Dr. Martin answers questions sent in by our listeners in today's episode.
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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning, everyone. Once again, welcome to another live this morning and hope you're having a wonderful start to your day. And we appreciate you guys coming on.
And say hello if you can, if you want to join our roll call in the morning on our live here. Always happy to acknowledge that as long as I see your name, you're going to be mentioned.
And we appreciate our family here that joins us live and we understand not everybody can do that. And, you know, they can always watch it later and get a podcast. Okay. Joanne is asking this question.
Okay. And Mark and Michelle, Michelle's got to had a question. Let me, let me answer the question because I think Michelle is on with us. And the question was, okay, she's really doing well, changed her diet, did the reset, feeling better, having trouble digesting red meat.
Okay. Having trouble digesting red meat. Okay. Well, let me just give you a couple of things why that could happen.
Okay. Number one, when you weren't used to eating that, okay, generally pH, okay, let me just give a little teaching on your stomach. Okay. Your stomach's pH is supposed to be very acidic, more acidic than a lion's stomach.
Okay. And lions live on meat. As far as I know, I've never followed a lion around, but they don't eat from the plant kingdom. They're strictly carnivore.
Okay. So they eat meat. And they have a very acidic stomach to eat that meat. You need acidity to break down protein, especially red meat is, you know, mostly protein and very nutrient dense, but you need a good stomach.
And most people, Michelle, most people, because they lived on the plant kingdom, mostly, and a lot of grains and a lot of breads and a lot of noodles and even sugar. They lived on that. Their pH, instead of being like a lion's and even more acidic than a lion, the pH rose, became more alkaline, not that it was alkaline, but became more alkaline.
And that's not good. It's not good for you. Again, you don't want to be acidic anywhere else in your body. You only want to be acidic in your stomach.
It's contained there, that acid, that acid should be so powerful, it could burn a hole in your kitchen table. It's meant to break down, especially protein. So you may be having trouble with that. If you change your diet, and now your stomach hasn't got there yet.
So that's part of it. The other is, as we get older, we don't make as much enzymes. Okay, so your pancreatic enzymes, they're poured into your stomach. Amylase for your cart, protease, okay, for protein, lipase for fat.
Their pancreatic enzymes, you need that in your stomach. And especially protease, because, again, protein, the way it's made, it's harder to digest, it takes longer in the stomach. So a lot of times people don't have enough acidity, and they don't have enough enzyme. Okay, a lot of people are like that.
In this day and age, it's more than an epidemic. Like 70, 80% of the population have trouble with digestion. And before your food comes out of your stomach, it should be made into a real mulch. That's what good acidity does.
And that's what enzymes do. So by the time they get into your small intestine for absorption, they're micro size. But a lot of people, they have trouble with that. So like I said, Rome wasn't built in a day, Michelle, and you want, I would add digestive enzymes.
Add them. I take them every day, by the way, as I get older. I've been taking digestive enzymes since I'm 50 years old, before that. I just add it.
It's a supplement I take every day, because it helps with digestion. And you want that food to be digested primarily in the stomach before it's absorbed. The nutrients are absorbed into your small intestine. Okay?
So that's what I would suggest. You want to increase that acidity by eating the right foods. You're doing that. And I would add digestive enzymes.
Okay? So that was Michelle. Thank you for the question. Joanne's asking a very good question.
Can I put half and half in my coffee instead of heavy cream? Well, half and half is pretty heavy. Right? Yeah, you can do that.
Look, I prefer coffee to be black. I prefer it. Okay? And you know what I think about coffee?
The real vitamin C. And it is really good for you. There's nothing, almost nothing like coffee. Like vitamin D, probably more important for you.
But close behind is the real vitamin C coffee. And guys, you've been hearing this on this program forever. I did it on my radio show forever. I said it in my clinic forever.
Okay? I've been consistent, even in the 70s, in the 1970s, when the world said, don't drink coffee because it's acidic. I said, that's a pile of bunk. I always defended coffee.
And I should have said, and you'll thank me later. Because was I right? I was absolutely right. Absolutely right.
