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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone. How are you? Once again welcome to another live this morning. Hope you're having a great start to your day. Are you having your coffee this morning? I am. Okay. Yeah out in Denver, Colorado, guys, and it's good to be with you. We appreciate you more than you know. Okay, let me look at a few studies here that we sort of flagged this week and we'll comment on them a little bit here. Okay, this study was done and looking at, okay, let me read it to you. More daylight. Okay? More daylight. Get out in the sun, not necessarily just for your vitamin D, which of course you'll get, and melatonin, which is stored and produced in your pineal gland, your third eye, okay? Try not to wear sunglasses. I know some people they can't do that, but most people can let your eyes get that sunlight because here's another study.
Not only is it good for your sleep, because when the sun is out, even if it's in the middle of winter and 40 below, you still get melatonin produced by that sunlight, okay? Coming through the eyes. Obviously you're not getting any vitamin D at 40 below, but you're getting melatonin. Isn't that great? Okay. And that of course, combined with a very, very dark room at night, very important. Why is that? Because now you're getting melatonin produced even at night, and melatonin not in a supplement, but by the way, God has ordained it. You get a better sleep. Isn't that great? Good news. Here's this other study again on sunlight during the day. So daylight sun protects your eyes. Listen to this new study, protects your eyes against artificial light.
Guys, I'm around artificial light. I mean, I'm not in an office anymore, but used to have the different lighting there, but your screens, that blue light. I got to be looking at studies all the time. I'm on my iPad or I'm on my phone and there's artificial light that comes from that. Well, now they're showing. I like this. I love this, that if you get in the sun, when the sun is out and you get sunlight, you are protecting your eyeballs from artificial light. Isn't that good news, guys? Isn't that wonderful news? Okay, it is. So more daylight, sunlight, that's the headline, protects against artificial light, protects your eyes, guys, who knew? That's why a lot of people wear sunglasses. They think that's sun's damaging my eyes. Not really. Not really. And you've heard it here on this program for many, many years. When I wrote the book, Sun, Steak, Steel and Sleep, I meant it. I meant it. Okay, isn't that a good news?
Okay, now here's another one on the sun. Vitamin D protects the brain in depression, okay? And this article went on to say, looking at multitude of studies, mental health and metabolic health are usually two sides of the same coin. Now guys, we've done deep, deep dives on this for several years, and I always talk about the summer of 2022 when mental health, including dementia, Alzheimer's, bipolar, depression, got turned on its head because the studies seemed to come out pretty well simultaneously. The summer of 2022 when they started saying, okay, let's take example of Alzheimer's, where they said, well, we were wrong about that. We weren't right about the cause of plaques in the brain. And what they did say is It seems to be a metabolic thing. It has to do more with energy and your mitochondria and food. Well, isn't that something?
And then bipolar, same thing, more metabolic. And when you talk about depression, when you talk about bipolar, you talk about schizophrenia. Okay? All of these things were turned on their head in 2022. Now, a lot of doctors, they got the memo and they started thinking about the importance of energy, the importance of food, the importance of insulin when it comes to mental health. And when they were talking about depression, I said, man, it's really important, okay? And here we see a study that talks about vitamin D and depression. Well, vitamin D is very important metabolically. We talk about this all the time. I've added vitamin D and the deficiency of vitamin D, we've done it here on The Doctor Is In Podcast. We've added, at least I have, I don't think they've officially listened to me yet, they should. I talked about adding vitamin D to the list in metabolic syndrome.
Do you know what I mean by that? Okay, metabolic syndrome, belly fat, high triglycerides, low HDL cholesterol, high blood pressure, elevated blood sugar, not necessarily diabetes, but elevated. And again, I tell you guys over and over and over again, get your A1C checked because that's the one that will give you, in my opinion, the best indicator of that. And uric acid. I added a couple more. Uric acid and you know what? It's interesting. A lot of people are adding uric acid to the list of metabolic syndrome. And the other one that I've added, you've heard it here 10,000 times, vitamin D, the sun. Vitamin D has a huge, huge effect. Tony Jr and I were talking about this to someone here yesterday at this conference, and we were just picking each other's brains. I said, well, vitamin D, you're a human solar panel. Every cell in your body is looking for vitamin D. Every cell in your body. Your brain cells are looking for vitamin D. The mitochondria, the battery packs within those cells, they don't work properly without the right levels of vitamin D. You see the connection?
