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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning, everyone. Once again, welcome to another live this morning. We sure appreciate you guys coming on when you can live. And if you're new, hey, let us know.
First time. Okay, guys, yesterday we talked about depression. Okay, we talked about depression. And the story was it is malpractice in depression if you don't prescribe exercise.
So they put up exercise against SSRIs and medications. And exercise is better for depression than any medication. That was the headline. And they said, well, look, if a psychiatrist, if a family doctor, if any kind of therapist prescribes antidepressants, anti-anxiety medications, and doesn't prescribe exercise, it's malpractice.
I never thought that I ever would hear that in my lifetime. Okay. Now this morning, I want to look at depression again, but we're going to look at it in a different way. Okay.
And we're going to look at autism. And I want to connect some things here. Okay. So today we're going to talk about the microbiome.
I want to give you a little teaching on this. Okay. Because my audience loves to be taught. And you might know some of this and you might not.
Okay. Guys, you know me. I like to go back when I was a kid, I like to go back. I talked to you yesterday about diabetes and my dad was diabetic and exercise.
Okay. So I told you, like my dad started exercising in 1968 after he got the diagnosis of diabetes. And you know what? I got started on a habit that I've been doing since I'm 16 years old.
And that is exercise. Okay. But now I want to talk to you about the microbiome. And it's kind of interesting because what we knew about the gut, the micro small thing, right?
Okay. And we have no idea. We really don't guys. And I can tell you that you go back to my school days in the 70s.
You know what we knew about the microbiome? Not much. Not much. Even though Hippocrates said, all disease starts in the gut.
Now I want to give you an illustration of numbers for a second. Okay. Because like I said, I'm going to bring you back to my young years. I don't know what year it was.
Was it grade five, grade four? I don't remember, but I do remember something very specific. In those days, I remember a teacher telling us that if you look up in the sky, so this would be late 1950s, probably early 1960s. Okay.
If you look up in the sky at night, I remember like it was yesterday said, there's over 200,000 stars. And that number to me at that time was, you might as well have said trillions because I couldn't count to that. And there's that many stars in the heavens, 200,000. And you got to remember, okay.
You know, when it came to money, for example, in those days, you rarely ever heard about a millionaire. Okay. Now we got Elon Musk, the first trillionaire. Why am I talking about numbers like that?
Because that teacher was wrong. I didn't know that. She said there's 200,000 stars. And well, the telescopes in those days, that's what they were telling us.
And then, guys, I remember this. I was in Washington, DC 15 years ago, maybe. I went to the Smithsonian and I watched about an hour long, very interesting, fascinating film on the Hubble telescope. You know what they were saying?
Because the telescopes, like the Hubble, telling us, well, we're up now to somewhere around six trillion stars. Six trillion. Two hundred thousand because of the telescope. Six trillion.
Okay. Now I looked this up. To count to a trillion. One trillion, not six.
One. Okay. One trillion. The amount of money that Elon Musk had to count.
You want to start? One, two, three. Okay. You know how long it would take to count to a trillion?
1300 years. I looked it up. It would take you 1300 years. To count to a trillion.
Okay. Now why am I saying that? Well, that was the telescope guy. You build a better telescope, the more you see.
You know what's happening in science today? One of the most fascinating fields is the microscope. Okay. What we can see with a microscope.
And the more powerful they are, the more we see about the microbiome. That's why I wanted to bring it to you this morning. The field of the microbiome in medicine. Okay.
According to the new microscope, you and me have 39 trillion with a T, not a B, with a T bacteria living in our body, mostly in the gut. What? 39 trillion. I don't know how they even counted to that number.
Okay. Guys, it's unreal. You're fearfully and wonderfully made. You have bacteria, and it's like an ecosystem.
We don't see it, so we don't think about it. You know what? Viruses actually outnumber in your gut. Again, mostly there, but you got bacteria all over your body.
Viruses outnumber bacteria 10 to 1. So can you imagine how many viruses you have? And then we get a virus. They close the whole world now over a virus.
