WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:09.000 From the Hill Country in Texas, this is OneRadioNetwork.com. 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:16.000 Well, very pleasant. Good morning to you. Welcome back. Patrick Timpone and this is 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:23.240 OneRadioNetwork.com. Nice to be here with you. It is the 20th of June and on the third 00:00:23.240 --> 00:00:30.000 Wednesday of each month, we have the honor and pleasure of talking with Dr. Ray Peat. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:37.920 He's a PhD in biology from the University of Oregon, specialized in physiology. He taught 00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:44.760 schools at University of Oregon, Urbana College, Montana State University, National College 00:00:44.760 --> 00:00:55.680 of Naturopathic Medicine, Universidad in Veracruzanza in Mexico. He spent some time down there and 00:00:55.680 --> 00:01:01.520 that's how he taught us, learned how to de-nextimalization of corn. He taught us about that. So he did 00:01:01.520 --> 00:01:10.920 a lot of work with progesterone and he's with us, as I said, for the last third Wednesday, 00:01:10.920 --> 00:01:18.280 third Monday, I'll get it, of each month. He's on the 800 line, that's the one we use. 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:26.000 So if you'd like to ask him a question, the way to do it is Patrick@OneRadioNetwork.com. 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:29.760 Tells me before the show that they have a lot of water up there in the Northwest. Good 00:01:29.760 --> 00:01:35.560 morning, Dr. Peat. Good morning. Yeah, almost every day now for 00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:41.000 weeks and weeks. Is that right? Wow. Have you seen some of the droughty stuff going 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:48.640 on in Arizona and Texas? Boy, we are really going through it. Yeah, I guess our drought's 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:56.720 over here at least. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the last time we talked a few times ago, you were 00:01:56.720 --> 00:02:05.120 looking at moving more into more carbs, carbohydrates, you were talking about that. And I came across 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:10.320 some video, Dr. Peat, that somebody sent me about these things called oxalates, you know, 00:02:10.320 --> 00:02:16.240 in the vegetables? So I'm listening to this lady, the PhD type, sound really... So she 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:22.840 got me all wound up about researching oxalates. And since I don't sleep, I thought, well, 00:02:22.840 --> 00:02:30.560 maybe oxalates are causing... So I just cut out all my oxalates and there's nothing left 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:35.040 but meat. So I'm doing the opposite of you. So I, you know, I shouldn't do that. You have 00:02:35.040 --> 00:02:38.880 a PhD in nutrition. I'm doing the opposite of what you're doing. So I don't know if I'm 00:02:38.880 --> 00:02:51.640 on the right track here. I tend to avoid the leaves that are high oxalic just because the 00:02:51.640 --> 00:02:57.040 effect on your teeth is so harsh. On your teeth? Oh, I didn't know the teeth. Oxalates 00:02:57.040 --> 00:03:02.960 are these little small, they kind of razor blade kind of things that the plants create. 00:03:02.960 --> 00:03:13.640 And where else do they go in the body? They strongly bind calcium and magnesium. They 00:03:13.640 --> 00:03:23.640 bind calcium and magnesium. Yeah. And so it forms stones in the kidneys. But as it passes 00:03:23.640 --> 00:03:32.480 through your mouth, it makes your teeth rough. So it's taking calcium right out of your enamel. 00:03:32.480 --> 00:03:38.840 No kidding. I mean, and even the Mayo Clinic, I saw that people with kidney stones, they 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:46.360 recommend you don't eat spinach. Yeah. I mean... Rhubarb is similar. Rhubarb. So what are the 00:03:46.360 --> 00:03:53.480 other... So the ones I were doing that were high Dr. Peat were almonds and spinach and chard. 00:03:53.480 --> 00:04:01.800 I was really doing a lot of high oxalate foods. Yeah, they do taste good if they're cooked 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:14.440 until the magnesium and calcium somewhat react to protect your teeth. Now when you cook spinach, 00:04:14.440 --> 00:04:24.480 you still have the oxalates, correct? Oh, yeah. If you do it with baking soda, that 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:38.400 to a certain extent antagonizes the destructive effect of oxalate. Baking soda? Really? Would 00:04:38.400 --> 00:04:44.000 we ever want to take baking soda like ongoing or anything? Oh, yeah. Lots of people like 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:56.880 to cook their spinach and chard. It makes it softer very quickly and has a much different 00:04:56.880 --> 00:05:06.200 taste. Bright green color. My goodness. Very fresh taste. And it actually disperses the 00:05:06.200 --> 00:05:14.200 oxalates from the spinach? It gets in their way. It gets in their way. They don't react 00:05:14.200 --> 00:05:23.240 so much. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's curious. So what if you would take baking 00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:28.520 soda just in water? Some people like to do that one or two times a day just because... 00:05:28.520 --> 00:05:36.120 Any benefit, do you think? Oh, yeah. Athletes have demonstrated that taking a tablespoon 00:05:36.120 --> 00:05:46.560 and a half a glass or so of water before an endurance race, it improves things for several 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:57.640 hours. Wow. That's a lot. A tablespoon. Yeah. A lot of people do one teaspoon at a time. 00:05:57.640 --> 00:06:10.520 So how does it affect performance for athletes? It suppresses the formation of lactic acid 00:06:10.520 --> 00:06:21.120 and so it postpones fatigue and actually lets you make more energy with less stress. And 00:06:21.120 --> 00:06:32.080 what effects would it have then on the stomach and acid and all that? Baking soda. Oh, it 00:06:32.080 --> 00:06:43.960 is quickly absorbed and almost as quickly the sodium starts acting as a diuretic and 00:06:43.960 --> 00:06:58.920 so leaves the body, taking the alkaline part out of the body. There are enzymes in place 00:06:58.920 --> 00:07:12.480 that when the pH rises because the sodium has left, the CO2 is converted from the bicarbonate 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:24.280 that you ate into the gas, which is soluble inside cells. And so very quickly after taking 00:07:24.280 --> 00:07:35.440 some baking soda, the pH inside cells such as in your brain becomes more acidic. Acidic 00:07:35.440 --> 00:07:45.280 or alkaline? No, more acidic, surprisingly. Everyone was assuming that it would be alkaline. 00:07:45.280 --> 00:07:55.040 Yeah, but the alkali goes away in the urine very quickly and because of the enzymes all 00:07:55.040 --> 00:08:06.160 through your body, when the pH drops because the sodium is gone, then instantly the bicarbonate 00:08:06.160 --> 00:08:15.840 is turned into intracellular gas. The gas is soluble inside cells and so lowers the 00:08:15.840 --> 00:08:26.880 pH inside cells. Inside the cells. And is that a good thing, Dr. Peat? Yeah. The slightly 00:08:26.880 --> 00:08:45.600 acidic cell 6.8 pH is metabolically efficient. The inefficiency known as the Warburg effect 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:58.560 involves a rising pH in which lactic acid is formed and acidifies the whole region. 