So vitamin D, I know it's not food, although you can get vitamin D in food, in the animal kingdom in eggs, meat and cheese, you get some vitamin D. Now, the only problem with eating vitamin D is you got to eat it every day. And I can't remember which book I originally talked about this, probably Serial Killers, Two Hormones That Want You Dead. When I wrote that book I was talking about the Inuit previously called the Eskimo in the Arctic, and they've studied their diets, guys, okay? Go back to the turn of the 20th century. And they were studying the Eskimo or the Inuit and they could not believe how healthy they were. Like what? They're healthy like what they didn't ever see really, I guess on observation, they didn't have heart disease. They don't know what that is. They don't get cancer. They don't know what that is. Now they die. I used to say they die because the polar bears eat them, but they don't die the way we die of all these chronic illnesses. And one of the biggest things, of course is their diet. They live on fat. What they live on is blubber. Whale liver and seal and they eat everything, all the fat, and so they get good doses of vitamin D every day.
But one thing about when you consume animal product, you have to have it every day in order to keep your vitamin D levels good. The best way to get vitamin D is from the sun. And then if you're not going to see the sun for a bit, which is very common, and I even have my Floridian friends and my Arizonan friends taking vitamin D because when they get their levels checked, they're low. How could you be low when you live in Florida? Well, you're not getting enough sun. You stay out of the sun. Now, I'm not saying you guys, because you guys know better than that, but it's the sun paradox, isn't it? Because people are scared of the sun. It's amazing to me when I watch people lather up with sunscreen. If you go to the beach in Florida, they lather up with sunscreen and then they cover up and it's all right to get 20 minutes. Would you at least get 20 minutes and get 10,000 IUs and don't touch sunscreen with a hundred foot pole at any time? That stuff goes right into your skin. One of the best ways to get anything inside your body is put it on your skin. Don't use sunscreen. Cover up. Once you get your 10,000 IUs in 20 minutes and you're getting melatonin, your pineal gland, it's storing it.
Anyway, back to this study and metabolic health. So we know what that is guys. The way your body uses energy, the way your body uses food, how your brain uses that energy, how your brain uses that food. And that's why you always look for metabolic syndrome and 93% of the population suffers from metabolic syndrome. High triglycerides, low HDL, possible elevated blood pressure, possible elevated blood sugar, still normal limits, but elevated. When you're into A1C, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, and they tell you it's normal. Nah, it's part of metabolic syndrome. Belly fat, uric acid add it to the list. I was right about that. High levels of uric acid is an indication of insulin resistance that affects your liver and affects your kidneys and add vitamin D to that list of metabolic syndrome.
Low levels of vitamin D affect your metabolism and officially it should be recognized as such. And if they ever did that and recognize that vitamin D, deficiency in vitamin D is part of metabolic syndrome, you know what would happen? They would maybe start testing for it routinely. Because when you talk to most physicians, most not all, vitamin D, they don't even think of the immune system. I talked to you yesterday. They looked at all the studies, all the data has come in from the virus, Covid and I brought that to you yesterday. What was it? 90 something, 98, 99% of these people, 96 to 99, I can't remember. I got to go look at it. Anyone that went into the hospital with the virus when they tested their vitamin D, they were all low. It's part of metabolic syndrome. It's part of your immune system, every cell in your body.
So now back to the headline, okay, after all that, I want to bring you back to mental health and the more now they're looking at the root causes of mental problems including depression, including Alzheimer's and dementia, including bipolar, including schizophrenia. There's a huge connection to your metabolic health for that, and they're saying in this study that vitamin D protects the brain and depression. Vitamin D protects the brain and depression, and here's a quote from the writers of this study. Mental health and metabolic health are usually two sides of the same coin. Yep. So guys, the problem is, and I've always said this in mental health guys, okay, I've always said it, the problem is in mental health is conformity. For example, I get patients in my office, they suffer with depression or I get patients in my office that would suffer with bipolar. Patients in my office suffering from schizophrenia. Patients in my office that had cognitive decline.
The toughest thing, the toughest thing was getting them to adhere to a program because I said almost invariably because we used to test for this. Well, look, you got metabolic syndrome. What? You got metabolic syndrome. Okay, what's that mean, doc? Well, it means that you and carbs don't get along, okay? It doesn't mean you can't have any. It just means you don't get along. You need to change your diet. You need to look at food differently. You need to look at food as medicine and your brain, your like a little bit of a canary in the coal mine. Some people in metabolic syndrome get chronic diseases. They're much more susceptible to it, but you, that individual, I'd say, well, you're the canary in the coal mine, your're fragile. Your brain is finicky and you got to give it the right energy all the time. You need to be disciplined, disciplined to understand that you are very much affected by what? Food.
