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EP608: Dr. Tony Martin - Doctors Know Nothing About Nutrition
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“If you don’t have your health, you're in trouble. It doesn't matter how much money you have. Life’s no fun if you don’t have your health.”
What if the very food you’re eating is silently destroying your health? As business leaders and entrepreneurs, we’re constantly flooded with conflicting advice about what’s “healthy” and what isn’t. Yet, despite all the information available, chronic diseases continue to rise, and many high achievers find themselves struggling to maintain a healthy lifestyle. If you're trying to cut through the noise and take control of your well-being, you’re not alone.
Certain foods and lifestyle choices are contributing to widespread health issues like diabetes, heart disease, and Alzheimer’s. Discover how sugar, processed foods, and poor habits are driving chronic inflammation, slowly damaging your body over time. learn practical strategies to reclaim your health by controlling your diet, reducing sugar intake, and building muscle mass—all essential steps for maintaining the energy and vitality needed to thrive in business and life.
Our returning guest, Dr. Tony Martin, is a health expert with a wealth of knowledge on how diet and lifestyle influence long-term success. His books, including Sun, Steak and Steel, have inspired countless people to rethink their approach to health. Dr. Martin is back to share his insights on preventing chronic disease, living healthier, and why taking care of your body is foundational to running a successful business.
Your health is the backbone of your productivity. Take control, reduce inflammation, and build a strong foundation for a thriving business and a vibrant future.
Learn more about Dr. Tony Martin;
Website: MartinClinic.com
Book: Sun Steak Steel
Expert action steps:
- Desire: Start by wanting to make a change.
- Determination: Commit 100% to changing your life.
- Discipline: Make the right choices every day, learning to say no to unhealthy habits and yes to healthy ones.
Visit eCircleAcademy.com and book a success call with Nicky to take your practice to the next level.
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Transcript
Education on Healthy Living
00:00:03
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My passion in life is to educate. We live in a different world today. I've seen it. I'm 72 years old. You're in business, you're success, but it's no fun if you don't have your
Critique of the Food Industry
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help. I've watched the food industry lie through their teeth. You see, in the 50s, in the 40s, people died of viruses and bacteria.
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But today they're dying from inflammation without a fever. It's silent. Doctors know nothing about nutrition. God bless them, but
Benefits of Coffee
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they don't. If you do nothing else for your health and you cut out added sugar, you'll already be started on a journey to good health. Drink coffee. You got me? What?
00:00:54
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Coffee. Coffee has got a thousand phytonutrients in it. It will lower your insulin resistance. Coffee!
Podcast Introduction
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Welcome to the Thought Leader Revolution with Nikki Ballou. Join the revolution. There's never been a better time in history to speak your truth, find your freedom, and make your fortune. Each week, we interview the world's top thought leaders and learn the secrets of how they built a six to seven figure practice. This episode has been brought to you by eCircleAcademy.com, the proven system to add six to seven figures a year to your thought leader practice.
00:01:36
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Welcome to another exciting episode of the podcast, The Thought Leader Revolution. I am your host, Ricky Ballou. And boy, do we have an exciting guest lined up for you today. Today's guest is a repeat guest on the show.
Introduction to Dr. Tony Martin
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He is one of the world's foremost authorities and thought leaders when it comes to healthy living to the power of nutrition to absolutely change your life and your worldview. This man is a genius. This man is one of the most brilliant people it has ever been my privilege to interview on this podcast. And I'm proud to call him my friend. And he's a fellow believer. I am speaking, of course, of none other than the one, the only, the legendary Dr. Tony Martin. Welcome to the show, Tony.
00:02:26
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Hey, how are you, Nikki? I really appreciate the the privilege of joining with you, Nikki. I was just telling you before we came on how much I i i listened to a podcast the other day, and it it's revolutionized. You know, listen to a book and take out your pen.
00:02:46
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Right? Mark Ferris. I love that anyway. I said, man, I love that. That's old fashioned. That's how you learn stuff, right? It is. It is.
Host's Health Transformation
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So so Tony, you and I were talking about um my recent health journey. When when I met you, um honestly, I was over 50 pounds overweight at the time and looking for answers. And last year, I um I reached the point of disgust to paraphrase the great Jim Rohn, and I decided no more. I got to do something about this. I hired a coach, ah the great Amr, the hammer camera. He put me on a program of exercise and nutrition. He's a former IFBB professional bodybuilding champion.
00:03:35
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And with Amherst's help in six months, I lost 58 pounds. I went from 227 to 169, but I still didn't like the way I looked. So I said, look, we got to reshape my body. and The way to do it is to enter some contest, new contest for bodybuilding. So I agreed.
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Uh, almost another year later, I did the contest. I placed third. It was an over 35 show. So I competed with guys 20 years younger than me because I'm 57. And now I'm going to do another contest with Amr. We have agreed that my goal is by 60 to get my IFPB professional bodybuilding card. So I'm excited.
00:04:12
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I'm a business man, but I'm going to get my FBB pro card. I think it's going to be cool. It's going to reshape my body. I'm going to look good. And it has started me back on a journey of deep, deep discovery of what it is to be a healthy, vibrant human being.
00:04:30
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Well, I started listening to your podcasts again. you you've You've provided me with a couple of your books, the latest one. I read Sun, Steak and Steel, and then I read the Great Reset book as well, um and Sleep, by the way, Sun, Steak and Steel, and Sleep in Front of Steve's.
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um Then I started to see there's other people who
Health in Later Life
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think like you do. I i met Dr. Sean Baker, who wrote The Carnivore Diet, and I had him on the show. Great guy. And I started to read this book, Good Energy with Dr. Casey Means, and ah boom, boom, boom.
00:05:05
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My mind has been open. My brain has been open. So why I wanted you on the show today is I want to give you the floor to talk about all of this, to talk about why this matters to people that are any age, but certainly people in the second half of life, like my age, and why it's important that people listen to what you have to say if they're interested in living life as the best, healthiest, most vibrant version of themselves.
