1704. Fueling the Fire: Insulin's Role in Cancer Growth

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Dr. Martin:  Well, good morning everyone. How are you? And once again, welcome to another live this morning. Hope you're having a great day today. We appreciate you coming on with us. What an audience. You know, by the time this finishes today, we'll be about six to 10,000 views of just this, and then of course it's when it goes on podcasts. Unreal. All because of you guys. All because of you. Okay, now let me talk a little bit about insulin this morning. There was a new article, I was reading it about cancer, and it was interesting because this particular researcher was talking about insulin. Have you ever heard of it? Insulin.

I did a zoom meeting with the Marines group, polio survivors last week. And I was talking to that group, very, very engaging. It was really good. A lot of good questions after my presentation, but I was talking about two hormones that want you dead. Insulin and cortisol. I wrote that book, Tony Jr. and I wrote that book in 2011 at the hundredth year anniversary of the Martin Clinic. Okay, time flies. So my grandfather, David, in 1911, the Martin Clinic, wow. And he was light years ahead of his time. I can tell you that. Anywho, getting back to insulin and getting back to insulin and cortisol and cancer. Because this researcher was saying something very significant that cancer, we all know this, needs fuel. Cancer needs fuel, and insulin is a major driver of cancer. So let me just tell you what's new in insulin. And some of this is review. Okay? It's not all new, but some of it is new in terms of cancer and how insulin drives cancer.

Now, let me give you a little bit of background. We actually mentioned this in our book. Having low insulin is probably one of the best things that you could do for yourself. And insulin primarily is a food hormone. You don't eat, you don't need insulin. Insulin comes from your pancreas when you eat. And this research, and we actually write about this in our new book, Rebuilding the Temple. It's one of our first lessons in the 30 day devotional. You'll really enjoy it. And it's this, the largest study, and this was over years of looking at insulin and disease, followed 200 people for 11 years measuring insulin. Here's the conclusion of the study. Nobody talks about it, but it was really one of the most important studies of our time. Those who had the highest insulin were the sickest. Those with the lowest insulin didn't get any chronic disease, no cancer, no heart disease, no Alzheimer's, no diabetes. They didn't get any chronic disease. Those with the highest insulin got the highest amount of heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's, diabetes. It was a direct correlation.

So guys, you can't control everything in life. You can be the healthiest person in the world and you're at the wrong place at the wrong time, and you get hit by a truck. You can't control everything. But one thing you can control is insulin because it's a food hormone. Now, we'll talk about cortisol in a minute because that drives insulin too, okay? And I'll tell you why, but you see two hormones that want you dead. And when I wrote that book it, because there was such a paradigm shift in my practice, Tony Jr. and I talked about it all the time. I said, I can't get over it. We're measuring insulin. What's the best way to measure it, by the way? Well, look, you can actually get a fasting insulin test or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No problem at all. But a routine test a doctor should be doing is A1C because that's an average of your blood sugars over three months, three or four months. It glycinates the hemoglobin, the middle of the red blood cell, and you can measure it. And I'll tell you something, to me, it's one of the most significant blood tests that you want to get.

If your A1C is above 5.4, your insulin's high, you have insulin resistance. Don't fool yourself, accept it, and then go, okay, I'm going to do something about it. So insulin, when they did this study, you got high insulin. You're in deep trouble. And this is why I always talk about that ship called the Titanic. If you have high insulin, you're on the Titanic, a hundred percent. You're on the Titanic, on its maiden voyage. The one they said was the unsinkable ship and it sunk. So what do we know? And this is why I've never stopped studying, never stop looking at stuff, never stop. Because you learn something. You learn something. I keep studying, reading, trying to get even a clearer picture. Okay, so let me just talk about insulin and cancer. Okay? So you can talk about insulin and heart disease, insulin and Alzheimer's. They're very much connected. Diabetes, obviously, but let me talk about insulin and cancer for a minute because this is what this paper, this researcher talked about. Okay?

So what insulin does over a period of time and you develop a condition called insulin resistance, okay? Where at the cellular level, your cells are sick and tired of insulin knocking on the door. Okay? You guys know me. I'm an illustrator in my head. I have to do it for myself, okay? It's a neighbor who never stops coming to your door, knock, knock, knock, knock. And you get tired of it. You get tired of it. You ever had a neighbor like that? Hello? Anyway, so at the cellular level, your cells overeating, eating too frequently, eating the wrong foods, eating too much sugar, eating too many crappy carbohydrates. Your insulin is knocking on because insulin has a job to do. And it doesn't matter if you cooperate or not, it will do its job. It will not allow sugar to park in your bloodstream. A little weenie, teeny weenie bit. That's it. Otherwise, sugar's in the no parking zone. And when you eat food, you have a piece of bread. They're just sugar molecules holding hands. You have a pastry, just sugar molecules holding hands. You drink juice, just sugar molecules holding hands.

