1853. Insulin Resistance: The Weird Symptoms You're Missing

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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. We certainly are. Okay, now let's look at a few studies this

morning. Okay, just four minutes. Okay, so what they did with seniors? I put my hand up. I'm a

senior. Okay, I got a senior's card. I use it a lot. It comes in very handy. Whenever I forget

anything or do something stupid, I pull out my seniors card. I said, I'm a senior. What do you

expect? And you know, you get a lot of grace when you're a senior. I love it. Here's my senior card.

No wonder. Anyway, just four minutes of vitamin E exercise, just four minutes

daily, dramatically improves balance and mobility in seniors. Okay, now this is really important

because one of the biggest problems as you get older is balance and mobility. And how many seniors

fall? A lot of times they're on medications. Their blood pressure goes down. They're low.

They get up fast. Are they tripped? A lot of seniors trip and they don't have the proprioception.

They don't have that reflex like they used to to correct the fall. If you know what I mean by that.

And this study is showing that four minutes and you can do this because when I read the article,

you can do this in your kitchen or whatever where you're holding on to something, but you're doing

some exercise. A lot of people do biking indoors even. It helps. Now one of the best things you

could ever do is start getting stronger. You know how much we love that and emphasize that. Get

stronger. I don't care how old you are. You can get stronger than you are right now.

One of the biggest things is grip strength. They're actually talking about making grip strength

another vital sign. You know like your blood pressure, your pulse, your pulse rate and temperature

and all that. Those are vital signs and they're literally talking about grip strength as being

another vital sign because that is so important. I shook hands the other day with I think he's 88.

He almost took my hand off. I said to him, I said you're going to live a long time. I'm not a

prophet nor the son of one, but I think the only way you're going to die is if you get hit by a bus.

You're not going to die any other way, at least not in the foreseeable future. His grip strength

was so good. Anyway, just because we're on the topic, they're actually talking about using this

too as a very diagnostic vital sign and that is getting off the floor on your own. It's a lot

harder than it sounds, isn't it? Like get off the floor without any help. What? Just get on the floor

and then get up. It's not easy if you don't have that strength and again four minutes daily of

exercise dramatically improves balance and mobility in seniors. Nice vitamin E. Okay vitamin E.

Interesting because I talked about this a while back. The flu shot, okay? They're just looking at

the stats. The flu shot, and this was in the UK. Okay? The United Kingdom flu shot study. It doesn't

work in obese people. The flu shot, not that I have ever been big on the flu shot guys. Okay? To be

honest, even on my radio show, I had to be careful because it's public in the sense that, and I would

never tell anyone not to take a flu shot. Okay? I couldn't do it in my media days. And even today,

I'm reticent to tell someone they shouldn't take a flu shot just because, you know, Facebook and

every other media outlet, they don't like it. And the College of Physicians and Surgeons don't like

it. There's a lot of opposition to talking against something like that. But I used to tell people

this, okay? This is what I would always caution them or rather give them advice on this. You know what?

You take your own flu shot. I don't care if you take the other one. I'm not taking it. Okay? That's

my decision. I don't take the flu shot. But I used to tell my patients and I told my audiences over

the years, you take your own flu shot. I don't care if you take the other one that society wants you

to take. Here's your natural flu shot. Okay? And it always included vitamin D. Always. And vitamin A,

the invisible mass. Eat steak. One of the best things you can do for your immune system. Cut out

sugar. One of the best things you can do for your immune system because sugar puts your immune system

to sleep. Okay? We're going to talk about this in a minute again. But this is just, came out of the

UK. The flu shot does not work in obese people. They don't have the antibodies to fight the flu.

Amazing, isn't it? Now, did that hit headline news? Nope. I had to go and find that in my studies

and behind the scenes. I get a lot of studies. I don't read every study. I get hundreds every day.

But I got this one and I said in my head, this will never come out. Not public, in a way,

it's not in the mainstream media. That obese people, the flu shot doesn't work.

You need to take the natural one, the one you can do yourself. Okay? And I was very big on that.

Oil of a regnal. We talked about it yesterday. Is there anything more powerful, antiviral,

antibacterial, antifungal than oil of a regnal? And cut out the sugar. Okay? Now, question.

Do you have insulin resistance? Okay? One way to find out. Okay? You can look at your blood work

and interpret the blood work on your own. In the book, Sun, Stake and Steel, we go over those tests

to look and see if you have insulin resistance. Okay? And we talk about it. A1c. Okay? If you

can get your fasting insulin done, good. But one thing they will do is your A1c. You don't have

to convince your doctor to do A1c. And A1c, if you're above 5.4, you have insulin resistance.

If your triglycerides are high, you have insulin resistance. If your HDL cholesterol is low,

you have insulin resistance. If you have uric acid high, you have insulin resistance.

