WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.960 Organic Grace is on the main street in Garboville and on the web at organicgrace.com. 00:00:04.960 --> 00:00:07.040 Welcome to this month's Ask Your Herb Doctor. 00:00:07.040 --> 00:00:08.540 My name is Andrew Murray. 00:00:08.540 --> 00:00:12.480 For those of you who perhaps have never listened to the show which runs every third Friday 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:17.180 of the month from 7 to 8 p.m., I'm a licensed medical herbalist who trained in England and 00:00:17.180 --> 00:00:19.680 graduated there with a master's degree in herbal medicine. 00:00:19.680 --> 00:00:23.180 I run a clinic in Garboville where I consult with clients about a wide range of conditions 00:00:23.180 --> 00:00:26.080 and recommend herbal medicines and dietary advice. 00:00:26.080 --> 00:00:31.880 And like I said, every third Friday of the month we have a topic that we choose to open 00:00:31.880 --> 00:00:36.800 up and once again I'm very pleased to have Dr. Raymond Peat to share his wisdom and his 00:00:36.800 --> 00:00:39.460 expertise during the show. 00:00:39.460 --> 00:00:44.080 From 7.30 to 8 o'clock at the end of the show, listeners are invited to call in with any 00:00:44.080 --> 00:00:48.340 questions either related or unrelated to this month's subject of longevity. 00:00:48.340 --> 00:00:53.720 So you're listening to Ask Your Herb Doctor on KMED Garboville 91.1 FM and from 7.30 to 00:00:53.720 --> 00:00:57.360 the end of the show at 8 o'clock, as I said, you're invited to call in with any questions. 00:00:57.360 --> 00:01:01.840 The number here if you live in the area is 923 3911 or if you live outside the area, 00:01:01.840 --> 00:01:06.560 the toll-free number is 1-800-KMUD-RAD. 00:01:06.560 --> 00:01:12.680 We can also be reached incidentally Monday through Friday on 1-888-WBM-HERB for consultations 00:01:12.680 --> 00:01:13.680 or further information. 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:16.720 So once again we're very pleased to have Dr. Raymond Peat with us. 00:01:16.720 --> 00:01:17.720 Dr. Peat? 00:01:17.720 --> 00:01:18.720 Yes, hi. 00:01:18.720 --> 00:01:19.880 Thanks so much for joining us again. 00:01:19.880 --> 00:01:25.240 I know that a lot of your background has been involved with reproductive physiology and 00:01:25.240 --> 00:01:30.280 aging and so as always I would ask you just to introduce yourself and your professional 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:33.480 and academic background for people perhaps who've never listened to you. 00:01:33.480 --> 00:01:34.480 Okay. 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:41.400 I started getting interested in aging I guess in childhood but through the 1950s when I 00:01:41.400 --> 00:01:48.800 would mention it to people, a few of the very old people like a biology professor who studied 00:01:48.800 --> 00:01:54.440 around the turn of the century had some interesting ideas about the actual cause of aging and 00:01:54.440 --> 00:02:00.840 suggest possibilities for actually preventing it but most people in the 1950s weren't at 00:02:00.840 --> 00:02:04.400 all interested in the idea of curing aging. 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:11.080 It just was inconceivable that anything could be done about it but finally when I decided 00:02:11.080 --> 00:02:18.920 to go to graduate school in biology in 1968 to '72 at the University of Oregon, I intended 00:02:18.920 --> 00:02:25.800 to study brain biology but it happened that there were some good people working on reproductive 00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:34.720 aging so I did my dissertation on female reproductive aging and helped to answer some questions that 00:02:34.720 --> 00:02:41.800 I had been accumulating for 20 years but it really just opened up a lot of basic biological 00:02:41.800 --> 00:02:48.520 questions that the whole nature of what an organism is and how it develops through time 00:02:48.520 --> 00:02:52.280 growing up from an egg to an adult. 00:02:52.280 --> 00:03:00.200 The whole process is something that used to be explained as sort of reading out from a 00:03:00.200 --> 00:03:07.960 pre-established blueprint in the genes and that led to the idea that there must be genes 00:03:07.960 --> 00:03:15.120 causing aging and death and rethinking that whole developmental scheme is necessary and 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:22.240 if you see development as epigenetic or open to interaction with the environment then aging 00:03:22.240 --> 00:03:26.840 obviously is another epigenetic environmentally dependent process. 00:03:26.840 --> 00:03:35.880 Okay, well what I'm most happy with and constantly amazed is your interpretation of a lot of 00:03:35.880 --> 00:03:41.600 previously held scientific facts for want of a better word that both I was taught when 00:03:41.600 --> 00:03:47.160 I was doing my degree and the science that we had was the same medical science that doctors 00:03:47.160 --> 00:03:52.740 get and still flawed with all of the same mistakes and what I really appreciate is you 00:03:52.740 --> 00:03:57.560 bringing out some very different perspectives on it which I think is very important and 00:03:57.560 --> 00:04:01.320 a very scientifically based perspectives and ones that are not actually hidden. 00:04:01.320 --> 00:04:05.840 I mean they're there in the articles and the abstracts of published medical journals but 00:04:05.840 --> 00:04:08.160 it's very slow to reach the doctors. 00:04:08.160 --> 00:04:13.840 So in terms of tonight's show and going over longevity I think it's a subject that most 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:18.400 people would be pretty interested in how to extend their lifespan and I know that there's 00:04:18.400 --> 00:04:25.600 lots of gene research and a billionaire investor who's trying to do 40,000 sequences a year 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:29.800 and he hopes to get up to a hundred thousand sequences a year so hopefully trying to find 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:36.800 the answer behind aging and go through people's genomes and also their biomes to find out 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:42.240 what they're dealing with and see if there's any link between those people that have degenerative 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:46.120 disease and cancers and those people that perhaps don't but why it is that they all 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:49.120 die and see if there's any kind of answers that can be found. 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:52.320 I'm sure they probably will find some answers to given long enough. 00:04:52.320 --> 00:04:56.840 So getting on to longevity then I wonder if it's wrong to believe that we can extend our 00:04:56.840 --> 00:05:01.520 lives beyond 120 in this current world and be both healthy and strong and I think what 00:05:01.520 --> 00:05:07.240 I wanted to ask you first was I read a recent study in a fairly popular publication about 00:05:07.240 --> 00:05:11.480 long life and health in general, excuse me, published by the University of Wisconsin. 