So what happens is you got sugar in your bloodstream and insulin comes a knocking, says to sugar, come with me. Can't park there and I'm going to park you, can't stay where you are at. Come with me. And then goes to the cells, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, okay? And if you eat the right foods, your cells respond to insulin. Okay? Oh, you want to park something in here? No problem. Open the door, come on in. Okay? But if you eat too much, eat too frequently, you're eating the wrong foods, insulin is always knocking at the door. Therefore, you develop insulin resistance. That is metabolic syndrome. 93% of the population have this. A hundred years ago, would it be 1% a hundred years ago, would it be 1%? 2% had insulin resistance. Today, 93 and counting, not going down. It's going up. I remember reading an article, I'm going to say 2015, 2016. It was 88%, 93. It's probably even higher than that. It drives cancer. It drives cancer.

Now it turns a normal metabolism. Think of your body, you're burning fuel, metabolism. You've got battery packs. They're called mitochondria. Every cell has them, battery packs. You're solar powered, and I mean that too, by the way. Solar, sun, okay? You're powered by that, but anyways. So your metabolism like metabolic syndrome, don't let that confuse you. It's the way your body breaks fuel down. And cancer is a metabolic disease. They wanted to pin it on. I watched it guys. I watched it happen. They always wanted to pin cancer on genetics. Even insurance companies today still do this. They'll make your premiums worse if you got cancer in your family, they still do it. It's not based on science. They should ask you what you eat every day. But they don't. They measure your fat. They might put you on a scale, but that tells you nothing. That doesn't tell you what insulin is doing. They should have looked at this study. 200 people and people that had the lowest insulin, they didn't get any of those chronic diseases, didn't get cancer, didn't get heart disease, didn't get Alzheimer's, didn't get diabetes.

One of the things that insulin does when it hangs around too long, and you got insulin resistance, you know what it does? It affects the way your body gets rid of cancer cells. I'm going to give you a big word, apoptosis. I don't even know if you pronounce it like that. Apoptosis. I don't know. When you have a damaged cell, your body knows how to get rid of it, to break it down, to get rid of it, okay? And apoptosis. I hated those big names in school. Oh, why don't they just call it breaking down? But they call it apoptosis. I don't know. Like I said, I don't care how you pronounce it, it doesn't matter. But insulin puts the breakdown of damaged cells. It stops it. Cancer, really, okay? And I've talked about this many a time. Oxidative damage, guys. You know what that is? Oxidative damage? It's rusting out, okay? We call it free radical damage. You're rusting out. I'm rusting out. I could show you a picture of me when I graduated in the 1970s. I don't look the same. Sometimes, it's shocking.

You know what I said to someone the other day? It happens to the best of us like aging. But what is aging? It's oxidation. It's rusting out. Cancer is a rusting out process. Damaged cells, free radicals, and it's premature. So unlike aging, it's rapid. When it gets going, cancer takes a long time to get going, but when it gets going, it gets rapid. Okay? Now here's another thing it does, okay? It affects autophagy, apoptosis, aptosis, I don't know how to say it. And autophagy, you know what autophagy is? It's your body's self-cleaning oven. Now, the best self-cleaning oven, when is that done? When your body sleeps. So now I'm going to connect the insulin and the cortisol. Okay, let me do the connection in a second. So A-P, O-P, T-O-S-I-S, apoptosis, I don't know, insulin messes that up. The damaged cell, the body can't get rid of them like they should. Insulin affects the self-cleaning oven of your body.

We already know the cortisol does because what have I taught you over the years that your brain especially has its own self-cleaning oven. It's called your glymphatic system. In the rest of your body, it's called your lymphatic system. You know when it drains? At night when you're sleeping, the brain. But insulin and insulin resistance affects your body's ability to self clean. That's one of the big factors in cancer. Your body's lymphatic system can't work properly to get rid of all your dead cells, cancer cells, toxins that drive cancer. Insulin is a culprit there. Imagine that. And of course, cortisol, because when you don't sleep, the night crew can't come in. You ever see a building in a big city and the lights are sort of dim? No, people working in there, the cleaning staff is in there, they're cleaning. That's your body guys when you sleep. You don't sleep, your cortisol goes up, your cortisol goes up, you don't sleep. What is cortisol? That's a big factor today in the world. Look, cortisol has been around as long as man has been around, but why is it a hormone that wants you dead? Because it's not meant to have a full-time job guys. That's what, that's what.

