If you didn’t already know, there are dangers to regularly consuming sugar. Our bodies do everything it can to remove sugar from our bloodstream as quickly as possible. Sugar, and especially high fructose corn syrup, is viewed as a toxin that must be eliminated.
Glycation happens when sugar attaches itself to protein and fat cells within your body. It causes wrinkled or sagging skin by changing the nature and structure of your skin. It also affects all your tissues as well, causing premature aging.
Join Dr. Martin in today’s episode as he brings you a study on sugar and aging. Sugar really is a toxin we ought to avoid to keep our youthful appearance!
TRANSCRIPT OF TODAY'S EPISODE
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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone. And welcome to another live here this morning and hope you're having a great day. Okay, let's get going. Uh, this morning. I wanna talk to you about a study that came out. It was very, very interesting. I think you'll find it interesting too. What they're seeing. Okay. Here's this study. Now you guys know, at least I've said this a lot. One of the markers that I look for, like, if you're gonna send me your blood, if you can try and get the doctor to order A1C, I love that number because that tells me a lot. A1C and if your A1C is 5.4 or above that I know with certainty, you have insulin resistance. So I love A1C. Now, what is that? How do you measure A1C? How is it done? Well, what it is, it's an average, your red blood cells, red blood cells carry oxygen, right?
You know that that's why the life of the flesh is in the blood because without blood supply, you have no oxygen. And what they do to measure is in the middle of your red blood cell, you have a molecule there. It's called hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is a sticky substance. Every time you breathe. Okay? So you don't think about it. Isn't your body unreal. How it works. You don't think about it. You don't have to turn it on or whatever. It just does it automatically. Every time you breathe, okay, you're breathing your red blood cells go by your lungs. And the hemoglobin that's in the middle of the red blood cell oxygen attaches to it. Okay? It hitches its wagon to hemoglobin and your red blood cells take that oxygen, which is also fascinating, by the way, it has to convert the oxygen. You can't bring pure oxygen.
You know, when you see someone doing this to a needle, right? You know, when you, you know, you see a nurse or a doctor, they're giving you a needle and they wanna take the oxygen out of the substance, because that can give you an embolism, right? Isn't your body smart. It converts that oxygen <laugh> to an inner gas until it gets to your tissue and your organs. And, and now it's back to oxygen. Okay? Anyway, I don't want to get into too many weeds, but I always found that fascinating. Now, why do I like A1C compared to, for example, just your blood sugar. I know, look, blood sugar levels are important. Okay? You don't wanna be high all the time and that's not good for you because you know, then your insulin's not working. And that is assigned. You know, obviously that you're a diabetic, but what tells you way before diabetes is A1C. So A1C is a measurement of what we call glycated hemoglobin. I'm going to explain that to you this morning. It's one of the reasons that I tell people and try and educate people, always on the dangers of consuming sugar, okay? The dangers of consuming sugar, sugar, my friend is toxic.
You know that your body knows it, but the world doesn't know it. Okay? The world doesn't know it. You know it, I know it. Your body knows it. Sugar is very tox and sugar will attach itself to hemoglobin, just like oxygen attaches to it, which is glycated hemoglobin. So oxygen attaches. You need that. Can't live without oxygen and sugar attaches to hemoglobin and it glycans the hemoglobin. Now I wanna explain that. Okay. I wanna explain because this study was showing, okay. It's very interesting that looking at A1C, the glycation sugar hooking itself to your hemoglobin, okay. Is dangerous. If it's elevated for more reasons than one. Now, for those who are listening on a podcast, you can't see it, but visualize this, okay? This is a banana. You see that? And you're gonna see darker spots. And then if we leave this, you leave a banana unpeeled and don't take long a few days. Right?