I don't want to get into that because I get a migrant. Now, why do I bring this up? Okay. Because we talked about depression, and I've been saying this, guys, for a long time.
Leaky gut, leaky brain. Okay. You got two borders in your body. You have this southern border, the border between your gut and your blood.
Very important border. And the border guards that are there are made up of your microbiome. Okay. Those bacteria, those bacteria.
And then you have the BBB, the northern border. Okay. The northern border in your body. The blood-brain barrier.
I studied the blood-brain barrier in the early 1970s. I was fascinated by the blood-brain barrier and certain things that went across the blood-brain barrier. Okay. They developed medications to go across the blood-brain barrier so they could get to the brain.
The brain is an old parking zone. You have a blood-brain barrier to keep garbage out of your brain. Now, clinical trials. Okay.
I just want to talk about probiotics for a second here. Now, we'll talk about dysbiosis in a second. Probiotic therapy, especially using L-Ramnosis. Okay.
Whenever you see an L, it's lactobacillus. You've got lactobacillus. You've got bifidin with a B. You've got Ls and you've got Bs.
And there's all sorts of different strains. Today is, at least in Canada, I don't know about in the United States, it's no child left behind, right? Today. And when I think of that, I think of we have them here in Northern Ontario, reservations for the indigenous people.
Okay. They live, a lot of them, not all of them, they live on reservation. It's land. But there's different tribes, right?
Like in Northern Ontario here, we have a lot of different tribes. Okay. The Wannapatee and anyway, doesn't matter. I'm just using it as an illustration.
You have bacteria in your body and you have probiotics, friendly bacteria. That's very therapeutic, by the way. And different tribes of bacteria do different things. Different tribes do different things of bacteria.
And the reason I'm bringing this up is because when it came to depression, one of the treatments they're seeing some tremendous results in is probiotic treatment for depression. What? Yeah. Using lactobacillus rhamnosus and bifidin, okay, and L-Ramnosus, a B, okay, longum.
It's all L-Ramnosus. Okay. I took Latin in high school. I hated every minute of it.
They said you need Latin to go through medical school. You understand? You got to have Latin. I hate it.
Okay. Longum, bifidobacillus. Okay. Anyway, clinical trials have shown that using certain probiotics, different strains do different things, help to reverse and treat depression.
So obviously, guys, obviously, there's a huge connection between your gut and your brain. A huge connection. Okay. Hippocrates said it.
I don't think he understood it, but he said it. And I never forgot the importance of the microbiome, the importance of fixing leaky gut, not only in depression. Let me give you what I used to see in autism. I saw a lot of autistic kids.
Why is it today? Okay. And again, for those who are new on this program, let me just give you a little background. I graduated in 1974 with my first degree.
Okay. I never even heard, like off to the right of me here, I've got some medical books, okay, I kept from school. You can go and look under A for autism, and it wasn't even in there. I never heard of it.
I mean it. Was there autistic kids? Probably, but they certainly weren't diagnosed. But guys, I don't care what planet you live on.
If you don't know that we have an epidemic today of autism, okay, an epidemic today of autism. It's one out of, I don't know, it used to be one out of 10,000 or 20,000 kids were born autistic, probably a lot even higher than that. And today, you know what it is? It's, I mean, the most recent I've seen as low as one out of 18 children born today are autistic.
And I've always said this to you guys, and I want you guys to be just like this. Why? Ask the question, why? Okay.
Now there's different theories, right? They talk about the childhood vaccines. In the 1950s, you got two before the age of, I don't know, two or three. Today you get 72.
Is that a factor? Maybe. Maybe. But here's me, okay?
And I've been consistent about this. Leaky gut, leaky brain. I never saw, not once, ever, and like I said, over the years, hundreds if not thousands of autistic kids, I never saw ever an autistic child that didn't have leaky gut. The microbiome.