They never saw the connection before. Although some of them would say, you know you're right when it comes to sugar, originally I crave sugar, but I know it's not good for me and my brain starts to play tricks on me. And I said, exactly, you've got to understand that you and carbohydrates, those simple sugars and fructose, and I'm not talking about fruit. I'm talking about sugars and crappy carbs from your breads and your noodles. And I said, you have to switch. The problem was conformity. The problem was doing it, implementing the diet. I said, you got to do this on your good days. Get this in your craw on your good days because when your bad days come and they will. Bad days, you're still doing good things. Do you know what I mean by that?
I used to try and get my mental health patients. Look, when it comes to your brain, it's an energy hog. You have to give it the right energy all the time. And you got metabolic syndrome, so you and carbs don't get along. You just have to understand that. Just take it even if you have to take it by faith to start off with, and you got to be disciplined in your good days so that you'll be disciplined in those bad days. If you're used to working out, going for a walk, going to the gym, if you go to a gym, just home exercises. I said, if you put that in your craw, if you put that in your habits, if you do it every day, in your good days. When things start to go downwards in terms of your mental health, your emotions, you're so disciplined, you'll exercise, you'll still eat right and I'm telling you that dip and I used to tell my patients this, that dip, you'll hardly dip compared to what you usually do.
But you got to go home and form these habits of laying off the sugar and laying off those sugary drinks, especially with high fructose corn syrup. You just got to do it. You've got to be disciplined to do it. You got to get the memo, get it now. And I'm telling you, you are going to go through this and you'll see you're not going to get near the dips you used to do and take vitamin D. I used to give them eight, 10,000 IUs of vitamin D, sometimes 20, 30,000 if they were really low for a month and then get their levels up. I'd give them B12. I said, you got to the rest of your life, you got to take B12. B12 and depression, B12 and cognitive, B12 and your memory and lay off the sugars and exercise. Go for a walk. Even when you don't feel like it. Don't run on feelings with any kind of mental health issue. You've got to ingrain it so much at such a part of you.
Because what happens in depression? I'm eating junk again, I can't get myself going. I don't want to go to the gym. I don't want to work out. They should. I don't even want to take my vitamin D. They should. I don't feel like taking my B12. I'm discouraged and guys, it's real. I understand that. But when you look at the link between mental health and metabolic health, mental health, metabolic health, when you understand that, well then metabolic health, we know it's food, it's food choices, okay? Eggs, meat, cheese. Does it mean you can't have any fruits and vegetables? No, I'm not saying that, but you have to emphasize, you got to eat like the Inuit, okay? They don't know what mental health problems are, okay? I'm not kidding you. They've studied that certain tribes there and the Arctic folks, it's unreal how healthy, they just couldn't get over it. Okay? Was it Stephenson and these explorers, they lived with them for a year. They said, man, I've never seen people as healthy as these people.
Anyway, I've written about that several times in their book. Okay, you know what tomorrow is? Tomorrow is question Q and A Friday. Okay? So get your questions in, guys. We appreciate that. We love you dearly and sincerely. I don't think it's too late info@martinclinic.com. Send your questions in info@martinclinic.com. Now, to answer Raheem's question, coming to a theater near you are the in the USA are the products. They're coming and I think within about a week or two, we should have those out getting ready. It was just a huge process because we're so finicky. I was talking to, there's actually people here that help to get all the raw material in for our ingredients.
And I talked to a guy last night, he's from Boulder, Colorado, which is about 30 miles from Denver here, and he said to me, Dr. Martin, I can't believe your formulas and you won't compromise. I said, they work. And he understood this because I said, you have to understand something. I had to look at people in the eyeballs every day. What? Well, I was in practice when they had conditions, digestive or leaky gut, or I had to fix it. How could you give them a supplement that didn't work? That's why we made our own supplements at the Martin Clinic because if they don't work, what kind of a doctor would I be? It's a pain. It's a pain, but I'm sorry. Here's the formula.
I give you an example, the cortisol formula, and I get a migraine when I think about dealing with Health Canada. FDA hasn't been near as tough, but Health Canada, we want them even on our label because they just don't know what they're talking about. It just drives me crazy. But we won't change it. We won't. Nope. We will not change our formula. I'm sorry. They work. That's why we use them. And I'll put up our probiotic or whatever our cortisol for against anyone because of the clinical experience of, like I said, in practice almost 50 years. Okay, guys. Anyway, that was for you, Raheem and all our American listeners. They're coming. We got good news coming very, very shortly. Okay, love you guys. Talk to you soon.
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