00:08:58.560 --> 00:09:08.920 And so if you lower the pH, you suppress the formation of lactic acid, making your metabolism 00:09:08.920 --> 00:09:14.440 much more efficient. That's why it increases endurance. Could that help thyroid if your 00:09:14.440 --> 00:09:22.680 metabolism is up? Oh yeah, it interferes with what the thyroid is doing. Interesting. Yeah, 00:09:22.680 --> 00:09:28.600 we had a Dr. Robert O. Young on, he's a pH guy, and he recommended taking baking soda 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:35.680 a couple of times a day just in general. He didn't say that the cells actually get more 00:09:35.680 --> 00:09:42.520 acid though. He's always talking about how things are better alkaline, but it's interesting. 00:09:42.520 --> 00:09:48.120 I wonder how that would affect someone that would have cancer cells running around. Would 00:09:48.120 --> 00:10:01.000 that be good? Oh yeah, everyone pretty much has some cells that are very much like cancer 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:12.800 cells in that they are stuck in the condition of inefficiency in which they're producing 00:10:12.800 --> 00:10:19.520 lactic acid rather than good energy. Oh, so that's what the cancer cells are doing. They're 00:10:19.520 --> 00:10:28.880 creating lactic acid. Yeah, and in the process, they leave the cell where the acid has been 00:10:28.880 --> 00:10:43.200 created, taking away acidity from the interior of the cell. When you form lactic acid in 00:10:43.200 --> 00:10:55.280 a stressed cell, that means the interior of the cell is more alkaline than it should be, 00:10:55.280 --> 00:11:06.880 and that blocks endurance metabolism, blocks oxidative metabolism, and it's efficient. 00:11:06.880 --> 00:11:20.640 And so that inefficiency keeps the cell producing lactic acid in a vicious circle. And just 00:11:20.640 --> 00:11:30.240 increasing your CO2 or your bicarbonate, you can break that vicious circle. Isn't that 00:11:30.240 --> 00:11:38.160 interesting? Well, I've been looking at, you can get a CO2 tank that's made of aluminum 00:11:38.160 --> 00:11:42.680 so it's not too heavy so you can carry it, and then one of those little suits that you 00:11:42.680 --> 00:11:46.600 can put up. So I'm going to do it. I'll let you know how we do with that. It's kind of 00:11:46.600 --> 00:11:58.080 fun. Oh yeah. And when you have been under stress, you can see your skin looking pale 00:11:58.080 --> 00:12:09.920 and anemic. And within 15 or 20 minutes of being immersed in CO2, you can feel your skin. 00:12:09.920 --> 00:12:17.400 Well, actually if you step into a big bag of it, you can feel it on your sensitive parts 00:12:17.400 --> 00:12:25.720 immediately. In about 20 minutes, you can see your skin getting pink. Yeah. Yeah, they 00:12:25.720 --> 00:12:31.520 have these little bags where I think they're used for ozone, and they're very inexpensive 00:12:31.520 --> 00:12:35.360 and you can just put them up to your neck, you know, and just fill that puppy up, you 00:12:35.360 --> 00:12:40.000 know. Oh, where do you get those? I don't know, but I'll send you the link. Yeah, I 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:45.400 found it somewhere. It looked pretty nice, looked pretty inexpensive, and it looked like 00:12:45.400 --> 00:12:51.560 it was... I think they use it for ozone, Dr. Peat, is what they do. You know, for ozone. 00:12:51.560 --> 00:12:58.840 Yeah, once years ago I got some big ones from a florist, but haven't had that source for 00:12:58.840 --> 00:13:04.360 years. Yeah, yeah. Dr. Roy Peat is with us if you'd like to ask him a question. Patrick 00:13:04.360 --> 00:13:09.240 at OneRadioNetwork.com, but I'll send you that link when I go to buy it here. I think 00:13:09.240 --> 00:13:15.320 I'm going to do it this week. So, how have you been doing? You liking taking more carbs 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:20.240 and proteins? What was the purpose of that? What do you want to experiment with? Oh yeah, 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:34.800 it continues to support energy and seems to increase my sensitivity to thyroid. The impression 00:13:34.800 --> 00:13:47.880 I've had is that everyone is running a little high on protein in the diet after they have 00:13:47.880 --> 00:13:59.640 achieved adult size, that they don't need nearly so much protein, and increasing the 00:13:59.640 --> 00:14:11.120 carbohydrate to a ratio of six or seven carbs to one protein gram can be very energizing. 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:25.560 Oh, what is it again? Seven to one ratio is often very, very good. Seven to one ratio. 00:14:25.560 --> 00:14:31.440 So I guess back on the vegetables, if we're eating vegetables like squash and tomatoes 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:38.960 and things like that, they don't have these oxalates, right? None that I know of. So it's 00:14:38.960 --> 00:14:50.760 mainly the chard and the spinach and what are some other ones? Rhubarb. But according 00:14:50.760 --> 00:14:55.440 to some of the things I'm seeing, even baked potatoes, I mean, baked potatoes should be 00:14:55.440 --> 00:15:02.080 a good food, shouldn't they? It should be what? It should be a good food, right? Oh, 00:15:02.080 --> 00:15:14.440 it is, yeah. Well-cooked potatoes are almost a complete diet in itself. So even if people 00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:22.880 say that they have high oxalates, who cares? Just a good food, right? Just eat them. Yeah, 00:15:22.880 --> 00:15:36.320 the phosphate is probably as bad as the oxalate. The phosphate interferes with your calcium 00:15:36.320 --> 00:15:43.320 and magnesium, too. Oh, the phosphate in meats? Or in some vegetables. In some vegetables, 00:15:43.320 --> 00:15:50.280 too. Wow. Potatoes are a little high in phosphate. And then how about if we go over to these 00:15:50.280 --> 00:15:58.280 pesky grains like rice and buckwheat and amaranth and things like that? Do these things have 00:15:58.280 --> 00:16:11.680 any issues that we need to concern ourselves with or just enjoy them? Yeah, as a main staple 00:16:11.680 --> 00:16:23.120 of your diet, they have far too much phosphate. So you have to take care to balance it with 00:16:23.120 --> 00:16:31.600 magnesium and calcium. And is it better then if we can soak them and then sprout them as 00:16:31.600 --> 00:16:48.840 well? Yeah, the very tasty, more primitive grains are the highest in phosphates and irritants. 