It's an ecosystem. You have good bacteria, you have bad bacteria, and you got ugly. Good, bad, and ugly. Okay?
The ugly is a fungus. Okay? You got good bacteria, you got bad, and I've always said this to you. It's like two armies looking at each other.
Okay? And as long as you got as many good guys as you got bad guys, it's called you win. There's a symbiotic relationship between your bad bacteria and your good guys.
But, and this is what I've been teaching here on this program, and 30 years before, on the radio, and in my books, going back as early as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome book, first one I ever put out, and in my 20-something books that I've written over the years, I have never written a book that I didn't talk about the gut and leaky gut and its relationship to the rest of your body and the brain.
Okay? So even back in the days of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and fibromyalgia, which I believe is just a two-headed coin, heads and tails, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, I don't think they're separate. I always made the case that they're the same condition. And it was the gut that got changed, the microbiome, and then you got the invasion of the Trojan horse.
Now, what did I always say? And I'm going to ask you a question. Okay? I'm going to ask a question.
And look, if you're here for the first time or this is new to you, I do this once in a while. I tell people, okay, you're watching me, and I say, close your books. Okay? I'm going to ask you a question.
It's a little quiz. What is the number one cause, okay, according to me, what is the number one cause of leaky gut? There are different causes. What's the number one cause of leaky gut?
Go. Okay? Let's see. What's the number one cause of leaky gut?
I'm asking my audience. Hopefully I'll see the scroll go by. What do I say is the number one cause? Causing leaky gut.
Okay. Deb? I love you. Sugar.
Karen, you got it. Kathy, you got it. Lily, I like it because you're thinking. Bruno, you got it.
Jovanna, you got it. See my audience? Elaine, yeah. See?
Okay. But I'm going to bring these two together in a minute. Okay? Rita, you got it.
Fran, you sort of got it. Okay? Shirley, you sort of got it. Brahim, you sort of got it.
Okay. Marlene, I love you guys. Brahim's going, you got two answers. Louise, okay.
Guys? Carol. The number one cause of leaky gut is antibiotic. The greatest discovery of the 20th century has become the curse of the 21st.
You heard it here, and I've been saying it for over 35 years. Antibiotic. Now, you guys that said sugar, I love you, and you're right to the extent that once you have, and then here's what antibiotics do, okay? Again, you got an infection?
I don't want you to get sepsis. You got to take an antibiotic. Not always, but if you do, hey, I'm on your side. Okay?
Antibiotics. They carpet bomb. Listen, Linda. They carpet bomb the microbiome.
They carpet bomb it. They got the can't help it's. An antibiotic can't help, but carpet bomb your microbiome. It can save your life, and then it will slowly kill you.
Where does sugar come in? Well, sugar, see? So remember what I said. You got good, bad, and ugly.
Okay? You got good, bad, and ugly. You got good bacteria, they get wiped out. Antibiotic.
Five days. Five days. Five days of an antibiotic. How many here, you don't have to put your hand up, how many listening to me this morning, watching me this morning, how many here have taken an antibiotic in your lifetime?
Who hasn't? Well, when that happened, I'm telling you, you carpet bombed your microbiome. So you got rid of the bad guys, killed the bacterial infection. Problem is, killed your good guys too.
And then what sets up shop at the southern border? Fungus. The Trojan horse. Yeast.
You could slap a doctor with yeast, and they don't even know what you're talking about. Fungus. Dr. Martin, he's a glass.
He's crazy. You don't have yeast. You'd be dead if you had yeast. Well, Dr.
Martin showed me yeast. He's crazy. Oh, I heard that a lot of time. And where sugar comes in, sugar feeds yeast.
It feeds it, and it grows. It grows. And it messes up the microbiome. It's invasive, and it's destructive.
And it's at the root of a lot of diseases. And it can travel to your brain because when your southern border is compromised, and again, the number one reason for that is antibiotics. If you don't believe me, ask a woman who took an antibiotic and then a few weeks after got a urinary tract infection. Ask a woman.
