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Well, you have entered a healing zone. We're in special People tuned in each week to learn about the latest news about health and wellness and most importantly, how to get healthy and how to stay healthy naturally. Welcome, Welcome everyone to this hour of the Doctor Bob Martin's Show. I'm doctor Bob, and I am here to encourage you so very strongly to become your own best doctor most of the time meaning taking better care of yourself so you need less
care that may be associated with certain risks. We have got a great show plan for you today, but before we get to some of the headlines we're going to be talking about today, I wanted to step back and tell you
we have the results of last week's health poll question. If you were with us last week, you know that I asked the question, should ultra processed food such as donuts and French fries and cookies and ice cream and soda pops be banned from selling them at schools and hospitals in order to stop them from pushing aside more nutritious alternatives that keep us healthy and keep us well and out of harm's way. Yes or no, And that was on my website.
It was heavily voted upon by you, the listener of the audience, and we appreciate you going to doctor Bob dot com spelling out the word doctor doctor Bob dot com and weighing in on that. And we'll have the results of that momentarily. But for those who did not hear that last week, and to remind us of what ultra processed foods really are, because they are the
bad boys. They are the ones that cause the most harm. They are the ones that are driving people into all of these chronic illnesses and needing emergency medical care and hospitalization. And it's nearly impossible these days not to eat some of it. But unfortunately a lot of people are eating a lot of it, and therein lies the problem. We're constantly told to eat fewer unprocessed or ultra processed foods, but a raft of studies over the years have warned of
the dangers of eating too many of these things. Researchers are adding to the ever growing body of evidence releasing two studies that suggest too much of these ultra processed foods increases your risk of a potentially deadly heart attack or stroke by nearly a quarter. Isn't that amazing? I mean, you have such control over reducing your risk of having one of the biggest killers of man, two of
them actually heart attack and stroke. You have the ability to reduce that greatly, And in this particular study, they're talking about a quarter twenty five percent. But what even are these ultra processed foods that we have to worry about that we should be concerned about well. Processing of foods refers to adding or
altering the raw ingredients that was originally there that was started. This can be done to make foods, of course safe to eat, such as pasteurization, increase the shelf life of the food such as freezing, or improve the taste of the food so that people will comply to eat it, such as adding
salt or fat or sugar. Unprocess excuse me, or minimally processed foods are usually exactly how they appear in nature, and the more we eat of the unprocessed or minimally processed foods, the better off our health is going to be because we're going to get the nutrients we need and not all the garbage that is added to these foods to extend their shelf life or change them in some
manner. They may undergo minimal processing, such as removing inedible parts. So the idea is that you try to receive and provide for yourself and your family fruits, vegetables, seeds, meats, eggs, even milk that fall into the category of minimal or unprocessed. You gotta stay or try to stay away from, and it's again, in this day and age, nearly impossible ultra processed foods. And if you do consume them, they ought to be consumed
once in a while. At most ultra processed foods are high in added fat we know that can be problematic, sugar major problem today, and of course salt. Low in protein. These ultra processed foods are and fiber. We need that fiber, we need the protein. And of course these ultra processed foods to stay away from are chocked full of artificial coloring agents, sweeteners, including artificial sweeteners, and preservatives, all of which was not there originally and
is not intended to be consumed, but food processing happens. The term covers food that contains ingredients that a person wouldn't and add when cooking at home, basically such as chemicals, coloring agents, and preservatives. You wouldn't use those things at home when you're preparing a meal from scratch with let's say, raw vegetables or fruits or other food products. These ready meals, ice cream, sausages, deep fried chicken ketchup are some of the best loved examples of ultra
