1837. Why Are We Still Losing to Cancer?

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Dr. Martin:  Well good morning everyone. And once again, welcome to another live this morning. Hope you're having a wonderful start to your day because we is. We are for sure. How are you doing? Okay. Now people were asking a few questions about our subject yesterday. Remember we talked about the invention of the PET scan yesterday. So if you missed it, soon to be podcast. Okay? So don't worry about it. You can certainly view it at a later date. Now a few of the questions like "Doc, you're so negative." I hate to be negative. You know me, I'm very upbeat, but I have to be honest. Okay? I was around when Richard Nixon, the president of the United States, declared war on cancer. Okay? If I'm not mistaken, it was 1974. Might've been a little earlier, but I remember Nixon saying we declare war on cancer, meaning we're going to get rid of it. Well, we've been at war for 50 something years, Canada and the United States. And guess what? We're losing the battle. We're not winning. We're losing.

And you wouldn't hear much from me if we were winning. I'd be happy. I want to win. I like winning, but we're losing. Okay? And let me give you a stat here on cancer. What's the percentage? Listen to this guys. Okay. 200 billion is spent on cancer research every year, 200 billion. But the only thing to show for it is a 75% increase in global number of cancer deaths since 1990. Crazy. And I always used to say this when I had my radio show because here's the rules in Canada. If you are a charitable organization, your books are public. And I've done this. I've gone on the website of, for example, the Canadian Cancer Society. You can look at their budget, how much money they raise, how much money is spent on cancer research. That's a big problem that I have too. Even though 200 billion is spent in North America on cancer research, we're not getting much bang for the buck. Cancer's worse than ever.

Plus guys, if you look at their budgets, about 90% of it goes to salaries and promotion. 10% or less goes to research. They have huge budgets. And guys, if it was working, if it was working, I'd be a happy puppy. Who hasn't been affected by cancer? Who? Every family is affected by cancer. You couldn't talk to anyone on the street that hasn't been affected by cancer. My family, lots of cancer. In my siblings, parents, I lost my mom, lost my sister at a very young age with cancer. So we're all affected by it. And I just want the bang for the buck, guys. So when I give you a story on the PET scan, there is a link between cancer and food according to medicine, but they're wrong about that because they blame steak, red meat, and they're happy to tell you that bacon is carcinogenic. They don't know anything about nutrition, but they're happy to tell you that. Oh, well, red meat and bacon bad for cancer.

And they'll tell you to stay out of the sun too. Sun, cancer. Thing is with melanoma, which is the deadly cancer. It's vast majority of those people they hardly ever got in the sun. And where that melanoma shows up is where the sun don't shine. That's a fact, but they don't tell you that. Anyway, because a lot of people had questions afterwards on cancer and I said, "Okay, I got to answer a few of them." And like I said, we're not winning the war. If we're winning the war, I'd be a happy puppy. By the way, another study on coffee and cancer. Another study because it says here coffee drinking was linked to lower odds of mouth and throat cancer. One of the most aggressive cancers that we're seeing lots of today gone way up. You know what it is? Esophageal cancer. And one of the reasons, and I'm telling you this, is a lack of eating meat. One of the things you get at Barrett's esophagus, which is a pre-cancer state and then a lot of cancer that we never used to ... It's a lot like we never saw it, but it was very rare compared to what we see today.

Let's look at cancers for a minute that are on the huge increase, like way, way more than we used to see. Esophageal, the throat cancer. Now, one of the biggest reasons for that is because we're eating the wrong food. Your stomach, yours. I'm talking about generalities here. The world's North America's. Let's stick here. Their stomachs are not being used properly. What? No, because we're carboholics. Your stomach wasn't made to live on carbs. Your stomach was made to live on eggs, meat, and cheese. Yeah, you can have some plants. Yes, you can have some fruit, but it wasn't made to live on carbs.It just wasn't. And I always use the proof of the pudding is what is supposed to be your acid level, your pH level in your stomach, more acidic than a lion. And the lion lives on meat. You have a stomach that has a pH that is supposed to be, supposed to be, made for meat and eggs and dairy, good dairy, like butter and cream and full fat out of the cow milk. Okay. Your body was made for that. It's designed for that.