Any elevated even blood pressure. Okay? You have insulin resistance. It's really important to get

that. Any visible sign of belly fat, eh, you probably have insulin resistance. Okay? Now,

I want to talk to you about, and I've written about this in the past. We've done shows on this,

but I want to talk to you about things that are symptoms or problems that you might have,

or your friends have, or your family has, and they have no idea that it may be linked to

insulin resistance. Okay? Some of you are thinking right off the top of your head, yeah, I know that.

But a lot of people don't. I used to have a chart in my office. It was fascinating. Okay? We had a chart

in my office that showed, uh, you were likely to have insulin resistance,

and we put these conditions up that I'll talk about right now, and people were flabbergasted.

What? What's that got to do with insulin? For example, vertical tinnitus. I rarely go a week

that I'm not asked on Q&A Fridays about vertical or tinnitus, ringing in the ears.

What does that have to do with insulin resistance? Well, there's a huge connection.

It's not always insulin resistance, but again, we're looking at things that are often associated

with insulin resistance. Okay? And people don't think about that. They've never been told.

They didn't read my books. Insulin and cortisol, two hormones that want you dead, serial killer,

written in 2011. Talk about this. Joint pain. A lot of people, and again, I brought this to you,

I think last week or the week before, that frozen shoulder, for example, almost invariably,

has a link to insulin and insulin resistance. Joint problems. Okay? Just a generalized joint pain.

A lot of people got that. A lot of people live on Advil or Tylenol for joint pain. It's no fun.

They're sore all the time. A lot of times. And this is, guys, another reason that we

started the reset years ago in my clinic, the reset. Almost everyone that came into my office

was sent out with a plan for food to change their insulin resistance because we tested it.

And I said, well, now you're going to do the reset. We're going to take you out of insulin

resistance. We're going to make your cells at the cellular level, especially your muscle cells,

your liver cells, your fat cells, to be much more sensitive to insulin. Be sensitive. Are you sensitive?

A lot of patients used to look at me. I said, I'm a very sensitive person. I want you to be

more sensitive to insulin. What? Well, I want your cells to be more receptive.

Why? Because if you're pancreas, which secretes insulin at the cellular level, if your cells

say insulin, how are you today? Thanks for coming by. I'm sensitive. Here, I'll open my doors to you,

insulin, rather than insulin resistance, which is like a bad neighbor who comes knocking on your door

all the time and you're tired of it. And that's what happens at the cellular level. Your cells

resisted. I'm sick of you. Why are you coming? Well, I'm coming because you insist on being a

carbaholic. You insist on it. I got a job to do. If you eat carbs, you're secreting insulin,

and insulin's got a job to do. It will not allow sugar to park in the bloodstream. Therefore,

it has to come to the blood and say, follow me. You can't park here. Now I got to park you

in parking spots made for you. And the more you do that, the more your cells go, I'm so sick

of seeing you come to my door, insulin resistance. So what do we talk about this morning? Vertical,

tinnitus, joint pain, often, often times related to insulin resistance. Who knew? I used to tell

patients, we're going to change your diet to make you more insulin sensitive. And many of you are

going to find out, holy smokes, I used to have pain all the time. I don't have it. I used to have

tinnitus. I don't have that anymore. I used to have vertigo. I don't have that anymore. Not always.

And guys, I'm not just making this up. This is documented, but you won't hear about it very

much. Guys, don't wait for the pharmaceutical companies to come around on this, okay? They're

selling billions of dollars of medication for tinnitus, vertigo, joint pain. Okay, here's another

one. And people, they used to look at my chart and they were kind of surprised. Skin tags? Dr.

Martin, yeah. When you see a skin tag, pretty well 99.9, you have insulin resistance.

You're kidding me. No, I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding. How about carpal tunnel? I remember

studying. I don't know if I told you the story or not, but I was interning and we had a prof.

everything to him with carpal tunnel. If you had any kind of wrist pain or hand pain,

carpal tunnel. Okay. And I remember I come home for about a month in the summer I was interning.

And I worked with my dad in the office and whenever I'd see anything with, I said,

dad, that's carpal tunnel. And he'd start laughing like, where did you learn that? I said at school.

He said, well, not everything is carpal tunnel. Okay. But it was very popular. I'm talking about

1972 or 73. And he said, eh, that ain't carpal tunnel. Okay. Because he never studied carpal tunnel.

He was right though. Like I had everybody with, but guys, carpal tunnel, you know,

many people get surgery on carpal tunnel. And the research is showing. Okay. Very much involved

is insulin with carpal tunnel syndrome. You know, what's the connection? Well, nerves,

blood supply to nerve, like to think of neuropathy. Okay. Like diabetic neuropathy.

I saw that 10,000 times in my office. Diabetic retinopathy and diabetic

neuropathy in their feet, especially. Okay. No fun. What's that got to do with

diabetes? Neuropathy. Well, because blood supply, which is damaged by diabetics,

leads to neuropathy, nerve pain, blood supply to the nerves. Diabetics know all about it.

