There isn’t a day that goes by that Dr. Martin doesn’t talk about vitamin D, the sun. Today is no different as he discusses two new studies on vitamin D. The first on reducing length of hospital stays, the second about lowering breast cancer risk.
Join Dr. Martin as he looks at two new studies on the sun, showing once again why vitamin D is essential, and especially as we head into the winter months!
TRANSCRIPT OF TODAY'S EPISODE
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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone. Once again, welcome to another live this morning. I hope you're having a great start to your day. Okay, let me get to a couple of studies. Guess what? Sun, steak and steel, sun steak and steel. Have you got a copy of the book? Yeah, Sun, Steak and Steel. See right at the top? What do we talk about all the time? Sun. Let me give you two new studies that just came out on vitamin D, the sun. The sun, okay? Two new studies. I'm telling you guys, just about every day there's a study on vitamin D. Okay? My word, incredible. Listen to this. For every 100 LUX, whatever that means. Okay, let me finish and then we'll figure it out. For every 100 LUX increase in daylight, okay? Listen to what it says In hospital rooms, it decreases the stay in the hospital by seven days, okay?
The sun, medicine is. When it comes to the sun, they're so backwards. It's the boogeyman. Skin cancer. And again, remember yesterday I was talking about being born in the 1950s and one of the, I don't know, but I call it an advantage to been born in the 1950s to some extent, especially when it comes to medical things. We have seen such an enormous change, okay? What I mean by that is I've been on the planet now for 71 years and the good thing about getting old is you get a lot of history and history in medicine. And guys, I watched it happen when I was a teenager and I call it the Johnson & Johnson Effect. They made the sun the boogeyman. Sun gives you cancer and sun is bad. Sun ages you, sun kills you. And it's amazing to me, and I always thought it was bunk. It was amazing to me that nothing can live on this planet without the sun. Plants and whatever, we all need the sun.
And the more we study the human body, the more we realize that every cell in your body has antennas, especially your immune system looking for solar power, okay? Now, I'm not so much for solar power when it comes to running your car, but it sure helps running your body. And when I read this study about hospitals, if they would just open the window, at least the drapes and let the sun in, how many people in the hospital would never see the sun? I've talked to you about the Spanish flu. Remember? What did they do? The Spanish flu, they used to take people and even with tuberculosis, they put them in the sun. They wheeled them out even in the winter with blankets when the sun was out. People were smart. They realized the sun was very helpful to their immune system. And today, we know that your T-cells, your navy seals of your immune system don't work properly without the sun. Got the memo?
And so whatever this measurement is. That somebody, maybe. I didn't look it up. LUX, whatever this measurement is for every 100 increase in LUX, whatever that means, you had seven last days of a person in the hospital, okay? Now, it's not everything, but it's major. Don't wait for medicine to agree with us because the narrative is the sun is bad. I watched one of my favorite broadcasters talk yesterday, yeah, yesterday about the dangers of the sun and where sunscreen and stuff like that. Folks, look, I hate to tell you, but it's just the opposite, especially when it comes to melanoma. This is a proven fact. Melanoma is a very aggressive, or it can be a very aggressive cancer, skin cancer, and my friend, it happens to people who don't get the sun. Okay? It's the way it is. That's a fact, and it's the opposite of what they're saying, but it's so difficult to change a narrative, isn't it?
Okay, so that's one thing, just sunlight. I mean, they're in the hospital. How can they get exposed to vitamin D? They don't get vitamin D, but just the sunlight. What does that do by the way? Just by being in a bright, sunny day, even on the inside of your home or hospital room, it increases your melatonin, which is a powerful antioxidant. Now, I don't like particularly a supplement of melatonin, never found it to be all that effective, but the sun is sure effective. Hey, when it's sunny out, don't you feel better? I mean, how many people are already starting. Here we are in November. They're starting the seasonal. Some people, they just don't do well, and especially as we get in those dark months, November, December, January, difficult months for a lot of people because they don't see the sun. Sun, Steak and Steel. Vitamin D. Okay, that was one study. Decreases hospitalization, on an average of seven days, who knew? How about that?
