WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.120 This free program is paid for by the listeners of Redwood Community Radio. 00:00:04.120 --> 00:00:06.640 If you're not already a member, please think of joining us. 00:00:06.640 --> 00:00:07.640 Thank you. 00:00:07.640 --> 00:00:09.680 Welcome to this month's Ask Your Herb Doctor. 00:00:09.680 --> 00:00:10.680 My name is Andrew Murray. 00:00:10.680 --> 00:00:14.760 For those of you who perhaps have never listened to our shows which run every third Friday 00:00:14.760 --> 00:00:18.600 of the month from 7 to 8 p.m., we're both licensed medical herbalists who trained in 00:00:18.600 --> 00:00:21.720 England and graduated there with a degree in herbal medicine. 00:00:21.720 --> 00:00:26.000 We run a clinic in Garberville where we consult with clients about a wide range of conditions 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:30.080 and we manufacture all our own certified organic herbal extracts which are either grown on 00:00:30.080 --> 00:00:35.640 our CCUF certified herb farm or which are sourced from other USA certified organic supplies. 00:00:35.640 --> 00:00:39.700 So you're listening to Ask Your Herb Doctor on KMED Garberville 91.1 FM. 00:00:39.700 --> 00:00:44.200 And from 7.15 today until the end of the show at 8 o'clock, you're invited to call in with 00:00:44.200 --> 00:00:48.920 any questions either related or unrelated to this month's last minute topic as it were 00:00:48.920 --> 00:00:51.520 of the unfolding facts in Japan. 00:00:51.520 --> 00:00:57.320 I think first and foremost we want to extend our heartfelt sincere wishes for the people 00:00:57.320 --> 00:01:02.160 of Japan that their country could recover and the people there can find relief from 00:01:02.160 --> 00:01:07.400 a lack of food and shelter and protection and help from all the sources possible to 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:09.280 help them cope with this disaster. 00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:16.920 So last Friday there was a 8.9 or 9.0 earthquake which resulted in a tsunami and the tsunami 00:01:16.920 --> 00:01:21.560 had the unfortunate effect of causing a fairly catastrophic breakdown in the cooling system 00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:24.440 of Fukushima nuclear power plant. 00:01:24.440 --> 00:01:30.120 We're going to be joined in a moment here by Dr. Raymond Peat who's an expert physiologist, 00:01:30.120 --> 00:01:34.320 chemist, research scientist and we're going to be hearing from Dr. Raymond Peat about 00:01:34.320 --> 00:01:41.160 some helpful things to do to counter any potential radioactive spread to this country. 00:01:41.160 --> 00:01:46.920 It was probably earlier in the week that I first started finding some internet-based 00:01:46.920 --> 00:01:54.040 evidence to show that the spread of radiation from the steam leaked from the plant subsequent 00:01:54.040 --> 00:01:58.920 to the explosions, the hydrogen explosions on the actual buildings, not the containment 00:01:58.920 --> 00:02:04.000 vessel for the reactor but the buildings that house all of the reactor and all the machinery, 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:10.920 that that steam was laden with things like iodine 131 and cesium isotopes and that these 00:02:10.920 --> 00:02:16.200 had been released in the steam cloud as the engineers desperately tried to lower the pressure 00:02:16.200 --> 00:02:20.480 by allowing the steam from the reactor to leave so it didn't cause any further breakdown 00:02:20.480 --> 00:02:25.720 of the containment vessel which would certainly result in fairly widespread and very damaging 00:02:25.720 --> 00:02:27.320 radioactive release. 00:02:27.320 --> 00:02:31.240 And one of the reactors, number three, the mixed oxide fuel reactor that contained the 00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:38.800 plutonium, 6% plutonium and 94% uranium, that would lead to a much more serious environmental 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:40.280 damage if that was released. 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:45.080 OK, so we started coming out on Wednesday, I think it was, I first started seeing some 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:50.840 spreading clouds, as it were, in colour showing a potential spread to the East Coast and then 00:02:50.840 --> 00:02:58.120 the CTBTO from Vienna released information and it became widespread public knowledge. 00:02:58.120 --> 00:03:01.960 It was no longer something that was on the fringes but fairly widespread public knowledge 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:06.240 and today, that was on Thursday, and today on Friday quite a few government agencies 00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:07.760 are also admitting this. 00:03:07.760 --> 00:03:12.480 So on Wednesday or Tuesday of last week they started saying that the radioactive components 00:03:12.480 --> 00:03:17.560 would be in the upper atmosphere, spread by the jet stream, moving east and due to hit 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:22.600 the Aleutian Islands on Thursday and then be on the West Coast of America with a spread 00:03:22.600 --> 00:03:25.220 potentially from Oregon down to California. 00:03:25.220 --> 00:03:29.980 So yesterday I read the CTBTO report online and indeed this cloud was coming fairly close 00:03:29.980 --> 00:03:32.880 and was expected to make landfall by Friday. 00:03:32.880 --> 00:03:38.760 So funnily enough today in Sacramento, now the CTBTO is the centre of the, basically 00:03:38.760 --> 00:03:45.160 the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation that was set up to monitor the atmosphere for radioactive 00:03:45.160 --> 00:03:48.920 particles, isotopes, emissions from nuclear testing. 00:03:48.920 --> 00:03:53.640 There's a comprehensive test ban on nuclear explosions and these sites, there are 60 of 00:03:53.640 --> 00:03:58.680 them around the world, and these sites actually measure radiation released from nuclear explosions. 00:03:58.680 --> 00:04:04.120 So the ones in the Pacific were starting to detect this and actually in Vienna they released 00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:05.120 the information. 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:08.200 I think it was, I don't know if it was a mole or an insider who just wanted to make sure 00:04:08.200 --> 00:04:14.680 that it got out because as well as radioactive data, the CTBTO collects geophysical information, 00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:18.840 so it's seismic activity, tsunami activity, and on top of that the third thing they do 00:04:18.840 --> 00:04:25.080 is maintain and monitor any radioactive release as a telltale signature from nuclear explosions. 