
1574. Q&A with Dr. Martin
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Dr. Martin answers questions sent in by our listeners.
Some of today’s topics include:
- Chronic mucus in the throat
- ApoB & heart disease risk
- Treatment for rosacea
- Atherosclerosis & leg-strengthening exercises
- Polyps
- Dark rings around the eyes
TRANSCRIPT OF TODAY'S EPISODE
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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone. Once again, welcome to another live this morning and we appreciate you guys coming on. Okay guys, let's get going. Questions. Okay, the first one, Lise has been struggling with mucus. Now, I think there was two last week with mucus and chronic and Lise is saying, "every single day for the last between three and five years." No fun. Now, if you get mucus in your throat, in the back of your throat, there's two reasons for it. One coming from sinuses or two coming from a silent acid reflux, stomach problems, okay?
So, let's talk about sinuses. What happens here? Chronic, usually fungal, usually a yeast. Your body tries to get rid of it and you get a postnasal drip. The fact that you're telling me that the discharge is yellowish, I would say fungal coming from chronic problems in the sinuses and you're getting a postnasal drip. The other way would be where you're getting a silent acid reflux and now you are coming up the esophagus. You are getting acid and that can end up in your throat. And people have said to me, well, I don't have any digestive trouble that you know about, but you are having usually because of low acidity, usually happens when you have a diet full of sugar and whatever. You get low acidity in the stomach, not acidic enough, it becomes more alkaline and you don't want to be alkaline in your stomach. So Lise, it's one of those two things.
Now, if it's postnasal drip, probiotics, I would even do my people call it a cocaine like sniffing, okay? Where you literally take a straw, open up, you don't need much powder of the probiotic and sniff it, put the straw and sniff it into the sinus. Let that probiotic get into the sinus. People have found that over the years to be very effective with the chronic sinusitis or even the post nasal drip. Now, the other thing, if it is the stomach, Lise, digestive enzymes, our enzymes are made, they're made with a broad spectrum enzymes, lipase, amylase, protease. It really makes a difference with your digestion, with changing the acidity and replacing the mucus in your stomach so that your stomach works better and not getting the acid going up to the top. Okay? So thank you Lise for the question.
Francis, "what is ApoB?" Well, that is a measurement of small particles for cholesterol. Okay? And you have LDL cholesterol, and then they break it down even more into Apo. What that means is they're small particles and look, I've said this many a time, I know I'm going to have to say it again. I don't buy the whole thing. It's not that I'm not interested in cholesterol. I'm very interested in cholesterol, but I want your cholesterol to be high, not low. I want your LDL to be high. I want your HDL to be high, and I want your triglycerides to be low. That is the school of thought that I belong to. And I belong to that school for a lot of years before people even questioned cholesterol at the root of heart disease. I was questioning cholesterol at the root of heart disease. Cholesterol is not the problem.
And now they're getting into, I call it getting into the weeds. I have to give the pharmaceutical companies credit because they know how to market. They know how to keep people focused in on cholesterol and therefore people will get on statin drugs, cholesterol lowering medication. The whole premise, in my opinion is wrong. The whole premise, and I try and prove that by the results. Okay? We've been on statin drugs, the number one selling medication of all time. We've been on statin drugs for a long time. What have they done to heart disease? What is the results? What is the bang for the buck? Not much. Well, as a matter of fact, there's been no dent, the only dent in heart disease, it's still the number one killer in North America. The only dent is when people stopped smoking. And by the way, that's the only dent in cancer, by the way, too. People stopped smoking, they got the memo, heart disease got better, for a bit, cancer rates went down.
So when you're asking me the question, Francis, I'll only partially answer it because I don't care what the numbers are. I don't care what they are. To me, they have no, no, no effect on heart disease. Zero, nada. Find out, Francis, what your triglycerides are. Find out what your HDL is, okay? Get my book, Sun, Steak and Steel. I talk about it. I talk about the results you want to see and that you want to have higher HDL and lower triglycerides. If you can get your triglycerides under one, especially in a woman. I give you the thumbs up. So sorry Francis, I know I maybe frustrate people to some extent. You want to send me all the research and studies on how cholesterol look, it's been done. They've looked at all the studies of cholesterol and heart disease and there's no correlation. Well, the only correlation is, is if you have low cholesterol, you don't want low cholesterol. You want low triglycerides. Okay, Francis, thank you for the question. We appreciate it.
Benjamin is asking about rosacea. Rosacea. Bill Clinton had rosacea. Sometimes you do that. You hook up a disorder with a famous person, okay? And that is a rash characterized usually by a rash around the sinus area on the outside can go on the forehead. Look, I've never seen a case of rosacea that isn't leaky gut. Leaky gut, leaky skin, and specifically on rosacea. Some people will say it's parasites. Yesterday we talked about parasites, okay? And a lot of people are saying parasites now are at the root of cancer, and maybe. I'm more, it's fungal, and I believe rosacea is more fungal than it is parasites. But at the end of the day, how do you fix parasites and how do you fix rosacea? Well, first of all, you got to fix the leaky gut. You have to fix the zipper, the liner between your gut and your blood so that no garbage gets into your blood. And you do that with probiotic.
