WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.240 Well, welcome to this month's live Ask Your Herb Doctor. 00:00:04.240 --> 00:00:05.240 Sarah is not with us tonight. 00:00:05.240 --> 00:00:10.360 She is well, but she is not with us, so we are doing the show with Dr. Peat as a regular 00:00:10.360 --> 00:00:19.640 guest this evening and continuing the last two months topic of the endocrine system. 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:25.720 I would like to break at some point during the show and intersperse some questions that 00:00:25.720 --> 00:00:30.520 we have had from people that have been emailed to us who for one reason or another can't 00:00:30.520 --> 00:00:37.820 get Dr. Peat by email or whatever, but they are corresponding to me and I am posing these 00:00:37.820 --> 00:00:40.120 questions this evening. 00:00:40.120 --> 00:00:45.320 And also there is a latest newsletter from Dr. Peat. 00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:49.960 For those of you who don't know, Dr. Peat does a monthly newsletter. 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:50.960 I think it was bi-monthly. 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:53.860 Dr. Peat might correct me when he comes on. 00:00:53.860 --> 00:00:57.120 But I think it is a monthly newsletter that he does. 00:00:57.120 --> 00:01:02.720 So for those people as always who are interested in his work, there is lots of information 00:01:02.720 --> 00:01:04.720 that can be found on the web now. 00:01:04.720 --> 00:01:12.920 I have been amazed at how the web has exploded the availability of knowledge in all areas. 00:01:12.920 --> 00:01:18.760 And Dr. Peat and his discussions with various different people from politics to science 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:26.440 and health are available all over the internet as are these broadcast and recorded programs 00:01:26.440 --> 00:01:28.240 I found on the internet myself. 00:01:28.240 --> 00:01:31.200 I didn't even know they were there up until about a year ago. 00:01:31.200 --> 00:01:37.760 But there is probably 60 or so YouTube shows of this done on the internet. 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:44.000 So for people that want to hear more and they are titled by topic, you can just go to the 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:51.080 internet, go to YouTube and type in Dr. Ray Peat or Ray Peat Andrew Murray KMUD. 00:01:51.080 --> 00:01:57.400 And also on our website, I have a full archive up until 2015. 00:01:57.400 --> 00:01:59.480 It's not as full as it could be. 00:01:59.480 --> 00:02:02.440 I've got 2016 and a few of this year's. 00:02:02.440 --> 00:02:07.160 So there's probably another 16 or 17 shows that have yet to get put up. 00:02:07.160 --> 00:02:10.600 I will endeavor to get those done fairly soon. 00:02:10.600 --> 00:02:16.160 For people that haven't really heard about Dr. Peat, we always get new listeners and 00:02:16.160 --> 00:02:22.320 from time to time we get people that don't know anything about what he's advocating. 00:02:22.320 --> 00:02:27.600 And for them, there's plenty of information either on the internet by typing in Dr. Ray 00:02:27.600 --> 00:02:34.160 Peat or going to our website which is westernbotanicalmedicine.com and looking at the resources tab on the right 00:02:34.160 --> 00:02:38.240 hand side and dropping it down to askyourherbdoctor. 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:43.400 And also there's plenty of literature that Dr. Peat has published himself. 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:49.680 So he does a newsletter and without going on too much about this newsletter, this month's 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:55.080 newsletter is right up our street as far as I'm concerned. 00:02:55.080 --> 00:03:05.080 It's a kind of continuation and expose of covert but now disclosed somewhat CIA and 00:03:05.080 --> 00:03:15.000 other foundational groups that basically, certainly ruling if you like, the top tier 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:24.000 of society and molding and coercing the system to follow its edicts and obviously that comes 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:26.040 with a lot of tyranny. 00:03:26.040 --> 00:03:30.400 Most people that listen to this show, it's an alternative show, probably agree that there 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:37.800 certainly is a tyranny at large and to resist tyranny I think is a call to arms, not necessarily 00:03:37.800 --> 00:03:44.000 with violence and guns but to resist tyranny by immersing yourself in alternative education 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:48.920 and the knowledge of that education is a powerful weapon against the tyrants who would tell 00:03:48.920 --> 00:03:49.920 us otherwise. 00:03:49.920 --> 00:03:52.520 So Dr. Peat, are you with us? 00:03:52.520 --> 00:03:53.520 >> Yes. 00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:54.520 >> Okay. 00:03:54.520 --> 00:03:57.080 Well, thanks so much for your time on the show. 00:03:57.080 --> 00:04:02.120 Like I said, we'll go through what I'd like to ask you about with regards to the endocrine 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:07.400 system and then there are some questions posed by callers. 00:04:07.400 --> 00:04:14.800 As always, people who are listening, the number that we open up from 7.30 to 8 p.m. for callers 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:22.880 to ask questions directly to Dr. Peat, there's a 800 number which is 1-800-KMUD-RAD and then 00:04:22.880 --> 00:04:29.520 there's the regular number which I want to make sure has not changed but it's 923-3911 00:04:29.520 --> 00:04:32.680 so that is the local area code 707 number. 00:04:32.680 --> 00:04:40.320 So 707-923-3911 or if you're out of the area or in Australia, well, not for Australians, 00:04:40.320 --> 00:04:44.080 I guess they can't use the 800 number but they're on the internet so we can be reached 00:04:44.080 --> 00:04:49.720 through the internet too but there's an 800 number which is 1-800-568-3723 and we take 00:04:49.720 --> 00:04:54.520 callers from 7.30 on to the end of the show at 8. 00:04:54.520 --> 00:05:02.840 So Dr. Peat, I guess without further ado, I saw where we left off last month and we 00:05:02.840 --> 00:05:11.240 just got started into the hypothalamus and I brought out one of the things that struck 00:05:11.240 --> 00:05:16.160 me as kind of unusual but I wanted to ask you a little bit more about it. 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:21.920 So from last month breaking the question, what is a hormone and how the endocrine system 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:28.200 regulates metabolism, you discussed thyrotropin releasing hormone which stimulates TSH from 00:05:28.200 --> 00:05:31.320 the anterior pituitary as well as prolactin. 00:05:31.320 --> 00:05:37.020 Now prolactin is a hormone that's responsible for lactation in females and so is there another 00:05:37.020 --> 00:05:43.480 mechanism perhaps to satisfy the TSH production in low thyroid individuals to upregulate the 00:05:43.480 --> 00:05:48.560 TSH for production which does not result in increased prolactin production. 