processed foods. They are different than processed foods, which are processed to make them last longer or enhance tastes, such as cured meat, cheese, or fresh bread. Ultra Processed foods are the problem, folks, and those are the ones we need to stay away from as much as possible, reduce the consumption of them, and in doing so, we will reduce our risks of mostly preventable, degenerative chronic diseases that a lot of people get caught off guard
with. And I know what some people are saying, Well, you know, I am offsetting my ultra processed food diet or my consumption of ultra processed foods with regular exercise. And that's good. But you can't counter garbage with exercise, even though it would certainly be better if someone were exercising versus someone who is not eating garbage food. But how about both? How about getting
regular exercise and eating as minimal amount of ultra processed foods. Foods that when you read the label, there are three, four, five, six syllable words that you cannot pronounce, you don't understand, you've never heard of before. Those are ultra processed foods. They are designed by food companies for their benefit for lessening their cost and getting high compliance for you to consume those foods that are crowding out the nutrients, the important nutrients that your body needs to
heal itself and function optimally. Those ultra processed foods are doing just that. Those are the ones you want to try to stay away from. It's sort of like the difference between eating a stalk of corn, where you maybe steam it or boil it that would be minimally processed, whereas processed corn would be maybe an example would be canned sweet corn, and then you get to the ultra processed corn, which is corn chips. You see how the progression of
that went. Corn as it comes out of the field, sweet corn minimally processed. Of course, you got to still get the stalk it are ready to eat. You could also look at carrots that way. Eating a raw carrot after cleaning it, that's minimally processed, and you carrot juice that's processed. It's been run through and altered in that and that's good, not a problem. But then you get to carrot cake, which is the ultra process for it. You get micro drift here, or eating an apple versus apple
sauce versus apple jelly gummies. The apple jelly gummy, of course, is the ultra processed and the apple is the raw form of it, which is more, which is better for you? All right, So I think you get the idea. When we come back from this break, I will finally get to the results of last week's healthful question. But I think that required a little bit of explanation in front of it, because when people think of ultra process versus process, it's confusing. I will tell you the results when
we come back. I'm doctor Bob Martin. EF he doesn't come, come, God in you a God. You are good fore faith? All right, Doctor Bob Martin, back with you, and I thank you for tuning into the program. Today. We're gonna disclose to you last week's health poll a question results here momentarily. But I also want to remind you that if you are having some type of a health challenge, a health related problem, a situation, a health issue, I'm here for you. In fact,
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the word doctor doctor bob dot com. All right, now, we were last segment of the program talking about how ultraprocessed foods are problematic and we're learning more about them. It's basically junk food. It's under the category of junk food. And I think everybody by now knows they should avoid junk food. It's problematic on so many levels. We be here all day just discussing that.
But it is undermining the health of our youth, and it's undermining the health of people who go to hospital to get well and their choices are in the cafeteria or their family member's choices or in the cafeteria are junk ultra processed foods. Why on earth would you serve ultra processed foods that have been just destroyed and things added to them that are not healthy for human consumption. Why would you on earth have that in a hospital, a sanctuary of health and
healing. Oh, I guess it's under the guise of profitability or convenience. I don't know, it doesn't make any sense to me. It also doesn't make any sense to me to provide ultra processed foods such as donuts and French fries and cookies and soda pops in schools where our children and grandchildren are roaming around trying to figure out how to get calories into their body. There it is, there's the machine, Go feed the money, boom out it comes.
