1633. Surprising Illnesses You Can Actually Reverse

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Dr. Martin:  Well good morning everyone, and once again, welcome to another live this morning. We love having you on. Well, how do you like that? I'm just reading a study about natural ingredients found in coffee could keep your muscles young, okay? Okay, good morning to you. You're coming on. You're getting your notifications. We appreciate that. Thank you for those who can make it live. We understand that not everybody can. Okay, so I sort of wanted to do an overview today, if you don't mind, on what you can do naturally. Now, guys, you know this almost on a daily basis. We talk about prevention. Prevention. I'm into prevention. Detection, okay, but I prefer prevention, don't you? But I got to tell you, in my practice, almost 50 years of it, prevention.

People came, there were the odd one, and I mean odd one that just wanted to stay on track. They wanted to know what to do. They wanted to know where they were at. I love that. No problem. We did all the testing, we checked all their hormones, we checked all of the things that we checked in blood work and urine, and we did all of it. And some came in with as far as they knew, no real problems. They just wanted to stay on track and to make sure they were there. I love that we encouraged them. If we found anything at all in their blood work, we tweaked. But I want to go over some health conditions that we often looked at in our office, and we talk about this all the time, so it's not going to be anything new. But I want to tell you, I just sort of made a list of things that were, can I say fixable?Sometimes completely reversed, sometimes just maintained, but with the right regimen, always starting with food, supplementing a bad diet doesn't work guys.

So I'm a food doctor. I started with food and I showed folks the importance of it lowering carbohydrates. It was always guys the same in a sense that it had the same foundation. You were going to go low carb. I talked about the unholy trinity in my office, sugar, crappy carbs, bad oils, eliminate as much as possible because I was into, not moderation, but elimination when it came to the diet. And it was always low carb, not no carb, but low carb, okay? Changing the food pyramid, reversing it, explaining why, what I was aiming for. And at the end of the day, and we've written books about this, the 3 seeds of disease, Tony Jr. and I came up with this years ago, I can't even remember what year it would've been, and we wrote a book about it, cutting insulin down and free radical damage and leaky gut. You fix those, you're covering a lot of territory there. Okay, so leaky gut, oxidation, glycation, which we've been talking about this week, all of it affects inflammation, by the way. Okay?

So, inflammation is never the cause of a disorder. Okay, so here's the graph that I used to teach my patients. Leaky gut, insulin resistance, free radical oxidation, glycation, okay? Those three things lead to inflammation. Inflammation damages blood vessels, tissue cells, thus you have major dysfunction in the body. And generally it was one of those three or all three together, and I taught every patient that I could, metabolic syndrome. And that was primarily caused by insulin, insulin resistance. And I showed them, okay, how to fix their A1C because you can measure, how to fix their blood pressure, how to fix the elevated A1C and belly fat and high triglycerides, low HDL. And then I added biomarkers to metabolic syndrome. I did it. You won't see that written anywhere, I don't think. I mean, I did it just because I tested so many thousands of patients there was in metabolic syndrome. Here's what we found. And I added two or three to the conditions, low vitamin D, high uric acid, and low B12. I added them because it was consistent, okay?

So, what were we able to fix? What with a good diet, changing your fuel, fixing leaky gut, fixing insulin resistance, fixing oxidation and glycation inside the body, what does that fix? Well, I mean, I'd probably forgotten, but here's the major things that we were able to help people. I mean, they had to do it. I didn't do it. They had to go home and implement the plan. And I always used to tell patients, look, I'm giving you a plan to succeed, not to fail. Any change you make in your life. For some, the change was big time, dramatic. They put their hand up in the office and said, my name is Susie and I'm a carboholic. Okay, Susie, we got work to do, but I'm now educating you on what you have, why you have it, and then what to do. Okay? And the what to do, the major thing is going to be food. You're going to take some supplements, they're going to be right at the problem, and we're basing those supplements on your deficiencies that we've measured. You got this problem Houston, and we're going to fix it and we'll see what happens.

And I was, I'm not going to say overconfident, but generally it was amazing what happened. It was amazing, and I always used to tell my patient, look, your body is fearfully and wonderfully made. You get brand new body all the time. You don't realize that. I don't care how old you are, what you get brand new red blood cells every three or four months, you get a new stomach. I wrote it down here. I can't even remember how often you get a new stomach or it don't take long. You get a brand new gut look, you get a brand new body every seven years. You're not going to reverse all your aging. You can't do that, but you do regenerate at the cellular level. I said, we're aiming at your cells. What? We're aiming at your cells, because any problem with metabolic syndrome or whatever, it's a cellular thing. It's at the energy packs in your body, those mitochondria. We're aiming directly at them and therefore you are going to put out a different amount of ATP, which is the fuel. You're going to burn a different fuel. You'll be shocked at what happens when you burn a different fuel. You'll be shocked.

