WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.580 (upbeat music) 00:00:02.580 --> 00:00:06.280 - Well, welcome to the Get Fit With Jodel podcast. 00:00:06.280 --> 00:00:09.520 I am as usual Jodel and you know what? 00:00:09.520 --> 00:00:12.560 Dr. Raymond Pete is back on the podcast. 00:00:12.560 --> 00:00:15.080 He's with me again and he needs no introduction 00:00:15.080 --> 00:00:17.440 for most of you that follow my podcast. 00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:19.560 We are some repeat lovers here. 00:00:19.560 --> 00:00:23.040 So, but if you do wanna learn about Dr. Pete 00:00:23.040 --> 00:00:24.400 and you're new to the podcast, 00:00:24.400 --> 00:00:28.180 I invite you to check out his amazingly informational, 00:00:28.180 --> 00:00:32.440 chock full of information website that raypeat.com 00:00:32.440 --> 00:00:36.160 that's R-A-Y-P-E-A-T.com. 00:00:36.160 --> 00:00:37.440 And we're gonna dive right in 00:00:37.440 --> 00:00:39.060 because I wanna thank all of you 00:00:39.060 --> 00:00:42.120 who submitted questions for Dr. Pete. 00:00:42.120 --> 00:00:44.560 I think both he and I really enjoy answering 00:00:44.560 --> 00:00:47.920 these questions and I love hearing his input on them. 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:50.120 So we are gonna jump right in. 00:00:50.120 --> 00:00:52.060 Dr. Pete, welcome to the podcast. 00:00:52.060 --> 00:00:54.520 - Thanks. 00:00:54.520 --> 00:00:58.680 - Yeah, so I'm gonna start with my own question 00:00:58.680 --> 00:01:01.080 that I have for you that I've been really curious 00:01:01.080 --> 00:01:01.920 to know about. 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:04.880 I kind of put mine at the top of the list here. 00:01:04.880 --> 00:01:07.840 But what are your thoughts on Chinese medicine 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:12.000 and something that I'm learning about called liver heat? 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:14.140 Now I'm not trained in Chinese medicine, 00:01:14.140 --> 00:01:16.880 but I love learning Ayurveda and Chinese medicine 00:01:16.880 --> 00:01:19.400 and applying it to my clientele and to myself. 00:01:19.400 --> 00:01:21.080 And I was wondering your thoughts 00:01:21.080 --> 00:01:23.880 on how to achieve good liver balance. 00:01:23.880 --> 00:01:27.080 And if you feel that liver heat or liver stagnation 00:01:27.080 --> 00:01:30.000 is actually an issue in a lot of people. 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:36.920 - Yeah, the Chinese over thousands of years 00:01:36.920 --> 00:01:40.680 accumulated lots of good knowledge. 00:01:40.680 --> 00:01:45.680 But the idea of Chinese traditional medicine 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:49.200 isn't a monolithic thing. 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:53.640 It varies by regions, for example. 00:01:54.280 --> 00:01:58.360 So there are many traditional Chinese medicines. 00:01:58.360 --> 00:02:02.760 And I think many of them are somewhat useless 00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:04.320 or maybe even harmful. 00:02:04.320 --> 00:02:09.320 But they do have probably, in total, 00:02:09.320 --> 00:02:14.520 there's probably more useful medication available 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:21.480 in Chinese medicine than in American pharmaceutical 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:27.360 or in medicine, just because it's such a vast field 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:28.300 of knowledge. 00:02:28.300 --> 00:02:34.640 But it's based on basically natural substances 00:02:34.640 --> 00:02:39.840 and a lot of the knowledge is metaphoric. 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:46.680 Like when I was in Mexico, I learned that the plans 00:02:49.080 --> 00:02:54.080 that were, for example, something that was prescribed 00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:58.080 for anemia in different areas. 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:02.400 It happened that when you cooked up the leaves 00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:06.400 or twigs or whatever, they were plants 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:09.720 that produced a bright red solution, 00:03:09.720 --> 00:03:14.320 even though they were hugely different chemicals. 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:20.280 It was the connection between the redness of the herb 00:03:20.280 --> 00:03:27.480 and the perceived lack of redness of the blood 00:03:27.480 --> 00:03:29.520 of an anemic person. 00:03:29.520 --> 00:03:32.520 So it wasn't scientific at all. 00:03:32.520 --> 00:03:37.120 And if it happened to work, it was really just accidental. 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:40.040 And so those things, if you have hundreds 00:03:40.040 --> 00:03:44.640 of people doing that, sometimes you'll hit on a drug 00:03:44.640 --> 00:03:48.480 that works and that'll be preserved. 00:03:48.480 --> 00:03:52.520 So it'll be something that started as a metaphor, 00:03:52.520 --> 00:03:55.820 but turned out to have an empirical value. 00:03:55.820 --> 00:04:00.920 - And as far as like the liver heat, 00:04:00.920 --> 00:04:03.240 when in Chinese medicine, they talk about liver heat 00:04:03.240 --> 00:04:06.760 is like liver inflammation or liver stagnation. 00:04:06.760 --> 00:04:08.160 What say you about that? 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:16.080 - The gut and the liver are really our basic 00:04:16.080 --> 00:04:23.640 deepest interaction with the world 00:04:23.640 --> 00:04:25.700 of chemistry and nutrition. 00:04:25.700 --> 00:04:36.640 It happens that the liver is necessarily involved 00:04:36.640 --> 00:04:40.520 in all of our chemical reactions. 00:04:40.520 --> 00:04:45.520 And you can say that fixing the liver 00:04:45.520 --> 00:04:49.540 is going to improve every condition. 00:04:49.540 --> 00:04:55.600 But the way they go about fixing the liver 00:04:55.600 --> 00:05:01.640 is again, sometimes very metaphorical 00:05:01.640 --> 00:05:05.920 and sometimes unscientific. 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:10.920 But very often if you attend to the liver, 00:05:10.920 --> 00:05:14.680 you're very often going to get things right. 00:05:14.680 --> 00:05:16.640 - For sure. 00:05:16.640 --> 00:05:19.460 What's one of your top tips for if somebody knows 00:05:19.460 --> 00:05:21.160 they have liver inflammation 00:05:21.160 --> 00:05:23.960 or some sort of liver issue going on, 00:05:23.960 --> 00:05:25.760 what would you say would be the first line 00:05:25.760 --> 00:05:26.980 of defense for them? 00:05:26.980 --> 00:05:33.440 - Laxatives and anti-inflammatory substances 00:05:34.040 --> 00:05:39.040 because irritation of the bowel necessarily 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:43.600 produces irritation of the liver. 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:48.600 The bowel is constantly either protecting the liver 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:53.720 from toxins or letting them through into the liver. 00:05:53.720 --> 00:05:58.760 So if your intestine is inflamed and not working very well, 00:05:58.760 --> 00:06:00.440 it's going to hurt your liver. 00:06:01.640 --> 00:06:05.320 So laxatives and anti-inflammatories 00:06:05.320 --> 00:06:09.200 are the first defense of the liver. 00:06:09.200 --> 00:06:10.800 - Okay, good to know. 