So last week on the radio show here, we asked the question, should ultra process foods such as those things I just mentioned donuts, French fise, cookies, et cetera, be banned from schools and hospitals to stop them from pushing aside more nutritious alternatives that we ought to be offering. Up yes or no. Now, you voted on this, and I'm very surprised to tell you the results of those people who went over to my website doctor Bob dot com and voted on that question. Fifty percent of you said no,
they should not be banned, and fifty percent said yes. Kind of surprising to me. I thought it would be much greater in the area of well, ban them, because it just makes sense. But I think people realize that it's going to be a hard lift to change those habits, or perhaps they say, well, no, you should give people those choices and let them be the decision makers. You don't ban stuff. Well, you know, whatever we're doing right now is not working, folks, it's just not
working. Just go out in the street and look around. We are the sickest nation on planet Earth right today. Of all of the affluent countries on the planet, we are the number one sickest. We have the poorest health, poorest longevity, and yet we spend the most on crisis management sick care of any nation. We spend the most get the least. Part of that has to do with education or the lack thereof. So we need to take it upon ourselves as citizens to take better care of ourselves and be less dependent
upon, you know, the crisis management. At the end. It's sort of like the old cliche of you know, you can be a bad boy and girl all year long, and then when Christmas comes around or some other holiday, you want to be showered with gifts even though you are a bad
boy or a bad girl. Santa Claus hopefully will be there in the end for you, though, And that's sort of the same way when people to the degree of thirty thousand of my own personal patients who I treated in my practice career came through the door, and we started taking the histories of what
they were eating and the diseases that they walked in with. There were high correlations between those people who ate the most junk food and polluted their bodies with tobacco and excess of alcohol and other unfortunate materials they swallowed, drank, or breathed in, and the diseases that they now are suffering from. So he ever thinks they're going to get it, nobody ever thinks they're going to be the one that goes down with whatever illness you can put in that blank,
But it happens. Our food is a major component of that process. It's sort of the cliche of garbage in, garbage out, garbage out being the disease that you generate by virtue of eating garbage. You. You know, most of us would not consider putting water or kerosene in the tank of our cars because we know that if we don't run a certain level of octane gasoline through that car ninety two percent eighty six eighty seven percent, that car won't
run right and we may be getting stranded in the bonies. We wouldn't do that. We want to we follow those directions on that car and make sure that it gets the right gas to run optimally and every once in a while get the oil changed and get checked up. Well, I'll tell you what, if we treated our bodies closer to that, our health, we would be a whole lot better off. But what we don't. We don't do
that. We wait until things break before we fix it. Because that's the system that is there that has convinced you that it's okay to do that, which is the crisis management sick care system we have today, call it the medical system, if you will. So it's we needed to take it upon ourselves to change that up because it's you can be your own best doctor most
of the time. That's the whole theme of this show. And the way that you do that is you gain information and knowledge and information and you put it into action. You live that lifestyle to the best degree that you can. And I know it's not easy. It's hard. Sometimes it's hard,
but it is as necessary as anything else in life. And I think sometimes we treat our animals and our inanimate objects, our cars and our furniture and our front yards better than we do our own bodies, only because we believe that in the back of our mind when things break, Santa Claus will be there to fix us and everything will be fine again and you can do it all over again. Not true, Not true, and it's a fake.
It's facade. It's not good and we need to change it up. And hopefully this program is helping you to do that in the encouragement to do that by eating well, living a healthy lifestyle, and doing the things you can do to better maintain your health and wellness. All right, when we come back from this break, we're going to and by the way, thank you for participating that health poll. Fifty to fifty is amazing to me. But at least we now know your opinion. We come back, we're going to
go to your telephone calls and open line health questions and comments. Stay tuned. I'm doctor Bob Martin. Are you waiting on a line next, Jake? Are you waiting for the perfect night? Are you waiting to the time is night by up? Don't you want to learn to deal with Don't you want to take the wheel and stead don't you beat another man by Why are you into so if you wear out your body, where are you going to live? Anyway? Welcome or welcome back to the Doctor Bob Martin Show.
I thank you so very much for tuning into the program today. Shortly here, we're gonna get to a phone calls of listeners of this radio show who have called into our caller hotline number and are needing help, and I'm going to provide help to them and for them. That's what the show is really
all about. And I want you to have that toll free number as well in case you need to call in and get help yourself for a health condition or health issue you have, or maybe somebody in your life, maybe you loved on, a friend, a neighbor, a coworker who's struggling and you want to call in on their behalf. You can do that as well. Or you may just comment on something related to health that's on your mind, or you've heard of the show, or you want to heap praise on the
