1628. Heart Strong, Smoke Long? The French Mystery

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Dr. Martin:  Well, good morning everyone, and once again, welcome to another live this morning. Hope you're having a great start to your day. We appreciate it. Okay, I want to talk to you about a paradox. Okay? Paradox, one of them, they've been around for a long time. They called the French paradox. Why do the French, I'm not saying French Canadians here, I'm talking about over in France, why do they have low levels of heart disease and yet they consume more fat than the average populations of the rest of the world. That's a paradox. And they have the least amount of heart disease. That's a paradox. How do they get away with that? They're the worst when it comes to smoking still, like France apparently just reading this yesterday has not got the memo on smoking.

Now, I'm sure they're smoking less than they used to, but they still have the highest rates of smoking, the highest rates of consuming saturated fat, and they don't get heart disease comparatively, and they smoke like fiends comparatively. Okay? Again, I'm sure their numbers have gone down. I haven't seen the most recent ones, but I am quoting statistics from the World Health Organization that the French, it's a French paradox, and it used to be, by the way, it used to be, I remember 20 or 30 years ago reading about this paradox and they said, well, it's because the French, the reason they have less heart disease was the French, they're drinking more wine than North Americans do. And I remember there was a company in the United States talking about the importance of grape seed extract and they were talking about the French paradox and red wine and how good it is for you.

And you know what guys? Now, I mean the research is pretty clear that alcohol, I'm not saying you can never drink. I don't do that to people. I always give you a plan to succeed, not to fail. So I don't tell people. I'll tell you what, on the reset though, we ask 30 days of no alcohol. There's a reason for that on the reset. You want to reset your body. Alcohol is not going to help you to reset, okay? Because we're trying to empty the liver and we aim at the pancreas mostly to lower insulin and the liver to empty it. An empty liver is a healthy liver. An empty liver is a liver that's going to do its job detoxing the body. An empty liver will lower your triglycerides and elevate your HDL. They go together there like a teeter totter. Low triglycerides and upper levels of HDL cholesterol, healthy as a horse. If your liver is empty, it affects your heart big time.

You want to get a French paradox? They probably couldn't tell you why, but I can tell you why. The French consume one of the highest in the world, fat in the forms of butter, in the form of duck liver. They love duck liver, pate. My dad used to love pate and it's good for you. And they love their butter over there. I know you do too and me too. Butter up your meat. If you're going to have vegetables, butter them up buttercup. So good for you. But the French paradox, it's not wine, it's fat. And when you eat fat, you are actually emptying your liver and they don't consume over in France. Now they've got problems, okay? I'm not saying they don't, but they don't consume high fructose corn syrup. That's a scourge of North America. We changed the sugar in North America and we have it in everything anything added. You can hardly have any food in the middle aisles of your grocery store. Every soda, it's high fructose corn syrup which gums up your liver big time.

Liver gets gummed up. You develop insulin resistance. Very damaging to the heart because your triglycerides go up and your HDL comes down. And so it's really important. They don't have over in France, they don't have a fear of cholesterol. They don't use medications as much. They use meds. But the physicians, I remember talking to a few European physicians that they're not all uptight about cholesterol. Some of them are, but not all of them like in North America. So it's a paradox. How can they smoke like crazy? And guys, you know this, you would never, ever recommend starting to smoke, but it's the fat they consume that protects them. They get a lot of fat and vitamin K2, they get a lot vitamin D without the sun. The best way to get vitamin D is with the sun. There's no doubt about that. Okay? The best supplement in the world is getting out in the sun. There's nothing like it.

Even if it's cold, it's still good to get, if it's a sunny day, get out in the sun. You might not get vitamin D, but you're getting melatonin. But you can eat vitamin D, but you need to eat a lot of fat. You've got to think of yourself as an Inuit or formally called an Eskimo. The Eskimos were studied big time. They were studied. There was a Canadian fellow went up there and spent a year. He got sort of caught. He stayed a little too long and they didn't come and get him. And he wrote all about it. He lived with the Eskimo, the Inuit, and he never felt better. He was so amazed. Stefanson, he was so amazed at the health of the Inuit. He was so amazed at his health. When he came back, he tried to convince the world to eat like them. They put him in a New York hospital and they fed him the way he wanted to be fed nothing but fat baby and they couldn't get over it when they did all his blood work, how healthy he was.

