some people, they, "Oh, fiber is really important." Look, you know me, I'm not against the plant kingdom whatsoever. Okay? I'm not. It's just that I don't want it to be primary. Okay?
So people that live on fiber because they think it's good for them. They live on the plant and vegetable kingdom, the fruits and vegetables. I don't agree with that. I love them, but they're secondary. They have to be secondary to animal protein and fat. God gave us not fat and carbs in nature. That's a donut. Fats and protein together. Eggs, meat, and cheese. Animal, fat. Animal protein. It's the best. But I agree. Fruits and vegetables are good for you. Just don't make them primary. You just get enough. And I used to make a sav when I was in practice and it was very popular for hemorrhoids. It was my grandfather's secret, handed down. And we should actually put that out there as a product. But I used to get people from all over. They heard about it even without me advertising for my solution. So let me think about it to see if somehow I could get that to you for hemorrhoids, because I had great success with that. And with taking Navitol and probiotics. I'm telling you, probiotics are amazing. What those friendly bacteria do inside the bowel is amazing. Of course, they go everywhere too. Okay, so that is Garnet.
Thomas is 69. Good for you, Thomas. You're still a pup. Okay? Compared to me, donated platelets every two weeks for the past six years. Well, platelets, your platelets count is good. And they actually said your platelet count is high. Well, you'll never bleed to death. But you probably got thick blood, Thomas, maybe the way you're built, or maybe you're a little bit dehydrated. I don't know. But donating platelets, I got no problem with that. You're saving people's lives. And for rare cancers, those platelets are really, really important. So go for it. There's no long-term side effects to it. Go for it.
June is asking about Astaxanthin, and she hears it's good for Alzheimer's. Well, look, Astaxanthin. Where is it found? It's the pink color that you see in a salmon. Is it good for you? You bet your boots, it's good for you. It is really good for you. I'd rather you eat it than take it necessarily as a supplement. Okay? But I like Astaxanthin. I do. It's a powerful antioxidant crossing the blood brain barrier. Eat salmon. That's how you get it. That's how you get it. You can get it in a supplement. To be honest with you, again, here's me. Okay? And guys, I'm a broken record when it comes to this. Broken record, because I repeat, repeat, repeat. I have never found an antioxidant, and I mean this guy, more powerful than pine bark extract. Never. Close second, coffee. I put it ahead of Astaxanthin is coffee for what it does and crosses the blood-brain barrier. That's how good it is for you. So good? You bet your boots. You want to take it as a supplement? Astaxanthin? Go for it. But I like a few things better than that as far as Alzheimer's, as far as cognitive, I do. Vitamin D, I would put ahead of that. Not classified as an antioxidant, but it is a powerful brain vitamin. You know me, sun, steak and steel. Okay. That was June.
And Kristen was asking, she don't sleep. Kristen, I feel for you. Your cortisol is high. You don't sleep, your cortisol is high. Your cortisol is high, you don't sleep. Kristen found herself in a vicious cycle, and she's asking questions about what that cortisol does, and you're worried about it. Well, I'd say, Kristen, that's a problem because you're worried about it. And look, I get it. Okay? And it sounds to me, Kristen, like if you were in my office, okay? I bring you back to my clinic days and you come into my office, you filled out a questionnaire. I have put you through every test. I've taken all your blood work. I've taken your saliva. I've taken your urine. I've done the analysis. I see your cortisol is through the roof. You're not sleeping. And look, what cortisol does, okay? Think about it for a minute, Kristen. That's cortisol. You're wired at night and tired during the day. You're upside down. You should be wired during the day and tired at night and get a good night's sleep.
A couple of things, Kristen, okay? Because I can't necessarily change your personality, but you have to work on everything you can to get better. I would tell you to stress less in a way, like meditate, pray, get your sleep. If you can, even for 15, 20 minutes during the day, and you can sleep, your brain will get some relief. Okay? Because your self-cleaning oven up there that you have, you need to be sleeping for that to work your glymphatic system to work properly in the brain. You need that to detox properly. You're asking about blood sugar. Well, yeah, cortisol elevates your blood sugar. It does. And it creates a lot of issues almost. It's an accelerant. It makes everything worse. It makes your cognitive worse. It affects insulin because your sugars are going up and what goes up must come down. So you're going to get the fluctuations in blood sugar. So look, do everything, Kristen.
If you were a patient in my office, I would look for every deficiency you have. I would have analyzed that. And what I found when cortisol never gets turned off, you're very low usually in B12, usually very low in vitamin D. Usually, okay? Low in magnesium. Usually because of your fluctuation, make sure that you are eating properly. Do the reset. If you've never done it, I would do it. The reset really helps a lot. You emphasize that animal protein and fat. You're changing fuels. That makes a big difference. I know you're already on the cortisol formula. Okay? But like I said, make sure if you can get blood work and just check what your vitamin D levels are, check what your B12 levels are. Just assume you're low in magnesium. It really helps to get all those deficiencies fixed, and try. And if you can during the day, and I mean this, shut yourself down. Even if you don't sleep, take a good 15, 20 minutes, half an hour if you can, and just shut yourself down and just completely rest. Close your eyes. Okay. If you got further information for me, I would say, Kristen, send it off to me. Send it to info@martinclinic.com if you got more questions.