host of the program. We always accept that one. Our number into the show is eight hundred six zero six eighty eight twenty two. Eight hundred six zero six eighty eight twenty two that's eight hundred six zero six eighty eight twenty two. And of course the website doctor Bob dot com. We'll get to calls shortly this doctor and my entire family, as well as my healthcare colleagues, many of them who are interested in avoiding tooth decay, and who doesn't
want to avoid tooth decay. Nobody wants gingervitis horrible, or periodontal disease, or just bad breath. Nobody wants any of those conditions. So what do you do to provide resistance against them prevention against them? Well, I don't know what you do. You may be using one of these big box commercial toothpaste products that have just tons and tons of garbage in them. If you read the label, you'll see all these words. You cannot pronounce or understand
what they are. I can tell you what I use because I've whittled it down. I did it about twenty years ago in the investigation of my oral health, my oral cavity, keeping it healthy, because I know that if I keep my oral cavity, and this has been proven out in scientific studies, people who do a good job in the oral cavity with flossing, brushing,
taking care of their teeth. Seeing a dental hygienis once in a while and a dentist are healthier because they have less inflammatory response going on in their mouth that can wade deeper into their system and undermine their health. So it's important to go there. I use a system called the Spry Spry Dental Defense System. It's comprised of Spry toothpaste, Spry mouth rints, and Spry gum
and mints. It is so important to have that exposure on a daily basis because inasmuch as I love my dental hygienist and my dentist, they're doing great work. I just don't want them doing their cut and slice and dicing and
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get to your telephone calls and questions now. First up is Lynn in the state of Iowa. Hello, springing this limb. It's near the banks of the Mississippi River in Iowa and listen on WMT in Theedar Rapids. But I don't live in Theedar Rapids. And I had a question about my foot for more than ten years, I wore a night splint and the foot doctor I went to prescribe some colorlezill and and then person and it really does nothing for
my foot. And I was listening to your show a couple of weeks ago when you had the ten one oh one nutrition talked about, and I wondered if that might help. I love to hear your answers. Thank you, Okay, Lynn, thank you for your phone call from Iowa. State of Iowa, appreciate that. Sorry to hear you're having trouble in Gosh, if the care that you're getting right now, if you're seeing like a foot doctor, like a doctor, a podiatric medicine DPM of a diatrist, maybe you
need to get a second or third opinion of what's going on. Sounds like there may be some or you're concerned about some circulatory problem, some biomechanical problem. Not certain, but it would be a good idea to go get a second opinion. Now, you made reference to something we discussed on the program, the N one oh one lozenges, which are nitric oxide lozenges which increase circulation by increasing nitric oxygen in the body, which opens up blood vessels,
which is a good thing. So without examining you, it would be really difficult to understand what's going on. But it sounds like there may be some circulatory problem or some foot related or extremity related problem. The very best thing I think you can do is to get a second opinion. You said it yourself. What you're currently doing is not working, and it hasn't worked for a long time, so I think it's time to abandon that, and it
may require maybe more than just one health practitioner. If it is circulatory or biomechanical, maybe you should consider massage therapy or reflexology, some physical work on that. Maybe try acupuncture. If it's a bone related structural problem with the foot, you might want to see a chiropractor who does extremity manipulation. Have you been looked at for orthotics? There's just a lot of opportunities here, but I think the key is start putting something into action so that you can
get the relief that you're looking for. I appreciate your phone call, good help to you. Stay tuned. We'll be right back, and I welcome you or welcome you back to the Doctor Bob Martin Show. I'm doctor Bob, so glad you dropped in today. In a special appreciation to our listeners who continue to tell their friends and family members and co workers about this radio
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become your own best doctor most of the time. Now, I want to let you know we have another health pole question we'd love to get your opinion of, and it goes like this. It's over on my website, by the way, at doctor Bob dot com. Spelling out the doctor word Dctorbob dot com. Health pole question here it is, since seventeen percent of people aged seventy five to eighty four and thirty two percent of people aged eighty five and older have Alzheimer's dementia, are you in favor of a maximum age to
be president of the United States? I mean, that question is hotly debated right now. As many of you know, as most of you know that we're looking at the age of that individual who will become or stay the president of the United States. Is age an issue? Should there be a maximum age to become president of the United States? Yes? Or no? It's that simple. You can vote on that at doctor Bob dot com, spelling
out the word doctor Bob dot com. All right, let's get back to your telephone calls and questions on our toll free doctor Bob Martin Show Caller hotline that you can access anytime you like as well to ask a question about your health or somebody else's outh, or make a health comment. That number eight hundred six zero six eighty eight twenty two. Eight hundred six zero six eighty eight twenty two. Let's go back to the phones again. Next up,
we say hello to mail in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mel the Salt Lake City You, Tom, I have an artery. That's I did a calcium scan on my chest and I guess from my arteries is you got a wide area where there's some plus draw build up. Thank you. Okay, this is an important one. This calcium test, this calcium score test can be a little bit confusing because it only shows calcified calcium, not soft plaque.
