WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:12.720 Well, welcome to the Get Fit with Jodell show. I am super stoked because it's time for another 00:00:12.720 --> 00:00:19.440 mind-blowing episode with Dr. Ray Peat. Dr. Peat and I decided to do listener questions 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:25.840 today so I can hardly wait to hear his responses to some really great questions that people 00:00:25.840 --> 00:00:30.400 put up on the posts and on my Facebook and things like that. So I appreciate you guys 00:00:30.400 --> 00:00:35.480 asking questions and Dr. Peat, I appreciate you because once again I'm so honored beyond 00:00:35.480 --> 00:00:41.120 words to have you with me. Thank you so much. So are you ready for this slew of questions? 00:00:41.120 --> 00:00:48.520 Yep, go ahead. Okay, great. Well, we'll start with this person wanted to remain anonymous 00:00:48.520 --> 00:00:52.040 but they said and it was kind of an interesting question. They said, can you give us your 00:00:52.040 --> 00:00:58.040 opinion on the current fitness trends and also what your daily exercise looks like? 00:00:58.040 --> 00:01:07.320 So this one's a little personal to you, Dr. Peat. Oh, I never exercise. Well, once about 00:01:07.320 --> 00:01:17.240 every 10 years I do some exercises just to see how things are working. But the idea of 00:01:17.240 --> 00:01:29.960 exercise I think is not biologically sound. I think all of your activities should be intentional 00:01:29.960 --> 00:01:39.800 in some way constructive or at least play forgiving. And the idea of exercise seems 00:01:39.800 --> 00:01:49.640 to be more fulfilling a duty or obligation rather than doing something just because it's 00:01:49.640 --> 00:01:56.520 fun or productive. Yeah, so that kind of takes me down. I'm going to go a little further 00:01:56.520 --> 00:02:02.400 down on my list because there was another person that asked a similar question about 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:08.600 exercise and this was an individual who likes to run. And this woman said, if a woman would 00:02:08.600 --> 00:02:14.280 like to run on a regular basis for enjoyment, is that something that's beneficial and does 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:22.440 she need to be more vigilant as far as PUFA intake and environmental estrogens? If you 00:02:22.440 --> 00:02:38.440 have a very pretty place to run in, like the natives of northern Mexico have canyons and 00:02:38.440 --> 00:02:46.680 interesting sceneries to run through just to do their social visits and tend to their 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:56.840 chores and such. So running is part of their lives. But it's also meaningful in many ways. 00:02:56.840 --> 00:03:06.440 It isn't just running down the street to a certain point and coming back. The rote-ness 00:03:06.440 --> 00:03:15.160 of it, the predictability and the sameness of it I think is actually somewhat harmful 00:03:15.160 --> 00:03:21.960 to your nervous system. Yeah, so what you're saying is more you're thinking in terms of 00:03:21.960 --> 00:03:28.360 movement. Like people need to move their bodies but not necessarily getting on a treadmill 00:03:28.360 --> 00:03:35.960 or an elliptical machine to hash out 45 minutes just because they feel like they should. Yeah, 00:03:35.960 --> 00:03:44.280 the brain, the mind has to move at least as much as the body. And when you're on a treadmill 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:53.320 or running down a certain track, your mind is not moving. Your body is moving but your 00:03:53.320 --> 00:04:05.240 mind is in a rut. And being in a rut is biologically harmful. From a stress standpoint, right? 00:04:05.240 --> 00:04:10.120 So sometimes these exercises that we're trying to do to get our bodies in shape, if we don't 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:19.640 enjoy them, they can actually be stress-inducing, yes? Yep. And deepening the rut, a habit of 00:04:19.640 --> 00:04:29.960 doing something that isn't pleasurable or meaningful deepens your tolerance for meaninglessness 00:04:29.960 --> 00:04:41.080 and you're at risk of sinking into routine behavior and routine life. Yeah, I like that. 00:04:41.080 --> 00:04:46.040 I like not living a life, like you said, not a meaningless existence or having meaningless 00:04:46.040 --> 00:04:51.800 in your life. We need to have meaning in everything we do. So I like that approach. The next question 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:59.000 is, "Dr. Peat, could you please tell us the difference between a dairy allergy and lactose 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:05.560 intolerance? Like what different symptoms would we expect between the two and what can 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:11.560 we also do in case it's actually a dairy allergy?" So I guess in terms of them saying, "If it 00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:17.160 is a dairy allergy versus the intolerance, what can we do?" And I'm sure you have some 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:23.080 insight on this as to what they can do to kind of make the intolerance go away because 00:05:23.080 --> 00:05:34.440 I've heard you talk about that. Yeah, an allergy can be deadly. A mild allergy is just annoying. 00:05:34.440 --> 00:05:45.480 It makes, if it's on your tongue or mouth, it makes it burn and maybe swell up a little. 00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:55.000 If it's serious, it will make your membranes swell up just to a hideous extent so that 00:05:55.000 --> 00:06:04.600 you can't move your tongue, can't swallow. And any of the surfaces that it reaches, if 00:06:04.600 --> 00:06:12.280 it's a real allergy, it can stop the function and make it impossible to breathe, for example, 00:06:12.280 --> 00:06:25.240 which is fatal. But a lactose intolerance is simply the inability to absorb and digest 00:06:25.240 --> 00:06:34.680 milk sugar. And if you have a sugar in your intestine that can't be absorbed, it has a 00:06:34.680 --> 00:06:43.960 laxative effect and it tends to run through you. Or if you have the wrong kind of bacteria, 00:06:43.960 --> 00:06:52.840 the bacteria can convert it to gas. And so gas is the most common symptom for lactose 00:06:52.840 --> 00:06:59.480 intolerance. And so like I've heard you mention before, if somebody does have an intolerance, 00:06:59.480 --> 00:07:04.600 I've heard you talk about how different approaches towards nutrition can actually help that 00:07:04.600 --> 00:07:09.720 individual develop a tolerance and be able to eat dairy, yes? 