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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone. Once again, welcome to another live this morning. Hope you're having a great start to your day. Thanks for coming on. Okay. Now guys, this is groundbreaking. Groundbreaking. Something that changes in medicine. It's groundbreaking. And I'm surprised. I'm surprised it happened. If you would've asked me 10 years ago, I said they'll never change the name, although they should. But let's talk about what's happened here. Okay? This just happened, guys. Hot off the presses. They changed the name of a medical condition. It got a name change. It's earth shattering. For medicine to rename something, it's earth shattering.
Here's what they did. I don't know if you saw this or not. Some mainstream media covered it, but I found it astounding because they went from PCOS, P-C-O-S, polycystic ovarian syndrome. Okay. PCOS. And they changed it to PMOS. Polyendocrine metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome. We're going to do a little bit of teaching on this this morning. Why the change? Shocking. Anything changes. You know what they say? Nothing new under the sun. That's sort of medicine. They don't like changing anything, but they actually did. They changed the name and I'm going to do a little teaching this morning. You know my pyramid on horror-mones. I had this pyramid in my office and I probably taught it tens of thousands of times, not exaggerating because I would teach nutrition 101 pretty well and hormones 101 on this chart. So let me show you.
So here I got, think of a pyramid. And at the top of the pyramid, you have your thyroid. They're all involved in this and I'll get to this in a second. In the middle of the pyramid, you have your pancreas secreting insulin. Have you guys ever heard of insulin? I'm joking. You're experts on insulin. Most of you know what endocrinologists don't know about insulin. Then you have halfway down the pyramid, you have two circles here. What are they? Well, they're your adrenal glands. The secretion of cortisol. And then you have two circles at the bottom of the pyramid and that is your ovaries, estrogen, progesterone. In the middle here, I don't even have a circle on this one because men, they're not complicated like a woman is. Okay? Men aren't that complicated. But I did bring it out for men, but much less than a woman because women has ovaries. Complicates the world. Makes you beautiful, but complicated. And then you have men, testosterone, testes. Okay?
Now what medicine named years and years ago was a syndrome called polycystic ovarian syndrome. They talked about cysts. Polycyst cysts on the ovaries. So again, we're down at the bottom here and they talked about cysts on the ovaries. And when women would get polycystic ovarian disorder, I saw it guys tens of thousands of times over the years in my office, polycystic ovarian disorder. And medicine, they worried about the cyst. So they did a couple of things. If you went to most doctors, they put women on birth control and metformin, a diabetic drug, birth control and metformin. And when that didn't work, they came and saw me. And I said, "Well, you're looking for love in all the wrong places because medicine is looking at your cysts." And then they had bad skin, growing hair on their face. They couldn't understand it. And I had to tell them, "We're going to get to the root problem because the root problem isn't your cyst. It's not that. Your root problem is food. It's insulin."
Now they were given metformin a lot of them, but they weren't told what to do other than take a medication. And it might have helped a little bit, but it didn't fix the problem at all because they weren't looking at the root problem. It's food. Food disrupted their ovaries and they called it polycystic ovarian disorder or syndrome. I said, "Well, look, we got to back up here. We're going to back up because I want to get at the root of the problem." Medicine is saying you have an insulin problem, so we're going to give you a drug, metformin. But I agree you have an insulin problem, but it's what you're eating. You happen to be a canary in the coal mine. You're not getting away with it. You're eating way, way too much carbohydrates, way too much sugar, too many processed foods from bread, pasta, rice, cereals, sugar, sweets, pastries, muffins, bagels, everything that turns to sugar in nanoseconds. Your insulin at the cellular level, even at your ovaries, you know what's happening there? They're resisting insulin.
It starts with insulin resistance at the cellular level. Where? On your ovaries. You got insulin resistance at your ovary level. That has created a cascade of problems for you, a cascade of problems. But I'm not going to give you a medication. I'm going to explain what's happening. And when you understand that, it'll make a big difference because it really isn't your cyst. It's your metabolism. It's your metabolic syndrome. 93% of the population, do we say this every day on this program? 93% of the population have trouble with metabolic syndrome. You as a woman just happen to have the problem showing up, especially on your ovaries, but it comes back to food. We're going to change your diet. We're going to start there because when you're eating too many carbohydrates and you have insulin resistance, too much sugar and too much bread and too much noodles and you were told those were good for you, but it's the opposite of that.
