We all know what stress is. There isn’t anyone that doesn’t experience stress. The problem is when our stress is prolonged, it becomes dangerous to our bodies.
When we are stressed, our adrenals produce cortisol. Cortisol is fine in the short-term, but it’s the constant drip, drip, drip over a long period of time that is very damaging. Too much cortisol affects all parts of our bodies.
Join Dr. Martin as he teaches on the connection between stress and low levels of testosterone in men and progesterone in women.
TRANSCRIPT OF TODAY'S EPISODE
Announcer: You're listening to The Doctor Is In Podcast, brought to you by MartinClinic.com. During the episode, the doctors share a lot of information. As awesome as the info may be, it is not intended to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent any disease. It's strictly for informational purposes.
Dr. Martin: Well, good morning, everyone. Welcome to another live this morning and hope you're like me having a great start to your day. How you doing? Did you have your vitamin C yet? I hope so. Yesterday. I had an opportunity to speak at our church. Okay. Even on Sunday <laugh> I was bringing them the latest on mental health and tying it into the Bible. Okay. Now let me go over some stuff that stress does. Okay. So you know what stress is. There isn't anyone that doesn't experience stress and when it's prolonged, it's dangerous. Okay. Prolonged stress. And you, and I know this because we've been talking about the hormone that's released cortisol, the drip, drip, drip of cortisol over a long period of time. Very damaging. We're gonna talk about that this morning, but let me just tell you how your body operates to a certain extent when you are feeling stressed, negative emotions, bitterness.
Okay. Bitterness, your hypothalamus responds to that. Okay. Fear, anxiety. It was amazing how many people talked to me after my message and told me they really suffer from that. Well, I said, you're not alone. My practice was mainly hormonal insulin, estrogen, testosterone, and cortisol. Okay. And of course the thyroid, but the thyroids a puppet, it doesn't act on its own. So the area in your brain that responds to stress, anxiety, emotional, it's called your hypothalamus. Remember two areas in the brain, the rest of it, you don't even have to think about, okay. Hypothalamus, horrors, iCampus memory. Two means centers of the brain. Okay? Now, when the hypothalamus gets outta kilt, because of the constant stress, prolonged and anxiety, a lot of bad things happen because the body has to respond to that stress. And your hypothalamus becomes overwhelmed. It's sending signals to your adrenals to release cortisol and the top in this day and age, it's incredible.
It absolutely revolutionized my practice. My friend cortisol cortisol is the accelerator. It cortisol is adding fuel to flames and it messes you up big time. A lot of people think of only cortisol as anxiety. Okay? So a lot of anxiety, you're not sleeping. One of the symptoms, insomnia, or you're not getting recuperative sleep because your body is wired. Uh, and remember a certain amount of stress is actually good for you. You have a body, you have adrenals add renal on top of kidneys. If I come up behind you and scare you, uh, that's normal, your body will respond. You turn around and kick me or you run. Okay? So that's all right. But when it's prolonged is very dangerous. Almost every area of your body is affected by that. And what I was saying yesterday is that cortisol messes you up. Prolonged. It messes you up.
It accelerates inflammation in the body, but let's talk a little bit because we wrote an email the other day, and we talked about testosterone in men, okay? Testosterone in men. And you know my saying, most men over 50 have more estrogen than their wives. Women's estrogen is going down in per menopause or menopause. It's just normal. It's going down and men's estrogen is going up. And if men have high levels of estrogen, I'm gonna tell you something. Their testosterone is sinking badly. And we brought out a statistic that in the year, 2000 to the year 2022 were in a 22 year old male today in 2022 had the levels of testosterone today of a 67 year old man. We're losing our team men. We're losing our T. One of the factors is cortisol. It's stress. See stress hits a man. And guys, I believe in men and I believe in women.
Okay. Like, I'm sorry. I'm old fashioned. Now when men have low teeth, there's not good for anything. Okay. And cortisol, lowers T okay. In women cortisol, scratch hormone. Remember follow this with me. Cortisol robs, progesterone. See, you know, men testosterone is king. There's no queen there. Okay. Testosterone is king in women. You have a king and queen and they are equal. You have to understand that you better understand that because I get asked this question almost on a daily basis. Well, doc, how can I have estrogen dominance? I'm in menopause very easily because you want a balance. You have a king and you have a queen. Ladies. Your king is estrogen. The queen co region is progesterone. They have to be balanced. Women need balance. Men need a king. They don't need a queen. You marry one <laugh> and she'll keep you on the straight narrow.