Okay? So you want to put half and half in it? I don't care. I just tell people, don't put milk in it.
You don't need milk. Use cream. If it's half and half, I can live with that. It's not going to kill you.
Okay? And heavy cream would be even better. Because I like cream. I don't like milk unless you have a cow in the backyard.
You got a cow in the backyard, then drink milk. Otherwise, you don't need to drink water and coffee. Okay, you can have a cup of tea. I don't know why you would want to drink tea.
Okay? I don't understand it when you can drink coffee. I know there are some of you out there. I feel sorry for you.
No matter, I don't like coffee. Okay? I feel sorry for you. Okay.
Thanks for the question, Joanne. Okay. Let me get to another one here. Okay.
Oh, Lorianne is asking a question. She's got to take treatment because she has androgenic alopecia. I saw that in my office. Okay?
It's autoimmune, really. It's no fun. Alopecia. Hair loss.
And what I did, by the way, is work on the gut. Work on the gut. I would knit up the gut, in leaky gut with bone broth, digestive enzymes, probiotics, mucilages, like slippery elm and that, just to heal the complete gut. That usually helped in alopecia.
But what she's asking, how do I protect my liver? Because she's on a medication that's got a lot of side effects. Good question. The best thing you can do for liver is to lay off carbohydrates.
Crappy carbs, especially. Okay? I'm not saying that you can never have carbs. I'm not saying that.
What I am saying is you don't want to pack up your liver with fat. And so why? Because a fatty liver cannot detox. Your liver is meant to detox itself.
It's your detox organ. And the way it operates is if it's left on its own. You don't want to pack it up with fat. And people don't even realize they have fatty liver.
They have fat that's packed up, especially with high fructose corn syrup. So sodas and juices and anything with high fructose. Okay? And if you want to have a fruit, eat it.
Don't drink it. I don't like people drinking fruit. I can have a few berries in a Dr. Martin's Perfect Smoothie.
But if you eat eggs, meat and cheese, your liver will clean itself and detoxify itself from harmful medication. Okay? You've got to protect your kidneys too. The kidneys often get affected by harmful medications with enormous amount of side effects.
Drink water. Okay? Drink water. You might want to be on Navitol if you're not already.
Because that helps. It's a very powerful antioxidant. And drink coffee. Drink coffee for your liver.
It protects your liver. Thanks, Lorianne. I can't remember if I did this last week. Would Dr.
Martin like to discuss LPA? Okay? So you've got lipoprotein A, lipoprotein B, you've got cholesterol, you've got things that, look, I talk about this all the time, Glenda. Okay?
And you know me. I think you do. If not, I'll remind you, I'm not big on bad cholesterol. I don't believe there's such a thing.
I really don't. Cholesterol is good for you. In every form. So I talk about weeds because medicine has gotten into weeds.
What do I mean by that? Well, for years and still today, they're always worried about your LDL cholesterol. Okay? LDL cholesterol.
And they made it out to be a boogeyman. They made it out to be a bad guy. And I never believed that. I never was in that camp.
I still don't today. You can lower your LDL cholesterol. That's not going to keep you alive. And it's not going to save you from a heart attack.
If we had tackled heart disease with statin drugs, we would have cured heart disease by now. Heart disease is worse than ever. I just say, you know, when you look at results, we ought to look at result, right? We're talking heart disease.
Let's look at the result. Heart disease is worse than ever. It's still the number one killer in chronic disease. Cancer's right beside it.
Two. Have we won? Nope. We're worse in spite of all the billions and billions of dollars we've spent.
Because we look for love in all the wrong places. We are focused in on cholesterol. And it's not the boogeyman. It's not the bad guy.
It's something your body makes. God doesn't even trust you to eat enough cholesterol. And by the way, one of the reasons that animal foods are vilified is because of cholesterol. That's a lot of reasons that people become vegetarians, vegans.
Well, I'm lowering my cholesterol. Why do you want to do that? Your brain is made up of cholesterol. Every cell in your body is made up of cholesterol.
