Dr. Martin answers questions sent in by our listeners.
Some of today’s topics include:
- Juicing to counteract cancer
- Reactive arthritis
- Cellulose in supplements
- Ferrous gluconate
- Healing damaged thyroid gland
- Burdock root
- Clove oil
- EMC & AFib
TRANSCRIPT OF TODAY'S EPISODE
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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone. How are you? Nice to have you on this morning with us live as we go through a question and answer. Always fun, always. Lots of good questions. Karen is asking this question, so let's get going. "My husband has read the book, the Gerson Therapy book, which promotes juicing mostly vegetables to counteract cancer for general health." No, I don't believe in that. Okay. I don't like juicing Now. I like Dr. Martin's perfect smoothie. God wanted you to eat fruit and eat vegetables, not juice it. And if you want to get an enormous amount of oxalates, then juice. You don't want that. And I wrote in this book, Sun, Steak and Steel, about oxalates in breast cancer and how they accumulate in breast tissue. And I believe in prostate tissue too.
Guys, I mean, look, I know a lot of people and they think juicing is the greatest thing since sliced bread. I just don't buy it. I don't like it, and I don't want you juicing. If you want to eat carrots, eat them. But don't drink it, okay? Don't drink it. Don't drink it as a juice. It wasn't meant to be. And no, I disagree. I disagree. In all due respect to the Gerson therapy, he uses carrots, apples, celery, beets, lemon, raw ginger. I like the ginger, I like the turmeric or the curcumin, but I'd be very careful as far as I'm concerned with juicing. You know who was one of the biggest juicers? Steve Jobs of Apple industries and the Apple phone and all the computers and that whole company. He was big, big, big on juicing. And he got cancer young. And I'm not saying it's the cause of cancer all the time, but if I could have got to him, I would've told him to stop. He was a big vegetarian and he was a big, big guy in juicing. And he used that when he found out he had cancer. He just doubled down on it. But that's all he used to do before.
Now you guys might remember this or not. I brought this up on early, early podcasts a long time ago. I actually did it on my radio show, The Doctor Is In radio show, which was syndicated in Canada. And I talked about what was that? He was an actor that played Steve Jobs. So he did what Steve Jobs did, getting ready for this movie. All he eat was fruit and vegetables and all of the juicing, and he got pancreatitis. It almost killed him. Your body wasn't made for that. Your body wasn't made for that. So anyway, Ashton Kuchen or Ashton, I don't know you guys. Come on Kutcher. Rita, thank you so much, Sandy. Thank you, Sandy. Sandy. You guys are great. Debbie, you guys know right? Donna? Yeah. Kutcher. Okay. He got pancreatitis and almost killed him just doing what Steve Jobs did. So when you read this book on Gershen or whatever, therapy, I don't buy it. Okay? I'm very opinionated. I don't buy it.
Okay, Chantelle, "can you talk about reactive arthritis? A friend of mine developed this after getting food poisoning." Yeah, a lot of times you can get polymyalgia rheumatica after a virus, after a sickness, a reactive arthritis. I've seen people come into my office, I'm not kidding you, that couldn't even button their shirt, their hands and arms were so sore. That would be a reactive arthritis. And what I did, I detoxed them by emptying their liver. The reset, no sugars, no inflammatory. Sugar and this nightshade vegetable stuff, I can't stand it. Tomatoes. And I was like, that don't cause no problems, sugar does and don't juice. Okay? So I would have them on curcumin, Navitol and quercetin, high DHA, and that inflammation will come right down and that reactive arthritis will go away. But you got to do the reset too. No sugar. Get off all the crappy carbohydrates for 30 days. It'll make a huge difference. Chantelle, thank you very much.
Linda. "We notice," we? Okay, "notice that there's cellulose in several of the Martin Clinic supplements." Well, look, you got to fill, there's fillers and cellulose is a filler that our manufacturer uses. It's completely safe. Look, it's not like you are getting lot of it there is just, it's a filler. So yeah, you're not accumulating that in your body whatsoever. It's actually quite safe. When I talk about cellulose is that people think that they're rabbits and they live on vegetables, they live on salad, they live on those kinds of things. And I tell 'em, well, look, you are not a rabbit. You don't have the enzymes to break down cellulose, okay? But in tiny amounts, that's not hurting you. Okay? Thanks for the question. We appreciate it.
