WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:11.480 Well, welcome to the Get Fit with Jodell podcast. I am as usual Jodell and as usual, or at least 00:00:11.480 --> 00:00:17.560 once every month or so, I like to have Dr. Ray Pete on and so he's joining me today here 00:00:17.560 --> 00:00:21.720 again to answer your questions. If you're not familiar with Dr. Pete, well, then you're 00:00:21.720 --> 00:00:28.160 missing out. Why don't you check out raypeat.com. That's his website and you can, you can check 00:00:28.160 --> 00:00:35.120 out who this amazing person is and his wealth of expertise and his immense articles and 00:00:35.120 --> 00:00:40.860 publications that have been put out. I highly recommend this individual. So without further 00:00:40.860 --> 00:00:45.280 ado, Dr. Pete, thank you so much for joining me. How are you? 00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:47.840 Okay. Very good. 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:52.920 Awesome. Well, I've, I reached out to our listeners. I got a slew of questions here 00:00:52.920 --> 00:00:59.400 again today, so we're just going to jump right into those. Um, first things first, as far 00:00:59.400 --> 00:01:04.720 as like you feel about what's going on right now in the world, what are your thoughts on 00:01:04.720 --> 00:01:10.740 like the, the new variants of the COVID strain that are coming out? Can I ask your just recent 00:01:10.740 --> 00:01:12.280 opinion on things? 00:01:12.280 --> 00:01:23.320 I haven't seen any evidence of the new properties that they are ascribing to the new variant. 00:01:23.320 --> 00:01:32.760 There's one website I've been looking at occasionally that is posting the actual RNA code of all 00:01:32.760 --> 00:01:42.880 of the base pairs that make up the code. And the first time I looked, there were 3,400 00:01:42.880 --> 00:01:53.600 variants. A few days ago, someone reported that that website now lists 6,000 variants. 00:01:53.600 --> 00:02:00.960 But for some reason I've picked out one or two of those strains and claimed that they 00:02:00.960 --> 00:02:09.760 are highly infectious, but I haven't seen any, any information supporting that. And that 00:02:09.760 --> 00:02:19.760 is nothing new. There are several lawyers showing state and national health information 00:02:19.760 --> 00:02:29.360 for refusing to reveal the scientific evidence that would support their mandated lockdown 00:02:29.360 --> 00:02:39.760 and mask wearing and vaccination and all of that. The government is just acting while 00:02:39.760 --> 00:02:46.960 keeping secret anything they really know. And so everything they're saying could just 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:56.960 be pure fantasy. And for people to respond to that and obey the instructions on the basis 00:02:56.960 --> 00:03:03.960 of secret evidence, it's an extension of something governments have been getting away with for 00:03:03.960 --> 00:03:12.960 decades. They say the information the government has is too sensitive for the people to know. 00:03:12.960 --> 00:03:27.360 And so you have to trust the government. And a friend of mine in Germany said she afraid 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:37.560 that the people in Germany are now reacting just as obediently and foolishly as they did 00:03:37.560 --> 00:03:48.360 during the 1930s, accepting his words without any criticism. She says she sees exactly that 00:03:48.360 --> 00:03:53.360 kind of blind obedience in the population of the present. 00:03:53.360 --> 00:04:01.960 Yeah, it's such a weird world we live in for sure. And your thoughts on like the vaccine, 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:07.360 you know, I haven't seen a lot of research. And so what are your thoughts on this vaccine 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:11.160 and how people are changing it? 00:04:11.160 --> 00:04:21.160 The first thing is that an entirely new principle that doesn't meet any of the standard definitions 00:04:21.160 --> 00:04:30.560 of vaccination, the whole history to really understand that you have to go back at least 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:39.960 120 years to get a picture of what was meant by vaccination and how the immune system was 00:04:39.960 --> 00:04:50.960 understood to react to disease. And the basic doctrine of the immune system as primarily 00:04:50.960 --> 00:05:04.960 an antibody response, this was produced in reaction to Paul Ehrlich's sales of an arsenic 00:05:04.960 --> 00:05:17.760 compound to treat syphilis. And his claims sort of hit a magic button in the consuming 00:05:17.760 --> 00:05:27.560 population. He called the substance a magic bullet. But there never was any magic bullet 00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:37.560 defect involved in Paul Ehrlich's treatments. But what caught on was the idea that our immune 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:48.360 system works like a bunch of magic bullets, which are called antibodies. That's the extent 00:05:48.360 --> 00:05:55.360 of the investigation of what the immune system is. Sharing the Nobel Prize in 1908 with Paul 00:05:55.360 --> 00:06:07.160 Ehrlich was Elliot Metzenkopf, who had been the critic of Ehrlich's simplified reduced 00:06:07.160 --> 00:06:19.160 concept of immunity. Metzenkopf was an embryologist who saw multilayer defensive processes working 00:06:19.160 --> 00:06:28.960 in the organism starting with phagocytosis. And that actual scientific investigation of 00:06:28.960 --> 00:06:38.960 what's going on when an organism reacts to the environment, that has been horribly neglected 00:06:38.960 --> 00:06:46.960 in science. And what bounces along, Nobel Prize after Nobel Prize, is this silly doctrine 00:06:46.960 --> 00:06:54.760 that our immune system is primarily based on antibodies. And that just isn't a scientific 00:06:54.760 --> 00:07:06.760 idea. So, first of all, the metaphysics or philosophy behind the stuff that Fauci and 00:07:06.760 --> 00:07:15.760 others are talking about, it's all a metaphysical system that has built up in these 110 years. 