Cholesterol your body needs. It's your good guy. It's not a bad guy. And oh, we saw cholesterol at the crime scene.
Yeah, but it's not the bad guy. Of course it's in your blood vessels. Cholesterol's in your blood vessels. It belongs there.
It's Amazon trucks on the highways and byways. FedEx, Canada Post, US Post. I don't care. Name the truck.
Are you going to see trucks on the highways? Yeah. What are they doing there? Are they bad guys?
No, they're delivering. Cholesterol delivers. Ladies, you can't get hormones without cholesterol. Men, you can't get testosterone without cholesterol.
You need cholesterol to deliver it. Right? Like I said, God don't trust you to eat enough of it. 85% of all of your cholesterol needs are made by your body in spite of food.
But I always used to tell my patients this. You need to put up your 15%. God does 85. You do your 15.
And a lot of people used to, what? What are you talking about? I said, well, you got to eat eggs, meat and cheese. You got to eat dairy.
Why? I want you to eat cholesterol. It's good for you. You ever seen Alzheimer's or dementia on an autopsy?
The brain is shrinking, looks like a prune. They can see that with MRIs. The brain, the frontal lobe, it's got no cholesterol left. The fat is gone.
And we've been eating fat free for the last 40, 50 years. The stupidity of mankind going fat free. Oh, fats make you fat. Fat gives you cholesterol.
Look at all the fat in that red meat. Look at the fat on that steak. Eat it. It's good for you.
So I go against the grain. Give me stats. Okay. Heart disease, worse than ever.
I mean, maybe we're doing something wrong. Maybe heart disease is caused more by metabolic syndrome and the eating of sugar and elevated insulin. Maybe that's the culprit. Yeah.
Maybe it isn't cholesterol. Yeah. Now, I know that's not popular. You think I don't know that?
I told you, I got canceled. I used to have a radio show once a month in Ottawa. They canceled me because I wouldn't repent of my talking against statin drugs. I wouldn't recant it.
I said, no, I'm against. They're not working. They're not going to extend your life. I know they're popular.
I know they're the number one selling drug of all time, but they don't work. I'm sorry. I'm not going to repent. Kick me off.
But hey, all I had to do is say I was wrong. I'm not doing it. If I thought I was wrong, I'd do it, but I'm not wrong. Not on this thing I am.
Okay? Who was that? It was Glenda. Elaine, again, some of these I'm not sure if I didn't answer.
I heard eating animal fats, eggs, meat, and cheese, blocks insulin receptors. Do you think this is true? No, they don't. It doesn't block insulin receptors.
It helps insulin receptors. Okay? Eating eggs, meat, and cheese is the best thing you can do for insulin. I mean it because insulin sits on the sidelines.
Do you have an egg? Did you have an egg this morning? If you did, your pancreas was saying, oh, Suzy there is fasting this morning. Well, you weren't really fasting.
You were just eating an egg and insulin is sitting on the sidelines going, I got nothing to do right now. I don't have to sweep out the sugar out of the bloodstream. I got nothing to do. That's what you want.
Okay? So it's the opposite, Elaine. Blocks insulin. It helps insulin.
Your cells become more receptive to insulin. The more you eat eggs, meat, and cheese, dairy, butter, your cells love it. It's the opposite. Okay?
What would your protocol be for someone that's had life-saving antibiotics? Lots of probiotics. Double it up, triple it up, replace, replenish, renew. I always talk about that, guys.
Right? Your microbiome. When you had life-saving antibiotics, that's what antibiotics are made for, by the way. To be life-saving.
Am I against antibiotics? Nope. Never have and never will be. I'm against the overuse of antibiotics.
And that's a big problem today. Antibiotics are in our food. Antibiotics are overused. Antibiotics create resistant, very difficult, see difficile.
The worst place to go is your hospital. It's worse than Afghanistan. It's more dangerous. Why?
Well, the overuse of antibiotics. Look, you're in the hospital. You need an antibiotic. I get it.
I understand it. And then they over clean in the hospital. Well, you want it to be sanitized. I get that.