And you're going to see what we call oxidation there. Okay. Guys, no matter what you do, you're going to rust out no matter what you do. I don't care if you use Botox. I don't care. If you go and see the best plastic surgeon in the world, it don't matter. I was looking at a picture of Olivia Newton, John. Okay. Because she'd been in the news. Why is that? Well, Olivia Newton, John passed away the other day yesterday. I probably on Monday, I think she passed away. She was 73 years old. And you know, when you're a movie star like a, a star movies or rock or whatever, they got lots of pictures of you. And they had her with John Travolta when they were both young doing the movie Greece. And then you see pictures of them. They got together about four or five years ago, I think to celebrate Greece or whatever.
Was it the 50th anniversary? I don't remember exactly what it was, but they showed it to us online. And you know what, here's what I saw. Okay. And listen, I appreciate John Travolta, a great actor. And you know who doesn't remember the movie Greece or whatever. Right. They made it into plays and all this and that. But you, what did you see? Aging? You saw free, radical oxidative damage. Okay. And guys, like I said, I don't care who you are. It's gonna happen to the best of us. Okay. It's part of life. You go downhill. It's the second law of thermodynamics. Things deteriorate. You buy a new car, eh, eventually it's gonna rust up. Now you can do treatments on it. You know, you can rust proof it, you can do whatever you want. Eventually it's going to take its toll. It's just life guys.
Okay. It's just life. And when people tell me they're gonna live to 120 years old, I say, well, you know you being there, first of all, be careful what you wish for. And second of all, nah, you're not okay. Like the odd crowd. Yeah. Went on my great, great, whatever lived till they were 110 and they drank, they smoked. They did whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Good luck with that. Okay. And you know what? I always tell people, look, if I lose this up here, okay. I'm pointing to my brain. Did you hear the wood in there? You know what, if I lose that, uh, Lord, take me home. Okay. I don't wanna be here. Anyway. It was interesting because a study that came out on A1C talked about when you look at A1C, you're getting a real indicator of insulin resistance. Yes.
For sure. And that's why I like it. But what they were saying in this study is that A1C is a real indicator. Glycated of your aging process, advanced aging. That's what glycation is. Glycation is aging and listen to what the study says. There is nothing including free radicals. Oxidator nothing will age you more than sugar. Yeah, because I've got my metabolic reset book out here. Okay. In chapter 12, I have a quote by, uh, Laurie schmick, PhD in nutrition. Okay. Here's what she says. Sugar is a direct cause of wrinkled or sagging skin in a process called glycation. She's right. Sugar molecules attached to protein and fat in the body, changing the nature and structure of your skin. External results of wrinkles and sagging skin, but affects all your tissues as well. This is significant guys. This is significant sugar patches itself inside the body to your red blood cells and sugar attaches itself to protein and fats inside your body, changing the structure of them. And we call that glycation is sort of a debris it's Garba inside your body will affect every aspect of your body. Glycation affects your skin. You will age prematurely with sugar.
And by the way, by the way, let me just say it so that you get it. When I say sugar. Yeah. Sugar, especially high fructose corn syrup. You know what I think about doc, but anything that turns to sugar in nanoseconds, whole wheat in doc. I, I eat whole wheat. Yeah. But it's devoid of nutrients and it will turn to sugar rapidly. I like my bagels in the morning. Yeah. Well, you know what? Your bagels don't like you, cause they're gonna turn to sugar in a rapid, rapid sense. And all those cereals out there. I'm a doctor. Right? I gotta have my cheerios. Sorry. Uh, no, you don't. You don't have to <laugh> you might like it, but it don't like you because of it turns to sugar almost as fast as sugar as sugar, it breaks down rapidly because there's nothing in it.
You guys know me. I talk about fuels all the time. Why I put you on the reset? Why I love the reset? Why I double down, double down, double down, always on the same things. Eggs, meat, and cheese, eggs, meat, and cheese EMC. EMC. Why? Because those foods, even though it's not popular to say it, those foods are full of nutrients. They are nutrient dense and your body takes them as a pure fuel. The more pure that fuel is the less debris that you hop. If you are using rocket fuel, you are gonna slow down. Gly aging. You are gonna slow it down. Now you're not gonna stop it because you are a human being. You live on planet earth on planet earth. The statistics are one out of one. You live, you die. Okay? But the idea of understanding this, the significance of glycating hemoglobin, it is a major indicator.