00:07:15.760 --> 00:07:30.560 So, the criticism has to start with looking at what immunity really is. And then the idea 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:41.560 that came up just a few years ago was not to use a whole killed or weakened pathogen 00:07:41.560 --> 00:07:51.360 to arouse immunity, but to reduce it for some reason to the extremely simplified nucleic 00:07:51.360 --> 00:08:02.360 acid, the messenger RNA. And it happens that they chose the messenger RNA that produces 00:08:02.360 --> 00:08:12.160 the pathogenic effect. You don't need the pathogenic effect to have specificity for 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:19.160 a certain type of virus. But for some reason they've settled on that, probably because 00:08:19.160 --> 00:08:28.160 they got the code for the RNA and they can manufacture that synthetically just from the 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:38.560 code number without ever having a natural virus to experiment with. So, it can go right 00:08:38.560 --> 00:08:47.560 from picking a number off the internet in the laboratory to manufacture a substance 00:08:47.560 --> 00:08:54.560 that will make the pathogenic component of the virus. It happens to be the component 00:08:54.560 --> 00:09:06.560 that inactivates our anti-inflammatory enzyme system because the virus sticks to that and 00:09:06.560 --> 00:09:21.560 inactivates it, kills our defensive anti-inflammatory process, leaving the remaining part the inflammatory 00:09:21.560 --> 00:09:35.560 system without control. So, if we produce this particular protein, the spike protein, and 00:09:35.560 --> 00:09:43.560 if that takes over and regularly comes out of our cells that have assimilated the so-called 00:09:43.560 --> 00:09:57.560 vaccine RNA, our bodies will then be producing a pro-inflammatory material. And labs in Boston, 00:09:57.560 --> 00:10:08.560 White's Head lab and one of the Harvard labs, people there have tested in vitro and demonstrated 00:10:08.560 --> 00:10:20.560 that our natural enzymes are able to incorporate the RNA of the vaccine into our own genome, 00:10:20.560 --> 00:10:28.560 into the human genome, which means that on the basis of this in vitro study, we have 00:10:28.560 --> 00:10:38.560 the capacity to pass on that genetic information to offspring forever. 00:10:38.560 --> 00:10:45.560 Well, you mentioned the immune system and my concern is that we're going to see a 00:10:45.560 --> 00:10:53.560 repercussion across the globe of that broken immune system is based on all of the lack 00:10:53.560 --> 00:10:59.560 of bacteria. We're sterilizing everything. Everyone is using hand sanitizer everywhere. 00:10:59.560 --> 00:11:04.560 No one touches anyone anymore. And we need bacteria like our entire body has different 00:11:04.560 --> 00:11:10.560 microbiomes in the eye, in the gut, in the breast tissue. And so, what are your thoughts 00:11:10.560 --> 00:11:17.560 on just this dampening of the immune system and the over-sterilization? 00:11:17.560 --> 00:11:26.560 I think the active promotion of inflammation is a great first danger. And I suspect that 00:11:26.560 --> 00:11:38.560 the drug companies are now worried about that because it's a lab-synthesized material that 00:11:38.560 --> 00:11:45.560 makes it easy to produce in vast amounts. So they promised that millions of doses would 00:11:45.560 --> 00:11:53.560 be available almost immediately. But December 22nd, in the county of New York that hadn't 00:11:53.560 --> 00:12:03.560 had a pace in the whole county of COVID for that month, they vaccinated in one nursing 00:12:03.560 --> 00:12:14.560 home system. They vaccinated 198 people. And of those vaccinated within, I think it was 00:12:14.560 --> 00:12:25.560 about a week, 24 people had died, an astounding percentage of them vaccinated. And the explanation 00:12:25.560 --> 00:12:33.560 of the nursing home was that at the end of the vaccine people was that suddenly there 00:12:33.560 --> 00:12:42.560 had been a resurgence of the COVID virus and that by chance killed the people who had been 00:12:42.560 --> 00:12:52.560 vaccinated. And I think with an experience like that, a vast increase in mortality followed 00:12:52.560 --> 00:13:01.560 by around the world, people collapsing with anaphylactic shock, I think the drug companies 00:13:01.560 --> 00:13:10.560 all suddenly realized that until the government gives them special immunity beyond even what 00:13:10.560 --> 00:13:18.560 they have been given for ordinary vaccine damage, until they get that new special immunity, 00:13:18.560 --> 00:13:27.560 I think they are going to find it hard to deliver the promised number of vaccines. I think the 00:13:27.560 --> 00:13:39.560 awareness immediately was there in the industry making it because of the possibility of great 00:13:39.560 --> 00:13:43.560 liability killing tens of millions of people. 00:13:43.560 --> 00:13:48.560 And what about mental health? I mean, are you concerned about the mental health of people 00:13:48.560 --> 00:13:58.560 having to deal with all of this lockdown and isolation and then not touching, not hugging? 00:13:58.560 --> 00:14:15.560 Yeah, that was projected years in advance that social dislocation, unemployment in particular, 00:14:15.560 --> 00:14:26.560 but any kind of interference with normal social interactions will increase drug addiction, 00:14:26.560 --> 00:14:38.560 depression, suicide, violence, violent crimes. Everything goes wrong when you damage someone's 00:14:38.560 --> 00:14:47.560 likelihood and thousands and thousands of people are losing their businesses as well as their 00:14:47.560 --> 00:14:56.560 opportunity to work. And so it was absolutely foreseeable that you would have much greater 00:14:56.560 --> 00:15:08.560 damage from the lockdown and the stupid mandated behavior than any influenza season ever produced. 