Your ovaries, they secrete too much estrogen because of that. You are estrogen dominant and this is a big factor. You're a woman. You create estrogen. Beautiful. It makes you beautiful, except when you make too much of it. And what happens? This is really key guys that you understand this part. Okay? I should have a circle and often at the office I did have a circle here. I had another circle right above over here. Your pancreas is here right in the middle, right? But right beside it, there's another circle here. This is your liver. The Rodney Dangerfield of your body. It gets no love. Nobody thinks about their liver until it don't work. But when you eat and you live on carbohydrates, simple carbs, processed carbs, from the list I just talked to you about, your liver gets gummed up. It's the Costco parking lot. It's full. You don't know it. Well, you guys do because you're a smart audience, but the world don't know this. The liver is gummed up.
I talked to someone yesterday. I said, "You know what the problem is with liver? You don't know it until your enzymes are off." Your doctor's not talking to you about your liver unless something comes up in the blood work. Kids have fatty liver. Why do you think we saw so much of this, what they used to call PCOS? Why do you think there's so much of it? And it's not the cyst. It's food. It's food driving that. You're making too much estrogen? Your liver, because it's all gummed up with the food that you're eating. You can't clear it. The estrogen needs to be cleared out of the system. Your liver helps to do that, but it can't because it's gummed up. The Costco parking lot, there's no more room for parking. And guess what? Your liver can't clear the estrogen. Now you got bad skin. Now you got acne. Now you got testosterone. And like the patients used to say, women, well, I think I got too much testosterone. I said, well, it's not because of testosterone. It's because you got too much estrogen. Your liver's gummed up. We're going to empty your liver with food.
So this is really important. You're not clearing. So when you're not clearing, your estrogen goes up. Estrogen is a growth hormone. Now the cyst, they grow, grow, grow. You see, but it's not a cyst problem. It's a food problem. And then we're going to add some things here. What pours gasoline on the fire? Cortisol. You see, now I'm going to bring you to the adrenal glands. Okay? The adrenals because number one, you're not sleeping. Your estrogen's too high compared to your progesterone. You've got an imbalance and you're hungry all the time because of it. And cortisol elevates your blood sugar. So that elevates your insulin and what goes up must come down. So now you've got to eat again. You're eating more frequently, but you're choosing the wrong foods. Nobody told you. Your body can't live without sugar. No, your body makes sugar. In the absence of food, don't worry about it. Sugar's toxic. Ask a diabetic.
And let me give you another factor because this is really important. Because your liver is not clearing, you're having trouble converting because look what happens in the liver. This has to do with your thyroid. T4, which your body can't use. Your thyroid can't use T4. It uses T3. The conversion from T4 to T3 occurs here in your liver. Oh yeah, but your liver's gummed up. Why? Because you're a carboholic. Nobody told you. So your liver's gummed up. You're not clearing the extra estrogen. Plus you're not converting T4 to T3. Your thyroid needs T3 to function properly. One. And when you're eating the wrong food, carb loaded, converting to sugars rapidly. You create inflammation. Inflammation affects your thyroid. The lack of T4 to T3, thyroid slows to a growl. Patients used to tell me, Dr. Martin, they were mad at me at first. You know why they were mad? Well, it really wasn't at me. They said, "How come nobody's told me this? I look at food sideways, I gain weight. My metabolism, Dr. Martin, isn't slow. It's in a coma." I said, "Yeah. Nobody told you, but now I am."
So you got to get the pyramid here. And the key is fixing this insulin. If you eat a steak, insulin is on the sidelines, getting a break that's well needed. If you have eggs, you're helping all of this. You're having good dairy. You're helping all of this. I always said to them, "You can't outsupplement a bad diet." Not that I didn't give supplements, but I always told them this, you can't outsupplement a bad diet. You have to trust me on this. We're going to fix the problem. We're going to fix your estrogen dominance and your insulin resistance and we're going to fix it at the cellular level because you have... Okay, what do they call the new thing now? You don't have PCOS. They renamed it. Polyendocrine. Poly means many. Poly. Okay. Polycystic. Lots of cysts. Poly. Right? Polyendocrine metabolic syndrome. Well, forget the polyendocrine part of it. It's metabolic syndrome. We've talked about this for years and years and years and years.
