WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.940 Here we go. Welcome to the Get Fit with Jodell Podcast. I am as usual Jodell and are you 00:00:08.940 --> 00:00:14.560 ready for another hour spent with Dr. Ray Pete? Well, I know I am immensely looking 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:18.520 forward to it. If you haven't heard of Dr. Pete, I would encourage you to go directly 00:00:18.520 --> 00:00:31.060 to his website right now and that is RayPete.com and look at the plethora of articles and information 00:00:31.060 --> 00:00:36.160 he regularly puts out to educate us all on proper nutrition, proper hormone and thyroid 00:00:36.160 --> 00:00:40.960 balance. He has been doing this longer than most of us have been alive so it's somebody 00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:48.500 you can really trust. Dr. Pete, I do consider you one of my mentors and I am so pleased 00:00:48.500 --> 00:00:53.900 to continue to learn from you. I know you guys will be pleased too and if you want more 00:00:53.900 --> 00:00:59.240 of Dr. Pete, I also encourage you to order his newsletter. Highly, highly informative 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:05.040 and information directly from him that he puts a lot of effort into and he puts it out 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:11.840 nowhere else on the interwebs of the world. To get that, you can use PayPal and send $28 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:18.120 for an emailed copy of his printable newsletter and you send that to the email address, RayPete's 00:01:18.120 --> 00:01:25.180 newsletter at Gmail.com. Without further ado, Dr. Pete, welcome to the podcast once again. 00:01:25.180 --> 00:01:30.120 How are you? I must ask you, being in Oregon, did you fare okay from all the fires that 00:01:30.120 --> 00:01:38.800 were over, that are going on still? Yes, we're okay now. A little bit smoky but 00:01:38.800 --> 00:01:51.720 the worst of the concentrated smoke was really dangerous to go outside and do any activity. 00:01:51.720 --> 00:02:02.840 It finally got me to wear a mask when I had to go outside on an N95 mask but it's a lot 00:02:02.840 --> 00:02:11.640 like for the virus particles, the most dangerous particles of this kind of smoke are small, 00:02:11.640 --> 00:02:20.840 as small as the virus or even smaller until it goes right through even on the N95 mask. 00:02:20.840 --> 00:02:26.840 Wow, so yeah, the mask actually doesn't serve a purpose much in either case, huh? 00:02:26.840 --> 00:02:34.840 Yeah, in the case of the smoke, it takes out the biggest particles because they are the 00:02:34.840 --> 00:02:38.600 most deadly. Well, I'm glad you're well and I appreciate 00:02:38.600 --> 00:02:43.840 your time again. We have so many great questions this time. Let's dive right in. I wanted to 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:48.400 make mention of this first one because it is something that I myself have dealt with 00:02:48.400 --> 00:02:55.000 so I can empathize with this listener. Jessica wrote in and asked, "Dr. Pete, what would 00:02:55.000 --> 00:03:00.780 you suggest for a toxic mold healing protocol?" I've tried all the binders, the fungus-free 00:03:00.780 --> 00:03:07.640 and mold-free diets and the herbal supplements to help my ailing liver and thyroid. I did 00:03:07.640 --> 00:03:17.720 get a diagnosis of NASH, non-alcoholic stahatohepatitis and my test still shows high on okra toxin. 00:03:17.720 --> 00:03:22.600 I would love to hear what you would recommend and also your thoughts on NASH from Toxic 00:03:22.600 --> 00:03:37.400 Mold and what to do about it. Having your liver working at top speed is the main thing, reducing 00:03:37.400 --> 00:03:48.840 inflammation and that means usually avoiding foods that would feed fungus and bacteria 00:03:48.840 --> 00:04:00.520 in your intestine because when you're feeding bacteria excessively, those toxins, especially 00:04:00.520 --> 00:04:05.480 if you have bacteria growing in the small intestine where there shouldn't be but most 00:04:05.480 --> 00:04:14.320 Americans do have bacterial overgrowth in the small intestine, that especially poisons 00:04:14.320 --> 00:04:27.360 the liver and reduces its ability to detoxify. And so foods such as well-cooked mushrooms 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:37.680 or raw carrots will help to sweep out some of the bacteria and suppress their growth, 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:45.640 letting the liver be more effective. I've seen people change their hormones in a period 00:04:45.640 --> 00:04:57.360 of just three or four days simply by adding raw carrots every day because the toxins that 00:04:57.360 --> 00:05:09.480 were being removed were stopping the liver from inactivating estrogen and cortisol and 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:18.160 blocking the body's ability to produce adequate progesterone. So I've seen the cortisol 00:05:18.160 --> 00:05:28.680 and estrogen levels drop sharply as the progesterone rose simply from having a daily carrot and 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:39.080 that means the liver has returned to a vigorous activity and is balancing the hormones. 