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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.
We sure appreciate you guys coming on. Have I ever said that to you before? How much I appreciate this audience? I probably never have, right? Well, I do. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Okay. Brenda has a question about MRSA. M-R-S-A. You know what that is? A resistant bacteria. And it ain't no fun. And we talked about that.
I actually talked about that this week. Why we have so much resistant to antibiotics. We overuse them. Antibiotics, wonderful discovery in medicine.
Probably the greatest. Insulin was a very important discovery. Antibiotics have saved millions and millions of people's lives. No doubt about that.
But it's a double-edged sword. And bacteria have an intelligent. And they develop a resistance. Okay?
They develop a resistance to antibiotics. And doctors know this. And yet they're so overprescribed antibiotic. And they start right in children with ear aches and even throat.
And look, I'm not saying that sometimes you got an earache, a kid, and the pus coming out. Well, then it's pretty well a good reason to take an antibiotic because it's bacterial. But you know what? Most ear conditions, most even more, most are, they're viral.
They're not even bacteria. But let's give them an antibiotic. The problem is, again, like I say, they developed a resistance. And now you got superbugs.
And MRSA is a resistant bacteria. And she's saying, my son gets this six times. Look, a couple of things. Okay, Brenda?
A couple of things. If your son will listen, he absolutely needs to get on probiotics because the antibiotic that he continues to take carpet bombs the microbiome. We did a whole session on that this week. It's carpet bombing.
And a lot of people down the road, they get autoimmune disorders because of that. But when your body is not fighting a resistant bacteria, you need to get your gut right. You need to be on vitamin D and find out what the vitamin D levels are because your immune system isn't going to work unless you have vitamin D.
Vitamin A, vitamin A, eat steak. Why vitamin A? It is so good for your immune system. Vitamin D, vitamin A, and then the oom-pah-pah, oil of oregano.
Every day, three or four drops, twice a day even with this condition. Because it is a natural antibiotic, a natural antiviral, a natural antiparasitic, a natural antifungal. Why do you think I love oil of oregano so much? It's crazy how good it is.
Propionics, vitamin D, eat your vitamin A. See, another thing too that people are very deficient in and they never think of it because nobody ever talks about that is a mineral called zinc. And because they don't eat enough steak, they don't get enough zinc and they don't get enough vitamin A. And vitamin A is not in carrots.
Betacarotene is a precursor to vitamin A, but it ain't vitamin A. Proretinol A is found in eggs, meat, and cheese. Eat vitamin A and zinc. Okay, thank you for the question.
And that was Brenda. Joan, family member. I think I talked about this last week, but let's do it again. Pseudogout.
Okay, pseudogout. Now, you've got two types of gout. You've got uric acid, okay, uric crystals, and then you have pseudogout, which is calcium crystals. The only way really to differentiate is to take a syringe, put it into the affected joint, take out the fluid, and analyze the fluid.
Is it calcium or is it uric crystal? Okay. Now, let me tell you about pseudogout for a minute. That's usually in older people, okay, unlike gout can hit a lot of people.
It's got no age discrimination and it's pain that comes out of nowhere. My experience with pseudogout is that it's usually in the knee in older people. And again, the only way to completely differentiate, a doctor takes fluid out and they send it to the lab to get analyzed. Like, is it uric acid crystals or is it calcium crystals?
Okay. So, and then what do you do? I like, first of all, with gout, it ain't purines. If you're talking about uric acid, it's high fructose corn syrup is the number one problem.
It's fructose in gout. It's insulin resistance in gout. Okay. So, you've got to lower that.
Pseudogout is more calcium crystals, could be the parathyroid. And usually what I found, again, they're low in magnesium, they don't, they're low in magnesium, and magnesium helps with calcium. It negates it or neutralizes it. How's that?
So, merci pour les questions. Now, anti-inflammatory, curcumin, DHA, very anti-inflammatory, Navitol, very anti-inflammatory. Okay. That was Joanne and that was for a struggling member of the family.
Linda, you've been taking magnesium citrate. Good for you. Oh, you do both. You do magnesium citrate, you do magnesium by glycinate, and you're asking, we have magnesium citrate and selenium in the thyroid supplement.
Does that mean I could stop taking extra supplements? Well, you could. Linda, you could. I don't know how your thyroid is functioning, but the thyroid support, but has much less magnesium citrate in there than you would get just in a separate capsule of it.