00:15:08.560 --> 00:15:17.560 And in accepting the current numbers of deaths given out by the CDC, you have to take into 00:15:17.560 --> 00:15:27.560 account the fact that there is a most glaring history of misrepresentation of flu season 00:15:27.560 --> 00:15:41.560 mortality. Some years have declared that influenza was killing as high as 50, even 80,000 people 00:15:41.560 --> 00:15:52.560 during the flu season and in a good year it might be 30,000. Then on the basis of actual 00:15:52.560 --> 00:16:01.560 testing for influenza virus, they found that the influenza virus was present maybe only 00:16:01.560 --> 00:16:13.560 in two or three thousand of those 50 or 60,000 deaths from pneumonia, something 95% or more 00:16:13.560 --> 00:16:23.560 of the deaths from pneumonia in the hospitals during the winter season or had an unknown 00:16:23.560 --> 00:16:32.560 cause, definitely not influenza. And it came out that they were knowingly calling those 00:16:32.560 --> 00:16:41.560 tens of thousands of winter deaths pneumonia influenza deaths just to scare people to get 00:16:41.560 --> 00:16:51.560 their influenza vaccine absolute lying to the public to manipulate them into getting 00:16:51.560 --> 00:17:00.560 the influenza vaccine with its very ambiguous history. And so now when we look at their 00:17:00.560 --> 00:17:09.560 figures for total mortality, there have only been a few people starting last winter who 00:17:09.560 --> 00:17:20.560 were keeping track of the normal annual pneumonia mortality and of any changes that were occurring 00:17:20.560 --> 00:17:30.560 in 2019 or in 2020 over preceding years. And right from the start, anyone who was looking 00:17:30.560 --> 00:17:42.560 at their numbers could see that something very unbiological was happening. And one person 00:17:42.560 --> 00:17:53.560 later in 2020 summed up those observations and the numbers that were continuing to be 00:17:53.560 --> 00:18:06.560 put out by the CDC. Genevieve Breond, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, has an article 00:18:06.560 --> 00:18:17.560 on the internet on the mortality from, based entirely on CDC's figures. And what she found 00:18:17.560 --> 00:18:27.560 was no real increase in mortality, despite that huge surge in April, supposedly from 00:18:27.560 --> 00:18:40.560 COVID, that followed the instructions to diagnose COVID whenever a positive test for the presence 00:18:40.560 --> 00:18:49.560 of the virus, which is not a good way to diagnose a disease. But anyway, they instructed people 00:18:49.560 --> 00:19:01.560 to diagnose many things as COVID that previously wouldn't have been diagnosed, and the money 00:19:01.560 --> 00:19:12.560 distribution to compensate for the shutdown, that included $14,000 per patient diagnosed 00:19:12.560 --> 00:19:26.560 with COVID. And then if they were put on force oxygen inhalation, another $44,000, according 00:19:26.560 --> 00:19:36.560 to the Kaiser Family Foundation website. So they were paying hospitals to diagnose and 00:19:36.560 --> 00:19:44.560 treat COVID patients. But anyway, at the same early part of April, when the so-called death 00:19:44.560 --> 00:19:56.560 from COVID increased so astronomically, there was an equal opposite decline in influenza. 00:19:56.560 --> 00:20:07.560 And since then, people around the world have commented on the historical unique event of 00:20:07.560 --> 00:20:15.560 the disappearance of influenza everywhere in the world. And in Genevieve Breon's article, 00:20:15.560 --> 00:20:24.560 she also notes that the numbers that make up for the supposed increase in COVID, there 00:20:24.560 --> 00:20:35.560 was also a great decrease in deaths from heart attacks and several other normal diseases. 00:20:35.560 --> 00:20:45.560 So anyone just looking at CDC's own figures in detail should make their own conclusion 00:20:45.560 --> 00:20:48.560 that nothing has happened. 00:20:48.560 --> 00:20:52.560 You know, as far as like the mental health, that's what I've seen the most too, I think 00:20:52.560 --> 00:20:58.560 on the call before we started recording, I had told you about an EMT that I know that 00:20:58.560 --> 00:21:02.560 I'd asked him how much, you know, COVID have you seen in our area? And he said, Oh, not 00:21:02.560 --> 00:21:07.560 very much. I keep seeing mental health issues. That's the biggest issue. And so, you know, 00:21:07.560 --> 00:21:13.560 for me being a practitioner, I really want to offer people that have to isolate or have 00:21:13.560 --> 00:21:18.560 to quarantine or, you know, or just are just staying at home. But go out in nature. If 00:21:18.560 --> 00:21:22.560 there's nothing else, if you can't be with the ones you love, there's something really 00:21:22.560 --> 00:21:28.560 healing and comforting about nature, about forest bathing and being in the woods. Dr. 00:21:28.560 --> 00:21:32.560 Pete, what would you offer people that are, you know, they live alone and they're not 00:21:32.560 --> 00:21:37.560 in a position where they can go out and about very much? What would you say to them? Just 00:21:37.560 --> 00:21:48.560 stay healthy. Immediately after the great lockdown for the new Wuhan virus in China, 00:21:48.560 --> 00:21:56.560 just a couple of weeks after they declared that they had contained the infection, I think 00:21:56.560 --> 00:22:07.560 it was towards the end of 2019, there were pictures on the internet of people in public 00:22:07.560 --> 00:22:16.560 swimming pools in Wuhan crowded together at two or three feet apart playing in this giant 00:22:16.560 --> 00:22:27.560 swimming pool, hundreds of people having fun. China had the best experience, best knowledge 00:22:27.560 --> 00:22:40.560 of it, but they considered it absolutely harmless once the confinement had done its job and 00:22:40.560 --> 00:22:52.560 went back to normal behavior. Having fun, getting together, socializing, working, doing everything 00:22:52.560 --> 00:23:03.560 normally. I think that's the only real solution is to realize that the government has seriously 00:23:03.560 --> 00:23:12.560 misbehaved. Yeah, so on that, we will jump into the questioner, Brandon, Trine's question. 