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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning, everyone. Once again, welcome to another live this morning. Hope you're having a great start to your day. We much appreciate you guys.
We love you guys. Okay, let's get going. Well, I got a couple of studies, but I'm actually going to answer a couple of questions here today because people asked me yesterday after our session we did on high fructose corn syrup. It's not the first and it's not the last.
I looked this up. The average person in North America is ingesting 20 teaspoons of high fructose corn syrup a day. 20 teaspoons average. And again, what did we say yesterday?
No wonder the world is in the shape it's in. No wonder. And there's nothing that will pack on the fat like high fructose corn syrup. It does so much damage.
So 20 teaspoons on average. You're kidding me. No. Now, again, let me just reemphasize, okay, because again, people are misunderstanding what I'm saying.
If you eat a fruit, it's different than drinking a fruit. It's different than drinking a fruit. Okay. Now, you know what I like?
When you, like if you look at fruit, what's the best fruit in the world? Well, we have them right here in Northern Ontario. Okay. They're called blueberries.
And I mean, I did a show 1999, 1998. I've been talking about blueberries for a long time. I said, you talk about a powerful antioxidant are blueberries. Okay.
Especially, and they've compared them by the way, guys. The wild blueberries in the wild. Okay. We have them here in Northern Ontario.
They're gold. Well, it costs you just about as much to get a basket of blueberries. Okay. From Northern Ontario, I mean, they are not cheap, but they are nuggets.
I mean, in terms of what they do in your body. So I've always talked about blueberries. Remember, I'm not a carnivore. Okay.
I'm not. Some people want to be a carnivore. I got no problem with that. But as I mentioned yesterday, and I will mention it all the time, I deal with the vast majority of the population are not carnivores.
They're never going to be carnivores. They might do carnivore for a month, but they're not going to eat that way the rest of their lives. What I try and teach is, you know me. How do you keep you healthy?
And part of that, if you want to have some fruit, I'm not against that. The way I operate is just don't live on it. There's a lot of people live on fruits and vegetables. They live on the plant kingdom because they were told that that's the best way to eat.
That ain't true. That ain't true. But I do, when I, I mean, these have been analyzed and these have been studied. Like I like raspberries.
I like berries, guys. But the king of the castle is a blueberry wild. Now, store bought blueberries, they're still good. They don't have the antioxidant content of a wild blueberry.
They just don't, but they're still good. Okay. If you want to have berries, and as a matter of fact, in Dr. Martin's Perfect Smoothie, okay, that's been around for a long time, guys.
What do we recommend in there? Put some berries in there. Now, if you can get some frozen blueberries from Northern Ontario, and I know you Quebecers have it in your region too, put your hand up if you have wild blueberries in your end of the world. I don't know if you do, but I just know we're famous here in Northern Ontario.
Why do you think we have so many bears? Like my sister used to say, there's so many bears, they're buying condos. And what does a bear do to get ready for winter? Blueberries.
And I had no idea. They'll eat up to 30,000 blueberries a day. 30,000! To fatten up because of the fructose.
See, a bear knows how to fatten up. Human beings don't know what they do to fatten up. But if you eat some blueberries, I got no problem with that. Okay.
Very, very rich in polyphenols, very powerful antioxidant. Put them in Dr. Martin's Perfect Smoothie, give them to your kids, give them to your grandchildren. Excellent.
Okay. Dr. Martin, another question. Do you really mean steak?
I talked to someone yesterday. Yeah, I mean it. Okay. You want a better memory?
Eat steak. Steak is good for your brain. Okay. You want a better immune system?
Eat steak. You want a better digestive tract? Eat steak. You want a better microbiome?
Eat steak. Okay. It's anti-aging, anti-infection because it builds your immune system. You want more energy?
Eat steak. You want to take a vitamin for your heart? Eat steak. Thyroid, ladies, this is a big problem amongst women in the world today.
They have no idea because nobody told them how important nutrition is for your thyroid. Your thyroid needs selenium. It needs it. You don't get selenium in the plant kingdom.
There's enough selenium in plants for a mouse. Oh, Dr. Martin, how about Brazilian nuts? Yeah, but compared to steak?