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:13.840 Now, one other question I had was there's a lot out there 00:06:13.840 --> 00:06:17.640 on mono diets where somebody's just going to use one food 00:06:17.640 --> 00:06:20.920 or substance to cleanse the body. 00:06:20.920 --> 00:06:22.560 And I've recently come across one 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:26.240 that I think you might approve of. 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:28.240 Since you are a big fan of milk, 00:06:28.240 --> 00:06:31.520 there's something coming out in the biotoxic illness 00:06:31.520 --> 00:06:33.960 community called a milk cleanse, 00:06:33.960 --> 00:06:35.640 where this is a mono diet 00:06:35.640 --> 00:06:38.800 where somebody would only drink milk for eight days. 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:40.620 What are your thoughts on that? 00:06:40.620 --> 00:06:42.120 What do you think about that? 00:06:42.120 --> 00:06:46.800 - Sometimes it's extended to a month. 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:47.640 - Okay. 00:06:47.640 --> 00:06:49.920 - And it can be very powerful 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:54.920 because the milk contains antibiotic ingredients 00:06:54.920 --> 00:06:59.920 and multiple anti-inflammatory sedative, 00:06:59.920 --> 00:07:03.760 as well as nutritional substances. 00:07:03.760 --> 00:07:08.760 And really the only thing it lacks to live on for a year 00:07:08.760 --> 00:07:16.000 is iron, you're an adult living on pure milk 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:21.600 for more than a year. 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:25.720 So, it's just profoundly therapeutic 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:30.400 to do it for a week or more, up to a month. 00:07:30.400 --> 00:07:31.240 - Fantastic. 00:07:31.240 --> 00:07:32.400 Yeah, it's really intriguing 00:07:32.400 --> 00:07:33.400 because when you think about it, 00:07:33.400 --> 00:07:35.200 milk has all the macronutrients. 00:07:35.200 --> 00:07:38.520 It has fat, it has protein, it has carbohydrates. 00:07:38.520 --> 00:07:40.720 So, you're not really fasting in any sense 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:42.080 'cause you're getting a lot of food 00:07:42.080 --> 00:07:45.520 and you're getting a lot of protein and you're getting a lot 00:07:45.520 --> 00:07:48.760 of food and you're getting a lot of food and you're getting 00:07:48.760 --> 00:07:49.640 a lot of food. 00:07:49.640 --> 00:07:51.280 So, it's not really fasting in any sense 00:07:51.280 --> 00:07:53.280 'cause you're getting all your macros 00:07:53.280 --> 00:07:55.160 and it's got tons of minerals in it. 00:07:55.160 --> 00:07:56.920 So, yeah, when I was thinking about it, 00:07:56.920 --> 00:07:58.720 I'm like, you know, that makes a really good sense 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:02.520 as far as being a really good mono diet or a cleanse. 00:08:02.520 --> 00:08:09.160 - And since stress generally increases inflammation 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:14.640 and that turns on the angiotensin system 00:08:14.640 --> 00:08:18.240 that activates the adrenals and albasterone 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:23.240 and that activates the parathyroid glands 00:08:23.240 --> 00:08:29.640 and the parathyroids turn off respiratory energy production 00:08:29.640 --> 00:08:35.480 as a way of hiding from stress. 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:41.760 The way serotonin is closely involved in albasterone 00:08:41.760 --> 00:08:47.760 and parathyroid hormone and serotonin is a way 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:52.400 and it's an important factor on turning on hibernation, 00:08:52.400 --> 00:08:54.560 turning off metabolic energy. 00:08:54.560 --> 00:09:00.880 And since high calcium intake turns off 00:09:00.880 --> 00:09:05.920 the parathyroid gland, it restores energy production 00:09:05.920 --> 00:09:11.120 and most people are running around stress to the degree 00:09:11.120 --> 00:09:16.760 that their parathyroid and angiotensin 00:09:16.760 --> 00:09:21.760 and albasterone serotonin systems are unnecessarily active. 00:09:21.760 --> 00:09:28.800 And so it is equivalent to being hypothyroid. 00:09:28.800 --> 00:09:33.200 When the stress turns off your metabolism, 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:36.640 it does exactly what hypothyroidism does. 00:09:36.640 --> 00:09:42.680 And calcium in sufficient amounts, 00:09:42.680 --> 00:09:45.520 like on a pure milk diet, 00:09:45.520 --> 00:09:50.520 that's going to very strongly inhibit your parathyroid hormone 00:09:50.520 --> 00:09:55.760 meaning that it very strongly increases your metabolic rate, 00:09:55.760 --> 00:10:01.320 gets your liver active, providing stabilized glucose 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:05.880 and detoxifying processes 00:10:05.880 --> 00:10:10.880 so that any accumulated toxins from your fat 00:10:10.960 --> 00:10:15.960 and other tissues will be very efficiently 00:10:15.960 --> 00:10:20.080 detoxified and excreted. 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:25.880 So a pure milk diet is very similar 00:10:25.880 --> 00:10:30.560 to giving adequate thyroid supplementation 00:10:30.560 --> 00:10:33.240 to get the whole energy system 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:36.760 and detoxifying system going again. 00:10:36.760 --> 00:10:39.760 - Oh, wow, I'm so glad I asked this question 00:10:39.760 --> 00:10:43.800 because like truth be told, lay everything on the table. 00:10:43.800 --> 00:10:46.480 I actually did this cleanse, this eight day cleanse. 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:49.200 I've done it twice now with raw goat's milk. 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:53.200 And in eight days, I've had better results with my health 00:10:53.200 --> 00:10:56.960 than I've had trying to get past this toxic mold exposure 00:10:56.960 --> 00:10:58.720 for the last four years. 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:02.920 So I completely agree with you that this type of approach 00:11:02.920 --> 00:11:06.200 is healing on many levels, the liver, the thyroid, 00:11:06.200 --> 00:11:08.040 because I've seen it with my own two eyes 00:11:08.040 --> 00:11:10.400 and I'm gonna be podcasting about it soon too 00:11:10.400 --> 00:11:13.760 with the creator that put together this little milk cleanse 00:11:13.760 --> 00:11:15.080 that I specifically did. 00:11:15.080 --> 00:11:18.080 So I just wanted your two cents and I'm so glad I asked. 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:23.880 - I have a friend who has a lot of big dogs 00:11:23.880 --> 00:11:28.880 and his grandkids have some goats 00:11:28.880 --> 00:11:32.880 that they milk and sell the goat milk. 00:11:32.880 --> 00:11:37.880 So there's always a generous amount of goat milk 00:11:37.880 --> 00:11:42.880 and over the last several years when he discovered 00:11:42.880 --> 00:11:46.680 the good effects of milk on himself and friends, 00:11:46.680 --> 00:11:52.720 he had a dog that was injured almost fatally in the fight. 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:59.560 And he gave it sugar for immediate recovery, 00:11:59.560 --> 00:12:02.960 but then gave it a pure milk diet 00:12:02.960 --> 00:12:04.480 and recovered very fast. 00:12:04.480 --> 00:12:08.200 So that started him being interested 00:12:08.200 --> 00:12:11.160 in the therapeutic properties. 