When you combine high DHA omega-3, optimized levels of vitamin D3, and exercise, the real vitamin E, all-cause mortality and cancer risk fall by 61%. Join Dr. Martin as he breaks down the ultimate trifecta for anti-aging and unstoppable health in today’s episode.
Dr. Martin also touches on the significance of the gut microbiome and its communication with the brain via the vagus nerve, stressing the impact of leaky gut.
TRANSCRIPT OF TODAY'S EPISODE
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Dr. Martin: Well, good afternoon everyone. Hope you're having a great day. We sure appreciate you guys coming on with us when you can. Okay, let me just see. Got a couple of studies here I wanted to talk about today. Spending 10.6 hours a day sitting, okay, a lot of people do that. I think about my life. I spend a lot of time sitting in my office. I mean, you're sitting with patients. You can't be just walking around and sitting there listening and testing them and then talking to them. Spent a lot of days sitting. Now listen to this. Spending 10.6 hours a day sitting or lying down is linked to a higher risk of cardio death, even for those who exercise regularly.
Okay, now I'm going to show you something on another study that'll go along with this, and it really encourages. If you've got to sit at your job and you're sitting for a long period of time, it's just the way it is for you, right? Here's something that, a separate study, but it's very much linked, performing 10 body weight squats. Do you know what I mean by that? A body weight squat? Just squatting, like you're going to sit down in a chair without sitting down in a chair and go as far as you can. One of the things that I use for squatting is bands, or the TRX. Have you ever seen those? And you can do a squat without having weights. Just do your body weight and squat down and go as far as you can. You got bad knees or whatever. You can't go as far or bad hips or whatever. But listen to what they're saying. If you during the day perform 10 body weight squats every 45 minutes during an 8.5 workday, it outperforms a single 30 minute workout in regulating blood glucose.
So that's something that maybe sit and watch TV at night or whatever and not a bad idea. Get up, do a few body squats. You might have to hold onto a desk or something and just squat. Very, very good for, because the bad news is if you are sitting, it's not good. If you spend 10.6 hours a day, sitting or lying down is linked to a higher risk of cardio death, even for those who exercise regularly. And I do guys, I exercise regularly, but I sit a lot and I used to sit a lot of time. When I was in daily practice, so very interesting. Okay, I was looking on just reading a study about tattoos. Don't get one. I've never had a tattoo. I know it's become very popular, but this doctor was saying, look it, you never get rid of that stuff. You've got toxins coming in your body all the time. Okay? So the moral of the story was, if you don't have one, get one. This doctor actually recommend you had them removed.
Okay, anyway, not going to spend a lot of time on this. Here's where I wanted to spend more time. Having a low omega-3 index is more strongly associated with all cause mortality. So that's one. Okay? So just having low omega-3 index, they can actually measure it. And if you have a low one, they're saying that it's very strongly associated with all cause mortality. Interesting, isn't it? Now, I want to bring you the trinity as far as anti-aging, as far as if you combine these three, I brought this to you maybe a couple of years ago, I'm trying to remember, but this is new research that sort of confirms old research that if you combine omega-3 EPA and DHA, and you know me guys, I'm big on the DHA part. Huge, huge, huge. I have been preaching DHA for so many years. I can't even remember how early in my practice days I was telling people to take omega-3 and especially the DHA, get that DHA. Why are your brains made up of DHA? Yeah. Yeah, your brain's made up of it. So read your labels guys, when you look at omega-3, I'm big on that, but okay, let's get back to the studies.
Okay, new research showing the trinity of omega-3, vitamin D and vitamin E. Now, if this is your first time on, The Doctor Is In podcast, you might not know what vitamin E is. I have my own list of vitamins, okay? I kicked some out and I replaced them with something superior. Now, vitamin E, I remember studying vitamin E in the 1970s. There was cardiologists out of London, Ontario, the Schutt brothers, and I studied under them for a bit on vitamin E, and I liked it. The research was good and cardio and whatever, but the real vitamin E is not vitamin E, the real vitamin E, and we replaced, we kicked out the old vitamin E and put in the new one because it's more effective and better for you. You know what it is? Exercise. Exercise. So this new study, this new research showing anti-aging, anti-cancer, it reduces cancer by 61%. It reduces frailty.