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:54.160 So for those of you who are listening perhaps, the TSH is a thyroid stimulating hormone and 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:57.840 this is basically stimulated at the same time as prolactin is. 00:05:57.840 --> 00:06:03.920 So in low thyroid individuals, my question to you Dr. Peat is the potential for women 00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:09.200 to be exposed to higher than normal levels of prolactin and have you known women that 00:06:09.200 --> 00:06:15.320 would lactate when they weren't you know nursing or outside of you know, well not outside of 00:06:15.320 --> 00:06:20.640 menstruation, but when women weren't fertile or nursing. 00:06:20.640 --> 00:06:22.800 Is this something that you've actually found? 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:33.600 Yeah probably maybe a hundred women that I've talked to who were simply hypothyroidism was 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:46.240 their basic problem, but unwelcome lactation was just one of their symptoms and usually 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:54.560 there were menstrual irregularities at the same time, either too much or too little menstruation 00:06:54.560 --> 00:07:00.800 and just correcting their thyroid function took care of the lactation and menstruation 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:13.320 both and what it's doing, it's partly regulating oxygen metabolism so that you can use your 00:07:13.320 --> 00:07:21.520 fuel very efficiently, keep your blood sugar steady so that you don't experience stress. 00:07:21.520 --> 00:07:30.120 Estrogen is in good health, it's produced for about 12 hours once a month in a big surge 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:39.520 to basically create tissue stress to stir up cell division to prepare the uterus and 00:07:39.520 --> 00:07:51.880 the breast and other tissues, pituitary are the main things that are activated by estrogen. 00:07:51.880 --> 00:08:08.840 Low thyroid by letting you get low blood sugar inappropriately, at the same time it's activating 00:08:08.840 --> 00:08:17.040 the stress hormones and inactivating the parts of the liver that are normally destroying 00:08:17.040 --> 00:08:22.640 estrogen as soon as estrogen reaches the liver. 00:08:22.640 --> 00:08:29.440 Normally the small amount of estrogen being produced under moderate stress is kept very 00:08:29.440 --> 00:08:37.440 low by an active liver when the thyroid is activating the liver. 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:46.860 When the thyroid is low, estrogen tends to rise and both of these tend to create an oxygen 00:08:46.860 --> 00:08:50.960 deficiency and a glucose deficiency. 00:08:50.960 --> 00:09:01.280 One intensifies the other and these are the first step in any kind of stress reaction 00:09:01.280 --> 00:09:12.200 and the stress reaction turns on your pituitary as a way to organize the adaptive system of 00:09:12.200 --> 00:09:22.680 the body and prolactin in fish, prolactin regulates salt and water metabolism and mammals 00:09:22.680 --> 00:09:34.880 have various components of milk formation involving both the flow of water and salts 00:09:34.880 --> 00:09:40.640 but including proteins and sugar. 00:09:40.640 --> 00:09:50.120 So prolactin in all animals has a range of anti-stress functions and lactation is just 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:57.600 a useful component for handling the stress of pregnancy fertility. 00:09:57.600 --> 00:10:05.880 I picked up on what you said about estrogen being a once monthly, a 12-hour period, a 00:10:05.880 --> 00:10:14.680 once monthly surge but I just want to ask you this, it seems a very ubiquitous poison 00:10:14.680 --> 00:10:21.720 for want of a better word that women are continually subjected to. 00:10:21.720 --> 00:10:25.880 How can you compare that to the background levels of estrogen that you are always advising 00:10:25.880 --> 00:10:33.560 women to protect themselves from either environmentally or with things like pregnenolone or progesterone 00:10:33.560 --> 00:10:39.760 if they have excessive inflammation going on in the body for some different causes? 00:10:39.760 --> 00:10:45.080 Any tissue of your body that is stressed will start to produce estrogen. 00:10:45.080 --> 00:10:55.760 It's a very basic reaction to stress and so with aging for example, when you've lost some 00:10:55.760 --> 00:11:03.320 of your basic anti-stress hormones, thyroid and progesterone and pregnenolone, then all 00:11:03.320 --> 00:11:14.880 of your tissues are suffering from oxygen and glucose, bad metabolism. 00:11:14.880 --> 00:11:24.640 They're simply not interacting properly and that means that all of your tissues will begin 00:11:24.640 --> 00:11:27.440 producing a little bit of estrogen. 00:11:27.440 --> 00:11:34.720 For example, the postmenopausal breast tissue is producing several times more estrogen than 00:11:34.720 --> 00:11:46.200 it does during menstruation and if the liver slows down because the thyroid is low, then 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:52.920 that little bit that's being produced by any stress tissue is going to pile up in the blood 00:11:52.920 --> 00:11:57.960 because it should be eliminated constantly through the liver and kidney. 00:11:57.960 --> 00:11:58.960 Interesting. 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:03.320 This brings me back to some of the reasons for wanting to cover some of this endocrine 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:07.360 stuff with you is that I think, and it's a little bit tied into your newsletter funnily 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:14.920 enough like a lot of things do, in terms of the brainwashing that science has been guilty 00:12:14.920 --> 00:12:19.920 of brainwashing the public into deceiving them to believe that things are a certain 00:12:19.920 --> 00:12:23.720 way when actually there's previous research that showed exactly the opposite. 00:12:23.720 --> 00:12:30.600 That's been buried, it's been closed up and money's been diverted away from it and diverted 00:12:30.600 --> 00:12:34.400 towards the wanted information. 00:12:34.400 --> 00:12:39.200 So again, when I was studying, I was under the impression that basically the ovaries 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:43.360 were the main estrogen secreting organ in the female body and that really men didn't 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:44.360 really have estrogen. 00:12:44.360 --> 00:12:48.960 It wasn't, you know, men had testosterone, females had estrogen. 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:53.920 Things were fairly simple but actually it's really very different from that and hearing 00:12:53.920 --> 00:12:58.760 that I think you said any cell can essentially secrete estrogen in response to stress and 00:12:58.760 --> 00:12:59.760 inflammation. 00:12:59.760 --> 00:13:06.640 Yeah and old men get low testosterone because their stress tissue is turning it quickly 00:13:06.640 --> 00:13:07.640 into estrogen. 00:13:07.640 --> 00:13:10.360 Right, this is aromatization, right? 00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:18.200 Yeah and a younger man who is very sick or has an accident will have very high estrogen 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:25.920 and that will bring up usually prolactin and growth hormone and a lot of adaptive secondary 00:13:25.920 --> 00:13:26.920 hormones. 00:13:26.920 --> 00:13:31.080 Interesting, so I think hopefully by continuing some other little tidbits will come out that 00:13:31.080 --> 00:13:35.480 people will pick up on and maybe start looking into things further themselves. 