WEBVTT 00:00:01.000 --> 00:00:05.000 Good morning, this is OneRadioNetwork.com 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:10.000 The telephone number is 888-663-6386 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:14.000 Email patrick@oneradionetwork.com 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:22.000 Nothing is more expensive than bad information 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:27.000 Know the source, oneradionetwork.com 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:30.000 Well, welcome back, hour two of our little show 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:32.000 and it is the third Tuesday of the month 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:36.000 and that brings us to Dr. Ray Peat 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:41.000 who's been at this nutrition healing game for a very, very long time 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:44.000 Dr. Ray Peat, good morning 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:45.000 Good morning 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:47.000 How are you, Doc? 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:48.000 I'm very good 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:51.000 You're feeling, you're looking pretty good, we have a picture of you up there 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:55.000 Sorry we couldn't get Dr. Peat on the video 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:58.000 because you're much of a, somewhat of a luddite 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:01.000 you don't have a microphone or camera or any of that stuff 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:06.000 I have a new Dell monitor but it doesn't have a camera 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:07.000 Doesn't have a camera 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:08.000 or speakers or anything 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:10.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:11.000 How's your life these days? 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:12.000 What have you been doing? 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:14.000 What are you most passionate about? 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:18.000 What have you been thinking about in your world of health and healing? 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:24.000 I'm working on a newsletter on progesterone for this month 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:28.000 something I've been working on for 50 years 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:31.000 but always something new to think about 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:35.000 Really? Now what could possibly be going on with progesterone 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:38.000 that would warrant that kind of attention in so long? 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:40.000 Talk about that 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:49.000 Partly that the industry is reverting to some of the old myths about it 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:59.000 The estrogen industry, people discover the dangers of estrogen 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:05.000 and that moves interest towards progesterone use 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:09.000 and then the estrogen industry has to defend itself 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:13.000 because it's a multi-billion dollar a year industry 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:24.000 and so they subsidize studies to make people worry about the risks of progesterone 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:31.000 They're starting to say that anything that estrogen is known to cause for 100 years 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:36.000 they're starting to say, well, really progesterone is involved in it 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:41.000 so it's distracting attention from the dangers of estrogen 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:46.000 and in the absence of any real information 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:53.000 they're just putting the thought out there that if estrogen does it 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:59.000 maybe progesterone is really involved somehow 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:05.000 So when we talk about estrogen, are we speaking of the estrogenic foods? 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:08.000 Oh no, just the supplement 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:11.000 Just the supplement, yeah 00:03:11.000 --> 00:03:20.000 The industry got started when someone synthesized a very simple chemical 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:30.000 that triggered the whole fertility cycle in mice and rats 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:43.000 In the 30s, someone was thinking about the fact that chimney sweeps got cancer of the scrotum in the 18th century 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:48.000 from getting soot and not bathing 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:57.000 and that led to someone putting soot on rabbits and finding that it was very carcinogenic 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:07.000 but they noticed that besides causing skin cancer, it triggered estrus in the female rabbits 00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:18.000 and so they did extracts of soot and found that there were hundreds of estrogenic substances in soot 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:22.000 In the soot, which came from the wood, I guess? 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:31.000 Yeah, you put a piece of cold metal or porcelain or something in the flame of a candle or a Bunsen burner or anything 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:39.000 and carbon spontaneously condenses at high temperature 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:45.000 Methane is a single atom of carbon with hydrogen 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:55.000 and when it burns, like if you have a cloud of natural gas and it explodes 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:58.000 it creates a cloud of soot 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:17.000 which results when the single atom of carbon surrounded by hydrogen condenses spontaneously into very symmetrical six-membered rings 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:26.000 and then ten members on each ring being a hexagon of carbon atoms 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:33.000 Some of the cyclic molecules are huge 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:46.000 and they being very large, heavy, stick to each other and form these gobs of black material 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:59.000 Each molecule has this pattern of six-membered rings which happens to be analogous to the steroid molecule 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:06.000 The steroid molecule has three six-membered rings and one five-membered ring 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:18.000 and when those don't have the proper oxygen atoms added in the right places 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:27.000 they act as estrogen, so you can get a million different estrogenic substances just from soot 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:29.000 Wow, that's fascinating 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:43.000 So the estrogen industry realized that everyone could have a patented unique molecule and sell it as estrogen 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:46.000 which they called the female hormone 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:56.000 because it can be found in the ovary of a pregnant animal 00:06:56.000 --> 00:07:00.000 so they advertised that they were selling the female hormone 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:08.000 which they said would make women more fertile 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:19.000 because if it's a female hormone, being fertile is what supposedly characterizes women 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:34.000 and so they convinced even Harvard doctors, two of them did studies giving this basically a soot derivative 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:42.000 diethylstilbestrol to pregnant women claiming that it prevented miscarriage 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:59.000 but the animal studies in the 1930s and early 40s had all demonstrated that every kind of estrogen creates miscarriage or stillbirth 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:11.000 my thesis advisor was one of the early researchers showing that as you increase the dose of estrogen 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:21.000 you can create an abortion or miscarriage at any stage of pregnancy 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:33.000 a tiny dose will prevent implantation, a larger dose will cause miscarriage at the first week, a bigger dose at the second week and so on 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:43.000 so they knew that estrogen caused miscarriages but they were selling it to the public to prevent miscarriage 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:45.000 Wow, just the opposite 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:47.000 simply because they could 00:08:47.000 --> 00:08:56.000 Wow, so what's the takeaway, by the way Ray Peat has a PhD in biology from the University of Oregon specialization in physiology 00:08:56.000 --> 00:09:00.000 and he's taught at the University of Oregon Urbana College, Montana State University 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:03.000 and been involved in natural medicine for a very long time 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:10.000 I guess could you go back to, I guess your early work was in the late 60s right, with hormones? 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:24.000 Yeah, and my dissertation advisor Arnold Soderwal was the person who did some of these early studies showing that estrogen is a miscarriage 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:36.000 So what's the biggest piece of misinformation to our lady, both ladies and gentlemen, listening around the world about estrogen and progesterone 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:42.000 What is out there that most people believe that you believe is untrue? 