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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning, everyone. Once again, welcome to another live this morning. Nice to be on with you and the Doctor is in podcast. And it's nice to have you join us when you can do it live.
Of course, we understand that folks will be listening to this at a later time. And that's fine. Yep. And if you can be on with this live, of course we love that.
But we got to get going. Okay. You know why guys we got to get going? Because here it is.
I'm still on Q&A Friday. Because I've been going slow. I've taken a lot of detours. Well, we got some questions.
We'll finish up today. Okay. I'm just about promising you. I think we can get it all done today.
Okay. So where am I starting? Iris is asking about the gallbladder in general. Okay.
Are you ready guys? You ready for some little teaching on gallbladder? Okay. Why do so many, especially women, especially women, why do they have so much trouble with their gallbladder?
Okay. Now close your books. Remember when you were in the classroom and the teacher said, close your books. Oh, see me.
I was a crammer. Meaning if I knew a test was coming and I had 24 hours, I could cram like nobody else could cram. I was a crammer. But what I didn't like is when the teacher said, this is a surprise test.
Close your books. Oh, I didn't get a chance to cram. Okay. So I'm getting you guys to close your books.
And I'm asking you questions. Why do women have more trouble with their gallbladder than men? Okay. I'm waiting.
Janice, you got it. Chicken and saline. Right. Bruno, you got it.
They don't eat fat. Okay. And Wendy, you got it. Okay.
Anybody else want to answer there? Chicken and salad. If you don't use it, you'll lose it. Sherry and Sandy and Judy.
You girls are so stinkin' smart. Margaret, you got it. Derek, you got it. Nativity, silly.
Okay. And Simone. Okay. Not enough saturated fat.
You guys are too stinkin' smart. Okay. I can't even fool you. I can't even fool you.
I'm not mad at you. I'm just telling you, I can't fool this audience. You're too stinkin' smart. Salad, salad, salad.
Women and their saline. Okay. Somebody asked me one time, Dr. Martin, why do you change your facial expression?
When it comes to women. Salad. Chicken and salad. Because I heard it in my office a million times.
I like chicken and salad. I said, that's the problem. You like chicken and salad. Okay.
Your gallbladder, it don't like chicken and salad. Your gallbladder is a reservoir for bile. Bile is needed to break down fat. It emulsifies.
It's like dish soap. Okay. You ever seen dish soap? Of course you have.
What does it do? Well, it's a degreaser. And that's what your gallbladder is a reservoir. Now remember, it doesn't produce bile.
It's a little pouch. Bile is produced in your liver. Okay. And then when you eat fat, the gallbladder pours bile into the small intestine.
Okay. Got it? Yeah. To absorb that fat.
Right? You need fat. And fat don't make you fat. Steak.
Hamburger. If you can get it with some fat on it today. Bacon. Your body is made for that.
It's made to eat that. And when you don't eat it, you lose it. That's reason number one. Reason number two that women lose their gallbladder.
It happens a lot because they have a deficiency in progesterone. When the progesterone is low, progestation. Progesterone. Pro-baby.
Women often lose their gallbladder. One, because they eat chicken and salad. And number two, because they have low progesterone, especially after having a baby. Okay.
All the progesterone is left in the placenta. Progesterone. What's that got to do with anything? Because progesterone is very much needed in smooth muscle for a woman.
The gallbladder is a smooth muscle. So is your bladder. That's why a lot of women get recurring bladder infections. Because they're low in progesterone.
Okay. That's, you want to talk about gallbladder? You either use it or you lose it. And women, they've been lied to because they've been eating low fat for the last 40 years.
And I was John the Baptist in the wilderness, and I was a woman. And I would go to the wilderness. Hello, don't listen to this stupidity. Low fat isn't good for you.
That was me. And listen, I had a radio show. I had shows in Windsor, Ottawa, Northern Ontario, I had a lot of radio, but a lot of women never got my memo to eat fat. Okay?
