WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:09.520 Nothing is more expensive than bad information. 00:00:09.520 --> 00:00:11.280 Know the source. 00:00:11.280 --> 00:00:13.320 One Radio Network dot com. 00:00:13.320 --> 00:00:15.160 Okay, here we go. 00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:17.040 Welcome to part two of our show. 00:00:17.040 --> 00:00:19.040 Hope you enjoyed that with Dr. Richard Massey. 00:00:19.040 --> 00:00:20.320 Boy, I sure did. 00:00:20.320 --> 00:00:24.680 The whole exosome things and the origin story and the virus. 00:00:24.680 --> 00:00:30.800 Oh man, really, really fascinating. 00:00:30.800 --> 00:00:36.280 Dr. Ray Peat is here and he's with us and we're very happy to have him each month. 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:41.000 It is the third Monday of each month around 1030 central. 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:43.960 I had a little trouble getting his picture together. 00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:47.960 Sharon's going to send another one and I'll get it up so you can see what he looks like 00:00:47.960 --> 00:00:51.920 because he doesn't do the camera thing. 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:54.520 So we just do audio with Dr. Peat, which is great. 00:00:54.520 --> 00:00:55.520 It's all that counts. 00:00:55.520 --> 00:00:58.160 He's got some good things to say. 00:00:58.160 --> 00:01:04.080 Ray Peat is a PhD and has been for a very long time. 00:01:04.080 --> 00:01:12.800 He was, let me pull up his thing here, biology, University of Oregon. 00:01:12.800 --> 00:01:18.920 He specialized in physiology and he taught schools including University of Oregon, Urbana 00:01:18.920 --> 00:01:26.520 College, Montana State University, National College of Naturopathic Medicine, Universidad 00:01:26.520 --> 00:01:34.360 Verde Cruzana, Universidad Autonomia Unestado de Mexico, Blake College, private nutritional 00:01:34.360 --> 00:01:36.080 counseling for years. 00:01:36.080 --> 00:01:43.000 His website is raypeat.com and you can do Ray Peat newsletter, I believe, it's email. 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:44.600 I'll ask him exactly. 00:01:44.600 --> 00:01:46.520 I don't know why I don't remember that. 00:01:46.520 --> 00:01:54.360 I should, Ray Peat newsletter and you get his newsletter every couple of months. 00:01:54.360 --> 00:02:00.120 And you can email in right now, Patrick, at oneradionetwork.com or give him a call. 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:02.680 Dr. Ray Peat, good morning, sir. 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:03.680 Good morning. 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:04.680 How are things up there? 00:02:04.680 --> 00:02:09.720 You're on the way upper left coast, eh? 00:02:09.720 --> 00:02:12.600 Yeah. 00:02:12.600 --> 00:02:24.360 I don't notice anything very different but I guess people are still acting pretty weird, 00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:30.840 not going to their usual work and wearing masks and such. 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:32.520 Yeah. 00:02:32.520 --> 00:02:41.960 We were talking about these exosomes with our last guest and I guess it was Dr. Andrew, 00:02:41.960 --> 00:02:48.080 what was his name, the fellow up in New York that brought up the whole idea of exosomes. 00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:56.120 So here's my understanding, let me know if I'm close, that these exosomes, they're everywhere 00:02:56.120 --> 00:03:00.880 and we breathe them out and breathe them in every day and this is a way that we kind of 00:03:00.880 --> 00:03:08.160 share, I guess, our common humanity with people and that these exosomes began to be named 00:03:08.160 --> 00:03:16.600 into a virus some time ago and virus has a whole connotation of being bad. 00:03:16.600 --> 00:03:18.280 Is that close so far? 00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:23.200 That's close to what I believe. 00:03:23.200 --> 00:03:37.640 It's not at all accepted by contemporary biologists but in the 1950s, a friend of mine was giving 00:03:37.640 --> 00:03:47.760 all of the background supporting that idea that organisms of all sorts are emitting particles 00:03:47.760 --> 00:03:48.760 like that. 00:03:48.760 --> 00:03:57.880 They weren't called exosomes at that time but this person, Carl Lindgren, gathered up 00:03:57.880 --> 00:04:07.000 evidence that biologists had accumulated that really couldn't be explained any other way 00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:15.760 except for shared DNA and there's a lab in Germany now that for several years has been 00:04:15.760 --> 00:04:26.320 showing that human cells actually incorporate a certain portion of the DNA from the foods 00:04:26.320 --> 00:04:29.880 that we eat. 00:04:29.880 --> 00:04:40.040 The particles, you know the phenomenon of presorption in which fairly big particles, 00:04:40.040 --> 00:04:49.000 as big as a blood cell, for example, can pass from the intestine directly into the bloodstream 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:59.000 and exosomes are many times smaller than a cell so easily things that we eat, if they 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:06.880 contain exosomes, are very likely to get into our bloodstream and once there, according 00:05:06.880 --> 00:05:16.000 to this German lab, the cell can take them up and incorporate them, possibly at some 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:27.360 point use them, integrate them into the functioning DNA but a very, very large part of our genome, 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:37.600 so-called, well of the DNA inside the cell, our functioning genome is only a small percentage 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:48.040 of the total DNA and the theory that we're absorbing DNA all the time would account for 00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:52.040 why there's all this non-functioning DNA present. 00:05:52.040 --> 00:06:00.880 So it's possible that our species is actually, is it possible that we're actually upgrading 00:06:00.880 --> 00:06:07.400 everyone's DNA by breathing and that's how we're, I don't know, communicating with each 00:06:07.400 --> 00:06:09.800 other and helping each other? 00:06:09.800 --> 00:06:13.960 Yeah, but across species too. 00:06:13.960 --> 00:06:17.360 Across species too, everybody, so animals too? 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:18.360 Yeah. 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:19.960 Wow, man. 00:06:19.960 --> 00:06:23.040 So is that what you believe, Dr. Peat? 00:06:23.040 --> 00:06:24.040 Yes. 00:06:24.040 --> 00:06:26.240 I read that book. 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:27.960 It's pretty cool. 00:06:27.960 --> 00:06:41.960 Over 50 years ago and it was very well documented but nothing easy to prove but very plausible. 00:06:41.960 --> 00:06:54.800 So is it possible that flu viruses and cold viruses and any kind of a virus are really 00:06:54.800 --> 00:07:02.400 exosomes that we all have and we share and we run around and share with each other and 00:07:02.400 --> 00:07:09.680 these flus and colds are internal combustions and it's not something we actually get from 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:14.520 some source that's not already a part of us? 00:07:14.520 --> 00:07:33.040 I think sometimes the, you know, Luc Montagnier, the Nobel Prize guy from the HIV virus dispute 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:41.480 with the United States, he believes that organisms communicate basically by something like radio 00:07:41.480 --> 00:07:45.560 waves that resonate. 00:07:45.560 --> 00:07:54.040 I've spent a lot of time studying the idea of resonance between organisms. 00:07:54.040 --> 00:08:03.640 Montagnier believes it's electromagnetic waves that the DNA is tuned into. 00:08:03.640 --> 00:08:14.760 I've spent most of my time thinking about the crystalline or liquid crystalline structure 00:08:14.760 --> 00:08:16.920 of the cell. 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:27.680 The idea of liquid crystals was developed in the '30s and '40s with evidence that there's 00:08:27.680 --> 00:08:30.400 long-range order within the cell. 00:08:30.400 --> 00:08:38.800 It isn't just ordinary water but it's liquid crystal-like water. 00:08:38.800 --> 00:08:50.920 The way you can operate, for example, a liquid crystal display screen, that's done by the 00:08:50.920 --> 00:09:09.800 electrical control of the order in the crystal. 00:09:09.800 --> 00:09:22.600 It's easy to demonstrate that it resonates to sound waves but the sound waves are not 00:09:22.600 --> 00:09:29.520 at all distinct from electronic fluctuations. 00:09:29.520 --> 00:09:41.200 When you have an electrically active polarized molecule organized over the whole length of 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:49.160 a cell, then you have the perfect conditions to resonate electronically, not just by sound 00:09:49.160 --> 00:09:50.160 waves. 00:09:50.160 --> 00:10:06.480 There's a man in the U.S. who has a website called Cell Intelligence who has been demonstrating 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:16.800 the intelligent behavior within a cell, not only of the whole cell but the highly organized 00:10:16.800 --> 00:10:21.240 structures of the DNA. 00:10:21.240 --> 00:10:30.280 He argues that this liquid crystalline ordering system in the cytoplasm extends right into 00:10:30.280 --> 00:10:42.520 the DNA and represents the way that the needs of the cell can draw out exactly the part 00:10:42.520 --> 00:10:47.960 of the genome that is needed at that moment for those conditions. 00:10:47.960 --> 00:10:52.280 That's one of the mysteries. 00:10:52.280 --> 00:10:57.200 How does it change? 00:10:57.200 --> 00:11:03.840 When there's a change in the environment, the cell senses that and reaches in and draws 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:10.840 out just the kind of DNA needed to change to meet those problems. 00:11:10.840 --> 00:11:15.400 And then it's possible then as we do it and as your body does it and then you breathe 00:11:15.400 --> 00:11:21.240 it out and then you help other people to learn how to do it, I guess, right? 00:11:21.240 --> 00:11:22.240 Yeah. 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:27.480 Normally that's probably going on in a constructive way. 00:11:27.480 --> 00:11:28.960 All the time. 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:35.200 But sometimes, for example, energy deficiency. 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:43.560 If you're badly nourished, your cell can't get the energy it needs either to maintain 00:11:43.560 --> 00:11:59.600 this very extensive organized crystal structure or to drive the selective process to pull 00:11:59.600 --> 00:12:03.160 out the DNA and make it properly. 00:12:03.160 --> 00:12:07.920 Yes, without the nutrition, without the basic building blocks that we talk about. 00:12:07.920 --> 00:12:15.920 Yeah, then those beneficial communicating processes can go wrong. 00:12:15.920 --> 00:12:19.360 Instead of catching something useful, you catch a cold. 00:12:19.360 --> 00:12:25.400 Oh, you mean so we could pick up some exosomes that are flying around? 00:12:25.400 --> 00:12:27.760 And not be able to use them properly. 