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:49.000 Well, lots of doctors still refer to progesterone as the pregnancy hormone 00:09:49.000 --> 00:10:03.000 Just a couple of weeks ago someone said her doctor said she had had her uterus removed so she didn't need progesterone because progesterone is only the pregnancy hormone 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:13.000 An absolutely ridiculous idea going back to the 1940s, doctors were taught that to sell estrogen 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:17.000 To get pregnant, to get pregnant 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:32.000 Yeah, and they knew that estrogen causes cancer of the uterus, that was one of the early demonstrations of soot 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:47.000 That as estrogens of all sorts, the first most sensitive organ is the uterus, then the breast, then the brain, then the lungs, then every other tissue 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:53.000 But it's just a matter of sensitivity and the uterus is the most sensitive 00:10:53.000 --> 00:11:09.000 And then someone discovered, actually about 1945 it was already discovered that progesterone prevented uterine cancer from estrogen 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:18.000 And so they said if you take estrogen and don't want uterine cancer then you should take progesterone with it 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:29.000 But then the profitable thing was to do a hysterectomy and so hysterectomies were being done 00:11:29.000 --> 00:11:37.000 Everyone by the age of 30 or 35 was being urged to have a hysterectomy 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:45.000 And without the uterus then they said there's no need for progesterone 00:11:45.000 --> 00:11:53.000 So the woman would have her ovaries and uterus removed and they would refuse to give her progesterone 00:11:53.000 --> 00:12:03.000 Because supposedly the uterus was the only organ that needed progesterone being a pregnancy hormone 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:20.000 But in the 1930s the ovaries were found to produce hundreds of times more quantity of progesterone than estrogen 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:31.000 Estrogen is really a minor hormone from the ovary 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:44.000 In experimental surgery people have demonstrated that when they measured the amount of estrogen coming out of the ovary 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:51.000 As a control they measured the blood coming out of the monkey's arm 00:12:51.000 --> 00:12:57.000 And found that the arm was producing as much estrogen as the ovary 00:12:57.000 --> 00:13:09.000 So the idea of estrogen as an ovarian hormone is really out of context 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:17.000 When every tissue of the animal produces a large amount of estrogen when it's under stress 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:26.000 So laying it out as you have been you can see how there's so much confusion in the medical world and the natural world about these hormones 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:31.000 I thought a lot of that had been settled 30 or 40 years ago 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:38.000 But doctors are still being told if you don't have a uterus you don't need progesterone 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:44.000 When the brain is one of the biggest sources of progesterone 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:50.000 The placenta in pregnancy, the corpus luteum of the ovary 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:59.000 The brain contains 10 times the concentration of progesterone that the blood serum does 00:13:59.000 --> 00:14:04.000 And the skin is another major source of progesterone 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:18.000 But when you take out the ovaries you're putting an extra load on the brain and the skin to maintain the concentration of progesterone 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:27.000 So what's the best advice you can give to our ladies around the world right now regarding these two hormones 00:14:27.000 --> 00:14:31.000 Whether supplementation or just in general 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:39.000 I know you don't do medical advice to help them to understand what they should or should not be looking at or doing or not doing 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:47.000 Well they're very likely to be told still 60, 70 years after it was proven false 00:14:47.000 --> 00:14:53.000 Told that estrogen is a lifelong female hormone 00:14:53.000 --> 00:15:03.000 But old men rival women of the same age in the amount of estrogen being produced 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:09.000 Because it's a stress hormone produced by tissue of any sort under stress 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:21.000 So question the claim that aging is evidence of a need for more estrogen 00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:26.000 Old tissue increasingly tends to make estrogen 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:30.000 But the opposite is true 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:37.000 Progesterone failure is the primary thing that brings on menopause 00:15:37.000 --> 00:15:46.000 The monthly surge of progesterone produces the monthly cycle 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:50.000 It's an outstanding feature of the monthly cycle 00:15:50.000 --> 00:16:00.000 When that stops what is left is a surge of estrogen which is no longer balanced by progesterone 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:03.000 But that's the natural way it works for ladies though right? 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:08.000 I mean that's the way it's been set up to do a god thing kind of 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:11.000 When the monthly cycle ends like menopause 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:17.000 Well the stress symptoms increase as menopause approaches 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:28.000 And the healthier the woman is the longer she's able to maintain these monthly surges of progesterone 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:41.000 And with supplementation it's possible to keep menstruating to a much older age 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:45.000 Is that a sign of health in general? The longer a lady menstruates? 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:47.000 I think so 00:16:47.000 --> 00:16:50.000 Interesting 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:59.000 And then the hot flashes and all that people have said that that's due to possible toxicity in the ladies body 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:02.000 Can you relate to that? 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:07.000 Stress even in the 20's or younger 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:17.000 I've known women having hot flashes that were resolved when they took thyroid or progesterone 00:17:17.000 --> 00:17:22.000 To normalize and prevent the stress 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:28.000 Oh with the thyroid functioning more appropriately they're able to deal with the stress more easily 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:38.000 Yeah and one of the immediate chemical changes that produces the hot flash in the skin 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:43.000 Is a surge of nitric oxide of acetylation 00:17:43.000 --> 00:17:46.000 Oh it dilates the blood vessels 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:54.000 Yeah and unopposed estrogen is a powerful activator of nitric oxide 00:17:54.000 --> 00:18:07.000 And so I'm convinced that unopposed estrogen is the cause of the hot flashes 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:16.000 And doctors looking only at a blood test of estrogen will say no at menopause 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:20.000 A woman's estrogen in the serum is very low 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:27.000 But this has been very competently studied 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:35.000 If you take a bit of tissue and compare it to the serum 00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:43.000 This has been done not only in animals but in women during menopause and in pregnancy and in the cycle 00:18:43.000 --> 00:18:47.000 A bit of tissue compared to the serum 00:18:47.000 --> 00:18:54.000 The tissue has 10 or 20 times more estrogen than the serum 00:18:54.000 --> 00:19:04.000 And what makes the difference what can raise the estrogen in the serum is progesterone 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:15.000 So if you're deficient in progesterone your tissue is likely to have 10 or 20 times more estrogen than shows up in the blood 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:20.000 When you have a normal cycle with progesterone 00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:33.000 The progesterone does 8 or 10 different chemical actions causing the tissue content of the estrogen to decrease 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:43.000 And as it decreases in the cell it enters the bloodstream on its way to the kidneys and liver to be excreted 00:19:43.000 --> 00:19:55.000 But in the absence of progesterone those changes that release estrogen to be excreted don't happen 00:19:55.000 --> 00:20:03.000 And so the estrogen stays inside the cell at a concentration much higher than in the blood 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:10.000 So that's part of the idea you said unopposed estrogen the opposition would be the balance of progesterone 00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:12.000 Yeah 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:15.000 And why does that get low? 00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:21.000 Does it just living on planet earth with stress and diet and everything why the progesterone levels go too low? 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:30.000 Yeah for pregnancy to be safe for both the mother and the baby 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:38.000 The placenta must produce a huge amount of progesterone everyday 00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:50.000 Hundreds of milligrams per day rising all the way through pregnancy to a peak approaching a gram a day 00:20:50.000 --> 00:21:12.000 But when the woman or animal is under stress the stress changes the pituitary and all the other glands to avoid pregnancy 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:20.000 A stressed animal of any sort would be less likely to survive if it got pregnant 00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:32.000 So the trick is that pregnancy is prevented by stress for the safety of the mother 00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:35.000 So it's a natural kind of evolutionary thing 00:21:35.000 --> 00:21:36.000 Yeah 00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:40.000 And it works the same way with bears or deers or girls 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:49.000 Yeah stress specifically turns off progesterone for the avoidance of pregnancy 00:21:49.000 --> 00:21:50.000 Yeah 00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:56.000 We've talked to so many ladies over the years they get stressed out of course because they want to get pregnant right? 00:21:56.000 --> 00:22:02.000 It's hard you know because they're all worried and concerned about not getting able to get pregnant 00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:12.000 Yeah there are lots of stories about a couple that gives up getting pregnant, adopt a kid and immediately she gets pregnant 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:13.000 That's right 00:22:13.000 --> 00:22:14.000 The stress is relieved 00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:15.000 We have more kids than we need right? 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:26.000 So what's the idea though that many feel like a little bit of progesterone cream just a dab or so helps to keep testosterone levels better for guys? 00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:27.000 What's going on there? 00:22:27.000 --> 00:22:31.000 And is that a reliable thing to look at for guys listening? 00:22:31.000 --> 00:22:35.000 I've heard that from several men over the years 00:22:35.000 --> 00:22:45.000 My first experiences experimenting with progesterone was it would stop my whiskers growing for a couple of days 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:58.000 Because a good dose of it blocks, that's one of its functions is to block hormones that could interfere with pregnancy 00:22:58.000 --> 00:23:07.000 So progesterone puts everything down the middle when it's high in pregnancy 00:23:07.000 --> 00:23:13.000 You don't want any stray hormones disturbing the pregnancy 00:23:13.000 --> 00:23:32.000 So that's one of the functions of progesterone is to aim at survival rather than whiskers or production of large amounts of collagen or bone material or anything 00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:35.000 So it keeps things right down the middle 00:23:35.000 --> 00:23:43.000 So it's not necessarily a testosterone builder or a more anabolic thing, the progesterone cream? 