Okay, "my MD," Marie says, "has me on ferrous gluconate." So obviously you were anemic low in iron with vitamin D3. "If I take the multi nutrient, can I quit those pills?" Well I would not quit Vitamin D3? You need to take vitamin D3 unless you're in the sun three or four days a week, and I mean arms and legs, your solar panels exposed. Don't stop taking vitamin D3. We put some vitamin D3 in the multi nutrient, but that's not a therapeutic dose at all, okay? You need therapeutic doses of vitamin D. I take eight, 10,000 IUs a day, and my vitamin D, I just got it checked by the way. I just got it checked recently and it's optimized exactly where I want it. In the United States of America around 80 ngMLs and in Canada over 200 nmoL/L. Okay? Don't get me going on those stupid names, okay? But optimize your vitamin D. So Marie, you need vitamin D and take it and take it on a daily basis until the sun, you can get out and sunbathe, because I don't think you're doing it well. Maybe you are. I don't know where you're from, Marie. Maybe you're doing it if you live in Florida.
Okay, Susan, "how do you fix the thyroid problem if the thyroid gland has been damaged by radioactive iodine, therefore not functioning properly?" That is a very, very good question. Okay, now remember what we all we say here at The Doctor Is In, what do we always say about the thyroid? It's a puppet or like a puppet. It's got a lot of strings attached to it. Just like a puppet. You have to look at the thyroid in a holistic way. You have to understand that almost everything affects the thyroid. Okay? So your ovaries ladies affect the thyroid. Your adrenals affect the thyroid. Insulin affects the thyroid. Vitamin D affects the thyroid. And did I bring you that study on vitamin D and thyroid? If I haven't, I will. It's, it is essential for your thyroid to work properly. You need an empty liver for your thyroid to work properly. Okay?
So if your thyroid's been damaged, you need to really take care of everything else I talk about. Estrogen and progesterone, ovaries, adrenals, cortisol, too much cortisol, fix that. Pancreas, insulin, fix that with a diet liver where T4 is converted to T3 in your liver, mostly got to fix that. Even leaky gut fix, it has a big effect on the thyroid. So if your thyroid is not there or not functioning properly, you got to get the rest of it. It's holistic. You got to look at everything. In my office, I specialized in horror-mones. I used to tell my patients, I didn't say you got hormones. I said, you got horror-mones, okay? And they knew exactly what I was talking about. I said, well, you're all messed up. You're out of balance. And I used to draw 'em a picture of the pyramid, and with the thyroid being at the top and at the bottom of the pyramid for ladies, I'd have the ovaries, estrogen, progesterone, and then the adrenals. Halfway up that pyramid in the middle of the pyramid, I would draw the pancreas. And you got to look at everything.
So the nice thing about our thyroid, and you got to be on thyroid support because what we do with our thyroid support is we hit holistically. We hit the hypothalamus up there. You got to start there. And the pituitary, you have to support that because the signals coming down to the thyroid come from there. You got to fix that. And one of the things that I like to talk about when it comes to thyroid is selenium. A lot of people talk about iodine, and that's all right. I mean, you need iodine for sure, but selenium, in my opinion, is even more important. And selenium is only found in the animal kingdom. Selenium, you get a little bit of nuts. That's for chipmunks and squirrels. It's not enough for you. You need selenium. When you get selenium, when you eat eggs, meat and cheese, especially steak. Okay? So thank you for the question. And that was Susan.
Moses. "All of a sudden I noticed dandruff in my hair." Well, you got a fungal, you got dandruff, you got fungus, you got yeast. Start leaky gut, leaky scalp, probiotics, oil of oregano. You can put it in your shampoo if you want. Put a couple of drops in there and shampoo your hair. Very, very good for antifungal probiotics, you've got to start in the gut. Yeah, you picked up a fungus Moses.
Okay, Heather, "what does Dr. Martin think of burdock root?" I like it. I like burdock root. "Someone told me it's a great fighter of cancer cells." I know things that are much better. Okay, so burdock root, I like it better for cancer. Vitamin D is much better than burdock root for cancer. Laying off the sugar is much better than burdock root for cancer. Laying off that juicing and all those oxalates is much better than burdock root for cancer. I talked about this yesterday on our program. I talked about the trifecta of high omega-3, vitamin D and vitamin E, exercise. The trifecta, 61%. If you optimize your vitamin D, if you optimize your high DHA omega-3 and you optimize your exercise vitamin E, you've got a 61% chance. Now, what offers you that kind of protection, not burdock root? And again, I got no problem with burdock root, but to isolate it and say, oh, it's wonderful for cancer. I'm not convinced about that. Okay? I'm not, because I've been around a long time and I've never really seen that be, oh, that's the greatest thing for cancer. Okay, thanks for the question. We sure appreciate it. That was Heather. Thanks Heather.
