WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:09.560 Nothing is more expensive than bad information. 00:00:09.560 --> 00:00:11.280 Know the source. 00:00:11.280 --> 00:00:13.320 One Radio Network dot com. 00:00:13.320 --> 00:00:18.760 Well, a very pleasant good morning to you and we're back here, if you were with us, 00:00:18.760 --> 00:00:21.720 with Dr. Massey with a very popular guest. 00:00:21.720 --> 00:00:23.840 His name is Ray Peat. 00:00:23.840 --> 00:00:24.840 Raypeat.com. 00:00:24.840 --> 00:00:29.960 Dr. Peat is a PhD in biology, University of Oregon. 00:00:29.960 --> 00:00:38.000 He specializes in physiology and he taught at the University of Oregon, Irvine College, 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:43.560 Montana State University, National College of Naturopathic Medicine. 00:00:43.560 --> 00:00:48.760 Talked down in Mexico, worked in Mexico, had some nixtamalized corn. 00:00:48.760 --> 00:00:55.240 He talked, told us about nixtamalization of the corn tortillas in Mexico and he's a good 00:00:55.240 --> 00:00:56.240 one. 00:00:56.240 --> 00:01:03.400 He has a newsletter we'll tell you about and he visits on the third Monday of every 00:01:03.400 --> 00:01:04.400 month. 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:05.720 Dr. Ray Peat, good morning, sir. 00:01:05.720 --> 00:01:07.000 Dr. Peat Good morning. 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:10.040 Dr. David J. Massey How is your life up there in the Northwest? 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:15.240 Dr. Peat Oh, it tends to get a little boring, but that's 00:01:15.240 --> 00:01:17.680 better than other possibilities. 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:21.120 Dr. David J. Massey Are you still painting? 00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:22.120 You're still painting? 00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:23.120 Dr. Peat Oh, yeah. 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:24.720 Dr. David J. Massey Uh-huh. 00:01:24.720 --> 00:01:26.280 That keeps you busy, huh? 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:28.200 Dr. Peat Yeah. 00:01:28.200 --> 00:01:34.360 When I get tired of reading and writing, I've got something to paint on. 00:01:34.360 --> 00:01:35.360 Dr. David J. Massey Yeah. 00:01:35.360 --> 00:01:37.680 Have you been working on anything special these days? 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:38.680 Any ideas special? 00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:39.680 Dr. Peat Yeah. 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:48.000 I've just started working on this month's newsletter, which will be something related 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:58.560 to unsuspected, generally unrealized effects of estrogen on metabolism and things that 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:05.840 it does to promote aging and that I haven't talked very much about in the past. 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:11.240 Dr. David J. Massey So when we get too much estrogen, the body 00:02:11.240 --> 00:02:13.200 doesn't like it and we age? 00:02:13.200 --> 00:02:16.320 Dr. Peat Yeah. 00:02:16.320 --> 00:02:28.080 One of my early observations was that the doctrine of age-related decline in estrogen 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:38.680 was a simple mistake based on measuring only the estrogen that's found in the blood itself. 00:02:38.680 --> 00:02:46.880 Because with progesterone, the way they measure progesterone is to separate the liquid part 00:02:46.880 --> 00:02:51.440 of the blood from the fat and the red cells. 00:02:51.440 --> 00:02:57.400 It turns out that most of the progesterone is in the fat part of the blood and the red 00:02:57.400 --> 00:03:01.240 cells twice as much inside the red cells as in the serum. 00:03:01.240 --> 00:03:07.800 So what they're doing is throwing away most of the progesterone and then measuring what's 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:10.560 in the fluid part of the blood. 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:19.120 And it's even worse with measuring estrogen because when you're low in progesterone, a 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:24.920 whole group of enzymes shift their activity. 00:03:24.920 --> 00:03:33.700 Progesterone pushes them in a direction that neutralizes and eliminates estrogen. 00:03:33.700 --> 00:03:41.960 So if you're deficient in progesterone, this whole group of enzymes increase the activity 00:03:41.960 --> 00:03:52.080 of estrogen, but inside cells, the function of progesterone is to get estrogen out of 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:59.680 the body and so it will appear in the blood as it heads for the kidneys to be excreted. 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:10.400 But without progesterone, estrogen accumulates and is synthesized de novo inside cells, muscle 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:22.840 cells, fat, brain, liver, breast, uterus, every tissue you can identify concentrates 00:04:22.840 --> 00:04:26.800 estrogen more and more with aging. 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:38.120 So by looking at the blood, if it is staying inside cells at a higher rate and not appearing 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:46.240 in the blood, you get exactly the opposite impression of what estrogen is doing during 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:47.800 stress and aging. 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:53.760 So the basic way sometimes now it's being measured with bioidentical hormones and the 00:04:53.760 --> 00:04:59.240 things that ladies are doing could be not correct, not accurate. 00:04:59.240 --> 00:05:12.320 Yeah, already in 1970, I was grinding up uterine tissue that was under the influence of estrogen 00:05:12.320 --> 00:05:18.440 and extracting it in a solvent and then measuring that. 00:05:18.440 --> 00:05:28.600 And a person working in the same lab, Terry Parkinning, went on to work in the University 00:05:28.600 --> 00:05:38.560 of Texas where he had much better equipment and confirmed the same thing that estrogen 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:41.640 increases wherever he measured it. 00:05:41.640 --> 00:05:46.280 It was increasing with age, same thing I found. 00:05:46.280 --> 00:05:49.800 But you have to go about measuring it in the right way. 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:52.640 And what's the right way? 00:05:52.640 --> 00:05:57.320 To extract what's in the tissues. 00:05:57.320 --> 00:05:58.320 Does anybody do that? 00:05:58.320 --> 00:06:05.040 Only three or four people in the world as far as I know. 00:06:05.040 --> 00:06:11.000 So that's why over the years I've had so many emails with ladies that work with these 00:06:11.000 --> 00:06:17.960 bioidentical hormones and some have okay and some just don't have a good experience with 00:06:17.960 --> 00:06:18.960 it at all. 00:06:18.960 --> 00:06:24.920 They're just constantly adjusting it, constantly back and forth. 00:06:24.920 --> 00:06:32.200 I've never seen anyone who was actually demonstrably deficient in estrogen. 00:06:32.200 --> 00:06:44.640 Old men, for example, or a man who has been in an accident or had a heart attack, even 00:06:44.640 --> 00:06:49.760 their blood level will then show a very high level of estrogen. 00:06:49.760 --> 00:06:58.080 But to really know what a person is subject to, you have to take a bit of cellular material 00:06:58.080 --> 00:07:01.160 and actually test it. 00:07:01.160 --> 00:07:06.480 So how do those ladies, especially the ladies but even guys sitting here in the cheap seats 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:13.320 in the bleachers, how do we utilize this information with progesterone and estrogen to help us 00:07:13.320 --> 00:07:17.320 to feel better and live longer? 00:07:17.320 --> 00:07:27.680 If you supplement progesterone, it will then release estrogen from the tissues so it can 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:33.320 be measured in the blood. 00:07:33.320 --> 00:07:41.600 Otherwise you just have to be very cautious and realize that the effects you get when 00:07:41.600 --> 00:07:52.000 you supplement very large amounts of estrogen, starting often before menopause but very often 00:07:52.000 --> 00:08:00.240 after menopause, they'll give women super doses of estrogen. 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:04.840 It acts on the brain very much in the way cocaine does. 00:08:04.840 --> 00:08:10.720 It turns on excitatory pathways. 00:08:10.720 --> 00:08:18.880 Going back to the '30s, it was recognized that in the phase of the menstrual cycle when 00:08:18.880 --> 00:08:28.200 estrogen is highest, at ovulation and around menstruation, the ratio between estrogen and 00:08:28.200 --> 00:08:29.600 progesterone is highest. 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:38.320 Those are the times when women have epileptic seizures and that's been known now for at 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:51.920 least 80 years and it's because of the excitatory effect of estrogen on the nerves. 00:08:51.920 --> 00:09:00.600 So that's why you've been often just recommending men and women take a little bit of progesterone 00:09:00.600 --> 00:09:04.120 every day even if we're not too sure. 00:09:04.120 --> 00:09:07.360 It can't hurt, right? 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:13.880 And both men and women always are making progesterone. 00:09:13.880 --> 00:09:22.520 In the brain, the concentration is usually 10 times higher than in the bloodstream. 00:09:22.520 --> 00:09:32.360 So you might not seem particularly deficient if you measure only the liquid part of the 00:09:32.360 --> 00:09:42.560 blood but a little dose can go right to the brain and have tremendous beneficial effects. 00:09:42.560 --> 00:09:45.840 And how many milligrams are we talking about a little dose? 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:49.600 Oh, sometimes five milligrams is enough to produce. 00:09:49.600 --> 00:09:50.600 Just five? 00:09:50.600 --> 00:09:51.600 Yeah. 00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:57.680 There are people out there thinking you've got to have 50 for something to happen but 00:09:57.680 --> 00:10:00.680 seems like a lot. 00:10:00.680 --> 00:10:10.880 Yeah, 50 is in the range of a therapeutic dose for someone with arthritis or seizures 00:10:10.880 --> 00:10:15.080 or migraines, something like that. 00:10:15.080 --> 00:10:25.820 And for cancer, people have used hundreds of milligrams and in the usual way of administering 00:10:25.820 --> 00:10:33.560 progesterone because it's very insoluble in water. 00:10:33.560 --> 00:10:43.240 The industry has since the 1940s claimed that you can't take progesterone orally because 00:10:43.240 --> 00:10:46.640 they said that stomach acids destroy it. 00:10:46.640 --> 00:10:53.920 That was just to sell their injection products. 00:10:53.920 --> 00:10:59.640 So is there a downside to doing too much progesterone if you don't need it? 00:10:59.640 --> 00:11:08.200 Yeah, it can make you drunk or unconscious if you take hundreds of milligrams. 