And when you don't, you develop gallbladder sludge. And when sludge sits there for a prolonged period of time, it's going to turn into stones. That's why. That's why.
Okay? When you talk about gallbladder, that's why. Your gallbladder is very important. Now, if you don't have a gallbladder, okay, a lot of people don't.
A lot of women don't even have a gallbladder anymore. You've probably got some digestive issues. You need to be on digestive enzymes, and you should with every meal. Okay?
To help break down the protein and the fat. Okay? And some people, they might have to lower their amount of fat just because they don't have a gallbladder. Now, look at your liver is still producing bile, but you got to figure that out yourself.
Be your own doctor. You know what? I just can't have that much fat. So is Dr.
Martin allowing you to eat chicken? Yes, you can have chicken. It's meat. It's meat.
It's not the best meat, but it's meat. Okay? And you need meat. Okay.
Who was asking? That was Iris. Thank you, Iris. Here, I get going again.
You see? Okay, Deb. Debbie's asking. She's been EMC, H-Meat and Cheese Lifestyle, since 2019.
You're a smart girl, Debbie. Okay? Of course my cholesterol levels are high. Well, first of all, who cares?
You want them high, right? You know that. I know that. Your doctor doesn't know that, but I'm sorry.
Your doctor doesn't know too much about cholesterol because they've been lied to and they don't read. And so they're stuck. It's like, Debbie, you go to the mall because I've seen it in the mall. And a guy walks by.
He's got bell bottoms on. Do you know what bell bottoms are? And he's got long sideburns because he thinks he's Elvis. Elvis died in 1976.
Or I can't remember what year it was. 1977. But people are still living in the 70s. Okay?
So doctors are living in the 70s. And all they can think of is cholesterol as being a boogeyman, a bad guy. So they look at blood work a lot different than they should because I would ask you, Debbie, what is your triglycerides? What is your HDL cholesterol?
Because that's what I look at. I want to look at that ratio. And there's another ratio now that's starting to pick up a lot of traction. And I really like it.
It is your triglyceride glucose. So you can put your triglycerides, fat balls with sugar, your glucose levels, or your A1C. That ratio. What is that like?
You've got low A1C. Good for you. Okay? But don't, you know, you're saying to me, Debbie, you want to be able to go talk to your doctor.
I used to tell my patients, please don't tell them. Don't tell your doctor about Dr. Martin. Okay?
I'm controversial. Look, I had lots of doctors that liked me. I did. Okay?
Because they were reading. And they said, you know what, I don't know anything about nutrition. Go talk to Dr. Martin.
You know what, I appreciated that. But I had patients that wanted to go tell their doctor off. I said, don't do that so much. Be nice.
It's their training. They don't know any better. You're not going to convince most doctors. Okay?
Because that's all they know. And they think heart attacks come from cholesterol, and they don't. But what are you going to do? Okay?
You know, I said this to someone the other day. When people don't listen to me, I don't talk. Okay? Listen, Linda.
Listen. When they don't listen, I don't talk to them. You asked my girls a word for me. My stop.
Dr. Martin, like you didn't talk to that patient too long about their diet. I said, they weren't listening. Their eyes were glazed over when I tried to tell them to go low carb.
When I tried to tell them to cut out their sugar, they weren't listening. Well, why am I going to spend all my time trying to convince them when they're not listening? I was nice. I was nice to them.
But when they weren't listening, you know, what do you want me to do? I'm not going to convince everyone. I understand that. You look at every one of the books I've written.
Well, what I got, I'm over 25 books that I've written now. I never aim for doctors. You know, somebody said again the other day, well, Dr. Martin, where's all your references?
I said, I didn't write my books for doctors. I wrote them for laypeople so they can understand. I'm not trying to convince medicine. I'm not going to knock my head against a wall, you know, when they're not listening.
And the odd one that listens, they love my books because I talk to them in easy to understand language. It's what I do here on this program. You guys know that. I'm not trying to win doctors to my side.
