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TRANSCRIPT OF TODAY'S EPISODE
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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning, everyone. How are you? And once again, welcome to another live this morning. Hope you're having a great start to your day.
Hope you've had your vitamin C, the real vitamin C, your coffee. Okay, guys, let's get going. We announced that yesterday on the Martin clinic Facebook group. We're over 100,000 followers now.
Guys, I just got to say thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Okay. We appreciate it. Well, I'll tell you what, this program, the Doctor is in, Facebook and on your favorite smart device wouldn't exist. It was like our radio show.
Without ratings, they cancel you. That's just the way it is. You got to have people following, otherwise you're canceled. Okay.
And when it comes to social media, and here we are on Facebook and that, yeah. Facebook likes us because you guys like us. That's the way they operate, guys. So you follow, Facebook likes that.
It's a business, guys. That's how they do it. Okay. So we appreciate you guys.
I know I tell you that all the time, but I mean it. And then the second thing I wanted to say, because I think it's important I say it again. You name me a health podcast that has an audience as smart as the followers of the Doctor is in. I'm telling you, there is not.
I boast about you guys all the time. And the reason is because I test you. You know the answers. Okay.
Okay. So let's get going. Okay. Now I want to show you something because I'm going to take out, you know, me and my props.
What do I have here? I got five pounds of fat. It's like, it's incredible to me. Okay.
For every pound of fat, you've got five to seven miles of blood vessels. Okay. Got that? Every pound of fat, five to seven miles.
So when you lose five pounds, we had a weight loss clinic and, oh, I only lost five pounds. Well, first of all, I would show them this. A foot long, six inches wide. Okay.
And around 35 miles, a blood vessel loss. Meaning that think of what that does guys to your heart. Because there's a new study of, okay, and this is why I'm bringing this up to start this morning, blood pressure and the low carb diet. Okay.
Blood pressure and the low carb diet. Now I make a real point of this in our metabolic reset. Very, very important. Okay.
I make a real big point of this, how good it is for your heart. Not only are you getting insulin down, and we'll talk about that in a minute. And folks listen, the metabolic reset, which is a 30 day program, it's 30 days, 30 days, really wasn't built primarily for weight loss. Okay.
Wasn't built for that. It was built to correct insulin resistance. Okay. But we used it in weight loss too.
Okay. And sometimes with a little bit of tweaking for weight loss. But when you change fuels, your body burns fat rather than storing fat. Okay.
Because remember what insulin's job is. Insulin is there. Okay. Primarily as a traffic cop.
It parks sugar. Okay. You can't have sugar in your blood vessel. So when you lose weight, okay, when you lose weight, and this is a good way to lose weight.
Look, it's not guys, as you know, we teach this all the time. It's not calories in and calories out. They're still there. Eat less, move more.
That's medicine. Eat less, move more. No. Okay.
I want you to change your fuel. And when you lower your carbohydrates, okay, the reset is no carbs. You'd be lucky to get a one gram of carbs or two grams of carbs a day. But the idea, of course, the reset is not permanent in a sense that yes, you can eat that way and be very healthy.
But that is not the goal. The goal was for us to teach people, first of all, how many carbs they literally were eating every day. They never saw themselves as carboholics, but we are. Okay.
In my office, my name is Tony and I'm a carboholic. Okay. And after 30 days, you admitted it even more. Because you go, holy moly, I had no idea how many carbs I was eating a day.
And when you change fuels, your body now is burning fat as fuel. You get a lot of benefits. And one of them, and this study is showing that, is blood pressure. Blood pressure goes down.
You know, one thing I agree with, with cardiologists, here's where we're in agreement. I don't agree with a lot of things they do. Cholesterol, salt, butter. Okay.
I don't agree with any of that. But one thing I agree with, let's get your blood pressure down. Now they've changed the goalposts. Okay.
There's a lot of people don't have high blood pressure, but they're put on high blood pressure medication, and they're put on high blood pressure medication. Because they changed the goalposts. Anywho, I agree. I don't like high blood pressure when it's truly high.
