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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. Okay, let's get to our questions, guys. Guys, we go coast to coast Canada, United States, and around the world. Okay. Questions. Here we go. Okay, Laura, "what would cause muscle weakness in the upper thighs?" Well, a lot of things. You're saying it's every day for a week. Well, possible thing. I mean, look, muscle weakness can be a lot of things if it's persistent where you really feel a weakness, you ought to get it checked out because it could be autoimmune. I remember seeing patients that it was persistent weakness in the upper thighs and I said, "Well, you ought to get this looked at because it's persistent. Hasn't been just for a week or whatever. Been going on for a while." I didn't get that checked out. And I remember one time I think it was myoclonus gravis, an autoimmune disease. And you know what I mean? Laura, look, I could be related to a lot of things. Okay. I've seen it with dehydration. Who knew? They never knew. And low in potassium, for example, could cause that kind of thing. Cortisol, stress, maybe. Stress does a lot of things. Stress does a lot of things. So it's possible, Laura.
Okay. Caroline, "my daughter has a tendency to have migraines." Well, tell your daughter she's got horrormones guaranteed. Couple of things that I noticed estrogen dominance can cause migraines. I used to get great results once I dimmed out that estrogen. The other thing is they were often low in B12, often low in magnesium. I had them on magnesium. They were often low in it. Low in vitamin D usually. Persistent migraines, dehydration like I mentioned. Like the brain itself doesn't have any pain centers. It's sort of the saran wrap around your brain. We call the duramatter. And that's where you have pain sensors, migraines when the dura mater contracts. You often get a headache or migraines. Like I said, always look for dehydration, estrogen dominance, dim that estrogen out. I would put her on the menopausal formula even though she's not in menopause just because of dim. Flax seeds, not the oil, the seeds, lower the estrogen. Big, big factor in migraines. I put her on probably about 800 milligrams of magnesium, either citrate or bisglycinate on a chelated magnesium. B12, often very low. Okay?
Susan, I did talk about Hashimoto's on Friday. So I think I did this because I talked about someone else. Hashimoto's, Graves'. Okay. Hashimoto's and Graves' disease are autoimmune thyroid. The Graves' is usually the high autoimmune starts in the gut. And what I did, okay, here's my protocol for autoimmune, thyroiditis. Okay. I didn't aim so much at the thyroid. I aimed at everything because usually what I found, and I'll bring this chart out again because I have it here and it's the pyramid. Okay? So what I worked on either with Graves or Hashimoto's was balancing this. The thyroid, the insulin because of diet. Insulin is food. Adrenals, cortisol messes up the thyroid and can have a factor even in autoimmune. What I don't have in the pyramid here is the gut. Leaky gut, leaky thyroid. And then estrogen dominance usually in women. Too much estrogen, not enough progesterone.
Why is it that Hashimoto's is mostly in women? Why is it then Graves'? Not always, but is mostly in women. Why is that? You ever thought of that? Why women get it much more than men? Why is that? Well, women are complicated in case you didn't know. Women have ovaries in case you didn't know and they can get out of balance big time. That's why even in autoimmune, I fix the leaky gut probiotics. That's the protocol. The diet, the reset. They always do better after the reset. And cleaning out the liver has a lot to do with that thyroid because what happens in the liver doesn't stay in the liver. It's not Las Vegas. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. What happens in the liver has ramifications to all of your hormones because of what happens there.
And the other thing is, and this is another reason women. Women generally, so don't come after me. Women often don't eat enough meat. They don't get enough protein in their diets. That has a major effect. And when you don't get enough protein and you don't get enough meat, you don't get enough dairy, good dairy, like butter and cheese. They don't get enough cholesterol. It doesn't mean because the body produces cholesterol. Like I always said, God don't trust you. 85% of your cholesterol comes from the body. Your body needs it. We try and lower it. We're so stupid. The world is so stupid. It went stupid on cholesterol. And when stupid telling you to become a vegan or a vegetarian and women don't necessarily buy all of it, but they think that salad is better than steak and it ain't. And they don't eat enough. And when they eat meat, they eat chicken. Well, not a lot of cholesterol in chicken. You need cholesterol to transport your hormones. You need cholesterol even for your mitochondria. Your battery packs need cholesterol. And here we are trying to lower everybody's cholesterol, not me. Okay. So, Suzanne, or Susan. Hashimoto's or Graves'. Autoimmune. Do all of the above. Get in that pyramid and fix it. What a difference that makes.
