1626. Insulin, Inflammation & Immunity: Cancer’s Silent Trio

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Dr. Martin:  Well, good morning everyone. And how are you once again? Welcome to another live this morning of The Doctor Is In. As you can see if you're getting your notifications in that, that I am traveling this morning. So this morning what I want to do is talk to you about cancers. Sort of touched on this yesterday, but I'll expound on it. Cancer's perfect storm. So give me a thumbs up if you can hear me and see me properly as you get your notifications. Okay? Give me a thumbs up if you can hear me and see me. There we go. Good. Okay, so you see me face, hear me? That's the main thing. I don't have my speakers. I should have put them on. I have them with me, nevermind. Let's see. Okay, so cancer's perfect storm. I've got three i's here. Okay, and there's more than that. But let's start off with those three then I'm going to add a few of them. Cancer's perfect storm.

Cancer is very complex. There's a lot of factors that go into cancer. As I was mentioning yesterday, people they have a mistaken idea, and I've been talking about this for so long, is that I love illustrations. So illustrations is how I learned. I got illustrations in my head. Now when it came to cancer, I want to show you an illustration. I've done this over the years. For those of you who are new, this'll be hopefully, help you to remember. What do you see here? I've got a ballpoint pen. Okay? Now I'm very fussy about pens. I love my pens, okay? Don't let anybody touch my pens in the office. You knew better than to get after my pens. Okay, anywho. You see the tip of this? You see the tip of the ball point pen. If you're listening to on a podcast, you're not live well then visualize the tip of a ball point pen. You see the size of that? It's not very big, is it? Well, for cancer to grow to the size of the tip of a ballpoint pen takes five years.

Cancer does not progress rapidly until it's in its late stages. So don't you think it's important, and I know you do that prevention rather than detection ought to be the medical way of doing things, not detection. Not that I'm against detection, of course I'm not. But prevention of cancer. If cancer takes five years to grow to the size, the tip of a ballpoint pen, not the whole pen. Like ladies, that's in your breast tissue, a tip this big of a ballpoint pen. Do you think you're even going to feel that? And if you did, it's been there for five years, you're always fighting cancer. You're always fighting cancer. When they tell you at any cancer center you're cancer free, they don't know what they're talking about. They really don't. Now, that doesn't mean that the tumor hasn't shrank or whatever, but it hasn't gone away. Chemotherapy, radiation does not cure cancer. You understand what I'm saying? It's a treatment, but it's not a cure.

And they've been pushing that for a long time. I've been against that because cancer, again, what they can see, yes, maybe it's gone away, but that doesn't mean you're cancer free. Cancer has a way of hiding in your body. That's why it's so complex. So remember size of cancer and only when it gets in the third or fourth stage of cancer does cancer proliferate and take off quickly. Only then. You want to put your body in the best position to constantly keep cancer at bay. Now, let's go over some fundamentals of cancer. First of all, cancer needs fuel. One of the best things, and this is why I preach it so much, not only for cardiovascular disease and diabetes and whatever, one of the best things to keep cancer at bay is not to feed it. It loves glucose.

Guys, there ought to be no controversy about that. We've been talking, well, I haven't, but I know the science world had been talking about sugar and cancer since 1928. Otto Warburg, the Warburg effect, that cancer cells were ravenous. He wrote a book about it. He did research on it. It was published and then of course, buried. And it's only now recently that it's been resurrected again. Cancer needs fuel guys. Cancer does not survive on ketones. Cancer needs glucose, sugar ketones is when you're eating fat and protein like it's meant to be. God gave us fat and protein together in nature, in eggs, meat and cheese. This is why I talk about this guys like food isn't everything in cancer. It isn't. But it's a huge part of it because again, you have to understand the principle. Cancer needs fuel. All cancer cells need fuel and they have an antenna for glucose. They survive on glucose and the process of fermentation.

Now, cancer needs fuel. I'm going to give you three i's and I think all of them are important. One, you've already guessed it. Insulin. What is insulin? It's a hormone. It's on your side. You need it. You can't live without insulin. Ask a type one diabetic. They cannot live without insulin. You cannot live without insulin because insulin is on your side until it's not. Insulin is on your side. It will save your life. It will control your blood sugars. You need to control 'em, otherwise you can't live. But the flip side of that is if insulin has been used and you spike your blood sugar all the time by eating either highly processed foods or foods that turn to sugar rapidly and then sugar itself and fructose. Now you're wearing out your pancreas and insulin wears out its welcome at the cellular level and you get a condition called insulin resistance. That is a huge factor in cancer. Not only the growth with glucose, but when the cells become resistant to insulin, you create a cascade of problems.

And the other thing is that's really important is that insulin is a growth hormone. We teach that insulin is a growth hormone. You can't lose weight, by the way if insulin is present in your blood. Did you know that? Because insulin's like a jail guard. It holds onto fat and you can't burn fat when you have insulin present. But insulin is a growth hormone. It drives cancer growth. So what do you want to do with that, right? Well, one of the big factors is food. Eat the right food. This is why I have emphasized for 30 years or more the importance of changing fuels. That's what the reset is guys. It's a fuel change. You're going from low octane fuel to very high octane fuel. The higher the octane in the fuel, the better your mitochondria work, the less toxins it releases. It's pure. That's why ketones are good for you. The ketone fuel, it doesn't fuel cancer. It's the opposite of that. It fuels your immune system.

