1456. Statins & Insulin Resistance: The Surprising Connection

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Dr. Martin:  Well, good morning everyone, and once again, welcome to another live this morning. Hope you're having a great start to your day, and we appreciate you guys coming on here. Okay, now, four new studies. How many we'll get to this morning? I don't know. We'll see now. This was an article with a statement that I really, really appreciated. Okay. It's on cancer. You know what it says? Cancer is a metabolic disease. Cancer is a metabolic disease. Wow. Okay. Because for years, cancer was a genetic disease and thus it was treated as such. And when the thinking is shifting to a metabolic disease, no, don't hold your breath for nutrition to be a big part of cancer. Don't hold your breath. Because the fact that research is showing that it's a metabolic disease, and when I say metabolic, what does that mean? Right? Your metabolism, how your body takes food and converts it to energy.

That's your metabolism. There's a lot of things that are going on, but generally that's what metabolic disease is. And now there's so much talk about mitochondrial dysfunction. Well, what are your mitochondria? Your battery packs and your battery packs don't work without energy. Well, they produce energy, but they don't work unless you give those mitochondria food. So the newest research on cancer is really, really shifting. Its focus from genetics. Oh, your daddy had cancer, your daddy had pancreatic cancer, or your mother had breast cancer that makes you a sitting duck for cancer. While they're finding out that's not true at all. It's a little percentage. And yeah, just like you look like your parents to some extent, the thing is that you can override genetics. That's why I tell people that all the time. I've been telling them that for almost 50 years. Yeah, they're genetic.

Look, you are susceptible. You as an individual are more susceptible to something than maybe your next door neighbor, right? In my family, my genetics, and the older I get, the more I look like my father. It scares me sometimes. Sometimes I look in the mirror and go, holy moly. No wonder they called me Tony Jr. Okay? At one time, we used to say, don't ever ask for Dr. Tony. If you call our office my dad, me, my son, confusing. But guys, genetics is a factor, but it's a small factor. It's a very small factor. So this article by oncologists is stating something that I've been talking about for a long time that cancer, so is heart disease, by the way, too. So is Alzheimer's, so is autoimmune, so is diabetes. It's what? It's a metabolic issue. Okay? So cancer is here. The headline Cancer is a metabolic disorder.

Okay? So quickly, what do you do? What do you do? What's the best thing you can do for preventing cancer? And again, guys, teaching. Teaching, always new people on with us. So I got to do this, right? Remember, for cancer, I'm showing you a ballpoint pen for cancer. To get to the size of a tip of a ballpoint pen takes five years. Cancer's not rapid, not till it gets to the late stages. You right now, I'm telling you, there's not a person watching today, not one that isn't fighting cancer. As we speak, cancer cells are always present. It's whether they get a chance to proliferate or not. Okay? And true prevention starts with nutrition. True prevention starts with nutrition. If cancer is a metabolic disease, then the thing that you can control is what you put in your mouth every day. It starts with food.

And guys, I brought you back to Nobel Peace Prize winner, Otto Warberg, who talked about fuel for cancer. He talked about cancer being ravenous. It's looking for glucose, okay? And we've known this for a long time, almost, I think this was 1928 when he won a Nobel Prize. Nobel laureate, Otto Warberg. Guys, we've known this a long time, but it was buried. And cancer treatment, really, it has improved. But cancer detection. I'm not against cancer detection, but we never or rarely ever talk about cancer prevention. Start with food. Otto Warberg told us to do that. He talked about cancer cells being ravenous for sugar. That's been around a long time, guys. Okay? Starve it out, guys. Starve it out. Don't feed the bears. Okay? So that was the first study we looked at this morning. Okay, don't feed the bears. Cancer is a metabolic disorder.

