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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning, everyone. Once again, welcome to another live this morning. Nice to be on with you guys. Another session today. Today we're going to look at some new studies that have just come out. Always interesting, I think, and I know you guys appreciate it. Okay, let's do the first one. Exercise training increases the size of your hippo or hypocampus. I call it hypo. Maybe people call it hippo. Okay? The key is not the hippo or the hypo. It's the campus. The memory center in your brain. Here's what this study says. Exercise training increases the size of the hippocampus and improves memory. There we go again. Vitamin E, the real vitamin E is exercise. This one is a study on walking. They're saying that walking 40 minutes, just three times a week adults grew back 2% of their hippocampus in a year.
Okay, now here's what happens to the hypocampus. It shrinks, shrinks, shrinks. That's what Alzheimer's is. Now, there's several reasons for this. The number one reason, remember now, type three diabetes is Alzheimer's. It's diabetes of the brain. The brain's swimming in the wrong fuel. And you know what it does? It shrinks. It shrinks, especially the memory center, the hypo/hippo campus. It shrinks. And just with aging according to this study, your hippocampus shrinks one to 2% per year as you get older. Okay? This leads to worse cognitive performance, especially memory. So this study is saying, walk if you can. Look, any exercise is going to be helpful, guys. Any exercise is going to be helpful. We always talk about this. Strong muscles. Every time you flex those muscles, you're doing an exercise for your brain. So don't forget that. You could forget if your brain is shrinking. Okay? But isn't that wonderful with vitamin E and exercising if you can get out and walk?
I walk every day. I do. Twice a day usually and sometimes three times a day. And then by the way, and this will be helpful because in the long run, this is helpful. If you can walk after you eat, especially at suppertime, if you can walk even up to as little as 10 minutes, it will lower your blood sugar by 30%. Why is that important? Well, again, blood sugar, remember Alzheimer's, the hippocampus, the hypocampus in the brain, the memory center. It's swimming in glucose. It's swimming in fuel that it can't use. You know what I mean? It's like swimming in the Atlantic, but you can't drink the water. The brain is surrounded by the wrong fuel and it shrinks because of it. Exercise is such a benefit and a double nugget would be to exercise after eating. So let's say you're at the office. Go up a flight of stairs if you can. Okay? That sedentary lifestyle, I've said this to you many a times, three things worse than smoking. Having low levels of vitamin D, low levels of omega-3, and inactivity. And the more they study exercise, the more they study muscle, the more they study the brain, the connection there is incredible. Okay?So there's a new study just out. Tremendous. Exercise training increases the size of the hippocampus hypocampus. I like hypo, you like hippo. Who cares? Okay.
Vitamin D and sunlight skin protection. Okay. Now what this study is saying, vitamin D on the skin, not the supplementation of vitamin D, which is very important by the way. The vast majority of people need to supplement with vitamin D. It should be your go-to with probiotics because you're not getting enough sun unless you live in Florida and even then they don't do it. They're scared skinny. But here's the study. Okay. Let me read just the headline here. Moderate sun exposure protects your skin from skin cancers and especially the most severe one, which is melanoma. What? The opposite of what the world teaches. The opposite of what dermatologists tell you. The opposite of what medicine tells us. It's the opposite. Moderate, okay, don't go burn. Moderate sun exposure. On the skin protects your skin from skin cancer. Now, where have you heard that before? How long have I been saying the importance of the sun? Vitderma. Remember that expression? You need vitderma, vitamin D, but the sun. Okay?
So look, you get a lot of benefits from supplementing with vitamin D. We talk about that, getting your blood levels, your dehydroxy, vitamin D up to certain levels. We emphasize that. Optimize your vitamin D. In order to do that, 99% of you, maybe less than that, but most of us need to take vitamin D as a supplement. We just don't get enough sun. But you need the sun. You need the sun to protect your skin from skin cancer. The exact opposite of what we have been taught. I'll tell you, there's research on vitamin D every day and it's incredible. Okay? This highlights a key point. Here's part of the study. Sunlight is not just about vitamin D. It is a biological signal with complex roles in skin health. Yeah. Sun, steak and steel, my friend. Sun, steak, and steel.