00:05:11.480 --> 00:05:14.280 It was actually published in the online journal eLife. 00:05:14.280 --> 00:05:20.400 They were mentioning a trial that was done with a strain of E. coli and they subjected 00:05:20.400 --> 00:05:25.880 this E. coli bacteria to a normally lethal dose of radiation that would normally kill 00:05:25.880 --> 00:05:31.800 a person and they took whatever few surviving colonies of E. coli that they were, reproduced 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:35.820 them and doubled the dose and then took the survivors from them and doubled the dose until 00:05:35.820 --> 00:05:42.040 they got 20 generations down the line a colony of E. coli that were able to withstand a thousand 00:05:42.040 --> 00:05:48.080 times the lethal radiation dose that would kill a human and we're looking at the mechanisms 00:05:48.080 --> 00:05:53.000 behind this to see what these gene mutations had done to them to enable them to resist 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:54.000 the effects. 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:59.240 So they were talking about the ability to repair DNA as a primary objective in facilitating 00:05:59.240 --> 00:06:00.240 longevity. 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:06.600 What do you think about the protection of DNA in our body as a method of sustaining 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:07.600 longer life? 00:06:07.600 --> 00:06:14.920 I think there is a parallel between what the bacteria are doing and what happens to 00:06:14.920 --> 00:06:21.920 humans exposed to stresses like radiation but the single celled organisms are essentially 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:29.280 different in how they respond to stress because 20 generations of bacteria would be just a 00:06:29.280 --> 00:06:38.760 few days and so they couldn't possibly be evolving new DNA sequences to make new functional 00:06:38.760 --> 00:06:41.320 proteins in such a short time. 00:06:41.320 --> 00:06:48.680 The radiation degrades proteins so it tends to simply knock out functions when it's damaging 00:06:48.680 --> 00:06:56.360 the DNA and the bacteria that died had their DNA so damaged they had lost function and 00:06:56.360 --> 00:07:02.640 the ones that survived simply didn't lose the function but their defense processes were 00:07:02.640 --> 00:07:09.880 activated and so what they were getting with each generation was an intensification of 00:07:09.880 --> 00:07:17.040 the defense reactions that ordinary bacteria have and things like bacteria, yeast and protozoa 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:23.960 when they're under stress they can either decide to reproduce faster, live more intensely 00:07:23.960 --> 00:07:30.880 and divide more quickly if their genes are still working or they can go in the direction 00:07:30.880 --> 00:07:39.880 of sort of dehydration and radiation forming a spore and eliminating a lot of water makes 00:07:39.880 --> 00:07:48.120 the DNA very resistant to radiation because water is part of the hydroxyl radical is what 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:54.000 destroys the DNA and so without any water tied to the DNA it's very resistant. 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:57.840 So that's why spores can live for so long in the desert. 00:07:57.840 --> 00:08:05.280 And so if humans tried to do that the cells under stress would either multiply very rapidly 00:08:05.280 --> 00:08:12.040 and that would be a cancer or they would go into something worse than hibernation in which 00:08:12.040 --> 00:08:19.160 they simply dried up and were like a suspended mummy-like existence. 00:08:19.160 --> 00:08:22.000 So it just doesn't work for humans. 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:29.960 The same idea is that we have ways of handling damaged genes or threats to the genes and 00:08:29.960 --> 00:08:39.400 what people do or animals is to kill the whole cell when the organism senses that the DNA 00:08:39.400 --> 00:08:43.560 has been damaged beyond the capacity to repair it. 00:08:43.560 --> 00:08:49.920 So if it's happening very fast the cells will turn over quickly but to not form a cancer 00:08:49.920 --> 00:08:57.160 they have to let the damaged ones sort of a triage beyond a certain degree of damage 00:08:57.160 --> 00:09:04.320 they have to let the cell die and the quicker it can die the more material is available 00:09:04.320 --> 00:09:09.440 for stimulating stem cells to replace it. 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:17.080 I think a major factor in aging is that things interfere with that whole process of either 00:09:17.080 --> 00:09:22.280 repairing or letting the cells die quickly to be replaced. 00:09:22.280 --> 00:09:28.080 In old age the process of cell death is retarded. 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:35.200 Suddenly the cells become old, they can't decide what to do and so they slow down the 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:41.880 whole organism metabolically slows down and in that slowing down process they have some 00:09:41.880 --> 00:09:48.280 undesirable products like lactic acid that cause problems for the whole organism instead 00:09:48.280 --> 00:09:50.320 of just dying and getting it over with. 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:55.600 So you're saying that the process of apoptosis or that cell program death is actually slowed 00:09:55.600 --> 00:09:57.440 down in normal human aging? 00:09:57.440 --> 00:10:04.680 Yeah, I think people are now looking for what the factors are that retard that quick replacement, 00:10:04.680 --> 00:10:08.160 quick apoptosis and activation of stem cells. 00:10:08.160 --> 00:10:09.160 Interesting. 00:10:09.160 --> 00:10:11.440 All right, we're getting on to energy. 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:17.920 I know that you're very interested in energy promoting substances and thyroid and progesterone, 00:10:17.920 --> 00:10:23.000 aspirin etc. being amongst some of those definite energy promoting substances. 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:30.640 Well there's a compound called NAD, NAD+ and another form NADH which is very important 00:10:30.640 --> 00:10:38.640 in terms of intracellular, extracellular energy conveyance and powering reactions. 00:10:38.640 --> 00:10:45.560 So the article that was using the E. coli forms and resisting and providing a strain 00:10:45.560 --> 00:10:51.800 of E. coli that was super resistant to radiation was also mentioning that this compound NAD+ 00:10:51.800 --> 00:10:58.840 was another target therapy and they'd actually produced a form, a patent, obviously a patented 00:10:58.840 --> 00:11:02.720 form of this product that they were trying to sell and I think that's also part of this 00:11:02.720 --> 00:11:08.520 evening show is to try and highlight some of the mistakes that we commonly are bombarded 00:11:08.520 --> 00:11:12.560 with in terms of being told it is the truth and we'll bring out a couple of these and 00:11:12.560 --> 00:11:18.080 you'll specifically identify the mistakes that the authors of the publication or the 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:22.240 promoters of the product were guilty of perpetrating if you like. 