00:12:27.760 --> 00:12:30.120 Oh, and not use them. 00:12:30.120 --> 00:12:31.960 Our system gets dumbed up. 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:33.200 Oh, I see. 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:36.800 So that's why people say, "I caught a cold." 00:12:36.800 --> 00:12:42.640 But it was their own internal combustion thing that created it. 00:12:42.640 --> 00:12:52.240 Yeah, but the whole environment of the person governs or interacts with their energy state. 00:12:52.240 --> 00:13:02.360 So if you're working in a stressful environment, that stress increases your risk of something 00:13:02.360 --> 00:13:03.360 going wrong. 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:04.360 Sure. 00:13:04.360 --> 00:13:11.040 So then there's a, I guess what you're saying too, so then the cells and these exosomes 00:13:11.040 --> 00:13:18.160 and this exchange from organism to organism, animal, plant, I guess, and human, is happening 00:13:18.160 --> 00:13:25.960 on all levels, other than physical, and also physical, with the vibrations and the light. 00:13:25.960 --> 00:13:27.960 Right, Doc? 00:13:27.960 --> 00:13:28.960 Yep. 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:29.960 Whoa. 00:13:29.960 --> 00:13:33.960 That's pretty cool. 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:36.680 So are we back to the basics then? 00:13:36.680 --> 00:13:41.740 With everything that we know about everything and the way the world works, can we get so 00:13:41.740 --> 00:13:47.360 really simple if we just eat really good food, get some sunlight, get some water, get some 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:51.760 exercise, we might be good. 00:13:51.760 --> 00:13:54.760 I mean, we might be good to go. 00:13:54.760 --> 00:14:05.160 Yeah, except there are so many factors working against all of those basic things. 00:14:05.160 --> 00:14:08.080 Good quality food, good quality air and water. 00:14:08.080 --> 00:14:10.920 Yeah, what does that mean, really? 00:14:10.920 --> 00:14:27.240 And then beside that, you have the direct stresses, like when you immobilize an animal, 00:14:27.240 --> 00:14:30.600 just keeping it confined. 00:14:30.600 --> 00:14:38.480 The more confined it is, the more it goes into the depressed, helpless condition. 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:50.680 And people have been confined so long by a restrictive, highly demanding economic environment 00:14:50.680 --> 00:14:57.320 that people are getting into this stress, helpless condition. 00:14:57.320 --> 00:15:07.320 And animal studies show that you can bring the animal out of that helpless state, which 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:17.400 greatly increases the likelihood of the animal giving up during a problem instead of exerting 00:15:17.400 --> 00:15:26.320 the energy that they do have, a psychological giving up and failing to use the right resources 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:27.320 that are there. 00:15:27.320 --> 00:15:37.200 And that accounts for things like the faith healers, just by giving them a conviction 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:39.200 that there's a possibility of recovery. 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:40.520 It could happen. 00:15:40.520 --> 00:15:49.320 Yeah, just pop right into the healthy state because they have been in this helpless, emotional, 00:15:49.320 --> 00:15:51.720 biological state. 00:15:51.720 --> 00:16:03.200 And with rats, something as simple as giving them toys to play with and a bigger area to 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:14.440 socialize with other rats, and even tickling a rat will increase its pleasure signals and 00:16:14.440 --> 00:16:19.720 help it get out of the depressed, helpless state. 00:16:19.720 --> 00:16:29.320 Wow, so that could be an argument as well for say, what do they call them, confined 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:32.280 animal, what are they, CAFOs? 00:16:32.280 --> 00:16:39.320 So where animals or cows could not be as healthy or as vibrant or as nutritious when they're 00:16:39.320 --> 00:16:42.320 confining them unnaturally. 00:16:42.320 --> 00:16:48.320 Yeah, everyone needs a certain amount of play and lots of freedom. 00:16:48.320 --> 00:16:51.760 Yeah, so that would be for dogs and cats. 00:16:51.760 --> 00:16:53.000 I guess cats get over it. 00:16:53.000 --> 00:16:57.000 They just do okay living at home in the house. 00:16:57.000 --> 00:16:59.960 I guess they adapt to it. 00:16:59.960 --> 00:17:04.000 Yeah, even old cats like to play. 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:05.000 Sure, sure. 00:17:05.000 --> 00:17:07.480 So play is really important. 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:11.800 Ray Peat with us, Patrick Timpone on Radionetwork.com. 00:17:11.800 --> 00:17:28.240 Wow, so how do you feel about then using things that are made in the lab like a sodium ascorbate 00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:34.120 or different magnesiums other than food to balance out nutritional deficiencies overall, 00:17:34.120 --> 00:17:35.120 Dr. Peat? 00:17:35.120 --> 00:17:40.040 Do you think that's a reasonable thing to do? 00:17:40.040 --> 00:17:50.800 I had my own long-term experience with vitamin C starting in 1953. 00:17:50.800 --> 00:18:06.160 At the time, it was sold as sevitamic or C-vitamic acid, but it was still the ascorbic acid discovered 00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:10.840 partly by Albert Santorgi. 00:18:10.840 --> 00:18:14.360 I had heard about the virtues of it. 00:18:14.360 --> 00:18:18.240 It was sold in 50-milligram tablets. 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:29.120 I had, for many years from the age of eight, the first time I spent any time in the woods, 00:18:29.120 --> 00:18:34.240 I was extremely susceptible to poison oak. 00:18:34.240 --> 00:18:49.720 Going in the woods in 1953, I was almost incapacitated by extreme poison oak. 00:18:49.720 --> 00:18:57.280 Someone told me about vitamin C. I took, I think it was just one or two of these 50-milligram 00:18:57.280 --> 00:19:07.600 tablets over the weekend and had no more poison oak reactions ever again in my life. 00:19:07.600 --> 00:19:18.800 I have a slight itch if I handle it, but those 100, 150 milligrams over a weekend had that 00:19:18.800 --> 00:19:22.520 absolute effect. 00:19:22.520 --> 00:19:34.960 When the big tablets came out in 1956, 500-milligram tablets, people were talking about it as preventing 00:19:34.960 --> 00:19:36.640 colds. 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:43.440 I took one tablet next morning, woke up with a sore throat and a cough. 00:19:43.440 --> 00:19:44.440 You did? 00:19:44.440 --> 00:19:47.560 Just one 500-milligrams of vitamin C? 00:19:47.560 --> 00:19:55.400 Yeah, but the manufacturing process had obviously changed radically because they could sell 00:19:55.400 --> 00:20:03.120 it 10 times cheaper than what it had been just three years earlier. 00:20:03.120 --> 00:20:13.360 Much of the great research done with it was in the late '40s and early '50s. 00:20:13.360 --> 00:20:23.320 Ten years later, I was very impressed by Linus Pauling's argument, so I started taking it 00:20:23.320 --> 00:20:24.320 again. 00:20:24.320 --> 00:20:34.320 I was absolutely convinced, did some experiments in the lab, found that it seemed to reverse 00:20:34.320 --> 00:20:45.960 or stop some of the hardening of the collagen in animal tissues, and so I went on taking 00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:48.880 it, but I had a chronic cough. 00:20:48.880 --> 00:20:58.000 I went on for months, but on a trip to New York, the maid threw out my bottle of vitamin 00:20:58.000 --> 00:21:09.120 C, and so for several days, almost a week, I didn't have any, and my cough cleared up. 00:21:09.120 --> 00:21:14.520 When I got a new bottle and started taking it, the cough came back. 00:21:14.520 --> 00:21:24.960 I realized that it very consistently had something powerfully allergenic, and I experimented over 00:21:24.960 --> 00:21:28.040 the next few years. 00:21:28.040 --> 00:21:37.720 I was volunteering in a clinic, and Eugene had a tremendous number of allergic people, 00:21:37.720 --> 00:21:50.440 especially because of the grass fields, burning commercial grass seed-producing fields upwind, 00:21:50.440 --> 00:22:00.160 and so I was seeing dozens of people taking everything they knew to help their allergies, 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:09.200 and I suggested, told them my experience, suggested they stop taking all of their supplements, 00:22:09.200 --> 00:22:16.200 and almost all of them discovered they didn't have any allergies except for their supplements. 00:22:16.200 --> 00:22:22.960 What could be in some of these things, vitamin C and other supplements as we know them, that 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:24.920 could be causing the allergic thing? 00:22:24.920 --> 00:22:28.720 Just extra things, extras that they put in there? 00:22:28.720 --> 00:22:33.800 No, something was happening in the substance itself. 00:22:33.800 --> 00:22:45.000 A chemist, a free radical chemist, published an article describing taking chemically the 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:53.040 purest form of synthetic ascorbic acid that was available, not from a tablet, but straight 00:22:53.040 --> 00:23:01.840 from the, it was called reagent grade, and putting 500 milligrams in a liter of distilled 00:23:01.840 --> 00:23:11.920 water, then putting it in an apparatus that detects free radicals, and the apparatus showed 00:23:11.920 --> 00:23:24.720 that nothing but the pure vitamin C and the pure water was producing the concentration, 00:23:24.720 --> 00:23:32.640 a steady production of free radicals that a killing dose of x-rays would have produced 00:23:32.640 --> 00:23:35.360 shining on the water. 00:23:35.360 --> 00:23:41.880 And he said, "Isn't that amazing that a person can swallow this and their stomach isn't killed 00:23:41.880 --> 00:23:47.480 the way the x-ray produced radicals would kill it?" 00:23:47.480 --> 00:23:52.520 He said that shows something about our tissue defenses. 00:23:52.520 --> 00:23:59.760 So it's not the vitamin C itself, I mean obviously you get good stuff with oranges and fruit, 00:23:59.760 --> 00:24:02.640 it's the way that this stuff is made in the lab. 00:24:02.640 --> 00:24:10.160 Yeah, I experimented drinking a gallon of orange juice and eating guavas and other extremely 00:24:10.160 --> 00:24:20.400 high vitamin C foods, and no trace of an allergy, but as little as two or three milligrams of 00:24:20.400 --> 00:24:25.920 the synthetic stuff would set off the allergy. 00:24:25.920 --> 00:24:39.080 The chemist analyzed the traces, I think iron was the one he analyzed, but he said there 00:24:39.080 --> 00:24:46.160 are similar amounts of other catalytic heavy metals. 00:24:46.160 --> 00:24:55.240 Just takes a few atoms of the wrong heavy metal to activate vitamin C and make it toxic. 00:24:55.240 --> 00:25:05.200 And when it's produced by plants, the plants couldn't maintain it, it would decompose in 00:25:05.200 --> 00:25:13.360 free radicals if they allowed even trace amounts of these heavy metals. 00:25:13.360 --> 00:25:23.240 So somehow the plants protect their vitamin C and if you eat it from a plant source, it 00:25:23.240 --> 00:25:27.680 goes right into your own tissues beneficially rather than harmfully. 