Not even close, guys. And this is a big problem. In my practice days, I used to tell my patients, start eating steak and hamburgers fine. Roast beef is fine.
I'm telling you, okay? But you need that selenium for your thyroid. Women did made a huge mistake, okay? And I don't mean to pick on women, but women are the ones that have more trouble with their thyroid than men do.
I mean, it ain't even close, guys. It's 90 to 10. Why? Women are complicated.
They're complicated. It doesn't mean we don't love them. It's just you're complicated. You have ovaries.
Men don't. Okay? And what does that mean? Well, ovaries, you know, estrogen, progesterone really make a difference when it comes to your horror lungs.
Horror lungs. And guys, or ladies, you need to eat from the animal kingdom to get selenium. You need that. Your thyroid needs that.
And it doesn't work properly without it. The worst thing you can do for thyroid is eat only from vegetable and mostly like salad. Since the 1980s, you're eating too much salad. You're not eating enough amino acids that you need.
Your body needs, ladies. I used to have to teach them this, okay? We talk about in steak. You have somebody asked yesterday, we answered the question, what about creatine?
Do you like creatine as a supplement? Well, I love creatine. If you eat steak, you get creatine. Okay?
And that builds muscle. They're showing now that creatine is very good for the brain. Yeah. And you find it in steak.
Okay? Colline. You need colline for your brain. That's found in steak.
It's found in eggs too. Steak and eggs. How's that? Colline.
It's so good for your synapses in your brain. Carnitine. You need it. Carnosine.
You need it. CoQ10. How do you get CoQ10? Well, your body makes it.
What's a precursor to it? Steak. Steak. And plus, when you eat in the animal kingdom, but especially steak.
And again, you know, when I say steak, you know what I mean by that. If you're eating liver, beautiful. You're having hamburger without the bun, beautiful. Okay?
Yeah. But I use the word steak because that's what I like. I like hamburger too. I love roast beef too.
My dad eats steak every day, six days a week and roast beef on Sundays. Got a crazy amount. Okay? But guys, you get zinc.
Do you know that your immune system doesn't work properly without zinc and taurine? Okay? You need that, guys. Anyway, why do we see so much thyroid problems?
Why is it worse today than ever? It's one of the big reasons is the way we eat. And then you get fatty liver because we're carboholics. The liver gets gummed up with fat and you're not releasing, you don't convert T4 to T3.
Most of T4 to T3 happens in your liver. Your thyroid's just not going to work properly. People are walking around. I was reading the statistic.
What did they say? 50% of Indians from India, okay? Not our indigenous people, although they're probably worse than that. But India, 50% of their population, okay?
And a lot of them have moved over here into North America. They get fatty liver because of the way they eat. 50% of them. And we know this, guys.
Okay? We know this. It takes years before someone becomes a diabetic. A question yesterday, okay?
A question yesterday. Dr. Martin, I'm a pre-diabetic, okay? I'm from the Dr.
Kraft school, okay? Not Kraft Dinner, but Dr. Kraft, okay? Who was the world's leading expert on diabetics, okay?
You know what he said? And that guy was, like I said, the number one guy on, he died, I don't know, five years ago or whatever. But I studied him and all of his writings and all of his research. And here's what he said, no such thing as pre, because you're either on the Titanic or you're not, okay?
I use the word, I use the illustration Titanic. I've always been fascinated by that story, okay? 1912, right? Titanic, the unsinkable ship.
People thought they boasted that this ship, you couldn't sink it, not a chance. It didn't even get out of its maiden voyage. I read so much on the Titanic, okay? And that's why I love the illustration, because people that have insulin resistance and have metabolic syndrome, I didn't even learn this in school.
Can I tell you something? In the 1970s, insulin resistance, nobody ever used that word. You either a diabetic or you weren't, okay? And Dr.
Kraft, what he said and all his research showed it. You know, look, by the time you're A1C, and you know how much I love A1C, look at your blood work. Physician, heal thyself. I'm calling you people doctors out there, okay?
Because you got to doctor yourself. Look, today you can interpret. Look at your blood work. Your doctor, 99% of doctors, they don't look at what we look at.