I think somebody was on our private Facebook group today talking about maybe taking calcium. Don't take calcium. I'm not big on calcium supplements. You don't need calcium. You need vitamin D with K2, eat your calcium. It's not that I don't like calcium, I love calcium. I just don't want you to supplement with it. I want you to eat it. The best way to get your calcium is to eat eggs, meat, and cheese. And God put vitamin K2, right in those foods. You see vitamin K2 is not found in the plant kingdom. It's only found in the animal kingdom. So when you eat an egg, you're getting calcium. Did you know that? Yeah. But with its perfect partner, K2. You're eating meat. Calcium, what doc? Yeah, there are a lot of calcium in meat. Oh yeah, there is yeah, with its perfect partner, K2. And of course everybody knows about dairy and calcium, right? Like butter. You know me, eggs, meat and cheese or cream. Lots of calcium in that. Yes but with its perfect partner, because you want the calcium to end up in your bones, not in your bloodstream. You don't want calcium in your bloodstream, you don't want to harden your arteries. You take a supplement of calcium, well, it's not going to get to the intended destination. Okay?
So back to this research, the trinity, the trifecta of anti-aging, of anti-cancer, 61%, okay, omega-3, and I know I saw some, oh, it was on our private Facebook group. Doc, what do you think of this? And I always laugh because you guys always give the answer. I don't even have to go on there and give an answer. You know what a lot of you said when they were sort of poopooing omega-3 and the supplementation of omega-3. Oh you don't need omega-3 and anyway, they said, well, this will give Dr. Martin a migraine. True. When I read stupidity like that. But guys, this is a very, very big study showing that you can reduce cancer, all cancers by 61% if you do the trifecta of omega-3. And we posted this many a time, we posted what omega-3 DHA does to a tumor.It's a Trojan horse, it destroys it. But the combination of omega-3 and having a elevated omega-3 index and having optimized vitamin D, the sun, and when you can't get the sun, you take vitamin D. It's inexpensive, you need it. Every cell in your body's got an antenna looking for it, and it boosts your immune system and yada, yada, yada.
Is there anything that vitamin D is not good for? I can't think of anything. I think I used to get tired of listening to myself in the office telling patients, okay, doc, what should I do? Well, you go home and start taking vitamin D. Did you hear me? You're low, you don't have enough. You need it. Now get going and take some vitamin D with K2. Guys, listen, you do that combination, and I know many of you do. I'm preaching to the choir this afternoon. That combination of taking omega-3. And guys, if I was you, I'd be taking our high DHA. There ain't anything better than that. They're just not. The amount of DHA we put in that capsule, my word, but it lubricates, it's anti-inflammatory, lubricates your blood vessels, and that's important for your eyes, for your brain.
Optimize your omega-3, vitamin D and vitamin E, the real vitamin E exercise, okay? Move, move. You sit too long during the day, ain't your fault. If you can do 10 body squats every 45 minutes, apparently it's just unbelievably good for you. I love walking, walk. I love weightlifting. I do. I use bands a lot. Those stretching bands, I got them right here. Maybe while I'll do a live, showing you some of the exercise I do for a 73-year-old, okay? Because I want to be strong. I understand the importance of muscle, not just moving, because some people, they don't understand. They're sarcopenic, they don't have enough muscle. Muscle, I mean, the more research we do on muscle, the more we understand the importance of it. Unbelievable, okay?
Isn't that an interesting study? Reducing cancer by 61% and frailty, that's a big issue. You get older, you don't want to break a hip. How many people have osteoporosis? And one of the biggest factors, again in osteoporosis, it's not calcium per se, it's they don't have muscle. Muscle. Guys anchors your bones. The stronger your muscles, the more your bone has to hold onto that muscle. The muscle attaches into that bone and the bone builds. You get bone building with muscle. It's one of the huge issues that people get older, my age, okay, I want to be strong guys. Okay, 10 body squats, good idea. I like it. But anything you do in exercise will be good. Anything's beneficial. Just some things are more beneficial.