00:25:27.680 --> 00:25:29.280 Very interesting. 00:25:29.280 --> 00:25:37.400 So we had a guest on I guess last week and we're going to talk about him a little bit. 00:25:37.400 --> 00:25:42.440 He was suggesting that if you do synthetic vitamin C, that it does something to the iron, 00:25:42.440 --> 00:25:43.840 oxidizes it. 00:25:43.840 --> 00:25:47.760 So that could be correct, right? 00:25:47.760 --> 00:25:58.400 The iron is reduced, the opposite of oxidation, but it takes the electron from the vitamin 00:25:58.400 --> 00:26:05.320 C and that puts the iron in a highly reactive toxic condition. 00:26:05.320 --> 00:26:12.520 The iron can then give its electron directly to water, breaking down the water molecule, 00:26:12.520 --> 00:26:21.520 producing the hydroxyl radical, which is the worst indiscriminate destroyer, free radical. 00:26:21.520 --> 00:26:22.520 Wow. 00:26:22.520 --> 00:26:24.320 So I'm going to ask you about iron. 00:26:24.320 --> 00:26:28.120 Let's take a little bit break because we had quite an interesting conversation about iron. 00:26:28.120 --> 00:26:29.800 So I'm going to get your take on. 00:26:29.800 --> 00:26:32.640 If you're on hold, you're welcome to stay there, hang in there. 00:26:32.640 --> 00:26:34.400 We've got some things to do. 00:26:34.400 --> 00:26:39.560 Patrick Cimpone, OneRadioNetwork.com. 00:26:39.560 --> 00:26:42.600 Roy P. is with us. 00:26:42.600 --> 00:26:44.000 So get your questions in. 00:26:44.000 --> 00:26:48.120 Patrick@OneRadioNetwork.com. 00:26:48.120 --> 00:26:50.600 So let's see. 00:26:50.600 --> 00:26:52.580 Put this guy up. 00:26:52.580 --> 00:27:03.880 I started doing shows about health and nutrition, I guess really it was in the 70s. 00:27:03.880 --> 00:27:09.520 That's what really got me into trouble because I guess that's when I began to get fired from 00:27:09.520 --> 00:27:15.720 radio stations because I didn't know what I was doing. 00:27:15.720 --> 00:27:19.600 I thought I was doing the right thing with telling people about stuff, but here I am 00:27:19.600 --> 00:27:24.920 in the middle of New Orleans where the whole thing was, you know, Mio Mio crawfish and 00:27:24.920 --> 00:27:29.640 Mio Mio and stuff like that and booze. 00:27:29.640 --> 00:27:33.640 So I've been doing this a long time with healing stuff. 00:27:33.640 --> 00:27:42.200 You could imagine the things and tools and machines and products that people have sent 00:27:42.200 --> 00:27:44.280 me over those, is that 40 years ago? 00:27:44.280 --> 00:27:45.280 I don't even know what it is. 00:27:45.280 --> 00:27:49.160 I guess 40 years. 00:27:49.160 --> 00:27:50.160 And lots. 00:27:50.160 --> 00:27:53.160 And I've tried a lot of stuff. 00:27:53.160 --> 00:27:57.040 Experimented with a lot of stuff. 00:27:57.040 --> 00:28:05.080 But I'll tell you, the hydrogen technology with this machine that I've been on about 00:28:05.080 --> 00:28:11.040 a year, breathing the browns gas and drinking the water, I can, there's no doubt that this 00:28:11.040 --> 00:28:19.320 has been one of the most powerful things that I've done ongoing other than God. 00:28:19.320 --> 00:28:20.640 Because that's the number one. 00:28:20.640 --> 00:28:32.920 That I know you and I can heal, the body can heal through divine spirit without anything. 00:28:32.920 --> 00:28:34.760 So that's my number one. 00:28:34.760 --> 00:28:39.920 But there are tools that we are given that we can use, maybe food-based vitamin C or, 00:28:39.920 --> 00:28:44.600 I don't know, things, you know, food-based things that we promote that we think are good 00:28:44.600 --> 00:28:46.900 like pine pollen, some food. 00:28:46.900 --> 00:28:49.320 But this hydrogen, there's something going on with this. 00:28:49.320 --> 00:28:51.960 It's pretty magical. 00:28:51.960 --> 00:29:00.600 You can go to molecularhydrogeninstitute.com and look at hundreds and hundreds of peer-reviewed 00:29:00.600 --> 00:29:04.040 studies on hydrogen. 00:29:04.040 --> 00:29:09.400 And Browns Gas, the machine that we promote, AquaCure, is even a step above because it 00:29:09.400 --> 00:29:14.440 does something fun with the water that I'm just not quite sure. 00:29:14.440 --> 00:29:18.840 There's a lifetime warranty on this machine. 00:29:18.840 --> 00:29:22.560 There's a one-year, no questions asked, money-back warranty. 00:29:22.560 --> 00:29:25.840 So if you don't like it, you can use it for eight, nine months and send it back and get 00:29:25.840 --> 00:29:27.960 back your two grand. 00:29:27.960 --> 00:29:29.360 What's up with that? 00:29:29.360 --> 00:29:30.800 George Wiseman makes them. 00:29:30.800 --> 00:29:33.000 George will be on the show soon. 00:29:33.000 --> 00:29:34.760 Pretty incredible stuff. 00:29:34.760 --> 00:29:37.760 Patrick Flanagan was onto the hydrogen thing. 00:29:37.760 --> 00:29:42.080 There's many people out there selling little plop-plop fizzes to get more hydrogen in your 00:29:42.080 --> 00:29:43.240 body. 00:29:43.240 --> 00:29:44.240 But that's great. 00:29:44.240 --> 00:29:48.160 I'm not going to be, but breathe the gas and drink the hydrogen water that you make at 00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:49.320 home. 00:29:49.320 --> 00:29:56.360 We have several emails and I can see some of it myself. 00:29:56.360 --> 00:30:00.200 Some of my hair is coming back to a normal color. 00:30:00.200 --> 00:30:05.800 I mean I started doing the gray thing 30 years ago and other people too. 00:30:05.800 --> 00:30:11.520 So there's something pretty special going on with hydrogen purported to be one of the 00:30:11.520 --> 00:30:15.040 number one antioxidants on the planet. 00:30:15.040 --> 00:30:16.360 Now there's a lot of ways you can get it. 00:30:16.360 --> 00:30:18.120 Your body makes hydrogen. 00:30:18.120 --> 00:30:19.120 You don't need a machine. 00:30:19.120 --> 00:30:20.920 You're not going to die without it. 00:30:20.920 --> 00:30:21.920 Don't worry about it. 00:30:21.920 --> 00:30:22.920 It's not going to cure COVID. 00:30:22.920 --> 00:30:25.200 You know, we don't say any of that stuff. 00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:28.160 These are just tools that are just kind of God-given. 00:30:28.160 --> 00:30:32.880 If you got the box and you want to do it, play with it, I think you're going to feel 00:30:32.880 --> 00:30:34.200 better and help you. 00:30:34.200 --> 00:30:36.040 But you don't need it. 00:30:36.040 --> 00:30:38.720 Body makes hydrogen with good food. 00:30:38.720 --> 00:30:41.240 It's the way with all these things. 00:30:41.240 --> 00:30:42.400 You don't need anything extra. 00:30:42.400 --> 00:30:44.880 If you don't have any money, don't worry about it. 00:30:44.880 --> 00:30:48.880 Get out in the sun, eat the best food you can, you'll be fine. 00:30:48.880 --> 00:30:50.360 That's just my take anyway. 00:30:50.360 --> 00:30:53.760 I, you know, I just, you know, whatever. 00:30:53.760 --> 00:30:55.920 So this is the hydrogen machine. 00:30:55.920 --> 00:30:57.840 You can go on oneradionetwork.com. 00:30:57.840 --> 00:31:06.360 You click an order, click an order, hydrogen machine, and then I use promo code oneradio, 00:31:06.360 --> 00:31:14.160 oneradionetwork.com, oneradionetwork.com, promo code oneradio. 00:31:14.160 --> 00:31:20.640 Previously we were talking with Brandon about the Blue Shield EMF device, and he says it 00:31:20.640 --> 00:31:24.080 goes out 90 yards in all directions. 00:31:24.080 --> 00:31:28.800 It's an omnidirectional field that if you think about a huge sphere that's expanding, 00:31:28.800 --> 00:31:31.960 that's essentially what the waveform pattern looks like. 00:31:31.960 --> 00:31:32.960 That's cool. 00:31:32.960 --> 00:31:39.400 So it's putting frequencies into the body, and then how does that work in relation to 00:31:39.400 --> 00:31:43.280 electromagnetic field that's coming in the walls and the windows through a cell phone 00:31:43.280 --> 00:31:44.280 tower down the street? 00:31:44.280 --> 00:31:49.000 Yeah, so the cell repeaters and Wi-Fi and all this electromagnetic radiation in the 00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:53.560 environment, people mistakenly think that this is somehow going to act like a shield 00:31:53.560 --> 00:31:58.280 and block the radiation and make it not appear on any kind of tri-field meter or any measuring 00:31:58.280 --> 00:31:59.280 device. 00:31:59.280 --> 00:32:00.440 And that's simply not the case. 00:32:00.440 --> 00:32:05.920 It's more of an energy medicine, so to speak, where it's stimulating the bodies at the cellular 00:32:05.920 --> 00:32:10.640 level to create a cellular response to make all the individual cells much stronger and 00:32:10.640 --> 00:32:14.240 more able to adapt to the EMF stressors. 00:32:14.240 --> 00:32:18.360 So that's number one on the physical or the somatic level where the body's experiencing 00:32:18.360 --> 00:32:21.560 a decrease in stress from electromagnetic fields. 00:32:21.560 --> 00:32:25.700 If you're interested, you can click on the Blue Shield ad on the front page of One Radio 00:32:25.700 --> 00:32:31.840 Network, use promo code OneRadio, or also contact Brandon through his website there 00:32:31.840 --> 00:32:34.680 when you click, and he'll give you more information. 00:32:34.680 --> 00:32:39.680 Front page, Blue Shield EMF protection device on OneRadioNetwork.com. 00:32:39.680 --> 00:32:49.360 Nothing is more expensive than bad information. 00:32:49.360 --> 00:32:51.120 Know the source. 00:32:51.120 --> 00:32:52.120 OneRadioNetwork.com. 00:32:52.120 --> 00:32:58.320 Well, it's an honor to have Dr. Ray Peat, PhD, RayPeat.com. 00:32:58.320 --> 00:33:01.320 And your newsletter is Ray Peat's Newsletter, right? 00:33:01.320 --> 00:33:02.320 Ray Peat's Newsletter? 00:33:02.320 --> 00:33:03.320 Ray Peat's? 00:33:03.320 --> 00:33:07.920 Yeah, Ray Peat's with an S. S, newsletter. 00:33:07.920 --> 00:33:13.520 Not dot com, but email, at gmail.com. 00:33:13.520 --> 00:33:14.520 Right. 00:33:14.520 --> 00:33:18.880 Ray Peat's Newsletter, plural, at gmail.com. 00:33:18.880 --> 00:33:22.040 And it comes out every couple months. 00:33:22.040 --> 00:33:25.320 When's the next one coming out? 00:33:25.320 --> 00:33:30.160 Last month is going to come out at the end of this week. 00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:31.160 And what's it about? 00:33:31.160 --> 00:33:32.160 The big... 00:33:32.160 --> 00:33:40.200 Education and what the virus situation is doing to education. 00:33:40.200 --> 00:33:41.200 Wow. 00:33:41.200 --> 00:33:43.080 I guess a lot. 00:33:43.080 --> 00:33:44.640 Shutting it down, basically. 00:33:44.640 --> 00:33:46.280 Yes, sir. 00:33:46.280 --> 00:34:01.120 I met with the Gates Foundation people and Eric Schmidt, the former, for many years, 00:34:01.120 --> 00:34:08.720 CEO and chairman of Google, working for the Pentagon. 00:34:08.720 --> 00:34:16.920 He was saying, and his commission was saying, over a year ago, that schools basically have 00:34:16.920 --> 00:34:25.800 to be shut down because they're expensive and it's much cheaper to do it over the internet. 00:34:25.800 --> 00:34:33.600 And just this year, he met with Cuomo and Cuomo said, "Yeah, what are all these buildings 00:34:33.600 --> 00:34:35.600 and classrooms for? 00:34:35.600 --> 00:34:37.920 We don't need them if we have the internet." 00:34:37.920 --> 00:34:38.920 Fascinating. 00:34:38.920 --> 00:34:46.080 Even in Austin, I just heard that I think they're going to do online schools for the 00:34:46.080 --> 00:34:50.840 first maybe six weeks and then see how it goes. 00:34:50.840 --> 00:34:55.280 But Dr. Peat, they keep testing people, more and more people. 