What Dr. Martin Thinks
Dr. Martin in his own words, straight off The Doctor Is In. Every passage is verbatim, with the episode it came from.
In his own words
The positions he comes back to, episode after episode.
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B12
Why are people so low in B12?
Two reasons, he says. They don’t eat red meat, and they don’t have the stomach acid to absorb it.
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Cholesterol
The whole cholesterol thing is a hoax
He reads triglycerides, never on their own. And 85 percent of your cholesterol is made by your own liver.
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Liver
It only takes a month of eating sugar to get fatty liver
You don’t get fatty liver from eating fat. One month of sugar is all it takes, and he calls it an epidemic.
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Thyroid
The thyroid never acts on its own
It is a puppet with strings, he says, and in women the string is usually estrogen dominance.
Read it →You asked, he answered
Real listener questions, answered on air.
Q&A
Episode 1739
“Are your probiotics soil-based?”
Good, better, best. He puts soil-based at the top, and the ones you keep in the fridge below it.
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Q&A
Episode 1733
“Can too much coffee cause leaky gut?”
“It is so much nonsense.” He has been defending coffee since the day he graduated.
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Q&A
Episode 1701
“Chronic constipation. What do I do?”
His first answer is coffee, which he calls the best fiber in the world, then a broad-spectrum probiotic.
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Q&A
Episode 1688
“Sublingual or the B12 shot?”
Under the tongue, every day. He explains why swallowing the tablet defeats the whole point.
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Q&A
Episode 1523
“What reduces painful acid reflux?”
He starts with digestive enzymes, not another medication. Most people struggle to digest, he says.
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Q&A
Episode 1855
“Why do some people bloat and some don’t?”
Almost invariably, he says, bloating points at one condition underneath it. He names it.
Read it →Red meat, straight answers
The one he gets argued with about the most.
Red meat
Episode 593
Can eating steak give me too much iron?
High iron comes from carbohydrates, not steak. Bran, pasta, rice and cereal are what he names.
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Red meat
Episode 1398
Does eating red meat give you diabetes?
Hong Kong eats the most red meat per capita on earth and has one of the lowest diabetes rates.
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Red meat
Episode 1544
Does eating red meat cause gout?
Red meat down 30 percent in thirty years. Gout up 300 percent. He lets the numbers argue it.
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Red meat
Episode 1767
Is chicken healthier than beef?
Beef has 78 percent less omega-6 than chicken and 125 percent more creatine. He likes chicken, just not more.
Read it →Compared, one against the other
Two options, one verdict, and the reasoning behind it.
Compared
Probiotics
Soil-based vs refrigerated probiotics
Soil-based, and he has said so for thirty years. Strains hardy enough, in his words, to take a torch to.
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Compared
B12
Sublingual B12 vs the B12 shot
Sublingual, taken daily, is his pick. He likes the shot too, he just does not rate it above.
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