1875. Q&A with Dr. Martin

Dr. Martin answers questions sent in by our listeners in today's episode.

 

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Dr. Martin:  Well, good morning, everyone. And once again, welcome to another live this morning. Hope you're doing well. Thanks for coming on and joining us this morning.

We appreciate you guys. Big time. Okay. This is from Tam and she has been diagnosed with celiac.

Okay. So celiac gluten. Let me just say this, Tam, okay, not to you specifically, but others. Okay, because there's true celiac, and I mean it, true celiac.

And that is an autoimmune. You can't have gluten. But there's a lot of people with, they don't have true celiac. I called it gluten schmooze, meaning that it really wasn't the gluten.

It was their leaky gut. Okay. So I'm not putting you there, Tam, because you've actually been diagnosed. You had a biopsy or whatever and they found celiac.

Well, you can not go near it. But most people have an intolerance. That's a different thing. That's a different thing.

Because that can be fixed. That can be fixed by regenerating the gut. And, you know, I think you're doing everything, like bone broth. I really love bone broth.

Every leaky gut patient I had that gives them an autoimmune and not necessarily celiac. I get them off the carbs. I get them off sugars. It's I get them off sugars.

It's amazing how well they do. You get off carbs, you get off sugars, you live on eggs, meat, and dairy, good dairy like butter and cream, not milk. They do well. And bone broth, digestive enzymes, gutties, I had them on all of it because of what we call mucilages and regenerating the gut.

You should be on those anyways because, you know, obviously you have, Tam, a true celiac. Most people, they don't know because, first of all, unless you're doing a biopsy or whatever, you can't even diagnose it. But a lot of people have an intolerance to the gluten and it's not celiac. They have an intolerance, but they have an intolerance to a lot of things.

And when you regenerate that gut, it makes all the difference in the world. Okay? A lot of people in that. But you're doing the right things.

Tam, everything that you're taking, I like. You're doing the bone broth. Yeah, you're on digestive enzymes. You're doing everything right.

And you, particularly, you've got to avoid, obviously, the gluten. Like, you just can't have it. But most people are intolerant and have a sensitivity to it. That's a different puppy, but you have the true celiac.

Okay. Theresa says she's confused. Theresa, don't be confused. Don't be confused.

But she says she is. And Theresa, that's all right. I would rather you ask than guess because you're confused. And I give you a lot of information.

I try and repeat, rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat. Okay? So that's all right. You're confused.

Let me repeat it one more time. Here's her question. I haven't figured out what number is important. Okay?

What are we to keep our eye on? A1C or glucose? Well, A1C is glucose. A1C gives you an answer to how your insulin is.

If you want to know, okay, Theresa, A1C, look, somebody else is going to ask me about a specific insulin resistance. We'll talk about that in a minute. Okay? But if you're above 5.4 A1C, how do I know this?

Well, I was in practice a long time. And A1C, I love A1C. I do. It gives me a lot of information.

It looks at your glucose, an average of about two or three months. Okay? That's what A1C is. It's glycated hemoglobin because sugar attaches itself to your red blood cell and hooks it.

It glycates it. It damages it. Sugar is very damaging. If you don't believe me, if you don't believe me, you find out you can take an A1C test.

It damages the red blood cell. You can measure it. Don't be confused by that. It gives you an indication if you're above 5.4, you got insulin problems.

You have what we call insulin resistance. Now, there's a more specific way of testing that. Like I said, we'll get to that in a minute. But your doctor might not want to do that because you're not a diabetic.

Why do you not want to do that test for it? Okay? It's more expensive and you don't need that. But guys, look, if you want to do a HOMA IR, I'll talk about it.

Like I said, I'm going to talk about it in a minute. But I love A1C. If you look at A1C and you're above 5.4, you're on the Titanic. Don't fool yourself.

Okay? Don't fool yourself. It's a measurement of your blood sugar, but it gives you a big indication of what's happening with your insulin at the same time. You got the memo?

So don't be confused by it. Okay? I want you to look at that. Now, I'm not done yet because I emphasize this, Teresa.

I emphasize this all the time. Okay? And if you have my book, Sun, Stake and Steel, I have it on my t-shirt this morning. Sun, Stake and Steel.

Okay? I talk about the tests that you want to look at so you can interpret. You can do it. Is A1C there?

You bet your boots. But so is your triglycerides. I want you to look at your HDL. Triglycerides should be low.

HDL should be higher than your triglycerides. That tells you about metabolic syndrome. That tells you because metabolic syndrome is what? It's insulin resistance.