There's less. You've got selenium in there. I mean, that's sort of up to you. I mean, Linda, if you were a patient in my clinical days, I would tell you very specifically based on your symptoms and how you're doing.
Somebody asked, okay, hold on, because I thought, okay, Glenda, let me answer Glenda's question at the same time. Glenda is asking, how do I know if I'm taking too much magnesium? Well, generally, and this usually happens only with magnesium citrate, you'll get a loose stool. If you're getting diarrhea for no reason or a very loose stool, you could be taking too much magnesium.
And then I would get patients just to flip forms. If citrate is bothering you, take the bike glycinate. But getting back to the question that Linda is asking, Linda, like, look, I had tens of thousands of patients take the thyroid formula. I still had them on extra magnesium.
I love magnesium. I just mentioned it with pseudo-gum. Magnesium is so good for you because most people are low in it and your body needs magnesium. It's not in the soil anymore.
So therefore, it's not really in food like it used to be. So magnesium is so good for you. Think of the word relax. Magnesium relaxes your blood vessel.
It lowers your cortisol. It relaxes. And even for blood pressure, magnesium is important. And it neutralizes to some extent calcium, not like vitamin K2 does, but still good for you.
You got to figure that out, Linda. Alice, what causes balance issue as we age, particularly in the 80s? Okay, let me give you several reasons. Inner ear, you got little mechanism in there.
Okay. And it keeps you balanced. A lot of people with scar tissue, glycation of the middle ear, they have balance problems. Another big reason is sarcopenia, muscle, loss of muscle.
And a lot of people have balance problems because they're so weak. They have no muscle. You have muscles that help in what they call proprioception. Okay?
So the stronger you are as you get older, those proprioception muscles, especially in your leg, they balance you. They give you a firm foundation of your footing. So many seniors, they fall, they break their hips. And one of the biggest factors in that is sarcopenia.
They don't have enough muscle. This is why I preach it all the time. Get stronger, get stronger, get stronger. Okay?
It could be vision, right? Eyes, your depth perception. And that can give you an imbalance. Okay?
Medications, high blood pressure medications. And sometimes they work and they work too much and you can lose your balance. And, you know, neurological, you know, the brain, there's scar tissue in there. It can be a lot of things, right?
After a stroke, for example. Okay. That was Alice. Rhonda, help me, Rhonda, help, help.
Okay. I know, I sing way too much. Okay. Thyroid again.
Okay? You say, Dr. Martin, that you can't always determine thyroid, how it's functioning by testing. That's true.
What do I always say? Symptoms trump thyroid. Okay? Now, blood work, especially with the thyroid.
Because blood testing for the thyroid, between low and high thyroid, you have eternity. Okay? Now I'm going to give you my rule of thumb. Okay?
Because it's just a rule of thumb. There's exceptions to it. I found, okay, that if your TSH above one, especially in two to four, you're very sluggish. That's just my clinical experience.
But I never relied on blood work when it came to the thyroid. I relied on symptoms. You're losing your hair, your nails, your skin ain't what it used to be. You look at food sideways and you're gaining weight.
It's horrible. And what do I teach you guys with the thyroid? The thyroid is like a puppet. It's got a lot of strings attached to it.
The thyroid rarely, rarely, rarely ever acts on its own. It's connected, ladies, especially you guys, to your ovaries. It's connected to your adrenals, your cortisol. It's connected to your liver health.
It's connected to your pancreas, insulin. Okay? It's connected to your brain, your hypothalamus. A lot of strings attached to the thyroid.
Okay? So you've got to know all that. And that's why in practice, I didn't rely only on blood work. What's the question?
Okay. What are the tests to determine? Well, again, it's not testing, it's symptoms. But if you can get a doctor that knows anything about horror modes, they know what to do.
They're looking at progesterone. They're looking at estrogen dominant. They're looking at cortisol levels. Got to get all that.
Thank you. That was Ronda. Help me. Georgie.
Is it you, Georgie, in Halifax? A seven-year-old husband had a heart attack two years ago. Okay. Put on two statins.
Yep. Took them because he was scared not to. Yeah, they scare you into it. Resulted in many side effects, lots of muscle pain, weakness.
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. Very common. Very common. Okay?