00:04:25.080 --> 00:04:28.920 Okay so they started picking this up and then on Thursday it was released from Vienna and 00:04:28.920 --> 00:04:33.400 they said on Friday it would be making landfall in California and actually today one of the 00:04:33.400 --> 00:04:39.120 CTBTO stations based in Sacramento actually recorded a very small, so although they're 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:45.560 very small, they're present particles of iodine, I-131, and so it's fairly real that what we 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:51.720 have in the upper air jet stream and/or coming down in the rain is potentially going to land 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:53.800 here and that's something we should just be aware of. 00:04:53.800 --> 00:04:58.640 At this point in time it's still, I would safely say, still fairly small but it's certainly 00:04:58.640 --> 00:05:00.320 coming this way all the time now. 00:05:00.320 --> 00:05:04.240 It's made its first landfall from when it first started and the fires broke out on Saturday 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:09.080 or Sunday of last week and so for the last five days the cloud trail's been coming east. 00:05:09.080 --> 00:05:10.080 So I want to... 00:05:10.080 --> 00:05:14.760 We're joined by Dr. Ray Peat today and I want to introduce Dr. Peat and then also ask him 00:05:14.760 --> 00:05:21.280 from his sources if he believes it true that the radioactive iodine has reached our land 00:05:21.280 --> 00:05:22.280 yet. 00:05:22.280 --> 00:05:29.760 It's probably present in detectable amounts but probably not yet biologically significant 00:05:29.760 --> 00:05:37.120 but it could quickly become concentrated enough to affect pregnant women because the fetus 00:05:37.120 --> 00:05:43.540 concentrates elements from the environment at least 100 times faster than other tissues 00:05:43.540 --> 00:05:49.160 and so during the first two or three months after an accident like that there will be 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:55.040 a radioactive iodine which would be concentrating in the embryo and fetus. 00:05:55.040 --> 00:06:01.240 Other isotopes such as cesium and strontium would continue to be dangerous if they got 00:06:01.240 --> 00:06:06.500 into the food supply but the radioactive iodine is one that's most crucial for developing 00:06:06.500 --> 00:06:07.500 babies. 00:06:07.500 --> 00:06:14.000 So Dr. Peat, we wanted to go over and discuss what different foods and nutrients could help 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:20.000 protect us from increasing levels if it does increase or more dangerous levels of radioactive 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:25.760 iodine that may be present and/or cesium and/or strontium from this cloud that is coming over 00:06:25.760 --> 00:06:31.120 from Japan and we wanted to go through the list of different things that specifically 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:37.680 can block those radioactive particles as well as in general what nutrients are protective. 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:44.800 The first principle is to dilute the radioactive isotopes with good stable or relatively stable 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:47.920 isotopes and so old food is best. 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:53.760 The iodine radioactive isotope is practically all gone after three months after the production 00:06:53.760 --> 00:07:00.160 of it and the others will eventually tend to wash down into the ground and so the plants 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:05.280 that grow in the first few months after an accident will contain those isotopes. 00:07:05.280 --> 00:07:13.040 So if you have canned food, dried milk or aged cheese, these are very safe and will 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:18.640 continue to be safe for months because they were produced before the accident. 00:07:18.640 --> 00:07:26.680 The other principle besides diluting the isotopes is to increase your resistance to stress and 00:07:26.680 --> 00:07:34.200 radiation and it happened that my very first newsletter 30 years ago was on radiation resistance 00:07:34.200 --> 00:07:40.640 and what to do in case of a nuclear accident and at that time I reviewed a couple thousand 00:07:40.640 --> 00:07:47.360 research articles both from the old AEC, Atomic Energy Commission research and a lot of it 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:54.400 from the Soviet research and the main conclusions that I found were that increasing the metabolic 00:07:54.400 --> 00:08:00.120 rate which causes cells to retain magnesium. 00:08:00.120 --> 00:08:05.720 Magnesium is very important in repairing cell damage and the faster the metabolic rate is 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:13.240 generally the more damage can be repaired before it becomes established as a stress 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:15.360 factor in the organism. 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:23.440 The high metabolic rate produces carbon dioxide which has an antioxidant, anti-stress effect 00:08:23.440 --> 00:08:28.960 all through the organism so if you keep your metabolic rate up and eat a balanced diet, 00:08:28.960 --> 00:08:34.760 your tissues are going to retain magnesium it needs out of the food and produce the carbon 00:08:34.760 --> 00:08:40.080 dioxide it needs assuming that you're getting adequate protein, sugar, fat, vitamins and 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:41.080 balance of minerals. 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:45.880 So you mentioned to me earlier that there are ways and foods that we can eat to keep 00:08:45.880 --> 00:08:52.080 our metabolic rate high as along with taking thyroid so can you expand on what types of 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:56.520 sugars and fats and proteins we should be ingesting? 00:08:56.520 --> 00:09:04.400 The ideal fat is coconut oil because the short chain saturated fatty acids compete with the 00:09:04.400 --> 00:09:09.800 other fats that normally are slowing metabolism and oxidative metabolism and so for a couple 00:09:09.800 --> 00:09:15.720 hours after you eat more or less a tablespoon of coconut oil per meal, for a couple hours 00:09:15.720 --> 00:09:21.320 your metabolic rate is increased producing more carbon dioxide and accelerating cell 00:09:21.320 --> 00:09:23.920 repair processes. 00:09:23.920 --> 00:09:29.520 The fruits that come from the tropics, the farther south the fruit is grown, the longer 00:09:29.520 --> 00:09:34.560 it will be free of this high latitude Japanese radiation. 00:09:34.560 --> 00:09:41.120 So oranges grown in Mexico, Brazil and Florida are still going to be pretty pure in terms 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:47.440 of radiation for a very long time and the sugar and the minerals in oranges are very 00:09:47.440 --> 00:09:49.160 close to what we need. 00:09:49.160 --> 00:09:54.320 So coconut oil, orange juice and milk is a good source of calcium. 00:09:54.320 --> 00:10:01.160 During the atmospheric bomb test in the 50s and 60s, I got interested in the study the 00:10:01.160 --> 00:10:06.320 government was doing or they were doing it secretly before it became public for a long 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:12.120 time that they were collecting baby teeth from around the world to measure the fallout 00:10:12.120 --> 00:10:18.840 effect and the government began recommending that people not drink milk because milk was 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:22.840 contaminated with the strontium which was taken up along with the calcium. 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:30.000 I looked at the actual analysis of the food value as well as the isotope content of vegetables 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:35.520 and found that a person getting their nutrition from vegetables was going to have about five 00:10:35.520 --> 00:10:41.440 times higher exposure to strontium-90 than people who got their nutrition primarily from 00:10:41.440 --> 00:10:48.120 milk and cheese because the cows were able to concentrate the calcium and filter out 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:52.600 a little more of the strontium than the vegetables were doing. 00:10:52.600 --> 00:10:57.160 You mentioned to me that in order to get enough calcium to protect against your body's own 00:10:57.160 --> 00:11:03.560 bone destruction that you would have to drink one to two quarts and eat some cheese daily 00:11:03.560 --> 00:11:07.800 and that same amount of calcium from green leafy vegetables would be about three pounds 00:11:07.800 --> 00:11:08.800 of spinach per day. 00:11:08.800 --> 00:11:09.800 Something like that, yeah. 00:11:09.800 --> 00:11:13.960 And then the fact that you're eating so much spinach that could have been contaminated 00:11:13.960 --> 00:11:18.160 with strontium, you'd actually be exposing yourself to much higher levels of strontium. 