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:29.160 But NAD+ then as a compound, how important do you see NAD+ and therefore this company's 00:11:29.160 --> 00:11:34.240 new product to be taken as a supplement to raise NAD+? 00:11:34.240 --> 00:11:38.640 How important that would be in our biological systems? 00:11:38.640 --> 00:11:47.840 Our cells are constantly in a process of oxidizing and things like sugar, the electrons go to 00:11:47.840 --> 00:11:56.240 the oxidizing NAD+ and reduce it so that it becomes NADH and NADH can then pass those 00:11:56.240 --> 00:11:58.680 electrons on eventually to oxygen. 00:11:58.680 --> 00:12:07.240 So there's a streaming through NAD+ and NADH to the mitochondria and oxygen and that in 00:12:07.240 --> 00:12:16.040 the normal metabolism, you should have 300 to 500 times as much NAD+ as NADH because 00:12:16.040 --> 00:12:24.360 it's in a rapidly oxidizing state and stresses that interfere with oxygen or that subtract 00:12:24.360 --> 00:12:33.560 the NAD+ and NADH, the lower the supply of total NAD and NADH is, the more easily a stress 00:12:33.560 --> 00:12:42.240 causes a failure of the balance, so it shifts more easily to a very reduced NADH dominant. 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:45.040 So stress depletes NAD+? 00:12:45.040 --> 00:12:48.320 Well, it depletes both of them. 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:54.720 One of the things that depletes both of them is damage to the DNA such as radiation and 00:12:54.720 --> 00:13:03.240 in repairing the DNA break, there are enzymes that build up a chain of repetitive bases 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:10.960 so it's a meaningless chain but it plugs up the hole basically in the DNA and to do that, 00:13:10.960 --> 00:13:16.280 to repair the chain, the ADP is attached. 00:13:16.280 --> 00:13:24.280 ADP comes from the supply of NAD and NADH and so when you get a nick in the DNA, you 00:13:24.280 --> 00:13:31.720 have this huge amount of NAD+ and NADH available and you draw it down to repair the damage. 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:37.840 If you draw it down in repairing too many broken DNAs, then that interferes with the 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:40.520 energy production of the cell. 00:13:40.520 --> 00:13:49.000 And if you have ways to block those enzymes and stop the DNA repair, then the cell can 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:55.720 make the decision to die and stop wasting energy and instead it becomes raw materials 00:13:55.720 --> 00:13:57.440 for the stem cells. 00:13:57.440 --> 00:14:03.840 Is there anything that you know of that would more preempt that destructive apoptotic phase 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:07.720 rather than wasting energy trying to repair damage, chromosome damage? 00:14:07.720 --> 00:14:11.960 Yeah, there are several drugs that will block that enzyme. 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:22.840 Its initials are PARP, A-R-P and so PARP inhibiting enzymes can save cells from dying unnecessarily. 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:28.480 If you inhibit that process, you can give the cell a chance to rest or you can inhibit 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:31.200 it and let it go ahead and die. 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:32.200 Interesting. 00:14:32.200 --> 00:14:33.200 Okay, PARP. 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:40.920 And niacinamide happens to be a very safe way to inhibit that enzyme. 00:14:40.920 --> 00:14:46.940 At the same time, it is the precursor for making NAD+ and NADH. 00:14:46.940 --> 00:14:53.320 So you're plugging the drain and filling up the pool at the same time when you have a 00:14:53.320 --> 00:14:55.960 good source of niacinamide. 00:14:55.960 --> 00:15:02.720 We can normally make that from proteins, the tryptophan converting it to niacin. 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:08.960 But if we're deficient in protein or have something blocking, a vitamin deficiency that 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:16.400 blocks the conversion of tryptophan to niacin, then we can't keep the NAD supply adequate. 00:15:16.400 --> 00:15:19.360 Would this deficiency be pretty easily recognized? 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:23.320 I mean it would be a typically known condition. 00:15:23.320 --> 00:15:28.480 The chronic extreme state was known as halagra. 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:35.280 It occasionally turns up with a rough skin condition when a person reaches a great deficiency. 00:15:35.280 --> 00:15:42.920 But there are earlier signs such as mood disturbances and various energy related and many, many 00:15:42.920 --> 00:15:44.320 variations on symptoms. 00:15:44.320 --> 00:15:45.320 Okay. 00:15:45.320 --> 00:15:50.280 Let me just, okay, so you're listening to Ask Your Ob-Doctor on KMED Gabavel, 91.1 FM 00:15:50.280 --> 00:15:53.040 from 7.30 till 8 o'clock, the end of the show. 00:15:53.040 --> 00:15:56.560 You're invited to call in with any questions either related or unrelated to this month's 00:15:56.560 --> 00:15:57.560 subject of longevity. 00:15:57.560 --> 00:16:01.200 Dr. Raymond Peat is joining us live. 00:16:01.200 --> 00:16:06.840 And so Dr. Peat, just to carry on the subject of longevity, an article also brought out 00:16:06.840 --> 00:16:10.680 the compounds called Sirtuins, SIRT1 and SIRT3. 00:16:10.680 --> 00:16:15.080 And they were also posited, you know, and I think it's a contradiction that the article 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:20.460 mentioned but they're posited as another factor to improve longevity and that NAD+ was a cofactor 00:16:20.460 --> 00:16:21.700 in their production. 00:16:21.700 --> 00:16:26.680 What was your opinion of calorie restriction as a way of activating the Sirtuins but not 00:16:26.680 --> 00:16:29.160 necessarily the Sirtuins are not necessarily positive, are they? 00:16:29.160 --> 00:16:30.880 They're more for hibernation or? 00:16:30.880 --> 00:16:36.920 Yeah, in calorie restriction, the organism has to do something to survive and so it starts 00:16:36.920 --> 00:16:44.600 shutting down, turning off the genes and the initial to stand for silent information regulators, 00:16:44.600 --> 00:16:54.420 the SIR and in yeast, starvation or stress will turn those on and turn off genes. 00:16:54.420 --> 00:17:01.640 And in animal cells, they do the same thing but how they got to be so interesting is that 00:17:01.640 --> 00:17:10.500 a group at Harvard was arguing that longevity in yeast corresponded to long life in humans. 