WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.580 (upbeat music) 00:00:02.580 --> 00:00:09.180 - Well, welcome to the Get Fit with Jodel podcast. 00:00:09.180 --> 00:00:13.580 I'm Jodel and I have Dr. Ray Peat back with me again 00:00:13.580 --> 00:00:14.920 to answer your questions. 00:00:14.920 --> 00:00:19.520 And boy, did we get a slew of questions this time, Dr. Peat. 00:00:19.520 --> 00:00:22.180 I took a hiatus from podcasts for a while 00:00:22.180 --> 00:00:26.140 to do some reflection during all this public health issue. 00:00:26.140 --> 00:00:29.140 And I think the questions piled up, 00:00:29.140 --> 00:00:31.520 so I hope you are ready. 00:00:31.520 --> 00:00:34.040 May I ask how you've been since it's been a little bit 00:00:34.040 --> 00:00:36.240 since we've talked, how have you been doing? 00:00:36.240 --> 00:00:42.800 - Very well, investigating as far as I can 00:00:42.800 --> 00:00:44.740 what's been going on. 00:00:44.740 --> 00:00:51.120 My first reaction was that I couldn't see any pandemic. 00:00:51.120 --> 00:00:57.380 And the last information I have, 00:00:57.380 --> 00:01:02.020 even looking at the figures at the CDC, 00:01:02.020 --> 00:01:04.260 even though they make this information 00:01:04.260 --> 00:01:08.200 something you have to add up for yourself, 00:01:08.200 --> 00:01:11.880 but their figures are now supporting 00:01:11.880 --> 00:01:16.880 the very earliest estimates of the professors at Stanford 00:01:16.880 --> 00:01:21.240 who are also saying nothing is happening. 00:01:21.240 --> 00:01:26.640 The mortality from this virus is right in the range 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:31.640 of a traditional flu influence of mortality 00:01:31.640 --> 00:01:35.940 about one fourth of a percent. 00:01:35.940 --> 00:01:40.840 - Wow, I mean, I've heard you talk on other podcasts 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:43.120 with similar statistics, and it's just like, 00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:47.400 I see where the world is kind of in that fear monger state, 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:50.440 but it really begs a lot of questions 00:01:50.440 --> 00:01:52.160 about the severity of it. 00:01:52.160 --> 00:01:54.380 We do have a question coming up later on 00:01:54.380 --> 00:01:56.240 from one of the listeners who was concerned 00:01:56.240 --> 00:01:57.600 about it, so I'm looking forward 00:01:57.600 --> 00:01:59.000 to getting to that with you. 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:02.620 I do have to tell you that you inspired me 00:02:02.620 --> 00:02:04.920 during this reflection time, I call it, 00:02:04.920 --> 00:02:07.820 like I took some time off when we were all stuck at home 00:02:07.820 --> 00:02:11.400 to work on a hiking trail on our property behind our home. 00:02:11.400 --> 00:02:14.120 So I was in the backyard chopping wood down 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:16.160 and raking a trail, and I fell in love with it. 00:02:16.160 --> 00:02:18.480 And I thought of you a lot, how you talked about 00:02:18.480 --> 00:02:20.840 cultivating things with your hands. 00:02:20.840 --> 00:02:23.440 And I've always loved being outdoors, 00:02:23.440 --> 00:02:26.320 but during this time of cultivating the land 00:02:26.320 --> 00:02:28.580 and creating something, I realized that I wanted 00:02:28.580 --> 00:02:31.520 less time on social media outlets and more time 00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:34.600 to give to my family and to creative processes, 00:02:34.600 --> 00:02:38.160 so to speak, so I decided to completely shut down 00:02:38.160 --> 00:02:39.760 my Get Fit with Jodell Facebook. 00:02:39.760 --> 00:02:43.640 I completely closed it down with over 4,000 followers, 00:02:43.640 --> 00:02:46.440 because I realized, Dr. Peat, that you are still able, 00:02:46.440 --> 00:02:48.920 you yourself are still able to help a lot of people, 00:02:48.920 --> 00:02:52.440 and you're not on social media, and you have a website, 00:02:52.440 --> 00:02:54.800 you have the ability to podcast with different people, 00:02:54.800 --> 00:02:57.160 you have your newsletter, that you reach out 00:02:57.160 --> 00:03:00.480 to a lot of hearts and minds, and you probably have no idea 00:03:00.480 --> 00:03:02.140 how many lives you have affected 00:03:02.140 --> 00:03:04.200 just by answering people's questions. 00:03:04.200 --> 00:03:06.760 So in short, I'm commending you for that, 00:03:06.760 --> 00:03:09.560 but also I'm inspired to do the same thing. 00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:12.980 So I've resigned to be only, people will only find me 00:03:12.980 --> 00:03:15.860 on YouTube and not on Facebook, not on Instagram, 00:03:15.860 --> 00:03:18.680 not anywhere else, so that I'm not constantly 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:21.360 having to devote my time, my precious time 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:25.240 to the social media pressures of life, 00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:28.240 but rather to those who are truly seeking answers, 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:29.300 like our listeners. 00:03:29.300 --> 00:03:31.880 So people that are coming to your podcast, Dr. Peat, 00:03:31.880 --> 00:03:35.760 I've found that these are the ones really asking questions 00:03:35.760 --> 00:03:37.880 and seeking answers to their health, 00:03:37.880 --> 00:03:40.120 and I've found that social media is more geared 00:03:40.120 --> 00:03:42.000 for people to just numb out. 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:44.340 It's not a place where people are seeking help, 00:03:44.340 --> 00:03:46.080 but rather they're just zoning out, 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:48.000 they're just ready to not think, 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:50.760 so let me just go through my feed. 00:03:50.760 --> 00:03:53.720 But I feel like honing in on one outlet of podcasting 00:03:53.720 --> 00:03:56.280 with you and other like-minded folks 00:03:56.280 --> 00:03:57.800 instead of so many other outlets, 00:03:57.800 --> 00:04:01.600 and really help our listeners and build the community too. 00:04:01.600 --> 00:04:05.420 So long story short, here's my question to you, Dr. Peat. 00:04:05.420 --> 00:04:09.720 You discuss how powerful that stress is a negative 00:04:09.720 --> 00:04:11.480 in our life, like it's so powerful 00:04:11.480 --> 00:04:14.240 this stress in our lives, and I feel like 00:04:14.240 --> 00:04:16.820 social media outlets are one of the biggest stressors 00:04:16.820 --> 00:04:19.120 that people aren't really aware of. 00:04:19.120 --> 00:04:20.780 They're doing it every day, but I don't think 00:04:20.780 --> 00:04:22.880 they're aware of the pressures of social media. 00:04:22.880 --> 00:04:25.560 So I wanted your thoughts on social media 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:28.720 and its pressures of posting and getting likes 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:32.000 and approvals from others, and being on devices, 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:33.780 which is a whole nother thing. 00:04:33.780 --> 00:04:36.720 Do you think that this is one of the main concerns 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:40.200 and causes of why people have a lot of health issues 00:04:40.200 --> 00:04:43.880 nowadays as opposed to 20, 30 years ago 00:04:43.880 --> 00:04:46.000 when we didn't have these social pressures 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:47.800 of online presences? 00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:53.800 - I have never experienced Facebook or Twitter 00:04:53.800 --> 00:04:58.880 or any of those things myself, but I see people 00:04:58.880 --> 00:05:03.880 being deeply involved in their cell phone 00:05:03.880 --> 00:05:11.760 or their computers, and that's something that, 00:05:11.760 --> 00:05:17.160 oh, 50 years ago or more, there wasn't even that 00:05:18.160 --> 00:05:21.280 absorption in TV. 00:05:21.280 --> 00:05:26.280 TV was just starting to be an obsessive part of the culture. 00:05:26.280 --> 00:05:32.380 But my family didn't even have a TV 00:05:32.380 --> 00:05:36.880 until I was long out of college. 00:05:36.880 --> 00:05:42.280 I think I had been out of college several years 00:05:44.320 --> 00:05:49.320 before we borrowed a TV to watch Kennedy's inauguration. 00:05:49.320 --> 00:05:57.360 But even TV, I'm sure it's damaging kids 00:05:57.360 --> 00:06:05.200 to sit around inertly watching stories 00:06:05.200 --> 00:06:11.600 which are very cleverly designed propagandistically. 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:18.240 The Pentagon is now a part of the Hollywood industry. 