00:11:08.200 --> 00:11:16.080 How does progesterone-estrogen balance men and women play into, say first breast cancer 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:23.040 for gals and then overall sleep issues for men and women? 00:11:23.040 --> 00:11:33.080 I was just looking at a recent article by well-known researchers that reviewed the history 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:39.440 of estrogen therapies. 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:49.620 It was that there's sort of a dogma in medicine that they have the true history of what the 00:11:49.620 --> 00:12:00.920 understanding has been of estrogen, but really all along since 1940, the pharmaceutical industry 00:12:00.920 --> 00:12:08.440 has been training the government regulatory agencies and the universities and the journals 00:12:08.440 --> 00:12:15.480 to sell their products, not to pay attention to the actual science. 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:27.480 But starting in the 1930s, the carcinogenic effects and the pain-inducing effects and 00:12:27.480 --> 00:12:36.800 the pro-inflammatory effects of estrogens have been identified very clearly. 00:12:36.800 --> 00:12:44.720 The abortifacient effects, everything that was known about estrogen scientifically before 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:54.560 1940, showed its extreme biological riskiness. 00:12:54.560 --> 00:13:02.560 One researcher did thorough tests over a period of 10 years and showed that every tissue in 00:13:02.560 --> 00:13:12.400 the body, if you give a small, continuous dose of estrogen, it's carcinogenic in sequence 00:13:12.400 --> 00:13:19.880 according to sensitivity to all of the tissues of the body, starting with the uterus, then 00:13:19.880 --> 00:13:29.000 the breast, then the pituitary and lungs, then the kidney and liver and eyeballs, brain. 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:39.400 Everything has its sensitivity to being cancerized by an uninterrupted dose of a small amount 00:13:39.400 --> 00:13:41.120 of estrogen. 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:48.640 That was thoroughly established by 1950, but the current medical understanding is that 00:13:48.640 --> 00:13:59.120 there was no fear of estrogen being carcinogenic until in the 1970s. 00:13:59.120 --> 00:14:06.680 It was unavoidable seeing that it was causing uterine cancer, and they thought or claimed 00:14:06.680 --> 00:14:13.640 they took care of that by giving synthetic progestin along with the estrogen to prevent 00:14:13.640 --> 00:14:16.560 uterine cancer. 00:14:16.560 --> 00:14:26.880 It turns out many years later with the Women's Health Initiative in 2001 and 2002 that the 00:14:26.880 --> 00:14:38.680 synthetic progestin, if anything, exacerbates the effects of estrogen, not only causing 00:14:38.680 --> 00:14:45.400 increased breast cancer as well as uterine cancer, but increasing heart attacks, strokes, 00:14:45.400 --> 00:14:47.640 dementia, Alzheimer's disease. 00:14:47.640 --> 00:14:53.040 What do we do before we ask about sleep, Dr. Ray Peat? 00:14:53.040 --> 00:14:56.400 By the way, we're Dr. Ray Peat, and we are live here. 00:14:56.400 --> 00:14:58.720 It is July 19, 2021. 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:01.800 If you care to be on the show, Patrick@OneRadioNetwork.com. 00:15:01.800 --> 00:15:08.720 We're on the 800 number, so we can't use that. 00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:10.440 I should have called him on the other line. 00:15:10.440 --> 00:15:12.840 Just use the email, Patrick@OneRadioNetwork.com. 00:15:12.840 --> 00:15:19.640 Dr. Ray Peat, what do we do day in and day out or just in our life of living on planet 00:15:19.640 --> 00:15:29.200 earth to exacerbate the problem of having too much estrogen regardless of our age? 00:15:29.200 --> 00:15:31.600 Do we eat, diet, or lifestyle? 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:33.840 Do we do things? 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:34.840 Yes. 00:15:34.840 --> 00:15:47.760 The things that already in the 1930s and '40s, the polyunsaturated fats were known to intensify 00:15:47.760 --> 00:15:51.800 the effects of estrogen. 00:15:51.800 --> 00:16:01.920 The Schutt family, starting in the 1930s, Wilfred Schutt was one of the later, the son 00:16:01.920 --> 00:16:14.680 of the original Dr. Schutt, identifying first estrogen as a pro-clotting factor exacerbated 00:16:14.680 --> 00:16:26.160 by the breakdown of the polyunsaturated fatty acids and the role of vitamin E supplements 00:16:26.160 --> 00:16:34.320 as first an anti-estrogenic factor, a fertility factor against the sterility-inducing effects 00:16:34.320 --> 00:16:36.440 of estrogen. 00:16:36.440 --> 00:16:46.080 Then vitamin E, under the influence of various industries, vitamin E was relegated to the 00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:53.920 status of an antioxidant only against the polyunsaturated fats. 00:16:53.920 --> 00:17:04.680 To interpret vitamin E correctly, you have to see that the anti-estrogen effect was equivalent 00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:17.160 to the anti-liquid peroxidation effect of the unsaturated fatty acids. 00:17:17.160 --> 00:17:24.720 Great mythology was created under the influence of the pharmaceutical industry promoting their 00:17:24.720 --> 00:17:35.560 new wonder drug, estrogen, to prevent aging. 00:17:35.560 --> 00:17:44.360 A couple of doctors at Harvard promoted the idea that being feminine is what makes you 00:17:44.360 --> 00:17:52.880 able to have babies, and if estrogen is the female hormone, then supplementing it makes 00:17:52.880 --> 00:18:01.960 you more feminine in the sense of being more able, more fertile, less likely to have miscarriages. 00:18:01.960 --> 00:18:09.320 They promoted the whole horrible DES catastrophe. 00:18:09.320 --> 00:18:15.400 So then estrogen plays a role, if too much, for guys especially, then the testosterone 00:18:15.400 --> 00:18:16.400 levels go down. 00:18:16.400 --> 00:18:26.040 When a man is under stress, every sort of stress, but accumulating polyunsaturated fatty 00:18:26.040 --> 00:18:32.680 acids is a chronic, age-related source of pro-estrogenic stress. 00:18:32.680 --> 00:18:41.640 The more stress a man is under, the more his various tissues start activating aromatase 00:18:41.640 --> 00:18:50.600 that turns testosterone into estrogen, and what he has to do protectively besides getting 00:18:50.600 --> 00:19:02.080 the polyunsaturated fats out of his tissue is to shift the balance away from stress to 00:19:02.080 --> 00:19:07.760 things that inhibit aromatase rather than activating it. 00:19:07.760 --> 00:19:17.360 Polyunsaturated fats through the prostaglandins activate aromatase, so aspirin blocking prostaglandins 00:19:17.360 --> 00:19:26.640 blocks aromatase and will raise testosterone when you're in a stress state. 00:19:26.640 --> 00:19:35.920 Progesterone is another direct action against the activation of aromatase. 00:19:35.920 --> 00:19:45.400 Aromatase-induced cortisol activates not only the prostaglandins, but direct action on increasing 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:48.400 aromatase function. 00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:57.000 So then that would tie into maybe the sleep idea, if we have too much cortisol. 00:19:57.000 --> 00:20:06.400 So, because we've had some emails this morning about insomnia, what can you tell us there 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:12.040 regarding progesterone, estrogen, maybe aspirin as far as people having a hard time with too 00:20:12.040 --> 00:20:17.520 much cortisol at night going into sleep? 00:20:17.520 --> 00:20:26.920 If your liver is under-functioning, it can't store enough glycogen to provide glucose to 00:20:26.920 --> 00:20:30.000 keep your brain working during the night. 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:39.200 When your glucose falls, adrenaline, histamine, and cortisol in sequence arise, each with 00:20:39.200 --> 00:20:45.240 an excitatory effect on your brain. 00:20:45.240 --> 00:20:52.200 This thyroid hormone is essential for using and storing glucose. 00:20:52.200 --> 00:20:58.000 If you're low in thyroid, your liver isn't going to have enough stored glucose to get 00:20:58.000 --> 00:21:05.080 you through the night, so your histamine, adrenaline, cortisol, and serotonin, all of 00:21:05.080 --> 00:21:12.000 the stress inflammation factors will increase. 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:20.920 Your body temperature falls protectively when your glucose is low, and progesterone and 00:21:20.920 --> 00:21:31.960 thyroid are able in many ways to keep your body temperature up, your liver storing glucose, 00:21:31.960 --> 00:21:42.800 and directly shifting the balance away from cortisol, histamine, serotonin, and adrenaline. 00:21:42.800 --> 00:21:48.520 That ties back to the thyroid again. 00:21:48.520 --> 00:21:58.240 Low thyroid people have been studied with brainwave sleep analysis and found that if 00:21:58.240 --> 00:22:07.800 you divide the type of sleep into four phases, hypothyroid people never get below the superficial 00:22:07.800 --> 00:22:10.040 second phase of sleep. 00:22:10.040 --> 00:22:17.480 So they wake up unrested, achy, and fatigued. 00:22:17.480 --> 00:22:26.560 It takes thyroid and progesterone as very central factors for achieving deep, restful 00:22:26.560 --> 00:22:29.760 four phases of sleep. 00:22:29.760 --> 00:22:31.120 Fascinating. 00:22:31.120 --> 00:22:35.640 Back to the thyroid again. 00:22:35.640 --> 00:22:40.600 Here's an email, and let's jump on this one before we do a first break, because as long 00:22:40.600 --> 00:22:45.520 as we're talking about it, I think you'll be able to help this person. 00:22:45.520 --> 00:22:55.760 Let's see, "I bought some progesterone cream, 5% 50 mg per pump to try before I eat my meals. 00:22:55.760 --> 00:22:59.720 My question is, my insulin levels are low already. 00:22:59.720 --> 00:23:02.640 I am at 2.2 right now. 00:23:02.640 --> 00:23:07.760 So if I start taking this progesterone to block some adrenaline because I have all the 00:23:07.760 --> 00:23:13.960 other symptoms, will it have an adverse effect on my already low insulin levels, or is it 00:23:13.960 --> 00:23:17.920 just that my insulin is already under control?" 00:23:17.920 --> 00:23:27.600 Yes, a healthy person is able to oxidize their glucose without producing a very large amount 00:23:27.600 --> 00:23:35.040 of insulin, so you have to know what the conditions are when the insulin is measured. 00:23:35.040 --> 00:23:46.120 It could be very good to have low insulin if you're still able to oxidize your glucose. 00:23:46.120 --> 00:23:55.520 One thing with the creams is that a lot of them simply have micronized progesterone suspended 00:23:55.520 --> 00:23:59.800 in an emulsion of a cream. 00:23:59.800 --> 00:24:08.360 So what they're doing is spreading a very fine powder on their skin with only part of 00:24:08.360 --> 00:24:14.760 it being functionally dissolved in oil so that it can get into the bloodstream. 00:24:14.760 --> 00:24:17.440 Wow, so how do you know? 00:24:17.440 --> 00:24:22.040 You'd have to really explore whatever cream you're using to make sure it's the good 00:24:22.040 --> 00:24:24.040 stuff, huh? 00:24:24.040 --> 00:24:25.040 Yeah. 00:24:25.040 --> 00:24:36.280 I found working in the lab that if I accidentally got my whole hand and arm covered with micronized 00:24:36.280 --> 00:24:45.120 progesterone, I could quickly taste it in my nose and mouth. 