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show. Now, we're going to begin the program talking about a topic that has always confused me as to why it exists, why it occurs, and why we haven't done more to fix this problem. The importance of it could not be stated in a greater fashion when you think about the divineness of the human body, and how incredible the human body is and it's glory and its function, and how well the body can serve us as long as it's all
working all the time, one hundred percent of the time. Now, there are certain things that interfere with the body and it can break down and get sick, but it also has the ability to repair itself most of the time.
I would like to start off today's show talking about tonsils, those things in the back of your throat when you say, ah, a doctor looks down your throat and they're looking for your tonsils when you're young, that is before they talk people out of them, clipped them, surgically removed them.
Now I'll say from the outset that I don't have tonsils. My tonsils were surgically aborted, removed when I was a child, unnecessarily like most other children's tonsils are removed unnecessarily because when I was a child and growing up, I grew up in an era where if a child had a sore throat or even pointed to their throat, it was lights out. It was time for tonsilectomy. It was time to see the doctor and have scheduled a surgical procedure called
atonsilectomies so you could get rid of that problem. That God had a bad day when he created the tonsil tissues, and so it was so prolific when I was growing up to have your tonsils taken out that I remember speaking with other children that I hung out with and they look, you know, they said, it's great, get your tonsils out. You know, it's no big deal. I mean, if you do, you'll be eating popsicles for a few days, and eating pudding maybe, and other things that we couldn't
otherwise get on a regular basis. So we look forward to having those tonsils taken out because we could get all the junk food that we ever desired in a lifetime in a matter of days. So some children said, bring it because I've heard what you get in response to that, It's almost like a reward system. But what was not understood about tonsil ectomies is that when you lose your tonsils, and most of the time, not all the time,
but most of the time, the majority of the time completely unnecessary. When you lose your tonsils, you lose a part of your immune system, an important part of your immune system. And that's part of the tragedy of the record that we have in the United States as it relates to tons electomies. Back in the sixties when I was growing up, I'm not sure what age
I had a ton selectomy, but it was pretty early on. There were over a million tons selectomies performed in the United states, probably a million and a half. I mean, it was just I mean, doctors were making bank. It was just as normal as the day is long to have your tonsils taken out. And then you know, the light bulb somewhere along the line came on and somebody said, you know what, we should rethink this
thing about tonsils because they're part of the immune system. And when you take part of the immune system out, hey, there's going to be a complication, there's going to be payback, There's going to be something down the road that happens that ought not happen if you had your tonsils. They are, after all, part of your immune system. They're part of the sort of like venus fly trap, if you will, in the back of your throat, to block and to stop germs from vading deeper into your system, whether
you inhale them or swallow them. And so they've battled this out within the ranks of conventional medicine for decades. Should we take them out? Should we save them? How long do we wait? How many rounds of antibiotics do we need to have before we decide it's not working. Let's just they come out and be done with it. As though God had a bad day with
the tonsils formation. Well, now surgeons are trying to convince people again that more children's tonsils need to be extracted surgically removed, and in doing so we're gonna hold be a lot better off. Did you I asked a question of you, did you lose your tonsils growing up? I? Sure did. Do you think you're better off as a result of it? Or worse off? Or maybe your children have issues with that. If you want to comment on that, you may do so. We're going to get into this heart
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Now. Tonsilectomy is one of the most common procedures in children and teens today, with more than five hundred and thirty thousand tonsilectomies performed each year. That's over a half million of them performed on a yearly basis in the United
States alone. Conventional medicine doctors are conventional mds. They are now calling for more parents to get their children's tonsils surgically removed, to improve their sleep, to improve their blood pressure, to cure their snoring, to reduce their risk of heart conditions down the line, and improve overall quality of life. That's why they're calling for more children's tonsils to be removed. Tonsils, ladies and gentlemen, unless you don't know this, are an important part of the human
immune system. They are, and so doctors are trying to override that to some extent. Now they're doing they're taking tonsils out because they think it's the best thing to do. They believe that is the best procedure they can do on behalf of that child who's struggling when they have swollen tonsils or infected tonsils, or obstructing tonsils in the back of their throat, their soft palid area. They believe, truly believe that it may be the best thing on the
behalf of They're unfortunately wrong about it most of the time. And I'm going to attempt to tell you why. As they said, the tonsils are part of the immune system, the visible part of our lymphatic system. They provide the first line of defense for germs being swallowed, pathogens and we swallow germs all the time. Germs come into our mouth through food, water, air, and there has to be some stopgap measures somewhere along the line so those
germs don't evade deeper into the system as in your lungs. We have specialized cells in the surface of our tonsils that capture these germs, allowing elements that we have on board the human body called B cells and T cells, allowing them to attack anything that can pose a risk to human health. And because tonsils are part of our body's immune system, they act like lymph nodes. You've heard of lymph nodes, right, the filtering out of germs. That's
what lymphodes do. They filter out that enter through the nose in the mouth to protect the rest of the body. That's what tonsils are about. They protect the body from getting infections. So when you lose those organs, those immune system tissues, those tonsiles, you lose part of your immune system. Why would we ever want to do that? Why would we want to believe that the creator of the human body made a mistake when the tonsils were developed.