00:13:35.480 --> 00:13:40.200 I wanted to again, just to get back briefly to that first question about lactation and 00:13:40.200 --> 00:13:47.800 prolactin being secreted in females and actually causing some milk production. 00:13:47.800 --> 00:13:53.800 I wanted to also ask, is it a quantitative issue or where there's not enough prolactin 00:13:53.800 --> 00:14:01.920 being stimulated by the release of TRH or is oxytocin for example a more powerful stimulator 00:14:01.920 --> 00:14:04.440 of lactation or not? 00:14:04.440 --> 00:14:09.200 Oxytocin really is just to release the milk once it's formed. 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:14.000 It isn't involved in directly in forming it. 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:21.840 When I was a little kid during the depression, there were very poor people moving into Southern 00:14:21.840 --> 00:14:32.480 California and some of them were finding jobs and one family we knew, the mother was able 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:39.680 to find a job when they had a baby that was a few months old and the father, they had 00:14:39.680 --> 00:14:46.280 been starving for years and the father was able to lactate to nurse the baby while the 00:14:46.280 --> 00:14:49.760 mother was at work. 00:14:49.760 --> 00:14:54.000 Do you see any difference, out of interest, do you see any difference in the quality of 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:55.000 the milk? 00:14:55.000 --> 00:14:59.120 Oh sure, men aren't nearly as good at lactating. 00:14:59.120 --> 00:15:01.640 Not as much fat maybe. 00:15:01.640 --> 00:15:03.600 And it's a very extreme thing. 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:14.200 Lots of men when they came out of the World War II prison camps, when they started eating, 00:15:14.200 --> 00:15:23.120 they got enough energy to mobilize cortisol and some thyroid and such, they began lactating 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:28.840 because they had injured their tissues much that they were very high in estrogen. 00:15:28.840 --> 00:15:35.440 Wow, I mean it's well documented now, certainly not hidden, that male breasts or gynecomastia 00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:40.240 is a common phenomenon in males that are exposed to estrogen and from the industry in England, 00:15:40.240 --> 00:15:45.760 the beer drinking, it's not uncommon for men that drink a lot of beer daily to grow basically 00:15:45.760 --> 00:15:52.960 breasts and even in this country, related to estrogen substances, whether it's the hops, 00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:58.440 that the estrogen mimics in hops or even environmental mimics in plastics etc. that get into the 00:15:58.440 --> 00:16:06.320 environment that some more sensitive individuals are being exposed to. 00:16:06.320 --> 00:16:14.520 Yeast can produce estradiol, so they think that the yeast for men is a major source of 00:16:14.520 --> 00:16:18.440 the breast development in beer drinkers. 00:16:18.440 --> 00:16:23.080 Interesting, so it may not necessarily be down to the humulone, lupulone or the other 00:16:23.080 --> 00:16:25.120 byproducts of the hop? 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:30.800 Yeah, they're probably not as harmful as the yeast produced estrogen. 00:16:30.800 --> 00:16:36.240 Okay, you're listening to Ask Your Doctor on KMED Garboville 91.1 FM. 00:16:36.240 --> 00:16:41.840 We're joined with Dr. Peat who's on the show basically questioning the endocrine system 00:16:41.840 --> 00:16:46.580 and what we understand about it and finding out some certain differences and contradictions 00:16:46.580 --> 00:16:52.040 that perhaps people understand the facts by until they hear differently. 00:16:52.040 --> 00:16:55.160 The number if you're in the area is 707-923-3911. 00:16:55.160 --> 00:17:02.560 If you're outside the area, I would like to ask Dr. Peat any questions from 7.30 on, there's 00:17:02.560 --> 00:17:11.320 an 800 number which is 1-800-KMUD-RAD which is 1-800-568-3723. 00:17:11.320 --> 00:17:18.520 So let's move on to the next hormone in the hypothalamic section of this endocrine discussion, 00:17:18.520 --> 00:17:27.120 the corticotropin releasing hormone, how this stimulates adrenocorticotropic hormone from 00:17:27.120 --> 00:17:34.360 the anterior pituitary and this acts on the adrenals to promote and secrete cortisol. 00:17:34.360 --> 00:17:39.920 Now most people have probably heard of cortisol if they're at all health-minded, cortisol, 00:17:39.920 --> 00:17:45.040 cortisone, hydrocortisone, they're all kind of derivatives. 00:17:45.040 --> 00:17:50.720 Most of these derivatives here have at some point in time and/or are still being used 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:57.880 to control inflammation and I've known asthmatics and eczema patients and psoriatic patients 00:17:57.880 --> 00:18:05.560 that have been prescribed cortisol and corticosteroids to control that. 00:18:05.560 --> 00:18:10.740 The natural production of cortisol is inhibited by negative feedback mechanism so we're never 00:18:10.740 --> 00:18:16.200 normally naturally constantly and chronically exposed to cortisol. 00:18:16.200 --> 00:18:23.120 It obviously has some beneficial effect although I understand your interpretation puts a far 00:18:23.120 --> 00:18:29.920 more negative view of cortisol probably in relation to its chronic exposure. 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:35.440 But what dangers do you see in the chronic use of hydrocortisone either topically or 00:18:35.440 --> 00:18:39.920 aerosolized and what would be a better approach to quell inflammation than of this type that 00:18:39.920 --> 00:18:42.680 you're aware of? 00:18:42.680 --> 00:18:50.000 Within the first two or three hours of a big dose of cortisol or the synthetic glucocorticoids, 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:57.760 the thymus gland starts shrinking and the skin and muscles begin shrinking as the cortisol 00:18:57.760 --> 00:19:03.840 shifts the metabolism in the opposite direction of testosterone. 00:19:03.840 --> 00:19:09.560 Towards the estrogenic side? 00:19:09.560 --> 00:19:17.400 Well they activate the proteolytic enzymes that break down the proteins and inhibit the 00:19:17.400 --> 00:19:21.960 anabolic protein synthesizing mechanisms. 00:19:21.960 --> 00:19:34.800 The brain, heart and lungs are very concentrated testosterone metabolizers and retainers. 00:19:34.800 --> 00:19:44.280 If you give someone radioactive testosterone, you see the emission from those organs, most 00:19:44.280 --> 00:19:51.040 of it from the heart and the brain, the lungs are so full of air you don't see much radiation. 00:19:51.040 --> 00:19:55.500 But the testosterone is there protecting these vital organs. 00:19:55.500 --> 00:20:02.800 But when you give a big dose of cortisol, you swamp that protective effect of progesterone 00:20:02.800 --> 00:20:10.200 and testosterone and the tissues that aren't very well protected very quickly shrink. 00:20:10.200 --> 00:20:18.440 Your skin becomes thinner, blood vessels weaken, you tend to get little bloody spots, petechial 00:20:18.440 --> 00:20:21.320 hemorrhages and bruise very easily. 00:20:21.320 --> 00:20:32.120 Lots of women have constantly bruised thighs and sometimes upper arms because if they're 00:20:32.120 --> 00:20:39.800 low in thyroid and progesterone, then they compensate with increased cortisol which weakens 00:20:39.800 --> 00:20:43.760 their small blood vessels and they bruise easily. 00:20:43.760 --> 00:20:50.440 If that continues over the years, it leads to strokes and osteoporosis and the typical 00:20:50.440 --> 00:20:53.920 aging conditions. 