They wait till you're sick, unless it's cholesterol. If it's cholesterol, they get nervous. You're going to have a hard time. Your cholesterol is high.
You need to be on a medication, okay? Says 99% of doctors, doctors. Because that's the way they're trained in school. You know, we talk about something quite different when it comes to your lipid, okay?
And we talk about your triglycerides and your HDL cholesterol. You want it to be high, not low. And they made out the LDL cholesterol as the boogeyman, because there's a medication for it. Does that medication, by the way, those statin drugs work?
Yes, they work. They don't prevent heart disease, but they do lower your cholesterol. Remember when we started the program this morning, calling each other fatheads? I think it was Deb said, hi, fatheads, talking to us.
She wasn't insulting us. We got fat in our brain. Hallelujah. You don't want to lower your cholesterol.
You lower your cholesterol, you're affecting your brain. Okay, now back to A1C. You know my sweet spot for your A1C, folks? The sweet spot, 5.4 or less.
If it's above, you're on the Titanic. No pre. You're either on the Titanic or you're not. Don't fool yourself.
I used to tell my patients this all the time. The worst deception is self-deception. Educate yourself. You don't have to have a PhD.
You don't have to go to medical school. As a matter of fact, you go to medical school, they're going to undo all this. Unless you get a real good functional doctor who looks at the whole picture. And God love your doctor.
If you get hit by a bus, don't call me. I used to tell my patients that. You got hit by a bus, don't call me. I can't help you.
Okay? My son-in-law is in an emergency position. You need him. You don't need me.
But if you're on the Titanic, I can help because I know exactly what to do. And I've proven it to tens of thousands of patients, real people with real numbers. A1C elevated. I said, okay, this is very simple.
You and carbs don't get along. I know, Dr. Ma, but I like them. I said, I didn't say you didn't like them.
I said, they don't like you. You're on the Titanic. And some were so bad, they already hit the iceberg. And I said, now you've got to get into a light boat.
Now you've got to get into a light boat. But it takes years. Again, here's what we teach, diabetes, you cross the line and you're a diabetic. Now your insulin is not working.
And medicine, it's all hands on deck and they put you on medication. I get it, but it's a food. Diabetes is a food condition. It's almost like the world never heard that.
What? I'm a diabetic. You've got problems. And you don't have problems with steak.
I don't, no. Steak don't give you diabetes. Eggs don't give you diabetes. Butter and cheese, they don't give you diabetes.
I don't care how much you eat of that because you don't need insulin. I used to take out a ballpoint pen. Okay. Well, I like my little ballpoint pen and don't touch it.
Nick is on with us this morning. Don't touch my pen when they work in the house because I had my pen. Don't touch it. Okay.
I'm very fussy about that. But I used to say, I took out the ballpoint pen for a couple of reasons. I said, you see this? See the ballpoint pen, the size of it?
That's the size of your pancreas. Not very big, is it? No. It's the size of a ballpoint pen.
And see the ink in the ballpoint pen? Yeah, I see that. That's insulin. That's insulin.
You need insulin. You can't live without it because insulin, main job is to take sugar, which is super destructive, and take it out of your bloodstream. Okay. That's what insulin does.
And it's a storage hormone. Take sugar, no parking, out, out, out, and then parks it in your muscle, in your liver, the Costco parking lot, or fat cells. And most people have an unlimited capacity to make fat cells. See insulin?
That's what it does. Okay. Diabetes. And remember, this is the last thing that happens in the body.
Not the first, the last. Diabetes is, see the ink in the ballpoint pen, your pancreas? There's no more ink. No more ink.
This is a new ballpoint pen, by the way. Okay. If you can see it, you can see the ink. This one started its journey yesterday with me.
Okay. I write everything out kind. I go through pens. But yesterday, I should have kept it.
If I was knowing I was going to do this illustration, I'd show you one with no ink in it. That's your pancreas in a diabetic. You got the memo? So when your A1C is above 5.4, you're on the Titanic.
What makes this ink, what makes insulin secrete lots and lots? The worst is sugar and anything that turns to sugar in nanoseconds. Bread, pasta, rice, cereals, muffins, bagels, most people's breakfast cereal. Okay.