It's when your insulin been coming around to your cells trying to get the doors open so you put sugar in. Right? Insulin is a traffic cop. So when you look at your triglycerides, you look at your HDL, cholesterol, HDL, very specific.

Look at that. Look at your A1C. Look at your triglycerides. You can look at your blood sugar, but you got A1C.

Okay? These give you great indicators where you're at. You don't have to guess. I used to tell my patients, I don't guess, I test.

Okay? I don't guess, I test. And I tell you which test to look for. So Theresa, do not be confused.

But I'm glad you asked because a lot of people, I don't care, they don't mind the repetition. I know they don't because we get the feedback. Dr. Martin, I'm glad you went over that again.

Hey, that's my job. Educate. Marge is asking, I think I answered this last week too, but hey, burning mouth syndrome. Generally, when I found burning mouth syndrome, what did I find?

Okay? Because I've got to give you what I found in my clinic. I can give you my experience. They were low in B12.

And when you're low in B12, you're usually low in vitamin D too. They go together. They're both metabolic vitamins, vitamin D and B12. They go together.

Often with burning mouth, they were low in B12. And I would give them Navitol with the B12. Why? Blood supply.

More blood, more blood, more blood. Blood supply. I'm big on that. Okay?

A lot of times with burning mouth too, this is what I found. They had a fungal infection. They had leaky gut. They had fungus in the mouth.

And your body was trying to get rid of it. You have an overreaction to some extent to the yeast, the fungus. Okay? Leaky gut, probiotics, oil of a radon.

Take it every day. I'm taking a B complex, 3000 micrograms of B12. Are you swallowing it? Are you taking a B complex with 300 micrograms?

That's for mice. Okay? March, that's for mice. If you're taking a B complex and you're swallowing it, you're not getting the B12 in it because you can't swallow a B12.

That's why they used to give B12 shots because you can't swallow it. But you can take a sublingual B12 and let it melt in your mouth. And this way it bypasses the digestive tract, goes right into your bloodstream the way B12 should. Okay?

So when you take a B complex, you want to take a B complex? I tell people, look, you want to take a B complex, why don't you just eat steak? But if you do, I got no problem with it. But just understand you're not getting B12.

Even if it's in there, you're not getting it. It doesn't show up in your blood. Okay? So thank you, March, for that question.

Shauna, my son has an inner ear virus causing vertigo-like symptoms. No fun. Okay? Question is, can I drop a few drops of oil of oregano in his ear?

No, don't do that. Don't do oil of oregano. Okay? It's too strong.

Now you might put it in, like, I don't know if any of you guys have a Navaj or whatever. You can put a couple of drops, and I mean diluted big time. You know what Navaj is? Sort of a vacuum cleaner for the sinuses.

Okay? But what I used to do with my patients is you put a couple of drops of oil of oregano on a Q-tip. Now don't go far in. Just put it on the edge of the ear here in the canal.

Don't even go down the canal. Just on the edge of it. And that oil of oregano, but you've got to be careful, okay? In the ear.

I wouldn't put it in there. Not like that. Okay? Like I said, you can put oil of oregano on the Q-tip in your sinuses.

You can breathe it in and, you know, like push one sinus in and like that with oil of oregano. Yes, you can do that. Doris, how do you advise how to deal with frozen shoulders as a result of menopause? What happens there?

What happens in menopause? Okay? Men, we don't get that. We don't get menopause, even though it's called menopause.

Okay? Because it ain't men. They get menopause. We get andropause or whatever.

We don't have trouble with estrogen and progesterone. The key to a frozen shoulder and a lot of women in menopausal is estrogen coming down, but progesterone comes down even further. It dries everything out, including your tendons, including, you know, down in the privates. Women get dry.

Right? So menopausally, it happens and women for almost no reason, they can develop a frozen shoulder where they cannot lift their shoulder. Okay? Now, you've got to lubricate.

One of the best things is to elevate your progesterone. Our menopausal formula is made for that, to elevate progesterone. And again, people, you know, like if you listen to even gynecologists, they'll tell you, oh, it's, your estrogen is down. We've got to give me estrogen.

I particularly don't like that because estrogen is a growth hormone. And you've got to be very careful. You're far better off elevating your progesterone to balance things out. It's balance you need.

I also love high DHA. It's a lubricator. I like Navitol even for frozen shoulder. Why?

Because it sends extra blood supply. Shoulders, hips are what they call a vascular joints. You don't get a lot of blood supply in your shoulder. That's why when you get a frozen shoulder, it's so hard to heal.