00:17:10.500 --> 00:17:16.740 In single-celled organisms, what they were saying was rapid and continued cell division, 00:17:16.740 --> 00:17:23.940 the equivalent would be cancer in a guy that is a long life and from the ability to stimulate 00:17:23.940 --> 00:17:32.420 rapid and prolonged cell division in yeast, they argued that resveratrol which is related 00:17:32.420 --> 00:17:41.340 chemically very closely to DES, diethylstilbestrol, a simple synthetic estrogen, resveratrol is 00:17:41.340 --> 00:17:46.140 a natural still being type substance found in grape. 00:17:46.140 --> 00:17:51.700 It does have estrogenic activity and yeasts are especially sensitive. 00:17:51.700 --> 00:17:59.460 Yeast produced at estradiol just like humans and so yeast is being given basically an overdose 00:17:59.460 --> 00:18:06.660 of estrogen so it's more fertile and in humans, that same sort of overdose isn't desirable. 00:18:06.660 --> 00:18:14.140 In the process of turning off genes, when you do it in a human, you are moving towards 00:18:14.140 --> 00:18:21.460 the oral-like or hibernating state of not producing proteins and two of the very important 00:18:21.460 --> 00:18:27.900 proteins that get turned off by the sirtuins include clatho, the phosphate regulating 00:18:27.900 --> 00:18:34.300 protein that when it's turned off, you get very rapid aging, a degeneration of all of 00:18:34.300 --> 00:18:43.500 the tissues and another protein or enzyme, a p53 protein is a tumor suppressor protein 00:18:43.500 --> 00:18:48.780 and so you definitely don't want to just blindly turn off proteins in defense. 00:18:48.780 --> 00:18:52.940 So you don't want to just shut down and turn your anti-tumor proteins off. 00:18:52.940 --> 00:18:56.140 Yes and your anti-aging clatho protein. 00:18:56.140 --> 00:19:03.020 Right, okay, getting on to this kind of, the article again was saying that the age-related 00:19:03.020 --> 00:19:08.100 decrease in NAD+ causes defects in energy and gene-related functions to accumulate. 00:19:08.100 --> 00:19:13.780 Do you think age-related mitochondrial dysfunction can be reversed or merely protected for longer 00:19:13.780 --> 00:19:18.620 in the lifespan thereby gaining more time down the road? 00:19:18.620 --> 00:19:25.020 Yes, several years ago, the Harvard group, someone in that group said that we shouldn't 00:19:25.020 --> 00:19:32.780 supplement niacin or niacinamide because it suppresses sirtuins and they said that sirtuins 00:19:32.780 --> 00:19:38.220 are the long-life proteins, niacinamide will accelerate aging. 00:19:38.220 --> 00:19:44.020 Someone simply put human cells in a dish and gave them a supplement of niacinamide and 00:19:44.020 --> 00:19:46.460 they live 60% longer. 00:19:46.460 --> 00:19:52.980 So there are various treatments that can do the same thing, vitamin E for example, adjusting 00:19:52.980 --> 00:19:59.220 amino acid balance and fats and so on, but simply the adequate or enriched supply of 00:19:59.220 --> 00:20:04.500 niacinamide is enough to greatly extend the growth ability of human cells. 00:20:04.500 --> 00:20:09.020 Okay, well we do have a couple of callers here already coming in, so let's take them 00:20:09.020 --> 00:20:11.100 a little bit early, but let's take the first caller. 00:20:11.100 --> 00:20:12.100 Caller, you're on the air? 00:20:12.100 --> 00:20:13.100 Hi. 00:20:13.100 --> 00:20:14.100 Hi, and where are you from, caller? 00:20:14.100 --> 00:20:15.660 Oh, I'm calling from New Jersey. 00:20:15.660 --> 00:20:16.660 New Jersey, okay. 00:20:16.660 --> 00:20:21.420 Hi, once again there's too many questions I want to ask, but I'll ask the question I 00:20:21.420 --> 00:20:22.860 originally called with. 00:20:22.860 --> 00:20:28.660 I understand the importance, you've talked about it, others do talk about it, of consuming 00:20:28.660 --> 00:20:36.380 high-quality proteins if we want to maintain our systems and renew them. 00:20:36.380 --> 00:20:40.660 It seems to be good for just about every body system, but there is one exception and that's 00:20:40.660 --> 00:20:41.660 the kidneys. 00:20:41.660 --> 00:20:45.940 And you said, and I'm going to stress from your, I'm going to quote, pardon me, from 00:20:45.940 --> 00:20:51.940 your gelatin stress and longevity article, since glycine is non-toxic, if the kidneys 00:20:51.940 --> 00:20:56.700 are working, since any amino acid will contribute to the production of ammonia, this kind of 00:20:56.700 --> 00:20:58.980 chemotherapy can be pleasant. 00:20:58.980 --> 00:21:03.540 And I mean, I recommend the article because the article as a whole is wonderful and I 00:21:03.540 --> 00:21:05.820 hope you don't mind me taking this little piece out. 00:21:05.820 --> 00:21:12.140 But you're the first person that I've read who has actually said that any amount of amino 00:21:12.140 --> 00:21:14.460 acid will stress the kidneys. 00:21:14.460 --> 00:21:20.820 And so I guess what I'm wondering is, is there a simple and hopefully sort of more or less 00:21:20.820 --> 00:21:27.540 immediate way that we can judge that we are getting enough amino acids in a day to achieve 00:21:27.540 --> 00:21:32.060 nitrogen balance or everything that we sort of need to accomplish for our bodies, but 00:21:32.060 --> 00:21:38.340 not so much that it's stressing the kidneys or some happy medium, perhaps using a reliable 00:21:38.340 --> 00:21:42.940 urine dipstick test or is there anything like that? 00:21:42.940 --> 00:21:49.000 Normal functioning kidneys aren't stressed by a high-protein diet, but when something 00:21:49.000 --> 00:21:57.860 is impairing kidney function such as hypothyroidism or other sickness, then with low kidney function 00:21:57.860 --> 00:22:06.400 and a lot of bacteria in your intestine breaking down amino acids, you can get accumulated 00:22:06.400 --> 00:22:07.580 ammonia. 00:22:07.580 --> 00:22:18.540 And that's where RLV and NIH, I think it was researcher, proposed using ketone, ketoacids 00:22:18.540 --> 00:22:24.940 equivalent to the essential amino acids which will absorb the ammonia even when a person 00:22:24.940 --> 00:22:29.180 has no functioning kidney ability to secrete ammonia. 00:22:29.180 --> 00:22:36.620 So just by feeding ketoacids, if they're the equivalent of the essential amino acids, you 00:22:36.620 --> 00:22:41.980 create them in your body by absorbing the ammonia and then making your own protein. 00:22:41.980 --> 00:22:49.220 And that was where I got the idea that some foods would contain a natural ketoacid equivalent 00:22:49.220 --> 00:22:56.820 and we did chromatography on potato juice and found that they are rich in the ketoacids 00:22:56.820 --> 00:23:03.740 which will function as amino acids even though they contain no ammonia because they can absorb 00:23:03.740 --> 00:23:04.740 ammonia from your blood. 00:23:04.740 --> 00:23:11.500 Absorb it from the blood, so the kidneys will not be as stressed? 00:23:11.500 --> 00:23:18.220 That was for use in people who were having essentially no kidney function and Avicha's 00:23:18.220 --> 00:23:26.260 research showed that these ketones or ketoacids are very helpful for failing kidneys. 00:23:26.260 --> 00:23:33.060 But ordinarily, there are many other things you need to do when you have kidney disease. 00:23:33.060 --> 00:23:39.500 You want to correctly all of the hormones that are involved in regulating kidney physiology, 00:23:39.500 --> 00:23:45.660 especially thyroid, progesterone, estrogen, cortisol, and some of the pituitary stress 00:23:45.660 --> 00:23:46.660 related hormones. 