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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone. And once again, welcome to another live this morning and nice to have you come on with us if you can. And we always enjoy saying hello to ya, big time. Okay. Probiotics. So this is a study on your gut and they're talking that when they analyze the microbiome of people that have chronic autoimmune diseases especially. It's not only autoimmune but mostly autoimmune, which I really like because I've said this in the past. It's just confirming what we hear on the Doctor Is In Podcast have been seeing for years and you guys know this, the importance of the microbiome. Medicine, it's probably the most fascinating field in medicine right now. I mean, there's different things going on, but this is the most fascinating.
And here's the study. Here's what it said. Most microbiomes have been decided before you walk. I kind of like that because what they're saying is this, okay? To be healthy, the most important things in your microbiome is diversity of bacteria. I always said it was like the movie, good, bad, and ugly. Okay. You got good bacteria, you got bad bacteria and you got ugly. And ugly is when your microbiome is overwhelmed with yeast, fungus. So what they're saying is most people, unfortunately today, their microbiome has been carpet bombed. Now they didn't use that word. I'm using that word. The microbiome when you're a child, if it's carpet bombed can affect you and it doesn't show up right away, guys. It might. In a sense I was looking at a little baby the other day, three months old, I believe. Bad skin. It wasn't difficult for me to make a diagnosis. Okay. Eczema, whatever. But why?
And again, nobody asked me my opinion and I didn't give it by the way. I was just thinking it. I know what's wrong with that little baby. It's got leaky gut. Its microbiome has been carpet bombed. Okay? When? Now go back now. You're going back into the 80s. Some of you were not born. You go back into the 80s in chronic fatigue syndrome. They now call it myalgic encephalitis ME because of the swelling of the brain, very similar to what you see in MS. Okay. But what did I write about way back when? I was looking at this the other day. My thesis, I published it into this. See the guy up here? See the guy back here? Who is that? He's unrecognizable. That's me. That's how old this book is. Chronic fatigue syndrome. Okay? And here's the original thesis. And what did I talk about there? Adrenal gland exhaustion. But one of the common denominators was a condition called leaky gut. Imagine talking about that in those days and what my whole thesis was about was history. Okay?
So, we did history of over 500 volunteers, patients who agreed to get into this study. And guys, I always tell people, look, I'm not a researcher. Okay? That's really not what I do. Researchers do a lot of lab work. I was a clinician. I had real people with real problems. So my experience was clinical. To me, that is the best kind because it's reality. It's not thesis. So my reality, even though it was in my thesis, was people who... And these people folks, by the way, were diagnosed not by me, but by physicians, their physicians or others with chronic fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia. And in those days you'd call it Epstein-Barr. That was another name given to it, the yuppy flu. I remember those names in the 80s, mostly women. But the point I'm trying to make is even back then I was talking about the connection between your gut and your health.
Like you have to understand, and even today it's a lot like this. People talk about gut and they talk about symptoms. IBS, bloating, constipation, diarrhea, ulcerative colitis, diverticulitis or diverticulosis, Crohn's disease. They talk about symptoms, but leaky gut, you can have absolutely zero digestive symptoms. You might have bloating, but you might not. But that doesn't mean you don't have leaky gut. And what I liked about this study, they were saying in the study, what happens when you're a child before you can even walk has a big effect on your microbiome. It sort of becomes part of your DNA and things show up later in life. Don't necessarily show up as kids. Like I said, I was looking at that child the other day, bad skin and I knew right away that that child had leaky gut. I knew it right away.
But the importance they're saying in this study is the importance of the microbiome and diversity, meaning different strains of bacteria do different things, but what if they get carpet bombed? What do you mean by that, doc? Well, I tell you five days of an antibiotic will wipe out all your good bacteria. It kills your bad, but it kills the good too and you don't want that. It's one of the double-edged swords of antibiotics. What did I say about antibiotics? People that have been following me for 30 years now. What have I said about antibiotics? The greatest discovery of the 20th century has become the curse of the 21st. Why? It's hidden. It carpet bombs. There's the number one reason that microbiome, your gut, where most of your bacteria is, it's not all of your bacteria because bacteria is everywhere, but it gets carpet bombed in the gut and that leads to problems down the road and especially autoimmune.
Why today? Okay, just here's a why question for you. Why is there so much allergies today? Allergies have been around forever. How do I know that? Well, your body produces mast cells, MAST. White blood cells. They release histamine. Well, that's been going on guys forever. But why is there so much like i.e. Example. When I was a kid, you could go to school and I often did with peanut butter sandwiches. You remember that? Today they don't want you to bring peanut butter to school. Is it the peanut butter that's changed or is it us? Is it kids? What happened? Oh, it's the peanut butter. Nah, it's not the peanut butter. It's kids. It's their microbiome. It's autoimmune. The body recognizes something that should be normal for it and sees it as an invader. Why would that happen? Carpet bombing. I am 100% convinced of it. Carpet bombing of the microbiome.
And getting back to chronic fatigue, that's what I was talking about then. It was one of the factors even in the adrenal glands becoming exhausted. Leaky gut. The body was constantly over-aggressive in fighting viruses bacteria and antigens that should have been normal to the body. It was part of what we saw in the office and that was almost without exception, people that got this chronic fatigue. And remember, I give you something close to home. Okay? Rosie. My wife, 53 years. There's a special place in heaven for that girl. She's had to live with me. But she was in better shape than me. We'd go running together in the morning. I'm not kidding you. Before office. Okay. My wife is a registered nurse. She ran my office. She was the boss. I learned that on the first day I got married. Who's the boss? That little Italian girl, she's the boss. And we go running together. I go three miles. My wife wanted to go five. Okay. Five.