00:34:55.280 --> 00:35:00.320 And as you know, if you get a positive test, they think you have some unique, virulent, 00:35:00.320 --> 00:35:03.480 deadly communicable disease. 00:35:03.480 --> 00:35:12.160 I think that testing the so-called incidence of disease goes up in proportion to how many 00:35:12.160 --> 00:35:15.000 tests they give. 00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:22.920 And it isn't really anything to do with suffering from cold symptoms or any symptoms at all. 00:35:22.920 --> 00:35:26.600 It's just the number of tests they're doing. 00:35:26.600 --> 00:35:38.360 I think it's at this point consisting of a sales campaign for computers and the education 00:35:38.360 --> 00:35:42.680 so-called systems. 00:35:42.680 --> 00:35:44.480 You know who B.F. Skinner was? 00:35:44.480 --> 00:35:46.480 Yeah, kind of know B.F.? 00:35:46.480 --> 00:35:49.080 Yeah, a little bit about him. 00:35:49.080 --> 00:36:00.960 The behavioral psychologist argued that the concept of mind should be removed from science 00:36:00.960 --> 00:36:12.320 and education, that machines can restrict our behavior so that we give only the right 00:36:12.320 --> 00:36:20.960 behavior, no complex questions asked. 00:36:20.960 --> 00:36:24.580 The student could be a pigeon. 00:36:24.580 --> 00:36:32.760 You can get the pigeon to suppress all of its normal movements and give only the desired 00:36:32.760 --> 00:36:37.760 of pecking a certain switch behavior. 00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:43.800 That's the principle of Skinnerian education so-called. 00:36:43.800 --> 00:36:50.840 And exactly those principles are now forming the basis of online education. 00:36:50.840 --> 00:37:00.160 They want to make training more efficient so that you don't push any of the unwanted 00:37:00.160 --> 00:37:02.080 responses. 00:37:02.080 --> 00:37:08.560 You push only the right button and give the right answers. 00:37:08.560 --> 00:37:13.520 So it's basically a mindless training system. 00:37:13.520 --> 00:37:17.040 To just know, remember things and then repeat them on test. 00:37:17.040 --> 00:37:24.280 I guess to your newsletter I'm sure you talk about the idea of then parents who are all 00:37:24.280 --> 00:37:26.120 set up to go to work, right? 00:37:26.120 --> 00:37:27.120 What are they going to do? 00:37:27.120 --> 00:37:29.720 And the kids need touch, right? 00:37:29.720 --> 00:37:35.000 And working with people and seeing other kids, I mean that's a whole other stress level on 00:37:35.000 --> 00:37:38.400 them, isn't it? 00:37:38.400 --> 00:37:44.120 One CEO summed it up very simply. 00:37:44.120 --> 00:37:50.600 She said humans are biohazards, machines aren't. 00:37:50.600 --> 00:37:58.400 They want to take humans out of the equation, turn everything into a robot production. 00:37:58.400 --> 00:38:03.840 Dr. Ray Peat, if you're on hold, sorry, but I want to do this and then we'll begin 00:38:03.840 --> 00:38:06.680 doing some questions. 00:38:06.680 --> 00:38:10.880 There was a fellow on that seemed like he was pretty well researched and he was a fellow 00:38:10.880 --> 00:38:16.920 talking about iron that I mentioned and the vitamin C issue that you confirmed. 00:38:16.920 --> 00:38:24.000 And he was suggesting that early on, I don't know, 40s and 50s, somebody convinced people 00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:26.040 to start putting iron in our food, right? 00:38:26.040 --> 00:38:29.000 And iron enriched flour and things like that. 00:38:29.000 --> 00:38:35.880 And then even increased that I think around 1980 or so, they wanted to do more. 00:38:35.880 --> 00:38:43.840 And then when we have too much iron in our body, then that contributes to lower copper 00:38:43.840 --> 00:38:51.040 and then the iron can then rust and cause problems. 00:38:51.040 --> 00:38:54.280 Do you think that most of us have too much iron? 00:38:54.280 --> 00:38:56.680 Is it possible in our body? 00:38:56.680 --> 00:38:58.080 Yeah. 00:38:58.080 --> 00:39:02.200 Men steadily accumulate it through life. 00:39:02.200 --> 00:39:15.640 The exceptions are starving in famine zones, for example, where no one gets any meat or 00:39:15.640 --> 00:39:18.720 eggs or seafood. 00:39:18.720 --> 00:39:26.640 But everyone eating a good normal diet, the men steadily accumulate it. 00:39:26.640 --> 00:39:34.320 And the incidence of heart attacks and heart disease, for example, correspond directly 00:39:34.320 --> 00:39:37.600 to the level of accumulated iron. 00:39:37.600 --> 00:39:46.640 So men are well ahead of women up to the age of 50 or so because women are getting rid 00:39:46.640 --> 00:39:48.640 of some iron every month. 00:39:48.640 --> 00:39:49.640 Menstruation, right? 00:39:49.640 --> 00:39:56.760 Just an ounce or so of blood is enough to keep the iron down. 00:39:56.760 --> 00:40:06.120 But after menopause, women start accumulating iron like men and they actually catch up with 00:40:06.120 --> 00:40:11.720 men because of the slight difference in the hormones. 00:40:11.720 --> 00:40:19.160 Estrogen makes you accumulate iron up to 10 times as fast as a man does. 00:40:19.160 --> 00:40:28.840 So, then, well, so where do we get so much iron? 00:40:28.840 --> 00:40:33.760 And if we're eating organic foods and not iron-enriched flour, you know, and those kind 00:40:33.760 --> 00:40:40.440 of things, we're not really getting extra iron in our food, are we? 00:40:40.440 --> 00:40:47.160 Meat is always a very rich source of iron. 00:40:47.160 --> 00:40:57.880 So if you eat any meat every day, it's likely to be adding to your iron excess. 00:40:57.880 --> 00:41:06.000 And meat also has too much phosphate relative to calcium and magnesium. 00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:14.600 And the combination of high phosphate and high iron tend in the same direction to produce 00:41:14.600 --> 00:41:18.120 stress and pre-radical damage. 00:41:18.120 --> 00:41:22.640 So it would be heavy meat eaters or have more iron? 00:41:22.640 --> 00:41:29.240 What other segment of the world, what are they eating? 00:41:29.240 --> 00:41:34.240 Anything in particular that ups the iron? 00:41:34.240 --> 00:41:45.000 Iron in food was being tampered with, adding iron and synthetic vitamins and such. 00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:56.080 Even people who ate oatmeal and bread and rice, for example, were getting too much. 00:41:56.080 --> 00:42:04.000 So what's the iron's connection to heart issues, too much iron? 00:42:04.000 --> 00:42:14.560 I think it's almost entirely the same thing that the free radical chemists saw. 00:42:14.560 --> 00:42:21.080 When you're under stress, you don't need the vitamin C as a catalyst. 00:42:21.080 --> 00:42:24.880 There are many other sources of electrons. 00:42:24.880 --> 00:42:35.600 In fact, anything that interferes with oxidation is going to tend to put any iron stores that 00:42:35.600 --> 00:42:40.280 had been tucked away safely in your cells. 00:42:40.280 --> 00:42:47.800 When you don't have oxygen sucking up all the stray electrons, a stray electron will 00:42:47.800 --> 00:42:52.360 activate iron that had been harmless. 00:42:52.360 --> 00:43:01.480 So the stress creates electrons that activate the iron the same way synthetic vitamin C 00:43:01.480 --> 00:43:02.800 activates the iron. 00:43:02.800 --> 00:43:09.120 So our stress response lowers the oxygen, and then that causes the oxidation of the 00:43:09.120 --> 00:43:14.360 iron that was okay until we got stressed out. 00:43:14.360 --> 00:43:23.560 The iron becomes the active ferrous form, where the ferric form can be safely stored. 00:43:23.560 --> 00:43:31.120 The ferrous form creates the hydroxyl radical, the most toxic free radical. 00:43:31.120 --> 00:43:42.920 Then that damages DNA, creates detectable mutations, and turns on the whole inflammation 00:43:42.920 --> 00:43:44.760 process. 00:43:44.760 --> 00:43:48.200 And then what's the connection with iron and copper? 00:43:48.200 --> 00:43:58.880 Copper is a stronger oxidant than iron is, and so when stress creates the ferrous form 00:43:58.880 --> 00:44:04.840 of iron, copper can turn it back into ferric iron. 00:44:04.840 --> 00:44:16.560 So copper defends against activated iron by putting it back into the passive storage form. 00:44:16.560 --> 00:44:22.760 So the copper just helps the iron not to get toxic and harmful. 00:44:22.760 --> 00:44:29.800 But then doesn't iron lower the copper levels too much? 00:44:29.800 --> 00:44:38.920 It probably does by competition, but I think it's more likely that stress is causing you 00:44:38.920 --> 00:44:50.280 to be unable to retain the copper efficiently, giving the iron a chance to butt in and knock 00:44:50.280 --> 00:44:53.760 the copper out of the place it should be. 00:44:53.760 --> 00:45:03.640 So it's both too much iron and too much stress that makes us lose copper. 00:45:03.640 --> 00:45:11.800 When you start a free radical type of stress, we put out a protein called metallothionein 00:45:11.800 --> 00:45:17.200 that has sulfur in it that sticks to heavy metals. 00:45:17.200 --> 00:45:26.280 And we put that out to defend against all of these toxic heavy metals, but in the process 00:45:26.280 --> 00:45:32.280 it tends to carry away the good copper as well. 00:45:32.280 --> 00:45:41.840 Copper binds strongly, so if you're poisoned by mercury, you'll produce metallothionein 00:45:41.840 --> 00:45:50.000 and it will also carry out some zinc and copper, which is not good. 00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:59.440 Some folks think that things like beef liver, nuts and mushrooms are high in copper and 00:45:59.440 --> 00:46:03.120 advisable to have some in our diet. 00:46:03.120 --> 00:46:04.920 And then also to maybe give blood. 00:46:04.920 --> 00:46:09.400 What do you think about giving blood a couple of times a year? 00:46:09.400 --> 00:46:15.480 Several studies have found that people are healthier who give blood occasionally. 00:46:15.480 --> 00:46:16.480 Occasionally. 00:46:16.480 --> 00:46:18.480 What would you think? 00:46:18.480 --> 00:46:21.760 Do you give blood yourself at all? 00:46:21.760 --> 00:46:22.760 No. 00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:27.200 I just don't like to be around doctors and needles. 00:46:27.200 --> 00:46:28.200 That's right. 00:46:28.200 --> 00:46:29.200 I understand. 00:46:29.200 --> 00:46:31.840 Who wants people poking you? 00:46:31.840 --> 00:46:36.880 So you don't, I kind of hear you saying it doesn't sound like you really advise it or 00:46:36.880 --> 00:46:41.880 it's necessary to blood thing, but it's not going to hurt anyone to give blood a couple 00:46:41.880 --> 00:46:43.440 of times a year, certainly. 00:46:43.440 --> 00:46:47.960 No, it's probably beneficial for most people. 00:46:47.960 --> 00:47:00.760 After you get around 50 years old or so, things like the exosomes tend to circulate in your 00:47:00.760 --> 00:47:09.800 blood after a certain age, they can start having an age promoting effect rather than 00:47:09.800 --> 00:47:12.840 a reparative effect. 00:47:12.840 --> 00:47:20.200 And so losing some of your old exosomes is probably part of what happens when an old 00:47:20.200 --> 00:47:22.320 person donates blood. 00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:24.120 I see. 00:47:24.120 --> 00:47:25.600 So here's an interesting email. 00:47:25.600 --> 00:47:27.120 This is great. 