Norma, "what are the benefits of clove oil?" Well, I like clove. It's antifungal. It is anti parasitic. Okay? We use it in our digestive enzymes, and I like it. "Would it be similar to oil of oregano?" Well, yes, but it's not as good. It's just not as strong oil of oregano. Guys, you know me, oil of oregano. By the way, whoever makes it, I know it's found in nature, but I mean companies that sell oil of oregano, including me, you owe me money. I remember this is when I had my radio show. The highest sales of oil of oregano in all of Canada was in Sudbury, Ontario. Did you know that? And Northern Ontario. Why? Because I had my radio show and people would listen and I always talk, everybody, they used to laugh about it and say, watch Dr. Martin's going to say oil of oregano. What should I take? Oil of oregano.
Okay, now, I wasn't a one track mind because I talked about probiotics and other things too, but oil of oregano. So if you ever run into someone that has a business selling oil of oregano, tell 'em to send me checks. They owe me. Okay? I promote it, but I've seen it. Guys, you have to remember, I was saying this to someone the other day. I was in practice. I had a clinic. I had to get results. I had to look at people in the eyeballs.
I didn't build a reputation by not helping people. So I used to get people out of the weeds. They want to try everything. And I'd say, well, look, why don't we just get out of the weeds and here's your problem, and here's what you do about it. Give me 30 days of your life and I'll prove it to you from horror-mones to skin, some of the worst skin conditions. I mean it, and I said, well, I'm going to go to the root of the problem. We're always going to start with your diet, always. And I'm going to suggest a few things, not a hundred things that are going to fix the problem, fix the root cause. That's what I want to get at. Here's my protocol. Go home and do it and watch the results. And guys, I had 50 years of doing that, okay? Thank you for the question, Norma.
Grace, "after doing the reset 30 days," smart girl, "I went to the next day to get my blood work and urine tested. My doc was concerned about ketones and protein in my urine." Well, look, your doc, God love your doc, but ketones, look, I know why he or she was concerned because in their mind, when they see ketones in your urine, they're thinking of ketoacidosis, which isn't the same as ketosis. Ketosis is very good for you. It's your body changing fuel. You're burning ketones rather than burning carbohydrates. Remember Dr. Atkins? That's what he wanted. Ketones. Okay, I love burning the right fuel, guys. You know me. Change fuels. You got cancer, change fuels, you got heart disease, change fuels, you got Alzheimer's, change fuels. Start with food and change it. What you did, the reset was exactly Grace, what you needed to do. Okay?
Now, the protein in the urine, I'm not worried about that. Sometimes it would be slightly elevated, but your kidneys actually will thank you for doing the 30 day reset. And your doctor is just, they're mixing up two conditions. One is ketoacidosis, very dangerous, can be very deadly. And that happens to usually a diabetic or someone that's getting ready to die. Their body is eating muscle. The body's eating itself, that's ketoacidosis. And your pH, the body can't control the pH. pH of your body is tightly, tightly controlled in your blood, okay? Tightly controlled. But when you get sick and you got ketoacidosis, now your pH is becoming much more acidic. And that will kill you. That will kill you. And that can happen, especially in diabetes, especially in type one diabetes. Got to be very careful about that. But it's really important to understand that difference. Okay? And God, love your doctor. Okay? I wish they'd take more nutrition. I wish they understood this and they just don't understand it because they've been taught and they don't get much in medical school, but they've been taught, meat, oh, be careful. It'll give you colon cancer.
Okay, somebody asked that. Let me just see if I can get it. So might as well answer that. Oh, Joanne, "is eating EMC, consuming meat okay with bowel issues?" It's the best thing, Joanne. It's the best thing for you. I know they talk about bowel and its colon cancer and red meat, and that has been so debunked. It's unbelievable but the cereal companies, the powers to be, they keep pushing it. You need fiber, fiber, fiber. You got to have fiber. And you know what they're wrong about that. Fiber's overrated. That's what started the bowel problems in the first place. Here's what kills your bowel. Sugar and fiber. Think about it. Fiber ends up in your toilet. It's got no nutritional value for you. It's to make your stools bulky. Why do you need bulky stools? It irritates the gut.
And you know what happens when you eat steak or you have an egg, cheese, butter? You've got very little waste because your body says hello, thank you. Now I can absorb all the vitamins, all the amino acids, all the minerals. Thank you for giving me something that I really need. So those nutrients go where they belong. There's not a lot of waste. That's why people, when they first do the reset, some people, not everybody, but if they were a carboholic, they go, doc, I'm hardly going number two. Oh, they're worried if you go every day and maybe twice a day, that's the best thing for you. No, it's not. I'm not saying you shouldn't go to the bathroom. What I'm saying is the reason you get big stools and you look in the toilet and you look behind you and you see a big, big stool, you go, holy moly, that is wonderful. What's so wonderful about that? You're going to use a lot less toilet paper when you go through eggs, meat, and cheese. Why? Your body takes it all in. There's not a lot of waste stuff.