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:25.800 They even invested in the latest technology development 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:32.880 for Hollywood to create realistic images 00:06:32.880 --> 00:06:36.440 that can be mistaken for the real thing. 00:06:36.440 --> 00:06:41.960 They can forge voices and personalities 00:06:41.960 --> 00:06:46.960 and the Pentagon can operate, 00:06:46.960 --> 00:06:52.200 one person can operate many personalities on Facebook 00:06:52.200 --> 00:06:57.680 or the other social media, so people are interacting 00:06:57.680 --> 00:07:02.400 very often with computers that they think are human. 00:07:02.400 --> 00:07:10.320 And it's not only stressful, but it's creating a dream world 00:07:11.200 --> 00:07:16.200 and the dream world people can be manipulated to do 00:07:16.200 --> 00:07:23.880 what the Pentagon or the CDC or the giant corporations 00:07:23.880 --> 00:07:26.000 want them to do. 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:32.280 Google, several years ago, sociologists demonstrated 00:07:32.280 --> 00:07:38.480 how by changing the definition of questions 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:45.120 on a search engine, they could absolutely skew 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:51.260 the way people voted in real elections. 00:07:51.260 --> 00:07:58.480 And Google is obviously doing that. 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:02.560 They can control the elections. 00:08:02.560 --> 00:08:07.560 And Congress worries about Russians or Trump 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:13.720 or Ukrainians or whatever interfering with US elections, 00:08:13.720 --> 00:08:19.640 but the very powerful demonstrated effect of Google 00:08:19.640 --> 00:08:26.360 on elections is ignored, apparently because Congress 00:08:26.360 --> 00:08:32.340 is bought off by the people who control the elections 00:08:32.340 --> 00:08:35.560 and are pleased with how they're turning out. 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:38.880 - There are so many rabbit holes. 00:08:38.880 --> 00:08:41.800 I wanna go down with that, but I do remember, 00:08:41.800 --> 00:08:44.680 somebody recently told me that television 00:08:44.680 --> 00:08:48.920 actually stems from the kind of phrase, tell a vision. 00:08:48.920 --> 00:08:51.840 So like you said, a dream world where they're kind of 00:08:51.840 --> 00:08:54.840 programming us to not think for ourselves, 00:08:54.840 --> 00:08:57.580 but here, let me tell you a vision that you need to believe 00:08:57.580 --> 00:09:01.480 in and be a part of, yeah. 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:03.880 No, so yeah, so I can definitely see your point 00:09:03.880 --> 00:09:06.640 about how it is a stressor and even television, 00:09:06.640 --> 00:09:11.200 not just social media, but just the idea of not being able 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:12.840 to think for ourselves. 00:09:12.840 --> 00:09:15.040 That's kind of something to be concerned about 00:09:15.040 --> 00:09:18.640 and how we might wanna dial back on our social media outlets 00:09:18.640 --> 00:09:21.800 and really focus on where is my time devoted to? 00:09:21.800 --> 00:09:24.640 How much time am I spending bettering myself 00:09:24.640 --> 00:09:27.820 versus lessening myself with the energy suck 00:09:27.820 --> 00:09:31.780 that is a lot of device time and social media time? 00:09:31.780 --> 00:09:35.080 Yeah, okay, well, I love that. 00:09:35.080 --> 00:09:36.560 And before time gets away from us, 00:09:36.560 --> 00:09:39.040 I guess we should jump into everyone else's questions. 00:09:39.040 --> 00:09:40.580 So I have a slew of questions. 00:09:40.580 --> 00:09:43.600 If we don't get to all of you guys' questions today, 00:09:43.600 --> 00:09:46.520 then I'll put them in the next one that we do. 00:09:46.520 --> 00:09:50.040 But I wanted to give a big shout out to a guy named Matt. 00:09:50.040 --> 00:09:52.200 He's a researcher at Harvard 00:09:52.200 --> 00:09:54.960 and he asked a question a while back, Dr. Peat, 00:09:54.960 --> 00:09:56.440 and I never got to ask you this, 00:09:56.440 --> 00:09:59.360 but it's just an interesting question about adaptogen. 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:03.800 So Matt would like to know your thoughts on adaptogen herbs 00:10:03.800 --> 00:10:07.280 such as ashwagandha and rhodiola for helping with cortisol. 00:10:07.280 --> 00:10:14.320 Oh, there are several levels that they work at. 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:21.160 Some of them are boosting the steroids. 00:10:21.160 --> 00:10:27.480 Like ginseng has androgenic steroid materials in it 00:10:29.120 --> 00:10:34.120 that actually support, but our natural hormones 00:10:34.120 --> 00:10:39.960 like pregnenolone and DHEA are the body's adaptogens. 00:10:39.960 --> 00:10:44.680 And so things that work with them 00:10:44.680 --> 00:10:49.280 are simply supporting our body's stabilizing effect. 00:10:49.280 --> 00:10:54.800 There are two kinds of adaptation. 00:10:54.800 --> 00:10:59.800 One, the emergency system that pours out cortisol 00:10:59.800 --> 00:11:05.040 and all of the stress-related steroids and other hormones. 00:11:05.040 --> 00:11:12.240 These powerfully help you survive an immediate matter 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:18.000 of minutes, seconds, and hours. 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:22.240 But then they become counterproductive 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:25.280 and reduce your adaptability 00:11:25.280 --> 00:11:31.240 if they aren't backed up by increased energy production, 00:11:31.240 --> 00:11:35.720 which means anything that supports mitochondrial stability 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:40.720 and health and good thyroid function 00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:45.400 and the ability to produce increased amounts 00:11:45.400 --> 00:11:50.400 of the stabilizing DHEA, pregnenolone and progesterone. 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:56.240 And the basic long range adaptogen 00:11:56.240 --> 00:12:05.920 is this stable energy production, 00:12:05.920 --> 00:12:10.920 keeping your mitochondria producing energy 00:12:10.920 --> 00:12:16.440 at a high rate and without producing toxic side effects. 00:12:17.080 --> 00:12:22.080 An emergency activation with adrenaline 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:27.120 tends to produce lots of free radical side effects, 00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:31.200 but the proper high energy production 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:35.560 running on the basis of thyroid activity, 00:12:35.560 --> 00:12:40.440 you are actually wasting energy in the sense 00:12:40.440 --> 00:12:47.720 that you're producing a tremendous amount of heat, 00:12:47.720 --> 00:12:51.960 but that use of oxygen to produce energy 00:12:51.960 --> 00:12:55.800 is actually reducing the toxic side effects. 00:12:55.800 --> 00:13:00.600 So becoming an inefficient machine 00:13:00.600 --> 00:13:05.480 that operates at a high temperature 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:08.400 and seeming to waste energy, 00:13:08.400 --> 00:13:13.400 that's actually the proper route to long range adaptability. 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:20.000 You assimilate and overcome by changing 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:25.920 the nature of the threat and the stress, 00:13:25.920 --> 00:13:31.120 rather than being forced to change your body's structure 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:36.400 or behavior by the cortisol acute stress route. 00:13:36.400 --> 00:13:40.120 - Okay. 00:13:41.720 --> 00:13:46.720 - And probably the single most important factor 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:52.480 in staying on this route of long range 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:59.320 protective adaptability is the production of carbon dioxide 00:13:59.320 --> 00:14:04.680 and the ability to suppress lactic acid formation. 00:14:04.680 --> 00:14:10.760 That the acute stress, if you lack adaptability, 00:14:11.280 --> 00:14:16.040 pours out a lot of lactic acid 00:14:16.040 --> 00:14:19.280 with lots of bad consequences in the long run. 00:14:19.280 --> 00:14:24.120 The ability to make carbon dioxide 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:28.320 by running your mitochondria at high energy, 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:34.480 why that is protected is that they are generating 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:38.800 carbon dioxide which suppresses the free radicals 00:14:38.800 --> 00:14:42.120 and keeps lactic acid under control, 00:14:42.120 --> 00:14:46.200 keeps the whole system in an oxidizing state. 