00:47:27.120 --> 00:47:30.240 This is from Gloria. 00:47:30.240 --> 00:47:32.200 She says, "I would like to give blood. 00:47:32.200 --> 00:47:37.600 I heard Morley Robbins on Patrick's show, but I'm only 100 pounds and they won't let 00:47:37.600 --> 00:47:40.640 me give blood because I'm too skinny. 00:47:40.640 --> 00:47:42.120 They think I am. 00:47:42.120 --> 00:47:47.840 And how can I get rid of any extra lead, I mean iron in my body?" 00:47:47.840 --> 00:47:54.840 Oh, stopping eating is the most important thing. 00:47:54.840 --> 00:47:57.080 Stop eating iron enriched foods. 00:47:57.080 --> 00:48:03.120 Yeah, and cut way back on meat. 00:48:03.120 --> 00:48:09.120 One or two eggs a day will provide the essential iron that you need. 00:48:09.120 --> 00:48:19.640 And emphasizing milk and cheese, for example, are notoriously iron deficient. 00:48:19.640 --> 00:48:29.640 And so the extent to which your major calories come from cheese and milk, you're effectively 00:48:29.640 --> 00:48:32.520 subtracting iron from your body. 00:48:32.520 --> 00:48:36.080 Oh, you're actually taking some away. 00:48:36.080 --> 00:48:42.080 Yeah, we're shedding it all the time from our intestines and skin cells. 00:48:42.080 --> 00:48:47.200 Ayurvedic medicine, who I've kind of played around with for many years, Dr. Peat, they've 00:48:47.200 --> 00:48:54.480 often recommended taking a really nice copper kind of water thing and taking a little water 00:48:54.480 --> 00:48:59.040 that's been sitting in the copper vessel once a day or so. 00:48:59.040 --> 00:49:00.800 What do you think about that? 00:49:00.800 --> 00:49:05.240 I think it's probably helpful. 00:49:05.240 --> 00:49:16.280 You don't want to combine copper with any reductant, vitamin C or otherwise. 00:49:16.280 --> 00:49:29.520 In your stomach, copper or iron can oxidize fatty acids, vitamins, other essential nutrients. 00:49:29.520 --> 00:49:38.280 So you don't want free copper combined with food. In the form of pure water on an empty 00:49:38.280 --> 00:49:39.280 stomach, 00:49:39.280 --> 00:49:40.280 I think it's helpful. 00:49:40.280 --> 00:49:44.040 Okay, do it on an empty stomach and leave it alone for a bit. 00:49:44.040 --> 00:49:55.240 So there are some nice food-based cherries and some pretty good things organic with vitamin 00:49:55.240 --> 00:49:56.240 C. 00:49:56.240 --> 00:50:03.320 Do you think it's advisable or healthy to take some of those food-based vitamin C's 00:50:03.320 --> 00:50:06.000 extra every day? 00:50:06.000 --> 00:50:11.360 I tested myself. 00:50:11.360 --> 00:50:20.000 When I stopped taking any synthetic vitamin C, I found that my urine contained around 00:50:20.000 --> 00:50:28.200 3,000 milligrams per day months after I stopped any supplement. 00:50:28.200 --> 00:50:38.720 I realized that the only foods that don't contain any vitamin C are grains, seeds, and 00:50:38.720 --> 00:50:41.880 nuts. 00:50:41.880 --> 00:50:47.360 Everything else basically, all the way from algae and potatoes. 00:50:47.360 --> 00:50:48.360 They have vitamin C. 00:50:48.360 --> 00:50:58.160 Clams, turnip, turnip greens are a great source. 00:50:58.160 --> 00:51:05.960 All living forms basically except humans, gorillas, and chimpanzees produce their own 00:51:05.960 --> 00:51:06.960 vitamin C. 00:51:06.960 --> 00:51:15.200 So seafood and vegetables and fruits all contain as much as we need. 00:51:15.200 --> 00:51:21.560 I guess some of the oysters and shrimps and lobsters, they have a lot of good copper in 00:51:21.560 --> 00:51:22.560 there, right? 00:51:22.560 --> 00:51:24.040 If you want more copper too? 00:51:24.040 --> 00:51:30.120 Yeah, oysters are a very good source of copper. 00:51:30.120 --> 00:51:37.440 So what would be some of the symptoms, Dr. Ray Peat, of someone who maybe doesn't want 00:51:37.440 --> 00:51:43.080 to do this test and find out about the iron load? 00:51:43.080 --> 00:51:46.600 Would there be some symptoms that somebody might say, "Oh, I might have too much iron. 00:51:46.600 --> 00:51:48.920 I want to do more copper." 00:51:48.920 --> 00:51:52.880 Is there any symptoms that come up right on the top for you? 00:51:52.880 --> 00:52:04.160 Well, the most studied is heart disease symptoms, but any of the degenerative things are activated 00:52:04.160 --> 00:52:10.480 by iron, inflammation, loss of muscle mass, for example. 00:52:10.480 --> 00:52:16.120 Please, Dr. Peat, could you repeat what you said about hydroxyl, please? 00:52:16.120 --> 00:52:22.720 I was wondering if it's a byproduct of vitamin C. You said it is very good for something. 00:52:22.720 --> 00:52:30.440 I can't help but notice it is the first part of the anti-malaria drug being touted by many 00:52:30.440 --> 00:52:36.920 doctors, hydrochloric acid. 00:52:36.920 --> 00:52:41.440 When it's attached to a molecule like that, it's fine. 00:52:41.440 --> 00:52:45.280 It isn't a reactive free radical. 00:52:45.280 --> 00:52:55.920 But when something like ferrous iron in the cell contacts water, it creates a free hydroxyl 00:52:55.920 --> 00:52:56.920 radical. 00:52:56.920 --> 00:53:08.320 An attached hydroxyl radical is part of everything normal like sugar is full of attached hydroxy 00:53:08.320 --> 00:53:11.480 particles. 00:53:11.480 --> 00:53:21.400 Inside the cell, about a ratio of eight to one of the vitamin C isn't in the form of 00:53:21.400 --> 00:53:24.800 ascorbic acid at all. 00:53:24.800 --> 00:53:33.320 The cell turns it into dehydroascorbate. 00:53:33.320 --> 00:53:43.600 About 80 or 85% of the vitamin C in our bodies doesn't show up in a test. 00:53:43.600 --> 00:53:53.800 It gives people the impression that meat and seafood and some plants don't contain any 00:53:53.800 --> 00:53:57.960 vitamin C when it's actually there in the form of dehydroascorbate. 00:53:57.960 --> 00:54:10.920 Dehydroascorbate works like oxygen to protect against the excess electrons. 00:54:10.920 --> 00:54:22.480 If you take in a huge amount of any reducing material, which could be ascorbic acid or 00:54:22.480 --> 00:54:32.800 the various things that have been advertised as antioxidant supplements, those contribute 00:54:32.800 --> 00:54:44.280 potentially toxic electrons that can produce the hydroxyl radical if they reach an excess 00:54:44.280 --> 00:54:47.840 level in your stomach and bloodstream. 00:54:47.840 --> 00:54:59.200 Because where they're really going to do their work is inside the cell in the oxidized form. 00:54:59.200 --> 00:55:09.120 Many of the flavonoid chemicals in oranges, for example, and guavas and vegetables and 00:55:09.120 --> 00:55:21.440 fruits, the colored yellow pigmented or orange pigmented molecules, historically they've 00:55:21.440 --> 00:55:28.680 been called antioxidants like vitamin C. But like dehydroascorbate, when they get in the 00:55:28.680 --> 00:55:38.360 cell they are functioning as oxidants working with oxygen to defend you against the stress 00:55:38.360 --> 00:55:42.480 induced free radical excess electrons. 00:55:42.480 --> 00:55:48.360 Wow, man, holy cow, that's pretty geeky stuff. 00:55:48.360 --> 00:55:53.800 Patrick Timpone, really great stuff with Dr. Ray P. on Radionetwork.com. 00:55:53.800 --> 00:55:58.600 We're having a little bit of interruption with our stream. 00:55:58.600 --> 00:55:59.840 Don't worry about it. 00:55:59.840 --> 00:56:06.080 The podcast will be available in its entirety. 00:56:06.080 --> 00:56:09.000 We're working with it. 00:56:09.000 --> 00:56:12.760 Just hang in there and all is well. 00:56:12.760 --> 00:56:16.640 Patrick at one, Radionetwork.com. 00:56:16.640 --> 00:56:23.280 Let's see, here's something for you, Doc, with Chandra. 00:56:23.280 --> 00:56:29.520 She mixes up a little bit of potassium chloride, some sodium chloride, some salt, baking soda, 00:56:29.520 --> 00:56:34.600 and some epsom salts, like a little bit of each, a half teaspoon or so. 00:56:34.600 --> 00:56:36.200 She drinks this throughout the day. 00:56:36.200 --> 00:56:41.920 Can Dr. Peat talk about the pros and cons of this concoction? 00:56:41.920 --> 00:56:49.600 If it agrees with you, then the chemicals are probably pure. 00:56:49.600 --> 00:56:58.920 You don't want a very large amount of potassium chloride because an overdose can give you 00:56:58.920 --> 00:57:02.800 low blood pressure or even stop your heart. 00:57:02.800 --> 00:57:08.920 So the potassium chloride is one you want to not overdo. 00:57:08.920 --> 00:57:18.360 But athletes, to improve their endurance, can take a tablespoonful of baking soda in 00:57:18.360 --> 00:57:28.440 a glass of water before they are going to bicycle 20 or 50 miles or something to improve 00:57:28.440 --> 00:57:35.440 their use of oxygen and sparing their glucose for energy. 00:57:35.440 --> 00:57:36.440 Okay. 00:57:36.440 --> 00:57:42.080 Here is somebody, Dr. Peat, Jeremy. 00:57:42.080 --> 00:57:48.240 He said he's lost his sense of taste and smell and has come up with a lot of unique 00:57:48.240 --> 00:57:55.400 symptoms that people as well as some other people I know are experiencing. 00:57:55.400 --> 00:58:02.280 Does Dr. Peat have any ideas if this COVID could be causing this? 00:58:02.280 --> 00:58:12.760 A lot of stress inducers can cause, like I mentioned, the metallothionein protein is 00:58:12.760 --> 00:58:18.040 increased by stress of any sort. 00:58:18.040 --> 00:58:26.760 Anything that it can carry out of the body and produce a deficiency of zinc is one of 00:58:26.760 --> 00:58:34.440 those and the deficiency of zinc has been connected with the loss of smell and probably 00:58:34.440 --> 00:58:36.640 taste. 00:58:36.640 --> 00:58:42.280 So when we do extra things like a good living source calcium, we have a nice one that's 00:58:42.280 --> 00:58:51.680 oyster, not oyster but pearls, or other things like magnesium, things like that. 00:58:51.680 --> 00:58:59.280 Do we risk getting things out of balance if we don't do it carefully? 00:58:59.280 --> 00:59:02.080 No. 00:59:02.080 --> 00:59:09.960 Oyster shell and egg shell calcium carbonate is very safe. 00:59:09.960 --> 00:59:19.720 If you take too much, just any pure chemical is going to be rejected by your stomach and 00:59:19.720 --> 00:59:22.600 intestine. 00:59:22.600 --> 00:59:33.200 A concentrated potassium chloride tablet, for example, has been known to effectively 00:59:33.200 --> 00:59:42.480 burn a hole into the stomach or intestine because the potassium chloride relaxes the 00:59:42.480 --> 00:59:52.240 intestine and then the concentrated pill sits there disturbing the water balance of the 00:59:52.240 --> 00:59:53.980 cells. 00:59:53.980 --> 01:00:05.980 Any concentrated large dose of table salt or vitamin B1, anything in a high concentration 01:00:05.980 --> 01:00:10.160 can disturb your stomach and intestine fairly seriously. 01:00:10.160 --> 01:00:12.260 Very interesting. 01:00:12.260 --> 01:00:18.540 Here is someone that lives in a condo upstairs. 01:00:18.540 --> 01:00:21.460 They're smoking. 01:00:21.460 --> 01:00:29.780 I've been having high histamine reaction symptoms and I feel stress and things like that. 01:00:29.780 --> 01:00:37.980 Is there anything that I can do possibly to improve the air? 01:00:37.980 --> 01:00:44.020 I guess, have you ever seen any of these air purifiers, Dr. Peat, that work good? 01:00:44.020 --> 01:00:50.660 Yeah, they're almost always crazily overpriced. 01:00:50.660 --> 01:00:59.460 An ultraviolet, a very strong ultraviolet lamp, if you don't look at it, it will produce 01:00:59.460 --> 01:01:10.420 some ozone and destroy viruses and bacteria in the air and to a certain extent detoxify 01:01:10.420 --> 01:01:19.380 some of the organic toxins if it's a fairly small space. 