Dr. Martin answers questions sent in by our listeners in today's episode.
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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning, everyone. And once again, welcome to another live this morning. Nice to have you on with us and we appreciate you guys. Okay, guys, let's get going here.
Okay. And guys, okay, let's go through our study. I forgot a couple of questions. I went over.
I'm glad I didn't just get rid of the questions because I noticed that I didn't do two of them. Okay. I didn't do two of them. Okay, now, Helen asks, what is the best way to get rid of H.
pylori? Okay, H. pylori is a bacterial infection in the stomach. Okay, if you get SIBO, which is really SIBO, that's small intestine and they say it's a bacterial overgrowth.
What do we say on this program? It's really a fungal overgrowth. If you get recurring bacterial infections in your bladder, ladies, it ain't the bacteria. It's yeast.
It's candida. Small intestine. You get bloating. You get IBS.
A lot of times it's SIBO, small intestine fungal overgrowth. Okay. Now, H. pylori, most of us have H.
pylori in your stomach. It lays dormant. The problem is it's much more frequent today than it used to be. That bacteria gets activated when you don't have enough acidity in your stomach.
The problem isn't the amount of acid. Well, it is. When you don't have enough acidity in your stomach, remember the human stomach, different than a rabbit's, different than cows. Okay, you got a different pH than they do.
Because their pH is made to eat from the plant kingdom. You're meant to eat from the animal kingdom. Guys, it's settled science. Okay.
It really is because the human body's pH should be very acidic. You take some stomach acid out of your stomach, should burn a hole in your kitchen table. More acidic. What do we see in this program?
Your stomach should be more acidic than a lion's stomach. Now, I've never followed a lion around, but apparently they don't eat from the plant kingdom. Okay. You can give lions vegetables.
They don't look at that. They want meat. They want meat. Well, we don't eat enough meat.
And the problem with that is your pH starts to rise. The pH in your stomach starts to become more alkaline, especially when you're loaded up on carbohydrates and sugars, which most North Americans are because they've been lied to. They don't eat enough meat. They don't eat enough meat.
They don't eat enough eggs. They don't get enough dairy in their diet. So their pH rises. Now H.
pylori will raise its ugly head. That's why you have, because your stomach acid should be so powerful, it destroys and keeps at bay your H. pylori. Now, Helen is asking, what's the best way to get rid of it?
Change your diet. One, two, digestive enzymes. It's one of the reasons we add, okay, nobody else does this, but we do. There's a reason for it.
Okay. If you notice our digestive enzymes, we put oil of oregano in there. What? Yeah.
Why do we do that? H. pylori, SIBO, which is SIFO. The world calls it SIBO.
We call it SIFO because we're right. It's fungal. So digestive enzymes, Helen, that's the way. And can H. pylori cause IBS? I don't see it being a cause necessarily of IBS. It can certainly give you stomach problems and it can even give you an ulcer in your stomach.
But the big thing that causes IBS is not bacteria. It's fungal. But part of that part of that is not enough acidity in the stomach. Okay. Probiotics for SIBO.
SIBO. Okay. Thanks, Helen. Sorry, I missed it Friday.
John asked a question. This is a very good question about eating starchy vegetables. Okay. I.e.
potatoes. Right? Wouldn't that be a starchy vegetable? Well, look, John, here's me.
If you are metabolically unwell, if you are in the 93% of the population that is metabolically unwell, what does that mean? It means that you have insulin resistance. It means that you and carbs don't get along. That's what it means.
So I'm not saying you can't have potatoes. In a general sense, I tell people don't live on them. Okay. You're not going through the Irish famine.
Don't live on them. And especially don't make them into French fry. Okay. So here's sort of a rule of thumb.
Okay. Let's talk about this for a minute. Look at a French fry. You got carbs and you got fat and especially bad fat because they're usually cooked in bad oil.
Right? You cook them in bad oil. So now you have carbohydrate and you have fat. Not a good combo.
Your insulin goes insane when you eat it. Okay. But if you just have a potato, look, it's a lot more carb, but there's not a lot necessarily of fat. It depends what you cook it in.
If you have a baked potato, I've got no problem with that. I don't want you to live on it. If you're doing the reset, absolutely not. Because I'm trying to get your insulin to take a holiday.
