A recent article is reporting that those who took tetracycline, an antibiotic often given to youth for acne, are developing thyroid problems later on in life. That’s millions and millions of people who were prescribed the antibiotic drug.
Antibiotics are the greatest discovery of the 20th century but have become the curse of the 21st. They’ll save your life if you have an infection, but the overuse of them will cause you harm. Research is showing when our good bacteria is wiped out, the door to fungal infections is opened.
Join Dr. Martin in today’s episode to learn how antibiotics are harming the thyroid.
TRANSCRIPT OF TODAY'S EPISODE
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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning, everyone. And once again, welcome to another live here this morning. Hope you're having a great start to your day. Okay. This morning, two stories on the thyroid that I wanna talk about. One of them just thought this weekend, people that took Tetra cycling, you know what that is? It's antibiotic often was given out for acne in their youth, Tetra cycling, very popular form of antibiotics. And what they're showing in this study is that people who took that millions and millions often develop a thyroid problem later on in life. And the overarching principle is this. And you know, you guys have heard this so many times from me is that antibiotics are the greatest discovery of the 20th century and have become the curse of the 21st. The number one cause of leaky gut. The number one, I mean, there's other causes of course of leaky gut, but antibiotics.
I put first, what are the things that we're seeing? I believe that this is why it happens to the thyroid. By the way, when you take an antibiotic, let's say your doctor suggested who enjoys acne, you know, teenager. And some of them get severe acne. And who enjoys that? Now there's hormones involved, but they already have leaky gut. If you got acne as a kid, you already got leaky gut. It's not because you make too much bacteria. There's hormones involved and young ladies, estrogen dominance, not enough progesterone in men, you know, it's leaky gut. It starts in the gut leaky gut leaky skin. You take an antibiotic and your acne clears up, but you have created a monster and I'll tell you why. Because when you wipe out your microbiome, five days, five days, it's all it takes. You wipe out your microbiome, the good guys, you get what we call an invasion of a third army.
You'll never hear it in medicine. Even though I read an article this weekend, another article on fungus and how fungal infections are probably one of the most dangerous infections that they're now seen in hospitals and medicine. Isn't good with fungus. They're not good at it. And the reason is because it's the thinking it's always bacteria or viruses. Medicine is hooked on bacteria and viruses. And the proof in the pudding is the way we handled the virus that affected the world. Virus, virus, virus, virus, virus, virus, virus, virus gotta stop it. Stop it, get it to zero, blah, blah, blah. And you know, medicine idea. Forget the immune system. They don't even talk about that. The unintended consequences of antibiotics are well established. Now please don't think for a minute. I'm against antibiotics. I am not. I am a promoter of antibiotics. If you need an antibiotic, then by all means, take an antibiotic.
If you got a raging infection, my word, please don't accuse me of that. I'm not against antibiotics. I'm against the overuse of antibiotics. And I want to educate people on the long term consequences, antibiotics, kill good guys. That's the problem. They kill bad guys, but they kill the good guys. It's friendly fire. It creates it's the number one cause of leaky gut. And then you get an invasion. If you don't have enough, good guys, you get an invasion in the body. It's called Candida albicans or yeast or fungus. And it's very, very Hardy. It's hard to get rid of it can penetrate everywhere in the body. It will travel in the bloodstream without symptoms necessarily. It will travel via the vagus nerve into the brain. And when you look at Ms, when you look at Parkinson's, what do they see that you never hear about?
It should be common knowledge. What do they see? Fungus, ALS, Lou Gehrig’s and other sclerotic diseases. I'm telling you underlying that is yeas though. Yeast. It's a fungus it's leaky gut and Tetra cycling, which I know a lot of people that were given that medication. The problem is antibiotics are meant to be temporary. And here's another thing about antibiotics. I've taught you this in the past. It's hard for people to understand this, but I've been saying it for, it seems like a century. Take an antibiotic for symptoms. You got a burning bladder infection, take an antibiotic. I got no problem with that. You know, they'll tell you what, take it for. I gotta seven day dose or whatever. Stop the antibiotic. When the pain stops, they're showing that studies have showing that I know, oh, you gotta finish the antibiotic or the infection will come back. Guys. That was fake news brought to you by the pharmaceutical companies. It really wasn't true. Use an antibiotic. I know people dentist. Oh, well, you know, we don't wanna have an infection. So take an antibiotic before you come and see me. No, take a probiotic.