00:23:12.560 --> 00:23:19.560 He said, "I'd be curious about Dr. Pete's thoughts surrounding bile acid salt and its 00:23:19.560 --> 00:23:26.560 use mixed with glycine to potentiate significant motility in cases where migrating motor complex 00:23:26.560 --> 00:23:32.560 and peristalsis were deficient. This is really strong stuff and not something I would recommend 00:23:32.560 --> 00:23:38.560 to just anybody." He said, "As well as what are his thoughts on the top suggestions for 00:23:38.560 --> 00:23:50.560 someone with spinal pain?" Yeah, bile has been used very traditionally as an aid to 00:23:50.560 --> 00:24:02.560 digestion, and they can be dangerous, but I think with moderate use with a meal, for 00:24:02.560 --> 00:24:09.560 some people, they can improve digestion. And your top suggestions for someone with spinal 00:24:09.560 --> 00:24:24.560 pain? Oh, the back is full of cartil intramus joints, and so it's one of the, because it's 00:24:24.560 --> 00:24:36.560 constantly flexing and under pressure, it's one of the first places that cartilage metabolism 00:24:36.560 --> 00:24:47.560 problem shows up. But I don't think there's anything in most situations unique to the 00:24:47.560 --> 00:25:01.560 spinal pain over other joints. There are specific sensitivities, like the backbone is a focus 00:25:01.560 --> 00:25:13.560 of joint pain, mostly in women, and the spondylitis, and close segments spondylitis, I think fits 00:25:13.560 --> 00:25:28.560 in more often, and the inflammation in that case can be traced to deranged bacteria balances 00:25:28.560 --> 00:25:40.560 in the intestine so fastly, typically alleviated. But the general problem of cartilage inflammation 00:25:40.560 --> 00:25:53.560 and distortion and pain, for example, prolonged back problems during growth can lead to scoliosis 00:25:53.560 --> 00:26:03.560 or crooked growth of the back, but that same process shows up sometimes in knock knees 00:26:03.560 --> 00:26:12.560 or arms that turn out of the elbow, knees that turn in so the thighs are together when the 00:26:12.560 --> 00:26:24.560 feet are spread, and the main cause of weak and swollen cartilage leading to those use 00:26:24.560 --> 00:26:38.560 aggravated pain and distortion, the main cause of that is thyroid deficiency. The classic 00:26:38.560 --> 00:26:47.560 thyroid textbooks showed typical joint deformations because the low thyroid function leads to 00:26:47.560 --> 00:26:51.560 swelling of the cartilage. 00:26:51.560 --> 00:26:56.560 That makes sense. So he may want to get his thyroid checked out and see if maybe some 00:26:56.560 --> 00:27:01.560 natural desiccated thyroid would work for the spine. 00:27:01.560 --> 00:27:15.560 I've seen several people who were completely incapacitated by disc problems included, all 00:27:15.560 --> 00:27:24.560 kinds of joint problems. When they hit the back, they compress on nerves and cause real 00:27:24.560 --> 00:27:37.560 total disability. But I've seen people very thoroughly knocked out by those swollen back 00:27:37.560 --> 00:27:47.560 joints in just a few weeks essentially supplementing thyroid and correcting nutritional 00:27:47.560 --> 00:27:55.560 deficiencies and go from bedridden to perfectly healthy. 00:27:55.560 --> 00:28:00.560 Okay. The next few questions we have, apparently hormone issues are running rampant and we've 00:28:00.560 --> 00:28:06.560 got a lot of hormone questions, especially about bioidentical hormones. So Veronica Aiella 00:28:06.560 --> 00:28:13.560 asks, "What does Ray Peat think about bioidentical hormones for women like the testosterone 00:28:13.560 --> 00:28:20.560 pellet or creams? Also, if you're deficient in estrogen, what does he think is a good 00:28:20.560 --> 00:28:25.560 idea to replace that hormone with as well?" 00:28:25.560 --> 00:28:36.560 First, how do you test the deficiency of estrogen? There have only been a few studies 00:28:36.560 --> 00:28:45.560 of this, but for example, starting with rat studies, there have been hundreds of thousands 00:28:45.560 --> 00:28:54.560 of studies of hormone effects in rats. But I only know of two publications in which they 00:28:54.560 --> 00:29:04.560 remove the ovaries. Classically, they say that creates a menopause like estrogen deficiency. 00:29:04.560 --> 00:29:15.560 But in these studies who actually measured the rat's serum estrogen a week after removing 00:29:15.560 --> 00:29:23.560 the ovaries, although there was an extreme progesterone deficiency, their estrogen level 00:29:23.560 --> 00:29:34.560 was right back to normal. Absolutely no ovaries, but perfectly normal estrogen, but lacking 00:29:34.560 --> 00:29:46.560 the balance of progesterone because that largely comes from the ovaries. If you measure a person 00:29:46.560 --> 00:29:57.560 under different conditions in the presence of progesterone, there's one group that has 00:29:57.560 --> 00:30:05.560 looked at all of the enzymes activated or inactivated by progesterone, and there are 00:30:05.560 --> 00:30:16.560 about 10 or 11 such enzymes that are controlled in an on and off light by progesterone, which 00:30:16.560 --> 00:30:28.560 have to do with the activation or inactivation of estrogen. When estrogen is inactivated 00:30:28.560 --> 00:30:38.560 by attaching sulfuric acid or an acidic sugar to the estrogen molecule, it becomes water 00:30:38.560 --> 00:30:49.560 soluble and is no longer soluble in cell substance, and so it enters the bloodstream from which 00:30:49.560 --> 00:30:59.560 it exists via the kidneys. It happens that progesterone activates the enzymes that inactivate 00:30:59.560 --> 00:31:10.560 estrogen, causing it to be lost from cells, no longer active inside cells. In the progesterone 00:31:10.560 --> 00:31:22.560 deficiency, you have a reverse enzyme pattern, leaving estrogen in its active, oil-soluble 00:31:22.560 --> 00:31:33.560 form where it stays inside cells and can't get out because it can't be water-solubleized. 00:31:33.560 --> 00:31:44.560 So, in the progesterone deficiency, tested in humans as well as animals, the serum estrogen 00:31:44.560 --> 00:31:58.560 seems to be practically zero, but the intracellular estrogen, it even can be newly synthesized, 00:31:58.560 --> 00:32:07.560 not to see a formulae circulating estrogen being activated on kept-in cells, but cells 00:32:07.560 --> 00:32:17.560 in this progesterone deficient state actually begin producing their own new estrogen inside 00:32:17.560 --> 00:32:24.560 the breast, for example, or inside the uterus. So, it doesn't matter that you don't have 00:32:24.560 --> 00:32:33.560 any estrogen circulating from the ovaries. In the absence of progesterone, there will 00:32:33.560 --> 00:32:45.560 be no estrogen to speak of in the bloodstream, while the relevant breast, brain, kidney, 00:32:45.560 --> 00:32:56.560 and uterine tissues are beginning to make their own estrogen. And so, with aging, when 00:32:56.560 --> 00:33:04.560 they talk about the shutdown of the ovaries at menopause, they talk about whether it's 00:33:04.560 --> 00:33:12.560 an estrogen deficient state, but it's exactly the things I was talking about. The first 00:33:12.560 --> 00:33:22.560 thing that disappears when you stop having periods at age 45 or 50 or whatever, the estrogen 00:33:22.560 --> 00:33:33.560 is no longer available to pass into the bloodstream on the way to leading the body and the kidneys. 