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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone, and once again, welcome to another live this morning. Hope you're having a wonderful start to your day. We appreciate you guys coming on and thank you for that. Okay, this came out of Nature, okay, Nature Magazine. A new study, 500,000 people. Okay? Here's the headline on this side. I like it because we've been talking about, actually, we talked about this the other night on our question and answer Q and a webinar. I hope you guys like that. I know you did. And thank you for all that were able to join us and then yeah, we will make that available for those who weren't able to come on with us the other night.
Like, listen to this, okay? This is following 500,000 people. A new study says lifestyle is a stronger predictor of aging and mortality than genetics. Okay? Now you guys know this. I know this, but pharmaceutical companies, they tried to change the whole narrative about disease. Listen, when I was in school, this whole start of genetics was really starting to come into play. Genetics. Genetics. Cancer is genetics, heart disease, genetics, diabetes, genetics, okay? And all the research, even in Alzheimer's, genetics. That was the big factor. It was your genes. It was your parents, your grandparents, your lineage.
But we've been very consistent here at The Doctor Is In, very consistent. Genetics load the gun, lifestyle pulls the trigger, meaning that, yeah, genetics has an effect for sure. Like insurance companies, it's unfortunate, but they still do this. They want to know your family history. You got heart disease in your family, you got cancer in your family. Your rates are going to reflect that generally. But research is showing, well, it's not really true. Genetics are a factor, but they're not the biggest factor. The biggest factor is your lifestyle. You can override genetics. And I always use the example of my family diabetes coming out the wazoo, and I understood that. But lifestyle is the key. It really is the key. It overrides genetics.
So your grandpa might've lived till he was 110, smoked, drank, did it, whatever he felt like. But that don't mean that's going to happen to you. And this is why our whole program here is about lifestyle. It's about making choices, especially with us. Food, right? Food, we start there. It's the foundation, and guess what? Research, 500,000 people looking at genetics said, nah, it's more lifestyle by a big percentage. So isn't that great guys, that we can to some extent are in control of that, okay? There ain't no guarantees except that we are going to die. We are going to age. But at the rate that happens, and we can to some extent have an effect on that. What I'm saying is it's worth it. Any change that you make, any beneficial change that you make, it's worth it.
And this is why in my practice, for years and years and years, you had a plan. My patients had a plan, they had a protocol. I would give them a protocol depending on their condition. And again, I was a food guy. And so it always started with food. You got to eat. Everybody has to eat. And I tried to convince my patients that if they ate the proper way, what their body was designed for, that they would benefit from that. And certainly the results I got with diabetics, people with insulin resistance, people that 93% of the population had some form of metabolic syndrome, including elevated triglycerides, low HDL, belly fat, high blood pressure, elevated A1C, blood sugar and insulin. We were able to change that.
Now when I say we, I gave them the plan, but they had to go home and implement it, okay? They had to go home and implement it. I always said this, the gyms are full in January and then they empty out in February. If you ask any gym owner, they'll agree with that. Now, gyms, I am happy. They're busy, I'm happy they're doing well. But it's amazing how many people sign up because it's their New Year's resolution to get healthy. And oh, I didn't know it was going to be so hard. First day was fun, but the second day, not so much. Right? Any change guys in your lifestyle is difficult. Any change in your lifestyle is difficult. And I'm a three week guy, okay? 30 days. But I'm a three week guy in terms of forming habits and of lifestyle is habits.
And one of the reasons the reset is so successful is because it's 30 days. You go past the 21 days, it takes 21 days to form a habit and I learned enough psychology in university to know it takes about six weeks to cement that habit, cement it into your craw so that you live it, right? And now we know. We know what we already knew that lifestyle is huge. And the other night when we were on the program, my son and I, somebody was asking the question, I said, well, if your A1C, for example is at about 5.8, I said, well, here's what you should know. You and carbs don't get along. Put that in the bank. You and carbs don't get along.
And by the way, most people, they don't get along with carbs. They fool themselves. Okay? They fool themselves. They deceived themselves because a lot of people go around in this world and to them, these are foods that I like, and that's the way I am going to stick to. I love pasta. I married an Italian. I love pasta, but pasta don't love me. Pasta don't love me. I live on meat. I don't live on the noodle. Don't live on the noodles. I don't care if it's whole wheat, triple grain or whatever it is. It's going to be sugar in five seconds.
One of the biggest things in lifestyle is to find out for yourself that you and carbs don't get along. I'm not even suggesting that you eat a carnivore diet the rest of your life. I'm not even suggesting that. I never suggested it to patients that they could never have a carbohydrate in their life. I never did that to people because I always gave people a plan to succeed, not to fail. It's your birthday. You want to go out for a meal and have some pasta, okay, but don't live on it. You don't need it. Your body doesn't need it to survive. Okay?
Your body was designed to eat eggs, meat and cheese. Make that a priority in your life. And I mean that don't make vegetables a priority. You can eat them, but you can't live on them. Well, you shouldn't live on them. You could live on them. People do, but they're not doing the right thing because your body wasn't designed for that. Your body was designed to eat eggs, to eat meat and lots of it, and dairy, the good dairy like cheese and butter and cream and yogurt, Greek plain. Okay? Dairy's good guys. Don't ditch dairy. But isn't that an interesting study? They're finally coming out and saying it. We've looked at it. Genetics are a factor, but they're not the primary factor.
What's the best thing you can do? Start with food and then vitamin E. Exercise. Okay, exercise. You want to talk about habits. How about what you drink? That was a big thing in my office. I used to get patients. I said, look, here's what I want you to ditch. Okay? Listen Linda, listen Larry, here's what I want you to ditch. What? Ditch any other drink other than coffee or water or Dr. Martin's perfect smoothie. I'm giving you three options. Never drink juice, stop it. Don't drink it anymore. You don't need it. Your body wasn't made to drink juice. Your body was made to drink water, not juice.
