My audio wasn't working for this, so I had to sit there mute, which is a good thing for the listeners. Doctor Tamara Santa Anna carried out the interview.

Robert Yoho, MD

Jul 14, 2026

 

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This post is in three parts:

1. A summary of Martha Carlin’s fantastic book

2. A transcript of the interview, which was so good that you might read it first

3. An academic exploration of Sugar Shift, Martha Carlin’s revolutionary new 8-part probiotic. It helped her husband see almost unheard-of improvements in his Parkinson’s disease

1. Martha Carlin audits Parkinson’s in her new book:

 

 

Summary

 

• Carlin’s CONNECTED follows her late husband John’s 23-year journey with Parkinson’s and her parallel shift from corporate auditor to one of the country’s most original microbiome researchers.

• The book argues that chronic disease is a systems failure: antibiotic damage to mitochondria, glyphosate exposure, mineral depletion, and a gut microbiome stripped of keystone species set the stage decades before the first tremor.

• A 90-year-old Australian applied mathematician, Barry Ninham, provides the physics: the glycocalyx (the sugar-protein coating lining every cell), structured water, nanobubbles, and the breakdown of mean-field statistics in living tissue.

• The Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF) has raised $2.5 billion over 25 years, yet no cure has been produced. Carlin traces how Sergey Brin’s obsession with LRRK2 (Leucine-rich repeat kinase 2) funneled a decade of research into a single gene.

• A practical Appendix A outlines what to do: Take Martha’s Sugar Shift probiotic to lower endotoxin levels, Beam Minerals to bind glyphosate, Revásca for glycocalyx repair, fermented foods, and a soil-based probiotic called Dietzia, which is now in trials in Cuba and Bahrain for mycobacterial co-infection.

• The closing “Auditor’s Warning” on fluoroquinolone toxicity, which names Cipro (ciprofloxacin), Levaquin (levofloxacin), and Avelox (moxifloxacin), should be torn out and handed to every primary care doctor still prescribing these drugs for sinus infections.

Martha Carlin’s CONNECTED: Love, Loss, and the Unseen Forces Behind Chronic Disease arrived this spring from Silversmith Press. 346 pages, 27 chapters, four appendices, and a closing “Auditor’s Warning” on fluoroquinolone damage. The book is part memoir, part scientific reckoning, and part field manual for anyone who suspects modern medicine has lost the plot on chronic disease. It may be the most important book on Parkinson’s published in 20 years. Order it from the references at the bottom of the post.