April 20, 2026 • 44 mins
In an age where health headlines change by the hour and every scroll brings a new “expert,” The Dr. Bob Martin Show is bringing clarity back to the conversation. Join Dr. Adam Brockman and the legendary Dr. Bob Martin as they peel back decades of confusion to uncover one simple truth—your body is built to heal itself when you stop standing in its way. This episode dives into the root causes behind today’s chronic health crisis, exposes why the modern system profits from managing symptoms instead of restoring wellness, and empowers you with tools to reclaim control of your health naturally. No hype, no hidden agenda—just straight talk, real science, and the “Truth in Health.” Tune in and discover how to escape the medical assembly line and start living vibrantly, from the inside out.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Welcome to the number one radio health talk show in America,
The Doctor Bob Martin Show. Doctor Martin is a chiropractic physician,
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Speaker 3 (01:01):
Welcome to the Doctor Bob Martin Show. I'm doctor Adam Brockman,
and sitting across from me today is the legend himself,
the man who has spent decades peeling back the curtain
on what health is. And that's doctor Bob Martin. How
are your day, Doctor Bob.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
I'm doing fantastic, Doctor Brockman, hope you are as well
as our listeners.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
All right, let's get a good show going today, one
that is going to answer lots of listener questions. So, folks,
I want to be real for a second, though, we're
living with this information overload. We spend five minutes scrolling
through our phones and you'll get ten different so called
experts telling you ten different ways to eat and breathe
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and move, and it's enough to make your head spind
But that's why doctor Bob and I are here, and
our mission on the show isn't just to add more noise.
It's to be that signal soday we're going to help
try to provide some truth in health and and the
partnership between doctor Bob and myself it's it's built on
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a simple, yet a very radical philosophy, and that's that's
your body has an incredible innate ability to heal itself
if you just stop getting in the way. And we're
not interested in that that band aid approach. While we
have a lot of the healthcare system that's busy just
managing symptoms, which is really it's it's just a polite
(02:27):
way of saying that you're you're you're watching yourself get
get get worse slowly. And that's why, that's why doctor
Bob and I were interested in in vitality and longevity
and finding that root cause because I want I want
you to know that nearly eighty six percent of all
healthcare spinning in this country is tied to chronic conditions
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that are are largely they're they're preventable through lifestyle and nutrition.
And that eighty six percent, that's a huge number. It's
it's telling us that the system is broken. It's and
we need to basically get back to what our bodies
were designed to do. And we we want to help
you escape that assembly line of what healthcare is today.
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And so with the questions today, we're going to dive
into into those real world health hurdles that you're facing
right now. So we want to take off those those
blinders and we want to arm yourself with health facts.
So with that, doctor Bob, I want to get into
the email mail bag if callers, if they have questions,
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and it's easier for them to submit through our website,
which is really simple. All they got to do is
hit a hit our form at doctor bob dot com again,
that's doctor Bob dot com. Spell out the word doctor
d O C T O R Bob dot com. It's
a real simple way to get your question in front
of us. And uh and as of right now, we're
getting we're getting so many of those. I want to
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start with an email question and start with one from
Don in Phoenix, and she asked, Doctor Adam and doctor Bob,
I'm fifty four and my knees feel like they're filled
with broken glass every morning and my doctor just says
it's war and tear and told me to take ibuprofen
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every day? Is this just what my life is now?
And Doctor Bob, do you want to start with that?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
One? Would love to. First of all, ibuprofen is a
powerful and said drug. It's just like I look at
it like just a bigger asprint, if you will. And
inasmuch as it can block certain pain pathways, there's no
question about it. Some people get pretty good results with
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it in terms of blocking pain. But there's a downside,
a very dark side to ibuprofen. I mean, we could
sit here and talk about the potential side effects for
a long time, including leading in the gas room, intestino track,
increasing your risk of heart attack, and the list goes
on and on. But let's talk about the real problem
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that's never discussed about ibuprofen or taking other drugs like it.
It doesn't matter if it's ibuprofen or a leave nap person, motrin, aspirin.
It doesn't matter what happens when you take these drugs
to relieve pain, and human beings will relieve pain in
any manner they can. I don't have a problem with
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that until you can find out what's causing the pain.
These drugs, as you know, doctor Brockman, and are hopefully
our audience has heard, they should never be taken on
a long term basis. What is long term more than
three to five days. I have people that I know
that have landed in my office, and I'm sure yours,
Doctor brockn that have been taking ibuprofen, motrin, leave a naperson, aspirin,
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you name it, for months and sometimes years. Well, we
do when we find somebody with that, and it could
be that they have back pain, or neck pain, or
knee pain, or shoulder pain, some joint disturbance that their
doctors said well, just keep going. I mean, if you're
getting relief with these drugs, that's all there is, and
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that is all there is in conventional medicine. But it's
not all there is in the healthcare arena which we
serve people in because we know as physicians that if
you take these drugs long enough and that's more than
three to five days, they start breaking down the body's
ability to make new cartilage. What does that mean, Well,
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it means that if you do have arthritis in a
joint or some inflammatory process in the joint, taking the
drug is going to make the problem worse over time
because it interferes with your bodies healing process that is
struggling to help. So taking the drug more than three
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to five days for joint pain, any joint pain, is
going to increase the pain because you're actually destroying the
body's ability to lay down new cartilage. It actually is counterproductive.
That's why these drugs are only designed to be taken
for three to five days until you can get to
a physician or a doctor like doctor Brockman and others
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that can actually get to the reason why you're having
the pain and then actually give a solution for it.
The good news is you can change your diet, you
can change your lifestyle, you can change your ergonomics, your
position that you're in, and nature provides for us things
that can actually help the inflammation be quelled, and you
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can take supplementation help these joint problems. We've talked about
it Omega three fatty acids antioxidants one of the latest
breakthroughs on this, doctor Brockman, and I think you've been
talking about it as well. And doctor Earl Mindel, who
is the author of the Vitamin Bible. He's a pharmacist PhD.
(08:00):
He's been in the nutritional industry for years and years.
He's now recommending, as are we, a formula called APEX minerals.
These minerals are some people are calling them magical. They
are hydro thermal minerals. They're very different in their structure
and formulation than minerals you can find and let's say,
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on the health food store shelf or somewhere else. They
are a specific area of the country where they found
this layer of minerals and they were able to figure
out it has special qualities that when swallowed by human
beings within a short period of time, sometimes two weeks,
even four weeks, the joint inflammation, the joint pain goes
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away and they get better. And if you combine that
with exercise, lifestyle and other nutrients that support joint health,
you're going to get a better result. Doctor Brock, could
you please pull the phone number where people can find
a Pecks Joint Minerals so they can get started if
they have anchy brakes the joints, or some type of
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joint problem it's not getting well, or they want to
get off of their risky drugs. Their take.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yeah, yeah, that phone number for for Apex Joint Minerals
is it's eight four four nine four three one one
four four. Again, if you're listening, I want to write
this down. It's eight four four nine four three one
one four four. In their website, it's it's really easy.