Tonsils are necessary for providing and interfering with the germs that will want to take us down, because they're vaiting for life just as well as we are. However, the tonsils have long been the featured attraction in the theater of needless surgery. The star is the surgeon who is on stage correcting one of God's really major mistakes by thinking about why this human body was equipped with tonsils in the first place. So man is going to override the divineness of our
creator to get rid of those tissues, knowing full well. Man knows full well that God made a mistake with the tonsils. And I guess your appendix and your gallbladder and other organs that are taken out often unnecessarily, and some of course are needed. Medical doctors are once again calling for parents. If you just tuning into the calling for parents to get their children's tonsils surgically removed in order to remove or in order to improve their sleep, quality of life
and to reduce the risk of heart conditions down the line. That's now how they're pitching it. Preventive health. Just start shelling important tissue out of the human body when there's a issue with it. And again I want to point out there are tonsils that becomes so infected that and so obstructed that they do need to come out, but that should be a rarity, not a common
procedure. A rarity, not a common procedure. Researchers that bring them and Women's Hospital and Harvard the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute found when children underwent tossil ectomies to remove the oval shaped pads of tissue at the back of the throat that doctors and everybody looks at when you say, ah, you know, when you take a flashlight back there or an odo the thmoscope and you look back in there, they're telling people that, look, we can improve their
sleep and therefore get rid of their daytime sleepiness and their risk of heart attacks later down the road if we just get those nasty, gnarly unnecessary tonsils out of that throat area. Now, the children who underwent the procedure of tons select tom were also more likely to have reduced blood pressure and less likely to show signs of progressive disease that children who kept their tonsils hat. Now, it is true and infected tonsil can be very hard on the immune system,
but that doesn't mean necessarily the need to come out. We just need to take action and we'll get to that action because with the problem, we try to get to a solution here eventually, and I will. A ton selectomy one of the most common procedures of children. When you think about the numbers here, more than a half million procedures performed each year. It's amazing for me to think about that. I wish I had my tonsils back. I
would give anything to have my tonsils back. My parents trusted a doctor who said, look, okay, I'm sure this conversation went on. I was there, but I don't necessarily remember it, but I can imagine it. Your son has got bad tonsils. He was born with bad tonsils, and they just need to come out. God had a bad day when they were thought of with respect to your son, and my parents went along with it,
believing and trusting the doctor. What my parents didn't hear was that if the tonsils leave, your son is going to have that'll be a weakness in his body the rest of his life with his throat. He's also going to have a higher risk of lung infections because the tonsils help block lung infections from happening. They're like the venus fly trap that catch things as they go past
the mouth and into the throat area, and so be prepared. No, no, no, they'd ever had that conversation with Just get the tonsils out and this kid's going to be one hundred percent perfect. Not looking at the cause of my tonsil problem, like the dairy products that I was putting in my mouth and all the sugar. No no, no, no, cause we have to the rest of this after the break. Stay with us.
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And we'll talk more about that later on. Now we're going to get back to the topic of why it is and how it is that surgeons in the US are now calling for it's almost like a return to throat surgery again, more throat surgery on children. Many of the times it's so completely unnecessary to remove tonsils in children. Part of the immune system, which is part of our bodies, should be there intact for our entire lifespan. Surgeons are now
calling for removal of tonsils in children more often. It's just been like a rubber ball back and forth over the years. There's been a great disagreement about this topic. Now we'll get back to that a little bit, but let me veer off the road here just a little bit and let you know that I think one of the risks of developing throat problems in tonsilect I mean even lung problems for that matter, is poor dental health, poor oral health.
We know that good oral health leads to good overall health, and the opposite is true. If you don't have good oral health, you don't have good overall health. The US Surgeon General released a report on the Significance and Benefits of oral health, and the report states that good oral health leads to good overall health, and a person can't cannot be healthy without good oral health.