Okay. Now coming back to cortisol, cortisol destroys testosterone in a man. Not good, very dangerous in a lot of ways for a man. Imagine that's statistic at the turn of the century in the year 2000. Can you remember back then when Y2K <laugh> we were all scrambling to make sure our computers didn't close down, but a 67 year old man in the year 2000 had as much on average testosterone as a 22 year old man has today. That is craziness. Craziness. If you don't think we live in a different world, I don't know what to tell you folks. It's why I always talk nutrition. Eh, things are changed. Things have changed. And we have to understand that here we out, men and Tony junior, and I agree with this statistic, by the way, uh, 90% of men after the age of 40 have low levels of testosterone, 90%. One of the robbing factors of testosterone in men is cortisol affects a man differently than a woman.
Stressed, lowers testosterone lowers the boom on testosterone in a man. When tea gets low, a man doesn't do well. Okay? Fatigued, low motivation, low li BELE, E D. Lot of times declining motivation. I said that difficulty losing weight loss. I just wrote them down. Loss of muscle mass, prostate problems, loss of memory, heart problems. Remember inflammation is involved when you have three things going on in the body. It's the three seeds of disease that we always talk about at the Martin clinic, leaky gut high circulating insulin, that's food and oxidation, free, radical damage. Those three things create inflammation. Then you add stress cortisol. And now the inflammation spreads like wildfire. And that my friend attacks the heart big time in men, especially, and their brain.
And they get cognitive issues. Their memory's not as good. Their motivation. Isn't there. Premature aging anxiety. Obviously there's a lot of symptoms, but can become very dangerous in a woman. When you have high cortisol, it's not good either because cortisol in a woman will Rob a woman's progesterone. Remember the queen, okay. Progesterone pro gestation, the baby hormone, not doc. What do I need a baby? Me hormone. I'm not gonna have any more babies. You still need it. Progesterone is important. All of your life, ladies, all of your life, you need progesterone. It is the equalizer. It's the balancer. And listen, when you get estrogen dominance, because your progesterone is being robbed by cortisol. Estrogen is up. May not seem high to you, but compared to progesterone is up. You know what it does. It slows your thyroid down. The thyroid becomes sluggish. The thyroid is your gas pedal. Your thyroid is important for your body. Temperature, your thyroid E weight. Ladies, men, Hey, men don't gain weight because of thyroid. They're just bad eaters.
Okay? Women gain weight without eating food. Maybe they have to look at it, but they don't even have to eat. And they gain weight. You know, ladies stress, it's a fat blocker. <laugh> it don't allow you to lose fat because cortisol rubs your progesterone and slows the thyroid. Cuz you get estrogen dominance. I used to watch for that in my office all the time. It always amazed me. How little the world knows about horrors medicine, terrible at it. You have to look at everything holistically. You have to look at the whole body. How is it operating? And when no one's taking your case history, how that heck do they know if your cortisol is high stress really can affect your body. Big time. Men testosterone, women, estrogen dominance caused by low levels of progesterone. Cuz your cortisol robs progesterone. It's complicated, but it's not that complicated.
And it messes you up. Doc. I'm losing my hair. Now if a man loses his hair, okay. Honest. What ahead of hair I had <laugh> okay. A man losing hair. Eh, so what? It doesn't mean bad hormone. You know people try and tell me, ah, I say, look, we're from another planet. Okay? It's different. But ladies, you should never lose your hair when you're eating, you might thin it out a little bit, but you shouldn't really be losing hair. Your hair is your glory. Your hair is everything. <laugh> you know, I mean for a woman, come on, but stress related diseases. Okay. I wanna spend a few minutes on this. The perfect storm ladies. I'm gonna tell you something. You can't get breast cancer. In my opinion, without stress being involved, it creates inflammation in the body. Stress will lower your immunity. You know, people think of immunity.
Oh, immunity is for bugs viruses, bacteria. Yeah, that's true. But it's also, your body has natural killer cells and they're always on the lookout for cancer. You know what puts 'em to sleep sugar and another S stress puts 'em to sleep. They can't do their job and I've never seen the case. And I mean it, I remember women crying in my office. They already had breast cancer. They're coming to me and they wanna get their estrogen balanced with their progesterone. Well, they didn't know that when they were coming to me, but I was explaining to them. I said, you have estrogen dominance. It makes things grow, grow, grow. Especially in breast tissue, you got too much estrogen. You're too much of a woman. We're gonna help you with that. And I said, now tell me you got cancer, right? Yep. Okay. Let's talk about your life a little bit and I'm not kidding you guys.