00:20:53.920 --> 00:20:57.920 I've known people in England especially that I don't know whether or not the doctors there 00:20:57.920 --> 00:21:05.640 were just more readily prescribing aerosolized inhalants, corticosteroids inhalants for asthma 00:21:05.640 --> 00:21:10.840 and/or topical creams for eczemas but it was the only thing that was ever really done. 00:21:10.840 --> 00:21:14.640 I've known people that have been on these things for years and years and I'm sure to 00:21:14.640 --> 00:21:17.520 their detriment. 00:21:17.520 --> 00:21:25.560 You're saying it's essentially switching off the protective anti-exciter toxic mechanism 00:21:25.560 --> 00:21:33.680 and route by which inflammation typically or estrogen-induced inflammation is mediated? 00:21:33.680 --> 00:21:39.320 And asthma is one of the typical estrogen-induced inflammation. 00:21:39.320 --> 00:21:46.200 High estrogen women are very susceptible to asthma especially during the night and one 00:21:46.200 --> 00:21:54.160 of the effects of estrogen is to directly stimulate the adrenal glands to produce cortisol 00:21:54.160 --> 00:22:02.480 so high estrogen leads to weak blood vessels and shrinking bones and aging skin and low 00:22:02.480 --> 00:22:09.120 immunity in such a way, shrinking effect of cortisol on the thymus gland. 00:22:09.120 --> 00:22:21.600 And estrogen shifts the balance towards serotonin away from dopamine and this shift in the serotonin 00:22:21.600 --> 00:22:31.440 dopamine ratio is one of the things that activates the prolactin system and it also serotonin 00:22:31.440 --> 00:22:40.200 is one of the major activators of the corticotropic release hormone CRH. 00:22:40.200 --> 00:22:53.600 So estrogen activates the pituitary, the hypothalamus, the adrenal glands directly to increase the 00:22:53.600 --> 00:22:55.800 tissue breakdown effect. 00:22:55.800 --> 00:23:02.280 Okay, so I caught on what you said about female asthmatics getting particularly worse at night 00:23:02.280 --> 00:23:08.960 and this again I guess this is night time stress that worsens the inflammation? 00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:13.000 All of the stress hormones rise during the night. 00:23:13.000 --> 00:23:17.560 Again in response probably to low blood sugar because of fasting or? 00:23:17.560 --> 00:23:28.560 Yeah, and hypoglycemia or disturbed oxygen availability increase both prolactin and usually 00:23:28.560 --> 00:23:33.320 growth hormone stress induces. 00:23:33.320 --> 00:23:41.440 I think all of the pituitary hormones except for luteinizing hormone, the one that produces 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:43.560 testosterone and progesterone. 00:23:43.560 --> 00:23:55.160 So when you activate all of the other parts of the pituitary, you are likely to become 00:23:55.160 --> 00:24:00.120 sterile by losing your progesterone and testosterone. 00:24:00.120 --> 00:24:06.680 I think from a male perspective, for those males that are listening, I know we do tend 00:24:06.680 --> 00:24:14.240 to get more female listeners that I think intuitively are more nurturing and empathic 00:24:14.240 --> 00:24:15.240 maybe. 00:24:15.240 --> 00:24:21.320 But for the guys that are out there, I think testosterone is extremely important to reiterate 00:24:21.320 --> 00:24:27.880 not just the prostatic involvement with decreased testosterone but to maximize your testosterone 00:24:27.880 --> 00:24:33.320 is the best thing that you can do as a guy because it is the counterpart to estrogen 00:24:33.320 --> 00:24:42.160 and it is the anti-exciter toxic route by which inflammation is quelled and the body 00:24:42.160 --> 00:24:48.440 is governed by an orderly system of growth and sugar metabolism, etc. 00:24:48.440 --> 00:24:56.000 It's close enough in function to progesterone in protective tissues. 00:24:56.000 --> 00:25:04.120 They've experimented removing the ovaries from rats after they've been impregnated and 00:25:04.120 --> 00:25:07.760 then giving them testosterone during pregnancy. 00:25:07.760 --> 00:25:14.400 It is a progesterone in that sense of being able to sustain pregnancy in the absence of 00:25:14.400 --> 00:25:15.400 ovaries. 00:25:15.400 --> 00:25:17.960 Well I guess we do actually have a caller. 00:25:17.960 --> 00:25:24.640 So I'll pick up this question I wanted to ask you about testosterone for the males that 00:25:24.640 --> 00:25:30.480 are listening just to help them see their way forward through any lack of muscle and 00:25:30.480 --> 00:25:34.360 muscle building and how testosterone is really very beneficial for you and you can generate 00:25:34.360 --> 00:25:35.360 it yourself. 00:25:35.360 --> 00:25:36.360 You don't have to buy it, etc. 00:25:36.360 --> 00:25:37.360 So let's take this first caller. 00:25:37.360 --> 00:25:38.360 Caller, you're on the air. 00:25:38.360 --> 00:25:39.360 Where are you from? 00:25:39.360 --> 00:25:40.360 Hi, I'm from the San Francisco Bay Area. 00:25:40.360 --> 00:25:41.360 Okay, hi. 00:25:41.360 --> 00:25:42.360 What's your question? 00:25:42.360 --> 00:25:50.560 I'm wondering can an imbalance of hormones influence someone's perception of his or her 00:25:50.560 --> 00:25:51.560 gender? 00:25:51.560 --> 00:25:56.960 I'm curious as I'm certain we're constantly exposed to environmental estrogens and I've 00:25:56.960 --> 00:26:02.480 also heard of instances like Caitlyn Jenner where Bruce Jenner knew from a very young 00:26:02.480 --> 00:26:05.440 age that he was the opposite gender. 00:26:05.440 --> 00:26:07.160 So what's your take on that? 00:26:07.160 --> 00:26:08.960 Dr. Peat? 00:26:08.960 --> 00:26:18.840 When that happens during gestation or in the first few months after being born, the actual 00:26:18.840 --> 00:26:29.520 structure of the brain is still going on and it's either masculinized or not by the presence 00:26:29.520 --> 00:26:38.040 of testosterone which is turned into estrogen and estrogen in those stages of development 00:26:38.040 --> 00:26:41.040 is the masculinizing hormone. 00:26:41.040 --> 00:26:49.160 And so a deficiency of progesterone early in life leaves the estrogen unopposed and 00:26:49.160 --> 00:27:03.840 tends to masculinize the brain and so it can set up the feeling of the gender that is chemically 00:27:03.840 --> 00:27:12.960 related rather than what the chromosomes were able to do. 00:27:12.960 --> 00:27:14.800 Does that answer your question? 00:27:14.800 --> 00:27:16.680 That does, thank you. 00:27:16.680 --> 00:27:17.680 You're welcome. 00:27:17.680 --> 00:27:20.200 Okay, well let's see here, we do have another caller. 00:27:20.200 --> 00:27:23.040 So let's take this caller, next caller, you're on the air. 00:27:23.040 --> 00:27:27.040 What's your question and where are you from? 00:27:27.040 --> 00:27:30.040 Yes, good evening. 00:27:30.040 --> 00:27:31.040 I'm calling from Finland. 00:27:31.040 --> 00:27:32.040 Okay, I've finished. 00:27:32.040 --> 00:27:36.480 I would have a question. 00:27:36.480 --> 00:27:46.480 I've been reading your wonderful Generative Energy book and basically it's prompted me 00:27:46.480 --> 00:27:53.200 to think about what I think they call now transhumanism. 00:27:53.200 --> 00:27:58.760 Nowadays we have basically the modern version of the six million dollar man. 00:27:58.760 --> 00:28:02.200 We have people with robotic hands. 00:28:02.200 --> 00:28:08.960 A friend of mine with Parkinson's disease has two chips implanted in his brain with 00:28:08.960 --> 00:28:10.960 remote control. 