Now, the Surgeon General report also states that safe and effective disease prevention measures exist that everyone of us can adopt to improve oral health and prevent disease. Because think about it, if there's all these germs swimming around in your mouth because you put food in your mouth and that's food for the germs to multiply. If all those germs exist and they're not washed out or neutralized, yeah, it creates an inflammatory proper there and it could wade deeper into your system
visa VI your lungs and other parts of your body. So it's important to have good oral health at home and of course periodically seeing the dental hygienis in the dentist. But I can tell you this that most of the toothpaste on the market today does not contain a very important element, a very important ingredient. Please read the label on your toothpaste box, Read the label on your mouth wash, your mouth rints, read the label on your gum or mints
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mince gum. All of it is available to swit the doctor Bob Martin family uses in shaosha jew. All right, now, let's get back to this conversation about tonsils. Tonsilectomies one of the most common procedures in children surgical procedures and children and teens. More than a half million procedures performed each year, many of them completely unnecessary. Doctors ought to strive to look at the cause of why these children's tonsils are becoming infected and swollen and bloated before they start
cutting them out. The only answer they have, the only tool that they employ is litz. Give some antibiotics. You know that might be appropriate from time to time, But after I guess seven rounds, that's the magic number. I guess seven rounds of antibiotics. It's sort of like, Okay, the first round didn't work. Let's try round two, round three, round four, round five, round six. When's that stay and go? If you keep repeating something over and over, you get the same result. It's
kind of like in saanity. Well, look, they got no game. There's reasons why tonsils become infected, and it's not a deficiency in life of antibiotics. Even though they can be a miracle drug, and even though they can help, they're not necessary usually now. Tonsil ectomies the surgical procedure itself lasts about twenty to thirty minutes, that's how long it takes to cut them out, but requires the child undergo general anesthesia. Folks, general anesthesia that
in and of itself is a risk. Think about that. General anesthesia like taking you an inch away from dying. We'll get back into this and we'll talk about some of the things you can do to avoid tonsilitis. I'm doctor Bob Martin. The number one health concern as we move toward and beyond the age of retirement is fear of losing our vision and therefore the ability to remain independent. Most of us, at some point in time have uttered the words I'm not seeing as well as I used to, or I think I need
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They've been back and forth on this for years. Back in the sixties, they were removing almost a million and a half tonsiles in the United States, and it went dropped down to a couple hundred thousand. Now it's back up to a half million. Just back and forth because we find a disagreement about this. I disagree with it greatly. I lost my tonsils to a surgically unnecessary surgical abortion of my tonsils when I was a child because my parents
didn't know any better. Had they known better, they would have battled it out, and had my doctor been able to advise them that if they would just stop feeding me dairy foods and keep me away from chocolate and sugar and mountain dews and pepsi colas and other undesirable foods, and feed me more of the right foods and have me actually drinking water and brushing my teeth on a regular basis, I would not have had my tonsils removed because I would not
have been infected constantly and when you think about the surgical procedure behind tonsils, it's you know, general anesthesia, folks, when you knock your people out general anesthesian. Believe me, anesthesiologies come a long ways. They have perfected it. But things happen. I mean, one in what twelve hundred or one in sixteen hundred people can die from general athesia if you look at all surgeries involved, from heart surgery down to tons electivemusic, all ladders, remove,
et cetera. So you never want to expose yourself to general and istesi if you don't need it. But when the tonsils grow large enough to become when it's difficult for the person to breathe, you got to go, oh, hey, gosh, they're not breathing at night, they're not sleeping, They're gonna get sicker and sickert So you have to intervene on their behalf. But unfortunately it doesn't need to happen that way. You got to find out
what's causing the tonsils to swell. They're a part of the immune system that's trying to talk back to somebody and nobody's listening. We just want to remove it and be done with it. Unfortunately, that doesn't solve the problem. It just causes whatever it's causing the tonsils to be swollen and infected to go deeper into the system. The next thing is more bronchitis like me, more
pneumonia like me growing up, more asthma like me growing up. Had I had my tonsils, I would have been able to survive a lot of that. And I've been hospitalized three or four or five times from deep lung infections. But no, I got my tonsils removed. Therefore my fort got knocked down. My immune system fort could not defend itself against the infections, and therefore I got worse. Oh, it was a temporary stay of my swollen throat for a while, sure, but I am paying for it as an
adult. Have paid for it as an adult, because when something breaks down, guess what, it's always my throat. And you might hear me go like that once in a while here in the air or coughing or clear in my throat, it's because I don't have my tonsils. You need your tonsils. They're part of your immune system, it's part of your lymphatic system. It helps thebes stay away, it helps you manage the microbes. But as I said, the argument has been, well, should we remove them or
not. They've been back and forth on this. If your child has frequent bouts of strep throat, they say, yank your tonsils. If your child's tonsils are big, yank your tonsils, put the kid under general ane season, cut them out. Once again. Conventional medicine treats symptoms, not causes. That's what they do, and I agree there are times when they get so overwhelmed that it might be an option, But that should be the last thing, not the first thing, and too many times it's the first thing.