Okay. Here's another study. I read it in the scientific daily, but it comes out of here. Where did it come out? I got it right in front of me. In Nature's Metabolism, a new report. Okay. Guess what it's talking about? High fructose corn syrup, guys. High fructose corn syrup. It's worse than we thought. Okay, here's a new study and what they're saying about high fructose corn syrup, it's not just another sugar. I was involved, Tony Jr. and I, we're involved in formulating an electrolyte drink. Okay. Now we're going back now. 20 years ago, maybe 21 years ago we were asked to formulate an electrolyte drink, like Gatorade and whatever. It was actually called Auxiliary. Now we didn't own it. We just were asked to formulate this drink and oh, we did a good job on it. But listen, the people that own the drink, they called it not just another pile of sugar because the other like Gatorade and Powerade and all that, they use high fructose corn syrup. And back in 2000 and I think it was 5, we were asked to formulate that drink and we didn't use high fructose corn syrup. And we didn't use any artificial sugars either because you look at PowerAid and if they say it's sugar free, it's because they're using artificial sweeteners. Those ain't any good for you either. But the worst is, and guys, you know this because we talk about this all the time is high fructose corn syrup. What do we call it on The Doctor Is In podcast? The Antichrist of Sugars. Okay?
Now, new study. Okay? New study. A new study published in the Nature Metabolism. It's saying this, this is the headlines. Scientists worn fructose. High fructose corns here driving disease. And guys, it's in everything. It's couched. It's hidden. It's the sugar of choice. Cheap, very inexpensive. Made in the lab. It's not in nature. It's made in the lab. High fructose. Oh boy, must be good. Fructose. No, not at all. Corn. Oh, must be good comes from corn syrup. Okay. Anytime you liquify a sugar, a fructose. And this is why I tell you guys all the time, like quit drinking orange juice. God didn't want you to drink orange juice. He wants you to eat an orange. You want an apple? Eat an apple. Don't drink apple juice. It's fructose and fructose is all right when you eat it, but not drink it. And when it's liquified in that high fructose corn syrup. Okay? And guys, it's not just me saying this. It's study after study and the newest one is saying it's driving disease. It's a difference maker in disease. Look at our society. Full of metabolic syndrome.
The worst thing is metabolic syndrome, guys. Why? Because metabolic syndrome is at the root of heart disease. Metabolic syndrome is at the root of cancer. Most of them. Metabolic syndrome is at the root even of autoimmune disease has a big effect. That with leaky gut and then metabolic syndrome with diabetes, it's a pre diabetic thing and it leads to diabetes. And remember, diabetes is the last thing to happen. What starts first? Insulin resistance. This study is showing that. And the major culprit is high fructose corn syrup. It's in everything from ketchup to pretzels, from cereal to bagels. They add it. Go to the grocery store, look at your label and a lot of things. Oh, sugar. But they don't tell you what it is, but it's high fructose corn syrup. It's different molecularly than glucose. That's why the article goes on to say about the study. It's not just another calorie. It acts differently in the body.
And guys, we teach this. I always reteach it because we always have new people on every day. This will get to by noon time today. I know it's live, but we'll be in front of 10,000 people will have watched this show. That's our average a day and more. Okay. I need to repeat. I learn by repetition. I don't know about you, but me, I'm repeat. I was telling someone yesterday. I said, "I put myself through school writing." Well, I rewrote everything. So if I had notes, I rewrote them. When I heard something, I wrote it down and then I would rewrite it. I don't know what it is between my brain and this pen and by the way, don't touch my pen. I'm very fussy. I love my pen and don't touch it. In the office, I told my girls, "Don't you touch my pen. Get your own pen." So I rewrite and then I'd make bullet points and that's how I remembered stuff. I got a notebook. This is what I usually write on is yellow. My wife laughs at me. Yellow lime paper. I make notes and then I have a notepad. Not a notepad, but I got a little diary here. I write things down. That's how I remember, guys.
But one of the ways you remember is repetition. So here it is with the repetition about the high fructose corn syrup, antichrist of sugars. It takes a different pathway than glucose. This study is saying that. It's different and it says it bypasses, I'm going to quote the study. It bypasses regulatory steps in normal energy pathways. Okay. That's a big sentence, but here's what it means. It's weird. High fructose corn syrup doesn't go through the process like sugar goes through the process of your body breaking it down. It's different and your body's protective pathways when you're consuming glucose, don't apply to the high fructose corn syrup. And I've taught you guys this in the past because I say it takes a beeline to your liver and then it messes you up metabolically. I.e. example, a bear. Okay? The bears are coming out in Northern Ontario now. They're telling us beware. And then they put up signs like we're stupid. Don't feed the bears.
