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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning, everyone. And once again, welcome to another live this morning. Love having you guys on. Guys, thanks for coming on. You have no idea how much I appreciate it. Okay. Marilyn's asking a question. We're going back to Q&A. Marilyn was in bad shape. 64 thyroid issues, big time autoimmune thyroid issues, Sjogren's, hypothyroidism, thrombocytopenia. She'd been carnivore for 14 months. No dairy, meat, eggs. "I take almost every supplement you have. Thyroid came back worse." Well, maybe in numbers. Really important, Marilyn, for me. Okay, really important because you're asking me to give you advice, but I got to ask you the question. Okay? You went carnivore for 14 months. I would've had you on the reset. Maybe not for that long, but you went carnivore. I got no problem with that. Okay.
How are you feeling? Because I have to say it almost every day. Numbers, not that I don't look at them. I do. Okay? I looked at blood work. It feels like a thousand times a day. Now it wasn't that much, but it felt like it. Okay? I always looked at blood work. But, and guys, you know this. What are your symptoms? How are you feeling? You've been on carnivore for 14 months. Marilyn, how are you feeling? What are you seeing? What changes? Symptoms I'm talking about. Because that's really important because I always look at that even more, especially when it comes into the thyroid and that. Okay. How are you feeling? Okay. You gave me your blood work. Okay. Well, the blood work hasn't seemed to change much. As a matter of fact, your thyroid numbers have gotten worse, but I don't put a lot of stock in that until I know what you're feeling.
In my opinion, okay and without knowing you, Marilyn, you wouldn't have stuck to 14 months of the carnivore diet unless you were seeing some changes. Now, that's just my experience with people. So I need to know that. So let me know how you're feeling. Give me all your symptoms before and after, because that goes with your blood work. Believe me, that's really important. The old-fashioned doctor was very interested in your symptoms because medicine generally has been hijacked by the labs. They're hijacked. That's all they look at. A patient is almost invisible to most modern day doctors. All they want to do is look at blood work and they make a big mistake doing that. Okay, Marilyn? So send me your symptoms info@martinclinic.com. It will come to me.
Okay. Linda. We love Linda's. She's dealing with a flare up of diverticulitis. Well, that ain't no fun. Let me give you, Linda, what I've seen first of all, over all my experience with diverticulitis generally and I think 90% of the time when it happened in women, you know what? They were salad eaters. They lived on salad and they lived on seeds and nuts because they were told it was good for them. They ate a lot of fiber because they were told they actually needed that big time and they didn't eat a lot of meat and they didn't eat a lot of eggs and they didn't eat a lot of good dairy. Okay? That's just general. Now you might be an exception to that, Linda, but generally that's what I saw over the years. So when everyone had a flare up of diverticulitis and they came to see me, I said, "Well, you got a sunburn down there. You got a sunburn in your descending colon there on the left side and you got pouches in there." So now until we get rid of the sunburn down there, the real irritation, the infection actually, because you get feces that get stuck in there. And doctors say, well, if feces are stuck there, you want to have more fiber. No, no, that'll irritate the sunburn. That will irritate the infection. Go very bland, drink water, drink coffee and lay off the fiber. No salads.
Okay. Now what supplements? Always start at the top of the gut. What's at the top of your gut? Your stomach start there. Enzymes, every meal, digestive enzymes, because you want all your food that you're eating to be broken down big time. And most people with diverticulitis or diverticulosis or even IBS or IBD, their problem starts in the stomach and they don't have enough acidity there. It doesn't break the protein down properly and that comes in and irritates the gut and then they eat way too much fiber. No fiber, lots of water, coffee heals. Okay. No seeds, no nuts. Be pretty bland until that thing heals up. Digestive enzymes probiotics, bone broth, because of the L-glutamine, which regenerates the gut. Our IBS formula. All mucillages that help to restore, regenerate, replenish the lining of the bowel, all those things. And the best fiber is coffee and water. Okay? Thanks for the question. That was Linda. We love Linda's.
Caroline, how does a man increase his testosterone? Well, let me just pull out a book. Here I am. Sun increases your testosterone, steak increases your testosterone, steel, muscle increases your testosterone, sleep increases your testosterone. Sun, steak, steel, and sleep. That's the problem with men. Men, okay, this is a fact, guys. Oftentimes have more estrogen than they have testosterone. They often have more estrogen than their wives. I used to tell men that because I used to test them and I said, "You got more estrogen than your wife has." Vitamin D. You're low. Good luck with the sun. It's not out today. Take vitamin D. I did this morning. I take it every day, see? Vitamin D. Okay. You need that. And you might want to, Caroline, tell your husband if that's who you're talking about. Get some flax seeds and dim out the estrogen because see with a woman it's estrogen progesterone and a man it's testosterone and estrogen. If estrogen goes up, testosterone is going down. If testosterone is going up in a man, estrogen is going down in a man. It's just the way it is. It's a teeter totter. Okay. Sun, steak and steel. You ever heard of that before? And sleep. Okay. Thank you, Caroline.