What an article. I appreciated it. And it's the new trend in research on cancer. But like I said, don't hold your breath. Don't wait. You take care of yourself. You can't talk about the rest of the world till you look in the mirror and take care of yourself. Do everything you can to take care of yourself. There's no guarantees in this world. There's no a hundred percent, but put everything on your side in prevention. Do everything you can. Okay? Changing fuels in cancer, guys. I'm all about changing fuels. Okay? Now, this is a second study. I go, wow, statin drugs. Okay? This is a study that I read on PubMed. Statin drugs cause insulin resistance. Okay? So Crestor, Lipitor, Zocor, cholesterol lowering medications, okay? One of its side effects is it creates insulin resistance. What? Yeah, it creates insulin resistance. Now, why are people taking statin drugs to lower their cholesterol, especially their LDL, low density lipoprotein cholesterol.

Okay? Now, you don't have to follow me for long. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand. For me, lowering cholesterol is one of the worst mistakes you can make. I'm not big on lowering cholesterol. You guys know that. I've been preaching that for 50 years. Why are you wanting to lower cholesterol? Why? Okay. And if statin drugs worked well, heart disease would be almost eradicated. And really the number one selling medication of all time, in my opinion, was based on a false premise. And every day, seven days a week, I get asked about cholesterol. Okay? I mean, the blood panels, the testing you're doing, I'm sorry, but they're not even looking at the right things. I don't care what your total cholesterol is. I really don't. I want to know what your triglycerides are, and I want to know what your HDL is.

That's what I want to know. I find, okay, this is me. I find medicine generally twist their selves into pretzels, coming up with numbers and all sorts of things. When they look at your lipid profile, it drives me crazy because they can't get it out of their craw. That cholesterol could be good for you. They can't. And again, I just go back to basic biochemistry. Biochemistry 1 0 1, cholesterol is essential for your body. Every cell in your body has cholesterol. Every membrane in your cells has cholesterol. Your brain has cholesterol. Your eyeballs have cholesterol. Everything has cholesterol. Why do you want to get rid of it? And I get it because they look at plaque and they say, oh, gee, I see some cholesterol around the plaque. Yeah, because cholesterol is always flowing through your blood vessels. Go on major highways, travel anywhere on a major highway, and you're going to see what transport trucks.

I mean, it's amazing. Go to a truck, stop on a major highway and you see hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of trucks. Guys, whenever I see a transport truck, I think of cholesterol. It's just transporting. It's just doing its job. You can't make testosterone. You can't make estrogen. You can't make progesterone. You can't make any of that stuff without cholesterol, and you can't have it transported without cholesterol. You learn that. I'm not kidding you. In the first day of biochemistry, you learn that on the first day. And then, isn't it funny? You go along and in medical school, then they teach you cholesterol is the boogeyman. When man started the whole thing, oh, guys, it gives me a splitting headache. When I think of him in the 1950s, cholesterol, and by the time mid sixties came along, he was on the front of the time magazine.

His picture was there. He had influenced medicine to the point where don't eat eggs. Why? Well, they got cholesterol. Don't have bacon. Why? Well, that has cholesterol in it. Reduce your red meat. Why? That's got cholesterol in it. Butter. No have margarine. Why? Because butter has cholesterol in it. True or false? Am I right? Yeah. That's exactly what happened. They were doing everything to get cholesterol down, and then we got statin drugs. So it started in the food industry. Dr. Kellogg's and cereal. Oh, no. Cholesterol in cereal. As a matter of fact, when you eat oatmeal, you are going to lower your cholesterol. Oatmeal lowers your cholesterol, right? You need fiber because fiber lowers your cholesterol. Fiber, fiber, fiber. I watched them do it, guys, I watched. Limit your eggs, Dr. Martin. Can I have an egg? A week or two? You should have an egg a day or two or six eggs a day.