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:22.440 Yeah. Deficiency of thyroid hormone creates various inefficiencies metabolically. Low 00:07:22.440 --> 00:07:32.520 production of digestive enzymes is typical. Low stomach acid sometimes. And the enzymes 00:07:32.520 --> 00:07:39.800 to digest lactose, among other things, will be low when your thyroid hormone activity 00:07:39.800 --> 00:07:50.360 is low. And so most thyroid people, as a rule, to some extent have a lactose intolerance. 00:07:50.360 --> 00:07:58.200 And just fixing the thyroid function will improve their digestion of milk. There were 00:07:58.200 --> 00:08:11.000 studies of people who were theoretically genetically unable to digest lactose because of their 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:18.680 race. And the tests done in those people, starting with half a glass of milk or a quarter 00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:27.000 of a glass of milk every day, doing that for a few weeks, they found that these genetically 00:08:27.000 --> 00:08:34.680 intolerant people were able to induce the enzyme. The enzyme is there in infancy and 00:08:34.680 --> 00:08:45.720 it's just a matter of keeping it active or reinducing it as an adult by giving your intestine 00:08:45.720 --> 00:08:51.960 the exposure to a daily amount of lactose. 00:08:51.960 --> 00:08:57.000 Okay, that's interesting. So I'm going to throw in my own question here. So let's say 00:08:57.000 --> 00:09:02.240 somebody, like you said, we have that since infancy has the ability to digest dairy, but 00:09:02.240 --> 00:09:07.200 like all of a sudden in their older years, they can't digest it anymore. Like what would 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:11.360 be the cause of that? Would that have to do with the low thyroid and like you were mentioning 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:12.360 the low stomach acid? 00:09:12.360 --> 00:09:23.640 Or a vitamin deficiency. And vitamin deficiencies and thyroid deficiencies often go together. 00:09:23.640 --> 00:09:34.320 As your digestive system slows down from low thyroid, you will absorb poorly and be more 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:38.360 likely to get a vitamin deficiency. 00:09:38.360 --> 00:09:43.880 Okay, well then hopefully that's helpful to that listener that they can start to maybe 00:09:43.880 --> 00:09:49.400 take some thyroid and be able to replenish their ability to take in dairy. Because that 00:09:49.400 --> 00:09:54.080 actually happened to me. Once I got my thyroid working after that toxic mold exposure, I 00:09:54.080 --> 00:09:58.360 was able to do dairy again, which before I'd been having problems with it. So yeah, I think 00:09:58.360 --> 00:10:00.480 you're obviously spot on. 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:11.960 I've known people who recovered from a variety of very different kinds of allergies or sensitivities. 00:10:11.960 --> 00:10:17.880 Aspirin sensitivity is another thing that is supposed to be genetic. But I have a friend 00:10:17.880 --> 00:10:26.440 who was, for 55 years of his life, he was thought to be aspirin intolerant. And now 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:29.440 he takes aspirin every day. 00:10:29.440 --> 00:10:34.160 Wow, that's fantastic. Okay, so there is hope for those people that have intolerances 00:10:34.160 --> 00:10:40.520 to certain things. The next question we got was, what is the root cause of grinding of 00:10:40.520 --> 00:10:44.880 the teeth? Or I guess it's called bruxism, is that right? 00:10:44.880 --> 00:10:55.320 Yeah, and serotonin excess is one of the things that happens during the night. And usually 00:10:55.320 --> 00:11:05.280 an irritation in the intestine during the night. As your blood sugar goes down, your 00:11:05.280 --> 00:11:14.520 nerves and immune system become more irritable because of the falling energy supply. And 00:11:14.520 --> 00:11:20.360 that irritability during the night, even though the food wasn't causing an allergic reaction 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:29.320 during the daytime, during the night, the falling blood sugar makes you start sensing 00:11:29.320 --> 00:11:35.160 relatively toxic things in your intestine or irritating things. And that causes the 00:11:35.160 --> 00:11:49.840 intestine to increase its production of serotonin. And serotonin is closely connected with bruxism. 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:54.560 That's really interesting. So someone would want to get their serotonin levels down in 00:11:54.560 --> 00:11:57.600 order to prevent that from happening. 00:11:57.600 --> 00:12:07.200 Yeah, usually just looking at your diet and finding things that are not well digested. 00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:16.160 Green salads are the worst offenders. They never can be digested by a human being. And 00:12:16.160 --> 00:12:25.280 so they feed whatever bacteria or fungus happens to be in your system. And then the fungus 00:12:25.280 --> 00:12:33.840 or bacteria will make toxins that irritate the intestine so that it overproduces things 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:38.240 such as histamine, serotonin, and nitric oxide. 