00:05:39.080 --> 00:05:45.200 And as far as the NASH goes, the non-alcoholics to hepatitis, do you think she should deal 00:05:45.200 --> 00:05:49.360 with some supplements with that? Like if you've seen any research on things she could take 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:57.200 for that issue or what she could do? Usually the problem is caused by eating a 00:05:57.200 --> 00:06:17.840 very starch-based diet and sometimes too much phosphate. Nuts and beans and too much fish 00:06:17.840 --> 00:06:31.080 and your diet. But thyroid is the main detoxifying substance. Your liver simply doesn't run fast 00:06:31.080 --> 00:06:44.880 enough to manage to detoxify mold or industrial pollution or whatever if it doesn't have 00:06:44.880 --> 00:06:52.160 adequate thyroid activity. Okay. Very good. Okay. Raj Singh asks, "What 00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:58.760 is Dr. Pete's actionable advice for a 25-year-old man with mild gynomastia? I have high prolactin, 00:06:58.760 --> 00:07:06.480 estradiol, and elevated liver enzymes. Also, hair loss, thinning, hair, and what concrete 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:10.860 steps can I take? Any foods, supplements, or topicals he'd recommend? Thank you both 00:07:10.860 --> 00:07:15.400 Jodell and Dr. Pete for your time, knowledge, and commitment to truth proliferation." I 00:07:15.400 --> 00:07:27.280 like that. "Dr. Pete is my hero," he says. A lot of unsuspected things will activate the 00:07:27.280 --> 00:07:40.440 parapsyroid hormone. That's very seldom measured, but when it increases, it suppresses not only 00:07:40.440 --> 00:07:49.080 thyroid function but the mitochondrial energy production all through the body. So if it's 00:07:49.080 --> 00:07:59.120 really elevated, your estrogen will rise. Your hair growth will flow and tend to fall 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:11.280 out. The rising estrogen will cause gynomastia and other symptoms. And supplementing vitamin 00:08:11.280 --> 00:08:23.120 D to get your blood level up to at least 50 nanograms per milliliter. And having about 00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:35.000 at least 2,000 milligrams of calcium per day in a form that is well assimilated. So that 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:44.600 would mean roughly two quarts of milk per day as a calcium source. And if you are getting 00:08:44.600 --> 00:08:55.520 sunlight, it would mean supplementing 4,000 or 5,000 units of vitamin D usually. Absolutely. 00:08:55.520 --> 00:09:02.320 Sunlight is definitely a cure-all. And then Bevne, she asked something similar to go along 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:08.360 with that hyperlactin. She asked, "Could you ask Dr. Pete to list some of the most effective 00:09:08.360 --> 00:09:34.360 prolactin antagonists?" So what say you to that? Again, thyroid is the most common solution 00:09:34.360 --> 00:09:43.120 in your life. You have the most effective prolactin. And so if your TSH is elevated, 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:48.200 prolactin is going to be elevated. And having a proper thyroid supplement to keep your TSH 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:57.120 at the very low end of the normal range will usually take care of the prolactin. But some 00:09:57.120 --> 00:10:07.840 of the calcium and vitamin D are very important because prolactin is one of our calcium regulators. 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:19.600 Cortisol, pyrrhothyroid hormone, and prolactin are -- they mobilize calcium into your bloodstream. 00:10:19.600 --> 00:10:29.520 But they do a lot of harmful things, makes the calcium cause problems in taking it out 00:10:29.520 --> 00:10:38.600 of your bones. And if you supplement calcium on vitamin D, you're going to help your balance 00:10:38.600 --> 00:10:47.600 of prolactin, pyrrhothyroid hormone, and cortisol at the same time. And that will support your 00:10:47.600 --> 00:10:56.600 thyroid function. But it's important to make sure that you do have adequate thyroid function, 00:10:56.600 --> 00:11:02.600 keeping your temperature pulse rate up. There's a way to check on that. 00:11:02.600 --> 00:11:09.600 Okay, so good to know about thyroid supplementation is pretty key for prolactin antagonism. So 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:16.600 Agnes Finoli asks, "What does Dr. Pete think about the rising trend of doing ice-cold showers, 00:11:16.600 --> 00:11:20.600 or cold baths? Is it really beneficial to our health?" 00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:33.600 I don't think it's beneficial. It momentarily activates your stress hormones. And in a healthy 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:41.600 animal, in a healthy young person, it will sometimes increase your thyroid activity. 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:48.600 But that isn't always true. If your thyroid is too low to start with, it will just make 00:11:48.600 --> 00:11:51.600 you cold and feel sick. 00:11:51.600 --> 00:11:55.600 Okay, so not a fan, huh? 00:11:55.600 --> 00:12:05.600 Yeah, it seems to be invigorating if you're already in very good health, and your thyroid 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:14.600 can respond, but it can be dangerous. I've known people who did it because they heard 00:12:14.600 --> 00:12:20.600 it was good for the health. I'm checking their temperature hours later. Their oral temperature 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:27.600 was down to 95 or 96 degrees, very bad. 00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:35.600 Yeah, so there seems to be a theory that people will do the cold baths and showers to force 00:12:35.600 --> 00:12:40.600 their thyroid to respond to the cold and heat up faster. Is there any truth to that? Will 00:12:40.600 --> 00:12:43.600 the thyroid respond in that manner? 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:50.600 Yeah, that's the way it should, in a healthy animal. The thyroid function in the winter, 00:12:50.600 --> 00:12:59.600 in normal animals and healthy people, is four times the level of thyroid production as in 00:12:59.600 --> 00:13:07.600 the summer. And that's because of all of the changing stimulation, but especially the cold 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:16.600 weather. And so you would die if your thyroid didn't undergo those winter increases, and 00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:26.600 people living indoors without the normal temperatures usually tend to put on weight and get lethargic 00:13:26.600 --> 00:13:37.600 because their thyroid has failed to increase along with the shortening of the days. And 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:44.600 that means that other hormones that depend on the thyroid are going to have problems. 