00:23:43.000 --> 00:23:57.000 No, it just blocks the stress and if you get it at the right level you don't have enough to block the testosterone, just enough to block the stress and leave your own testosterone 00:23:57.000 --> 00:24:02.000 So you're sounding like for the guys don't even mess with it, you wouldn't do it 00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:15.000 No, most of the men that I've known who used it, it did shrink the penis and stop whisker growth 00:24:15.000 --> 00:24:17.000 It shrinks the penis? 00:24:17.000 --> 00:24:18.000 Temporarily 00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:19.000 Why? 00:24:19.000 --> 00:24:32.000 Because testosterone is maintaining the circulation and the nitric oxide causes acid dilation 00:24:32.000 --> 00:24:51.000 That really isn't the mechanism of erection, it's testosterone which gives muscle tone to the veins which empty the penis and the nitric oxide opens the vessels into the penis 00:24:51.000 --> 00:25:14.000 So they're doing the same thing in different ways but the right amount of testosterone maintains a certain tone in the exit vessels allowing a considerable amount of blood to stay there even in the passive state 00:25:14.000 --> 00:25:29.000 Right, so I'm kind of confused, so this little dab of progesterone that many guys do to keep their testosterone levels up, does it work? I mean is that good? I'm kind of confused, sorry 00:25:29.000 --> 00:25:47.000 At just exactly the right amount it can leave the luteinizing hormone active and let the testicle continue producing an adequate amount of testosterone 00:25:47.000 --> 00:25:49.000 How would you know what just the right amount is? 00:25:49.000 --> 00:26:09.000 I think only by trial and error because I've known men who had anti-testosterone symptoms with 10 mg, others who felt an increase of testosterone with the same small dose 00:26:09.000 --> 00:26:22.000 So you'd have to be, I think most of the progesterone, the one I saw from Dr. Wong, they talk about a little, and it's from yams I think, just a little tiny bit, just a dab or so of this cream 00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:27.000 Wow that gets a little tricky, you've got to be careful with that, you mess around with that, right? 00:26:27.000 --> 00:26:36.000 Dr. Ray Peat is with us, stay right there Dr. Peat, we have lots to talk about this morning, it's an honor to have him on our show on the third Tuesday 00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:48.000 If you care to have a question, you can just email Patrick@OneRadioNetwork.com, Patrick@OneRadioNetwork.com 00:26:48.000 --> 00:27:02.000 We've been learning quite a bit about hydrogen and some of the cool things that you can do that hydrogen does, you just google molecular hydrogen and a lot of fun things are going on in some of the more mainstream areas of life 00:27:02.000 --> 00:27:11.000 With the stroke victims, they're using hydrogen along with oxygen to help the stroke victims to heal 00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:18.000 And then we learned from Dr. Thomas Levy that oxidation, he believes, is one of the chief causes of disease 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:27.000 And then, well you can hear the story right here on the promotion of this hydrogen thing, it might be of interest to you 00:27:27.000 --> 00:27:32.000 Oops, I pressed the wrong button, sorry, I just pressed the wrong button 00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:34.000 I got it now, I got it 00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:44.000 Previously with the highly credentialed Dr. Thomas Levy, he argues because the literature shows that oxidation is the cause of disease 00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:59.000 But the whole point is the location, the concentration, the duration, the distribution of oxidized biomolecules determines 100% of all diseases 00:27:59.000 --> 00:28:05.000 And so that's why I say oxidative stress doesn't cause disease, oxidation is disease 00:28:05.000 --> 00:28:10.000 If there's no oxidized biomolecules, you don't have a toxin 00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:16.000 The toxic effect is oxidation of biomolecules, that's the entirety of it 00:28:16.000 --> 00:28:21.000 And by the grace of God, several months ago, George Wiseman said this about hydrogen 00:28:21.000 --> 00:28:26.000 Hydrogen is the world's best antioxidant by a long shot 00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:34.000 First of all, it's 700 times smaller than something like CoQ10, 400 times smaller than vitamin C, things like that 00:28:34.000 --> 00:28:42.000 So it can literally go, the hydrogen molecule can literally go through everything in your body and go right into the very DNA and repair it 00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:50.000 So now it makes sense why George was able to say this back in August 2019, with such conviction 00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:57.000 The body accepts that gas and uses it to heal everything 00:28:57.000 --> 00:29:02.000 It's like the fountain of youth, it's astonishing the amount of ailments 00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:06.000 In fact, in scientific studies, and they have over a thousand scientific studies now 00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:14.000 They are showing that it either helps the body heal directly or indirectly from virtually every ailment that ails any water-based life form 00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:19.000 Okay, I'm sold, and I was able to get one a couple of months ago, thanks to your support 00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:24.000 It's called the Aquacure Hydrogen Machine, breathe the gas and bubble the water 00:29:24.000 --> 00:29:29.000 There's a promo code OneRadio for 10% discount, I think a great investment for you 00:29:29.000 --> 00:29:34.000 Knowing what we know now, on OneRadioNetwork.com 00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:40.000 So, it's pretty cool, I've been really enjoying the hydrogen machine 00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:48.000 And I can tell you there are some interesting things going on that I'm just not sure why or something 00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:53.000 But things are getting better for me, I'm sleeping better, I'm feeling just more comfortable in my body 00:29:53.000 --> 00:29:58.000 Which, you know, for me is just kind of, you know, just something nice going on 00:29:58.000 --> 00:30:04.000 I'm feeling some less, the numbness in my little toes after a couple of months on the hydrogen 00:30:04.000 --> 00:30:09.000 Of course, I do some other things, so I can't honestly say for sure, you know, that's what it is 00:30:09.000 --> 00:30:14.000 But we like it, we think there's a lot of science behind it, there is a lot of science behind it 00:30:14.000 --> 00:30:20.000 We don't think we know, I saw one article that hydrogen was being used as medicine 00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:28.000 Back in 1888, the Annals of Surgery recorded one of the very first publications that linked hydrogen to medicine 00:30:28.000 --> 00:30:34.000 It referred to Dr. Nicholas Senn, who at the time was using hydrogen for intestinal applications 00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:41.000 And they have all the things here that you can look and check it out and see if what they just said is just made up or what 00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:45.000 So, it's interesting, I think there's something here for you 00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:54.000 There's a lifetime warranty and then a one year money back warranty if you don't like it 00:30:54.000 --> 00:30:57.000 And you just get it back 00:30:57.000 --> 00:31:01.000 OK, I've got to do one thing, something just locked up on me quickly 00:31:01.000 --> 00:31:04.000 But not to worry, I know how to do it 00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:12.000 I've got a little thing that does that, and I think that's going to work 00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:19.000 And, sorry, I think we're just 60 seconds away from Dr. Ray Peat 00:31:19.000 --> 00:31:24.000 Previously with Daniel Vitalis, we were talking about pine pollen 00:31:24.000 --> 00:31:29.000 Pollen is essentially the equivalent of what an animal would have as sperm 00:31:29.000 --> 00:31:36.000 Pollen is like the male part, the semen, and it fertilizes the ovum of the flower which becomes eventually a fruit 00:31:36.000 --> 00:31:42.000 And so if we were going to draw the equivalent, it would be like that the flower is like the female sex organ 00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:46.000 And the pollen is like the male sexual ejaculate 00:31:46.000 --> 00:31:52.000 Well, pine trees, which sort of just dominate so much of the landscape of North America and so much of the world 00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:57.000 Pine trees, their semen, they dust the landscape in pollen 00:31:57.000 --> 00:32:07.000 And that pollen, being the sort of male part of the plant, has some correspondences to male physiology in our species and many other animal species 00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:15.000 So what I'm saying is pine pollen contains all of these different anabolic androgenic hormones 00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:21.000 Plant versions of hormones that we need like testosterone, like DHEA 00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:24.000 Well, the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees 00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:26.000 Good stuff, guys, and for you girls, too 00:32:26.000 --> 00:32:32.000 Several choices of pine pollen, any Sir Thrival link, oneradionetwork.com 00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:42.000 Pine pollen is on sale for three days, we have Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:48.000 Big sale, pine pollen, any of the Sir Thrival links on oneradionetwork.com 00:32:54.000 --> 00:33:00.000 It's the third Tuesday of the month and Dr. Ray Peat, thank you so much, Doc, for coming on once a month 00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:02.000 I'm getting emails from around the world 00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:04.000 You've got a lot of fans 00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:07.000 How did all these people find you over the years? I'm real curious 00:33:07.000 --> 00:33:12.000 I mean, you have a pretty standard kind of basic website and you're out there to promote 00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:14.000 People just found you? 00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:31.000 Yeah, it's interesting, in the 70s when I started giving out samples of thyroid and progesterone dissolved in vitamin E 00:33:31.000 --> 00:33:42.000 People got such tremendous results, just giving it away to whoever happened by 00:33:42.000 --> 00:33:54.000 They started talking about the amazing things that happened with progesterone and thyroid 00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:58.000 And it has just spread 00:33:58.000 --> 00:34:06.000 So long ago you were actually giving out little samples of progesterone and vitamin E and also the thyroid, the piggy thyroid in the vitamin E 00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:08.000 And people were just... 00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:15.000 Yeah, I bought a small barrel of armor thyroid powder 00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:26.000 And at that time it was popular to use powdered kelp as a dietary supplement 00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:41.000 And so I would put a little bit of armor thyroid powder in with the powdered kelp and tell them it was a weak form of natural thyroid 00:34:41.000 --> 00:34:46.000 And they were acquainted with the idea of using kelp as a supplement 00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:52.000 But the thyroid was really the active component 00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:57.000 Interesting, so what kind of experiences were... 00:34:57.000 --> 00:35:02.000 And how much were you giving this little dose of the progesterone and the vitamin E? 00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:08.000 What kind of experience were the guys having and the women too, were having different good experiences? 