00:12:38.240 --> 00:12:44.000 Yeah, I can't tell you how many people will, well, women especially will say, "Well, I 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:49.360 have a green salad every day and yet I have a lot of digestive issues." You know, we want 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:54.200 to tell them, "Well, here's your sign. That's why it's happening." Like you said, we can't 00:12:54.200 --> 00:12:55.680 digest all of those greens. 00:12:55.680 --> 00:13:04.640 Yeah, we simply don't have enzymes to digest them. There were experiments with rats feeding 00:13:04.640 --> 00:13:13.520 them fresh, raw vegetables or the same vegetables that had been canned at very high temperature 00:13:13.520 --> 00:13:22.480 and pressure. And supposedly the nutrients are lost by high temperature cooking, but 00:13:22.480 --> 00:13:29.720 actually because it breaks down the cellulose, it actually makes more nutrients available 00:13:29.720 --> 00:13:38.320 so that the rats wasted away when they were fed fresh vegetables but thrived on the canned 00:13:38.320 --> 00:13:48.400 vegetables of exactly the same sort. And you can do an experiment if you put a bit of green 00:13:48.400 --> 00:13:56.080 salad into a plastic bag and then keep it at body temperature for two or three days, 00:13:56.080 --> 00:14:04.240 which would happen after you ate it. See what happens to the fresh green salad after two 00:14:04.240 --> 00:14:13.360 or three days of body temperature. Usually a foul mess. 00:14:13.360 --> 00:14:17.520 I can imagine that would be a fun party trick to show your friends. Like, "Look what's happening 00:14:17.520 --> 00:14:24.480 to salads when we eat them." Okay, so Rachel asks the next question. She says, "What does 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:29.560 Dr. Peat feel are the better exercises," of course we touched on that, "foods, supplements 00:14:29.560 --> 00:14:34.920 for middle-aged women in regards to lowering chronic stress or cortisol? I know getting 00:14:34.920 --> 00:14:39.280 outdoors in nature and plenty of sunshine are huge lifestyle factors in helping this, 00:14:39.280 --> 00:14:51.440 but what else? And as always, thank you." If you live in a woodsy, cold climate, cutting 00:14:51.440 --> 00:15:01.000 wood and stacking it in the summer months is a good, useful exercise that uses your 00:15:01.000 --> 00:15:11.600 muscles. And in the winter, or if you don't have wood to cut, dumbbells are the closest 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:19.960 thing to getting muscle use. I love that you just said that because I went 00:15:19.960 --> 00:15:27.200 camping recently and my husband and my brother were showing me how to chop wood for the fire 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:32.640 and I fell in love with it. I told them, "I want to learn how to be a really great wood 00:15:32.640 --> 00:15:36.720 chopper." And it was such a great workout and yet it was fun too and it was almost like 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:45.400 a stress reliever too. Yeah, and with a good Crescet saw, you can 00:15:45.400 --> 00:15:54.840 saw logs for the fireplace and get push and pull exercise on your arm muscles using alternate 00:15:54.840 --> 00:16:02.280 arms on a Crescet saw. It's like a very expensive exercise machine. 00:16:02.280 --> 00:16:07.040 I love that. I'm going to give that a try too because I was just using an ax and chopping, 00:16:07.040 --> 00:16:12.320 so I got the chopping mechanism, but I didn't do the push-pull. Now, she also asked what 00:16:12.320 --> 00:16:19.320 supplements or nutrition do you recommend as far as lowering chronic stress and cortisol? 00:16:19.320 --> 00:16:30.280 Things that are easy to digest and that don't lower your blood sugar are the most powerful 00:16:30.280 --> 00:16:38.200 anti-stressors. Calcium, keeping the ratio of calcium to phosphate very high in your 00:16:38.200 --> 00:16:51.680 diet has a relaxing anti-stress effect. When your muscles are active and growing, they 00:16:51.680 --> 00:17:01.120 actually produce some testosterone. When they're under stress and not being used properly, 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:11.240 they tend to convert cholesterol into cortisol and actually create the stress syndrome. The 00:17:11.240 --> 00:17:20.720 unused muscle is slightly toxic under some conditions where the used muscle is adding 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:27.800 to your steroid protective hormones. Wow, okay. I'm going to throw in a question 00:17:27.800 --> 00:17:35.000 here too. Since you have a lot of history in Mexico, living down there and such, I have 00:17:35.000 --> 00:17:41.680 kind of a favorite starchy vegetable that's jicama. I was wondering your thoughts on jicama 00:17:41.680 --> 00:17:47.560 as far as a food that might be good for digestion or not, or what do you think about jicama 00:17:47.560 --> 00:17:54.120 in general? I've eaten a lot of it, and I don't generally 00:17:54.120 --> 00:18:04.000 tolerate starch as well. For example, cucumbers give me terrible gas, and even cantaloupes 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:12.320 are too gas-forming for me. But I never had trouble with jicama. I don't know what it 00:18:12.320 --> 00:18:24.040 is, but it is a starch, but it isn't famously gas-producing. Yeah, I noticed that for myself 00:18:24.040 --> 00:18:28.120 that I found it easy to digest, but there are so many other raw vegetables that if I 00:18:28.120 --> 00:18:32.760 would try to eat them in the raw state, then I would have problems, but not that one. So 00:18:32.760 --> 00:18:37.080 I wonder if it's because it may be part of the tuber family, like a potato. 