January 27, 2025 • 40 mins
Eating too much steak and bacon may raise the risk of dementia later in life, a government-funded study suggests. Harvard researchers studied 133,000 adults for decades. Details on The Dr. Bob Marttin ShowDr. Bob Martin answers health questions from callers on a variety of topics
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dooc tr bob dot com. All right, as promised, I'm
going to be talking now about how dementia. There's been
an explosion in dementia now linked to one of America's
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favorite foods, knowing that it's it's related, and science is
proving that this food could increase your risk of dementia,
losing your ability to remember things. You're cognitive skills, your
executive function.
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Thinking and all of that.
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You might think about this a little bit, and then
we're going to get to that shortly here, and then
we're going to go to phone calls that have come
in people looking for help. And that's what this show
is dedicated to. It's what it's all about, getting and
giving help to people in need of help as it
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relates to health and wellness. And again I want to
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pine pollen extract. And if you missed that hour last hour,
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bob dot com to hear that entire hour, because before
we brought doctor Said Moustag on the air, I also
discussed the all important topic that hit about a week
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week and a half ago about how red dye number
three in foods and medicines and candies there's a linkage
of cancer there and I did a big segment on that,
so you might want to listen to that. It's in
the podcast library over at doctor Bob dot com. All right,
let's get into this latest breaking news about dementia explosion,
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and it is exploding in the United States, there's no
question about it. But it's now linked to one of
America's favorite food one of my favorite foods. About all
fifty years ago was the last time that I consumed
red meat. Oh my gosh, this is going to hurt
the feelings. There might be a bruise tomorrow. Eating too
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much steak and bacon raised the risk of dementia later
in life. A government funded study is now suggesting Harvard
researchers looked at one hundred and thirty three thousand adults
for over four decades. They studied them and evaluated how
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much processed and how much unprocessed red meats they ate
on an average basis per day. And I got to
tell you that when I grew up in the Midwest,
we had red meat three times a day. We had
bacon in the morning, we had hamburgers at lunch, and
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we had steak at night. Three times a day. I
ate red meat until I was about I think around
age twenty one is the end of my red meat
eating days. Age twenty one, once I learned the same
thing that I'm now telling you, but I didn't know
that it caused an increase in dementia. To eat red meat.
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I just gave it up for a whole bunch of
other reasons. Now I'm not a vegetarian. I certainly do
consume fish and poultry, but no red meat, no pork,
no beef. These researchers found eating one serving of processed
red meat roughly two slices of bacon. By the way,
you have an option. You can have turkey, bacon, turkey
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sausage instead of beef for pork. It's out there, it's organic.
Find it, look at natural grocery stores. But in their
case these researchers, they found that eating just one serving
of process red meat roughly two slices of bacon, or
a single sausage made from either beef or pork, was
linked to a thirteen percent increased risk of dementia. Nobody
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wants dementia. You want to have a working mind all
the way to the end, right, not your head.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Please.
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Well, this particular study concluded that someone could cut the
risk of getting the memory robbing disorder of dementia by
a whopping twenty eight percent by replacing a single portion
a day of processed red meat with the same amount
of fish. Can you say salmon?
Speaker 4 (08:25):
You know?
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We're talking about wild caught salmon. Perhaps that's probably one
of the better options, but there are others, of course,
and you don't have to give up the red meat
if you don't want to just start ushering it out.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
It was hard for me to get off red meat.
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I can tell you that I went through a lot
of mental torment because when you're eating it three times
a day for like twenty years and you say no more,
that's it. You're scrambling psychologically and physically, you think, and
then everything's just fine, and you learn that you can survive.
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Well.
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This particular research team more controversial finds that they talked
about here was that consuming at least one serving of
unprocessed meat let's say sirloin's steak or ground beef that
would be like a hamburger or lamb, for example, was
linked to a sixteen percent increased chance of you losing
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your ability to have optimal cognition in thinking and memory.
It starts declining. We're talking about loss of memory, loss
of concentration, loss of judgment. That's what dementia, and the
worst form of dementia horses Alzheimer's disease, and these symptoms
of loss of memory, loss of concentration, loss of judgment.
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They're precursors to dementia, the worst of which being Alzheimer's
dementia and red meat. According to this study on one
hundred and thirty three thousand men and women over forty years.
That's what they determined. It's not me saying this. It
is well known that red meat eaten into excess is
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linked to colon cancer. That's well known because of the
chemicals added to the meat and the preservatives that are
produced when it's cooked. But this team at Massachusetts General
Brigham Young say there is evidence eating too much process
red meat may contribute put it on the list to dementia. Now,
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so there's the question, will you cut back, cut back,
way back on red meat and place of something else.
We'll get back into this after this break. You won't
want to miss it. This is a big topic America.
Is one of America's favorite foods causing a dementia explosion.
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Red meat will get into it. The rest of it.
I'm doctor Bob Martin.
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I'm gonna stand by.
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Because you're tea end of the Doctor Bob Martin Show.