00:16:48.840 --> 00:17:03.400 The Chinese, with their polished white rice, had reasons. The stuff that's removed, the 00:17:03.400 --> 00:17:16.720 bran and germ, cause the rice to become rancid and harmful. And so about 30 or 40,000 years 00:17:16.720 --> 00:17:27.200 ago they developed a method of polishing it so that it would last a whole season. Oh, 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:35.520 that's why they did it. Wow. That's why they polished it up so it would last. Yeah, and 00:17:35.520 --> 00:17:44.320 they had other foods and so there was no concern about a B vitamin deficiency if they were 00:17:44.320 --> 00:17:51.200 generally well fed. I just got an email in from Gloria. While you're talking about oxalates, 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:57.840 please ask Dr. Peat about oxalates in green tea or black tea. Are these harmful? Do green 00:17:57.840 --> 00:18:06.800 teas have oxalates? Yeah, but the quantity is usually not enough. Not enough to worry 00:18:06.800 --> 00:18:12.600 about? Yeah, two or three cups of tea. Black pepper is supposedly really high. Is that 00:18:12.600 --> 00:18:19.480 not a good thing, black pepper? It's a very popular spice. Oh, yeah, and the volume of 00:18:19.480 --> 00:18:31.080 it. You could specialize in putting thick amounts of pepper on your food, but normally 00:18:31.080 --> 00:18:36.640 it's a small amount. Yeah, just a little bit. And then beans? Beans are high in oxalates 00:18:36.640 --> 00:18:50.600 too, right? Beans? Yeah, seeds in general. The phosphates are right up there with the 00:18:50.600 --> 00:19:02.000 oxalates for interfering with your calcium. But orange juice is good. I got my orange 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:10.640 juice going this morning, Doc. Boy, you still drink a lot of orange juice? Yeah, if you 00:19:10.640 --> 00:19:22.160 can find edible oranges, the quality of the whole food supply seems to have decreased 00:19:22.160 --> 00:19:38.720 tremendously. Vividly moldy tasting oranges are being included in very expensive organic 00:19:38.720 --> 00:19:45.960 juice. So you don't want to force yourself to drink orange juice that should have been 00:19:45.960 --> 00:19:52.280 discarded. Yeah, it's not easy. I drove all the way to Austin this weekend just to get 00:19:52.280 --> 00:20:02.560 some organic oranges. You can't find them. They're harder and harder to find. Well, I 00:20:02.560 --> 00:20:10.640 tell you what, let's do this, Dr. Ray Peat. Let's take a little break and we'll do a couple 00:20:10.640 --> 00:20:17.640 commercials and then we'll come back and then we'll take some emails, okay? Okay. Okay. 00:20:17.640 --> 00:20:29.240 Come here, Judo. Come here, girl. Let me take your... Come here. I'm going to take her collar 00:20:29.240 --> 00:20:33.560 off. She does a little scratching and she goes jingle jangle. Here, let me take this 00:20:33.560 --> 00:20:45.160 off. There you go. Now you can scratch a little bit. We've been doing pretty good. 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Makes little crystals in the glass. Living sulfur on OneRadioNetwork.com. 00:25:39.040 --> 00:25:46.640 From the hill country in Texas, this is OneRadioNetwork.com. 00:25:46.640 --> 00:25:53.640 We're talking with Dr. Ray Peat. He's here on the third Wednesday, I get it, the first 00:25:53.640 --> 00:26:01.200 Wednesday of every month, and he takes your questions, and his website is RayPeat.com. 00:26:01.200 --> 00:26:10.280 His newsletter is Ray Peat's Newsletter, that's plural, RayPeat's Newsletter at gmail.com. 00:26:13.040 --> 00:26:20.040 That's the email address, and then you can just kind of sign up for that. 00:26:20.040 --> 00:26:25.880 I had one here I was going to start with, and I lost it. Oh, here it is. Here's a 45-year-old 00:26:25.880 --> 00:26:31.000 male who wants to know if Dr. Peat thinks it's a good idea that I take a little bit 00:26:31.000 --> 00:26:38.000 of that progesterone that he recommends from time to time. 00:26:38.000 --> 00:26:45.000 Especially if you have symptoms of any kind of stress, especially sex-related stress, 00:26:45.000 --> 00:27:01.000 failure of libido to be active when you need it, and sometimes just general overall well-being. 00:27:02.000 --> 00:27:09.000 It starts around the age of 45 when that's likely to be noticeable, and very, very common 00:27:09.000 --> 00:27:22.920 around the age of 50. 00:27:22.920 --> 00:27:28.760 And here's another one right in line. Should progesterone be taken intermittently during 00:27:28.760 --> 00:27:35.760 pregnancy, i.e. for a couple of weeks or less each month? 00:27:35.760 --> 00:27:49.560 The function of pausing it for two weeks per month is that the estrogen tends to be at 00:27:58.680 --> 00:28:05.680 risk of continual activity, and progesterone clears the estrogen out of your cells, inactivates 00:28:05.680 --> 00:28:17.920 it, and causes it to be excreted. And if you keep taking the same amount every day, your 00:28:23.680 --> 00:28:30.680 liver recognizes that it has risen every day, and so it starts regulating it down. That 00:28:30.680 --> 00:28:42.880 means that it can lose effect if you continue to use it after two weeks. So if you just 00:28:42.880 --> 00:28:50.760 stop taking it, your liver forgets about it for a while and will recognize it as a problem 00:28:51.760 --> 00:28:58.760 and will recognize it as an anti-estrogen protective substance when it comes in again. 00:28:58.760 --> 00:29:06.960 So this is only for pregnant women, not necessarily the rest of us, right? 00:29:06.960 --> 00:29:13.960 This is for cycling women. It's an essential part of maintaining good cycling. And in pregnancy, 00:29:19.680 --> 00:29:26.680 it's usually a failure to sustain progesterone production in relation to estrogen that causes 00:29:26.680 --> 00:29:38.400 miscarriage problems or bleeding during pregnancy, and oxemia and so on. 00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:47.080 What about women who have stopped menstruating kind of prematurely for whatever reason? Could 00:29:47.080 --> 00:29:54.080 they use the progesterone to kind of get back cycling again? 00:29:54.080 --> 00:30:02.320 In fertility clinics, they have found that women who are most likely to succeed in implanting 00:30:02.320 --> 00:30:12.240 and becoming pregnant, when the process started, they had a ratio of progesterone to estrogen 00:30:16.560 --> 00:30:23.560 between 50 and 100 to 1, much higher progesterone than estrogen. Around 10, they sometimes can 00:30:23.560 --> 00:30:39.200 become pregnant, but they're right on the borderline then. 00:30:39.200 --> 00:30:45.560 So progesterone to estrogen for the infertile ladies are very high to E, correct? Progesterone 00:30:45.560 --> 00:30:46.560 to estrogen? 00:30:46.560 --> 00:30:53.560 Yeah, the ratio at the beginning when you're trying to get pregnant should be between 50 00:30:53.560 --> 00:30:57.920 and 100. 00:30:57.920 --> 00:31:03.600 Oh, should be when you're trying to get pregnant. Okay. So that's when you would build up on 00:31:03.600 --> 00:31:08.600 the progesterone at the beginning there. 00:31:08.600 --> 00:31:15.600 Yeah, if you take a gigantic excess of progesterone, you can block conception. That requires more 00:31:15.600 --> 00:31:23.760 like a thousand to one. 00:31:23.760 --> 00:31:30.760 Yeah. Here's an email from Miles in Copenhagen, Denmark. Copenhagen. Any thoughts on a suitable 00:31:32.240 --> 00:31:39.240 baby formula in case of insufficient or lacking breast milk? And then there's also going through 00:31:39.240 --> 00:31:47.240 this whole shortage thing. So if you were going to make a baby formula, what would you 00:31:47.240 --> 00:31:47.760 use? 00:31:47.760 --> 00:31:54.760 Cow milk is the next best thing to human milk, and sometimes it's better because cow's milk 00:31:58.720 --> 00:32:05.720 is built on nutrients that have passed through the fermenting rumen and cleaned up, detoxified 00:32:05.720 --> 00:32:19.720 of lots of things such as unnecessary polyunsaturated fatty acids. The woman has no rumen, and so 00:32:25.920 --> 00:32:32.920 everything in her diet tends to go into the formation of milk. And that means that if 00:32:32.920 --> 00:32:41.760 the mother is not eating well, her milk can be worse than cow's milk. 00:32:41.760 --> 00:32:48.760 Oh, because that's the whole... We don't do that. We go right to the blood, right? 