According to the World Health Organization, for the first time in recorded history, chronic disease is killing people at a higher rate than infections or war or famine. Dr. Martin shared this stat in a previous podcast, and the problem is only getting worse.
By the year 2030, over 50% of the North American population will be obese. That’s less than 5 years away! Dr. Martin says that being told you’re pre-diabetic no longer scares people. They’re not wanting to change their ways and what they eat. Switching to a low carb diet could make a huge difference right there.
TRANSCRIPT OF TODAY'S EPISODE
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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone, and once again, welcome to another live this morning, and we're always thrilled to have you come on live if you can. We appreciate it big time. Good morning. Okay, now, I had a couple of things I wanted to talk about this morning. This is according to the World Health Organization. I'm just reading some stats and it ain't good. You look at, now, I brought this to you. I'm going to say about a year ago. I'm not quite sure exactly. I'd have to go look in my notes, but I sort of flagged things and they interest me big time, and I know they would interest you, but I don't know if you guys remember this, but I brought out something that the World Health Organization said that the first time in recorded history, that chronic disease, chronic disease was killing people at a higher rate in the world than infections or war or famine. Like what? Yeah.
Okay, now I'd have to go back in a podcast and see exactly when I talked about it. Guys, when you get my age, I ain't going to give you exact dates, but I know I brought this out because it startled me. In North America, no, that wouldn't affect my thinking because no, we all know it. Okay? Because the biggest killers in North America, I mean, look, people still die from infections. Obviously. People die from accidents and things like that. I mean, of course. But when it comes to disease, now, chronic disease like heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's, diabetes are huge killers, and it's worse now than ever, okay? It's worse now than ever. Let me give you some stats that are scary. 80% of young people in America and Canada would be no better when I tell you that, okay? So whenever I say the United States, Canada, we eat the same way. Okay? We're carb heavy. The average Canadian and American is consuming close to 200 pounds of sugar a year, and our bodies were never designed for that. And we have really, as my friend Frank says, dug our graves with our forks and spoons. Okay, but listen to this.
So 80% of the population young people would not qualify, and they don't qualify for the military. Now, I don't know about Canada as much. I don't know what their requirements are, but in the United States, 80% of the young people population wouldn't even qualify. They're not in good enough shape for the military. So am continuing on in the theme of the World Health Organization telling us that what's taking over from infection and all this, and that is chronic disease. And chronic disease is when you don't eat right, primarily. Now, okay, scary stats. 50% of the population by the year 2030 in North America will be obese. 2030 is not that far away. This one's, I've been talking about this a little bit. One third of the population are pre-diabetic.
Pre-diabetic means that your A1C for example, okay? Now, A1C is a lagging blood sugar indicator. It's one of my favorite tests is A1C because it gives you a better, if you can take a pinprick right now and take your blood sugar, I don't mind that. I think people do it too much, but I don't mind that test. I mean, I want to know what your glucose is, blood sugar,glucose at the moment, but what's a better indicator of how your pancreas is working, how your liver is working, whether your liver is full of fat or not due to your diet. I like A1C, and I've talked to you about this, that if you have 5.4 A1C and up, 5.4 A1C and up, you got insulin resistance, you got trouble with your pancreas. If it's above that, you're on the Titanic. But in the world of medicine, you have to be about 6.1 to be classified as a diabetic in terms of your A1C.
But listen to, okay, listen to this statistic. One third of North Americans, they're above 6.1 A1C, and they don't know it. They don't know it. Eight out of 10 people have higher A1Cs and they don't know it. Like I said, I mentioned this yesterday, I'm not big so much on pre-diabetic because effectively you're a diabetic. There's no really thing of pre, and the problem is when you call it pre, it doesn't scare people enough. I used to do the urine test in my office, and that would tell you way ahead of time too, because you know what the first thing your body does, your body wants to get rid of sugar. So you know what it does? If your sugar is high, the body will get rid of it and it'll be found in your urine. That's why I love the urine test. They hardly do it anymore, but they should, and people could do it at home. If there's sugar in their urine and they've got a strip, a chem strip and they see it, man, you're in doo doo. I used to show it to my patients. I said, you are on the Titanic. You hit the iceberg. Now, get off the boat. You better change your lifestyle in a hurry.
I remember one guy just because men, when it comes to their health, not all men, okay? We got men on the air, a lot of men, and you're interested in your health, and I give you guys high fives, okay, because you are interested, but was a typical male in my office, a typical one? Not always. Okay? Why are you here? I don't know. Who made you come? My wife. How are you feeling? Good. Well, wait a minute. We just got all the results of your testing and you ain't near as good as you think you are. Okay? I hate to break it to you, but you're not in good shape at all, okay? Because a lot of men, they just bury their head in the sand when it comes to their health. Just the way, you know what? I'm all right. I don't want to change anything and I don't want to be disciplined. And they always find an uncle in their mind that lived till he was a hundred years old, drank, smoked, and ate whatever he felt like. I got an uncle, you know, and they kind of hide behind that. I'm going to live until I'm a hundred and I'm going to do what I feel like. Ahh, no, you're not, okay?