00:24:45.120 --> 00:24:56.080 There was a sensation, but that was using maybe a thousand milligrams of progesterone 00:24:56.080 --> 00:25:00.200 spread all over a part of my arm. 00:25:00.200 --> 00:25:07.360 But if you're only putting on 50 milligrams and most of it is still in the crystalline 00:25:07.360 --> 00:25:18.480 micro-pulverized form, then you're only going to absorb maybe 2 or 3 percent of what 00:25:18.480 --> 00:25:20.680 you put on. 00:25:20.680 --> 00:25:27.200 So that's why you have developed a product called Progest-E, right? 00:25:27.200 --> 00:25:38.520 Yeah, when you eat oily foods and vitamin E, the vitamin E travels with the fats in 00:25:38.520 --> 00:25:51.840 your food and is quickly and efficiently entered into the chylomicrons, a particle of emulsion 00:25:51.840 --> 00:26:02.040 that is taken up through the wall of the intestine into your lymphatic system, flowing directly 00:26:02.040 --> 00:26:09.400 into your main blood supply and circulating through the body before it reaches the liver. 00:26:09.400 --> 00:26:18.800 But if it's in the powdered micronized form, it isn't delivered into the chylomicron system, 00:26:18.800 --> 00:26:29.560 but slowly some of it sticks to the lining of the intestine and superficially releases 00:26:29.560 --> 00:26:37.720 molecules into the portal circulation carried to the liver, where the liver attaches either 00:26:37.720 --> 00:26:45.240 sulfuric acid or sugar to the progesterone, making it water-soluble. 00:26:45.240 --> 00:26:53.800 So taken in the powdered form, most of the progesterone circulating in the body will 00:26:53.800 --> 00:27:02.840 be in a water-soluble form, ready for excretion, and very different in function from the oil-soluble 00:27:02.840 --> 00:27:14.040 form, which is how your various ovaries, for example, are preparing it so that it circulates 00:27:14.040 --> 00:27:19.280 with the fats and blood cells. 00:27:19.280 --> 00:27:26.920 In a way, the chylomicrons, just as much as the red blood cells, are able to pass repeatedly 00:27:26.920 --> 00:27:35.800 through the liver without the progesterone being exposed to the inactivating enzymes. 00:27:35.800 --> 00:27:45.360 So chylomicron-carried progesterone imitates the body's way of distributing it through 00:27:45.360 --> 00:27:46.360 the body. 00:27:46.360 --> 00:27:51.740 And the creams then, how do they relate? 00:27:51.740 --> 00:28:00.720 Some of it gets exposed to the bloodstream, where it meets the red blood cells and lipids, 00:28:00.720 --> 00:28:23.320 which are the red blood cells that are the most likely to be exposed to the red blood 00:28:23.320 --> 00:28:24.320 cells. 00:28:24.320 --> 00:28:31.520 And that means that if you put a little bit of olive oil on your skin or vitamin E on 00:28:31.520 --> 00:28:40.680 your skin with the cream, you're going to dissolve more of it and let more of it get 00:28:40.680 --> 00:28:42.160 through into your bloodstream. 00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:43.160 Interesting. 00:28:43.160 --> 00:28:48.960 So, is it a good idea in general for the oral listeners to take a little vitamin E every 00:28:48.960 --> 00:28:53.000 day, do you think? 00:28:53.000 --> 00:28:57.960 It doesn't hurt to take 10 to 50 milligrams a day. 00:28:57.960 --> 00:29:02.040 And it would be the mixed tocopherol things? 00:29:02.040 --> 00:29:11.200 Yeah, those are the safest and least likely to have a lot of extraneous additives like 00:29:11.200 --> 00:29:13.960 polyunsaturated fatty acids. 00:29:13.960 --> 00:29:19.400 And so, but the product that you helped create, this progestease, it's got the vitamin E 00:29:19.400 --> 00:29:21.720 and the oil in there, right? 00:29:21.720 --> 00:29:26.760 Yeah, vitamin E and coconut oil. 00:29:26.760 --> 00:29:27.760 Coconut oil. 00:29:27.760 --> 00:29:28.920 And what's the dosage on that? 00:29:28.920 --> 00:29:33.320 Because I've got some, but how do you know how much to take of that? 00:29:33.320 --> 00:29:40.360 You can tell just putting some on your finger and rubbing it on your tongue or gums and 00:29:40.360 --> 00:29:42.600 lips. 00:29:42.600 --> 00:29:50.360 You can usually feel a sense of well-being within five or ten minutes of taking it. 00:29:50.360 --> 00:29:55.320 And how many, like if you're taking like a quarter of a, would you take as much as a 00:29:55.320 --> 00:30:00.680 quarter of a teaspoon of the progestease or how many milligrams are you getting? 00:30:00.680 --> 00:30:07.680 Some people feel like they're semi-anesthetized with as little as a fourth of a teaspoon, 00:30:07.680 --> 00:30:11.080 which is 100 milligrams of progesterone. 00:30:11.080 --> 00:30:16.680 So in the progestease, let me write that down, a quarter tea is 100 milligrams. 00:30:16.680 --> 00:30:17.680 Yeah. 00:30:17.680 --> 00:30:18.680 Okay. 00:30:18.680 --> 00:30:20.680 Yeah. 00:30:20.680 --> 00:30:23.960 Well, tricky biz, huh? 00:30:23.960 --> 00:30:37.480 Yeah, that's very often a therapeutic dose for a migraine or a mild seizure or for arthritis. 00:30:37.480 --> 00:30:43.800 Curious, how is it affecting arthritis? 00:30:43.800 --> 00:30:47.800 What's going on there, the progesterone? 00:30:47.800 --> 00:30:59.320 I don't really know all of the things involved, but studies of knee joints, for example, with 00:30:59.320 --> 00:31:10.520 rheumatoid arthritis, an Italian named Cutolo, that's his last name, has done detailed studies 00:31:10.520 --> 00:31:20.360 and found that estrogen is being produced in the arthritic joint and there's very high 00:31:20.360 --> 00:31:22.880 concentration there. 00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:31.400 And I think what's happening is most likely that the progesterone is inactivating the 00:31:31.400 --> 00:31:41.960 aromatase intrinsic to the inflamed joint when you anoint the joint with progesterone, 00:31:41.960 --> 00:31:49.440 vitamin E and olive oil or the whole leg around the joint. 00:31:49.440 --> 00:31:58.760 Sometimes the inflammation and redness and pain will be gone within an hour or two after 00:31:58.760 --> 00:32:04.040 anointing the whole leg with the progesterone solution. 00:32:04.040 --> 00:32:13.400 And I think the only way it can explain such a rapid and complete effect is that it's knocking 00:32:13.400 --> 00:32:18.720 out the aromatase, which is the center of the problem. 00:32:18.720 --> 00:32:26.760 A friend of mine used, I think it was 500 milligrams applied to his whole leg. 00:32:26.760 --> 00:32:38.280 He had a huge red inflamed joint that disabled him every afternoon for several weeks at that 00:32:38.280 --> 00:32:39.280 time. 00:32:39.280 --> 00:32:46.120 That afternoon, the joint cleared up before bedtime. 00:32:46.120 --> 00:32:50.040 Next day, he didn't have any soreness in his knee. 00:32:50.040 --> 00:32:56.320 And I knew him 40 years after that, he had never had a return of arthritis. 00:32:56.320 --> 00:33:04.080 Ha, could the progesterone be used for sleep if the thyroid is not happy or would you just 00:33:04.080 --> 00:33:06.000 be wasting your time there? 00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:08.560 Yeah, pretty much it's a waste. 00:33:08.560 --> 00:33:12.600 You get a temporary relief. 00:33:12.600 --> 00:33:16.320 It increases your temperature and deepens your sleep. 00:33:16.320 --> 00:33:24.760 But the basic thing is to correct the thyroid which is required for keeping your glucose 00:33:24.760 --> 00:33:34.720 up, producing carbon dioxide, reducing lactic acid and histamine and the whole cause. 00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:36.440 The whole cascade thing. 00:33:36.440 --> 00:33:43.480 And again, so to recap on your thyroid, you're still a big, you focus just on the THS. 00:33:43.480 --> 00:33:45.480 What is it? 00:33:45.480 --> 00:33:46.480 THS. 00:33:46.480 --> 00:33:49.640 T3 of the thyroid? 00:33:49.640 --> 00:33:50.640 No I mean the main number. 00:33:50.640 --> 00:33:55.080 I don't even know what that number is. 00:33:55.080 --> 00:33:56.800 In the thyroid test, what is it? 00:33:56.800 --> 00:33:57.800 Oh, the TSH. 00:33:57.800 --> 00:33:58.800 TSH, sorry. 00:33:58.800 --> 00:34:01.560 I just escaped my consciousness there. 00:34:01.560 --> 00:34:05.240 So you really like to focus on that, the TSH, right? 00:34:05.240 --> 00:34:13.000 Yeah, that should be, for example, when they have studied a population of generally healthy 00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:20.960 people, no symptoms, no thyroid cancer or other thyroid disease, they found that they 00:34:20.960 --> 00:34:29.880 had below 0.4 on the TSH test. 00:34:29.880 --> 00:34:30.880 Below 0.4? 00:34:30.880 --> 00:34:31.880 Yeah. 00:34:31.880 --> 00:34:32.880 Wow. 00:34:32.880 --> 00:34:35.320 That's pretty low. 00:34:35.320 --> 00:34:42.480 Many doctors won't prescribe thyroid even if you have a 3.0 on the TSH. 00:34:42.480 --> 00:34:51.640 But I've never seen anyone that I would consider healthier that was free of symptoms if their 00:34:51.640 --> 00:34:57.160 TSH was even 2.0. 00:34:57.160 --> 00:34:59.640 They always have some problem. 00:34:59.640 --> 00:35:06.120 So is there any way, if you had like a TSH of 2 or 3 or something, to work with that 00:35:06.120 --> 00:35:13.640 other than taking, just go ahead and take the thyroid meds, just take it, take thyroid? 00:35:13.640 --> 00:35:21.600 Yeah, I think it's good to read Brodebarn's books on the thyroid using the traditional 00:35:21.600 --> 00:35:23.840 glandular thyroid. 00:35:23.840 --> 00:35:34.720 He was very cautious, starting with generally a half a grain, 30 milligrams of the standardized 00:35:34.720 --> 00:35:43.400 powdered thyroid gland, gradually over a period of two or three months, working up to whatever 00:35:43.400 --> 00:35:50.800 the patient needs to function perfectly. 00:35:50.800 --> 00:35:57.440 On average, that was two grains, 120 milligrams of desiccated thyroid. 00:35:57.440 --> 00:35:59.560 And why work up to it? 00:35:59.560 --> 00:36:02.440 Why not just go for it? 00:36:02.440 --> 00:36:05.040 It just doesn't work well like that? 00:36:05.040 --> 00:36:06.040 Yeah. 00:36:06.040 --> 00:36:18.360 I've only seen it happen two or three times, but even a half a grain over a few days accumulates 00:36:18.360 --> 00:36:26.000 and the powder that you take is about a three or four to one ratio of thyroxine to the active 00:36:26.000 --> 00:36:40.560 hormone and sometimes the inactive hormone can start interfering with the active T3 hormone. 00:36:40.560 --> 00:36:50.440 That's somewhat rare, but in middle-aged women, you can more often see the effect of T4 rising 00:36:50.440 --> 00:36:54.760 along with symptoms of hypothyroidism. 00:36:54.760 --> 00:37:02.840 You have to give the liver time to be able to activate, convert the thyroxine into the 00:37:02.840 --> 00:37:05.120 active hormone. 00:37:05.120 --> 00:37:11.880 Another thing that happens is that if you're hypothyroid, your cells aren't able to retain 00:37:11.880 --> 00:37:15.640 magnesium efficiently. 00:37:15.640 --> 00:37:27.040 Magnesium is held inside cells bound mostly to ATP, so if you're not producing ATP very 00:37:27.040 --> 00:37:34.480 fast, your cells don't retain magnesium very efficiently. 