00:05:34
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Well, listen, and Nicky, thank you for the again for the opportunity. I really appreciate it. My passion, Nicky, my passion in life is to educate. You know, um if you're interested, great. If you're not, well,
00:05:52
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At least, you know, the Apostle Paul said, their blood is not on my hands, right? Because I told you the gospel, whether you accept it or not, that's a a different thing. But I gotta tell you, Nicky, and nick and i you just really, really have charged my batteries today because when you get an individual like yourself and you're an influencer,
00:06:17
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And you do in your life, Nikki, a paradigm shift in your health. You know how powerful that is? It is so powerful because you have a platform.
Health vs. Financial Success
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And listen, you are you you're in business, you're a success, you're a coach, but I think really importantly, and this is why I'm so supercharged all the time about what I do,
00:06:45
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is listen, if Nick, you don't have your health, if you don't have that, you're in trouble. I mean, your quality of life, I don't care how much money you got in the bank, I don't care about almost anything else. It's no fun if you don't have your health. And here we are today, and where, you know, all the guru, not all the gurus, but certainly the ones you just mentioned,
00:07:14
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And even Jordan Peterson and Dr. Baker and Dr. Mears and Dr. All these, they're starting, the light is coming on in their lives because they're realizing that you and I, Nikki, we live in a different world today. I've seen it. I'm 72 years old. When Nikki, I was a little boy,
00:07:39
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okay And I happened to grow up in ah in ah in a medical house, so my dad was my hero, and ah ah he was light years ahead of time.
00:07:51
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In 1962, Nicky, he came home and he he used to smoke. I almost laugh about it, but he used to smoke four packs of cigarettes a day. Wow. Camel, camel cigarettes. Unfiltered. Unfiltered. And my dad and my dad used to give them to his patients. He said, you got you got to cough up that phlegm, you know, get let's get the phlegm out. Here's a cigarette.
00:08:17
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I mean, it's comical today, but honestly, okay? No. and it's But my dad, you see, was a thinker. And he read that smoking caused cancer. I remember I was 10 years old. He opened the waste paper basket in our home. I remember it like it was yesterday, and he put his Campbell's cigarettes in the waste paper basket, and he never had another cigarette.
00:08:47
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In 1968, okay, I'm 16 years old, and my father comes home, and mike like I said, my dad's my hero, comes from the office. I knew he hadn't been feeling that good, and that concerned me, even as a 16-year-old, and he announced to the family that he was a diabetic.
00:09:09
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um Okay, now Nikki, I never, of course, never forgot that, but I watched my dad the next day, the next day. He was up, Nikki, in Timmins, Ontario, jogging on the spot in on the carpet in our living room the next morning. And I said, dad, what are you doing? He said, I'm getting into shape, I'm a diabetic.
00:09:37
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And I didn't even know what he what do you mean, running? The only people, Nikki, that ran in 1968, you were running from the police. You weren't, you know, I mean, nobody knew that would the the the word jogging wasn't even invented yet. But my dad started. And Nikki, one other thing that he said to me.
00:09:58
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Son, it's called sugar diabetes. What? Well, diabetes is called
Food Industry and Chronic Diseases
00:10:05
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sugar. You see, they changed the name to type 2 diabetes only in the 70s. But in the 60s, when my dad was diagnosed, he said, son, it's sugar.
00:10:18
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and i don't And then I watched my dad, no more sugar in his life. Like, I mean, it was unbelievable. I watched the shift occur, Nick. And so, Nicky, here's what I'm saying. In my lifetime, I've watched the food industry lie through their teeth to us, that everything in moderation. I wrote a book in 2011 that happened to be a big bestseller called Serial Killers, Two Hormones That Want You Dead. Cortisol, which is stress and insulin. I said, they go together. And even back then, I was talking about the chronic disease
00:11:05
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that we're seeing. Nick, and these statistics are not mine, but I'll just tell you what you know what I saw. In the 1970s, Nick, if you saw someone that was obese,
00:11:21
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It was a rare thing. I used to, I had a radio show for 20 years, so I used to say this. If I left planet Earth, and I, let's say I went to Mars in 1974, and I came back in 2024 from Mars, haven't been here for 50 years, I'd say, what happened?
Rise of Chronic Diseases
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What's going on with the world? Everybody is big. Kids are big.
00:11:52
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It's huge. What happened? What did you do? Is it hormones? Well, it's hardly hormones, but it's food that has affected the growth hormone insulin. You see, and my practice nikey in my practice, practice,
00:12:09
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It was a complete shift from chronic fatigue. I saw a lot of that in the 80s and the 90s and that. But when I started doing blood work, I saw an enormous shift taking place.
00:12:24
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And A1C, that's the one I was interested in the most, which is a three or four month average of your blood sugars. I think it's one of the, you know ah to the viewers out there, Nicky, if you want to get a blood test done, you check your A1C because it will tell you, you know what, Nicky, the last thing that happens is diabetes, not the first.
00:12:47
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the last thing that happened, because your body is dedicated to controlling your but blood sugar. Your body is so fearfully and wonderfully made, it knows, Nicky, that you it cannot allow sugar to stay in the bloodstream. Now, you can have a if I was to empty out I'll show you how dedicated, I mentioned this this morning. If you, Nicky, and never do it, but let's say you did because they've done these tests. If you ate 20 donuts, okay, 20 donuts, okay, don't do it. it's that's a lie hold up It's been done. Wait two hours or less.
00:13:35
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Your blood sugar will have gone up to, in in Canadian numbers, well over 20. In the United States, over 200. And then, in two hours, it'll come back to normal, almost completely normal, in in two hours or less. Why is that? Because your body is dedicated,
00:14:00
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to controlling blood sugar. So insulin is a hormone that your pancreas secretes that controls your blood sugar. So having high blood sugar is you can't have it because it'll destroy the first thing that'll destroy are your blood vessels. And it starts with your capillaries. Those little wee microscopic tiny little attachments between your arteries and your veins, those capillaries get destroyed. Where, Nicky? In your eyes? In your kidneys?