Rita has a question about water. When I say only water is water. I like the fact, Rita, that you listen, Linda. Listen, Rita. Listen. Linda's listen. Yeah, only water is water. Now she's asking a good question because when Dr. Martin says, "Well, put a little pinch of Himalayan salt in it. Is that mean it's only water?" Yeah, because water should be mineral water. Most water is devoid of minerals the way it comes in nature. You get to a well, you know what has? It has minerals in it. It's mineral water. So when I ask you to put a little touch of Himalayan salt in your water, that is an electrolyte. It's got about 84 minerals in it. That's salt. So why do you think I like it so much? I put a little dash of salt in my water. It's not just sodium and it's not table salt, sodium chloride. I don't want you to take that.
So ginger or lemon, you can put the bone broth powder are homemade. Well, look, now you're getting into the weeds, Rita, because look, I got no problem with electrolytes, okay? Because like I said, water should be mineral water. There's so little good mineral water around anymore. Okay? They don't like plain water, okay? So they put bone broth powder. Lemon is all right. Lemon water. You put a lemon in water, it's still water. Okay. It's still water. When I say water is water, you can put lemon. I don't care. You want to put a lime, touch of lime. I don't care. It's still hydrating you. Okay. Now powdered bone broth in water. Well, that's bone broth. Good. But now it's going to take a different root in your body and that's all right. It's good for you, but it's not the same hydration, guys.
You have to understand I'm talking about hydration. You need two liters of water a day and they don't like plain water. Well, you could put a little lemon in it then. Men. Rarely a woman that would say to me, "I don't like water." I said, "Suck it up, buttercup. You're dehydrated. You got blood as thick as molasses. You're going to have a stroke. Suck it up." Men would complain to me. Women are not complainers usually. When I would tell them, "Look, you're dehydrated. Drink more water." Okay. Women are compliant. Men, not so much. They fight. I don't like water. How about a Coke? No, that won't do. Okay. It's a diet Coke. No, that won't do either. Okay. Thanks for the question. That was Rita.
Yvonne, "my question is my husband takes four a day of DHA." Me too. Okay. "But he's still having cognitive decline. Can he take five?" I would. I'd up it. Look, here's the point, Yvonne. Here's the point. Very important. Your brain is made up of DHA and cholesterol. You got a fatty brain, or at least it should be. A brain that's being affected by Alzheimer's or dementia, they shrink. Brains shrink. You need more fat like the DHA, because your brain, certain percent of it is actually DHA fatty acid. So when people talk to me about Omega-3, they just, "Oh, is Omega-3 good for me? " Yes. But what's the best? DHA. Your eyeballs have got DHA in there. Your brain's got DHA. That's why I like it so much. Okay. And Yvonne, look, I mean the diet and everything like sugar shrinks the brain and not always easy to get people to change their eating habits, but you want to be eating lots of good protein and fat. Okay?
Carolyn, I'd have them on Navitol too. Navitol crosses the blood brain barrier. Remember blood flow, guys. Okay. People ask me this and I understand it because Navitol, what does that mean? Like what is it, doc? Well, think blood flow. It opens up your arteries more blood. More blood to the brain, the better the brain. More blood to your heart, the better. More blood to your legs the better. Circulation. Men, prostate. More blood. That's what happens. The prostate grows. You have les blood supply. You got problems. Okay? Carolyn's friend has low stage of cirrhosis. Okay. "He has not taken a B12 for six months, even longer. He went for blood work last week and his B12 level was 1476. What are your thoughts?" Well, I know they flag that as high, but you have to understand, Carolyn, that B12 in your blood, look, our society medicine in particular, they have forgotten what B12 is and why it's so important. And when they flag it as high, because the lab does that.
The doctor, you might as well go to your plumber to talk about B12. They used to be so important in medical school in the 40s and the 50s, B12. Every doctor used to give B12 shots. It was part of their DNA in the 1950s and then they got away from it starting in the 60s. And then B12, you don't need B12. And the world went stupid on B12 because first of all, it's a water soluble vitamin. What does that mean? It means you couldn't overdose if your life depended on it. You can't overdose on B12. Oh, I know why you're in the waiting room at the emergency department. You got high B12. It's going to kill you. No, never. Not once. Why? It's water soluble. Not that vitamin D, even though it's fat soluble, ever kills you either because it don't. But they flag your B12 as high. What's that mean? Because they're not measuring. They're measuring the amount of B12 in your bloodstream, not in your tissue. You know where B12 belongs? In your tissue. So what? Better high than low.
They say, well, you can stop taking B12. I'd have your husband write back on it. It's good for you. B12 is a finicky vitamin. It's very hard to absorb on the best of days. You've got any digestive issues or whatever, you're having trouble with B12. And the numbers to me, look, you have to understand I did two B12 tests. I did two B12 tests. What? I did a saliva B12 test. They don't do it, but I did it. Okay I did it because that one told me a lot more than the blood B12 test. I did that one too by the way. And the vast majority of people are low in B12. Another way to measure B12, by the way, I used to do this one, get it ordered, was homocystine. And that'll give you a better indication of what your B12... If your homocystie is high, your B12 is low almost invariably. And Carolyn's friend had cirrhosis of the liver. Well, that could skew the B12 test. It could skew her vitamin D test. He, it's a he, not a she. Carolyn is asking.