Okay, Damon is asking a good question. He's a middle-aged man on testosterone. Okay, and been on the ketogenic diet and now has elevated LDL or ApoB. And are you worried about it? Damon? Damon? Are you worried about it? I wouldn't be worried about that. Now look, let's go into this just for a minute. I have to answer it every week and I don't mind doing it because you're an individual and you're asking a very good question. You're on hormone replacement therapy, testosterone. You're feeling good. You've lost weight. You're eating good. Big, big, big factors. Okay? And now your blood work is changing. Your LDL is going up. And they went into the particle size and that's going into the weeds. So understand this, Damon. There are two schools of thought on this. There's the narrow road. There's the broad road. Okay? Jesus talked about that. There's a narrow road and there'll be very few therein on that road. There's a broad road. Okay? That's where most people are.
And when it comes to cholesterol, most gurus, unfortunately, most doctors and almost 99% of every cardiologist is on the broad road Cholesterol, bad. LDL cholesterol, real bad. It's a boogeyman. And now they've invented ApoB, A and a particle size of LDL cholesterol, and that's very bad. Look, I don't buy it. Damon, I don't buy it. I'm on the narrow road. There's very few of us, but we've been preaching this for a long time. A long time. Okay? I'm an old goat. I've been preaching that there's a cholesterol hoax. As a matter of fact, I talked to you about this the other day. There's a movie, or I don't know, it's a documentary coming on Netflix. I'm looking forward to watching it. The cholesterol hoax. I'm just surprised they didn't interview me because long before others were saying it, I was saying it. And that, no, it's not that I don't look at numbers. I really do. Okay, Damon? I really look at numbers.
But if I was consulting with you and I was in my practice days and you showed me your LDL cholesterol being high, I would say, "Okay, that's good. I got no problem with that." Because somebody made LDL, cholesterol, the bad guy. And the reason they picked LDL is because they found a drug for it. The pharmaceutical companies are not stupid when it comes to marketing and the whole world went for it. Statin drugs, Damon, became the most popular drug ever. Sales in the billions and billions a year, and still today, 2026, still numero uno. And you can't move doctors, most doctors, off of the broad road. They're on the broad road of bad cholesterol and cholesterol's bad, especially LDL. And now they're into the weeds. Oh, because studies have shown, oh, your LDL cholesterol has gone up. Good. You're going to live longer. You'll live longer. They didn't like that narrative. So what do they do? Yeah, but there's the large particles and the small particles and they get into that into the weeds because the layperson, the average person, look, if your doctor says you're going to have a heart attack, it scares the living life out of you.
I don't blame people. I'm an educator. Okay? I've gone from a clinician to an educator. I'm an educator. You know what doctor means? Teacher. I used to teach my patients. And I said, "Look, I don't want you to go against your doctor. I don't. I don't want you to go against your cardiologist. I don't. But I got to give you the truth." What I'm interested in, what is your triglycerides, your TG? And what are your HDL numbers? I want to know your LDL too. I don't want it to be too low because it's an important part of your immune system. It's an important carrier. LDL. God gave you LDL for a reason your body makes it. How can it be bad? Your body makes cholesterol. Your cholesterol is in every cell of your body. Your cells wouldn't function without cholesterol. Your brain wouldn't function without cholesterol. Why in the heck are we trying to lower it all the time? I want you to elevate your cholesterol, your HDL specifically, and lower the bad guys, your triglycerides, which are made from sugars, by the way, and crappy carbohydrates. Sugars turn into triglycerides when your liver is full of them. That's how your body deals with that.
So listen, I'm sorry, I just cannot change my mind on that because I read everything. You want to send me new studies? I'll read every one of them. I research every day, guys. I research every study I can get my hands on. I'm convinced more and more and more get on the narrow road. Okay? I practice it myself and I want my patients to understand what is bad in your lipid profile. What is bad is if your triglycerides are high and your HDL cholesterol is low. And even your LDL, you don't want it to be low. I'm sorry. I just can't tell you anything but the truth in my humble opinion. Okay? That was Damon.
Okay. Tim, hiatus hernia, her husband. Took meds for years, recently started having issues with swallowing food properly and coughing bouts. Okay? Mostly in the morning and evening. Tummy discomfort. Look, a hiatus hernia. That constant coughing. I often see that with acid reflux. And here's what I would do. Okay? Get off the stinking sugars. Do the reset. Let your stomach regenerate again. It will. Let it produce more acid so that acid will not go up into your esophagus because that's just a reaction. When your stomach becomes less acidic because you're eating too many carbs, when people are eating the wrong foods, your stomach is more acidic or it should be more acidic than a lion's stomach. You should be able to take your acidity out of your stomach and burn a hole in your kitchen table. It's so powerful. You need that acidity.