I used to tell my patients, I'm sending your pancreas to Hawaii for 30 days. It's going on a holiday. Let me give you a little bit of background the way I study. And I'm going to bring you back to the 70s.
There was a pathologist by the name of Dr. Joseph Kraft, not Kraft dinner, Joseph Kraft. He was a pathologist, very smart man. We called him the father of diabetes because he did more research on diabetes than anyone else as far as I remember.
Okay. And he'd been around a long time. Now he'd been dead. I can't remember what year he died.
Okay. But this guy was a guru. This guy was a genius. Unfortunately, nobody listened to him.
They didn't listen Linda. They didn't listen Larry. They didn't. The world out there, medicine.
And listen to him. Because let me tell you here, because I wrote this down in 1975, Dr. Kraft tested 14,000. I wrote it down 384 people and he checked their blood sugar.
Okay. Doctors will do that. They'll check your blood sugar. But you know what he was really interested in?
Your insulin. He was interested in your pancreas. Okay. And what he found in those 14,000 and change people when they were eating.
Okay. And then 30 minutes, every 30 minutes for five hours, give them food. He checked their glucose, but he also checked their insulin. You know what he found?
And this is revolutionary guys. This is why in 2011, I wrote a book, my son and I wrote a book, serial killers, two hormones that want you dead. Insulin, insulin, and cortisol. Insulin.
So what he did every 30 minutes, okay, for five hours, 14,000 plus patients gave them like a donut and check their blood sugar. Well, it didn't take long for their blood sugar to get normal, even though they ate a donut. Blood sugar, high spikes comes down. Okay.
Problem is, and this is what he checked and this is how long it's been around. Their blood sugar was normal. Remember, here's why. Again, why Dr.
Martin? Why? Because your body is dedicated to keeping sugar out of your bloodstream. Your body knows sugar is toxic.
You might not know it, although my audience does. The world out there, moderation, Dr. Kraft in 1975 showed that when you eat a donut and we check five hours, blood sugar gets back to normal pretty quick because insulin comes and says, sugar, you can not park in blood vessels. Come here, I'm going to park you.
So what Dr. Kraft did, he measured that. He didn't only measure blood sugar, he measured insulin and insulin went crazy because of what they ate. It had no choice.
That donut was going to turn to sugar in nanoseconds. In nanoseconds. Your pancreas has a job to do. It sends insulin to the rescue.
Go there and get that sugar out of the bloodstream. And here's medicine and we're here in 2026, 50 years down the road. They still don't get it. They don't get it.
Well, you're not a diabetic. Why? I tested your blood sugar. It's normal.
It's normal. Hello. Did you check insulin? Well, you're not a diabetic.
Why do I got to check insulin? Because insulin resistance is at the start of problems. And the more you use your pancreas, the more you use insulin, the more your cells say, stink, I hate you. Would you stop coming around?
Well, insulin says, ma'am, I don't care what you think of me. If you decide to eat carbs, crappy carbs and sugars, you want to have a donut, you want to have a bagel, you want to have a muffin, you want to have toast, oh, Dr. Martin, it's whole wheat. You buddy don't care.
It's going to be sugar in five seconds. It will pour out an enormous amount of insulin. And that's what Dr. Kraft, I remember reading it.
Don't wait till you're a diabetic. So back to John's question. Can I eat starchy vegetables? Yeah, John, you can have a few.
Don't live on them. Okay, don't live on them. They're not meant to be lived on. Make sure, John, you're eating a lot of meat, you're eating a lot of eggs, you're eating good dairy like butter and cheese and cream.
Live on that and you can have a, you want to have a potato. You can have a, you can have a, you can have a, you can have a, you can have a, you can have a, live on that and you can have a, you want to have a potato. I don't care. I mean it.
I'm not a carnivore. People think I'm carnivore. I want you to be carnivore-lite. Okay, carnivore-lite.
You can have some vegetables. Go for it. But remember where you're at. Don't fool yourself.
The worst deception is self-deception. Don't just, ah, you know what. No, no. If you're on the Titanic, the 93% of the population, just say, my name is Tony and I'm a carbaholic.