You weren't designed to eat plants. You can eat them but your body wasn't designed for it because a cow eats plants and a cow has four stomachs. You almost need four stomachs to digest all that fiber and you don't even make an enzyme and neither do I, call cellulase. Rabbits have it, cows have it. It's to break down the cellulose. And again, I'm not saying you can't have any veggies, okay? I'm just saying because we don't eat the way our body was designed, your body tries to produce the acid that your stomach isn't making. So you're making more acid. The problem is with that it goes up the esophagus. Thus, I'm telling you it's one of the biggest reasons that we see so much esophageal cancer. It's one of the main reasons. It's why we see so much acid reflux. That's why people live on proton pump inhibitors. They live on them because they insist on eating and living on carbohydrates from pizza to breads to noodles to whatever. Okay? And they want to live on that and they wonder why we have so much esophageal cancer.

Here's another one we have. Colorectal cancer right through the roof, guys, in terms of numbers. It used to be rare, not anymore. And everybody goes, "I wonder we must not be eating as much fiber." Hello? We are eating more fiber than ever. The only thing doctors know about nutrition is, well, you better increase your fiber. That's why I want you to eat oatmeal so you get your fiber, right? They don't know much about nutrition, but they'll talk to you about fiber. You know what? There's more colorectal cancer now since we went fiber crazy, brought to you by Kellogg's. Where does that come from? I saw someone put something. "Dr. Martin, how about butyrate? Don't you need fiber to make butyrate?" Well, I like butyrate. Okay? I like butyrate. Your microbiome, okay? It thrives with butyrate. Guess where you get butyrate when you eat steak and dairy like cheese. That's full of butyrate. Not fiber. What? That's the message today. Well, increase your fiber. We're not eating enough fiber. We never ate so much fiber in our lives, guys. The population is very high on fiber, but colorectal cancer is through the roof.

It's sugar. Carbs. Crappy carbs. Colorectal cancer, that's why we're seeing so much colorectal cancer even in young people. That was an old man's disease so was another one. Pancreas cancer, pancreatic cancer through the roof. Pancreatic cancer used to be a rare. I remember studying pancreatic cancer in school in the 70s. Who got pancreatic cancer in the 70s? Old men. Seriously. Not anymore. Not anymore. Through the roof, the statistic. Pancreatic. Well, let me give you a little guess. I wonder why. Do you think you're pancreas? Okay. Pancreas does a number of things. One of them is releasing enzymes, pancreatic enzymes like lipase, amylase, protease. Well, first of all, we're not using near enough protease because we don't eat near enough protein. We overuse our pancreas, especially the hormone insulin. You and I were never meant to be secreting insulin at the rate that we do, but because people insist.

Guys, insulin has a job to do. Okay? Whether you want it to do it or not, it has a job to do. It cannot allow sugar to park in your blood vessels. It can't allow it. It's a no parking zone for sugar because your body knows, your pancreas knows sugar is toxic. So it has to be very tightly regulated. Empty out. This has been done by the way. Don't do it because it's been done. Eat 20 donuts. Don't do it. Okay. Eat 20 donuts. Your insulin goes crazy because donuts is sugar and fat. Okay? Bad fat, bad sugar. Okay? That's a donut. You want to make a rat grow in a lab or mice grow in a lab? They give them a donut. They call it rat chow. It's really a donut. Okay? Well, if you eat 20, your insulin from your pancreas and they've tested this, it goes crazy. Comes out, got to go, got to go, got to go, got to come out of the pancreas because we got to get to the bloodstream and take sugar and say, "Get that heck out of the blood. Out, out, out, out." Sweep it. "Out, out, out, out. Can't stay there. You can't park there. I'm going to park you somewhere else." It looks for spaces in the muscles, especially there because that's insulin's favorite parking zone.