00:18:37.080 --> 00:18:46.920 It's in a very different family, but it's probably a different set of allergens and 00:18:46.920 --> 00:18:50.160 antigens. Okay, well good to know. I've been wanting 00:18:50.160 --> 00:18:55.800 to ask you that for a while, so that's good. Okay, and then Tina asks, "Does Dr. Peat advise 00:18:55.800 --> 00:19:02.080 those coming from calorie-restricted eating and intermittent fasting protocols to slowly 00:19:02.080 --> 00:19:07.320 increase food intake and possibly count calories?" So that's her first question. So what do you 00:19:07.320 --> 00:19:12.400 think about somebody coming from calorie-restricted and intermittent fasting, and how would they 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:16.280 slowly increase their food intake and count calories, or should they? 00:19:16.280 --> 00:19:28.000 The important thing is to watch your temperature and pulse rate as indicators of how energetic 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:35.360 your metabolism is. It's normal for your metabolic rate to go down during the night, but after 00:19:35.360 --> 00:19:45.120 breakfast you should pop right up to a working temperature of 37 degrees Celsius or 98.6 00:19:45.120 --> 00:19:55.040 Fahrenheit, and a pulse rate of more or less 80 or 85 beats per minute, I think, is good 00:19:55.040 --> 00:20:01.080 during the day. Great, and also her second part of her question 00:20:01.080 --> 00:20:07.920 was, "Should we take T4 with T3, or does Dr. Peat advise just taking T3?" 00:20:07.920 --> 00:20:25.920 The value of T3 in a free form is that if you're in a hurry to correct a problem, you 00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:34.000 can use a physiological replacement amount of T3, such as between one and four micrograms 00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:41.920 per hour. And like with a meal, where you're going to be absorbing food for two or three 00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:52.480 hours, 10 micrograms with a meal is a pretty physiological amount. And you can see if that 00:20:52.480 --> 00:21:03.760 relieves your symptoms. I've seen very serious symptoms disappear in as little as a minute 00:21:03.760 --> 00:21:15.840 after taking a five or 10 microgram dose of T3. Insomnia will very often disappear five 00:21:15.840 --> 00:21:25.360 minutes after chewing up a bit of T3. You don't have the usual delay in getting to sleep. 00:21:25.360 --> 00:21:35.200 And pains, arthritic pains or breast pains, for example, will disappear in from five to 00:21:35.200 --> 00:21:48.080 15 minutes after taking some. So it's valuable for its essentially instantaneous repair functions. 00:21:48.080 --> 00:22:02.320 But it goes away almost as fast as it takes effect. And I, for a time, was taking 25 micrograms 00:22:02.320 --> 00:22:09.920 in the morning all at once. And after doing that for a couple of weeks, at sunset, my 00:22:09.920 --> 00:22:19.760 heart would begin stopping every 10 seconds for two or three seconds at a time. And once 00:22:19.760 --> 00:22:30.400 it stopped so long that I started blacking out with a shrinking visual field and had 00:22:30.400 --> 00:22:41.920 to cough repeatedly, yet my heart started again. So I realized that taking an outsized 00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:53.920 dose all at once after a week or two, your liver starts eliminating the T3 at an exaggerated 00:22:53.920 --> 00:23:06.080 rate because it doesn't recognize that as a natural process. And after 12 hours of the 00:23:06.080 --> 00:23:14.160 liver excreting it at that high rate, if you don't replace it, suddenly you've gone to 00:23:14.160 --> 00:23:24.320 an extremely hypothyroid state, which leads to heart arrhythmia as the worst symptom. 00:23:24.320 --> 00:23:36.360 And if you take the T4 only, a very healthy person, they tested it in the 1940s on male 00:23:36.360 --> 00:23:46.600 medical students and said thyroxine, T4 only, had exactly the same effect that the full 00:23:46.600 --> 00:23:56.440 thyroid substance had on these healthy young men. But they didn't test it on women. And 00:23:56.440 --> 00:24:06.280 it happens that estrogen affects the liver and the thyroid gland, blocking secretion 00:24:06.280 --> 00:24:17.600 of the hormone from the gland and slowing the metabolic process of the liver. So it 00:24:17.600 --> 00:24:27.720 turns out that women have about five times the incidence of thyroid-related disease and 00:24:27.720 --> 00:24:41.400 autoimmunity is closely connected to that feminine thyroid-estrogen interaction. So 00:24:41.400 --> 00:24:53.680 T4 is very fine as a replacement only for healthy people. But people who have a metabolic 00:24:53.680 --> 00:25:03.880 problem, mostly women, it's exactly the wrong thing to use. But since you don't want to 00:25:03.880 --> 00:25:18.000 have to take four micrograms of T3 half a dozen times a day, if you take T4 in the evening, 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:27.720 for example, once a day, those of T4 will help to sustain things through the night. 00:25:27.720 --> 00:25:43.080 But it should be accompanied by ideally one or two doses of T3 during the daytime. The 00:25:43.080 --> 00:25:55.240 sustaining effect of T3 during the night means that when you're exposed to the T3, it should 00:25:55.240 --> 00:26:04.680 activate your liver, keep the estrogen from accumulating. The liver excretes excess estrogen 00:26:04.680 --> 00:26:13.120 and the active liver will activate the thyroid gland, protecting it from the blocking effect 00:26:13.120 --> 00:26:24.560 of estrogen. So given the supporting effect of T3, then a woman's liver can metabolize 00:26:24.560 --> 00:26:27.200 T4 just like a man's. 00:26:27.200 --> 00:26:34.280 Wow, okay. That was something that I had been interested in learning about too because I 00:26:34.280 --> 00:26:40.760 have seen people take T3 and then they say that after a couple weeks they no longer can 00:26:40.760 --> 00:26:46.140 notice the difference on it. Would that be because the liver is starting to push some 00:26:46.140 --> 00:26:49.680 of it out since they're taking it and now they need to up their dose? 00:26:49.680 --> 00:27:03.160 Yes, if you take 5 or 10 or 20 micrograms at once, your liver is going to develop super 00:27:03.160 --> 00:27:09.240 excretory enzymes to lower it faster than normal. 00:27:09.240 --> 00:27:14.480 Okay and then taking T3 sounds like a way to remove excess estrogens from the body, 00:27:14.480 --> 00:27:15.480 is that correct? 00:27:15.480 --> 00:27:21.440 Yes, and that will help you handle the T4. 