00:11:18.160 --> 00:11:19.320 Yeah. 00:11:19.320 --> 00:11:23.880 Can you talk to us about what you'd recommend for elimination methods like if we are breathing 00:11:23.880 --> 00:11:31.320 in or ingesting radioactive particles, what's the best elimination method you find to take? 00:11:31.320 --> 00:11:34.040 Because I know there's a lot of stuff on the internet about all these different things 00:11:34.040 --> 00:11:37.960 you can take that will help bind the radioactive particles, but what do you recommend, Dr. 00:11:37.960 --> 00:11:38.960 Peat? 00:11:38.960 --> 00:11:44.320 Well, if it gets into your digestive system, if it's coming in incorporated in the food, 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:46.400 there's really no way to sort it out. 00:11:46.400 --> 00:11:52.560 But if it's in the water, for example, if you can just keep a lot of fiber flowing through 00:11:52.560 --> 00:11:58.400 your system, eating fruit that you know isn't contaminated, carrots, for example, if you 00:11:58.400 --> 00:12:06.120 know that they're safely grown uncontaminated, will the material through your intestine preventing 00:12:06.120 --> 00:12:13.040 the absorption of some nutrients at the same time that if you're exposed to a very concentrated 00:12:13.040 --> 00:12:18.920 dose from rain or something, it's better to go hungry for a little while while sweeping 00:12:18.920 --> 00:12:19.920 out your intestine. 00:12:19.920 --> 00:12:24.200 So would you consider, just to kind of go back a little bit here, but would you consider 00:12:24.200 --> 00:12:31.520 the radiation that we might have been exposed to thus far dangerous enough to avoid drinking 00:12:31.520 --> 00:12:35.000 any milk and eating any vegetables from California and Oregon? 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:36.000 Oh, no, not yet. 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:37.000 Not yet. 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:43.720 If it becomes, if the reactors start burning fuel rods, someone is likely to leak the information 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:46.040 in time that people can take precautions. 00:12:46.040 --> 00:12:52.640 But if it reached the proportions of Chernobyl, then it would take extreme measures for a 00:12:52.640 --> 00:12:56.880 very long time using only stored antique food. 00:12:56.880 --> 00:12:59.720 The older food would become more valuable. 00:12:59.720 --> 00:13:03.680 So it sounds like we need to start stocking up on sugar and dried milk powder. 00:13:03.680 --> 00:13:04.680 Yeah. 00:13:04.680 --> 00:13:05.680 Okay. 00:13:05.680 --> 00:13:10.680 And other things that can help move things along in the intestine are all the various 00:13:10.680 --> 00:13:14.760 liver herbs and cascara bark powder at all speeds intestinal transit time. 00:13:14.760 --> 00:13:19.400 But I did want to ask you, Dr. Peat, there's a lot of hype around people using potassium 00:13:19.400 --> 00:13:23.680 iodide already and it's selling out of the stores and people using kelp. 00:13:23.680 --> 00:13:28.240 And can you please explain to our listeners how taking kelp or the potassium iodide supplement 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:33.640 would help protect them against the high amount of radioactive iodine in our environment? 00:13:33.640 --> 00:13:36.640 Well, simply dilute the radioactive isotope. 00:13:36.640 --> 00:13:42.400 When you're taking in a lot of old stable iodine, it saturates your thyroid. 00:13:42.400 --> 00:13:45.920 Your thyroid shuts down and stops taking up anymore. 00:13:45.920 --> 00:13:52.960 And so you can add radioactive iodine to a saturated person and it just gradually washes 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:56.440 out without concentrating at a very high level in the thyroid. 00:13:56.440 --> 00:14:02.600 But if a person is deficient in iodine, almost all of it will, once it gets into the bloodstream, 00:14:02.600 --> 00:14:08.000 it'll stick in the thyroid gland and give an extremely high dose to the gland and even 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:12.160 more so to a developing embryo's thyroid gland. 00:14:12.160 --> 00:14:17.960 The fetus will concentrate even more than the mother's thyroid. 00:14:17.960 --> 00:14:24.280 The potassium iodide is very good protection only from the damage to the thyroid gland. 00:14:24.280 --> 00:14:30.040 It doesn't do anything at all to protect against the other isotopes or the other tissues of 00:14:30.040 --> 00:14:33.640 the body, as some people are saying on the internet. 00:14:33.640 --> 00:14:39.280 In fact, probably if you took it more than enough to saturate your tissues, the Center 00:14:39.280 --> 00:14:44.640 for Disease Control advocates 160 milligrams one dose. 00:14:44.640 --> 00:14:51.160 If you took that much every day for a long time, your thyroid gland would shut down, 00:14:51.160 --> 00:14:57.360 your metabolism would slow down, and all of your defensive reactions would slow down. 00:14:57.360 --> 00:15:01.680 So you'd become more susceptible to injury throughout the rest of your body. 00:15:01.680 --> 00:15:06.080 So you're not recommending that people take any kelp powder or potassium iodide at this 00:15:06.080 --> 00:15:07.080 current level? 00:15:07.080 --> 00:15:08.080 No. 00:15:08.080 --> 00:15:13.040 Just the minimum requirement is only 150 or 200 micrograms. 00:15:13.040 --> 00:15:20.360 And even one milligram per day continued for a very long time increases the risk of damage 00:15:20.360 --> 00:15:21.360 to the thyroid gland. 00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:27.160 Thyroiditis appears increasingly when people just a milligram of iodine or more. 00:15:27.160 --> 00:15:30.680 And do you know the measurements on how much is in kelp powder? 00:15:30.680 --> 00:15:34.320 How many milligrams is in a teaspoon of kelp or a half teaspoon of kelp? 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:36.800 No, but probably a half teaspoon. 00:15:36.800 --> 00:15:41.800 I think people have calculated that it would take an ounce to be equal to the Center for 00:15:41.800 --> 00:15:47.800 Disease Control amount, but probably a half teaspoon is adequate to saturate most people. 00:15:47.800 --> 00:15:52.800 But only once we have more information saying there is actually elevated levels of radioactive 00:15:52.800 --> 00:15:54.200 iodine in our environment? 00:15:54.200 --> 00:15:55.200 Yeah. 00:15:55.200 --> 00:15:59.640 So a half teaspoon dose isn't going to hurt anyone, but you don't want to do that every 00:15:59.640 --> 00:16:00.640 day for a long time. 00:16:00.640 --> 00:16:01.640 Andrew, did you have a question? 00:16:01.640 --> 00:16:09.040 No, I think what was, like you were saying, the rush on buying potassium iodide was pretty 00:16:09.040 --> 00:16:10.040 apparent. 00:16:10.040 --> 00:16:12.360 I know I saw plenty of information regarding that. 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:18.240 And the thing with iodine, if I'm right in saying this, Dr. Peat, is that the radioactive 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:24.200 iodine that was present in Chernobyl was also responsible for the big increase in thyroid 00:16:24.200 --> 00:16:25.200 cancers. 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:28.320 And now you're saying that pregnant women are actually more susceptible even than young 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:29.320 children. 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:35.640 Yeah, Ernest Sternglass, who got interested in the issue when they were doing atmospheric 00:16:35.640 --> 00:16:37.280 bomb tests. 