00:32:49.760 --> 00:32:56.760 Yeah. The cow's milk can be distorted by a bad food supply, but it's very, very resistant 00:32:56.760 --> 00:33:08.000 because of the stabilizing effect of bacterial detoxification. 00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:18.520 So moms supplementing, whether if there's an issue with breastfeeding or if they're 00:33:18.760 --> 00:33:25.760 on baby formula and they can't get it, just cow's milk, organic cow's milk. 00:33:25.760 --> 00:33:32.960 Yeah. When you dehydrate anything like milk, which is a very fragile material, all kinds 00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:46.800 of things go wrong in the process of dehydrating. The fragile amino acids, the amino acids, 00:33:47.800 --> 00:33:54.800 the tryptophan, for example, easily oxidizes into toxins, and vitamin B2 is one of the 00:33:54.800 --> 00:34:09.760 earliest things to become toxic among the fats and vitamins. And then the polyunsaturated 00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:22.280 fats deteriorate very, very fast in the toxins. 00:34:22.280 --> 00:34:27.160 Would you add anything to the cow's milk, Dr. Peat, or just straight cow's milk? Would 00:34:27.160 --> 00:34:31.160 you put anything else in there? 00:34:31.160 --> 00:34:38.160 It's a little different. You can find suggested recipe changes, slight additions. 00:34:39.160 --> 00:34:46.160 I can remember years ago in the 50s, lots of ladies who couldn't or after breastfeeding, 00:34:46.160 --> 00:35:07.520 they would actually use, I think it was carnation, carnation milk and carol syrup. Remember carol 00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:08.920 syrup? 00:35:08.920 --> 00:35:11.920 Not that one. I don't remember. 00:35:11.920 --> 00:35:18.920 Yeah, they had a formula. Ladies used to use that. I remember them doing that. I don't 00:35:18.920 --> 00:35:30.920 know how I remember that. 00:35:31.920 --> 00:35:38.920 Here is Tino. She says, "My eight-year-old daughter is very tall for her age. She's five 00:35:53.920 --> 00:36:00.920 feet and is already showing signs of early puberty, very emotional, and first signs of 00:36:00.920 --> 00:36:13.360 growing breasts at eight years old. Her blood work are normal except that her TSH has always 00:36:13.360 --> 00:36:22.720 been between two and three and at one point was as high as five. Is there any ideas of 00:36:22.720 --> 00:36:29.720 some things we could look at to delay puberty, prolong a healthy and happy childhood as long 00:36:29.720 --> 00:36:30.880 as possible?" 00:36:30.880 --> 00:36:37.880 Yeah. As thyroid becomes deficient, when it goes from three to five, that's very, very 00:36:37.880 --> 00:36:46.200 important. The deficient thyroid causes the estrogen to rise and the estrogen guides the 00:36:51.960 --> 00:36:58.960 growth pattern, increases the width of the hips and matures bones more quickly. 00:36:58.960 --> 00:37:12.320 So the low thyroid increases estrogen and this could be really affecting her and she 00:37:12.320 --> 00:37:18.000 could actually be showing signs of growing breasts at eight years old. 00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:25.000 Yeah. That is fairly common to happen around the age of eight. 00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:29.000 Really? What could be some foods that she could eat to help balance that or foods to 00:37:29.000 --> 00:37:31.320 stay away from? 00:37:31.320 --> 00:37:38.320 Make sure she's getting enough vitamin D and milk in her diet. 00:37:38.320 --> 00:37:43.680 Milk and vitamin D? 00:37:43.680 --> 00:37:50.680 Not overdoing any particular food. Getting a good range of fruits, vegetables. Once in 00:37:50.680 --> 00:38:05.680 a while, seafood, regular egg, almond. 00:38:12.840 --> 00:38:19.840 The soy, could soy be a problem if they're doing soy? 00:38:19.840 --> 00:38:28.680 Soy contains a very strong estrogen. If a male is given soy protein at an early age, 00:38:36.600 --> 00:38:43.600 his genitalia are feminized and if it continues beyond the very, very beginning of the formation, 00:38:43.600 --> 00:39:00.040 it increases the risk of pituitary tumors and reproduction-related tumors. 00:39:03.800 --> 00:39:09.920 We saw some studies years ago, Dr. Ray P. Doan, I think it was in the Philippines, after 00:39:09.920 --> 00:39:16.320 in the 80s or 90s when this whole soy milk thing got huge and they started filling their 00:39:16.320 --> 00:39:23.320 kids up with soy in the Philippines and had some real early puberty there. It was crazy. 00:39:23.320 --> 00:39:27.280 No surprise, right? 00:39:27.280 --> 00:39:34.280 Yeah, it affects both sexes. The worst effects are visible on male babies. 00:39:34.280 --> 00:39:50.280 Let's see, here's an email. "I was diagnosed after a CT scan to have metastatic and carcinogenic 00:39:55.960 --> 00:40:02.960 cancer tumors. All signs point to this, yet they don't know until I get a biopsy, which 00:40:02.960 --> 00:40:10.880 I will not do. I started eating the kind of sugar you recommended. A very short time later, 00:40:10.880 --> 00:40:16.360 I got a painful and bloated urinary tract infection. As a kid, I was prone to them and 00:40:16.360 --> 00:40:22.040 now avoid eating things that have caused them in the past, one being too much sugar. Please 00:40:22.040 --> 00:40:26.040 tell me what you think could possibly be going on and what I should do." 00:40:26.040 --> 00:40:33.040 So we have a CT scan of metastatic and carcinogenic cancer tumors. What could be something this 00:40:33.040 --> 00:40:38.360 person could do? 00:40:38.360 --> 00:40:40.360 Where are the tumors? 00:40:40.360 --> 00:40:42.360 It doesn't say. 00:40:42.360 --> 00:40:44.360 It doesn't say. 00:40:44.360 --> 00:40:51.360 The type of tumors is important. 00:40:52.360 --> 00:40:59.360 To definitely shift your metabolism towards thyroid away from estrogen. 00:40:59.360 --> 00:41:04.120 Towards increasing thyroid function. 00:41:04.120 --> 00:41:11.120 Yeah, which will prevent the carcinogenic tendency of the estrogen. And the sugar metabolism 00:41:21.160 --> 00:41:28.160 is regulated largely by the thyroid. So what you're eating isn't as important as, in this 00:41:28.160 --> 00:41:38.440 case, how your thyroid is working. 00:41:38.440 --> 00:41:45.440 So you want to get a thyroid test to make sure you have a TSH below .5, right? 00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:48.320 Yeah, that's the safe population. 00:41:48.320 --> 00:41:51.680 That's the ideal, is a really, really low TSH. 00:41:51.680 --> 00:41:58.680 Yeah, when they find a population that is in that zone, they are free of cancer of the 00:41:58.680 --> 00:42:04.040 thyroid gland. 00:42:04.040 --> 00:42:08.160 And how about this person? Oh, I think they're just emailing in with the location because 00:42:08.160 --> 00:42:15.160 they're listening. Liver and lower right abdomen, the location of these two little tumors. 