00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:23.000 Oh, yeah, one suicidal young woman, 21 or 22 years old, every two weeks she became absolutely suicidal 00:35:23.000 --> 00:35:30.000 And her husband had to hire a babysitter to keep her from killing herself 00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:37.000 And finally committed her to the local psychiatric ward 00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:45.000 But because it was cyclic, she was in for a week and was perfectly sane the week she was in 00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:52.000 But as soon as she got out, she tried to turn on the gas and kill herself 00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:58.000 So her husband brought her over and she was sobbing as he brought her in 00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:09.000 And I gave her a bottle of progesterone in oil and told her to go in the bathroom and spread it all over her body 00:36:09.000 --> 00:36:15.000 And she came out and within five minutes had stopped sobbing 00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:23.000 And the bulging veins on her hand disappeared as the next phase 00:36:23.000 --> 00:36:29.000 Forty minutes after putting it on, she was smiling 00:36:29.000 --> 00:36:39.000 And exactly 45 minutes after putting the oil on, she said, "It's like night turning into day, I wish I could always feel this good" 00:36:39.000 --> 00:36:46.000 And two weeks later, the same thing happened 00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:59.000 She went into a suicidal state and I had given her progesterone dissolved in vegetable oil 00:36:59.000 --> 00:37:07.000 And it hadn't stayed in solution, so she had oiled herself but wasn't getting the dissolved progesterone 00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:17.000 So she was suicidal again, but when I gave her some of the actual dissolved material 00:37:17.000 --> 00:37:24.000 Exactly the same cycle, the sobbing stopped, the veins disappeared, the smile 00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:34.000 And at 45 minutes, exactly the same sort of from black to white mood change 00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:40.000 Interesting, and the guys in general, what kind of feedback did you get from them? 00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:43.000 And how much progesterone were you giving in that little dose? 00:37:43.000 --> 00:37:52.000 Two or three men rubbed it on their scalp every day and got fuzz to grow 00:37:52.000 --> 00:38:01.000 In about four or five weeks, they were getting probably 20 milligrams a day on their head 00:38:01.000 --> 00:38:06.000 Was that affecting raising testosterone levels to cause the hair to grow? 00:38:06.000 --> 00:38:10.000 It was one of them that mentioned the shrinkage 00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:21.000 After all these years with progesterone for men, you have a kind of a gram or a milligram standard that you would kind of start guys at if they wanted to experiment with it? 00:38:21.000 --> 00:38:23.000 Five milligrams 00:38:23.000 --> 00:38:29.000 Five milligrams, I guess you could, I don't know how you'd measure that, but somehow, well interesting 00:38:29.000 --> 00:38:33.000 Dr. Ray Peat is with us, we have a lot of good emails, patrick@oneradionetwork.com 00:38:33.000 --> 00:38:40.000 Here's an email for you Dr. Peat, here's a gentleman that says you recommend 2000 milligrams calcium per day 00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:50.000 A concern expressed by other nutritionists is that calcium may not go to the bones, but into the soft tissue and other places causing systemic damage over time 00:38:50.000 --> 00:39:02.000 If one does take your suggestion, what are the prerequisite actions or physiological cell metabolism assumptions you are making for taking 2000 milligrams? 00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:04.000 And what kind of calcium? 00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:21.000 I know there are still lots of doctors and nutritionists who have that idea, but the parathyroid gland is constantly regulating, responding to conditions 00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:40.000 And if you eat an excess of calcium and a moderate or low amount of phosphate, the parathyroid gland becomes very passive, especially if you have adequate vitamin D 00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:52.000 And the parathyroid gland, its main function seems to be to take calcium out of the bone and bring it into the blood 00:39:52.000 --> 00:40:08.000 But a side effect of taking it out of the bone is that it activates take up by the soft tissue and keeping the parathyroid gland as inhibited as possible 00:40:08.000 --> 00:40:25.000 And that leaves your bones unaltered, the calcium can still go in, but the parathyroid isn't going to be bringing it out of the bones into the bloodstream where it can affect the blood vessels 00:40:25.000 --> 00:40:43.000 And when you eat an excess of calcium and have an adequate vitamin D level in your body, the calcium passes right through your kidneys into the urine 00:40:43.000 --> 00:41:01.000 But if your parathyroid is active, it can form stones on the way out, the blood ability to keep it in solution changes 00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:08.000 And it's that same change that causes it to go into the blood vessel wall 00:41:08.000 --> 00:41:24.000 Carbon dioxide is the factor that keeps the calcium in solution in the bloodstream and stable in the bones 00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:37.000 Calcium carbonate is the first molecule deposited in the bone and it's gradually changed to calcium phosphate 00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:43.000 But carbon dioxide is responsible for putting it into the bone 00:41:43.000 --> 00:41:57.000 When the parathyroid hormone is active, it forms lactic acid in the bone and it's lactic acid that dissolves, removes the calcium from the bone 00:41:57.000 --> 00:42:10.000 So the balance of carbon dioxide versus lactic acid is under the control of parathyroid hormone in the bone 00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:24.000 And that same process happening in the blood vessels, the carbon dioxide keeps the calcium dissolved, ionized in solution 00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:47.000 But the lactic acid, if it is allowed to form either in the blood or blood vessels, that counteracts the carbon dioxide, precipitates calcium and forms hardening of the arteries and kidney stones and so on 00:42:47.000 --> 00:43:04.000 So keeping the parathyroid hormone low and your carbon dioxide production high relative to lactic acid is what's going to keep bones strong and arteries soft 00:43:04.000 --> 00:43:19.000 That's why Dr. Cowan, the fellow on the heart, he's a proponent of keeping the lactic acid levels low, so that's probably why, because he knows it happens or it's tied in with the calcium deposits potentially in the arteries 00:43:19.000 --> 00:43:29.000 Yeah, and prolactin and cortisol and parathyroid hormone all tend to interfere with carbon dioxide production 00:43:29.000 --> 00:43:41.000 Progesterone and thyroid are the things that most support the production of carbon dioxide and suppress the formation of lactic acid 00:43:41.000 --> 00:43:54.000 Suppress it. Yeah, this ties right in. Jerome says that I have some history of my grandfather and father having a stroke, one in the brain and one around his heart 00:43:54.000 --> 00:44:06.000 Can Dr. Peat give me some ideas, some things I can do or not do to strengthen my arteries and veins so they don't have a problem later in life? 00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:13.000 Good question. So is that what a stroke is? Is it a stroke where the veins will just actually... 00:44:13.000 --> 00:44:41.000 No, there are two main kinds of stroke. One in which a clot forms and plugs up the small arteries and the other where a blood vessel breaks and leaks blood, it can form a giant clot outside of the blood vessel, so it's a bleeding stroke or a clotted stroke 00:44:41.000 --> 00:44:44.000 There's two different kinds. Let's first talk about... 00:44:44.000 --> 00:45:00.000 And then there's another relatively harmless thing which is a transient ischemic attack. That's where the arteries or capillaries close down because carbon dioxide isn't being produced 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:03.000 So that's what they call these mini strokes, Doc? 00:45:03.000 --> 00:45:04.000 Yeah 00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:09.000 So the ischemic kind of things, they're not good but they're not life-threatening 00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:18.000 And so before we get to the clot, let's talk about the carbon dioxide. We over-breathe, that releases carbon dioxide? 00:45:18.000 --> 00:45:19.000 Yeah 00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:20.000 Breathing fast? 00:45:20.000 --> 00:45:23.000 You lose carbon dioxide when you breathe too hard 00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:24.000 Too hard 00:45:24.000 --> 00:45:44.000 And a low thyroid person is producing very little CO2 and so it takes very little over-breathing for a hypothyroid person to experience that constriction of blood vessels from loss of CO2 00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:51.000 Interesting. So that's another reason to keep that thyroid happy and in good shape so you can retain more CO2 00:45:51.000 --> 00:46:04.000 Yeah, it's low thyroid people who suffer high altitude sickness because to get more oxygen in thin air, they over-breathe 00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:13.000 Is clotting, going back to Jerome's question, on clotting on the potential strokes, is that the number one cause? 00:46:13.000 --> 00:46:23.000 Yeah, in the United States at least, that's by far the most common type of stroke other than the transient ischemic 00:46:23.000 --> 00:46:26.000 And why do these little clots form, do we know? 00:46:26.000 --> 00:46:43.000 It isn't quite a deficiency of aspirin but it's related to that. A serotonin excess, serotonin increases when you're under stress, especially if you're hypothyroid 00:46:43.000 --> 00:47:02.000 And hyperventilation raises the pH of your blood by blowing out the CO2, carbonic acid should be keeping the pH of your blood towards the lower end of the range 00:47:02.000 --> 00:47:14.000 And as the pH of the blood rises from hyperventilation, your platelets lose the ability to bind serotonin 00:47:14.000 --> 00:47:29.000 And so serotonin rises in the blood when you hyperventilate, but serotonin in the brain stimulates respiration and makes you breathe harder 00:47:29.000 --> 00:47:46.000 And the doctrine for about 30 years has been claiming that serotonin produced in your intestine and carried in your bloodstream can't get into the brain to affect the respiration 00:47:46.000 --> 00:48:03.000 But in fact, very clear experiments have shown that the blood-brain barrier as far as serotonin is concerned really doesn't exist because serotonin breaks down the barrier 00:48:03.000 --> 00:48:20.000 So when it's high in the blood, it gets in your brain, makes you breathe harder and if you're low in carbon dioxide to start with, it increases the release of serotonin into your bloodstream in a vicious circle 00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:24.000 And that could cause then the platelets to do their thing and clots 00:48:24.000 --> 00:48:32.000 Yeah, and that's how an emotional stress, something that just makes you breathe faster 00:48:32.000 --> 00:48:47.000 If you're hypothyroid, it will start the cycle in which the pH rises, the serotonin is released from platelets, activates your brain to breathe harder, exacerbating the problem 00:48:47.000 --> 00:49:00.000 Fascinating. So can you conjecture then that just angst and tension and planet earth and worry could be a really chief cause for these strokes that people have? 00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:03.000 Yeah, on the background of a low thyroid function 00:49:03.000 --> 00:49:19.000 On the background of a low thyroid function. Because if Mr. Thyroid is happy and you have a TSH, I mean way down, 0, 1 or 2 or something, and your body temperature is up, the body is not affected by stress as badly? 