It's Jointminerals dot Com. Again, that's Jointminerals dot com. And
(09:37):
uh and and yeah, doctor Bob, that was a great information, uh,
for for anybody that's having any type of joint pain
and using ibuprofen. Uh, you know, long term and and
I think also, you know, we want to start with
that foundation and that's reduced the inflammation. But ibuprofen only
quiets that pain signal. It doesn't fix that fire. So
(09:58):
just like you said chronic and said use from like ibuprofen,
it can harm the gut lining, it elevates blood pressure,
and it slows that cartilage repair. One final final thought,
and that's on the regendaive options like PRP and prolo therapy,
you know, peptides and stem cells. And we recently just
(10:19):
mentioned a great clinic that performs that, and that's Holistic
Care Clinic. And again, this website for this is Holisticcare
dot com. And folks, if you have questions for us
where you can get in touch with any of these
these these products or services that we've mentioned on the show,
please feel free to reach out to us at our
(10:39):
toll free hotline which is eight hundred six zero six
eight eight two two. Again it's eight hundred six zero
six eight eight two two, or through our website at
doctor Bob dot com. Okay, we got to take a
short break, but when we come back, we're going to
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Welcome now, we cave now.
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Welcome tune, Welcome back. You're tuned into the Doctor Bob
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we're just a phone call away at eight hundred six
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six or O six eight eight two to two. Okay,
doctor Bob, let's get back into some caller questions. This
is going to be a call from Angela in Boise, Idaho.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Angela and Boys, Idaho. I I would like to know
what the doctor recommends for neurotsy. Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Okay, doctor Bob, you want to start this one.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Happy to Angela. Thank you very much for your call
from Idaho. This is a problem, Dr Brockman, that a
lot of people go crazy over. And the reason they
go crazy over is they can't get results. They search
out doctors, they go to their general doctor. The general
doctor sends them Eventually after maybe trying drugs and recommendations
(14:06):
over to the neurologists. The neurologists gives them just another recommendation,
maybe stronger drugs, and it doesn't work, and the drugs
are often worse than the very condition that they're being
treated for. The neuropathy. Neuropathy is kind of a complicated condition.
It just means that something is going wrong with the nerves.
(14:27):
Usually it's peripheral neuropathy, meaning at the extremities, and usually
it starts in the feet. That's where people begin to
notice pins and needles and numbness and they can't feel
their feet and they don't know what to do about it,
and they you know, this is a condition that usually
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has an onset that's slow and insidious, and then it
just continues to get worse. And there's a combination of
reasons for it. But let me cut to some of
the more important things to consider. Since I wrote a
book about this years ago called Secret Nerve Cures, it
might be out there, it might be available somewhere. I'm
not sure it's out of print now, but I know
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there's people that have it and sell it, probably after
market stuff. But when I did the research on this book.
It was coupled with the decades that I spent treating
peripheral neuropathy patients who had usually been to their doctors,
many doctors, and they finally ended up in my office
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some way, somehow, and we were able to turn their
condition around most of the time.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
And some of these conditions that are neuropathies are very chronic,
they are recalcitrant. You've tried to help them and they're
so far gone. With the chronicity of the conditions, very difficult,
but we always try, and especially with natural forms of care,
they don't get worse as it relates to their condition
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or their general health, Whereas in a medical setting, when
they start giving them drugs that are earmarked for epilepsy,
which is usually the case with drugs that are given
for people who have neuropathy, they're taking drugs that originally
started for epilepsy, neuronton and various other drugs. They just
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don't work, and if you look up the side effects
of these drugs, it's worse than the neuropathy itself. So
now they have neuropathy on top of a whole long
list of side effects, lyrica, you name it. They just
don't work because they don't address the underlying problem. The
underlying problem many in many cases is blood sugar. You
get that under control, get their lifestyle neurologic, which means
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there's a spinal problem. They haven't had their monthly chiropractic checkups,
and they should and if they do, they're going to
get response most of the time better, especially if they
couple that with a dietary approach, which a lifestyle approach
and taking specific supplements that cause nerve regeneration nerve growth
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factor specifically, meaning when you take certain nutrients that are
lacking in your diet, such as alphalipoic acid, methyl cobolemin,
which is a form of vitamin B twelve. It's a
specific neuroactive form of B twelve called methyl cobolomin lions maine,
which is an herb that works very well on neuropathy,
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and vitamin B one in the form of a fat
soluble vitamin B one alei diamon or.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Or something similar to that. The combination of that along
with vitamin D hits the mark and then you monitor
that patient over sometimes months, because nerve tissue is slow
healing and it takes time. You got to be patient,
So you clear the spine with the chiropractic care, I
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would consider acupuncture. I would consider, uh, you know, anything
to bolster the body's stability to turn it around.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
Do it.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
And the drugs, the drugs, doctor Brockman, as you probably
well know, are a dead end street when it comes
to neuropathy. They don't work. Not only do they not work,
they make other conditions come up on the radar screen,
and now they have not only neuropathy, but something else.
So combination of those things that I mentioned. And I
want you to add into the conversation here, doctor Brockwen,
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what you've had results with with neuropity patients.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Yeah, and that was great, uh, you know, great results
out of everything that you mentioned there, doctor Bob. And
I just want to start with neuropathy. It's it's not
a disease, it's it's more of a consequence. So if
your nerves they're they're they're crying out maybe from damaged
circulation or or nutrient starvation, inflammation, or sometimes a toxin overload.
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So so that approach, it must go beyond that suppressing
pain in starting to nurture that repair, which again, as
doctor Bob said, is very slow, so you got to
fuel those nerves back to life. And with doctor Bob saying,
you mentioned the B vitamins, those are those building blocks
for that nerve regeneration, the B one, the B B twelve,
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those are definitely key in this component. But the deficiency
a lot of times is that is that root cause
of neuropathy. And you're talking about especially in diabetics or
those that are using metformin or protein pump inhibitors or
even statins. So these are our key to get back
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into into the system. If you're one that's some of
that regeneration, and you've got to restore that microcirculation. So
every nerve and needs oxygen, it needs nutrients, so so
get out and get moving and that will help to
also calm that inflammation. Uh, that the fire that is
causing some of that as well, because those those hyper
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excitable nerves, they're they're blasting these false pain signals. So
again we look at things like turmeric, uh, magnesium glycinate
that can help to reduce that that over firing and
uh you know, and again detox that that burden that
is is sometimes causing that neuropathy. That's that's from the
the toxins, the heavy metals.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
You know, it can be mold medications. You know, list
goes on and on. Uh, So figure out ways of
detox and UH. In building on what doctor Bob said
with with treating the body through through adjustments or movement,
you can also treat the nerves with with light and
that's literally you're talking. We're talking about low level laser
light therapy or infrared light therapy. It can help to
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change that. It increases uh atp uh production, which is
your cell's energy currency, and it helps from promote new
vessel growth. So those are great options and UH and
and finally, you know, as doctor Bob mentioned, the nerves
they heal slowly, but they do heal when that environment changes.