And this is what the study is saying of destructive forces in your body. Glycation glycation affects your skin. Got it. Aging. Okay. Aging, two glycation affects your joints. Talk to an orthopedic surgeon. They open up the joints for surgery and they often find joints that are deteriorated. Now they don't know this because they don't take nutrition. And they call that wear and tear. They call that a degenerative joint. Now, look, you can get that from having an old football injury. I get that. I understand that. But most of the time they don't realize it. You know, who gets the most hip replacements and knee replacements is when you are a carbo because it glycans, Cates, sugar and sugar, like foods are terrible for your skin. They're terrible for your joints. They cause debris within the joints and the joints lose their lubrication and they become bone on bone. And they degenerate.
Now, can you reverse all that? You can help it. You can slow it down glycation. And you rarely ever hear about glycation, because like I said, glycation guys, a G E S advanced and products, leave it to medicine to give it a big name. It wears you out. It ages the body. Now free radicals will do that. That's a natural process. That's natural oxygen. The same oxygen that you live by will wear you up. You don't believe that cut an apple in half. And within a short period of time, soon as oxygen gets at it on the inside, right? You just cut that apple in half. And what do you see? Free radical damage. That's normal.
It's part of living on the planet, but you don't want to aggravate the situation with glycated end products, which is glycation. And my friend, that problem comes from sugar. Now, let me get back to oxygen a little bit. What also affects the body obviously are free, radical damage. You get that. Normally it's part of life. It's inside your body. It's outside your body. And the outside factors of free radical damage are like chemicals. We live in a chemical soup guys. Good luck getting away from it. I'm gonna go to Hawaii. Well, good for you. Enjoy your holiday. If you live anywhere on planet earth, I'm sorry. They're everywhere. Plastic is everywhere. They get mad at me. If they see me drinking out of a plastic bottle doctor, well, look, I agree with you in a lot of ways, but good luck getting away from it.
You know what they found? <laugh> 99% of us peel plastic BPA. We pee it out. It's in our tissue. It's in baby's placenta, all these endocrine disruptors, you know, LA, LA, LA, you can't eat. What are you never gonna go to a restaurant again? It's in the oceans. It's on Mount Everest. It's in the placenta. It's everywhere, everywhere. I'm not so concerned about climate. I'm more concerned about our environment, but you know, like, like I said, the key for us is you and I to do everything we can to try and prevent all this. But the thing you can do the most is watch what you're 18. And you know, what's the worst guys is when you drink sugar, you wanna get gly going on in a hurry is drink sugar. I mean, besides everything else it does for you. Okay. Do I gotta tell you about smoking?
Do I gotta tell you, like, you know about these free radicals, but sugar is so destructive. It creates a debris. It creates toxic debris within the body. It'll show up on your skin. It'll show up everywhere. And like I said, when I saw the picture of Olivia Newton, John, you know, just a couple of years ago with John Travolta, I said, yeah, you know what? Nature took its course in ways. And again, she died of breast cancer and cancer guys, if you wanna know what cancer really is, it is free, radical damage on steroids. It is oxidative damage. It is glycated damage damage to blood vessels, damage to cells. You see heart disease. Think about this for a minute. Why do I double down almost daily on cholesterol being a hoax? Why do I do that? Well, because it is a hoax. But secondly, if cholesterol was at the root of heart disease, we'd have got rid of it already.
