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need. I am so glad you decided to join us today. Welcome, Welcome, everyone to this hour of the Doctor Bob Martin Show. I'm Doctor Bob and here in the capacity of encouraging you to become your own best doctor most of the time. All Right, We're going to talk about a very important topic shortly here related to cholesterol. So if you have anybody in the room in the next room that is taking statin drugs or cholesterol alluring drugs,
they might want to listen to this conversation. And if they're not within the earshot of this conversation, maybe you can invite them over to my podcast library after the show's finished so they can hear a recorded version of the program and pick up on some of this important information I'm about to discuss related to cholesterol alering drugs, one of the most prolific drug categories in the United States today. So many people are taking cholesterol a lowering drugs or statin drugs, and
I'm sure there's people that are being helped by them to some degree. I've always been suspicious of them because of the mechanism by which they are used, and a lot of people are finally picking up on that, and we'll get to that shortly. I also want to let you know we have a totll free number that at any time of the night or day, you can call this toll free number and leave a health related question about yourself or somebody else,
or make a health comment. Eight hundred six zero six eighty eight twenty two. It's our new caller hotline number for questions or health related comments. Or if you want to compliment the host of the show, you can certainly do that. We call that a stroker eight hundred six zero six eighty eight twenty two. Or the website doctor bob dot com spelling out the word doctor. Almost half of cholesterol drug users don't need the drug. That's what the
American Heart Association is intimating of late. I know a lot of consumers are just totally caught off guard by that. They're confused about that. What do you mean we don't need almost half? We don't need statins anymore. I thought they were important. I thought they were saving my life. I thought I couldn't get away without statins because my heart would explode it and have a
heart attack. Well, the American Heart Association developed updated guidelines with a new equation to calculate risks of cardiovascular disease in today's population, as though it's any different today than it was back when these statin drugs first came out thirty seven years ago, Folks, thirty seven years ago, statin drugs, and again, I'm not doubting the fact that they have efficacy to a certain degree, but there's been a lot of health experts, a lot of doctors decrying for
years now that they're being used by way too many people for all the wrong reasons. And then suddenly magically boom, just like that, nearly half around forty percent of people, according to the American Heart Association, around forty percent of people currently advised to take statin drugs, and there's a lot of them
on the market. D Jore Cluster Learning drugs would not need to take them if they were assessed today using the new magical out of thin air criteria that I guess didn't war that was working just a short time ago, and now all of a sudden, no, no, no, not so much. This according to a new study published just this last week in the journal of
the American Medical Association Internal Medicine. So what do we have here. We have thirty seven years at least where forty percent of statin or cholesterol alluring drug users to this class of drugs. We're taking the drugs. You guessed it unnecessarily. Let me repeat that, based on the new criteria, the new magical science of modern day medicine. They went back and they sharpened their pencils and they're saying, look, okay, there's new criteria today. We are
calculating the need for cholesterol alluring drugs on a different basis today. And oh, just want to let you know that about forty percent of you people who are taking it, almost half shouldn't be taking statin drugs based on the new criteria. Wow, this just amazes me. And that's why I'm always fascinated with how you know, these hardcore doctors. Doctor Fauci is the epitome of
conventional medicine. I am science his proclamation. But there's a lot of little tyrants like that in modern medicine where they think they're all that and a white coat and the stethoscope, godlike creatures above everybody else looking down. But I digress. Now that's the science that they call the modern day science. We're gonna suddenly just tell forty percent of people who are taking these drugs that have been taking them for years, risking liver damage, brain damage, nerve damage,
risking the risk of diabetes, risk of cancer. I mean, the list goes on and on. Look up the list of adverse side effects of stating drugs, and again, drugs are not bad. I'm not here to bash drugs or statins. I'm here to remind you that medical care has severe limitations. And this just proves it. Even though a lot of people believe that everything that walks out of the mouth or comes out of the mouth of somebody with an MD behind their name is the gospel, it is one hundred
percent fact. It is one hundred percent science, and I'm going to follow it to the letter. And the only thing you need to think about in rebuking that response is COVID nineteen vaccines or COVID nineteen shots. What a cluster that was. But I digress. Now we're talking about these statin drugs and how they got it wrong. For thirty seven years at least in half the people taking them. They're basically saying, without saying it, and hoping to
pull the woe of your eyes, is that we made a mistake. We're wrong about out the calculation of who really needs stating drugs, and we're going to pull them back from about four out of ten people who are taking them.