Fiber's overrated, Joanne. That stuff doesn't irritate your gut, eggs, meat and cheese. It's good for your gut. That's why it's like people ask me this all the time. Probiotics, okay, doc, don't we need a prebiotic? And look, I know all about this stuff. I've been talking probiotics since the days of Noah. Okay? No one has talked more about probiotics in the world than me, I don't think. Anyways, people on my radio show go back 30 years. What are you talking about? I said, well, no friendly bacteria. But the best thing to feed friendly bacteria is steak. It's an egg. It's cheese. Eggs, meat and cheese that'll feed your bacteria. They love that stuff. They don't like sugar and they don't like crap. And they don't particularly like fiber. It wipes them out. Okay? That was Grace.
Kim. "Is a urate test and uric acid the same or is this in Canada?" Well, like urate, yes, they're the same. They just got a different measurement. Okay, urate is uric acid. And in the United States, they don't call it. Well, maybe they do okay, but in Canada it's usually uri, but it's the same thing. It's just a different measurement. They're measuring uric acid. Okay, urate? Yep, the same.
Dana. "Would EMC help with my AFib?" Yep, it'll help. "My doctor tells me not to drink coffee and he wants her to have a cardiac ablation." Well, look, I'm not going to tell you yes, no, whatever on the ablation depends on how bad it is. AFib, guys, I've done podcasts on AFib. Okay? So go through, scroll through on the Martin Clinic website or on The Doctor Is In podcasts, and you can look at the list and the names of all the podcasts that I've done, what are we into? Number 1500 or I don't even know. Somebody tell me. I don't know. Are we at 2000 yet? Anyway, I've done podcast on AFib, and here's me. Why is there so much AFib? Okay, AFib has been around as long as there's been heart things, AFib, in my opinion, there's a problem, Houston. Why do we have so much AFib today? Here's me. We don't eat enough meat and we don't have enough coQ10 because coQ10. Okay, your body makes coQ10. Your mitochondria need coQ10, and your heart is made up. It's an electrical grid with a lot of mitochondria. The only thing that has more mitochondria than your heart is your brain. Mitochondria are your battery pack and they need to be supercharged, and you need coQ10 to supercharge them. Ubiquinol. Okay?
And to me, when people started becoming chicken and salad, Dr. Martin, I got to have my salad. Okay? I said, you ain't a rabbit. Why do you need salad? Because I like it. Well, okay, but it ain't good for you. What? Well, it's overrated. There's nothing in it. You get roughage. Okay? What do you want your stool to come out like a wicker chair? Why you need so much roughage? Okay, so what am I saying? Well, you need coQ10. And the other thing that we're very deficient in, very deficient in that has a lot to do with AFib is magnesium. So patients that came to see me with the AFib, and they might've been on blood thinners, they might have been recommended an ablation to fix the AFib, but in the meantime, I told them that they needed to get on coQ10 and eat more meat, eggs, meat and cheese and magnesium. That's what they were deficient in. And you know what? I always said this, it's everything and everybody vitamin D and usually B12. When I saw AFib, they were low in all of those. Okay? That was me. That's my take on it. I am not going to tell you about cardiac ablation. It works sometimes. So I don't know how bad it is, so I can't really comment on the ablation. Okay? I'm not against it if you need it.
Carol says that her husband gets nauseous every time he drinks water. Tell your husband he is unique. I don't know what to tell you. Let my audience answer that for you, Carol. Okay. I don't know why water would make someone nauseous. Okay. I'm trying to think if I've seen that before. Gee, I've seen everything else. Tell your husband he's unique. I meant weird, but I'm not supposed to say that. Okay. Let's see. How many more do we got? Can we get, we ain't going to get through. Maybe all of it.
Hey, okay well how about we stop and I'll continue this on Monday. And just for your information, usually Mondays and Thursdays now are going to be afternoon sessions. On Monday of next week, we'll do a morning one. Okay? Just my schedule. Okay? We'll remind you over the weekend. Okay? I'll be back on Monday morning. Guys, Happy Valentine's Day. Okay? We love you guys. Thank you for being such great fans of The Doctor Is In podcasts. We appreciate it. Let everybody know. Okay? And we thank you for sending the questions in. Water and plastic bottles make some people nauseous. Okay? I don't know, he's still weird. Okay, I love you guys dearly. Talk to you soon.
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