00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:21.280 And my question to Dr. Peat would be, do you believe that this transhumanism might fit 00:28:21.280 --> 00:28:26.200 into future evolutions of man? 00:28:26.200 --> 00:28:32.280 You know, I'm referring to this theory about life trending towards maximum metabolism, 00:28:32.280 --> 00:28:35.520 maximum energy. 00:28:35.520 --> 00:28:39.280 I wonder if you have any thoughts about that. 00:28:39.280 --> 00:28:51.040 I think the technology is so simplified compared to what actually is needed by the organism 00:28:51.040 --> 00:29:05.080 to maximize its metabolism and function and experience that I don't think the technology 00:29:05.080 --> 00:29:18.600 is going to have a role in future development of health, longevity or brain development. 00:29:18.600 --> 00:29:21.840 It's certainly not going to be passed on to the next generation so it's certainly a very 00:29:21.840 --> 00:29:22.840 temporal thing. 00:29:22.840 --> 00:29:28.720 And I think from my perspective the human body, I think the psyche plays a much bigger 00:29:28.720 --> 00:29:35.280 part in the protection and the development of the human organism far more than perhaps 00:29:35.280 --> 00:29:38.800 people give real credit to for positive thinking, etc. etc. 00:29:38.800 --> 00:29:44.560 Self-empowerment, doing the right thing in terms of everything that you propose in terms 00:29:44.560 --> 00:29:50.000 of nutrition and/or some of the few supplements that you recommend, things like thyroid and 00:29:50.000 --> 00:29:55.540 progesterone and things that protect the anti-inflammatory side, I think we have a far better chance 00:29:55.540 --> 00:30:01.040 of living a genetically very healthy life and something that I think that can be passed 00:30:01.040 --> 00:30:03.160 on to next generations. 00:30:03.160 --> 00:30:08.320 Certainly we hear about in utero effects onto the fetus. 00:30:08.320 --> 00:30:14.480 I'm fairly interested about the transhumanism subject with, like the callers mentioned, 00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:20.560 things like robotic replacements and/or chips to secrete or to prompt secretion of neuropeptides, 00:30:20.560 --> 00:30:24.800 etc. etc. into the brain or other areas. 00:30:24.800 --> 00:30:28.520 But it doesn't continue, it's a very temporal thing. 00:30:28.520 --> 00:30:32.640 I don't think it's something that can ever be transmitted but what can be transmitted 00:30:32.640 --> 00:30:40.600 is a mental state of mind that is based on positive thinking, creating that in harmony 00:30:40.600 --> 00:30:47.680 and whether it's yoga or doing exercise and getting outside and just appreciating everything 00:30:47.680 --> 00:30:52.640 that you have around you rather than looking at negative things which I do hear people 00:30:52.640 --> 00:30:57.600 calling about from time to time in terms of help with negative emotions and how it's actually 00:30:57.600 --> 00:31:00.360 one of the questions, funnily enough, later on in the show. 00:31:00.360 --> 00:31:01.360 But this is something that can be... 00:31:01.360 --> 00:31:04.360 Can I ask a follow-up question? 00:31:04.360 --> 00:31:07.040 Go ahead, yeah. 00:31:07.040 --> 00:31:13.240 I was wondering about, because this is a topic that I haven't heard on the show yet, but 00:31:13.240 --> 00:31:19.680 we're also in an increasingly hairless society. 00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:24.200 People want to shave more and more of their bodies more and more regularly. 00:31:24.200 --> 00:31:28.440 How stressful is frequent shaving to the body in your opinion? 00:31:28.440 --> 00:31:29.440 It's interesting you say that. 00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:31.400 I'll just jump in there, Dr. Peat, before I let you answer. 00:31:31.400 --> 00:31:35.760 But I read the article just a couple of days ago, it was actually on the Drudge Report. 00:31:35.760 --> 00:31:42.400 It was that the increasing hairiness of females is actually becoming recognized in polls. 00:31:42.400 --> 00:31:46.280 I think they did a poll in 2004, I think 95% of females shaved. 00:31:46.280 --> 00:31:48.880 They did a recent poll here. 00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:52.280 I think it was down to 78 and they were saying that essentially there was more... 00:31:52.280 --> 00:31:54.360 Au naturale was becoming more normal. 00:31:54.360 --> 00:31:59.680 Whether or not you're talking about the hair on a male's head from a baldness perspective, 00:31:59.680 --> 00:32:00.680 I don't know, Caller. 00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:04.600 But Dr. Peat, what do you think about the... 00:32:04.600 --> 00:32:11.880 I think the hair on the head actually has the function of preserving heat, helping to 00:32:11.880 --> 00:32:13.720 keep the brain warm. 00:32:13.720 --> 00:32:21.800 Wearing a wool hat will substitute somewhat for not having enough hair on the head. 00:32:21.800 --> 00:32:30.760 And the other hair, armpits and pubic hair, I think that has the function of helping to 00:32:30.760 --> 00:32:33.800 distribute pheromones. 00:32:33.800 --> 00:32:43.320 But the facial hair and the arm hair probably has that pheromone distributing function. 00:32:43.320 --> 00:32:52.240 But I think the body hair that is tending to appear more often in women is a sign of 00:32:52.240 --> 00:33:05.680 stress that it's probably related to that pheromone system shifting to an exaggerated 00:33:05.680 --> 00:33:08.480 steroid production in the skin. 00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:10.480 Okay, thanks for your call, Caller. 00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:11.720 Thanks for the show. 00:33:11.720 --> 00:33:12.720 Yeah, you're welcome. 00:33:12.720 --> 00:33:13.720 Thanks for calling in. 00:33:13.720 --> 00:33:19.200 For people that want to call in with any questions, if you're in the area, 923 3911, that's a 00:33:19.200 --> 00:33:26.920 call, 923 3911, or if you're outside somewhere in the States or even in a different country, 00:33:26.920 --> 00:33:29.920 1-800-KMUD-RAD, 1-800-568-3723. 00:33:29.920 --> 00:33:36.640 So, Dr. Peat, just to carry on with testosterone a little bit, it's a bit of a divergent question, 00:33:36.640 --> 00:33:41.800 but in terms of men being able to maximize their testosterone production without thinking 00:33:41.800 --> 00:33:47.360 they have to go to the gym and get aerobic and pump huge amounts of weights to build 00:33:47.360 --> 00:33:55.400 muscle, what would you say would be a good program for a male who wanted to increase 00:33:55.400 --> 00:33:59.720 lean muscle mass in order to be exposed to more testosterone because it's the muscle 00:33:59.720 --> 00:34:06.640 itself that actually promotes a testosterone surge in the body and by its own mechanism 00:34:06.640 --> 00:34:10.960 will directly relate back to testosterone itself? 00:34:10.960 --> 00:34:17.840 Yeah, muscle contraction activates the synthesis locally in the muscle of testosterone and 00:34:17.840 --> 00:34:21.520 decreases the cortisol activity. 00:34:21.520 --> 00:34:31.720 So good physical work is probably the central thing to keeping your testosterone up. 00:34:31.720 --> 00:34:37.240 It shouldn't be episodic, intense, stressful work. 00:34:37.240 --> 00:34:43.680 That is known to lower your testosterone and increase cortisol. 00:34:43.680 --> 00:34:50.800 At the same time, keeping your metabolic rate up so that you can do more intense activity 00:34:50.800 --> 00:34:53.320 without it being stressful. 00:34:53.320 --> 00:34:59.880 Having your liver very healthy is essential for keeping your testosterone up because otherwise 00:34:59.880 --> 00:35:08.560 the episodes of falling blood sugar activate cortisol, estrogen, all of the other stress 00:35:08.560 --> 00:35:09.560 hormones. 