In other words, they're looking for plaque in the arteries when they do this test, and the soft plaque in the artery is just as dangerous as in some believe more dangerous than the hard plaque that can be actually viewed. That's has a certain radio opacity to it. If you have something that looks like that in your there's been inflammation there. Now doctors like to claim that
cholesterol is the enemy. It is not. It's inflammation. The cholesterol is simply there to try to resolve the problem by putting a fat slick over an area of inflammation. So that's sort of how it works. It's the explanation of you pull up to a home that is on fire and the fire department is already there. Trying to trying to extinguish the fire with water, and you blame the fire department because they're there. No, they're there in response
to the fire. They're not the cause of the fire. Given cholesterol lowering drugs to lower cholesterol is the equivalent of blaming the fire department for being there. They're the No, just because they're there doesn't mean they're the cause. They're there to help. Cholesterol is not the cause. It's there to help. We all need. We make seventy to eighty percent of our own cholesterol every day, no matter what we eat. Our bodies make it for a
very important reason. Now, yes, there are genetically challenged people that have the you know, ap one be a cholesterol small particle that can be an issue, but typically not. It's get to the inflammation and in your case, finding out what that inflammation is caused by in your lifestyle and trying to do things that will counter it would be the key. I would say to you that if your doctor hasn't measured your homocysteine level, which can be measured
in your blood, that needs to happen immediately. That's a very important marker that you need to have checked out. Also, of course, cardiosensitive C reactive protein would be important. To check out your lipids, of course, looking at those and then asking questions, what can you do lifestyle wise, food wise, exercise wise, lowering your stress supplement to lower inflammation. And how about a supplement that actually has been scientifically proven to reduce plaque in the
arteries. That would be kyolic aged garlic extract. It's true UCLA, doctor Budolph, cardiologist, the studies on kyolic kylic aged garlic extract proven to reduce plaquing in arteries. I get started on that and then get those other blood numbers to see where the inflammation is to do things that will reduce inflammation. All right, thank you for your phone call, Mel, Take care. I'm doctor Bob Martins. Knowss all right, Doctor Bob Martin, back with
you in our final segment of this hour of the program. But don't go anywhere. Next hour, Boy oh boy, do we have something to talk about. This may be somewhat controversial to some people to discuss. The headline is, if elected, former President Donald Trump will investigate big pharma over autism, over allergies, and over chronic health issues that he says are completely out of control, and we need to rein in the reason why that is going
on. So we're going to be talking about that. His latest comments about how former President Donald Trump is going he plans on if he becomes president, investigating these big pharmaceutical companies over their guilt in the area of autism explosion in the United States. How that's risen so very high, allergies off the map, and chronic illnesses galore, you name it. We're the sickest nation and on the planet, and we spend the most What is wrong with his picture?
He wants to know. And in that same vein, we're going to be hearing from a very prominent medical doctor who also has a master's degree in public health, who is a internist, a medical MD, internist, cardiologist, epidemiologist. He's all of that, plus a former professor of a medical school and editor of two different medical journals. This individual is going to be commenting on it. We've used his comments on the show in the past with
respect to COVID and the disaster we all went through with COVID. How the medical system and our government blew the COVID response in such a unbelievable manner. And we're still reeling from that and trying to understand how bad it is. It's still going on, especially in those people who got the experimental Frankenstein shots mRNA COVID shots still happening, Still discovering some of the fallout from that,
unfortunately. But wait until you hear what former President Donald Trump says about his investigation, his intent to investigate these large pharmaceutical companies in their culpability on the rise of autism where children's brains are being damaged and we're finding out more and more of them. It was such a minor number long ago, and now it's just completely out of control. And not only that, the childhood illnesses,
the chronic issues of health problems. Why on earth is that happening When we have the resources that we have available to us, We'll get to that. So stand by and stay close for another dose of extreme wellness. You're tuned into the doctor Bob Martinshell