00:14:41
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in your legs, around your heart, in your brain. You see how sugar, how toxic it is? And your body's dedicated to controlling it. This is why I tell people, look, if you do nothing else for your health and you cut out added sugar, don don't add sugar to anything.
00:15:06
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you'll already be started on a journey to good health. Why? Because a hormone that is out to kill you is insulin. Because it's a growth hormone, it's on your side till it's not. And it will become your enemy if your cells, and this is what many doctors are now discovering, is that your cells are hypersensitive to insulin.
00:15:33
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And when they lose that sensitivity, they resist insulin, and then it it starts to cascade the problems in the body. And every chronic disease, okay,
Diet and Major Diseases
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let's go over that just for a second again. What is killing North Americans? Number one, heart disease.
00:15:52
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OK, number one, when and and where where is it? What is medicine focused in on cholesterol? We've had a 50 year war on cholesterol because I watched it. I watched the war. I was trained to get rid of cholesterol. And my dad, you know, like I never believed it because my dad, nah, he ate steak every stinking day and roast beef on Sunday.
00:16:18
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I got a prime rib steak down in the fridge, and I got a couple of Wagyu's that I also bought as well, and I'm planning on having them both this weekend. Sun, steak, and steel. So good. But, okay. So, what happens if you look at chronic disease? Heart disease is worse than ever. Cancer is worse than ever. Did you see, Nicky, there was ah an article that came out buried, of course,
00:16:48
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that they're they're they're talking about an 83 to 90% increase in cancer rates in men by the year of 2050. We're not winning the war on cancer, we're losing the war on cancer. It's absolute, we're looking for love in all the wrong places. yes sir And then thirdly, here we have the biggest fear for folks today is Alzheimer's, the brain.
00:17:16
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And you know what Alzheimer's is? it was They won a Nobel Prize in 2005 when they named it.
Government Health Strategies
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Researchers named Alzheimer's type 3 diabetes. And of course, that's very, they don't like to talk about that. But it's food, my friend, it's food. And so you have heart disease, cancer,
00:17:43
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And, you know, I kind of chuckled when Biden said, I'm going to do a moonshot on cancer. i It gives me a migraine when I think about it, because it just bothers me that they're going to throw billions of dollars at the wall and see what sticks, because they always do the same thing. They're looking for a pill rather than looking for ah what you did. Nicky, in your life, what you did, you took responsibility. You didn't like the way you looked. You didn't like the way you felt. And you started doing research. That's how you and I got together. And you know what, Nicky, as an individual, what did you do? You took responsibility. And, you know, by God's grace, you know, look,
00:18:39
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We're all gonna die, understand that. But the thing is our bodies are what a wonderful machine if we just take care of it. So those three, and and listen, I'm not even talking about diabetes. That's the fourth leading killer in chronic disease. And like I said, heart disease,
00:18:58
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Cancer and Alzheimer's is all related to prediabetes because I don't even like the word prediabetes in a way. I know they say it, but I always used to tell my patients, if you're a prediabetic, you're already a diabetic because your body is resisting the hormone that is trying to get sugar out of your bloodstream and put inside the cells, especially, Nicky,
00:19:32
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you this these things here, Nicky, you see my puppies there? You see that 72 years old there? I tell my grandchildren, I said, grandpa has a hard time crossing the border with these guns, okay? but You know what, Nicky, what I tell people all the time, these are metabolic, this is an organ.
00:19:53
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Yeah. Because your body can take glucose and in the form of glycogen, it's stored and they want it stored in your muscle. But people today, Nicky, are so big, but they're not strong. No. They're fat, but they're not. They got no muscle. And so what happens now, insulin insulin is like the traffic cop. OK, always describe it like this. Insulin goes, hey, sugar, come here.
00:20:22
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Kemp, you're in a no parking zone. You're in the bloodstream. You can't park in there. It's no parking. Come here, I'm going to park you. Then it takes it, and if you don't have muscles, it puts it in your liver. It has no choice. And the liver, you see, what happens, it gets packed up because glycogen is stored as fat.
00:20:49
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And fat, you have an un-, everybody has an un-, even skinny people have an unlimited Nicky ability to store fat. The thing with them is they just can't see it. It's in their liver, but they don't know it. Fatty liver disease. Exactly. Look what's happening there. Nicky, when I was in school, 1974, I graduated. Not one case. Well, as a matter of fact, I've got my medical books. They're off to my left here. I still got them.
00:21:17
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yeah I could bring you through those medical books, Nicky, and you know what? You wouldn't see one case. of non-alcoholic fatty liver. it It didn't even exist. There was cirrhosis of the liver, but there was no non-alcoholic fatty liver. didn't It didn't even exist. I never even heard about it. People didn't eat so badly back then. and but they didn't they You when I was a kidney, I'd tell my grandchildren, look, grandpa had cookies and ice cream, do you know? Because they think I was born in the days of Noah, okay? Oh, you're so old. yeah Did you even have cookies? You know, I said, hey, wait a minute. We had cookies and ice cream. But but North Americans were consuming 25 pounds of sugar a year. In the 1970s, Nikki, I got four kids.
00:22:08
Speaker
And they're all day. One of my daughters turned 50 yesterday and my son is already 51. Now listen, when my kids were growing up and I was in school, I took 2000 hours of nutrition, whatever. hey You know what? They were cause they had gone from 25 pounds when I was a kid. Now North Americans were eating 50 pounds of sugar a year. du that's a That's in the 70s. Wait till I tell you today.