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Thank you for that.
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I'm so glad you dropped in today to learn about
health and wellness. And I know that when you learn
something that you may be doing, that you enjoy and
that you've been doing a long time, and you learn
something that may be slightly negative or not pleasant to
learn about, it can be harsh. I don't want this
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to be harsh. I want you to know that if
you eat red meat once in a while, it's not
gonna be any big deal. It's not get the large
picture here, meaning, and these researchers are pointing it out.
We're talking about the recent find an explosion linked to
dementia with people consuming red meat, a lot of red
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meat each day, which I did growing up living in
the Midwest.
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It's what you do.
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You have entire freezer in the basement full of carcass
that your parents go down, dig out and throw it
on a barbie, and that's what you do.
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You eat it.
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As a child, I didn't know any better. I had
nothing else served up. But when I learned about the risks,
I started to modify my behavior in terms of eating
and started shifting away from red meat and more to
a plant based diet. You can too if you choose to,
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but don't do it just because I said do it,
because the research out there is so strong, so compelling
that red meat increases not only colon cancer that is
solidly been determined, and constipation because it has zero fiber
in it, and a lot of the beef in the
United States, of course, is full of hormones and antibiotics
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and god only knows what else. So now you have experts,
of course, learning about this study about one of America's
favorite foods twenty eight percent. Wow, and how this can
be according to these researchers, how it can be a
determent to your brain long term. And of course now
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you have on top of that the naysayers who are
going to come in behind it and say no, no, no.
And of course the beef industry is going crazy now
because it's going to affect their bottom line, and they,
of course higher experts to say, oh, no, no, no, the
studies are flawed. With this recent research on unprocessed red
meats or processed red meats, it's only observational and they
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don't account for it the other lifestyle factors. Well, you're
talking about one hundred and thirty three thousand people over
four decades. And finally they come up with the answer,
and that is that if the more red meat you eat,
the more dementia risk you have. Who wouldn't be yielding
to that science. But a strength of the new research
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is that it analyzed people who answered detailed questions on
their diet every two to four years and who were
tracked to see if they got dementia for decades up to.
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Forty three years.
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Processed red meats contain things like nitrates. There's where the
colon cancer comes in, added as a preservative to keep
it from going bad or turning to what it really
looks like, which is gray, instead of the red meat
they want you to see in the meat counter at
the grocery store. You like to see it nice and
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red and nice and shiny, just think that it's fresh.
It's not those preservatives that go into these meats keep
them like that, which may cause molecules called free radicals
to get out of control and damage your body, your colon,
your brain. Plus the high salt content of these foods
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like bacon, can also lead to high blood pressure, damaging
blood vessels, reducing blood flow to the brain and leading
to vascular dementia. The second most common form of dementia
behind Alzheimer's disease. Now, the study was published in the
journal Neurology. If you want to look it up, if
you're anasayer on this, because believe me, if somebody would
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have handed me this when I was like eighteen years
of age and I was still eating meat three times
a day, I would have said, Ah.
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That's nonsense.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Sim had eating red meat for eighteen years and I'm
still upright, my eyes still open in the morning. These
there are going to be people who are saying, right now,
I've been eating red meat for fifty years.
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I'm good. Look at me.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Well, this study you can look it up for yourself.
Published in the journal Neurology, looked at the data on
health professionals in the US who signed up for the
research studies in middle age. The results of the study
suggest someone someone's brain was nearly two years older based
on cognitive function for an extra portion of processed red
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meat they ate per day. So red meat, the more
you eat, the more rap it ages your brain. Prematurely
ages your brain. Nobody wants a prematurely aged brain.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Do you want to have lights out in the brain
early on? I don't.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
I want to be like these people that I talked
to that are in their nineties that are sharpest tax
or over that. We had a doctor on doctor Gladys McGarry,
God rest her soul, one hundred and two years of age,
a medical doctor and sharp as a tax until the
very end. And that's the way it should be. That's
the way it ought to be, if you take good
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care of yourself and you pay attention to these things.
Red meat part of the smoking gun behind red meat.
When it is digested, the body produces a substance called
TMAO that's the initials for trimethylene and oxide TMAO, which
can be tested in your bloodstream, and if it's high,
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scientists believe it may contribute to the build up of
proteins in the brain seen in dementia. One of the researchers,
doctor Wang, said reducing how much red meat a person
eats and replacing it with other protein sources and plant
based options could be included in dietary guidelines to promote
cognitive health. Currently, there's around eight million Americans currently having
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some form of dementia, and they're around five hundred thousand
new cases that are diagnosed every single year. However, those
who steer clear of red meat also are more likely
to exercise, quit smoking, and add more fruits and veggies
to their diets. And so folks that takeaway here is
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this eat less red meat in case this research is
accurate as it relates to putting you at a greater
risk of dementia, and try to, whenever possible, eat more.
