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Dr. Martin: Well, good afternoon everyone, and welcome to another live today and hope you're having a great afternoon. Good to have you guys on. We love you. Okay, so what did we talk about yesterday? Cardiovascular disease and what did we mention? We spent a lot of time on a fellow by the name of Dr. Joseph Kraft, not Kraft dinner, but Joseph Kraft, the father of insulin, the father of diabetes. When I say that, it's because I don't think anybody studied diabetes as much as this fella. And I showed you a book that you can still get. He passed away, I don't know how many years ago, but you can still get a couple of his books on Amazon, all about diabetes. And you know what to be honest, I haven't looked at that book in years. I can't remember if it was designed for physicians or a lay person, but don't matter. You guys are smart. You can read anything if you can listen to me, okay? No, we appreciate that.
So what do we say? What did Joseph Kraft say? If you have hardening of the arteries, atherosclerosis, which is the major cause of heart disease, you get hardening of the arteries. It ain't cholesterol, it's sugar, it's crappy carbs. Dr. Kraft said this, if you have atherosclerosis, you're a diabetic. It's as simple as that. And he said there was no exceptions to it. So when it comes to heart disease, when it comes to aging, when it comes to your body decaying, okay? When it comes to your body becoming inflamed, okay, I'm not talking about a fever, inflammation without a fever, you got trouble with insulin. Make insulin your North star. You know what I mean by that? Sure, you do. Make it your North Star. One thing, you get lost, you got a compass. Where's the north star? Right? That thing is always steady Eddie, and you know where you're at. Make insulin your north star.
And if you have trouble with insulin, you have a carbohydrate disorder, you have a carbohydrate overdose disorder, okay? You can't be a diabetic. Look, type one is different. That's an autoimmune where the pancreas isn't working. Put that over there. That's different. I'm talking about adult onset, what we used to call sugar diabetes. If someone is a diabetic, they have a carbohydrate overdose syndrome. In my office, because I would measure insulin. I'd tell patients, you and carbs don't get along and it's very serious because if you look at what Dr. Kraft was saying, he said, you cannot get atherosclerosis without being a diabetic. And even if you're not diagnosed as a diabetic. Well guys, if that's the case, and he did thousands upon thousands of autopsies on diabetic patients, that's how we came to that conclusion. So when it comes to heart disease, number one thing you ought to do, get rid of sugar. Get rid of sugar.
So it's not complicated, really. It's not. I know it sounds simplistic. People don't like that sometimes. Oh, doc, you think you, that's too simplistic. Well, maybe, but I'll tell you something, you can't out medicate, you can't out supplement, you can't out exercise, you can't. Like those things. Supplements are good. Exercise is good. Everything's good. We'll talk about that today. But if you don't get your food right, I don't care who you are, you better start with that. My PhD was in nutrition, clinical nutrition, and I think what they should do is make every doctor of any kind take at least a thousand hours of nutrition as part of their curriculum. I believe that with all my heart because if you don't understand food, well, you're not even getting at the basics because if you just give medication, heart disease, number one, medication, all the world is for heart disease. It's statin drugs. I'd never seen such a colossal failure in terms of a medication. It's a failure. Why? Heart disease is worse than ever. It's worse than ever.
So one thing I want you to do, I want you to start there. I want anyone to start there, okay? If you already have blockages, doesn't matter. You got to get your food right, get your food right, and I highly recommend people start with the reset. Do a 30 day program. It's really for everyone guys. I know people. There's some people negative and you shouldn't be, oh, there's not enough carbohydrates for a month. Look, I'll tell you something. People thrive on that program. They thrive on it because they're lowering their insulin, they're fixing insulin and it ain't calories. So what other things should we talk about? Remember, your heart is a pump a hundred thousand times a day. Think of that. You don't think of it unless you got AFib or you got something else going on. You don't think about it and I don't want you to think about it in a way. I just want you to do the right things, get your life in order and start with food.
And the best way to eat is to lower your carbohydrates. Don't live on carbs. I don't care what anybody tells you. It ain't true. Don't live on carbs. Live on nutrient dense foods. The foods that have the most nutrients in them, which are eggs, meat and cheese. You want to have some fruits after you do the reset. I got no problem with that. You want to have some vegetables after the reset. I got no problem with that. I think you'll find out once you do the reset and tens of thousands of people have found out, you know what? Dr. Martin was right. Me and carbs don't really get along. I don't feel as good when I'm eating carbohydrate. I'm not talking about fruits and vegetables so much, okay? I'm talking more about the breads and the pastas and the cereals and the muffins and the bagels and your breakfast starting out the day the wrong way, and just all those things, even snacking. You find out that you and carbs don't get along. Isn't that a good thing to do? And you're helping your heart at the same time.