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So so focus on the progress. You know, measure improvements monthly,
not daily. And that numbness, it may start to fade
to tingling and then then maybe a warm and then
maybe that normal sensation. So that's what we're we're looking
at looking at that's that's regeneration in in real time.
So again, doctor Bob, great suggestions on neuropathy. We hope
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this gives you some insight, Angela and UH and folks,
it's time for a quick break again. But when we
come back, we'll get more to your questions. You're listening
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Welcome back Doctor Adam Brockman here, and you're tuned into
the Doctor Bob Martin Show. We're getting to your caller
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hundred and six or O six eight eighty two to two,
or reach us at our website which is doctor Bob
dot com. Okay, let's get onto another email question from
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doctor Bob dot com, and that is from Jorge in Miami.
And he asked, my cholesterol hit two thirty and my
doctor wants me on a statin immediately. I've heard horror
stories about muscle pain and memory loss. Are there real
alternatives that actually work for heart health? All right, doctor Bob,
(23:30):
and you want to take a Jorges question first?
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Yes, I do.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Or Hey, thank you for your phone call from Miami,
Florida today. It's a very common question.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
I'm glad he called because in answering his question, As
you know, Doctor Bob.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
There are a lot of people listening right now who
either have.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Cholesterol challenges themselves or they know somebody.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
It's huge. So this is an important question that we
need to delve into because so many people are confused.
We're starting with the number that he provided, two thirty cholesterol,
and I assume this means his total cholesterol number gives
us absolutely no information. Is it is useless to have
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just that number? But we can surmise, just by his
concern and his doctor's desire to put him on statin
for life, that it is something that we need to address,
and I think it needs to be addressed because some
other people may be in the same predicament. Number one,
we need to look at the whole profile. We need
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to look at his LDL, his low density lipe of
protein also known as the lousy type or the HDL,
the high density lipe of protein, which is more of
the good guys. We need to look at, you know,
the particle size of his cholesterol. We need to know
if any of the cholesterol that he's making is oxidized.
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These are tests, These are blood tests that his doctor
should have and could have performed and hope hopefully they did.
And poor Hey can provide us additional information and then
we can wax eloquent on more information at a later date. Meanwhile,
we'll take it from here. The other part of the
cholesterol situation is knowing that the body produces cholesterol for
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a reason. It is human beings couldn't live. We would
die without cholesterol.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
Cholesterol is essential to us as oxygen and water. We
have to have it and we wouldn't exist. So we
need to understand it's not an evil that you destroy.
The body makes excessive cholesterol. In response to here it
comes here's the payoff. Write this down inflammation, its inflammation
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as the smoking gun of high cholesterol, not cholesterol itself.
Cholesterol is an after product and after mark product, if
you will. The body is simply making a fat slick
to put into the bloodstream, to carry it to an
area where there's wounding going on or high inflammation, or fire,
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to put a fat slick over the fire, to try
to extinguish it, to try to put it out. So
the body just keeps cranking it out, making making making
more of it. Because the problem, the reason for the
cholesterol being going up, that means inflammation or high inflammation,
high sea reactive protein, high homocysteine, or some other inflammatory
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markers not being addressed.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
That's what needs to be addressed. I would ask Orges doctor,
did he run a cardiosensitive sea reactive protein The answer.
Speaker 6 (26:45):
Is probably no. Did he run a homo cysteine blood test?
The answer is probably know because those two blood factors
are more important than just cholesterol, especially just total cholesterol.
So we have no real findings here.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Like to know his trich lysterra i'd count, I want
to know if he was fasting during the blood etc.
So we start with this on a person with high,
you know, just to two thirty cholesterol. I would say
if it were my patient, I wouldn't put him on statins,
that's for sure, because the statins will do more damage
than good. They may lower the total cholesterol a little bit.
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In the meantime, though, they they're going to damage his
brain by damaging his microgilia and his brain so memory
loss Alzheimer's. It's going to send him on a pathway
to an increased risk of diabetes. It's going to cause
nerve damage, He'll have neuropathy. It's going to cause liver toxicity.
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He'll have liver cells that are dying like mad and
the list goes on and on. You look at the
side effects of these statin drugs, it's horrible. If they
worked and got to the cause, I wouldn't have a
problem with it. The reality is is that about fifty
percent of people who have heart attacks have perfect cholesterol
at about one hundred and fifty milligrams per deslol leader. Therefore,
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people with higher cholesterols actually live longer than those with
normal cholesterols and sometimes lower cholesterols depending on what kind
of cholesterol it is. And that's what we need to
sift through and tease away.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
We don't have that information right now, so I am
inclined to say, let's attack the inflammatory process first, not
even knowing what's going on underneath this, and leave the
cholesterol alone.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
It's a protective factor. It's just the big myth in medicine,
the big fraud in medicine. The drug companies love it
because they can just continue to sell these statin drugs
based on this fraudulent information that came about by this
doctor years and years ago. And that problem still exists today, unfortunately.
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Doctor Brockman.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Yeah, and you know we're talking about you know, Jorge,
you hit on something that millions of Americans are feeling,
and that's that statin forever one mentality, and it's it's
one of the biggest debates in modern medicine. We see
we see patients all the time who start a statin
and then suddenly their gym performance tanks because their muscles
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are screaming or their joints are screaming. And that that's
because statins they deplete co enzyme Q ten and that
is a spark plug for yourself. So that is one
thing that you need to to uh to probably look
at and replace one if you're on a statin or
two just for heart health in general, and in these
you know what doctor Bob said, cholesterol isn't some boogeyman.
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It's it's actually a vital building block for your hormones
in your brain. So the real danger is oxidize L
d L in that systemic inflammation. So for for heart
health again, coenzyme Q ten. We also look at things
like Coyolic age garlic extract. They have they have several
different cardiovascular formulas. You can find one that fits fits
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you at coyolic dot com. Great great products again, kyolic
age garlic extract, Coenzyme Q ten, red yeast rice. These
are all answers to that lipid management, nature's answers if
you will. But again we also have to look at
vitamin K two to make sure calcium goes into your
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bones and not your arteries, just flowing around your arteries
and so so, Jorge again, before you jump on a
lifetime prescription, look at these these markers. Like doctor Bob
mentioned the CRP in the home assisting, So again, Hora,
if you've got questions or you want to go into
further detail on that I encourage you to reach back
(30:41):
out through doctor Bob dot com. You can call us
eight hundred and six or oh six eight A two
to two Doctor Bob. We got to take a short break.
When we come back, we'll get into two more of
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So sorry, welcome back. You're listening to the Doctor Bob
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doctor Adam Brockman, and we're getting to your questions today.
And I also want to remind you that your your
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Doctor Bob, let's get into into more more questions and comments.