I really am not. I'm not trying to convince medicine to change. Good luck with that. If I would have waited to get approval to practice from medicine, I would have never practiced.
I wasn't trying to impress them. They weren't listening. They think they know it all. They get their training, and Dr.
Martin's a quack. Why are you listening to that guy? He said about 10,000 doctors over the years about me. Hey, in all due respect, you got a medical degree.
I respect that. But don't tell me you know nutrition because you didn't learn even five seconds of it in medical school. I'm not saying there's no doctors that don't know anything about nutrition. Of course there are, but they're in the minority.
There you go, Debbie. And then she says, my B12 is high. Good. It's high.
That's what you want. My vitamin D is high. Well, I'm not worried about that, but you can stop taking it if your numbers are, what did you say, you're over 400. And you know, over 200 is toxic.
That's nonsense, Debbie. I've been around for a long time taking vitamin D for a long time. And you know what? It's over 200 is toxic.
No, it's over 200. You're actually in good shape. In Canada, you want it over 200. That's when your immune system works the best.
But if you're over, what are you saying, over 400, you know what? Just get vitamin D from the sun. But if you're over 400, then you're over 200. You're over 200.
You might have another issue going on, Debbie. Okay. I don't know. Thank you very much.
And again, is there a good response? There is a good response, but I'm saying, I don't know if they're going to listen. Okay. That's your doctor.
Ann has been battling a pseudomonas. You know what those are? Those are very resistant bacterial infections, like very similar to C. difficile.
You know where you get C. difficile in pseudomonas? I don't even know if that's how you say it. That bacteria, you know where you get it?
You get it in the hospital. You know where the most dangerous place in the world is? Not Afghanistan, not even Iran. That's not the most dangerous place to be.
The most dangerous place to be is in the hospital. Okay. And why do you get like a C. difficile?
Okay. Or let me read it because I can't say it. Pseudomonas, which is a highly resistant bacterial infection. Why do you get that in a hospital?
Okay. I'm going to give you three reasons. What? The overuse of antibiotics.
The overuse of antibiotics. Right? You're in a hospital. They use a lot of antibiotics.
They overuse them. And you know what? Bacteria have an intelligence. They really do.
They have an intelligence. They develop a resistance to the antibiotics, especially when they're overused. Number one. Okay.
They develop a resistance. C. difficile. Very resistant to antibiotics.
And that's where you pick it up in the hospital. Number two, immune system. You're in the hospital. Right?
Your immune system is down. You know, your immune system's not firing on all cylinders. And in the hospital, they don't worry so much about your immune system. In their minds, they've got bigger fish to fry.
So in the hospital, they're not giving you vitamin D. They should. They're not giving you vitamin A. They should.
Right? They're not giving you probiotics. They should. But they don't.
And then they give you garbage to eat. Have you ever gone into the hospital and see what they feed people in the hospital? Nothing but garbage. It's all carbs.
Mostly. Just rotten food. Now, that's my experience when I go and visit someone in the hospital. I said, oh my, look what they're feeding you.
They give you sugar. You know, I know. Okay. Reason number three.
They over clean in the hospital. Now, you guys might think that sounds crazy, but one of the biggest problems is we over clean. And what we clean with strips away all the good guys with the bad guys. Remember, there's a war going on, guys.
Not only inside your body, but even in the atmosphere. You know what, guys? If you knew how much bacteria you're surrounded with every day, you probably wouldn't get out of bed. Until you understand it's part of the ecosystem.
The world has gotten a lot of good bacteria. You're surrounded by bacteria. If you have a good immune system, who cares? What happened?
You leave public health, take over the world, and they would have put us during COVID if they could have. They would have put us in concentration camps because of a bug. They're so terrifying. If you left it to people, they'd still be putting masks on.
They'd be still social distancing at six feet. I never heard so much stupidity of that. My life, guys. I was stupid.