I don't get along with carbs. I love them, but you know, me and pasta, do I love pasta? No, I adore pasta, but I don't live on it. My wife makes Italian stallion, I call her, the sauce to die for, the meatballs to die for, the sausages in that sauce to die for.
I live on that. Little bit of noodle, maybe, if I'm a good boy. Guys, it's lifestyle. It's lifestyle.
Okay, you'd be shocked how little baked potatoes I eat in my life. Do I like them? Yeah, I like them, but I don't live on them. That's what I try and teach, because we got a problem.
Houston, we got a problem. We got problems with our pancreas, and we've known it for a long time, but even medicine today, they still haven't caught up, because they don't know nothing about nutrition. I'm sorry to say it. Okay, I got studies this week, okay, because now we're finished with Q&A.
Thank you, Helen and John. You had your own program today. Okay, let me see. I got some studies here.
Let me see. Vitamin D. Oh, have you ever heard of it? Another study on vitamin D.
Guys, this is another hello moment. I think I'm going to do shows called hello moments. Okay. Hello out there.
Okay. Vitamin D deficiency, far more dangerous when combined with belly fat. New study. Vitamin D deficiency, far more dangerous when combined with belly fat, doubling the risk of death.
Now, hello. What have we said? And this is exclusive to the doctors in podcast. I'm claiming exclusivity.
Okay, what am I saying? When I give you guys what metabolic syndrome is, okay, because you can measure metabolic syndrome. There's blood tests plus belly fat. You can measure that too.
Okay, but you can measure metabolic syndrome. How do you measure metabolic syndrome? Repeat, repeat, repeat. Blood tests.
One, high A1C. Okay, blood sugar. Average, over three or four months. High A1C.
Anything over 5.4. But you've got to look at other things. Okay, triglycerides, your fat balls versus your HDL cholesterol. HDL cholesterol should be high.
Triglycerides should be low. Okay, because if you've got that reverse, you've got metabolic syndrome, elevated blood pressure. Again, you can isolate that, but even then on its own, I like looking at all of it. Elevated blood pressure.
Okay, it's another one they put in metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome, by the way, is caused by food. Okay, now here's ones I've added. Vitamin D.
I did that about five years ago, maybe longer than that. I added to metabolic syndrome, the way to diagnose it is having low levels of vitamin D. Vitamin D is involved in everything. And here's what they're saying.
A vitamin D deficiency, far more dangerous when combined with belly fat. When you've got visceral fat, vitamin D is low. When vitamin D is low, oftentimes you have visceral fat. You can be skinny as a rake and still have visceral fat underneath.
Vitamin D, guys, is a metabolic test. So's B12. It's part of the bigger metabolic picture. I love looking at blood work.
I teach you guys to look at your own blood work. Be your own doctor. You gotta, in this day and age, you gotta be your own doctor. And just keeping your coca-comb up there, that's cucumber in French, okay?
Keep it up there that you, generally, okay? And I don't want you go boasting about it. You know more about nutrition than your doctor does. They won't let me into medical school to teach them.
I'd love to teach them these metabolic principles. Do you think it's important? Hey guys, we're talking about heart disease here. Heart disease is a metabolic condition.
We're talking about cancer because cancer is a metabolic condition. We're talking about Alzheimer's because Alzheimer's is a metabolic condition. Diabetes, obviously. Obviously.
It's a metabolic condition. Diabetes is a food problem. It's the way your body processes it. It's just the way it is, guys.
So vitamin D deficiency. Get your vitamin D levels checked, guys. If you can, twice a year. Find out where you're at.
I know doctors, I wish they did it routinely. Some do, but most don't. I know. It's worth it, guys.
You can find out what your vitamin D levels are. It's a big part of your metabolic picture. Okay, Helen and John, we did your questions today. Like I said, you got your own program.
Okay, guys, we love you dearly, sincerely, and every other way. You're the greatest audience in the world. We've got a great week coming up. Every day, we've got planned to do.
We've got new studies here. Yeah, always interesting. And don't be shy. Ask your questions, and I mean it.
info at martinclinic.com. Send them in. We'll deal with them. Even when I forget, because I'll do them another time.
Okay. Love you guys. Talk to you soon.
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