00:12:11.160 --> 00:12:16.160 And in one of the fights, a dog's eyeball 00:12:16.160 --> 00:12:21.960 was bitten and deflated and disappeared. 00:12:21.960 --> 00:12:24.560 So there was just a red socket 00:12:24.560 --> 00:12:30.120 and he put that dog on a pure milk diet. 00:12:31.240 --> 00:12:35.200 And I guess it was three or four weeks, 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:40.200 he noticed in this empty red socket, 00:12:40.200 --> 00:12:47.080 he noticed what looked like a cornea or lens developing. 00:12:47.080 --> 00:12:50.480 And over a period of six weeks or two months, 00:12:50.480 --> 00:12:54.040 a new eyeball appeared. 00:12:54.040 --> 00:12:54.880 - Oh, wow. 00:12:57.520 --> 00:13:02.000 - And with a couple of old dogs 00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:04.640 who had gone blind from cataracts, 00:13:04.640 --> 00:13:07.240 he put them on milk diet 00:13:07.240 --> 00:13:10.600 and they recovered from their cataracts. 00:13:10.600 --> 00:13:15.600 So the fresh goat milk was apparently responsible 00:13:15.600 --> 00:13:21.080 for regenerating, in one case, a whole eyeball 00:13:21.080 --> 00:13:26.360 and the other restoring clarity to the lenses. 00:13:27.320 --> 00:13:29.760 - Okay, so then the cliche stands, 00:13:29.760 --> 00:13:31.680 milk really does do a body good. 00:13:31.680 --> 00:13:34.240 So yeah, I think we've heard it here, folks. 00:13:34.240 --> 00:13:38.040 You can definitely try a mono diet of milk. 00:13:38.040 --> 00:13:41.280 Well, I think we'll jump into the next question. 00:13:41.280 --> 00:13:44.520 So this is from SM, it says, 00:13:44.520 --> 00:13:47.200 "Could you please ask Dr. Pete how you would know 00:13:47.200 --> 00:13:50.160 if you are taking too much thyroid supplement? 00:13:50.160 --> 00:13:53.080 For example, I'm taking one whole tablet a day 00:13:53.080 --> 00:13:56.000 of Sinoples split into three doses 00:13:56.000 --> 00:14:00.000 and half a tablet of Sinomel split into two doses. 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:03.360 My underarm temperature is around 98 degrees Fahrenheit 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:06.760 and resting heart rate around 60 beats per minute. 00:14:06.760 --> 00:14:09.120 I generally feel a bit fatigued 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:10.720 wondering if I should up the dose 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:12.680 and how would I know if I'm taking too much? 00:14:12.680 --> 00:14:13.880 So I guess the question is, 00:14:13.880 --> 00:14:15.440 how do you know if you're taking too much 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:16.840 or too little, Dr. Pete? 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:22.880 - A few times, for example, 00:14:25.440 --> 00:14:30.440 if I was taking a two-grain dose of armored thyroid 00:14:30.440 --> 00:14:34.720 during the winter, every spring I found 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:39.040 that I started overheating and getting out of breath 00:14:39.040 --> 00:14:40.800 if I kept taking that amount. 00:14:40.800 --> 00:14:43.400 So I learned that in the spring, 00:14:43.400 --> 00:14:48.400 I had to go from two grains down to a half a grain. 00:14:48.400 --> 00:14:54.880 And what you are most likely to notice 00:14:55.360 --> 00:14:57.480 when you're taking more than enough 00:14:57.480 --> 00:15:01.480 is that you're just standing up 00:15:01.480 --> 00:15:04.040 and walking across the room, for example, 00:15:04.040 --> 00:15:10.200 you'll feel increased warmth and breathe. 00:15:10.200 --> 00:15:11.560 You'll be breathing harder 00:15:11.560 --> 00:15:15.320 and temporarily get out of breath 00:15:15.320 --> 00:15:18.360 just for walking 30 feet or so. 00:15:18.360 --> 00:15:24.720 So your heart beats very powerfully 00:15:24.720 --> 00:15:29.720 and quickly, usually going 95 or 100 beats per minute 00:15:29.720 --> 00:15:34.400 with a very hard, firm pulse, 00:15:34.400 --> 00:15:38.440 not a rapid, weak beat. 00:15:38.440 --> 00:15:44.400 And you're very easily overheated 00:15:44.400 --> 00:15:47.760 and get out of breath, 00:15:47.760 --> 00:15:50.360 but you also recover your breath quickly. 00:15:50.360 --> 00:15:51.600 - Okay. 00:15:51.600 --> 00:15:53.880 Okay, some good symptoms to look for there 00:15:53.880 --> 00:15:55.320 than SM. 00:15:55.320 --> 00:15:57.920 Okay, so UPCAR at BECOM asks 00:15:57.920 --> 00:16:02.920 whether a succinate source of vitamin E 00:16:02.920 --> 00:16:05.480 is acceptable to consume. 00:16:05.480 --> 00:16:08.720 Now, when I looked into succinate a while back, 00:16:08.720 --> 00:16:12.480 that source seems to be really good for cancer prevention. 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:16.400 Yeah, I had just seen some studies on it relating to cancer, 00:16:16.400 --> 00:16:19.400 but as far as if it's safe or acceptable to consume, 00:16:19.400 --> 00:16:21.520 that's something that I guess 00:16:21.520 --> 00:16:24.520 I'll have to look into a bit further. 00:16:24.520 --> 00:16:27.080 - The vitamin E should be described 00:16:27.080 --> 00:16:32.080 according to its actual composition 00:16:32.080 --> 00:16:36.640 as a tocopherol, 00:16:36.640 --> 00:16:42.000 which of the isomers of the tocopherol it is. 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:44.240 - Okay, good to know. 00:16:44.240 --> 00:16:47.040 Okay, White Lotus asks, 00:16:47.040 --> 00:16:49.640 I found three masses in my breast 00:16:49.640 --> 00:16:52.400 along with a two centimeter mass in my lymph node 00:16:52.400 --> 00:16:53.560 via ultrasound. 00:16:53.560 --> 00:16:56.400 And reading further down, 00:16:56.400 --> 00:17:00.520 she has a pretty low TSH and T4 within range, 00:17:00.520 --> 00:17:04.080 but it seems to be her numbers are getting worse now 00:17:04.080 --> 00:17:07.040 and ultrasound showed an enlarged thyroid, 00:17:07.040 --> 00:17:08.400 but otherwise normal. 00:17:08.400 --> 00:17:10.480 Then she learned about you 00:17:10.480 --> 00:17:12.880 and she started taking her temperature 00:17:12.880 --> 00:17:17.800 and implementing kind of the way that you describe eating 00:17:17.800 --> 00:17:21.400 and her temperature is 97.4 in the morning 00:17:21.400 --> 00:17:24.440 and it can get to 98.4 midday. 00:17:24.440 --> 00:17:26.320 Her adrenals seem to be involved 00:17:26.320 --> 00:17:30.480 'cause her pulse goes from 84 to 94 to 110, 135 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:32.080 when she's stressed 00:17:32.080 --> 00:17:33.480 and will sometimes go up and down 00:17:33.480 --> 00:17:36.840 within the few seconds that she's taking the pulse. 00:17:36.840 --> 00:17:40.680 And ever since COVID, it seems her heart rate is unstable. 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:43.120 She can feel a change when she takes progesterone 00:17:43.120 --> 00:17:46.520 and thyroid and she started aspirin, 00:17:46.520 --> 00:17:49.360 but it might irritate her stomach sometimes. 00:17:49.360 --> 00:17:51.800 Would she still be considered hypothyroid 00:17:51.800 --> 00:17:55.400 even though her TSH is so low and T4 is high 00:17:55.400 --> 00:17:59.400 and should she continue on the protocol? 00:17:59.400 --> 00:18:00.240 Yeah, go ahead. 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:03.880 - What exactly was your TSH number? 