Hippocrates was right
Dr. Martin on why the gut comes first:
Dr. Martin, The Doctor Is In, Episode 680Hippocrates was right. "All disease," he said, "starts in the gut." Man, that guy was a genius. Get your gut right. "No, my gut's all right. I don't have any symptoms." That doesn't mean you don't have leaky gut.
Most people have no idea
Dr. Martin on why leaky gut goes unnoticed:
Dr. Martin, The Doctor Is In, Episode 1150And the vast majority of people have leaky gut and they have no idea. They don't have a little red light on the top of their head that's telling them, hey, you got leaky gut. They don't know because when people think leaky gut, they think of digestive symptoms.
Referred symptoms
Dr. Martin on symptoms that show up somewhere else:
Dr. Martin, The Doctor Is In, Episode 639Your symptoms might be referred. We call that in medicine referred symptoms, meaning it's like you can have a pinched nerve in your back and you have no pain in your back. You only have pain in your leg. We call that referred pain. You can get referred symptoms from your gut without having any gut problem.
"Get your gut right."
Dr. Martin, The Doctor Is In, Episode 680What people ask every day
Dr. Martin on the questions he hears in clinic:
Dr. Martin, The Doctor Is In, Episode 571People ask me every day, oh doc, what about autoimmune? You got leaky gut. What about my skin? You got leaky gut. What about my brain? Well, you got leaky gut. What about my lungs, doc? I got bad lungs. Well, you got leaky gut. I got bad sinuses. You got leaky gut. I got allergies, doc. You got leaky gut. I don't care what kind of allergy, environmental, from the outside or from food you eat. Gee, doc, I can't eat eggs. Well, you got leaky gut. You got leaky gut. Joints. You got leaky gut. Now, if you got an injury running well, it's different. Joint pain, you got leaky gut. Leaky gut, leaky joint.
The invasion of the third army
Dr. Martin on how the gut gets invaded:
Dr. Martin, The Doctor Is In, Episode 1078You know me, I call it the invasion of the third army. In leaky gut, you get an invasion in your body, you have an invisible war, good bacteria, bad bacteria. Then you get an invasion because your good bacteria, your border guards, your good army, man, they get destroyed. Antibiotics, chemicals, anti-inflammatory medications, steroid medication, bad diet. And what happens? Your good bacteria go down, your bad bacteria go up, and then you get an invasion of a species. Okay? The outer space species, the invasion of yeast, candida fungus. Fungus gets in the bloodstream through leaky gut. It goes up to the brain, it crosses the blood brain barrier because the same barrier. Here's what we know about the blood brain barrier. It's the same makeup. It's the connection between the gut and the brain.
Two armies and an invader
Dr. Martin on the good guys:
Dr. Martin, The Doctor Is In, Episode 604Generally, remember what I'm going to say here now, you have two armies, good bacteria, bad bacteria, and you have an invasive third army. They're the real bad guys. Bad bacteria, yeah. But if you have enough good guys, don't worry about your bad bacteria because your good guys will take care of it, okay?
Leaky gut, leaky brain
Dr. Martin on the gut and the brain:
Dr. Martin, The Doctor Is In, Episode 1126Because if you have leaky gut, you have leaky brain, the blood brain barrier has been compromised. And thus you get people with mercury people, doctor, should I stop eating fish? Well, nah. But just understand that if you have fungus, if you have yeast, if you have candida, it'll carry that. It's a carrier of heavy metals.