The side effect. I'm going to do a whole show again on the side effects of statin drug. Okay? Muscle.
Romboliathesis. I used to see it in my office all the time. I told you this story. This guy comes in.
He can't even unbutton his shirt. First question out of my mouth. Are you on statin drugs? He didn't even know what a statin drug is.
I said, are you on a cholesterol-lowering medication? He said, yeah. How do you know that? I said, that's why your arms don't work.
You want to lower cholesterol? You want to lose your brain? Your brain's made up of cholesterol. Oh, I didn't answer the question yet.
I'm just reading. Would you tell him what to do now to keep his heart healthy? Okay. Thanks, Georgie.
After I finish my rant on statin drugs, I'm not in practice anymore. This is educational purposes. Okay? Here's what I want, Georgie.
What is his triglycerides? What is his HDL? I want to know that. I want to know his A1C because that's what I look at for heart.
I want to know the triglycerides. I want to know HDL. Find out what the ratio is. And here's some things you can do to prevent.
I love lubricating the blood vessels. He needs an oil change. Keep your oil changed in your body. What do I mean by that?
High DHA oil, the best oil in the world for your blood vessels. It keeps your blood vessels lubricated so they're not sticky. Don't eat sugar because that damages your blood vessel. If you don't believe me, ask a diabetic.
Diabetics are 10 times more likely to have a heart attack than the normal population. 10 times. Hello? Why?
Why would a diabetic be 10 times more likely to have a heart attack? Sugar destroys blood vessels. 100%. Cut the sugar.
Check the A1C. Okay, Georgie? I love Navitol. Why do I love Navitol?
For heart and brain. Blood flow, blood flow, blood flow elevates nitric oxide, opens blood vessel, opens them. Nitric oxide. That's why I do it.
That's why I recommend it. DHA, Navitol, lubricate, lubricate. Cut out the sugar. I like curcumin too because it's very anti-inflammatory.
But that's what I would do. Okay, that was Georgie Peggy talking about the thyroid again. I guess they found a nodule. Okay.
And you're asking what makes nodules grow? Very good question. What makes nodules grow? Here's some growth hormones.
Insulin, it's a growth hormone. It makes things grow. Insulin. How do you tackle insulin?
Food. Lower carbs. Lower carbohydrates. You lower carbs, you lower insulin.
Get rid of the breads, the noodles, the rice, the cereals, the sugar, the sweets, the pastries, the muffins, the bagels, juice. Anything else I forgot? Soda. Stop it.
Okay. Because that's what makes things grow. And sugar fuels cancer cells. We know that through pet scans.
And we knew it really since 1928. The Warburg effect. Cancer. But these are nodules.
Doesn't mean they're cancerous, right? You don't want to go there. The other one is estrogen. Estrogen makes you a woman.
Isn't it beautiful? Are women beautiful or what? Yes, they have estrogen. Beautiful.
Except if you got too much of it. I used to tell my patients that. You're too much of a woman. Oh, Dr.
Martin. Yeah, I said you're too much of a woman. I get men in my office. They had prostate problems.
I said, you got more estrogen than your wife has. Your testosterone goes down and your estrogen goes up. It's a growth hormone. You don't want that.
I like flaxseeds because they lower estrogen. I love dimming them out with the menopausal formula. It should be on that. It should be on the thyroid formula, menopausal formula.
Okay. And doing a biopsy. Again, Peggy, I can't tell you not to do a biopsy. I just think doctors do way too many biopsies.
One of the things, like if your body, okay, I try and teach this. When your body encapsulates, your body is unreal. It's so fearfully and wonderfully made. Your body knows how to fight.
So there's a tumor. It encapsulates it. And doctors, I get it. It's their training.
They want to puncture that. Oh, you got to find out if you got cancer in there. Yeah, but the cancer is encapsulated. The cancer got a sheath over it.
It's keeping it there. There's two schools. And I'm in the little narrow school. Okay.
I know that I'm in the minority by far because most doctors are trained not to prevent the cancer, but to treat the cancer. You know, you wait in Canada for a year to see a doctor a lot of times, but man, oh man, when they find cancer and they want to do a biopsy and they find cancer, they don't even let you think.
You got to get this chemo, then you got to get radiation, and you got to this, and we got a surgery, and right now, and this minute, and not tomorrow. And I'm into prevention. And you know, a nodule, okay, I'm not saying don't look at it, or you know, you can ultrasound it, but why do you got a biopsy?