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:04.720 Do you have a- 00:18:04.720 --> 00:18:05.960 - Yeah, 0.35. 00:18:05.960 --> 00:18:09.240 - 0.25? 00:18:09.240 --> 00:18:10.080 - 0.35. 00:18:10.080 --> 00:18:13.080 - Oh, that's, 00:18:14.080 --> 00:18:19.080 it's not inconsistent with hypothyroidism. 00:18:19.080 --> 00:18:26.600 So experimenting with the dose is important, 00:18:26.600 --> 00:18:31.600 but you don't respond properly to the thyroid supplement 00:18:31.600 --> 00:18:38.480 if your body is very saturated with polyunsaturated fats 00:18:40.400 --> 00:18:44.440 or if your diet contains polyunsaturated fats 00:18:44.440 --> 00:18:48.320 or if you're getting too much phosphate in the diet 00:18:48.320 --> 00:18:53.320 from meat or fish or nuts or legumes or grains 00:18:53.320 --> 00:18:58.040 will interfere with thyroid function. 00:18:58.040 --> 00:19:01.800 Calcium promotes thyroid function. 00:19:01.800 --> 00:19:05.840 Vitamin D promotes it by letting you use the calcium. 00:19:07.640 --> 00:19:10.480 So you have to look at the whole picture 00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:15.480 and protein, sodium, calcium 00:19:15.480 --> 00:19:20.080 are all things that increase your metabolic rate 00:19:20.080 --> 00:19:26.560 and will help to, if it's just an inflammatory thing 00:19:26.560 --> 00:19:33.120 like a plugged milk duct, for example, 00:19:34.520 --> 00:19:39.400 the increased metabolic rate should clear it up quickly. 00:19:39.400 --> 00:19:41.920 - I'm so glad you brought up the PUFAs 00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:44.280 because I think that so many people just think, 00:19:44.280 --> 00:19:46.280 okay, I'm going to take a thyroid supplement 00:19:46.280 --> 00:19:48.360 and I'm going to take an aspirin 00:19:48.360 --> 00:19:50.920 and take some progesterone and all my problems will go away, 00:19:50.920 --> 00:19:53.640 but you really do have to dial in the nutrition 00:19:53.640 --> 00:19:56.200 and you have to look at the sources 00:19:56.200 --> 00:19:58.880 of those polyunsaturated fatty acids that are coming in 00:19:58.880 --> 00:20:00.480 'cause they are anti-thyroid, 00:20:00.480 --> 00:20:03.120 so they're not going to help you in the end. 00:20:03.120 --> 00:20:06.840 So yeah, I'm really glad that you brought that up as well. 00:20:06.840 --> 00:20:08.560 She has another question. 00:20:08.560 --> 00:20:12.160 What are Ray Pete's thoughts on alcohol, especially champagne? 00:20:12.160 --> 00:20:18.240 - In very small quantities, 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:21.560 like a half a teaspoon per day, 00:20:21.560 --> 00:20:29.000 it has very powerful anti-inflammatory 00:20:29.000 --> 00:20:32.880 and potentially anti-aging effects. 00:20:32.880 --> 00:20:37.880 There was a study of brain age pigment or lipophuscan 00:20:37.880 --> 00:20:43.360 and they found that vitamin E caused it to be removed 00:20:43.360 --> 00:20:47.640 from the living cells, but as a control, 00:20:47.640 --> 00:20:50.360 vitamin E had been dissolved in alcohol. 00:20:50.360 --> 00:20:54.000 They found that just an alcohol supplement 00:20:54.000 --> 00:21:00.000 was enough to remove the age pigment from the brain cells. 00:21:01.240 --> 00:21:05.680 And that is probably because of its very powerful 00:21:05.680 --> 00:21:10.680 anti-inflammatory effect or antioxidant effect, 00:21:10.680 --> 00:21:16.280 but to achieve that, it's just almost microscopic 00:21:16.280 --> 00:21:21.280 amount of ethyl alcohol that will serve as an antioxidant. 00:21:21.280 --> 00:21:27.160 - I'm just laughing because I'm thinking 00:21:27.160 --> 00:21:28.520 of all the people listening to this, 00:21:28.520 --> 00:21:31.360 but now their wine glass is gonna have half a teaspoon 00:21:31.360 --> 00:21:34.120 of champagne. (laughs) 00:21:34.120 --> 00:21:39.120 - Well, champagne is what, maybe 10% alcohol, 00:21:39.120 --> 00:21:46.720 very small, somewhere between eight and 10%, I think. 00:21:46.720 --> 00:21:52.040 So to have a gram of alcohol, 00:21:52.040 --> 00:21:57.000 you could have almost an ounce of champagne. 00:21:57.000 --> 00:21:58.360 (laughs) 00:21:58.360 --> 00:21:59.880 Well, thankfully I'm not a drinker, 00:21:59.880 --> 00:22:01.840 so it doesn't apply to me, but everybody out there, 00:22:01.840 --> 00:22:04.440 go get your little teaspoon 00:22:04.440 --> 00:22:07.440 and measure out your champagne next time, so yeah. 00:22:07.440 --> 00:22:12.600 Okay, gcristy626 asks, 00:22:12.600 --> 00:22:16.440 is the vitamin K2 in MCT oil safe? 00:22:16.440 --> 00:22:21.200 Some sources list MCT that can be derived from soy. 00:22:21.200 --> 00:22:22.920 What's the best way to get K2, 00:22:22.920 --> 00:22:25.120 particularly if supplementing with aspirin 00:22:25.120 --> 00:22:26.600 to prevent bleeding? 00:22:26.600 --> 00:22:36.880 - Many of the products are in MCT oil, 00:22:36.880 --> 00:22:42.160 and it depends on the person and the quantity, 00:22:42.160 --> 00:22:47.160 but orally ingesting MCT has the possibility 00:22:50.560 --> 00:22:55.560 of increasing sensitivity to allergens. 00:22:55.560 --> 00:23:00.880 For example, they found that you could create a peanut allergy 00:23:00.880 --> 00:23:05.840 by combining a little bit of MCT 00:23:05.840 --> 00:23:08.560 with a little bit of a peanut substance. 00:23:08.560 --> 00:23:14.560 So it can have a very dangerous effect on the intestine. 00:23:14.560 --> 00:23:19.840 So I think it's good to avoid all of the oral supplements 00:23:20.080 --> 00:23:23.280 containing MCT on the skin 00:23:23.280 --> 00:23:25.800 as far as I know they're safe. 00:23:25.800 --> 00:23:30.800 And so when I think I've been, 00:23:30.800 --> 00:23:35.040 for example, taking antibiotics 00:23:35.040 --> 00:23:40.040 that would reduce the K-producing bacteria in my intestine 00:23:40.040 --> 00:23:43.880 and using aspirin, 00:23:43.880 --> 00:23:48.880 which will inactivate the substances 00:23:49.040 --> 00:23:52.160 that are anti-inflammatory, 00:23:52.160 --> 00:23:55.080 to counteract that, 00:23:55.080 --> 00:24:00.080 I will either eat an extra amount of liver 00:24:00.080 --> 00:24:06.560 or I will open some of the vitamin K capsules 00:24:06.560 --> 00:24:12.560 and spread three or four capsules on areas within skin. 00:24:12.560 --> 00:24:15.960 - Good idea. 00:24:17.120 --> 00:24:21.440 As far as like when you say not taking MCT oils though, 00:24:21.440 --> 00:24:23.360 so people really just need to get it 00:24:23.360 --> 00:24:25.360 from when they're using coconut oil, 00:24:25.360 --> 00:24:26.480 like you recommend, 00:24:26.480 --> 00:24:29.480 just getting the natural medium-chain triglycerides 00:24:29.480 --> 00:24:30.440 from that, yeah? 00:24:30.440 --> 00:24:37.000 - Yeah, many places call MCT a type of coconut oil, 00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:43.480 but it's really a totally unnatural thing 00:24:43.480 --> 00:24:45.320 that never occurs in nature, 00:24:46.240 --> 00:24:48.480 even though the components do, 00:24:48.480 --> 00:24:53.480 but they are arranged in a unique, manufactured way 00:24:53.480 --> 00:24:59.600 that the arrangement has very powerful biological effects. 00:24:59.600 --> 00:25:02.640 - Okay, very good. 00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:04.080 Ellie Z asks, 00:25:04.080 --> 00:25:06.520 is supplemental calcium carbonate 00:25:06.520 --> 00:25:09.200 from undisclosed sources dangerous 00:25:09.200 --> 00:25:11.640 due to potential heavy metals 00:25:11.640 --> 00:25:13.880 or do benefits outweigh the risk? 00:25:15.800 --> 00:25:19.200 - Yeah, it can come from a mine 00:25:19.200 --> 00:25:25.880 that contains very harmful amounts of heavy metals. 