00:13:44.600 --> 00:13:52.600 The cortisol will become very high. Seroton, enterothyroid, hormone, prolactin, all of the 00:13:52.600 --> 00:14:00.600 stress hormones, tend to increase during the winter if your thyroid isn't increasing as 00:14:00.600 --> 00:14:10.600 it should. And the reason that that happens so typically in humans, but not in animals, 00:14:10.600 --> 00:14:21.600 is not only that we're staying indoors and not being stressed, but that our diet isn't 00:14:21.600 --> 00:14:27.600 right for supporting a proper reaction to the stress. 00:14:27.600 --> 00:14:32.600 Okay, cool to know, because yeah, it's definitely a trend out there, but just because something's 00:14:32.600 --> 00:14:38.600 trendy doesn't mean it's right for every individual. So really, they need to be in a good metabolic 00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:42.600 shape before they engage in that. So that's good to know. 00:14:42.600 --> 00:14:49.600 I love sugar is the next person she or he says, and this is an interesting question. 00:14:49.600 --> 00:14:55.600 I have continuous intrusive thoughts about recent stressful events when I do things that 00:14:55.600 --> 00:15:01.600 do not fully capture my attention like cooking and eating. These thoughts disappear, the 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:06.600 intrusive thoughts disappear when I watch movies or TV shows. These intrusive thoughts 00:15:06.600 --> 00:15:11.600 started after an untreated respiratory infection a few years ago when I was under eating and 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:18.600 over exercising. And they say I am supplementing thyroid, but it does not help much because 00:15:18.600 --> 00:15:25.600 of probably not eating enough. I have trouble eating due to the stress. So the question 00:15:25.600 --> 00:15:30.600 is, Dr. Pete, what can I do to take care of these thoughts? 00:15:30.600 --> 00:15:41.600 An infection or an accident or emotional stress can knock down your thyroid function and block 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:52.600 you into a pattern of low thyroid, high cortisol, and high serotonin stress reactions, and breaking 00:15:52.600 --> 00:16:02.600 out of that pattern. The diet can do it, but it's important to check on your temperature 00:16:02.600 --> 00:16:29.600 and pulse rate and supplementing thyroid or protective hormone such as progesterone or 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:40.600 ketone. Sometimes just those drugs or supplements can immediately get you out of those obsessive 00:16:40.600 --> 00:16:51.600 intrusive thoughts and depression and so on. But one of the sources of histamine and serotonin 00:16:51.600 --> 00:17:05.600 is producing that background stress pattern. The diet is failing to keep your blood sugar 00:17:05.600 --> 00:17:14.600 steady and reduce inflammation. You want to avoid inflammation producing foods, make sure 00:17:14.600 --> 00:17:22.600 you're getting enough protein. Around 100 grams of protein is needed by almost everyone 00:17:22.600 --> 00:17:34.600 with moderate amount of activity. Protein, calcium, vitamin D, and some kind of fiber 00:17:34.600 --> 00:17:42.600 in the diet such as raw carrots will help to reduce the intestinal source of serotonin 00:17:42.600 --> 00:17:50.600 and histamine. This really sounds like more of a thyroid issue based on the infection 00:17:50.600 --> 00:17:56.600 that they experienced. He mentioned supplementing thyroid doesn't help much, but maybe they're 00:17:56.600 --> 00:18:01.600 not doing enough. How much are they doing and would they benefit from a higher dose 00:18:01.600 --> 00:18:11.600 of thyroid supplementation? The thyroid can't work if you don't have vitamin D, calcium, 00:18:11.600 --> 00:18:19.600 protein, and sugar in your diet or if you have a tremendous amount of inflammation in 00:18:19.600 --> 00:18:33.600 your diet. Sometimes just a single factor such as increasing your protein, having some 00:18:33.600 --> 00:18:43.600 eggs and milk and cheese, or even a huge bowl of ice cream or a big milkshake, something 00:18:43.600 --> 00:18:51.600 that can sometimes lower your cortisol and your pituitary and thyroid will spontaneously 00:18:51.600 --> 00:18:57.600 break out of the stress cycle. There you go. I love sugar. Since you love sugar, you can 00:18:57.600 --> 00:19:01.600 have a big bowl of ice cream and sit in the sunshine while you eat it so that you can 00:19:01.600 --> 00:19:08.600 improve your thyroid naturally too. That's awesome. This next question is something that 00:19:08.600 --> 00:19:12.600 I've wanted to ask myself because I have my own opinion on this, but I'd love to hear 00:19:12.600 --> 00:19:18.600 what you have to say. Johnny Mojo asks, "Does Ray think that having a colonoscopy is ever 00:19:18.600 --> 00:19:24.600 a good idea? Mainstream medicine makes it seem like everyone needs to start having them 00:19:24.600 --> 00:19:29.600 semi-regularly by the age of 40. The whole process of having one seems like torture. 00:19:29.600 --> 00:19:40.600 What do you think, Dr. Pete? I looked at the incidence of mortality from colon cancer and 00:19:40.600 --> 00:19:52.600 the number of colonoscopies performed. They had a positive connection with countries where 00:19:52.600 --> 00:20:01.600 almost no colonoscopies are done, have extremely low colon cancer, which it could be that since 00:20:01.600 --> 00:20:10.600 no one suffers from colon cancer there's no reason for doing the colonoscopies, but it 00:20:10.600 --> 00:20:20.600 also suggests that there isn't a great amount of reduction of mortality just from having 00:20:20.600 --> 00:20:33.600 polyps removed. I'm convinced that polyps are continually forming and being swept off 00:20:33.600 --> 00:20:41.600 and that if you happen to find them during the colonoscopy it doesn't mean that you're 00:20:41.600 --> 00:20:49.600 in the process of getting colon cancer because I think most of them just heartlessly fall 00:20:49.600 --> 00:20:58.600 off of their past out. I think I agree. I feel like there's always precancerous and cancerous 00:20:58.600 --> 00:21:02.600 things forming in our body, but if we give the body the proper conditions and we weren't 00:21:02.600 --> 00:21:10.600 just always checking every MRI and every scopic evidence that we can go through, we might 00:21:10.600 --> 00:21:15.600 just be surprised that they can come and go on their own. We just have to give the body 00:21:15.600 --> 00:21:24.600 the proper conditions. Several pathologists have observed that in the autopsies they do 00:21:24.600 --> 00:21:35.600 on people who die from accidents, for example, or from bleeding stomach ulcer or whatever. 