00:16:37.280 --> 00:16:42.200 The government timed their bomb tests in Nevada so that the wind wasn't blowing towards the 00:16:42.200 --> 00:16:43.720 big California cities. 00:16:43.720 --> 00:16:49.640 They wanted all of the fallout to go into Utah, and the population of Utah suffered 00:16:49.640 --> 00:16:54.160 the most from autoimmune diseases and cancer and other diseases. 00:16:54.160 --> 00:17:00.400 But occasionally the rainfall would be so light that no fallout would come down until 00:17:00.400 --> 00:17:01.920 it got to the East Coast. 00:17:01.920 --> 00:17:07.160 And one of these times, Ernest Sternglass had his students studying how to use their 00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:12.760 Geiger counters, and they found that there was a terrific amount of radiation at the 00:17:12.760 --> 00:17:16.400 university, which the government hadn't mentioned to anyone. 00:17:16.400 --> 00:17:22.000 And that got him studying it and paying attention to how dishonest the U.S. Public Health Service 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:26.720 and Atomic Energy Commission and state public health officials were. 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:33.120 But he showed that probably there were tens of thousands of miscarriages, and the babies 00:17:33.120 --> 00:17:37.360 that survived a very high percentage were hypothyroid. 00:17:37.360 --> 00:17:41.480 Even there was an epidemic of babies born without their thyroid glands. 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:48.040 And as long as they were being breastfed, the mother's thyroid was entering the milk 00:17:48.040 --> 00:17:50.840 at a high enough level to cover up the symptoms. 00:17:50.840 --> 00:17:55.280 So as soon as they were weaned, they were discovered not to have thyroid glands. 00:17:55.280 --> 00:17:59.400 Going back to cover-ups or suppression of information, I found it quite interesting 00:17:59.400 --> 00:18:05.040 from the moment the tsunami happened and the evolving situation of Fukushima was passing 00:18:05.040 --> 00:18:08.680 day by day with ever increasing explosions, etc. 00:18:08.680 --> 00:18:12.720 I found the most information, funnily enough, coming from Russia Today. 00:18:12.720 --> 00:18:17.000 That news agency there, I think, probably not suppressed so much by the West as the 00:18:17.000 --> 00:18:18.000 BBC even. 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:22.380 I found the BBC's coverage was pretty good, but I found Russia Today, their coverage was 00:18:22.380 --> 00:18:23.600 pretty excellent. 00:18:23.600 --> 00:18:28.120 And they had the most up-to-date information, I presume because the time zone there was 00:18:28.120 --> 00:18:29.800 much more on a par with Japan. 00:18:29.800 --> 00:18:34.600 So in the waking hours, they were picking up the information as soon as it was being 00:18:34.600 --> 00:18:37.140 released from sources in Japan. 00:18:37.140 --> 00:18:41.960 But I wonder what would be the best, I guess to keep monitoring Russia Today, but the best 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:49.120 source for people in America to be able to find out more about local results with real 00:18:49.120 --> 00:18:53.160 time and real figures to show what actually is in the environment. 00:18:53.160 --> 00:18:56.280 I wonder what would be the best way to go about doing that. 00:18:56.280 --> 00:19:03.160 I don't remember the web address, but there is a good nuclear site, basically an anti-nuclear 00:19:03.160 --> 00:19:06.440 power site that is getting up-to-date information. 00:19:06.440 --> 00:19:12.440 The other thing was I was looking on eBay Geiger counters of all things just to see. 00:19:12.440 --> 00:19:15.920 They're out there, there's hundreds of them on eBay, and they're not expensive. 00:19:15.920 --> 00:19:20.520 And I think a lot of them are post-Cold War, post-Three Mile Island. 00:19:20.520 --> 00:19:25.720 So getting hold of a Geiger counter to actually do some physical measurements yourself. 00:19:25.720 --> 00:19:33.760 For a while, the internet stores were selling old Soviet Geiger counters for about $15. 00:19:33.760 --> 00:19:40.320 And someone just told me that she and her neighbor had bought two for $35. 00:19:40.320 --> 00:19:44.520 And as soon as the radiation scare hit, the price went up to $75. 00:19:44.520 --> 00:19:45.520 Oh my gosh. 00:19:45.520 --> 00:19:51.160 Okay, because I saw them on eBay and they were going for about $150 to $200. 00:19:51.160 --> 00:19:55.840 And these were, I can get hold of the information pretty quick, but they were all fairly similar. 00:19:55.840 --> 00:20:00.880 They're kind of bright yellow and maybe about the size of an egg carton. 00:20:00.880 --> 00:20:03.880 So I'm actually holding mine right here, which I got on the internet. 00:20:03.880 --> 00:20:06.240 I could have paid anywhere. 00:20:06.240 --> 00:20:09.240 I got the cheapest basically, which cost me about $250. 00:20:09.240 --> 00:20:13.600 I did see even cheaper ones other places, but the really good expensive ones cost $10,000 00:20:13.600 --> 00:20:14.600 to $20,000. 00:20:14.600 --> 00:20:18.360 And the little booklet I got with this, I can tell some kinds of radiation from other 00:20:18.360 --> 00:20:19.360 kinds. 00:20:19.360 --> 00:20:22.880 But I basically have it beeping and I got it to check out both industrial metals and 00:20:22.880 --> 00:20:23.880 phosphate fertilizers. 00:20:23.880 --> 00:20:28.080 And I did find some things which are definitely hot by mine. 00:20:28.080 --> 00:20:30.360 It's not beeping much more than normal right now. 00:20:30.360 --> 00:20:33.320 All right, let's get back to some of those things that people can do. 00:20:33.320 --> 00:20:36.880 We do have a caller on the line, but I did want to at least go through a few more of 00:20:36.880 --> 00:20:38.480 the anti-radiation nutrients. 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:43.520 Dr. Peate, caffeine, there's lots of information out there about tea and coffee. 00:20:43.520 --> 00:20:48.880 And can you describe to us briefly what the nutrients are in the tea and the coffee and 00:20:48.880 --> 00:20:51.800 how caffeine helps protect against radiation? 00:20:51.800 --> 00:20:57.760 Coffee is a good source of magnesium and of some B vitamins, niacin especially, and the 00:20:57.760 --> 00:21:01.080 caffeine anti-inflammatory and antioxidant. 00:21:01.080 --> 00:21:06.520 So if you happen to have some mobile isotopes that are still in your bloodstream and going 00:21:06.520 --> 00:21:11.520 through your kidneys, caffeine helps to flush them out faster and safely. 00:21:11.520 --> 00:21:15.000 It has a slight chelating effect as well as anti-inflammatory. 00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:18.160 And, sorry, carry on. 00:21:18.160 --> 00:21:24.880 The things that have an anti-estrogen effect as well as anti-inflammatory, the radiation 00:21:24.880 --> 00:21:28.560 effect itself imitates estrogen in the body. 00:21:28.560 --> 00:21:34.080 Everything that estrogen does can be imitated by radiation, including making a rat go into 00:21:34.080 --> 00:21:36.160 estrus, for example. 00:21:36.160 --> 00:21:42.440 And if you're in a high estrogen state, then you're more susceptible to radiation injury. 00:21:42.440 --> 00:21:48.480 And that's why progesterone and thyroid and caffeine, by helping to lower estrogen and 00:21:48.480 --> 00:21:51.840 inflammation are protective against radiation too. 00:21:51.840 --> 00:21:56.560 So just to recap those, you said caffeine, coffee, because it contains the magnesium 00:21:56.560 --> 00:22:01.920 and B vitamins, progesterone to block the estrogenic effects of radiation, other antioxidants 00:22:01.920 --> 00:22:07.400 like vitamin E also blocks the effects of estrogen and helps with radiation, and vitamin 00:22:07.400 --> 00:22:12.880 C and orange juice and tropical fruits, vitamin A found in eggs and liver helps in the repair 00:22:12.880 --> 00:22:13.880 processes. 