00:22:36
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And here we are, now another generation, my
Sugar Consumption Trends
00:22:40
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grandchildren. You know what they're consuming, Nicky? Almost 200 pounds of sugar a year. Wow. Nobody is meant for that. Can you imagine what that does to insulin?
00:22:56
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crazy It's crazy. Your insulin goes nuts because, again, sugar can't part in the bloodstream. If I emptied your five liters, Nikki, right now, you would have less than a quarter of a teaspoon of sugar in there. Your body knows how to control that until it can't. If you overwhelm it with carb- like when I say carbohydrates, I'm not talking fruits and vegetables. I'm talking about man-made foods.
00:23:32
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Like they call it in this good energy book, highly processed foods. Highly processed foods. Right. And go down the middle aisles of your grocery store from bread, pasta, rice, cereals, sugar, cereals. Nikki, just let me rant for one second on cereals. OK.
00:23:56
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um Dr. Kellogg's, okay, yeah i I'm a his historian when it comes to nutrition, okay? yeah Dr. Kellogg's, okay, God bless his soul, but he was a nutcase. I mean, he but he was so into, you couldn't have any animal products. I mean, I'm talking the 1800s, Nick.
00:24:20
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is's not hey He was so influential. He created Kellogg's cereals, obviously. yeah But he also sponsored every dietitian and ah any nutrition courses. If you wanted to take a nutrition course,
00:24:38
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in the 1910s, in the 1920s, in the 1930s, and even in the, in here we are today, in 2024 Nikki, you're going to hear about the importance of fiber.
00:24:52
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the importance of cereal, the importance of oatmeal, the importance of all those things that spike your blood sugar to the wazoo. Because if you if you have, okay, hey doc, I wanna have some oats, like oatmeal. I said, you're not a horse, why do you wanna eat oats for? Anyway, they have oatmeal, Nikki, you know what their blood sugar goes to? Over 20, 200.
00:25:20
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So in my body I have a little bit of oats. He gives me like 30 grams of oats twice. 30 grams. That's not enough for a moat. That's all I eat. that that's how I have that twice a day. Oh, thank God. That's all you can. But you know what, Nikki? You got to understand. You got to understand where I come from. I do. I do. I'm just telling you, this is what the guy tells me. No, no, but that's all right. I don't mind you doing that, Nikki, because metabolically, you see, you're in good shape. Metabolically, you're not in the 93% of the population that is upside down when it comes to their metabolic health. No, I'm not. 93%, Nikki. But I was.
00:25:59
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That was my problem. I'm not anymore. Yeah. You're not anymore. So therefore, look, Nicky, my wife's Italian. If you tell me I can't have any pasta ever in my life again, come on.
00:26:15
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You know, I'm going to go shoot myself. My wife makes homemade Italian and everybody wants her recipe. She said, you know, what's the matter for you? You'll give me that recipe. No, I don't give you no. OK, otherwise I call in the mafia. Nikki, listen to me. All I'm saying is look.
00:26:34
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I don't want people to leave the planet or whatever. All I want them to do is understand because what has happened in our world today is we got duped big time. We got duped. I watched it. Nikki happened.
00:26:53
Speaker
They watched the food industry lie to people about cholesterol, cholesterol, cholesterol. i They lied to people about saturated fat. You know what saturated fat is?
00:27:06
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It's satisfied fat. It's a fat, if what's better, butter or margarine? And for years they said, well, margarine, because it ah it's polyunsaturated fat. Saturated fat's gonna clog your arteries. No, it doesn't.
00:27:27
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Saturated fat don't clog your arteries. You know what clogs your arteries? It's inflammation, and inflammation comes when you have insulin resistance. And another one that I used to see in my office all the time is the effects of what we call AGES, capital apostrophe S, and that is glycation, advanced glycation.
00:27:53
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a glycation end product. You know how that happened, Nicky? When you leave sugar in your bloodstream, and now you're, the first thing that it breaks down, you know what it attaches to? Your hemoglobin in your blood. And then it will attach to your collagen in your muscles, the collagen in your face, it will wrinkle you up like a prune. Sugar is destructive. And that's, I've been screaming like John the Baptist,
00:28:23
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Since almost 50 years, Nicky, we got it wrong. You're wrong. It's not fat. It's crappy carbohydrates. The ones that are made with oil that was made for your car and not made for your body. Canada's gift to the world is canola oil. Yeah, disgusting. but I mean, my wife's Italian, go back to the old olive oil and butter, you know? And so this is what i I'm so passionate about, those chronic diseases, people that are in that 93%. And I created a diet, Nicky, called The Reset, The Metabolic Reset. I read that book. I know, man. And listen, I did it, I started, that was started with only diabetic patients.
00:29:18
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about 20 years ago. And I put all my diabetic patients on it, and it was a 30-day program of eggs, meat, and cheese. I always tell people, don't ditch dairy. Switch it. I don't like milk. You don't need milk. You're not a baby.
00:29:37
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You need mama's milk, but you don't need cow's milk, unless you have a cow in the backyard. If you have a cow in the backyard, I want you to drink milk. Otherwise, I don't want you to drink milk. It's too sweet, because they took all the fat out of it.
Sugar and Insulin Resistance
00:29:52
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Anywho, if you do eggs, meat, and cheese for 30 days, here's what I've proven to people. i did it I started with diabetics, and here's what I found, Nicky, in the metabolic, okay, I'm gonna i'm goingnna give you a little bit of physiology.
00:30:07
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I mentioned to you a little earlier, A1C. A1C is an average of your blood sugar. Everybody that I put on the the metabolic reset within 30 days, their A1C came under normal limits. Look, the highest you should be on A1C is 5.4.
00:30:31
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That's the, you can go higher. If you go higher, you have insulin resistance. It's 100%. If you're higher than 5.4, you can get this. Ask your doctor. You know how they always say, ask your doctor? They want you to ask your doctor if you should take this problem. Ask your propagandist, because that's what they are. Ask your propagandist. Exactly. So A1C,
00:30:56
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5.4, I did it with not only diabetics. Imagine that. Diabetics come under that because I used to explain to my diabetic patients. I said, you know what? You've got an allergy. What?