01:01:19.380 --> 01:01:27.420 Having a fan and the filter combined with a strong ultraviolet bulb, that's the basis 01:01:27.420 --> 01:01:34.380 for some of these air cleaning things that they often sell for $1,000. 01:01:34.380 --> 01:01:35.380 You can do it yourself. 01:01:35.380 --> 01:01:36.380 Yeah, you can do it yourself. 01:01:36.380 --> 01:01:37.380 You can figure it out. 01:01:37.380 --> 01:01:46.020 My 14-month-old granddaughter has eczema. 01:01:46.020 --> 01:01:51.380 It seems like she scratches herself so much it's hard to see and prevent her from scratching 01:01:51.380 --> 01:01:55.500 anything that we could look at. 01:01:55.500 --> 01:01:57.060 How old was she? 01:01:57.060 --> 01:02:00.660 14 months. 01:02:00.660 --> 01:02:07.780 If the baby is still nursing, sometimes it's the mother's diet that contains an allergen 01:02:07.780 --> 01:02:15.860 that gets into the milk and creates a skin problem in the baby. 01:02:15.860 --> 01:02:22.500 So if she's breastfeeding, the mother should carefully check her diet. 01:02:22.500 --> 01:02:34.460 And if the baby is eating foods, consider eliminating one food at a time for a week 01:02:34.460 --> 01:02:38.700 or so and see if that clears it up. 01:02:38.700 --> 01:02:44.960 John wants to know, people are advocating eating grass-fed beef liver for copper and 01:02:44.960 --> 01:02:52.300 other nutritional requirements. 01:02:52.300 --> 01:02:56.220 How would it make sense and how often do we eat beef liver? 01:02:56.220 --> 01:02:57.220 It depends. 01:02:57.220 --> 01:03:04.900 If you're over 50, for example, you don't want to overdo the liver because of the high 01:03:04.900 --> 01:03:07.540 iron content. 01:03:07.540 --> 01:03:22.220 For those people, shrimp, squid, clams, lobster, crabs, all the shellfish. 01:03:22.220 --> 01:03:28.900 Their blood consists of copper protein rather than iron-containing hemoglobin. 01:03:28.900 --> 01:03:34.780 So they're a reliable source of a high concentration of copper. 01:03:34.780 --> 01:03:40.820 But it's interesting, some of the iron people talk about eating the beef liver because it's 01:03:40.820 --> 01:03:46.700 so high in copper which will lower the iron, but you said it's high in iron as well. 01:03:46.700 --> 01:03:54.300 Yeah, so you don't want to, I think something like two or three ounces a week is about all 01:03:54.300 --> 01:03:58.300 an older person would want. 01:03:58.300 --> 01:04:02.300 This is from Cecilia, she's in Connecticut. 01:04:02.300 --> 01:04:08.540 Can you ask Dr. Peat if he has been studying astrology, is there going to be something 01:04:08.540 --> 01:04:14.700 monumental happening with our sun and planets that could affect our world drastically come 01:04:14.700 --> 01:04:16.680 this fall? 01:04:16.680 --> 01:04:19.060 Can he give any insights? 01:04:19.060 --> 01:04:30.220 I don't know of anything that precise in time, but there have been some good physicists who 01:04:30.220 --> 01:04:39.060 have looked at the solar cycles and the annual changes in heat production coming out of the 01:04:39.060 --> 01:04:41.620 sun. 01:04:41.620 --> 01:04:55.580 For many years, the basic sun science has tended to predict an oncoming ice age with 01:04:55.580 --> 01:05:03.000 occasional fluctuations into overheating. 01:05:03.000 --> 01:05:11.560 Sunspot cycles affect the heat output of the sun, but the general drift of predictions 01:05:11.560 --> 01:05:19.200 has been that the sun is going to cool off for hundreds of years, starting anytime in 01:05:19.200 --> 01:05:21.000 the next several years. 01:05:21.000 --> 01:05:26.320 That would be kind of nice here in Texas, we could use a 20 degree drop, that would 01:05:26.320 --> 01:05:29.200 be fine with me. 01:05:29.200 --> 01:05:30.880 This is from Eric, he's in Finland. 01:05:30.880 --> 01:05:32.800 Hello Patrick and Dr. Peat. 01:05:32.800 --> 01:05:39.800 Last month, Dr. Peat referred to the influence of Professor John Beard and Dr. William Donald 01:05:39.800 --> 01:05:41.880 Kelly's cancer protocol. 01:05:41.880 --> 01:05:49.160 This time, please give us insight on how Kelly and Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez were able to know 01:05:49.160 --> 01:05:56.200 how to balance the automatic nervous system via the diet and supplements so we, the average 01:05:56.200 --> 01:06:02.840 person, can also achieve this balance on our own as a method to cure disease and maintain 01:06:02.840 --> 01:06:08.720 our health. 01:06:08.720 --> 01:06:17.080 Keeping your blood sugar steady is the basic thing for regulating the balance between parasympathetic 01:06:17.080 --> 01:06:21.480 and sympathetic. 01:06:21.480 --> 01:06:30.880 Every day around sunset, but especially if we lie down in the dark, the nervous system 01:06:30.880 --> 01:06:39.840 shifts strongly to the parasympathetic side and then at sunrise, for various reasons, 01:06:39.840 --> 01:06:48.160 it shifts back to the sympathetic or adrenaline dominated side. 01:06:48.160 --> 01:06:57.640 With old age, the tendency is to exaggerate the downturn, the parasympathetic side, and 01:06:57.640 --> 01:07:06.800 it happens that many tumors grow fastest during the night and are stimulated by the hormones 01:07:06.800 --> 01:07:13.120 that control the parasympathetic side. 01:07:13.120 --> 01:07:21.520 That's one of the things that the Kelly-Beard program does working on the pancreas. 01:07:21.520 --> 01:07:30.120 They emphasize the proteolytic enzymes as getting into the bloodstream, not just into 01:07:30.120 --> 01:07:37.080 the intestine, but it's now confirmed that the proteolytic enzymes secreted into the 01:07:37.080 --> 01:07:45.600 intestine, a significant amount of that is absorbed directly into the bloodstream. 01:07:45.600 --> 01:07:53.840 So a well-functioning pancreas is producing an increase of proteolytic enzymes in the 01:07:53.840 --> 01:08:02.880 bloodstream that, according to their approach, protects against the incipient cancer, especially 01:08:02.880 --> 01:08:04.440 in the reproductive system. 01:08:04.440 --> 01:08:12.800 That was Beard's approach that Kelly based his thinking on. 01:08:12.800 --> 01:08:23.280 The fact that the parasympathetic system increases cell division and produces conditions that 01:08:23.280 --> 01:08:36.280 exacerbate inflammation, for example, any pain syndrome usually is most intense between 01:08:36.280 --> 01:08:47.320 2 a.m. and 5 a.m., and mortality is generally greatest in the early morning hours because 01:08:47.320 --> 01:08:55.960 of that shift towards excessive parasympathetic activity. 01:08:55.960 --> 01:09:02.760 Keeping your pancreas under control so it doesn't produce too much insulin is a very 01:09:02.760 --> 01:09:10.840 important part of avoiding that age-related nocturnal inflammation. 01:09:10.840 --> 01:09:11.840 Interesting. 01:09:11.840 --> 01:09:17.560 But you've not been shy about your use of and talking about sugar with orange juice 01:09:17.560 --> 01:09:27.200 and even beet sugar and things. 01:09:27.200 --> 01:09:33.680 What is not happening in the body where people do that, their blood sugar goes imbalanced 01:09:33.680 --> 01:09:38.640 or they have a fasting blood sugar that's 130 or 140 or something? 01:09:38.640 --> 01:09:40.920 Is that a pancreas issue? 01:09:40.920 --> 01:09:51.680 Partly, but it's generally that something is causing a block to the oxidation of the 01:09:51.680 --> 01:09:56.880 glucose and too much fat in the diet, especially polyunsaturated fat. 01:09:56.880 --> 01:09:57.880 The poofers. 01:09:57.880 --> 01:10:05.840 Yeah, the fats compete with the sugar and stress increases the release of fat into your 01:10:05.840 --> 01:10:11.360 bloodstream and that happens at night. 01:10:11.360 --> 01:10:22.240 Always the falling blood glucose calls out from storage the free fatty acids and that's 01:10:22.240 --> 01:10:32.520 one of the reasons, darkness and long nights of winter, why aging happens. 01:10:32.520 --> 01:10:38.560 Almost all human aging happens during the night and when the nights are long in the 01:10:38.560 --> 01:10:48.240 winter, the aging process has more hours every day to act. 01:10:48.240 --> 01:10:56.160 The lowering of the blood sugar and increase of free fatty acids during the night is part 01:10:56.160 --> 01:11:00.600 of what drives that degenerative stress. 01:11:00.600 --> 01:11:09.760 So if you wake up after four hours of sleep, for example, and renew your muscle and liver 01:11:09.760 --> 01:11:19.440 glycogen stores and brain glycogen with a glass of milk and orange juice, for example, 01:11:19.440 --> 01:11:26.600 that will interrupt the stress and let you get back to some restorative sleep. 01:11:26.600 --> 01:11:31.640 So that could be two go-to things for people to take at night if they wake up or before 01:11:31.640 --> 01:11:35.040 bed, milk and/or orange juice. 01:11:35.040 --> 01:11:41.960 Yeah, there have been studies in which just a glass of warm or room temperature milk at 01:11:41.960 --> 01:11:49.600 bedtime interrupts some of the most important stress hormones that rise at night. 01:11:49.600 --> 01:11:55.160 You know, it's interesting, this is anecdotal and not that what happens to me just means 01:11:55.160 --> 01:12:01.440 anything to you out there, but Dr. Peat, I've been drinking lots of orange juice since talking 01:12:01.440 --> 01:12:02.440 to you. 01:12:02.440 --> 01:12:05.000 It's so fresh, you know, the good stuff. 01:12:05.000 --> 01:12:09.800 And my little blood sugar, boy, it's dead on 80 when I wake up and if I take it, you 01:12:09.800 --> 01:12:11.720 know, the fasting blood sugar. 01:12:11.720 --> 01:12:15.360 So where's all that sugar going? 01:12:15.360 --> 01:12:16.360 Where's it all going? 01:12:16.360 --> 01:12:19.320 I mean, there's a lot of sugar in orange juice, right? 01:12:19.320 --> 01:12:26.760 Yeah, and it happens that orange juice has several things that reduce the work of the 01:12:26.760 --> 01:12:36.120 pancreas, the high potassium concentration, for example, in orange juice takes care of 01:12:36.120 --> 01:12:37.800 the insulin problem. 01:12:37.800 --> 01:12:44.680 Your pancreas doesn't have to make much insulin at all if you're drinking orange juice because 01:12:44.680 --> 01:12:49.920 the potassium handles it instead of needing insulin. 01:12:49.920 --> 01:12:58.080 And then there are all of these flavonoids, the yellow pigments that block stress reactions 01:12:58.080 --> 01:13:04.720 and work like oxygen in the tissues. 01:13:04.720 --> 01:13:11.040 One of the functions of insulin is to keep your fatty acids in place in your tissues 01:13:11.040 --> 01:13:16.720 so they don't block your ability to oxidize glucose. 01:13:16.720 --> 01:13:20.960 And these flavonoids have exactly that function. 01:13:20.960 --> 01:13:26.120 They keep the cell able to keep oxidizing glucose. 01:13:26.120 --> 01:13:27.120 Interesting. 01:13:27.120 --> 01:13:32.960 And so what causes the free fatty acids from not doing their thing in the middle of the 01:13:32.960 --> 01:13:33.960 night? 01:13:33.960 --> 01:13:34.960 What causes that? 01:13:34.960 --> 01:13:38.400 What would we eat that would turn those guys off or do? 01:13:38.400 --> 01:13:41.200 Stress obviously would be one, I guess. 01:13:41.200 --> 01:13:43.640 Calcium is the other. 01:13:43.640 --> 01:13:50.040 And to a certain extent, you don't want to take a spoonful of salt. 01:13:50.040 --> 01:13:51.440 That would hurt your stomach. 