00:22:13.880 --> 00:22:19.000 I wanted to briefly ask you about the glutathione, that that's been touted to help with radiation 00:22:19.000 --> 00:22:20.000 damages. 00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:26.120 There's a lot of confusion around glutathione because anything that harms your cells turns 00:22:26.120 --> 00:22:30.080 on a defensive reaction and increases the glutathione. 00:22:30.080 --> 00:22:35.400 And so a lot of things that have exactly the wrong effect are being suggested on the basis 00:22:35.400 --> 00:22:37.680 of increasing glutathione. 00:22:37.680 --> 00:22:42.840 Many harmful things by stimulating that defense reaction will increase glutathione. 00:22:42.840 --> 00:22:47.920 And taking a large dose of glutathione in itself, animal studies showed that it could 00:22:47.920 --> 00:22:54.000 be carcinogenic to the liver just by starting free radical reactions rather than stopping 00:22:54.000 --> 00:22:55.000 them. 00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:59.400 Other anti-inflammatories that can help protect against radiation, aspirin, of course, which 00:22:59.400 --> 00:23:03.480 comes from white willow bark, well not anymore, but originated from white willow bark. 00:23:03.480 --> 00:23:07.480 Also ginkgo, turmeric, those are other herbal anti-inflammatories. 00:23:07.480 --> 00:23:11.600 Various adaptogenic adrenal herbs, aluthrowroot, American and Korean ginseng have been shown 00:23:11.600 --> 00:23:13.920 to help with radiation sickness. 00:23:13.920 --> 00:23:15.840 And we mentioned the B vitamins already. 00:23:15.840 --> 00:23:22.240 I wanted you, Dr. Friedt, to talk to us about animal liver, which contains a lot of B vitamins 00:23:22.240 --> 00:23:28.120 and the fat-soluble A, D, E, and K vitamins and why, contrary to popular opinion, it's 00:23:28.120 --> 00:23:31.480 actually less toxic than the other parts of the animal. 00:23:31.480 --> 00:23:35.920 Yeah, the liver is the main detoxifying organ. 00:23:35.920 --> 00:23:40.920 Kidneys and brain have some of the same detoxifying enzymes, but the liver is where a great bulk 00:23:40.920 --> 00:23:43.080 of detoxification happens. 00:23:43.080 --> 00:23:48.360 And there have been studies in which beef were going into the slaughterhouse, their 00:23:48.360 --> 00:23:51.920 urine, blood, and tissues were measured. 00:23:51.920 --> 00:23:58.520 And the large proportion of the animals, more than a third, showed chemical contamination 00:23:58.520 --> 00:24:00.080 in the blood and urine. 00:24:00.080 --> 00:24:06.280 And practically all of them had the same chemicals in their fat and muscle tissues, the meats 00:24:06.280 --> 00:24:07.840 that are most popular. 00:24:07.840 --> 00:24:13.720 Only a very tiny proportion still had any of the toxic chemicals left in their liver. 00:24:13.720 --> 00:24:20.080 For the first 24 hours after you're exposed to an insecticide, for example, it will collect 00:24:20.080 --> 00:24:24.960 in the liver and be bound to a certain kind of protein. 00:24:24.960 --> 00:24:30.080 During this first day in which it's collecting at a high concentration in the liver, the 00:24:30.080 --> 00:24:31.960 liver begins destroying it. 00:24:31.960 --> 00:24:38.120 And after just about 24 hours, the liver has cleaned itself and then begins a slow process 00:24:38.120 --> 00:24:44.040 of cleaning the blood as it draws toxins out of the muscles and fat tissues. 00:24:44.040 --> 00:24:50.440 The fats are relatively inert, and so the highest toxins accumulate there over the years. 00:24:50.440 --> 00:24:56.040 And so the fatty meats are most risky as far as the chemical poisoning. 00:24:56.040 --> 00:24:57.840 So the liver is the cleanest. 00:24:57.840 --> 00:24:58.840 Okay, good. 00:24:58.840 --> 00:25:02.200 There's a caller on the line, so let's start taking the callers, because there may well 00:25:02.200 --> 00:25:03.200 be. 00:25:03.200 --> 00:25:08.880 Hi, hello fellow downwinders of the vast nuclear corporate industrial empire. 00:25:08.880 --> 00:25:15.160 I've been watching the news, and I thought maybe it was the website that Dr. Peate mentioned, 00:25:15.160 --> 00:25:18.120 an anti-nuclear information site. 00:25:18.120 --> 00:25:24.680 It was on the news, a couple of programs had the boom coming from Japan, and it indicated 00:25:24.680 --> 00:25:30.160 that the very first place where it was hitting the West Coast was actually Cape Mendocino 00:25:30.160 --> 00:25:32.320 from about Eureka to Fort Bragg. 00:25:32.320 --> 00:25:34.920 That was like at 11 o'clock last night they were showing that map. 00:25:34.920 --> 00:25:39.680 So we're the initial fallout point of that particular boom. 00:25:39.680 --> 00:25:44.160 And I have a couple of questions concerning, the first one before I forget, the first colon 00:25:44.160 --> 00:25:47.120 cleanser that you mentioned, I didn't quite catch the name of that. 00:25:47.120 --> 00:25:48.120 What was it again? 00:25:48.120 --> 00:25:49.120 Grated carrots. 00:25:49.120 --> 00:25:50.120 Raw carrot. 00:25:50.120 --> 00:25:51.120 Once again. 00:25:51.120 --> 00:25:52.120 Raw carrot salad, like raw carrots. 00:25:52.120 --> 00:25:53.120 Oh, raw carrots. 00:25:53.120 --> 00:25:54.120 Okay. 00:25:54.120 --> 00:25:57.920 I had a little static on the line, on the radio when you mentioned that. 00:25:57.920 --> 00:26:02.280 And I understand also garlic is supposed to bring iodine into the system. 00:26:02.280 --> 00:26:04.080 Is that something that you're aware of? 00:26:04.080 --> 00:26:05.080 What was that? 00:26:05.080 --> 00:26:06.080 Garlic. 00:26:06.080 --> 00:26:13.080 Garlic, oh, it has some antioxidant effect, but I don't think it has a big effect on iodine. 00:26:13.080 --> 00:26:18.320 Okay, and then this weekend we're trying to safeguard ourselves with our potassium iodine 00:26:18.320 --> 00:26:21.440 salad, which is bananas and seaweed. 00:26:21.440 --> 00:26:25.720 Is there, I mean, if we don't really go out and eat a whole lot of, I don't know what 00:26:25.720 --> 00:26:29.840 the flavor is, but it's got to be better than the tasteless plutonium and uranium that's 00:26:29.840 --> 00:26:32.280 literally raining down on us. 00:26:32.280 --> 00:26:37.640 Is there a cautionary amount that you would eat of some kind of a fruit/sea salad like 00:26:37.640 --> 00:26:42.040 that, that would be reasonable to start maybe implementing some protection? 00:26:42.040 --> 00:26:44.200 Dr. Peat, did you hear that question? 00:26:44.200 --> 00:26:46.200 The last part of it I didn't hear. 00:26:46.200 --> 00:26:51.040 Okay, well, basically he's suggesting eating a banana and seaweed salad. 00:26:51.040 --> 00:26:53.240 So to provide potassium and... 00:26:53.240 --> 00:27:00.600 Well, the seaweed, kelp and dulse, for example, or sea organisms like greenfin, oysters and 00:27:00.600 --> 00:27:04.720 clams, those are good sources of iodine. 00:27:04.720 --> 00:27:10.480 But the banana issue brings up an important aspect of radiation, which is bananas are 00:27:10.480 --> 00:27:14.640 probably one of the richest food sources in serotonin. 00:27:14.640 --> 00:27:22.760 And some biologists, Carmel Mothersill and Colin Seymour, for example, have been studying 00:27:22.760 --> 00:27:28.200 the effects of low-level radiation on cell physiology and communication. 00:27:28.200 --> 00:27:35.160 And they find that at a very low level, ionizing radiation causes cells to produce serotonin, 00:27:35.160 --> 00:27:41.360 among other agents, that even if you take the injured cells out of the organism or the 00:27:41.360 --> 00:27:47.160 culture dish, the water that they were in when they were injured becomes equivalent 00:27:47.160 --> 00:27:49.760 to the radiation for other cells. 00:27:49.760 --> 00:27:56.200 The same kind of genetic damage caused directly by the radiation can be caused by the chemicals 00:27:56.200 --> 00:27:59.400 put into the environment by those injured cells. 