00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:43.960 And in the absence of adequate magnesium, your ATP is destabilized and so it becomes 00:37:43.960 --> 00:37:46.720 a vicious circle. 00:37:46.720 --> 00:37:54.280 You have to give your body time to assimilate from your regular diet. 00:37:54.280 --> 00:38:03.200 As you increase your availability of thyroid hormone, your cells are able to retain more 00:38:03.200 --> 00:38:08.360 of the magnesium that you're feeding them. 00:38:08.360 --> 00:38:16.480 So they become more efficient and stable, then you can handle more and more thyroid 00:38:16.480 --> 00:38:17.480 activity. 00:38:17.480 --> 00:38:18.480 Interesting. 00:38:18.480 --> 00:38:24.760 Have you ever made any connection, Dr. Ray Peat, from the spiritual, mental, emotional 00:38:24.760 --> 00:38:34.880 side of our being and thyroid and why there are so many people mostly low thyroid? 00:38:34.880 --> 00:38:45.400 The low mental energy makes you more susceptible to any kind of stress, emotional or physical 00:38:45.400 --> 00:38:46.400 stress. 00:38:46.400 --> 00:38:55.720 And a lot of people compensate with increased adrenaline, up to 30 or 40 times the daily 00:38:55.720 --> 00:39:05.320 adrenaline production to compensate for the inefficiency that the thyroid magnesium problem 00:39:05.320 --> 00:39:09.320 creates. 00:39:09.320 --> 00:39:18.080 They can be very speedy and alert by keeping up this gigantic adrenaline production as 00:39:18.080 --> 00:39:21.520 if they're living on speed. 00:39:21.520 --> 00:39:29.520 Other people compensate with high cortisol and that has its effects on your mentality 00:39:29.520 --> 00:39:33.120 and way of thinking. 00:39:33.120 --> 00:39:40.120 Other people don't compensate and they just become sluggish and depressed. 00:39:40.120 --> 00:39:52.480 So the low thyroid person is susceptible to various kinds of stress-related problems. 00:39:52.480 --> 00:40:06.040 When your thyroid is normal, if you experience either grief or any physical trauma, it can 00:40:06.040 --> 00:40:16.160 be enough to turn on the stress mechanism and suppress your metabolism as if your body 00:40:16.160 --> 00:40:26.480 can't confront the magnitude of the injury you're experiencing and tries to retreat 00:40:26.480 --> 00:40:35.560 and go into a sort of hibernation state involving blocking your thyroid function. 00:40:35.560 --> 00:40:44.120 In those cases, I've seen a few people taking a small amount of thyroid as well as eating 00:40:44.120 --> 00:40:53.240 well for just a few days who could pop right out of the stress and bring their own thyroid 00:40:53.240 --> 00:40:55.240 up to full functioning. 00:40:55.240 --> 00:41:00.080 Wow, interesting, amazing. 00:41:00.080 --> 00:41:01.080 Stay right there, Doc. 00:41:01.080 --> 00:41:02.400 Okay, can we take a break here? 00:41:02.400 --> 00:41:06.720 Dr. Ray Peat, Patrick Timpone, OneRadioNetwork.com. 00:41:06.720 --> 00:41:16.680 As you know, I've been hanging around doing talk shows about health. 00:41:16.680 --> 00:41:22.480 We began in the late 70s and I've come across a lot of different technologies. 00:41:22.480 --> 00:41:28.320 You can imagine all the powders and potions and pills and gadgets that people have wanted 00:41:28.320 --> 00:41:30.200 me to promote. 00:41:30.200 --> 00:41:34.480 I have over the years some of them. 00:41:34.480 --> 00:41:40.080 Most of the things are kind of silly and they never did much, especially the gadgets. 00:41:40.080 --> 00:41:45.160 But this technology that we've been working with for a couple of years has been probably 00:41:45.160 --> 00:41:50.720 one of the most beneficial, powerful technologies that I've come across. 00:41:50.720 --> 00:41:57.000 I've been breathing the hydrogen browns gas for two years now and you drink the water. 00:41:57.000 --> 00:42:05.680 George Wiseman created this Aquakir machine and it's really something and it works and 00:42:05.680 --> 00:42:09.480 it's powerful and you can go to many places. 00:42:09.480 --> 00:42:16.280 But I think Tyler LeBaron and Molecular Hydrogen Institute, he's got more peer-reviewed studies 00:42:16.280 --> 00:42:20.440 on the benefits of breathing browns gas, hydrogen. 00:42:20.440 --> 00:42:25.640 Browns gas is what our machine does, which is a little bit, a little leveraged hydrogen 00:42:25.640 --> 00:42:32.360 a bit, but most of the research has been just on the pure hydrogen. 00:42:32.360 --> 00:42:35.200 So our machine delivers a little bit more. 00:42:35.200 --> 00:42:40.440 It's got more of the idea of the water and the fourth phase of water, the Gerald Pollack 00:42:40.440 --> 00:42:41.440 work. 00:42:41.440 --> 00:42:46.160 But you can breathe it and drink the water and there's a lifetime warranty on this baby. 00:42:46.160 --> 00:42:47.920 But here's George talking a bit about it. 00:42:47.920 --> 00:42:54.920 Did you know the Aquakir browns gas machine reduces oxidative stress? 00:42:54.920 --> 00:43:00.160 Hydrogen is the world's best antioxidant by a long shot. 00:43:00.160 --> 00:43:06.280 First of all, it's 700 times smaller than something like CoQ10, 400 times smaller than 00:43:06.280 --> 00:43:07.840 vitamin C, things like that. 00:43:07.840 --> 00:43:12.720 So it can literally go, the hydrogen molecule can literally go through everything in your 00:43:12.720 --> 00:43:15.960 body and go right into the very DNA and repair it. 00:43:15.960 --> 00:43:21.640 First of all, you're repairing oxidative damage, but you're also reducing or eliminating free 00:43:21.640 --> 00:43:22.640 radicals. 00:43:22.640 --> 00:43:26.640 And there are only the bad free radicals, which is another reason why hydrogen is good 00:43:26.640 --> 00:43:30.560 because you actually have free radicals in your body that you want to keep. 00:43:30.560 --> 00:43:31.760 Example nitrous oxide. 00:43:31.760 --> 00:43:38.800 The oxidative stress, is that the main thing that damages the DNA and causes the regeneration 00:43:38.800 --> 00:43:43.160 to stop, you know, euthane or getting older, immune organs? 00:43:43.160 --> 00:43:48.040 Is that at the base, George Weissman, of most of the issues? 00:43:48.040 --> 00:43:49.040 It's one of the pieces. 00:43:49.040 --> 00:43:50.040 Just one of them. 00:43:50.040 --> 00:43:53.760 And this comes back to that regeneration thing that I was talking about. 00:43:53.760 --> 00:43:55.120 The cells won't regenerate. 00:43:55.120 --> 00:43:59.360 You won't have stem cells and that sort of thing if you haven't got enough hydrogen. 00:43:59.360 --> 00:44:04.640 And if our body is not generating enough hydrogen, we get dehydrated. 00:44:04.640 --> 00:44:05.640 Dehydrated. 00:44:05.640 --> 00:44:08.120 Lack of hydrogen. 00:44:08.120 --> 00:44:12.160 The AquaCure machine, 10% off, promo code 1RADIO. 00:44:12.160 --> 00:44:17.320 Use the promo code 1RADIO, 10% off in our store, 1radionetwork.com. 00:44:17.320 --> 00:44:18.320 Indeed. 00:44:18.320 --> 00:44:23.040 And believe it or not, I mean, in a month or so, we're going to be thinking about fall. 00:44:23.040 --> 00:44:24.040 Can you imagine? 00:44:24.040 --> 00:44:25.040 Phew, man. 00:44:25.040 --> 00:44:30.360 And when the weather starts to cool off, that's when we really start selling more and more 00:44:30.360 --> 00:44:37.960 saunas because it's just kind of a, you're just more motivated to do a sauna when it's 00:44:37.960 --> 00:44:39.880 cold outside, obviously. 00:44:39.880 --> 00:44:45.660 But we don't like to talk about motivation here because here on 1Radio Network, we encourage 00:44:45.660 --> 00:44:50.480 you and teach and teach ourselves and learn ourselves not to worry about being motivated 00:44:50.480 --> 00:44:51.520 about doing something. 00:44:51.520 --> 00:44:52.520 Just do it. 00:44:52.520 --> 00:44:58.440 Because if we waited until we were motivated to write the great novel or paint or write 00:44:58.440 --> 00:45:01.840 my screenplay, if I was waiting to be totally motivated, it would never get done. 00:45:01.840 --> 00:45:04.200 So you just got to sit there and do it. 00:45:04.200 --> 00:45:05.200 You know, just do it. 00:45:05.200 --> 00:45:08.000 And before you know it, you're motivated. 00:45:08.000 --> 00:45:09.080 That's the way we deal with it. 00:45:09.080 --> 00:45:11.700 But I don't know how I got off on that. 00:45:11.700 --> 00:45:17.680 But it is a time when you'll be more inclined to think about doing saunas. 00:45:17.680 --> 00:45:18.680 So get one now. 00:45:18.680 --> 00:45:20.200 Beat the rush. 00:45:20.200 --> 00:45:21.640 These are great units. 00:45:21.640 --> 00:45:24.840 I'm in mine all the time for what that's worth. 00:45:24.840 --> 00:45:29.640 And I think it's very valuable to sweat with the far infrared rays. 00:45:29.640 --> 00:45:35.360 We have a unit called the Relax Sit Up Far Infrared Sauna. 00:45:35.360 --> 00:45:41.600 And it's a great price that we're allowed to give only orally. 00:45:41.600 --> 00:45:44.120 Don't even put it in print. 00:45:44.120 --> 00:45:46.760 And that's $1,195. 00:45:46.760 --> 00:45:51.640 And that's delivered to you in the lower 48. 00:45:51.640 --> 00:45:54.440 And anywhere else, you just let me know where you live. 00:45:54.440 --> 00:45:55.440 Alaska, Hawaii. 00:45:55.440 --> 00:45:57.920 And we ship them all over the world. 00:45:57.920 --> 00:46:00.600 And we can ship them to you no matter where you live. 00:46:00.600 --> 00:46:04.320 And it's not as expensive as you think. 00:46:04.320 --> 00:46:06.360 We did one I think to the Netherlands. 00:46:06.360 --> 00:46:10.000 I think it was a total of $200 and more. 00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:15.440 So $1,195 to I think $1,395 total to the Netherlands. 00:46:15.440 --> 00:46:18.440 And of course comes with the proper plug for the Netherlands. 00:46:18.440 --> 00:46:20.720 So these are great units. 00:46:20.720 --> 00:46:22.040 I think you'll like it. 00:46:22.040 --> 00:46:23.860 You'll enjoy sitting in them. 00:46:23.860 --> 00:46:25.000 They have different controls. 00:46:25.000 --> 00:46:28.920 So you control how hot it gets. 00:46:28.920 --> 00:46:32.120 You can put on one or two of the different burners. 00:46:32.120 --> 00:46:37.160 And you could probably sweat every day for the rest of your life and be better off for 00:46:37.160 --> 00:46:38.160 it. 00:46:38.160 --> 00:46:39.160 Just my theory. 00:46:39.160 --> 00:46:40.360 I have no science behind that. 00:46:40.360 --> 00:46:45.080 But you know, it's a wonderful way to detoxify ongoing. 00:46:45.080 --> 00:46:50.600 As long as you're drinking plenty of water and get your little electrolytes there, you'll 00:46:50.600 --> 00:46:51.600 be fine. 00:46:51.600 --> 00:46:53.200 The RelaxFar Infrared Sauna. 00:46:53.200 --> 00:46:54.200 Just let me know. 00:46:54.200 --> 00:46:59.760 The only way to get it is to email me, Patrick@1radionetwork.com. 00:46:59.760 --> 00:47:05.280 The RelaxFar Infrared Sauna and we'll hook you up with just the right price, the best 00:47:05.280 --> 00:47:06.440 price ever. 00:47:06.440 --> 00:47:09.640 And then have some fun. 00:47:09.640 --> 00:47:14.600 From the Hill Country in Texas, this is oneradionetwork.com. 00:47:14.600 --> 00:47:21.680 We're talking with Dr. Ray Peat who's here on the third Monday of the month. 00:47:21.680 --> 00:47:25.800 And Dr. Peat, we thank you so much for taking the time to visit with us every month. 00:47:25.800 --> 00:47:27.360 We really appreciate it. 00:47:27.360 --> 00:47:28.360 You're welcome. 