1935. It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month… Should You Wear Pink?

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Dr. Martin:  Well, good morning, everyone. Once again, welcome to another live this morning. Hope you're having a great, great start to your day. And we appreciate you guys coming on.

Are you guys wearing pink? Okay. You know what this month is, right? Are you wearing pink?

Because October is breast cancer, right? Breast cancer month. Okay. Now, I hate to be negative.

Okay. I hate to be negative, but here's the overarching headline. We're not doing well. Breast cancer is more prevalent today than it was when I graduated in the 1970s.

Breast cancer is not better. It's worse. The numbers are worse. And where has all the money gone?

Where has it gone? I mean, they raise every year millions and millions and millions of dollars. And now they're into the billions. Over the years, they raise.

Where's the money gone? I don't know. All I know is we're not winning the war. We're not winning the war.

It's too bad. But I got to start out just being negative this morning because I want results. You know, I want results. But who doesn't want to win the war against cancer?

Everybody does. Who wants cancer? Nobody does. But we're not doing well.

And again, I'll give you a couple of things that I say all the time about cancer. Now, look, you can do everything right, everything right. There are no guarantees. Okay.

But you've got to put the odds on your side. Okay. And I've been around the sun enough times to give you a little bit of experience. And what do you do?

And let's talk about a little bit about screening first, because this is the big thing with medicine. Okay. For breast cancer, it's screening. And the worst thing in my mind is mammograms.

Now, I've never told a patient ever not to have a mammogram. I don't do that. I didn't do that when I was in practice. I just gave information because if somebody asks—remember, I had a radio show too—if someone asks, well, to me, mammograms are not prevention.

They're detection. And in some countries in Europe, they banned them. There's so much radiation involved. And again, it's detection, not prevention.

I got my ballpoint pen in my hand. I'm going to bring it out again. You see it? I use this all the time, guys, for illustrations.

This ballpoint pen is about the size of your pancreas, almost exactly. Okay. So we talked about that. The ink inside would be insulin.

But when it comes to breast cancer, okay, and so you're in the shower, ladies, and you're palpating your breast tissue, and you feel a little lump in there or whatever, let me tell you something. See the tip of the ballpoint pen? For cancer cells to grow to the size of a chip takes five years. People have the idea that cancer grows rapidly.

No, it don't. It don't. It's a slow process. And so mammograms, it's detection.

By the time it detects a tumor, that thing's been there for a long time. If you could palpate it, it's been there a long time. You just didn't feel it. Now, your body is fearfully and wonderfully made.

I say it almost on a daily basis. Your body is built, listen to what I'm going to say, built to fight cancer. It's built to fight it. It encapsulates cancer cell.

It encapsulates. That's your body's response. And unfortunately, a lot of times biopsies do the opposite of what they should, because now you're piercing the armor that your body has put around that tumor. It's an armor.

Anyway, again, there's a mill. It's a cancer mill. And I've seen thousands of patients over the years, they get put into the mill. Okay?

Let's do mammograms. And by the way, I'll just give you some research on mammograms. I've got it right here. Women who receive mammograms yearly had no survival advantage to those who didn't.

No survival advantage. And a lot of times, unnecessary treatment, because you get put into a mill. And the mill is this. Oh, we're a little suspicious.

And now we need to do a biopsy. And when you go and do a biopsy, and then you wait a few weeks to get your results of the tests, if they come back and they see any kind of cancer cell in there, now you're really thrown into the mill. Decisions are made in nanoseconds. Here's the treatment options, and let's get at it.

But guys, like I said, tip of a ballpoint pen, that cancer's been there for a long time already. Your body was fighting it. Your body encapsulated it. And again, you're put into a system without very many options.

Like, let's watch this thing. No, let's get it out. And let's zap it. Chemo, radiation, surgery.

Guys, since I'm a little boy, those options haven't changed. It's chemo, radiation, surgery. All three, one of the three, two of the three. And its treatment hasn't changed.

And we haven't done well. And people used to come to my door with pink on, and they'd get a little sermon, like, where's the money going? Those poor people that were raising money, or you've gone for a run, or you walked with pink on and raising money, where's the money going to? Is it going to research?

It's very little. 90% of the budget is for marketing, to raise more money for next year's budget. Anyway, we just haven't done well. If we get results, guys, I'm all for it.

I want results. I always considered myself more of a woman's doctor than a man's. Not that I didn't see men, of course I did. But I saw a lot more women.

And I don't know if that was just my background in chronic fatigue syndrome and then doing hormones. Anyway, again, guys, I don't dismiss cancer treatment. I don't. Breast cancer treatment, I don't.

It's an option, but there should be other options. And they're rarely ever presented. Okay? So just, for example, vitamin D, like therapeutic doses of vitamin D and getting your vitamin D levels to a certain level in your blood, you can actually measure it.