And if you do eat red meat, try to go
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out and get organic red meat. If you're going to
do it, when you do it, so that you know
that it's not pumped full of hormones and antibiotics and
other chemicals that can derail your body functioning optimally, and
by all means, be sure whatever you do avoid processed
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red meats, and try to find fresh fish like salmon
and other fish that are low in mercury. And eat
more organic poultry like turkey, Eat clean wild caught fish,
and use when possible, these plant based proteins which are available.
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And when we get later into the show, to the
closer to the last hour of the show and into
the health alternative of the week, you're going to learn
what doctor Bobby eats a lot of.
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Oh yeah, you're.
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Going to learn what I replaced in my diet substantially
in place of the red meat I was eating three
times a day. Because when you learn about these things
and what they can do to you, it sort of
like takes you into a whole new way of thinking,
and it is not easy to get away from habits
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that you've been involved in for decades. Trust me, it
was tough for me to contemplate never eating red meat
in my life again at age about twenty twenty one,
which is when had happened for me when I switched
out of that. So it's been like fifty years since
I've had red meat. I don't miss it because there's
plenty of other things to chow down on to get
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your protein, and we just talked about some of it.
I'll get into some more of it next hour, and
especially during the Health Alternative of the week. You're going
to learn substantially what my diet is all about and
how I maintain optimal health, and you may want to
consider it, So stick around.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
When we come back from this break.
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However, we've got a couple of messages to get a
hold up here, and we'll get to your phone calls
and your question. So stick around. You're tuned into the
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then let's get to your telephone calls and questions.
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Our number here.
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If you want to call into the show, you're gonna
hear people calling in now asking questions about health. You
can do the very same thing. The only bad health
question is the one you're not asking. I'm waiting for
your phone call. I can't wait to try to help
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The number into the show for health related questions or comments,
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toll free nationwide eight hundred six zero six eight eight
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Here we go. First up is Kristen in Orlando, Florida.
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This is Kristin from Orlando. The other day, you were
talking about people having problems with colonoscopies. What do you suggest.
Are you suggesting that people don't get tlenoscopies to look
for colon cancer? They can't be right. Someone had mentioned
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they had problems with a polyp bleeding or something after
they removed it, and you said something to the effect
of that you shouldn't get colonoscopies anymore. That doesn't make sense.
Please answer me on the air.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Okay, Kristin, Well, thank you for your phone call. First
of all, you may want to go back and re
listen to that conversation that I had with another caller.
I would never tell somebody directly not to get a colonoscopy.
I would only tell myself to do that, because I
will never ever have a colonoscopy, no way, not after
I've learned what I've learned about colonoscopies. But for you,
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if you want to get colonoscopies, you had the prerogative
for that, you know, so I would never tell anybody
to do that. But what you should do is learn
about colonoscopies before you endeavor down that path, that slippery slope. Actually,
I educate people on my website about this very topic.
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And you can go to doctor Bob dot com my website,
and up at the very top of the page, you'll
see a little tab that says self help, and just
click on that and you'll see a drop down that
says colonoscopy. Click on that and you will be able
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to read the top thirty things to know before choosing
colonoscopy the thirty things to know. These thirty things to
know before choosing colonoscopy are not told to patients who
are getting ready to have a colonoscopy. Doctors would be
there with their patients too long, and they have so
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many minutes to get or done, like you know, six
to maybe ten minutes on each visit going from and
summer longer obviously, and some are shorter, but they just
don't have the ability or the desire to go through
the top thirty three things that people should know before
choosing a colonoscopy. But I put that on the website
for the very reason over there at doctor Bob dot
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com and you'll see the page title self help, then
the drop down colonoscopy. My point is, colonoscopy can find
potential serious coal allgions.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Before they get worse.
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Yes, However, there's no guarantee it will spot cancer.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
There's no guarantee.
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In fact, if you go back and look at the history,
if somebody call by the name of Tony Snow, I
don't know if you remember Tony Snow or not, American
journalist and press secretary to President George W.
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Bush.
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He had a history and his family of colon cancer. Father, brother,
they all had colon cancer. So he was paranoid about
ever developing colon cancer. So what did he do? He
had colonoscopy's done like almost every six months or even
more than that. And they every time they did a
colonoscopy on him, and he went through all that drink
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that you have to drink that purges everything, and all
this stuff that you have to do.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Horrible, horrible.
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He eventually got colon cancer and they told him that
every six months he had normal, a normal colonoscopy. Yeah, Tony,
it's normal, normal, normal. Oh, by the way, you have
colon cancer now after having many years where the colon colonoscopies,
So there's no guarantee. Just learn the top thirty things
to know before you get it if you choose to
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get it. That's all I'm saying. There's benefits, there's risks,
that's the key, Kristen. But I do appreciate your phone call.
And that's just that easy to call in ladies and gentlemen.
It's the doctor Bob Martin Show.
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So I'm a bossom and number sumimcible, the one never
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single days.
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A powerful I don't I'm stoppable today?
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All right, doctor Bob marching back with you.
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Taking phone calls on the topic of health and hopefully
knocking them out of the park.