00:27:21.440 --> 00:27:26.280 Well speaking of excess estrogen, there was another listener, Diego, he had a question 00:27:26.280 --> 00:27:33.640 about anti-aromatase products such as Exemastain. So he said, "What do you think of anti-aromatase 00:27:33.640 --> 00:27:38.440 products like Exemastain, also known as Aromazin?" 00:27:38.440 --> 00:27:51.880 Yes, those generally have fairly serious side effects. The one of them which is a steroid, 00:27:51.880 --> 00:28:01.520 I forget whether that's the one you named, the steroid-based one is the least toxic of 00:28:01.520 --> 00:28:05.280 the aromatase inhibitors. 00:28:05.280 --> 00:28:10.160 So probably needs to be careful with that then if there are some pretty harsh side effects, 00:28:10.160 --> 00:28:11.160 yeah? 00:28:11.160 --> 00:28:24.240 Yeah, and there are safe aromatase inhibitors, aspirin and progesterone for example, do a 00:28:24.240 --> 00:28:26.240 very good job. 00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:31.880 Yeah, that's a much better point, much safer to take those things for sure. Okay, we have 00:28:31.880 --> 00:28:37.560 a gal named Christy that had a couple of questions. The first question is, "I'm losing weight 00:28:37.560 --> 00:28:43.520 and my hands and feet are cold even with natural thyroid medication and I'm getting colder, 00:28:43.520 --> 00:28:44.520 so why is that?" 00:28:44.520 --> 00:29:02.560 It's important to check temperature and pulse rate as well as how you're feeling. If you 00:29:02.560 --> 00:29:11.320 have been reducing your intake of nutrients, you might have reduced some essential nutrients 00:29:11.320 --> 00:29:21.800 so much that you're in a stress state. High cortisol can make you lose weight under stress, 00:29:21.800 --> 00:29:32.880 but it will be primarily muscle weight. Dieters used to go on a very low calorie diet or even 00:29:32.880 --> 00:29:42.920 fast and find that they could lose 10 or 12 pounds in a week or 10 days. Someone did a 00:29:42.920 --> 00:29:51.600 study analyzing what was happening to the body and they found that on an extremely low 00:29:51.600 --> 00:30:07.040 calorie diet, the weight loss was about 80% protein and only something like 15 or 20% 00:30:07.040 --> 00:30:17.920 fat. But if they took a moderate amount of nutrition, enough to reduce the stress hormones, 00:30:17.920 --> 00:30:31.400 they could lose 80% fat and only 15 or 20% protein tissue. It's essential to keep your 00:30:31.400 --> 00:30:38.120 adequate nutrition while lowering calories. The adrenaline will come up and bring cortisol 00:30:38.120 --> 00:30:45.720 after, and the cortisol is what makes you lose muscle. 00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:50.680 So instead, she might try adding some more calories and would it serve her if her adrenaline 00:30:50.680 --> 00:30:59.520 is high to add carbohydrates? Definitely, yes. The carbohydrate at the right 00:30:59.520 --> 00:31:07.640 amount will spare the protein. So 80 grams of protein a day, for example, if you're getting 00:31:07.640 --> 00:31:17.800 the carbohydrate from orange juice, for example, comes with minerals. Potassium has a sparing 00:31:17.800 --> 00:31:28.920 effect on the protein besides the sugar. So fruit juice plus the adequate amount of protein 00:31:28.920 --> 00:31:38.920 will keep your metabolism up and tend to promote fat loss rather than protein loss. 00:31:38.920 --> 00:31:44.340 That's a very good tip because anytime I've drank orange juice, I always feel warmer right 00:31:44.340 --> 00:31:49.280 after I drink it. So I'm wondering if she would take her temperature prior to drinking 00:31:49.280 --> 00:31:53.760 it and then after she might notice that she's getting less cold when she does that. Do you 00:31:53.760 --> 00:31:59.680 agree? Yeah, you have to allow time for the effect 00:31:59.680 --> 00:32:09.280 of the cold orange juice to wear off. If you drink warm orange juice, then you'll see the 00:32:09.280 --> 00:32:14.120 warming effect immediately. Okay, very good. The second part of her question 00:32:14.120 --> 00:32:20.960 was she doesn't have a uterus because she had it removed and her doctor told her that 00:32:20.960 --> 00:32:24.840 she doesn't need to take it. She's taking progesterone, but her doctor said you don't 00:32:24.840 --> 00:32:28.480 need to take progesterone if you don't have a uterus and she wanted to know if that was 00:32:28.480 --> 00:32:36.680 true. Many doctors thought that was true 60 years 00:32:36.680 --> 00:32:50.200 ago, but I didn't know anyone still said that. Last time I saw that was I think 1970, roughly. 00:32:50.200 --> 00:33:03.040 It's a kind of horrifying thing to think that a doctor still can believe that progesterone 00:33:03.040 --> 00:33:21.640 has use only to the uterus. Progesterone is one of the most basic molecules in the universe 00:33:21.640 --> 00:33:33.120 and starting right from the ovum itself, it is involved in the structure of the ovum which 00:33:33.120 --> 00:33:43.760 organizes the genes, the cell division mechanism, everything from the beginning of the organism 00:33:43.760 --> 00:33:58.760 up and as the organism matures, even before puberty, progesterone is in charge of brain 00:33:58.760 --> 00:34:10.160 development. If progesterone is low during gestation, the brain fails to develop. When 00:34:10.160 --> 00:34:23.520 it's given as a supplement to the brain, it becomes super able, bigger and more functional 00:34:23.520 --> 00:34:33.280 in animal experiments as well as humans. In the mature adult brain, progesterone is a 00:34:33.280 --> 00:34:42.720 major steroid, 10 times higher in the brain for example than circulating in the blood. 