But when the muscles don't have enough parking spots left, guess what it does? It goes to the liver. The Costco parking lot. Uh-oh, not a lot of parking spots left in the liver. I got to make more. So you know what insulin does? It creates more parking spots. Yeah, fat. It creates parking spots for sugar. Fat. Have a look at the world today. Go to the mall today. Any city, any town, go to the mall and look at people today. What will you see? Big difference. But you see, guys, that's why we see so much pancreatic cancer. Your body wasn't made to eat carbs all day from pizza to pasta to cereals to rice to drinking juices and smoothies and all the stuff with the sugar in it and orange juice and all this and all that. And people go, "Well, gee, how come pancreatic cancer is through the roof today?" Well, it's not a mystery to me. I've been screaming for years. We're carboholics. It's going to affect the rate of cancer. You got pancreatic going through the roof. Esophageal. Colorectal.

Hey guys, those are just stats. We're not winning the war on cancer. We're losing because we won't face reality and I'm not even expecting anything to change. There's a cancer industry. Do they mean well? I'm sure they do. I'm sure they do. There's some good people there. I have a first cousin. He's been doing cancer research for man, as long as I've been in practice. He's over 50 years. He had a wing at the University of Connecticut named after him. He's my first cousin researching breast cancer. He's still working. I love him. He's my cousin. He's smart. What? Have they found the cure? They don't even talk about food, except that don't eat red meat. Whatever you do. You see that bacon there? That'll give you a heart attack and cancer. And I said, "Well, that's nonsense. It's sugar," i.e. The PET scan that we talked about yesterday. Anyway, I have to do a little diatribe.

Here's another one, guys. Here's a cancer that's out of control. And this is what really gets me infuriated. Breast cancer in women. Ovarian cancer in women. Hormonal cancers. It just drives me crazy that we see so much of that and we wear pink and we walk around wearing pink and we haven't made a dent. It's worse than ever breast cancer. Walk for the cure. Maybe walk into the kitchen and look what we're eating because breast cancer's out of control. It's crazy. I was a hormonal doctor. Insulin, estrogen, progesterone, cortisol, thyroid. I was a hormonal doctor. The endocrine system. Why do we see so many endocrine cancers? Breast cancer. Men, prostate. Why? Growth hormones. Insulin's a growth hormone so is estrogen. We're not looking in the right places. I'm not saying food is everything. I'm not saying that, but it's a big thing. And they got all the food upside down. Oh no, you need your grains. You better have your grains as if frosted flakes were better than bacon. Better have your grains as if oatmeal is better than having eggs in the morning.

Young people, they're weaned on pizza. They're weaned on it. You know how many thousands? And I mean it over the years, especially young girls. They come into my office and, "Well, Doctor Martin, I can't eat anything that has eyeballs." And I said, I wanted to grab their little face and say, "Can I change your mind? You've been lied to." And then, okay, we live in a toxic soup. I understand all that too. Like that's part of it. But guys, you can't control everything in your life, but you can certainly control what you put in your mouth every day. My word. Okay. You know what? I didn't mean to spend the whole session on it, but I would just get people were commenting and look, it was all good feedback. I like that. Ask questions. Ask questions. What's wrong with that? I want that. Ask questions, Dr. Martin. Yeah, we love it. Okay. Okay. I promise I'm going to bring some studies, okay? Because I got lots to comment on. Okay? Yeah.

Anywho, guys, send your questions into info@martinclinic.com, info@martinclinic.com so we can get to them on Q&A Friday. Okay? Get your questions in. If you want them public, you got to get them to me because a lot of times I don't see them afterwards. Okay? You guys are asking questions on the scroll and I can't see that during the program. I see the writing, but I'm not reading it because I, hey, I'm a senior. I can't do two things at once. Okay. We love you guys. Even though sometimes I get excited, okay? I can't help myself. Okay, talk to you soon.

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