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Dr. Martin:  Well, good morning and welcome to another live this morning. And we sure appreciate you guys. Thanks for coming on. Why don't you say hello, guys?

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You guys are great. Thanks for coming on. Okay, I got a lot of new studies I want to look at. Somebody asked me the other day, and I'm just going to repeat it because I'm a rinse and repeat guy.

Dr. Martin, what about creatine? Well, I like creatine. Okay, I do.

A supplement. You don't hear me talking about creatine as a supplement. You can certainly take it if you want. But why not eat it?

When you eat a steak, when you have hamburger, when you have roast beef, you get creatine. There's five Cs in steak. Okay, sun, steak and steel in the book. I talked about those five Cs.

Okay, creatine. Good for the memory. Good for your muscles. Okay, creatine.

That's why a lot of bodybuilders use creatine. It's good for muscle and muscle building, but it's very good for your brain and your memory. Eat steak. Okay, CoQ10.

You know that when you stay away, when you live on the vegetable and like the plant kingdom, and a lot of people do, they emphasize plants over animal kingdom. I tell them they're making a big mistake because they're going to miss out on the five Cs. Creatine, CoQ10. Your mitochondria, and you got lots in your brain and in your heart.

Think of where most of your battery packs are. Now you've got battery packs in every muscle and you've got mitochondria everywhere. Okay, but where do you have the most mitochondria? Where do you need the most energy?

Where's that? Your brain, headquarters, heart. A hundred thousand times a day. You don't think about it unless your heart's on a rhythm.

Hundred thousand times a day. Pump, pump, pump, pump, pump. If you don't think for one minute, that you need CoQ10. And guess what?

When you take a statin drug, guess what you destroy? Every time, every time you destroy your CoQ10 pathway, you need CoQ10 for your mitochondria in your heart and your brain. This is one of the biggest reasons I don't like statin drugs. Have you ever heard that out of me before?

You haven't? Hey guys, I've been doing this for a long time, over 50 years. And for, you know, well statins weren't around 50 years ago, about 40 years ago. And I've been screaming blue murder ever since.

Why do you want a lower cholesterol? Why? Okay, why? And then you study, this is a large study.

This is a large study. Let me get to this and then I'll come back to the, to why we're talking about the five C's. Large Korean study. 15 million people, they followed over nine years.

It blew a hole. Listen, this is what the headline of the study said. It blew a hole in lower LDL is always better. You know what LDL is?

Okay, lower density lipoprotein. Okay, and they made it a boogeyman. Why did they make it a boogeyman? They made cholesterol a boogeyman, but why did they, now they got very specific LDL.

Okay, and why did they do that? Because they found the drug to lower it. Statin drugs work. They lower your LDL.

Oh, they work alright. But here's what the studies are doing. When they really look at it, okay, a Korean study, 15 million people over nine years. It blew a hole in lower LDL is always better.

The ones with the lowest LDL had more heart disease, had more strokes, more prone to infection. Their immune system wasn't as good. How do you like them there, bananas? Okay, they're getting exposed, guys.

They're getting exposed. Now, don't hold your breath, hoping that medicine will get the memo on statin drugs. Don't hold your breath. Okay, I'm not holding my breath because I think it's going to change.

No, not going to change. No, not going to change. But you can change. You can be armed.

That's the idea. Arm yourself. To the extent you can, be your own doctor. I'm not saying we don't need doctors.

Okay, but to the extent you can, be your own doctor. And this is why we do what we do on a daily basis here at the Doctor is In podcast. Why do we do it? For you, give you info.

You guys make decisions with that info. Okay, now back to the five C's of steak. Okay, CoQ10, creatine. The research on creatine is amazing.

You want to take it as a supplement? I'd rather eat steak. You know what, guys? I'd rather you eat certain supplements.

You know what I mean? Look, you know me. If you have to supplement your diet, supplement it. But I'd rather you can't out supplement a bad diet.