What your dentist doesn't know. Won't hurt though, <laugh> you? And it won't hurt you, you know, but seriously, because what happens in five days is you wipe out everything good, bad. And then ugly comes in. Ugly is yeast. And people don't realize they have fungus. You know, unless it shows up on the skin, they don't even know it. And remember, yeast is a cousin to mold. It loves moisture. It loves your lungs. It loves your sinuses. It loves ladies. The urinary tract. Men can get a too, but women, they, you know, you talk to a woman. Who's had a yeast infection because of their anatomy.
I still believe in women being women and men being men. I know I'm old fashioned. <laugh> I'm gonna double down on that. Okay? No, but seriously guys, this, this that I didn't make up, they're showing that thyroid is being affected. They're not telling you why though, but I'm telling you why, because yeast will affect the function of your thyroid and your thyroid guys. It's the gas pedal. It's your metabolism and kids that were on antibiotics. I brought this story years ago were much more susceptible to obesity. You changed the microbiome and bacteria in your brain bacteria, in your lungs, bacteria, in your sinuses, bacteria, in your skin, talk to the bacteria in your gut. They communicate to each other. Unbelievable. <laugh> the more they study bacteria, the more they study the microbiome. It ought to fascinate all of us, but medicine oftentimes is ignorant of it.
They don't look at long-term consequences. Ah, you need an antibiotic. I just can't understand that this day and age, I really can't. How any doctor and pharmacist, when you pick up a prescription or they write out a prescription for you, how they don't say you need a probiotic. Remember you're taking an antibiotic by the way, if you're taking pain killers and all this and that, uh, those kill your friendly bacteria too. You know, people live on Tylenol and Advil. And uh, non-steroidal anti-inflammatories. I talked to a lady yesterday that no fault of her own lives on prednisone lives on better be taken probiotics. That stuff kills your friendly bacteria. The more and more we study it, the more and more we learn and your thyroid nevermind your gut. <laugh> because I'll tell you when I used to take case histories, I'm a history puff. <laugh> in all facets.
I love world history. And I love your history because it was clues. Tell me about your past when you were a kid. Lots of antibiotics. I used to ask that question. Uh, yeah. Come to think of it. Yeah. I used to tell 'em now it's coming back to bite you. What? Well, you got major digestive issues. Yes. Eh, I, I can point back to your childhood and now you've got a major, not only leaky gut, but you have a major fungal yeast, Candi infection in your gut. What do you think, guys? What do you think SIBO is much more common than we think. And you guys know this we've renamed it. We call it sea at the Martin clinic, small intestine, fungal overgrow. I know medicine says it's bacterial and there is bacteria there, but that's not the problem. In my opinion, it's the fungus.
That's the problem. Small intestine, fungal overgrowth. It can create havoc because in the small intestine, I mean, you can get digestive issues and bloating and cramping and you don't feel good. Your gut don't feel good. Your gut is angry. Your gut is angry. You gotta kill that geese, man, you gotta kill that fungus in there. And that's why the treatment for SIBO, which is called in medicine. And you know what I hate to tell you this, most doctors don't even know what that is. Could they? They haven't studied it, but it's not really SIBO the ladies. I use the example of you guys, when you get a bladder infection, Hey, it's not really bacteria. Okay. What? Yeah. There's bacteria there. An E coli might be sitting in the bladder. There's no doubt about that. But especially if it's reoccurring, it is yeast. That lines, the bladder wall and the ethers and those little connections and you're fully east in there. And then you get a bladder infection. Yeah. But it's east underlying in it.