00:31:10
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Yeah, you're suffering from allergies. What? Well, you're allergic to carbs. You and carbs don't get along. You might like them, but they don't like you. Your insulin's not working. Insulin, if you have a steak, your insulin sits there, Nicky, like this. Beautiful. They're on holidays. Insulin takes a holiday if you eat a steak or an egg or cheese. But if you have a piece of bread, oh, Dr. Martin, it's whole wheat. I said, I don't care. Whole wheat is just sugar molecules holding hands. That's all it is. So what happens, now you need a lot of insulin. I said, look, you will get your A1C down in 30 days.
00:31:55
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A hundred percent you can prove it to your doctor and I could empty your liver. Six days on the metabolic reset. Empty.
00:32:08
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You know that song? Nicky, you're too young. But you probably, when I was a kid, here was a song. Six days on the road and I'm ah gonna get a home tonight. And I sang this song to my patients. I said, six days on the road of the metabolic reset and your liver's going to empty itself. You wanna do a detox? Empty your liver. Your liver is your detox organ.
00:32:33
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you can empty it by laying off those crappy carbohydrates in six literal days. And then here's the other thing. I lowered their CRP, C-reactive protein, which is an inflammation marker in the body. So Dr. Baker talks about it.
00:32:56
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ah All the gurus that are but lightning lighten up about our are enlightened excuse me about insulin, they all understand what CRP is, because they know that when you create insulin resistance, but get yourselves are so sick of insulin, they resist it.
00:33:18
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The cellular t ah it takes a different shape inside. That's metabolic energy, by the way. It takes a different shape and your cell goes, hey, would you get the stink out of here? You ever, Nikki, had a bad neighbor that came over all the time and you said, I wish you would stay home. Well, that's what happens when you're a carbohydrate, right? you're you're You're asking your pancreas,
00:33:41
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to to constantly, constantly, we are overfed, Nicky and undernourished. We eat so many empty foods that are devoid of nutrients. And so now you create an inflammation response in the body and inflammation is on your side till it's not.
00:34:03
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If you have a a virus, you want inflammation. you want it's My son, I loved what he said one day, come in the office. He said, dad, you know what? This patient has inflammation without a fever.
00:34:19
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You see, in the 50s, in the 40s, before real good antibiotics and all this and that, Nicky, what happened? People died of viruses and bacteria. But today they're dying from inflammation without a fever. It's silent. You can measure it, but you don't even know, you know how number one way you find out, Nicky, if you have inflammation silent? Two things.
00:34:49
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get your vitamin D levels checked. Because if you got inflammation, your vitamin D is low, I guarantee it. I saw this in my office 10,000 times. Number two, if you have inflammation, you're tired. You're not, your energy levels, you know, I used to ask my patients, okay, if 10 is high and one is low,
00:35:14
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Where are you at right now? Hey, the most of them come in. Well, doc, I'm having a hard time keeping my head above water. I would put myself at a minus one. I mean, a lot of exhaustion. But if you're not up to snuff, Nicky, guess what? You've got inflammation in your body. It's silent.
00:35:34
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But if you want to get the right blood test, get your CRP done. And you know what C-reactive protein should be? Zero. You shouldn't have any inflammation in the body unless you have a virus or a bacteria, or you had an injury. Like if you somebody kicked you in the knee,
00:35:52
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Well, of course, you know temporarily you're gonna have pain. That's inflammation. But otherwise you have a chronic condition. You know what happens with inflammation? It starts to destroy your tissue. It will destroy your cells. It will destroy your heart. It will destroy your brain. It will destroy your um your liver.
00:36:16
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Inflammation is not Houdini, it doesn't come out of nowhere, but I'll tell you what, it is very destructive. It is like, ah I like the way people explain sometimes, you know, inflammation is like, um controlled inflammation is like a fireplace.
00:36:38
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Hey, it heats your home, isn't it wonderful? But if it gets out of there, now you've got to fire her. And now we've become family. And that's what chronic disease is, Nicky. That's what chronic disease is. That's what we're seeing in our society today. That's why I, people say, Doc, don't you talk about anything else? Like, I mean, is that all you can talk about is food?
Flaws in Medical Education
00:37:04
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Well, I said, look, nobody,
00:37:09
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overarching principles, Nicky. Your doctor never takes nutrition in medical school. My son-in-law is a fabulous emergency medicine doctor. I love him dearly. Smart. Well, he's smart. He married my daughter. But the other thing is, he's very smart, Nicky. But you know what he said, Dad?
00:37:34
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that I didn't even take a half hour nutrition in medical school. No, he doesn't know anything. They don't know nothing about nutrition. You might as well go to your plumber. Somebody he said to me the other day, my doctor said... They know my body is starting flush. That's all they know. Nicky, a lady a lady might the other day said, my doctor said to quit eating eggs. I said, your doctor never took one. Why don't you go to your plumber and ask them whether you should eat eggs or not?
00:38:01
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You're gonna get the same, they got the same education and nutrition. Same value to their advice. Same value to their advice. So Dr. Martin, let me ask you a question. You talk about sugar and I am on board with this. What is your take on stevia? Better. Okay, better, but look it.
00:38:24
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Stevia, from what I've researched in it, will not spike your blood sugar, not even close to what high fructose corn syrup will do or you know other sugars will do. So look, I tell people, look, i'm i don't I want you to get the big picture. So if you get the big picture and you need a little bit of Stevia to sort of sweeten up your life a little bit, I said, look, I'm not going to derail the train over stevia. If you need a little bit of stevia, if you need a little bit of xylitol, if you need one of these sugar alcohols or whatever to to flavor up your life, okay. I said, but I'll tell you one thing, Nicky, here's what I learned. In 30 days, well, in 21 days, you form a habit.