00:47:28.360 --> 00:47:33.160 We really do. 00:47:33.160 --> 00:47:36.200 Here's a question from David in Australia. 00:47:36.200 --> 00:47:41.400 And he says, you know, there's a lot of people out there that's kind of demonizing 00:47:41.400 --> 00:47:47.720 the being metabolically acidic, meaning the more acidic, then the more cancer, poor functioning 00:47:47.720 --> 00:47:48.720 of kidneys. 00:47:48.720 --> 00:47:58.280 What does Dr. Ray Peat think about this idea of being more alkaline for health? 00:47:58.280 --> 00:48:08.320 In the limited sense of having a pH of 7.4, our blood should be mildly alkaline. 00:48:08.320 --> 00:48:14.920 But that doesn't mean that the cells should be mildly alkaline. 00:48:14.920 --> 00:48:26.720 In fact, the healthy functioning cell is kept in a mildly acidic state, usually 6.8 or 6.9 00:48:26.720 --> 00:48:28.360 pH. 00:48:28.360 --> 00:48:40.040 And the reason the blood is not neutral, is slightly on the alkaline side, is that the 00:48:40.040 --> 00:48:53.720 metabolizing cell is excreting sodium into the blood and the excess is eliminated by 00:48:53.720 --> 00:48:59.120 the kidneys so that the blood doesn't become too alkaline. 00:48:59.120 --> 00:49:12.400 But 7.4 is a steady state, a safe level of alkalinity that corresponds to the acidity 00:49:12.400 --> 00:49:22.440 inside cells, which is preserved by exactly the excretion of the base into the bloodstream 00:49:22.440 --> 00:49:27.080 for potential elimination. 00:49:27.080 --> 00:49:38.200 If you take a dose of baking soda, sodium bicarbonate, we have enzymes that if the cell 00:49:38.200 --> 00:49:47.840 is deficient in carbon dioxide, for example, because it's hypothyroid, the bicarbonate 00:49:47.840 --> 00:49:59.400 is turned into acidic CO2 by these enzymes and the acidic form of CO2 is oil soluble, 00:49:59.400 --> 00:50:03.480 so it's retained inside the cells. 00:50:03.480 --> 00:50:12.160 And momentarily, taking the baking soda will make your blood more alkaline. 00:50:12.160 --> 00:50:21.240 But since the CO2 can be retained inside cells as far as needed, then the sodium becomes 00:50:21.240 --> 00:50:30.840 excess, raises your pH, sometimes a little above 7.4, at which point the kidneys excrete 00:50:30.840 --> 00:50:37.920 it, leaving a net of CO2 retained by the cells. 00:50:37.920 --> 00:50:48.240 So you can't think of taking CO2 as leaving a balance of alkalinity. 00:50:48.240 --> 00:50:53.120 It can leave a balance of CO2. 00:50:53.120 --> 00:51:05.880 And normally, your nerves and various regulatory systems cause your breathing to be regulated 00:51:05.880 --> 00:51:14.200 so that you retain enough CO2 to keep the cells acidified. 00:51:14.200 --> 00:51:24.760 And if something like anxiety makes you breathe too fast, and hypothyroid people aren't producing 00:51:24.760 --> 00:51:36.000 CO2 at a very high rate, so anxiety or stress is more likely to make a hypothyroid person 00:51:36.000 --> 00:51:42.520 hyperventilate, throwing off the CO2 they need. 00:51:42.520 --> 00:51:47.000 And that then makes your blood too alkaline. 00:51:47.000 --> 00:51:50.200 It's called respiratory alkalosis. 00:51:50.200 --> 00:51:55.040 And that leads to things like panic attacks. 00:51:55.040 --> 00:52:00.520 Arrhythmia, I know, those kind of things. 00:52:00.520 --> 00:52:08.700 So if we just did those little pieces of paper, Doc, and did our urine, is that a test of 00:52:08.700 --> 00:52:11.000 anything that matters? 00:52:11.000 --> 00:52:14.520 Oh, yeah. 00:52:14.520 --> 00:52:19.280 It's good to keep your urine just slightly on the acidic side. 00:52:19.280 --> 00:52:22.800 Like six or seven, maybe? 00:52:22.800 --> 00:52:27.400 Six point seven is a good number. 00:52:27.400 --> 00:52:33.520 The more protein you eat, the more acidic your urine is likely to be because of the 00:52:33.520 --> 00:52:40.560 sulfate and phosphate in the meat and other proteins. 00:52:40.560 --> 00:52:46.680 They make the blood sometimes all the way down to pH 5. 00:52:46.680 --> 00:52:54.520 Just being slightly on the acidic side of the urine is compatible with keeping your 00:52:54.520 --> 00:52:57.600 blood at about 7.4. 00:52:57.600 --> 00:52:58.600 What do you think? 00:52:58.600 --> 00:53:03.360 Do you know anything about the alkalinity of the water or the acidity of the water and 00:53:03.360 --> 00:53:06.840 how it would affect the body? 00:53:06.840 --> 00:53:08.880 Yeah. 00:53:08.880 --> 00:53:16.760 A lot of minerals in the water will generally make it slightly basic. 00:53:16.760 --> 00:53:23.160 If they're good minerals like magnesium and calcium, that's good. 00:53:23.160 --> 00:53:32.040 One of the effects of the mineralized water is that although it can deposit a stony material 00:53:32.040 --> 00:53:43.080 inside your plumbing, at least it's not drawing out zinc and copper and iron and lead or whatever 00:53:43.080 --> 00:53:46.640 might be in the solder of your plumbing. 00:53:46.640 --> 00:53:55.240 It protects you from plumbing poisoning to have hard water. 00:53:55.240 --> 00:54:03.160 Very soft water can dissolve enough toxic heavy metals to be a problem just coming through 00:54:03.160 --> 00:54:04.160 your plumbing. 00:54:04.160 --> 00:54:10.240 So if your water is too soft, how can that be a problem because isn't that getting rid 00:54:10.240 --> 00:54:12.120 of? 00:54:12.120 --> 00:54:27.520 It retains enough carbon dioxide, carbonic acid, that the way water dripping into a cave 00:54:27.520 --> 00:54:36.200 will leave calcium stalactites by evaporating. 00:54:36.200 --> 00:54:47.640 Having dissolved calcium from the stone, it will deposit them and if the water is naturally 00:54:47.640 --> 00:54:54.000 absorbing a little bit of CO2, it's able to dissolve minerals. 00:54:54.000 --> 00:55:01.640 In the case of a cave, it's usually mostly calcium but coming through your plumbing, 00:55:01.640 --> 00:55:04.840 it will be whatever the plumbing is made of. 00:55:04.840 --> 00:55:05.840 Interesting. 00:55:05.840 --> 00:55:11.840 Dr. Ray Peat, here's one, so I don't even know how to say this word, polycosanols. 00:55:11.840 --> 00:55:16.840 How do you say them? 00:55:16.840 --> 00:55:17.840 Polycosanols. 00:55:17.840 --> 00:55:22.520 Jason would like to ask you to discuss their benefits. 00:55:22.520 --> 00:55:30.800 They are like long chain saturated fatty acid. 00:55:30.800 --> 00:55:37.480 They're usually longer than stearic acid by sometimes twice as long except they have an 00:55:37.480 --> 00:55:43.680 alcohol on the end, less oxidized than the fatty acids. 00:55:43.680 --> 00:55:55.520 So they're less water soluble than the highly saturated long chain fatty acids. 00:55:55.520 --> 00:56:06.600 They originally were found in association with vitamin E and when vitamin E was found 00:56:06.600 --> 00:56:14.480 to greatly increase endurance, it turned out that it was that the vitamin E was carrying 00:56:14.480 --> 00:56:23.240 into the body some of the polycosanols, highly saturated waxy material. 00:56:23.240 --> 00:56:33.320 Vitamin E is a good carrier for it and the original ways of making vitamin E by extraction 00:56:33.320 --> 00:56:44.360 from leaves for example, you get lots of the waxy material from the leafy material. 00:56:44.360 --> 00:56:49.560 Here's a question for you, Robert in California. 00:56:49.560 --> 00:56:57.800 Why does a dozen fructose from juice or fruit cause fatty liver since it can only exclusively 00:56:57.800 --> 00:57:01.280 be metabolized in the liver? 00:57:01.280 --> 00:57:10.480 Jason Fung and others seem concerned about damage from fructose. 00:57:10.480 --> 00:57:20.280 If you look at some of the, well all of the high fructose liver damage studies I've seen 00:57:20.280 --> 00:57:32.000 contained 5% corn oil, an excessive amount of polyunsaturated fats and then a total caloric 00:57:32.000 --> 00:57:39.840 excess meaning that you're going to store a high proportion of the excess of fatty acids 00:57:39.840 --> 00:57:42.320 in the diet. 00:57:42.320 --> 00:57:50.560 So the setup is biased to create fatty acid poisoning of your liver essentially from an 00:57:50.560 --> 00:58:09.160 excess of calories and where they're using it to, supposedly to incriminate the sugar 00:58:09.160 --> 00:58:12.760 is having a toxic effect on the liver. 00:58:12.760 --> 00:58:24.120 But even worse than that, some of these studies used a particular stock animal food diet that 00:58:24.120 --> 00:58:36.040 was deficient in magnesium for doing their studies with fructose. 00:58:36.040 --> 00:58:42.560 I haven't seen the explanation how they explained it away but it was formulated with less magnesium 00:58:42.560 --> 00:58:50.240 than normal making it an especially liver toxic, proofer rich diet. 00:58:50.240 --> 00:59:04.920 So basically I think it's a setup to sell fatty acids and incriminate the use of sugar 00:59:04.920 --> 00:59:09.280 in causing heart disease and liver disease and so on. 00:59:09.280 --> 00:59:14.840 This is an email from Thornson, he's in San Juan Capistrano, beautiful place. 00:59:14.840 --> 00:59:19.720 He says, "Dear Dr. Peat, what can I do about severe and capitals depression? 00:59:19.720 --> 00:59:29.480 It's pretty bad and I don't think it has any relation to this COVID but what can I do?" 00:59:29.480 --> 00:59:43.600 Take active thyroid T3 and a good supportive diet of vitamin D and adequate calcium. 00:59:43.600 --> 00:59:53.360 Those three work together to lower stress, get your stress hormones down and your brain 00:59:53.360 --> 01:00:05.120 energy up and sometimes just adding one of those like a large vitamin D supplement will 01:00:05.120 --> 01:00:08.960 sometimes bring a person out of a major depression. 01:00:08.960 --> 01:00:19.360 But the whole group, good diet, lots of calcium, adequate vitamin D and active thyroid together. 01:00:19.360 --> 01:00:23.120 It gets you going. 01:00:23.120 --> 01:00:30.120 So you like calcium rather would be milk, right? 01:00:30.120 --> 01:00:33.480 Yeah, low fat milk in particular. 01:00:33.480 --> 01:00:36.560 Why low fat? 01:00:36.560 --> 01:00:51.040 It's more active, the sugar component works with the high calcium more quickly to activate 01:00:51.040 --> 01:00:52.960 your metabolism. 01:00:52.960 --> 01:01:02.080 Your body temperature tends to increase, oxygen consumption increases and if you used whole 01:01:02.080 --> 01:01:10.060 milk for example, the amount of fat would not only be fattening but it would slow your 01:01:10.060 --> 01:01:12.360 metabolism slightly. 01:01:12.360 --> 01:01:13.360 Actually slows it. 01:01:13.360 --> 01:01:16.040 Here's an email from Rose, she's having a hard time. 01:01:16.040 --> 01:01:24.160 Well her daughter is 38 and back in October 2020 decided to have a tubal ligation and 01:01:24.160 --> 01:01:30.160 now she's experiencing great hormonal changes, PMS symptoms, anxiety, anger issues, night 01:01:30.160 --> 01:01:31.680 sweats. 01:01:31.680 --> 01:01:35.760 What can she do to counter these symptoms from having this ligation? 01:01:35.760 --> 01:01:44.760 I also did the same thing and I wanted her but not having any more children outweighs 01:01:44.760 --> 01:01:47.360 the risk in her mind anyway. 01:01:47.360 --> 01:01:51.760 Thank you very much for any service. 01:01:51.760 --> 01:02:01.520 In the 70s, I was studying the effects of the IUD on animals and how it works. 01:02:01.520 --> 01:02:10.920 In effect, it increased their uterine estrogen exposure causing miscarriage. 