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:53.000 The reducing or pseudo hypoxic state 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:56.120 is the destructive stress state 00:14:56.120 --> 00:15:00.800 that everything should be geared towards getting over. 00:15:00.800 --> 00:15:03.640 - Okay, that's good. 00:15:03.640 --> 00:15:05.000 I like your thought. 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:08.120 I've never thought of it in that terms of adaptogens. 00:15:08.120 --> 00:15:10.320 I mean, I know we want long-term adaptability, 00:15:10.320 --> 00:15:12.480 but no, I never thought of it like that, so. 00:15:12.480 --> 00:15:17.440 Michael asks, now this is an interesting question, Dr. Peat. 00:15:17.440 --> 00:15:20.580 What are Dr. Peat's existential fears? 00:15:20.580 --> 00:15:32.280 - Currently, the insanity of the ruling class 00:15:32.280 --> 00:15:36.560 has been long range at things 00:15:36.560 --> 00:15:39.600 since I was three or four years old. 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:44.600 I started seeing sadism and cruelty in everyone in power, 00:15:44.600 --> 00:15:53.040 but the long range trend over all these years 00:15:53.040 --> 00:15:58.040 is that the ruling class is becoming more confident 00:15:58.040 --> 00:16:04.560 of its ability to go right to the final state. 00:16:06.160 --> 00:16:11.160 This pandemic and the behavior of the CDC 00:16:11.160 --> 00:16:15.520 and all of its supporting agencies. 00:16:15.520 --> 00:16:21.760 I think this is a threatening existence of life itself. 00:16:21.760 --> 00:16:26.720 - Yeah, I would second those fears. 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:27.580 I'm with you. 00:16:27.580 --> 00:16:32.680 Okay, M. Anderson asks, please ask Dr. Peat 00:16:32.680 --> 00:16:35.320 about caffeine and coffee addiction. 00:16:35.320 --> 00:16:38.480 How can caffeine be good if it is habit-forming? 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:40.800 Caffeine triggers cortisol release. 00:16:40.800 --> 00:16:42.320 How can this be good? 00:16:42.320 --> 00:16:46.560 What about acrylamide in carcinogen? 00:16:46.560 --> 00:16:48.400 I'm sorry, what about acrylamide, 00:16:48.400 --> 00:16:50.160 the carcinogen chemical that's released 00:16:50.160 --> 00:16:53.660 when organic matter is half burned like roasted coffee beans? 00:16:53.660 --> 00:16:55.600 Many people get problems with insomnia. 00:16:55.600 --> 00:16:57.560 Anxiety become edgy due to coffee. 00:16:57.560 --> 00:16:59.400 Quitting coffee, old turkey. 00:16:59.400 --> 00:17:00.600 I think she means cold turkey. 00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:02.040 Gives me terrible withdrawal. 00:17:02.040 --> 00:17:04.080 Why bother with coffee, Dr. Peat? 00:17:05.080 --> 00:17:10.080 - A part of that type of reaction is because 00:17:10.080 --> 00:17:16.940 the lack of a properly coffee-consuming technology 00:17:16.940 --> 00:17:22.400 like the Japanese have their tea ceremony. 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:28.240 We need a better coffee-consuming technique 00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:32.480 which involves good, thick cream 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:38.720 because cream slows the absorption of the caffeine. 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:42.840 The people who have the terrible reactions 00:17:42.840 --> 00:17:47.840 are usually hypothyroid and have a blood sugar problem. 00:17:47.840 --> 00:17:55.240 They take black coffee off and on an empty stomach 00:17:55.240 --> 00:18:00.320 instead of eating and it drives their adrenaline 00:18:00.360 --> 00:18:05.360 and cortisol into a frenzy of tissue-damaging stress. 00:18:05.360 --> 00:18:14.240 using coffee only with food, 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:18.220 never on an empty stomach unless there's plenty 00:18:18.220 --> 00:18:20.400 of cream or milk with it. 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:25.400 Coffee con leche is a good method of taking it. 00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:30.920 But heavy cream, if you like the flavor of rich coffee, 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:37.660 cream improves the flavor while slowing the absorption. 00:18:37.660 --> 00:18:42.220 And if you look at the effects of caffeine, 00:18:42.220 --> 00:18:49.240 for more than 50 years, studies in animals 00:18:49.240 --> 00:18:54.380 of all sorts have demonstrated that caffeine 00:18:54.380 --> 00:18:59.380 is so powerfully carcinogenic that it can be given 00:18:59.380 --> 00:19:03.700 with concentrated cigarette smoke, 00:19:03.700 --> 00:19:06.520 a very powerful carcinogen. 00:19:06.520 --> 00:19:09.760 And just a little caffeine added prevents 00:19:09.760 --> 00:19:14.760 the carcinogenicity of topically applied cigarette smoke. 00:19:14.760 --> 00:19:20.200 And that observation led people to test them 00:19:20.200 --> 00:19:23.860 against other carcinogens. 00:19:23.860 --> 00:19:28.860 Even viral carcinogenesis is inhibited by caffeine, 00:19:28.860 --> 00:19:33.180 even radiation carcinogenesis, 00:19:33.180 --> 00:19:38.180 the most absolute form is suppressed by caffeine. 00:19:38.180 --> 00:19:45.040 And so it would be good if we didn't burn the coffee, 00:19:45.040 --> 00:19:52.000 that technology comes from partly the fact that people 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:55.860 like the taste of a smoky burn things. 00:19:55.860 --> 00:19:59.080 And partly because it softens the bean 00:19:59.080 --> 00:20:03.900 and makes it easier to grind to get the caffeine out. 00:20:03.900 --> 00:20:08.260 Like the technology of fermenting tea, 00:20:08.260 --> 00:20:14.280 making black tea releases lots more caffeine than green tea. 00:20:14.280 --> 00:20:26.000 So black tea is really biologically much more effective as an anti-stress, anti-cancer agent. 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:33.140 So the present way of preparing coffee 00:20:33.140 --> 00:20:40.000 isn't the ideal, it's just part of the tradition 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:44.560 and it turns out that the more coffee people drink, 00:20:44.560 --> 00:20:48.520 five cups and up, for example, 00:20:48.520 --> 00:20:51.800 are the healthiest in general, 00:20:51.800 --> 00:20:56.800 even a lower rate of Alzheimer's disease, 00:20:56.800 --> 00:21:02.160 of cancer, heart disease, kidney disease, liver disease even. 00:21:02.160 --> 00:21:07.720 So empirically, even though coffee is full 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:11.600 of all of that smoky junk, 00:21:11.600 --> 00:21:15.240 which would be best to eliminate 00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:18.320 the caffeine override so powerfully. 00:21:18.320 --> 00:21:22.600 - I love that you said five cups or more 00:21:22.600 --> 00:21:23.600 'cause I'm sitting here going, 00:21:23.600 --> 00:21:27.440 "Okay, then I'm gonna live a nice long life." 00:21:27.440 --> 00:21:32.160 My grandma was a big coffee drinker and she lived to be 94. 00:21:32.160 --> 00:21:35.080 So I believe that there's something 00:21:35.080 --> 00:21:37.000 to the health effects of it. 00:21:37.000 --> 00:21:38.920 To unpack her question a little bit more, 00:21:38.920 --> 00:21:43.240 like what about the habit forming aspect? 00:21:43.240 --> 00:21:45.760 Maybe it is something that because it's so medicinal, 00:21:45.760 --> 00:21:48.160 it's okay to have a little habit forming with it. 00:21:48.160 --> 00:21:57.140 - Yeah but part of that is really what you need. 00:21:57.140 --> 00:22:04.880 Before I took any thyroid supplement for many years, 00:22:04.880 --> 00:22:10.160 I recognized my symptoms as being typical 00:22:10.160 --> 00:22:12.960 of people who were hypothyroid. 00:22:12.960 --> 00:22:15.800 For example, being nearsighted 00:22:15.800 --> 00:22:18.200 and having migraine headaches 00:22:18.200 --> 00:22:21.160 are classical low thyroid signs. 00:22:21.160 --> 00:22:26.160 But for various reasons, 00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:31.000 just didn't get around to trying a supplement. 00:22:31.000 --> 00:22:35.800 And in that period, I would drink 00:22:35.800 --> 00:22:39.760 often 50 cups of coffee a day. 00:22:39.760 --> 00:22:44.760 And I would stave off the stresses 00:22:44.760 --> 00:22:48.360 and the migraines and such. 00:22:48.360 --> 00:22:53.360 But I was pouring a huge amount of coffee through my system 00:22:53.360 --> 00:23:00.160 just to feel functional, keep my energy up 00:23:00.160 --> 00:23:05.080 so I could work efficiently. 00:23:05.080 --> 00:23:08.240 First thing I thought of waking up in the morning 00:23:08.240 --> 00:23:10.240 was a cup of coffee. 