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That's the goal.
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That's my desire to help as many people as I
can and be as accurate as I can. Oh yeah,
I'm opinionated, there's no question about it. I'll tell you
the truth. I'm not going to hold anything back. But
whatever decision you make on behalf of yourself is your
decision to make. I'm just here to sort of guide
you along and give you information that you may not
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otherwise have. And therefore you only have maybe half of
the information you need to make a good decision, and
it's better to get the complete picture.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
It's called due diligence.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
It's I mean, people spend more time investigating purchasing an
automobile or a refrigerator than they do investigating things about
their health, as in buying a product or seeing a
specific doctor or having a specific procedure done. They'll spend
more time investigating a car purchase and a refrigerator than
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those things. And yet these inanimate objects like a car
or a refrigerator can be replaced. It's just about money.
Whereas if you go to a doctor, or you have
a procedure done, or you take a drug, or you
do something medical, maybe the last thing you ever do.
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So it's important to investigate and perform due diligence when
it comes to the most important thing in your life,
your most precious thing, your health, your wellness.
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That's key.
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We take it so often for granted, and we really shouldn't.
And I'm just as guilty in the past of doing
that too, and I hope you can learn from my
errors and the errors of others. All right, now, let's
get back to your telephone calls. By the way, we
a week or so ago we had a little or
toll free number into the show.
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There was some technical difficulty.
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We have straightened that out now and we have our
usual toll free number into the program, just like the
last caller, Kristen, who called in from Orlando, Florida. You
can call into the program with your health question or
your health comment. If you see or hear something on
the show you want to comment on or things along
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that line, you may call. Here's the number to have.
Keep this just in case you need to have that
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The number is eight hundred six zero six eight a
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And remember the website doctor bob dot com because that's
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to Terry in Anchorage, Alaska.
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Kerry, Anchorage, Alaska. I have a similar problem to one
of your callers. Numbness on my left and it used
to be up and down both arms. Doctor has done
several MRIs. Early, the youngest doctor I talked to said,
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I have a bones for sticking into my spine, but
there's nothing wrong with my dis talk to another next surgeon.
He warned me that I might need multiple next surgeries.
I do have stenosis. He wants to do a four
five six fusion. I guess to relieve the pain. In
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order to get that done, my insurance wants me to
do multiple weeks of physical therapy prior to even approving
the surgery. Let me know if there's any advice you have.
Thank you.
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All right, Terry from Anchorage, We go from Florida to
Alaska here on the Doctor Bob Martin Show. Look, I'm
so glad you called into the program, Terry, because the
very last thing you ever need to consider is next surgery.
Next surgery is serious, serious stuff, and there's no turning
back from next surgery. You'll never be the same. You'll
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have extreme limitations. But of course your doctors are trying
to think benefit risk here. They're believing that you're so
far gone with the degenerative joint disease in your neck
that all they have to do is they want to
stabilize it now so it doesn't get any worse. I
don't know how it can get any worse based on
what you're describing, but I think you can avoid it
if you get to the right care and physical therapy
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is probably not going to hit the mark. That's just
the insurance company just slowing you down on your trek
towards a big ticket item that they're going to have
to pay for. They're just hoping and praying they're doing
a hell, Mary, No, what you should do is find
a chiropractor, a chiropractic physician that knows about DRX nine
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thousand necktraction to try to avoid nex fusion surgery DRX
nine thousand necktraction. Also you can use low force instruments
chiropractic instruments. One is called activator methods on people who
have what you have successfully and then you need to
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get a at home cervical traction unit cervical pillow. I
would also try acupuncture massages. There be anything you can
try before ever considering next surgery, which can be a
total disaster. There's no guarantee it'll help you and you
it could even paralyze you. So DRX nine thousand nettraction
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is what you need to look into. Terry, thank you
for your call. I wish you well. I'm doctor Bob Martin.
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It's a form of arthritis, by the way, gout of arthritis.
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And it's usually painful where these urcastic crystals migrate toward the.
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Toe and the ankle and the big toe and the foot.
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One, Donna, if you have it, if it's not a
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eating less sugar, and less animal meats because those are
the things that drive it hy purine foods, sugar, desserts, candies,
ice creams, soda pops. All of that more water, and
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celery seed extract, celery seed extract, and also get some
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Mix it one third cherry juice, concentrate to two thirds water.
Drink about a pint of that a day, along with
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let's get into this latest breaking news about dementia explosion,
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and it is exploding in the United States, there's no
question about it. But it's now linked to one of
America's favorite food one of my favorite foods. About all
fifty years ago was the last time that I consumed
red meat. Oh my gosh, this is going to hurt
the feelings. There might be a bruise tomorrow. Eating too
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much steak and bacon raised the risk of dementia later
in life. A government funded study is now suggesting Harvard
researchers looked at one hundred and thirty three thousand adults
for over four decades. They studied them and evaluated how
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much processed and how much unprocessed red meats they ate
on an average basis per day. And I got to
tell you that when I grew up in the Midwest,
we had red meat three times a day. We had
bacon in the morning, we had hamburgers at lunch, and
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we had steak at night. Three times a day. I
ate red meat until I was about I think around
age twenty one is the end of my red meat
eating days. Age twenty one, once I learned the same
thing that I'm now telling you, but I didn't know
that it caused an increase in dementia. To eat red meat.