Okay. So when you hear carpal tunnel, don't let it shock you so much. I'm not saying it's always

the case because some people get a real carpal tunnel because of their workplace or whatever,

but a lot of times it's amazing how much better they get when they cut out the crappy carbohydrates.

Diet guys is incredibly important. You know that. I know that, but the world, man,

not so much. Moderation, Dr. Martin, moderation says every dietitian that I ever met.

Moderation. I say no. Elimination. I was into elimination, not moderation. Okay.

You got insulin resistance. You want to fix it? We need to talk. And this has to do with

eliminating, not moderation. A diabetic guy. Okay. And remember again,

remember this very important. Diabetes is the last thing that happens to a person. Never the first

thing. It's the last thing. It's been going on for 10, 15 years. They've been on the Titanic.

No one told them, but they were. They didn't know it. Okay. So really, really important to understand

that. Okay. And so they were not getting along with any food that turns to sugar rapidly. They

weren't getting along, but they didn't necessarily know it. And a lot of times they had symptoms

that if the doctor, their doctor or a doctor knew anything about insulin and insulin resistance,

they might have given them the heads up, but you guys got to be your own doctor.

Not that you're dismissing your doctors, but you got to be sort of self educated. This is why I do

this program on a daily basis. Education, education, education. Right? Now, carpal tunnel, gout. Gout

is insulin resistance. Okay. And I know they talk about pure reeds. I studied pure reeds in the 1970s.

Pure reeds is the cause of gout. And guys, you know this because we've done a lot of programs on

gout over the years. No, it ain't pure reed. Okay. It ain't. It's not. Gout today is worse than ever.

And the worst culprit for gout is high fructose corn syrup. That's why gout is up 300%.

Listen, there was gout since the beginning of mankind. There is recorded gout in the Bible.

Okay. Gout has been around, but it's never been as prevalent as it is today. And I always tell

people this. Mankind invented because they think they're smarter than God. Okay. Man always thinks

they're smarter than God. So what do they do? They invent things. And look, I'm not against

inventions, but one of their worst inventions was high fructose corn syrup. Oh, we're going to get

sugar. That's addictive. Worse than cocaine or every bit is bad. High fructose corn syrup.

Because high fructose corn syrup, the way it's built molecularly. Okay. It sounds healthy, right?

High fructose. Oh, fruit. Fruit. Must be good. No. Because fructose goes right to the liver.

Okay. Your liver is the Costco parking lot. Go buy cotton. I don't know if you live near a Costco. I do.

As soon as it's open, it's busy. If I get crazy. If I want to go see my old patients,

I go to Costco because I always run into some of my old patients every time. Dr. Martin. And then

they're looking in my cart to see what I got. Okay. But high fructose corn syrup goes directly to the

liver. Why do you think even children today have fatty liver? I never, ever, ever would have thought

that children would get fatty liver. But they do. I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime. But fatty

liver in a child. Yep. High fructose corn syrup. It's in every soda. You go in the middle aisles of

your grocery store. It's the sugar of choice. It's cheap. Very cheap. It's made in a lab and then in a

vat VAT. And it's put into the foods that we are eating. It's craziness because it does not get

processed like ordinary sugar. It just doesn't. To the liver. And guys, it's one of the biggest

factors in goat. Okay. And I never tell a patient to get rid of red meat ever. And goat, that's not

your problem. Well, the king, the king got goat. Yeah, the king was drinking way too much beer and wine.

Okay. That's why they called it the king's disease. The peasants didn't get it. Remember, sugar used

to be very expensive, you know. Up to 100 years ago, sugar was expensive. Wasn't cheap. Now, the food

industry, which are liars, liars, pants on fire, the food industry lies and people die. Well,

little moderation is good for you. So your granola bar is better than bacon, according to the food

industry. Right? It's better. No, it ain't. It's not even close. And if you got insulin resistance,

you never have another granola bar in your life. You hear me? Stop it. Okay. I didn't even get through

half of them. Well, maybe we'll do it tomorrow. Now, listen, guys, I'm on the road, but I'm

planning on doing my session tomorrow. Okay. Might be shortened a little bit. What's Friday?

Q&A. So send your questions in to infoatmartinclinic.com. Guys, if you post your questions here,

okay, I don't see them. I wish I could answer your questions, but during the program, I don't see

them, guys. I'm focusing in on you, not what you're writing here. I see it going by the scroll

but I'm not reading it. Only when I say hello to you when we first start the program. Okay. So you

put a lot of people, they put their questions there, but I go, man, I don't see them. Okay.

You got to send them in to infoatmartinclinic.com. Okay. Infoatmartinclinic.com. Okay. I'm taking a breath. Love you guys. Talk to you soon.

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