00:23:46.660 --> 00:23:51.540 And I understand that of course this is a process and it's not something that I can 00:23:51.540 --> 00:23:55.500 just take a pill and everything's going to come right. 00:23:55.500 --> 00:23:59.500 And it would be very important again to keep eating the raw carrot daily, am I correct? 00:23:59.500 --> 00:24:01.140 I didn't understand the whole... 00:24:01.140 --> 00:24:05.220 I'm sorry, I mean I understand that this is a process and that it would be very important 00:24:05.220 --> 00:24:07.060 to continue to eat the raw carrot daily. 00:24:07.060 --> 00:24:09.260 Am I correct to keep the ammonia down? 00:24:09.260 --> 00:24:13.620 Yes, that does help with the bacterial ammonia production. 00:24:13.620 --> 00:24:14.620 Okay. 00:24:14.620 --> 00:24:17.220 And how often do you think it would be wise to... 00:24:17.220 --> 00:24:21.420 I mean my kidneys, I'm not on dialysis, my kidneys are not failing to that degree, but 00:24:21.420 --> 00:24:25.900 they are sore upon if I press lightly or medium pressure. 00:24:25.900 --> 00:24:31.180 I can feel them and certain practitioners have told me that my kidneys are not strong. 00:24:31.180 --> 00:24:34.060 So I mean would you recommend that I... 00:24:34.060 --> 00:24:37.220 Well, that someone do potato... 00:24:37.220 --> 00:24:39.900 You said you use a centrifugal juicer, am I right? 00:24:39.900 --> 00:24:46.140 Yeah, a few people who had ammonia coming out of their breast every time they ate just 00:24:46.140 --> 00:24:48.900 about any food containing protein. 00:24:48.900 --> 00:24:55.540 Just a couple of meals of potato juice and they started assimilating proteins. 00:24:55.540 --> 00:25:01.060 But in Vitra's research, he put them on a chronic diet of a keto acid supplement. 00:25:01.060 --> 00:25:02.060 Thank you so much. 00:25:02.060 --> 00:25:03.060 Thank you, thank you. 00:25:03.060 --> 00:25:04.060 I'm going to look further into that. 00:25:04.060 --> 00:25:05.060 I appreciate it. 00:25:05.060 --> 00:25:06.060 Okay, thanks for your call, Carla. 00:25:06.060 --> 00:25:08.980 Okay, we've got a steady stream of callers building up here. 00:25:08.980 --> 00:25:11.780 So let's take the next one and move through them one at a time. 00:25:11.780 --> 00:25:12.780 You're on the air, Carla? 00:25:12.780 --> 00:25:13.780 Hi, you're on the air. 00:25:13.780 --> 00:25:14.780 Where are you from? 00:25:14.780 --> 00:25:16.460 I'm Chris from Colorado Springs. 00:25:16.460 --> 00:25:18.500 And I have two questions for Dr. Peat. 00:25:18.500 --> 00:25:21.500 One's on topic, the other one's completely off topic. 00:25:21.500 --> 00:25:25.740 First though, I wanted to say that to you, Andrew, that I and a lot of the listeners 00:25:25.740 --> 00:25:27.220 do miss Sarah and hope she'll return. 00:25:27.220 --> 00:25:30.180 But I just want to say you've been doing a great job doing the show by yourself. 00:25:30.180 --> 00:25:31.740 So keep up the good work. 00:25:31.740 --> 00:25:36.660 Dr. Peat, in terms of longevity in reading your articles, I mean, one gets the idea of 00:25:36.660 --> 00:25:40.500 the importance of the saturated fats and the avoidance of the unsaturated fats. 00:25:40.500 --> 00:25:45.140 However, in terms of proper oxidative energy and the importance that sugars like sucrose 00:25:45.140 --> 00:25:49.780 and lactose play into that, how important is it to maybe keep the fats on the low side 00:25:49.780 --> 00:25:51.420 and focus more on the sugars? 00:25:51.420 --> 00:25:56.380 Or is there still a minimum of fat and saturated fat that's important in terms of longevity? 00:25:56.380 --> 00:26:03.260 A certain small amount of fat helps to stimulate the intestine and activate absorption of the 00:26:03.260 --> 00:26:11.460 oily vitamins, vitamin K, D, A, and E. And about 30 or 40 years ago, I was looking at 00:26:11.460 --> 00:26:17.380 the association of various fats with the cancer, spontaneous cancer incidence. 00:26:17.380 --> 00:26:21.660 And I saw that coconut oil had the lowest of the natural oils. 00:26:21.660 --> 00:26:27.940 But someone found that hydrogenated coconut oil containing zero polyunsaturated or essential 00:26:27.940 --> 00:26:34.660 fatty acids had the lowest incidence of spontaneous cancer of all, essentially like a completely 00:26:34.660 --> 00:26:36.300 fat-free diet. 00:26:36.300 --> 00:26:44.980 And so the fact that even 2% or 3% of polyunsaturated fats in butter and coconut oil, the fact that 00:26:44.980 --> 00:26:51.540 that accumulates because our muscles, for example, quickly oxidize the saturated fats 00:26:51.540 --> 00:26:57.900 and preferentially we store the more water-soluble polyunsaturated fats. 00:26:57.900 --> 00:27:04.820 And so over time, even eating a moderate amount of butter and coconut oil, our tissues will 00:27:04.820 --> 00:27:09.140 become increasingly saturated with the polyunsaturated. 00:27:09.140 --> 00:27:16.340 And the fat cells which store little droplets of fat, they, for their own energy, prefer 00:27:16.340 --> 00:27:20.540 like the muscles, they prefer to oxidize the safe saturated fats. 00:27:20.540 --> 00:27:29.100 So our fat tissues with age become more and more concentrated with a relatively pure polyunsaturated 00:27:29.100 --> 00:27:30.580 store of fat. 00:27:30.580 --> 00:27:37.140 And under stress, the fat is released and especially the polyunsaturated which is more 00:27:37.140 --> 00:27:40.060 accessible to the stress activation. 00:27:40.060 --> 00:27:46.340 So with age, stress becomes more harmful because you've stored up more of the polyunsaturated 00:27:46.340 --> 00:27:47.340 fats. 00:27:47.340 --> 00:27:53.780 So since we can make all of the saturated fats, palm, palmitate, stearate, and we can 00:27:53.780 --> 00:28:01.100 desaturate stearic acid to make oleic acid and our own series of polyunsaturates, I think 00:28:01.100 --> 00:28:08.660 it's best to get as much sugar and starch in your diet, preferably sugars from fruit 00:28:08.660 --> 00:28:17.140 and milk, and minimize the exposure to the unstable N-6 and N-3 fatty acids. 00:28:17.140 --> 00:28:18.940 Okay, yeah, that makes sense. 00:28:18.940 --> 00:28:22.780 It's more of trying to displace some of the fat with more of the good sugars like you 00:28:22.780 --> 00:28:25.780 mentioned orange juice and the lactose in milk. 00:28:25.780 --> 00:28:28.660 If you are going to get a little bit of fat, probably focus more on the saturated, but 00:28:28.660 --> 00:28:30.620 it sounds like sugars are probably more important. 00:28:30.620 --> 00:28:34.140 So you're probably more of not really a proponent just because you like saturated fats, you're 00:28:34.140 --> 00:28:38.180 probably still not a proponent of a high fat diet and say because you're more of sugars 00:28:38.180 --> 00:28:41.180 and importance of keeping the metabolism high and all that. 00:28:41.180 --> 00:28:44.620 If I could ask you just a really quick question, I know, Andrew, we got other people on this, 00:28:44.620 --> 00:28:47.660 so just the one that's off topic and I'm just really curious about. 