00:34:42.720 --> 00:34:57.600 So you might say that the uterus is a very minor field of operation for the progesterone 00:34:57.600 --> 00:35:10.080 molecule. It governs brain growth, brain function. If it's low, a woman will experience epileptic 00:35:10.080 --> 00:35:22.120 seizures when the brain progesterone falls too low, mood, depression, deficiency of progesterone 00:35:22.120 --> 00:35:29.120 affects every aspect of life. 00:35:29.120 --> 00:35:45.120 Question from Christy. She wanted to know are sulfur supplements good or bad such as 00:35:45.120 --> 00:35:48.120 in the form of MSM? 00:35:48.120 --> 00:36:03.120 When people email me that question, I send them a couple of articles from about 40 years 00:36:03.120 --> 00:36:13.120 ago I think it was. A woman in a California hospital was brought in and she exploded in 00:36:13.120 --> 00:36:23.120 the operating room. She died and several of the staff were injured. Analyzing the chemistry 00:36:23.120 --> 00:36:35.120 of what happened, the best hypothesis seems to be that she was using MSM to treat a cancer 00:36:35.120 --> 00:36:45.120 using very large amounts of it. Some fluke in the way it metabolized led to that toxic 00:36:45.120 --> 00:36:57.120 explosion. That only happened once but I think it's good for people to be aware of that chemical 00:36:57.120 --> 00:37:09.120 analysis that was done in California as an indicator of how little is known about the 00:37:09.120 --> 00:37:23.120 supplements that people so commonly use without knowing very much about the actual chemistry. 00:37:23.120 --> 00:37:28.120 So she literally exploded, like her body exploded? 00:37:28.120 --> 00:37:45.120 Yeah, or the gases around, they had opened a big incision. A surge of emissions, I think 00:37:45.120 --> 00:37:54.120 it was described as an explosion, but the fumes quickly knocked out several of the staff. 00:37:54.120 --> 00:38:00.120 Yeah, well that's definitely a supplement that we want to stay away from. I know you 00:38:00.120 --> 00:38:05.120 mentioned that they took it for cancer, but why do people take MSM? I've never recommended 00:38:05.120 --> 00:38:09.120 it to my clients, but are there other reasons people take it and is there something they 00:38:09.120 --> 00:38:13.120 could take instead? 00:38:13.120 --> 00:38:20.120 If they're doing it as an anti-inflammatory, yeah there are lots of anti-inflammatory things. 00:38:20.120 --> 00:38:32.120 The safest approach I think is to try to look at causes and see what the particular problem 00:38:32.120 --> 00:38:40.120 is. Low blood sugar leads to inflammation, too much unsaturated vegetable oil in the 00:38:40.120 --> 00:38:51.120 diet amplifies inflammation, too much phosphate in the diet relative to calcium is a very 00:38:51.120 --> 00:39:02.120 powerful promoter of inflammation. Things that over-activate the parathyroid gland will 00:39:02.120 --> 00:39:13.120 lead to inflammation, fibrosis, calcification. The thing that these supplements are recommended 00:39:13.120 --> 00:39:26.120 for, they almost always have a clear cause that can be approached. Supplementing calcium, 00:39:26.120 --> 00:39:37.120 for example, avoiding things that are over-rich in phosphates, too much wheat, too many beans, 00:39:37.120 --> 00:39:44.120 too many nuts, for example, those are all heavy in phosphates. 00:39:44.120 --> 00:39:50.120 Yeah, I can't tell you how many people I talk to about going off of nuts and seeds and for 00:39:50.120 --> 00:39:56.120 whatever reason, PUFA as well as oxalates as well as inflammatory responses like what 00:39:56.120 --> 00:40:01.120 you're talking about and how much better they feel after even less than a week they notice 00:40:01.120 --> 00:40:06.120 the difference being off of nuts and nut butters and seeds and things like that. 00:40:06.120 --> 00:40:12.120 Okay, so Trudy asks, "I would love to know Dr. Ray Peat's stance on colostrum powder 00:40:12.120 --> 00:40:17.120 and powdered milk." 00:40:17.120 --> 00:40:27.120 One thing that I just ran across a few months ago was that the dehydrating and powder producing 00:40:27.120 --> 00:40:39.120 industry has sometime in recent years, they have begun using nanoparticles to prevent 00:40:39.120 --> 00:40:53.120 clumping of their powders and colostrum is a good idea. Powdered milk is just a wonder 00:40:53.120 --> 00:41:03.120 food for convenience. I've used hundreds of pounds of it myself but recently running across 00:41:03.120 --> 00:41:16.120 this bit on the new technology, just so that the powder will flow easily, they're actually 00:41:16.120 --> 00:41:28.120 microscopically coating it with nanoparticles and I haven't found any industry source which 00:41:28.120 --> 00:41:35.120 admits that they're using it but on the internet you can look at nanoparticles and powdered 00:41:35.120 --> 00:41:42.120 milk products. You can find lots of articles about the use of it, people selling the technology 00:41:42.120 --> 00:41:55.120 to be used and these nanoparticles, if they're in a particular size range, are carcinogenic 00:41:55.120 --> 00:42:06.120 and pro-inflammatory. For several months I haven't been recommending some of my favorite 00:42:06.120 --> 00:42:16.120 recipes such as the powdered milk pancakes, flourless pancakes and biscuits and so on 00:42:16.120 --> 00:42:24.120 because of the uncertainty of how these powders are being produced. 00:42:24.120 --> 00:42:28.120 Yeah, there's so many things that start out great and then they process them a different 00:42:28.120 --> 00:42:34.120 way and we as health advocates have to say, "Okay, well at one time I recommended those 00:42:34.120 --> 00:42:39.120 but now I can't because they're changing the processing of it." So that's unfortunate. 00:42:39.120 --> 00:42:49.120 Yeah, that happened with vitamin C in the mid-1950s. The research that made it famous 00:42:49.120 --> 00:43:00.120 was done in the 40s and early 50s and I used it myself and with two tablets, tiny tablets 00:43:00.120 --> 00:43:11.120 of 50 milligrams each, I ended a very intense poison oak allergy so that I could work in 00:43:11.120 --> 00:43:22.120 the lab without a trace of poison oak sensitivity just after basically 100 milligrams of synthetic 00:43:22.120 --> 00:43:31.120 vitamin C. But the next time I took it, it had come down in price by about 90% and the 00:43:31.120 --> 00:43:40.120 tablets were now 500 milligrams instead of 50 milligrams and it caused cold symptoms 00:43:40.120 --> 00:43:49.120 and other allergy symptoms when I took it. And after my own experience, I started mentioning 00:43:49.120 --> 00:43:57.120 that to other people who had chronic sinus inflammation, runny nose, post nasal drip, 00:43:57.120 --> 00:44:09.120 cough, hemorrhoids, all kinds of mysterious ailments, I mentioned my experience with synthetic 00:44:09.120 --> 00:44:20.120 vitamin C and a huge percentage of these people with chronic inflammatory problems solved 00:44:20.120 --> 00:44:24.120 when they stopped taking their supplements. 