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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone. And once again, welcome to another live this morning. Hope you're having a wonderful start to your day. We appreciate when you can come on and say hello. We love that. We love you guys. You know that. You give us lots of love every day. We appreciate it big time. Okay, I got a couple of things. First of all, I'm going to go on the Martin Clinic private Facebook group. Okay. We got 25,000 people on that, but let me get to it because I want to talk about it. Somebody asked a question yesterday. Somebody brought up, okay, the diet and kidneys, okay? And I like that because at least you're posting it. I can't always comment. I don't always see every post, obviously. But when I saw something yesterday, I just had to pipe in. Okay? Okay, and then we're going to do a few studies. Okay?
Okay, someone put up their, Pat actually. Pat says, "Look, I'm concerned I've been eating a carnivore diet and mostly butter and eggs and some meat, sometimes seafood. My fat intake is very high, like a stick of butter a day." Holy moly. "My concern if it's hard on the kidneys?" Nope. Okay. Nope. N-O spells no. That ain't hard on your kidneys. Now look, let's say you're not used to eating fat and you start to eat a lot of fat. Your gallbladder's not used to it. So that might be harder on your gallbladder. Remember, use it or lose it. That goes for your gallbladder. I've taught you that in the past. One of the main reasons women lose their gallbladders is because they don't use it. It is a storage little sac, smooth muscle, storing bile. Bile is needed to emulsify fat. It's like liquid detergent to pick up the grease. Well, bile emulsifies fat just like dish soap does. Okay You need it. It helps to break down that fat for nutrients. But if you don't use it, you'll lose it because that's how you form stones.
And people, oh, it's a high fat diet. Nah, it's a low fat diet. We went low fat crazy for years and guess what? Millions of women lost their gallbladders over it. And then you add a lack of progesterone. When you're eating a lot of carbohydrates, your ovaries ladies are going to secrete extra estrogen. The ovaries pump out estrogen. Okay. Progesterone doesn't keep up and smooth muscle including your bladder ladies and your gallbladder need progesterone. You don't get it? i.e. An example of that would be after having a baby. A lot of women lose their gallbladder after a baby. Why? Well, no more progesterone. All of it was left in the placenta and the body hasn't kicked in and a lot of times the gallbladder. But if you don't use it to eat fat, you were meant to eat eggs. You were meant to eat fatty meat and fatty fish and you were meant to eat fatty dairy like cheese and butter. You're meant for it. Your body's made for it, but if you don't do it, you lose it. Okay. You lose it.
Now Pat is asking, she's concerned because she looks at her urine, she sees some foamy urine or even some grease in the urine. Well, look, fat doesn't destroy your kidneys nor does protein. "Well, Dr. Martin, I had protein in my urine." Yeah, but that don't come from protein. That comes from stress on the kidneys and the kidneys get stressed by sugar, by crappy carbohydrates that turn to sugar rapidly. That's what happens, guys. That's why you're... Guys, think about it for a minute. Let me give you an example. If you were smart, you would have invested in the diabetic industry years ago. For example, you know what? I think I'm going to buy shares in companies that make dialysis, for example. Why would you do that? Well, because there's so much more dialysis and dialysis centers than there used to be. Listen, I've been around a long time, but dialysis been around a long time, but now it's on steroids.
There's so much dialysis because people's kidneys are stop functioning. Why? I'm a why guy. Why would that happen? Oh, we're eating too much meat. No. We're eating 30% lower meat intake than the 1980s. We're not eating more meat. We're eating less meat. We're eating less butter. We're eating less dairy than we used to. Not more, less. And the only cheese that people are eating is on a pizza comparatively. Okay? And that's what I'm saying. Okay, guys. When I go on there and comment, I'm glad you bring it up because I want you to be concerned about sugar intake. One of the best indicators, this is new hot off the presses guys. One of the best indicators of how your kidneys are doing is a new index. It's a new marker. It's a new blood test. Well, they're not new, but it's a new ratio. For example, here's what I'm saying about kidney.
They're saying, listen to this, this new study says the best way to determine kidney function. It's not GFR. Your glomular filtration rate, although that's good. The best one they said, the most accurate one is your triglyceride-fasting glucose. Think about what that is, guys. Triglycerides, you take your triglyceride numbers and you take your fasting glucose numbers. If they're over four by their standard, you're in doo doo. High triglycerides, how do you get high triglycerides from food? How do you get that? Carbs. Sugars. High fructose corn syrup is the worst. When you're drinking soda and lattes and all that crap, even orange juice, you want to elevate your triglycerides, but they can measure your kidney function. Listen, guys, listen, Linda and Larry. They're saying the new way to measure kidney function the most accurate way is to take your fasting glucose a diabetic test and your triglycerides, which should be low, not high. Your glucose should be low, fasting glucose, right? And your triglycerides should be low.