Okay? They took an antibiotic, they had an infection, and then they get a urinary tract infection. Or they get a yeast infection. And by the way, most urinary tract infections are yeast-based.
They're fungal. And that's one of the reasons they reoccur all the time. You took an antibiotic, and then you got a yeast infection in your privates. What happened?
Their Trojan horse came in. Fungal. And it spreads. And then you feed it.
Because yeast lives on sugar. And it's one of the reasons in my protocol, even for cancer, guys. One of the reasons for my protocol in cancer treatment is probiotics. Because almost all cancers, tumors, are fungal-based yeast.
And it spreads like wildfire. It spreads. And it'll get across the blood-brain barrier. And I'm telling you something, now I'm going to, it took me a long time to say this, but I'm going to say it now.
Autistic kids. Autistic kids. What's the main problem? What's the main cause?
Antibiotics. Mummy, baby. They're microbiome. They come into the world.
Or even in their first couple of years, they're microbiome. That ecosystem gets messed up, and you have an invasion of the third army. I saw it time and time and time again. And the biggest culprit, it's not the only culprit, but it's the biggest culprit, is antibiotics.
Because, you know, how many people have autoimmune? Why do we see so much autoimmune? And that's what I call autism anyways. It's autoimmune.
Their body has turned on itself. Parkinson's. Why do we see more Parkinson's than ever? Why?
Tell me. It's leaky gut and leaky brain. Why more depression? Well, there's different factors.
But where do you make most of your serotonin? 95% of your serotonin, your feel-good hormone, is made in your gut. The southern border gets affected. The northern border pays the price.
Because you've got toxins going up into the brain. And yeast, guys, I've taught you this, is a carrier. It's a carrier of heavy metals, like mercury, lead, cad in Parkinson. You often see mercury in the brain.
How did it get there? How did mercury get up there? You have a blood-brain barrier. It's not supposed to let any toxins in.
Oh, it got compromised. It got compromised. And so you see these canaries in the coal mine. That's what I used to call them.
Autistic children were canaries in the coal mine. It doesn't mean, guys, by the way, it doesn't mean that if you take an antibiotic, a child even, like a lot of times, okay, like I don't like antibiotics for children unless they got pus coming out of their ears. I get it. You know, parents, look, the kid is screaming in pain.
Okay? You ever had an earache? It ain't no fun, right? But it would be better to give that child an antihistamine to relieve the pressure in some, you know, I hate to say it, but even Tylenol for pain compared to giving an antibiotic.
And actually, there was a need that went out. I know in Canada here, especially in Ontario, College of Physicians and Surgeons said, telling doctors, just stop giving antibiotics to children with an earache or a sore throat. Stop it. And the reason they said was because you're building superbugs.
You know, antibiotics are going to be useless because the more you use them, the more resistant bacteria become. Bacteria have brains, believe it or not, and they resist. They develop a coding that becomes resistant, guys. I know I'm going on for a long time.
I get fascinated, guys, by the microbiome. I really do. I'm fascinated by it. Okay.
You guys are. See why I want to give you an honorary degree, PhD in nutrition? You guys, my audience, okay? You're so smart.
Okay. Unreal. Okay. Guys, Friday, Q&A.
Friday, Q&A. If you're in the Sudbury area, you live in Northern Ontario, why don't you come and see Mwah giving a seminar October the 15th, Thursday night, 7 to 9, I think, PM. I'm going to answer all your questions. We're going to do live with Rochelle Roca, our favorite pharmacist, doing a little mini seminar.
You can watch it online if you want. If you're local, come, please. Okay? Come and join us.
I'm arranging for signing Sun, Steak and Steel. Okay? We'll do a giveaway there at that session, okay, in Sudbury. Okay, look for the poster.
I don't know what to do with that. Okay. I'm leaving it to my staff. Okay.
Love you guys big time. Think of your microbiome today. Take care of it. And don't feed the bears. Don't give yeast sugar.
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