00:42:16.560 --> 00:42:21.560 Yeah, did they say what they're attached to? 00:42:21.560 --> 00:42:28.560 Do you know any more? Email her, can you send in, she's listening, what they're attached 00:42:28.560 --> 00:42:31.560 to, what these tumors are attached to. 00:42:31.560 --> 00:42:38.560 Yeah, the intestine or exactly what are they. 00:42:38.560 --> 00:42:45.560 If you have more information, email it in and Dr. Peat can maybe give you some more ideas 00:42:45.600 --> 00:42:49.200 on what to do. 00:42:49.200 --> 00:42:56.200 So what would be some no foods for this person with these tumors? 00:42:56.200 --> 00:43:08.560 In general, it's important to not have a very extreme diet of a particular food, especially 00:43:09.560 --> 00:43:16.560 soy and other estrogenic foods. Not to have an excess of protein or fat, keeping both 00:43:16.560 --> 00:43:33.720 protein and fat down to maybe 10% of the calories. 00:43:33.720 --> 00:43:40.720 And just not get too extreme in any direction. 00:43:40.720 --> 00:43:41.720 Yeah, especially fat. 00:43:41.720 --> 00:43:48.720 Especially fat, so the cancer does, fat's not good for cancer, for tumors? 00:43:48.720 --> 00:43:55.720 No, the cancer thrives on fat. When a person stops eating sugar, for example, their body 00:43:59.800 --> 00:44:06.800 starts breaking down protein and fat because the cancers send out hormones to take down 00:44:06.800 --> 00:44:17.920 your muscles and other tissues to release fatty acids and amino acids into the blood. 00:44:24.720 --> 00:44:31.720 Cancer has a reputation for eating glucose, but really as soon as you shut off the glucose 00:44:31.720 --> 00:44:41.240 supply, then the damage really starts because you start destroying your own tissues, turning 00:44:41.240 --> 00:44:46.480 it into food. 00:44:46.480 --> 00:44:53.480 The waste and disease of cancer begins when you stop providing glucose to your body. 00:44:54.480 --> 00:44:57.480 When you stop providing it. 00:44:57.480 --> 00:45:04.480 She wrote back, "These tumors are attached to the small intestine or ascending colon." 00:45:04.480 --> 00:45:11.480 That's all the information she has. 00:45:11.480 --> 00:45:13.480 The information who has? 00:45:13.480 --> 00:45:19.480 The lady with the tumors, small intestine or ascending colon, she believes they're attached 00:45:19.480 --> 00:45:20.480 to. 00:45:20.480 --> 00:45:27.480 Oh, well, it's important to, they might be able to surgically remove that little section 00:45:27.480 --> 00:45:33.600 of the intestine. 00:45:33.600 --> 00:45:38.600 Oh, you mean if they can do it right and not hurt anything? 00:45:38.600 --> 00:45:39.600 Mm-hmm. 00:45:39.600 --> 00:45:44.600 Can the sugar cause UTI infections, she writes back? 00:45:44.600 --> 00:45:51.600 No, not really, because it increases your anti-inflammatory defensive system. 00:45:51.600 --> 00:46:00.600 Well, we wish you well. 00:46:00.600 --> 00:46:02.600 Let us know if we can help with something. 00:46:02.600 --> 00:46:09.600 Patrick Timpani, along with Dr. Ray Peat, RayPeat.com, his newsletter is RayPeatsnewsletter@gmail.com. 00:46:12.600 --> 00:46:19.600 Could you please ask Dr. Peat, writes Rachel, for tips on reducing inflammation in the body 00:46:19.600 --> 00:46:28.600 as it is supposed to be the root cause of most diseases? 00:46:28.600 --> 00:46:30.600 Thank you for your shows. 00:46:30.600 --> 00:46:35.600 So, just in general, inflammation? 00:46:35.600 --> 00:46:42.600 Almost all the serious degenerative diseases are based on the chronic inflammation, a tendency 00:46:42.600 --> 00:47:02.600 to abnormal coagulation. 00:47:02.600 --> 00:47:09.600 And so, that puts aspirin in a very important position. 00:47:09.600 --> 00:47:17.600 Carbon dioxide is another of our anti-inflammatory agents. 00:47:17.600 --> 00:47:24.600 So, baking soda helps with anti-inflammation. 00:47:24.600 --> 00:47:28.600 Well, I just kind of have an idea. 00:47:28.600 --> 00:47:33.600 Do you think that carbon dioxide could help the lady with the tumors? 00:47:33.600 --> 00:47:35.600 Oh, undoubtedly. 00:47:35.600 --> 00:47:37.600 Undoubtedly? Really? 00:47:37.600 --> 00:47:44.600 Yeah, there is an article fairly recently, a year or two, the title is "Is Baking Soda a Magic Bullet in Cancer?" 00:47:44.600 --> 00:47:55.600 And that is what baking soda is to carbon dioxide, right? 00:47:55.600 --> 00:47:58.600 Yeah, the same effects from both of them. 00:47:58.600 --> 00:48:00.600 Oh, that's cool. 00:48:00.600 --> 00:48:05.600 And you can get aluminum-free baking soda really easily these days. 00:48:05.600 --> 00:48:08.600 Hi, Dr. Peat. 00:48:08.600 --> 00:48:20.600 If someone suspects they may have too much acetylcholine production, what could they do to reduce this, 00:48:20.600 --> 00:48:26.600 other than taking anti-chlorogenic substances? 00:48:26.600 --> 00:48:30.600 Is there something clearly that can be done? 00:48:30.600 --> 00:48:39.600 Yeah, when your body is failing to cope in some way with problems, 00:48:39.600 --> 00:48:55.600 you go into the cholinergic, sort of helpless condition in which inflammation can go unregulated. 00:48:55.600 --> 00:49:10.600 And so I think it's helpful to use the anti-cholinergic whenever you feel benefit from it. 00:49:10.600 --> 00:49:18.600 Anti-histamines are generally the same as anti-cholinergic. 00:49:18.600 --> 00:49:25.600 Also, if someone has severe milk protein allergies, 00:49:25.600 --> 00:49:30.600 do you think that they can get enough calcium from well-cooked greens, 00:49:30.600 --> 00:49:37.600 or should they also add eggshells or pearl powder calcium supplements, in your view? 00:49:37.600 --> 00:49:54.600 I think powdered eggshells are a first aid in case you're doubtful whether you're going to have a problem with the leaves. 00:49:54.600 --> 00:50:00.600 It's good to have some powdered eggshell on hand. 00:50:00.600 --> 00:50:05.600 So you like those for calcium, powdered eggshells? 00:50:05.600 --> 00:50:15.600 Yeah, and they should be prepared by dehydrating them and thoroughly separating the membrane 00:50:15.600 --> 00:50:19.600 before you grind them up in a coffee grinder. 00:50:19.600 --> 00:50:27.600 Oh, interesting. That's how people do it. They actually grind them up themselves. 00:50:27.600 --> 00:50:41.600 Hi Dr. Peat, if a young woman was trying to improve her acne by taking Progest-E orally during the luteal phase with no skin improvement, 00:50:41.600 --> 00:50:48.600 would you recommend them to apply some Progest-E directly onto the pimples for a more direct approach? 00:50:48.600 --> 00:50:50.600 Directly to where? 00:50:50.600 --> 00:50:54.600 Luteal, L-U-T-E-A-L, on her acne. 00:50:54.600 --> 00:51:04.600 She said that she was trying to improve her acne by taking Progest-E orally during the luteal phase. 00:51:04.600 --> 00:51:07.600 I'm not sure what that is. Luteal? Do you know? L-U-T-E-A-L? 00:51:07.600 --> 00:51:10.600 Yeah, that's when the ovaries are producing. 00:51:10.600 --> 00:51:13.600 I see, when the ovaries are producing their things. 00:51:13.600 --> 00:51:15.600 Yeah, so it gives a boost. 00:51:15.600 --> 00:51:26.600 When your progesterone isn't adequate during that phase, it's usually because your thyroid is low. 00:51:26.600 --> 00:51:36.600 So, supplementing thyroid is often better than using progesterone. 00:51:36.600 --> 00:51:43.600 Oh, I see. Right going to what could be the root cause of the issue, which would be an underactive thyroid. 00:51:43.600 --> 00:51:46.600 Yeah. 00:51:46.600 --> 00:51:56.600 Again, folks, I mentioned this before, we don't have a financial interest, but there's a place called Let's Get Checked that we used one time. 00:51:56.600 --> 00:52:04.600 I think it was $60 and they send it to your house, you do the blood thing, and they'll give you your TSH. 00:52:04.600 --> 00:52:08.600 Pretty quick. Send it in, boom. 00:52:08.600 --> 00:52:13.600 Let's Get Checked is the name of the company. 