01:13:51.440 --> 01:13:59.600 But just some salty things like pork rinds or salty tortilla chips or something at bedtime 01:13:59.600 --> 01:14:04.200 and a glass or two of milk. 01:14:04.200 --> 01:14:15.520 Both calcium and sodium help to activate the prefer oxidative energy production in the 01:14:15.520 --> 01:14:22.640 cells which normally they're impeded during the night by the free fatty acids. 01:14:22.640 --> 01:14:31.960 And the combination of sodium and calcium will lower the stress hormones, especially 01:14:31.960 --> 01:14:32.960 parathyroid. 01:14:32.960 --> 01:14:33.960 Lower. 01:14:33.960 --> 01:14:43.520 And those parathyroid hormone, every night it rises and blocks your mitochondrial oxidative 01:14:43.520 --> 01:14:44.520 processes. 01:14:44.520 --> 01:14:52.320 So the milk is, if you have enough vitamin D in your system, the calcium from the milk 01:14:52.320 --> 01:14:59.880 is in effect activating your mitochondria, restoring their ability to keep running even 01:14:59.880 --> 01:15:02.480 in the presence of some fatty acids. 01:15:02.480 --> 01:15:03.480 So let me see if I understand. 01:15:03.480 --> 01:15:08.040 So the salt is good, the salt before bed? 01:15:08.040 --> 01:15:09.040 A little bit. 01:15:09.040 --> 01:15:10.040 A little bit. 01:15:10.040 --> 01:15:11.040 Yeah. 01:15:11.040 --> 01:15:12.040 A little bit. 01:15:12.040 --> 01:15:14.640 And then if you get a good source of calcium, that could also help everybody be happy all 01:15:14.640 --> 01:15:16.360 night before bed. 01:15:16.360 --> 01:15:17.360 Yeah. 01:15:17.360 --> 01:15:25.120 Those work together to hold down the stress hormones and let your mitochondria function. 01:15:25.120 --> 01:15:32.160 Darkness in all animals that have been studied, the longer the darkness, the more the mitochondria 01:15:32.160 --> 01:15:34.160 deteriorate. 01:15:34.160 --> 01:15:45.000 And that's a combination of many things, but especially the rising fatty acids and parathyroid 01:15:45.000 --> 01:15:47.440 hormone. 01:15:47.440 --> 01:15:55.280 So the longer, so if people tend to sleep more during the winter just because it's dark, 01:15:55.280 --> 01:16:00.680 it's actually, they're not getting a lot of benefit out of that, are they? 01:16:00.680 --> 01:16:01.680 Yeah. 01:16:01.680 --> 01:16:09.000 Being awake during a long winter night, it's worse than being asleep. 01:16:09.000 --> 01:16:10.720 Oh, is it? 01:16:10.720 --> 01:16:11.720 Yeah. 01:16:11.720 --> 01:16:19.040 If you're going to have several hours of good, restful, deep sleep, that minimizes the damage 01:16:19.040 --> 01:16:20.040 to the mitochondria. 01:16:20.040 --> 01:16:21.040 I see. 01:16:21.040 --> 01:16:29.400 And if you have to work during the night, you don't get the protective effect of deep 01:16:29.400 --> 01:16:30.400 sleep. 01:16:30.400 --> 01:16:39.920 So it's still going to cause damage to the mitochondria to be in the dark, but it's better 01:16:39.920 --> 01:16:43.320 to pass the darkness in sleep. 01:16:43.320 --> 01:16:47.520 Dr. Ray Peat is with us, Patrick Timpone on Radionetwork.com. 01:16:47.520 --> 01:16:49.320 We got started a little bit late. 01:16:49.320 --> 01:16:51.360 Can you hang around for a few minutes, Dr. Peat? 01:16:51.360 --> 01:16:52.360 Okay. 01:16:52.360 --> 01:16:53.360 You okay? 01:16:53.360 --> 01:16:54.360 Good. 01:16:54.360 --> 01:16:55.360 This is Kane in Bellevue, Washington. 01:16:55.360 --> 01:17:03.360 Can you please ask Dr. Peat to help me understand why high dose PUFA fish oil seems to help 01:17:03.360 --> 01:17:09.480 so many thrive for decades and for decades and going way back from athletes to brain 01:17:09.480 --> 01:17:10.480 injury. 01:17:10.480 --> 01:17:16.080 Fish oil has helped us, helping many perform at high levels, recover from severe brain 01:17:16.080 --> 01:17:25.640 injury, so I don't understand his negative approach to fish oils. 01:17:25.640 --> 01:17:36.600 My negative approach, it would take a week or so to give the sources explaining it, but 01:17:36.600 --> 01:17:48.840 the short version is that when you ingest highly polyunsaturated oil, it's like the 01:17:48.840 --> 01:17:56.840 problem with taking in a large amount of synthetic ascorbic acid. 01:17:56.840 --> 01:18:05.880 Any reducing and oxidizing catalysts that are present are going to cause an explosive 01:18:05.880 --> 01:18:12.960 degrading oxidation of these highly oxidizable molecules. 01:18:12.960 --> 01:18:20.120 Studies have found that by the time fish oil gets into your bloodstream, it's already highly 01:18:20.120 --> 01:18:29.440 oxidized and it's these oxidized free radical breakdown products of the fish oil that suppress 01:18:29.440 --> 01:18:37.000 the white blood cells and knock down your immune reactions. 01:18:37.000 --> 01:18:44.680 So for the first six months, usually, you get these anti-inflammatory effects that seem 01:18:44.680 --> 01:18:55.560 very beneficial, but you've probably heard of the radon baths causing immediate relief 01:18:55.560 --> 01:19:05.240 from arthritis and they used to give x-ray treatments actually to a sore knee joint and 01:19:05.240 --> 01:19:14.320 you'd get immediate knockdown of the inflammation in an arthritic joint from the ionizing radiation 01:19:14.320 --> 01:19:25.280 but the anti-inflammatory effects of a big dose of highly oxidizable fish oil is working 01:19:25.280 --> 01:19:32.040 by the same mechanism, knocking out the inflammatory white blood cells. 01:19:32.040 --> 01:19:42.160 But the effect six months later, the process starts showing up the harmful effects, the 01:19:42.160 --> 01:19:52.680 radiation damage continues for 20 or 30 or 40 years later and there haven't been such 01:19:52.680 --> 01:20:02.120 studies with the polyunsaturated oil overdoses but the same kind of damage occurs and so 01:20:02.120 --> 01:20:05.520 you would expect the long-range damage. 01:20:05.520 --> 01:20:12.480 What they see is that immune deficiency begins setting in after about six months of continuous 01:20:12.480 --> 01:20:18.080 supplementation of things such as fish oil. 01:20:18.080 --> 01:20:25.800 And part of the argument in relation to the brain is that the brain contains a lot of 01:20:25.800 --> 01:20:35.040 these highly polyunsaturated fats but when you look at either humans over a period of 01:20:35.040 --> 01:20:43.960 several decades or in animal studies during a few years of an animal's development, when 01:20:43.960 --> 01:20:53.840 a cow or a person or a dog or rat is newborn, the brain has been highly protected against 01:20:53.840 --> 01:20:56.280 fatty acid absorption. 01:20:56.280 --> 01:21:03.960 The brain makes its own polyunsaturated fats as needed from sugar. 01:21:03.960 --> 01:21:17.880 The brain first produces saturated fatty acids and then creates an omega-9 glycolic acid 01:21:17.880 --> 01:21:31.040 and then that can be further unsaturated, desaturated to produce the highly unsaturated 01:21:31.040 --> 01:21:35.200 omega-9 series which are used in the brain. 01:21:35.200 --> 01:21:41.560 So those are the only proofs that the newborn brain contains. 01:21:41.560 --> 01:21:47.880 They're defined as deficient in essential fatty acids but really that's the state in 01:21:47.880 --> 01:21:56.320 which the brain has its greatest metabolic energy and its greatest capacity to learn. 01:21:56.320 --> 01:22:04.600 With aging, the brain gradually accumulates more and more polyunsaturated fats from the 01:22:04.600 --> 01:22:13.360 environment and as it does that, its metabolic rate slows down exactly in proportion with 01:22:13.360 --> 01:22:15.360 its ability to learn. 01:22:15.360 --> 01:22:16.520 Interesting. 01:22:16.520 --> 01:22:24.120 What's the go-to things that we can do other than stop taking any PUFAs, polyunsaturated 01:22:24.120 --> 01:22:25.960 fatty acids, to get them out? 01:22:25.960 --> 01:22:31.680 Are there things we can do supplementally or dieterarily to get these guys out? 01:22:31.680 --> 01:22:39.600 Yeah, that's one of the benefits of adjusting your carbohydrate intake very carefully so 01:22:39.600 --> 01:22:51.760 that you get as much as 100% of your energy supply from carbohydrates so that you don't 01:22:51.760 --> 01:23:02.400 draw down free fatty acids and that allows you to, when you do take in some environmental 01:23:02.400 --> 01:23:08.560 PUFA, you can oxidize that small amount safely. 01:23:08.560 --> 01:23:16.600 So if you keep just your general fat intake as low as possible, maybe 15% if possible 01:23:16.600 --> 01:23:26.400 of your diet as fats, but getting most of the rest of your energy from carbohydrates, 01:23:26.400 --> 01:23:35.880 not too much protein and as little fat as you can manage while still keeping a palatable, 01:23:35.880 --> 01:23:37.600 pleasant diet. 01:23:37.600 --> 01:23:41.100 But that would be just for somebody who has a PUFA overload. 01:23:41.100 --> 01:23:46.560 If you don't have many PUFAs, you could do more fat and things like that, right? 01:23:46.560 --> 01:23:48.400 Yeah, a skinny person. 01:23:48.400 --> 01:23:54.200 Yeah, like me, I just eat all the butter I can and I don't go anywhere. 01:23:54.200 --> 01:24:01.120 Yeah, butter is fine if your oxidative system handles it so you don't store it. 01:24:01.120 --> 01:24:03.960 Yeah, yeah, butter, cheese and all. 01:24:03.960 --> 01:24:05.320 Here's a good one for you. 01:24:05.320 --> 01:24:12.440 My husband's basal temperature is quite low, 96.5 and never gets to normal throughout the 01:24:12.440 --> 01:24:17.520 day and his heart rate is 57, he's 68. 01:24:17.520 --> 01:24:21.760 He wants to try one of the thyroid supplements hoping to boost his thyroid. 01:24:21.760 --> 01:24:27.800 Do you think this would work or should we get on something like armor thyroid or something 01:24:27.800 --> 01:24:30.600 like that? 01:24:30.600 --> 01:24:39.040 There are dozens of so-called natural thyroid products on the market, but some of them don't 01:24:39.040 --> 01:24:46.280 work at all and so if you have someone to write a prescription for armor, I think that's 01:24:46.280 --> 01:24:51.240 the best one to start with. 01:24:51.240 --> 01:24:57.520 So 96.5, that would be an indication generally of low thyroid? 01:24:57.520 --> 01:25:06.480 Yeah, that's two degrees Fahrenheit below normal and that's enough to slow all of your 01:25:06.480 --> 01:25:09.600 biological processes. 01:25:09.600 --> 01:25:15.560 We have some people that are listening and watching on YouTube this morning, let's get 01:25:15.560 --> 01:25:16.560 to them. 01:25:16.560 --> 01:25:24.660 Dr. Peat, is it possible that using a near-infrared sauna every night can be counterproductive 01:25:24.660 --> 01:25:33.960 for joint issues like arthritis or fibrosis and what are your three diet choices for joints? 01:25:33.960 --> 01:25:36.440 So near-infrared, which is those lamps, right? 01:25:36.440 --> 01:25:38.960 The heat lamps? 01:25:38.960 --> 01:25:46.240 Yeah, that's just closer to red light is what the near means. 01:25:46.240 --> 01:25:58.800 But the body is always emitting infrared radiation near-infrared and far-infrared. 01:25:58.800 --> 01:26:11.360 So we're broadcasting in the range that TV stations and cell phones use. 01:26:11.360 --> 01:26:19.400 Some of our, 70% of our biological energy goes out as radiation, much of it in the roughly 01:26:19.400 --> 01:26:22.400 infrared spectrum. 01:26:22.400 --> 01:26:31.240 And if you surround yourself with an insulator and reflector, you quickly overheat because 01:26:31.240 --> 01:26:40.480 we count on losing two-thirds of our energy into the environment as radiation. 