Okay, here's another one. Okay? This is even more significant. When I say guys, I mean gals. This is for you, ladies. It's a new study on breast cancer and vitamin D. Listen to this study. Found that for every four N-G-L-M-L, okay? That is a number in the United States, that's how they measure vitamin D in the United States in Canada, we use NMOL-L, okay? I always say it fast. NMOL, okay? We use a different measurement in Canada, and it is two and a half times more than NGML, okay? But listen to the study for every four NGML increase in your dihydroxy 25. Big word, just your serum vitamin D levels. Ladies, listen, Linda, listen for every increase in vitamin D, okay? Here's what they found just for four NGML, so let's say 10, 10 and a half of NMOL increase of vitamin D in your serum, your blood testing.
Why do I want you to get your blood tested? Because vitamin D is so essential and doctors, you don't have osteoporosis. What are you worried about vitamin D for? Because all they think of is vitamin D and bones. Man, it's hard to say. Again, guys, I go back, go back 70 years, go back into the 1950s when I was born. Why did they give vitamin D? Why did they give cod liver oil for vitamin D? Why did they give it for rickets for bones? But they didn't realize the importance of vitamin D. And even today, you have trouble convincing most physicians, not all, most physicians, to check your serum vitamin D. Listen, Linda and Larry, it is so significant for your immune system. Breast cancer, this study was on breast cancer. It decreases for every four points or 10 and a half, let's say, okay? For every four points that your vitamin D goes up in your serum, it decreases your risk of breast cancer, ladies, by 12%.
Do you think vitamin D is significant, and the war on vitamin D. I know there's a war in the Middle East. We get it. It's on the news every day, but there's a war on vitamin D brought to you by big pharma. Guys, look, pharmaceuticals do wonderful things, okay? So don't come after me. I'm not trying to paint the brush, paint a wall with one stroke and saying throw out all drugs. I'm not saying that. I'm just telling you what I know. There's a war on vitamin D, there's a war on it. It's been going on for a long time, but now it's really, really been accentuated. This war started during the virus because there was a lot of physicians talking about the importance of vitamin D and the immune system. I was one of them. True or false? I was one of them. Remember when they closed the beaches? I was screaming. The very thing that was the best tool in fighting a virus is vitamin D. It's the best tool in the toolbox. The sun.
I was so frustrated, I can't even put it into words. I said, are you guys kidding me? This is the worst thing we can do is tell people not to go outside in the sun. Was I vilified? Yep. Was I told to shut up? Yeah, the war, the war on vitamin D. And I was saying back then, if we would just take vitamin D and everybody gets a shot of vitamin D, I knew it wasn't going to happen. I knew it. It wasn't a narrative vitamin D to any, here's what they teach you in medical school. It's good for bones. That's it. Vitamin D is, you can become toxic. And boy, they scare the living life out of people with toxicity of vitamin D. Yet, yet where's the numbers? Where's proof of the toxicity of vitamin D? Here's the studies. There used to be a vitamin D council. They did a lot of research on vitamin D. Here's what they found out about toxicity. Here's what they meant by toxicity. You could form a kidney stone if, okay, not like you drop dead in the streets. You could form a kidney stone if you took 50,000 international units of vitamin D every day, seven days a week for six months. This big cry that it's toxic. It's so toxic. Dr. Martin, it's toxic. No, come on.
Listen to what they're saying. If you get your vitamin D levels up in the United States for the addition of four NGML or 10 NMOL in Canada, your risk of breast cancer goes down by 12%. Now listen, most people are extremely low in vitamin D. In the United States, the average is around 25. It's not even this high, but let's say 20-25 NGML. Guys, that's enough vitamin D for a mouse, not for you. In Canada, people are under a hundred NMOL. They're under, and they don't know it. Nobody told them. Oh, your vitamin D is normal if they take it. But they're only interested in your bones, not your immune system. And I'm telling you, and I put it in my new book, Sun, Steak and Steel, the importance of vitamin D for your heart, for your brain, for your immune system, for cancer, for IBS, everything you can think of. From your head to your toes, you are a human solar panel. You need vitamin D.