00:44:24.120 --> 00:44:30.120 Wow, yeah, there's so much I've learned from you in particular about supplements and the 00:44:30.120 --> 00:44:35.120 things that are in them, kind of like the newsletter you had on silica and silicon dioxide, 00:44:35.120 --> 00:44:39.120 like how these supplements start out so great and then they use these products that really 00:44:39.120 --> 00:44:45.120 give us no reason to take them because we don't really want to be bringing sand particles 00:44:45.120 --> 00:44:47.120 into our digestive tract. 00:44:47.120 --> 00:44:50.120 Yeah, nano sand. 00:44:50.120 --> 00:44:57.120 Yeah, okay, well there you go. Okay, so this next question, this is kind of a loaded question 00:44:57.120 --> 00:45:03.120 and hopefully you can explain to the listeners what exactly these big terms are. I'm familiar 00:45:03.120 --> 00:45:09.120 with them but I want to hear from you. So it says, "Can you ask Dr. Peat about pheochromocytoma, 00:45:09.120 --> 00:45:16.120 paragangliomas, adrenal tumors, what we can do with this disease and is there a connection 00:45:16.120 --> 00:45:21.120 to thyroid diseases and pheochromocytomas?" 00:45:21.120 --> 00:45:33.120 I suspect that there is. The people that I've known with the diagnosis, I have urged them 00:45:33.120 --> 00:45:42.120 to check their thyroid function and it happens that the people who have been diagnosed with 00:45:42.120 --> 00:45:53.120 that were actually hypothyroid. In the absence of good thyroid function, the body looks for 00:45:53.120 --> 00:46:09.120 alternative ways to keep working and one is to over-activate that particular kind of cell. 00:46:09.120 --> 00:46:19.120 It can go in different directions. Excess serotonin is one of the products. Excess adrenergic 00:46:19.120 --> 00:46:33.120 chemicals is another route. I think of it as the body's inventing ways to get around 00:46:33.120 --> 00:46:47.120 an energy block or limitation. That happens with many of the regulatory endocrine systems. 00:46:47.120 --> 00:46:56.120 For example, with animals, many years ago they found that if you removed one ovary of 00:46:56.120 --> 00:47:11.120 an animal, the other ovary was very likely to develop cancer. The mechanism was because 00:47:11.120 --> 00:47:23.120 the pituitary gland was producing enough activating gonadotropin for two hormones, it became more 00:47:23.120 --> 00:47:35.120 active to make one ovary do the work of two ovaries. It was over-stimulating that ovary, 00:47:35.120 --> 00:47:46.120 driving it to the point that it became a tumor or a cancer. In thyroid, there is good evidence 00:47:46.120 --> 00:47:55.120 that the same thing happens when you are deficient in some nutrient needed to make the thyroid 00:47:55.120 --> 00:48:06.120 hormone or have something blocking the production of the hormone. Your pituitary becomes hyperactive, 00:48:06.120 --> 00:48:19.120 your GSH rises and chronically over-stimulates the thyroid gland, leading to thyroid cancer. 00:48:19.120 --> 00:48:29.120 Women, I don't know what the proportion is, but they are more susceptible to developing 00:48:29.120 --> 00:48:38.120 thyroid cancer because of the estrogen blocking the secretion of the hormone and the pituitary 00:48:38.120 --> 00:48:47.120 having to work harder. I think it's the same chemical that can be used for a prolactin 00:48:47.120 --> 00:49:00.120 secreting tumor, bromocriptine or cabergoline or the chemicals used to treat a prolactinoma. 00:49:00.120 --> 00:49:12.120 Some of those can be used to treat the Cushing's syndrome and I think if you keep the pituitary 00:49:12.120 --> 00:49:22.120 under control so that it isn't over-stimulating your adrenals, you will reduce the risk of 00:49:22.120 --> 00:49:29.120 all of this. Once you get a tumor in the adrenal, it's too late to work on that level of the 00:49:29.120 --> 00:49:43.120 pituitary. Low thyroid function leads to increased prolactin, for example, as well as the thyroid 00:49:43.120 --> 00:49:57.120 stimulating hormone. The excess of gonadotropins often follows the excess of thyroid stimulating 00:49:57.120 --> 00:50:11.120 hormone and prolactin. Serotonin, which rises from either irritation in the digestive system 00:50:11.120 --> 00:50:21.120 or from a response to hypothyroidism, serotonin happens to drive all of the pituitary hormones. 00:50:21.120 --> 00:50:34.120 So stress that leaves you with chronic serotonin excess can contribute to all of the tumor 00:50:34.120 --> 00:50:40.120 developments that are driven by the pituitary gland, which would include different types 00:50:40.120 --> 00:50:55.120 of adrenal tumors, thyroid tumors, ovarian tumors, all of the endocrine tumors. 00:50:55.120 --> 00:51:03.120 Okay, very good. The next question comes from John and it says, "What are your thoughts 00:51:03.120 --> 00:51:10.120 on the herbal form of ephedra, also known as Mao Hang? Is this something that can be 00:51:10.120 --> 00:51:12.120 beneficial?" 00:51:12.120 --> 00:51:23.120 Yeah, I've used it from the time I was four years old, I think, and first had migraine-like 00:51:23.120 --> 00:51:38.120 headaches. I had another Mao Hang tea, a desert tea it was called, and it's a powerful stimulant, 00:51:38.120 --> 00:51:54.120 it wakes you up. Some people have used it in an excessive, chronic way, using it just 00:51:54.120 --> 00:52:04.120 for its stimulating purpose or for weight loss, for example. In chronic, excessive use, 00:52:04.120 --> 00:52:13.120 it contains things that are toxic to the liver, but if it's used occasionally, medicinally, 00:52:13.120 --> 00:52:17.120 for example, to treat nausea or a headache. 