00:28:47.660 --> 00:28:51.700 My girlfriend's been dealing with this now for quite a few months, almost a year now, 00:28:51.700 --> 00:28:55.620 Dr. Peat. And I was wondering if you had any ideas on what the cause is for people that 00:28:55.620 --> 00:28:59.620 grind their teeth at night, throughout the night without really even noticing. 00:28:59.620 --> 00:29:04.420 She has no idea she's doing it, but then she wakes up and she has her jaw sore and the 00:29:04.420 --> 00:29:06.300 dentist told her that she's grinding down her teeth. 00:29:06.300 --> 00:29:09.980 And I was wondering if you know what the possible cause is and maybe any quick solutions. 00:29:09.980 --> 00:29:13.780 I mean, obviously focusing on the thyroid in the long term, but just maybe something 00:29:13.780 --> 00:29:15.500 in the short term that might help. 00:29:15.500 --> 00:29:21.740 There are several publications showing that high serotonin is probably the major thing 00:29:21.740 --> 00:29:28.060 in tooth grinding and probably also in restless leg syndrome where the legs turn during the 00:29:28.060 --> 00:29:29.060 night. 00:29:29.060 --> 00:29:34.340 And to lower high serotonin, what would be the most straightforward way of lowering serotonin 00:29:34.340 --> 00:29:36.460 in someone? 00:29:36.460 --> 00:29:41.060 Reducing intestinal inflammation is the quickest way. 00:29:41.060 --> 00:29:49.180 Low thyroid is probably a factor in high serotonin, but simply avoiding slowly digested foods 00:29:49.180 --> 00:29:55.300 like resistant starches, undercooked vegetables, salads are very bad for irritating the intestine 00:29:55.300 --> 00:29:56.300 and producing… 00:29:56.300 --> 00:30:02.500 So, cascara would be pretty beneficial for improving bowel motility and excretion? 00:30:02.500 --> 00:30:10.340 Yeah, and some of the so-called soluble fibers, even pectin, for example, fruit, can greatly 00:30:10.340 --> 00:30:13.980 increase the production of serotonin and disturb the sleep. 00:30:13.980 --> 00:30:14.980 Okay, good. 00:30:14.980 --> 00:30:17.700 All right, well, we do have several more callers on the air, so let's take the next one. 00:30:17.700 --> 00:30:18.700 Hi, you're on the air. 00:30:18.700 --> 00:30:19.700 Where are you from? 00:30:19.700 --> 00:30:20.700 Yes, my name is Graham. 00:30:20.700 --> 00:30:23.020 I'm from Los Angeles. 00:30:23.020 --> 00:30:28.260 My wife has chronic fatigue and I'm wondering whether Dr. Peat has any insights or thoughts 00:30:28.260 --> 00:30:32.820 on how to deal with chronic fatigue and in particular mitochondrial dysfunction? 00:30:32.820 --> 00:30:33.820 Dr. Peat? 00:30:33.820 --> 00:30:41.740 Oh, yeah, basically the same stress syndrome, low thyroid, excess production of lactic acid 00:30:41.740 --> 00:30:50.260 and all of the stress mediators, the serotonin and histamine are usually high with prolactin 00:30:50.260 --> 00:30:58.020 shows up generally very closely associated with chronic fatigue and prolactin rises generally 00:30:58.020 --> 00:31:01.180 when your thyroid goes down and serotonin goes up. 00:31:01.180 --> 00:31:05.700 Okay, so what would be your suggestion in terms of let's say just sort of a dietary 00:31:05.700 --> 00:31:07.540 approach then? 00:31:07.540 --> 00:31:14.900 Things that are quickly digested and raw carrot contains anti-inflammatory chemicals as well 00:31:14.900 --> 00:31:22.220 as some antibiotics and they suppress irritating bacteria as well as binding some of the toxins 00:31:22.220 --> 00:31:28.180 and so they have an anti-inflammatory effect that can seriously adjust your hormones in 00:31:28.180 --> 00:31:31.620 a good direction just having a raw carrot every day. 00:31:31.620 --> 00:31:36.260 Dr. Peat, my wife has been a keen listener of a lot of your programs and she has been 00:31:36.260 --> 00:31:37.260 trying the raw carrot. 00:31:37.260 --> 00:31:43.500 She finds that very hard to digest and basically consume. 00:31:43.500 --> 00:31:44.500 Is there any... 00:31:44.500 --> 00:31:48.300 The good point is that they are indigestible. 00:31:48.300 --> 00:31:51.340 Dr. Peat, go ahead. 00:31:51.340 --> 00:31:57.140 The point of eating the carrot is that they can't be digested and so they release some 00:31:57.140 --> 00:32:04.620 of the antiseptic chemicals but help to stimulate the intestine and carry out material because 00:32:04.620 --> 00:32:10.980 they don't break down and produce bacterial growth the way other starchy vegetables do. 00:32:10.980 --> 00:32:15.100 You can think of the raw carrot material, grated raw carrot as a kind of bottle brush 00:32:15.100 --> 00:32:18.060 effectively I think within the lumen of the gut. 00:32:18.060 --> 00:32:24.820 And if you shred them with a fine food processor so that they're almost like hair, that's the 00:32:24.820 --> 00:32:28.260 most effective kind of fiber because you get a lot of surface. 00:32:28.260 --> 00:32:29.260 Right, surface area. 00:32:29.260 --> 00:32:30.260 And find irritants. 00:32:30.260 --> 00:32:33.380 And doctor, one final question. 00:32:33.380 --> 00:32:34.380 Metabolic syndrome. 00:32:34.380 --> 00:32:36.660 I've been having trouble with that. 00:32:36.660 --> 00:32:39.100 What would you suggest from a dietary position there? 00:32:39.100 --> 00:32:40.100 What syndrome? 00:32:40.100 --> 00:32:41.100 Metabolic syndrome. 00:32:41.100 --> 00:32:49.420 I find it hard to remove fat despite exercise or dietary approaches to get the fat off my 00:32:49.420 --> 00:32:50.420 belly. 00:32:50.420 --> 00:33:01.420 The polyunsaturated fats are probably what set up that inability to oxidize sugar efficiently 00:33:01.420 --> 00:33:09.660 and it keeps the pre-fatty acids in circulation and pre-fatty acids block your metabolism 00:33:09.660 --> 00:33:11.060 in general. 00:33:11.060 --> 00:33:18.540 So you can break the cycle in various ways but probably an active form of thyroid containing 00:33:18.540 --> 00:33:26.620 T3 is the basic way to get the metabolism going so that you can oxidize glucose and 00:33:26.620 --> 00:33:29.340 turn off the pre-fatty acids. 00:33:29.340 --> 00:33:33.140 Any suggestions on there that I could consider? 00:33:33.140 --> 00:33:41.820 The important thing is to keep track of your metabolic rate, how many calories you need, 00:33:41.820 --> 00:33:45.180 how much water you're able to evaporate. 00:33:45.180 --> 00:33:51.900 Thyroid people find that a lot of the water they drink comes back as urine or you should 00:33:51.900 --> 00:33:55.180 be able to evaporate a couple of quarts of water a day. 00:33:55.180 --> 00:34:00.220 That means that if you drink three quarts, you get one quart of urine back per day. 00:34:00.220 --> 00:34:07.780 And other indicators of metabolic rate are heart rate at rest and temperature cycle. 00:34:07.780 --> 00:34:14.300 Temperature should rise to around 98.6 right after breakfast and stay there until close 00:34:14.300 --> 00:34:15.300 to sunset. 00:34:15.300 --> 00:34:16.300 Thank you doctor, very much appreciated. 00:34:16.300 --> 00:34:17.300 Okay, thank you for your call caller. 00:34:17.300 --> 00:34:25.140 Okay, so the number if you live in the area is 923 3911 and if you're outside the area 00:34:25.140 --> 00:34:28.220 the 800 number is 1800 KMUD RAD. 00:34:28.220 --> 00:34:33.020 So we've got Dr. Raymond Peat sharing his wisdom here and the subject for this evening's 00:34:33.020 --> 00:34:34.020 longevity. 