Okay, let me see now. Oh, this was a new one. Talked about this before, but the gut microbiome, okay, so we're going back to the microbiome. Guys, the research on the microbiome now your bacteria, that's, if you wonder what, it's just bacteria that you don't see. You've got not millions, not billions. You got trillions of bacteria in your body and they're important, and it's an ecosystem. And as long as it's balanced, you've got bad guys. You've got good guys. But as long as it's balanced, you're good. That's really important. But the study is showing, again, we knew this, but it is relatively new anyways, is how does the gut microbiome communicate with the brain? The vagus nerve. Now, not Las Vegas, okay, not spelt the same, it's the vagus nerve. Your 10th cranial nerve connects.
So I always tell people, you'll understand this, okay? You get butterflies in your stomach. You ever had that? You got to make a speech. That's one of the biggest fears, by the way, is public speaking. So you get butterflies, you got a test, you got to go to the doctor. The doctor called you in. You get butterflies. You know how that happens? That's the vagus nerve. That's the connection between your brain and your gut. And now they're showing that that connection, okay, really works through bacteria, not just the nerve, the bacteria talking to each other from the gut to the brain through the cranial nerve, 10th cranial nerve. Isn't that interesting? You got a microbiome in your gut mostly. And this can be disrupted. The microbiome. You know that. We've talked about this. I don't know how many podcasts I've done on leaky gut, a hundred probably.
I've got three seeds of disease and Tony Jr. and I, when we were in practice together, we talked all the time. We'd put our heads together and he's smart like his mother. And we would talk about stuff and we said, we just because of all our clinical experience, we talked about what is happening in the world today. Why is it here we are in the 2020s, or we were talking about this before then, but why is it that we're sicker than ever? Why we live in countries that should be healthier than horses, and we're sicker than ever. And we wrote about it. We wrote a book, Two Hormones That Want You Dead. That was in 2014, in 2011, Secrets that your doctor won't share with you, or that might've been earlier than that. I've got to look up my books.
But anyway, we talked about it. We got down to the three seeds of disease, okay? Leaky gut. Leaky gut, leaky brain. Leaky gut, leaky skin. Leaky gut, leaky lungs. Leaky gut, leaky everything just about. And one of the biggest factors in leaky gut is antibiotic use. I said it. I said it in the 70s. I said it in the 80s. I said it in the 90s. I said it. I didn't say, don't take an antibiotic, but what I was saying is antibiotics are the greatest discovery of the 20th century and the curse of the 21st. I've made that up, guys. That was me in my office. When you disrupt that microbiome and it affects everything in your body, you get garbage in your body because your body, your blood was meant to be pristine. And when you get stuff sneaking in the gut, the gut to the blood, the gut blood barrier, and when you disrupt that microbiome from mental health to cancer, to you name it, you get affected by that.
I heard a guy this afternoon, I was listening to a guy on a podcast and he was talking about all in his opinion, all cancer was parasites, mold, bacteria or sugar. He said four things. I would add a few things, but he was saying bacteria. But it makes sense, a lot of it because leaky gut, yeast, fungus, mold, it gets into your bloodstream. It can become systemic. And by the process of fermentation, we talked about this in cancer, and then you add sugar, add sugar, cancer needs fuel, add sugar. So even if it's a parasite, I always used to tell people, well, doc, what about parasites? Well, I said, get on probiotics, get on oil of oregano, anti parasitic, and don't feed the bears. Don't give them sugar. Don't give yeast sugar. Don't give them parasite sugar. It needs junk food. It don't eat steak. It doesn't like eggs. It don't like cheese. It don't like bacon. It likes sugar, and so does cancer. Okay, interesting.
So when we talked at the Martin Clinic, we talked about leaky gut. We talked about insulin. Insulin, and then we added the free radical, the oxidation, the rusting out of the body is a big killer, and we're all rusting out, but it's at the speed at which you do it. That's important. Okay, little shorter version today. Interesting studies, right? Tomorrow is what? Question and answer Friday. It's not too late guys. Send your questions into info@martinclinic.com, info@martinclinic.com. Send in your questions. I love your questions. I love this audience with all my heart I do. I love you guys because you're smart. I love you guys because you have an open mind, okay? Isn't it wonderful we have a venue that we can talk like this, give you information, then you decide. Okay, now how many of you are doing the reset? Let us know. We want to encourage you, okay? Man oh man, I can't get over how good that is for you. Every patient do the reset. What? Do the reset. 30 days you'll thank me later. You'll thank me later. Okay, guys, we love you dearly and sincerely, and we'll talk to you soon.
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