00:52:13.600 --> 00:52:20.600 Yeah, that sounds good too. Bypass the need of a doctor. 00:52:20.600 --> 00:52:25.600 Yeah, yeah, and that's all you're interested in, the TSH anyway, right? 00:52:25.600 --> 00:52:32.600 That's all you're... yeah. Cool. 00:52:32.600 --> 00:52:35.600 Okay. 00:52:35.600 --> 00:52:43.600 Got a few more minutes if you'd like to jump in with a question for Dr. Ray P. Patrick at OneRadioNetwork.com. 00:52:43.600 --> 00:52:49.600 Let me go to the ones we missed last month, because we always miss them. 00:52:49.600 --> 00:53:05.600 I can find the right... I have so many. Oh, here it is. Okay. 00:53:05.600 --> 00:53:26.600 So we have a lady here, Dr. Peat, who is 47, a recovering alcoholic, prophylactic smoke, P-R-O-P-H-A-O-L-I-C, not sure if it's smoker, oh, with a colostomy bag. God love you. 00:53:26.600 --> 00:53:31.600 Now since she's been 24, heart and liver issues. 00:53:31.600 --> 00:53:39.600 Can you give her some ideas on how she could get out of there? Hmm. Got a lot going on. 00:53:39.600 --> 00:53:41.600 What was the substance? 00:53:41.600 --> 00:53:54.600 Substance would... 47, recovering alcoholic, prophylactic smoker with a colostomy bag, and now she has heart and liver issues. 00:53:54.600 --> 00:54:02.600 In a hospital. 00:54:02.600 --> 00:54:06.600 And she wonders what to do? 00:54:06.600 --> 00:54:11.600 Yeah, any ideas for heart and liver issues where she is right now? 00:54:11.600 --> 00:54:27.600 Oh, it's hard to do anything well under hospital care, but she should question everything they propose. 00:54:27.600 --> 00:54:31.600 Yeah, and they'll try to give you a lot of different things, won't they? 00:54:31.600 --> 00:54:32.600 Mm-hmm. 00:54:32.600 --> 00:54:39.600 Yeah, very tough. See if you can get out of there. 00:54:39.600 --> 00:54:46.600 Hi, Dr. Peat. A few months ago, my dog killed a squirrel, and I think it made him sick. 00:54:46.600 --> 00:54:51.600 The next three days, he didn't eat and was having thick black sludge, diarrhea. 00:54:51.600 --> 00:54:59.600 He also insisted on staying outside in 20 weather where he would hide in a bush. 00:54:59.600 --> 00:55:05.600 Wow. Since then, he still mostly has diarrhea. 00:55:05.600 --> 00:55:08.600 Once or twice a week, he won't eat for a whole day. 00:55:08.600 --> 00:55:10.600 Do you have any ideas on what could be going on? 00:55:10.600 --> 00:55:17.600 I know you're not a veterinarian, but if you had any ideas. 00:55:17.600 --> 00:55:28.600 No. Giving him some bland but appetizing food would be my thought. 00:55:28.600 --> 00:55:35.600 Cottage cheese, for example, would do no harm. 00:55:35.600 --> 00:55:38.600 Yeah. She's asking here, and I can respond to this, 00:55:38.600 --> 00:55:43.600 "Do you have any other recommendations other than feeding him other than meat and bones?" 00:55:43.600 --> 00:55:49.600 Well, they're carnivores, in my opinion. I'm not a veterinarian, but they like meat. 00:55:49.600 --> 00:55:56.600 And my dog, she'll skip eating sometimes two days in a row. 00:55:56.600 --> 00:56:00.600 She's perfectly healthy. They know what they don't want to eat, 00:56:00.600 --> 00:56:06.600 so I wouldn't worry about it if they want to skip meals. That's just one idea. 00:56:06.600 --> 00:56:14.600 Some dogs sense when they need carbohydrates, 00:56:14.600 --> 00:56:25.600 having something like a well-cooked vegetable, mashed potato, cottage cheese. 00:56:25.600 --> 00:56:31.600 They'll eat it. If they need it, they'll eat it, right? If they like it. 00:56:31.600 --> 00:56:36.600 And if they don't, they won't. They say, "No, I don't want that. Give me some more meat." 00:56:36.600 --> 00:56:53.600 Even fruits sometimes. 00:56:53.600 --> 00:57:00.600 Oh, would you please ask Dr. Peat if you can give milk or butter 00:57:00.600 --> 00:57:08.600 as a remedy to safely eating foods with oxalates, more like potatoes? 00:57:08.600 --> 00:57:21.600 Oh, they are slightly protective, just as a kind of a buffer. 00:57:21.600 --> 00:57:31.600 Undercooked starch, for example, causes much less harm if taken with cream and butter. 00:57:31.600 --> 00:57:34.600 Cream and butter. And also, would you ask them, 00:57:34.600 --> 00:57:39.600 what's an alternative to such as almond milk or coconut milk for those of us 00:57:39.600 --> 00:57:45.600 who are lactose intolerant or allergic to dairy? 00:57:45.600 --> 00:57:54.600 Well, treating milk with lactase enzyme makes it sweeter 00:57:54.600 --> 00:58:09.600 and to some extent reduces the effect on helping absorb minerals. 00:58:09.600 --> 00:58:19.600 Lactose has a direct effect on improving mineral metabolism. 00:58:19.600 --> 00:58:31.600 And so when you destroy that, you have less ability to handle magnesium and calcium. 00:58:31.600 --> 00:58:35.600 Fair enough. This is from Martin in Montana for Dr. Ray Peat. 00:58:35.600 --> 00:58:41.600 What does Dr. Peat think of cannabis? There's a big push for it in the U.S. 00:58:41.600 --> 00:58:52.600 Isn't it very estrogenic? And what about short-term versus long-term use and occasional use of cannabis? 00:58:52.600 --> 00:58:54.600 Short-term versus long-term? 00:58:54.600 --> 00:58:58.600 Use of cannabis. What do you think about it? 00:58:58.600 --> 00:59:01.600 Isn't it very estrogenic as well? 00:59:01.600 --> 00:59:14.600 I think mildly so. They have a good lobby promoting its use, 00:59:14.600 --> 00:59:24.600 but I've never seen a lot of good research supporting it. 00:59:24.600 --> 00:59:30.600 Any other downsides that you know of other than psychological possibly? 00:59:30.600 --> 00:59:40.600 No, but I've seen lots of annoying people who were exaggerated fans of it. 00:59:40.600 --> 00:59:43.600 Yeah, there's no doubt about that. 00:59:43.600 --> 00:59:51.600 Is it possible to grow back joints that have been damaged by osteoarthritis? 00:59:51.600 --> 01:00:06.600 Oh, yeah, definitely. I've seen it happen. Probably the first one I saw supported by x-ray evidence was Art Plummer, 01:00:06.600 --> 01:00:23.600 who was 65 and had x-rays of his knees that showed there was no whole cartilage layer left, just crumbles. 01:00:23.600 --> 01:00:33.600 He said he was retirement age, so he was not going to have his knee joints replaced. 01:00:33.600 --> 01:00:43.600 I gave him a bottle of Progest-E, which he, while working on the bathroom plumbing, 01:00:43.600 --> 01:00:51.600 applied it all over his worst knee and went on working. 01:00:51.600 --> 01:01:03.600 An hour later, I mentioned that he seemed to be having less trouble coming up the steps from his truck. 01:01:03.600 --> 01:01:11.600 He said he thought he was, but the next morning he knocked on the door and said, 01:01:11.600 --> 01:01:21.600 "I just wanted to show you this," and he ran down the steps and back up. 01:01:21.600 --> 01:01:36.600 About a year later, he had said that he and his wife both needed aspirin to get through the night. 01:01:36.600 --> 01:01:44.600 He said that night was their first time in years that they hadn't needed aspirin. 01:01:44.600 --> 01:01:53.600 Several months later, I hadn't heard from him again. I phoned his office. 01:01:53.600 --> 01:02:06.600 His wife answered, "I just wanted to find out about his knees." There was a long pause. 