Next up, you mentioned in the first segment about secret
nerve cures. Linda in Utah wants to make a comment
on that.
Speaker 9 (34:07):
Hello, my name is Linda. I'm from the state of Utah.
The reason I'm calling is how do I go about
ordering a book? And I think you have a sequel
to it too, Secret Nerve Cures. At one time I
called in and doctor Bob Martin sent me that book
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and it has absolutely changed my life. It's helped me
so much. Well, my doctor, who is also a nature path,
would love to get a copy of this book, and
I can't seem to find I don't want to go
on Amazon. But how would I go about get seeing
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my doctor a copy of this book. I guess you'd
have to send it to me here in Utah. I
appreciate it. I listened to doctor Bob every Sunday, but
that was a book that Secret Nerve Tures has changed
my life.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
All right, Doctor Bob, do you want to go ahead
and comment on from Linda in Utah?
Speaker 4 (35:18):
I do, Linda, thank you for your call and appreciate
your kind words. So happy to hear that you responded
well to the information provided in the book. Unfortunately, because
this book was written quite a few years ago, you
may have to go to Amazon to find it.
Speaker 6 (35:37):
And if you can't navigate that, maybe you can have
somebody in your family or a friend do it for
you find the book. I'm sure there's a copy out
there somewhere that you can purchase and provide to your
nature pathic doctor so that he has that information that
you have and that would be great because he can
use that for his patients as well.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
And that's how we get the word out. That's we
get the process moving to help others in this regard. Again,
thanks again for your call, Lind.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Yeah, thank you very much for your call in comment, Linda.
We appreciate that. Well, Doctor Bob, we got a just
a couple of minutes left. And this is a common
question that we get on the show, and that's this
one comes from David in Austin, Texas, and he says,
I've been on a PPI A, which is a protein
pump inhibitor for acid reflux, for five years now. I'm
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reading that they can cause bone loss in B twelve deficiency.
How do I get off this stuff without my chest
feeling like it's on fire? And Doctor Bob, you want
to start this one too.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
Yes, this is common. I mean, you know, like seventy
eight thousand people on a daily basis in the United
States have problems like this. Acid a digestion, heartburn, gastrosopoagny
reflux otherwise known as GERD. They start with the mild stuff,
maybe hums or rolaids, and then you move on to
(37:02):
things that are much more potent. They go to their
doctor's office and they get prescription drugs like PPIs, the
pro tumbuminator drugs, or H two blocker drugs. Not good.
Speaker 6 (37:13):
These drugs do not address the underlying reason why they're
having acid. We need stomach acid. Stomach acid is your
best friend. It is a way to deodorize and get
rid of toxins and poisons that you come in contact with.
And it also of course turns that steak or that
piece of salmon you're going to eat into liquid so
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that you can digest in and absorb the nutrients. If
you stop the body making acid, which is critical, viruses
and bacteria and parasites and everything else are going to
have free rein over your body coming in through your
food and water. So it's not a good idea. These
drugs are only supposed to be taken on a temporary basis.
What is that three to five days at the most
(37:59):
until you can get to an integratively trained doctor like
doctor Brockman and I and other doctors nature pathic physicians,
chiropractic physicians, homeopathic physicians, or mds Ordos who are trained
in functional medicine. If you can find that kind of
a doctor, they can actually search out for you on
your behalf. The cause of the problem, and usually the
cause of the problem is either a heidel hernia, which
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is where your stomach has protruded up into your lower
esophageal sphincter and is spilling acid up into your esophagus
giving you heartburn caused.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
By eating late at night and laying down on a
full stomach, or that is caused by H. Pylori. You
may have an H. Pylori infection. According to the World
Health Organization, about sixty to seventy people have this infection
in your body attempts to burn it out by making
more acid. But if you get rid of the H.
Pylori infection in your stomach by using a combination of
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nutrients in Doctor Brockman, you've talked about this on the
show before, gum mastic and Kyle La garlic and doctor Ohis,
pro biotics and zinc carnosine. These are things that get
rid of this infection and suddenly your stomach doesn't make
all this acid that is trying to burn out this infection.
Is bug. So, yeah, there's a lot of ways to
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treat this, but it's not through drugs.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
Yeah, and David, this is a shocking reality for millions
of people. These these PPIs, these protein pump inhibitors. They were,
like doctor Bob said, originally intended for short term use.
Now people are on them for decades. And so the
irony is most of this reflux isn't caused by too
much acid. It's caused by too little. So if you
don't have enough acid to break down food, the food
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sits there, it ferments and creates that gas that pushes
the remaining acid up into the esophagus. And so again
what doctor Bob said, the great recommendations there, but this
is a is a conversation that we probably need to
go in further detail, Doctor Bob. It's a common one
that we get on the show, and folks, well, we
do have to take a quick break, but when we
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come back, we'll hit our final stretch for this hour.
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Bob and I we've covered some ground a day from
that broken glass in your joints to the fire in
your chest. And so if there's there's one thing I
want you to take away from this hour, it's this
that you are the CEO of your own health, not
your doctor, not your insurance company, and that you can
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also be your own best doctor most of the time,
and that that truth in health isn't always the easiest path.
It requires some discipline, and it requires questioning that that
status quo, and it require wires, a willingness to look
at the body as a whole, an integrated system, if
you will, rather than a collection of separate parts. And
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so whether you're managing inflammation through movement or fixing your
gut to save your bones, that power is in your hands.
And doctor Bob, again, thank you for joining this hour
and giving the insight that only you can do. You
have some final thoughts.
Speaker 4 (42:25):
I do just going with what you were saying.
Speaker 7 (42:29):
The theme, and that is the body is attempting to
stay steady in an equilibrium, keeping the terrain of your
body healthy so that it's less likely to get six,
so that you have resistance.
Speaker 4 (42:42):
When something goes wrong, it lowers the resistance and therefore
illness will follow. And that resistance could be something that
interfuces you by lack of sleep, not getting the right
type of diet and nutrients, mental stress, exposure to toxin's,
thermal stress, spiritual stress. These are all stressors that can
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bring the body down.
Speaker 6 (43:08):
And what we have to do, is, doctors, is teach
our patients how not to let that happen, and if
it does, how to get it right without having to
poison it at the same time, which is what the
medical profession is really all about.
Speaker 4 (43:23):
And again there's not a putdown. We need medical care
for emergency care, but people use it too often when
there are kinder, gentler techniques and tools that could be used,
and hopefully people come to this radio show to find
out about those.
Speaker 3 (43:39):
Yeah, well again, thanks doctor Bob and folks, you know,
doctor Bob and I were here to provide that map.
But you have to You have to ultimately drive the car.
So don't let another day go by where you're just
managing a decline. You can start advocating for yourself. You know,
when you go to the doctor, ask the hard questions.
