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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. We appreciate you guys and we appreciate you coming on and saying hello if you can before we get into our Q&A. Thomas is asking a question, guys. "I saw a commercial for Mounjaro." Okay, and he says, "they claim it can lower your A1C." Yeah, it does. "What is it?" Mounjaro is a peptide. What are peptides? Amino acids that signal. You got signals. Signal to your brain. Where they get Mounjaro is from a gastric peptide. This stuff, guys, is becoming famous, okay? Peptides. Ozempic is a first generation peptide. And Mounjaro is sort of a second generation, two peptides, two signals. And now a new one is coming out Reta peptide, Retatrutide peptide.
Okay, so let me give you a little bit of teaching so that you understand where I'm coming from and this is really important, okay? Because these peptides originally were designed for diabetics. For example, Ozempic. Okay. Mounjaro, diabetic medication to lower blood sugar, thus you're lowering your A1C. Here's the problem with these things. Okay. Are they effective? Yes. Do they come with side effects? Lots of them. But guys, this is the overarching principle, very important to understand this. If you don't change your habits of eating, here's what happens. Most people over 50% will come off that medication. Either Mounjaro or Ozempic, they come off. Why? They're getting too many side effects. And they were using it not so much for diabetes, but they were using it for weight loss. It's become a designer drug. Not really a drug in a sense, it's a synthetic peptide. Okay? And the problem is that when you come off of these things for weight loss, all your weight is coming back.
Secondly, most of the weight you lose is muscle. So again, they're designer drugs. Half the people in Hollywood I'm sure are using them to keep their weight down and they become famous. Okay, guys? And all I'm telling you is this. They've been around long enough that we know this is that if you don't change your eating habits, yeah, you'll lose weight. But side effects, because how they work, how these peptides work, they delay gastric stomach emptying. Everything gets slowed down and you got to be careful with that because when you slow down gastric emptying, it's harder to digest your proteins, your fats, harder to digest your minerals, your vitamins. They're always low. When I used to be in my practice, very low in B12 with peptides.
So guys, all I'm saying is, is it magic? Some people think it is, but if you don't have habit changes, this is why guys you can't outdo a bad diet. You can't outdo that. And with these peptides, you can't outdo a bad diet. Habits have to be changed. And I used to explain this to patients in my office all the time because remember I went through in my practice where people were getting gastric sleeves. Remember all the surgery that was done to shrink the stomach size and they would put a sleeve on there and gastric surgery. I went through all that and patients used to come in and they needed help and they go, "Oh, I mean, I need something." I said, "I know, but if you don't change your habits, you're not going to win in the long run. Let me help you to change your habits of eating." Okay. Otherwise, they're just bandaids and they're not meant to be taken forever and there's a boatload of side effects to them, a boatload.
And one of the biggest ones is you're not breaking down all your food. It's slowed to a crawl and you can get lots of digestive. I remember with Ozempic, like I say, more than half the people that tried it had to stop it. They had so many digestive issues from bloating to diarrhea to just like spontaneous diarrhea. They'd be out at a mall and without any warning they would poo in their pants, lots and lots of side effects. Okay? So anyway, thanks for the question because I don't mind answering it. I want to tell you about these things because they're hot off the press. There's a new one coming right attrutide that is supposed to be Eli Lilly owns the patent on it and it's supposed to be a trillion dollar medication. They're in their third stage of review with the FDA. It can be dramatic. The problem is, okay again, there's two sides to the coin. I thank you for the question because people are asking, "Does it lower your A1C?" Yeah, it sure does. Temporarily, sure it does. Metformin will lower your A1C, but a boatload of side effects. Isn't it better to lower your A1C with your diet? Yep, it sure is.
Okay, Debbie wants to know something about what Dr. Martin thinks of a colonoscopy. Well, I'm just giving information. Okay? I'm just giving information. I didn't even do it when I was in practice. I didn't tell a patient not to get a colonoscopy. I wouldn't do it. I said, but here's the pros and cons. Okay. Here's the pros and cons. Colonoscopies are very, very invasive. I had two high school friends that died from colonoscopies, facts. They went in a colonoscopy and they punctured their bowel. They didn't know. The doctor didn't know. It was microscopic and then they were dead within a few days because they got sepsis and they died. Two high school friends. That's a fact. So it's an invasive test. Now they go up the colon and they see polyps and then they snip them and do a biopsy and medicine thinks that's wonderful because they call that early not prevention but detection.