Now I've told you this story, but it bears repeating about cancer and fungus. You know, there are doctors who preached that every cancer was a fungal infection. Yeah. I remember talking to a guy. Well, I was in the green room. You know what a green room is? <laugh> a green room. When you're on to go on a, a television show. I used to do a lot of that stuff. Okay. When I wrote books, I had an agent <laugh> I went around the world really? Okay. And you know, I had my own radio show, but I often did radio and TV interviews. And I remember sitting in the green room and I was going on a program and talking about chronic fatigue syndrome. I'll never forget it. And there was an pathologist oncologist in there, a Dr. Simonin I think I pronounced that. Right. I could hardly understand him, but he was going on after me.
I was being interviewed first. He was second, but it was interesting. I was listening to him. I asked him a questions about his background and who he is and why he was on the program. And he said, well, something I'll never forget. He said, all cancers in an Italian accent are fungal based. I mean, not just about blew me away folks, uh, we're talking, was it in the early nineties? Late eighties? What? Yep. He said, when I do pathology, when I do biopsies and I put that thing under a microscope, those cancer cells fungal that my friend should have turned medicine on its head. Now they called him a quack. <laugh> I've been called that a few times. <laugh> more than a few, but you know, again, the double engine store of antibiotics. And by the way, he said that too, I'd already said it with chronic fatigue. I said, that's interesting. I'm here on chronic fatigue. And I did 500 patients. We did their research. We did their history. We, whatever, you know what? The common denominator was antibiotics as kids, Tetra cycling, being one of them. And these people were now exhausted. I mean, this was guys, this was the late eighties. And he said, yeah, antibiotics cancer down the road. If you don't fix it. And this is why remember yeast flourishes. When you feed it, where do you think the expression don't feed the bears comes from.
Okay. Where do you think that comes from? I don't want you to feed yeast. Yeast like cancer once fuel it thrives on sugar. It hates yeast. Listen to me, hates steak, hates it. Yeast hates steak cuz they can't live on it. It needs sugar. It needs rapid fire. It needs rapid fuel. So when people insist on eating sugar, especially when you drink it, oh, in nanoseconds, you're feeding yeast. Yeast goes, well, thank you very much. And now I'm going to grow, grow, grow. It's an invasive species. I call it the third army and yeast takes no prisoners. My friend, except you. Chronic sinusitis loves the lungs, asthma and C O P D in non-smokers loves the brain, loves to get at the neurological system, loves the skin. You see something on skin just about invariably, just think fungus, eczema, psoriasis. And it's an underlying condition on people that get that recurring cellulitis.
That's a big problem today. Cellulitis. I mean, in the seventies cellulitis, it's not like I never saw it or never heard of it. It was so rare. I mean, why did cellulitis today? People get recurring cellulitis and then they give them more and more and more antibiotics. And I, I understand why they give an antibiotic. You don't want cellulitis. You can become sepsis with it. It can get into your bloodstream and kill you. But the reason it's so hearty, there's an underlying fungal condition. And it's one of the biggest problems. When we use so many antibiotics, I brought you this study while survey really, maybe a few weeks ago. As a matter of fact, it just came out as a podcast. Doctors didn't get the memo, go listen to that podcast. They're not getting the memo because they're prescribing antibiotics. When they shouldn't antibiotics should be saved for when you really need it.
Now we're getting all these super bugs super bacteria. But what we don't talk about is super yeast. Cuz I'm telling you once that gets thriving in a person's body and today because we feed it, we're consuming about 200 stinking pounds of sugar a year. And people don't even realize it cuz they don't know how to read labels. They think they're drinking good stuff. So I'm having a smoothie. It ain't Dr. Martin's perfect smoothie. It's all sugar. Well look good guys. That's you see, that's a big, big issue today. The article was saying, yeah and it affects your thyroid down the road, the thyroid, you know what the thyroid does a lot of times it's autoimmune any autoimmune like hash modes, graves, whether the thyroid is going this way or it's going that way and SL it most of the time it's hypo hypothyroid. The thyroid is your gas pedal.