00:39:18
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Right? i left I took psychology in university and that's what I learned. 21 days to form a habit. That's all I remember, ah okay? So I tell people, Dr. Martin, what do you mean you want me to drink water? I said, I want you to stop drinking fruit juice. No more fruit juice. It's going right to your liver. It's fructose. It's like Monopoly and don't pass coal and it goes right to your liver. What are you drinking that stuff for? God wanted you to eat fruit, not to drink it. Don't drink it, okay? And anyway, I said, look,
00:39:55
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If you trust me for 30 days, here's what I want you to do. I want you to drink water, even if you don't feel like it, and I want you to drink two liters of it that day. If you got a little flavor in it, I ain't gonna bust a blood vessel.
00:40:12
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um But I'm gonna promise you one thing. You're gonna find out how thirsty you really are. You're gonna find out how dehydrated you are. You know, Nicky, I used to do a test in the office on stickiness of platelets, okay? Hey, by the way, you're having a Christian beer. Good for you. That's what I call that stuff.
00:40:32
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and That's what I tell my grandchildren. Get grandpa a beer. Go get me a Perrier or a South Pellegrino. Yeah, I love it. I love it. I love it too. Me too. Anyway, I tell people you drink two liters of water a day or 64 ounces for our American friends.
00:40:50
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And I know that for a fact because i was I used to test viscosity of blood, thickness of blood. I said, you're walking around in molasses for blood. for blood It's so thick. You're so dehydrated. I said, yeah in 30 days, you're gonna drink water and you're gonna drink coffee. You got me? What? Coffee. Coffee has got a thousand phytonutrients in it. It will lower your insulin resistance. Coffee.
00:41:18
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You mean I can drink coffee, Doc? You can drink coffee. Drink coffee and water. Get off the juices. You can eat some fruit. Well, after 30 days you can. And Nikki, you should have seen the results I would get in my office.
00:41:33
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in Incredible. I wrote a book about it. Testimony. We've got over 10,000 testimonies of people changing from 93% there. I call anybody on that has hi e one c high high CRP,
00:41:52
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high triglycerides, okay, those are the tests, low HDL and belly fat. Those are the five things. And then you can put elevated, slightly elevated blood pressure and slightly elevated blood sugar. If you have one or two of those things, you ah you are on the Titanic, you're gonna have a heart attack, you're gonna get cancer, or you're gonna get Alzheimer's, or you're gonna get diabetes or all of the above.
00:42:22
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And I said, look, get off the Titanic. And don't worry if you know what you said about stevia? I call those deck chairs. Don't worry about the deck chairs. Get on, get in the light boat. We'll worry about the deck chairs after if you're on the Titanic.
00:42:44
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My diet right now is really tight. Like when you and I are done here, I got that steak I'm going to have. And then I've got a hundred grams of green beans. This is the, the, the diet that the bodybuilding coaching and a hundred grams of sweet potato. And the, the other thing is that I, I usually have like a like a ah greens drink, right? There's this this guy in Australia. He's got something called AG1. It's supposed to be all the the all the vitamins and nutrients from greens are in the this powder. I've got no problem with that, Nick. I've got no problem with that. So I tossed some stevia in there because it really
Stevia as a Sugar Alternative
00:43:24
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tastes bad. Like I'm telling you, it's like vomit by itself, right? oh But I put the stevia in there. I mixed it up. It tastes good. OK. Well, go for it.
00:43:33
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Nicky, go for it. You got my blessing, my friend. I got the Tony Martin blessing. This is good. OK. I'm glad because that's one of the questions that was on my mind because I do have Stevia pretty much every day. Yeah, you can have that. That's not going to hurt you. I'm not worried about Stevia. I'm worried about high fructose corn syrup. Yeah, that is the price blogger that is nowhere near my house. yeah See, that that's a man made sugar that was made in the lab.
00:44:02
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Right. we made us a last These big ah food companies. Right. I read a um an article that said that they really got into the business of addictive foods when they were bought by tobacco companies who got into this business, brought their scientists that made addictive tobacco to the food world to add people to food, because the the big attorney generals or whatever were coming after him really hard yeah because of the tobacco. So what's your take on that? Is that what you have found in your research as well? 100%. You know why, Nikki? You know why? They're addiction specialists. They got us addicted.
00:44:47
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Yeah, addiction special. People are walking around, I always say in my office, I used to do this in my office. Can you imagine, Nikki, how it was, it it it they came to see me, they wait to see me about three or four months and then when they come in and they go, okay, put your hand up, because I do their blood, test I already had their blood work, okay? I said, put your hand up and repeat after me. My name is Susie and I'm a carbaholic. And I'm a carbaholic, yeah.
00:45:12
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And then, she'd look you know, Susie would look at me and go, what? I said, well, I just took your A1C. You're a carbaholic. I just took your CRP. You're a carbaholic. Your triglycerides are are high and your HDL is low. You're a carbaholic.
00:45:33
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I said, that's what happens. It's not cholesterol. It's the food industry lying to you. They lie through their teeth. And you know what, Nicky, I didn't finish my point. One thing again. Please. Doctors know nothing about nutrition. God bless them, but they don't. OK. And then the pharmaceutical industry,
00:45:59
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They pay for everything for research, everything, okay? they They just finance everything, including Health Canada, by the way. They finance Health Canada, and they finance the FDA. And then you have a food industry that don't care about your health. So you have a medical establishment that knows nothing about nutrition, and then you have a food industry that don't care about your health.
00:46:27
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That is disaster. And that's why today, see, all every politician, Nick, you know what they want to do, Nikki? They want to throw more money at it. Let's just throw more money at the problem. And who loses? The people lose. The people lose. And they're so good at it.