00:23:10.240 --> 00:23:14.200 And then I would just constantly 00:23:14.200 --> 00:23:16.900 have a cup of coffee in my hand all day. 00:23:16.900 --> 00:23:21.600 Within a couple of days, 00:23:21.600 --> 00:23:25.900 after I began using a thyroid supplement, 00:23:25.900 --> 00:23:29.780 I woke up one morning and noticed something 00:23:29.780 --> 00:23:33.520 was very different and I wasn't craving coffee. 00:23:34.560 --> 00:23:39.400 And I looked at my coffee drinking behavior 00:23:39.400 --> 00:23:42.720 and I was only drinking about five cups a day, 00:23:42.720 --> 00:23:47.720 four to five, and that happens spontaneously 00:23:47.720 --> 00:23:50.520 over a period of just a few days. 00:23:50.520 --> 00:23:55.520 So it wasn't that I was addicted to 50 cups a day. 00:23:55.520 --> 00:24:00.680 It was that my system recognized that 00:24:00.680 --> 00:24:03.300 as part of its homeostasis. 00:24:04.180 --> 00:24:07.460 That could be called an addiction, 00:24:07.460 --> 00:24:12.180 but if it's repairing you and preventing disease 00:24:12.180 --> 00:24:15.140 and making you live longer, 00:24:15.140 --> 00:24:19.580 it's not proper to classify it with addictive things 00:24:19.580 --> 00:24:21.620 such as morphine. 00:24:21.620 --> 00:24:25.620 Everything about morphine and the opiates, 00:24:25.620 --> 00:24:31.540 everything known about it is destructive, 00:24:31.540 --> 00:24:35.760 creates inflammation, promotes cancer growth, 00:24:35.760 --> 00:24:40.360 degenerative diseases and so on. 00:24:40.360 --> 00:24:45.360 It's the basic archetype of a destructive drug 00:24:45.360 --> 00:24:54.820 and its addictiveness is just a part of that. 00:25:00.160 --> 00:25:05.160 The reason people feel addicted to coffee and caffeine 00:25:05.160 --> 00:25:10.220 is mostly that it's filling in for something they need. 00:25:10.220 --> 00:25:15.820 There is obviously no need for the opiates. 00:25:15.820 --> 00:25:18.620 - I would agree with that because I feel like 00:25:18.620 --> 00:25:19.460 I'm the same way. 00:25:19.460 --> 00:25:20.940 First thing in the morning I wake up, 00:25:20.940 --> 00:25:23.180 I think of coffee and I know-- 00:25:23.180 --> 00:25:29.180 - The body takes all of those things into account. 00:25:29.180 --> 00:25:33.060 Someone did an analysis of the English diet 00:25:33.060 --> 00:25:38.580 and even though nutritionists say that 00:25:38.580 --> 00:25:43.380 coffee and tea are nutrition free, 00:25:43.380 --> 00:25:48.380 this analysis showed that looking at the English diet 00:25:48.380 --> 00:25:53.340 as a whole, coffee and tea together 00:25:53.340 --> 00:25:58.340 provide 20% of several of the essential nutrients 00:25:59.220 --> 00:26:01.420 including some of the B vitamins. 00:26:01.420 --> 00:26:04.060 - Yeah, okay, I love that. 00:26:04.060 --> 00:26:06.460 There's another reason I need to keep drinking it. 00:26:06.460 --> 00:26:10.780 Okay, well, okay, here's one question. 00:26:10.780 --> 00:26:12.640 What's your favorite brand of coffee? 00:26:12.640 --> 00:26:13.480 What do you drink? 00:26:13.480 --> 00:26:15.880 What's your favorite go-to cup of coffee? 00:26:15.880 --> 00:26:21.540 - Oh, I don't know. 00:26:21.540 --> 00:26:26.300 I usually like, but for taste, 00:26:26.300 --> 00:26:28.940 a fairly dark roast or French roast, 00:26:28.940 --> 00:26:35.200 but just because of the recognition 00:26:35.200 --> 00:26:38.100 that it's got a lot of smoke in it, 00:26:38.100 --> 00:26:45.540 I sometimes alternate by drinking a light roast. 00:26:45.540 --> 00:26:51.900 If you can find a variety of coffee that's low in acid, 00:26:54.660 --> 00:26:59.580 then the light roasts are really very rich tasting. 00:26:59.580 --> 00:27:03.740 - Okay, okay, Brandon asks, 00:27:03.740 --> 00:27:06.140 okay, he must be dealing with gut dysbiosis 00:27:06.140 --> 00:27:09.660 'cause he says, I have SIBO gut dysbiosis 00:27:09.660 --> 00:27:12.460 and the foods don't seem to be cutting it 00:27:12.460 --> 00:27:15.260 that are carrot salad, bamboo shoots, et cetera, 00:27:15.260 --> 00:27:17.340 which, and if they're not working, 00:27:17.340 --> 00:27:20.340 which antibiotics might Dr. Peat recommend? 00:27:20.340 --> 00:27:23.940 What doses, frequency, and where to locate them online, 00:27:23.940 --> 00:27:28.940 if possible, as well can one expect some symptoms 00:27:28.940 --> 00:27:32.140 with use of these, thanks as always, Brandon. 00:27:32.140 --> 00:27:39.660 - I think the first things are to make sure 00:27:39.660 --> 00:27:44.660 that your whole digestive system is working optimally 00:27:48.220 --> 00:27:53.220 and your inflammatory reactions are minimal. 00:27:53.220 --> 00:27:58.300 And that, two of the most important things 00:27:58.300 --> 00:28:00.860 are getting enough thyroid 00:28:00.860 --> 00:28:04.300 so that you have quick peristalsis, 00:28:04.300 --> 00:28:07.080 quick transit through the intestine. 00:28:07.080 --> 00:28:10.740 That simply can keep the bacteria 00:28:10.740 --> 00:28:15.980 from having the time necessary to develop 00:28:15.980 --> 00:28:19.140 in the upper part of your intestine. 00:28:19.140 --> 00:28:24.140 And intense digestive fluids are toxic to bacteria, 00:28:24.140 --> 00:28:27.820 helping to keep the intestine clean. 00:28:27.820 --> 00:28:31.600 And quick digestion makes you absorb the food, 00:28:31.600 --> 00:28:35.700 basically tending to starve the bacteria 00:28:35.700 --> 00:28:38.360 by getting it all yourself. 00:28:38.360 --> 00:28:44.700 And vitamin D and calcium, 00:28:44.700 --> 00:28:47.120 the ratio of calcium to phosphate, 00:28:47.120 --> 00:28:53.060 keep your immune system from being oversensitive. 00:28:53.060 --> 00:28:58.380 And an inflamed reaction of the immune system 00:28:58.380 --> 00:29:04.060 creates an interactive, supportive environment 00:29:04.060 --> 00:29:09.260 for the bacteria, for example, 00:29:09.260 --> 00:29:14.260 pouring out inflammation, fluids, 00:29:14.380 --> 00:29:19.380 containing lactic acid will support bacteria 00:29:19.380 --> 00:29:24.160 that produce irritants that create more inflammation 00:29:24.160 --> 00:29:25.580 and more lactic acid. 00:29:25.580 --> 00:29:31.420 So making sure your calcium, vitamin D and thyroid 00:29:31.420 --> 00:29:36.020 are optimized is the first thing. 00:29:36.020 --> 00:29:42.140 And then the two types of antibiotic 00:29:43.700 --> 00:29:47.780 which have many therapeutic effects 00:29:47.780 --> 00:29:52.780 besides killing germs are the tetracycline class 00:29:52.780 --> 00:29:58.500 and the erythromycin or azithromycin type. 00:29:58.500 --> 00:30:04.200 You've probably heard azithromycin 00:30:04.200 --> 00:30:07.700 being recommended for treating the coronavirus. 00:30:07.700 --> 00:30:12.620 That fits into the whole picture 00:30:12.620 --> 00:30:17.620 that the problem with the virus is the inflammation, 00:30:17.620 --> 00:30:22.860 not the presence of replicating viruses. 00:30:22.860 --> 00:30:27.780 But the inflammation predisposes you 00:30:27.780 --> 00:30:31.180 to support the viruses. 00:30:31.180 --> 00:30:35.060 It's the same with bacteria in intestine. 00:30:35.060 --> 00:30:40.060 The erythromycin category and the tetracyclines 00:30:40.420 --> 00:30:44.500 lower the inflammation directly 00:30:44.500 --> 00:30:49.500 apart from killing the bacteria. 00:30:49.500 --> 00:30:54.580 So they have several therapeutic functions 00:30:54.580 --> 00:31:01.860 and the erythromycin category has the extra property 00:31:01.860 --> 00:31:06.500 of stimulating peristalsis. 00:31:06.500 --> 00:31:11.500 So it's germicidal, anti-inflammatory 00:31:11.500 --> 00:31:16.660 and pro-propulsory propulsion activating effect. 00:31:16.660 --> 00:31:20.860 - I'm so glad you answered that the way you did, 00:31:20.860 --> 00:31:22.720 like how you gave the recommendation 00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:24.780 for like what else could be going on 00:31:24.780 --> 00:31:27.300 before you just jump right into antibiotics. 00:31:27.300 --> 00:31:29.220 Like you said, what about your thyroid? 00:31:29.220 --> 00:31:31.100 Like have they addressed the fact 00:31:31.100 --> 00:31:33.380 that they could need more thyroid support? 00:31:33.380 --> 00:31:34.940 And I think that's so spot on 00:31:34.940 --> 00:31:38.240 because with gut issues you have to make sure 00:31:38.240 --> 00:31:40.580 that you're weeding out the bad stuff 00:31:40.580 --> 00:31:42.400 before you just bring in all the good stuff 00:31:42.400 --> 00:31:44.120 like carrot salad and bamboo shoots. 00:31:44.120 --> 00:31:44.980 Those are great. 00:31:44.980 --> 00:31:47.740 That's your seed, like weed, seed and feed. 00:31:47.740 --> 00:31:50.580 You wanna bring those into like good plants 00:31:50.580 --> 00:31:51.700 that you're gonna plant in a garden 00:31:51.700 --> 00:31:53.820 but they also have to weed out all the weeds 00:31:53.820 --> 00:31:55.740 that could be potentially the cause 00:31:55.740 --> 00:31:58.940 for why the gut dyspiosis happened in the first place. 