Okay. When it's truly high. And I don't want your bottom number to be above 90. That's the way I looked at it.
That's my clinical experience. If you're not over 90, then you're bottom number, you really don't have high blood pressure. Okay. But I agree with cardiologists, we don't want high blood pressure.
Now, back to the study. Back to the study. They're showing a low carb diet. Not no carb diet.
They're showing a low carb diet. They're showing a low carb diet. Not no carb, but a very low carb diet really helps with blood pressure. Yeah.
Yeah. And one of the reasons is this guy. Okay. Again, for those listening on a podcast, you can't see what I'm showing here.
But right now I got my hands on one pound of fat. Okay. For one pound of fat, you got five to seven miles of blood vessels. Your heart has to push the blood around those blood vessels.
You lose weight. Your heart works a lot less, harder. Think of it. You lose five pounds, you've lost about 30 to 35 miles of blood vessels that your heart has to pump, pump, pump.
We don't think of it over a hundred thousand times a day. We're not even conscious of it unless you got a flutter in your heart. Right? But your heart's got to work hard.
You lose one pound, about 35. Well, think of what that does to your blood pressure. Okay. Think of that.
Now, another thing, and this is just by the way, okay? By the way, if you're dehydrated, which the vast majority of people are, because they don't drink enough water, and only water is water, and I've said this a million times, but I'll say it another million, okay? When you're dehydrated, yeah, your blood becomes thick as molasses, and your heart's got to work harder.
So you want to keep your blood thin. The best blood thinner is not aspirin. The best blood thinner is not aliquous. The best blood thinner is water.
But there's no money in water, so they don't tell you that. Okay? And again, only water is water. But I want you to get this in your mind's eye, guys.
When you lose five pounds, okay? When you lose five pounds, you got rid of about 30, 35 miles of blood vessels. Okay? Can you imagine how good that is for you?
And then, you know, if you're drinking water, like for blood pressure, you're drinking water, you're getting about two liters, 64 ounces a day of water. That's the sweet spot. Some need more than that. Very, very rarely does anyone need blood.
If you're on any kind of medication, any kind, you're probably dehydrated and you need more water. So that's the viscosity of your blood. But this study is showing that if you can't drink if you go low carb, your blood pressure goes down. Now, I'll give you another point because we say it just about every day.
We talk about the destructiveness of sugar. Okay? So when you go low carb, and you're going very little sugar, holy moly, that's good for you. Because again, sugar destroys your blood vessels.
It's extremely toxic. Your body knows that. That's why you have an organ dedicated, okay? Dedicated to keeping sugar out of your bloodstream.
You guys get that memo every day. I'm a rinse and repeat guy. Rinse, repeat. Rinse, repeat.
I can't help myself. That's the way I learn. That's the way I still learn. Rinse and repeat.
Okay? So you know sugar is toxic. The world might not know that out there, but you know it. And your body certainly knows it.
So when they tell you moderation in sugar, they don't know what they're talking about. Because your insulin doesn't think moderation at all when it comes to your sugar. It says, get out sugar. You can't park in the blood.
It's a no parking zone for you. Can't park. Can't stay in the blood vessels. Otherwise, you're going to damage them, okay?
Including high blood pressure. So when you go low carb, you're going low sugar. And sugar is toxic. And now you're not destroying blood vessels.
And here's another one. Because I talked about water. Guys, I love nitric oxide. I didn't even study it in school.
It existed, but we didn't know about it. When they say there's nothing new under the sun, not in medicine. Okay? Not in medicine.
My medical textbooks, you look in the 1970s on nitric oxide. Hello, it ain't in there. It's just not. I didn't study it.
It wasn't discovered till the 1980s. They won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for talking to us about nitric oxide. Opens blood vessels. Okay?
You'll see it advertised on TV. Beets. You know, they put beets in a gummy. Do I like that?
I got no problem with it. I'll tell you what's got more nitric oxide. Two things make more nitric oxide. Maybe three things make more nitric oxide than beets.