Okay, so you got creatine, CoQ10. You guys know how important CoQ10 is, especially if you're taking a statin drug. My word. It should be malpractice.

If a pharmacist it should be malpractice. If a pharmacist allows you out of the store, out of the pharmacy without ubiquinol CoQ10, if you're taking a statin drug, it should be malpractice. You absolutely need that. Okay, carnazine.

Okay, carnazine is anti-aging. So when you eat a steak, okay, it decreases glycation. Now you guys know this. We talk about it all the time.

What's glycation? Glycation, look at a banana that's browning. That's glycation. How do you get glycation in your body?

When you eat sugar, it glycates. It damages blood vessel. You can measure it. What?

Yeah, you can measure it. Why? Not by taking your blood sugar as much as taking an average of your blood sugar, A1C. You know why?

Because because sugar glycates your red blood cell. So here's your red blood cell. Sugar glycates it. It attaches to it.

It's going to destroy that red blood cell. It attaches to the protein hemoglobin in the middle of your red blood cell. What is hemoglobin? Carries oxygen.

You can measure the destruction of a red blood cell because that's what sugar does. If you think sugar is good for you, I don't know what to tell you. I'm not saying you'll never have it, then good luck with that. You'll have to leave the planet pretty well.

All I'm saying is sugar is destructive to your blood vessels. Ask a diabetic. I always rest my case with that. I say, well, ask a diabetic.

So you have coQ10, creatine, carnazine, anti-aging, carnitine. Carnitine is a fat burner. Isn't that beautiful? When you eat a steak, you got a fat burner.

People ask me, Doc, do you have a fat burner? Yeah. Steak is a fat burner. You can't eat it.

Steak, it's a fat burner because it's got l-carnitine. And then you have an l-carnazine. And then you have the fifth, choline. What's choline?

Well, you get that in an egg, you get it in steak, you get it in dairy, but steak has a lot of choline, so does eggs. A set of choline, your brain, your synapses, they need choline. Your heart needs choline. Your nerves need choline.

Your liver, do you know your liver loves steak? Your liver hates sugar. You know why? Especially fructose because it creates fat in the liver.

One of the antidotes to that is eating steak. Beautiful. Beautiful. Okay.

Anyway, I get excited about steak. Okay? I get excited because it is so good for you. And remember, hamburger is steak.

Okay? When I say steak, I mean steak, but hamburger, roast beef. Okay? I like meat, guys.

You know that. I don't live on meat only, but I like it. Okay? I'm not a carnivore, per se.

I'm not. But I practice what I preach, guys. I always tell the story of my dad. When he found out he was a diabetic, his diet changed 180 in one day.

We were shocked at our house. You know, I could hardly understand it, but my dad was my greatest teacher. Son, it's sugar diabetes. Okay.

No more sugar for me. Now I eat steak six days a week and roast beef on Sunday. That was my father. I'm not kidding you.

There's no one that ate more steak than my dad. He was diabetic. He said, nah. Anyway, new study out.

So that was on the five C's of steak in the book, Son, Steak and Steel. Now, two, new study on curcumin. What's curcumin? It is an extract of turmeric.

Okay? Curcumin wins again. There are so many studies on curcumin being anti-cancer. Okay?

Anti-cancer. It's one of the go-tos. If you've got cancer, okay? I don't care.

And I mean this. I don't care if you're taking chemo, radiation, and whatever. Doctors, usually every oncologist will tell you, don't take supplements. It might interfere with the treatment.

I get a migraine when I hear that stupidity. It's like an oncologist saying, well, don't eat. I don't want you to eat because it might interfere with the treatment. Hello.

How silly is that? A supplement is supplementing your diet. It's not replacing your diet. It's supplementing your diet.

So I don't want you to eat because you're taking cancer treatment. Oh, instant migraine I get. Instant. Any oncologist that could just talk to them for five seconds, what are you doing?