00:49:19.000 --> 00:49:34.000 Yeah, because your progesterone and DHEA and pregnenolone are being produced generously by the well-circulated blood supply carrying sugar to all these tissues 00:49:34.000 --> 00:49:51.000 Hypoglycemia is something that works with low carbon dioxide in the blood. They both tend to increase lactic acid, which wastes sugar and makes the problem worse 00:49:51.000 --> 00:50:00.000 So low blood sugar actually creates lactic acid, but I mean, we were taught that sugar is more acid and creates lactic acid 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:22.000 Only if you're under stress and can't oxidize it. Thyroid and progesterone increase your ability to oxidize glucose into carbon dioxide and the carbon dioxide by regulating the pH turns off lactic acid production 00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:27.000 So it increases efficiency to increase your metabolic rate 00:50:27.000 --> 00:50:41.000 On the thyroid, how powerful of a metric is the body temperature in your opinion, Dr. Rapey, for thyroid function? 00:50:41.000 --> 00:51:01.000 It's almost the ruling factor. If you cool your body to 95 or 96 degrees Fahrenheit, it's essentially impossible to metabolize properly 00:51:01.000 --> 00:51:18.000 You don't always metabolize rationally if your temperature is at 100 degrees, but it's a lot easier to get full oxidation all the way to carbon dioxide when your body temperature is up 00:51:18.000 --> 00:51:34.000 So the fever production is a curative thing. In a way, it's equivalent to giving a good supplement of thyroid, progesterone, sugar, and calcium and so on 00:51:34.000 --> 00:51:49.000 We had talked to a doc a few months, maybe a month ago, who was suggesting if you get one of these little infrared thermometers, you ever see those? And you can, you know, about a foot away from your surface and you can tell your surface temperature there 00:51:49.000 --> 00:51:57.000 And he said if you did it on your big toe, if you're about 90 degrees, that's another indication that your thyroid is happy. Have you ever heard of that? Do you think that could be valid? 00:51:57.000 --> 00:52:08.000 Well, adrenaline is protective. When your thyroid is low, you increase adrenaline and serotonin 00:52:08.000 --> 00:52:22.000 And a primary function of adrenaline is to keep the blood flowing to your brain and lungs and heart and it will make your hands and feet get very, very cold 00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:42.000 And a person can still be functioning very well adapting to the low thyroid by keeping their brain and lungs and heart hot and well supplied with whatever sugar and oxygen are available 00:52:42.000 --> 00:52:50.000 So the adrenaline takes the blood out of the extremities to keep things working in the core 00:52:50.000 --> 00:52:54.000 Which is the cold hands and feet, right? That's the cold hands and feet 00:52:54.000 --> 00:53:07.000 Yeah, and when you shake hands with a person on a warm day, if they have cold hands, they're very likely hypothyroid unless you're scaring them 00:53:07.000 --> 00:53:12.000 So a 90 degree toe with this thing could be a reasonable metric? 00:53:12.000 --> 00:53:23.000 Yeah, if the room is warm, your hands and feet should be reasonably warm 00:53:23.000 --> 00:53:39.000 And when they're very cold, it means either that you're being frightened into high adrenaline or that your thyroid isn't adequate to keep the heat up in the extremities 00:53:39.000 --> 00:53:43.000 Here's another question on thyroid. We always get a lot. A question for Dr. Peat. 00:53:43.000 --> 00:53:52.000 What is the mechanism for how proper thyroid function and stomach acid break down or neutralize oxalates in the diet? 00:53:52.000 --> 00:54:06.000 Does it matter how much oxalic acid is consumed? Also, how effective are mineral compounds like magnesium or potassium citrate at preventing the negative effects of oxalic acid? 00:54:06.000 --> 00:54:11.000 Do you understand the question? 00:54:11.000 --> 00:54:27.000 If you're eating enough minerals, the calcium oxalate is likely to precipitate in your stomach and intestine and not even be absorbed 00:54:27.000 --> 00:54:44.000 So I think the calcium and magnesium content of your food is protective by keeping it out of your system, keeping the oxalate out of your bloodstream 00:54:44.000 --> 00:54:57.000 Here's an email. I've been having trouble finding good thyroid supplement. Is there anything else to help me with my hypothyroidism? 00:54:57.000 --> 00:55:20.000 I'm avoiding polyunsaturated fats and don't eat an excess of uncooked cabbage or kale or other vegetables of that family. When they're raw especially, they can be very antithyroid 00:55:20.000 --> 00:55:32.000 Somebody was asking about putting a red light on your thyroid. What does Dr. Peat think about that to raise thyroid levels? 00:55:32.000 --> 00:55:59.000 It does have an action but what it's doing mostly is opening blood vessels and that in itself can increase the production of thyroid but it affects the respiration of cells, can increase efficiency locally 00:55:59.000 --> 00:56:21.000 I've got an experience I just wanted to share with you, Doc. I've been putting black cumin seed oil on my thyroid and a little DMSO and going to sauna, you know, and let it get hot and the infrared lights and also using the red light and tapping a little bit and just kind of talking to it and being, saying, "Mr. Thyroid, get happier" 00:56:21.000 --> 00:56:26.000 My body temperature has gone up really in the last month probably about a half a degree. 00:56:26.000 --> 00:56:28.000 What kind of oil? 00:56:28.000 --> 00:56:41.000 Black cumin seed oil. So I'm kind of thinking maybe there is some toxicity going on and that helped to get that out. I don't know why the black cumin seed oil being heated up would do that. 00:56:41.000 --> 00:56:47.000 I think it is able to catalyze oxidative metabolism. 00:56:47.000 --> 00:56:50.000 Oh, it's an antioxidant. 00:56:50.000 --> 00:56:59.000 From the shape of the molecule, it looks like it would be a pro-oxidative, pro-thyroid factor. 00:56:59.000 --> 00:57:05.000 But I've also been breathing the hydrogen in the water too so that could be helping. Very interesting. 00:57:05.000 --> 00:57:16.000 So that might be something fun for you all to play with. I don't know. I can't give medical advice but put some black cumin seed on your thyroid and put a little heating blanket on or something or a red light. 00:57:16.000 --> 00:57:18.000 It couldn't hurt though, I don't think. 00:57:18.000 --> 00:57:32.000 Here's a 68-year-old man on Natrithroid with healthy weight and have tried many diets, no processed foods and exercise but still cannot cure type 2 diabetes. 00:57:32.000 --> 00:57:41.000 Don't want insulin or metformin. What would your experience suggest I try next? This is from Jim in Eugene, Oregon. 00:57:41.000 --> 00:57:57.000 Getting a perfect, well-balanced diet is the first thing. Adequate calcium, a fairly high ratio of calcium to phosphate in your diet. 00:57:57.000 --> 00:58:10.000 Not too much meat or beans or nuts because of the high phosphate content in those relative to calcium. 00:58:10.000 --> 00:58:30.000 There are two main classes of food that provide a very high calcium-magnesium content and low phosphate. Milk and cheese are one and cooked greens is the other category. 00:58:30.000 --> 00:58:39.000 Vitamin D should be in the middle of the range, 50 or 60 nanograms per milliliter. 00:58:39.000 --> 00:58:54.000 Beyond that, you want to make sure that your thyroid is good and the pH of the blood and the CO2 level are indicators of that. 00:58:54.000 --> 00:59:07.000 I don't think blood tests are the most reliable way to measure your CO2. A breath analyzer is really good. 00:59:07.000 --> 00:59:19.000 Actually using carbon dioxide supplements, absorbing it through your skin or taking little bits of baking soda in water, 00:59:19.000 --> 00:59:35.000 that will actually suppress the lactic acid production if you do it in a graded amount like half a teaspoon in a half a glass of water a few times a day. 00:59:35.000 --> 00:59:45.000 That will slightly increase the amount of carbon dioxide in your blood which will increase the CO2 inside cells, 00:59:45.000 --> 00:59:57.000 adjusting the pH and suppressing the lactic acid production and shifting the cell to be able to oxidize the sugar. 00:59:57.000 --> 01:00:09.000 Diabetics, they talk about the sugar not being able to get into the cell but it goes into the cell and it's turned to lactic acid is the problem. 01:00:09.000 --> 01:00:17.000 Oh, so that insulin resistance thing you talked about, Dr. Peat, you're saying that it's not the whole story. 01:00:17.000 --> 01:00:19.000 They got it wrong somewhere. 01:00:19.000 --> 01:00:27.000 Stress increases the liberation of free fatty acids from your tissues. 01:00:27.000 --> 01:00:39.000 So apart from the amount of fat you're eating, it's the liberation of free fatty acids which get into the cell and shift, 01:00:39.000 --> 01:00:50.000 block the ability of the cell to oxidize glucose and when glucose isn't being oxidized, it's likely to be turned into lactic acid. 01:00:50.000 --> 01:00:57.000 And the lactic acid shifts the pH and starts the whole process. 01:00:57.000 --> 01:01:09.000 Here is James. He's listening on Facebook. Can you please ask Dr. Peat some of the best ways to improve the health of my liver? 01:01:09.000 --> 01:01:17.000 A good diet is the first thing. B vitamins are extremely important for getting things running. 01:01:17.000 --> 01:01:33.000 Selenium is essential for being able to use the thyroid molecules to put it into the right active T3 form and carbohydrate is very important. 01:01:33.000 --> 01:01:50.000 But then you want to periodically check, have a blood test to see if your vitamin D and thyroid hormone is in the right range. 01:01:50.000 --> 01:01:56.000 From Adrian, Dr. Peat talks about taking some good forms of sugar. 01:01:56.000 --> 01:02:04.000 Does he believe that the A1C blood test, which I think, and I'm just adding this point, isn't that over 90 days or something, 01:02:04.000 --> 01:02:09.000 is a reliable metric to see if I'm taking too much sugar? 01:02:09.000 --> 01:02:20.000 No, I don't think it relates very closely to sugar because it will be influenced by breakdown of free fatty acids. 01:02:20.000 --> 01:02:35.000 The polyunsaturated fats break down into fragments that look like sugar fragments, but the fats are much more oxidizable and toxic. 01:02:35.000 --> 01:02:38.000 The proof is it's easier to oxidize those guys. 01:02:38.000 --> 01:02:39.000 Yeah. 01:02:39.000 --> 01:02:43.000 Yeah, and so doing proof is actually raise your A1C. 01:02:43.000 --> 01:02:45.000 Yeah, as they break down. 01:02:45.000 --> 01:02:54.000 But doing organic beet sugar or honey or maple syrup, that doesn't raise your A1C or if it does, do you care? 01:02:54.000 --> 01:03:15.000 Yeah, the numbers have been exaggerated so that the lower than, I think, seven, they found that the sickest people weren't at the highest level. 01:03:15.000 --> 01:03:21.000 So the numbers were cooked a bit for whatever reason. 01:03:21.000 --> 01:03:25.000 It's a lot more complicated than just sugar causing that to rise. 01:03:25.000 --> 01:03:29.000 It generally is with you, Dr. Peat. That's why we like you. 01:03:29.000 --> 01:03:30.000 Here's an email from Trent. 