00:27:59.400 --> 00:28:06.880 And serotonin at a level above 20 nanograms per milliliter is one of those communicators 00:28:06.880 --> 00:28:08.800 of radiation damage. 00:28:08.800 --> 00:28:14.240 They in one of their books have a study by some of the biologists who worked with the 00:28:14.240 --> 00:28:20.440 Chernobyl victims, both the children who have been living in the region and the people who 00:28:20.440 --> 00:28:22.920 survived working at the accident. 00:28:22.920 --> 00:28:29.000 And they find that the serum taken from these exposed people 20 years after the accident, 00:28:29.000 --> 00:28:35.600 their serum separated from their blood components, added to another person's cell, caused radiation 00:28:35.600 --> 00:28:38.000 damage equivalent in those cells. 00:28:38.000 --> 00:28:44.120 And since they identified a very small amount of serotonin as one of the factors spreading 00:28:44.120 --> 00:28:51.440 this inflammation, genetic destabilizing material, I think it's good to avoid as many sources 00:28:51.440 --> 00:28:54.040 of serotonin as possible, especially bananas. 00:28:54.040 --> 00:28:55.040 Good. 00:28:55.040 --> 00:29:00.000 Well, so when it's said that somebody is going bananas, there's actually a pharmaceutical 00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:02.480 psychological aspect to that, it sounds like. 00:29:02.480 --> 00:29:07.480 Well, I guess I'll be adding raw carrots to our salad and reducing the amount of bananas. 00:29:07.480 --> 00:29:14.280 Is there any benefit to eating dried bananas to fresh bananas, considering the psychopharmaceutical 00:29:14.280 --> 00:29:16.960 aspects of the serotonin in there? 00:29:16.960 --> 00:29:23.840 I think drifting towards gelatinous meats away from muscle meat would help to reduce 00:29:23.840 --> 00:29:28.520 the tendency of the tissues when inflamed to produce serotonin. 00:29:28.520 --> 00:29:35.920 A good balance of vitamins and minerals to avoid excess serotonin production during inflammation. 00:29:35.920 --> 00:29:42.360 But all of those anti-inflammatory things that have been mentioned are basically anti-serotonin. 00:29:42.360 --> 00:29:48.480 Okay, and my final question on estrogenics concerning ingestion by men. 00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:54.760 I don't know if palmetto is one of those, but is there anything that maybe should be 00:29:54.760 --> 00:30:01.440 taken to preempt the estrogenic effect of radionuclides as far as the difference between 00:30:01.440 --> 00:30:06.080 men ingesting them and women ingesting them, or is it at a point where maybe drinking water 00:30:06.080 --> 00:30:11.160 out of a plastic bottle with a bisphenol A is better than dealing with the radionuclides 00:30:11.160 --> 00:30:13.960 that that might preempt at least over the next couple of weeks? 00:30:13.960 --> 00:30:15.120 And thank you very much for the program. 00:30:15.120 --> 00:30:16.120 I'm going to release the line. 00:30:16.120 --> 00:30:17.120 Thank you for your call. 00:30:17.120 --> 00:30:19.120 Dr. Peat, did you hear that gentleman's last? 00:30:19.120 --> 00:30:20.120 Almost, none of it. 00:30:20.120 --> 00:30:21.400 Okay, yeah, we have a little bit of feedback here. 00:30:21.400 --> 00:30:30.080 So he was asking about the anti-estrogenic, what else could men take that's anti-estrogen 00:30:30.080 --> 00:30:36.280 and help protect against the radionuclides, and also whether you would recommend people 00:30:36.280 --> 00:30:41.280 drink bottled water versus water from bringing their well in the next several months? 00:30:41.280 --> 00:30:44.960 Given that the bottled water is a potential source of estrogenic substance. 00:30:44.960 --> 00:30:48.920 I think a good filter for well water is adequate. 00:30:48.920 --> 00:30:52.120 And progesterone is very anti-estrogenic. 00:30:52.120 --> 00:30:57.040 And for men, keeping the thyroid function high is the main thing. 00:30:57.040 --> 00:31:02.240 Progesterone and thyroid are able to inhibit the estrogen that's produced as a result of 00:31:02.240 --> 00:31:03.240 stress. 00:31:03.240 --> 00:31:05.640 I've actually just thought of something. 00:31:05.640 --> 00:31:11.640 In the water filter, is the, because we have water filters that we run our water through, 00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:16.360 and I know that the core of the filter is a carbon, a pleated carbon core. 00:31:16.360 --> 00:31:17.360 Is that carbon there? 00:31:17.360 --> 00:31:20.280 Is that able to sequester things like iodine if it was in the water? 00:31:20.280 --> 00:31:26.800 Yeah, I think carbon catches almost any solid will absorb to an activated percolate. 00:31:26.800 --> 00:31:27.800 Okay, good. 00:31:27.800 --> 00:31:30.480 All right, there's two more callers on the line, so let's take the next one. 00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:31.480 You're on the air? 00:31:31.480 --> 00:31:32.480 Hello? 00:31:32.480 --> 00:31:33.480 Hi, you're on the air. 00:31:33.480 --> 00:31:39.280 Well, the brown seaweeds like wakame and kombu, especially kombu, are high in sodium alginate, 00:31:39.280 --> 00:31:43.240 and they're supposed to take all heavy metals and radioactivity out of your body, just not 00:31:43.240 --> 00:31:44.240 the iodine. 00:31:44.240 --> 00:31:46.160 So don't you think they would be good? 00:31:46.160 --> 00:31:47.160 Did you hear that, Dr. Peate? 00:31:47.160 --> 00:31:50.040 Yeah, if they pass through your intestine. 00:31:50.040 --> 00:31:52.080 Well, yes, eating them. 00:31:52.080 --> 00:31:57.640 Yeah, they aren't going to be any more effective than good cellulose. 00:31:57.640 --> 00:32:01.480 Anything indigestible that stimulates your intestine will sweep out. 00:32:01.480 --> 00:32:03.040 Even with the sodium alginate? 00:32:03.040 --> 00:32:09.160 Well, the trouble is that alginate is very dangerously allergenic for many people, so 00:32:09.160 --> 00:32:14.280 I wouldn't recommend it unless you are sure that you're not sensitive to it because... 00:32:14.280 --> 00:32:19.480 I don't know one person that eats kombu that's ever had allergies to it. 00:32:19.480 --> 00:32:25.560 Yeah, dental patients have died, and dental students, a very high proportion of dental 00:32:25.560 --> 00:32:30.800 students working with alginate to make molds are surprisingly healthy young dental students. 00:32:30.800 --> 00:32:34.520 Well, that's a concentrate that they made, not a whole food product. 00:32:34.520 --> 00:32:41.120 Well, carrageenan is somewhat worse, but the alginate itself has potential to be dangerously 00:32:41.120 --> 00:32:42.120 allergenic. 00:32:42.120 --> 00:32:43.120 Okay. 00:32:43.120 --> 00:32:48.880 I think in light of raw carrots being so absorptive in the intestinal tract and non-digestible, 00:32:48.880 --> 00:32:52.600 meaning that if they were contaminated themselves, when you eat them, you're not going to be 00:32:52.600 --> 00:32:57.920 absorbing heavy metals, and when they wash through your intestinal tract, they're going 00:32:57.920 --> 00:33:01.720 to be absorbing potential heavy metals and radioactive particles. 00:33:01.720 --> 00:33:06.280 Oh, well, I think carrots are a good idea, but so is seaweed, I think. 00:33:06.280 --> 00:33:11.400 Well, see, taking too much seaweed will actually lower your metabolic rate and make you... 00:33:11.400 --> 00:33:12.400 Well, too much, yeah. 00:33:12.400 --> 00:33:14.320 Well, even eating it daily is enough. 00:33:14.320 --> 00:33:17.520 It doesn't take that much in order to start suppressing the thyroid. 00:33:17.520 --> 00:33:18.520 Okay, thank you. 00:33:18.520 --> 00:33:19.520 Okay, you're welcome. 00:33:19.520 --> 00:33:20.520 There's another caller on the line. 00:33:20.520 --> 00:33:21.520 You're on the air. 00:33:21.520 --> 00:33:22.520 Oh, hello. 00:33:22.520 --> 00:33:25.520 Yes, what I recommend using is mushroom. 