And your uncle lived that long only by the grace of God, okay? It wasn't because of what he did and what he ate and whatever. By the grace of God, he didn't drop dead earlier because most people do. Now, scary stats. These are scary stats. Like a third of the population, 50% of the population will be obese by 2030, and people don't know it because we're talking about stuff that unless you get a chronic disease, they're not so interested in. I can tell you guys, we're almost there at the end of January now, we had thousands of people sign up to do the reset. Okay? How good is that? How good is it that people, okay, I did the reset, by the way. Okay? I started a little bit earlier than January 1st for me. I just started a little bit earlier. I said, okay, Christmas, and pre-Christmas, and I said, nah, nah, you know what? I was eating too many carbs, and generally I'm pretty disciplined, but I said, I am going to do a reset.
I know it's good for me. I want to empty my liver. I want to just make sure my A1C is good. I want to get my inflammation markers down. I want to get yada, yada, yada. And you know what? I can tell you one thing about the reset, okay? When you live on eggs, meat and cheese. Guys, it's doable. And again, I'm not saying you got to do it forever. People think this is a carnivore diet. It's not. That scares people. This is a 30 day program, guys. But testimony after testimony after testimony will tell you that once you change fuels and you start feeling better, it's incredible. And once you cut that sugar out of your diet, it's incredible what happens. Okay?
Now new studies have come out, okay? New studies have come out on the brain. We talked about one of them yesterday, and that is on coffee and the brain. Coffee enlarges your brain. It's good news, guys. It's good news. It's so good for you. You can't compare tea to coffee, not in terms of its benefits, the real vitamin C, but two new large studies. Amazing what happens when you lower carbohydrates. Well, one thing for sure, and we've known this for quite a while, and it's really where the reset came out of. If you cut down on your carbs big time, I mean big time, not just, oh, doc, a lot of people used to come to, I don't eat a lot of carbs, doc. No, I don't. I said, well, let's go over that. Okay? What do you have for breakfast every morning? Yogurt. Well, that would be good. What kind of yogurt? Well, I like that strawberry. I said, well, you got a lot of sugar in there, man. If you're just having Greek plain yogurt, okay, there's a little bit of sugar naturally in the dairy, but it's very low, but you can't add the flavor to it because just generally they load it up with sugar. Read your labels.
Doc, I have a 12 grain bagel, and I know you like butter doc. I put butter on it. Well, good for you. Eat the butter, but don't have the bagel. Doctor Martin. I'm having oatmeal. Oatmeal, no sugar added. I know, but it's going to raise your blood sugar in a nanosecond, and you're going to need insulin coming out the wazoo to get it down. That's how much sugar is produced by things you think are good for you. Yeah, but it's got fiber. Okay? So when you do the reset, here's a study. Your brain will thank you. Your brain will thank you. One thing you can do with food is reverse diabetes, type two diabetes. Now, there's all sorts of designer drugs, and now they hit the hit parade and everybody's on them. Everybody's talking about them. And to me, it's a hoax. I don't like it. I don't like you want to ask me personally, I am very, very, very reticent about these designer drugs, Wegovy and Ozempic and others in that category.
The best way to get your GLP 1 down is to eat low carb, not to take a drug. Drugs can be dramatic. Oh, Dr. Martin, you should see the weight loss, but you should see the side effects too. And I know people are desperate, but if they would just go low carb, cut the carbs down, do the reset, just do 30 days to start and get your body in tuned to eating the right foods. And again, I'm not a no carb guy the rest of your life, I'm not like that. That's why this is doable. You can do the reset and you will feel better. And it's proven. I've proven it to tens of thousands of patients, tens of thousands and more now and counting, okay, and counting. Why? Because when you lower carbs, you lower your insulin, you'll lower your blood sugars. In health wise, there's nothing like it. You cannot out exercise a bad diet. You can't out supplement a bad diet. You can't out medicate a bad diet. You cannot out medicate it.
And I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but I'm telling you, I want to reinforce because the World Health Organization and others, we look around and what we see is chronic disease. Our society, we're so upside down because we don't worry about things till it happens. And just to keep up in the news today, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Is going in front of the Senate to be confirmed as Health Secretary, and I hope he gets through. You watch the pushback. There'll be major pushback against him. Why? Why? Because big pharma, do you think big pharma is on our side when it comes to diabetes? The scourge in our society? Do you think they want anything changed? And you watch how they will attack that man because he's gone after the pharmaceutical companies in his past. He just wants to make them accountable.