Because when you're lowering insulin and you become more and more insulin sensitive, you want to be sensitive to insulin. You know how I always talk about insulin? If you're a carboholic, it's like having a bad neighbor. Hello. Oh, by the way, I'm around again and you get tired of it. That's your cells at the cellular level. They get so sick of insulin because you have to use so much when you're eating crappy carbs that the cells are going, would you get out of here? I can't stand it. You're always here. And insulin goes, well, if you insist on eating bread, you insist on eating noodles, you insist on eating muffins and bagels and cereal. If you insist on eating that stuff. Well, insulin has no choice because as we talked about yesterday, sugar is toxic. Your body knows it. You've got to organ dedicated to it to get that stinking sugar out of your bloodstream. It's got to store it somewhere. It'll store it, especially in muscle cells. So that's why you want to have good muscles. There's a point. Lift weights, get strong. Use bands, those tensor bands and get strong, get muscle. Use a gripper, okay?
It's amazing. Get strong because the more muscle you have, the more space you have for insulin to store glucose as glycogen. The more bins you have, the more space in the bins you have. That's one of the biggest problems, by the way, with skinny people. Okay? A lot of people want to be skinny. If you're big, oh, I'd like to be thin. Well thin don't mean healthy, okay? Thin don't mean healthy because what thin people are a lot of thin people, okay? Not all thin people, but a lot of thin people don't realize they have no muscle and their livers can be full of fat because they eat the wrong foods and they don't know it because no one's told them that. You see your body's primary place to store sugar as fat, muscles, liver, and let me take it out. Fat cells, most people have an unlimited capacity to make fat cells, and it starts in your liver and then it'll go around your organs. You can be skinny as a rake and have fat around your heart and fat around your pancreas and fat in and around your liver and stomach and that very dangerous fat, and you don't even know it because you're skinny or you might have a little wee bit of a belly, but one of the best things you can do is have muscle, my friend.
I've said it on this program, and I'll say it again and again and again. Muscle is it's an organ onto itself. The more we study muscle, I'll tell you what I know about muscle today compared to the 1970s. It's unbelievable because it started in the seventies. Cardio, cardio, cardio, do cardio. I remember Dr. Cooper, what did he call it? The antioxidant revolution and he was a runner, a jogger, and so was I. I jogged for about 40 years. My dad was the first jogger in the world, I think. I don't think there was anybody that went out for a run in 1968, but my dad did. I said, dad, are you crazy? What are you doing? Well, he said, I'm getting into shape, son. I'm a diabetic. I have to get into shape. My dad was smart. Holy moly. Okay, and jogging. You want to jog? I don't care. Good for you. But that ain't the best thing you can do for your insulin.
The best thing you can do for your insulin, and the best thing you can do for your heart is get strong because it'll lower your insulin. If you lower your insulin and you eat right, you're atherosclerosis, you're not going to get near as much atherosclerosis, hardening of the arteries. Build muscle, guys. And I don't care if you're 80 years old, you can build muscle, okay? You can build muscle and go to a gym or do some pushups if you can. If you have to modify them, modify them, okay? I got to show you. I always say I'm going to do it. I'm actually looking at it. I got some devices right here in my place to do pushups. They're push. I don't know what they're called. And I got the bands. I got some weights. Get strong.
Number one, food. Number two, okay, lift weights, get strong, lowers your blood pressure, takes a lot of pressure off your heart. I'm telling you. Number three, lose visceral fat. And what's nice, guys? Okay, let me say this first. These GLP one drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy, God love them, okay? But if you guys follow me at all, I'm not big on that stuff because it doesn't modify anything. I mean, I used to get asked about surgery all the time, do the clamp on the stomach and the reverse, and I said, well, I'm not big on that. You need to change. I understand. Look, I mean if someone big and they need. These things work, but you lose muscle, not fat. The very thing you don't want to do, you want to lose fat. This is one pound of fat.
