WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.800 Well, welcome to this September 2018's Ask Your Herb Doctor. 00:00:04.800 --> 00:00:16.000 I should say straight off the bat here, after the engineer had mentioned the fact that we are not a government-supported radio station, KMU DeGarboville 91.1 FM, 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:18.500 thank goodness we're not government-supported. 00:00:18.500 --> 00:00:26.400 So we're very much a free speech, free enterprise, and funded by you guys, the public. 00:00:26.900 --> 00:00:37.100 If you like the show, then I would definitely encourage you to visit the website www.kmud.org and hit the red "Donate Now" button. 00:00:37.100 --> 00:00:45.300 And we do actually get a tiny bit of money from CPB, a little over $100,000, but they're constantly threatening to take that away and that ain't enough. 00:00:45.300 --> 00:00:51.800 So they do actually restrict a little of what we can say, but we got freedom like no place else and God bless it. 00:00:51.800 --> 00:00:53.100 Yeah, well, amen. 00:00:53.500 --> 00:01:13.700 And that's the whole reason that we do this radio show and so many other people are out of KMUD's range of artists do their independent shows, bringing you independent news, giving you all sides, you know, both perspectives and not just a steered perspective that you might typically get from any particular radio stations that have their own agendas. 00:01:13.700 --> 00:01:16.900 So people, please do go ahead and donate. 00:01:16.900 --> 00:01:20.300 I want to say please donate as much as you can. 00:01:20.800 --> 00:01:33.600 Don't just be stingy. Appreciate that keeping something alive takes more input than just talking about things, but actually putting some money up there really will help the radio station stay on the air. 00:01:33.600 --> 00:01:44.300 I've been doing this show for 15 years now, and I've seen the pledge drives come and go, and they always do manage to reach the targets. 00:01:44.300 --> 00:01:48.800 I think at this point in time, though, we are about 15,000 short of the target folks. 00:01:48.800 --> 00:01:56.700 So 65 is the number right now and 8080 is the hope for. 00:01:56.700 --> 00:02:01.100 So if you can go ahead, please, and donate as much as you can. 00:02:01.100 --> 00:02:06.600 And let's just keep moving forward into this 20 coming up 2019. 00:02:07.300 --> 00:02:20.700 So I wanted to carry on from last month's discussion on critical thinking and cover up like a separate independent program, independent radio station. 00:02:20.700 --> 00:02:26.700 And lots of times you'll listen to people in different articles exposing different things. 00:02:27.100 --> 00:02:43.700 And the large part you probably never heard of it before, and so it's very important to have free speech, and that's certainly constitutionally one of the bedrocks of the American Declaration of Independence and the Constitution enshrining first and second amendment rights, etc. 00:02:43.700 --> 00:02:56.300 To keep everybody free and to enable people to be heard, whether or not they sound like they're crazy or they have crazy ideas or what they're saying sounds so far out there that you could hardly believe it. 00:02:56.800 --> 00:02:57.900 But that's the truth of it. 00:02:57.900 --> 00:03:00.400 Truth is stranger than fiction sometimes. 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:09.700 So last month we discussed the beginning of critical thinking and how different trials that are done. 00:03:09.700 --> 00:03:14.500 And we're talking about medicine here at this point, but it does run into several other subjects. 00:03:14.500 --> 00:03:25.200 But medicine's the subject that we speak on for our radio show and lots of clinical trials and lots of searchable publications found on the Internet. 00:03:25.600 --> 00:03:28.800 Anyone can go to PubMed, for example. 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:37.000 There's the National Library databases and many other portals that will have clinical trials. 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:44.800 And the very fact that some of these clinical trials are done by people that have an agenda. 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:54.900 So whether or not we want to believe that the drug companies have their own vested interests first and foremost and that less than stellar results are covered up. 00:03:55.700 --> 00:03:56.800 I think it's undeniable. 00:03:56.800 --> 00:04:06.800 I think it's just a fact of life that there is something to be sold and sometimes the cost is not too high. 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:17.900 So when drugs come out and then they're pulled after a couple of years after causing heart attacks or raised blood pressure or other serious events, that does happen. 00:04:17.900 --> 00:04:20.400 And we have plenty of evidence behind that. 00:04:20.400 --> 00:04:29.800 But in the meantime, billions and billions of dollars have been made and the punitive damages in lawsuits doesn't really count for much against the billions that are made in profit. 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:39.200 So whilst the Internet is an excellent source of information, you have to be very measured in your forming opinions about things. 00:04:39.200 --> 00:04:43.300 And for every good article, you're going to find some bad articles. 