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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning, everyone. And welcome again to another live this morning. And nice to have you with us. We appreciate you guys.
We're going to look at a few studies this morning. Okay, this is an article in the Sports Meds journal. Here's the headline. Not prescribing exercise for depression should be malpractice.
Holy smokes. Now think about a statement like that. Depression, anxiety, the use of antidepressants and SSRIs. I brought this to you many, many times over the last several years.
It is skyrocketing, guys. It's skyrocketing. And what this study, and looking at a cohort of studies, it's saying that not prescribing exercise specifically for depression should be malpractice. Holy smoke.
And these guys are psychiatrists that are saying it. Research psychiatrists are saying this. Exercise for depression, it should be one of the treatments of depression. Makes sense, doesn't it?
Because again, let me go back a bit. I've done several podcasts on the summer of 2022. What happened in that summer? Well, mental health was turned on its head because they said studies had come out.
They looked at all the studies and they talked about Alzheimer's. You know what? It's not what they thought. It's not like TAU, tau protein.
It isn't that. In Alzheimer's, they've been looking for love in all the wrong places for 25 years. And they came to the conclusion that this is why none of the medications for Alzheimer's dementia work. They just don't work.
Because they said, well, it's not the tau proteins. It's an energy problem in the brain. And we'll go over that. Okay.
We'll look at that in a few minutes. Secondly, they said bipolar, schizophrenia, same thing, that what they thought caused it, chemical imbalance. Nah, there may be a chemical imbalance, but that's not what caused the chemical imbalance. They were looking at the mitochondria in the brain, energy.
And then for depression, same thing. You know that again, it's all chemistry. And if you put them on SSRIs and serotonin uptake medication, they get better. Well, they don't.
They really don't work. And that's what these studies said. When they look at all the research and said, man, oh man, we just have failed in depression. We have failed in dementia.
We have failed in bipolar. And when we read a study like this, when they're saying exercise, if a doctor doesn't prescribe exercise for depression, they should be sued for malpractice. Now they never use the word sued, but I'm using it. And I don't think I've ever heard of a doctor, especially a psychiatrist saying, you know what, we're going to do something different here.
We're going to change your diet. What does diet got to do with the brain? Well, we'll talk about that. And I'm going to write a prescription for exercise.
We're going to write a prescription for exercise. Now, one of the biggest problems in any mental health issue, one of the biggest problems, and I've said this many a time, is compliance. Because again, guys, just understand, when I was in practice, when I saw depression, clinical depression, and I saw a lot of it, by the way, I saw a lot of bipolar.
And unfortunately, I saw way too much dementia. They never came to me first, by the way. Never. I never saw that stuff first.
And a lot of times they didn't even come to me for that. They had other issues. They dealt with depression or bipolar, but they had other issues. That's why they came to see me.
And of course, I would do a complete biomarker workup. And what I found in my practice is consistent deficiency. Okay? Consistent.
Almost invariable. And they had leaky gut. I'm not kidding you. 99% of the time.
Leaky gut, leaky brain. So I was very big, okay, we've got to fix your leaky gut. They almost invariably had a deficiency. They were not optimized in their levels of B12, vitamin D, magnesium, often, low levels of omega-3.
Almost invariable. Nobody was checking this, guys. I was checking for that. Almost invariably.
They suffered from a condition. They were in the 93% of the population that had metabolic syndrome. They had insulin resistance and they were not good eaters. Almost invariably.
Nobody told them the connection between food and their brain. No one ever suggested in depression, there may be a food factor. What's a big factor? I always used to tell them, you're a canary in the coal mine.
Your system is fragile. Everybody has weaknesses. Okay? This is your weakness.
Your brain is your weakness. Not because you ain't smart. It's because it's fragile and you don't get away with bad eating. You just don't.
You're reaching for sugar because you have that addictive brain. You're looking for dopamine. The same way your brain would be hooked on drugs takes the same route. Sugar takes the same route to the reward center of your brain and you're just fragile in that area.
So we would do a deep analysis and if I could get them to buy into it, I said, listen, I'm going to give you a plan. A plan to succeed. You're going to find out if you can follow this plan, food, exercise, and let's hit every one of your deficiencies and let's fix your leaky gut. We're going to fix it.