00:33:33.560 --> 00:33:41.560 So, immediately, with the disappearance of progesterone, you begin to experience unopposed 00:33:41.560 --> 00:33:55.560 estrogen, and any increasing accumulated stress is going to exacerbate that or make the symptoms 00:33:55.560 --> 00:34:04.560 worse and worse, keeping serum estrogen low while increasing the amount of the relevant 00:34:04.560 --> 00:34:17.560 tissues. The whole idea of where estrogen comes from is absolutely contrary to the science. 00:34:17.560 --> 00:34:26.560 Someone who is measuring the amount of estrogen produced by the healthy ovaries in healthy 00:34:26.560 --> 00:34:36.560 menopause wanted to compare the blood coming out of the ovarian vein to other blood in 00:34:36.560 --> 00:34:45.560 the body, so they took an arm vein and analyzed the amount of estrogen in the blood from the 00:34:45.560 --> 00:34:55.560 arm and from the ovary, and the arm vein contained just as much estrogen as the ovary, and so 00:34:55.560 --> 00:35:05.560 when you add up blades and arms and other tissues, you can't help but conclude that the ovaries 00:35:05.560 --> 00:35:14.560 are an insignificant or relatively small source of body estrogen. So, scientifically, there 00:35:14.560 --> 00:35:23.560 is absolutely no reason to think that an estrogen deficiency can ever exist. 00:35:23.560 --> 00:35:30.560 What about your feelings on the bioidentical creams for testosterone? A lot of people I 00:35:30.560 --> 00:35:35.560 know are doing bioidentical testosterone. What are your thoughts on that? 00:35:35.560 --> 00:35:47.560 When you're under stress, such as menopause, stress caused by unbalanced estrogen and leading 00:35:47.560 --> 00:35:57.560 to low thyroid function and very low progesterone, during stress, even small amounts of testosterone 00:35:57.560 --> 00:36:04.560 will be converted to more estrogen. So, it's going to be very dangerous unless you correct 00:36:04.560 --> 00:36:16.560 your progesterone and thyroid function to add testosterone equally with added progesterone. 00:36:16.560 --> 00:36:22.560 Yeah, it's really about addressing the thyroid first, correct, and then, if needed, addressing 00:36:22.560 --> 00:36:29.560 the hormones, yeah? Yeah, because when you correct the thyroid, you're lowering the stress 00:36:29.560 --> 00:36:38.560 hormones, lowering estrogen by accelerating the liver's detoxifying of it, and promoting 00:36:38.560 --> 00:36:48.560 very directly activating the production of progesterone from cholesterol. When your thyroid 00:36:48.560 --> 00:36:58.560 is low, your cholesterol is invariably high, except in a few specific disease states, but 00:36:58.560 --> 00:37:09.560 there's a mirror image relationship between thyroid function and cholesterol level. And 00:37:09.560 --> 00:37:17.560 the reason cholesterol goes up when your thyroid goes down is that it's no longer being converted 00:37:17.560 --> 00:37:28.560 into progesterone. Thyroid is massively activating the conversion of cholesterol into progesterone 00:37:28.560 --> 00:37:36.560 and pregnant alone, primarily, as basic protective hormones. 00:37:36.560 --> 00:37:43.560 Okay. So, Stephen Mitchell asks, you know, he's talking about bioidentical, too, does 00:37:43.560 --> 00:37:49.560 Ray Peat believe that suppression caused from the use of bioidentical hormones, such as 00:37:49.560 --> 00:37:55.560 testosterone, is mostly an issue with the lack of pregnant alone, which you kind of 00:37:55.560 --> 00:38:01.560 already answered that. For example, if pregnant alone is supplied exogenously, suppression 00:38:01.560 --> 00:38:07.560 of the pituitary hormones, such as LH, can that be a good thing, or would this idea be 00:38:07.560 --> 00:38:22.560 completely wrong? As far as I know, there's no strong influence of pregnant alone on LH, 00:38:22.560 --> 00:38:33.560 but too much testosterone can, the normal function of high testosterone is to turn off 00:38:33.560 --> 00:38:43.560 luteinizing hormone, and with that decrease, progesterone decreases. So, just taking too 00:38:43.560 --> 00:38:52.560 much natural, good testosterone tends to turn off your progesterone, and since progesterone 00:38:52.560 --> 00:39:04.560 is a major anti-arromatase, an aromatase inhibitor, if you lower progesterone, you're going 00:39:04.560 --> 00:39:14.560 to release aromatase action to convert testosterone to estrogen. So, taking testosterone by itself 00:39:14.560 --> 00:39:21.560 is a risk in multiple ways of increasing your estrogen balance. 00:39:21.560 --> 00:39:27.560 So, if somebody was taking testosterone, even like you said, a good kind, you would want 00:39:27.560 --> 00:39:31.560 them to also be taking, obviously, if they're working on their thyroid, they're taking 00:39:31.560 --> 00:39:36.560 a thyroid supplement, but also progesterone, or how would you say to help that individual 00:39:36.560 --> 00:39:59.560 not convert the testosterone to estrogen? Progesterone and thyroid both tend to inhibit 00:39:59.560 --> 00:40:07.560 a healthy man in his teens and twenties that might produce four or five milligrams per 00:40:07.560 --> 00:40:20.560 day of testosterone, and ten or fifteen milligrams of DHEA. Medical treatments very often are 00:40:20.560 --> 00:40:31.560 providing plenty milligrams a day, for example, instead of normal four or five. So, that's 00:40:31.560 --> 00:40:39.560 almost certain to suppress progesterone while increasing estrogen. 00:40:39.560 --> 00:40:48.560 TMC asks prolactinoma, "Is it possible to reverse those without surgery? What could 00:40:48.560 --> 00:40:51.560 cause them in the first place?" 