You'll notice it. Patients understand it. They get frustrated to some extent because it doesn't happen overnight. Rome wasn't built overnight. It takes some time to change the body, but I am into changing the body Now, I specialized that in some extent people saw me, a lot of people saw me. I'm not going to say it was the number one condition. The number one condition that I saw was chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia. I saw a lot of that, lots of that. And then I saw metabolic syndrome way before even people even talked about it. I was seeing it in my office, high levels of insulin. I wrote a book in 2011, Serial Killers: Two Hormones that Want You Dead, insulin and cortisol. I showed the connection between stress and what it does to your body. Cortisol over a period of time. Combining that with another hormone called insulin and eating the bad food. Insulin's a food hormone, and when you're eating the wrong foods, your insulin is in trouble because you're going to get a condition called insulin resistance at the cellular level that changes your mitochondria. It changes inflammation in the body and all this and that. And I said, well, that's why you got to change fuels.

Okay, so one of the biggest conditions when I use the word guys, reversible, remember that, okay, let's say you're a diabetic because this is the condition I want to talk about for a minute. You're a diabetic diagnosed type two, adult onset diabetes. I saw a lot of it, lots of it. The reset was made originally for those folks. They had very high blood sugar, A1C. Most of them were on medications like metformin. Okay, I said, well, if you have type two diabetes, you got a food problem and all the other problem, there's a big food component to them. Medicine doesn't learn anything about food. You can't go to medical school and learn anything about food or nutrition. You can't, don't rely on it. They don't teach it. I can't get over that In medicine, they don't see the importance of what you put in your mouth every day. They don't get the connection. Diabetes they do to some extent, but even then, let's manage it. They wouldn't even think for a minute of reversing it. Can we reverse it? Can we put diabetes to bed? I've seen it happen tens of thousands of times.

Now, again, my name is Susie and I'm a carboholic. Once you're a carboholic, you're always a carboholic. If you're a diabetic, you can manage it and you can put it to bed and you can call that reversal. And to some extent, it's a huge reversal. But I tell people, well, look, this is forever. You're changing your diet forever. Why? Because you're a diabetic. You have an allergy. What? You have an allergy to carbohydrates. You and carbs don't get along at all, so we can help that. We can put that to bed, but you and carbs don't get along and you never will. This is forever. I tried to get people to understand, look, you have to put this in your computer up there. You and carbs don't get along forever. Put it in there. Understand it. You can't have sugar, really. Read every label. Understand. Shrink your diet. A lot of people got frustrated. I said, well, if you lived 150 years ago, why do you need so much variety? Dr. Martin, I get tired of bacon and eggs. I don't, I don't. Flip your eggs around. I have never got tired of bacon and eggs and sausages. You show me that in the morning. I'm a happy puppy. Show it to me at lunch. I'm a happy puppy. Leave the toast alone.

Yeah, people, it's like me and my coffee. Do you get tired of it? No. I've been drinking it since I'm, I don't know, 14 years old. I love coffee. I don't get tired of it. Oh yeah. Well, maybe I'll have a tea. Why would I have a tea when I can drink coffee? I never get tired of it. I used to tell people, suck it up buttercup. You got to stop the carbs. Quit eating bread. What? Sorry? It's your birthday. Okay, have a piece of bread. I used to tell people, pretend. What? Pretend you're dipping your toast and your eggs, pretend. And then when you formed a habit, you'll be shocked at how much better you feel, and then you cheat a little bit and you go, eh, you know what? I don't feel as good when I cheat. Hello? Because your little mitochondria. You got battery packs in your brain. You got in every cell in your body. You got battery packs and you've changed fuel, and now you've given it bad fuel. I used to have a car. Okay? I had a little turbo. Okay? I can't even remember what year I bought it. Anyway, it doesn't matter. And this thing was just like a rock.

Anyway, when I bought it, the guy who sold it said, Dr. Martin, listen to me. You don't know anything about this car, do you? No. Okay, let me show you where the gas tank is. Okay? Good idea because when I go to the gas station, I'm not sure what side that thing's on. Okay? Anyway, he said, let me show you. When you go to the gas station in this car, read the numbers at the pump. Can you do that for me? I said, yeah, I can do that. Then look for 94, what? 94. Not 87. Your car will sputter. This engine was made for 94. You might get away with 93, but it's made for 94, this engine. Oh, okay. I didn't know too much about what he was talking about, but he said, this is a very specialized turbo engine. Guys, you are made like that. Your body wasn't designed for sugar. What? Your body wasn't designed for it, okay? If you eat a fruit and you get sugar in that fruit, you have some fructose when you eat a fruit, okay. Your body can handle that, but your body wasn't made to pour 200 pounds of sugar into your gas tank.

And you'll find out, and almost every disorder that I am going to talk about is bad food. Diabetes type two diabetes, which is used to be called sugar diabetes, until the food industry duped the whole world and changed the name to type two diabetes, meaning it ain't your fault, it's genetics. No, it's not. Type two diabetes is not genetics. I mean, they're involved sometimes, but it's a food problem. There's no exceptions to it, and now you better put the right fuel in your tank or you're going to find out. You and sugar don't get along. You can have a couple of berries or you want to have an apple. I don't care. I don't, but that's not the fuel you live on. You understand what I'm getting at? That's how your body's designed, and I always used to try and prove it to people because even today, the pushback I get from people that are diehard vegetarians or vegans, well, they have it upside down because they said, well, first of all, I can prove that you ought to be eating meat ahead of broccoli. Okay? What? Well, broccoli's alright, but it ain't the best. What? It's not.