00:04:43.300 --> 00:04:59.400 And so it does take a modicum of science and definite intelligent pursuit in that subject to be able to filter it out sometimes, because sometimes they're so well written that it's difficult to discern the truth from the fabrications. 00:04:59.400 --> 00:05:02.900 Well, once again, we're going to be joined by Dr. 00:05:02.900 --> 00:05:07.200 Raymond Peat and have his wealth of experience on the matter. 00:05:07.200 --> 00:05:09.200 And I think without further ado, Dr. 00:05:09.200 --> 00:05:10.000 Peat, are you with us? 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:10.500 Yes. 00:05:10.500 --> 00:05:12.700 Well, thanks so much for joining us again. 00:05:13.500 --> 00:05:21.400 As always, if you would just give an outline of your academic professional background so that people can understand where you come from. 00:05:21.400 --> 00:05:42.600 I was a linguistics teacher for a while before I decided to get a PhD in biology in 1968, enrolled at University of Oregon in the biology department and worked there for four years on reproductive physiology. 00:05:42.900 --> 00:05:43.500 Largely. 00:05:43.500 --> 00:05:53.500 And right after that, then I went back to my interest in linguistics, philosophy and consciousness. 00:05:53.500 --> 00:06:03.700 How the brain knows the world and worked on a book on brain physiology. 00:06:05.500 --> 00:06:21.600 The book title was, I can't remember right now. 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:30.600 Anyway, it was about brain physiology and reviewing a lot of Russian research. 00:06:31.300 --> 00:06:37.800 And after I finished with that, then I got involved in doing nutrition counseling. 00:06:37.800 --> 00:06:51.100 And so there has been a lot of interest in neurological, psychological effects of hormones and nutrition. 00:06:51.100 --> 00:06:51.900 Yeah. 00:06:51.900 --> 00:06:52.900 Okay. 00:06:53.200 --> 00:07:11.000 I think in that the very pertinent application on a one to one basis in terms of counseling people and seeing people where they are when they first visit you and then taking advice and recommendations and suggestions of how better to change your lifestyle. 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:14.400 Probably nothing more evidence based than that. 00:07:14.400 --> 00:07:18.800 And that's it leads me on to the evidence based medicine. 00:07:20.100 --> 00:07:33.200 I know that is a phrase that's been around now for some time and I think is touted as a secure, if you like, a secure. 00:07:33.200 --> 00:07:37.800 Yeah, rationale for what it is they're trying to tell you or sell you. 00:07:37.800 --> 00:07:43.900 But as we've mentioned before in medicine and in trials. 00:07:46.000 --> 00:08:03.500 I know it sounds very clear, but it's I think it's just the way it is, you know, big corporate interests have a lot to lose in getting things out of their control and steering medicine is extremely important in terms of the ideology behind it. 00:08:03.500 --> 00:08:09.800 So for evidence based medicine, it depends entirely on a reliable base of evidence. 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:21.200 And this is the studies that are done and if the evidence base is tampered with and or paid for then evidence based medicine as a science is pretty useless. 00:08:21.200 --> 00:08:38.600 We have things like financial conflicts of interests and then actually selling the science as a marketing initiative in terms of the outreach in terms of meeting and capturing an audience. 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:41.600 And then the ideology behind it. 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:52.800 I know that you've talked many times about the ideology on the ideological drive behind things, whether it's politics or whether indeed it is science and medicines. 00:08:52.800 --> 00:09:07.200 You know, it's the revelation of medicine and I know you've mentioned in the past here and I know you don't really have too much stock in it because you provided other evidence to support the contrary thinking. 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:15.200 But receptor based medicine and then there's a whole cancer targeted gene cancer approach. 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:35.600 What do you what do you think about evidence based medicine in terms of what you found in the many or at least four decades that you've been looking at what you've been told or what we've been told and what you've certainly found out is contrary to it and why that's happened? 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:48.400 A few hundred years ago, when there was an established religion, it determined what people could believe philosophically. 00:09:49.000 --> 00:10:01.800 And as science, physics and biology took over from the established religion, they became the established religion in its place. 00:10:02.600 --> 00:10:29.800 And they tell the public, the people in the universities and the established research institutions under the control often of the government, they tell the public what they should believe exactly the way the medieval church used to absolutely require conforming belief. 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:47.600 They don't burn you now for descending from science, but it's almost metaphorically, they might take you out of universities and any any good social position if you really dissent. 