If you do that, you trust me, you watch the difference. And if they would And if they would comply, say, look, you got to change your diet. You and carbohydrates don't get along. You don't get along.
You and food that breaks into sugar rapidly, you don't get along with those foods. Your brain is asking for 99% octane. I want you to live on eggs, meat, and good dairy. I want you to live on.
You want to have a few fruits? I don't care. You want to have a few vegetables? I don't care.
I want you to start those 30 days. I'm going to change the way you drink. What do you drink? A lot of them.
It was amazing to me. Whenever I saw depression, it was amazing to me how much sugar they drank. And they weren't drinking water the way they should. They weren't hydrated properly.
They didn't have salt going up to their brain. They were chronically dehydrated. A lot of them were sucking back diet sodas like it was going out of style. Yeah, no sugar in it, but not good for the brain at all.
The brain desires water and coffee, but nothing else. You don't have to drink anything else. Okay, Dr. Martin's perfect smoothly.
I know people always say that. Why do you say you can't drink anything else? Well, you can have that. That's a meal replacement in the way, right?
With heavy cream, because I want to get fat up into the brain. But it was amazing. And so they're saying in this study, not prescribing exercise, sun, steak, and steel. Steel.
I would encourage, please get stronger, get moving. Why? Because your brain needs it. Your brain needs it.
And everybody needs it. But you specifically, you really need it. You really need it. It's just your fragility.
It's your weakness. And like I said, guys, I talked to you about my personal story. See me, this face? I look like my dad.
I can't get over it. Okay? When I was young, I'd look at my dad. I didn't look anything like him, as far as I was concerned.
But I looked like my father, okay? Big time. Especially when I wear a hat. You want to know what my dad looked like at 74 years old?
He looked like me. My wife often says I married my father-in-law. Okay? They didn't call me Tony Jr.
for nothing. So anyway. But my dad was diabetic. You think I don't have that weakness?
You bet your boots I do. Do I like carbs? I love carbs, but they don't love me. They don't love me.
And I've been disciplining myself since I'm 16 years old. Because I got the memo from my dad. I got the memo. He said, son, it's sugar diabetes.
Okay. I wasn't that smart, but I knew what sugar was. I knew I was drinking Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola. Okay?
And I used to like 7-Up. I stopped it at 16. No more. No more soda at 16.
Right? And guess what I did? At 16, I started running, because my dad believed in exercise. In 1968, nobody ran unless the police were chasing you.
Jogging. What's jogging? Nobody jogged. But my dad did.
And I said, dad, I'm going with you. Wake me up in the morning early. Can my dad get up early? And he was disciplined.
My word. And dad, I'm going with you. Okay? And it was fantastic.
I got to be with my dad. I remember the first time I went jogging. And I mean slow jogging. I couldn't even run around the yard.
And I was an athlete. Man, I was out of breath. Like, are you kidding me? And then, you know, went around the block.
Then I could run. And for 30, 40 years, I ran three miles every day. Seven days a week, I'd go for a run. I didn't care if I was in Timbuktu doing a conference or whatever.
I'd get up first thing in the morning, and I'd be out for a run. And now I walk. I go to the gym, and I walk. I've always understood since I'm young that I've got a weakness, I've got a weakness, and I need to take care of it.
And, you know, I don't try and fool myself. You know, I don't try and fool myself. I married an Italian girl. You know, you think I don't love pasta?
Yeah, but I don't live on it. Okay? I just can't. And I know that.
Okay? And so, guys, this is, you know, they're saying, like, if you don't prescribe exercise, they're finally getting the memo. Psychiatrists are real like, you know what, we've got people on medication, and it's not even working, because they never seem to come off. They don't get a lot better.
It's a band-aid. That's what those meds were always for. I remember when they came out with Prozac. I was in practice in the 70s.
They had a warning on the bus. This is temporary at best. Please don't use pass. I think it was three to six months.
And then you've got to stop it. I had patients coming in that had been on antidepressants for 30 years. It was never meant to be. Lifestyle changes, diet.
Your brain is an energy hog, guys. It is an energy hog. It's the grid. 25% of all the food that you eat is going up to your brain.