I'm not kidding you. I can't even think of one exception of it. The stress was there looking after mom and dad or mom died or dad's alone and family dynamics, children, you know, not well or sick or off the rails or marriage problems, financial problems, emotional stress. It's a big factor when it comes to especially breast cancer and guys breast cancer. Ooh, I get uptight. When I see a pink ribbon <laugh> I do. Okay. It gives me a migraine. We pour not millions. Billions in Canada and the United States every year wear pink. Well I'm sorry, but where is that money going?
Oh, cancer research. Yeah. About 10% of it are less. But even then what's it going into, uh, they're trying to find the cure for cancer. Oh, I get a splitting migraine. What you think a pill is gonna fix that? I mean there's multiple factors. Listen, I, I agree. Let's lower estrogen. Let's balance the hormones. You better get on a diet with no sugar, no crappy carbs. I wrote an article for a magazine a couple of months ago and I talked about oxalates in women, breast tissue. Yeah, I know you're not a rabbit. That's what I try and tell women. You're not a rabbit OC. I love my sailing. Yeah, but it creates oxalates and oxalates people think of only kidney stones. And I was showing them some research that in breast cancer, oxalates are usually very high because women have bought the live that animal food and it's gonna get worse.
Ladies, get ready. The onslaught is coming to a theater near you. Don't eat meat. Don't eat meat, don't eat meat. And there's gonna be radical people that are gonna be at the grocery stores blocking the aisles. Maybe. So you can't get at your meat. I'm telling you my friend, the world's gone crazy on steroids. An agenda oxalates. Eh, it's not everything. But I used to look at all those factors. The best thing you can eat for cancer is steak. How's that? The best? Nothing like it. Why? Well, one of the growth factors in cancer, breast cancer and prostate cancer in any cancer is insulin. Insulin is a growth hormone and you only use insulin when you eat and you use a lot of it when you eat wrong. And when you use a lot of insulin, you are gonna create a cascade of problems called metabolic syndrome in your body.
It's food. What? Doctor's gonna talk to you about food. Ooh, I get excited cardiovascular more in men than women. As far as stress goes. I'm not saying that stress can't affect a woman's cardiovascular system. It certainly can't, but it's not the primary thing. Stress cardiovascular men because of testosterone. That's sinking testosterone in a man protects his heart. That's why you can be skinny as a raped and be very unhealthy in a man. Very unhealthy because testosterones often low 90% after the age of 40, that's hard on your heart, man. It's hard on your brain. It's hard on your heart. It's hard on your sex life. Ladies, do you know what I'm talking about? Your man, man?
Yeah. It's horrormones in a man. It's not that complicated. Cause he, like I said, he's only got the cane. He don't have the queen, but that's important guys. And ladies estrogen Domin, it affects your thyroid. Big time. Breast cancer, big time, very specific cancer, estrogen dominance, the hypothalamus, the adrenal glands, which release cortisol starts in the brain. Be careful. Fear, anxiety, bitterness, rage really affect the hormones. Big time and long term. The Bible calls, bitterness of root. It's a root and it grows. And it messes you up physically, emotionally. Well, Dr. Martin, you don't understand. Well, I don't know what you went through, but all I'm telling you is what it does to your health. That's important to me. Now we'll talk a little bit of what to do. <laugh> to lower your cortisol. We'll do that. Well, we talk about it all the time, but we'll do a little review of things that are really, really good for you.
Okay. Now, did you have fun today? Okay. I get a little excited. I enjoy, I enjoy you guys so much. You have no idea. Thank you so much for making this program as successful as it is. It's you. It's not me. It's you. And the fact that you share it, tell your friends, tell your family, blah, blah, blah. How many people? I talk to people that I never met personally, but through the private Facebook group or whatever, we find out people that are telling other people. And it's amazing what a community. Thank you very much. That's all you guys. We appreciate it. Over a millionth download on our podcast. The doctor is in. Okay. You can download it on your smartphone. You don't even have to be smart cuz I can do it. Okay guys, we love you dearly. We'll talk to you soon.
Announcer: You've reached the end of another Doctor Is In Podcast, with your hosts, Doctor Martin Junior and Senior. Be sure to catch our next episode and thanks for listening!