01:03:30.000 --> 01:03:33.000 I donate blood several times per year. 01:03:33.000 --> 01:03:42.000 What, in your opinion, is the optimal serum ferritin blood level for someone age 70? 01:03:42.000 --> 01:03:48.000 I don't think ferritin is meaningful enough to worry about. 01:03:48.000 --> 01:03:50.000 Don't even worry about it? 01:03:50.000 --> 01:04:00.000 Watching your hemoglobin level, at the low end of the normal range of hemoglobin, I think it's the safest place to be. 01:04:00.000 --> 01:04:02.000 Say that again, please. 01:04:02.000 --> 01:04:08.000 The low end of the normal range for hemoglobin. 01:04:08.000 --> 01:04:09.000 Okay. 01:04:09.000 --> 01:04:14.000 Hemoglobin is the essential thing for delivering oxygen. 01:04:14.000 --> 01:04:20.000 And ferritin can go up and down according to inflammation. 01:04:20.000 --> 01:04:32.000 Keeping it in a moderate range usually means that you're not very sick because sickness and inflammation will distort it greatly. 01:04:32.000 --> 01:04:34.000 What is the idea that we hear... 01:04:34.000 --> 01:04:36.000 Oh, excuse me. Did I interrupt you? 01:04:36.000 --> 01:04:49.000 The saturation of transferrin, the percentage saturation, should be under 30, a little under 30. 01:04:49.000 --> 01:04:50.000 Under 30. 01:04:50.000 --> 01:04:54.000 So what is this idea of giving blood every so often to get rid of excess? 01:04:54.000 --> 01:04:56.000 Is it iron that people do this? 01:04:56.000 --> 01:05:05.000 That was the traditional idea that it would prevent the accumulation on a standard Western diet. 01:05:05.000 --> 01:05:11.000 Men constantly during their lifetime tend to accumulate iron. 01:05:11.000 --> 01:05:18.000 Women after menopause start accumulating it at the same rate because they aren't losing it. 01:05:18.000 --> 01:05:28.000 And so blood donors were seen to maintain an adequate level without so much accumulation with aging. 01:05:28.000 --> 01:05:35.000 But in the last several years, people are saying that there are other things. 01:05:35.000 --> 01:05:44.000 One label for them was stressins, units created by stress. 01:05:44.000 --> 01:05:52.000 There are several different names for substances released into the bloodstream during stress and aging. 01:05:52.000 --> 01:05:57.000 And getting rid of those has a slightly rejuvenating effect. 01:05:57.000 --> 01:05:59.000 Interesting. This is from Elmer. 01:05:59.000 --> 01:06:07.000 Please ask Dr. Peat the difference between taking something like Pogest-E and pregnenolone powder. 01:06:07.000 --> 01:06:13.000 And also if I'm trying to lose fat, should we be drinking lower fat milk? 01:06:13.000 --> 01:06:24.000 Yeah. I think milk is such an easy nutrient to get almost all of your nutrients 01:06:24.000 --> 01:06:30.000 that drinking two or three quarts a day is good for most people. 01:06:30.000 --> 01:06:37.000 But you don't want to drink that much whole milk if you aren't doing very hard labor to burn calories. 01:06:37.000 --> 01:06:48.000 So 1% is an average amount of fat for a person of average activity. 01:06:48.000 --> 01:06:55.000 Totally anecdotal, Dr. Peat, but after starting to drink milk and more and more of it after talking to you over the past few months, 01:06:55.000 --> 01:07:00.000 raw milk that I'm just warming up a little bit, a little bit of sugar in there, beet sugar, 01:07:00.000 --> 01:07:05.000 I've gained about, well I'm starting to lift weights, but I've gained about three pounds already. 01:07:05.000 --> 01:07:08.000 And that's pretty unusual, that's very unusual for me. 01:07:08.000 --> 01:07:11.000 I haven't been able to gain weight pretty much my whole life. 01:07:11.000 --> 01:07:14.000 So that's interesting, interesting information. 01:07:14.000 --> 01:07:16.000 But it's whole milk, you know, grass-fed whole milk. 01:07:16.000 --> 01:07:22.000 Yeah, milk contains small amounts of progesterone and thyroid. 01:07:22.000 --> 01:07:33.000 In the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, lots of people, lots of babies were born without thyroid glands. 01:07:33.000 --> 01:07:38.000 But those who were breastfed, as long as they were being breastfed, 01:07:38.000 --> 01:07:43.000 the doctors didn't notice that they had no thyroid gland function. 01:07:43.000 --> 01:07:48.000 As soon as they were weaned, the absence of thyroid showed up, 01:07:48.000 --> 01:07:54.000 showing that the breast milk was keeping an adequate amount of thyroid to keep them growing. 01:07:54.000 --> 01:07:59.000 But cow's milk isn't as rich in thyroid and progesterone. 01:07:59.000 --> 01:08:01.000 But you get a little bit though, you get a little bit. 01:08:01.000 --> 01:08:08.000 Yeah, that small amount adds to the effect of the calcium to stimulate your metabolic rate slightly. 01:08:08.000 --> 01:08:20.000 Do we know, or is there any research to show if there's a big difference between grass-fed milk and regular old milk, 01:08:20.000 --> 01:08:24.000 even if it's organic? Who knows what they're feeding them, organic feed? 01:08:24.000 --> 01:08:25.000 Do we know? 01:08:25.000 --> 01:08:31.000 Yeah, food can be organic and still not be ideal. 01:08:31.000 --> 01:08:32.000 Sure, of course. 01:08:32.000 --> 01:08:35.000 There can be stinky weeds in the pasture that make it taste bad. 01:08:35.000 --> 01:08:41.000 But grass-fed milk has more vitamin E, according to the research. 01:08:41.000 --> 01:08:47.000 But not necessarily, we don't know more hormones or progesterone or anything like that. 01:08:47.000 --> 01:08:49.000 We don't know that. We haven't seen anything there. 01:08:49.000 --> 01:08:52.000 I don't think anyone has tested that. 01:08:52.000 --> 01:08:53.000 Good idea, that'd be great. 01:08:53.000 --> 01:08:56.000 Thanks for having Dr. Peat on as a regular guest. 01:08:56.000 --> 01:09:03.000 From Chris, before I ask my question, could you please convey my sincere gratitude for Dr. Peat for helping me deal with a heart issue. 01:09:03.000 --> 01:09:09.000 This helps me to get out of the clutches of the medical world. 01:09:09.000 --> 01:09:10.000 Here's my question. 01:09:10.000 --> 01:09:14.000 Why do feet swell up especially when it is warm? 01:09:14.000 --> 01:09:20.000 The swelling reduces later in the day, and when it is cooler, it does not completely go away. 01:09:20.000 --> 01:09:29.000 I'm on two grains of natural thyroid and following Dr. Peat's dietary considerations such as avoiding polys, poofas, drinking some milk and orange juice. 01:09:29.000 --> 01:09:30.000 Thank you. 01:09:30.000 --> 01:09:36.000 A little sweet, Peat's swelling but it seems to, when it's warmer. 01:09:36.000 --> 01:09:45.000 I've heard that from quite a few people, but I don't really understand how it works. 01:09:45.000 --> 01:09:50.000 I think it's partly the shift of the nervous system. 01:09:50.000 --> 01:10:01.000 You let down your adrenaline a little bit when it's warmer because adrenaline's function is to keep the blood up in your vital organs. 01:10:01.000 --> 01:10:14.000 And when it's warmer, you can reduce the adrenaline and that relaxes blood vessels and lets any leakiness show up. 01:10:14.000 --> 01:10:32.000 But I think it means that you're maybe not producing enough albumin in your liver or having some other effect of an unbalanced estrogen level. 01:10:32.000 --> 01:10:40.000 Estrogen makes blood vessels leaky and reduces the formation of albumin in the liver. 01:10:40.000 --> 01:10:53.000 And albumin, working with sodium, is what keeps the blood, keeps the fluid in the bloodstream rather than leaking out into your feet. 01:10:53.000 --> 01:11:05.000 So the cold feet then, it's tied with the thyroid low, but then it's the adrenaline combination that's not getting the blood there to the extremities. 01:11:05.000 --> 01:11:06.000 Is that right? 01:11:06.000 --> 01:11:07.000 Yeah. 01:11:07.000 --> 01:11:15.000 Adrenaline keeps things working, but it changes the way they work. 01:11:15.000 --> 01:11:19.000 Speaking of estrogen, it just came to me. 01:11:19.000 --> 01:11:23.000 Are these what birth control pills are? 01:11:23.000 --> 01:11:31.000 I don't know if they're very popular as they used to be, but are these estrogen manipulators for the ladies? 01:11:31.000 --> 01:11:33.000 Are they dangerous? 01:11:33.000 --> 01:11:43.000 Yeah. In the '30s, they already knew that estrogen prevented implantation or caused miscarriages. 01:11:43.000 --> 01:11:47.000 They didn't want to sell a miscarriage pill. 01:11:47.000 --> 01:12:04.000 And all through the 1940s and '50s, the drug companies realized that it would be a very profitable product to sell a birth control pill, but they didn't have the ideology that they knew it killed the embryo. 01:12:04.000 --> 01:12:12.000 And they didn't want to have the drug company identified as baby killers. 01:12:12.000 --> 01:12:25.000 But in the '50s, someone thought up the idea that it isn't acting on the uterus, it's acting only on your brain and pituitary, and it's going to stop ovulation. 01:12:25.000 --> 01:12:32.000 If you can stop ovulation, you won't be accused of causing abortions. 01:12:32.000 --> 01:12:33.000 But that was fake news. 01:12:33.000 --> 01:12:35.000 I think so, yeah. 01:12:35.000 --> 01:12:39.000 There was no evidence. 01:12:39.000 --> 01:12:44.000 How can you see when a woman ovulates an ovum? 01:12:44.000 --> 01:12:53.000 In an animal, you can dissect them and watch the process and catch the actual ovum. 01:12:53.000 --> 01:12:54.000 Yeah. 01:12:54.000 --> 01:12:59.000 But in humans, it was simply declared rather than observed. 01:12:59.000 --> 01:13:01.000 In general, do you know this? 01:13:01.000 --> 01:13:06.000 I know you may not know this, but are these birth control pills still very popular in our culture? 01:13:06.000 --> 01:13:09.000 People use them a lot? 01:13:09.000 --> 01:13:22.000 Yeah, the first wave of them was causing sometimes fatal hemorrhages, often disabling strokes by causing clotting in the brain. 01:13:22.000 --> 01:13:46.000 So they reduced the amount of estrogen by about a factor of 10 from the first wave of contraceptives and made them more saleable because so many women were having strokes or hemorrhages. 01:13:46.000 --> 01:13:59.000 But still, the medical literature is heavily biased against recognizing any damage done by them. 01:13:59.000 --> 01:14:18.000 But still, the literature is out there showing that depression, various mood changes, movement disorders, restlessness, lots of problems are still associated with them. 01:14:18.000 --> 01:14:19.000 Yeah. 01:14:19.000 --> 01:14:20.000 Dr. Peat, stay right there. 01:14:20.000 --> 01:14:28.000 Patrick, Tim, Pony, we'll do a quick little break here, and then we'll get into our last segment with Dr. Ray Peat on Radionetwork.com. 01:14:28.000 --> 01:14:37.000 Please like these things on Facebook, there are videos now, and on YouTube, subscribe, and all these things help to kind of spread the word. 01:14:37.000 --> 01:14:42.000 And we appreciate that if you would do that, that would be totally cool. 01:14:42.000 --> 01:15:03.000 Kathy writes on Facebook today that forgot to mention, oh she wrote two of them, but she said, Kathy says here, forgot to mention that sulfur was one of the first things that helped me to bring my health back and started me having, started me healing. 01:15:03.000 --> 01:15:06.000 Oh, that's very nice of you, Kathy. 01:15:06.000 --> 01:15:18.000 Kathy, if you'd like to try our sulfur, we have a great product, just go on our website, two pounds of sulfur for a particular price, and then another price for Canada, another price for worldwide. 01:15:18.000 --> 01:15:25.000 If you want more than four pounds, email me, Patrick@1radionetwork.com, and we'll take care of you. 01:15:25.000 --> 01:15:29.000 Previously, Dr. Hal Huggins on detoxing mercury. 01:15:29.000 --> 01:15:34.000 You do not have to get all the mercury out of the body, that's not what the problem is. 01:15:34.000 --> 01:15:36.000 It's the direction it's going. 01:15:36.000 --> 01:15:43.000 If you have more going out than you have coming in, then you're going to have a good chemistry, you're going to feel good. 01:15:43.000 --> 01:15:50.000 But if you have more going in to the body than going out, chemistries look bad and you feel bad. 01:15:50.000 --> 01:16:00.000 If you had to name just a few things on the top of your list to help get mercury out, whether they be supplements or foods, give us your top five. 01:16:00.000 --> 01:16:01.000 Okay. 01:16:01.000 --> 01:16:02.000 Off the top of your head. 01:16:02.000 --> 01:16:05.000 The best thing would be the infrared sauna. 