00:46:50
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that, you know, if anybody like myself talks about it, oh, Dr. Martin, you're a quack. Well, I said, yeah, maybe I am. But I tell you, I can. I knew what to do with food, how to turn your life upside down.
00:47:08
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And Nikki, look at the 180 you did in your life. You are a prime example of that. And I had tens of thousands of patients. You know, they see me, Nikki, in the grocery store. They always want to know what I got in my basket, by the way, at the grocery store, okay? In my hometown here, okay? They go, Dr. Martin, what do you eat, by the way, okay? So, I mean, i I don't even remember them. Pile of steaks, pile of cheese, pile of meat.
00:47:37
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100% and a little bit of pasta for my wife. There you go. But you know what, Nicky? They come up to me and they all have testimonies. Dr. Martin, you changed my life 25 years ago.
00:47:54
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And I've never forgotten. I know how to eat. I've watched myself. I taught my kids. Anybody that would listen, I would teach them or tell them to get on to your radio show or your podcast or whatever. And you know what, Nicky?
00:48:11
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You want to get your batteries charged? You hear testimonies appear. See, like I told you before the show started, you charge my batteries, Nikki, because you as an individual, you got it. You understand it, right? 100%. And you preach it, brother. I love it. That's me.
00:48:32
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So, Dr. Martin, here's the deal, right? Like, we're living in a time where misinformation is being exposed, because this misinformation has been going on for a long time. And yes, the powers that be in big pharma, big food, and the government are either outright malicious and have malintent toward us to make money, or they're just dumb and stupid, or a combination of both.
00:48:57
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Right? But this information is being exposed because voices like yours, like Dr. Means, like Dr. Baker are starting to get traction out in the world. And there are more people today than in the last 40, 50 years that are changing the way they eat and live.
00:49:20
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way more. So yesterday in 2024, the number of people that follow the Tony Martin way of eating has spiked exponentially. Now, this is why I have hope. This is why I'm doing this podcast with you because a part of what I want to do is I am bringing, introducing my brand to the world newly. I'm Nick, I'm a man who believes in spiking your business, 10x'ing, 50x'ing, 100x'ing, 1000x'ing your business. Nikki Baloo, I'm a man who believes in spiking up your health. I believe in being in the best physical shape of your life with massive energy to burn.
00:50:03
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and lots of life left ahead of you. I'm Nicky Baloo. I believe in having an amazing, juicy, healthy relationships with your wife or your husband and your kids. And I'm Nicky Baloo, and I'm a Christian conservative, and I'm against all this woke BS that's out there in the world. These are the topics I want to talk about, I want to talk about health, nutrition, exercise. I want to talk about making money, success, mindset of a winner. I want to talk about up-leveling your relationships with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your friends and the people you love. I want to talk about preserving our freedoms, standing up for God, for Christ, for Christianity, and for the Canadian and American way of life. And I brought you here today because I know you feel the same way.
00:50:49
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A hundred percent. There's not one thing that you said, not one thing you said I disagree with. i i'm I'm there a hundred percent. I'm passionate. Nikki, I try and live the life. There's no nobody's going to listen to me if I don't live that life that I talk.
00:51:04
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Right? I mean that even in Christianity, you might as well keep your mouth closed if you're not going to live the life. And, you know, that, you know, where the rubber hits the road with Christianity is with your home, in your family, with your kids, with my grandchildren. I got great grandchildren. I want them to know, grandpa, one thing about him.
00:51:24
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He was a man of character and a man of passion. And I've been passionate for 50 years. I always used to say, I'm just like I said, I always use the example of John the Baptist screaming in the wilderness, because you can imagine, go back 20, 25 years or whatever, Nicky, people thought I came from outer space when I talked to them about carbohydrates. And I'm not against carbs. People think I don't like carbs. I said, listen, no, no, no, no, don't live on them.
00:51:53
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Your macros is protein and fat. Those are your macros. You have to have those macros. I said, I'll bring you back to to the Inuit who lived on blubber for heaven's sakes. And they were thriving. on The only time they get sick is when they eat the Western food, when they eat the way we eat, and then no wonder they get sick. But Nikki, I used to do a lot of work with the First Nations. yeah And I used to tell them this. They always liked me because they thought I was funny. I said, okay, the white man, we took your land and now we're gonna kill you because we're giving you our food. You're eating our food. I said, would you go back to the land and enjoy, you know, eat off the land? Why are you eating the white man's food? We're killing you. Do you know that 80%, 80% of the First Nations are diabetic or free. Eddie. Wow. They're dying. that's I'm left speechless by that statistic.
00:52:59
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it's It's it's crazy. And of course, I would go to the reservations. I'd go. They they would set up clinics for me. And I said, you guys are falling for the white man's food. I said, I know I'm a white man, but I'm trying to help you. And they love me because I used to make them laugh. Right. But I said, look, ah you can't have that much sugar. They're sugar hauling.
00:53:25
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the native in Canada. I don't know about in the United States, probably the same, but I know in Canada, it's a tragedy and nobody's talking about it to the First Nation people. They're all diabetic. Crazy. And they're genetics. They're genetics. it's You can see why because of of fructose and and it goes directly to the liver.
00:53:53
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And it it it is destructive for it's destructive for everyone, but especially the Indians, the you know from India, I mean, they got diabetes coming out their ears, Egyptians. In the Middle East, it's incredible the amount of diabetes and all that. They they just, they have some genetic predisposition, but it's the food they're eating, the Western diet, and it's killing them.
00:54:21
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Yeah, it's true. It's 100% true. Yeah. um No question about it. Absolutely no question about it. Yeah, and Nikki, listen, I'm passionate. That's me. And hey, I'm i'm an old goat now, I'm 72, but as long as God gives me air in my lungs, I'm going to preach it because I believe i know it works.