00:52:17.120 --> 00:52:22.120 Great. And yeah, with regard to weight loss, it kind of stimulates the beta receptors, 00:52:22.120 --> 00:52:27.120 is that right? So it's harder, like for the stubborn fat areas, I remember that from 00:52:27.120 --> 00:52:32.120 my bodybuilding days, everybody was on ephedra because it would stimulate the beta receptors 00:52:32.120 --> 00:52:35.120 instead of the alpha receptors. 00:52:35.120 --> 00:52:48.120 Yeah, but free fatty acids are the result, and free fatty acids are what make fat toxic, 00:52:48.120 --> 00:52:56.120 so it's better to eliminate the fat slowly and carefully rather than pushing it out with 00:52:56.120 --> 00:52:59.120 a stimulant like Mao Hang. 00:52:59.120 --> 00:53:04.120 Yes, I agree. Okay, two more questions and then I think we'll wrap it up, but the next 00:53:04.120 --> 00:53:11.120 question is from Ann and it says, "What is your remedy, Dr. Peat, for cellulite? What 00:53:11.120 --> 00:53:17.120 would be your cure-all or a way to begin to heal a cellulite issue?" 00:53:17.120 --> 00:53:35.120 The immediate thing is to check your temperature, metabolic rate, look at your calorie and 00:53:35.120 --> 00:53:49.120 water consumption. You should be evaporating at least two liters of water every day that 00:53:49.120 --> 00:53:58.120 you can account for. So if you drink, for example, two quarts of orange juice and two 00:53:58.120 --> 00:54:13.120 quarts of milk, you should produce a moderate amount, maybe a quart of urine per day. If 00:54:13.120 --> 00:54:24.120 most of your water intake appears in the form of urine, that means that you're not evaporating 00:54:24.120 --> 00:54:32.120 at a proper rate and so your metabolic rate is low. Your temperature should be kept right 00:54:32.120 --> 00:54:41.120 around 98.6 during the daytime, the pulse rate well above the 60s, preferably in the 00:54:41.120 --> 00:54:55.120 80s per minute. To do that might require supplementing some extra calcium, making sure you're getting 00:54:55.120 --> 00:55:08.120 enough sodium in your diet. Having a vitamin D blood test is a good idea to make sure your 00:55:08.120 --> 00:55:18.120 blood level is up around 50 nanograms per milliliter. Vitamin D and thyroid work very 00:55:18.120 --> 00:55:28.120 closely together. The sodium and calcium work closely together to suppress the stress hormones 00:55:28.120 --> 00:55:43.120 and to activate the protective hormones such as DHEA and progesterone. You still have a 00:55:43.120 --> 00:55:56.120 tendency to what they call cellulite. For a quick remedy, supplementing progesterone 00:55:56.120 --> 00:56:11.120 and DHEA, rubbing it into those areas and taking 5 or 10 milligrams orally can activate 00:56:11.120 --> 00:56:24.120 the connective tissue metabolism to toughen up the tone of the tissue and help it get 00:56:24.120 --> 00:56:32.120 rid of the water. I love that. Out of all of my time researching weight loss and fat 00:56:32.120 --> 00:56:37.120 loss and cellulite and things like that for clients, I've never heard somebody say rub 00:56:37.120 --> 00:56:41.120 that into your skin. You're on the cutting edge. You're always coming up with things 00:56:41.120 --> 00:56:44.120 that no one else is saying, which is what I really enjoy about you. 00:56:44.120 --> 00:56:50.120 That brings me to my last question. I wanted to ask you a question that was kind of personal, 00:56:50.120 --> 00:56:55.120 but I was hoping that it would be kind of a fun question for you to answer. What is 00:56:55.120 --> 00:56:59.120 your favorite pastime? What do you do for fun? 00:56:59.120 --> 00:57:05.120 I think painting is my favorite thing. 00:57:05.120 --> 00:57:10.120 Yeah, I've seen some of your artwork online and it's really beautiful. 00:57:10.120 --> 00:57:18.120 Yeah, whenever I can get someone to sit for me, I like to paint portraits. 00:57:18.120 --> 00:57:23.120 Well, that's great. So that's what I call my vitamin P, pleasure, passion, purpose, 00:57:23.120 --> 00:57:28.120 and we have to get vitamin P as well as all these other vitamins. Wouldn't you agree? 00:57:28.120 --> 00:57:39.120 Yeah, definitely. It's really the key to the whole thing is to make it work pleasurably. 00:57:39.120 --> 00:57:46.120 Yeah, absolutely. Well, Dr. Peat, this has been so interesting and fun and I just really 00:57:46.120 --> 00:57:51.120 appreciate your time on all of these questions and I hope the listeners who submitted questions 00:57:51.120 --> 00:57:55.120 do too. We're definitely going to have to do this again because I think people are really 00:57:55.120 --> 00:58:00.120 going to benefit from all of the information, so I appreciate that. So we'll say bye for 00:58:00.120 --> 00:58:04.120 now. Any parting words you wanted to leave the listeners with? 00:58:04.120 --> 00:58:06.120 Nope. 00:58:06.120 --> 00:58:11.120 Okay. Well, make sure you check out Dr. Peat's newsletter and sign up for that. Go ahead 00:58:11.120 --> 00:58:16.120 and give them the way they can sign up for that, Dr. Peat. 00:58:16.120 --> 00:58:30.120 Oh, okay. My website, raypeat.com, has a lot of my newsletters and articles, but the email 00:58:30.120 --> 00:58:38.120 address for my newsletter is raypeatsnewsletter@gmail.com. 00:58:38.120 --> 00:58:44.120 Yes, and I highly encourage you guys listening to go get that. It's a way to support Dr. 00:58:44.120 --> 00:58:49.120 Peat for all of this amazing time that he gives to us and to show him your appreciation 00:58:49.120 --> 00:58:56.120 and learn a lot of great info. So I love that about you and thank you once again, Dr. Peat. 00:58:56.120 --> 00:58:58.120 We'll do this again soon. 00:58:58.120 --> 00:59:00.120 Okay. Thank you. Goodbye. 00:59:00.120 --> 00:59:01.120 Okay. Bye for now. 00:59:01.120 --> 00:59:13.120 What's up, YouTube followers? Just a quick promo code for you of my show sponsor, dropenufm.com. 00:59:13.120 --> 00:59:20.120 You can get healthy oil packets like coconut oil, MCT oil, and their little pork sticks, 00:59:20.120 --> 00:59:25.120 salt and pepper pork sticks, no hormones, no nitrates, no artificial anything. Just 00:59:25.120 --> 00:59:31.120 really great ingredients that are quick and easy and on the go. 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