Like probiotics. You know how good probiotics are for people when you're zapping their microbiome? You better replace it and regenerate and renew it. Anyway.

Okay. New study on curcumin. Back to curcumin. Anti-cancer.

Okay? Very anti-cancer. So like I said, I don't care if you're taking treatment. If you've got cancer, take vitamin D 100% and take curcumin and take high DHA and bust tumors.

It busts them. It's a tumor buster. Anyway. Curcumin, what they did, this was a study on depression.

They gave curcumin, which is an extract of turmeric. It's not turmeric. Well, it's an extract of it. And that's why it's more effective because turmeric on its own is hard to absorb to get it at the cellular level.

Okay? So I'm not saying turmeric is no good for you. I'm not saying that. But the extract is much better for you.

It's much more therapeutic. So turmeric is good. Curcumin, much better. Now, curcumin, they did a study on depression and it beat, listen, it beat SSRIs for depression.

It was a small study. It was a short study. And someone would say to me, well, why would that work for depression? Well, okay.

Well, depression, we've been talking about this for quite a while. It's a metabolic thing. Okay? Remember the summer of 2022, this turned mental health upside down.

Okay? It just, whoop. Because all these years, they said depression, okay, was a lack of uptake of serotonin. It was a chemistry thing.

Two, bipolar. Okay? Bipolar. It was a brain chemistry thing.

Three, Alzheimer's. It's tau protein, T-A-U. No, it isn't. Those things might be there, but it wasn't the cause.

They're looking at metabolic syndrome of the brain, type 3 diabetes for Alzheimer's. And the second your insulin goes up, guys, and you get a condition called insulin resistance, like this, your cells go, insulin, I'm so sick of you. I hate you. You're a terrible neighbor.

You're always knocking on my door. You're a pain and duh. That's insulin resistance. And 93% of the population have it.

And the second you get insulin resistance, your body responds to it by inflammation. And I believe that kirkamen, because it's so anti-inflammatory, is one of the greatest benefits in depression, okay? Obviously in insulin resistance, but it's the inflammation comes down. Okay?

Inflammation comes down. So that's one of the reasons. Okay? Now, here's another one.

Another study out this week. Let's see where we are. Okay. Antibiotics.

Have you ever heard of them? Antique depressants, we just talked about them. Prozac. Benoblockers.

Millions and millions and millions of North Americans are on benoblockers for high blood pressure. PPIs, proton pump inhibitors for acid reflux. Millions and millions and millions of people are on these medications. Okay?

Binzles for anxiety. Here's what the studies show. These medications, we already knew it about antibiotics because they carpet bomb your microbiome, especially in your gut. And that makes you much more susceptible to what?

Leaky gut. Makes you much more susceptible to the invasion in the southern border of fungus. Candida, the Trojan horse, makes you much more susceptible at the northern border, the blood brain barrier of toxins, heavy metals, fungus, mold getting into your brain. Antibiotics.

So they carpet bomb. You guys know that we've been teaching that for years. The greatest discovery of the 20th century has become the curse of the 21st. Antibiotics.

Who in the world hasn't taken an antibiotic? Of course you have. You have an infection. You take an antibiotic, but it carpet bombs your microbiome and it can change it forever or for years.

This is why, what do I say all the time? Guys, don't be deceived. Don't be duped. Don't be deceived.

Don't be duped. If you think, if you think you're getting away from changes in your microbiome because I eat some yogurt, I'm sorry guys, that won't do. You need billions and billions and billions of bacteria to regenerate, renew, replenish, reseal. I like that.

Re-seal your gut. You want to reseal the borders. Your southern border between your gut and your blood and your northern border, your blood brain barrier. You need to reseal those barriers.

After antibiotics, antidepressants, beta blockers, PPIs, benzos. Measly. And they didn't even put in here NSAIDs, non-steroidal anti-inflammatories, like the Advils of the world. I mean, who the heck hasn't taken an Advil?