And nobody talked about get out in the sun. And that's what they should do in the hospital. They should put them out in the sun for their immune system. I'm getting excited again.
Okay. And Anne wanted to know besides that, she's got trouble with her stomach because she's been on lots of antibiotics and nothing has helped. You got to do it all for your stomach. Don't eat any sugar.
You're on probiotics every day. You should be on digestive enzymes every day. You should be on bone broth every day, Anne, because you got a bad gut. Okay?
Do it all. Jovana. Jovana's trying to convince me to drink. She wants to drink tea because she can't drink coffee.
Look, tea has oxalates. Okay? Why would you drink tea when you can drink coffee? That's my motto.
She has an allergy to coffee beans. Well, you know what, Jovana? I love you, but you're weird. No, my wife said, don't say that.
Say unique. Okay, Jovana, you're unique. Okay. You got an allergy to coffee bean?
I feel sorry for you. You want to have a cup of tea? Have a cup of tea. You don't have lots of it because they are full of oxalates.
Okay? And oxalates can give you kidney stones, and oxalates ends up on breast tissue and is a big part of cancer. And women who love their saline eat a lot of oxalates, and they don't know it, that nobody's told them. Okay, but you can have a cup of tea.
Just don't have five of them. How's that? Jovana, I feel sorry for you. You can't have the coffee?
It's the greatest supplement around. Debbie, her CRP is high, 29.6. My word. What would be causing that?
Well, I mean, if I saw that, Debbie, but first of all, what's the rest of your blood work like? Okay, because that's important. Everything else good? Okay.
Do you have an injury? That elevate your CRP, a C-reactive protein. Okay, it's an inflammatory marker. It's a marker for inflammation.
Yours might be silent. Deb, why? Well, infection, autoimmune, injury, right? Or you're big, big, big on omega-6, but I don't think you would be that high.
Something's not right, Deb. Give me more information. Info at martinclinic.com. Fill me in on your history because that's a high number for CRP, but I always compare that again to other biomarkers too, right?
Everything else in good shape? I need to know that. Jim wants to know how to elevate his testosterone naturally. Vitamin D.
Vitamin D. Sun, steak, and steel, and sleep elevate testosterone, Jim. The sun elevates testosterone. Steak elevates testosterone.
Steel, okay, don't go steal anything. Lift, lift, get stronger, elevates testosterone. Sleep elevates testosterone. It's right in the book.
Sun, steak, steel, and sleep, okay? That's the best. That's the way to do it. Okay?
Thanks for the question. Oh, he said, what do I think about pine pollen? I don't know. I'll tell you what's better than pine pollen is pine bark extract.
A hundred times more powerful than pine pollen. Nancy, blood work, thyroid. Well, Nancy, okay, very important when it comes to your thyroid. Very important.
Listen up. Symptoms on the thyroid are always, always, trouble. Blood work. Look, I look at thyroid blood work.
I have for 50 years. The TSH has been around since the 1970s. They invented a test called thyroid stimulating hormone test. Your TSA, okay?
I look at it, but I never look at it without knowing what symptoms are there. What are your symptoms? You never got to see me in my office unless you filled out a questionnaire on your thyroid. Because I wanted to know.
I'm losing my hair, doc. My eyebrows are thinning out. I look at food sideways and I gain weight. Okay?
My skin is dry. You got a thyroid problem. Oh, yeah, but my doctor says, I don't care what your doctor says. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it's a duck.
So, how you feeling? Nancy, how you feeling? I look at blood work. I don't dismiss it, but I want symptoms.
Okay? I want symptoms. That's really important. Because the thyroid, like I teach you guys all the time, is like a puppet.
It's like a puppet. It's got a lot of strings attached to it. From your ovaries, ladies, to your gut, ladies, to your liver, ladies, to your insulin, ladies, okay? Even your brain, ladies.