I look at it a little bit differently because you look at a tumor, for example, like you do a biopsy on it. Your immune system is unreal, guys. How it can encapsulate, it sort of sends a little sheath over the cancer and then you biopsy it. Now you've broken the sheath. You've broken the little barrier that the body's immune system built so that that tumor won't spread. It's the way I look at it. And I go, "I don't like biopsy so much." And that's what happens, for example, in a mammogram. They nail you with how much radiation first of all, and they squeeze those breasts and then, "Oh, we see something. Let's do a biopsy," because they think that, well, that's early. It's not prevention, it's detection. And their school of thought is the earlier we get at it, the earlier we start the treatment. I understand that. I look at it the other way. Okay? Your body's immune system knows how to deal with it. It will encapsulate it. Leave it alone. Anyway, that's where it comes from, but you got to do what you got to do. You're going to have pressure to get a colonoscopy at a certain age. Just understand.
Jan is asking about comments on vestibular neuritis. What is it? Inflammation of the vestibular. Okay. That's the nerve in the middle ear. It gets inflamed and neuritis. Whenever you see itis, inflammation, itis, inflammation, no fun. Vestibular neuritis can come on all of a sudden and you're dizzy and you think you're on another planet. And usually this is my experience with that. It's usually viral. And that's why the way I attack it is in an antiviral way okay? Oil of oregano. Don't put it right in there, but lots of it. Probiotic. You might use an antihistamine like quercetin with Navitol. I find that to be effective. I love the quercetin Navitol. I would add curcumin because that becomes anti-inflammatory, a very powerful antihistamine. No fun under the sun. Okay. Yeah, Jan is saying a family member has been diagnosed with that. Yeah, it can be very, very long-term. Can be. Okay. Severe vertigo. No fun.
Linda's asking for Dr. Martin's protocol for eye health. Okay, here it comes. You ready? Okay. I don't care what it is. Retinopathy, glaucoma, cataracts. Okay. Diabetic retinopathy. Why? Eyes. Okay. Understand where I'm coming from. Okay? Linda, listen. Eyes. Circulation. Eyes. Circulation. Blood supply. Okay? So here's me. Here's my protocol. I'll put it up against anyone and I mean it. Get at the circulation of the eye. Combine Navitol. Why? Blood supply. Navitol opens blood vessels. More blood supply behind the eye because your eye is all about blood supply. I love Navitol with high DHA oil. Why? Okay. Blood supply one, lubrication. Regeneration. That's what DHA does. It lubricates. Your eyeball is made of fat. DHA fat. Eyeball. Regeneration. Lubrication. You go in to get your oil changed in your car and they give you a lube job. They lubricate besides the oil change. Well, that's what DHA does. It gives you an oil change and a lubrication.
With Navitol, which is a pine bark extract, one thing I know about it, it's a powerful antioxidant so it does protect your blood supply, but it opens up the blood vessels. You get more blood. Behind the eye is what you want because when you look into the eye, when you look into the eye, what do you see? The highways and byways. I was so amazed when I studied that. The highways and byways behind the eyes. I was in Toronto going to school and I thought of all the highways in Toronto, including the Don Valley parking lot. That's what we used to call it. And the 403 and the 407 and the four, whatever else it is. Okay? Okay. Thank you very much. Linda for the question. Retinas. Yeah. Well, retinas need blood supply.