Okay? What makes more nitric oxide in your body? The sun. The sun.
The sun. Can I show you my t-shirt? You're going to see it upside down, right? The writing.
Sun, steak, steel, and sleek. You like this t-shirt? Okay? The sun.
When the sun hits your eye like a big... Remember that song? Well, when the sun hits your skin, you open up your blood vessels. Because it elevates nitric oxide.
They want to keep you out of the sun. How stupid is that? How stupid is that? Up, up, up.
Okay? Sun. Okay? Someone's putting it Beverly.
You've got it absolutely right. You know what number two is? Pine bark extract. It's stronger than beets.
Okay? And like I said, I got no trouble with beets. I don't like the taste of beets so much. I don't.
But they're good for you. 100%. I got no problem with it. I mean that.
Okay? If you like beets, eat your beets. Because it does elevate your nitric oxide. Pine bark is the number one thing to elevate your nitric oxide besides the sun.
Okay? And let me give you another one. Just so you know you've been given a gift from God. And that is the coffee bean.
Elevates your nitric oxide. Holy smokes. Isn't the world fun when you can have a coffee and it elevates your nitric oxide? You're helping your blood pressure.
Isn't it beautiful? You know, some things are tough in the world. I admit that. But we got some wonderful gifts too.
Think of the sun. The sun is out here this morning. Who doesn't feel better in the sun? One of the reasons is nitric oxide.
We want to keep our blood pressure down. If you're on meds, millions and millions of people are. I recommend you do this anyways. If you've got weight to lose, lose weight because you're going to lower the amount of miles of your blood vessels and where the blood has to circulate.
Every pound, five to seven miles. Drink water. It thins your blood, makes your heart work less. Makes your heart work less.
People don't realize it. It's too bad we didn't have a little light on our head. Said dehydrated, dehydrated, dehydrated. We don't have that.
Don't wait till you're thirsty. That thirst mechanism. You know, a lot of people just don't drink water. I said, Dr.
Martin, I don't like water. I heard that a million times in my office. I don't like water. It's got no taste to it.
You big baby. That's what I used to tell my men. They were usually men. Okay.
Women, if I drink water, that'll help my blood pressure. Yes. Okay. I got the memo, Doc.
Men, I don't like water. I don't like it. It's got no taste to it. You sure I can't have a juice?
Juice has got water in it. How about coffee? Coffee has got water in it. Why can't I have that?
I said, quit being such a big baby. You'll thank me later. Okay. I want you to drink water because your blood's like molasses and you're going to have a heart attack.
And I just took your blood pressure. It's elevated and you just elevated mine. I was really hard on men in my office. Not all men.
The guys that listened to me on this program? No. A lot of patients that came in. Why are you here?
I don't know. What's wrong? Nothing. Who brought you here?
My wife. You feeling good? Oh, you're feeling great. Pitch a liar.
I like picking on men because I is one. I is one. Okay. Let me see.
You know what? I think we're going to cut it a little short this morning. I'm sweating. It must be andropause.
I'm just teasing. Okay. If there was such a thing, I went through it a long time ago. I'm an old goat.
Okay. So that was on blood pressure. I think, hold on. There's another study here that's really, really interesting on brain energy.
I shared it this morning with Dr. McEwen because it had to do with the brain. She's my favorite psychologist at the University of Tennessee. Okay.
So what's tomorrow? Q&A. Q&A. Right?
Send your questions and it's not too late to info at martinclinic.com. We are going to figure out something for our hitting a hundred thousand followers on Facebook. Now we got millions of downloads on the Dr. Zinn podcast.
Okay. But we have over a hundred thousand happen this week of followers. You can sign up there by the way, if you're not already part of our little group. Okay.
You can sign up. Okay, guys. We love you guys. Again, I say it all the time.
I say it every day, but I got it just because it's so true. Okay. We love you guys and looking forward to Q&A tomorrow. Okay.
So send your questions in. Info at martinclinic.com. Talk to you soon.
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