And this is why the reset is so good for you because the reset, because you're eating eggs, meat, cheese, butter, cream. I know it sounds that's calories, but when you go calories in and calories out, you lower your calories. I'm going to tell you what you're going to do. You're going to lose your muscle. If you don't get enough calories, you'll lose muscle. Well, you can do that, but it'll all come back. You want to lose fat. The reset, it's not really a weight loss program, it's the healthiest weight loss program you can do. It's the healthiest without medication. I mean the side effects now with these GLP ones medications, oh my word from blindness to, I mean guys, you'll find out because after a couple of years or more, it'll all come out in the wash that people, yeah, the designer drugs and the movie stars made them famous and they're wonderful and they're easy, and you just give yourself an injection once a week or whatever it is, and yada, yada, yada. You lose weight. Yeah, but I mean from major permanent stomach issues, changes the peristalsis in the stomach, blindness.
Guys, isn't it better if you just changed habits in eating? Don't you think that's better? I think so. So lose some visceral fat, walk. I like walking. Move. One of the things that helps, even if you're sitting like you're at a job, they've shown if you get up and do, if you can 10 deep, as deep as you can go, squats, just your body squat. Hold onto something that you have to and try and squat. You lower your glucose, you lower your insulin, you get moving, walk. I love walking, okay? And it lowers your cortisol too at the same time. So good for you. Eat red meat. There should be on the label of steak, beef, ground beef. There should be a heart except the powers to be put hearts on a box of cereals like Cheerios. You want to have a heart attack. That's why they put a heart on there.
If you eat Cheerios, you're going to have a heart attack. You know when they put heart healthy and they put it on margarine too, I get a migraine because what they should do is take those heart healthy labels and slap them on steak and slap them on eggs and slap them on cheese because they got it wrong and we got it right. They got it wrong. And the proof is more heart disease than ever. Eat grains. It's good for your heart. Cheerios will bring your cholesterol down. And what's that going do for you? Cheerios, Dr. Martin. I got on my box of Quaker Oats. It's got a heart on the box. I said, I know you eat it, you're going to have a heart attack. That's why the heart's there. They got it upside down, guys. Eat red meat. Why? coQ10, L arginine good for your blood vessels. B12, good for your heart, good for your brain. Heart healthy food is a steak. Okay? Beef, eat your beef, all the vitamins, all the minerals, everything you need. Eat an egg and eat the yolk. Make sure you want a healthy heart. Eat the yolk. Egg whites are good. Yolk is better. That's where all the vitamins are.
Manage your stress. Manage your stress. The lowest fruit on the cortisol tree, okay, cortisol being the stress hormone, the lowest hanging fruit on the cortisol tree is get a good night's sleep. Do everything you can to sleep, invest in sleep. Sun, steak, steel and sleep and I mean it. Sun, steak, steel and sleep. Get your sleep for your heart. It's amazing. If you can get a good night's sleep, how that protects your heart, protects your blood vessels. Emphasize sleep, try and get to sleep at the same. I know you can't always, but as much as you can, prepare for it. If you've got to take some magnesium and cortisol formula, take it and stop eating. If you can, try and have an early supper, guys. Be a senior and eat early. My mother used to say that, be a senior and eat early. Okay? And I know it's not always possible, but I'm telling you, it makes a difference in your sleep. If you make a difference in your sleep, you're making a difference for your heart. Emphasize sleep, manage it.
Stay hydrated. Okay, stay hydrated. Very, very, very important. Water. Water is important for the heart because it helps with your circulation, your blood vessels. You got 60,000 miles of blood vessels. Your heart's a pump don't have blood as thick as molasses. You wouldn't believe how many times in my office I turn around and tell the patient, you got blood like molasses. You don't drink enough water. Oh, Dr. Martin, I drink coffee. Well, good for you. I love coffee and it's good for your heart, but you need water too. Drink water. Two liters a day. My American friends, that's 64 ounces. Okay? 64 ounces of water. That's the sweet spot. That's the study spot. 99% of all studies will tell you to drink two liters of water a day or 64 ounces. And if you need a little bit more than that, but good for you, rarely, ever less. That's the sweet spot. I've studied water for 50 years, guys, how much water your body needs, how you respond to it. And I'm telling you, that's what it is. And research confirms it.
And then lastly, drink coffee for your heart. Now guys, I'm telling you the real vitamin C, which is coffee at the Martin Clinic, you guys know that. The Doctor Is In, what do we say the real vitamin C, which is tremendous for your heart, is coffee. It has a thousand phytonutrients that benefit your heart health and protect your blood vessels as an antioxidant and elevate your nitric oxide. Couple of supplements that if you want for your heart just to talk about supplements. Vitamin D, is there anything that vitamin D doesn't help? B12. Is there anything that B12 doesn't help? Navitol, is there anything that Navitol doesn't help? Pine bark extract. High DHA. I would do it lubricate, lubricate. You need a lube job for your blood vessels and your heart.
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