Now I know what they mean. Don't put your garbage out so they can get at them. They're not like here little bear, here's some food for you. I hope we ain't that stupid. Anyway, they put warnings out. The bears are up. In Northern Ontario, my sister used to say that. They're buying condos. There's so many of them. Anywho. So fructose, high fructose corn syrup takes a different root, guys. Bears eat up to 30,000 blueberries a day. How do you like that? Getting ready for what? Hibernation. Why? They want to get fat and that's what high fructose corn syrup does. It takes a beeline to your liver. It doesn't go through the metabolic checkpoints that your body has to regulate your blood sugar. So when you have high fructose corn syrup, your body sends it off to the liver in a nanosecond. What does that do? It drives fatty liver. The bear story. Hibernation. They fatten up. Your liver gets fat.
Guys, honest, this is honest. There was no such thing as fatty liver when I graduated in 1974, I never studied fatty liver. I studied cirrhosis of the liver, but not fatty liver. I never heard of it. Did someone have fatty liver? Probably, but we never heard of it. You couldn't read about it. It was cirrhosis of the liver. Fibrosis of the liver, but we didn't study fatty liver. Well, in our minds it didn't exist. In medicine it didn't exist and today it's a scourge in our society. Why? Remember, what do you and I have in common? We're why people. Why do we see so much obesity today? Why? It's not calories. It's not calories in and calories out. Doctors are still focusing on that. Eat less, move more. Why do we see so much obesity today? Because the Costco parking lot. Your liver gets full. And then your body says, "Well, I got to make more parking spots. I'm going to make visceral fat. I'm going to make more fat, fat, fat, fat, fat, fat, fat. I need parking spots, especially for the high fructose corn syrup."
And we got in the United States, what, 50% of the population and it's the same in Canada. It's 50% of the population are diabetic or pre and I don't know in terms of obesity, it's like what, 40 something percent of the population and then 60, 70% of the population are overweight. Why? And then guys, it drives heart disease. It drives it. Why? Well, when the liver gets full of fat, not only do you make more fat cells, right? Insulin makes more fat cells. It needs more parking spots, but it also drives up your tri glycerides. Very dangerous for your heart. I should bring you another study because it's in my notes here. On the triglyceride TG, when you get your blood work, go to your blood work, the lipids. Don't get confused. Look at your lipids and circle your triglycerides. Circle them. Oh, that's important, isn't it? You want them to be low because that'll tell you a lot about what's going on in your body. Triglycerides are high. They're fat balls and those fat balls are moving through your blood vessels. Are they good for you? No. Well, not when they're high. That's why you need cholesterol, especially HDL to be high. Not your triglycerides, your cholesterol.
We got it upside down in our society, but high fructose corn syrup drives triglycerides to the roof. Terrible for the heart. Why do you think we have so much heart disease? It's not just sugar. It's not just another pile of sugar. It is high fructose corn syrup. Oh, the study. See, I went on a rabbit trail and I almost didn't come back. There's a new ... Oh man, it's fascinating. Okay. Fascinating. It's called the triglyceride glucose ratio for chronic kidney disease. I almost fell over when I read it the other day. The glucose triglyceride ratio. And here's the bottom line. When your triglycerides are up and your glucose levels are up, not diabetes, but higher than normal, how do you measure that? What's the best way to measure it? Your A1C. When that's up, your kidneys don't work. Big effect on chronic kidney disease. You following me, guys? You following me on the dangers of high fructose corn syrup and they're finally studying it? And it says here it bypasses the regulatory steps in normal energy pathways. It increases fat production. Hello? It reduces energy ATP. Remember, you run on batteries.
Most people, cars don't run on batteries. They run on gasoline. You got a battery in your car but you're not driving. The battery's there to start it. And you know what I mean? Other thing, but you've got a combustion engine, 99% of us. But your body runs on batteries. It's called your mitochondria. They're battery packs. And high fructose corn syrup messes up your mitochondria. And at the end, what comes out of mitochondria is a fuel called ATP. It messes it up so it decreases your energy. And then it generates compounds associated with metabolic dysfunction. That's what we're talking about. Obesity, insulin resistance, cardiovascular disease, fatty liver. And I'll add a few more. Cancer, autoimmune, it's amazing. Amazing what happens to people when they cut out high fructose, corn, syrup out of their diet. It's amazing what happens.
I watch young people. Okay? They're getting their coffee. Okay? I want to give them high five. Oh, you're drinking coffee. Good for you. Are you listening to The Doctor Is In? No. You know what they're doing? They're getting these lattes and all these things and they add sugar to them. You're drinking fructose. I want to scream when I go into the coffee shops. They'd arrest me. Who's that old goat? Anyway, what a study. What a study. Anyway, I could go on and on about this, but I better stop.
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