You can do it with bone broth. Bone broth is very good because it's got L-glutamine and that's very helpful. And then the probiotic will help even because we talked about this yesterday, L reuteri and L rhamnosus and whatever. You want those strains to go after the fungal. I believe it's fungal more than parasites. If it is parasites and mites because you want to kill that stuff, I would put oil of oregano right on it. Take oil of oregano internally because it helps to kill, it's anti fungal. It's anti parasitic. Do you know that oil of oregano is anti fungal and anti parasitic and anti biotic? Nature's antibiotic and antiviral. It's God's gift to us. Oil of oregano. So combination of oil, of oregano, probiotic guys makes a big difference. Okay, now that was Benjamin. Thank you.
Bev, Bev's been diagnosed with atherosclerosis of the carotid artery and she exercises leg strengthening. According to Dr. Google, I'm putting myself in danger of a stroke due to the pressure these exercise create on the carotid. Do you know what, Beth? Just the opposite. If you start having atherosclerosis hardening of the arteries, okay, how did you get that originally? The number one cause of atherosclerosis, plaque is damage. It's inflammation. Now, inflammation's not Houdini, one of the biggest causes of inflammation in the body. Inflammation is on your side if you have an infection, but inflammation becomes damaging to blood vessels and can lead to atherosclerosis, hardening of the arteries by damaging the epithelial lining, the Teflon lining of your arteries, including your carotid. So you want to avoid that.
And the best way is to cut out the sugar because sugar creates inflammation. Inflammation destroys, after a period of time starts to damage the lining of the arteries, what happens? You start to have problems and plaque developing. Okay? Now the other one, calcification of the arteries can be caused by low levels of vitamin K2 and vitamin K2 is found in eggs, meat and cheese. Vitamin K2 comes in nature in the animal kingdom. And it's very good to get rid of plaque and don't go to Dr. Google when it comes to exercise, one of the best things you can do for your carotid arteries to help, you got to keep your blood flowing. You don't want your blood and plaque to be building up more and more. Exercise. One of the best things you can do when you're doing legs and all that, you are helping yourself big time. Okay? So Bev, just the opposite of what you read.
John, can I discuss polyps? Sure can John. Polyps, they're usually growths that are encapsulated. So when people think of polyps, I don't know about you, but me, whenever I hear the word polyp, you're usually think somebody got a colonoscopy and they found polyps in the bowel, or someone had some kind of scope or they found a polyp in around the ovaries or something. Polyps are encapsulated and many of time, a lot of doctors, and I don't necessarily agree with this, will say that a polyp is precancerous. They often say that. So if you get a colonoscopy, for example, they'll snip off the polyp and maybe do a biopsy of it. But your body is fearfully and wonderfully made guys, okay? It knows how to even encapsulate a tumor. And I don't see polyps necessarily as pre-cancer, but even if they are, the body knows what to do with that. Okay?
Now the other thing, remember John, two things generally make things grow. What makes a polyp grow? Two hormones. Okay, what makes a polyp grow? Insulin is a growth hormone. How do you cut insulin down? Cut your crappy carbs down. Very simple. Cut the crappy carbs and the sugars down. Okay, that's one. Two, cut estrogen down. Estrogen is a growth hormone. It's involved in almost every cancer, estrogen, even men, cancer, estrogen. Not enough testosterone. Too much estrogen for men and women, even though they hit menopause and perimenopause and they go, oh, my estrogen's coming down. Yes, maybe it's coming down in your blood, but you got, you're surrounded. Our environment is surrounded by what we call xenoestrogens, and those things are very damaging and grow, they promote growth of polyps. Cancer cells are looking for hormones to make them grow. Insulin is one, estrogen is the other. Okay, thank you for the question. And that was John.
Paul, "what do my people here think cause the dark rings around the eyes?" Generally, okay, couple of things. Paul, when someone came into my office, did you ever come into my office? I don't know, did you? But if anyone came to see me as a patient, some people noticed this and some people didn't. Dr. Martin, you're in my space. What? Why are you looking at me so closely? You're in my space. I actually had a few people tell me that. I said, you see this office here? That's my space. You come in, I'm looking. Why? I'm observing. I'm looking at your skin, I'm looking at your eyes. Okay, whatever is visible. I look. I look at your hair, I'm looking at your eyebrows. I want you to stick your tongue out at me. Yeah, I used to say that. Stick your tongue out at me. I used to look at your tongue.
So Paul, when I noticed dark circles under the eyes, usually, usually wasn't always the case. And I could tell within a couple of minutes because I did the testing, they were low, they were anemic. A lot of times. They didn't know it. You see there's a couple of forms of anemia, iron deficiency. And they go, oh yeah and maybe it was that a lot of times it was that iron deficient, but a lot of times it was B12 deficiency anemia. And they had no idea. No one told them, no one talked to them. And they had low levels of B12 or low levels of iron. Other times I used to see it a lot with people with allergies and they had a lot of allergies and a lot of histamine was being produced. And those people, you know what? I could see it below their eyes, low levels of B12. And sometimes I could see dark circles under a person. I was interested in their liver. Their liver was all gummed up. That could be another reason. And like I said, I usually tested all that. So I knew about it. I knew about it.
Anywho, now listen guys, what I'm going to do, because I'm on the road, I'm going to finish this up on Monday. My grandsons are with me and I can see they're saying, grandpa, let's get going. Okay? Here's what I tell 'em. What happens with grandpa stays with grandpa. Nobody else finds out about it. Okay? So we'll be back on Monday. I know it's a holiday Monday in Canada, okay? But we're on the air. We will be on the air on Monday. Okay? Regular time. Guys, thanks for watching. We love you dearly and sincerely, talk to you soon.
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