01:26:40.480 --> 01:26:53.480 And the problem with unnatural environmental heat added to the system like a hot bath, 01:26:53.480 --> 01:27:02.800 if you don't have your orange juice or milk before and during a prolonged hot bath, you 01:27:02.800 --> 01:27:12.640 might faint from consuming your glycogen storage too fast because it does rev up your whole 01:27:12.640 --> 01:27:17.240 metabolic system and you need to feed it at a higher rate. 01:27:17.240 --> 01:27:22.800 So that's the only risk of something like infrared. 01:27:22.800 --> 01:27:26.160 Like saunas, near-infrared, far-infrared. 01:27:26.160 --> 01:27:30.280 So it'd be good for even far-infrared that I like to do to juice up with some orange 01:27:30.280 --> 01:27:31.280 juice before. 01:27:31.280 --> 01:27:33.560 Yeah, that's very protective. 01:27:33.560 --> 01:27:34.560 Oh cool. 01:27:34.560 --> 01:27:39.040 And the great thing about orange juice, Dr. Pease, is it tastes so good. 01:27:39.040 --> 01:27:43.000 I mean, phew, man, I tell you. 01:27:43.000 --> 01:27:46.440 The body really knows how much it's worth. 01:27:46.440 --> 01:27:48.800 It really knows, right. 01:27:48.800 --> 01:27:51.360 You drink it and you go, "Boy, this really tastes good." 01:27:51.360 --> 01:27:57.800 Should the spine, this is from Mjam on YouTube, should the spine ever be experiencing any 01:27:57.800 --> 01:28:00.440 kind of chronic pain? 01:28:00.440 --> 01:28:04.440 Should all of this pain be just inflammation? 01:28:04.440 --> 01:28:10.880 Yeah, you should never experience prolonged pain. 01:28:10.880 --> 01:28:14.520 And where there's pain, there's inflammation. 01:28:14.520 --> 01:28:24.400 And if it proceeds too long, the inflammation will tend to produce fibrosis or excess collagen 01:28:24.400 --> 01:28:30.320 deposition and eventually atrophy of the good tissues. 01:28:30.320 --> 01:28:38.960 So stopping the pain is really not just symptom relief, but it's actually changing your biology. 01:28:38.960 --> 01:28:47.760 For example, aspirin and the angiotensin receptor blockers are working not just against the 01:28:47.760 --> 01:28:57.840 pain or immediate inflammation and hypertension or whatever, but they're stopping the problem, 01:28:57.840 --> 01:29:05.760 actually reversing or blocking the proceeding degenerative processes. 01:29:05.760 --> 01:29:10.880 Here's one from Xtalix, that's about the only name I got there. 01:29:10.880 --> 01:29:16.360 Can you please ask Dr. Pease, what would be the best approach to deal with an eight-year-old 01:29:16.360 --> 01:29:20.440 boy with muscular dystrophy? 01:29:20.440 --> 01:29:24.440 Is it safe to give him progesterone? 01:29:24.440 --> 01:29:40.680 Yeah, too much progesterone in a boy around puberty is able to interfere, prevent the 01:29:40.680 --> 01:29:48.720 testosterone production that will start around the age of nine or 10, the testosterone starts 01:29:48.720 --> 01:30:03.040 rising slowly, so you don't want to be exaggerated in the use, but it does help to protect an 01:30:03.040 --> 01:30:09.040 atrophy process such as dystrophy of the muscles. 01:30:09.040 --> 01:30:16.000 Do women going through perimenopause in that era tend to need a little testosterone hit? 01:30:16.000 --> 01:30:27.920 No, if they are watching their thyroid and protecting their liver, the main thing is 01:30:27.920 --> 01:30:38.880 to not let estrogen production get out of control because aging, menopause, all of the 01:30:38.880 --> 01:30:47.120 stressful changes tend to activate the process of estrogen inside cells, not in the ovaries, 01:30:47.120 --> 01:30:51.320 but inside every cell of the body. 01:30:51.320 --> 01:30:57.800 Stress turns on the local production of estrogen, which isn't going to get measured in your 01:30:57.800 --> 01:31:05.720 bloodstream, but if you took out a piece of tissue from a stressed person over the age 01:31:05.720 --> 01:31:17.040 of 55 or so, you're going to find a higher amount of internal estrogen and the aromatase 01:31:17.040 --> 01:31:26.400 enzyme that produces it, and if your cholesterol blood level doesn't increase steadily with 01:31:26.400 --> 01:31:35.080 age, your ability to produce your own progesterone and testosterone is going to be limited in 01:31:35.080 --> 01:31:40.800 proportion to the lack of available cholesterol. 01:31:40.800 --> 01:31:43.880 Here's an interesting one from Carol. 01:31:43.880 --> 01:31:50.320 What could help if I or one of my dogs were bit by a copperhead? 01:31:50.320 --> 01:31:55.600 I killed 11, whoa, last month on my yard, 11, oh my goodness. 01:31:55.600 --> 01:31:57.280 She lives out in the country. 01:31:57.280 --> 01:32:04.520 Any ideas what could help if she or a dog got bit by one of these guys? 01:32:04.520 --> 01:32:12.120 There have been several studies in which an electrical shocking device applied to the 01:32:12.120 --> 01:32:22.120 bite area will cause some kind of reaction that detoxifies the poison at the site. 01:32:22.120 --> 01:32:29.400 Otherwise I don't know what the specific treatment is, but veterinarians would probably have 01:32:29.400 --> 01:32:32.280 an anti-serum to it. 01:32:32.280 --> 01:32:34.320 What about people? 01:32:34.320 --> 01:32:39.200 So is there something she could explore, some kind of shocking device? 01:32:39.200 --> 01:32:42.160 Do you have any other further? 01:32:42.160 --> 01:32:48.800 I don't know the sources that make them, but you can find quite a bit of information on 01:32:48.800 --> 01:32:53.640 the internet about electro shock and snake bite. 01:32:53.640 --> 01:33:00.320 So just Google electro shock and snake bites maybe. 01:33:00.320 --> 01:33:09.440 Well, Dr. Peat, thanks for being here. 01:33:09.440 --> 01:33:13.000 One last thing, oh this is a good one too, I'm glad I caught it. 01:33:13.000 --> 01:33:18.120 From JGL, what does Dr., that'll be a good way to close. 01:33:18.120 --> 01:33:23.640 What does Dr. Peat think, does he think there's any negative effects, negative effects on 01:33:23.640 --> 01:33:29.520 our body from wearing a face mask, even if for just a little while? 01:33:29.520 --> 01:33:33.440 See they get the politically incorrect questions right at the end. 01:33:33.440 --> 01:33:34.440 So what do you think? 01:33:34.440 --> 01:33:39.440 I mean, they're making some people wear these things all day, right, at work. 01:33:39.440 --> 01:33:48.040 Yeah, there are lots of confirmed damages that can happen. 01:33:48.040 --> 01:33:53.800 You were talking about exhaling exosomes. 01:33:53.800 --> 01:34:01.240 Exosomes become concentrated, even if they're your own exosomes, you're going to concentrate 01:34:01.240 --> 01:34:12.480 them and re-breathe them and any environmental stuff, instead of escaping normally with each 01:34:12.480 --> 01:34:20.680 breath, they're going to, to the extent that the mask does any filtering at all, it's going 01:34:20.680 --> 01:34:29.760 to also concentrate the debris inside the mask so that every breath is a little more 01:34:29.760 --> 01:34:37.200 concentrated in the stuff that failed to be filtered out by the mask, but you breathe 01:34:37.200 --> 01:34:45.560 it in and then there's a certain filtering effect that keeps it from going away. 01:34:45.560 --> 01:34:48.760 Final final question just popped in, and it's a good one. 01:34:48.760 --> 01:34:52.760 Is Dr. Peat available for phone consultations? 01:34:52.760 --> 01:34:53.760 No. 01:34:53.760 --> 01:34:56.760 You don't do that any longer? 01:34:56.760 --> 01:34:57.760 No. 01:34:57.760 --> 01:35:01.600 Gave that one up, huh? 01:35:01.600 --> 01:35:05.000 Too many callers, not enough time. 01:35:05.000 --> 01:35:06.000 Yeah, yeah. 01:35:06.000 --> 01:35:09.040 Well, Dr. Peat, do you get any painting done these days? 01:35:09.040 --> 01:35:10.040 Yep. 01:35:10.040 --> 01:35:11.040 Got a little? 01:35:11.040 --> 01:35:16.720 I got out to stand in the sunlight when it was too hot to lie down in the sun. 01:35:16.720 --> 01:35:21.440 I stood up and dabbled on some paintings. 01:35:21.440 --> 01:35:22.440 What kind of things do you do? 01:35:22.440 --> 01:35:23.440 Landscapes? 01:35:23.440 --> 01:35:24.440 You do landscapes? 01:35:24.440 --> 01:35:25.440 Yeah. 01:35:25.440 --> 01:35:26.440 You do landscapes. 01:35:26.440 --> 01:35:27.440 Yeah. 01:35:27.440 --> 01:35:30.800 Well, his website is raypeat.com, right? 01:35:30.800 --> 01:35:31.800 raypeat.com? 01:35:31.800 --> 01:35:32.800 Mm-hmm. 01:35:32.800 --> 01:35:35.480 And we have Ray Peat's newsletter. 01:35:35.480 --> 01:35:40.160 That is plural, Ray Peat's newsletter, gmail.com, if you'd like to join that. 01:35:40.160 --> 01:35:41.840 And it's an honor to have you here. 01:35:41.840 --> 01:35:45.040 Thanks for everything, and we'll see you in about a month or so, sir. 01:35:45.040 --> 01:35:46.120 Okay, very good. 01:35:46.120 --> 01:35:47.120 Thank you. 01:35:47.120 --> 01:35:48.120 Take care of yourself. 01:35:48.120 --> 01:35:49.120 Okay, bye. 01:35:49.120 --> 01:35:50.120 Dr. Ray Peat's oneradionetwork.com. 01:35:50.120 --> 01:35:55.720 Boy, he's fun, huh? 01:35:55.720 --> 01:35:58.920 It's amazing that he can remember all this stuff and then connect the dots with, "Whoa, 01:35:58.920 --> 01:36:00.680 and this and this." 01:36:00.680 --> 01:36:02.280 It's really cool, Ray Peat. 01:36:02.280 --> 01:36:06.120 His website, got a lot of good stuff on his website, raypeat.com. 01:36:06.120 --> 01:36:11.040 Well, we had quite a day, huh? 01:36:11.040 --> 01:36:14.160 Sorry, the internet just got a little wonky there just for a minute. 01:36:14.160 --> 01:36:19.880 I guess about 45 minutes ago, but they fixed it up pretty quick. 01:36:19.880 --> 01:36:21.760 But the whole podcast will be here. 01:36:21.760 --> 01:36:23.000 I'm not sure how the video is. 01:36:23.000 --> 01:36:27.800 I think it cramped our video style for a moment. 01:36:27.800 --> 01:36:30.080 You know, what are you going to do? 01:36:30.080 --> 01:36:31.840 We're very blessed with our internet. 01:36:31.840 --> 01:36:37.920 We love you, internet people. 01:36:37.920 --> 01:36:38.200 We love you. 01:36:38.200 --> 01:36:46.320 So, what do we have tomorrow? 01:36:46.320 --> 01:36:47.320 Let's see. 01:36:47.320 --> 01:36:51.120 Oh, boy, we got a good show tomorrow. 01:36:51.120 --> 01:36:53.600 Tom Luongo is going to be here. 01:36:53.600 --> 01:36:59.680 Tom Luongo has got a really interesting whole story about gold. 01:36:59.680 --> 01:37:02.680 Let's see what gold's doing today. 01:37:02.680 --> 01:37:03.680 It's been booming. 01:37:03.680 --> 01:37:06.680 Whoa, whoa, double whoa. 01:37:06.680 --> 01:37:08.680 40 bucks. 01:37:08.680 --> 01:37:13.680 It's up $40 today. 01:37:13.680 --> 01:37:16.680 Almost $2,000. 01:37:16.680 --> 01:37:21.680 Silver's up 3.5%, 27. 01:37:21.680 --> 01:37:26.680 The dollar, I guess, is not happy. 01:37:26.680 --> 01:37:31.680 So, we're going to talk about it. 01:37:31.680 --> 01:37:34.680 Gold's on a terror, or so they say, tomorrow. 01:37:34.680 --> 01:37:37.680 And then also Joseph Bender, he's really cool. 01:37:37.680 --> 01:37:42.680 He's in Austin, and we'll talk about detoxification with Joseph Bender. 01:37:42.680 --> 01:37:45.680 So, that's our story for tomorrow. 01:37:45.680 --> 01:37:48.680 I love you all very much. 01:37:48.680 --> 01:37:51.680 You're doing the best you can, no matter what anybody says. 01:37:51.680 --> 01:37:53.680 Drink your orange juice. 01:37:53.680 --> 01:37:56.680 Drink your milk. 01:37:56.680 --> 01:38:00.680 And I'll see you tomorrow, okay? 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