Wow, this is amazing to me. I wonder how all the people who have suffered greatly with adverse side effects and the expense and the hassle and everything else of taking these cholesterol lowering drug statins, what are they saying right now when their doctors inform them that, Oh, Joe or Sally, I'm glad you're in my office today and we're going to make some adjustments in your drug regimen. You don't need your status any longer. Say what, No,
No. The American Heart Associators. American Heart Associators come up with some interesting new data calculating the risk of cardiovascular today and today's population, and you're not in there. Therefore, we're going to reduce your drug load and I'm going to unprescribe the statin that you've been on for five, ten or fifteen years or maybe twenty. You can only I can only imagine what consumers are
thinking about this. I know what I think. I think it confirms me of the unnecessary drugs that are given out every single day to millions of people, unknowing that it's going to occur in some level someday. And don't forget that about seventy percent of all drugs, there's actually one hundred percent of all drugs. The average adverse side effects about seventy adverse side effects of the average
drug. We're going to finish up on this statin choluster a learning drug dilemb After this, I'm doctor Bob Martin, and I welcome you back or welcome you to this hour of the Doctor Bob Martsen's show. Thank you so very much for tuning into this program. Now, if you were with us last segment, you hear me talking about this latest revelation out of the American Heart
Association. Apparently they have developed new updated guidelines with a new equation, we'll call it fuzzy math, to calculate the risks of cardiovascular disease in today's population, to correct what has been wrong in about one out of two people over the last thirty seven years, they were taking staton drugs, cholestero alluring drugs. They're basically just sort of sliding it on in hoping that nobody sees it. Elephant in the room, and that is they're finding out that cholesterol is
not it folks. I mean, this is what it is. It's what it's all about. You know. Blaming cholesterol for plaque in one's arteries is like blaming you know. You're you. You see a lot of fire engines going to a fire. There's a three alarmed fire in a home, and you happen to go down that street on your way home and you have to go past the big fire, and you see all the fire engines out there trying to hose down the house that's on fire to protect the house from burning
completely to the foundation. And you're going past and you go, oh my gosh, look at all those fire engines. There's the cause of the problem. There's the problem with the fire. The fire was the fire engines. That's ridiculous to blame the fireman and the fire engines just because they were at the scene of the fire. That's not the cause of the fire. Somehow that fire got started and it wasn't the fire engines that showed up to put
it out. That's what cholesterol is in the arteries your body makes about seventy percent of seventy to eighty percent of your cholesterol is produced in your liver. That's we make it, and then we take in, of course, a certain amount of dietary cholesterol as well. Cholesterol is necessary, it's vital. You couldn't live without it. It's important to your brain, your nerves, your hormones, everything. Every cell in your body has cholesterol in it.
Made it a demon. Thirty seven years ago, the drug companies figured out how to parlay a study that showed that people who had plaque in their arteries and went on to have heart attacks they found cholesterol there. So of course they blamed the cholesterol. Cholesterol was a bystander. Cholesterol was the equivalent of the fire engines showing up at the fire. It's all about inflammation, folks.
When you have an inflammation going on inside your body, inside your arteries, the body brings cholesterol there as a let's say, a substance to put out the fire. But it's not the cause of the problem. But yet the drug companies parlayed that into a gold mine, and doctors got sucked right into it, and they've been prescribing cholesterol alluring drugs for thirty seven years to at least half the people taking them unnecessarily and risking all the side effects.
