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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone and once again, welcome to another live this morning. Nice to have you on. We love when you can come on and say hello to us when you're on live with us in the morning. Always a lot of fun. So guys, thanks for coming on. We love you. We got a couple of more studies that I want to look at. Listen to this, okay? Fruit intake at night. I love fruit, okay? So anybody that says, "Well, Dr. Martin, don't like fruits and vegetables." Not for 30 days. When you do the reset, I got a big reason to cut out your fruits and vegetables for 30 days because I am working 100% to get you out of metabolic syndrome to empty your liver. No more insulin resistance. It fixes it. Okay? So there's a reason for my madness because people then accuse me while you're a carnivore or whatever. No, no, no, no. I like fruit. Okay? I just don't want you to live on it. I don't want you to live on it, but listen to this study, okay? Fruit intake at night elevates liver enzyme.
Now remember guys, okay we've talked about this a lot. Fructose compared to glucose, they're two different puppies. They're two different puppies. Fructose, heads to the liver quickly. Okay? Now it's one of the reasons that we talk about on this program all the time. Don't drink fruit. Now you can have Dr. Martin's perfect smoothie with a few berries in it. Okay? You can do that because that's good for you, but don't drink orange juice or apple juice or whatever. Don't drink that stuff. Okay? But they're saying even eating fruit at night, not during the day, at night elevates liver enzymes. Now here's where we have a problem in our society. Okay? Here's where we have a problem in our society. Fatty liver.The most recent national disaster, and when I say national, I mean Canadian and America. They're disasters and that is fatty liver. One out of three North Americans have fatty liver. And you know what the problem is with fatty liver besides that? You don't even know.
Doctors today still have trouble testing for fatty liver. And the reason is, unless their liver enzymes are elevated, they don't look for it. They don't take it as seriously as they should because fatty liver is a catastrophe waiting to happen. Not only does it advance from fatty liver to cirrhosis of the liver, but fatty liver has a major effect on heart disease. What is one of the things that we say on this program all the time? What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. What happens in your liver doesn't stay there. Your liver, you can't get physicians. For example, they think of heart disease still today it's cholesterol. I'm going to talk about this in a minute because there was an article that I read and I want to bring it up today. If we get time, we'll hit it. Now back to the liver.
When your liver is full of fat, your body's reaction to that is to send your triglycerides, fat balls, skyrocketing. So when you get your lipid profile done, when you get your blood work done, you know what I counsel is have a look at your triglycerides and have a look at your cholesterol, your HDL. Have a look at that. That ratio is the most significant ratio for heart disease. Is the ratio between your triglycerides and your HDL and it's a teeter totter. If you have high triglycerides, generally almost without exception, you will have low HDL cholesterol. Why is that significant for your heart? Because they're fat balls. Triglycerides are fat balls in your blood vessels. You're going to have triglycerides floating around in your blood vessels as long as they're not high. Who cares? But when you have high triglycerides, and that is due to your diet and it's not cholesterol. As a matter of fact, you want your HDL cholesterol to be high.
This study is saying not only is there one third of North Americans have fatty liver. If they have fatty liver, they got high triglycerides and low HDL almost invariably. That makes it very hard on the heart because those fat balls triglycerides are clogging up your arteries. And then you got sugar destroying your blood vessels. Ask a diabetic. So fatty liver does not stay in the liver. It's the Costco parking lot. And what this study is saying, don't eat fruit at night. You're going to eat fruit? Eat it during the day because that fructose is going to go to your liver. For example, a bear. Okay? A bear. I don't know about you guys, but we got bears here in Northern Ontario. Okay? We got bears and it won't be long in a couple of weeks from now. The blueberries are out. What do bears love? They love blueberries. You know why? They fatten up on blueberries. They eat up to 30,000 blueberries a day getting ready for winter hibernation. They really fatten up. And guess where the fat goes? Liver.