Okay. Glenys, sirulplasma was low. Okay. Boy, I haven't heard that in a long time. Ceruloplasma. It's a test to detect copper, either a deficiency or too much in the blood. And usually they do it when they're looking for Wilson's. It's a liver disease. So if you have too much or too little, that's what that test is for. Okay. You were borderline low. They'll probably watch you. I mean, Wilson's sort of a, it's rare genetic type of thing that your liver is having trouble absorbing or absorbing too much copper. Are you swallowing pennies? No, I'm just teasing. Okay. "Any supplements available to bring it back to normal level?" What I would work on is emptying your liver glenos before anything like empty the liver. That'll help. How do you empty your liver? The reset. Get off the carbs for 30 days. Okay. Empty your liver. That's what I would do. Curcumin too, I'd probably have you on curcumin. Curcumin is good for liver. It really does help.
Sawry, speaking of people in Finland watching the program. Love it. Love it. "I was wondering if you tell me what Dr. Martin's protocol is for maintaining good blood pressure?" Well, let's look at blood pressure. Okay? We always start with the diet because most people that have high blood pressure eat way too many carbs and like breads, pastas, noodles, sugar, sweets, pastries, you name it, in the carb section and they live on it. Most people with high blood pressure. And what that does, insulin and sugar affects your kidneys. And cardiologists for years blamed salt. I blame sugar for high blood pressure. Okay. Poor salt. It's been vilified and the only time salt will bother you if you're dehydrated. So it's sugar, not salt. So eliminate that. Food, low carb, big time. Okay? And I mean it because most of the carbs we talk about like the breads and the noodles and all this and all. They're just sugar molecules holding hands. They break down rapidly, your insulin's got to go up, skyrocket to sweep the sugar out that's very hard on the kidneys.
Now sugar has another way affecting blood pressure because it glycates. It damages blood vessels. It glycates them. And the way we measure that is through an A1C test. Why? Because that's glycated hemoglobin. Red blood cells have hemoglobin in them and sugar attaches to them and they damage it. You can measure it. It's called your A1C. Okay? So that's get your A1C down. Again, how do you do that? Well, you catch your carbs down. Now here's what I always did for high blood pressure. Okay. Talking about supplements. Magnesium, relaxes. Vitamin D elevates nitric oxide, opens up the blood vessels. If you can get in the sun to get it, it really helps with your blood pressure, but most people have to take vitamin D with K2. Take your vitamin D with K2. Navitol, pine bark. Unreal for blood pressure. Why? Well, blood flow opens up the blood vessels, elevates the nitric oxide. Blood pressure. Okay. DHA, why is DHA so good? Here we go again. Lubricates. Lubricates the blood vessels. It gives your blood vessels an oil change. Lubricates. Okay. It's also anti-inflammatory. So is Navitol, by the way. That's my protocol. Okay. That's my protocol for high blood pressure. Thank you Sawry for asking that question.
Lorraine asked about her husband's on Alpurinol for gout. Okay? So that's a medication to lower uric acid. "Hasn't had any recent episodes but is concerned about a flare up." Sometimes people get a flare up of gout because they lose weight. In weight loss, it's not always, but sometimes people get a flare up of gout when they lose weight. It's known. What exactly is the process of that? Uric acid, it likes to sit in fat and when you lose it, it can give you a flare. Usually it doesn't last long, but you can get a flare up with weight loss. It happens. The EMC does so much for you. He's on Alpurinol because remember, okay I've talked about uric acid. I actually add the testing of uric acid to metabolic syndrome. I'm the only guy that does it as far as I know. I've added that. I added B12. I added vitamin D. If you're low in vitamin D, you have high uric acid levels. That's part of metabolic syndrome in my opinion. All over the years just studying metabolic syndrome. I wrote about it in 2011.
Anywho, uric acid is insulin. Insulin resistance. We all make uric acid, but when you can't clear it, why it is gout up 300%. Gout's been around since the days of Jesus, even longer. But today it's wild. Why? Fructose. High fructose corn syrup. Drinking fruit. Drinking soda. All the food pretty well in the middle aisles of the grocery store. The sugar added is high fructose corn syrup. It elevates your uric acid. Not purines. I always fought against that. It's meat, Dr. Martin. It's not meat. Oh, he's eating too much meat. No, it's not that. It's too much beer and wine. Fructose.
Anyway. Okay. I think we got them all. If I missed any, let me know. Okay. First of all, I'll make an excuse. I'll pull up my senior card. And then secondly, I'll say it's not my fault. I'm a senior, but I will answer your questions. I'm not shy, guys. Don't be shy. Okay. Love you. Talk to you soon.
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