00:33:25.520 --> 00:33:31.200 There's this mushroom right around here called the turkey tail, the Medes Versi color, and 00:33:31.200 --> 00:33:36.520 this one is actually, in Asia, is used as an anti-cancer drug because it has a high 00:33:36.520 --> 00:33:42.840 quality protein-bound polysaccharide, which is discovered very effective in cancer and 00:33:42.840 --> 00:33:48.840 also in treating cancer patients that have chemotherapy in their survival rate. 00:33:48.840 --> 00:33:54.840 It also has other qualities, free radical oxidizing compounds and all kinds of things 00:33:54.840 --> 00:33:55.840 like that. 00:33:55.840 --> 00:33:59.440 And other mushrooms are the same quality, which are called polyporor mushrooms, which 00:33:59.440 --> 00:34:05.120 is the richez one, and these big, thick planks that grow like wood-like looking mushrooms. 00:34:05.120 --> 00:34:11.480 And these mushrooms have been studied in Japan and have been proven to reduce the T cell 00:34:11.480 --> 00:34:14.160 production and what is that, interleukin production? 00:34:14.160 --> 00:34:16.640 I was wondering if you know anything about that. 00:34:16.640 --> 00:34:19.800 Dr. Peat, how much do you know about those particular fungi? 00:34:19.800 --> 00:34:21.400 Oh, what was the name of those? 00:34:21.400 --> 00:34:25.120 Well, he mentioned things like the polyphores, the... 00:34:25.120 --> 00:34:27.240 The turkey tail is the one that grows around here. 00:34:27.240 --> 00:34:28.240 Yeah. 00:34:28.240 --> 00:34:32.240 It's the most common, and I make a tea from it just by drying it in dust and powder. 00:34:32.240 --> 00:34:34.680 Okay, do you know that fungi? 00:34:34.680 --> 00:34:35.680 It's like the most... 00:34:35.680 --> 00:34:38.680 It actually is the most studied fungi in the world as far as medicinal. 00:34:38.680 --> 00:34:39.680 Okay. 00:34:39.680 --> 00:34:40.680 Are you speaking about reishi? 00:34:40.680 --> 00:34:41.680 No, he's talking about turkey. 00:34:41.680 --> 00:34:42.680 No, it's related to reishi. 00:34:42.680 --> 00:34:43.680 It's also a polyphore mushroom. 00:34:43.680 --> 00:34:44.680 It's a thick mushroom. 00:34:44.680 --> 00:34:48.440 Around here, if you look on these trees, there's these just layers of these mushrooms. 00:34:48.440 --> 00:34:50.120 They're like fry-colored mushrooms. 00:34:50.120 --> 00:34:51.240 They're called turkey tails. 00:34:51.240 --> 00:34:53.720 They go like green and brown and with a white edge. 00:34:53.720 --> 00:34:57.920 And they grow on all like the oak trees, the maple, all basically hardwood trees. 00:34:57.920 --> 00:35:00.280 And they're the most common mushroom probably in the world. 00:35:00.280 --> 00:35:04.800 They grow in the most sombrero, boreal forest, tropical forest, and in every state in the 00:35:04.800 --> 00:35:06.640 union except for I think Nevada. 00:35:06.640 --> 00:35:08.440 I think a lot of the... 00:35:08.440 --> 00:35:10.240 And they've been studied all over the world. 00:35:10.240 --> 00:35:16.040 They actually make this commercial thing called Preston, as she calls it, the anti-cancer drug 00:35:16.040 --> 00:35:17.040 in Asia. 00:35:17.040 --> 00:35:19.280 Okay, I'm not a huge fan of it. 00:35:19.280 --> 00:35:25.480 I think a lot of the mushrooms have polysaccharides that are active at absorbing a lot of things 00:35:25.480 --> 00:35:27.280 from the gastrointestinal tract. 00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:28.960 Right, and that's what I was saying. 00:35:28.960 --> 00:35:31.400 They use them in chemotherapy and stuff like that. 00:35:31.400 --> 00:35:32.840 I'm just saying that... 00:35:32.840 --> 00:35:39.560 Well, they also have for other types of things besides the antioxidizing compounds. 00:35:39.560 --> 00:35:41.680 But I always take mushrooms anyway. 00:35:41.680 --> 00:35:43.160 I'm a big fan of them. 00:35:43.160 --> 00:35:45.760 I would recommend that people use this mushroom. 00:35:45.760 --> 00:35:47.920 It's growing right on... 00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:52.680 You look under your oak tree, your apple tree, your bay tree over here on the ground and 00:35:52.680 --> 00:35:55.920 you look at the dead branches and you see it's covered with these mushrooms. 00:35:55.920 --> 00:35:56.920 They're very dry. 00:35:56.920 --> 00:35:57.920 They're dry mushrooms. 00:35:57.920 --> 00:35:58.920 All right. 00:35:58.920 --> 00:36:00.720 And that is called the turkey tail. 00:36:00.720 --> 00:36:05.640 Okay, well people can check that out on the internet and find out some more about it. 00:36:05.640 --> 00:36:07.200 I'm not too familiar with it. 00:36:07.200 --> 00:36:10.600 It is like it's been used with Reche. 00:36:10.600 --> 00:36:12.800 Okay, I'm familiar with Reche. 00:36:12.800 --> 00:36:14.200 And that's another one of the... 00:36:14.200 --> 00:36:19.440 And the other one around here, you ever see those mushrooms that look like a piece of 00:36:19.440 --> 00:36:22.680 wood, real heavy, thick things growing off of a tree? 00:36:22.680 --> 00:36:23.680 Yeah, I've seen those. 00:36:23.680 --> 00:36:24.680 They're called ponks. 00:36:24.680 --> 00:36:25.680 Yeah. 00:36:25.680 --> 00:36:26.680 Right? 00:36:26.680 --> 00:36:27.680 Yeah. 00:36:27.680 --> 00:36:28.680 And that one too has the same quality. 00:36:28.680 --> 00:36:29.680 Many of the same quality. 00:36:29.680 --> 00:36:30.680 Okay, well thank you for your call. 00:36:30.680 --> 00:36:32.960 I know there's a couple of other people probably want to get a question in. 00:36:32.960 --> 00:36:34.640 So let's take the next caller. 00:36:34.640 --> 00:36:35.640 Hello? 00:36:35.640 --> 00:36:36.640 Hi, you on the air? 00:36:36.640 --> 00:36:37.640 All right. 00:36:37.640 --> 00:36:38.640 So I have a great website. 00:36:38.640 --> 00:36:45.600 The EPA has revamped for the general public so we can easily access the graphical representation 00:36:45.600 --> 00:36:49.520 of the raw data of the monitoring sites along the West Coast. 00:36:49.520 --> 00:36:50.520 Okay, and that is? 00:36:50.520 --> 00:36:54.080 So you can see the actual gamma and beta radiation levels. 00:36:54.080 --> 00:36:55.080 What's the name of the site? 00:36:55.080 --> 00:36:56.080 Hourly? 00:36:56.080 --> 00:36:57.080 What's the website? 00:36:57.080 --> 00:36:58.080 Okay, here it comes. 00:36:58.080 --> 00:36:59.080 You guys ready? 00:36:59.080 --> 00:37:00.080 Yeah. 00:37:00.080 --> 00:37:01.080 Okay. 00:37:01.080 --> 00:37:02.080 So it's www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data.atml. 00:37:02.080 --> 00:37:03.080 Okay, good. 00:37:03.080 --> 00:37:04.080 Maybe we'll get a check. 00:37:04.080 --> 00:37:05.080 You get all that? 00:37:05.080 --> 00:37:06.080 I wrote it all down. 00:37:06.080 --> 00:37:07.080 Okay, great. 00:37:07.080 --> 00:37:08.080 Okay, let's try it. 00:37:08.080 --> 00:37:09.080 It's really handy. 00:37:09.080 --> 00:37:10.080 I already looked at it. 00:37:10.080 --> 00:37:11.080 We haven't seen anything unusual anywhere yet. 00:37:11.080 --> 00:37:12.080 Okay. 00:37:12.080 --> 00:37:13.080 Okay, it was just the one thing. 00:37:13.080 --> 00:37:14.080 So we'll get you in that department. 00:37:14.080 --> 00:37:15.080 After 2011/rert, you said? 00:37:15.080 --> 00:37:16.080 Yeah, it was 2011/rert. 00:37:16.080 --> 00:37:17.080 Okay. 00:37:17.080 --> 00:37:18.080 And what's the website? 00:37:18.080 --> 00:37:19.080 It's www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data.atml. 00:37:19.080 --> 00:37:20.080 Okay. 00:37:20.080 --> 00:37:21.080 And what's the website? 00:37:21.080 --> 00:37:45.080 It's www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data.atml. 00:37:45.080 --> 00:37:46.080 Okay. 00:37:46.080 --> 00:37:47.080 And what's the website? 00:37:47.080 --> 00:37:48.080 It's www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data.atml. 00:37:48.080 --> 00:37:49.080 Okay. 00:37:49.080 --> 00:37:50.080 And what's the website? 