00:21:35.600 --> 00:21:48.600 When they do a cerebral autopsy they find that 100% of the people who are studied over 00:21:48.600 --> 00:21:59.600 the age of 50, 100% of them have places in their body where a biopsy would have found 00:21:59.600 --> 00:22:07.600 and diagnosed cancer, but the fact that 100% of the 50-year-old people could be diagnosed 00:22:07.600 --> 00:22:16.600 with cancer. They have little nests of cells in one tissue or another. What it means is 00:22:16.600 --> 00:22:25.600 that cancer usually is not fatal. It develops and doesn't do any harm if you don't notice 00:22:25.600 --> 00:22:38.600 it. There have been some studies starting in the 1950s, people, very confident statisticians 00:22:38.600 --> 00:22:49.600 looked at the people who rejected surgery or chemotherapy and found that the people who 00:22:49.600 --> 00:22:57.600 went the longest after diagnosing cancer went the longest without treatment, also were the 00:22:57.600 --> 00:23:08.600 longest survivors. Those studies showed a correlation between the increasing rate of 00:23:08.600 --> 00:23:18.600 treatment and the increasing mortality from cancer. They also showed that the actual mortality 00:23:18.600 --> 00:23:28.600 from tumors such as breast cancer had been absolutely steady across the years. Before 00:23:28.600 --> 00:23:38.600 there was intensive searching of diagnosing and frequent breast checkups and so on. Absolutely 00:23:38.600 --> 00:23:50.600 no change in the death rate as the rate of diagnosis tremendously increased suggesting 00:23:50.600 --> 00:24:02.600 the best futility of the treatment. In the case of prostate cancer, when the PSA test 00:24:02.600 --> 00:24:14.600 occurred in the 1980s and was accepted as a way to diagnose prostate cancer, the number 00:24:14.600 --> 00:24:23.600 of treatments, surgery or radiation for prostate cancer, suddenly there was a tremendous increase 00:24:23.600 --> 00:24:32.600 in the number of medical treatments because of the increased ability to diagnose it. But 00:24:32.600 --> 00:24:43.600 the death rate from prostate cancer suddenly surged in those same years and a few years 00:24:43.600 --> 00:24:53.600 after that happened, a great increase in the number of people dying from prostate cancer 00:24:53.600 --> 00:25:04.600 corresponding to how many were being diagnosed. Surveys asking specialists in prostate treatment, 00:25:04.600 --> 00:25:11.600 asking a man what they would do if they found they had prostate cancer and the majority 00:25:11.600 --> 00:25:18.600 of them said they would do nothing but they were still treating their patients. And at 00:25:18.600 --> 00:25:27.600 that time you might remember the popularity of treating prostate cancer with estrogen. 00:25:27.600 --> 00:25:35.600 That was established on the basis of a questionnaire. Absolutely no science behind it. But millions 00:25:35.600 --> 00:25:45.600 of men for 50 years were treated with huge doses of estrogen. I got interested in them 00:25:45.600 --> 00:25:54.600 because a friend of mine who was continually in perfect health had the PSA test led to 00:25:54.600 --> 00:26:05.600 diagnosis of cancer. He began treatment within a few days. He was very sick with asthma and 00:26:05.600 --> 00:26:13.600 then within about three weeks he died of cancer which hadn't been causing any trouble until 00:26:13.600 --> 00:26:24.600 he got these huge doses of estrogen. It was stopping the estrogen treatment in the 1990s 00:26:24.600 --> 00:26:32.600 that led to a great decrease of mortality from prostate cancer. 00:26:32.600 --> 00:26:39.600 It begs the question, years ago, a century ago, we didn't have all the tests that we 00:26:39.600 --> 00:26:44.600 have now and it just makes me wonder. We have all these tests that are able to diagnose 00:26:44.600 --> 00:26:51.600 certain things but is that the reason why there's an increase in all these things or 00:26:51.600 --> 00:26:57.600 is it because the fear that is put behind the diagnosis to the individual that causes 00:26:57.600 --> 00:27:01.600 such a high stress reaction because they've been given a cancer diagnosis or they've been 00:27:01.600 --> 00:27:07.600 given a diagnosis of some fatal disease. Is it the fear or is it actually that they've 00:27:07.600 --> 00:27:11.600 diagnosed it more now than ever? 00:27:11.600 --> 00:27:18.600 Well, like the study I mentioned that showed that the longer you avoid the treatment the 00:27:18.600 --> 00:27:29.600 later you died indicating that it was a treatment causing premature death. Since they were 00:27:29.600 --> 00:27:39.600 diagnosing pretty much cancer 150 years ago the proportion of people dying of cancer in 00:27:39.600 --> 00:27:49.600 the population was smaller. I think there have been carcinogens in the environment increasing 00:27:49.600 --> 00:27:59.600 some types of cancer but I think the big part of the problem is over treatment using very 00:27:59.600 --> 00:28:09.600 toxic, deadly treatments such as for 50 years those insane treatments with high estrogen 00:28:09.600 --> 00:28:18.600 doses when estrogen is actually the major stimulus to the development of prostate cancer. 00:28:18.600 --> 00:28:28.600 The men who have originally the highest level of natural testosterone have the lowest mortality 00:28:28.600 --> 00:28:36.600 from prostate cancer. The men with the lowest and the natural testosterone because it's 00:28:36.600 --> 00:28:46.600 being converted to estrogen are the ones with the high prostate cancer risk. The 50 years 00:28:46.600 --> 00:28:54.600 of medical opinion treating prostate cancer with estrogen were based on the completely 00:28:54.600 --> 00:29:05.600 ignorant absolutely unscientific doctrine that if testosterone makes the prostate grow 00:29:05.600 --> 00:29:15.600 the women don't have prostate plans therefore using a female hormone there should be an appropriate 00:29:15.600 --> 00:29:23.600 cure for prostate cancer. Absolutely stupid reasoning but that governs medicine for 50 00:29:23.600 --> 00:29:24.600 years. 