I mean, who the heck hasn't taken an Advil? A Tylenol. Now that's not an insect per se, but it still affects your microbiome, guys. Protect yourself.

I've been preaching this for a long time. A long time. Very steady on this. Okay, let me just stick to this here.

And then they did a study on curcumin, again, with postpartum depression. So after having a baby, a lot of women, remember the big case that was in the news there a few weeks ago where that woman killed her three children? Do you remember that? Big, big story.

What was her name again? Kate? I don't know. I can't remember.

And I talked about it. Postpartum depression, is it real? Yeah, it's real. Oh, I saw, am I going to say thousands?

Just about. I saw a lot of postpartum depression. Okay. And you leave all your progesterone in the placenta.

It's all gonzo. Now your body's supposed to make it, but if it don't make it fast enough, you could be very susceptible to postpartum depression. You know what they said about curcumin? It really helps.

It really helps. I agree. I agree. Okay.

Now let me see. Can we do another one? Yeah. The American Psychological Association said that when you have prolonged stress, prolonged, here's what 2023 American Psychological Association says, prolonged stress.

And guys, we talked about this yesterday when we were talking about, should I wear pink? It's breast cancer month, breast cancer awareness month. Okay. Breast cancer awareness month.

Let's all wear pink. And I said, where has all the money gone? Where's it gone? We haven't even made a dent in breast cancer.

One out of 20 women, when I graduated in the seventies, one out of 20 Canadian women, one out of 20 American women get breast cancer. You know what it is today? One out of six or one out of seven. It depends what stat you're looking at.

Are we winning the war? Here's what it says. Okay. The American Psychological Association, you know what they said?

Prolonged secretion of cortisol, stress decreases your immune system. Study. Say, yeah, it affects your immune system. Your ability to fight cancer, your ability to fight infection, stress, prolonged growth.

Guys, cortisol is normal, by the way. Your body makes it. You make it every day. It's if it don't get turned off, that's the problem.

And I seen it, seen it, seen it. I was a history buff and you didn't get in to see me unless you gave me your history. It took you a half an hour to fill out a questionnaire. People used to get, well, not everybody, but some people, they didn't like that.

Why do I gotta come to your office a half an hour early? Why? Because I got you to fill out paperwork. And guys, it was all about history.

I wanted history. And I had a questionnaire that I developed specifically to draw out your history. Okay? To draw out your history.

Yep. So when you came to my office, by the time you saw me, I knew your history. It was almost 100%. If a person come in and they had suffered breast cancer, prostate cancer, whatever, cancer, I can hardly think of an exception where they didn't have high levels of cortisol.

Stress, hormone. And the study shows it really affects your immune system. Mm-hmm. Okay.

Okay. I'm gonna breathe. Friday is what, guys? Q&A.

Q&A. Okay? So send in your question. We posted yesterday, if you're in the Sudbury area, hello.

Okay? You're in the area. You'd like to come to an event where I'm gonna sign books, give a seminar. You wanna come?

Happy to have you. Okay? Five o'clock. You even get a meal.

Holy smokes. Okay? So if you wanna come, love to see you. Okay?

We'll post it again today. We're gonna post another thing. I'm speaking in Toronto. Now, I don't know if this one's open to the public or not.

I didn't even ask. This is the World Organization of Natural Medicine. I'm presenting studies, and I'll be doing a lecture on brain, anti-aging, how to protect the brain. That's gonna be in Toronto, and that is October 31st, Halloween.

Isn't that on Saturday this year? Must be, because that's when I'm speaking. Okay? Anyway, I'll post that up, but you know what?

I'm not sure. I think it's only open to doctors, but let me find out. Okay? If you're in the Toronto area, I would love to have seen you, but I don't know if it's open for you.

Okay. I'll find out. Okay. Guys, we love you. We'll talk to you soon. 

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