00:34:34.020 --> 00:34:39.460 Okay, so Dr. Peat, I wanted to carry on asking you some more questions about the B vitamins. 00:34:39.460 --> 00:34:44.900 I know that they're intrinsically involved in energy generation and its transfer. 00:34:44.900 --> 00:34:50.740 What would you suggest as a good strategy to ensure adequate levels of B vitamins? 00:34:50.740 --> 00:34:59.180 A good diet that includes liver once in a while, milk regularly, and/or cheese, eggs 00:34:59.180 --> 00:35:05.860 regularly, seafood or meat fairly regularly, at least once a week for some kind of seafood 00:35:05.860 --> 00:35:11.180 is good for the trace minerals that you might not get in some of the land foods. 00:35:11.180 --> 00:35:16.260 Given that it's water soluble, how realistic do you think it is for people actually to 00:35:16.260 --> 00:35:20.140 be low in B vitamins that may otherwise make a difference? 00:35:20.140 --> 00:35:24.660 Because I know you've mentioned B1 and B3 as being something that has been intrinsically 00:35:24.660 --> 00:35:29.760 important in people's memory, their retention of information and how quickly it can make 00:35:29.760 --> 00:35:31.460 a difference just by supplementing with it. 00:35:31.460 --> 00:35:37.540 And if they're supplementing, I presume that they were low in it and so taking a supplement, 00:35:37.540 --> 00:35:44.740 raised their B levels, their 1 and their 3, and corrected their mental state, I think. 00:35:44.740 --> 00:35:46.740 B vitamins act very quickly. 00:35:46.740 --> 00:35:52.700 So you can usually see an effect sometimes like with vitamin B1, you can often feel an 00:35:52.700 --> 00:35:54.580 effect in the first hour. 00:35:54.580 --> 00:35:58.660 With vitamin B6, you generally feel an effect in the first day. 00:35:58.660 --> 00:36:05.660 And with vitamin B6, sometimes 10 milligrams is all it needs and one dose will often take 00:36:05.660 --> 00:36:08.660 care of a problem that has lingered for a long time. 00:36:08.660 --> 00:36:15.860 And it's good if you can use a few doses of the supplements because most of the supplements 00:36:15.860 --> 00:36:20.340 have impurities and excipients that aren't good in the long run. 00:36:20.340 --> 00:36:24.020 I know you're a proponent of very modest doses too. 00:36:24.020 --> 00:36:27.940 So what would you, because I know a lot of companies sell B vitamins and they use 500 00:36:27.940 --> 00:36:33.740 milligrams or ridiculous amounts, especially of B6 or B3. 00:36:33.740 --> 00:36:34.740 What would you recommend? 00:36:34.740 --> 00:36:41.460 If a person has diabetes or cancer or something and has very high lactic acid production, 00:36:41.460 --> 00:36:49.380 300 milligrams in divided doses can help to normalize sugar metabolism and lactic acid. 00:36:49.380 --> 00:36:52.780 But ordinarily, 10 or 20 milligrams, plenty. 00:36:52.780 --> 00:36:54.580 Is this B3 we're talking about now? 00:36:54.580 --> 00:36:57.300 No, that was vitamin B1. 00:36:57.300 --> 00:37:06.980 And B3 for major problems, including diabetes, probably arthritis, a lot of degenerative 00:37:06.980 --> 00:37:15.100 problems, taking 50 or 100 milligrams several times a day of niacinamide can control the 00:37:15.100 --> 00:37:22.940 symptoms, reduce inflammation, protect the nerves and accelerate glucose oxidation and 00:37:22.940 --> 00:37:23.940 so on. 00:37:23.940 --> 00:37:30.860 And I should mention that for some reason, I think doctors liked nicotinic acid because 00:37:30.860 --> 00:37:34.780 it had such visible effects of making you turn red. 00:37:34.780 --> 00:37:41.980 But people generally don't like the feeling of flushing and it isn't good for your health 00:37:41.980 --> 00:37:47.140 because it releases serotonin, histamine and toxic prostaglandins. 00:37:47.140 --> 00:37:50.900 So it's actually causing damage when it flushes you. 00:37:50.900 --> 00:37:58.300 And in recent years, the market has been flooded with something they call no-flush niacin. 00:37:58.300 --> 00:38:05.140 But if you look at the label, you'll see that it's inositol hexanicotinate and that means 00:38:05.140 --> 00:38:11.980 that each molecule has six nicotinic acids and it's a little slower to release. 00:38:11.980 --> 00:38:16.740 That's why it doesn't cause the sudden intense flushing, but it's the same substance that's 00:38:16.740 --> 00:38:21.100 releasing those inflammatory toxic substances. 00:38:21.100 --> 00:38:29.620 So it has to be either niacinamide or the new niacinamide or nicotinamide riboside, 00:38:29.620 --> 00:38:33.380 which is just a variation on niacinamide. 00:38:33.380 --> 00:38:37.780 And it's a lot more expensive, but if you have an allergic reaction to one, you can 00:38:37.780 --> 00:38:38.780 try the other. 00:38:38.780 --> 00:38:39.780 All right. 00:38:39.780 --> 00:38:45.740 I very quickly want to just ask you to remind listeners, the dose, and you mentioned specifically 00:38:45.740 --> 00:38:51.020 for cancers even, B1 of 200 to 300 milligrams in divided doses? 00:38:51.020 --> 00:38:56.180 Yeah, it's safe to take as much as 300 milligrams. 00:38:56.180 --> 00:38:59.100 And again, what would the benefits of that be? 00:38:59.100 --> 00:39:00.820 Lowering lactic acid. 00:39:00.820 --> 00:39:02.380 Lowering lactic acid, yeah. 00:39:02.380 --> 00:39:09.500 Reducing the oxidation of it so you produce more carbon dioxide and less lactic acid. 00:39:09.500 --> 00:39:12.340 That shift away from inflammation. 00:39:12.340 --> 00:39:18.340 Lactic acid is keeping the cancer developing by creating inflammation and disturbing the 00:39:18.340 --> 00:39:19.340 pH balance. 00:39:19.340 --> 00:39:20.340 Good. 00:39:20.340 --> 00:39:24.100 Okay, well, we do have a couple more callers, so we should probably take this next caller 00:39:24.100 --> 00:39:26.140 and see where this takes us. 00:39:26.140 --> 00:39:27.140 So caller, you're on the air? 00:39:27.140 --> 00:39:28.140 Hi, you're on the air and where are you from? 00:39:28.140 --> 00:39:29.140 I'm from Laytonville. 00:39:29.140 --> 00:39:30.140 Hi, what's your question, caller? 00:39:30.140 --> 00:39:31.140 I have a question. 00:39:31.140 --> 00:39:38.500 You mentioned the body temp, a low body temp, like 97.4 is normal or? 00:39:38.500 --> 00:39:39.500 No. 00:39:39.500 --> 00:39:43.860 So what are some things like hot foods, ginger, what are some things? 00:39:43.860 --> 00:39:47.340 Well, no, not particularly because they just cause peripheral vasodilation which might 00:39:47.340 --> 00:39:50.140 give you a feeling of warmth but might actually cool you down even. 00:39:50.140 --> 00:39:55.460 But Dr. Peat, when he mentions temperature and pulses as a measure or a good gauge for 00:39:55.460 --> 00:40:01.420 assessing thyroid function that you should reach 98.6 during the daytime and preferably 00:40:01.420 --> 00:40:05.180 after breakfast in the morning and you should stay at that kind of temperature pretty much 00:40:05.180 --> 00:40:07.100 all through the day until the evening. 