00:29:24.600 --> 00:29:30.600 Oh my gosh. Going back to the diagnosis thing I saw that first hand with my own mom. She 00:29:30.600 --> 00:29:36.600 was given five years if she did nothing from her stomach cancer diagnosis and so she took 00:29:36.600 --> 00:29:40.600 treatment and died within one year so she actually would have lived longer based on 00:29:40.600 --> 00:29:49.600 the diagnosis if she had done nothing but yeah so c'est la vie right. So Nanu A asks 00:29:49.600 --> 00:29:54.600 what course of speaking of cancer from estrogen excess what course of therapy would Dr. Pete 00:29:54.600 --> 00:29:59.600 recommend to someone who has cancer from estrogen excess what would he advise? 00:29:59.600 --> 00:30:14.600 In those situations estrogen is a basic promoter of inflammatory processes and signals and 00:30:14.600 --> 00:30:26.600 so everything anti-inflammatory can stop those signals and stop the development of the whole 00:30:26.600 --> 00:30:34.600 process that leads to failure of the immune system too much inflammation shifts your immune 00:30:34.600 --> 00:30:45.600 system from not having cancer to promoting the growth of cancer. The wrong kind of antibodies 00:30:45.600 --> 00:30:53.600 promoted by estrogen will stimulate cancer growth. They call them blocking antibodies 00:30:53.600 --> 00:31:00.600 but it's really just that the body shouldn't be making all of those antibodies. It should 00:31:00.600 --> 00:31:10.600 be using a different kind of immunity or resistance which is supported by everything anti-inflammatory 00:31:10.600 --> 00:31:21.600 and those things include thyroid and progesterone among the intrinsic substances carbon dioxide 00:31:21.600 --> 00:31:29.600 under the influence of a good balance of thyroid and progesterone carbon dioxide is a basic 00:31:29.600 --> 00:31:42.600 anti-inflammatory substance which for 150 years has been recognized as a useful palliative 00:31:42.600 --> 00:31:51.600 at least for cancer. There's a book on the internet that gives a survey of the use of 00:31:51.600 --> 00:32:02.600 carbon dioxide breathing bathing inflation putting a tube into the area of the cancer 00:32:02.600 --> 00:32:14.600 introducing carbon dioxide gas and so on. That's simply our basic anti-inflammatory process 00:32:14.600 --> 00:32:26.600 is to lower lactic acid which is produced when we aren't making enough carbon dioxide. 00:32:26.600 --> 00:32:35.600 Estrogen increases our lactate production reduces carbon dioxide, thyroid and progesterone increase 00:32:35.600 --> 00:32:44.600 our CO2 production and support a whole anti-inflammatory system but then you can back up all of those 00:32:44.600 --> 00:32:53.600 anti-inflammatory processes with aspirin the local anesthetics like lidocaine which can 00:32:53.600 --> 00:33:06.600 be used systemically, or absorb short skin. The blockers of angiotensin that are used for 00:33:06.600 --> 00:33:19.600 blood pressure and now are starting to be used for the lung infections such as the COVID-19. 00:33:19.600 --> 00:33:31.600 Even political corticoids that are supported by things like progesterone and thyroid even 00:33:31.600 --> 00:33:40.600 those in some cases help to reduce the growth of the cancer. 00:33:40.600 --> 00:33:47.600 Okay, perfect. I'm going to throw in my own question here to kind of break up the monotony 00:33:47.600 --> 00:33:53.600 of the questions. This one's kind of a personal repeat question. Dr. Pete, is there a Mrs. 00:33:53.600 --> 00:33:56.600 Ray Pete? 00:33:56.600 --> 00:34:03.600 Yes, Catherine. We've been together for 40 years. 00:34:03.600 --> 00:34:10.600 I love that. I love to hear good lung marriages like that so that's awesome. Another listener 00:34:10.600 --> 00:34:16.600 asked another question just about you in general. What would Dr. Pete order at a Mexican restaurant? 00:34:16.600 --> 00:34:31.600 Most often when it's available, usually in your seacoast, it would be Sopa de Mariscos 00:34:31.600 --> 00:34:44.600 mixed shellfish, super stew at other restaurants. One of my favorites is Closoli. 00:34:44.600 --> 00:34:58.600 How many in pork soup usually? In the absence of a restaurant at Empanadas or Quesadillas, 00:34:58.600 --> 00:35:06.600 this is a simple little cheese and tortilla of operations. 00:35:06.600 --> 00:35:10.600 Are you a fan of chicharrones or pork rinds? 00:35:10.600 --> 00:35:14.600 Oh, always, yeah. 00:35:14.600 --> 00:35:25.600 Me too. I do enjoy those. Okay, Naomi asks, what is high albumin due to? Or albumin? 00:35:25.600 --> 00:35:39.600 Sometimes it's just evidence of dehydration. If you have done something exerting that makes you sweat 00:35:39.600 --> 00:35:48.600 and haven't had any fluid for several hours, the water content of your blood will decrease 00:35:48.600 --> 00:35:58.600 and that makes everything go up including the albumin concentration and the estrogen excess 00:35:58.600 --> 00:36:09.600 by increasing your water content will make the albumin go down along with other things. 00:36:09.600 --> 00:36:26.600 Usually it's good to have albumin up around the 50 level. They're starting to say that as low as 38 is acceptable, 00:36:26.600 --> 00:36:33.600 but I think a person should be in the range of 44 to 50 roughly. 00:36:33.600 --> 00:36:40.600 Yeah, I agree. Joseph asks, for someone wanting to alter the timing of a woman's cycle, 00:36:40.600 --> 00:36:45.600 how many milligrams of progesterone daily is enough, and I'm assuming humans, 00:36:45.600 --> 00:36:51.600 like maybe they want to prolong it to weigh the certain length of time or maybe speed it up to alter the timing of it? 00:36:51.600 --> 00:37:08.600 That varies tremendously. The average healthy young person is making probably 30 milligrams a day 00:37:08.600 --> 00:37:19.600 during the luteal phase, often much more, sometimes less, but that's a healthy natural number. 00:37:19.600 --> 00:37:30.600 But if there's a problem, like if your thyroid is low, then it can take a much larger amount. 00:37:30.600 --> 00:37:37.600 And if your thyroid is good, sometimes just 5 or 10 milligrams can be enough 00:37:37.600 --> 00:37:45.600 because progesterone has a positive feedback effect, at least on the ovaries. 