People frosted flakes, honey nuts, cherry, don't they got honey and nuts in the Cheerios? I know. How stupid is that? Why do you want to eat that?
You know how much insulin you need to break that down? Oh, Dr. Martin, I'm drinking top. I cannot.
You know how much insulin you need when you drink juice? The number one selling drink for North Americans is orange juice. I get a migraine. How much insulin you need.
And that's why 93% of the population, not 91%, not 90%, 93.6% I believe, they're on the Titanic. They're on the road to disaster. And they don't know because nobody's told them. This is a food issue.
This is food. You're eating the wrong food. You're a carbaholic. We used to have a little ceremony in the office.
Put your hand up and repeat after me. My name is Tony and I'm a carbaholic. Because I had the blood work. It wasn't like, you know what I mean?
People would argue with that. No. I said, hey, you know what's even more important than your blood work a lot of times is your urine and you got sugar in your urine. Your body's trying to get rid of it.
Your body is fearfully and wonderfully made. Like it's unreal. Your body will do everything to get rid of excess sugar because it's so destructive. And people think, well, I need sugar.
Sugar, you need, your brain needs sugar. Eat steak. And if your brain needs sugar from it, it'll do it. You don't need to eat sugar to give yourself sugar.
Believe you me. So we used to educate patients and change their diets. And said, look, the good news is, here's the good news. Even if you're a diabetic, even if you've been given the diagnosis, you have to change the way you eat.
You have to change habits. I used to tell them, you'll thank me later. Not to my, I don't know if I can do that. Well, how badly do you want to live?
How badly? And again, I used to have charts in my office that showed insulin and insulin resistance. And I used to have a list of things that showed insulin resistance. Was that the root of heart disease?
All the big guilt. Cancer, Alzheimer's, autoimmune. If there's one thing you can do that hits a lot of different conditions, understand how your body operates and lower carbohydrate intake. Okay.
Guys, did I mention blueberries? Yes, I did. Okay. Somebody asked about blueberries.
They're good for you. Love them. Northern Ontario. Northern Ontario.
Okay. Somebody's asking, what's the recipe again for the Dr. Martin's Perfect Smoothie? What's the recipe again?
Okay. Here's the way I like it. Okay. You can put protein in there if you want.
Okay. A lot of people use our bone broth. And three or four ounces of cream, heavy cream. Okay.
Heavy fat. Okay. You can put a teaspoon of maple syrup for kids. Okay.
And I don't mean Aunt Jemima's. I mean real maple syrup or unpasteurized honey. Honey's good for you. A little bit.
Okay. Just to give it, if you need the sweetness. I don't need that. But if you've got kids and you want to feed them properly for their brain and for their body, and then put a scoop of berries, blueberries being the best, but I love strawberries.
I love raspberries. Berries are tremendous. And okay. A little bit of water.
If you want to dilute it to make a little bit more. I tell you what, guys. And what do we like adding to that? Okay.
And especially in women, this is for you, but men too, to knock their estrogen down. You know what? Flax seeds. Put them in the smoothie.
Blend it up. And you've got a milkshake that's better than McDonald's. I mean in terms of taste, guys. If they could give awards, we'd win the awards on the taste of Dr.
Martin's Perfect Smoothie. I mean that has been consistent. I've been doing this for 25 years, by the way. Okay.
Giving out this Dr. Martin's Perfect Smoothie. Because it's the way to start. It's a meal replacement.
A lot of people use it as a meal replacement. Because it's perfect for that. But for kids to start their day, instead of eating those crappy cereal and Pop Tarts and whatever else they eat, you know. I used to get all these ADD and ADH kids and autistic kids and whatever.
And I used to get Mommy Mommy. You start their day with this. It's amazing what happens to their brain. Teachers would call me, I don't know what you did, Dr.
Martin, but that kid is better. Yep. Okay. Enough yapping.
Okay. What's Friday? Q&A. Send your questions in.
Send your questions in. Okay. To info at MartinClinic.com. Guys, we love you guys.
Again, I send you flowers. Because you're the best. Talk to you soon.
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