That's basically what the American Heart Association saying. So the cholesterol, yes, is important. It's there, but it's not there because it's the problem. It's there as a bystander. It's there to put a sort of a fat slick over the fire to try to put it out. But blocking cholesterol does nothing. It doesn't do anything. I mean, there's always exceptions to the rule with these people with genetic problems with apole B small particle and things like
that, but that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about getting the big picture here. And here we have the American Heart Association developing a new risk assessment to evaluate a person's risk of heart disease. The assessment called prevent unbelievable. How they use the word prevent in conventional medicine farthest thing from the truth there is significantly they say, reduces the number of people who must take
these statin cholesterol learning drugs to prevent heart disease. What they're basically doing is admitting these calculations because they knew that the drug companies, they finally figured it out, even though you know, it goes against all of the preaching up to this point that everybody, every man, woman, child, and every guppy needs to be on cholesterol alluring drugs. We'd save the humanity, the
furthest thing from the truth. And again, there are people, I'm sure that have benefited by it, but most don't because we're not talking about inflammation, which is the real smoking gun behind why people develop high cholesterol in the first place. Most of them, you know, minus people who have genetic
issues and there's a small subset population for that. Here's what one of the lead researchers of this study who is telling people they don't need their statins, about one out of two people don't need their statins anymore, he says, Doctor Tuthy Anderson says lead author here I quote. We don't want people to think that they were treated incorrectly in the past. They were treated with the best data we had when cluster learning drugs were introduced. This is a cardiovascular
risk calculator. Doctor Timothy Anderson, lead author of the study, said in the news release, the data have changed. Well, the thing that really chides me the most is that how doctors try to believe and how they mds now try to get you to believe that every single thing that they say is one hundred percent accurate and one hundred percent truthful. Now, a lot of men and women in medicine do a great job, and they try to be as as accurate as they can, but what they really need to be portraying
is telling you the public that medicine is not an exact science. It's far from that. It's an art and a philosophy based on scientific principles, but it is subject to errors and errors happen. Why do you think medical miscare is the number one cause of death, even higher than heart disease, even
higher than cancer and other diseases. It's because mistakes are made. But the arrogance in conventional medicine is so rank with the likes of doctor Fauci saying I am science, you must believe me, basically saying I am God and you must believe me, and some people some people actually do. And you need to discount that when any human any mortal tries to portray that they are beyond the mistakes they make. Every single day. We all make mistakes. That's
when you need to run, not walk away from somebody that dangerous. Doctor Timothy Anderson, the lead author of this study, which is saying, look, we were wrong about the gloster Laarnie rugs about half of the people that
are taking them shouldn't be taking him because of a new calculation. He goes on to say, for a patient who we know is at a lower risk than we previously thought, meaning we guessed and we were wrong, if we recommend they stopped taking statins, they still should be back to a higher risk five years down the road, for the simple reason that everybody's risk goes up
as we get older. Just more confusion now. The study compared the American Heart Association's h A twenty twenty three guidelines to the two thirteen American Cardiology Guidelines, the American Heart Association's most recent guidelines, which use prevent The study a new risk assessing equation found that fewer people need to take statins, a cholesterol lowering drug. Amazing, folks. The takeaway here, The takeaway is inflammation.