And then their body makes a lot more fat. Packs it, packs it, packs it so they can sleep for several months during the winter. Well, you're not a bear. You're not meant to eat. Do you think I don't love blueberries? I love blueberries. They are so good for you. Wild blueberries are one of the best fruits that you could ever eat, but you don't eat 30,000 of them. And the studies that don't eat them at night because they elevate your liver enzymes at night. Okay? So if you want to put a few blueberries in Dr. Martin's perfect smoothie, then go for it. Somebody asked me the other day, okay, how do you get rid of fatty liver? Well, lay off high fructose corn syrup because that's the sugar that they use in soda, in crackers, in pretzels. Any sugar that's added, including peanut butter when they add it is usually a high fructose corn syrup. It's cheap. It's addictive. It goes right to your liver.
Why do you think, guys? Think about this for a minute. Look at our world today. Look at the amount of obesity today. Look at the amount of heart disease that we have today. Worse than ever because they lied to us and the food industry invented a sugar. They invented it from corn syrup that goes to your liver and elevates your triglycerides and lowers your HDL and is very hard on your heart. Nevermind what it does to your brain and Alzheimer's. So you want to fix fatty liver. Do the reset for 30 days. Is it going to be easy? No. Every day I read comments on people that are doing the reset every day. "Dr. Martin, I didn't think it would be that hard." Well, it's hard if you're a carboholic. My name is Tony and I'm a carboholic and 93% of the population could put their hand up and say that. I always laugh at vegetarians and vegans. I do. I don't mean to laugh at them, but they're not laughing with me. They usually don't have a sense of humor because they're mad all the time. They're mad at people that eat meat. Anyway, I said, "You're a carboholic. You're not living on plants. It's all the grains that you're eating too and all the bread and the noodles and the pasta. You're a carboholic." "Yeah, but I don't eat meat." Well, good for you. As if that's helping you. I don't eat anything with eyeballs. Well, so what. That don't make you a genius.
Anyhoo. Anyhoo. How do you fix fatty liver? How do you fix it? One, do the reset. It's meant for that. It's meant to lower your triglyceride and elevate your HDL. Do the reset. It works. It's amazing. Walk after meals. It helps. Get your legs strong. Don't drink fruit juices. Lay off the fruit juices. If you're going to have some fruit, have it during the day and don't live on it. Drink coffee. Yeah. You tea totalers out there. Drink coffee. Coffee's good for your liver. It helps to empty your liver. How do you like that? It lowers fibrosis in the liver. Coffee. Don't put sugar in it. And there's a link between your liver and your gut. That's why I like probiotics. There you go. Okay. One of the three adults have fatty liver. Fruit intake at night elevates liver enzymes. It's a good time to have your fruit have it during the day. Okay?
Here's another one. In case you didn't get the memo about sugar, high sugar intake predicts dementia risk in older adults. I always say this. If I could get into senior homes, you guys know this if you've been following me for any length of time. Okay. If I could get into every senior home, you know two vitamins I'd bring with me, vitamin D and B12. Okay because they're always low. They're always low. They're low in vitamin D and they're low in B12 and no one cares about that. They should, but they don't. The only thing they care about is you could be toxic in vitamin D says mainstream medicine that don't know what they're talking about because they never seen a case of it. The science is settled on vitamin D. No, it's never settled. But you know what they're saying? This study I looked at in my radio day because they did a study to see if you could develop kidney stones with vitamin D, just taking the supplement of vitamin D without K2, by the way. 50,000. Okay. Here's the study they did. They gave people 50,000 IUs a day every day for six months. You know what? They didn't even get kidney stone.
So when I hear vitamin D is toxic, no it's nonsense, but they scare the living life out of people and people are scared skinny. They're scared skinny of the sun and they're scared skinny of vitamin D in a supplement. You better not take more than a thousand iUs. You might get toxic. You'll end up in the emergency room. Never happened. It's so silly. Anyway, I'm not telling you to take 50,000 IUs a day either. And don't take vitamin D as a supplement without K2. Okay? High sugar intake. I don't know how did I get on vitamin D and high sugar intake. High sugar intake predicts dementia risk in older adults. Oh yeah. I went to the senior homes with vitamin D and 12, but the amount of sugar they eat. Remember guys Alzheimer's? Okay. What do we know? They won a Nobel Prize in 2005. What did they say? Alzheimer's is type three diabetes. Alzheimer's is type three diabetes. Higher sugar intake predicts dementia risk in older adults.