But you know what? That all got buried with the cereal killer, Dr. Ancel Keys, all of it got buried and now we have a complete narrative in food where fat is bad, carbs are best, and eggs, meat and cheese have been poo-pooed and on the bottom of the food chart and they got it all upside down guys. And you rarely will hear about the French paradox, but it's a fact in spite of their drinking wine and in spite of the fact that they love smoking still amazing to me, but it's their consumption of fat. They love dairy over there. They love butter, they love their cheese. Somebody asked me the other day, doc, tell me the difference in the Mediterranean diet, the North American Mediterranean diet. The North American Mediterranean diet is fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts and seeds. That's not the Mediterranean diet. And the French eat a lot of fish, too. Butter. They get their DHA, they get their EPA. They keep their livers empty.

Now, I don't know if they're introducing more North American ways comparatively than they used to. I'm just telling you statistically, it's amazing how little heart disease there is in France compared to here. The number one killer in North America is still heart disease. They don't have a fear of cholesterol like we do and here, of course, one of the biggest things here. Look, they don't have high fructose corn syrup. We do. We know how destructive that is. They don't have the seed oils. See, they don't believe like North Americans believe that soy, grape seed oil, safflower, sunflower, the hateful eight canola oil, they don't consume that stuff over there. We do because we think polyunsaturated, PUFAs, polyunsaturated fatty acids are better than saturated fat. It's not better. Your body loves saturated fat. Your body adores saturated fat. The more the fat is saturated, the less it oxidizes, it's stable.

Saturated fat, look at an egg. You know what it does? It elevates your HDL. Remember the teeter totter? You want to elevate your cholesterol and lower your triglycerides. Saturated fat will do that. Saturated fat will empty your liver. Saturated fat protects your cells at the cellular level. Saturated fat will bring you vitamin A, vitamin D in food. That's what I was saying. Why do Inuit, they have good levels of vitamin D by the way, but they eat it every day. The problem with food and vitamin D, okay, there's only one problem with food and vitamin D, you have to eat a lot of fat. There's vitamin D in saturated fat foods. Eggs, there's vitamin D in eggs. Steak. There's vitamin D in it with the fat around it because it's a fat soluble vitamin. Vitamin K2. I always talk about this.

You see God already put it in food. People ask me about vitamin K2 almost on a daily basis for the last 25 years. Nobody talks about it. People don't think of vitamin K2, but it's what you need with vitamin D because K2 sends the calcium that is made. When you are eating calcium, you eat it, okay, calcium, everybody knows calciums in cheese, right? You are having some cheese. Well, you got a lot of calcium in there. Well Doc, I thought I wasn't supposed to take calcium as a supplement. You're not. I don't want you to take calcium as a supplement. Every time I see a calcium supplement, I get a migraine. People don't know what they're doing. You're supposed to eat your calcium, eat it because when you do, you got vitamin K2 built in. Everybody, you need calcium as a kid, right? You want to have good teeth, you need calcium. True, but calcium is never alone. It's always hanging around with it's friend. Vitamin K2.

So when you have butter, you got calcium. Everybody agree? Oh yeah, there's a lot of calcium in butter. There is surrounded by its friend vitamin K2. You see what I'm saying guys? So in our vitamin D supplement, what do I do? It's got K2 in it. Why? Because vitamin D will help you with calcium. There's a lot of other things, right? All physicians just about, here's medical schools. Bones, okay? Calcium, bones, okay, vitamin D, but be careful, okay? This is medical school teaching. Medical school 101, your bones, vitamin D. Yeah, it helps with your bones. We agree with that. That's all though. And plus watch out for toxicity. That's medical school. Don't talk to you about the benefits of vitamin D. They don't talk to you about the benefits of getting out in the sun. As a matter of fact, here's medical school 2025 North America stay the stink out of the sun. They still teach that way. I know it for a fact.