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I just gave it up for a whole bunch of
other reasons. Now I'm not a vegetarian. I certainly do
consume fish and poultry, but no red meat, no pork,
no beef. These researchers found eating one serving of processed
red meat roughly two slices of bacon. By the way,
you have an option. You can have turkey, bacon, turkey
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sausage instead of beef for pork. It's out there, it's organic.
Find it, look at natural grocery stores. But in their
case these researchers, they found that eating just one serving
of process red meat roughly two slices of bacon, or
a single sausage made from either beef or pork, was
linked to a thirteen percent increased risk of dementia. Nobody
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wants dementia. You want to have a working mind all
the way to the end, right, not your head.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Please.
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Well, this particular study concluded that someone could cut the
risk of getting the memory robbing disorder of dementia by
a whopping twenty eight percent by replacing a single portion
a day of processed red meat with the same amount
of fish. Can you say salmon?
Speaker 4 (08:25):
You know?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
We're talking about wild caught salmon. Perhaps that's probably one
of the better options, but there are others, of course,
and you don't have to give up the red meat
if you don't want to just start ushering it out.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
It was hard for me to get off red meat.
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I can tell you that I went through a lot
of mental torment because when you're eating it three times
a day for like twenty years and you say no more,
that's it. You're scrambling psychologically and physically, you think, and
then everything's just fine, and you learn that you can survive.
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Well.
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This particular research team more controversial finds that they talked
about here was that consuming at least one serving of
unprocessed meat let's say sirloin's steak or ground beef that
would be like a hamburger or lamb, for example, was
linked to a sixteen percent increased chance of you losing
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your ability to have optimal cognition in thinking and memory.
It starts declining. We're talking about loss of memory, loss
of concentration, loss of judgment. That's what dementia, and the
worst form of dementia horses Alzheimer's disease, and these symptoms
of loss of memory, loss of concentration, loss of judgment.
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They're precursors to dementia, the worst of which being Alzheimer's
dementia and red meat. According to this study on one
hundred and thirty three thousand men and women over forty years.
That's what they determined. It's not me saying this. It
is well known that red meat eaten into excess is
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linked to colon cancer. That's well known because of the
chemicals added to the meat and the preservatives that are
produced when it's cooked. But this team at Massachusetts General
Brigham Young say there is evidence eating too much process
red meat may contribute put it on the list to dementia. Now,
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so there's the question, will you cut back, cut back,
way back on red meat and place of something else.
We'll get back into this after this break. You won't
want to miss it. This is a big topic America.
Is one of America's favorite foods causing a dementia explosion.
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Red meat will get into it. The rest of it.
I'm doctor Bob Martin.
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I'm gonna stand by.
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Because you're tea end of the Doctor Bob Martin Show.
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Thank you for that.
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I'm so glad you dropped in today to learn about
health and wellness. And I know that when you learn
something that you may be doing, that you enjoy and
that you've been doing a long time, and you learn
something that may be slightly negative or not pleasant to
learn about, it can be harsh. I don't want this
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to be harsh. I want you to know that if
you eat red meat once in a while, it's not
gonna be any big deal. It's not get the large
picture here, meaning, and these researchers are pointing it out.
We're talking about the recent find an explosion linked to
dementia with people consuming red meat, a lot of red
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meat each day, which I did growing up living in
the Midwest.
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It's what you do.
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You have entire freezer in the basement full of carcass
that your parents go down, dig out and throw it
on a barbie, and that's what you do.
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You eat it.
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As a child, I didn't know any better. I had
nothing else served up. But when I learned about the risks,
I started to modify my behavior in terms of eating
and started shifting away from red meat and more to
a plant based diet. You can too if you choose to,
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but don't do it just because I said do it,
because the research out there is so strong, so compelling
that red meat increases not only colon cancer that is
solidly been determined, and constipation because it has zero fiber
in it, and a lot of the beef in the
United States, of course, is full of hormones and antibiotics
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and god only knows what else. So now you have experts,
of course, learning about this study about one of America's
favorite foods twenty eight percent. Wow, and how this can
be according to these researchers, how it can be a
determent to your brain long term. And of course now
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you have on top of that the naysayers who are
going to come in behind it and say no, no, no.
And of course the beef industry is going crazy now
because it's going to affect their bottom line, and they,
of course higher experts to say, oh, no, no, no, the
studies are flawed. With this recent research on unprocessed red
meats or processed red meats, it's only observational and they
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don't account for it the other lifestyle factors. Well, you're
talking about one hundred and thirty three thousand people over
four decades. And finally they come up with the answer,
and that is that if the more red meat you eat,
the more dementia risk you have. Who wouldn't be yielding
to that science. But a strength of the new research
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is that it analyzed people who answered detailed questions on
their diet every two to four years and who were
tracked to see if they got dementia for decades up to.