Now your gas pedal, doesn't go to the floor. You don't have the energy. Your metabolism slows down. When your metabolism slows down, you look at food and you gain weight. Remember there's lots of things attached to that. Thyroid. Lots of strings attached to it. And the thyroid people are walking around. They're lethargic. They don't feel good. And the doctor, yeah, your thyroid numbers are pretty good. I mean they're within normal image. Yeah. But normal in a thyroid numbers are from here to eternity. I mean you have no idea. And that's why I've always been a symptom guy. Give me your symptoms. Oh your hair's falling out. <laugh> I'm a visual guy. Right? So I look and women would come into my office and they must have think, what is he staring at? <laugh> I'm looking at your eyebrows. I'm looking at your hair. I'm looking at your skin observation today.
You know, when you get your doctor over Skype. Oh no, seriously. You know, we're having a problem in Ontario here where doctors, you know, they're used to restrictions. And so, ah, I don't know if I wanna go back to practice. I can talk to you over the phone or I can let's FaceTime. Hey, it's not the same. My friend. I'm an observation guy. I used to tell women some men, but mostly women. I tell 'em even without doing testing, I mean the test would come after and I go, you got a thyroid problem. I do. My doctor says I don't. Yeah. Do how you feeling? Uh, not so good. Gaining weight. Yeah. How's your energy. Eh, not good. I'm tired. I'm tired, doc. I'm being tired. Yeah. How many times I heard that and then I'd go in their history a lot of times. And I found out, yeah, when they were kids, they were on antibiotics and that's coming back to bite them, sluggish, everything.
Ladies, your hair is your glory, not normal for a woman to lose hair. Okay. When that happens, it's horrors hundred percent always. And there's reasons for it. And one of them is fungal. It attacks the thyroid. How many women even listening to me this morning, know exactly what I'm talking about and how women who are listening to me this morning have had any kind of history of thyroid polyps or enlarged thyroid. And you know, I feel, uh, you know, like I got like a lump in my throat, inflammation, why fungal and the thyroid stops working properly. It doesn't mean it doesn't work. It just doesn't work at the level. It should work at, we used to have a term that I used in the office all the time. I haven't used it in a while called subclinical. What's that mean? Well, you know the blood test, don't pick it up.
The routine blood tested. Don't pick it up. That's why you never, never, never in my history of practice would ever do any kind of blood test without history. Give me history, man. <laugh> how you feeling. I need information then, you know, information present plus blood work. Now it makes sense in a lot of ways. And I always told my staff, you asked me that you asked Nicole, anybody, Brandy, that ever work with me, what did I used to tell 'em all the time in the office. It was, I used to say it all the time symptoms, Trump, the lab, the lab's good. The lab is good symptoms. Trump, the lab. And when medicine got hooked on lab results in the absence of taking history of symptoms, they made a big mistake. Doctors need to listen. Linda, listen to patients because they have inside information, observe patients. Cuz you can see a lot. If you're looking in the right places, it will give you all these clothes. One lady said to me, you're in my space cause I was stealing her thyroid and taking her glasses off. Cause I wanted to look at her eyebrows and she said, you're in my space. I said, you're in my space. You're in my office. Sorry. This is my space. You come to see me. I'm gonna be all over you. Okay.
You're in my space. <laugh> she didn't like anybody coming close to her. I can imagine what she was like through the virus she scrapers. But you see it was my, is it too bad? So sad. It's the way it is in this place. I'm getting up. <laugh> I'm gonna look you right in the eyeballs. Okay? Oh, I'd love to train practitioners today to get back and be good doctors. Get back to the old fashioned. Hey, let's hear your history, man. There's something near telling me here that makes a lot of sense to the reason why you feel like you are today. Anywho. Isn't that an interesting study on the thyroid Tetra cycling comes back to haunt the thyroid later on takes years for yeast to spread its tentacles and latch on to your organs.
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