And when they think of bones, drugs, that's the way they're taught now. You got osteoporosis? Drugs, they never teach in medical school. Imagine this for bones, okay? They don't teach it. They don't teach vitamin K2. Most physicians, okay, I'm not going to say every physician, because physicians that study nutrition know this, but if they don't, they don't know this. So it's all postgraduate. They become integrative doctors, good for them. I used to teach physicians, I give them high five for wanting to know nutrition, but when it comes to bones, the best food is butter. When it comes to bones, the best food is eggs, meat, dairy, not milk, fat cream. That's what helps your bones because it's got calcium with its friend K2. Vitamin D in the sun. Good for your bones, absolutely a hundred percent.

And they would have you eat a salad because in medical school, a salad is better than butter. No, it's not. Ask the French. They know that because butter is really good for your bones. It's got vitamin D and K2, its friend hanging around calcium with K2, they're friends and of course they never talk about muscle and bones. Go to the gym or get strong. One of the best things you can do for your bones is have strong muscles that make their anchor. The more your muscles are strong, they anchor into bones and the bones become stronger. Just like your muscles. You see, I'll tell you why they don't teach this in medical school. Well, they don't even know it yet. They don't want to know. They've been hijacked by the pharmaceutical system. So you got osteoporosis. They want to put you on medication. They never talk about muscle because they haven't studied it yet.

We've known this for 50 years. Strong muscles, strong bones. But they want to put you on a medication. They want to build bone with bone, build their medication. You know what? That by the way, has been a colossal failure. It might build a little bit of bone. It's got an enormous amount of side effects. It might build a little bone, but it's not strong bone. But they think guys like me are crazier than hoot owls. When I talk to you about building muscle, eating fat, saturated fat, eat your calcium with your vitamin K2, right? Take your vitamin D when you're taking a supplement with K2. Get in the stinking sun. Full fat. The French paradox, it ain't the wine. It ain't the wine. Why don't they have heart disease? It ain't the wine like they used to say. It's not. It's the fat. Fat, good fat, not bad fat. Not the polyunsaturated fat, not the PUFAs, not the middle aisles of your grocery store, okay? You don't want those oils. Those belong in your car. They're synthetic, they're manmade.

Man thinks they're smart all the time and they want to outsmart God. And I scream, look at nature. Look at the way food is at your own peril. Do you stay away from animal foods? Why? Because these are perfect foods. An egg. Can you think of something that's better for you? Well, yeah, steak, but that's about it. You want saturated fat. It'll empty your liver. It's good for your heart. That's why I want you to eat bacon. You look at meat, yeah bacon, the nitrites and yeah, if they killed you, I'd be dead a long time ago. But they always come up with a way to stop you from eating meat. Okay? So then they go, oh, well, lunch meat. That is terrible stuff. Well, it's better than any granola bar that I've ever seen at any time. You're better off having lunch meat, which is high fat and high protein compared to almost anything because people look at bacon and they go, that's no good for you. Says who? Sausage. That's no good for you. Says who? The food police. They want you not to think.

So then they say, well, look at that. I mean, that's not good. Look at the Italians. Do they love their deli meat and all that? They love that stuff. It's good for you. It's good for you. I don't back down on that. Guys, some people have been following me for 50 years. Five-O. I've been around a long time, but they know I love deli meat. It's good for you. I can bring you to the deli and then I'll bring you over into the middle aisles of the grocery store and you're going to have a hard time finding one thing in there that I like better than a deli part of the grocery store. I've been consistent about that because I am a nutrivore. I want nutrition to be true. Okay guys, we love you dearly and sincerely and every other way. And tomorrow's Q and A. Did that just rhyme or am I crazy? Tomorrow's Q and A. So send you questions in info@martinclinic.com. We love you guys big time. We'll talk to you soon.

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