So one, insulin, cancer needs fuel. Okay? Remember that. The perfect storm is you're giving cancer fuel. If you don't give cancer fuel, you're doing a huge, huge service to yourself. Number two, okay, so insulin. The second 'i' is immune function. Cancer, your body is a cancer fighting machine, guys, it really is. The more they study T cells, white blood cells, your navy seals of your white blood cells are called T cells. And T cells really, really are very, very important not only to fight viruses and bacteria, but to fight cancer. T cells, they're on your side. Your navy seals, they're beautiful. Remember what puts them to sleep? Sugar. What charges their batteries? The sun, vitamin D. So when someone tells you to stay out of the sun, run Forrest run. They do not know what they're talking about.

The more they study vitamin D, the more they realize the importance of vitamin D for your immune system. T-cells, Navy seals. And then you have another white blood cell. It's called the natural killer cells. And these guys are very, very specific to cancer cells. They hunt down cancer cells, okay? Natural, NK, they're called. NK natural killer cells. They're a variation of your tracked troops, the navy seals. But these guys are cancer fighters and they track down cancer in your body from your head to your toes, natural killer cells. And again, what charges natural killer cells more than anything else. Vitamin D, the sun, sun, steak and steel, okay? Natural killer cells. There's even research that when you build muscle, you're helping your natural killer cells. Okay? So you got two i's, you have insulin and you have your immune system. Okay? You got the first two, okay? I know you do.

The third one is inflammation. We talk about this all the time. Inflammation is not Houdini. It comes from what? Well, if your insulin's too high, you get insulin resistance. You get inflammation. You eat too much sugar, you get oxidation. Oxidation and free radical damage are problems. They're problems, problems because oxidation damages healthy cells and can turn them into cancer cells. Oxidation, and we talked about this a lot. Glycation. Sugar, glycates your body, it damages your body. Okay? So got that? And another factor in inflammation and oxidation is leaky gut. Because what happens at the area of leaky gut, when you get toxins that should have gone into the toilet, that come into your bloodstream through a process of what we call dysbiosis, when you don't have enough good bacteria.

Guys, good bacteria is so essential for cancer fighting. But you need to have a border, okay? You need to have a closed border between your gut and your blood. When you have a border that's tightly knit, you don't get toxins coming into your blood. And if you don't get toxins coming into your blood, your immune system and the way your body fights cancer really has a major effect. So this is really, really important. Okay, guys? Really important. Leaky gut, fix leaky gut. It's a factor. It's a factor in inflammation. It's also a factor in oxidation, which we talked about earlier. Okay? So you got the three i's, insulin, change fuels. You want to prevent cancer? Change fuels, food. You got to eat anyways. And I know you guys understand this better than any other audience on all the podcasts in the world. You guys understand this, that anything that turns to sugar rapidly and then the added sugars are cancer feeders. You guys know that the world doesn't. Moderation is still what they talk about the world. But you guys know better than that.

So you want to get insulin to be on your side and not your enemy. You want to get ketosis rather than a glucose as fuel as much as possible. And then you want to build your immune system. The second 'i', that immunity, you want your T cells and your natural killer cells to be firing on all cylinders. And then your third 'i' is that inflammation. Inflammation through the process of leaky gut and oxidation. You want to lower that because inflammation is a driver. It's not the first thing that happens, but it's an issue. So, you get a perfect storm with cancer. Know this takes five years for cancer to grow the size of a tip of a ballpoint pen. Remember that ladies in breast tissue. Remember that men in prostate cancer, which by the way are really important.

And let me say this too, another thing you got to be very careful with is the environment. Okay? The environment. And that is the amount of estrogen floating around. Estrogen is a growth hormone. It drives growth. Estrogen makes a woman a woman. It's a beautiful thing until it gets out of control. And I'll tell you something. In all the years and the thousands of cases of breast cancer that I saw, or ovarian or uterine or prostate cancer, I'm going to tell you something, almost without exception, their estrogen levels were skyrocketing. And we live in a world of estrogen. The environment is full of estrogen, the plastics, the xenoestrogens, everything in your kitchen just about from air fresheners to cleaners and to, you can't get away from it. But we need to lower estrogen because we live in an estrogen dominated world and estrogen is a growth hormone. You can't get away from it completely, but you can dim it out, dim it out. That's why I always talk about dim and flax seeds. These are cancer fighters, guys. Okay, you got the memo?

Anyway, a little teaching this morning on that and we appreciate it. So guys, thanks for tuning in. A little bit of shorter version this morning, traveling tomorrow, traveling too, but I should be good to get a little bit longer version. Okay? We love you guys and we appreciate you coming on with us. Okay, love you, talk to you soon!

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