Well, what does that do? Well, there's research showing six. There's showing 65% decrease in breast cancer. I've always said it.

If you want to fight cancer, you better get your vitamin D levels up. Your immune system does not work properly without vitamin D. Okay? Number one, vitamin D.

Linus Pauling used to talk about vitamin C. I listened to lectures. Linus Pauling, smart, won a Nobel Prize in Medicine on his work on vitamin C. Very good.

What he didn't know is two things. He didn't know, or maybe he, no, I don't think he knew, that vitamin D is more powerful than vitamin C. Now, and the other thing he didn't know is how coffee is the real vitamin C, because it's more powerful than ascorbic acid. Am I against ascorbic acid?

No. As a matter of fact, if someone has cancer, breast cancer, for example, I would highly recommend they get IV treatments of vitamin C. Okay? IV treatments of vitamin C.

Otherwise, drink coffee, because you're going to get a lot more polyphenols and antioxidant and everything that's good for you much better than ascorbic acid is coffee. Here's what I recommended to my patients for prevention and treatment. I said, look, whether you decide to take chemo, radiation, or surgery, you still need to do this.

Okay? You still need to do this. And I'm just going to give you what I know. Number one, again, the research is very promising on vitamin D.

It's very promising. It's the sun and your natural killer cells, the ones that go after cancer, your immune system, take care of yourself, your immune system, vitamin D, and get your numbers up. I talked about this on hundreds of podcasts. For breast cancer, I would have patients in the United States shoot for 60.

60, NGML. It's the number of vitamin D dehydroxy in the United States. 60 and up, 60 to 100. Optimize your vitamin D.

In Canada, 150 minimum, 250 cancer. So around the 200 mark, your body is in a fighting mood for cancer. Vitamin D. One.

Let me give you something that everyone should know. Cut out the sugar, i.e. PET scan. Years ago, I talked to an oncologist.

I shook my head. I was not trying to be disrespectful. Why cut out sugar? I said, do you know how in Sudbury here, we have a cancer center for Northern Ontario?

It's the number one cancer center in Northern Ontario. I said, they have imaging there for cancer. You know that doc, yeah? What's it called?

Oh, she said the PET scan. I said, okay, how does it work? And the silence with Daphne. It works with glucose.

It doesn't work without glucose. The imaging doesn't work. You have to use glucose. Either they give it to you IV or you drink a cup of sugar.

And then that sugar goes immediately. It don't pass go in monopoly. It goes right to the cancer and you light up like a Christmas tree. Hello?

Well, that ought to tell you something. Maybe we should cut out sugar. If you get a cancer diagnosis and hopefully before, you cut out sugar. You don't need sugar.

You just don't need it. And the worst thing that you can do with cancer is drink fructose. Don't drink it. You want to have a fruit?

You want to have some berries? Eat it. Don't drink it. Get your vitamin D levels up.

Cut out the sugar. If you do nothing else, don't feed the bears. Listen, there's research. I got a book right here besides me, the fungus link.

I did this guy's radio, TV show years and years ago, years and years ago. Okay. See that? Fungus link.

And they talk about fungus and cancer. Yeast. That all tumors have yeast in them. Fungus.

A pathologist. I've said that. Well, what do you do? Don't feed the bears.

Don't give yeast sugar. They thrive on sugar. And guess what they hate? Guess what cancer cells hate?

Sting. They hate it. Because they can't feed on it. Oh, Dr.

Martin, what about L-glutamine? You get that in steak. That's not part of that process at all. It doesn't come from eating steak.

Steak. Cancer hates steak because it doesn't feed. There's no value to a cancer cell feeding on steak. It loves sugar.

That's science, guys. And when they tell you to stay away from red meat, it's religion, folks. It's not science. It's religion.

And people buy it. And they've been buying it for 50 years, trying to get people away from the animal kingdom. I've been screaming for years against that. It was never true.

Never true. Cancer cells feed on sugar. They're renegades. Cancer cells are damaged mitochondria looking for bad fuel.

And remember, a cancer cell has seven to 10 times more receptors for insulin. So what do you do? Well, insulin is a food hormone. Get insulin down.

Lay off the crappy carbohydrates. Lay off the processed foods. And you know, someone asked me, who asked me the other day? Somebody asked me, what about Dr.

Martin's salami? Its process. Are you kidding me? That is a great meat.

Cancer cells can't feed on that. Oh, yeah, but it makes you acidic. You know what, guys? You want to give me a migraine?

Talk to me about pH that makes you acidic. OK? First of all, your body is tightly regulated by pH. I'm not against.

Here's where you worry about your pH. In your stomach. You need it. You want acidity in your stomach.

OK? You need that. But guys, you're eating a piece. Oh, salami.

It's acidic. Tomato. It's acidic. Yeah, but not when it hits your body.

Your body buffers it. It gives it baking soda to make it alkaline. OK? The only thing that's acidic, guys, in your body is sugar.