00:37:45.600 --> 00:37:55.600 When you have an ovary in the teeth measuring how much progesterone is being produced 00:37:55.600 --> 00:38:05.600 and you increase the concentration of progesterone in the solution, the ovary makes progesterone faster. 00:38:05.600 --> 00:38:16.600 And so I've seen many people who have, for example, one woman, ever since puberty roughly, 00:38:16.600 --> 00:38:35.600 who was in her late 20s, had strangely pale skin and purple lips, a very progesterone deficient, extremely high estrogen pattern. 00:38:35.600 --> 00:38:51.600 And she just thought that was her normal self. But one moderate dose of progesterone within, I think it was about 40 minutes, 00:38:51.600 --> 00:39:01.600 she said she felt something happening, went home and looked in the mirror, and she said her face looked like it hadn't looked 00:39:01.600 --> 00:39:12.600 since she was 13 years old, and then weeks later when she saw her parents after a long absence, 00:39:12.600 --> 00:39:16.600 the first thing they said was, "What happened to you?" 00:39:16.600 --> 00:39:24.600 Because she had retained the ability to make progesterone just from that single catalytic dose. 00:39:24.600 --> 00:39:34.600 That often happens in the case of PMS or migraines. If the diet is good, all it takes is something to break the stress 00:39:34.600 --> 00:39:48.600 and your ovaries will recover their full ability. That's why I've never liked the idea of progesterone replacement therapy. 00:39:48.600 --> 00:39:57.600 If you don't have ovaries, then replacement is something that's helpful forever. 00:39:57.600 --> 00:40:05.600 Yeah, and would you say that the bigger a person is, they would probably do better on a higher dose of progesterone, 00:40:05.600 --> 00:40:13.600 such as someone who's heavier, their body's bigger, maybe they're 6 foot tall woman versus a 5 foot 2 woman? 00:40:13.600 --> 00:40:29.600 Oh, absolutely. Especially the amount of body fat, because progesterone, like vitamin D, progesterone tends to disappear in the fatty tissue. 00:40:29.600 --> 00:40:38.600 You need it available in the bloodstream, not just saturating your fat cells. 00:40:38.600 --> 00:40:48.600 Okay, perfect. Rubicon5 asks, "What about the hyperthyroid disease? Graves, any metabolic solution for hyperthyroid?" 00:40:48.600 --> 00:41:07.600 The first thing is to make sure that you're actually hyperthyroid, because over the last 50 years, I've run across, I don't know, a few dozen people with that diagnosis. 00:41:07.600 --> 00:41:27.600 But when I actually got them to describe their symptoms and their measurements, there were only two or three, actually, people who, according to the classical definitions, 00:41:27.600 --> 00:41:37.600 are recognizing that thyroid is a hormone that does particular metabolic functions in the body. 00:41:37.600 --> 00:41:50.600 If you don't see those functions operating to an excessively high degree, then you can't properly call it hyperthyroidism. 00:41:50.600 --> 00:42:00.600 Doctors are diagnosing hyperthyroidism in very unfounded ways. 00:42:00.600 --> 00:42:14.600 For example, there are many things that can cause TSH to be low. Stress can lower the TSH. Malnutrition can lower. 00:42:14.600 --> 00:42:34.600 So just having low TSH doesn't mean that you have high thyroid activity. Being excitable, tense, having a fast heart rate, those are very common in hyperthyroid people, 00:42:34.600 --> 00:42:50.600 because sometimes the body will produce 30 or 40 times more than the normal amount of adrenaline to keep the body functioning in spite of low thyroid. 00:42:50.600 --> 00:43:07.600 And if a doctor looks at only the TSH and their speedy behavior, they can guess there might be hyperthyroid. 00:43:07.600 --> 00:43:20.600 But if they actually look at what's going on chemically, it usually turns out that they're really hyperthyroid compensating with tremendous amounts of stress hormones. 00:43:20.600 --> 00:43:38.600 So you need to measure at a minimum adrenaline or catecholamines production and cortisol production, and you should look at several other hormones as well. 00:43:38.600 --> 00:43:55.600 On the temperature pattern, high cortisol can keep your temperature up so you want to see what carbohydrate in your food does. 00:43:55.600 --> 00:44:11.600 If it's really temperature produced by thyroid excess, sugar will increase it by increasing the amount of T3, the active hormone, of being produced. 00:44:11.600 --> 00:44:22.600 But if it's being produced by cortisol, a big, sugary meal can lower the temperature and heart rate. 00:44:22.600 --> 00:44:44.600 And the total amount of food consumed, if you're eating 4,000 calories a day and losing weight and getting skinny, then that's hyperthyroid, almost for sure. 00:44:44.600 --> 00:45:13.600 But most of these people with a diagnosis of hyperthyroidism who are in danger of being given radioactive iodine to destroy the land or having it surgically removed, most of these people are maintaining their weight on a 2,000-calorie a day diet so they can't be hyperthyroid. 00:45:13.600 --> 00:45:27.600 And one of the first things that happens with hyperthyroidism is the increased conversion of cholesterol to break net alone and progesterone. 00:45:27.600 --> 00:45:37.600 And so the cholesterol level falls as the metabolic rate increases under the influence of thyroid. 00:45:37.600 --> 00:45:45.600 And so checking your cholesterol level is another supportive thing. 00:45:45.600 --> 00:46:06.600 If you have below-normal cholesterol, then that would be consistent with hyperthyroidism. If your temperature and food consumption and water consumption, if those are all elevated, then that's really hyperthyroidism. 00:46:06.600 --> 00:46:29.600 And sometimes a person with actual hyperthyroidism, if they just drink a glass or two of fresh raw cabbage juice, that will stop the gland long enough for the body to re-establish control. 00:46:29.600 --> 00:46:56.600 And sometimes they have to keep doing that. But in studies where they had actual hyperthyroidism, simply suppressing the gland, usually with a pill resembling cabbage juice that blocks the formation of the hormone, doing that for a few months 00:46:56.600 --> 00:47:07.600 will allow the gland to slowly get rid of the excess hormone that it had stored up during a period of stress. 