00:10:51.200 --> 00:11:16.200 The authoritarian aspect of medicine peaked when this idea of evidence based medicine based on these big multi million dollar multi year studies became at least a nominal standard. 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:35.200 Most of what doctors do has nothing to do with that, but it's a way of enforcing certain practices and kicking out of medicine the doctors who don't want to conform to those big practices. 00:11:36.200 --> 00:11:51.200 And it has to be either a giant industry or the government working with those industries to fund these huge multi institutional multi year research projects. 00:11:52.200 --> 00:12:03.200 And many of these major studies, for example, in AIDS drugs, the corruption has been documented. 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:14.200 Some of the institutions participating simply put in funny information to support the sale of the drugs they wanted to sell. 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:27.200 And this is the collusion and this is between such things as the government and their ability to silence opposition and the corporations that have the financial wherewithal to pull this off. 00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:40.200 Yeah, the in many ways, the institutions have controlled the government and universities and that there's a long tradition of that. 00:12:41.200 --> 00:13:03.200 At one time, the land grant colleges were a way of letting science help the farmers and the county extension agents and the Department of Agriculture and such for a time actually put out useful information to the public. 00:13:04.200 --> 00:13:26.200 They were soon taken over by the industries and now, for example, over Oregon State University, which was land grant university, the insecticide and herbicide companies and the radiation industry really set the tone for what they're doing over there. 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:38.200 OK, I wanted to just bring up again, I've mentioned this several times in several previous shows that the Hippocratic Oath is something that doctors all take on graduation and swear to defend. 00:13:39.200 --> 00:14:00.200 And the first do no harm rule I wanted to talk about several specific drugs, excuse me, and classes of drugs and just really just to bring it to the listeners attention that these things are no longer buried, no longer hidden. 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:17.200 They are public knowledge. They've become public knowledge in the last 10 years, 15 years, maybe 20. But yet they're still very much part of the medical dispensary and millions and millions of people are still using these. 00:14:18.200 --> 00:14:30.200 And again, I think this I think the the mind is a very, very difficult thing to reeducate, actually, with a lot of people. I think we go through school. 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:48.200 And or college and university and we study different subjects and we, you know, with I want to say this, I sound too much like a fatalist, but the force fed information or the information that we are taught and we are reading is steered by certain interests. 00:14:48.200 --> 00:14:57.200 And this is what we come to understand is the way it is. And it was very much the same with me when I was studying herbal medicine in a degree that I did there in England. 00:14:58.200 --> 00:15:15.200 All of the microbiology was standard medical microbiology, the pathology, again, standard pathology, tissue pathology and medicine per se was standard medicine and the drugs that we were taught about and the class of mode of action, et cetera, et cetera. 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:27.200 It was all standard medical science. And so getting good information and finding finding the truth out about certain things takes a bit of work. 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:38.200 And it's actually a level of undoing the brainwashing, because when I first got speaking to you almost 10 years ago, some of the things that you were saying at the time shocked me. 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:50.200 I couldn't actually believe I was hearing it. And it sounded so extraordinary that I had to listen to it because it was so extraordinary. But I was a little skeptical to begin with, because it sounded so different. 00:15:50.200 --> 00:16:00.200 And I think that's the very thing that people have to understand. They have to unlearn what it is that they've been processed with in terms of schooling and education because of the way that it's driven. 00:16:01.200 --> 00:16:29.200 And so looking at drugs in particular, I just wanted to cover a few of those drugs with you. And I know you've got a wealth of experience behind understanding both the drugs mode of action and you have a very different opinion about the cause, if you like, of the disease for which that drug may be prescribed and actually a good understanding of the drugs action itself and a very good way of refuting it. 00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:42.200 It's its existence, you know, it's it's prescription. And so I guess let's just start by saying KMUDGov or 91.1 FM from 730 until the end of the show at 8 o'clock. 00:16:43.200 --> 00:17:03.200 People are invited to call in with questions either related or unrelated to this month's second part comment commentary on cover up and collusion and critical thinking. And Dr. Raymond P is our guest. And from 730 to the end of the show, people are invited to call in with questions either related or unrelated to the show's topic. 