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Forty three years.
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Processed red meats contain things like nitrates. There's where the
colon cancer comes in, added as a preservative to keep
it from going bad or turning to what it really
looks like, which is gray, instead of the red meat
they want you to see in the meat counter at
the grocery store. You like to see it nice and
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red and nice and shiny, just think that it's fresh.
It's not those preservatives that go into these meats keep
them like that, which may cause molecules called free radicals
to get out of control and damage your body, your colon,
your brain. Plus the high salt content of these foods
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like bacon, can also lead to high blood pressure, damaging
blood vessels, reducing blood flow to the brain and leading
to vascular dementia. The second most common form of dementia
behind Alzheimer's disease. Now, the study was published in the
journal Neurology. If you want to look it up, if
you're anasayer on this, because believe me, if somebody would
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have handed me this when I was like eighteen years
of age and I was still eating meat three times
a day, I would have said, Ah.
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That's nonsense.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Sim had eating red meat for eighteen years and I'm
still upright, my eyes still open in the morning. These
there are going to be people who are saying, right now,
I've been eating red meat for fifty years.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
I'm good. Look at me.
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Well, this study you can look it up for yourself.
Published in the journal Neurology, looked at the data on
health professionals in the US who signed up for the
research studies in middle age. The results of the study
suggest someone someone's brain was nearly two years older based
on cognitive function for an extra portion of processed red
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meat they ate per day. So red meat, the more
you eat, the more rap it ages your brain. Prematurely
ages your brain. Nobody wants a prematurely aged brain.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Do you want to have lights out in the brain
early on? I don't.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
I want to be like these people that I talked
to that are in their nineties that are sharpest tax
or over that. We had a doctor on doctor Gladys McGarry,
God rest her soul, one hundred and two years of age,
a medical doctor and sharp as a tax until the
very end. And that's the way it should be. That's
the way it ought to be, if you take good
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care of yourself and you pay attention to these things.
Red meat part of the smoking gun behind red meat.
When it is digested, the body produces a substance called
TMAO that's the initials for trimethylene and oxide TMAO, which
can be tested in your bloodstream, and if it's high,
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scientists believe it may contribute to the build up of
proteins in the brain seen in dementia. One of the researchers,
doctor Wang, said reducing how much red meat a person
eats and replacing it with other protein sources and plant
based options could be included in dietary guidelines to promote
cognitive health. Currently, there's around eight million Americans currently having
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some form of dementia, and they're around five hundred thousand
new cases that are diagnosed every single year. However, those
who steer clear of red meat also are more likely
to exercise, quit smoking, and add more fruits and veggies
to their diets. And so folks that takeaway here is
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this eat less red meat in case this research is
accurate as it relates to putting you at a greater
risk of dementia, and try to, whenever possible, eat more.
And if you do eat red meat, try to go
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out and get organic red meat. If you're going to
do it, when you do it, so that you know
that it's not pumped full of hormones and antibiotics and
other chemicals that can derail your body functioning optimally, and
by all means, be sure whatever you do avoid processed
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red meats, and try to find fresh fish like salmon
and other fish that are low in mercury. And eat
more organic poultry like turkey, Eat clean wild caught fish,
and use when possible, these plant based proteins which are available.
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And when we get later into the show, to the
closer to the last hour of the show and into
the health alternative of the week, you're going to learn
what doctor Bobby eats a lot of.
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Oh yeah, you're.
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Going to learn what I replaced in my diet substantially
in place of the red meat I was eating three
times a day. Because when you learn about these things
and what they can do to you, it sort of
like takes you into a whole new way of thinking,
and it is not easy to get away from habits
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that you've been involved in for decades. Trust me, it
was tough for me to contemplate never eating red meat
in my life again at age about twenty twenty one,
which is when had happened for me when I switched
out of that. So it's been like fifty years since
I've had red meat. I don't miss it because there's
plenty of other things to chow down on to get
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your protein, and we just talked about some of it.
I'll get into some more of it next hour, and
especially during the Health Alternative of the week. You're going
to learn substantially what my diet is all about and
how I maintain optimal health, and you may want to
consider it, So stick around.
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When we come back from this break.
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Here we go. First up is Kristen in Orlando, Florida.
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This is Kristin from Orlando. The other day, you were
talking about people having problems with colonoscopies. What do you suggest.
Are you suggesting that people don't get tlenoscopies to look
for colon cancer? They can't be right. Someone had mentioned
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they had problems with a polyp bleeding or something after
they removed it, and you said something to the effect
of that you shouldn't get colonoscopies anymore. That doesn't make sense.
Please answer me on the air.
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Okay, Kristin, Well, thank you for your phone call. First
of all, you may want to go back and re
listen to that conversation that I had with another caller.