00:25:25.880 --> 00:25:30.880 So eggshells and coral are relatively clean. 00:25:30.880 --> 00:25:36.360 Eggshells were the cleanest by analysis, 00:25:36.360 --> 00:25:40.240 slightly better than coral calcium carbonate. 00:25:40.240 --> 00:25:42.920 - Okay, good to know. 00:25:42.920 --> 00:25:45.200 Dave Fit asks, 00:25:45.200 --> 00:25:48.320 would like to know about calcium to phosphorus ratio 00:25:48.320 --> 00:25:50.200 and maybe magnesium too? 00:25:50.200 --> 00:25:53.600 Dr. Pete talks a lot about getting lots of calcium upwards 00:25:53.600 --> 00:25:55.680 of 2000 plus milligrams a day 00:25:55.680 --> 00:25:57.360 and talks about reducing phosphorus, 00:25:57.360 --> 00:26:01.760 but I've never heard where he'd like to see phosphorus intake. 00:26:01.760 --> 00:26:04.640 Is there, or there is a decent amount of phosphorus in milk, 00:26:04.640 --> 00:26:06.240 so I'm curious what he recommends. 00:26:06.240 --> 00:26:08.640 New big fan of Ray Pete, he says. 00:26:10.440 --> 00:26:15.440 - Milk has, if you're drinking two or three quarts of milk 00:26:15.440 --> 00:26:19.360 a day, you're getting enough calcium. 00:26:19.360 --> 00:26:22.720 If your thyroid is functioning, 00:26:22.720 --> 00:26:27.720 a low thyroid person loses magnesium. 00:26:27.720 --> 00:26:32.520 The cells simply can't retain it very long. 00:26:32.520 --> 00:26:37.200 You might eat a huge batch of cooked spinach 00:26:38.840 --> 00:26:43.840 and have the symptoms subside for several hours 00:26:43.840 --> 00:26:47.080 or a day, but if your thyroid is low, 00:26:47.080 --> 00:26:51.600 your cells will lose it and the symptoms will recur. 00:26:51.600 --> 00:26:56.600 So you can get along on a surprisingly low level 00:26:56.600 --> 00:27:02.440 of magnesium if your thyroid is staying good. 00:27:02.440 --> 00:27:03.280 - Okay. 00:27:03.280 --> 00:27:08.280 - And milk is a very good source of magnesium 00:27:08.440 --> 00:27:10.920 if your thyroid is in good condition. 00:27:10.920 --> 00:27:13.720 - Okay, cool. 00:27:13.720 --> 00:27:17.520 All right, Dil R.R., D-Y-L-R-R asks, 00:27:17.520 --> 00:27:20.720 can Ray please talk about how an adult can grow taller 00:27:20.720 --> 00:27:24.120 after growth was stunted due to malnutrition? 00:27:24.120 --> 00:27:25.560 Is it possible, Dr. Pete? 00:27:25.560 --> 00:27:32.400 - Low thyroid people often don't finish growth 00:27:33.880 --> 00:27:38.880 until they're in their 40s, and malnutrition can be 00:27:38.880 --> 00:27:43.340 a major cause of a low thyroid function. 00:27:43.340 --> 00:27:49.200 I didn't start taking a thyroid supplement, 00:27:49.200 --> 00:27:52.640 even though I suspected it for many years, 00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:57.640 but I had a high metabolic rate and so I was close to, 00:27:57.640 --> 00:28:02.160 I think it was 40 when I started supplementing it. 00:28:02.160 --> 00:28:06.240 And when I had moved into that house, 00:28:06.240 --> 00:28:10.240 there were kids sharing the house 00:28:10.240 --> 00:28:15.120 and everyone marked their height on the door frame. 00:28:15.120 --> 00:28:20.120 And after about three or four years 00:28:20.120 --> 00:28:23.920 after I had started taking the thyroid supplement, 00:28:23.920 --> 00:28:27.200 I was moving out and I checked my height 00:28:27.200 --> 00:28:31.540 against the mark made 10 years earlier. 00:28:32.180 --> 00:28:36.580 And found that I had grown an inch after the age of 40 00:28:36.580 --> 00:28:41.740 because of the thyroid supplement. 00:28:41.740 --> 00:28:42.580 - That's so great. 00:28:42.580 --> 00:28:47.580 - And I mentioned that to a tall woman 00:28:47.580 --> 00:28:52.180 just around the time I, and myself, 00:28:52.180 --> 00:28:56.020 and she said exactly the same thing happened to her. 00:28:56.020 --> 00:28:58.580 She grew an inch when she was 45. 00:29:01.100 --> 00:29:02.440 All things are possible. 00:29:02.440 --> 00:29:06.500 Okay, so Laura Dana Nuculi asks, 00:29:06.500 --> 00:29:08.180 thank you for these shows, I love them. 00:29:08.180 --> 00:29:09.880 And you and Dr. Pete question, 00:29:09.880 --> 00:29:12.620 I cannot tolerate progesterone and most things 00:29:12.620 --> 00:29:15.840 that are recommended like aspirin makes me really cold. 00:29:15.840 --> 00:29:18.340 And progesterone, even a small amount, 00:29:18.340 --> 00:29:21.700 even progesty gives me a strong estrogenic reaction, 00:29:21.700 --> 00:29:25.000 lack of sleep, sore breasts, long menses, et cetera. 00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:26.260 Same with pregnant alone, 00:29:26.260 --> 00:29:27.940 that gives me an allergic reaction. 00:29:27.940 --> 00:29:31.100 I'm following Ray Pete's work for quite a few years now 00:29:31.100 --> 00:29:33.340 and most of the nutritional advice. 00:29:33.340 --> 00:29:37.120 I'm on thyroid support and my temps and pulse are okay-ish 00:29:37.120 --> 00:29:38.120 and getting better. 00:29:38.120 --> 00:29:41.420 Is there anything I can do to tolerate progesterone better? 00:29:41.420 --> 00:29:44.460 Main thing I want to do is improve working memory, 00:29:44.460 --> 00:29:47.820 especially with the capacity to focus in processing speed. 00:29:47.820 --> 00:29:51.760 I'm 43 year old woman with long-term iron deficiency. 00:29:51.760 --> 00:29:52.720 Thank you so much. 00:29:54.500 --> 00:29:59.500 The iron deficiency diagnosis is usually mistaken 00:29:59.500 --> 00:30:07.660 because the iron stores tend to be hidden inside cells. 00:30:07.660 --> 00:30:13.480 And the closest you can get with a blood test 00:30:13.480 --> 00:30:17.980 is the transfer and saturation percent. 00:30:19.860 --> 00:30:24.860 And it should be something like maybe 25 to 30% 00:30:24.860 --> 00:30:29.260 is an okay saturation. 00:30:29.260 --> 00:30:34.260 But a low red blood cell count can be caused by many things, 00:30:34.260 --> 00:30:40.420 a copper deficiency, for example, or too much estrogen. 00:30:40.420 --> 00:30:48.460 If you look at female animals versus males, 00:30:48.460 --> 00:30:52.100 they always have a lower red cell count. 00:30:52.100 --> 00:30:57.100 And that's because estrogen inhibits bone marrow activity. 00:30:57.100 --> 00:31:06.620 So often people poison themselves 00:31:06.620 --> 00:31:12.420 trying to cure iron deficiency anemia 00:31:12.420 --> 00:31:17.420 when it's really a thyroid supplement or trace minerals. 00:31:18.380 --> 00:31:23.380 Such as selenium and copper or the B vitamins 00:31:23.380 --> 00:31:28.880 to get the red blood cell production up. 00:31:28.880 --> 00:31:37.300 The progesterone by opposing that anemia 00:31:37.300 --> 00:31:42.020 of producing effective estrogen 00:31:42.020 --> 00:31:44.540 and by activating the thyroid gland 00:31:45.540 --> 00:31:50.540 will itself improve the anemia 00:31:50.540 --> 00:31:53.840 increasing red cell production in women. 00:31:53.840 --> 00:32:00.020 And the amount and way that you use progesterone 00:32:00.020 --> 00:32:06.020 is very important. 00:32:11.540 --> 00:32:16.460 In the oil form, it can be absorbed through the skin, 00:32:16.460 --> 00:32:20.260 but it's about 10 times more efficient 00:32:20.260 --> 00:32:22.340 if you take it orally. 