Remember what I said about Linus Pauling? I've been around so long. Linus Pauling won a Nobel Prize in medicine and he deserved it by the way. You have to remember, again, long history. I remember in the 1970s studying Linus Pauling's work on vitamin C. He did a lot of work on vitamin C and the immune system, okay? Ascorbic acid, the immune system, and he won a Nobel price because of it. And people were taking vitamin C mostly because of Linus Pauling. And I can tell you that the juice people Tropicana said, well, you see there's vitamin C in orange juice. And I "moi" me, I was screaming blue murder. Okay, why was I screaming? It's not that I didn't like vitamin C, okay? It was because Linus Pauling missed by one letter in the alphabet. He put his emphasis on vitamin C. I'm not against that, but what he was saying about vitamin C is nothing compared to vitamin D. The superstar is vitamin D, not C.
And by the way, the best vitamin C is coffee. Okay? Have I told you that before that I like coffee? I never did that? Yeah, well, there's a chapter in my book on coffee, the real vitamin C. Okay? Much more complex. Okay? Much more complex than ascorbic acid. Much better for you. And I'm not against the ascorbic acid, okay? I'm not, I'm just telling you. You know me. You know how I do things. There's good, better, best. Okay, good. Vitamin C is good. Okay, I got no problem. It's good. What's the best? Vitamin D, the sun. Got the memo? You got it? Because if people would understand the significance of what vitamin D does inside the body, especially for the immune system, cancer hates the sun. And cancer hates steak too. Cancer hates coffee, but the number by one thing that cancer hates is vitamin D. And that's a fact. And study after study, after study tells us exactly that guys. Okay, got the memo? Got it?
Yeah, decreases hospital stays by seven days. If they would only bring the sun in the hospital, and guys, if they can't see the sun, they need to supplement with vitamin D. Okay? Ask your doctor, you get into the hospital and they want you to stop the supplements. Like guys, there's a lot of things that give me migraines. That's one of them. When they tell people, well, you know what? It may interact with the medications I'm giving you. They don't know that. And they don't know a thing about it. No, they don't. But just in case, we better make sure they don't interact. And here's people in the hospital, and if they would just give them vitamin D, f they would just give them B12, they would get better. It would help.
And they're showing with cancer. Do you think you can go to an oncologist today and ask them, what do you think about vitamin D? They'll look at you not like you have two heads, like you got three. What are you talking about? Because they don't understand the significance of vitamin D. If they did, they would give it to every patient. And I'm telling you, there is a conspiracy, a war to stop that from ever happening. Big pharma and it's happening in Canada. They are trying to stop you and me from taking vitamin D. And the only way you'll be able to get it, if the government has their way, is for you to get a prescription for it. Can you imagine you need a prescription to take vitamin D? You see? Who puts all the money into Health Canada? Who puts all the money into FDA? Pharmaceuticals do, and they expect return on their investment. And so they poo poo the idea of vitamin D. What do you need that for? Don't get in the sun, it'll give you skin cancer and you'll wrinkle up and look like a prune. It's the opposite. Ooh.
There's sometimes guys, and I ain't joking. I just get really upset because when I read this study on vitamin D, especially with breast cancer, and here we are today in late 2023, and here we are today. And something that would be so helpful is right in front of us. It's inexpensive, and they won't even mention it. They'll keep it away from you if they can. And people buy it. They don't know. They don't know the narrative. They don't understand what's going on behind the scenes. And that's what really gets my blood boiling. I've watched it happen for the last 50 years, and they're just getting worse. They're hiding, and they don't want people to get in the sun or get sunlight or vitamin D. It's crazy. So you share it. This is why I do it. This is why I'm doing what I'm doing, guys. Why am I doing it? You know and I know and share it. If any of your family, anyone, any loved ones, any friends, any whatever, have cancer. And I'm not telling them not to do chemo. I'm not telling them not to do radiation. I'm not telling them that. What I'm telling them is they better get their levels of vitamin D up.
And for every four points it goes up in the United States and every 10 in Canada, their risk and even treatment of cancer. Everybody should be on vitamin D, everybody preferably in the sun. But good luck with that in the winter months. Okay? What's Friday? Question and answer so you can ask questions. You got any questions about vitamin D? Ask. Okay, ask. Ask and you shall receive. Seek and you shall find. Knock and the door shall be opened unto you. Okay? That's all biblical, by the way. Okay? Okay guys, have I told you lately that I love you? Okay. Not since yesterday? Okay. I do. I say it every day. We love our audience. Thank you for watching. Talk to you soon.
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