Is sugar. So don't feed the bears. Get your vitamin D levels up. Give your body the right energy.

Don't feed it junk. Don't feed it junk. And junk is noodles and crappy dinner and crappy cereal that break into sugar molecules in nanoseconds. So very important.

You want to protect that body from breast cancer. Ladies, insulin is a growth hormone. It makes tumors grow. And like I said, cancer cells, seven to ten times more receptors for insulin.

They're looking for fuel. And cancer cells, breast cancer cells, are looking for another growth hormone, estrogen. And I know, you know, because I've had a lot. Well, Dr.

Martin, my breast cancer cells, my doctor said, weren't receptive to estrogen. Are you a woman? Yes. Well, they're receptive to estrogen.

I don't care. I understand why doctors, because there are some cells, cancer cells, that are more receptive to estrogen, but they're all receptive to estrogen. They have a little antenna looking for estrogen for growth purposes. Right?

That's what makes a woman. That's what makes a man a woman, too. Estrogen. And men, I always said this, I've been saying this since the 1970s.

Prostate cancer, breast cancer. They're almost identical twins. Right? They're almost identical twins.

They grow by the same factors. Prostate men. Insulin, estrogen. Insulin, estrogen.

Ladies, insulin, estrogen. Look, you can't control everything in life, but lower those. And this is why I talk about flaxseeds all the time. This is why I talk about dimming out.

Dim that estrogen down. Well, Dr. Martin, my doctor said, I'm menopausal. I don't have enough estrogen.

Yes, you do. You have xenoestrogen. Every chemical, microplastics, herbicides and pesticides that are everywhere, they're in our food sources. They mimic estrogen.

They're called xenoestrogens. Your body gets too much of that. And you say, well, I'm menopausal. I'm not making enough estrogen.

Well, again, it's always based on progesterone. It's that balance. And breast cancer is a hormone driven cancer. Insulin, estrogen.

I'm going to give you another one. Cortisol, the stress hormone. I'm a history buff. World history and your history.

I'm a history buff. I used to tell my patients that. I'm a history buff. Give me your history.

Okay? And then when they had breast cancer, they came to see me. I was never the first guy, by the way. Okay?

I mean, I shouldn't say never, but rarely. And I would tell them, well, they would give me their history. And I said, yeah, because usually breast cancer is a perfect storm. Of what?

High stress. Remember to get cancer to grow to the size of a tip of a ballpoint pen takes five years. I used to go back, give me five years of history, maybe even a little bit more. What is your history?

Have you gone through some very traumatic, stressful events in the last five years? Uh-huh. I heard that every time. It was almost invariable.

Trauma, family dynamics, sickness, taking care of a parent, an aged parent, cancer in the family somewhere else. You know? Renegade teenager or whatever. And that sets a person up because cortisol, it suppresses the immune system.

You can't be in flight and fight for prolonged periods of time. It's suppressing the immune system. It pours gasoline on growth of cancer cells. In fact, I wrote a book on it.

Are you built for cancer? And unless you have cancer, people are funny, yeah? Okay? People are funny because unless you have cancer, they go, well, they didn't want to hear so much about prevention of cancer.

I mean, it's not that they, you know, my audience is different, okay? Because you guys want to be educated. But a lot of people in the general world out there, like to them, if you asked, okay, you asked 90-something percent of women, what should you do to prevent breast cancer? You know what they'd tell you?

Get a mammogram. What's not prevention? That's detection. But they wouldn't think of food.

They wouldn't think of vitamin D. They wouldn't think of the importance of high DHA, for example, that busts tumors. They don't know anything about that. And they would tell you, I need to get a mammogram.

That's the information that they have. I wrote a book on, are you built for cancer? My audience loved that book at the time. And, you know, I'm just giving you some, and now I mean updated information on cancer and breast cancer in particular.

Lower your estrogen. Up your vitamin D. Lower sugar big time. Lower your stress hormone, cortisol.

Very, very important. It pours gasoline on cancer. And like I said, this tip of a ballpoint pen, you don't even know you have it. And you know what?

Every day you and I fight cancer cells. You fight that every day. Your body is unreal. Give it the tools to fight it.

Anyway, if I find that book, I'm going to get it out and see if I got any notes that I can't remember. Kind of funny. I sort of forgot when I wrote that book. Okay, guys, we love you.

You guys are great. What an audience that we have. Okay, what's Friday? Q&A.

Send your questions and don't be shy. Don't be shy. If you're local, anywhere around the Sudbury area, you want to come for a nasal and nasal treatment, you want to come for a nice dinner and meet and greet. Okay, I'd be happy to see you.

Okay, this 25th of October, I believe Sunday. Yeah, okay. 5 p.m. Sudbury.

What's the post? Okay, we post it. Okay, guys, we love you. Talk to you soon.

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