We would've won the battle already. If lowering your LDL. I know that's what they think all day long, but it's not that guys, you can't start with a faulty premise and expect results. The results have been terrible, terrible, because they're not looking at the right thing. What destroys your blood vessels is sugar, not fat. Well, bad fats. Aren't good. Like, you know, the, the oil they cook them in. I use the example of McDonald's all the time. McDonald's used to cook potatoes in good oil. They used large. They did read the history. And then because of the serial killers, Ansel keys and Kelloggs, those people who owned the nutrition industry, I mean owned and the pharmaceuticals they got together and said, man, oh man, we gotta get rid of that. Bad butter will give you cholesterol. They're right. Butter will give you cholesterol. Yep. Eggs will give you cholesterol.
Meat will give you cholesterol because, because cholesterol is only found in the plant kingdom. Why have you think they brought all these substitutes in butter, but that ain't good for you. Let's try margarine made with industrial strength, oil, take margarine guys liquefy it. They hydrogenated it, heated it up. You know why they heated it up to make it solid. It started out as an oil. You could put that oil in your car. It's synthetic <laugh>. I go for an oil change and they ask me, I don't know why they asked me, why are you asking me? I don't know anything about my truck. Well, do you want synthetic or a, a regular oil? Well, I said, what is my truck called for? I don't know. <laugh> do I look like, I know I had trouble. When you said pop your hood. I almost told the guy, can you come and find where I'm supposed to pop that hood for you? <laugh> no. Seriously. I know how to put gas in my car though. Okay. I know where it goes. No, but seriously guys, they make oils and they're synthetic your body. Doesn't even know what that is. Honestly, if you have margarine, your body doesn't even know what it is. I mean, it, your body goes, that's a foreign substance. It's highly synthetic. If your body could talk back to you, it would say, would you please stop using stuff? That's not made for me?
Don't use it. That's why you go to a restaurant and you have fries. Well, it's the oil they cook. 'em in. That makes it 10 times worse. And the middle aisles of your grocery store. So what you're creating are free, radical damage. But also the key is those things turn to sugar. You get a double, Wamble a bad oil, a bad fat plus a bad sugar equals a double Wamble of aging and your body. You know how your body reacts to that. I mean, besides elevating your A1C, you know how your body reacts to that, it creates an inflammatory condition. You don't know it. You don't see it. You don't feel it, but it does. Why does it do that? Because you're taking in foreign substances. Your body doesn't know what it is. It doesn't know what high fructose corn syrup is. Your body says, I can't process that.
And it's so damaging. It sends it to the liver rapidly just like alcohol. And what does that do? Well, either elevates your triglycerides. You know what? Try, try. Try is three. Okay, try glycerides are fat. So what does it do? It makes fat balls, fat balls, fat balls from sugar and bad oils and fat balls clog up your arteries. So that's another way you destroy and you create inflammation. Why? Cuz your body doesn't like it. It's saying you, what are you giving me? What are you feeding me? If only your body can talk? Well, your body does talk by the way your body does talk and your body will tell you, would you stop? And the only way you really listen is when you change fuels, you get rid of the garbage. You get rid of your sugars. Try it for 30 days. My friend try no sugar. 30 days. Your body will say, hallelujah, hallelujah. You're finally listening to me. You're glycated end products. Your A1C will come down. Your body will start telling you how much it loves you again because you're giving it the right fuel.
The more they study guys, the more they study, the more they look into these things. The more they agree with the reset. That's the bottom line. It's the perfect way of eating guys. It is. Okay. Did you have fun with me this morning? I love you guys because you're smart. I love you because you follow me. I appreciate that. I want you to think I'm trying to stretch. You stretch your brain, give your information. So you can think about these things and you can pass them on. I love teaching you. Okay guys. Friday's question and answer. So send you questions in, okay. Load them up for Friday. Cause it's a rapid fire question and answer always fun. Somebody was saying how much they love the Martin clinic. Facebook group yesterday. I think I read it this morning. I can't remember. Yeah. Join that group. If you don't belong to it, what a community we pump each other's tires up. We're encouraging. We never want you to give up. If you get off the wagon, we're gonna help you to get back up. Okay. We're there for you. You guys are there for me and I'm there for you. Okay? We love you guys would talk to you soon.
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