00:32:22.340 --> 00:32:26.580 But since vitamin E is a very viscous oil, 00:32:26.580 --> 00:32:32.620 it tends to be at least a disgusting thing 00:32:32.620 --> 00:32:36.840 to swallow very much of. 00:32:36.840 --> 00:32:41.340 And it's better if you mix it with butter 00:32:41.340 --> 00:32:44.140 or other food so that you don't notice 00:32:44.140 --> 00:32:45.540 the consistency of it. 00:32:45.540 --> 00:32:53.500 Then it will express its progesterone like activity. 00:32:53.500 --> 00:32:57.940 And progesterone at every level, 00:32:57.940 --> 00:33:02.940 its basic activity is to antagonize estrogen. 00:33:02.940 --> 00:33:10.620 So as soon as you feel a progesterone effect, 00:33:11.580 --> 00:33:16.580 it is activating your thyroid gland and the large thyroid. 00:33:16.580 --> 00:33:21.900 That means that it's accumulating the material 00:33:21.900 --> 00:33:24.500 with which to make thyroid hormone, 00:33:24.500 --> 00:33:26.540 but it's unable to excrete it 00:33:26.540 --> 00:33:30.420 because your body is dominated by estrogen, 00:33:30.420 --> 00:33:35.420 which locks the enzymes that break down the thyroglobulin 00:33:37.340 --> 00:33:40.620 forming the hormone for secretion. 00:33:40.620 --> 00:33:45.620 And so if a person has noticeably enlarged thyroid, 00:33:45.620 --> 00:33:48.940 it's better to shrink the thyroid gland 00:33:48.940 --> 00:33:50.980 back to the normal size 00:33:50.980 --> 00:33:55.340 because occasionally if a person takes enough thyroid, 00:33:55.340 --> 00:33:59.260 enough progesterone to block 00:33:59.260 --> 00:34:02.960 that anti thyroid effect of estrogen, 00:34:04.300 --> 00:34:09.300 the sudden release of the inhibition 00:34:09.300 --> 00:34:13.440 and the activating effect of the progesterone 00:34:13.440 --> 00:34:17.340 on those enzymes that release hormone 00:34:17.340 --> 00:34:19.200 from the thyroid globulin, 00:34:19.200 --> 00:34:24.320 that can put you into a hyper thyroid state, 00:34:24.320 --> 00:34:30.500 raising your pulse rate to 110 to 120 at rest. 00:34:30.500 --> 00:34:35.500 220 at rest until the gland normalizes itself. 00:34:35.500 --> 00:34:41.180 I experienced that myself 00:34:41.180 --> 00:34:44.320 and I've seen it in two or three other people. 00:34:44.320 --> 00:34:48.700 And generally they say that 00:34:48.700 --> 00:34:50.620 they never felt better in their life, 00:34:50.620 --> 00:34:54.020 but if they happen to go to a doctor, 00:34:54.020 --> 00:34:57.820 the doctor would want to destroy their thyroid gland 00:34:57.820 --> 00:35:02.700 to cure them, but if they just wait it out 00:35:02.700 --> 00:35:05.480 for a couple of months, that corrects itself. 00:35:05.480 --> 00:35:09.260 - Okay, another question from White Lotus is, 00:35:09.260 --> 00:35:13.420 are there any breads that are okay, like sourdough or rye? 00:35:13.420 --> 00:35:16.700 - If it's real sourdough. 00:35:16.700 --> 00:35:17.540 - Right. 00:35:17.540 --> 00:35:22.900 - A lot of places just add acid to bread, 00:35:25.260 --> 00:35:30.260 the actual way to make a nutritious and healthful sourdough 00:35:30.260 --> 00:35:37.280 is to soak the flour for 10 or 12 hours. 00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:42.620 With or without the yeast, you could add the yeast later. 00:35:42.620 --> 00:35:45.740 It doesn't matter because it's the soaking 00:35:45.740 --> 00:35:50.740 that turns the starch and protein, the gluten of the flour, 00:35:53.940 --> 00:35:58.280 and it has to be living flour, it can't be sterile flour. 00:35:58.280 --> 00:36:03.280 So it has to be vital with enzymes that can convert 00:36:03.280 --> 00:36:09.140 the gluten and starch into the amino acids 00:36:09.140 --> 00:36:14.460 and sugar that allows the yeast to leaven the bread. 00:36:14.460 --> 00:36:22.540 And so the bread loses its rubbery, fluffy texture 00:36:23.420 --> 00:36:28.420 and tends to be denser and weak, but very good tasting 00:36:28.420 --> 00:36:33.740 and very, very non-toxic. 00:36:33.740 --> 00:36:40.620 50 years ago when I was interested in making bread, 00:36:40.620 --> 00:36:44.940 I had noticed that a single slice of bread 00:36:44.940 --> 00:36:48.460 from the grocery store would give me insomnia. 00:36:49.340 --> 00:36:54.340 But when I baked my own well-soaked sourdough bread 00:36:54.340 --> 00:37:03.420 almost completely free of gluten, it tasted so good. 00:37:03.420 --> 00:37:09.300 A couple of times ate a whole loaf of it at bedtime 00:37:09.300 --> 00:37:11.220 and slept perfectly. 00:37:11.220 --> 00:37:12.180 - I'm sure. 00:37:12.180 --> 00:37:15.180 - Very, very digestible stuff. 00:37:15.180 --> 00:37:17.420 - Yeah, yeah, but I'm so glad to you. 00:37:17.420 --> 00:37:20.900 I agree completely if you can make it yourself 00:37:20.900 --> 00:37:24.740 or buy the highest quality fermented loaf of sourdough, 00:37:24.740 --> 00:37:27.700 then yeah, I think it's good. 00:37:27.700 --> 00:37:30.740 Okay, Julian says, raise thoughts on consistent 00:37:30.740 --> 00:37:34.060 nightly Benadryl usage for lowering serotonin 00:37:34.060 --> 00:37:36.540 and helping sleep and allergies, thanks. 00:37:36.540 --> 00:37:44.140 - As far as I know, there's no specific harm done by it. 00:37:44.860 --> 00:37:49.860 It's something that you should consider a temporary crutch 00:37:49.860 --> 00:37:55.180 because you can fix the problem of excess histamine 00:37:55.180 --> 00:37:56.740 and serotonin. 00:37:56.740 --> 00:38:00.180 For example, lowering your estrogen. 00:38:00.180 --> 00:38:06.660 Estrogen is the motor behind excess safe histamine 00:38:06.660 --> 00:38:09.480 and serotonin activity. 00:38:09.480 --> 00:38:13.620 So getting the estrogen under control with thyroid, 00:38:13.620 --> 00:38:17.340 progesterone, vitamin D and calcium for example, 00:38:17.340 --> 00:38:20.380 will bring on sleep. 00:38:20.380 --> 00:38:27.140 - Sometimes I wish I had canned audience applause for you 00:38:27.140 --> 00:38:29.860 because some of your answers are just so like, 00:38:29.860 --> 00:38:32.140 yay, we need like canned audience applause. 00:38:32.140 --> 00:38:37.140 Okay, Joseph asks options for people working through 00:38:37.140 --> 00:38:39.780 depersonalization panic disorder. 00:38:39.780 --> 00:38:44.780 - The panic part of it is from the falling blood sugar 00:38:44.780 --> 00:38:58.140 and excitatory effects of lactic acid. 00:38:58.140 --> 00:39:04.420 And the lactic acid is overproduced 00:39:04.420 --> 00:39:08.020 because you aren't making enough carbon dioxide 00:39:08.020 --> 00:39:11.660 to suppress the lactic acid production. 00:39:11.660 --> 00:39:16.660 And so making lactic acid blocks your ability 00:39:16.660 --> 00:39:21.300 to produce the sedative carbon dioxide 00:39:21.300 --> 00:39:23.620 and to keep your blood sugar up 00:39:23.620 --> 00:39:26.380 by the efficient oxidative metabolism. 00:39:26.380 --> 00:39:30.980 And so correcting your thyroid. 00:39:33.460 --> 00:39:38.100 A first aid can be inhaling carbon dioxide 00:39:38.100 --> 00:39:43.100 by re-breathing in the paper bag for a couple of minutes. 00:39:43.100 --> 00:39:48.580 - Okay, and NCgirl9FI asks looking forward 00:39:48.580 --> 00:39:50.620 to the answer to my question. 00:39:50.620 --> 00:39:53.940 I've been following a repeat diet for a year now. 00:39:53.940 --> 00:39:56.420 Raw carrot salad, milk, progesterone 00:39:56.420 --> 00:39:58.340 and taking a little bit of thyroid. 00:39:58.340 --> 00:40:00.220 I'm still getting tension headaches, 00:40:00.220 --> 00:40:02.220 especially around menstruation. 00:40:02.220 --> 00:40:04.860 My doctor wants to put me on estrogen. 