00:31:58.940 --> 00:32:03.940 - Yeah, just intensifying the vitality of your organism 00:32:04.900 --> 00:32:09.900 that the bacteria can stay there and no one minds them. 00:32:09.900 --> 00:32:16.060 So they might be there, you might be eating a lot of turds 00:32:16.060 --> 00:32:17.780 but that doesn't do any harm 00:32:17.780 --> 00:32:22.780 because the bacteria aren't being stimulated and fed 00:32:22.780 --> 00:32:29.980 by the metabolic defects of a sick organism. 00:32:29.980 --> 00:32:34.420 - Yeah, and even the commensals, like the good bacteria, 00:32:34.420 --> 00:32:37.540 the nice little commensal communities can actually overgrow 00:32:37.540 --> 00:32:39.580 and become pathobions or pathogens. 00:32:39.580 --> 00:32:41.860 So it's like you really have to look at 00:32:41.860 --> 00:32:45.020 what is the major cause behind the dysbiosis 00:32:45.020 --> 00:32:47.740 and then address that before you just add 00:32:47.740 --> 00:32:48.660 all these other things in 00:32:48.660 --> 00:32:51.080 or before you just annihilate the whole gut 00:32:51.080 --> 00:32:52.400 with an antibiotic. 00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:55.080 Okay, good. 00:32:55.080 --> 00:32:58.140 All right, somebody with the title I Love Sugar says, 00:32:58.140 --> 00:33:01.220 "Please ask Dr. Peat what causes stretch marks? 00:33:01.220 --> 00:33:04.220 "Is it possible to reverse or improve them?" 00:33:04.220 --> 00:33:09.220 - One interesting experience that I saw with stretch marks 00:33:09.220 --> 00:33:17.020 was a young cousin of mine who was about probably six 00:33:17.020 --> 00:33:19.880 or seven months pregnant. 00:33:19.880 --> 00:33:23.740 She had these, they looked like 00:33:23.740 --> 00:33:28.900 bodice broadness, old-fashioned suspenders 00:33:28.900 --> 00:33:32.780 and zigzags of purple and red, 00:33:32.780 --> 00:33:37.300 shiny, silvery, scar tissue-like material 00:33:37.300 --> 00:33:39.180 all across her abdomen. 00:33:39.180 --> 00:33:42.740 She said they had just developed in a few days 00:33:42.740 --> 00:33:47.500 and I asked about her diet, 00:33:47.500 --> 00:33:51.260 which wasn't terribly bad, but not very good. 00:33:51.260 --> 00:33:55.420 But I mentioned oysters and eggs 00:33:55.420 --> 00:33:59.500 as having all of the nutrients needed, 00:33:59.500 --> 00:34:04.500 especially copper and selenium, zinc and so on. 00:34:04.500 --> 00:34:12.020 She came back just, I think it was two or three days later 00:34:12.020 --> 00:34:15.540 that said she had eaten a lot of oysters and eggs 00:34:15.540 --> 00:34:17.340 and she showed me her belly. 00:34:17.340 --> 00:34:21.980 It was absolutely perfect, no stretch marks. 00:34:21.980 --> 00:34:23.500 - Wow. 00:34:23.500 --> 00:34:25.680 Well, oysters are high in zinc, right? 00:34:25.680 --> 00:34:28.100 And I've heard that zinc really can help those 00:34:28.100 --> 00:34:30.140 and that some of them with stretch marks 00:34:30.140 --> 00:34:32.240 may have a zinc deficiency as well? 00:34:32.240 --> 00:34:35.860 - Oh yeah, multiple deficiencies. 00:34:35.860 --> 00:34:41.800 Copper is part of the elastin molecule, 00:34:41.800 --> 00:34:46.800 so it's a essential factor in keeping your tissue elastic. 00:34:46.800 --> 00:34:50.820 It works in blood vessels too for protecting them. 00:34:50.820 --> 00:34:54.860 - Okay, so along with your sugar, I love sugar, 00:34:54.860 --> 00:34:57.300 you wanna eat some oysters and some eggs too. 00:34:57.500 --> 00:34:58.820 (laughing) 00:34:58.820 --> 00:35:01.060 Okay, Ebony Gordon says, 00:35:01.060 --> 00:35:04.240 can Dr. Peat give advice about treating resistance 00:35:04.240 --> 00:35:05.500 to thyroid hormone? 00:35:05.500 --> 00:35:10.020 Is it safe to take high dose of T3 for prolonged periods? 00:35:10.020 --> 00:35:10.860 Thanks. 00:35:10.860 --> 00:35:17.260 - It depends exactly on your need. 00:35:17.260 --> 00:35:25.620 For example, I've known people who have had 00:35:26.740 --> 00:35:31.180 terrible life-long hypothyroid symptoms, 00:35:31.180 --> 00:35:38.260 extreme unopposed estrogen affecting her lung function, 00:35:38.260 --> 00:35:46.900 poor oxygenation, very high cortisol, 00:35:46.900 --> 00:35:55.380 just extremely fat hips in size and so on. 00:35:55.900 --> 00:36:00.900 And basically crippled by her hormone imbalances. 00:36:00.900 --> 00:36:07.380 She felt a little better when she had 00:36:07.380 --> 00:36:11.900 what her doctor considered the maximum prescription 00:36:11.900 --> 00:36:15.860 of armored thyroid, five grains, 00:36:15.860 --> 00:36:20.860 which the natural thyroid consists of 00:36:21.220 --> 00:36:26.220 about 1/4 T3 and the rest T4 00:36:26.220 --> 00:36:30.280 when it's broken down by digestion. 00:36:30.280 --> 00:36:36.860 But recognizing that she was recovered partly, 00:36:36.860 --> 00:36:40.700 but still crippled, she found another doctor 00:36:40.700 --> 00:36:42.900 to prescribe another five grains 00:36:42.900 --> 00:36:48.820 and where a normal person at four or five grains 00:36:50.500 --> 00:36:53.980 would be a total full replacement 00:36:53.980 --> 00:37:00.440 that could make up for total removal of the thyroid gland. 00:37:00.440 --> 00:37:06.140 That five grains had only a small effect, 00:37:06.140 --> 00:37:09.120 maybe a fourth of what was needed, 00:37:09.120 --> 00:37:14.120 indicating that only the T3 in the glandular thyroid 00:37:14.120 --> 00:37:17.460 was having a therapeutic effect. 00:37:17.460 --> 00:37:21.160 On the second five-grain dose that she added, 00:37:21.160 --> 00:37:25.180 she felt basically twice as good. 00:37:25.180 --> 00:37:30.180 She found a third doctor over a period of just a few months, 00:37:30.180 --> 00:37:35.380 so she was taking 15 grains of armored thyroid. 00:37:35.380 --> 00:37:40.380 And if you look at the 1/4 T3 content, 00:37:40.380 --> 00:37:45.980 that added up to the equivalent 00:37:45.980 --> 00:37:50.980 of four grains or a total whole gland replacement 00:37:50.980 --> 00:37:55.880 in the form of only T3. 00:37:55.880 --> 00:37:57.500 - Wow. 00:37:57.500 --> 00:38:00.560 - She didn't have any hypothyroid symptoms, 00:38:00.560 --> 00:38:05.260 but on that dose, it was only a few weeks 00:38:05.260 --> 00:38:08.100 and she totally recovered her health 00:38:08.100 --> 00:38:12.300 and went down to 10 grains and then five grains. 00:38:14.740 --> 00:38:18.700 Her body was simply unable to respond 00:38:18.700 --> 00:38:20.540 to anything but T3. 00:38:20.540 --> 00:38:26.380 But given that therapeutic dose, 00:38:26.380 --> 00:38:31.140 it was only a few weeks before she didn't need that much 00:38:31.140 --> 00:38:34.060 and could reduce the dose to a third. 00:38:34.060 --> 00:38:41.060 And what happens is that in the absence of thyroid function, 00:38:43.580 --> 00:38:48.580 you shift over into all of these maladaptive things 00:38:48.580 --> 00:38:53.620 such as high cortisol and estrogen and serotonin 00:38:53.620 --> 00:38:55.600 and nitric oxide production, 00:38:55.600 --> 00:38:58.740 things that all interfere 00:38:58.740 --> 00:39:02.920 with your mitochondrial energy production. 00:39:02.920 --> 00:39:07.920 So your body is blocked from responding to the T3. 00:39:07.920 --> 00:39:13.420 So you can use pure T3 therapeutically 00:39:13.620 --> 00:39:18.620 but when you have used it to help to assimilate the nutrients, 00:39:18.620 --> 00:39:24.860 then having assimilated the nutrients, 00:39:24.860 --> 00:39:29.860 you are now able to convert T4 to T3 as needed. 00:39:29.860 --> 00:39:35.820 And so you can get the full dose out of glandular thyroid 00:39:35.820 --> 00:39:41.620 or even a pure thyroxine compound. 00:39:42.540 --> 00:39:45.860 What most doctors prescribe. 00:39:45.860 --> 00:39:50.860 And in women, the natural predominance of estrogen 00:39:50.860 --> 00:39:57.460 compared to men in women is limiting their liver's ability 00:39:57.460 --> 00:40:03.100 to convert T4 to T3. 00:40:03.100 --> 00:40:08.100 And so women almost always have a very limited 00:40:08.100 --> 00:40:12.380 inadequate reaction to T4. 00:40:12.380 --> 00:40:17.380 And increasing the dose can interfere 00:40:17.380 --> 00:40:22.500 when it reaches a certain excess, 00:40:22.500 --> 00:40:27.500 it can begin to displace T3 and have a suppressive effect. 00:40:27.500 --> 00:40:32.340 - Okay, and for clarification, 00:40:32.340 --> 00:40:33.940 can you tell everybody like, 00:40:33.940 --> 00:40:36.580 when you say a grain of thyroid, 00:40:36.580 --> 00:40:38.220 can you explain how many milligrams, 00:40:38.220 --> 00:40:40.180 like let's say they're on eye armor 00:40:40.180 --> 00:40:42.660 or whatever like you mentioned this lady was, 00:40:42.660 --> 00:40:45.060 how much would that be with one grain of, 00:40:45.060 --> 00:40:46.780 is that like 16 milligrams? 