00:40:51.560 --> 00:41:01.560 Just recently, someone was a mysterious, extremely high prolactin level, just by changing other 00:41:01.560 --> 00:41:08.560 things in this diet, caused something like a hundred point decrease down to absolutely 00:41:08.560 --> 00:41:17.560 normal prolactin. But those are strongly influenced by thyroid and by vitamin D and calcium in 00:41:17.560 --> 00:41:28.560 the diet. The parathyroid hormone that there are surgeons who have created their own series 00:41:28.560 --> 00:41:37.560 of vitamin D metabolism and calcium metabolism, they're the worst people to listen to, to 00:41:37.560 --> 00:41:49.560 understand vitamin D. They're making, for example, just for a fifteen minute surgery, 00:41:49.560 --> 00:41:55.560 they're making something like fifteen thousand dollars, about a thousand dollars a minute, 00:41:55.560 --> 00:42:03.560 which justifies their inventing a new series of what vitamin D is. But they essentially 00:42:03.560 --> 00:42:15.560 are saying that the prolactinoma has nothing to do with your diet or the parathyroid tumor. 00:42:15.560 --> 00:42:24.560 Both of them are absolutely dependent on the diet. You can turn off your parathyroid hormone 00:42:24.560 --> 00:42:34.560 with a proper amount of calcium in your diet, vitamin D, and supporting factors such as 00:42:34.560 --> 00:42:44.560 thyroid hormone. Both of those tumors are a response to a defect in the calcium handling 00:42:44.560 --> 00:42:53.560 system and the thyroid and vitamin D are usually responsible. 00:42:53.560 --> 00:43:03.560 Okay, so get out in the sunshine, TMC, and get that vitamin D too. Butch843 asks, "I 00:43:03.560 --> 00:43:09.560 want to know the use of nicotine gum for cognitive enhancement and alertness. Does repeat recommend 00:43:09.560 --> 00:43:18.560 the use of nicotine gum?" It's a very interesting idea. I've been following it for years and 00:43:18.560 --> 00:43:28.560 people have found that in middle age animals and older, if they don't start using nicotine 00:43:28.560 --> 00:43:38.560 at a young age, there doesn't seem to be an addiction problem. But there can be directly 00:43:38.560 --> 00:43:47.560 toxic effects from nicotine and that still hasn't been. We're right in the middle of 00:43:47.560 --> 00:43:57.560 understanding what the nicotinic receptor system so-called is really doing. So I think 00:43:57.560 --> 00:44:06.560 it's dangerous, but that does have a definite cognitive promoting effect. But I think it's 00:44:06.560 --> 00:44:11.560 safer to do it with other things such as thyroid and caffeine. 00:44:11.560 --> 00:44:19.560 I agree, yeah, for sure. Okay, this is an interesting question from Ms. Foster. "The best way to 00:44:19.560 --> 00:44:25.560 treat an adrenal body type and lower cortisol because my sleep is very poor quality due 00:44:25.560 --> 00:44:31.560 to a hiatal hernia. I wake up tired and have muscle wastage. I've tried everything I can 00:44:31.560 --> 00:44:36.560 think of to sleep, such as getting outside during the day, dimming the lights at night, 00:44:36.560 --> 00:44:42.560 mindfulness, yoga, taking Valerian, seeing a chiropractor, nothing works. I have symptoms 00:44:42.560 --> 00:44:49.560 of low thyroid." So she's wondering what you would recommend Dr. Pete as far as this 00:44:49.560 --> 00:44:55.560 lowering cortisol. It sounds to me like she definitely needs some thyroid, but also maybe 00:44:55.560 --> 00:45:07.560 gesturone. What would you say? Yeah, I was a problem sleeper from puberty until I think 00:45:07.560 --> 00:45:18.560 I was about 46 when I finally tried supplementing thyroid. The tiniest little click in the wall 00:45:18.560 --> 00:45:30.560 would instantly wake me up during those years. Traveling around a lot, doing talks, I would 00:45:30.560 --> 00:45:41.560 get very tired and have trouble going to sleep. After I started realizing that for other reasons 00:45:41.560 --> 00:45:54.560 I needed a thyroid supplement, once I tried a 10 microgram tablet of T3 at bedtime when 00:45:54.560 --> 00:46:08.560 I was in that fatigued traveling state. Instantly I went to sleep and slept soundly. Shortly 00:46:08.560 --> 00:46:19.560 after that I was visiting a doctor who was going to introduce talks the next night. He 00:46:19.560 --> 00:46:26.560 was haggard looking and said he hadn't slept for about four nights. Nothing worked to help 00:46:26.560 --> 00:46:35.560 him get to sleep. I had a bottle of Cytomil in my pocket and gave him some. The next night 00:46:35.560 --> 00:46:41.560 I got to the talk late and he was already starting the introduction. When I got up to 00:46:41.560 --> 00:46:51.560 the microphone he pulled me aside and said that stuff is better than opium. There is 00:46:51.560 --> 00:46:57.560 the power in getting that thyroid regulated in order to improve sleep for sure because 00:46:57.560 --> 00:47:05.560 I also was one that suffered sleep for many years. Thyroid was the major thing that helped 00:47:05.560 --> 00:47:07.560 me get it under control. 00:47:07.560 --> 00:47:19.560 Hyhistamine is one of the classical wakefulness activators. That's why antihistamines put 00:47:19.560 --> 00:47:30.560 you to sleep because the stress of hypothyroidism increases estrogen and so on which increases 00:47:30.560 --> 00:47:40.560 your mast cell and other release of histamine. The thyroid increases your energy over the 00:47:40.560 --> 00:47:47.560 estrogen and histamine and lets you sleep normally. 00:47:47.560 --> 00:47:55.560 Young mad dog asks, "Is it possible to get rid of gynomastia after fixing estrogen, prolactin, 00:47:55.560 --> 00:48:01.560 serotonin, cortisol?" It's been almost two years avoiding PUFA and I'm just wondering 00:48:01.560 --> 00:48:04.560 what to do about the gynomastia. 00:48:04.560 --> 00:48:20.560 Thyroid is the main thing. There's an inverse relationship in general between thyroid hormone 00:48:20.560 --> 00:48:32.560 and prolactin. The same release hormone controls both TSH and prolactin. If your TSH is up 00:48:32.560 --> 00:48:43.560 even within the normal range, activating release hormones are probably also causing an excess 00:48:43.560 --> 00:48:52.560 of prolactin and lowering your TSH with a supplement is probably going to lower your 00:48:52.560 --> 00:49:06.560 prolactin and estrogen gradually. With T3, it can stop breast pain in 10 minutes. Women 00:49:06.560 --> 00:49:16.560 I've known with 10 micrograms of Cytomil in 10 minutes, they're agonizing breast pain, 00:49:16.560 --> 00:49:26.560 have totally stopped. A woman's breast pain is hormonally very closely connected to male 00:49:26.560 --> 00:49:27.560 gynomastia. 