00:40:04.860 --> 00:40:05.860 Oh no. 00:40:05.860 --> 00:40:07.900 Is there anything else I should try first? 00:40:07.900 --> 00:40:09.740 Could this be high serotonin? 00:40:09.740 --> 00:40:10.860 Thanks Dr. Pete. 00:40:10.860 --> 00:40:18.060 - Yeah, the important thing with progesterone use 00:40:18.060 --> 00:40:23.060 when you have a symptom like a menstrual headache or PMS 00:40:23.060 --> 00:40:29.220 or essentially any estrogen poisoning effect 00:40:31.180 --> 00:40:35.860 is to use the progesterone cyclic plate. 00:40:35.860 --> 00:40:40.380 The body produces it for two weeks every month 00:40:40.380 --> 00:40:44.060 and then lets up on the production. 00:40:44.060 --> 00:40:48.620 If your liver experiences a high level 00:40:48.620 --> 00:40:51.260 for more than two weeks, 00:40:51.260 --> 00:40:56.260 its enzymes are disposing of the estrogen 00:40:56.260 --> 00:40:59.980 as fast as you make it. 00:40:59.980 --> 00:41:04.780 And so you're losing the potency of the progesterone 00:41:04.780 --> 00:41:09.780 if you don't take a break of at least a week every month. 00:41:09.780 --> 00:41:13.980 And you get the most potent effect 00:41:13.980 --> 00:41:18.780 if you start it part way through the luteal phase 00:41:18.780 --> 00:41:25.060 and use it with the intent of activating your thyroid 00:41:25.060 --> 00:41:29.460 and interfering with the estrogen effect. 00:41:29.460 --> 00:41:34.380 And you can use thyroid the same way, 00:41:34.380 --> 00:41:39.380 especially if you have the active T3 form of thyroid, 00:41:39.380 --> 00:41:44.420 such as Cytomel or Sinomel. 00:41:44.420 --> 00:41:49.420 And you can use that during the luteal phase 00:41:49.420 --> 00:41:54.500 when you have the symptoms to lower the estrogen. 00:41:55.700 --> 00:42:00.380 If you use too much of it, 00:42:00.380 --> 00:42:02.420 you'll lower the estrogen to the point 00:42:02.420 --> 00:42:05.260 where you stop menstruating. 00:42:05.260 --> 00:42:09.460 But for example, someone who has been hemorrhaging constantly 00:42:09.460 --> 00:42:12.980 couldn't turn off their menstruation. 00:42:12.980 --> 00:42:16.300 In just two or three days, 00:42:16.300 --> 00:42:21.300 they were able to absolutely turn off the menstruation 00:42:21.740 --> 00:42:26.740 by supplementing T3 and that's menorrhagia 00:42:26.740 --> 00:42:33.540 or excessive menstruation is a common sign 00:42:33.540 --> 00:42:35.420 of hypothyroidism. 00:42:35.420 --> 00:42:41.660 And to get your thyroid activity up, 00:42:41.660 --> 00:42:43.580 it requires good nutrition, 00:42:43.580 --> 00:42:50.020 high ratio of calcium to phosphate, 00:42:50.020 --> 00:42:54.660 if possible, a one-to-one ratio is very good, 00:42:54.660 --> 00:42:57.300 but many people on a standard diet 00:42:57.300 --> 00:43:02.300 are getting five times as much phosphate as calcium. 00:43:02.300 --> 00:43:05.780 And that dissipates your energy, 00:43:05.780 --> 00:43:09.020 blocks the thyroid function and so on. 00:43:09.020 --> 00:43:11.380 - For sure. 00:43:11.380 --> 00:43:16.020 Okay, so next one is from Vain R. Prestus. 00:43:16.020 --> 00:43:20.940 Ray has previously mentioned that being slightly hyperthyroid 00:43:20.940 --> 00:43:24.100 is preferable to being slightly hypo. 00:43:24.100 --> 00:43:26.260 What are the physical markers 00:43:26.260 --> 00:43:29.140 for a properly adjusted thyroid dosage 00:43:29.140 --> 00:43:32.540 for getting that for that slightly hyperthyroid? 00:43:32.540 --> 00:43:39.580 - It's really hyper according to the standards 00:43:39.580 --> 00:43:42.100 of medical thinking. 00:43:42.100 --> 00:43:47.100 It's actually a used thyroid condition 00:43:47.100 --> 00:43:55.140 except good thyroid function is almost always considered 00:43:55.140 --> 00:43:59.580 as hyperthyroid by the medical and the doctrines 00:43:59.580 --> 00:44:02.460 that have developed over the last several years. 00:44:02.460 --> 00:44:10.100 And good thyroid function should include a resting pulse 00:44:11.060 --> 00:44:16.060 of somewhere in the 85 beats per minute at rest, 00:44:16.060 --> 00:44:23.780 just to maintain all of your detoxifying functions, 00:44:23.780 --> 00:44:26.500 for example, at a high level. 00:44:26.500 --> 00:44:31.500 And your skin should be generally on the moist side. 00:44:31.500 --> 00:44:37.900 Your hair should accumulate an oiliness 00:44:39.180 --> 00:44:42.460 if you don't wash it for several days. 00:44:42.460 --> 00:44:48.660 The softness of the skin depends on adequate oil production 00:44:48.660 --> 00:44:53.860 and moisture from the sweat plans. 00:44:53.860 --> 00:44:58.460 High estrogen and low thyroid, for example, 00:44:58.460 --> 00:45:03.100 knock out the function of most of your sweat plans 00:45:03.100 --> 00:45:07.060 leading to dry skin, thin skin, 00:45:07.060 --> 00:45:10.180 as well as internal problems 00:45:10.180 --> 00:45:15.140 of stress related degenerative symptoms. 00:45:15.140 --> 00:45:20.140 And alertness as well as alertness during the daytime 00:45:20.140 --> 00:45:24.380 and quick onset of sleep at night. 00:45:24.380 --> 00:45:30.940 Many people find that when they're under stress 00:45:30.940 --> 00:45:34.540 or traveling or something and can't get to sleep, 00:45:35.660 --> 00:45:39.460 five to 10 micrograms of T3 00:45:39.460 --> 00:45:41.780 by restoring the brain energy 00:45:41.780 --> 00:45:47.020 is creating the relaxed condition 00:45:47.020 --> 00:45:50.540 that will allow deep sleep to come on. 00:45:50.540 --> 00:45:52.660 It's partly a matter of the temperature, 00:45:52.660 --> 00:45:57.660 but partly simply activating energy production. 00:45:57.660 --> 00:46:03.220 And the brain is very similar to the muscles 00:46:04.180 --> 00:46:09.180 which can't relax fully if you're hypothyroid. 00:46:09.180 --> 00:46:15.220 The secretory organs which might either under function 00:46:15.220 --> 00:46:21.300 or over function, for example, 00:46:21.300 --> 00:46:26.300 excess salivation can happen from hypothyroidism. 00:46:28.700 --> 00:46:33.540 So having everything functioning optimally, 00:46:33.540 --> 00:46:36.700 having fairly quick transit time 00:46:36.700 --> 00:46:41.060 between eating food and excreting it, 00:46:41.060 --> 00:46:45.620 it should be on the order of one day 00:46:45.620 --> 00:46:49.500 that the average American is three days transit time 00:46:49.500 --> 00:46:50.340 on average. 00:46:50.340 --> 00:46:53.180 - So glad you mentioned all those. 00:46:53.180 --> 00:46:56.260 That'll give people a good symptom picture 00:46:56.260 --> 00:46:58.540 to think about as far as like if you wanna make sure 00:46:58.540 --> 00:47:00.220 you're where you need to be, so. 00:47:00.220 --> 00:47:03.780 XR, oh, go ahead, yeah. 00:47:03.780 --> 00:47:09.260 - The intestine should be sterile 00:47:09.260 --> 00:47:14.260 and the people in a person with good thyroid activity. 00:47:14.260 --> 00:47:19.980 All of the secretions and peristalsis should be so active 00:47:19.980 --> 00:47:25.700 that no germ can live between your esophagus 00:47:28.020 --> 00:47:32.300 and your end of the small intestine where the colon begins. 00:47:32.300 --> 00:47:35.340 All of that should be free of bacteria. 00:47:35.340 --> 00:47:40.340 But the average American has a bacterial living 00:47:40.340 --> 00:47:44.020 partly up at least in the small intestine. 00:47:44.020 --> 00:47:46.300 The lower your thyroid is, 00:47:46.300 --> 00:47:51.300 the more infested with bacteria your small intestine becomes. 