Tracy. Okay. She's asking about natokinese to break down the fibrin sheath, to break down arterial plaque. Okay. Look, I like natokinese. Okay. I like natokinese. It helps to break down clots. Okay. I like it. I got no problem with it. Again, you're asking a question, Tracy, about plaque. Plaque decreases the blood supply. That's why I love Navitol. Again, I'll talk to you about DHA, the oil, the best omega-3. Okay. You want to use natokinase? Yeah. There's some research on it that it's more for breaking down clots. Will it get rid of plaque? I haven't seen the studies on it actually taking plaque out of your arteries, but it needs to be researched more. Okay. Remember where plaque comes from because it's really important to understand this. It ain't cholesterol, guys. Cholesterol is there. Well, it's always in the blood. Okay? What causes plaque? Calcium, it's calcified. It becomes calcified. That's what atherosclerosis is. It's the hardening of the arteries. Okay?
How does that happen? Insulin. When insulin is high, it creates in the body an inflammatory response. Inflammation is on your side, but not when it's there for a long time because then it affects the little endothelial layer of the blood vessels. Endothelial is your Teflon layer of inside. It should be slippery. So inflammation damages on the other side of inflammation because they come together is oxidation. Inflammation and oxidation creates plaque. It calcifies the artery. And then you have a third thing that calcifies it glycates the artery. We call that glycation. That comes from sugar. Sugar glycates. I always say, "What is A1C?" What is A1C, guys? Oh, it's a blood test. What does it measure? Well, it measures glycation of your red blood cells. Sugar attaches to the protein molecule called hemoglobin. Sugar attaches to that protein molecule called hemoglobin. You can measure it. Sugar is so toxic. It destroys blood vessels. How does it do it? In a process called glycation. That's why your body is dedicated to take sugar out of your bloodstream. It's in a no parking zone. Got the memo?
So you have inflammation left unattended. It damages. It's called a cytokine storm. It damages blood vessels. You have oxidation. Okay. What is oxidation? Think about this. Cut an apple in half. Okay. Cut an apple in half. It won't take long. It starts to turn brown. That's oxidation. Okay. You want to see what oxidation looks like? Cut an apple in half. Put a couple of drops of lemon juice on one side. What is lemon juice? It's an antioxidant. And that one side of the apple will stay whiter, longer. Won't turn it brown as fast. That's what an antioxidant does. You got that? So you have inflammation, oxidation, and you have glycation. That is what damages blood vessels. Food. Food. Thank you, Tracy. And she's asking like natokinase like does Navitol work in the same way? It works differently than that. It's an antioxidant so it helps against glycation. And it is a powerful opener of your blood vessels through the process of nitric oxide.
Diana is asking about mesenteric. That is the sheath around the intestines. Your mesenteric sheath. A protective sheath around your intestine. "Just diagnosed with mesenteric paniculitis." Oh, does medicine ever love giving big words, right? Well, look, when you get that, can be very, very painful and you got to do everything you can to lower the inflammation there. So let's see if they've given you anything. "The doctors have tested me for rheumatoid arthritis because it is autoimmune. Why would the mesenteric lining, why would that sheet get inflamed in the first place?" Yeah, autoimmune. The body's turning on it, so. I'm a big guy going to do the probiotics. You don't want any sugar, like avoid sugar like the plaque. Anything anti-inflammatory, I would have you on the Navitol. I'd have you on curcumin. I'd have you on high DHA, all anti-inflammatory and very good for that, Diana. Okay. It's autoimmune.
Marion, "Dr. Martin, in your years of clinical practice and you were observing people." I had people, they say, "What are you looking at?" Remember, I got right in their face. A lady one time said, "You're in my space here," she said,. She didn't know me. I'm up to her face like this, but I'm looking. I'm observing. I was looking at her eyebrows. I was looking at her skin. I was looking at her eyes. She said, "you're in my space." I said, "no, you're in my space." I said, "This is my office. You're in my space." I have to settle her down because she was trying to dictate. I said, look, I'm an observant person. I'm looking at. Okay. Besides, I'm going to look at all your blood work and I'm going to do all of it, but I'm trained to observe. So the question is asked by Marion, did I ever look at the nails? Yep. Let me see your hands. I'm looking at your nails.