Once you get to the reason why inflammation's there. Cholesterol is under control, meaning diet, exercise, lifestyle, nutritional supplements like Omega three, fatty acids, fiber in the diet of course, and staying away from things that cause the inflammation to happen, which is the standard American diet mostly and other dangerous lifestyles. That's where the action's at all. Right, We're going to take short break and come right back. You stay with us, please,
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what else, podcast libraries all there at doctor bob dot com. Before we get to phone calls and your open questions on the topic of health. Speaking of heart health and how important that is, and as you heard me mention, a lot more people are taking charge of their health today and learning that it's the inflammation that matt is when it comes to heart disease. And once you get that corralled and controlled and understand it, cholesterol values go down,
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eight hundred six zero six eighty eight twenty two. If you've got something on your mind related to your health or the health of somebody you care to call on behalf of, or you have a health related comment. You could call this line yourself. Eight hundred six zero six eighty eight twenty two. Let's go to the phones now. First off is Catherine, who's calling in from
Kingsport, Tennessee. Hello, my name is Catherine. I'm calling from Kingsport, Tennessee, and I'm calling about a study that was posted on CNN dot com. The study says that low calorisweetener xylotol is linked to heart attack and stroke. And I'm wondering if you can explain that because I do use your spry Mouth system. It's the only tuescaste I use, and I use it
for mouthwash as well. I use the Xclear nose and so I'm wondering if you could address the CNN study that is stating that the low calorie sweetener xylotol is linked to heart attack and stroke. Thank you all right, Catherine, Thank you for your call from Kingsport, Tennessee. Appreciate that. Now. I did answer this question last week on the program, and you can hear
like almost a forty five minute explanation of this. By going into my podcast library over at doctor bob dot com spelling out the word doctor d Octo r bob dot com. Then podcast that would be our number one, our number one last week, you'll get the forty five minute explanation of this. I
mean, it's intense. And so the answer to this, you know, and I'll give you just you know, for those people who are curious about it, they're listening right now, aren't going to go to the podcast library, just an overview of it, and that is that xylotol is a natural sweetener and it's found in fruits and veggies. You're eating xylotol every day in
small quantities. And if you're consuming strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, if you're eating any mushrooms, cauliflower, plums, pumpkins, apples, and carrots, all of them have amounts of xylotol in them. In fact, your body makes xylatol. Human beings make xylotol as a side product to glucose metabolism.
That's true. Now when you see these studies all of a sudden land in the marketplace, Catherine, that are you know, causing people to run for the run for the door and say, oh my gosh, I've been using violoto. Question it. Even the study author questions it. Doctor Stanley Hasen from Cleveland Clinic saying that using toothpaste and xylotol we're chewing a stick of gum with it, are probably not a problem. This study does not show xylotol
caused incidents of heart attack or stroke or death. The study merely reports simple alludes to an observational effect on platelets, and the people that they also observed were high risk people. This is the same kind of a hit piece that they did on a reathrotol not long ago, and Omega three not long ago. You have to understand there's an agenda behind this. I'm not going to stop using xylotol for sure, because it's really curbed all of my dental issues
and other problems as well. But again, listen to the whole forty five minutes of the diatribe from last week. Appreciate your call. I'm doctor Bob Martin. All right, doctor Bob Arkinson, sick with you. Thank you for tuning into the program today. Appreciate that. And if you tell your
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Let's get right back to work with your telephone calls and questions. Next up is Charlie calling in from Rudy, Arkansas. Good morning, Doctor Bob. My name is Charlie and I live in Rudy, Arkansas. I just found your show about a week ago. I have an issue. When I got out of the military back in the sixties, they put me on all kinds of drugs. But anyways, the one that I boudly liked or stayed with
was called adavan, and I stayed with it for fifty years. Now nobody can prescribe it for me, and they're cutting me off, and I need to know what to do. Thank you so much, okay, Charlie, thank you for your call and your service to our country. Sir, I appreciate that. Wow, Adavan for fifty years, that's a long time to take a drug like adavan. Adavan, by the way, is a benzo diazepin class of drugs, sedative drug folks, class of drugs that you might
recognize the word valium. That was the older category of benzo dasmin adavan. Now, I mean in some hospitals, I'm not hitting you on this. Some hospitals it's almost a running joke when somebody comes in and they're all stressed
and they're all hyped up, and they're anxious and wild. They the nurses and the doctors, they'll they'll talk to each other and say Okay, so, so and so in operatory room or examining table, this needs vitamin A. They refer to adavan, the drug the benzodesmen drug as vitamin a just as a code word, code code talk. It's weird. It's a drug that's prescribed to reduce symptoms of anxiety and panic attacks, which is all about