00:40:46.780 --> 00:40:53.700 - The traditional grain weight was a little over 60 milligrams 00:40:53.700 --> 00:40:58.180 and a five grain tablet, 00:40:58.180 --> 00:41:04.820 I think their definition was around 300 milligrams by weight, 00:41:09.140 --> 00:41:11.540 maybe a little over 300 milligrams. 00:41:11.540 --> 00:41:13.500 - Wow, so she was taking like, 00:41:13.500 --> 00:41:16.540 oh my goodness, so many, like 15 grains you said, 00:41:16.540 --> 00:41:19.860 so that's like 900 milligrams of thyroid. 00:41:19.860 --> 00:41:23.820 Wow, okay, so bottom line is, 00:41:23.820 --> 00:41:26.860 sometimes we don't know how much our body actually needs 00:41:26.860 --> 00:41:28.900 when it comes to thyroid supplementation, 00:41:28.900 --> 00:41:32.060 like you really have to kind of just keep bumping it up 00:41:32.060 --> 00:41:33.940 until you feel like you're seeing the results 00:41:33.940 --> 00:41:36.200 of an improved thyroid. 00:41:37.300 --> 00:41:39.260 - Yeah, it's very important to go, 00:41:39.260 --> 00:41:41.700 not only by your symptoms, 00:41:41.700 --> 00:41:46.140 but by your waking temperature and pulse rate, 00:41:46.140 --> 00:41:50.820 and then the effect of food on your temperature and pulse rate 00:41:50.820 --> 00:41:56.900 and your stable daytime resting temperature and pulse rate. 00:41:56.900 --> 00:42:00.940 - And so symptoms even like Raynod's, 00:42:00.940 --> 00:42:02.660 like if someone has Raynod's 00:42:02.660 --> 00:42:04.340 and they're taking thyroid supplement, 00:42:04.340 --> 00:42:06.540 but that's still a symptom that's there, 00:42:06.540 --> 00:42:10.660 that's an indication that they're not getting enough, correct? 00:42:10.660 --> 00:42:16.900 - Yeah, the temperature of a person's 00:42:16.900 --> 00:42:21.060 tip of nose, hands and feet, 00:42:21.060 --> 00:42:24.400 especially the fingers and toes, 00:42:24.400 --> 00:42:29.340 that those can be shut down 00:42:29.340 --> 00:42:34.020 in order to keep your core temperature up to the function, 00:42:34.020 --> 00:42:36.220 your brain and lungs and heart 00:42:36.220 --> 00:42:41.220 have to keep their energy going to maintain the organism, 00:42:41.220 --> 00:42:45.840 but under stress, you can cut off the circulation 00:42:45.840 --> 00:42:49.740 to the extremities, including your tip of your nose. 00:42:49.740 --> 00:42:52.380 So checking the temperature of those, 00:42:52.380 --> 00:42:57.140 for example, putting your fingers in your armpit, 00:42:57.140 --> 00:43:00.900 if they feel unnaturally cold, 00:43:00.900 --> 00:43:03.560 that's a sign of low thyroid. 00:43:03.560 --> 00:43:05.820 - Okay, very good. 00:43:05.820 --> 00:43:10.820 Lynn Marie asks, I just purchased all of Dr. Peat's books 00:43:10.820 --> 00:43:13.220 and some of his newsletters and I'm learning so much, 00:43:13.220 --> 00:43:14.060 so that's good. 00:43:14.060 --> 00:43:15.980 What are Dr. Peat's thoughts on using 00:43:15.980 --> 00:43:19.580 a quality negative ion generator while sleeping? 00:43:19.580 --> 00:43:21.920 I've read so many positive things about them. 00:43:21.920 --> 00:43:28.180 - For many years, I've kept one operating by my bed. 00:43:28.180 --> 00:43:35.140 If I could get more of them at a good price, 00:43:35.140 --> 00:43:37.400 I would probably have more of them running, 00:43:37.400 --> 00:43:43.660 but if you, for example, if the weather is bad, 00:43:43.660 --> 00:43:51.700 you can often notice the effect 00:43:51.700 --> 00:43:57.480 that a series of studies in Poland very well, 00:43:57.480 --> 00:44:03.900 good experiments, measurements showed that the action 00:44:04.860 --> 00:44:09.860 on the lung is to provide the active electrons 00:44:09.860 --> 00:44:22.940 reducing electrically the enzymes, mono-amino oxidase, 00:44:22.940 --> 00:44:32.020 supporting that enzyme's function in the lung, 00:44:32.020 --> 00:44:37.020 which is mainly to destroy circulating serotonin 00:44:37.020 --> 00:44:44.180 and serotonin in proportion of your general stress, 00:44:44.180 --> 00:44:50.320 but especially of intestinal inflammation. 00:44:50.320 --> 00:44:55.380 The intestine pours out a huge amount of serotonin 00:44:55.380 --> 00:44:59.380 into the bloodstream and the lungs are the main site 00:44:59.380 --> 00:45:04.380 of destroying that serotonin and these studies in Poland 00:45:04.380 --> 00:45:11.380 showed clearly that negative ions in the atmosphere 00:45:11.380 --> 00:45:16.760 accelerate the detoxing of serotonin. 00:45:16.760 --> 00:45:21.140 - Wow, okay, so I guess I need to look into these 00:45:21.140 --> 00:45:22.420 'cause I've always heard about them, 00:45:22.420 --> 00:45:25.260 but I've never got one, but you make a powerful statement. 00:45:25.260 --> 00:45:27.680 Is there a particular brand that you like? 00:45:27.680 --> 00:45:32.680 - Yeah, the person who was making the one I got, 00:45:32.680 --> 00:45:40.680 which is very good, decided it wasn't profitable enough 00:45:40.680 --> 00:45:47.160 and he showed a lot of them and said that the work 00:45:47.160 --> 00:45:52.160 was too much for the income, so I don't, 00:45:52.160 --> 00:45:56.680 it's a matter of first looking at to make sure 00:45:56.680 --> 00:46:00.880 they don't put out a measurable amount of ozone. 00:46:00.880 --> 00:46:05.880 That's toxic to the lungs, but you should be able 00:46:05.880 --> 00:46:11.960 to feel a cold wind effect when you hold upon your hand 00:46:11.960 --> 00:46:16.960 in front of them because there's a stream 00:46:16.960 --> 00:46:21.280 of negatively ionized air being driven away 00:46:21.280 --> 00:46:25.960 from the electrode that you can feel as an actual streaming. 00:46:26.960 --> 00:46:28.560 - All right, well, that's good to know 00:46:28.560 --> 00:46:30.520 and I'm sure Lynn appreciates that, too, 00:46:30.520 --> 00:46:31.880 'cause she was thinking about it. 00:46:31.880 --> 00:46:36.160 So, got a question from Turkish Postman. 00:46:36.160 --> 00:46:38.520 How to improve hearing, Dr. Peat, 00:46:38.520 --> 00:46:40.200 how do we improve our hearing? 00:46:40.200 --> 00:46:48.120 - Classically, thyroid is the most important thing. 00:46:48.120 --> 00:46:55.360 Reduces stress and maintains circulation and so on. 00:46:56.080 --> 00:47:01.080 But something I noticed when I was on the way to Mexico, 00:47:01.080 --> 00:47:10.840 I had a big clock on the wall and I noticed 00:47:10.840 --> 00:47:15.840 on route to Mexico I, at a certain distance across the room, 00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:23.880 couldn't hear the clock ticking and after just a few weeks 00:47:24.680 --> 00:47:28.720 in Mexico, coming back to the same room, 00:47:28.720 --> 00:47:35.760 that same clock was loud and clear at the same distance 00:47:35.760 --> 00:47:41.920 and the same with eyesight after spending several weeks 00:47:41.920 --> 00:47:48.280 at 6600 feet, altitude or higher, myopia increased 00:47:52.520 --> 00:47:57.520 by close to two diopters correction. 00:47:57.520 --> 00:48:03.880 I went from 11 and 12 down to nine and 10 diopter correction 00:48:03.880 --> 00:48:13.600 after just a season at high altitude. 00:48:13.600 --> 00:48:18.600 But for the hearing, clearing up took just probably 00:48:20.280 --> 00:48:22.960 three weeks or so. 00:48:22.960 --> 00:48:25.920 - Oh, that is so cool because I actually, 00:48:25.920 --> 00:48:30.000 since improving my thyroid and eating less pufa 00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:33.760 and stuff like that after years of researching this stuff 00:48:33.760 --> 00:48:38.480 is like, my diopter went from negative 6.75 00:48:38.480 --> 00:48:41.680 and I'm down to negative five, so it's slowly improving. 00:48:41.680 --> 00:48:43.040 So, it's cool to hear you say that 00:48:43.040 --> 00:48:44.400 because I don't think people realize 00:48:44.400 --> 00:48:46.760 that you can actually reverse vision problems. 00:48:48.440 --> 00:48:53.440 - Yeah, I've seen that happen in girls at puberty 00:48:53.440 --> 00:48:56.960 or mid-teen years. 00:48:56.960 --> 00:49:00.040 It's very common for a girl to experience 00:49:00.040 --> 00:49:05.040 sudden onset of myopia and if they get their thyroid 00:49:05.040 --> 00:49:14.240 corrected around the same time, they no longer have myopia. 00:49:14.880 --> 00:49:19.680 So, it's prolonged hypothyroidism 00:49:19.680 --> 00:49:23.440 that causes progressive myopia. 00:49:23.440 --> 00:49:28.440 And the connection between high altitude and thyroid 00:49:28.440 --> 00:49:34.240 is that thyroid is what lets your mitochondria 00:49:34.240 --> 00:49:39.320 produce carbon dioxide and keep the inflammatory lactate 00:49:39.880 --> 00:49:44.560 suppressed at high altitude. 00:49:44.560 --> 00:49:49.560 The simple physics of the Bohr-Haldane effect 00:49:49.560 --> 00:49:57.240 on hemoglobin, the reduced air pressure 00:49:57.240 --> 00:50:03.480 causes your hemoglobin to retain a higher level 00:50:03.480 --> 00:50:08.040 of carbon dioxide and so it's creating 00:50:08.040 --> 00:50:10.320 the same condition in your body 00:50:10.320 --> 00:50:13.840 that optimal thyroid function does. 00:50:13.840 --> 00:50:15.520 - Okay, that's awesome. 