01:02:06.600 --> 01:02:13.600 He said, "Oh, that's right. He did have that knee." 01:02:13.600 --> 01:02:23.600 Then, I guess it was about ten years later, I kept seeing his truck around town. 01:02:23.600 --> 01:02:31.600 I got him for another job and asked him how his knee had turned out. 01:02:31.600 --> 01:02:36.600 He had totally forgotten that he ever had a knee problem. 01:02:36.600 --> 01:02:40.600 And he just did Progest-E's for one time? 01:02:40.600 --> 01:02:41.600 One week. 01:02:41.600 --> 01:02:46.600 Wow. He smeared it all over his knee. 01:02:46.600 --> 01:02:57.600 Yeah, the knee, which had no joint to speak of, just rubble. 01:02:57.600 --> 01:03:03.600 Overnight, he could run up the stairs without pain. 01:03:03.600 --> 01:03:05.600 That's amazing. 01:03:05.600 --> 01:03:12.600 It was so complete that his wife had recovered. 01:03:12.600 --> 01:03:19.600 She was a viola player and she had recovered from her hand arthritis 01:03:19.600 --> 01:03:25.600 to the extent that she forgot either of them had had arthritis. 01:03:25.600 --> 01:03:29.600 And she smeared the Progest-E's on her hands as well? 01:03:29.600 --> 01:03:34.600 Yeah, they both used it at bedtime. 01:03:34.600 --> 01:03:38.600 Those are just little bottles. Did he use the whole bottle on his knee? 01:03:38.600 --> 01:03:40.600 What's that? 01:03:40.600 --> 01:03:45.600 Those are just very small bottles. Did he use the whole bottle on his knee? 01:03:45.600 --> 01:03:56.600 Yeah, the first day, during the hour, he applied half a bottle to that one leg 01:03:56.600 --> 01:04:02.600 from thigh to ankle. 01:04:02.600 --> 01:04:09.600 I think all the rest of it came from the rest of that one bottle. 01:04:09.600 --> 01:04:11.600 Very interesting. 01:04:11.600 --> 01:04:17.600 A friend of mine told me that you told a story one time about a dog and Progest-E's. 01:04:17.600 --> 01:04:21.600 Do you recall what he might be talking about? 01:04:21.600 --> 01:04:24.600 An animal? 01:04:24.600 --> 01:04:31.600 Some kind of amazing recovery from a dog with Progest-E's? 01:04:31.600 --> 01:04:33.600 What kind of recovery? 01:04:33.600 --> 01:04:38.600 Some kind of amazing recovery from something giving a dog Progest-E's? 01:04:38.600 --> 01:04:42.600 Sure, it works in dogs just like people. 01:04:42.600 --> 01:04:51.600 Do you remember the story about the dog that you used it on? 01:04:51.600 --> 01:04:56.600 I didn't understand the question. 01:04:56.600 --> 01:05:06.600 Did you have an experience that was really interesting with a dog using Progest-E's? 01:05:06.600 --> 01:05:27.600 Oh, yeah, many experiences with dogs. Liver cancer, arthritis, behavior, various human-like problems. 01:05:27.600 --> 01:05:32.600 People were putting the Progest-E's topically on the dog? 01:05:32.600 --> 01:05:34.600 And on their gums. 01:05:34.600 --> 01:05:36.600 And on their gums. 01:05:36.600 --> 01:05:37.600 Hoppy. 01:05:37.600 --> 01:05:38.600 What do you make of that? 01:05:38.600 --> 01:05:40.600 What could be going on with that? 01:05:40.600 --> 01:05:43.600 What's such a progesterone doing? 01:05:43.600 --> 01:05:52.600 It's anti-inflammatory at all different levels. 01:05:52.600 --> 01:06:07.600 And so if they have an excess of cortisol, it will protect against tissue breakdown at the same time as supporting tissue repair. 01:06:07.600 --> 01:06:12.600 Wow. How would you know how much or how often to do? 01:06:12.600 --> 01:06:27.600 Oh, it just evolves over. One of the first people was a university basketball player who got tendonitis. 01:06:27.600 --> 01:06:43.600 It hurt so much, it impaired his playing. One application to his lower legs and he had no more tendonitis. 01:06:43.600 --> 01:06:55.600 And if you were doing something with an animal who had some issues, you would just have to discern in your own intuition of how much to use and how often? 01:06:55.600 --> 01:07:05.600 Yeah. People who know their dogs like a dog with terminal liver cancer. 01:07:05.600 --> 01:07:27.600 Several people have said they thought they were in a terminal condition in agony from the cancer and they said they could tell by their behavior that progesterone made them comfortable. 01:07:27.600 --> 01:07:29.600 Very interesting. 01:07:29.600 --> 01:07:32.600 And they lived for many months. 01:07:32.600 --> 01:07:37.600 Here's an email from Chris. 01:07:37.600 --> 01:07:42.600 I'm confused about using baking soda for cancer. 01:07:42.600 --> 01:07:54.600 I heard Dr. Peat mention in one of your shows that one could use one and a half ounces or 40 grams a day, but I'm not sure how to take it. 01:07:54.600 --> 01:08:02.600 There are many suggestions on the net using maple syrup and it's not clear what is the best way to take it. 01:08:02.600 --> 01:08:10.600 Also, this will change the body's pH, possibly interfering with other things such as food supplements. 01:08:10.600 --> 01:08:13.600 Can you please ask him how to take it? 01:08:13.600 --> 01:08:25.600 Maple syrup contains a lot of allergens. I wouldn't recommend using it without. 01:08:25.600 --> 01:08:50.600 There are many different ways to increase your CO2 exposure. Breathing it by just re-breathing your own breath, taking it as the liquid baking soda solution teaspoon at a time, 01:08:50.600 --> 01:09:09.600 or taking the right balance of thyroid hormone or using the drug acetosolamide to cause your body to retain more CO2. 01:09:09.600 --> 01:09:20.600 There are many, many different ways to keep the lactic acid down and the CO2 up. 01:09:20.600 --> 01:09:24.600 Okay. Here's one. 01:09:24.600 --> 01:09:43.600 Here's a person who had flu symptoms back in November and I've not been able to properly taste or smell since. I've tried taking oregano oil, the blood detox from shed blossom, and oral methylene blue, but still can't seem to smell or taste like I used to. 01:09:43.600 --> 01:09:56.600 I was a little concerned that it could be radiation damage or something else. I live in an area with 5G towers, smart meters. What do you think this could be? 01:09:56.600 --> 01:10:11.600 There's nothing good that the 5G radiation does to your system. It can do lots of harm. 01:10:11.600 --> 01:10:19.600 Yeah, they're tough, aren't they? They're very, very dangerous. Very dangerous. 01:10:19.600 --> 01:10:32.600 Here's Anna. After my second COVID injection, wow, I've developed insomnia, muscle spams, and inflammation. The symptoms become even worse during stress and before my period. 01:10:32.600 --> 01:10:38.600 Could this be an autoimmune condition connected with the histamine or estrogen? 01:10:38.600 --> 01:10:41.600 Yes. 01:10:41.600 --> 01:10:43.600 Wow. 01:10:43.600 --> 01:11:07.600 The vaccine is ideal for producing autoimmune reactions. Their response is to deny that they cause anything harmful or just absurd and ignorant and insulting to the public. 01:11:07.600 --> 01:11:14.600 Yeah. Yeah. It's just terrible. 01:11:14.600 --> 01:11:19.600 Can someone apply Progest-East on pimples? 01:11:19.600 --> 01:11:28.600 Some people do. 01:11:28.600 --> 01:11:41.600 Here's one. What are Dr. Peat's thoughts on Dr. Young and being more alkaline via veganism? 01:11:41.600 --> 01:12:08.600 That's just a traditional view of the alkaline, vegetable-heavy diet. It's right as far as the food that goes in is concerned, but just wrong in interpreting what happens inside the cells. 01:12:08.600 --> 01:12:37.600 You eat lots of vegetables and get lots of alkaline minerals, and that allows you to convert the bicarbonate of the alkaline vegetable material into the acidic CO2 that protects the insides of cells. 