And I'm not kidding you. It was almost like overnight. She started being very unwell. Very unwell. And that wasn't like her. Four kids. You wanted something done, give it to my wife. Okay that was her story. And she developed all these allergies and was very, very unwell. Hospitalized oxygen down to nothing. I mean, nothing, but I mean needed oxygen. Bad. Okay. That was Rosie. And I'm a why guy. I'm a why guy. I want to know why. Like doctors wanted to treat her with antihistamines, prednisone, you name it. But I'm a why guy and I want to know how come my wife who was in better shape than I was, why is she so unwell? Okay. Rosie's history. Okay. People don't know this, but I mean her kids know this. Rosie had cancer when she was eight years old. Kidney cancer, lost the kidney, was put on antibiotics in those days for eight years till she was 16. Every day had to take an antibiotic.
In those days, they weren't thinking about the microbiome. It was just the way it was. And she's eight years old when she gets cancer and should have died. Had so much sepsis in her. Anyway, antibiotics saved her life. Not only taking the cancer out, the kidney was gone, but antibiotic saved her life 100%. Problem was it carpet bombed her microbiome and it wasn't digestive issues. It was autoimmune. Her body turned on itself. The doctors were scratching their heads and she was hypersensitive now to mold, to fungus. She had a major fungal infection. Nobody told her, but we saw it. Anyway, guys, I'm a why guy. I talked about this back in the '80s. Antibiotics are wonderful. They're beautiful. They are lifesaving. The greatest advancement, in my opinion, in medicine beats the discovery of insulin antibiotics.
But holy smokes, guys. These babies today give an antibiotic. They got an ear infection. They got a throat infection. And doctors, they're still prescribing antibiotics even if the vast majority of those are viral infections. They're not bacterial. They're viral and they're not replacing the bacteria that is wiped out carpet bombed. Okay. Carpet bombed. Now it's not only antibiotics. I've talked to you guys in the past about C-sections. Again, I'm sure has saved thousands of women's lives and babies, but there's a big but to it. And don't take my word for it. The American Pediatric Association and Canadian ones have told physicians, "Cut it out." And I don't mean C-section. They said, "We want you to really slow down the amount of C-sections that are taking place instead of the baby going through natural childbirth." Isn't it amazing that today we know so much more than we used to. Okay? It's like formula.
Listen, when I was a little kid, thank God my mom didn't listen. Formula in the 50s, in the 60s, in the 70s formula. Oh, it's enriched. It's vitaminized. It's better than mommy's milk. Says who? Was it better than mommy's milk? Now there's not even a discussion about it. No one, no one I think on the planet would say, "Well, that's a better option than mommy's breast milk." Right? Anybody? So antibiotics, well, wonderful. Yeah. Overused big time. Big time. And remember, I've told you guys this one too, right? Well, we talked about this strain yesterday. Lactobacillus reuteri. What'd I tell you yesterday? Well, that particular strain is so good for you. Why? Well, it will take away toxins like heavy metal and microplastics and it is so important for your immune system. A little bug that you couldn't see without a microscope is called lactobacillus reuteri. I've been talking about that little bug for a long time.
Diversity. When you take an antibiotic, you wipe out the reuteri. You better replace it. That's why I always talk about probiotics. You renew, you replenish, you regenerate your gut. You have to if you take antibiotics. It's not the only thing that strips away that bacteria. C-sections. The baby doesn't go through mommy's canal and get all that bacteria in their face and goes up into their sinuses and it's so good for the baby. Hyper sterilized environment. People walk around with sprays, hand sanitizers. They clean and they overclean and then they wear a mask. I get a migraine when I see someone with a mask on. The only mask you should be wearing is one around your eyes when you sleep. And you should take a mask when you take vitamin A in a steak. Eggs, meat and cheese give you vitamin A. That's a mask. It's invisible around your mouth, your nose and your eyes, because that's where viruses come in and bacteria. I get headaches, guys. I get a migraine. When people want to wipe away carpet bomb the gut and the bacteria in the body.
So that was what my thesis was about. Part of it and how the body overreacts. Think of your history. You don't know how many people. I mean thousands and tens of thousands of patients over the years. Give me your history. Were you on antibiotics as a child? Yeah, I think so. I said, "Well, now you got problems. It's come back to bite you. It's come back to bite you." You look at autoimmune. In my opinion, there's not one autoimmune disorder including thyroid, Hashimoto's or Graves of the thyroid. I'm telling you it starts in the gut. It doesn't start in the thyroid. Rheumatoid arthritis. It doesn't start in the joints. MS doesn't start in the brain. Crohn's. Well, it does start in the gut, but it starts in the microbiome before that. Anyway, probiotics, diversity. That's what you want. Different strains of bacteria are on your side. They're the good guys and you've constantly got to replace them.
We live in a world that is toxic, guys. We live in a toxic soup. You're not going to get away. Like I said yesterday, you can run but you can't hide. You're going to be exposed to it. If you do everything organic and you live on a farm and you do everything wonderful, good for you. I mean it. But the vast majority of people and even if you live out on the farm and you live on your own and you got everything's organic, you're still exposed to the toxic soup. Take care of the inside. Work your health inside out. Start inside your body. And the best place to start is getting your bacteria. Your good guys. Regenerated, renewed and replenished. Regenerate. It makes a huge difference, guys.
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