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If there's a treatment plan that doesn't make sense to you,
or if you're being handed a pill for every illness,
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Welcome to the Doctor Bob Martin Show. I'm doctor Adam Brockman,
and sitting across from me today is the legend himself,
the man who has spent decades peeling back the curtain
on what health is. And that's doctor Bob Martin. How
are your day, Doctor Bob.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
I'm doing fantastic, Doctor Brockman, hope you are as well
as our listeners.
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All right, let's get a good show going today, one
that is going to answer lots of listener questions. So, folks,
I want to be real for a second, though, we're
living with this information overload. We spend five minutes scrolling
through our phones and you'll get ten different so called
experts telling you ten different ways to eat and breathe
(01:44):
and move, and it's enough to make your head spind
But that's why doctor Bob and I are here, and
our mission on the show isn't just to add more noise.
It's to be that signal soday we're going to help
try to provide some truth in health and and the
partnership between doctor Bob and myself it's it's built on
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a simple, yet a very radical philosophy, and that's that's
your body has an incredible innate ability to heal itself
if you just stop getting in the way. And we're
not interested in that that band aid approach. While we
have a lot of the healthcare system that's busy just
managing symptoms, which is really it's it's just a polite
(02:27):
way of saying that you're you're you're watching yourself get
get get worse slowly. And that's why, that's why doctor
Bob and I were interested in in vitality and longevity
and finding that root cause because I want I want
you to know that nearly eighty six percent of all
healthcare spinning in this country is tied to chronic conditions
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that are are largely they're they're preventable through lifestyle and nutrition.
And that eighty six percent, that's a huge number. It's
it's telling us that the system is broken. It's and
we need to basically get back to what our bodies
were designed to do. And we we want to help
you escape that assembly line of what healthcare is today.
(03:12):
And so with the questions today, we're going to dive
into into those real world health hurdles that you're facing
right now. So we want to take off those those
blinders and we want to arm yourself with health facts.
So with that, doctor Bob, I want to get into
the email mail bag if callers, if they have questions,
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and it's easier for them to submit through our website,
which is really simple. All they got to do is
hit a hit our form at doctor bob dot com again,
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a real simple way to get your question in front
of us. And uh and as of right now, we're
getting we're getting so many of those. I want to
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start with an email question and start with one from
Don in Phoenix, and she asked, Doctor Adam and doctor Bob,
I'm fifty four and my knees feel like they're filled
with broken glass every morning and my doctor just says
it's war and tear and told me to take ibuprofen
(04:13):
every day? Is this just what my life is now?
And Doctor Bob, do you want to start with that?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
One? Would love to. First of all, ibuprofen is a
powerful and said drug. It's just like I look at
it like just a bigger asprint, if you will. And
inasmuch as it can block certain pain pathways, there's no
question about it. Some people get pretty good results with
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it in terms of blocking pain. But there's a downside,
a very dark side to ibuprofen. I mean, we could
sit here and talk about the potential side effects for
a long time, including leading in the gas room, intestino track,
increasing your risk of heart attack, and the list goes
on and on. But let's talk about the real problem
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that's never discussed about ibuprofen or taking other drugs like it.
It doesn't matter if it's ibuprofen or a leave nap person, motrin, aspirin.
It doesn't matter what happens when you take these drugs
to relieve pain, and human beings will relieve pain in
any manner they can. I don't have a problem with
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that until you can find out what's causing the pain.
These drugs, as you know, doctor Brockman, and are hopefully
our audience has heard, they should never be taken on
a long term basis. What is long term more than
three to five days. I have people that I know
that have landed in my office, and I'm sure yours,
Doctor brockn that have been taking ibuprofen, motrin, leave a naperson, aspirin,
(05:50):
you name it, for months and sometimes years. Well, we
do when we find somebody with that, and it could
be that they have back pain, or neck pain, or
knee pain, or shoulder pain, some joint disturbance that their
doctors said well, just keep going. I mean, if you're
getting relief with these drugs, that's all there is, and
(06:11):
that is all there is in conventional medicine. But it's
not all there is in the healthcare arena which we
serve people in because we know as physicians that if
you take these drugs long enough and that's more than
three to five days, they start breaking down the body's
ability to make new cartilage. What does that mean, Well,
(06:34):
it means that if you do have arthritis in a
joint or some inflammatory process in the joint, taking the
drug is going to make the problem worse over time
because it interferes with your bodies healing process that is
struggling to help. So taking the drug more than three
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to five days for joint pain, any joint pain, is
going to increase the pain because you're actually destroying the
body's ability to lay down new cartilage. It actually is counterproductive.
That's why these drugs are only designed to be taken
for three to five days until you can get to
a physician or a doctor like doctor Brockman and others
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that can actually get to the reason why you're having
the pain and then actually give a solution for it.
The good news is you can change your diet, you
can change your lifestyle, you can change your ergonomics, your
position that you're in, and nature provides for us things
that can actually help the inflammation be quelled, and you
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can take supplementation help these joint problems. We've talked about
it Omega three fatty acids antioxidants one of the latest
breakthroughs on this, doctor Brockman, and I think you've been
talking about it as well. And doctor Earl Mindel, who
is the author of the Vitamin Bible. He's a pharmacist PhD.
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He's been in the nutritional industry for years and years.
He's now recommending, as are we, a formula called APEX minerals.
These minerals are some people are calling them magical. They
are hydro thermal minerals. They're very different in their structure
and formulation than minerals you can find and let's say,
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on the health food store shelf or somewhere else. They
are a specific area of the country where they found
this layer of minerals and they were able to figure
out it has special qualities that when swallowed by human
beings within a short period of time, sometimes two weeks,
even four weeks, the joint inflammation, the joint pain goes
(08:46):
away and they get better. And if you combine that
with exercise, lifestyle and other nutrients that support joint health,
you're going to get a better result. Doctor Brock, could
you please pull the phone number where people can find
a Pecks Joint Minerals so they can get started if
they have anchy brakes the joints, or some type of
(09:06):
joint problem it's not getting well, or they want to
get off of their risky drugs. Their take.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yeah, yeah, that phone number for for Apex Joint Minerals
is it's eight four four nine four three one one
four four. Again, if you're listening, I want to write
this down. It's eight four four nine four three one
one four four. In their website, it's it's really easy.
It's Jointminerals dot Com. Again, that's Jointminerals dot com. And
(09:37):
uh and and yeah, doctor Bob, that was a great information, uh,
for for anybody that's having any type of joint pain
and using ibuprofen. Uh, you know, long term and and
I think also, you know, we want to start with
that foundation and that's reduced the inflammation. But ibuprofen only
quiets that pain signal. It doesn't fix that fire. So
(09:58):
just like you said chronic and said use from like ibuprofen,
it can harm the gut lining, it elevates blood pressure,
and it slows that cartilage repair. One final final thought,
and that's on the regendaive options like PRP and prolo therapy,
you know, peptides and stem cells. And we recently just
(10:19):
mentioned a great clinic that performs that, and that's Holistic
Care Clinic. And again, this website for this is Holisticcare
dot com. And folks, if you have questions for us
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these these products or services that we've mentioned on the show,
please feel free to reach out to us at our
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doctor Bob, let's get back into some caller questions. This
is going to be a call from Angela in Boise, Idaho.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Angela and Boys, Idaho. I I would like to know
what the doctor recommends for neurotsy. Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Okay, doctor Bob, you want to start this one.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Happy to Angela. Thank you very much for your call
from Idaho. This is a problem, Dr Brockman, that a
lot of people go crazy over. And the reason they
go crazy over is they can't get results. They search
out doctors, they go to their general doctor. The general
doctor sends them Eventually after maybe trying drugs and recommendations
(14:06):
over to the neurologists. The neurologists gives them just another recommendation,
maybe stronger drugs, and it doesn't work, and the drugs
are often worse than the very condition that they're being
treated for. The neuropathy. Neuropathy is kind of a complicated condition.