00:35:09.560 --> 00:35:14.160 Okay, so stocking your liver with plenty of sugar, not being aerobic about your approach 00:35:14.160 --> 00:35:22.720 to exercise and ideally having more of a kind of work approach that is a physical type of 00:35:22.720 --> 00:35:26.600 work if you're possibly able. 00:35:26.600 --> 00:35:31.080 So moving on to dopamine, I wanted to ask you a little bit. 00:35:31.080 --> 00:35:37.080 I know we've mentioned the discussion related to Parkinson's and Parkinsonism. 00:35:37.080 --> 00:35:43.180 We said that this dopamine itself inhibits prolactin release and helps regulate emotional 00:35:43.180 --> 00:35:48.320 responses and the reward and pleasure response is something I wanted to ask you about. 00:35:48.320 --> 00:35:53.120 This enables a person not only to see the rewards but to take action to move towards 00:35:53.120 --> 00:35:58.360 them and lack of dopamine has been cited and implicated in the propensity to addiction. 00:35:58.360 --> 00:36:03.080 If you want to feel better and mood enhancing drugs are a route to this, does this imply 00:36:03.080 --> 00:36:07.640 that many addicts have naturally low levels of dopamine and may develop Parkinson's type 00:36:07.640 --> 00:36:09.200 symptoms in the future? 00:36:09.200 --> 00:36:15.280 And would dopamine supplementation be useful to wean addicts or prevent addictive behaviors 00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:18.480 from developing? 00:36:18.480 --> 00:36:29.200 I think that even in Parkinson's disease, I think the studies are moving towards thinking 00:36:29.200 --> 00:36:34.320 of a balance between serotonin and dopamine and the other symptoms. 00:36:34.320 --> 00:36:37.440 So you're thinking of serotonin excess? 00:36:37.440 --> 00:36:38.440 Yeah. 00:36:38.440 --> 00:36:39.440 Yeah. 00:36:39.440 --> 00:36:41.800 They are somewhat antagonistic. 00:36:41.800 --> 00:36:51.400 For example, serotonin increases the CRH and prolactin, dopamine tends to inhibit them. 00:36:51.400 --> 00:36:58.400 So a bad bowel function or poor elimination would certainly speed that serotonin excess 00:36:58.400 --> 00:36:59.400 up. 00:36:59.400 --> 00:37:00.400 Yes. 00:37:00.400 --> 00:37:08.760 Nitric oxide, endotoxin and serotonin all shift your body towards the stress and progesterone 00:37:08.760 --> 00:37:16.600 and its derivatives in the brain, allopregnenolone for example, are important for keeping the 00:37:16.600 --> 00:37:19.880 balance in the right direction. 00:37:19.880 --> 00:37:26.960 Estrogen increases the serotonin and stress, progesterone tends to reverse that and increase 00:37:26.960 --> 00:37:29.560 the balance towards dopamine. 00:37:29.560 --> 00:37:36.480 So do you think though that this would be any reason or cause for Parkinson's down the 00:37:36.480 --> 00:37:43.720 road though, perhaps if people have addictive natures, if it is at all connected with lack 00:37:43.720 --> 00:37:45.200 of dopamine? 00:37:45.200 --> 00:37:55.080 Well, I think you can correct it most safely with progesterone and testosterone or the 00:37:55.080 --> 00:37:58.720 precursor of both of those, pregnenolone. 00:37:58.720 --> 00:38:08.840 Because when you try to push the dopamine system, you tend to increase oxidative damage 00:38:08.840 --> 00:38:16.760 and it is safe to work at the anti-stress level rather than pushing the end product 00:38:16.760 --> 00:38:17.760 of dopamine. 00:38:17.760 --> 00:38:18.760 Got it. 00:38:18.760 --> 00:38:27.640 So improved muscle mass, plenty of sugars, then obviously pregnenolone thyroid, all helpful 00:38:27.640 --> 00:38:31.080 and anti-inflammatory aspects. 00:38:31.080 --> 00:38:35.760 And keeping the toxic fats down and sugar stable. 00:38:35.760 --> 00:38:41.680 Okay, so can I ask you about growth hormone? 00:38:41.680 --> 00:38:47.720 So the growth hormone releasing hormone stimulates growth hormone release from the pituitary 00:38:47.720 --> 00:38:52.680 again, from the anterior pituitary and this has regulatory effects on protein, carbohydrate 00:38:52.680 --> 00:38:57.400 and lipid metabolism as well as promoting slow wave sleep, often referred to as deep 00:38:57.400 --> 00:38:58.400 sleep. 00:38:58.400 --> 00:39:06.640 I know people that perhaps have sleep issues where they're unable to get into that phase 00:39:06.640 --> 00:39:07.640 of deep sleep. 00:39:07.640 --> 00:39:13.640 I did read that the slow wave sleep was apparently, but I know this is not particularly true because 00:39:13.640 --> 00:39:19.720 I know you think it's very much related to low blood glucose, but the slow wave sleep 00:39:19.720 --> 00:39:28.440 was implicated in nightmares and sleepwalking, especially when sleepwalking was joined to 00:39:28.440 --> 00:39:31.440 raiding the fridge at night and to eat. 00:39:31.440 --> 00:39:36.720 I found that quite a bizarre connection, but I think it's well known in popular culture. 00:39:36.720 --> 00:39:44.720 I've even seen, I remember an old advert back in 1970 for R. White's lemonade and the advert 00:39:44.720 --> 00:39:47.680 was more or less this person was getting out of bed and was sleepwalking downstairs to 00:39:47.680 --> 00:39:51.360 the fridge where he'd go open the fridge door and there'd be a bottle of R. White's lemonade 00:39:51.360 --> 00:39:54.240 and he would sit there drinking it and his wife would come down and say, "What's going 00:39:54.240 --> 00:39:55.240 on?" 00:39:55.240 --> 00:40:03.200 But anyway, between the desire to eat, sleepwalk and growth hormone, do you think the deep 00:40:03.200 --> 00:40:12.920 sleep that it relates to is in any way, do you think this is a real subject or do you 00:40:12.920 --> 00:40:16.000 think this has been again mismanaged scientifically? 00:40:16.000 --> 00:40:28.040 No, I think deep sleep is important as a restorative part of your brain function and I think a lot 00:40:28.040 --> 00:40:35.120 of people would be happier and healthier if they would eat during the night. 00:40:35.120 --> 00:40:46.560 People who resist eating near bedtime or during the night often have more stress, more hypoglycemic 00:40:46.560 --> 00:40:55.200 insomnia, and most people can get back to sleep if they have, it could be orange juice 00:40:55.200 --> 00:40:59.480 or lemonade or milkshake or ice cream. 00:40:59.480 --> 00:41:04.280 It's almost a cultural barrier where there's this feeling that if you eat close to bedtime 00:41:04.280 --> 00:41:07.520 you're just going to put it on as fat. 00:41:07.520 --> 00:41:11.920 I think I've certainly heard that doctrine that excess carbohydrates are stored as fat 00:41:11.920 --> 00:41:18.200 which I don't know that it's completely inaccurate but the nighttime stress that is achieved 00:41:18.200 --> 00:41:21.240 by lowering your blood glucose is probably offset by the very fact that you're going 00:41:21.240 --> 00:41:24.560 to consume some glucose before you sleep. 00:41:24.560 --> 00:41:30.520 It's very important to restore your glycogen level during sleep. 00:41:30.520 --> 00:41:37.080 I think that's one of the main purposes of sleep is to get the glycogen back into your 00:41:37.080 --> 00:41:46.320 brain cells and heart cells and other tissues so that you can expand it to resist stress 00:41:46.320 --> 00:41:47.320 during the daytime. 00:41:47.320 --> 00:41:53.120 Okay, let me just move on to a few questions that I know people have written in that wanted 00:41:53.120 --> 00:41:55.000 to get your take on this. 00:41:55.000 --> 00:41:57.320 I had two questions for one listener. 