01:02:10.920 --> 01:02:19.240 But then around 1980, two different studies independently found that men who had had a 01:02:19.240 --> 01:02:29.080 vasectomy, what pushed vasectomy impotence and other sexual symptoms, they found were 01:02:29.080 --> 01:02:35.440 associated scanning all of the relevant hormones. 01:02:35.440 --> 01:02:43.080 The only deficiency they saw was in progesterone and supplementing the progesterone corrected 01:02:43.080 --> 01:02:54.640 the impotency by getting the ratio proper between progesterone and the stress hormones. 01:02:54.640 --> 01:03:04.920 Almost simultaneously, I think it was 1980, a similar study in women found that having 01:03:04.920 --> 01:03:12.120 the tubal ligation, a lot of them went into depression right after it. 01:03:12.120 --> 01:03:20.480 In surveying their relevant hormones, they found that progesterone was the only deficient 01:03:20.480 --> 01:03:31.440 hormone and supplementing that, if their ovaries were okay, the supplement could get their 01:03:31.440 --> 01:03:38.600 ovaries back to producing a normal amount of progesterone and correct the high ratio 01:03:38.600 --> 01:03:41.000 of estrogen to progesterone. 01:03:41.000 --> 01:03:44.520 Dr. Ray Peat, we're live here, July 9. 01:03:44.520 --> 01:03:46.980 Here's a good one for you. 01:03:46.980 --> 01:03:52.880 What is the highest dose of vitamin D3 in international units and one can supplement 01:03:52.880 --> 01:03:56.320 daily over long term, maybe all his life? 01:03:56.320 --> 01:04:01.240 And what would be the benefits to taking higher doses of D3 daily over the long term? 01:04:01.240 --> 01:04:06.400 I notice that I feel significantly better every time I increase the dose and in recent 01:04:06.400 --> 01:04:11.640 podcasts you mentioned that higher doses of D3 can be a buffer for stress. 01:04:11.640 --> 01:04:20.160 Yeah, I think 5,000 units a day is the most I would want to take year round, year after 01:04:20.160 --> 01:04:21.160 year. 01:04:21.160 --> 01:04:23.360 5,000 a day? 01:04:23.360 --> 01:04:24.520 Yeah. 01:04:24.520 --> 01:04:32.240 I've known people who for two weeks or so would take 10,000 a day to get out of, for 01:04:32.240 --> 01:04:36.400 example, rheumatoid arthritis and depression. 01:04:36.400 --> 01:04:39.280 And I wonder how much, I guess we get our share in the sun, right? 01:04:39.280 --> 01:04:45.080 But I guess you'd have to get pretty geeky to figure out exactly how many units you're 01:04:45.080 --> 01:04:46.080 getting. 01:04:46.080 --> 01:04:51.480 Yeah, if you're exposed to good sunlight with a lot of skin exposure. 01:04:51.480 --> 01:04:53.080 On your skin, right. 01:04:53.080 --> 01:04:59.000 Yeah, you can make something like 10,000 units in a day. 01:04:59.000 --> 01:05:00.000 Here's one for you. 01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:05.760 Are caffeine pills a good alternative to coffee if they are used with plenty of sugar or milk? 01:05:05.760 --> 01:05:12.720 They're much cheaper, a way to reap the powerful benefits of caffeine. 01:05:12.720 --> 01:05:14.640 An alternative, did you say? 01:05:14.640 --> 01:05:18.160 I think this person is wanting to know if the caffeine pills would be an alternative 01:05:18.160 --> 01:05:19.160 to coffee. 01:05:19.160 --> 01:05:25.000 Do you want to pick up a little whatever caffeine does? 01:05:25.000 --> 01:05:33.240 Except that there are lots of good things in coffee, anti-inflammatory things and nutrients 01:05:33.240 --> 01:05:36.680 that you wouldn't be getting with caffeine. 01:05:36.680 --> 01:05:40.880 So generally coffee's a pretty okay food for people? 01:05:40.880 --> 01:05:44.000 Very good. 01:05:44.000 --> 01:05:52.520 Many studies have found that the more coffee a person drinks, they usually say five cups 01:05:52.520 --> 01:06:00.080 or more, that lower the liver disease, that lower the dementia and so on. 01:06:00.080 --> 01:06:01.360 That's interesting. 01:06:01.360 --> 01:06:11.480 Progressive increase from zero to one or two cups with the best benefits from five or more. 01:06:11.480 --> 01:06:20.400 And to a great extent, it's supporting your thyroid function, lowering nitric oxide for 01:06:20.400 --> 01:06:26.040 example which blocks your mitochondrial respiration. 01:06:26.040 --> 01:06:32.600 And so the combination of coffee and thyroid are protecting your mitochondria which protect 01:06:32.600 --> 01:06:34.800 your liver and brain. 01:06:34.800 --> 01:06:41.800 Here's a person who's had plenty of benefits they say from vitamin K2 supplement, maybe 01:06:41.800 --> 01:06:42.800 one milligram. 01:06:42.800 --> 01:06:49.800 But many have said that over long term, K2 supplementation can cause the jawbone to increase 01:06:49.800 --> 01:06:50.800 in size. 01:06:50.800 --> 01:06:52.800 I prefer not to have that. 01:06:52.800 --> 01:06:56.480 What is your opinion? 01:06:56.480 --> 01:06:58.000 I haven't heard that. 01:06:58.000 --> 01:07:10.080 The jawbone is, the facial bones in general do tend to have the capacity to increase with 01:07:10.080 --> 01:07:15.800 age but under stress, they atrophy with age. 01:07:15.800 --> 01:07:23.200 And so especially the lower jawbone very often shrinks to the point that the teeth are lost. 01:07:23.200 --> 01:07:33.920 But with the right balance, the face can get thicker bones with aging. 01:07:33.920 --> 01:07:41.320 And vitamin K does protect the bones and since the facial bones are especially, the skull 01:07:41.320 --> 01:07:49.760 and face are susceptible to stress-induced changes. 01:07:49.760 --> 01:07:57.600 You might see strengthening of the jawbone in particular with regular supplementation 01:07:57.600 --> 01:07:58.600 of vitamin K. 01:07:58.600 --> 01:08:06.200 What it's doing is keeping calcium out of your soft tissues, especially your arteries 01:08:06.200 --> 01:08:11.760 and brain and keeping it in the bones where it should be. 01:08:11.760 --> 01:08:13.480 Which is where we want to run. 01:08:13.480 --> 01:08:17.120 Ben writes in to Dr. Peat, "Prayer, your last show with Patrick. 01:08:17.120 --> 01:08:22.720 I've tried adding some orange juice to treat type 2 diabetes but it has raised my blood 01:08:22.720 --> 01:08:23.840 sugar. 01:08:23.840 --> 01:08:30.520 What is your OJ protocol to use that will begin lowering it?" 01:08:30.520 --> 01:08:34.720 It has to go with generally good nutrition. 01:08:34.720 --> 01:08:44.960 Knowing that your calcium, vitamin D, and thyroid and sodium intake are all good. 01:08:44.960 --> 01:08:55.600 The potassium alone component of orange juice works to some extent exactly like insulin 01:08:55.600 --> 01:09:01.080 to help cells take up glucose and oxidize it. 01:09:01.080 --> 01:09:12.920 And the flavonoids, the colorful components of orange juice, give it a bitter taste when 01:09:12.920 --> 01:09:15.560 they're excessive. 01:09:15.560 --> 01:09:20.320 Those flavonoids have a pro-oxidative effect. 01:09:20.320 --> 01:09:29.960 So orange juice is one of the protective things along with caffeine and milk that help your 01:09:29.960 --> 01:09:34.640 cells to improve their oxidation. 01:09:34.640 --> 01:09:36.240 Excellent. 01:09:36.240 --> 01:09:54.480 The white pith of the citrus in moderation as in anything regarding health is it detoxes 01:09:54.480 --> 01:09:57.280 lymph plus scar tissue. 01:09:57.280 --> 01:10:02.400 I worked for a massage for 25 years so I learned these things as part of my work for the OJ 01:10:02.400 --> 01:10:08.960 workers and I benefit them to ingest white pith from the organic as much as the orange 01:10:08.960 --> 01:10:11.400 juice. 01:10:11.400 --> 01:10:19.120 Actually the orange peel that you use in making marmalade has the highest concentration of 01:10:19.120 --> 01:10:21.000 the protective flavonoids. 01:10:21.000 --> 01:10:23.120 Yeah, marmalade. 01:10:23.120 --> 01:10:30.720 Yeah, marmalade is a therapeutic food. 01:10:30.720 --> 01:10:36.840 Has Dr. Peat learned anything since the last time you spoke about what's going on? 01:10:36.840 --> 01:10:39.720 Maybe even say it from these injections. 01:10:39.720 --> 01:10:40.720 What have you seen? 01:10:40.720 --> 01:10:47.040 Have you been doing any more than when we last talked about with the potential dangers 01:10:47.040 --> 01:10:50.840 of these injections for this COVID whatever this thing is? 01:10:50.840 --> 01:11:05.240 I keep hearing people having the usual heart pains, stroke symptoms, inflammatory problems 01:11:05.240 --> 01:11:10.040 following their vaccination. 01:11:10.040 --> 01:11:19.960 Nothing provable in many of the cases but often they didn't even suspect there might 01:11:19.960 --> 01:11:28.960 be a connection but without any other reason for having sudden heart symptoms and blood 01:11:28.960 --> 01:11:40.640 clotting and vascular inflammatory problems, I think the vaccines are likely contributing 01:11:40.640 --> 01:11:41.640 factor. 01:11:41.640 --> 01:11:45.960 Yeah, we're going to have Dr. Andrew Kaufman on Wednesday and we'll be talking more about 01:11:45.960 --> 01:11:46.960 it. 01:11:46.960 --> 01:11:48.760 What about human shedding? 01:11:48.760 --> 01:11:54.720 Anything that you have seen that scientifically can prove that there could potentially be 01:11:54.720 --> 01:12:00.680 some kind of transference of something in the people that have been vaxxed? 01:12:00.680 --> 01:12:08.840 The evidence goes back before the vaccine that we are always shedding proteins and nucleic 01:12:08.840 --> 01:12:13.800 acids and even into the breath. 01:12:13.800 --> 01:12:23.600 If you put a cold object under your nose and breathe on it, fluid condenses. 01:12:23.600 --> 01:12:31.040 It isn't just distilled water but it has hundreds and hundreds of different more or less volatile 01:12:31.040 --> 01:12:39.720 substances that got carried out of your lungs and condense onto a cold surface. 01:12:39.720 --> 01:12:43.540 The same is happening when you sweat. 01:12:43.540 --> 01:12:50.400 It isn't just your lungs and urine but your sweat is constantly pumping out proteins, 01:12:50.400 --> 01:12:56.480 nucleic acids and hundreds of other substances. 01:12:56.480 --> 01:13:04.760 For years, the FBI has counted on the fact that your fingerprints, the little bit of 01:13:04.760 --> 01:13:12.320 sweat in the fingerprint has excreted your nucleic acids. 01:13:12.320 --> 01:13:21.040 Even if the shape of the fingerprint is blurred, they can analyze it and find your DNA when 01:13:21.040 --> 01:13:23.480 you've handled a document, for example. 01:13:23.480 --> 01:13:26.560 There's just no telling what we're sharing with each other. 01:13:26.560 --> 01:13:31.240 These exosomes that Zach Bush and others have talked about, we must be sharing a lot of 01:13:31.240 --> 01:13:33.600 stuff with everybody all the time, aren't we? 01:13:33.600 --> 01:13:34.600 Breathing out, breathing in. 01:13:34.600 --> 01:13:35.600 Yeah, yeah. 01:13:35.600 --> 01:13:39.960 With other organisms, other people. 01:13:39.960 --> 01:13:44.280 And our food contains all of these things. 01:13:44.280 --> 01:13:53.440 And so our body can to some extent choose what it finds might be useful and integrate 01:13:53.440 --> 01:13:59.640 it into our genetic equipment. 01:13:59.640 --> 01:14:01.120 Integrated into our genetic equipment. 01:14:01.120 --> 01:14:02.480 I like that. 01:14:02.480 --> 01:14:03.800 Yeah, that's nice. 01:14:03.800 --> 01:14:13.520 A German lab has for years been studying food nucleic acids and showing that some of it 01:14:13.520 --> 01:14:17.840 is incorporated into the genome. 