00:47:07.600 --> 00:47:26.600 And most of the cases didn't recur after six months of using a suppressive pill. And in the others who returned, another six months course was all it took. 00:47:26.600 --> 00:47:35.600 So in none of the cases that were studied in that way, was it necessary to remove or destroy the thyroid gland? 00:47:35.600 --> 00:47:52.600 Okay, good to know. Okay, so Katie asks a general dieting eating regimen question. So she was wondering about a couple things. Your thoughts on a caloric intake guideline for a female who's post-menopause, mid-50s, healthy and mildly active. 00:47:52.600 --> 00:48:15.600 So she's asking, you know, what range of calories is too low? What range would be too high for that kind of person? And as far as like, what general macronutrients do you recommend or do you recommend even following macronutrient ratios such as 40% carbs, 30% fat, 30% protein? What do you think? 00:48:15.600 --> 00:48:36.600 That proportion would be okay. It can vary a lot. And the quality of the protein is very important and the quality of the fats. The more saturated your fats are, the more harmless they are. 00:48:36.600 --> 00:48:55.600 So even as a matter of weight gain, the worst fats for gaining weight are the polyunsaturated vegetable oil fats. The saturated fats don't stimulate weight gain to the same degree. 00:48:55.600 --> 00:49:20.600 And the average size person with moderate activity, the calorie needs with age decreases because your tissues just don't respond as intensely to the thyroid and other hormones. 00:49:20.600 --> 00:49:40.600 But in the age range of 40 to 60, usually calories between 1700 and 2200 will meet your needs without making you either gain or lose weight. 00:49:40.600 --> 00:49:55.600 Okay. Perfect. Okay. And then her other question was about food combining. Do you recommend this such as separating protein foods from sugar to prevent advanced glycation end products and fermentation? What do you think? 00:49:55.600 --> 00:50:14.600 I know that the experiments with isolated intestine have tested what happens to the intestine when it's given pure protein or pure fat or pure carbohydrates or a mixture. 00:50:14.600 --> 00:50:42.600 And the intestine responds as if to relatively alien substance when it's chemically too pure. And when it gets a good balance of protein, fat and carbohydrate all at the same time, then the protein goes, the intestine goes into action 00:50:42.600 --> 00:50:46.600 and absorbs everything properly. 00:50:46.600 --> 00:51:02.600 Awesome. Okay. So we're on to Craig Doe asks, "Dr. Pete, the significance of vitamin D for multiple sclerosis. Is there anything else one could do to help with the symptoms?" 00:51:02.600 --> 00:51:21.600 Vitamin D calcium is the central hypo portion of calcium in your diet along with the vitamin D because the problem is inflammation in the brain. 00:51:21.600 --> 00:51:41.600 And the calcium and vitamin D are close to our basic anti-inflammatory systems. Cyroid and the carbon dioxide that it produces are the other main protective things. 00:51:41.600 --> 00:52:00.600 Several people who told me that they had a diagnosis of MS, when I looked at their diet and their symptoms, a couple of them were simply protein deficient. 00:52:00.600 --> 00:52:21.600 Eating a big fish dinner, for example, was enough to stop their symptoms. I think it was five people in a row who told me they had an MS diagnosis that were so obviously hypothyroid. 00:52:21.600 --> 00:52:38.600 But when I pointed out their symptoms to them, they recognized that when they started taking thyroid instantly, their MS symptoms disappeared and they discovered it was a mistake on diagnosis. 00:52:38.600 --> 00:52:40.600 I would agree with that. 00:52:40.600 --> 00:52:50.600 Okay. Mitchell Lester asks, "I have had allergies to dogs and cats and tree nuts and shellfish my entire life. Luckily grew out of an egg allergy. 00:52:50.600 --> 00:53:01.600 Any recommendation on how to mitigate or overcome these allergies? I've tried antihistamines, elevating blood sugar and aspirin which do reduce symptoms but not completely. Thanks." 00:53:01.600 --> 00:53:30.600 Sometimes, chyproheptidine works when other antihistamines happen. Making sure that your blood sugar and calcium and vitamin T are optimal because things that interfere with the use of sugar, 00:53:30.600 --> 00:53:40.600 increase your tendency to release the inflammatory things such as histamine and serotonin. 00:53:40.600 --> 00:54:08.600 And in experiments, sometimes just tripling the amount of glucose in the bloodstream will prevent an even deadly anaphylactic shock producing allergens that will fail to produce a reaction simply because the sugar 00:54:08.600 --> 00:54:27.600 or it wasn't being detectively used so increasing the amount of it overcame the need for inflammation which is the body's attempt to make glucose available. 00:54:27.600 --> 00:54:44.600 And finding out whether you have anything blocking the ability to use glucose such as elevated parathyroid hormone is one of the most often overlooked. 00:54:44.600 --> 00:54:59.600 That's why vitamin T and calcium and enough sodium in your diet, salting your food to taste, these things will correct hyperparathyroidism. 00:54:59.600 --> 00:55:19.600 And by restoring your cells' ability to use sugar, producing carbon dioxide, suppressing lactic acid production, that will at least reduce the intensity of the allergic symptoms. 00:55:19.600 --> 00:55:25.600 Okay, good information. Do we have time for about three more questions with you? 00:55:25.600 --> 00:55:42.600 Okay. Turkish Postman asks, "Can high cortisol and high ACTH on its own raise adrenaline in the body?" 00:55:42.600 --> 00:55:58.600 High ACTH raise adrenaline? No, usually if your adrenals respond by making cortisol, that keeps the adrenaline down. 00:55:58.600 --> 00:56:20.600 And the first reaction when you don't get enough glucose into your system, first reaction is to increase your adrenaline to mobilize stored glycogen to release it in the form of glucose. 