And look, I know it's not going to change the world. It won't because we need a major paradigm shift and food of the most importance, but I'm not even holding my breath for that to happen. I just want people to become more aware of it. It's wonderful that we have venues like this. I had a radio show for years and years and years. It was very popular. People are interested. Not everybody, but a lot of people. One thing, people are getting really interested about their health because if you don't have your health, no fun, and I always tell people, I told patient after patient start in the kitchen, or some of my followers have said in the grocery store, make the right choices.
You have to eat. It's not calories. It's how many carbs and how much sugar is added to food. If you figure that out, it'll make a big dent and then lay off the crappy carbohydrates that are full of those bad oils. Man, when you do that, that's why I want people to go back to nature and eat eggs. There ain't nothing negative about an egg. Meat, fish and dairy, the good dairy. Cream, cheese, butter, and plain yogurt. That's all right. You can have it. I love dairy guys. But when you live on that for a month and you see all the numbers, because a lot of people, it's just weight loss. Okay? Weight loss, okay? It's the best way to lose weight. It's the healthiest way to lose weight. And when you lose weight in eating the right foods, you're going to be burning fat as fuel and not burning muscle. That's the problem with these weight loss meds. You're burning muscle away. That ain't good for you. You need muscle.
Okay, two large studies. I just started on the brain. Okay, we did one on coffee yesterday. The other one is on when you eat low carb, what happens to your brain? Okay, let me read this to you. When you go low carb, your brain thanks you. Let me list the conditions where you show an improvement. One is Alzheimer's. Well, obviously Alzheimer's is type three diabetes. It's the brain swimming in an ocean of fuel that it can't use. You're swimming in the Atlantic. Can you drink the water? Nah. That's what happens when you use the wrong fuel. You got glucose up in the brain, but your brain can't use it. You got insulin resistance of the brain and your brain is saturated, but it can't use that fuel properly. That's not good. And anyway, here's the improvement. Alzheimer's.
Now, look guys, if you have Alzheimer's or someone has Alzheimer's, it's a degenerative condition and so far not reversible. And the other thing too, just by the way, meds thus far for Alzheimer's have been a colossal failure. The problem with a medication, at least what they're doing is that they're not getting to the problem. They're trying to fix the plaque in the brain with drugs. It hasn't worked and it won't work because it's not the problem. There may be plaque in the brain, but why? Wrong fuel. The wrong fuel. Your body is designed to burn eggs, meat and cheese, fat and protein. The combination, the best fuel in the world, your brain thrives, and they're showing even in these large studies, Alzheimer's improves on a low carb diet. Parkinson's improves on a low carb diet. Now, again, we would much rather prevent those disorders.
Now, Parkinson's isn't completely all about sugar. I mean, I think it has a major effect. It's why we see so much more of it. But there's heavy metals, there's yeast, there's leaky gut. But again, when you go low carb, you're helping all that because you're not feeding the bears. You're not feeding yeast. Yeast needs sugar. What did we learn yesterday? Even in infection, bacteria thrives with sugar. Imagine when you cut it out to your immune system. Epilepsy. Well, we already knew that about epilepsy for a long time. You can go back to the turn of the last century, and we knew about the low carb diet, high fat diet and epilepsy. It was documented and well researched at the time, cut out the carbs, cut out the sugars, and epilepsy was almost cured. And then now people don't even know about those studies.
Bipolar, yes, guys, large studies on bipolar, schizophrenia, change of diet. It's foundational, guys. It's foundational. Depression and anxiety. There's so much being written now on the mitochondria. Guys, what is mitochondria again? Those battery packs. Every cell in your body, your brain cells, they got battery packs, and we're learning so much more that the mitochondria at that cellular level gets damaged. Why? One of the biggest factors is the wrong fuel. Your mitochondria are looking to produce the best fuel, ATP, and if you give it garbage, you're damaging your mitochondria. Large studies.
I think it's one of the most important topics when you talk about the brain and when you talk about. We have more depression today. We have more anxiety today. We have more schizophrenia today. We have more Alzheimer's today. We have more epilepsy today than ever before. Guys, we're not winning. Someone said, doc, you're a winner. I kind of laughed. Well, I want to win. I like winning more than losing, but we're losing as a society. We're losing as a society, okay? I don't like what the World Health Organization is saying about our health. Whoa.
Okay. I got a couple more studies, but we'll keep those. Okay. Now, what is Friday? Question and answer Friday, isn't it? Yep. How do you get your questions asked? Okay, don't put 'em here. I know you want to ask your questions and it's a good thing, but if you could write it down and send an email to info@martinclinic.com this way, guaranteed we're going to get your question. info@martinclinic.com, okay? Send your questions in. We'll be happy to answer them. We love question and answer Fridays, Mondays. Sometimes it's question and answer every day, but guys, that's what we're here for. You don't ask. You don't get, ask your questions, okay? Okay. We love you guys. We'll talk to you soon, and thanks for watching.
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