00:41:57.320 --> 00:42:04.080 One of the questions goes, "Did Jimmy Carter's cancer cure have anything to do with receptors? 00:42:04.080 --> 00:42:07.920 Isn't the entire cell a receptor?" 00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:16.400 I think he was having standard chemotherapy for a while and then brain radiation and then 00:42:16.400 --> 00:42:29.320 he got this new antibody that is specific for allowing cells to undergo the normal apoptosis. 00:42:29.320 --> 00:42:43.320 So statistically, it doesn't look like it was a terribly impressive cure because the 00:42:43.320 --> 00:42:49.120 number of people studied was not very big and the percentage who responded well, I think 00:42:49.120 --> 00:43:01.760 it was 24%, had a temporary regression of the tumors and that happened in a lot of the 00:43:01.760 --> 00:43:05.640 people who had only the preceding brain radiation. 00:43:05.640 --> 00:43:08.040 Okay, all right. 00:43:08.040 --> 00:43:13.200 The other question, I wonder that it might be a little bit self-explanatory perhaps, 00:43:13.200 --> 00:43:18.400 but it says, "Since gums like carrageenan and xanthan gum are toxic, does the same apply 00:43:18.400 --> 00:43:22.520 to gums like frankincense and myrrh?" 00:43:22.520 --> 00:43:29.480 The carrageenan and xanthan are basically polysaccharides. 00:43:29.480 --> 00:43:39.120 The carrageenan is a sulfated polysaccharide and I think all of the sulfated polysaccharides 00:43:39.120 --> 00:43:48.760 besides their own heparin, I think all of those are toxic and dangerous and the xanthan 00:43:48.760 --> 00:43:58.680 gums and gum arabic and lots of the plant gums are not digestible but they can support 00:43:58.680 --> 00:44:01.720 bacterial growth in the intestine. 00:44:01.720 --> 00:44:08.640 Where the carrageenan is specifically pro-inflammatory and very dangerous, the other gums are simply 00:44:08.640 --> 00:44:17.120 nuisances that tend to increase bacterial growth and gas production and such. 00:44:17.120 --> 00:44:27.440 Where the frankincense and myrrh contain lots of anti-inflammatory substances, probably 00:44:27.440 --> 00:44:37.360 anti-cancer effects, some steroid-like molecules, not so different from testosterone and progesterone. 00:44:37.360 --> 00:44:45.800 They seem to have an anti-inflammatory, anti-proliferation effect on cancer cells. 00:44:45.800 --> 00:44:51.360 I wasn't aware of myrrh being used internally but I've known frankincense for a long time, 00:44:51.360 --> 00:44:52.760 especially by the Bedouins. 00:44:52.760 --> 00:44:57.680 They'll chew frankincense straight off the tree in the pearls that it comes formed in 00:44:57.680 --> 00:45:03.560 when it dries to freshen their breath and as a kind of bacteria static for their teeth 00:45:03.560 --> 00:45:05.120 and their mouth. 00:45:05.120 --> 00:45:13.240 I've heard of people eating the crude gum ground up just by the spoonful. 00:45:13.240 --> 00:45:23.400 On the issue of receptors, there are actual proteins that are called receptor proteins 00:45:23.400 --> 00:45:32.760 but my position is that since the condition of the cell determines what a particular substance 00:45:32.760 --> 00:45:42.280 binding to that receptor is going to do to the cell, it isn't as meaningful as some people 00:45:42.280 --> 00:45:49.320 think to activate a receptor because it can have opposite effects depending on the history 00:45:49.320 --> 00:45:53.160 of the cell and the present condition of other cells. 00:45:53.160 --> 00:46:00.200 While we're talking about cells, just quickly, what's your view on stem cell technology? 00:46:00.200 --> 00:46:05.160 Do you think it's a real way forward to turn around degenerative processes? 00:46:05.160 --> 00:46:07.000 What do you think about stem cells? 00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:14.760 Yeah, I think we're full of stem cells and what we have to do is activate them intelligently. 00:46:14.760 --> 00:46:16.840 Do you think the research is going in the right direction? 00:46:16.840 --> 00:46:20.760 You probably know more about what is actually being conducted in some of these experiments 00:46:20.760 --> 00:46:26.000 and see if it's actually reasonably positable to bring about something positive. 00:46:26.000 --> 00:46:33.960 Yeah, finding out exactly what the kind of stress signal is that activates them. 00:46:33.960 --> 00:46:43.640 It's already known that many types of stress will activate the maturing of stem cells and 00:46:43.640 --> 00:46:50.960 that things like progesterone and testosterone, once they have been activated, will keep them 00:46:50.960 --> 00:46:58.600 going in the right direction so that they replace tissues rather than replacing cancer. 00:46:58.600 --> 00:47:06.000 When they kill cancer by radiation or chemotherapy or surgery, the cancer tends to come back 00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:12.800 even though they remove the tumor completely because the place where the cancer was has 00:47:12.800 --> 00:47:19.240 been injured and it calls out to the body for stem cells to repair the damage. 00:47:19.240 --> 00:47:27.560 Having damaged itself as a framework, it misdirects the stem cells so they develop into cancer. 00:47:27.560 --> 00:47:29.680 We have a caller that's just called in. 00:47:29.680 --> 00:47:31.240 So let's take this next caller. 00:47:31.240 --> 00:47:35.000 Caller, where are you from and what's your question? 00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:37.720 Hi, my name is Derek. 00:47:37.720 --> 00:47:40.520 I'm here in Denver, Colorado. 00:47:40.520 --> 00:47:41.520 Can you hear me okay? 00:47:41.520 --> 00:47:42.520 Yeah, yeah, sounds great. 00:47:42.520 --> 00:47:43.520 What's your question, Derek? 00:47:43.520 --> 00:47:50.000 Well, first off, I just discovered this show not too long ago and it's fantastic. 00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:56.920 I really appreciate you taking your time to do this for the public. 00:47:56.920 --> 00:48:05.120 So I've been into nutrition research for the last, I don't know, last five years or so 00:48:05.120 --> 00:48:15.160 and looking into, I've had a lot of food intolerances and looking into like permeability and I'm 00:48:15.160 --> 00:48:25.040 curious, Dr. Peat, your take on, because a lot of these protocols involve avoiding otherwise 00:48:25.040 --> 00:48:33.120 really nutrient-dense foods, eggs, dairy, etc. 00:48:33.120 --> 00:48:42.080 So I'm curious, I've looked into controlling endotoxin through various polyphenols. 00:48:42.080 --> 00:48:49.960 I know you talk about the carrot salad and bamboo shoots, but is there any other compounds 00:48:49.960 --> 00:48:55.640 you like to incorporate to heal or strengthen the lining of the intestines? 00:48:55.640 --> 00:49:02.080 I know gelatin can be beneficial. 00:49:02.080 --> 00:49:12.320 The nutrients that are most important are magnesium and vitamin A, just for the actual 00:49:12.320 --> 00:49:21.680 replacement and repair of cells, but the whole range of nutrients, protein, zinc, vitamin 00:49:21.680 --> 00:49:31.160 D, anti-inflammatory things like vitamin E and vitamin K, everything is really essential 00:49:31.160 --> 00:49:34.240 ultimately for protecting the intestines. 00:49:34.240 --> 00:49:44.240 So having liver and eggs and milk and orange juice, for example, can often get the repair 00:49:44.240 --> 00:49:45.240 going. 00:49:45.240 --> 00:49:55.720 I think the reason eggs have a bad reputation is that they are extremely concentrated protein 00:49:55.720 --> 00:50:01.520 and if a person eats an egg or two without carbohydrate, their blood sugar is going to 00:50:01.520 --> 00:50:07.800 fall for sure, especially if their liver doesn't have good glycogen stores. 