Don't wean kids on juice. If you want to give them, give them a protein, high protein, high fat smoothie for their brain, Dr. Martin's perfect smoothie. You can use a few berries in there, but you're meant to eat fruit and not drink fruit. You can eat fruit. I'm not against fruit at all. For 30 days, yes, because I want to get you off the Titanic. So people that are on the Titanic, they don't get to have any sugar including natural fruit sugar. I don't want that for 30 days. I don't want that. And they're shocked by some of the things that I tell 'em, but I say, well, listen, you got to understand where I'm coming from. I want you off everything that I'm talking about. Why? Because I want you to correct your insulin. It's a hormone that wants you dead.
Insulin is a hormone that will make you sick, very sick if you don't control it. Your body was not designed for the food that we eat today, okay? People are carboholics. People are eating seed oils in the middle aisles of the grocery store, including cereals. And your body wasn't designed for that, for the amount of carbs and the grains. You weren't designed for that. And so lifestyle guys, if you do nothing else and you understand it, I know my audience is a very educated audience, know more about nutrition generally than their family doctors. All doctors, and you guys know these things. But for the new people that are on with us, I'm telling you that the research is clear. Genetics are a factor, but they're not the main factor. And we have a huge responsibility to take care of ourselves.
I've always been a guy that talked about the terrain versus the bacteria or the viruses are outside factors, okay? What I meant to say by that, and I've always been like this, take care of yourself. You do it. You take care of yourself. If you can't convince anyone else, well, you can bring a horse to water, but you can't necessarily make them drink it, but you do it. You get off the Titanic, you eat properly. You emphasize eggs, meat and cheese. What was I reading about eggs this morning? Here's a study. And you know what? Go to the grocery store and the price of eggs and even the scarcity of them. Oh, it gives me a migraine. It gives me a migraine. They're wiping out, the bird flus, so they're killing all the chickens. Oh, anyway, don't get me going.
Listen to this study on eggs. Okay? One to two eggs a week on this study. One to two eggs a week, 47% decrease in dementia. In a study of 1024 older men just eat eggs, and they're only talking about one or two eggs a week, for heaven's sakes. How about one or two eggs a day? What will that do for you? But you see, your body was designed for that. Your body was designed for eggs. It's almost nature's perfect food. I just put it slightly under a steak, just slightly. You're designed to eat it. Eat eggs, get cracking. I like that commercial. Get cracking. One to two eggs a week. 47% decrease in dementia according to this study of 1024 older men. Are we right on this program to emphasize eggs, meat and cheese? Yep, we're right.
And the more research comes down the pipes, it's just going to tell us what we already know. You want to be healthy. You need nutrient dense food. Your body as designed for it. All the vitamins and all the minerals. All the macros and very low carb. You want protein, you want fat. And I'm not saying no carb, but low carb, that's the way you should eat. Okay? That's the way you should eat. And it's a lifestyle. It becomes part of your DNA if you do it long enough.
Like I said, my dad had such a huge influence in my life in many ways. One of them, I've told you the story a thousand times, but it's because he was a diabetic, sugar diabetes until they changed the name. That's what it was called. It was called sugar diabetes before they turned it to type two. Why did they do that? Well, the food industry didn't want you to call it sugar diabetes. The soda industry didn't want you to call it sugar diabetes. Pepsi and Coca-Cola, they got about half of the food industry. They own the food industry. The tobacco people invested. Philip Morris invested. They took all their money out of tobacco and bought food, bought big food companies. Do you think they wanted you to talk about sugar diabetes?
They didn't want you talking about sugar diabetes. They wanted you to talk about type two diabetes. And by the way, that's genetics brought to you by Pepsi Cola, Coca-Cola, Philip Morris, tobacco. That's what they did, guys. I watched it. I'm old enough to tell you I watched it happen. Like I said, my dad had a big influence on my life when we found out he was a diabetic, the family, my dad said, son, to me, it's sugar because I was questioning his lifestyle changes. I said, dad, whatcha doing? I was 16 years old. What are you doing, dad? Well, it's sugar diabetes, son. I don't have sugar anymore. What? And I'm exercising, starting today. Okay? What's exercise? I was an athlete. Jogging wasn't invented yet. My dad invented it.
But guys, it's not rocket science. If you understand who was behind the push of genetics being the root cause of disease, if you understand that. I always said, they have a vested interest. I went to school. Imagine learning nutrition even in those days, moderation. And I said, well, not really. I questioned my professors. Some of them, by the way, were very, very smart. But I questioned that like, nah, I watched my dad. Diabetics can't live on moderation. Diabetics shouldn't have any sugar. They have an allergy to sugar. They have an allergy to carbs. I knew that in the seventies. Diabetes is an allergy to carbs. Hello?
Anywho, lifestyle is a stronger predictor of aging. And we're all going to age and mortality, and we're all going to die than genetics. That is a huge headline, guys. That is huge. Okay, got the memo? I'm glad you did. Okay, what's Friday? Question and answer Friday. Okay, Q and A Friday, tomorrow, afternoon session pm 4:00 PM Eastern, okay? 4:00 PM Eastern tomorrow. We'll post that webinar. Okay. And the questions, maybe I'll download these questions and answer them. The ones that we couldn't the other night. I think Tony Jr. was telling me last night that we answered 39 questions. That's good. Okay, in our session the other night. Okay, guys. Okay. I got to breathe because I get all excited when I get these kind of studies. Well, we love you guys and we'll talk to you soon.
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