Seriously, guys, it drives me bananas. Bananas. Okay, so statin drugs, okay? We know what it does to your coq 10, okay? And that's why a lot of people, when they take that medication, they get a condition called rmbo Theis. Oh, what a big name to mean muscle pain. Why? Well, it destroys your coq 10. And even cardiologists recommend if I give you a statin drug. It's not a bad idea. If you take coq 10 quinol, they know that much. Yeah, you're getting muscle pain. Wait a minute, I thought your heart was a muscle. You're getting damage to the mitochondria. One of its well-known side effects. You know what statin drugs do too? Cause insulin resistance. Now, I've known this for a long time because 50% of women, 50% of women, I did this on my radio show 20 years ago. 50% of women that take a statin drug cholesterol lowering medication like Lipitor, Zocor, Crestor, or whatever you name or get diabetes.

Well, what's the first step in diabetes? Insulin resistance. Your cells saying that the cellular level stop coming around. I'm tired of you. That's insulin resistance. When cells at the cellular level say insulin, would you take a hike? I can't stand you, but insulin don't care. It doesn't care if you like it or not. As long as you eat crappy carbs and sugars. Insulin has a job to do. And I don't care if it keeps knocking at the door of your cells and saying, let me in. I got a store. I have to store that sugar. I can't leave it in the bloodstream. It must be put inside cells. And its favorite place to put it is in muscle cells or your liver cells. Fat cells, fat cells, fat cells, insulin resistance. Serious guys, because insulin resistance left unchecked. It's one of the number one causes of plaque in your arteries.

Why? Well, when you get insulin resistance, your arteries don't make it near enough. Nitric oxide that relaxes them, opens them. Because when you have insulin resistance, you create an inflammatory response. Inflammation is on your side. If someone kicks you in the knee, you want to be inflamed. Why the ambulance is coming? It's bringing extra blood supply and extra enzymes and extra proteins to help the area. But you don't want that to stay like that. And you don't want the silent type that goes in your blood vessels and starts to damage the lining of the wall. You know that you got Teflon lining of your blood vessels. When you have insulin resistance, you damage the Teflon layer. Now, it's not near as slippery. That's how you develop plaque, not cholesterol. I argue that cholesterol makes your Teflon layers even more slippery. Think of what cholesterol looks like. It's a waxy substance. It's slippery. And by the way, your brain is made up of cholesterol. Why would you want to lower that?

Okay, why would you want to lower that? But guys, think of those transport trucks on the highways and ways of your blood vessels. What are they doing? Well, they're bringing you your hormones, including another hormone. Vitamin D. Yeah, vitamin D is a hormone, guys. It's more than a vitamin. Okay? We've characterized it as a vitamin, but it really is a hormone. It needs cholesterol to transport it. They work together just about every day. I bring you good news about vitamin D, the sun. Okay? Wow. Statin drugs cause insulin resistance. Well, we knew it, but science is starting to catch up. We knew it because we, of what I was telling you about women getting diabetes, 50%. Wow. I became a diabetic, but that's all right. My cholesterol came down. Wow. I got my cholesterol down. Wow. Well, you don't win a prize for getting your cholesterol down. I'm sorry. Get your cholesterol up. Get your triglycerides down. Now that's a different puppy. That's a different puppy altogether. Statin drugs don't lower your triglycerides. They lower your cholesterol. LDL in particular, I'm not big on lowering LDL.

I'm not big on lowering it. I think people make a big mistake. Now, I know I'm getting outnumbered and outvoted, but I think I'm right. The longer we go along the statin drugs, the more they realize, boy, boy, there are some major side effects. And guys, we're just not getting the bang for the buck when it comes to that medication. It's not helping. Otherwise, they'd be all for it. Okay? Insulin resistance is one of the biggest factors in developing plaque, even according to PubMed. Okay, guys, now Tamara, I'm going to take a day off. Okay? I have a little hall day tomorrow. Okay? If you don't mind. And we'll be back Friday. I want to see your question and answers coming in, and if you're not sure what to send it, send it to info@martinclinic.com. Okay? info@martinclinic.com. Okay? Okay. Love you guys. Talk to you soon.

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