00:50:15.520 --> 00:50:17.640 I love to hear that. 00:50:17.640 --> 00:50:19.520 Next question, we're rolling through these. 00:50:19.520 --> 00:50:22.560 Okay, Tina asks, what does Dr. Peat think 00:50:22.560 --> 00:50:24.120 about molecular hydrogen? 00:50:24.120 --> 00:50:27.560 I've seen a lot in the online stores 00:50:27.560 --> 00:50:30.280 with molecular hydrogen tablets 00:50:30.280 --> 00:50:32.240 and how they improve hydration. 00:50:32.240 --> 00:50:33.440 What are your thoughts? 00:50:36.800 --> 00:50:41.800 - My interpretation of it goes back to around 00:50:41.800 --> 00:50:50.280 50 years ago when I was reading in biochemistry 00:50:50.280 --> 00:50:55.320 trying to understand how electrons 00:50:55.320 --> 00:51:00.320 and the reduction oxidation process works. 00:51:04.240 --> 00:51:09.240 A very well-known biochemist that did experiments 00:51:09.240 --> 00:51:15.720 in which he starved cells gave them 00:51:15.720 --> 00:51:19.600 no external source of energy 00:51:19.600 --> 00:51:24.600 but they were still oxidizing something 00:51:24.600 --> 00:51:29.960 and it was the dehydrogenase enzymes 00:51:31.480 --> 00:51:36.480 which were delivering energy to hydrogen 00:51:36.480 --> 00:51:42.320 to oxygen even though there was neither fat nor glucose 00:51:42.320 --> 00:51:48.360 provided as a substrate for these enzymes 00:51:48.360 --> 00:51:52.360 and so he called it nothing dehydrogenase 00:51:52.360 --> 00:51:58.800 and his nothing includes the gaseous form of hydrogen, 00:52:01.400 --> 00:52:06.400 because that isn't considered biochemical substrate normally 00:52:06.400 --> 00:52:13.160 but his enzymes can actually use gaseous hydrogen 00:52:13.160 --> 00:52:19.880 as a substrate and these can not only provide 00:52:19.880 --> 00:52:26.720 biological energy but they can have the same effect 00:52:27.880 --> 00:52:31.560 on suppressing pre-radical activity 00:52:31.560 --> 00:52:36.560 that running your mitochondria under an ordinary glucose 00:52:36.560 --> 00:52:40.960 and thyroid system would produce. 00:52:40.960 --> 00:52:43.920 - So maybe like these molecular hydrogen tablets 00:52:43.920 --> 00:52:46.080 in the water or the generators that are making 00:52:46.080 --> 00:52:48.280 molecular hydrogen might not be a bad idea? 00:52:48.280 --> 00:52:54.600 - Yeah, or just sniffing gas out of a little tank 00:52:54.600 --> 00:52:55.440 of hydrogen. 00:52:55.440 --> 00:52:57.800 - Okay, cool. 00:52:57.800 --> 00:53:02.160 All right, this is a little bit loaded question. 00:53:02.160 --> 00:53:05.480 This is the one I was talking about with the COVID-19. 00:53:05.480 --> 00:53:09.560 So please ask Dr. Peat what the specific dietary factors are 00:53:09.560 --> 00:53:13.640 that have made Americans so vulnerable to coronavirus 00:53:13.640 --> 00:53:15.880 and also what foods should we be eating 00:53:15.880 --> 00:53:18.440 to make us resistant to it. 00:53:18.440 --> 00:53:22.320 He specifically says what else can I eat to protect it 00:53:22.320 --> 00:53:27.080 once it comes around again this winter or if it comes around? 00:53:27.080 --> 00:53:30.280 It's interesting to note though that it's like 00:53:30.280 --> 00:53:32.880 how can they say that it's gonna come back around? 00:53:32.880 --> 00:53:35.040 You know, like how do they know that? 00:53:35.040 --> 00:53:37.280 And it just makes you wonder like you said 00:53:37.280 --> 00:53:38.960 the powers that be like how do they know 00:53:38.960 --> 00:53:40.480 it's gonna come back around? 00:53:40.480 --> 00:53:47.320 - There are some interesting videos 00:53:47.320 --> 00:53:51.000 that give some of the background 00:53:51.000 --> 00:53:55.320 that had never been publicly widely discussed 00:53:55.320 --> 00:54:00.040 showing that in previous years 00:54:00.040 --> 00:54:04.560 that they called it the flu season. 00:54:04.560 --> 00:54:09.560 But influenza was never the exclusive infection thing. 00:54:09.560 --> 00:54:17.960 A large block of the so-called influenza, 00:54:17.960 --> 00:54:22.520 no pathogen could be identified at all. 00:54:22.520 --> 00:54:26.840 Sometimes it was a bacteria responsible 00:54:26.840 --> 00:54:32.560 but I think it was 14% of all of the 00:54:32.560 --> 00:54:36.000 in which they looked for the pathogen, 00:54:36.000 --> 00:54:41.000 14%, seven to 14% were typical in previous years 00:54:41.000 --> 00:54:45.360 coronavirus infections. 00:54:45.360 --> 00:54:50.360 And three of those were the serious type 00:54:50.360 --> 00:54:57.480 that happened to overlap with laboratory-designed 00:54:57.480 --> 00:55:02.200 intensified versions of the coronavirus. 00:55:02.200 --> 00:55:07.200 But everyone, the coronavirus previously 00:55:07.200 --> 00:55:10.800 had been known as a cold virus. 00:55:12.760 --> 00:55:16.720 Several viruses were called the common cold. 00:55:16.720 --> 00:55:26.760 Several studies in just the last couple of years have, 00:55:26.760 --> 00:55:30.360 for example, the Pentagon did a study 00:55:30.360 --> 00:55:35.360 to evaluate how effective the influenza vaccine 00:55:35.360 --> 00:55:39.760 was at preventing influenza. 00:55:40.720 --> 00:55:45.720 And they found, or at least did their best 00:55:45.720 --> 00:55:51.440 to interpret an effectiveness for the flu vaccine 00:55:51.440 --> 00:55:57.800 and concluded that it was probably 45% effective 00:55:57.800 --> 00:56:04.120 at preventing influenza infections in the following season. 00:56:04.120 --> 00:56:09.200 But during that season, the people, 00:56:09.200 --> 00:56:14.200 different studies found twice as many infections 00:56:14.200 --> 00:56:21.320 by other agents up to six times as many infections 00:56:21.320 --> 00:56:26.400 by something other than influenza. 00:56:26.400 --> 00:56:31.400 So while it was shifting almost half away from influenza, 00:56:31.400 --> 00:56:39.080 it was doubling or tripling or quadrupling 00:56:39.080 --> 00:56:44.080 the number of lung diseases caused by other agents, 00:56:44.080 --> 00:56:47.560 including the coronavirus. 00:56:47.560 --> 00:56:52.560 And so if you look at the campaign, 00:56:52.560 --> 00:56:57.000 very heavy indoctrination, pushing the vaccine 00:56:57.000 --> 00:57:02.000 on old people in both the United States and Italy 00:57:02.000 --> 00:57:08.040 last year before the onset of the coronavirus, 00:57:08.160 --> 00:57:12.680 of the 2019, 2020 flu season, 00:57:12.680 --> 00:57:19.760 they were basically reducing the likelihood 00:57:19.760 --> 00:57:25.120 of a flu infection, but greatly increasing, 00:57:25.120 --> 00:57:27.400 according to these studies, 00:57:27.400 --> 00:57:31.120 the likelihood of catching some other lung disease. 00:57:33.400 --> 00:57:38.400 So the first thing is not to worry so much 00:57:38.400 --> 00:57:41.840 about food or supplements or whatever, 00:57:41.840 --> 00:57:46.840 but to think about what's going on with the actual publicity 00:57:46.840 --> 00:57:53.360 about protecting against lung disease, 00:57:53.360 --> 00:57:58.360 the influenza vaccine, especially in old people, 00:57:58.360 --> 00:58:02.840 powerfully increases the risk of lung diseases. 00:58:03.400 --> 00:58:06.080 There are eight or 10 studies showing that. 00:58:06.080 --> 00:58:10.720 - Yeah, and it's never a bad thing to promote immunity, 00:58:10.720 --> 00:58:12.320 like build your immune system 00:58:12.320 --> 00:58:16.560 to fight all kinds of things we come into contact with, 00:58:16.560 --> 00:58:19.000 but I agree with what you're saying. 00:58:19.000 --> 00:58:19.840 Go ahead. 00:58:19.840 --> 00:58:25.960 - Yeah, the antibody system is not our immune system. 00:58:25.960 --> 00:58:31.800 It's something that has been fixated on 00:58:31.800 --> 00:58:36.800 for more than 100 years driven by the pharmaceutical industry 00:58:36.800 --> 00:58:42.040 who wants to equate natural immunity, 00:58:42.040 --> 00:58:44.400 if they can interpret natural immunity 00:58:44.400 --> 00:58:47.160 as the presence of antibodies. 00:58:47.160 --> 00:58:51.220 They want to equate it with their magic bullet drugs. 00:58:51.220 --> 00:58:56.880 It all derives from Paul Ehrlich's doctrine, 00:58:56.880 --> 00:59:01.880 but he shared the Nobel Prize with an embryologist 00:59:01.880 --> 00:59:09.320 who was interested in the whole body's participation 00:59:09.320 --> 00:59:17.960 in immunity, and that's the innate immune system 00:59:17.960 --> 00:59:22.560 that has been really suppressed and ignored 00:59:23.760 --> 00:59:28.760 over these 110 years, and it's our general health, 00:59:28.760 --> 00:59:36.120 especially at vitamin D and thyroid, 00:59:36.120 --> 00:59:39.440 the things that let us maintain the balance 00:59:39.440 --> 00:59:43.000 between carbon dioxide and lactic acid 00:59:43.000 --> 00:59:48.000 that activates in the proper way this innate immune system. 