It's only 2% of your body weight, okay? And your brain is an energy hog because it's headquarters. And the more they study energy now and the brain, the more they realize that the brain needs energy and the right kind. They've known, by the way, okay?
They've known, by the way, for 100 years they've known this. And the food industry buried this. They've known for 100 years. I think it was 1922 when they discovered that a ketogenic diet, which is high fat, no carb or very low carb, a ketogenic diet was the best treatment for epilepsy.
Well, where's epilepsy? In your brain. It was better than anything. They knew this in 1922, the ketotic diet for epilepsy.
Well, what about anxiety, depression, bipolar? You think it might be worth a try to change fuels to get your body burning fat, which is ketones, rather than burning carbohydrates that burn way too fast, guys. Way too fast.
And when they do these trials, and this is what this study is saying, when they do the trial and they do exercise mandated, okay, supervised, they have to in order to do the studies, that these people who are suffering from depression, they get a whole lot stinking better.
But 99%, and I mean it, of health care workers in the area of mental health, they don't do it. They don't even put it in as part of their recommendation. Now, I know it's not easy because you've got somebody that's going through a depressive episode. Are they going to follow through?
But you know what? Mandated. You're not getting no pills. We're going to be supervised.
I know that it sounds costly, but do you know what the cost of mental health costs our society today? In loss, productivity, and treatment, and hospitalization. And I mean, it is catastrophic. And it's amazing.
They never look at deficiency. There isn't five psychiatrists that are recommending vitamin D, B12. Always deficient. Almost, I'm telling you guys, it's universal.
They're deficient in sun, the vitamin D. They don't get it. Their brain demands it. Vitamin D is a powerful vitamin.
Your brain needs to function properly. It needs B12. B12 is a brain vitamin. And the vast majority of people are deficient in B12.
But 100% that I've seen in depression, in bipolar, in dementia, they are extremely low in B12. They have enough B12 in their blood for amounts. And by the way, B12 in your blood doesn't mean B12 at the cellular level. Your brain needs B12 to work properly.
It is a nerve vitamin. It is a neuron vitamin. You've got trillions of neurons up there. And B12 is essential.
And so is omega-3, the DHA part of omega-3. It is essential for the brain to function properly. It's the fat that your brain needs. That's why food is important.
Supplements are important. Fixing the leaky gut is important. Because they all have it. They've got so much garbage that gets across.
You've got two borders in your body. You have two border crossings. You have your blood-gut barrier. Think about border.
Blood-gut border. And then you have your BBB, your blood-brain barrier or border. That's your northern border. And people that have chronic depression, bipolar, their blood-brain barrier is not keeping the toxins out of the brain.
Leaky gut, leaky brain. How many years have I been teaching you that? You get leaky gut, you get leaky brain. Amazing, isn't it?
I thought I'd get to a few other studies, but I got excited. Because medicine, here's medicine today. I hate to be negative, but here's medicine today. You've got high blood pressure, you get a pill.
You're diabetic, you get a pill. You're gaining weight, you get a pill. They've got the GLPs now and that. You've got cholesterol, they give you a pill.
Depression, a pill. Anxiety, a pill. There's no talk of diet, pill. And they don't even train doctors in dieting.
They've left it to the dieticians who are bought and paid for by the big food company. Like I said, moderation and drink your diet coke. Okay, guys, we've got a great week coming. Remember Friday is Q&A, so send your questions into Q&A.
I don't think I missed anybody this week. I haven't heard back anyways. I think I got to all of them. But guys, don't be shy.
You've got a question to ask. We love your questions. Okay? Reminder now, okay, for those anywhere near the Sudbury area, okay?
Doing a seminar October the 15th with our favorite pharmacist, Rochelle Rocha in Sudbury, okay? We'll post it again, the poster. You can sign up for it. Come live, okay?
I think, I'm just working on this. We're going to give out our Sun, Steak and Steel book and I'll sign it for you. Okay? So let's fill that venue up October the 15th, which I believe is a Thursday night in Sudbury.
And we'd love to see if you can make it. Okay, guys, talk to you soon. Be sure to catch our next episode and thanks for listening.
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