00:49:27.560 --> 00:49:34.560 I love sugar is one of our big listeners. We get a lot of questions from this individual. 00:49:34.560 --> 00:49:39.560 On one of his interviews, Dr. Pete mentioned that nibbling food throughout the day is the 00:49:39.560 --> 00:49:45.560 best frequency to eat food. Assuming one would consume milk and orange juice based on 00:49:45.560 --> 00:49:51.560 appetite, does this mean sipping them every 10 to 20 minutes or so is okay? Or would that 00:49:51.560 --> 00:49:56.560 have any negative effects? How frequently does Dr. Pete sip milk and orange juice? Thanks, 00:49:56.560 --> 00:49:59.560 Dr. Pete and Jodell. 00:49:59.560 --> 00:50:08.560 The main problem with that is that it's probably bad for your teeth to let bacteria keep growing 00:50:08.560 --> 00:50:17.560 by having food in your mouth. If your thyroid and progesterone functions are very good, your 00:50:17.560 --> 00:50:27.560 liver and muscles are going to store a huge amount of glucose. When those are good, you 00:50:27.560 --> 00:50:37.560 have no stress at all from skipping a meal. You can easily go six or eight hours without 00:50:37.560 --> 00:50:47.560 eating and without experiencing a drop in energy or increase of stress. For someone 00:50:47.560 --> 00:50:57.560 who is under stress, keeping your blood sugar up with frequent doses of nutrients, especially 00:50:57.560 --> 00:51:01.560 carbohydrates and salt. 00:51:01.560 --> 00:51:07.560 I would say not every 10 to 20 minutes, but more like every couple of hours just to let 00:51:07.560 --> 00:51:13.560 that insulin spike relax if for some reason they have blood sugar handling problems. Is 00:51:13.560 --> 00:51:15.560 that true? 00:51:15.560 --> 00:51:19.560 That's good. 00:51:19.560 --> 00:51:27.560 Crescent Moon asks, how should one treat chronic fatigue syndrome? Any recommendations for 00:51:27.560 --> 00:51:34.560 using antibiotics? Should I take an approved antibiotic for weeks at a time if that's not 00:51:34.560 --> 00:51:37.560 what's required to reduce symptoms? 00:51:37.560 --> 00:51:48.560 Historically, for at least 25 years, many people have been observing that those symptoms 00:51:48.560 --> 00:51:58.560 go along with above normal prolactin. Since above normal prolactin is tightly related to 00:51:58.560 --> 00:52:08.560 below normal thyroid function, I think the usual approach should be getting your energy 00:52:08.560 --> 00:52:18.560 system working again, running at a higher temperature, higher body temperature, using the more efficient 00:52:18.560 --> 00:52:30.560 oxidative metabolism, producing the anti-inflammatory carbon dioxide rather than the pro-inflammatory 00:52:30.560 --> 00:52:46.560 carbon dioxide. All of these things that interfere with calcium, vitamin D metabolism, all of 00:52:46.560 --> 00:52:57.560 these create inflammation by way of lactic acid and decrease the carbon dioxide production 00:52:57.560 --> 00:53:05.560 as a good thyroid activation of metabolism. 00:53:05.560 --> 00:53:14.560 Turkish Postman asks, can we rub caffeine directly on our scalp to prevent or be an antagonist 00:53:14.560 --> 00:53:20.560 to hair loss or should we use it with a shampoo to dissolve it? 00:53:20.560 --> 00:53:30.560 No, it is poorly soluble in water, but some other substances like aspirin can increase 00:53:30.560 --> 00:53:43.560 the amount in the solution. And for many types of skin irritation, chronic mysterious rashes 00:53:43.560 --> 00:53:56.560 sometimes quickly disappear to a lotion of caffeine. When there is some kind of a disease 00:53:56.560 --> 00:54:06.560 process going on, it doesn't hurt to test caffeine lotion on the scalp, but the whole 00:54:06.560 --> 00:54:17.560 energy-providing system of the hair follicle again centers closely on calcium, vitamin D, 00:54:17.560 --> 00:54:40.560 parathyroid hormone and prolactin. So you want to keep your parathyroid and prolactin low, 00:54:40.560 --> 00:54:59.560 which increases the growth and likelihood of the hair follicle. 00:54:59.560 --> 00:55:04.560 They have a question regarding toxic black mold, which I can relate to. For several years 00:55:04.560 --> 00:55:13.560 ago, I was exposed to black toxic mold. What would Dr. Pete recommend to detoxify from 00:55:13.560 --> 00:55:19.560 black toxic mold? Would activated charcoal be effective and how much and for how long? 00:55:19.560 --> 00:55:37.560 Thank you, Jodell and Dr. Pete. You guys are awesome. 00:55:37.560 --> 00:55:49.560 I think there is any evidence that propagates itself in the body. A lot of 10 or 15 years 00:55:49.560 --> 00:55:58.560 ago, interest in black mold was being promoted by the construction industry, convincing people 00:55:58.560 --> 00:56:03.560 that they needed to tear down their house and build a new one. It had to cure the mold 00:56:03.560 --> 00:56:15.560 problem. If you have a persisting mold problem, getting the chronic humidity of the hair below 00:56:15.560 --> 00:56:27.560 55% relative humidity will limit or prevent black mold growth. If you want to be sure 00:56:27.560 --> 00:56:37.560 that you have killed the mold and spores, you can either direct a strong ultraviolet 00:56:37.560 --> 00:56:49.560 light on the moldy area or close the room with a good strong ozone generator. If you 00:56:49.560 --> 00:57:00.560 have fancy colored upholstery or drapes, you don't want to expose the toes to prolonged 00:57:00.560 --> 00:57:11.560 ozone exposure because they will fade. UV light and the ozone generators will do a good 00:57:11.560 --> 00:57:22.560 job. The ozone penetrates below the surface in the wood and plastic to kill the spores. 00:57:22.560 --> 00:57:29.560 I had a couple of questions. On breath work, I have been really intrigued by breath work 00:57:29.560 --> 00:57:34.560 and understanding that sometimes we hyperventilate. We breathe too much. What are your thoughts 00:57:34.560 --> 00:57:41.560 on that? Should we do more of a relaxed, slow style of breath, or are you a fan of deep 00:57:41.560 --> 00:57:51.560 breathing? When you're anxious, you tend to turn on over-breathing and over-breathing 00:57:51.560 --> 00:58:02.560 quickly activates the lactic acid production and creates a vicious circle. The breathing 00:58:02.560 --> 00:58:17.560 training or exercise can gradually relax you enough that you can expel your breath effortlessly. 