01:16:05.000 --> 01:16:08.000 The thing is, detoxification is easy. 01:16:08.000 --> 01:16:25.000 Anybody can release a lot of mercury, but if you're using a sauna or especially the infrared sauna, then you are eliminating the mercury through the skin and you are bypassing liver and kidney. 01:16:25.000 --> 01:16:27.000 So that's a very good way to go. 01:16:27.000 --> 01:16:34.000 It certainly is, Dr. Huggins. 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There's no plugs, there's no wiring, there's no plumbing. 01:16:44.000 --> 01:16:45.000 Well, you just plug it in. 01:16:45.000 --> 01:16:52.000 There's two far infrared units at the front of this unit, if you look at the front, right at the first two. 01:16:52.000 --> 01:16:55.000 And you can do just one of those if you don't want it as hot. 01:16:55.000 --> 01:17:01.000 And this baby will get up there maybe 160, 170 degrees, and believe me, you'll sweat. 01:17:01.000 --> 01:17:08.000 And as I said, you know, I talked about Dr. Peat and the black cumin seed oil and my body temperature going up on my thyroid. 01:17:08.000 --> 01:17:17.000 I put it all over my thyroid with a little DMSO, and then you just kind of scoot down in the chair, as you can see the lady there, and then your thyroid is, you know, covered. 01:17:17.000 --> 01:17:26.000 So you can use it, and you can do the black cumin seed oil, you can do it on your tummy or a little bit of turpentine, pure pine gum spirits on your tummy with DMSO. 01:17:26.000 --> 01:17:28.000 Well, you probably don't need it. 01:17:28.000 --> 01:17:32.000 So there's a lot of cool things you can do with this. 01:17:32.000 --> 01:17:38.000 Also put turpentine or castor oil on the bottom of your feet, and that'll soak in there with a nice hot. 01:17:38.000 --> 01:17:46.000 So they're fun, and we'll get you one for $9.95, $9.95 delivered, continental US. 01:17:46.000 --> 01:17:53.000 And if you'd like to get one and you live around the world, just simply email me and we'll hook you up for a pretty good price. 01:17:53.000 --> 01:17:56.000 Now's the time to get them, $9.95, have it for the holidays. 01:17:56.000 --> 01:18:00.000 Just email me, patrick@oneradionetwork.com. 01:18:00.000 --> 01:18:02.000 We love this product that you're seeing the picture of. 01:18:02.000 --> 01:18:04.000 It's called Pearlseum. 01:18:04.000 --> 01:18:18.000 Now, Chinese medicine and, or even medicine have used for hundreds, well, thousands of years have used pearl for beauty, for longevity. 01:18:18.000 --> 01:18:21.000 You can use pearl on your face with a face cream. 01:18:21.000 --> 01:18:24.000 You can brush your teeth with it, which is amazing. 01:18:24.000 --> 01:18:27.000 And this, you can also take it internally. 01:18:27.000 --> 01:18:30.000 It's proven by science to really work. 01:18:30.000 --> 01:18:35.000 It has, it's made, it's real live pearl, which I believe is calcium carbonate. 01:18:35.000 --> 01:18:36.000 I think that's what it is. 01:18:36.000 --> 01:18:42.000 And Dr. Peat, while he wasn't endorsing this product, he said the calcium carbonate was a good way to take calcium. 01:18:42.000 --> 01:18:52.000 So we thought so, and of course it wouldn't be around for thousands of years if the pearl, you know, if the calcium was ending up in your arteries. 01:18:52.000 --> 01:18:54.000 You know, it just doesn't do it with this product. 01:18:54.000 --> 01:19:02.000 I would get two containers, two little green containers, and then put one in your bathroom, one where your supplements are. 01:19:02.000 --> 01:19:03.000 Brush your teeth with it. 01:19:03.000 --> 01:19:05.000 You can take a little bit before bed. 01:19:05.000 --> 01:19:06.000 It helps you to sleep. 01:19:06.000 --> 01:19:07.000 It's a very nice product. 01:19:07.000 --> 01:19:09.000 Pearlseum, real pearl. 01:19:09.000 --> 01:19:11.000 That's all there is in there, nothing else. 01:19:11.000 --> 01:19:14.000 Real pearl from OneRadioNetwork.com. 01:19:14.000 --> 01:19:21.000 We talk about your health, wealth, and well-being on OneRadioNetwork.com. 01:19:21.000 --> 01:19:24.000 Dr. Ray Peat has a website, and you can check it out. 01:19:24.000 --> 01:19:36.000 It's RayPeat.com, and we always put a link on his show page, and you can click on there and support Dr. Peat's work by getting his newsletter, which comes out, Dr. Peat, what, every couple months, right? 01:19:36.000 --> 01:19:37.000 Every two months. 01:19:37.000 --> 01:19:38.000 Two months, yeah. 01:19:38.000 --> 01:19:39.000 Every two months. 01:19:39.000 --> 01:19:40.000 What's your latest one about? 01:19:40.000 --> 01:19:41.000 Progesterone. 01:19:41.000 --> 01:19:44.000 Oh, progesterone, of course. 01:19:44.000 --> 01:19:45.000 Progesterone. 01:19:45.000 --> 01:19:47.000 It'll be out in about two weeks. 01:19:47.000 --> 01:19:48.000 And you look at your bio. 01:19:48.000 --> 01:19:51.000 I mean, you were looking at this, what, 50 years ago? 01:19:51.000 --> 01:19:52.000 Yeah. 01:19:52.000 --> 01:19:55.000 Wow. 01:19:55.000 --> 01:20:12.000 I'm putting in a little bit of the history, but bringing it up to date, putting in some of the recent carbonic acid, carbon dioxide connections. 01:20:12.000 --> 01:20:13.000 Yeah, yeah. 01:20:13.000 --> 01:20:14.000 Here's an email. 01:20:14.000 --> 01:20:24.000 What's the percentage, or what percent of tryptophan ingested from food is converted to serotonin? 01:20:24.000 --> 01:20:37.000 That depends on your level of stress and other things, but it can be very high when you're under stress. 01:20:37.000 --> 01:20:41.000 Other times, very little of it. 01:20:41.000 --> 01:20:44.000 This is an interesting question. 01:20:44.000 --> 01:20:53.000 Is risk-taking in life conducive or not to the state of learned helplessness? 01:20:53.000 --> 01:20:59.000 Is risk-taking involved in being in the state of learned helplessness? 01:20:59.000 --> 01:21:01.000 Do you talk about learned helplessness? 01:21:01.000 --> 01:21:03.000 Oh, quite a bit, yeah. 01:21:03.000 --> 01:21:16.000 Serotonin turns on the stress system, but it can also turn off the adaptive things, such as production of progesterone. 01:21:16.000 --> 01:21:22.000 And you can break out of learned helplessness by increasing your energy. 01:21:22.000 --> 01:21:27.000 Thyroid is a crucial thing in stopping learned helplessness. 01:21:27.000 --> 01:21:30.000 And what exactly is learned helplessness? 01:21:30.000 --> 01:21:44.000 The term relates to the old studies in which they convinced a rat that escape was impossible. 01:21:44.000 --> 01:21:56.000 But the animal in that state would allow itself to drown very easily because it saw no use in swimming. 01:21:56.000 --> 01:22:03.000 Its heart would simply stop after maybe just a few minutes of resisting. 01:22:03.000 --> 01:22:11.000 But if they put the animal in the tortured situation that caused it to become helpless, 01:22:11.000 --> 01:22:22.000 if they then showed it some exit possibility, it in effect vaccinated it against stress. 01:22:22.000 --> 01:22:35.000 So that when dropped into the water, instead of drowning in a few minutes, sometimes they would resist and swim for more than a day. 01:22:35.000 --> 01:22:36.000 Interesting. 01:22:36.000 --> 01:22:41.000 Simply a mental change, something they learned. 01:22:41.000 --> 01:22:46.000 That's why it wasn't called a physical thing. It was a learned helplessness. 01:22:46.000 --> 01:22:47.000 I see. 01:22:47.000 --> 01:22:54.000 Somebody wants to know, is that Mexi-Coke that you two were talking about, does it have cocaine in it? 01:22:54.000 --> 01:22:55.000 Which thing? 01:22:55.000 --> 01:22:57.000 Mexi-Coke. 01:22:57.000 --> 01:23:04.000 Oh, I think all Coke is made from an extract of the coca leaf. 01:23:04.000 --> 01:23:12.000 But around 1940, we're told to remove the cocaine. 01:23:12.000 --> 01:23:20.000 And so there are molecules closely related to cocaine that I think are beneficial. 01:23:20.000 --> 01:23:30.000 Some of the same benefits that the coca leaf cures have for endurance and anti-inflammatory and such. 01:23:30.000 --> 01:23:38.000 But according to the official analysis, the real cocaine has been removed. 01:23:38.000 --> 01:23:50.000 Would you ask Dr. Peat to talk about free will and determinism? 01:23:50.000 --> 01:23:52.000 That might take a while. 01:23:52.000 --> 01:23:59.000 Well, if you're into it, we are. We have no place to go. It's up to you, sir. 01:23:59.000 --> 01:24:09.000 I think we, life in general, things in general, I think we are determined to have free will. 01:24:09.000 --> 01:24:15.000 It's part of our nature, part of the nature of every living thing. 01:24:15.000 --> 01:24:24.000 And like I mentioned, the formation of soot molecules, extremely complex, organized, symmetrical molecules, 01:24:24.000 --> 01:24:30.000 form spontaneously when methane explodes. 01:24:30.000 --> 01:24:45.000 You get some carbon dioxide, oxygen consumes the hydrogens, but the carbon atoms have an intrinsic ordering principle. 01:24:45.000 --> 01:24:53.000 They spontaneously organize into these very, very big, complex molecules. 01:24:53.000 --> 01:25:04.000 I think that spontaneous tendency to improve things, create order out of chaos, 01:25:04.000 --> 01:25:13.000 I think that's where determinism affects free will so that the situation, 01:25:13.000 --> 01:25:23.000 the carbon atoms didn't have a written plan for what they were going to do, but it was in their nature, 01:25:23.000 --> 01:25:30.000 given the opportunity to create high orders of organization. 01:25:30.000 --> 01:25:46.000 I think our inherent free will is intending to create high-level order. 01:25:46.000 --> 01:25:54.000 As we press forward, moving in our life, our free will is what's creating order and more peace and love. 01:25:54.000 --> 01:26:08.000 Yeah, in other words, I think we're biased against the creation of chaos and inclined towards the creation of order. 01:26:08.000 --> 01:26:13.000 Yeah, I like that. That's great. Good for you. 01:26:13.000 --> 01:26:19.000 As women get older, Ellen wants to know, what are signs of low progesterone? 01:26:19.000 --> 01:26:23.000 As women get older, what are signs of low progesterone? 01:26:23.000 --> 01:26:26.000 Just about everything. 01:26:26.000 --> 01:26:33.000 Aging. It's so at the center of life and stability. 01:26:33.000 --> 01:26:45.000 For example, weakening bones, loss of elasticity in the skin, loss of moisture and oil production in the skin, 01:26:45.000 --> 01:27:00.000 stiffening of joints and arteries, a change of reduced curiosity and initiative, 01:27:00.000 --> 01:27:10.000 less interest in adventure, more interest in security. 01:27:10.000 --> 01:27:17.000 Everything from mental processes down to the smallest. 01:27:17.000 --> 01:27:20.000 Is this for both male and female in general? 01:27:20.000 --> 01:27:22.000 Yeah. 01:27:22.000 --> 01:27:27.000 I've been listening to several of your shows and you have a Dr. Peat. I think they're just great. 01:27:27.000 --> 01:27:29.000 Thank you so much for having come on. 01:27:29.000 --> 01:27:31.000 Well, it's our pleasure. 01:27:31.000 --> 01:27:39.000 Here's a question. Recently, I've seen new cookware in department stores, titanium ceramic nonstick. 01:27:39.000 --> 01:27:48.000 Does Dr. Peat think this would be safe to use? Titanium ceramic nonstick? 01:27:48.000 --> 01:27:59.000 Without seeing any tests of it, I would refrain from using it to cook anything acidic 01:27:59.000 --> 01:28:09.000 because ceramics, unless they're specially designed to resist acid and corrosion, 01:28:09.000 --> 01:28:20.000 you wouldn't want to cook a tomato sauce on it, for example, in case it might release titanium into your food. 01:28:20.000 --> 01:28:28.000 Generally, though, we've heard that pure ceramic like La Cruze, that expensive stuff, is good cookware. 01:28:28.000 --> 01:28:32.000 Is that your opinion as well? Pure ceramic or not? 01:28:32.000 --> 01:28:35.000 Did I just hear you say not with spaghetti sauce? 