Cholesterol Myths
00:54:46
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I could, I prove it. i'm i'm ah i was I was a clinician, so I needed people to, let's do blood work and we're gonna compare. If,
00:54:55
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Your triglycerides are high, you're in deep trouble. Triglycerides are three fat bulbs and they're made up by sugar, not by eating fat. Your triglycerides go up when your liver is full of glycogen and there's no more room, your body takes triglycerides and sends them into the bloodstream. And the reason why you need high cholesterol, not low, you need high cholesterol to go get those triglycerides and bring them back to the liver ah for processing. You see, you're blaming, when you blame cholesterol for heart disease, it's like blaming police because they're at the crime scene. They're not the bad guy.
00:55:40
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or a fireman at the fire. The fireman isn't the bad guy. He's out there trying to help clear the fire out. One of the things you want to do is lower your triglycerides. You can do it in 30 days. If you eat like you do, Nikki, or you do the like the metabolic reset, which is very strict, by the way, for 30 days, but you're not hungry,
00:56:03
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If, Doc, how many eggs can I eat? A hundred? I don't care. I'm not counting, it's not calories. I never talk calories, Nicky, never. I talk, what is your body's insulin response to that food? If you eat a steak, your pancreas is going to a YE on the vacation. It doesn't have to do anything, a little bit, but nothing.
00:56:29
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Okay, so that's the problem. That's the problem in our healthcare care today. And we're looking for love in all the wrong places. We're looking for love in all the wrong places. That's so well said. So Tony, as we wind this episode up, I wanted to ask you um a couple of questions.
00:56:56
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to really help you put a nice little exclamation mark at the end of the powerful message we brought
Keys to Health: Desire, Determination, Discipline
00:57:04
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here. So, okay question number one is,
00:57:08
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Imagine my listeners listening to this and they're like, okay, they're excited, but they're nervous. They're scared. They're like, well, what can I do? what are So I want you to give what I call your top three top three expert action steps. These are the top three best pieces of advice to help these folks get their health under control. They could take immediate action on. So what say you? Okay, number one, if you listen to this program, I'm a 3D guy.
00:57:39
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Desire. That's the start. You got to want it. You got to look in the mirror and say, nobody else is going to make me healthy. I'm looking at the person in the mirror who can help themselves. That's desire. That's good. That's up here. I love it. yeah It's the start. But the second thing is, and you can do this today,
00:58:01
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You have not only a desire, but now you have determination. That's 18 inches from your noggin. Now it's going to the heart. at You are saying to yourself today,
00:58:16
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I am 100% committed and determined to do this. I am changing my life today. I mean it. Well, i you see Nicky in my office just before I get to the third point. In my office, I used to get a patient and say, you're gonna trust me. Give me 30 days of your life. Trust me. Do what I tell you to do. And I promise you results. I promise results. So,
00:58:46
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I took some pressure off if they would trust me. Now, the third D, and this is really tough, but this is the one, Nikki, that you know about, I know about, and that's called discipline. You know, Nikki, that the Bible talks more about discipline, probably, than almost anything else. When you read the Proverbs and you read the almost every book, Paul talked about all the Epistles,
00:59:13
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Discipline, not only determined, but discipline. Because discipline, the difference there is every day you have to say no. The hardest words in the English language is no. I'm not going to open the fridge and have ice cream today. No. Learn how to say no. And the thing is, the reward comes. Because Nikki, look how you feel.
00:59:41
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ah You know it yourself. You know how now your body is saying, Nikki, you gave me you've given me high octane fuel. Your little mitochondria inside your cells are going, Nikki, I'm giving you a high five. Thank you very much. Nikki, go to the go to the airport.
01:00:06
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But don't bring 87 octane to fill up the jet at the airport. No, no. They give you jet fuel, that's 99% octane. When you eat the right foods, your cells go, Nicky, thank you. That is discipline. Every day make the right choices. And listen, people say, Doc, oh yeah there's not enough variety.
01:00:32
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I said, there's lots of variety, but you spend the first 30 days changing your habits and you will see. You'll never feel better. And I don't care if you're 80 years old.
01:00:47
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It's not too late to start. I don't care if you are like the rest of North America that are on about 10, 12 pills, and you're in your 70s, including statin drugs. I guarantee you will feel better. Desire, start.
01:01:05
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Determination in the heart. Discipline every day, learning to say no. And yes to the right foods.
Importance of Daily Health Choices
01:01:15
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Every day you got choices to make, right? Every day you got a choice to make. You can say, nope, I'm not gonna do it. For temporary pleasure, it's not worth it. I'm going to say no. And guess what, Nicky? Gets easier. It does, it gets easier.
01:01:31
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Those are the three bullets I give you, my friend. Those are good bullets, Tony. Those are good bullets. So, Tony, if folks want to find out about Martin Clinic, the work you and your son and your family do, what's the best way? Best way is martinclinic dot.com.
01:01:47
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OK, there they can get on to my I do a Facebook Live every day, five days a week at 830 in the morning a.m. Eastern. But they're all turned, Nikki, into podcast. The doctor is in podcast. We're over four million downloads now, almost five million. And we just, you know, like at MartinClinic dot.com or on your smartphone, go to the doctor is in podcast and just sign up like I sign up to yours, Nikki.
01:02:18
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It's as easy as that. I love the Doctors In podcast. It's fantastic. You bring a lot of great information to people. It was a big part of my journey, and I thank you for that, Tony. God bless you, my fellow believer, my fellow brother in Christ. And thank you for coming here and firing me up with your passion, with your fire, with your character, and for helping me deliver some good value for a bunch of good people out there.
01:02:46
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Nikki, I love you dearly as a brother, and I just thank you. You keep up the good work, my friend. God's blessing you big time. Thank you, you too. And that wraps up another exciting episode of the podcast, The Thought Leader Revolution. To find out more about today's amazing guest, the one and only Dr. Tony Martin. Go to the show notes at thethoughtleaderrevolution.com or wherever you happen to listen to this episode, be it iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Audible, YouTube, Rumble,
01:03:14
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