Once again, conventional medicine treat symptoms, not causes. If your child's tonsils are enlarged, or your child's presents with strep throat infections, the question is not whether or not to rip out the tonsils. The question is what's causing the infection to keep happening when it doesn't happen in the next person.
In the next person, many things are capable of lowering your child's immune system leading to tonsilitis from an allergy to a food such as dairy products and chocolate and sugar junk food, which is the main causes of most tonsole problems to eliminating certain food intolerances or food allergies in their diet, which are easily discovered and you need to act on that. Removing dairy and junk food from the diet often solves ton selectivities, and if you keep them away from chocolate,
it will really solve it because germs, especially strap, love chocolate. We did these experiments when I was going through to get my doctorate in these augur dishes where we would try to culture strap from our saliva in our throat, and man, the minute you put chocolate in that little dish, it went wild and it started to form all these infections. So that's what we need to do and get these children away from all this processed food that they're eating
and more fruits and veggies and raw foods and better foods. In the nineteen fifties, when the United States was still dealing with the epidemic outbreak polio, researchers discovered that children who had their tonsils removed were three times more likely to contract bulbar polio, infecting the bulbar portion of the brain stem than children who retained their tonsils. That's how important they are, and aside from our medical
approach that basis solutions on symptoms rather than causation. Ignorance of another kind has driven this lucrative practice of removing tonsils. Doctors didn't really understand their function, and in twenty twelve researchers discovered the tonsil is a little factory of immune cells, specifically T cells, and T cells are vital to fighting viruses and cancer caused by viruses like involvements are coma. So the role of these things are
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coming up. Plus, I'm going to be talking about a special food that may reduce your risk of breast cancer that according to scientists writing of the journal Microbiology Spectrum, we've been talking about tonsilitis and inflammation of the tonsils, generally due to a viral or bacterial infection, very common childhood illness, and generally doctors want to immediately prescribe antibiotics or recommend tonsil removal, which is a mistake
in my opinion and the opinion of a lot of doctors, because the tonsils are a very important part of the immune system. We should try to keep it. But with every problem we talk about, we want to talk about a solution. There are solutions. You get these children away from dairy foods because that's the number one cause of throat infections and allergies, and you don't want to have that in the oral cavity because it's just perfect breeding ground for
these strip germs to get going. And once you get them off the sugar and the junk food and the dairy products and the chocolate, they start to get better. In the meantime, you can use homeopathic remedies. Homeopathic remedies
are fantastic for tonsilitis. A homeopath, a trained homeopath will prescribe a remedy such as lycopodium it's administered for a sore throat or chronic enlargement of tonsils or tonsilitis, or phytolacca, which is ministered again for sore throats, rough and constricted, hot red swollen tonsils, or cali miruricadium, which is also a homeopathic remedy that's used in tonsilitis where there's a lot of swelling and the body's
talk back. You've got herbal remedies that are available for children that help with tonsil and throat proms acnesia garlic like coolic age garlic extract. My kids grew up on that, giving them liquid garlic constantly to keep those infections low because they were coming home with them from school and all that. Kids swap stuff like that. You've got herbs like myr and sage and a regano look the tonsils. If you give the person that is having some sore throat something that
changes the terrain and their throat, they're gonna get better. You can clear the mucus by simply giving them a concoction of honey and onions. You put it in and you mix it up in the blender and you mix it together and you make it palatable. And if you want to get clear the mucus, you give them an ac and acetyl cysteine, or give them tea of peppermint, peppermint tea, elder flour tea, or yarrow leaf tea. There
are ways to manage throat problems and tonsilitis and children and adults. You got to know what you doing, and you have to have a doctor who's learned in this. And if you don't hire one. Find a nature pathic doctor, find a chiropractic physician, or a doctor's trained in functional medicine or integrative medicine. They'll know how to do these things. I mean, you can
use Clear Rescue nasal spray. They've also have a nasal spray over it Clear for children called kids Clear Clear as spell with an X X L E R Kids, xylotol and saline nasal spray. Because a lot of these germs that cause tonsilitis comes through the nasal cavity first, and if you nip it there, it won't evade deeper in the system. So get to the health food's door. All right, we're coming right back. Stay with us. I'm doctor Bob Martin.