It just means that something is going wrong with the nerves.
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Usually it's peripheral neuropathy, meaning at the extremities, and usually
it starts in the feet. That's where people begin to
notice pins and needles and numbness and they can't feel
their feet and they don't know what to do about it,
and they you know, this is a condition that usually
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has an onset that's slow and insidious, and then it
just continues to get worse. And there's a combination of
reasons for it. But let me cut to some of
the more important things to consider. Since I wrote a
book about this years ago called Secret Nerve Cures, it
might be out there, it might be available somewhere. I'm
not sure it's out of print now, but I know
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there's people that have it and sell it, probably after
market stuff. But when I did the research on this book.
It was coupled with the decades that I spent treating
peripheral neuropathy patients who had usually been to their doctors,
many doctors, and they finally ended up in my office
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some way, somehow, and we were able to turn their
condition around most of the time.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
And some of these conditions that are neuropathies are very chronic,
they are recalcitrant. You've tried to help them and they're
so far gone. With the chronicity of the conditions, very difficult,
but we always try, and especially with natural forms of care,
they don't get worse as it relates to their condition
(16:01):
or their general health, Whereas in a medical setting, when
they start giving them drugs that are earmarked for epilepsy,
which is usually the case with drugs that are given
for people who have neuropathy, they're taking drugs that originally
started for epilepsy, neuronton and various other drugs. They just
(16:23):
don't work, and if you look up the side effects
of these drugs, it's worse than the neuropathy itself. So
now they have neuropathy on top of a whole long
list of side effects, lyrica, you name it. They just
don't work because they don't address the underlying problem. The
underlying problem many in many cases is blood sugar. You
get that under control, get their lifestyle neurologic, which means
(16:46):
there's a spinal problem. They haven't had their monthly chiropractic checkups,
and they should and if they do, they're going to
get response most of the time better, especially if they
couple that with a dietary approach, which a lifestyle approach
and taking specific supplements that cause nerve regeneration nerve growth
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factor specifically, meaning when you take certain nutrients that are
lacking in your diet, such as alphalipoic acid, methyl cobolemin,
which is a form of vitamin B twelve. It's a
specific neuroactive form of B twelve called methyl cobolomin lions maine,
which is an herb that works very well on neuropathy,
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and vitamin B one in the form of a fat
soluble vitamin B one alei diamon or.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Or something similar to that. The combination of that along
with vitamin D hits the mark and then you monitor
that patient over sometimes months, because nerve tissue is slow
healing and it takes time. You got to be patient,
So you clear the spine with the chiropractic care, I
(18:01):
would consider acupuncture. I would consider, uh, you know, anything
to bolster the body's stability to turn it around.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
Do it.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
And the drugs, the drugs, doctor Brockman, as you probably
well know, are a dead end street when it comes
to neuropathy. They don't work. Not only do they not work,
they make other conditions come up on the radar screen,
and now they have not only neuropathy, but something else.
So combination of those things that I mentioned. And I
want you to add into the conversation here, doctor Brockwen,
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what you've had results with with neuropity patients.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Yeah, and that was great, uh, you know, great results
out of everything that you mentioned there, doctor Bob. And
I just want to start with neuropathy. It's it's not
a disease, it's it's more of a consequence. So if
your nerves they're they're they're crying out maybe from damaged
circulation or or nutrient starvation, inflammation, or sometimes a toxin overload.
(18:59):
So so that approach, it must go beyond that suppressing
pain in starting to nurture that repair, which again, as
doctor Bob said, is very slow, so you got to
fuel those nerves back to life. And with doctor Bob saying,
you mentioned the B vitamins, those are those building blocks
for that nerve regeneration, the B one, the B B twelve,
(19:23):
those are definitely key in this component. But the deficiency
a lot of times is that is that root cause
of neuropathy. And you're talking about especially in diabetics or
those that are using metformin or protein pump inhibitors or
even statins. So these are our key to get back
(19:43):
into into the system. If you're one that's some of
that regeneration, and you've got to restore that microcirculation. So
every nerve and needs oxygen, it needs nutrients, so so
get out and get moving and that will help to
also calm that inflammation. Uh, that the fire that is
causing some of that as well, because those those hyper
(20:05):
excitable nerves, they're they're blasting these false pain signals. So
again we look at things like turmeric, uh, magnesium glycinate
that can help to reduce that that over firing and
uh you know, and again detox that that burden that
is is sometimes causing that neuropathy. That's that's from the
the toxins, the heavy metals.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
You know, it can be mold medications. You know, list
goes on and on. Uh, So figure out ways of
detox and UH. In building on what doctor Bob said
with with treating the body through through adjustments or movement,
you can also treat the nerves with with light and
that's literally you're talking. We're talking about low level laser
light therapy or infrared light therapy. It can help to
(20:51):
change that. It increases uh atp uh production, which is
your cell's energy currency, and it helps from promote new
vessel growth. So those are great options and UH and
and finally, you know, as doctor Bob mentioned, the nerves
they heal slowly, but they do heal when that environment changes.
(21:13):
So so focus on the progress. You know, measure improvements monthly,
not daily. And that numbness, it may start to fade
to tingling and then then maybe a warm and then
maybe that normal sensation. So that's what we're we're looking
at looking at that's that's regeneration in in real time.
So again, doctor Bob, great suggestions on neuropathy. We hope
(21:36):
this gives you some insight, Angela and UH and folks,
it's time for a quick break again. But when we
come back, we'll get more to your questions. You're listening
to the Doctor Bob Martin Show. Are you waiting on
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How are you waiting to the time is right?
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Bye?
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Way?
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Speaker 3 (22:26):
Welcome back Doctor Adam Brockman here, and you're tuned into
the Doctor Bob Martin Show. We're getting to your caller
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That's spelled d O C T O R Bob dot com.
At doctor Bob that's where you can find doctor Bob
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to your health concerns. Again, you can call us eight
hundred and six or O six eight eighty two to two,
or reach us at our website which is doctor Bob
dot com. Okay, let's get onto another email question from
(23:09):
doctor Bob dot com, and that is from Jorge in Miami.