01:14:17.840 --> 01:14:22.200 You sent me a video with David Martin and then I sent you one back with Fulmer, this 01:14:22.200 --> 01:14:23.200 German guy. 01:14:23.200 --> 01:14:27.520 And boy, it's really interesting, isn't it, what's going on? 01:14:27.520 --> 01:14:34.400 And Martin, he's got it down and he's looked at all the evidence that this corona thing, 01:14:34.400 --> 01:14:38.000 whatever they say it is, was not a novel virus at all. 01:14:38.000 --> 01:14:41.880 It was patented, what, 20 years ago by the CDC? 01:14:41.880 --> 01:14:54.320 Yeah, and by people working, the germ warfare lab was working on these things for many years. 01:14:54.320 --> 01:15:02.440 Ralph Beric's lab has been working at the University of North Carolina, but in close 01:15:02.440 --> 01:15:06.440 collaboration with the germ warfare people over the years. 01:15:06.440 --> 01:15:17.480 And more than 10 years ago, he described how he was making viruses more toxic, more infectable, 01:15:17.480 --> 01:15:22.440 more dangerous in line with the germ warfare idea. 01:15:22.440 --> 01:15:26.600 This germ gain-of-function thing that they're talking about? 01:15:26.600 --> 01:15:27.600 Yeah. 01:15:27.600 --> 01:15:37.080 So taking parts from one virus, like the spike protein, and adding it to a virus that's easily 01:15:37.080 --> 01:15:44.600 infectable, making it more toxic by adding the spike protein to it. 01:15:44.600 --> 01:15:52.320 So the technology was there years and years before they started talking about using it 01:15:52.320 --> 01:15:54.320 in a vaccine publicly. 01:15:54.320 --> 01:15:55.320 Right. 01:15:55.320 --> 01:16:02.200 And therapeutically, they were talking about using it to kill foreigners, or to make, not 01:16:02.200 --> 01:16:12.280 necessarily to kill them, but to incapacitate them, make them unfunctional for a few weeks, 01:16:12.280 --> 01:16:18.320 preferably not to kill them, so that they're more of a burden on the economy. 01:16:18.320 --> 01:16:24.600 Now, some are conjecturing, like Lanka, Cowan, Kaufman, and all the rest of them, that even 01:16:24.600 --> 01:16:30.400 if you make something in a lab and you release it, maybe in the air or something, that the 01:16:30.400 --> 01:16:36.800 chances of it still living and alive, this protein, and goes into you, and then I see 01:16:36.800 --> 01:16:42.080 you and then I share it with you through the air, is a stretch. 01:16:42.080 --> 01:16:43.080 Do you agree? 01:16:43.080 --> 01:16:44.080 Oh, no. 01:16:44.080 --> 01:16:48.680 Lab, to say Patrick to Ray Peat. 01:16:48.680 --> 01:17:02.040 Yeah, the Pfizer manual distributed in December of 2019, or no, of 2020, how to handle the 01:17:02.040 --> 01:17:12.600 vaccination, they warned against a vaccinated person being near or touching or breathing 01:17:12.600 --> 01:17:18.440 on a pregnant woman, because they recognize the shedding phenomenon. 01:17:18.440 --> 01:17:24.000 Yes, but that's being injected, but what about just some kind of germ thing they make in 01:17:24.000 --> 01:17:28.800 the lab, Dr. Peat, they put it out in the air and they want to kill people, and Patrick 01:17:28.800 --> 01:17:32.480 breathes it in and then sharing with you without injection. 01:17:32.480 --> 01:17:35.080 Is that model even work? 01:17:35.080 --> 01:17:43.080 Well, we're breathing out those things, and so just breathing on someone or rubbing, touching 01:17:43.080 --> 01:17:52.240 their skin, you're putting whatever nucleic acids you're secreting into their environment 01:17:52.240 --> 01:17:54.240 and they can take it up. 01:17:54.240 --> 01:17:55.800 So they can spread it that way. 01:17:55.800 --> 01:18:02.080 Can I breathe something in that's in the air that was made in a lab and damage me? 01:18:02.080 --> 01:18:04.800 Oh, sure. 01:18:04.800 --> 01:18:16.240 The lab work starts with a real organism, so-called, or a real exosome, whichever way 01:18:16.240 --> 01:18:18.320 you look at it. 01:18:18.320 --> 01:18:27.800 I think all viruses originate as exosomes, particles secreted by healthy organisms or 01:18:27.800 --> 01:18:35.600 sick organisms and circulating through other organisms where they can either be healthy 01:18:35.600 --> 01:18:37.400 or harmful. 01:18:37.400 --> 01:18:50.000 But the lab work mixes these in ways that can do certain things, can be used to carry 01:18:50.000 --> 01:19:04.200 an antigen to make a protein-based vaccine, which is a more traditional thing that probably 01:19:04.200 --> 01:19:07.040 is less risky. 01:19:07.040 --> 01:19:14.360 The use of the nucleic acid itself that was modified in the laboratory is where you get 01:19:14.360 --> 01:19:21.960 that unknown, unpredictable, and potentially catastrophic biological effects. 01:19:21.960 --> 01:19:22.960 Okay. 01:19:22.960 --> 01:19:25.280 Dr. Ray Peat, Patrick Timpone. 01:19:25.280 --> 01:19:26.280 Here's one from James. 01:19:26.280 --> 01:19:27.280 He's in Houston, Texas. 01:19:27.280 --> 01:19:28.280 Hi, James. 01:19:28.280 --> 01:19:31.280 My wife got the mRNA vaccine. 01:19:31.280 --> 01:19:36.200 I'm not vaccinated, no plan on getting it, but back in May, and experienced a period 01:19:36.200 --> 01:19:38.960 of a month and a half of not getting her period. 01:19:38.960 --> 01:19:39.960 Wow. 01:19:39.960 --> 01:19:45.800 She finally got it and said it was extremely painful and said it is a genetic thing, not 01:19:45.800 --> 01:19:48.040 because she got the jab. 01:19:48.040 --> 01:19:54.680 She's also anemic and she should be focused on giving her progesterone and supplementing 01:19:54.680 --> 01:19:57.920 thyroid to help. 01:19:57.920 --> 01:20:04.600 All of the anti-inflammatory things help. 01:20:04.600 --> 01:20:14.000 The traditional vaccines, the antigen, the germ itself that you want to become immune 01:20:14.000 --> 01:20:23.920 against, if they use that by itself, it wouldn't always produce the desired immune reaction. 01:20:23.920 --> 01:20:34.360 They create a deliberately systemic inflammatory condition combined with the specific antigen. 01:20:34.360 --> 01:20:42.040 You want a general, strong inflammatory reaction to rouse your immune system so that it does 01:20:42.040 --> 01:20:49.880 recognize whatever the protein is that they're wanting immunity to. 01:20:49.880 --> 01:20:58.280 Even an ordinary vaccine containing aluminum hydroxide, for example, as the adjuvant is 01:20:58.280 --> 01:21:04.400 intended to create systemic inflammation, and that systemic inflammation creates enough 01:21:04.400 --> 01:21:08.880 stress that it can disturb your menstrual cycle. 01:21:08.880 --> 01:21:21.440 It isn't necessarily the very novel threat from the RNA, but simply the antigen effect 01:21:21.440 --> 01:21:32.040 that they add to the so-called vaccine to produce a reaction that can knock out your 01:21:32.040 --> 01:21:35.400 hormones and disturb your reproductive cycle. 01:21:35.400 --> 01:21:43.440 Dr. Sutart Bakhti and others are talking about the idea that many people can make it through 01:21:43.440 --> 01:21:50.400 one of these injections, but if you get the second one, is they're really trying to do 01:21:50.400 --> 01:21:54.800 something to promote that it's really very much more dangerous. 01:21:54.800 --> 01:21:57.040 Do you have any thoughts on that? 01:21:57.040 --> 01:22:06.160 Yes, since the spike protein is part of the problem, the adjuvant effect is a basic thing. 01:22:06.160 --> 01:22:13.800 This material shares with the old vaccines, but the spike protein is something that a 01:22:13.800 --> 01:22:24.120 very healthy person can dispose of quickly so that between the ages of one and 50, a 01:22:24.120 --> 01:22:31.640 person can contract the COVID virus and hardly notice they have it. 01:22:31.640 --> 01:22:43.000 It's a sick person or an older person with weaker general health who is likely to suffer 01:22:43.000 --> 01:22:45.800 the effects of a COVID infection. 01:22:45.800 --> 01:22:54.360 Those are the same people likely to suffer the effects of combining an antigen with the 01:22:54.360 --> 01:22:56.840 spike protein. 01:22:56.840 --> 01:23:05.920 The spike protein simply makes the adjuvant have a deeper, longer-lasting kind of damaging 01:23:05.920 --> 01:23:06.920 effect. 01:23:06.920 --> 01:23:11.520 So, what about all these variants, Dr. Ray Peat? 01:23:11.520 --> 01:23:14.180 Is this all made up stuff? 01:23:14.180 --> 01:23:25.480 One website has published thousands of sequences showing variations in the genetic makeup of 01:23:25.480 --> 01:23:29.120 coronaviruses. 01:23:29.120 --> 01:23:37.680 You could pick out any one of those and say you don't have enough Greek alphabet letters 01:23:37.680 --> 01:23:42.440 to name the possible variants. 01:23:42.440 --> 01:23:52.760 With any virus infection, it takes a lot of collected data to know whether a particular 01:23:52.760 --> 01:24:03.040 virus is causing a particular disease and to know whether a new variant is really causing 01:24:03.040 --> 01:24:05.920 the disease. 01:24:05.920 --> 01:24:11.960 It's something that's going to take a long time, maybe two or three years. 01:24:11.960 --> 01:24:13.360 You'd have to really look at it. 01:24:13.360 --> 01:24:18.280 You'd have to do the whole Cox Postulate thing to prove it and all that, right? 01:24:18.280 --> 01:24:20.240 Yeah, really. 01:24:20.240 --> 01:24:26.520 Just recently I read that some government official was claiming that there really were 01:24:26.520 --> 01:24:35.120 a lot more COVID-related or caused deaths than the figures show. 01:24:35.120 --> 01:24:43.760 His point was that someone who had died with a diagnosis of pneumonia caused by influenza, 01:24:43.760 --> 01:24:50.240 the body was dug up and they gave it a PCR test and found a coronavirus. 01:24:50.240 --> 01:24:58.800 So they said, "See, there's someone who died from COVID," but there was no evidence at 01:24:58.800 --> 01:25:05.840 all that either influenza or coronavirus was the cause of death. 01:25:05.840 --> 01:25:07.840 Yes, I understand. 01:25:07.840 --> 01:25:16.400 There are so many causes of pneumonia and you can be infected with a dozen or a hundred 01:25:16.400 --> 01:25:25.200 things that might actually contribute to the death, but to prove it, to actually diagnose 01:25:25.200 --> 01:25:32.280 that as the cause of death, no one is even trying that sort of thing. 01:25:32.280 --> 01:25:40.600 And I guess you've seen it where they're blaming this Delta variant eruption on all of us unvaccinated 01:25:40.600 --> 01:25:41.600 people. 01:25:41.600 --> 01:25:42.600 We're the problem. 01:25:42.600 --> 01:25:49.520 Yeah, you're unvaccinated people are a threat to society, they say. 01:25:49.520 --> 01:25:51.920 God love us all. 01:25:51.920 --> 01:25:59.520 But the whole, traditionally people recognize that it's irrational to start vaccinating 01:25:59.520 --> 01:26:04.480 people in the middle of an epidemic. 01:26:04.480 --> 01:26:13.680 If anything, it's going to increase the variation and risk of creating new viruses. 01:26:13.680 --> 01:26:16.400 So the whole idea is... 01:26:16.400 --> 01:26:19.480 Just not right. 01:26:19.480 --> 01:26:21.240 Here's an email, interesting. 01:26:21.240 --> 01:26:28.800 Dr. Rainwater writes an email, "are slightly acidic from picking up CO2 on the way down?" 01:26:28.800 --> 01:26:36.520 Yeah, generally clean water absorbs CO2 from the air and becomes slightly acidic. 