I understand it. But then you get bacteria that got a brain to them and they resist. They develop a coating and they resist antibiotic treatment. That's why you see such big problems.
And it's one of the reasons that sepsis kills you. That they give you antibiotics and they don't work because the sepsis is resistant to the antibiotics. Antibiotics have double-edged sword. They save your life and they can kill you.
So big, big, big on probiotics. And listen, guys, I always say this, look, if you can eat a supplement, if you can eat a supplement, I'd rather you eat it. That's why you don't hear me talking about B vitamins. If you eat a steak, you get all your B vitamins.
Now, I separate a little bit on the B12. The B12 is a finicky, it's a large structure vitamin and it's hard to absorb on the best of days. So I separate that. That's why I'm big on supplementing B12.
But you don't hear me talking about B6 or B3 or B1. Hey, look, you want to take a supplement of it? That's up to you. But I'd rather you eat certain things.
Vitamin C, do you hear me talking about vitamin C? I mean the other one, ascorbic acid. No, I don't talk about it too much. You want to take it?
I'm not against it. I put it in our Navitol. Problem with vitamin C, it's in and out of your body so fast it makes your head spin. But when you attach it to pine bark, it stays in a much longer.
That's why I found that out talking to a researcher who did research on it and that pine bark sort of hooks its wagon to vitamin C, ascorbic acid. They work synergistically together. I didn't know that. I got taught that.
And I said, okay, I like that. I like that. Well, I want you to take the other vitamin C, which is a lot stronger than ascorbic acid, and that is drink coffee. It's a real vitamin C with a thousand phytonutrients.
That's how powerful coffee is. Not wonderful. You get a gift, a free gift of drinking coffee. Okay?
So look, again, the answer to the question about when you're taking big antibiotics, well, Dr. Martin, can I eat probiotics? Yes. Kefir, any fermented food.
I like it. Yogurt. The problem is, guys, this is just the fact. The reason I've always said supplement with probiotics is you're talking about trillions of bacteria.
And not only that, here's what we know about the microbiome. It's an ecosystem. Different strains of bacteria do different things. Okay?
So if you're taking a lactobacillus, good for you. Okay? But different strains do different things. Listen, I've been talking about probiotics for a lot of years, guys.
And that's why I've always said one of the things, the mainstays of my practice was telling patients to take a broad spectrum probiotic. Because when you take an antibiotic, you carpet bomb your microbiome. It just kills everything. And I've written books on that.
I talk about what leaky gut is and the invasion of the Trojan horse, the third army of fungus in Candida. And why does that happen? The antibiotic. It can save your life, but it can kill you slowly.
Autoimmune. A lot of the autoimmune diseases come from the overuse of antibiotics, even cancers. Autistic children, oftentimes, they're canaries in the coal mine. All their microbiome got changed.
They wiped out. They didn't mean to. Mommy might've done it with her antibiotic use during pregnancy or just before. Not her fault.
Nobody told her. But I'm telling you, antibiotics, the greatest discovery of the 20th and the century and the curse of the 21st. You heard it here on this program. I've been saying that for years and years and years.
So that's why I tell you, if you had to take an antibody, you need to take probiotics and double them up and triple them up. And the best probiotic are broad spectrum. And you need a probiotic that's going to get past your digestive tract. A lot of them are not, they're not party enough.
They can't get past your stomach acidity. Okay. That was a good question. Let's see.
Janine, what is Dr. Martin's thoughts on eating dried fruits? Well, be careful. Okay.
Be careful because they're a lot sweeter. So guys, I'm not saying you can never have it, but I'd be very careful. Because we live in a different world today, guys. The biggest problem in the world medically is insulin.
The biggest problem is insulin resistance. The biggest problem is metabolic syndrome. It all has to do with insulin. And when you have a dried fruit, hmm, be careful.
Okay. Be careful. They're very sweet. And so I would limit that big time.