And he asked, my cholesterol hit two thirty and my
doctor wants me on a statin immediately. I've heard horror
stories about muscle pain and memory loss. Are there real
alternatives that actually work for heart health? All right, doctor Bob,
(23:30):
and you want to take a Jorges question first?
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Yes, I do.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Or Hey, thank you for your phone call from Miami,
Florida today. It's a very common question.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
I'm glad he called because in answering his question, As
you know, Doctor Bob.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
There are a lot of people listening right now who
either have.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Cholesterol challenges themselves or they know somebody.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
It's huge. So this is an important question that we
need to delve into because so many people are confused.
We're starting with the number that he provided, two thirty cholesterol,
and I assume this means his total cholesterol number gives
us absolutely no information. Is it is useless to have
(24:14):
just that number? But we can surmise, just by his
concern and his doctor's desire to put him on statin
for life, that it is something that we need to address,
and I think it needs to be addressed because some
other people may be in the same predicament. Number one,
we need to look at the whole profile. We need
(24:35):
to look at his LDL, his low density lipe of
protein also known as the lousy type or the HDL,
the high density lipe of protein, which is more of
the good guys. We need to look at, you know,
the particle size of his cholesterol. We need to know
if any of the cholesterol that he's making is oxidized.
(24:59):
These are tests, These are blood tests that his doctor
should have and could have performed and hope hopefully they did.
And poor Hey can provide us additional information and then
we can wax eloquent on more information at a later date. Meanwhile,
we'll take it from here. The other part of the
cholesterol situation is knowing that the body produces cholesterol for
(25:25):
a reason. It is human beings couldn't live. We would
die without cholesterol.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
Cholesterol is essential to us as oxygen and water. We
have to have it and we wouldn't exist. So we
need to understand it's not an evil that you destroy.
The body makes excessive cholesterol. In response to here it
comes here's the payoff. Write this down inflammation, its inflammation
(25:52):
as the smoking gun of high cholesterol, not cholesterol itself.
Cholesterol is an after product and after mark product, if
you will. The body is simply making a fat slick
to put into the bloodstream, to carry it to an
area where there's wounding going on or high inflammation, or fire,
(26:13):
to put a fat slick over the fire, to try
to extinguish it, to try to put it out. So
the body just keeps cranking it out, making making making
more of it. Because the problem, the reason for the
cholesterol being going up, that means inflammation or high inflammation,
high sea reactive protein, high homocysteine, or some other inflammatory
(26:35):
markers not being addressed.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
That's what needs to be addressed. I would ask Orges doctor,
did he run a cardiosensitive sea reactive protein The answer.
Speaker 6 (26:45):
Is probably no. Did he run a homo cysteine blood test?
The answer is probably know because those two blood factors
are more important than just cholesterol, especially just total cholesterol.
So we have no real findings here.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Like to know his trich lysterra i'd count, I want
to know if he was fasting during the blood etc.
So we start with this on a person with high,
you know, just to two thirty cholesterol. I would say
if it were my patient, I wouldn't put him on statins,
that's for sure, because the statins will do more damage
than good. They may lower the total cholesterol a little bit.
(27:21):
In the meantime, though, they they're going to damage his
brain by damaging his microgilia and his brain so memory
loss Alzheimer's. It's going to send him on a pathway
to an increased risk of diabetes. It's going to cause
nerve damage, He'll have neuropathy. It's going to cause liver toxicity.
(27:41):
He'll have liver cells that are dying like mad and
the list goes on and on. You look at the
side effects of these statin drugs, it's horrible. If they
worked and got to the cause, I wouldn't have a
problem with it. The reality is is that about fifty
percent of people who have heart attacks have perfect cholesterol
at about one hundred and fifty milligrams per deslol leader. Therefore,
(28:03):
people with higher cholesterols actually live longer than those with
normal cholesterols and sometimes lower cholesterols depending on what kind
of cholesterol it is. And that's what we need to
sift through and tease away.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
We don't have that information right now, so I am
inclined to say, let's attack the inflammatory process first, not
even knowing what's going on underneath this, and leave the
cholesterol alone.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
It's a protective factor. It's just the big myth in medicine,
the big fraud in medicine. The drug companies love it
because they can just continue to sell these statin drugs
based on this fraudulent information that came about by this
doctor years and years ago. And that problem still exists today, unfortunately.
(28:49):
Doctor Brockman.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Yeah, and you know we're talking about you know, Jorge,
you hit on something that millions of Americans are feeling,
and that's that statin forever one mentality, and it's it's
one of the biggest debates in modern medicine. We see
we see patients all the time who start a statin
and then suddenly their gym performance tanks because their muscles
(29:11):
are screaming or their joints are screaming. And that that's
because statins they deplete co enzyme Q ten and that
is a spark plug for yourself. So that is one
thing that you need to to uh to probably look
at and replace one if you're on a statin or
two just for heart health in general, and in these
you know what doctor Bob said, cholesterol isn't some boogeyman.
(29:35):
It's it's actually a vital building block for your hormones
in your brain. So the real danger is oxidize L
d L in that systemic inflammation. So for for heart
health again, coenzyme Q ten. We also look at things
like Coyolic age garlic extract. They have they have several
different cardiovascular formulas. You can find one that fits fits
(29:57):
you at coyolic dot com. Great great products again, kyolic
age garlic extract, Coenzyme Q ten, red yeast rice. These
are all answers to that lipid management, nature's answers if
you will. But again we also have to look at
vitamin K two to make sure calcium goes into your
(30:18):
bones and not your arteries, just flowing around your arteries
and so so, Jorge again, before you jump on a
lifetime prescription, look at these these markers. Like doctor Bob
mentioned the CRP in the home assisting, So again, Hora,
if you've got questions or you want to go into
further detail on that I encourage you to reach back
(30:41):
out through doctor Bob dot com. You can call us
eight hundred and six or oh six eight A two
to two Doctor Bob. We got to take a short break.
When we come back, we'll get into two more of
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Speaker 3 (33:07):
So sorry, welcome back. You're listening to the Doctor Bob
Martin Show, America's number one health talk radio program. I'm
doctor Adam Brockman, and we're getting to your questions today.
And I also want to remind you that your your
(33:28):
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Doctor Bob, let's get into into more more questions and comments.
Next up, you mentioned in the first segment about secret
nerve cures. Linda in Utah wants to make a comment
on that.
Speaker 9 (34:07):
Hello, my name is Linda. I'm from the state of Utah.
The reason I'm calling is how do I go about
ordering a book? And I think you have a sequel
to it too, Secret Nerve Cures. At one time I
called in and doctor Bob Martin sent me that book
(34:31):
and it has absolutely changed my life. It's helped me
so much. Well, my doctor, who is also a nature path,
would love to get a copy of this book, and
I can't seem to find I don't want to go
on Amazon. But how would I go about get seeing
(34:54):
my doctor a copy of this book. I guess you'd
have to send it to me here in Utah. I
appreciate it. I listened to doctor Bob every Sunday, but
that was a book that Secret Nerve Tures has changed
my life.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
All right, Doctor Bob, do you want to go ahead
and comment on from Linda in Utah?