00:59:48.000 --> 00:59:51.760 - Absolutely, drop the mic on that one 00:59:51.760 --> 00:59:54.520 because it's like, improve your thyroid 00:59:54.520 --> 00:59:56.640 and everything else kind of falls into place, 00:59:56.640 --> 00:59:58.640 and then also get out in the sunshine 00:59:58.640 --> 01:00:01.640 because sunshine, if we're talking coronavirus, 01:00:01.640 --> 01:00:05.180 is actually killed, it kills coronavirus 01:00:05.180 --> 01:00:06.160 in like a minute and a half 01:00:06.160 --> 01:00:08.240 according to some studies I read, so. 01:00:08.240 --> 01:00:14.520 - The action of vitamin D and calcium, 01:00:14.520 --> 01:00:19.520 it's increasingly recognized as absolutely vital, 01:00:19.920 --> 01:00:23.800 especially for viral immunity, but for immunity in general, 01:00:23.800 --> 01:00:28.800 and what it's doing is not killing viruses, 01:00:28.800 --> 01:00:33.880 it's activating our anti-inflammatory processes, 01:00:33.880 --> 01:00:41.840 so it's working with aspirin, stopping inflammation, 01:00:41.840 --> 01:00:47.080 and it's the people who have a predisposing 01:00:48.360 --> 01:00:52.720 inflammatory condition who even catch the virus 01:00:52.720 --> 01:00:54.800 or develop any symptoms from it. 01:00:54.800 --> 01:01:00.600 Something between 50 and 80% of the population 01:01:00.600 --> 01:01:04.960 can have the virus with absolutely no harm done. 01:01:04.960 --> 01:01:10.960 It's someone with a preexisting inflammatory problem 01:01:10.960 --> 01:01:15.760 often from low thyroid, low vitamin D, 01:01:15.760 --> 01:01:20.760 low vitamin A, some malnutrition 01:01:20.760 --> 01:01:25.760 who have the inflammation that promotes 01:01:25.760 --> 01:01:30.320 the growth of the virus, so focusing on killing the virus 01:01:30.320 --> 01:01:34.520 is a completely unbiological idea. 01:01:34.520 --> 01:01:37.460 - Okay, very good. 01:01:37.460 --> 01:01:40.240 Ann says, can the doctor speak about the best way 01:01:40.240 --> 01:01:44.760 to lose 20 pounds, especially on my hips and thighs? 01:01:44.760 --> 01:01:46.440 I recently went to the doctor and was told 01:01:46.440 --> 01:01:49.280 I needed to lose 20 pounds, 01:01:49.280 --> 01:01:53.000 and specifically I carry it in my lower body, 01:01:53.000 --> 01:01:55.320 what can I do for this? 01:01:55.320 --> 01:02:02.240 - The woman I told you had such a resistance 01:02:02.240 --> 01:02:04.560 to thyroid hormone. 01:02:04.560 --> 01:02:08.720 That was her physique. 01:02:08.720 --> 01:02:11.760 You can see her ribs and her arms 01:02:11.760 --> 01:02:14.960 were about like a five-year-old child, 01:02:14.960 --> 01:02:19.960 but her hips were so wide that she actually had trouble 01:02:19.960 --> 01:02:22.120 going through a standard doorway. 01:02:22.120 --> 01:02:29.560 So you have to look at your whole physiology, 01:02:29.560 --> 01:02:34.160 not just go by a doctor's TSH measurement, 01:02:34.160 --> 01:02:37.760 but you have to look at your vitamin D, 01:02:37.760 --> 01:02:42.760 make sure your parathyroid hormone is at the low end 01:02:42.760 --> 01:02:44.360 of the normal range. 01:02:44.360 --> 01:02:49.360 When your thyroid and vitamin D are being interfered with 01:02:49.360 --> 01:02:56.320 or are simply deficient, your parathyroid hormone rises, 01:02:56.320 --> 01:03:02.080 just eating too much phosphate, meat and beans, 01:03:03.640 --> 01:03:08.640 for example, are characteristic excess phosphate sources. 01:03:08.640 --> 01:03:14.440 Too much phosphate will drive up your parathyroid hormone 01:03:14.440 --> 01:03:18.640 the same way vitamin D deficiency 01:03:18.640 --> 01:03:21.320 or calcium deficiency will drive it up, 01:03:21.320 --> 01:03:26.320 and parathyroid hormone poisons your mitochondrial 01:03:26.320 --> 01:03:32.160 energy-producing system, so you can't lose weight 01:03:33.000 --> 01:03:38.000 if your parathyroid hormone is in the above average range. 01:03:38.000 --> 01:03:43.400 And if you normalize that, you don't have to worry 01:03:43.400 --> 01:03:46.320 about losing weight because ordinary activity 01:03:46.320 --> 01:03:49.440 and diet will get rid of it. 01:03:49.440 --> 01:03:51.400 - Okay, good. 01:03:51.400 --> 01:03:53.960 All right, do you have time for one more question? 01:03:53.960 --> 01:03:56.520 - Sure. - Okay. 01:03:56.520 --> 01:03:58.640 I do have a few more that we didn't get to, 01:03:58.640 --> 01:04:01.520 but I wanna give us one more little question here. 01:04:01.520 --> 01:04:06.280 I asked Dr. Peat, if one does not have access to thyroid, 01:04:06.280 --> 01:04:08.400 can other measures suffice? 01:04:08.400 --> 01:04:10.440 So I guess he's saying if he doesn't have access 01:04:10.440 --> 01:04:14.120 to thyroid supplements, how do I work around that? 01:04:14.120 --> 01:04:16.200 And secondly, I don't have a gallbladder, 01:04:16.200 --> 01:04:18.100 how can I improve my digestion? 01:04:18.100 --> 01:04:25.280 - Well, lots of things will fill in, like I mentioned, 01:04:25.280 --> 01:04:30.280 I was using coffee to make up for low thyroid function, 01:04:31.160 --> 01:04:36.160 but vitamin D and calcium are powerful activators 01:04:36.160 --> 01:04:39.440 of the energy system because they keep 01:04:39.440 --> 01:04:41.360 your parathyroid hormone down. 01:04:41.360 --> 01:04:48.160 Having all of your minerals, both minerals and trace minerals 01:04:48.160 --> 01:04:55.000 are very important to keep your mitochondria 01:04:55.000 --> 01:04:58.080 operating properly. 01:04:59.640 --> 01:05:00.880 - Okay, good. 01:05:00.880 --> 01:05:01.760 That was easy enough. 01:05:01.760 --> 01:05:03.940 What about the gallbladder? 01:05:03.940 --> 01:05:10.040 - You don't wanna eat a lot of fat at any time, 01:05:10.040 --> 01:05:15.040 but just the small amount that helps you absorb 01:05:15.040 --> 01:05:19.080 your vitamin D and vitamin A, for example, 01:05:19.080 --> 01:05:24.080 really just takes a minimal amount mixed in with your food. 01:05:24.760 --> 01:05:29.760 And it's a very fatty meal that will trigger the need 01:05:29.760 --> 01:05:34.540 for a gallbladder function. 01:05:34.540 --> 01:05:39.540 So a fairly low-fat diet and moderate-sized meals, 01:05:39.540 --> 01:05:45.240 people don't really suffer from lacking the gallbladder. 01:05:45.240 --> 01:05:47.760 - Okay, and do you know anything? 01:05:47.760 --> 01:05:51.600 Like I've heard that coconut oil isn't in need of bile 01:05:51.600 --> 01:05:53.720 when you take in coconut oil, it really doesn't need bile 01:05:53.720 --> 01:05:55.880 to break it down, so that could be a fat 01:05:55.880 --> 01:05:56.840 that they could take in. 01:05:56.840 --> 01:05:58.200 Is that the case? 01:05:58.200 --> 01:06:04.040 - It's still not good to trigger the reflexes 01:06:04.040 --> 01:06:08.440 when you don't have the gallbladder. 01:06:08.440 --> 01:06:13.440 I think it could cause some kind of disturbance. 01:06:13.440 --> 01:06:17.800 I think it's better to keep that low too. 01:06:17.800 --> 01:06:19.120 - That makes sense. 01:06:19.120 --> 01:06:22.440 Okay, Dr. Peat, well, that's the time we have for today 01:06:22.440 --> 01:06:25.240 for questions, so we'll jump into the few that we missed 01:06:25.240 --> 01:06:27.840 on the next call, so I really appreciate it. 01:06:27.840 --> 01:06:29.640 It's always so interesting talking to you 01:06:29.640 --> 01:06:31.800 because you get me thinking on so many levels. 01:06:31.800 --> 01:06:36.800 So I'm gonna go check out some negative ion generators. 01:06:36.800 --> 01:06:39.080 I think I even saw one while I was talking to you 01:06:39.080 --> 01:06:40.960 called the molecule that looked interesting 01:06:40.960 --> 01:06:43.040 and it said it had no ozone. 01:06:43.040 --> 01:06:48.040 So maybe these folks that he answered your questions, 01:06:48.040 --> 01:06:50.240 maybe you can send him a little donation 01:06:50.240 --> 01:06:53.900 and that way he can get himself another ion generator. 01:06:53.900 --> 01:06:57.440 'Cause yeah, I like to have one too, 01:06:57.440 --> 01:06:58.800 but I'm gonna have to save up for it. 01:06:58.800 --> 01:07:00.840 They're kind of pricey, so. 01:07:00.840 --> 01:07:04.840 - I paid $30 or something like that. 01:07:04.840 --> 01:07:08.080 I think you can still find them for $35, $40. 01:07:08.080 --> 01:07:09.600 - Okay, all right, cool. 01:07:09.600 --> 01:07:10.800 Well, I'll definitely look into that. 01:07:10.800 --> 01:07:11.920 Thank you so much, Dr. Peat. 01:07:11.920 --> 01:07:14.300 This has been fun and we'll do it again soon. 01:07:14.300 --> 01:07:16.320 - Okay, thank you. 01:07:16.320 --> 01:07:17.640 - Okay. 01:07:17.640 --> 01:07:20.220 (upbeat music) 01:07:20.220 --> 01:07:22.800 (upbeat music) 01:07:22.800 --> 01:07:25.380 (upbeat music) 01:07:25.380 --> 01:07:27.960 (upbeat music) 01:07:27.960 --> 01:07:37.960 [BLANK_AUDIO]