I would never tell somebody directly not to get a colonoscopy.
I would only tell myself to do that, because I
will never ever have a colonoscopy, no way, not after
I've learned what I've learned about colonoscopies. But for you,
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if you want to get colonoscopies, you had the prerogative
for that, you know, so I would never tell anybody
to do that. But what you should do is learn
about colonoscopies before you endeavor down that path, that slippery slope. Actually,
I educate people on my website about this very topic.
(27:14):
And you can go to doctor Bob dot com my website,
and up at the very top of the page, you'll
see a little tab that says self help, and just
click on that and you'll see a drop down that
says colonoscopy. Click on that and you will be able
(27:35):
to read the top thirty things to know before choosing
colonoscopy the thirty things to know. These thirty things to
know before choosing colonoscopy are not told to patients who
are getting ready to have a colonoscopy. Doctors would be
there with their patients too long, and they have so
(27:56):
many minutes to get or done, like you know, six
to maybe ten minutes on each visit going from and
summer longer obviously, and some are shorter, but they just
don't have the ability or the desire to go through
the top thirty three things that people should know before
choosing a colonoscopy. But I put that on the website
for the very reason over there at doctor Bob dot
(28:18):
com and you'll see the page title self help, then
the drop down colonoscopy. My point is, colonoscopy can find
potential serious coal allgions.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Before they get worse.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Yes, However, there's no guarantee it will spot cancer.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
There's no guarantee.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
In fact, if you go back and look at the history,
if somebody call by the name of Tony Snow, I
don't know if you remember Tony Snow or not, American
journalist and press secretary to President George W.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
Bush.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
He had a history and his family of colon cancer. Father, brother,
they all had colon cancer. So he was paranoid about
ever developing colon cancer. So what did he do? He
had colonoscopy's done like almost every six months or even
more than that. And they every time they did a
colonoscopy on him, and he went through all that drink
(29:17):
that you have to drink that purges everything, and all
this stuff that you have to do.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Horrible, horrible.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
He eventually got colon cancer and they told him that
every six months he had normal, a normal colonoscopy. Yeah, Tony,
it's normal, normal, normal. Oh, by the way, you have
colon cancer now after having many years where the colon colonoscopies,
So there's no guarantee. Just learn the top thirty things
to know before you get it if you choose to
(29:45):
get it. That's all I'm saying. There's benefits, there's risks,
that's the key, Kristen. But I do appreciate your phone call.
And that's just that easy to call in ladies and gentlemen.
It's the doctor Bob Martin Show.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
So I'm a bossom and number sumimcible, the one never
(30:21):
single days.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
A powerful I don't I'm stoppable today?
Speaker 4 (30:34):
All right, doctor Bob marching back with you.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Taking phone calls on the topic of health and hopefully
knocking them out of the park.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
That's the goal.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
That's my desire to help as many people as I
can and be as accurate as I can. Oh yeah,
I'm opinionated, there's no question about it. I'll tell you
the truth. I'm not going to hold anything back. But
whatever decision you make on behalf of yourself is your
decision to make. I'm just here to sort of guide
you along and give you information that you may not
(31:08):
otherwise have. And therefore you only have maybe half of
the information you need to make a good decision, and
it's better to get the complete picture.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
It's called due diligence.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
It's I mean, people spend more time investigating purchasing an
automobile or a refrigerator than they do investigating things about
their health, as in buying a product or seeing a
specific doctor or having a specific procedure done. They'll spend
more time investigating a car purchase and a refrigerator than
(31:42):
those things. And yet these inanimate objects like a car
or a refrigerator can be replaced. It's just about money.
Whereas if you go to a doctor, or you have
a procedure done, or you take a drug, or you
do something medical, maybe the last thing you ever do.
(32:03):
So it's important to investigate and perform due diligence when
it comes to the most important thing in your life,
your most precious thing, your health, your wellness.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
That's key.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
We take it so often for granted, and we really shouldn't.
And I'm just as guilty in the past of doing
that too, and I hope you can learn from my
errors and the errors of others. All right, now, let's
get back to your telephone calls. By the way, we
a week or so ago we had a little or
toll free number into the show.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
There was some technical difficulty.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
We have straightened that out now and we have our
usual toll free number into the program, just like the
last caller, Kristen, who called in from Orlando, Florida. You
can call into the program with your health question or
your health comment. If you see or hear something on
the show you want to comment on or things along
(33:00):
that line, you may call. Here's the number to have.
Keep this just in case you need to have that
conversation with doctor Bob Margin. It is free ninety nine.
The number is eight hundred six zero six eight a
two two eight hundred six zero six eight eight two two.
And remember the website doctor bob dot com because that's
(33:23):
where all news health news related information is that I
post up there for your learning and your entertainment. You
can also find pathways to see what I'm posting up
on Instagram x and LinkedIn over there on the website
at doctor bob dot com. And if you ever miss
a show there, it is in the podcast library.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
It's all there.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Eight hundred six zero six eight eight two two the number. Now,
let's get back to work. Next up, we say hello
to Terry in Anchorage, Alaska.