00:56:20.600 --> 00:56:30.600 And if you run out of glycogen, then adrenaline can't do that and that's when ACTH rises. 00:56:30.600 --> 00:56:45.600 But normally adequate glucose or carbohydrate will keep down both adrenaline and ACTH and so cortisol. 00:56:45.600 --> 00:56:51.600 Yeah, so when I read his question, that's what I was wondering too. I was thinking, well, I think it's the other way around. 00:56:51.600 --> 00:56:56.600 It's the high adrenaline that actually leads to the high ACTH, right? 00:56:56.600 --> 00:57:16.600 Yeah, it's the body's first reaction, and then if it doesn't produce enough sugar, then the body brings in the deadlier armament, which is the ACTH and cortisol. 00:57:16.600 --> 00:57:37.600 And the reason that a restrained reaction is that the way cortisol and ACTH produce the glucose is by breaking down tissue protein, and we don't have any protein storage. 00:57:37.600 --> 00:57:55.600 So when cortisol goes up, it means some part of our structure and machinery, some part of it is converted to sugar with loss of function and strength of connective tissue, for example. 00:57:55.600 --> 00:58:15.600 So a surge of adrenaline does a good warning that you should either improve your efficient sugar metabolism or increase the amount of carbohydrate in your diet. 00:58:15.600 --> 00:58:25.600 Yes, which goes into the next question from Sven. He asks solutions to chronic sleeplessness other than adequate protein and sugar intake. 00:58:25.600 --> 00:58:38.600 But really, if someone is waking up a lot or having chronic sleeplessness, that usually is an adrenaline issue where there may just not be enough sugar or glucose in the system, yes? 00:58:38.600 --> 00:59:00.600 Yeah, not storing enough glycogen in the tissues. And usually thyroid is the limiting factor. Getting the right amount of thyroid increases the rate at which you can synthesize glycogen. 00:59:00.600 --> 00:59:19.600 And sucrose, as an energy source, provides fructose, and fructose is especially good at converting to glycogen. 00:59:19.600 --> 00:59:37.600 So instead of getting all of your carbohydrate in the form of strokes, having a lot of it from fruit providing sucrose increases your ability to store glycogen. 00:59:37.600 --> 01:00:03.600 And he had also asked, like, outside of protein and sugar, you know, what else would you recommend? Are there any, like, sleep supplements that you like or that you recommend or strategies outside of food and supplements, like, such as what I would tell somebody, you know, make sure you're powering down all of your electronics a couple hours before bed so you don't have that blue light exposure and stuff, but what else would you say? 01:00:03.600 --> 01:00:30.600 Most often the problem is irritation coming from the intestine, which at first it's slightly irritating and poisoning the liver, so it has already, even before you go to bed, that irritation and intestine is causing your liver not to store enough glycogen. 01:00:30.600 --> 01:00:52.600 But then when you go to sleep, your irritated intestine is sending danger signals to your brain, tending to increase your adrenaline and wake you up and force you to eat something to get back to sleep. 01:00:52.600 --> 01:01:01.600 Having a clean intestine is the first most important thing for having good, continuous sleep. 01:01:01.600 --> 01:01:30.600 And that green's palates are one of the most overlooked causes of bowel inflammation. We simply don't have the enzymes needed to digest raw vegetables, such as spinach or lettuce or any of the popular raw vegetables. 01:01:30.600 --> 01:01:40.600 Vegetables will necessarily produce inflammation, because they're absolutely ingestible. 01:01:40.600 --> 01:01:59.600 Okay, good. So work on your gut, too, there, Sven. Okay, Dr. Pete, last question here. Can you suggest a diet that could help rebuild the enamel in some way to prevent the need for extraction, so a diet that rebuilds enamel? 01:01:59.600 --> 01:02:24.600 No, the enamel can't be rebuilt. It's not in communication. We can rebuild the underlying structure, but the enamel is formed as the tooth is in process of growth. 01:02:24.600 --> 01:02:37.600 And once it has erupted, there's no communication between our blood treatment, though it is with the dentine. 01:02:37.600 --> 01:02:53.600 The quality of this saliva is a protective factor. It's hardly been studied. There's very little science behind dentistry. 01:02:53.600 --> 01:03:22.600 The few actually physiological studies of the mouse system show that the saliva varies tremendously and can support destruction of the enamel or it can be very protective and maintain the right pH and preventing the growth of the bacteria. 01:03:22.600 --> 01:03:47.600 Okay, good to know. That's an interesting question. That was from Dan Pearlman. He wanted to ask that. And just to say thank you to everybody that asked questions. I didn't get to all of them on the list, but I now have those on the queue for next time for when we podcast again. So yours will be at the top of the list if you didn't hear yours on today's episode. 01:03:47.600 --> 01:04:02.600 So again, Dr. Pete, you're awesome. Thank you for your time. I hope you stay well out there and I hope all those the issues with the fires can be dealt with soon so that you can go back to that beautiful Oregon fall weather. 01:04:02.600 --> 01:04:27.600 Thank you for your time. You guys stay tuned for the next one and we'll be in touch. Don't forget to sign up for his newsletter and have an awesome day. So thanks once again, Dr. Pete. 01:04:27.600 --> 01:04:44.600 Promo code time. You know what ATP science products are some of the best supplements on the market to date that I have used personally and recommended to my nutrition clients for years. They were developed by a naturopathic doctor and he's meticulous about handcrafted ingredients. 01:04:44.600 --> 01:04:55.600 And these ATP science products are some of the most effective supplements I have used and seen used with my clients. So I've got a promo code for you for ATP science. 01:04:55.600 --> 01:05:12.600 So here's some of my favorite products. 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