Salad, Dr. Martin, I love my salad. I know you do, but you weren't designed to eat that. You weren't. You can have it, but don't make it your primary food. It's one of the big reasons today that we got so much trouble with our health. Okay? So that was sort of philosophy of why I did what I did in my office. There was a reason. I always tell people, there's a reason. I know this face looks crazy. Okay? There's a crazy man. You might say, yes, that's true. Okay, but there was a reason behind my madness. I know the world out there didn't like it. I used to tell people on the radio, I'm not aiming at the medical profession. I'm not. If the odd doctor hears the message, good for them, and some did and good for them, but I'm not aiming at them. I said, I'm aiming at the public. Those who would listen, those who are fed up, tired of being tired. Tired of being sick all the time. Tired of putting a bandaid on it. Tired of it, just got to put a bandaid on. I got a condition but just put a bandaid on. I'm going to take pills and look guys, if you need pills. Hey, you got an infection. It's raging. You need an antibiotic. Hey, I'll give you a high five. You get hit by a bus, don't come see me. I can't help you. You know what I'm saying?

So big condition, reversible, put it to bed, type two diabetes, put it to bed. You might need your meds for a while. When you're a type two diabetic, you got no choice but to be strict, strict, strict, like you need to form habit and you need to understand food. You need to understand fuel, and you're like my turbo engine car. You got to get your gas at the pump with 94 there. What is 94? Eggs, meat, cheese, dairy, you got to live on 94. You don't get along with 91, 88 or any of that kind of fuel. You just don't. You and bread don't get along. You and pasta. Oh, Dr. Martin. It's whole wheat pasta. That's just sugar holding hands, sugar molecules holding hands. You can't eat that stuff. You have pasta, live on the meat. Can you do it? Well, I've seen it done. High triglycerides, HDL. Tens of thousands of times. Triglycerides go down. HDL goes up and I don't want to go into it, why that is the most important thing you can do for your heart health, cardiovascular health, preventing strokes, preventing heart attacks. That is the best thing you can do. Lower your triglycerides and elevate your HDL cholesterol. You can measure it, not total cholesterol, not your LDL. You want to look at that.

I used to see tens of thousands. I'd be a beeline, right to, show me your triglycerides and show me your HDL. Dr. Martin, my total cholesterol, who cares? Oh, Dr. Martin, my HDL is high. Good. I went against the grain, but I said, look, you wait and see how much better you feel. You got high blood pressure. We're going to take all that pressure off your kidneys. Guys, the other thing, I got to say it in my office, the first time they would come in into the office, one of the things we measured was molasses. What? Well, I used to turn around once we saw blood and say, you got molasses, not blood. What? Well, you're dehydrated. You're not drinking enough water. Here's what I heard. A lot of men, especially, I don't like water. Isn't coffee, water? I don't like it. Well, you big baby. You want to have a heart attack. You want to have a stroke. Your blood is thick as molasses. Patients come in with migraines. I said, well, let's start with the fact you're dehydrated. Too bad there's not a light on top of your head that's going, add water, add water, add water. Too bad because a lot of people went, I don't drink. Yeah well doc, I drink tea. You know how much water is in tea? I know, but it ain't water. It's not hydrating you at all.

I only got 15 other things I wanted to talk about. We're going to continue on this, but I had to give you the background, not that you haven't heard it before. Repetition, repetition, repetition. But I'm telling you guys amazing. I'll just give you the list and we'll talk about some of these. Non-alcoholic fatty liver. Reverse. Big problem today. Leaky gut, digestive issues from gastric acid reflux to diverticulosis, diverticulitis, I-B-S, I-B-D, ulcerative colitis, SIBO or SIFO, which is a better word, Crohn's, put to bed. Not all of them, but put to bed, okay? Difference than curing. Helping a lot. Putting to bed autoimmune. A lot of autoimmune. Not all of it, but putting it to bed, making it much better. Sarcopenia, osteoporosis. I saw this in my office a lot. Men problems with ED, low testosterone. Women problems with horrormones. Too much estrogen, not enough progesterone affecting the thyroid. Hair loss, sluggish thyroid. The thyroid, their gas pedal in the car wasn't working. Sluggish anemia, especially macrocytic, the big red blood cell, and I saw a lot of that with low levels of B12. Poor immune function.

Anyway, we'll go into a little bit of detail on that on another. Health conditions that I reversed in practice. Well reversed or helped a lot. Okay, tomorrow is Q and A, Q and A Friday. We love it. Send you questions in. I don't think it's too late. info@martinclinic.com. info@martinclinic.com. Anyway, we love you guys. Thanks for being such good friends to the program. Don't be shy. Send in your questions, okay? We love it. We need it. We're built to answer your questions. Okay, love you dearly, talk to you soon.

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