Okay, let me do this one. High blood pressure. Might as well stick to heart disease, although we just talked about Alzheimer's, but they're connected. Here's what this most recent study on high blood pressure. How many millions and millions and millions of people are on high blood pressure medication? And guys, this is just a fact, so don't come after me, okay? Because I don't want you to have high blood pressure either. Okay? But I'm just saying they move the goalposts. You got to remember, I've been around a long time. I've been around the sun a lot of years. Okay? So I watched this happen. I watched the goalposts get changed. I watched it for cholesterol so they could sell more medication. I've really watched it for blood pressure. It's the 120 / 80. The 120 / 80 diastolic and systolic. And at one time when I was in school in the 70s, like 120 over 80 was always ideal.
Every time I think of blood pressure, I got to think of a guy in our class. We had to go up to the front and take someone's blood pressure and then go up in the board and mark it. And there was this guy in our, he was one of the funniest guys, but he forgot to put the stethoscope in his ears. He had it around his neck. He didn't even realize that we're dying because he takes the cuff and he's pumping it up. And then he put the monitor in the cuff just below the cuff there. And then he goes right on the board 120 over 80. He forgot the stethoscope in his ears. We were on the ground and he didn't understand why we were laughing at him. Anyway, back to my school days, okay? They would never put you on medications. If you were at 140 over 90, for example, you would take no meds. They considered that still within normal range. Then they went to 130, then they went to 120. Who moved the goalpost? The pharmaceutical industry. They want everybody and their dog on blood pressure medication. Look, like I said, I don't want you to have high blood pressure, but what did they blame for that mostly? Salt. Here's a med plus we got to lower your salt intake.
Another study and there's hundreds of these, but this is brand new, hot off the press. This is from a new meta analysis. Meta analysis are the best studies because they look at all the studies. Here's their conclusion. Most treatable downstream effects of high blood pressure is insulin resistance according to the study. The best thing you can do for high blood pressure is get your insulin down. How do you get your insulin down? You lower your carbohydrates, especially sugar. Here we go again. Here we go again. Do you know how many tens of thousands of people who did the reset found their blood pressure to come back to normal? Tens of thousands. Remember again, guys, I've been around a long time. And before I've ever published the book on metabolic syndrome, I did the reset in my office for tens of thousands of patients. If you walked, you were put on the reset if you came to see me.
Just about 99% of the patients that came to see me left the office with a plan to lower their insulin, to lower their insulin, to lower their insulin, because I said, "It's going to help." And I draw them a line. I said, "It's going to help with heart disease." Number one, killer. "It's going to help you to prevent cancer. Number two." And then I put another line. I said, "it's going to help with preventing Alzheimer's. Number three." And then I put another line, "It's going to help you never to become a diabetic. And if you are a diabetic, it's going to help you right away. Four." And then I put another line, I said, "It's going to help if you have autoimmune disease." So I said, "If you're in any of those categories," nevermind obesity, never mind fatty liver, nevermind any of those things. "This will help you."
Look what the study is saying. They're finally catching up. The most treatable downstream effect of low carb. I didn't say no carb. Low carb. Is it lowers your insulin resistance and it lowers your blood pressure. How do you like that? It lowers your diastolic and systolic blood pressure more than salt. You should have heard me screaming, guys, years ago on my radio show about low salt diets. I said, "You're punishing yourself." Salt ain't causing high blood pressure. It's sugar and when you eat a lot of sugar, your kidneys hold on to salt. It's not the salt. It's the sugar. And I feel sorry for all these seniors. They don't know any better. The doctor doesn't know one iota about nutrition. Anyway, can you believe it? Yeah. Can you believe it?
Okay. Let me see. Okay. I got a couple of more studies, but we'll leave it at that. Okay, guys. I'm sweating. No, we had fun, didn't we? You guys are wonderful. Okay. You know what Friday is? Get your questions in. Okay? Get your questions. Send them to info@martinclinic.com and Friday we'll handle it. The last two weeks we've handled the questions on Friday. Didn't have to go to Monday. But guys, whatever. If you ask, I will answer your questions. We love that. It's always popular on Fridays, okay? Okay. I promise not to get excited ever again. If you believe that, I got swamp land for you in Florida. Okay. We love you dearly. Talk to you soon.
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