Speaker 4 (35:18):
I do, Linda, thank you for your call and appreciate
your kind words. So happy to hear that you responded
well to the information provided in the book. Unfortunately, because
this book was written quite a few years ago, you
may have to go to Amazon to find it.
Speaker 6 (35:37):
And if you can't navigate that, maybe you can have
somebody in your family or a friend do it for
you find the book. I'm sure there's a copy out
there somewhere that you can purchase and provide to your
nature pathic doctor so that he has that information that
you have and that would be great because he can
use that for his patients as well.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
And that's how we get the word out. That's we
get the process moving to help others in this regard. Again,
thanks again for your call, Lind.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Yeah, thank you very much for your call in comment, Linda.
We appreciate that. Well, Doctor Bob, we got a just
a couple of minutes left. And this is a common
question that we get on the show, and that's this
one comes from David in Austin, Texas, and he says,
I've been on a PPI A, which is a protein
pump inhibitor for acid reflux, for five years now. I'm
(36:31):
reading that they can cause bone loss in B twelve deficiency.
How do I get off this stuff without my chest
feeling like it's on fire? And Doctor Bob, you want
to start this one too.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
Yes, this is common. I mean, you know, like seventy
eight thousand people on a daily basis in the United
States have problems like this. Acid a digestion, heartburn, gastrosopoagny
reflux otherwise known as GERD. They start with the mild stuff,
maybe hums or rolaids, and then you move on to
(37:02):
things that are much more potent. They go to their
doctor's office and they get prescription drugs like PPIs, the
pro tumbuminator drugs, or H two blocker drugs. Not good.
Speaker 6 (37:13):
These drugs do not address the underlying reason why they're
having acid. We need stomach acid. Stomach acid is your
best friend. It is a way to deodorize and get
rid of toxins and poisons that you come in contact with.
And it also of course turns that steak or that
piece of salmon you're going to eat into liquid so
(37:37):
that you can digest in and absorb the nutrients. If
you stop the body making acid, which is critical, viruses
and bacteria and parasites and everything else are going to
have free rein over your body coming in through your
food and water. So it's not a good idea. These
drugs are only supposed to be taken on a temporary basis.
What is that three to five days at the most
(37:59):
until you can get to an integratively trained doctor like
doctor Brockman and I and other doctors nature pathic physicians,
chiropractic physicians, homeopathic physicians, or mds Ordos who are trained
in functional medicine. If you can find that kind of
a doctor, they can actually search out for you on
your behalf. The cause of the problem, and usually the
cause of the problem is either a heidel hernia, which
(38:21):
is where your stomach has protruded up into your lower
esophageal sphincter and is spilling acid up into your esophagus
giving you heartburn caused.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
By eating late at night and laying down on a
full stomach, or that is caused by H. Pylori. You
may have an H. Pylori infection. According to the World
Health Organization, about sixty to seventy people have this infection
in your body attempts to burn it out by making
more acid. But if you get rid of the H.
Pylori infection in your stomach by using a combination of
(38:51):
nutrients in Doctor Brockman, you've talked about this on the
show before, gum mastic and Kyle La garlic and doctor Ohis,
pro biotics and zinc carnosine. These are things that get
rid of this infection and suddenly your stomach doesn't make
all this acid that is trying to burn out this infection.
Is bug. So, yeah, there's a lot of ways to
(39:12):
treat this, but it's not through drugs.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
Yeah, and David, this is a shocking reality for millions
of people. These these PPIs, these protein pump inhibitors. They were,
like doctor Bob said, originally intended for short term use.
Now people are on them for decades. And so the
irony is most of this reflux isn't caused by too
much acid. It's caused by too little. So if you
don't have enough acid to break down food, the food
(39:38):
sits there, it ferments and creates that gas that pushes
the remaining acid up into the esophagus. And so again
what doctor Bob said, the great recommendations there, but this
is a is a conversation that we probably need to
go in further detail, Doctor Bob. It's a common one
that we get on the show, and folks, well, we
do have to take a quick break, but when we
(39:59):
come back, we'll hit our final stretch for this hour.
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gift worth protecting. Welcome back, Doctor Adam Brockman here and
you're tuned into the Doctor Bob Martin Show, and Doctor
(41:25):
Bob and I we've covered some ground a day from
that broken glass in your joints to the fire in
your chest. And so if there's there's one thing I
want you to take away from this hour, it's this
that you are the CEO of your own health, not
your doctor, not your insurance company, and that you can
(41:46):
also be your own best doctor most of the time,
and that that truth in health isn't always the easiest path.
It requires some discipline, and it requires questioning that that
status quo, and it require wires, a willingness to look
at the body as a whole, an integrated system, if
you will, rather than a collection of separate parts. And
(42:08):
so whether you're managing inflammation through movement or fixing your
gut to save your bones, that power is in your hands.
And doctor Bob, again, thank you for joining this hour
and giving the insight that only you can do. You
have some final thoughts.
Speaker 4 (42:25):
I do just going with what you were saying.
Speaker 7 (42:29):
The theme, and that is the body is attempting to
stay steady in an equilibrium, keeping the terrain of your
body healthy so that it's less likely to get six,
so that you have resistance.
Speaker 4 (42:42):
When something goes wrong, it lowers the resistance and therefore
illness will follow. And that resistance could be something that
interfuces you by lack of sleep, not getting the right
type of diet and nutrients, mental stress, exposure to toxin's,
thermal stress, spiritual stress. These are all stressors that can
(43:07):
bring the body down.
Speaker 6 (43:08):
And what we have to do, is, doctors, is teach
our patients how not to let that happen, and if
it does, how to get it right without having to
poison it at the same time, which is what the
medical profession is really all about.
Speaker 4 (43:23):
And again there's not a putdown. We need medical care
for emergency care, but people use it too often when
there are kinder, gentler techniques and tools that could be used,
and hopefully people come to this radio show to find
out about those.
Speaker 3 (43:39):
Yeah, well again, thanks doctor Bob and folks, you know,
doctor Bob and I were here to provide that map.
But you have to You have to ultimately drive the car.
So don't let another day go by where you're just
managing a decline. You can start advocating for yourself. You know,
when you go to the doctor, ask the hard questions.
(44:01):
If there's a treatment plan that doesn't make sense to you,
or if you're being handed a pill for every illness,
it's time to take that new perspective and that's why
you're here joining the show. And I also encourage you
to join our community on our social pages, our social networks,
even our YouTube channel, and also go visit our website
(44:22):
at doctor Bob dot com and keep tuning into the show.
We're going to bring new ideas and fresh conversations each week.
So until next time, this is Doctor Adam Brockman and
Doctor Bob Martin for the Doctor Bob Martin Show. Stay proactive,
stay informed, and most importantly, stay healthy.
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