00:47:51.300 --> 00:47:54.980 - Okay, very good. 00:47:54.980 --> 00:47:58.980 Okay, XR asks, what are Ray's predictions in the future 00:47:58.980 --> 00:48:01.260 regarding COVID and the vaccines? 00:48:01.260 --> 00:48:04.500 What will the vaccines cause in his opinion? 00:48:04.500 --> 00:48:12.700 - Oh, they cause exactly the same kind of symptom 00:48:12.700 --> 00:48:17.740 that the infection does, often worse. 00:48:17.740 --> 00:48:22.460 And it's been known for decades 00:48:22.460 --> 00:48:27.460 that a viral infection, influenza, for example, 00:48:27.460 --> 00:48:32.460 or the other things that cause cold-like symptoms, 00:48:32.460 --> 00:48:38.060 that isn't just a respiratory condition, 00:48:38.060 --> 00:48:42.060 but it affects your digestive system. 00:48:42.060 --> 00:48:47.060 Often the first symptom is in your digestive system. 00:48:47.820 --> 00:48:52.820 And that's because of the interference 00:48:52.820 --> 00:48:55.860 with your anti-inflammatory processes 00:48:55.860 --> 00:49:01.460 of the viral infection, such as influenza or COVID. 00:49:01.460 --> 00:49:07.980 And the vaccine, so-called vaccine is, 00:49:07.980 --> 00:49:14.780 it's a method of producing the toxic part of the virus, 00:49:17.700 --> 00:49:22.700 a spike protein, which knocks out our anti-inflammatory 00:49:22.700 --> 00:49:28.540 ACE2 enzyme, which destroys angiotensin 00:49:28.540 --> 00:49:32.100 and knocks out inflammation of all sorts. 00:49:32.100 --> 00:49:37.100 And in the process, restores metabolic activity 00:49:37.100 --> 00:49:41.180 because it has been suppressed by the inflammation. 00:49:41.180 --> 00:49:46.540 And so the lingering effects 00:49:46.540 --> 00:49:51.540 of the vaccine are going to be just about the same 00:49:51.540 --> 00:49:56.860 as the lingering effects of a viral infection 00:49:56.860 --> 00:50:02.940 have been a certain percent, maybe only 1%, 00:50:02.940 --> 00:50:07.200 maybe several percent, will have lifelong, 00:50:07.200 --> 00:50:13.380 recognizable problems resulting from an intense case 00:50:14.940 --> 00:50:18.260 of influenza, for example, 00:50:18.260 --> 00:50:22.220 or from a bad reaction to the vaccine. 00:50:22.220 --> 00:50:27.220 - Okay, last two questions here. 00:50:27.220 --> 00:50:30.200 We might kind of tag, we might kind of tag them together 00:50:30.200 --> 00:50:33.980 because FAB asks, is sugar as carcinogenic 00:50:33.980 --> 00:50:36.540 as we have been told, carcinogenic as we've been told, 00:50:36.540 --> 00:50:40.040 leading to cavities and tooth decay? 00:50:40.040 --> 00:50:44.300 And then Brandon also wants to know surrounding strategies 00:50:44.300 --> 00:50:45.540 to maintain oral health. 00:50:45.540 --> 00:50:48.580 It seems some people who transition from a low carb diet 00:50:48.580 --> 00:50:51.160 to a higher carb run into cavities. 00:50:51.160 --> 00:50:53.740 So having said that, does the pH of the mouth 00:50:53.740 --> 00:50:56.780 matter more than we think? 00:50:56.780 --> 00:51:01.280 So what about oral health, cavities and such and sugar? 00:51:01.280 --> 00:51:06.740 - Yeah, your saliva should be antiseptic 00:51:06.740 --> 00:51:11.740 and a very neutral pH, very close to a 7 pH. 00:51:11.740 --> 00:51:16.740 And it has antibodies and probably other factors 00:51:16.740 --> 00:51:25.380 that help to keep the mouth sterile 00:51:25.380 --> 00:51:30.380 and prevent the acid-forming, tooth-destroying bacteria. 00:51:30.380 --> 00:51:36.860 But in the absence of that healthy saliva, 00:51:38.660 --> 00:51:43.260 which depends on the high energy metabolism and good thyroid, 00:51:43.260 --> 00:51:47.340 you can protect your teeth to a great extent 00:51:47.340 --> 00:51:52.340 by having some water dissolved baking soda at hand. 00:51:52.340 --> 00:51:57.500 And every time you eat something, 00:51:57.500 --> 00:52:00.580 swish a little bit of the baking soda solution 00:52:00.580 --> 00:52:05.580 in your mouth and swallow it to leave an alkalizing residue 00:52:07.780 --> 00:52:08.620 in the mouth. 00:52:08.620 --> 00:52:16.480 The story about cancer and sugar 00:52:16.480 --> 00:52:24.420 is a horrible misinterpretation of Otto Warburg's work 00:52:24.420 --> 00:52:32.460 in the 1920s in which he showed that cancer 00:52:33.080 --> 00:52:38.080 can't turn off glycolysis by oxidizing glucose 00:52:38.080 --> 00:52:46.460 or other things to carbon dioxide. 00:52:46.460 --> 00:52:49.460 Even in the presence of oxygen 00:52:49.460 --> 00:52:57.380 and the production of adequate energy, 00:52:57.380 --> 00:53:02.380 the cancer keeps turning glucose into lactic acid. 00:53:03.380 --> 00:53:08.380 Cancer has a metabolic effect of wasting glucose. 00:53:08.380 --> 00:53:15.680 And so the typical cancer is so metabolically inefficient 00:53:15.680 --> 00:53:23.560 that inside the tumor, there is extreme lack of oxygen 00:53:23.560 --> 00:53:30.060 and glucose both and in order to reduce the oxygen 00:53:30.280 --> 00:53:35.280 in orders of an isolated cancer 00:53:35.280 --> 00:53:40.560 in a person's leg, for example, and in animal experiments. 00:53:40.560 --> 00:53:46.400 They found that if you put an extremely high concentration 00:53:46.400 --> 00:53:53.800 of glucose solution into the artery of feeding the tumor, 00:53:59.560 --> 00:54:03.420 getting up for the glucose sufficiency created 00:54:03.420 --> 00:54:07.240 by the cancer's metabolic inefficiency, 00:54:07.240 --> 00:54:10.840 getting enough glucose to the tumor, 00:54:10.840 --> 00:54:14.000 the tumor dissolves, kills itself. 00:54:14.000 --> 00:54:21.680 So if you think of it in the actual detailed way 00:54:27.760 --> 00:54:32.760 that the metabolism is being operated, 00:54:32.760 --> 00:54:38.480 you see that glucose is one of the most protective oxygen 00:54:38.480 --> 00:54:41.320 along with glucose. 00:54:41.320 --> 00:54:46.320 If you can provide it to the tumor in sufficient amounts, 00:54:46.320 --> 00:54:50.820 the tumor is going to gain the energy it needs 00:54:50.820 --> 00:54:53.600 to heal the wound. 00:54:53.600 --> 00:54:57.480 The cancer is an attempt to heal a tissue 00:54:57.480 --> 00:55:02.480 without the materials it needs to achieve the healing. 00:55:02.480 --> 00:55:05.880 And glucose is one of those materials. 00:55:05.880 --> 00:55:08.320 If you don't get enough glucose, 00:55:08.320 --> 00:55:13.320 the cancer sends out signals to provide more glucose. 00:55:13.320 --> 00:55:18.680 And to do that, if you aren't eating sugar, 00:55:18.680 --> 00:55:23.440 the only source of glucose in your body 00:55:23.440 --> 00:55:28.440 is to break down protein to turn to glucose. 00:55:28.440 --> 00:55:34.080 And so that's why having a tumor tends to produce 00:55:34.080 --> 00:55:38.520 wasting away of the muscles and the skin 00:55:38.520 --> 00:55:40.280 and the immune system and so on. 00:55:40.280 --> 00:55:46.200 And so having enough carbohydrate in your diet 00:55:46.200 --> 00:55:50.160 helps to prevent that wasting caused by cancer. 00:55:50.160 --> 00:55:54.920 And ideally it can, along with other things 00:55:54.920 --> 00:55:59.920 can provide the materials the tumor needs to heal itself. 00:55:59.920 --> 00:56:04.240 - That's another reason that we don't need to focus 00:56:04.240 --> 00:56:05.680 on low carb diets. 00:56:05.680 --> 00:56:10.480 So, well, we made it through all the questions, Dr. Pete, 00:56:10.480 --> 00:56:11.400 you were awesome. 00:56:11.400 --> 00:56:14.240 And this has been fun as 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