fear. Obviously, Charlie, while he was defending bravely our country in the military, developed an abnormal level of fear that he did not get and fifty years ago he went to a doctor and said, hey, doc, I'm just I'm anxious all the time. I can't you know, this stuff keeps rolling around in my head, things bad things that happened to me when I
was in the military. And the doctor at that point prescribed at a VAN And I think he said he was in the Veterans Administration and he may have had problems to sleep and agitation or restlessness, which is some of the reasons why the drug at a van, the benzo das have been class of drug was prescribed to him. But in addition to anxiety, at evan has prescribed for people too that have seizures and spasms and alcohol withdrawal and insomnia, so
it's used for a whole bunch of different things. It can be, of course used for depression as well, and that could be part of this, but it's really a drug for anxiety. Anxiety is about fear, curbing unusual, heightened, excessive fear, trying to get relief for people so they can live a you know, a normal somewhat normal life and quality of life. Not have you know that symptom just banging away on you. And it's usually prescribed for about four weeks. Did you hear Charlie from Rudy, Arkansas talk
about how he had been on it for fifty years? Folks? This is what is called science of modern medicine. Drugs that were earmarked for four weeks and this, you know, this includes a whole list of other drugs that you could pull out and they were short their short term bridges, or at least they're designed to be, but they never are, it seems, and
people stay on them just for life. I mean. It's great for the pharmaceutical companies and the doctors who have to get these visits in their offices, you know, repeat business, but it's not good for the patient long run. And the withdrawal symptoms. To Charlie, if you're listening, please don't withdraw from this drug suddenly. You have to be either under the guidance of
a pharmacist or a pharmacologist or a doctor to do this. Ad event can also deplete the hormone melatonin, which can which is your sleep hormone, which can exacerbate insomnia and make the problem actually worse, which then message your immune system up and everything else. Get to somebody who you can work with, Charlie that does functional medicine or integrated medicine that can deal with both the fear.
Get you on exercise, talk therapy, balance your chemistry out, give you options to withdraw off of this drug that they're cutting you off on. And I appreciate your phone called good health to you, Charlie, Take good care. I'm doctor Bob Marchin. What's wrong within, What's wrong with pin? What's wrong within? Continent? As fine content, It's time to get the tee. You're tuned into the Doctor Bob Martin Show. Now, don't
go anywhere because coming up soon I'm gonna be talking about tattoos. They're in the news again. I don't know if you've heard about this, tattoos associated with increased risk of lymphoma. That's a form of cancer, lymphoma. And size doesn't matter. If you have a tiny tattoo on your ankle or up near your shoulder, or you're tatted from the tip of your skull to your
feet, it doesn't matter. According to new Pew research, thirty two percent of US adults have tattoos, and twenty four percent of tattooed Americans regret ever getting one. But this is major news. A new study which I will talk about a little bit later, how tattoos are associated with a form of cancer called lymphomo. We'll get to that. Let's go back to your telephone calls and questions now. However, next up we say hello to Ruth in
Independence, Iowa. This is Ruth from Independence, Iowa. I would like to know what that phone number was on that hearing aide I didn't get it before. And also can you tell me why a person has post nasal drip and what they can do about it? It bothers me terrible. Thank you and I enjoy your show. Well, thank you for the call, Ruth, appreciate that. First of all, you may have something confused here,
Ruth, We've never talked about hearing aids on this show. You may have heard a commercial that was running on your local station about hearing aids that you are referring to. So what I would do is I would call your local radio station there in Independence, Iowa that you're getting the show from, and ask them in the sales department to help you with giving you information about the
hearing aid ad that you heard on that station number one. As far as the post nasal drip that you're having trouble with, it sounds very chronic. The body makes you know, snot and nasal secretions when it's trying to get rid of something, when it's trying to surround something and smother it. So nothing bad with it. It just means the problem that you have is ongoing.
It's not being solved. And a lot of people who have these post nasal drips, these things that just keep ongoing no matter what they do, usually have chronic low grade mold and yeast infections in their nasal sinuses sinus cavities. So a combination of using garlic and the one I like is aged garlic extract called kyolic kyol I see because garlic is a very potent anti fungal, anti mold, anti yeast supplement. Taking a tablespoon of that two or three
times a day and using what is called clear rescue nasal spray. Clear Rescue nasal spray it has biocytal agents in it that will go in there and help kill the mold fungus in east infection. Then cut way down or eliminate sugar, alcohol, and junk food that will help with this problem. And I thank you for your phone call. Good health to you, Ruth. I'm doctor Bob Martin,