So the point I'm trying to make is your kidney function depends on food but not protein nor fat. Sugar. It's diabetes even before you get diagnosed with diabetes. But if you are diagnosed with diabetes, you're in trouble. Your kidneys are in deep, deep doo doo with diabetes. That is why today there are so many centers for dialysis. That's what happens. Kidneys is sugar. And someone I love that they got on there and said, "And doc, don't forget Niagara Falls water." No, no, you're right. Okay. Don't forget Niagara Falls. Water, water, water. But guys, I had to bring it out because I understand the world the way they think kidneys, protein. I heard that for 50 years. I studied that in nutrition even. I studied it when we were learning physiology and all that. Oh, kidneys, it's protein. And they made a big mistake because it's not protein that's hard on the kidneys. It's sugar and anything that turns to sugar rapidly.
It's very hard on your glucose. It's hard on your triglycerides. It's hard on your kidney function because kidneys like your eyeballs, it's all about circulation. It's your blood supply to the kidneys. And when that gets affected and sugar destroys blood vessels. I teach you that, guys, every day, every day, every day. We come back to it. Food, the wrong food destroys your blood vessels. If you destroy your blood vessels, that's what diabetics are. Why are diabetics 50% more likely to have a heart attack? Blood vessels. Damage. Sugar in the wrong parking spot. Sugar does not belong in your blood, guys. You could empty your five liters of blood in your body and you'll be left with less than a teaspoon of sugar. Everything else has to get out working somewhere else because sugar is so toxic to your kidneys, to your blood vessels, to your eyeballs, to your heart. Ask a diabetic. They know. They know.
Okay. Anyway, I have to bring that out because somebody asks. And sometimes I just got to get in there because they think, oh, the reset is bad for them. No, it's not. It's so good for your kidneys. You have no idea how many people that came into my office in my clinic days that had terrible kidney function. They were already starting chronic kidney disease. CKD. And that's determined by your glomular filtration rate. They can measure that. And I said, "Well, let's change your diet. You're eating way too much sugar or crappy carbs. Let's get you off of that. No more drinking any sugary drinks at all, including orange juice or apple juice. Stop it. You can drink coffee and water. You got the memo? It's good for your kidneys. Coffee and water. Not water in your coffee. Coffee and water. Anyho, there we go. I had to comment because I love when you put it up there so we can answer that. When you think of it, guys, all of our shows are Q&A because people ask, now I comment on studies or whatever.
Okay. Here's one. Human brain tissue, okay? I posted this this morning found to contain more microplastics than any other organ. Wow. The brain's not a large organ, is it? It's small. And the highest levels were found in people who had dementia. Microplastics. So what's the teaching? What's the takeaway? You can run, but you can't hide. You can run but you can't hide. What do I mean by that? I don't care where you go on planet earth. If your address ends with planet earth, you're going to be exposed to microplastics. It's everywhere in the water, in the soil, in the food. It's everywhere. It's in the oceans. It's in the lakes. It's in the rivers. It's everywhere. Okay. That's the world that you and I live in. Okay? You live in it and I live in it. "Oh, Dr. Martin, I live in Costa Rica." I don't care. I have only organic. That's all I eat. Well, good for you. But you're still exposed to microplastics. They're everywhere. Mount Everest to the placentas and they're in your brain. So you can run but you can't hide.
But here's the good news. Here's the good news. They don't tell you this in the study. Oh, by the way, they say one of the ways that plastics, microplastics are getting into the brain is when people are eating a lot of ultra processed foods and they say because the way they're heated and the way they're packaged, they contain a lot of microplastics. Well, good thing that you guys know better than to eat that stuff. But here's the point. Let me give you a couple of takeaways. One, your body is fearfully and wonderfully made. "Ecoutez-moi". That's French for listen. That's French for listen, Linda. I'm going to give you a little teaching. Your body knows how to detox even the microplastic. What organs? Your liver, primarily your kidneys too. So that's why I want water. Water flushes. But listen, what empties your liver? One way to measure it if you have a gummed up liver, what's one of the ways of measuring it? Your triglycerides are going to go up. So now we're talking about getting back to what we talked about earlier in the kidneys.