You don't want to live on that at all, at all, at all. You want to have it for a little snack once in a while. Look, I'm not going to call the police on you. But if you're in the 93% of the population that trouble with metabolic syndrome, your A1C is above 5.4, your triglycerides are high, and your HDL is low, then I wouldn't have dried fruit.
Like, I don't eat dried fruit. My dad was a diabetic. My grandfather's a diabetic. Look, that diabetes is coming out my both ears.
I got to be very careful. I haven't had dried fruit in 50 years, probably. I'm trying to think. I just don't eat it.
And you know what? If you don't eat it, do you need it? No. If you're all right, you're not part of that 93%.
Don't live on it. That's all I say. I don't even want you to live on fruit, whether it's dry or not. Like, fruits are God's candies.
You heard that first year. They're God's candies. Enjoy. Don't live on it.
Not meant to be lived on. Okay. Okay, let's see if we can finish here, because maybe, okay. Julie, can you share your thoughts on melatonin?
Okay. I love melatonin. I got melatonin this morning. What?
Yeah, because I look outside and it's sunny out. That's giving you melatonin. I got melatonin last night. My room was pitch black and I actually wear a mask, the right one.
The right mask to wear is the one over your eyes, not over your mouth and nose. Cover your eyes. Dark. Why?
You make melatonin. Dark at night, light during the day. Dark at night, light during the day. Do I like melatonin as a supplement?
Some people do. My experience with melatonin is it's got sort of a, I call it a shelf life. Some people that use it, they find it effective for a while and then, okay, there's some sort of negative research on melatonin as a supplement. And I'm more into that camp.
Like, I'd rather let nature give you melatonin. Okay? The sun gives you melatonin. It comes in through your eyeballs to your third eye, your pineal gland.
Melatonin. So, do I like it? Yes. As a supplement?
No. If you find it good for you, ah, good for you. I know some people love melatonin as a supplement. But generally, like I found it when I was in my practice for 50 years just about, people, I found melatonin to be good for a while, then it don't work anymore.
That was very common, that answer. Okay. Kelly, let me finish with this and then I might have one or two. Yeah, I can do this on Monday, but we can do other things too on Monday because I don't have many.
Let me finish with this one. What is Dr. Martin? Who's asking this question?
Oh, Kelly, I'm wondering if I can ask Dr. Martin about Navitol. You sure can. Pine bark extract.
What's the difference between Navitol and pycnogenol? Well, pycnogenol is Navitol in a lot of ways. Look, it's pine bark. I went to where they make pycnogenol from the trees in France.
Okay. And I went there. I went to the site. Okay.
Excellent. I wrote about it. Very good. I was the one that was the first one to write about pycnogenol and chronic fatigue syndrome.
Now, what we have done at the Martin Clinic, we have, and we believe, the highest pine bark extract in terms of the potency that you can get. And we named it Navitol. It's ours. Okay.
We can control it. We know where it comes from. And look, there's good pine barks in the world. We believe ours is the best.
And we use it a much higher dose than most other companies recommend because it's water-soluble, crosses the blood-brain barrier. When you think of pine bark extract, think of blood flow. Elevates nitric oxide, brain, your joints, your skin, powerful antioxidant. I don't think there's any more powerful antioxidant in the world than that in coffee.
Okay. It's so good for you. And like I said, where we discovered it was with chronic fatigue syndrome. It was the first thing that we ever found to be effective in CFS, or ME, they call it now, fibromyalgia.
It was the first thing. And I wrote about it. The bark with the bite. I wrote a book.
I wrote a lot of books. Energy Robbers and The Fatigue Cure, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and The Modern Woman's Curse. I wrote all those books, and I talk about pine bark. I talked about probiotics in those books, too.
I talked about leaky gut in those books, too. I talked about adrenal fatigue and cortisol in those books, too. Okay. Couple of more questions, but we'll deal with them on Monday.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, we love you guys. You guys are great. Thanks for sending in questions. Never be shy.
Never, never be shy to ask questions. Okay? This is question and answer me. I love that because I want you guys to be inquisitive.
Okay? Inquisitive. Love you guys. Talk to you soon.
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