A lot of things affect the thyroid. You have to know that. Are you estrogen dominant? You got more estrogen than progesterone.
I missed an organ or two. Could you get two of them? Your adrenals affect your thyroid. Your cortisol, your stress hormone, that affects your thyroid big time.
So, you've got to put all of that in the equation. Okay? That's the way I look at the thyroid. I never look at it when someone says, oh, I got a thyroid problem.
Yeah, but you might have a lot more than that. The thyroid doesn't act independently in your body. It's sort of the orchestra leader of your metabolism. Because somebody's asking, who asked this?
Dr. Martin, can you talk about speeding up your metabolism? Jody. Well, Jody, I just answered your question.
You got a thyroid problem if your metabolism is not working properly, but you got to get to the bottom of it. Because it could be your adrenals. It could be because you're estrogen dominant. It could be because your liver is gummed up.
You got fatty liver, and that affects your thyroid because the vast majority of your T4 that is converted to T3 that your thyroid needs to work properly happens in the liver. It happens in the liver. You understand what I'm saying? Okay, Jody, I think we're going to get this done.
I think we're done. I think we're done. You got one more and I'll get to that too. My blood pressure is 144 over 99 in the morning.
Normal blood pressure in the evening. Well, look, I would say, Jody, to me, your blood pressure is high in the morning, but that's not that unusual. I don't even like taking blood pressure in the morning. Why?
Because your cortisol is high in the morning. It should be high in the morning. Now, your blood pressure is still higher than I like, but if it's not like that at the end of the day, you don't have high blood pressure. And by the way, quit taking your blood pressure every five minutes.
You know what? People used to bring in a book. A book! Doc, you want to look at my blood pressure?
No, I don't. I just took your blood pressure in my office. You're asking me to read your book? No, I'm bored.
I don't read blood pressure. Look at what happened last week. Look what happened last month. You know, people, they put their blood pressure.
No wonder you have high blood pressure. You take it too often. That would give me high blood pressure. I'm getting high blood pressure just talking about it.
Why are you putting a cuff around your arm a hundred times a day? Stop it. If you were going to have a stroke, you're giving yourself one. I don't want to read your book.
People, oh my word. Okay. Judy, Lorraine, we talked about diverticulitis. We've done that.
Heather, let me finish with this now. What is in coffee that is high in vitamin C? Now, Heather, you have to listen to all of what I talked about in coffee. Because I always say, here's what I'm saying, Heather.
Coffee is stronger than vitamin C. The proof? Jacques Cartier. What do I mean by that?
Well, the guys died from scurvy, but they didn't give them an orange. Jacques Cartier wasn't given an orange. He was given pine bark extract in a tea. A pine bark extract tea.
Well, obviously there must be vitamin C in pine bark extract. Yeah, there's traces of it. But that's not the key. In coffee, you have a thousand phytonutrients.
Coffee obviously has some traces of vitamin C. Okay? But it's not vitamin C, but it's the real vitamin C because coffee is better than you taking a tablet of vitamin C. It's better for you.
It's a more powerful antioxidant than vitamin C is. Ascorbic acid. Okay? I know all about ascorbic acid.
Do I like it? Yeah. I get no problem with it. We actually put vitamin C, acerola cherry, in with Navitol because it's more bioavailable if you put it in with pine bark.
But I love coffee because it's more powerful than vitamin C and it ain't even close. Now, I like vitamin C in intravenous for cancer, meaning you get it right into your veins. I like it like that. Just to take a capsule of vitamin C, drink coffee.
It's better for you. I mean it. Okay. Guys, I think I did all the questions today.
I really did. Okay, we went over time, but I wanted to get it done because I got some studies I want to bring to you the rest of the week. Guys, we love you. I hope you know that.
You guys are so smart, by the way. You all passed your thing. You passed the test. I can't fool you guys anymore.
Okay. I'm not trying, but unreal how smart my audience is. Okay, love you guys. Talk to you soon.
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