01:12:37.600 --> 01:12:52.600 Some of the applications may be okay. Perhaps the interpretation of what's going on may be incorrect in your opinion. 01:12:52.600 --> 01:13:17.600 Yeah, they're getting lots of bicarbonates, alkaline things, in their diet, but when they eat them, they excrete the alkaline part and keep the bicarbonate, which automatically is turned into intracellular carbon dioxide, which is acidic. 01:13:17.600 --> 01:13:21.600 Acidic. Hmm. Hmm. Interesting. 01:13:21.600 --> 01:13:34.600 So, when you say the body gets rid of it, I've been doing some baking soda for experimenting the last week or so, and boy, I got my little pH tape just to test my pee, Doc. It's like nine. It's crazy. 01:13:34.600 --> 01:13:36.600 Yeah, that's urine. 01:13:36.600 --> 01:13:38.600 Yeah, that's just urine, right? 01:13:38.600 --> 01:13:41.600 Yeah, that's what's not staying in your body. 01:13:41.600 --> 01:13:44.600 But the good stuff, the carbon dioxide is. 01:13:44.600 --> 01:13:45.600 Yeah. 01:13:45.600 --> 01:13:58.600 Oh, good. All right. Here's an email. Is Tupelo honey a good source of fructose, and does fructose bypass the pancreas? Hmm. 01:13:58.600 --> 01:14:08.600 To some extent, yeah. It is less of a trigger to insulin production. 01:14:08.600 --> 01:14:14.600 Tupelo honey, or fructose is less of a... 01:14:14.600 --> 01:14:16.600 Less stimulating to the insulin. 01:14:16.600 --> 01:14:20.600 Yeah. And do you know from Tupelo honey? 01:14:20.600 --> 01:14:22.600 Oh, any honey. 01:14:22.600 --> 01:14:24.600 What's that? 01:14:24.600 --> 01:14:41.600 It's in any honey. In apple juice, some other fruits, but apple juice and honey are reliable sources. 01:14:41.600 --> 01:15:00.600 Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. You know, Dr. Fried, I want to mention, too, that since I've been doing more meat and less carbs and oxalates, my fasting blood sugar has been going lower and lower. It's like 70. Is that good? 01:15:00.600 --> 01:15:01.600 Mm-hmm. 01:15:01.600 --> 01:15:06.600 Oh, it can't get too low, right? Or can it? 01:15:06.600 --> 01:15:27.600 It's when you acidify your tissues with the bicarbonates, you're shifting over to the efficient oxidative metabolism. 01:15:27.600 --> 01:15:30.600 And so that deals with the blood sugar better. 01:15:30.600 --> 01:15:47.600 Mm-hmm. Which is simply so efficient, you can be using it without having to have such a high level circulating. 01:15:47.600 --> 01:16:10.600 Yeah. Yeah. You know, another thing I noticed I wanted to ask you about that may be useful to others who are here, when I was doing rice or pasta and even a piece of fish or something and eat, about an hour later, my energy would just go, "Pow!" You know, just down, right? 01:16:10.600 --> 01:16:26.600 Just, I couldn't do much of anything. Couldn't work on my writing works, my writing projects. But with the meat and fat, it just seems to stay level. What is that saying? What's my body telling me there? 01:16:26.600 --> 01:16:55.600 Efficiency allows you to find a middle ground where you don't, when you're under stress, you tend to convert other tissues like proteins into glucose to make sure you have some glucose. 01:16:55.600 --> 01:17:24.600 But when you're more efficient in using your glucose, then that lowers the stress, and so you don't need to convert protein or sugar, and so you don't, and it stops destroying your tissue and starts not wasting fuel. 01:17:24.600 --> 01:17:37.600 Not wasting fuel. So when you eat carbs and you lose energy, what is that saying? What's going on? 01:17:37.600 --> 01:17:40.600 When you use carbs. 01:17:40.600 --> 01:17:48.600 Yeah, so you eat carbs and then your energy goes down, like rice or pasta. What is that telling you? 01:17:48.600 --> 01:18:13.600 That rice is a good stimulant to insulin, but if it doesn't come with inflammation, like if it's polished rice that is non-inflammatory, then that, even though it does stimulate your insulin, 01:18:13.600 --> 01:18:29.600 you're able to use the insulin without any stress. And so when you're using the insulin properly, that's the absence of diabetes. 01:18:29.600 --> 01:18:34.600 The absence of diabetes when you're using it properly. 01:18:34.600 --> 01:18:35.600 Yeah. 01:18:35.600 --> 01:18:39.600 Cool. A couple more, then we'll let you go. 01:18:39.600 --> 01:19:03.600 How much does total phosphorus intake matter if the diet has a good calcium-phosphorus ratio? Is a low phosphorus diet preferable to a normal phosphorus diet if the calcium-phosphorus ratio is exactly the same in both cases? 01:19:03.600 --> 01:19:21.600 There is a range of total intake where the ratio is the important thing rather than the total quantity. 01:19:21.600 --> 01:19:39.600 But partly that depends on the efficient use of sugar. Sugar supports the retention effects of calcium. 01:19:39.600 --> 01:20:00.600 And so if your diet is deficient in sugar and so activates various inflammatory inefficient processes, then that's not good. 01:20:00.600 --> 01:20:11.600 Here's the last one for you, Catherine. Love your show. I'm 35 and my appendix removed at the age of nine after it ruptured from appendicitis. 01:20:11.600 --> 01:20:22.600 I've read that the appendix is an immune organ and is involved in replenishing good gut bacteria, digesting fiber, and helping to produce fatty acids. 01:20:22.600 --> 01:20:32.600 I'm curious what this means for my metabolic health and how to maximize my health from here on out. 01:20:32.600 --> 01:20:47.600 Fats are the least beneficial part of the system. You're going to have a very low-fat diet that's very safe. 01:20:47.600 --> 01:20:53.600 Is there such a thing as a fructose spike? 01:20:53.600 --> 01:20:59.600 Not that I'm aware of. 01:20:59.600 --> 01:21:05.600 Well, Dr. Peat, thanks for spending time with us this morning. I appreciate it. Thank you. Happy summer. 01:21:05.600 --> 01:21:10.600 Summer solstice is the longest day of the year next year, tomorrow. 01:21:10.600 --> 01:21:12.600 Okay. 01:21:12.600 --> 01:21:17.600 You take care of yourself, sir. Thank you. We'll see you soon. Bye-bye. 01:21:17.600 --> 01:21:21.600 Dr. Ray Peat, Patrick Tempone, OneRadioNetwork.com. 01:21:21.600 --> 01:21:28.600 I see that our little system to record videos somehow ran out of space. 01:21:28.600 --> 01:21:33.600 So when you see the video of this, it's going to just cut off, but I don't know what to do. 01:21:33.600 --> 01:21:38.600 I'll have to get to more geek and work on that, but the audio, you can finish off with it. 01:21:38.600 --> 01:21:43.600 It just ran out a few minutes ago. It'll just cut off kind of weird. 01:21:43.600 --> 01:21:46.600 I'm going to tell you. 01:21:46.600 --> 01:21:56.600 Okay, kids, we're going to talk about eating meats and less plants tomorrow with a doctor. 01:21:56.600 --> 01:22:02.600 He's in Australia. His name is Anthony Chaffey. 01:22:02.600 --> 01:22:06.600 And we'll do that tomorrow. 01:22:06.600 --> 01:22:10.600 And then Adam Bergstrom will be here on Wednesday. 01:22:10.600 --> 01:22:16.600 Adam 2.0, the second or the third Wednesday of the month. 01:22:16.600 --> 01:22:20.600 So thank you. I appreciate it. I love you all very much. Thanks for your support. 01:22:20.600 --> 01:22:27.600 We will see you tomorrow at 10 o'clock. Take care. Bye-bye. 01:22:27.600 --> 01:22:33.600 [music] 01:22:33.600 --> 01:22:39.600 Broadcasting from the beautiful hill country in Texas, this is Juan, RadioNetwork.com. 01:22:39.600 --> 01:22:41.600 [music] 01:22:41.600 --> 01:22:44.000 (jazz music)