01:28:35.000 --> 01:28:43.000 Ceramics, remember, lead-based ceramics were a major problem. 01:28:43.000 --> 01:28:52.000 Ceramics aren't necessarily acid resistant. It takes some special chemistry to... 01:28:52.000 --> 01:29:00.000 The more it's like a simple silicon glass surface, the safer it is. 01:29:00.000 --> 01:29:05.000 So glass is really... I don't know if they even make it anymore. I think it's a vision cookware. 01:29:05.000 --> 01:29:11.000 You can find them online. I got a whole set on eBay, but I think that's probably some of the best, right? Glass? 01:29:11.000 --> 01:29:14.000 Oh, sure. That's what I've been using for years. 01:29:14.000 --> 01:29:18.000 Like I say, folks, they don't sell it anymore. It's called vision cookware, 01:29:18.000 --> 01:29:22.000 but you can go on eBay and buy a whole set for pretty inexpensive. 01:29:22.000 --> 01:29:27.000 I don't know. People just stocked them up when they knew they were going out of style or something. 01:29:27.000 --> 01:29:36.000 Here's... This is a good one. Oral micronized progesterone, is it equal to progest-E in its effect? 01:29:36.000 --> 01:29:46.000 That's what the drug companies are now... For several years now, they've been selling progesterone. 01:29:46.000 --> 01:29:58.000 It's usually in an emulsion or just a paste of peanut oil and micronized progesterone. 01:29:58.000 --> 01:30:06.000 And so the progesterone is mostly in a crystalline, though micronized, form. 01:30:06.000 --> 01:30:14.000 And a lot of that, as your bile emulsifies the peanut oil, 01:30:14.000 --> 01:30:22.000 very little of the progesterone goes in the solution because peanut oil isn't a great solvent. 01:30:22.000 --> 01:30:31.000 Like the girl I mentioned that had no effect from the vegetable oil dissolved progesterone 01:30:31.000 --> 01:30:36.000 because it had crystallized out in a period of two weeks. 01:30:36.000 --> 01:30:46.000 Some of it, as it contacts the micronized crystals contacting your intestine surface, 01:30:46.000 --> 01:30:57.000 will be taken up, molecules released from the crystals will go directly from your intestine to the liver 01:30:57.000 --> 01:31:05.000 and will then be attached to a sugar-like molecule, glucuronic acid, 01:31:05.000 --> 01:31:12.000 which then circulates through the body but quickly leaves at the urine. 01:31:12.000 --> 01:31:22.000 That causes the progesterone to have a very different effect from the natural form that circulates in the fats. 01:31:22.000 --> 01:31:31.000 And so when it's dissolved in vitamin E, vitamin E, as it's emulsified by the bile, 01:31:31.000 --> 01:31:42.000 breaks up and enters the form of chylomitrons, which enter the body in a very different pathway, 01:31:42.000 --> 01:31:49.000 going through the wall of the intestine into the lymphatic vessels, 01:31:49.000 --> 01:31:56.000 which then the chylomitrons dump into your general circulation, bypassing the liver. 01:31:56.000 --> 01:32:06.000 And the chylomitrons, we normally process our fats through this system 01:32:06.000 --> 01:32:11.000 and this lets the progesterone distribute through the whole system, 01:32:11.000 --> 01:32:23.000 getting equilibrated under red blood cells, under the cholesterol-carrying proteins and other cells 01:32:23.000 --> 01:32:30.000 so that it can pass endlessly through the liver in these forms. 01:32:30.000 --> 01:32:36.000 The red blood cells can keep it in circulation for more than a day after one dose. 01:32:36.000 --> 01:32:42.000 It goes into the red blood cells from the chylomitrons, for example, 01:32:42.000 --> 01:32:48.000 to be at a higher concentration inside the cells and in the serum, 01:32:48.000 --> 01:32:56.000 where the micronized progesterone, as far as it hits the intestine wall, 01:32:56.000 --> 01:33:02.000 is going straight to the liver to be glucuronidated and excreted. 01:33:02.000 --> 01:33:05.000 How do you remember all this stuff? 01:33:05.000 --> 01:33:07.000 Oh, just... 01:33:07.000 --> 01:33:13.000 Is it right you're 83 revolutions around the sun? You're 83? 01:33:13.000 --> 01:33:14.000 Yeah. 01:33:14.000 --> 01:33:22.000 Wow. Man, whatever you're doing, sir, you're doing something good. You remember all that stuff. 01:33:22.000 --> 01:33:26.000 It's seeing the pattern. 01:33:26.000 --> 01:33:29.000 Yeah. 01:33:29.000 --> 01:33:39.000 The way a cat learns, for example, they can keep a cat in a cage for a long time, 01:33:39.000 --> 01:33:48.000 but once it sees how the lock works, if it's some sort of a latch, 01:33:48.000 --> 01:33:53.000 once it sees the way out of the cage, it never forgets. 01:33:53.000 --> 01:33:55.000 That's great. 01:33:55.000 --> 01:34:02.000 But if you teach it something by rote, it'll forget it the next day. 01:34:02.000 --> 01:34:06.000 So you get it at a deep level of who you are because of your passion, 01:34:06.000 --> 01:34:11.000 and it's like it's there for you. It's not like you have to remember a phone number or something. 01:34:11.000 --> 01:34:14.000 Yeah, it's seeing how things work. 01:34:14.000 --> 01:34:17.000 Yeah, fascinating. James is on Facebook. He says, 01:34:17.000 --> 01:34:22.000 "I don't have set meal times, and I just kind of follow my hunger signals. 01:34:22.000 --> 01:34:28.000 Is this negatively affecting my circadian rhythms? Is there anything else I should care about?" 01:34:28.000 --> 01:34:30.000 Just eating when you're hungry? 01:34:30.000 --> 01:34:37.000 I don't really think so. I think it's okay to eat whenever you feel like it. 01:34:37.000 --> 01:34:46.000 The experiments on mice claim that it's good to go a long time to fast for a while, 01:34:46.000 --> 01:34:49.000 but a lot of things are involved. 01:34:49.000 --> 01:34:53.000 Mice are nocturnal animals. They normally eat at night, 01:34:53.000 --> 01:35:05.000 and just changing their schedule creates such stresses that it's hard to extrapolate from rodents to people, 01:35:05.000 --> 01:35:07.000 especially things like eating. 01:35:07.000 --> 01:35:10.000 Yeah. Ellie says, "I'm fascinated with the conversation about milk. 01:35:10.000 --> 01:35:15.000 I've never really thought about drinking milk, and I was just wondering—I'm kind of an extreme girl— 01:35:15.000 --> 01:35:20.000 could you really just live on good milk? I mean, could you live?" 01:35:20.000 --> 01:35:22.000 Could you? I guess you could. 01:35:22.000 --> 01:35:30.000 Yeah, people have created a milk diet of 30 to 60 days on just milk, 01:35:30.000 --> 01:35:34.000 but you get iron deficient if you try to live on it, 01:35:34.000 --> 01:35:46.000 because the pregnant woman's high estrogen causes her to absorb a very large amount of calcium and iron, 01:35:46.000 --> 01:35:53.000 and so the baby comes out very highly charged with iron, 01:35:53.000 --> 01:36:06.000 and to overcome that load of iron, it has to have a diet essentially free of iron for up to a year 01:36:06.000 --> 01:36:14.000 so that it grows into the large amount of iron that it has stored in its liver and bones. 01:36:14.000 --> 01:36:20.000 Interesting. So it's all set up so when they're just nursing with nothing else, it's got everything. 01:36:20.000 --> 01:36:26.000 So later on, though, you don't have the iron. Yeah, that's fascinating. 01:36:26.000 --> 01:36:30.000 How would you supplement the iron if you wanted to do milk for a long time? 01:36:30.000 --> 01:36:34.000 Eggs are a very good source. 01:36:34.000 --> 01:36:40.000 Ray Peat mentioned on the last show, wearing a sleeping hat. 01:36:40.000 --> 01:36:43.000 Does it matter what it's made out of? 01:36:43.000 --> 01:36:46.000 Not at all, as long as it's comfortable and warm. 01:36:46.000 --> 01:36:52.000 And so what's going on at night? I like to wear these little socks, you know, and put some oil on the winter, 01:36:52.000 --> 01:36:57.000 like sesame seed oil, and then put these little socks on. That's kind of fun. 01:36:57.000 --> 01:37:02.000 Yeah, when tissues get below, I think it's about 90 degrees, 01:37:02.000 --> 01:37:07.000 your hands and feet easily can get down to that temperature. 01:37:07.000 --> 01:37:14.000 The cells start producing, the white blood cells passing through those cold areas 01:37:14.000 --> 01:37:20.000 will start producing inflammatory signals, which they carry up to the rest of your body. 01:37:20.000 --> 01:37:26.000 And so cold feet really can affect your brain. 01:37:26.000 --> 01:37:31.000 Yeah, maybe that's why Aria Bettis talked about doing the sesame oil, you know, at night and putting these little socks on. 01:37:31.000 --> 01:37:36.000 And it's kind of fun, especially in the winter when it's so dry. It's a very nice thing. 01:37:36.000 --> 01:37:38.000 So you all might try that. 01:37:38.000 --> 01:37:46.000 Ian writes in, "I would like to ask Dr. Peat's opinion on the cause of vertigo 01:37:46.000 --> 01:37:51.000 and what he would do to combat it, vertigo." 01:37:51.000 --> 01:37:57.000 A very common cause is toxic bacterial growth in the intestine, 01:37:57.000 --> 01:38:14.000 causing a surge of serotonin, leading to a balance that shifts water into your vestibular apparatus that governs your balance. 01:38:14.000 --> 01:38:19.000 That's probably 90% of the cases of vertigo. 01:38:19.000 --> 01:38:31.000 But there are other types that involve serotonin, dopamine, and histamine imbalance farther down in your brain, 01:38:31.000 --> 01:38:37.000 not just in the balance apparatus itself, but in the brainstem, 01:38:37.000 --> 01:38:43.000 the reticular apparatus that feeds the information to your balance system. 01:38:43.000 --> 01:38:51.000 Maybe 1 or 2% of the vertigo people are having a chemical imbalance farther down. 01:38:51.000 --> 01:38:55.000 But the first thing to concentrate on is cleaning up your intestine. 01:38:55.000 --> 01:38:57.000 Intestines, wow. 01:38:57.000 --> 01:39:02.000 Well, Dr. Peat, I think we did pretty good today. Thanks for sticking around so long. 01:39:02.000 --> 01:39:05.000 We really always enjoy talking to you. 01:39:05.000 --> 01:39:09.000 So what are you going to have for Thanksgiving, like turkey and stuff and everything? 01:39:09.000 --> 01:39:13.000 I think so, turkey or maybe a lamb roast. 01:39:13.000 --> 01:39:15.000 Lamb roast or something, yeah. 01:39:15.000 --> 01:39:20.000 And your newsletter, we'll put a link on our show if people want to get that for you. 01:39:20.000 --> 01:39:23.000 How much is it? Very inexpensive, very affordable. 01:39:23.000 --> 01:39:25.000 $28 by email. 01:39:25.000 --> 01:39:27.000 For a year, right? 01:39:27.000 --> 01:39:34.000 Yeah. I'd like to mention a book that people can find on. 01:39:34.000 --> 01:39:44.000 It was written in 1905 called "Carbonic Acid in Medicine" by Achilles Rose and Robert Kemp. 01:39:44.000 --> 01:39:52.000 It has some very interesting stuff about the history of therapeutic use of carbon dioxide. 01:39:52.000 --> 01:39:54.000 Oh, cool. 01:39:54.000 --> 01:40:02.000 It's just now starting the last five years to come back into medicine as a therapeutic anti-inflammatory. 01:40:02.000 --> 01:40:04.000 Carbon dioxide. 01:40:04.000 --> 01:40:05.000 Yeah. 01:40:05.000 --> 01:40:11.000 So the name of the book is "Carbonic Acid in Medicine" and the author? 01:40:11.000 --> 01:40:13.000 Achilles Rose. 01:40:13.000 --> 01:40:17.000 Rose. You can probably get it on Amazon or somewhere. 01:40:17.000 --> 01:40:24.000 Yeah, it's free. I don't know exactly where I found it, but it is on the internet. 01:40:24.000 --> 01:40:26.000 Oh, you can find it somewhere. 01:40:26.000 --> 01:40:28.000 Yeah, for no cost. 01:40:28.000 --> 01:40:34.000 It's pretty interesting that all our political heroes want to tax CO2, so I am not sure what that's about. 01:40:34.000 --> 01:40:40.000 I mean, it's so good for you. Why would you tax it? 01:40:40.000 --> 01:40:43.000 Don't worry. You don't have to respond to that. 01:40:43.000 --> 01:40:46.000 Dr. Peat, thank you. We love your work and we love you, sir. 01:40:46.000 --> 01:40:48.000 You take care and we'll see you next month, okay? 01:40:48.000 --> 01:40:49.000 Okay. Thank you. 01:40:49.000 --> 01:40:50.000 Thank you. Bye. 01:40:50.000 --> 01:40:52.000 Bye. 01:40:52.000 --> 01:40:56.000 He didn't have to mess around with that one. 01:40:56.000 --> 01:40:59.000 Yeah. 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