Now you're releasing that cancer cell. It's another school of thought. And you know, I don't know how many women, they get biopsies based on a mammogram, for example. Now they're playing with it.
Men, how many times I used to see that in my office, they got their prostate and they got to do a biopsy. And then, you know, 14 needles into the prostate looking for cancer. And you know, again, you got two schools. Just understand where I'm coming from.
I'm not telling you what to do. I'm not. I'm just giving you info. Okay, Joanne, dermatologist wants to put her on a biologic, okay, biologic to treat psoriasis, right?
And it's got side effects. You can get thrush, and those biologics are there to reduce inflammation, but they're very strong, and they got side effects. One of them is thrush. Pro-biotic.
Don't leave home without them. Probiotic. You should be on oil or oregano, because if you got psoriasis, you got leaky gut, and you have a fungal infection already. 100% for sure.
I've never seen, Joanne, an exception to it. Probiotics, oil or oregano. Okay. David's talking about another.
I answered that on Monday. Periosnodularis. You mentioned leaky gut fungus. Well, the fungus, again, okay, because David's asking, how do I address the fungus?
Well, number one, don't feed it, because fungus lives on sugar. So don't feed the bears. That's where that expression came from, guys. Okay?
This is pre, don't feed the bears is pre-podcasting. It comes from my radio show that I had for over 20 years. I used to say, don't feed the bears, because when you get leaky gut, you get the invasion of the third army. It's fungal.
It's yeast. It's candida, and it lives on sugar. Don't feed it. Probiotics help to kill it, especially El Ruderai and El Rhamnosus kill fungus.
Oil or arignal kills fungus. David. Thank you, David. You have probiotics, big time for sure.
Tam, tomatoes. You say potatoes, I say tomatoes. Isn't that a song? No.
Tam is asking a question, okay? Did they pull tomatoes usually when they're green before they turn red? Did they lose their nutritional value? Eh, maybe a bit.
They're still full of lycopene. That I know. What are tomatoes good for? Lycopene.
Watermelon. What is it good for? Lycopene. Lycopene is very good for the urinary tract.
Okay? Tomatoes, by the way, when they're out here, outside your body, they're acidic. Tomatoes are acidic, but once they're inside your body, they turn alkaline. So you like tomatoes?
I got no problem with that. Did they lose a little bit of nutritional value? Eh, maybe. Not much.
A little bit. But we live in the world, unless you got tomatoes in your backyard, you got to go to the grocery store to get your tomatoes, and they're still good for you. You know, if you had them in the backyard and you were organic and everything else, yeah, you got more nutrition in them. But lycopene has been measured, and you got very good amounts of lycopene.
Powerful antioxidant. Okay. That was tomatoes. Darla, opinion about Pulsento.
I don't know. It's a device, right, that stimulates the vagus nerve. What is the vagus nerve? Not lost vagus.
Your vagus nerve is your tenth cranial nerve. Okay? It connects the brain to your gut. It connects it.
Okay? When you get butterflies, right, you're nervous. You get butterflies. Why do I have butterflies in my stomach when I'm nervous in my brain?
I'm thinking. I got to give a speech. And you get the butterflies. Well, that's your vagus nerve.
Your brain talking to your tummy. Okay? The tenth cranial nerve. And these machines, apparently, they stimulate that, a pulse too.
I was in practice almost 50 years. And I don't know, there was no pulsetos around when I was in practice. Did they work? I don't know.
You know, I don't know. I haven't had any, you know, I mean, you can read reviews on it, I guess. But if you're asking me for a review, when I don't have personal experience with it, if I didn't have patience, it came to me and said, you know what, Doc, that really, really helps. I don't know what to say too much sometimes.
Okay? Because I don't have that personal experience with this device. Is it good? I don't know.
You tell me. Maybe there's some people on our scroll that know more. Okay. Why don't we just leave this all there?
Because we have a lot of questions still. Okay. We're gonna leave this till Monday. I gotta breathe for a minute here.
Okay? Because I haven't breathed in about 35 minutes. Now I gotta take a breath. Okay.
Guys, see how much fun we have on Q&A. Guys, Monday, we're gonna do Q&A. I love you guys. We'll talk to you soon.
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