So, insulin is miracle grow for cancer. How do you drive up your insulin? You eat too frequently. You're eating the wrong foods. High in sugar, high in those bad oils, the middle aisles of your grocery store, processed foods drives insulin and insulin drives cortisol, and cortisol drives insulin. Think of what cortisol does. You're uptight. Your brain can't turn off. You're not sleeping. You know what cortisol does? Cortisol is on your side until it's not. It's on your side in the morning, cortisol gets your blood sugar up. But what about at night? Cortisol elevates your blood sugar. You don't want elevated blood sugar at night. You're trying to go to sleep, elevated blood sugar. What happens if your blood sugar goes up? Insulin will come in the middle of the night and knock on the doors of the cells and say, open up. I got sugar to store. Oh no, that's neighbor's back again. What's he doing here at one in the morning and two in the morning? You shouldn't have any insulin at all in your blood. It can't help itself when you have cortisol.

You see the connection this is? Connecting the dots in cancer, a lot of other things too, but especially cancer, because cancer we all know needs fuel and sugar's the worst of them. Okay? Sugar's the worst of them. I remember oncologists, and they don't know nothing about food, so God bless them. Okay? Like I said, well, how does your PET scan work? It's not for your pets. It's a cancer imaging. Yeah. How does it work? They give you a cup of sugar and they put you in the machine. Yeah. And what happens if you have cancer? Well, you light up like a Christmas tree. Yeah, but it needs sugar. It don't work without the sugar. True or false? True. Well, there's a little teaching doc. There's a little teaching. Use it as a teaching moment. Food and cancer, they never saw the connection ever. Well, if they did, here's what they said. You know what? I read, I read a study once that said, when you have steak, that's red meat. It's acidic. Steak's acidic until you eat it. Then it ain't acidic anymore. The more steak you eat, the more you want to move the needle on alkaline energy, then eat steak. Okay?

The people get this so upside down, they can't get over it. A tomato is a acidic. Are tomato no good for you, but they don't stay acid. Your body knows how to buffer. It'll use sodium bicarbonate. Baking soda. You don't take baking soda, by the way, I was never for that. People ask me about that all the time. How about baking soda doc? It's not going to get to its intended destination other than your stomach. Why do you want to put baking soda in your stomach? You want to be as acidic as you can be. It's a furnace. Why do you want to put the fire out in your stomach? I never understood that. Baking soda cures everything, but your body makes baking soda. Let your body do it. It doesn't put the baking soda in your stomach. It puts it in your small intestine. That's where baking soda belong, and your cells. Sodium bicarbonate. Okay, so insulin, my friend, is a cancer driver. It turns off your body's ability to heal itself, autophagy and clean itself, apoptosis. It activates the growth pathways. I've always told you this guys. Insulin is a growth hormone. It's a growth hormone. So is estrogen. They're growth hormones. Cortisol pours gasoline on the fire of cancer. So important. Okay?

Okay, I thought we'd do a little teaching this morning. Just a lot of it's review, guys. I know that that's who I am. Okay? I want to review, we always got so many new people on all the time. You know me. I know you guys that are my faithful followers. I know you by your first names. You're friends, okay? But there's always a lot of new people, and this gets shared and it goes to thousands and thousands of people a day and I wish I could say hello. I wish I could have a big party and invite you, okay? I thought about it for our new book, the launch. Let's have a big party and everybody come. I'd love that. I'd love to meet all of you personally. Okay? I'd like to get to know the mayor, Kevin. Raheem. So many others. You guys, we love you dearly, okay? We love you dearly. Okay guys, keep it coming. Okay? Keep it coming. Keep your questions coming, Q and A, Q and A Friday, often Q and A Monday. I love answering your questions, guys. Okay? Remember the new book. Sign up for it guys. Get up there and get on that list. martinclinic.com. Rebuilding Your Temple, coming to a theater near you very soon. Very soon. What a great gift that it'll make. Okay? Okay, guys, talk to you soon.

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