Speaker 8 (33:56):
Kerry, Anchorage, Alaska. I have a similar problem to one
of your callers. Numbness on my left and it used
to be up and down both arms. Doctor has done
several MRIs. Early, the youngest doctor I talked to said,
(34:21):
I have a bones for sticking into my spine, but
there's nothing wrong with my dis talk to another next surgeon.
He warned me that I might need multiple next surgeries.
I do have stenosis. He wants to do a four
five six fusion. I guess to relieve the pain. In
(34:43):
order to get that done, my insurance wants me to
do multiple weeks of physical therapy prior to even approving
the surgery. Let me know if there's any advice you have.
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
All right, Terry from Anchorage, We go from Florida to
Alaska here on the Doctor Bob Martin Show. Look, I'm
so glad you called into the program, Terry, because the
very last thing you ever need to consider is next surgery.
Next surgery is serious, serious stuff, and there's no turning
back from next surgery. You'll never be the same. You'll
(35:26):
have extreme limitations. But of course your doctors are trying
to think benefit risk here. They're believing that you're so
far gone with the degenerative joint disease in your neck
that all they have to do is they want to
stabilize it now so it doesn't get any worse. I
don't know how it can get any worse based on
what you're describing, but I think you can avoid it
if you get to the right care and physical therapy
(35:48):
is probably not going to hit the mark. That's just
the insurance company just slowing you down on your trek
towards a big ticket item that they're going to have
to pay for. They're just hoping and praying they're doing
a hell, Mary, No, what you should do is find
a chiropractor, a chiropractic physician that knows about DRX nine
(36:08):
thousand necktraction to try to avoid nex fusion surgery DRX
nine thousand necktraction. Also you can use low force instruments
chiropractic instruments. One is called activator methods on people who
have what you have successfully and then you need to
(36:29):
get a at home cervical traction unit cervical pillow. I
would also try acupuncture massages. There be anything you can
try before ever considering next surgery, which can be a
total disaster. There's no guarantee it'll help you and you
it could even paralyze you. So DRX nine thousand nettraction
(36:50):
is what you need to look into. Terry, thank you
for your call. I wish you well. I'm doctor Bob Martin.
(37:15):
Well you happen to be tuned into the Doctor Bob
Martsin's Show, our final segment this hour, But don't go anywhere,
because coming up we're gonna have for you this week's
installments of the Health Alternative of the Week, the Health
Outrage of the Week, We've got a product recall to
tell you about, and the health Mystery. And next hour,
(37:37):
I'm gonna be telling you what I eat substantially in my.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
Diet to stay healthy. You do not want to miss that.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
We've also got a story about one hundred and twenty
four year old woman who shares her secrets of long
life one hundred and twenty four years of age. All
of that coming up here on the Doctor Bob Mark
and Show. Now we're going to go shift a little
bit away from the phone calls coming into the program.
(38:05):
And by the way, you hear these callers calling into
the show, you can do the very same thing in
the privacy of your home or business. Just pick up
the telephone and call the following eight hundred number. You
will hear me answer the phone. I will simply ask
you to state your first name, first name, only your
(38:26):
state and city, and then your question, either your health
question or health comment, and then I'll put that on
the air and answer your question that number. Keep it,
pass it on to all your sick family members, loved ones,
and friends and co workers neighbors. Eight hundred six zero
six eight eight two to two. One eight hundred six
(38:47):
zero six eight eight two two gives you access to
this radio program to have your health question answered or
to make your health related comment, and of course the
website always doctor Bob dot com spelling out the word doctor.
Now we're going to go to the emails. We also
get emails through my website because people just don't want
(39:10):
to call. I guess the eight hundred number, and that's fine.
I prefer the toll free number so that we can
hear your voice, your lovely voice, and your questions stated
so that it's in real time. And in this case,
we had Donna E calling in sending an email into
my website from the state of Arkansas simply asking doctor Martin,
(39:36):
can you help with gout? And what can I do
with this problem? Well, it's kind of rare for a
woman to have gout.
Speaker 4 (39:47):
It's a form of arthritis, by the way, gout of arthritis.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
And it's usually painful where these urcastic crystals migrate toward the.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
Toe and the ankle and the big toe and the foot.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
One, Donna, if you have it, if it's not a
misdiagnosis on a female, you need to be drinking more water,
eating less sugar, and less animal meats because those are
the things that drive it hy purine foods, sugar, desserts, candies,
ice creams, soda pops. All of that more water, and
then at the health food store go over and buy
(40:22):
celery seed extract, celery seed extract, and also get some
pure cranberry juice or cherry juice. Cherry juice would be better.
Mix it one third cherry juice, concentrate to two thirds water.
Drink about a pint of that a day, along with
celery seed extract and those dietary changes, and your gout
(40:42):
will be toast. All right, Donna, thank you for that.
We'll be right back. I'm doctor Bob Martin.
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