00:50:07.800 --> 00:50:13.640 The egg will drop their blood sugar, that will activate mast cells and you'll have allergic 00:50:13.640 --> 00:50:20.280 reactions. 00:50:20.280 --> 00:50:28.520 Without the carbohydrate, you're going to increase inflammation and sugar and progesterone 00:50:28.520 --> 00:50:36.080 and aspirin are things that will protect you from those surges of histamine and serotonin, 00:50:36.080 --> 00:50:37.080 etc. 00:50:37.080 --> 00:50:45.000 And does the histamine get produced because you don't have enough glycogen due to a cortisol 00:50:45.000 --> 00:50:46.560 spike then? 00:50:46.560 --> 00:50:58.080 Well, low thyroid ultimately is the most common reason for not having enough glycogen stored 00:50:58.080 --> 00:51:06.800 and the cortisol weakens the tissues so that even though it helps get your blood sugar 00:51:06.800 --> 00:51:12.640 up and momentarily protects the glycogen, in the long run, it's adding to the problem 00:51:12.640 --> 00:51:15.960 of unstable blood sugar. 00:51:15.960 --> 00:51:22.600 And anytime your blood sugar falls, the mast cells are likely to degranulate and that's 00:51:22.600 --> 00:51:32.160 influenced by a lack of testosterone and progesterone or an excess of estrogen. 00:51:32.160 --> 00:51:39.680 And am I correct in understanding that thyroid is often times or lack of thyroid hormone 00:51:39.680 --> 00:51:50.200 is often times a root cause of small bowel overgrowth or SIBO which can be a root cause 00:51:50.200 --> 00:51:52.160 of leaky gut? 00:51:52.160 --> 00:52:00.440 Your digestion slows down when your metabolic rate slows down from hypothyroidism and so 00:52:00.440 --> 00:52:05.960 your stomach becomes sluggish, doesn't secrete much and doesn't move fast enough. 00:52:05.960 --> 00:52:11.560 People might have cancer time, they might eat a carrot today and it might not come out 00:52:11.560 --> 00:52:14.120 for four or five days. 00:52:14.120 --> 00:52:22.040 That's what happens with hypothyroidism and speeding up your digestion and secretions, 00:52:22.040 --> 00:52:30.840 it should be so active streaming fluid from your stomach and pancreas and liver should 00:52:30.840 --> 00:52:40.040 wash your whole small intestine clean so that no bacteria can thrive in it. 00:52:40.040 --> 00:52:49.360 And Dr. Peat real quick, I don't want to hold you up too long, is there a good quality nutrition 00:52:49.360 --> 00:53:01.440 based textbook that you find favorable that kind of gets into good mechanisms with nutrition 00:53:01.440 --> 00:53:06.640 and hormones and their relation? 00:53:06.640 --> 00:53:08.840 Not that I know of. 00:53:08.840 --> 00:53:09.840 You can. 00:53:09.840 --> 00:53:10.840 I know, that's tricky. 00:53:10.840 --> 00:53:17.200 I mean I know there's some great online databases for some good research that's put out there 00:53:17.200 --> 00:53:21.640 but I just didn't know if you had a recommendation there. 00:53:21.640 --> 00:53:23.680 I really appreciate your time. 00:53:23.680 --> 00:53:32.000 Years ago I've seen some really good monographs on particular topics like how the intestine 00:53:32.000 --> 00:53:38.840 works, how the digestive glands work and so on but I don't know of one that has put everything 00:53:38.840 --> 00:53:39.840 together. 00:53:39.840 --> 00:53:40.840 Sure, sure, sure. 00:53:40.840 --> 00:53:44.160 Well I guess that's part of the journey. 00:53:44.160 --> 00:53:45.760 Thank you so much, I appreciate your time. 00:53:45.760 --> 00:53:46.760 Yeah, you're welcome. 00:53:46.760 --> 00:53:53.000 If you want to email me, my email address is andrew@westernbotanicalmedicine.com. 00:53:53.000 --> 00:53:59.000 We've produced a pretty comprehensive three or four page breakdown of those things that 00:53:59.000 --> 00:54:03.040 Dr. Peat definitely advocates and those things he definitely doesn't advocate so that's certainly 00:54:03.040 --> 00:54:06.960 been very useful in guiding a lot of our clients to a better place. 00:54:06.960 --> 00:54:09.800 Dr. Peat, thank you so much for joining us again. 00:54:09.800 --> 00:54:12.040 Okay, thank you. 00:54:12.040 --> 00:54:15.840 For those people who perhaps like the last caller have never really listened to Dr. Peat 00:54:15.840 --> 00:54:21.960 but just discovered him recently, he can be found on the internet at www.raypeat.com. 00:54:21.960 --> 00:54:33.320 He has lots of archived and referenced material so most of the, most if not all of the articles 00:54:33.320 --> 00:54:38.920 that he writes are fully referenced and they range in broad terms from thyroid to sugar 00:54:38.920 --> 00:54:41.920 to progesterone, epto-diabetes. 00:54:41.920 --> 00:54:47.880 I mean it covers a wide range of situations and gives you the scientific rationale behind 00:54:47.880 --> 00:54:50.080 why he's advocating what he's advocating. 00:54:50.080 --> 00:54:55.360 So it's not just flippant off the top of his head, it's based on a lot of research and 00:54:55.360 --> 00:55:01.880 based on a lot of previous good science which unfortunately is becoming fairly bad science 00:55:01.880 --> 00:55:08.080 today and if we get time next month, we'll get into the newsletter that he's produced. 00:55:08.080 --> 00:55:11.840 It's titled "Language and Criticism of Science". 00:55:11.840 --> 00:55:18.320 We've done quite a few exposes of whether it's Codex Alimentarius after the Second World 00:55:18.320 --> 00:55:27.080 War and the development of the global corporate structure which would squat on our necks to 00:55:27.080 --> 00:55:34.080 this discourse that Dr. Peat has outlined in his newsletter mentioning people, organizations 00:55:34.080 --> 00:55:39.460 such as the CIA and the CCF and the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations all basically being in 00:55:39.460 --> 00:55:40.460 on it. 00:55:40.460 --> 00:55:44.560 We'll get into that next month but for those people who want to find out more about him, 00:55:44.560 --> 00:55:51.360 raypeat.com, we can always be reached Monday through Friday, toll free number is 1-888-WBMERB 00:55:51.360 --> 00:55:59.000 or it can be emailed Andrew or Sarah at westernbotanicalmedicine.com. 00:55:59.000 --> 00:56:01.480 So next month, we hope to be here. 00:56:01.480 --> 00:56:08.320 I don't have any plans but I may or may not end up getting off to England but based on 00:56:08.320 --> 00:56:12.400 the fact that I'll be here, it's going to be already the solstice, it's already going 00:56:12.400 --> 00:56:13.400 to be upon us. 00:56:13.400 --> 00:56:17.520 So this will be the last month of increasing day length. 00:56:17.520 --> 00:56:21.600 So between here and the next couple of months, you've got a chance to get exposed to lots 00:56:21.600 --> 00:56:27.400 of sunshine, get that anti-inflammatory red light, get your vitamin D going, make sure 00:56:27.400 --> 00:56:31.120 you're drinking plenty of milk, getting plenty of sugar, fruit juices at night time, keep 00:56:31.120 --> 00:56:35.560 your stress hormones down, look at your temperature and pulses, see how your thyroid is doing 00:56:35.560 --> 00:56:36.560 and address it. 00:56:36.560 --> 00:56:39.720 It's certainly a very simple way of putting things right. 00:56:39.720 --> 00:56:44.560 So between your thyroid and anti-inflammatory hormones and get your testosterone up guys, 00:56:44.560 --> 00:56:49.160 it certainly puts you in a better place, alright, and it's all pretty much free of charge, 00:56:49.160 --> 00:56:50.160 you know. 00:56:50.160 --> 00:56:53.360 Okay, so thanks for joining us and we'll speak to you next month.