Suzanne. Okay. Suzanne's asking a question. It's a good one. "How exactly is stress having the same effect as carbs and sugars on the body? How does that happen?" Well, here's how it happens. Okay? Suzanne, here's how it happens. When you're stressed, what is the hormone called? You know this. Okay. Close your books. It's a little test. What's the hormone call? What's that called? Cortisol. What does cortisol do? Well, cortisol gets you ready for the fight or flight. It's getting you ready. Okay? Very normal. It's getting you ready to start your day, right? So cortisol goes with your circadian rhythm. It's very normal except when it doesn't get turned off because think of it. What does cortisol do? Well, it elevates your blood sugar because it's getting you ready to fight or run. Well, what goes up must come down. So think of it. How does the stress hormone cortisol, how does it affect your blood sugars? Yep. Up. Up. Blood sugar goes up.
Now imagine that cortisol never goes down during the day and that's for a lot of people. Stress has a major effect. It pours gasoline on the fire of your metabolic syndrome. If you have it even to start off with, it even gets worse. And that's why independent of food independent of food, cortisol can elevate your A1C because cortisol should have a part-time job. But we live in a world where stress. Look, ever since man has been on the planet, you've had adrenal glands. You need them. They're there for especially your fight or flight. You're getting chased. Okay? Let's say a lion is chasing you. But what happens if that stress doesn't stop? It keeps coming and coming and coming. Man, that can mess you up, elevates your blood sugar. Because of that, your insulin has to go up because insulin has a job to do. It cannot allow your sugar to stay in your bloodstream. It's extremely toxic. So that's how it works. Okay. That's how it works. You know, you're eating good and your A1C isn't coming down. That can be a major factor. Get on the cortisol formula. Okay, that was Suzanne.
Theresa, "what are your thoughts on going two or three days without a bowel movement? Nursing homes are big on tracking bowel movements." Well, look, Theresa, unless you have never been listening to me, let me repeat what I think. Okay? I'm not saying you shouldn't have bowel movements, okay? So don't misquote me here. It's just that, listen, I'd listen to this as long as I've been in practice because Dr. Kellogg started the whole thing. You know what he did? You need fiber because you ain't going to have a big enough stool. You're not going to go to the bathroom enough times. We're going to give you a prize for having the biggest stool. Said Dr. Kellogg. I didn't really say like that, but he meant it. And we started the whole fiber craze. And like I said, it's one of the reasons we see so much diverticulitis and diverticulosis and IBD in this world. I'm telling you, you're not supposed to live on fiber. You're just not. Well, Dr. Martin, if I don't have my oatmeal, I ain't going to be able to go number two. I heard that a million times in my office.
Okay, and guys, I'm not saying you shouldn't go to the bathroom. You don't have to go every day. You know what I mean? Think about this for a minute. What is your stool? Waste. True or false? It's true. Your stool is waste. It's going into the toilet, right? That's waste. When you're eating the right foods, nutrient dense foods, you make less waste. That's how it works. When you're a carboholic, you're going to have big stools. And some people think, "Well, that's wonderful." They think detoxing. Okay? A lot of people do this. I heard this again. When I say a million times, okay. It wasn't a million, but close to it. When I go to the bathroom, I'm detoxing to some extent, but your big detox organs is not your bowel. It's your liver. It's your kidneys. Yeah, your bowel, but you don't have to clean it every day. Well, let's scrub it. That's what fiber does. It scrubs it. That sounds good, but it's way overrated, guys.
So you're in a senior home, they're going to give you... and listen, one of the biggest reasons they're constipated other than they eat way too much fiber is the medications they're on. Like you go to a senior home and my word, they're on about 20 meds. Well, their peristalsis and their gut is crawling. They're put into zombie land with all the medications they take and they take one for the blood pressure and they take one for the side effects of the blood pressure medication and yada, yada, yada. They're all on statins, they're all on that. And I mean, isn't it true? And then they give them a sleeping pill and no wonder messes them up. I remember what time I visited a dear friend in the nursing home and I said, "How many pills they're giving you?" 30. I felt like saying, "Well, they're killing you." It just slow. Okay, that was Theresa.
PD, PDI. "Is there any truth to wearing hearing aids to decrease dementia?" Apparently hearing has an effect on the hippocampus. You can't hear. Your brain shrinks. And I've read studies on that, that wearing hearing aids will help that. What happens when you become a senior? A lot of people lose their hearing. It has an effect on the brain, for sure. So wear your hearing aids if you need them. Whenever I speak, you know what people who have hearing aids tell me, "Doc, I don't need my hearing aids when you speak." I said, "Is that a good thing?" I got a built-in microphone right here. Okay. That's what my son says.