00:58:17.560 --> 00:58:31.560 Just relax and the air falls out of you. Then the diaphragm will cause your abdomen to rise 00:58:31.560 --> 00:58:40.560 as you inhale without having to expand your chest. That's the normal, relaxed way to 00:58:40.560 --> 00:58:51.560 breathe. If you notice your chest having to expand, that's probably a stress state. When 00:58:51.560 --> 00:58:57.560 you're thoroughly relaxed, for example, when you're just waking up in the morning, you 00:58:57.560 --> 00:59:08.560 might notice that you have very fast, shallow breathing. That's normal breathing, where 00:59:08.560 --> 00:59:20.560 the diaphragm is reacting to the accumulated carbon dioxide and causing just enough inhalation 00:59:20.560 --> 00:59:30.560 to bring in the oxygen you need without blowing out too much of the protective CO2. I think 00:59:30.560 --> 00:59:38.560 the best way to do it is by making sure your thyroid function and progesterone levels are 00:59:38.560 --> 00:59:46.560 adequate. That will produce the shift away from lactic acid towards CO2, and you don't 00:59:46.560 --> 00:59:57.560 have to go through weeks of forced remembering not to breathe too much. 00:59:57.560 --> 01:00:03.560 I love that. I love that you talked about the calming the breath down, like that we 01:00:03.560 --> 01:00:09.560 should be doing the breath work. But in addition to, like all things, we really have to address 01:00:09.560 --> 01:00:15.560 the thyroid and the progesterone. As far as someone who's a mouth breather and maybe a 01:00:15.560 --> 01:00:20.560 adjusting to nasal breathing, because I'm trying to get several of my clients to become 01:00:20.560 --> 01:00:26.560 nasal breathers, is that something that you think also calms down the stress response 01:00:26.560 --> 01:00:29.560 in the body, becoming more of a nasal breather? 01:00:29.560 --> 01:00:49.560 The thyroid itself will usually take care of that, and it involves things like bowel irritation 01:00:49.560 --> 01:01:00.560 that create a conscious deficiency of oxygen, making new gas for breath. Just a good laxative 01:01:00.560 --> 01:01:09.560 and adding fiber to the diet temporarily and antibiotic can help to clean up. But thyroid 01:01:09.560 --> 01:01:17.560 should be the thing that maintains good bowel health, and good bowel health will make it 01:01:17.560 --> 01:01:27.560 much easier to have relaxed, un-anxious abdominal or diaphragm breathing. 01:01:27.560 --> 01:01:33.560 Very cool. Okay, now my daughter who's six, she likes to ask you questions too, and so 01:01:33.560 --> 01:01:38.560 she had a question about brain fog. She's heard me talk about it, like about clients 01:01:38.560 --> 01:01:44.560 and stuff that have it, and she says, "What is brain fog, and how do we get brain fog, 01:01:44.560 --> 01:01:48.560 and how can we get rid of it?" Because the other day she said she felt like her brain 01:01:48.560 --> 01:01:56.560 was foggy. 01:01:56.560 --> 01:02:03.560 No one is really very clear about what it means, but partly it means that they have no 01:02:03.560 --> 01:02:13.560 short-term memory to speak of. They can just move across the room and not remember why 01:02:13.560 --> 01:02:25.560 they went there. So the fog is something that limits your range of vision, and in that sense 01:02:25.560 --> 01:02:36.560 if you don't have the short-term instantaneous memory that is necessary to get from one moment 01:02:36.560 --> 01:02:45.560 to the next, then you feel like you're muddled and don't know what to do. 01:02:45.560 --> 01:02:54.560 When I was about 12 or 13 experiencing early puberty changes, I happened to have a bottle 01:02:54.560 --> 01:03:02.560 of vitamin B1 tablets, and didn't know why I would be taking it, but I just chewed up 01:03:02.560 --> 01:03:15.560 one, and immediately, like three or four minutes, I suddenly had a broader range of perspective 01:03:15.560 --> 01:03:26.560 and focused behavior, and I realized that that had been what people would call a brain fog. 01:03:26.560 --> 01:03:36.560 Just feeling like you're oppressed, but for no particular reason, and when that clears 01:03:36.560 --> 01:03:46.560 away, suddenly you can acutely see what you want to do and should be doing and have been 01:03:46.560 --> 01:03:56.560 doing. So it places you in time and space in a clear way, and that's simple brain energy 01:03:56.560 --> 01:04:05.560 and thyroid and sugar metabolism are the basic source of your available brain energy. 01:04:05.560 --> 01:04:16.560 It happens that vitamin B1 and caffeine are things that can momentarily give you a boost 01:04:16.560 --> 01:04:24.560 of metabolic energy. That work says brain energy is serving up the fogginess. 01:04:24.560 --> 01:04:28.560 Okay, I'll be sure to tell her, but I don't think I'll give her any caffeine. She already 01:04:28.560 --> 01:04:36.560 bounces off the walls as it is. Alright, well that concludes our questions. This has been 01:04:36.560 --> 01:04:42.560 fun as usual, and you're so generous. I just hope that people will return the generosity 01:04:42.560 --> 01:04:48.560 and check out your newsletter, which they can get via the mail or via their email, and 01:04:48.560 --> 01:04:55.560 that's at Ray Pete's, that's plural, Pete's with an S newsletter at gmail.com, and I really 01:04:55.560 --> 01:05:01.560 encourage it because I love it. I look forward to each article that comes out. So yeah, I 01:05:01.560 --> 01:05:10.560 appreciate you doing that as well, Dr. Pete. Okay, thank you. Alright, well we will let 01:05:10.560 --> 01:05:20.560 you go for now, and thanks once again. Appreciate your time. Okay, bye. Thank you so much. Have 01:05:20.560 --> 01:05:31.560 a good evening. Is your gut right? Are your hormones in check? Well, ATP Science is my 01:05:31.560 --> 01:05:36.560 new go-to brand when it comes to lowering estrogen and getting your gut right. 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