The problem is, is when your pH of your stomach starts rising, becoming more alkaline. The body reacts to that. Your proton pumps go crazy and they start sending in more acid and now it starts going up the esophagus and he's coughing. Look, I'm not saying that the hiatus hernia isn't present there. Certainly possible. But I don't think that's the biggest issue. I think it's the stomach acidity. And so that's why I'm big on changing the diet, getting on never leave home without them, digestive enzymes. Make sure they're broad spectrum. Make sure they have lots of different types of lipase, amylase, protease. We even put oil of oregano in so that we kill SIBO or SIFO. And it helps to kill if possible there's H. Pylori bacteria, because that's when H. Pylori raises its ugly head. H. Pylori is usually very silent. It just sits there. It's latent. It doesn't do anything until your stomach acidity goes up.
And you see people, because they believe carbs are more important than protein and fat. From the animal kingdom, they've been duped. This is why we see millions and millions and millions of people that have acid reflux, whether silent or alive. Man, I saw it. First thing I did, say, "Are you going to be a lion? Are you going to be a rabbit?" What? Well, you're living on the plant kingdom mostly. Well, you're not a rabbit. You don't have cellulase. You don't make it. You're not a cow. A cow eats grass, so we don't have to. Okay? You're not a cow. You know what a cow has that you don't have? Four stomachs. They don't have the acid in their stomach like we have because we're meant to be eating meat. It's one of the biggest points I make when talking to vegetarians and vegans. Okay? Tell me what pH your stomach is or it should be.
And they look at me like, why are you asking me that question? Well, because I want to prove something to you. You were designed to eat eggs, meat, and cheese. You need acidity for that. You need really acidic stomach to break down protein. That's what your body was designed for. I'm sorry, you're not a cow. A cow never eats meat. We eat its meat. But a cow don't eat meat, but it has to have four stomachs to digest the salad. People think, well, salad, that's easy on my stomach. No, it's not. And when you live on carbohydrates, your pH of your stomach becomes more alkaline and you don't want that. You want it to be extremely acidic right there. It's a big part of even your stomach is a big part of your immune system. It is? Yeah, it is. Your stomach kills so much bacteria you have no idea. And viruses. Kills them. If you have enough acidity. Okay, that was Kim.
Okay, Chris and Dave asking a question about prostate protocol. Well, here's my protocol. Dim it out because when prostates grow, grow, grow, there's too much estrogen involved. There's estrogen and insulin. Look, you have a natural growth hormone. Okay? You got a growth hormone. But things that make things grow, not your muscles. Okay? That's natural growth hormone. What makes things grow, organs grow in your body like your prostate men, is two hormones. One is estrogen and one is insulin. Estrogen, insulin. Okay? Testosterone, don't make your prostate grow. Testosterone will make your prostate shrink. Okay? So what do you do? Dim it out. Flax seeds. I even have men on the menopausal formula so they can get dim to lower their estrogen. Okay? Dim it out. Get your insulin down. That's food. Eggs, meat, and cheese. You want to have some fruits and vegetables? Go for it. I mean it.
But you watch your crappy carbs. Watch the breads, the pastas, the noodles, the muffins and the bagels and the juices and the store bought milk because you're asking a question. Elimination of all dairy products to help shrink the prostate. No, I don't believe that. Don't ditch dairy. Switch it. Butter? Very good for your prostate. Okay? Cheese? Very good for your prostate. Don't drink milk. Have a little bit of cream if you have to. You know what I want you drinking for your prostate? Coffee and water. Okay. You can have a tea. I don't know why you want tea when you can have coffee. And get on Navitol because it elevates nitric oxide. So does vitamin D. Get in the sun. It elevates nitric oxide. What is nitric oxide? Opens up your blood vessels, those little capillaries around your prostate. Open. Sesame. Open. Nitric oxide. B12 elevates nitric oxide. Thanks, Chris and Dave.
Okay, okay. Kathy's asking, "I'm taking 600 milligrams of magnesium citrate every night before bed. I also spray liquid magnesium." You're not going to get too much. You ain't going to overdose on too much magnesium. I mean, I guess it's possible, but I've never seen it. And the only thing, if you start getting loose stools, that could be too much magnesium. You're not getting that. Don't worry about it.
And Janice is asking about microscopic colitis, had a bad flare. Basically eating rice and chicken. Any idea? Well, look, calm it down first, Janice. I agree with that. Okay. Very bland. Go slow. Make sure you're on digestive enzymes. Don't leave home without them. Have them at every meal. Make sure you're taking broad spectrum probiotics. You should be on bone broth big time. Okay? The collagen protein and bone broth gives you all of the amino acids that help regenerate the gut. You want to get that lining to be better. And yeah, you got to start easy. I like aloe vera too. I do. Okay. Yeah, I think I'm done. I think I am done.
Now, have I told you guys lately that I love you? I haven't? I really do. Okay. So what do we got this week? Well, I think a regular week. Everything in the morning, as far as I know. Yep. I think all morning sessions, looking forward to it. And we got some really important studies and very interesting studies that have come out. I'll comment on that and we'll do some shows. If you've got any questions, send them into info@martinclinic.com. We answer your questions. We love you guys. You know that. Okay. Talk to you soon.
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