00:37:50.080 --> 00:37:51.080 It's www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data.atml. 00:37:51.080 --> 00:37:52.080 Okay. 00:37:52.080 --> 00:37:53.080 And what's the website? 00:37:53.080 --> 00:37:54.080 It's www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data.atml. 00:37:54.080 --> 00:37:55.080 Okay. 00:37:55.080 --> 00:37:56.080 And what's the website? 00:37:56.080 --> 00:37:57.080 It's www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data.atml. 00:37:57.080 --> 00:37:58.080 Okay. 00:37:58.080 --> 00:37:59.080 And what's the website? 00:37:59.080 --> 00:38:00.080 It's www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data.atml. 00:38:00.080 --> 00:38:01.080 Okay. 00:38:01.080 --> 00:38:02.080 And what's the website? 00:38:02.080 --> 00:38:26.080 It's www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data.atml. 00:38:26.080 --> 00:38:33.080 Okay. 00:38:33.080 --> 00:38:34.080 And what's the website? 00:38:34.080 --> 00:38:35.080 It's www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data.atml. 00:38:35.080 --> 00:38:36.080 Okay. 00:38:36.080 --> 00:38:37.080 And what's the website? 00:38:37.080 --> 00:38:38.080 It's www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data.atml. 00:38:38.080 --> 00:38:39.080 Okay. 00:38:39.080 --> 00:38:40.080 And what's the website? 00:38:40.080 --> 00:38:41.080 It's www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data.atml. 00:38:41.080 --> 00:38:42.080 Okay. 00:38:42.080 --> 00:38:43.080 And what's the website? 00:38:43.080 --> 00:38:44.080 It's www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data.atml. 00:38:44.080 --> 00:38:45.080 Okay. 00:38:45.080 --> 00:38:46.080 And what's the website? 00:38:46.080 --> 00:38:47.080 It's www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data.atml. 00:38:47.080 --> 00:38:48.080 Okay. 00:38:48.080 --> 00:38:49.080 And what's the website? 00:38:49.080 --> 00:39:18.080 It's www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data.atml. 00:39:18.080 --> 00:39:19.080 Okay. 00:39:19.080 --> 00:39:20.080 And what's the website? 00:39:20.080 --> 00:39:21.080 It's www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data.atml. 00:39:21.080 --> 00:39:22.080 Okay. 00:39:22.080 --> 00:39:23.080 And what's the website? 00:39:23.080 --> 00:39:24.080 It's www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data.atml. 00:39:24.080 --> 00:39:25.080 Okay. 00:39:25.080 --> 00:39:26.080 And what's the website? 00:39:26.080 --> 00:39:27.080 It's www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data.atml. 00:39:27.080 --> 00:39:28.080 Okay. 00:39:28.080 --> 00:39:29.080 And what's the website? 00:39:29.080 --> 00:39:30.080 It's www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data.atml. 00:39:30.080 --> 00:39:31.080 Okay. 00:39:31.080 --> 00:39:32.080 And what's the website? 00:39:32.080 --> 00:39:33.080 It's www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data.atml. 00:39:33.080 --> 00:39:34.080 Okay. 00:39:34.080 --> 00:39:35.080 And what's the website? 00:39:35.080 --> 00:39:59.080 It's www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data.atml. 00:39:59.080 --> 00:40:06.080 Okay. 00:40:07.080 --> 00:40:08.080 And what's the website? 00:40:08.080 --> 00:40:09.080 It's www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data.atml. 00:40:09.080 --> 00:40:10.080 Okay. 00:40:10.080 --> 00:40:11.080 And what's the website? 00:40:11.080 --> 00:40:12.080 It's www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data.atml. 00:40:12.080 --> 00:40:13.080 Okay. 00:40:13.080 --> 00:40:14.080 And what's the website? 00:40:14.080 --> 00:40:15.080 It's www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data.atml. 00:40:15.080 --> 00:40:16.080 Okay. 00:40:16.080 --> 00:40:17.080 And what's the website? 00:40:17.080 --> 00:40:18.080 It's www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data.atml. 00:40:18.080 --> 00:40:19.080 Okay. 00:40:19.080 --> 00:40:20.080 And what's the website? 00:40:20.080 --> 00:40:21.080 It's www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data.atml. 00:40:21.080 --> 00:40:22.080 Okay. 00:40:22.080 --> 00:40:23.080 And what's the website? 00:40:23.080 --> 00:40:47.080 It's www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data.atml. 00:40:47.080 --> 00:40:54.080 Okay. 00:40:55.080 --> 00:40:56.080 And what's the website? 00:40:56.080 --> 00:40:57.080 It's www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data.atml. 00:40:57.080 --> 00:40:58.080 Okay. 00:40:58.080 --> 00:40:59.080 And what's the website? 00:40:59.080 --> 00:41:00.080 It's www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data.atml. 00:41:00.080 --> 00:41:01.080 Okay. 00:41:01.080 --> 00:41:02.080 And what's the website? 00:41:02.080 --> 00:41:03.080 It's www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data.atml. 00:41:03.080 --> 00:41:04.080 Okay. 00:41:04.080 --> 00:41:05.080 And what's the website? 00:41:05.080 --> 00:41:06.080 It's www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data.atml. 00:41:06.080 --> 00:41:07.080 Okay. 00:41:07.080 --> 00:41:08.080 And what's the website? 00:41:08.080 --> 00:41:09.080 It's www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data.atml. 00:41:09.080 --> 00:41:10.080 Okay. 00:41:10.080 --> 00:41:11.080 And what's the website? 00:41:11.080 --> 00:41:38.080 It's www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data.atml. 00:41:38.080 --> 00:41:43.080 And going back to potassium, I know that Carla was asking about bananas, but orange juice 00:41:43.080 --> 00:41:49.080 is very rich in potassium, and potassium will also help your body pick up less cesium like 00:41:49.080 --> 00:41:53.080 the kelp will help your -- the iodine in the kelp will help your body pick up less radioactive 00:41:53.080 --> 00:41:54.080 iodine. 00:41:54.080 --> 00:41:55.080 Yeah. 00:41:55.080 --> 00:42:02.080 Fifty years ago, I proposed that the safe thing would be to have industrial-sized greenhouses 00:42:02.080 --> 00:42:09.080 which, if they were going to keep doing the atmospheric bomb test, I suggested that all 00:42:09.080 --> 00:42:16.080 vegetables should be grown in either petroleum or coal-fired greenhouses, providing fossil 00:42:16.080 --> 00:42:23.080 carbon dioxide to avoid the radioactive carbon isotope from the fallout, and using limestone 00:42:23.080 --> 00:42:32.080 as the safe source of calcium for fertilizer and other fossil minerals to give the complete 00:42:32.080 --> 00:42:38.080 non-radioactive food source for the plants and animals that were being used for food. 00:42:38.080 --> 00:42:45.080 But by 1963, the government had agreed to stop testing in the atmosphere. 00:42:45.080 --> 00:42:52.080 One of the reasons that I did my newsletter in 1981 on radiation protection was that beginning 00:42:52.080 --> 00:43:00.080 with that huge burst of atmospheric fallout from the bomb test in 1963, the GORES, all 00:43:00.080 --> 00:43:08.080 kinds of indicators of intelligence, babies born in nine months after 1963's burst of 00:43:08.080 --> 00:43:17.080 atmospheric tests, their SAT scores were showing up in 1981 as the lowest of history, and it 00:43:17.080 --> 00:43:22.080 turned out people were arguing that it was because more poor students were taking the 00:43:22.080 --> 00:43:28.080 test, but actually it was the high-scoring people who were eliminated from the SAT scores. 00:43:28.080 --> 00:43:34.080 The high scores decreased progressively in proportion to the amount of fallout being 00:43:34.080 --> 00:43:36.080 produced by the bombs. 00:43:36.080 --> 00:43:39.080 OK, we're going to have to call it a night, Dr. Peat, I'm afraid. 00:43:39.080 --> 00:43:43.080 I'd love to hear more, and I know a lot of other people would, but it's one minute to 00:43:43.080 --> 00:43:45.080 eight o'clock 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