Look, this is really important. You can go online and if your lines are like this or like that or like this or like that, and they'll tell you, you can tell everything by looking at your nails. That ain't true. Okay. It's a piece of the puzzle, but it's not everything. Okay? It's not everything because you have spots and this is that and this and I know what it is. And everything from warts on your nose to pimples on your toes, you can diagnose by your fingernails. No, you can't. Okay. But whenever I saw ridges, you know what I knew just about invariably? They had low acid in their stomach. They didn't have enough acid in their stomach. Generally, I found that to be true. I would see that a lot of times in the nail bed and see. Now you could see fungus sometimes and whatever, but generally it gave you a clue that they didn't have enough acidity in their stomach.
Your stomach should be more acidic than a lion's stomach. With a 1.1 to 1.3 pH. I mean, that's so much acid that you should be able to take a litle bit of acid and it'll burn a hole in your kitchen table. The problem is most people don't have enough acid. They go, "Doc, I got too much acid. It's coming up my throat." I know it's because you don't have enough acid in your stomach. Your pH of your stomach is gone up. It's become more alkaline than it should. You're not a cow. You're eating too much grass, salad. You're living on vegetables. You shouldn't. You're living on carbs. You shouldn't. Your stomach wasn't made for that. A cow needs four stomachs to eat grass. You don't have four stomachs. A cow stomach's pH is not near as acidic as the human beings because you were made to eat steak. God gave you a stomach to eat steak. So eat steak.
Look, I just got to say it again because some people they get into the weeds. And I used to have some patients that come into my office and they hand me their hand and said, look at my nails. It was almost like reading tea leaves. They wanted me to tell them all sorts of things just by looking at their fingernails. I said, "Well, there's not that much information there. There's some." I'd rather look at all your blood tests. You know what I mean? Anyway, Marion, I hope you have a sense of humor.
Lucille, how are you, Lucille? Achy joints after menopause. Isn't it fun? Isn't horrormones fun, Lucille? Are you having fun yet? Remember, here's me. I was a horror-mone guy. And I got to do it just because I always love to do it, Lucille. I bring out my chart. It's exactly what I used to bring out in my office 10,000 times a year. I'd bring out my chart of horrormones and I'd say it's all connected. It's all connected. You have your ovaries. That's what makes you different. That's what makes you unique because your ovaries are tied to your thyroid. Your adrenal glands are tied to your thyroid and they're tied to your ovaries, ladies. And then you have in the middle, you have your pancreas. That's tied to your thyroid, to your ovaries, to your adrenals. They're all connected.
And there's another circle over here. It's called your liver. And there's a lot happening in your liver. That's tied to your thyroid. That's tied to your estrogen. So I used to bring this out and I said, you got to balance all of this because you're in a storm. Your hormones, they become horrormones and you got to balance them out. And I help tens of thousands. No, way more than that. Women balance out their hormones. That's what I did, Lucille, in my office more than anything hormones including insulin and that's a food hormone. And guess what? You better start with food. That's me. That's where I come from. Okay? So probably don't have much Lucille progesterone. Your estrogen's dominant. I can tell you that without even examining you.
Joanne, okay, this is the last one and then we got more for Monday. Yep. Joanne's asking about psoriasis. Okay. Well, first of all, I never saw one case of psoriasis or eczema for that matter that doesn't have the cause being leaky gut. Leaky gut, leaky skin always. Fungus, a yeast. It invades the body. The body's trying to get rid of it. Where does it put it? On the skin. You got to start with the gut. Fix the leaky gut. Doesn't happen overnight. Don't feed the yeast. That's sugar. Don't feed it. You got to go cold turkey come off the sugars be on a broad spectrum probiotic, oil of oregano, very, very antifungal. That's how I treated people and man, we got good results with that. Incredible, but it's leaky gut 100%, not 99, 100%. She's asking, "What do you think of biologics?" Well, that's medication that's different than cortisone therapy or when they give you prednisone or whatever, they're trying to lower the inflammation. Biology are sort of immunotherapy. They're going after the immune system and I don't know. Hey, they work good, but you're still not fixing the problem. You got to get to the root of the problem and it's leaky gut and it's a fungal infection, 100%.
Okay, thank you for the questions, guys. We're going to have to do this again on Monday. Okay. We love you guys. Thanks for coming on, guys. We appreciate you more than you know and we'll talk to you soon.
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