I never gave anybody Metformin because that's a bandaid. Birth control pills. You know how many young ladies were put on birth control pills? Because they had horrendous skin and their periods were all over the place and oh, here's a birth control pill with a multitude of side effects. And it was a bandaid. It didn't fix the issue. It masked the issue. And I said, "You happen to be a canary in the coal mine. You and carbohydrates, you don't get along. The worst deception is self-deception. So don't deceive yourself. This is the new you. But you'll thank me later when you're not bent over in two come period time. When you will lose weight, when you eat the right foods. You get to eat." That was always good news because I never talked about calories.No, we're not talking calories here. You want to talk calories? Go to Weight Watchers. They'll give you points. I don't do that. I talk about eating the right food because it fixes this. It fixes the pyramid. It'll fix your thyroid because we're getting to the root issue. It'll fix your ovaries because you're getting to the root issue.
How many women, and forget about, what do they call it again? Polyendocrine metabolic syndrome. Oh, I'm very thankful for the name, by the way. Okay. It's not PCOS anymore. It's PMOS. Okay. I'm a happy camper. They did it. They're agreeing with me. They don't tell you how to fix it without drugs, but I do. I'll tell you, you better start with food. You better do the reset. I mean, it was big part of the solution. And of course, I wanted them to dim down their estrogen. Why do you think I love flaxseeds? Why do you think I love dim? Dim out the estrogen. Okay. Big time. And progesterone is so important. You got to balance that. Okay. But you better fix this here right in the middle. Right in the middle. You better fix insulin. Okay. You got the memo? Okay. They changed the name Metabolic PCOS to PMOS. I wonder if I'll get used to that because I always called it PCOS because that's what people recognize. Oh yeah, PCOS. I said, "Yeah, but we're going to look at this differently. Okay. We're going to look at it differently, guys.
I want to tell you, ladies, why your thyroid's not working properly. It's not really the thyroid because your thyroid is a puppet. It's got a lot of strings attached to it. You better figure that out because you're going to ... Oh, my doctor said my thyroid was good. Why? Because the lab said it was good. No, it's no good. It's not working. You're gaining weight. Your hair's falling out. Your skin is dry as a bone and you're upside down and you know it, but the lab doesn't know it, but they're not looking in the right places. I was passionate in my office, passionate. You better fix the bottom line. You have an insulin resistance. Some people shows up in different places. Insulin resistance shows up in different places. I used to have a chart in my office. I should post it again with all the signs of insulin resistance from skin tags. Okay. I mean it guys. I said, look, different strokes for different folks. Your insulin resistance is affecting your ovaries.
Somebody else might be affecting their brain, their kidneys, their heart. It's affecting your ovaries, ladies. And that's affecting your thyroid and your adrenal. It's connected. That's what I used to teach. Well, I still teach it if you listen. I love drawing that chart and now I got it in front of me. Man, I love it. They're finally recognizing it's unreal. If you guys even ... Well, you guys, when I say you guys, you guys already know this, but I'm just saying it. It's earth shattering when medicine, it took them years to come to this conclusion. It wasn't a cyst. It was metabolic syndrome of the ovaries, insulin resistance. But I guarantee the treatment's not going to change. It'll still be Metformin, the diabetic drug, and the birth control pill in young women, especially. I mean, tens of millions of young ladies put on the birth control pill because of bad periods and polycysticists. I've been saying that for a million years. Oh my word. I'm excited today. I am.
Okay. Guys, tomorrow Q&A, send your questions in. Danny Lay, I'll try not to forget because he said, I forgot his question. Hey, I pull out my senior card. I'm a senior. I love that card. I love it. I'm a senior. I forgot. Okay. People are gracious with me. You forgot? Yeah, I'm a senior. What did you expect? Okay. We're having fun today. But when I see stuff like this happen, guys, you know what I used to say all the time in my office? It's blowing my socks off. That's how earth shattering this new revelation from medicine. We've gone from PCOS to PMOS. Love it. Talk to you soon, guys.
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