Okay. Teresa, hold on. Same Theresa? No, different one. Another question. "Started taking iodine drops because I think I may have a sluggish thyroid." Well, if you got the symptoms, you got a sluggish thyroid. Hair, eyebrows, dry skin. Look sideways at food and you gain weight. Lethargic. Yada, yada, yada for thyroid. So Teresa says, "I took iodine and can it be harmful if you don't need it?" No, you need it. Who doesn't need iodine? It's not even in our soil. It's devoid. Your thyroid needs iodine in steak in selenium. Selenium's in steak and your thyroid needs vitamin D and your thyroid needs B12 and your thyroid needs a lot of things to work properly and you don't want to be out of balance with your estrogen and progesterone because when you rob progesterone, estrogen dominates and now you're not clearing the extra estrogen out of your liver. Anywho.
John, you've been listening, John, because you're saying smart things. John says, "Dr. Martin speaks about estrogen and high insulin that causes the prostate to grow." Okay, "but what does a man do to reduce the swelling that has already happened to be able to urinate better?" Well, I'm a big guy on, okay? So obviously lower the estrogen, lower your insulin. That's food. I love for the prostate Navitol. And the reason is, guys, whenever you think of Navitol, think of blood flow. And prostate, what happens? You got diminished blood flow big time. Too much estrogen, too much insulin. The prostate grows, grows, grows. Okay? And that also has a diminished blood supply. The little capellaries and arteries that go to the prostate, you want to increase that. Diet, block the extra estrogen and Navitol. One of the best things you can do for the prostate. Okay. We got a new prostate formula coming too, by the way, to a theater near you. That was John. Thank you, John, for the question.
Betty, "my daughter's in college notice worms in her stool." Yikes. It's better, by the way. Okay? Because I used to do stool analysis too. Okay? Bring me your stool. Put it under a microscope. Okay? Not the whole thing, but just a little Q-tip word on a slide and you could see it under a very powerful microscope. You'd look for parasites. "And I have been telling her to take probiotics and oil of oregano and avoid all sugar." You're a smart girl, Betty. "Looks like blue vein stretch marks are on the top of her stomach. Could it be parasites?" Maybe. Ask your daughter, Betty, if she has a cat. Get rid of the cat. Cats and parasites. Yikes. And then they lick you. Okay. But no, the best way is probiotics and oil of oregano, antiparasitical and don't feed them. They love junk. Don't give them junk.
Okay. Tara. 56-year-old woman in menopause, very dry skin, wet macular degeneration. You take Dr. Martin's products. Okay, good for you. You're smart. "What is your take on this?" I know good, better, best. Astaxanthin, a potent keratinoid based. I know what it is. You want to take it? Tara? I got no problem with that. I like Navitol better, but I got no problem. Yeah. I like Astaxanthin. Hey, Tara, you want to add that to your regimen? Go for it. No problem at all.
Kristen, "I have a question about foot pain," she says. "I'm not sure if I'm dealing with plantar fasciitis or not. My heel and arches hurt. Pain is severe." I'd say if I had you in my office in my practice days, I could have told you in five seconds whether you had plantar fasciitis or not. And usually this was me. Whenever I saw plantar fasciitis, it was always the metatarsal arches falling, flattening out. And so I did everything I could to lower inflammation. A lot of people found with plantar fasciitis as soon as they got off the sugars, because remember, sugar doesn't cause the plantar fasciitis, but anytime you see an itis, you're talking about inflammation and sugar is very inflammatory. So one thing you want to do is lay off the sugar because a lot of people that helps big time with plantar fasciitis.
Now, I believe in really good arch supports and you don't have to spend 500 bucks on them like orthotics and that. Some people swear by them. I like more the good arch supports. Roll your foot on a tennis ball or even something harder like a bottle or whatever. Roll. You got to elevate the metatarsal arches. Okay? I like curcumin mixed with Navitol, blood supply plus anti-inflammatory, both of them in terms of treatment. Might want to get some manual therapy on that too. Okay, Kristen? Merci.
Okay. I think I, hold on a sec. Joanne. Okay. Again, A1C might've answered this the other day. I don't remember. "Why would my husband's numbers go from 6.3 to 6.6 A1C after two weeks, finished the reset two weeks ago?" Well, Joanne, Rome wasn't built in a day. I don't know your husband, but he's still on the right track. A1C is an average, okay? And sometimes it takes longer for A1C to go down and sometimes it'll go up a little wee bit before it goes down. Don't get discouraged. The best thing to do is lower that insulin 100% and there's no exceptions to it. It can change. Don't get discouraged. "Any thoughts on natokinase?" Look, it's anti-clotting. I like it. Okay. I do. Yeah. If you're worried about clotting, you can take natokinase for sure.
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