But even your liver, guys, if your liver is full of fat and fat, okay, let me show you. Let me show you. I got to show you this. Okay. I'm showing you fat. Five pounds. I can do weightlifting with this fat. Okay? Found a foot long and six inches thick. But what this is, visceral fat especially, you know what it does? It sucks up. Heavy metals, plastics. That's why in the brain, see, you got fat in your brain. When Dr. Martin calls you a fat head, I'm giving you a compliment. The problem is that fat though attracts, right? It attracts plastics, heavy metals. But your body has a detox. When you get rid of fat in your liver, right? Your liver, it cleans. It's your detox organ, numero uno. And the way your liver works is if you can empty it of fat by lowering your carbohydrates and sugar, high fructose corn syrup turns to fat in the liver. A piece of bread turns to what? Fat in the liver. Why? Because it turns to sugar in your bloodstream, but sugar can't be parked in the bloodstream. What does insulin do? It's the traffic cop. Come here. You can't park there. Out, out, out, out sugar. You can't stay. You're in a no parking zone. Come with me.
It's first place that it wants to send sugar. Glucose is into your muscles. But what if you don't have any room in your muscles? Well, it sends it to the liver as glycogen. Fat. So sugar turns to fat in the liver. That fat attracts heavy metals, microplastics. So what do you do? Empty the liver, empty the Costco parking lot. Change your diet. That's why the reset is so good for you, right? You're emptying your liver. You're lowering your triglycerides because triglycerides is a measurement of the amount of fat in your liver because your liver gets full and it sends the extra fat balls triglycerides into the bloodstream. You can measure it. It's primarily diet related. It's eating way too many carbs and sugars. And the other thing is your HDL goes down. Triglycerides go up, HDL. So you can measure that. That's why I want you to take that blood test. I'm showing you how to interpret it, but let's get back to the liver being empty. If your liver is empty, guess what happens? It gets rid of microplastics. It gets rid of heavy metals. Keep your kidneys functioning properly because your kidneys is another way. Flush, flush, flush. Water. Water. Water.
Okay, now let me give you another one. This is really important. Okay. Really important. The third way and by the way, back to the liver just for a sec. When your liver is empty, you know what it produces? Velcro. What? Velcro. Glutathione. Three amino acids. Glutathione. Your liver produces it and glutathione is a master antioxidant, a master detoxer. It gets rid of garbage. Okay? It detoxes you glutathione, but it only works properly when your liver is empty. Devoid of fat. Okay? You got that? Okay. What's the other way? Probiotics. Proven. Okay. Proven. Especially the strain of L reuteri. R-E-U-T-E-R-I. Lactobacillus. reuteri. I've talked about this in the past. It's why I look, I'm a big guy, guys, when it comes to probiotics. You know that. I've been teaching probiotics for over 40 years when people didn't even know what I've been talking about. Probiotics. Even today, doctors. Leaky gut, that Dr. Martin's a quack. There's no such thing as leaky gut. You die if you had leaky gut. Well, true. You just die of slow death.
But the strain L reuteri. Why do you think we include it in our broad spectrum probiotic? Because different strains do different things. You have parasites, L rhamnosus, L reuteri. You have fungus, L rhamnosus, L reuteri. You have microplastics and everybody does no exceptions. L reuteri is the one that attaches itself. Think about it. It helps your body to detoxify from microplastics. You can run, but you can't hide. You've got to help yourself. You have to help yourself, guys, because you ain't getting away from it. They're finding microplastics in the brain more than anywhere else in the body. Imagine that. And when they look at a dementia patient, they have the highest amount. They got a lot of heavy metal too. They got mercury up there and they got lead. How does it get across the blood-brain barrier? They're transported across, I believe, by yeast, fungus, leaky gut. We're going to talk about probiotics tomorrow again because there's a brand new study on the importance of diversity in probiotics. Diversity. Very, very interesting study. We'll touch on it tomorrow. Okay?
So the takeaways today. What did you take away? Kidneys, kidney function, stay off the sugar. If you do nothing else, cut out sugar. Your kidneys will thank you. That's a takeaway today. It's sugar. Not salt. Not fat. It's sugar. It's toxic. Okay. Keep your liver clean. The takeaway, microplastics, they're ending up in our brains. They're everywhere. My word. What a world we live in. And I don't care if you live in Kalamazoo, Michigan. I don't care where you live. You're going to get it. What do you do? Keep your liver clean. Make sure Niagara Falls is running. Water through the kidneys. Probiotics. Broad spectrum. L reuteri. Okay. That's our teaching for today. I got excited. I love doing our show together.
Nic and I were talking this morning. Nicole's retired. She worked with me for many years and she said, "We got such a family atmosphere here." Okay. "Everybody treats each other like family." Yeah. Isn't it beautiful? I used to tell my patients that, "You're family. You come into this, you show confidence in me, you're part of my family. I'm going to treat you right." And I love our group because even though we can't get together, I wish we could. We get together online and we care for each other and it's wonderful to be part of this group. I'm telling you it's a privilege for me and you guys are smart. That's what I really like. I tell you this, you know more about nutrition than 99.9% of every physician I've ever met and I mean that. Okay. Love you guys. Talk to you soon.
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