Now, the exercise I really like is you lie on your back, get a yardstick or a golf club or a broom, and you lie flat on your back on your bed. And you bring your both arms, even the bad arm, you bring it and with your good arm, you elevate your arms over your head, laying flat on your back. Do it 20 or 30 times, three or four times a day.

In the middle of the night, if your shoulders bother you, take out your yardstick or golf club and then you'll go back to sleep. There's no blood in the shoulder. There's so little blood. They're called a vascular joints.

It's why they don't heal well. That's why hips don't heal well. Hips, there's not a lot of blood there. Thanks for the question.

That was Doris. Thanks, Doris. Marilyn is talking about diverticulosis. Would bone broth be helpful?

Yep. You've got diverticulosis. Diverticulosis is pouches of gyrus in the large intestine. And they can get infected by feces getting packed up in there and seeds and nuts and too much fiber get packed in there and you get infected.

And the doctor tells you, you have diverticulitis. That can be... Well, it could be fatal because it can give you sepsis. Then they'll tell you, oh, you need more fiber.

Nah, I'm not big on that. I don't buy that. It's too much fiber. The people that I've seen with diverticulosis are people that eat way too much roughage.

They live on it. Salad, chicken and salad. They like their legumes. They've been taught, well, I need fiber.

They love their cereals. They love their oatmeal. And I go, well, that's the problem. You've been eating too much fiber.

And you might have a little bit of weakness to start off with. So bone broth is excellent. Digestive enzyme. You want food to be broken down before it's on its way out to be completely assimilated.

I love digestive enzyme. When you cut out the sugar, your pH of your stomach, which is too high, high meaning your pH is elevated, you want a very acidic stomach. People that don't have an acidic stomach are very much more susceptible to diverticulosis. They're not breaking their food down because they don't have the acidity they need.

Remember, your stomach should be as acidic as a lion's stomach. When you don't eat enough meat, your pH in your stomach becomes more alkaline. You don't want that. You want to be alkaline through the rest of your body, but not your stomach.

That's a big, big problem in diverticulosis. Hey guys, I've been around the block a long time. I've seen thousands of cases of diverticulosis over the years. And I'm telling you, almost invariably, they were big, big fiber eaters that they were lied to.

I'm not kidding you. And just like spinach gets caught in your teeth, it gets caught in your bowel too. That's me. It's the way I look at it.

Okay. Paul, his wifey. She had some of her bowel taken out, but she had, after colonoscopy, showed a cancerous. Okay.

This could affect bile secretion. She goes through bouts of urgency and loose stools. Did the doctor recommend metamucil? No, I don't recommend metamucil.

Okay. I really don't. I don't like it. I like coffee.

Best fiber in the world is coffee. Water. I like those two. I like digestive enzymes.

100% your wife needs to, your wifey, okay, because that's what you called her, Paul. Your wifey, she needs to be on digestive enzymes and probiotics. Those, my friend, are much better than metamucil. Okay.

Those are much better. And no sugar. Okay. Suzanne, her daughter has low iron and one of her cartilages on her knee are done.

She's bone on bone. No fun. The doctor said, okay, they tell her to be careful with eating fatty meat and liver to elevate low iron because of her high cholesterol. Now, Suzanne, I don't know if you can see my face, I'm getting a migraine.

I'm getting a massive headache because your doctor said to her, well, don't eat me, even though you need it for your low iron because you've got high cholesterol. You've got high cholesterol. Well, Suzanne, I don't agree with your doctor. Okay.

You can tell your doctor, I don't agree, or her doctor. It's crazy. She needs meat. She's low in iron.

She needs liver. I don't even like liver and I'm telling her to eat liver. I like steak. She needs it.

She's got low blood. She needs B12 too. It's a factor. I guarantee it.

Okay. Cholesterol. I hope she has high cholesterol. You want high cholesterol.

Oh, my migraine's going down because I got it off my chest. Oh, I go crazy. PIA. How are you?

PIA. You want to know how to lower CRP. C-reactive protein. Guys, it's in my book, Sun, Snake and Steel.

I talk about CRP, very important test, because it's an inflammatory marker. And a lot of times inflammation is silent. A lot of times you have pain. If you have pain, you have inflammation.

Simple as that. But a lot of times you have no pain and you have no idea that you've got inflammation, except when you take a CRP test, C-reactive protein, and it's elevated. Then you have what we call silent inflammation. How do you lower it?