01:26:36.520 --> 01:26:42.720 Yeah, I think I've done my pH on my Rainwater, Dr. Peat, and I think it's like 5.7, something 01:26:42.720 --> 01:26:43.720 like that. 01:26:43.720 --> 01:26:49.200 Yeah, it's very weak acid, but the pH can be very low. 01:26:49.200 --> 01:26:52.400 But that's just from the CO2, so that's not terrible, right? 01:26:52.400 --> 01:26:54.400 There's nothing that's okay? 01:26:54.400 --> 01:27:03.560 Yeah, CO2, the acid behavior of CO2 is what keeps us alive. 01:27:03.560 --> 01:27:13.520 Even primitive single-celled organisms have been found to need CO2, even though they might 01:27:13.520 --> 01:27:23.400 be an oxygen-independent organism, CO2 absorbed from the atmosphere is part of what's keeping 01:27:23.400 --> 01:27:24.400 them alive. 01:27:24.400 --> 01:27:36.240 So CO2 is really, along with water and proteins, it's the essence of keeping life going. 01:27:36.240 --> 01:27:37.240 This is interesting. 01:27:37.240 --> 01:27:44.520 "Please ask Dr. Peat, I get intrusive thoughts and excited mind within an hour or two every 01:27:44.520 --> 01:27:50.880 time I eat any food that has a small amount of fiber, like raw carrots, sugar, apples, 01:27:50.880 --> 01:27:56.440 sapotes, mangoes, but I do very well on lactose-free milk, white rice. 01:27:56.440 --> 01:27:59.440 What can I do to be able to tolerate these foods?" 01:27:59.440 --> 01:28:03.240 Wow, can you explain why he's experiencing that? 01:28:03.240 --> 01:28:14.560 Yeah, very oversensitive intestine, just the action of peristalsis can bring on symptoms, 01:28:14.560 --> 01:28:25.560 increased serotonin, histamine reactions, just the pressure of increasing peristalsis 01:28:25.560 --> 01:28:32.040 can even cause a headache or such things as he mentioned. 01:28:32.040 --> 01:28:41.040 Getting the sensitivity down, the three main things again, reducing abnormal sensitivity 01:28:41.040 --> 01:28:51.200 and inflammation are the right calcium to phosphate ratio, adequate vitamin D, and enough 01:28:51.200 --> 01:28:53.000 active thyroid. 01:28:53.000 --> 01:28:59.000 So the thyroid, calcium, so how do we play with that calcium-phosphate ratio if we don't 01:28:59.000 --> 01:29:03.520 know what we're doing? 01:29:03.520 --> 01:29:15.360 The main sources of high unbalanced phosphate are nuts, seeds, meat, fish. 01:29:15.360 --> 01:29:21.160 Oh, so too much fish can get the phosphate thing out of whack. 01:29:21.160 --> 01:29:31.080 Yeah, those meat has extremely low calcium content, very high phosphate, and so if you're 01:29:31.080 --> 01:29:39.080 eating meat or fish and lots of nuts and grains and seeds, then you're likely very low in 01:29:39.080 --> 01:29:40.080 calcium. 01:29:40.080 --> 01:29:46.960 And greens, well-cooked greens, milk and cheese are the... 01:29:46.960 --> 01:29:47.960 Will balance you out there. 01:29:47.960 --> 01:29:49.920 Yeah, yeah, the high calcium foods. 01:29:49.920 --> 01:29:55.200 So if you like fish and you do good with fish and you just like it because it's fun or whatever, 01:29:55.200 --> 01:30:01.200 you just want to make sure you're getting plenty of greens or maybe some milk, low-fat 01:30:01.200 --> 01:30:03.640 milk and what else? 01:30:03.640 --> 01:30:04.640 Some cheese. 01:30:04.640 --> 01:30:05.640 Some cheese. 01:30:05.640 --> 01:30:11.680 Cheese or... and that'll help to balance out the... 01:30:11.680 --> 01:30:14.600 So you think fish is generally pretty good? 01:30:14.600 --> 01:30:16.600 Oh, yeah, yeah. 01:30:16.600 --> 01:30:19.280 Kind of fun, really. 01:30:19.280 --> 01:30:26.680 I usually put melted cheddar cheese on my cod or scallops or... 01:30:26.680 --> 01:30:28.480 Just put it right over the top there, yeah. 01:30:28.480 --> 01:30:31.720 Yeah, melt it over. 01:30:31.720 --> 01:30:35.640 Trent wants to know what your opinion is on the drug metformin. 01:30:35.640 --> 01:30:42.920 Life Extension recommends metformin for diabetes as well as extending the lifespan. 01:30:42.920 --> 01:30:53.960 I'm very reluctant to recommend it because it works by interfering with the mitochondria 01:30:53.960 --> 01:30:58.800 and I think there are better, safer ways to get the same effect. 01:30:58.800 --> 01:31:00.440 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 01:31:00.440 --> 01:31:06.080 Okay, here's a final one for you, then we'll let you go to work. 01:31:06.080 --> 01:31:11.560 Many people recommend that we really want to have two or three bowel movements a day 01:31:11.560 --> 01:31:18.640 according to Melody and what does Dr. Peat recommend for the safest way to help this 01:31:18.640 --> 01:31:25.400 happen without becoming dependent on something? 01:31:25.400 --> 01:31:34.200 Those anti-inflammatory things that I mentioned, good calcium to phosphate ratio is anti-inflammatory 01:31:34.200 --> 01:31:39.680 and makes your intestine happier. 01:31:39.680 --> 01:31:50.080 Very mild, well-cooked fibers like mushrooms and bamboo shoots, for example, help to clean 01:31:50.080 --> 01:31:59.920 out the toxins that your liver detoxifies and secretes into your bowel to get rid of. 01:31:59.920 --> 01:32:06.000 If you don't have enough stuff moving through your intestine, especially the fibers, the 01:32:06.000 --> 01:32:13.040 fibers will bind and carry out of your body the toxins that your liver has tried to take 01:32:13.040 --> 01:32:14.880 care of. 01:32:14.880 --> 01:32:20.960 And so that keeps your intestine clean and happy and uninflamed. 01:32:20.960 --> 01:32:29.240 What about this fiber product, psyllium, is that cool, good? 01:32:29.240 --> 01:32:30.240 What was the name of it? 01:32:30.240 --> 01:32:31.680 Psyllium, the psyllium husk? 01:32:31.680 --> 01:32:41.600 Oh yeah, a person with a very inflamed bowel can have side effects, can dehydrate that 01:32:41.600 --> 01:32:51.560 so much that it can be concentrating, but for most people, psyllium is a good fiber. 01:32:51.560 --> 01:32:58.960 There used to be a product called AIDS that disappeared with the AIDS epidemic, but it 01:32:58.960 --> 01:33:06.360 was basically a pure cellulose product that was sold for weight loss, but you can still 01:33:06.360 --> 01:33:17.240 get relatively pure cellulose products that help as a non-nutritive fiber that can clean 01:33:17.240 --> 01:33:18.240 out your intestine. 01:33:18.240 --> 01:33:24.480 Here's one that just slipped in here, let's go ahead and grab it if you don't mind. 01:33:24.480 --> 01:33:29.480 Two questions from this person, good questions, are spike proteins observable on camera? 01:33:29.480 --> 01:33:36.760 And Dr. Peat, has he seen anything on this idea of graphene oxide being in the vaccines 01:33:36.760 --> 01:33:39.440 and the PCR swabs? 01:33:39.440 --> 01:33:42.720 What was the first, absorbed how? 01:33:42.720 --> 01:33:47.440 Are spike proteins observable on camera? 01:33:47.440 --> 01:33:50.840 On camera, spike proteins. 01:33:50.840 --> 01:33:52.840 Observable, I didn't get the last word. 01:33:52.840 --> 01:33:56.600 Observable on camera, in other words, can they take a picture of these electron microscopes 01:33:56.600 --> 01:33:58.600 and see them? 01:33:58.600 --> 01:34:02.600 Oh, sure. 01:34:02.600 --> 01:34:12.400 That's why they call it the coronavirus, because there's this fuzzy halo around the lump, which 01:34:12.400 --> 01:34:23.480 is how the virus attaches to cells, and that's the spike, this halo that forms a crown, or 01:34:23.480 --> 01:34:24.480 a corona. 01:34:24.480 --> 01:34:27.400 That's where the term came from, huh? 01:34:27.400 --> 01:34:31.280 Yeah, so it's based on the electron microscope picture. 01:34:31.280 --> 01:34:33.120 And what about graphene oxide? 01:34:33.120 --> 01:34:39.000 There was this university, as you know, I think in South America that came out with 01:34:39.000 --> 01:34:41.200 the video and viral, like a million views. 01:34:41.200 --> 01:34:42.920 Do you think there's anything to that? 01:34:42.920 --> 01:34:46.200 And they said it was on the PCR swabs too, Doc. 01:34:46.200 --> 01:34:48.680 They say they have the evidence. 01:34:48.680 --> 01:34:49.680 I saw the video. 01:34:49.680 --> 01:34:52.800 What do you think? 01:34:52.800 --> 01:34:57.400 I think if they had the evidence, they would be publishing it. 01:34:57.400 --> 01:35:02.640 But they seem to be coy about presenting their evidence. 01:35:02.640 --> 01:35:07.840 So this could have been a black hole that people went down? 01:35:07.840 --> 01:35:15.760 They have evidence that there's interest in using it as a vaccine, but they just haven't 01:35:15.760 --> 01:35:21.880 published what they claim to see as evidence. 01:35:21.880 --> 01:35:30.000 They have some undefined electron microscope pictures, but you need more than that to show 01:35:30.000 --> 01:35:35.240 that it's the graphene molecule or sheets. 01:35:35.240 --> 01:35:41.320 Yeah, well I guess when we go through these kind of things for what, a couple of years, 01:35:41.320 --> 01:35:44.200 we grasp at things just because we want some answers, right? 01:35:44.200 --> 01:35:46.200 What's really going on? 01:35:46.200 --> 01:35:57.000 Yeah, and they're right in putting nothing, no crime beyond the monopolies and powers 01:35:57.000 --> 01:35:59.840 that are controlling things. 01:35:59.840 --> 01:36:08.680 You can't assume that they have basically goodwill and public health at heart. 01:36:08.680 --> 01:36:13.200 Yeah, you know that they don't have our best interest at heart. 01:36:13.200 --> 01:36:14.920 Well sir, it's an honor to have you here. 01:36:14.920 --> 01:36:15.920 Thanks for being here. 01:36:15.920 --> 01:36:18.680 We'll see you, I guess, in August. 01:36:18.680 --> 01:36:21.560 And it's raypeat.com. 01:36:21.560 --> 01:36:26.320 And he also has a great newsletter, which is, and all you have to do is go to Ray Peat's 01:36:26.320 --> 01:36:33.760 newsletter, and it's plural, raypeatsnewsletter@gmail.com and you can sign up for that and that comes 01:36:33.760 --> 01:36:36.360 out for every couple of months, right? 01:36:36.360 --> 01:36:37.360 Yeah. 01:36:37.360 --> 01:36:42.160 So if you want to learn more about progesterone and these kind of things, your next newsletter 01:36:42.160 --> 01:36:44.360 is going to be all about that, right? 01:36:44.360 --> 01:36:46.960 Yeah, and especially estrogen. 01:36:46.960 --> 01:36:47.960 Estrogen. 01:36:47.960 --> 01:36:48.960 Estrogen. 01:36:48.960 --> 01:36:51.200 All right sir, well you have a nice day up there in Oregon. 01:36:51.200 --> 01:36:52.200 You stay safe now. 01:36:52.200 --> 01:36:53.200 Okay, thank you. 01:36:53.200 --> 01:36:54.200 Thank you sir. 01:36:54.200 --> 01:36:55.200 It's an honor. 01:36:55.200 --> 01:36:56.200 Thank you so much. 01:36:56.200 --> 01:36:57.200 Thank you. 01:36:57.200 --> 01:37:01.200 Patrick Timpone, OneRadioNetwork.com with Dr. Ray Peat. 01:37:01.200 --> 01:37:05.760 Oh boy, what fun, huh? 01:37:05.760 --> 01:37:16.160 Well, here we are, planet Earth. 01:37:16.160 --> 01:37:22.120 We are doing everything we can, dear heart, to be very careful and selective in the people 01:37:22.120 --> 01:37:28.360 that we talk to because there's just a lot of stuff out there that, even like the graphene 01:37:28.360 --> 01:37:37.160 thing that you just don't know, and the shedding thing, and you don't know who to believe, 01:37:37.160 --> 01:37:38.160 right? 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