00:40:07.100 --> 00:40:12.100 If you have consistently low body temperatures that do not seem to rise after food, then 00:40:12.100 --> 00:40:16.060 that would be fairly suggestive of metabolic deficiency and particularly that you'd benefit 00:40:16.060 --> 00:40:17.700 from using thyroid hormone. 00:40:17.700 --> 00:40:22.860 And protein deficiency is a possible cause of low body temperature. 00:40:22.860 --> 00:40:30.780 I've seen people who couldn't respond to thyroid or other metabolic activators and it turned 00:40:30.780 --> 00:40:34.140 out they were eating something like 20 grams of protein a day. 00:40:34.140 --> 00:40:37.820 The requirement is closer to 80. 00:40:37.820 --> 00:40:38.820 That makes sense. 00:40:38.820 --> 00:40:45.900 I have a blood type, I like high cortisol, I'm active, I need protein, that makes sense. 00:40:45.900 --> 00:40:52.820 My other question is what are your thoughts on dilation like the heavy metal cleanse? 00:40:52.820 --> 00:41:00.500 Good foods will safely activate the process of mobilizing heavy metals from the tissues 00:41:00.500 --> 00:41:03.380 and passing them out through the kidneys. 00:41:03.380 --> 00:41:09.780 Coffee drinkers are known to have a lower load of most of the heavy metals such as cadmium 00:41:09.780 --> 00:41:10.780 and lead. 00:41:10.780 --> 00:41:17.140 Do you think that foods, a healthy diet would like naturally take care of all of the heavy 00:41:17.140 --> 00:41:20.740 metals we accumulate daily? 00:41:20.740 --> 00:41:27.740 One of the advantages of having orange juice and milk in your diet constantly is that they 00:41:27.740 --> 00:41:34.260 provide materials that help to inactivate the toxic effect of heavy metals while mobilizing 00:41:34.260 --> 00:41:37.020 them and washing them out through the kidneys. 00:41:37.020 --> 00:41:38.020 Thank you, gentlemen. 00:41:38.020 --> 00:41:39.020 Thank you for your call. 00:41:39.020 --> 00:41:41.580 Dr. Peat, I've got to ask a personal question. 00:41:41.580 --> 00:41:45.360 I think perhaps a lot of people might like to hear your thoughts on this because they're 00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:49.740 always very different and I'm always very, very happy to hear what you say because it's 00:41:49.740 --> 00:41:50.740 always illuminating. 00:41:50.740 --> 00:41:56.300 Ebola virus is becoming a very careful watch word right now. 00:41:56.300 --> 00:42:00.380 I'm not being flippant at all but what would you do? 00:42:00.380 --> 00:42:05.540 What are your thoughts and your suggestions on Ebola virus and how best to protect yourself 00:42:05.540 --> 00:42:06.540 from it? 00:42:06.540 --> 00:42:13.380 The effects of it are basically like flu and many other viral or even bacterial infections 00:42:13.380 --> 00:42:22.140 that activate the inflammatory processes and inactivate our immune defenses. 00:42:22.140 --> 00:42:29.340 If you look at the research, the first thing that happens is the inhibition of interferon, 00:42:29.340 --> 00:42:37.300 the antiviral, one of the defenses and activation of nitric oxide production which opens up 00:42:37.300 --> 00:42:42.580 blood vessels, makes them leaky and lowers energy production. 00:42:42.580 --> 00:42:51.740 And so whether it's flu or Ebola or poisoning by chemicals, the method of defending yourself 00:42:51.740 --> 00:42:58.140 is pretty much the same to lower anything irritating that you're doing such as eating 00:42:58.140 --> 00:43:05.020 foods that are hard to digest and doing anything you can to lower inflammation and nitric oxide 00:43:05.020 --> 00:43:06.020 production. 00:43:06.020 --> 00:43:07.020 Aspirin? 00:43:07.020 --> 00:43:15.540 Aspirin and coffee and niacinamide are all defenses against nitric oxide and I think 00:43:15.540 --> 00:43:22.220 nitric oxide is central to all of those when they get to the point of causing degenerative 00:43:22.220 --> 00:43:23.820 bleeding processes. 00:43:23.820 --> 00:43:24.820 What about interferon? 00:43:24.820 --> 00:43:28.060 Is there anything that you would suggest that would be useful for raising your interferon 00:43:28.060 --> 00:43:32.260 or protecting or preventing the blockage of it? 00:43:32.260 --> 00:43:38.020 You know, I think that'll take care of itself if you just keep your energy up and hold the 00:43:38.020 --> 00:43:42.460 inflammatory things such as nitric oxide as low as you can. 00:43:42.460 --> 00:43:43.460 Okay. 00:43:43.460 --> 00:43:44.460 All right. 00:43:44.460 --> 00:43:45.460 Good. 00:43:45.460 --> 00:43:46.460 Well, I had to ask you. 00:43:46.460 --> 00:43:48.540 I thought you'd have some suggestions for it and thank you very much again, Dr. Peat, 00:43:48.540 --> 00:43:51.980 for joining us on the show and thank you callers for calling in. 00:43:51.980 --> 00:43:55.900 I know it's always very useful when people call in with lots of different questions even 00:43:55.900 --> 00:43:59.980 if they're not related to the subject and just from where the callers come from just 00:43:59.980 --> 00:44:03.140 shows how wide an audience that you have, Dr. Peat. 00:44:03.140 --> 00:44:04.140 Thanks so much for your time. 00:44:04.140 --> 00:44:05.140 Okay. 00:44:05.140 --> 00:44:06.140 Thank you. 00:44:06.140 --> 00:44:07.140 Okay. 00:44:07.140 --> 00:44:09.940 For those people who have listened to the show, if you want any more information outside 00:44:09.940 --> 00:44:16.860 of the show time, we can be reached on 1-888-WBM-ERB for consultations or further information. 00:44:16.860 --> 00:44:22.020 So Dr. Raymond Peat's website has got a wealth of articles fully referenced. 00:44:22.020 --> 00:44:25.940 They're not just made up stories or unsubstantiated claims. 00:44:25.940 --> 00:44:31.540 They're actually very well written and very scientifically based and science is there 00:44:31.540 --> 00:44:36.860 really to point the way forward and anybody who does want to disbelieve the science perhaps 00:44:36.860 --> 00:44:42.840 would be a little bit rash because science does have a good place and a very important 00:44:42.840 --> 00:44:47.460 tool for finding out the truth behind the questions that plague us. 00:44:47.460 --> 00:44:53.980 And so there's lots of lies out there and the internet unfortunately is one of the wealthiest 00:44:53.980 --> 00:44:56.660 places but also has lots of answers too. 00:44:56.660 --> 00:45:01.180 So it's just sorting out the information and Dr. Peat's always got a very different perspective. 00:45:01.180 --> 00:45:05.020 So I'm very happy that he spends the time that he does joining us on the show. 00:45:05.020 --> 00:45:10.860 So his website is www.raypeate.com. 00:45:10.860 --> 00:45:13.700 Lots of articles on his website that you can look at. 00:45:13.700 --> 00:45:17.380 And again, until the third Friday of next month, have a good night. 00:45:17.380 --> 00:45:18.380 All right. 00:45:18.380 --> 00:45:19.380 Okay. 00:45:19.380 --> 00:45:21.820 Well, thanks Jessica Baker of Jade Dragon Acupuncture for her support of Redwood Community 00:45:21.820 --> 00:45:26.420 Radio practicing and teaching Chinese medicine, herbalism and aromatherapy. 00:45:26.420 --> 00:45:31.300 Jessica is available for conferences, workshops and private consultations located at 607 F 00:45:31.300 --> 00:45:32.300 Street Arcata.