Number one, let's start with diet because I always do. Start with food. You know what's inflammatory? Sugar.

Sugar. And crappy carbs. Fast process, hyper process foods. They're very inflammatory.

So cut it out. Eat eggs. Eat meat till it's coming out your ears. And good dairy.

And you will see. That helped me. And I'm very big on omega-3, especially the DHA, because it's very anti-inflammatory. So is Navitol, the fine bark extract.

Why? Because it opens up the blood supply. And then I'm very big on curcumin. I like the combination of things.

Vitamin D, by the way, is very anti-inflammatory. Okay. Thank you very much for the question, Pia. Okay.

And does Dr. Martin talk about this? Yes, I did. I just put out an email last week or this week.

Can't remember. I noticed that his supplement, vitamin D3, is made with MK7. Well, I'll tell you why we choose MK7. MK4 is good.

MK7 is better. Why? Because MK7 is the better bouncer. What?

What's a better bouncer? K2, guys. Okay. K2.

When you eat an egg, when you eat meat and you eat cheese, you get calcium in there. Do I want you to take a supplement of calcium? Nope. I want you to eat your calcium.

And when you eat the right things, you get the K2 built right in on. Now, what does K2 do? K2 takes the calcium you're eating, let's say an egg, or dairy. You know dairy has a lot of calcium.

But the K2 is in there to bring the calcium. You don't want it parking in your blood. You want to put it in your bones and your teeth. And MK7 is a better parking lot attendant.

It's better for taking calcium out of your blood vessels. But I love MK4 too. I just like MK7 better because it's a better parking attendant. It's a better traffic cop.

It takes the calcium and puts it where it belongs. It takes it out of the bloodstream. You don't want calcium in your bloodstream. It calcifies, hardens the arteries.

You don't want that. Merci beaucoup. And Nancy, gluteal tendinopathy hormonal. Okay, there you go again.

You see, ladies, you can get a glute. You know where your glutes are. Your butt. You can get a tendinopathy.

No fun. Things are drying out. Okay? But you still need therapy.

Okay? You still need therapy. I used to have my patients elevate their progesterone. It really helps.

But you've got to fix the gluteal tendinopathy. And there's no shortcuts to it. Get a foam roller. If you can get a therapist that will get right at it, it's very good.

You can use a ball, a soft ball, a tennis ball, and roll it right on the spot. It can be very helpful. Okay, that was Nancy. You're doing the right thing, Nance.

Alfancina. Her son has developed pretty acute severe panic attacks. Alfancina, he needs to be on cortisol for a month from a natural standpoint. Because, look, in medicine, they'll probably give him, you know, anti-anxiety medication, but those are bendings.

You want to have the cortisol because the issue is cortisol. Cortisol is this. Okay? And cortisol, listen, everybody has cortisol.

Everybody has it. It comes out of your adrenal glands. Your brain tells your adrenals, release cortisol. Okay?

And when it's normal, cortisol is higher in the morning and it goes down at night so that you can sleep. But when you get a panic attack, your adrenals, and a lot of times they get exhausted, by the way, they are over-secreting the hormone cortisol. Therefore, a panic attack is this. Okay?

I'm getting chased by a lion. And they're not, but they think they are. The body has overreacted. And cortisol, you need it, but you don't want it to be over-secreted.

That's exactly what's happening with your son. Okay? So if he's on any kind of meds, that's only bandage. He wants to fix this long term.

And one thing that elevates cortisol is insulin. I wrote a book years ago, Serial Killers, Two Hormones That Want You Dead, insulin and cortisol. And insulin elevates cortisol. Cortisol elevates insulin, even without food, because it elevates blood sugar.

It's trying to get you ready for the fight or flight. That's what it does. So the cortisol formula and hundreds of thousands of people have taken that product. And they find that formula, in my opinion, is the best one on the market, and it ain't even close.

And if you go to our website, MartinClinic.com, read the reviews on that product, real reviews of patients and people that have tried that product that I don't even know about. Okay? Okay. So let's leave it at that, guys, for this Friday, because we'll take it up on the rest of it on Monday, because I've got too many to go through and I won't get through it.

So we don't want to rush through. We've got another day to do it. We'll do it the rest on Monday. Q&A Monday.

Okay, guys. So thanks for all the questions. Guys, we love it. We want to answer your questions.

Don't be shy. Don't be shy. Okay? And praying for her, her daughter there, Leela.

I know Leela since she's a little girl. Serious car accident. Praying for you guys. Okay.

We love you guys. Talk to you soon. Bye. 

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