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:31.200 And so please feel free to do so. And I know we're about 15,000 short of the target at the moment. So let's just close that gap. 00:17:32.200 --> 00:17:35.200 Engineer Mike, I think you wanted to do you want to say something or you just. 00:17:35.200 --> 00:17:48.200 Oh, well, we have a thank you, but it's an anonymous. Thank you. I was just waving the money to show you. So you get a little. Oh, thank you. And honestly, I love you. He's got some greenbacks. Well, I know who it is. OK. We love you even more because I know who you are. 00:17:49.200 --> 00:18:09.200 OK, so seven or seven nine two three three nine one one to phone in for pledging and also for people who want to ask questions. And we do get people from all over. We've had people out of the States regularly. So people go ahead, please. And do donate whatever you can. If we can make this collection around the world, I'm sure we can get this 15000 done. 00:18:10.200 --> 00:18:33.200 So, Dr. Peat, I wanted just to open up the repeated example of SSRIs and these commonly prescribed antidepressants and the fact that they increase quite clearly in terms of their side effects and their label warnings, the risk of suicide, violence and homicide at all ages. 00:18:34.200 --> 00:18:46.200 And I think that in 2007, the FDA admitted that SSRIs can cause madness at all ages and that the drugs are very dangerous. Otherwise, daily monitoring wouldn't be needed for them. 00:18:47.200 --> 00:19:04.200 I was earlier on and I was I was drawn to an article actually was written in 1960 and it was a study done on cyproheptadine and how beneficial cyproheptadine was. And it's actually an anti serotonin agent. 00:19:05.200 --> 00:19:22.200 I find it so strange that here we are in 2018 and have been for the last decade at least been prescribed SSRIs, which is a very drugs that would block the uptake of serotonin, making it more available when actually cyproheptadine is an anti serotonin agent. 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:44.200 And I read a 1960s article which was so positively in favor of blocking serotonin, how it gave the positive benefits of it, how the SSRIs could even stand against that. I don't. What's your view of SSRIs and how they how they are working and why on earth they are prescribed? 00:19:45.200 --> 00:20:07.200 They talk about different generations of the antidepressants and the first generation was the amino oxidase inhibitors that increased your adrenaline along with the dopamine and serotonin. 00:20:08.200 --> 00:20:29.200 And the first generation, the patents expired and they wanted to sell new products. They had to find reasons for getting people to stop those which often worked very well and to move on to a new product. 00:20:30.200 --> 00:20:51.200 And after the first two generations, patents had expired. They had to come up with something really new and there were various reasons for switching serotonin from a problem. 00:20:52.200 --> 00:21:16.200 The carcinoid tumor that produces lots of serotonin, usually in the intestine, sometimes in the lungs, that produced insanity, depression, mania and lots of mental symptoms that in the 50s people knew as soon as they knew about serotonin, they knew it was a dangerous substance. 00:21:17.200 --> 00:21:32.200 And when following the MAO, mono amino oxidase inhibitors, which worked, they needed to come up with something to build on that. 00:21:33.200 --> 00:21:45.200 And it must have been the serotonin increase produced by the first generation. And so we've got a new way to increase the serotonin. 00:21:46.200 --> 00:22:10.200 And actually a study of one of these SSRIs, so-called, they were going to try to treat vicious dogs by increasing their serotonin supposedly, which was the serenity and peacefulness and bliss transmitter. 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:24.200 And they found that the aggressive, vicious dogs actually had high serotonin. And when they gave it the SSRI, its serotonin went down as it became a pleasant dog. 00:22:24.200 --> 00:22:39.200 So something which has been sold to millions of people to increase their serotonin, it actually sometimes does have good effects, but they're most likely by lowering serotonin. 00:22:40.200 --> 00:22:54.200 Because it was touted originally as a treatment for depression, but you mentioned serotonin a lot of times as an inflammatory molecule and you always advocate blocking exposure to it. 00:22:55.200 --> 00:23:11.200 It's known to cause blood clotting, spasms of coronary arteries, other arteries, inflammation. The latest horrible thing is that it's a major factor in osteoporosis. 00:23:12.200 --> 00:23:25.200 Just the excess serotonin produced by an inflamed intestine creates osteoporosis, but that's one of the side effects of drugs that increase it. 00:23:26.200 --> 00:23:45.200 Again, when I was looking at material with which to substantiate the claims here, as it were, against these well-loved drugs, a 1975 article, it was actually a Polish journal of pharmacological pharmacy, 00:23:46.200 --> 00:23:57.200 had an article here that read "Antiserotonin agents (Ciprohexidine) in the treatment of migraine connects the gut to the formation of migraine" in this article. 00:23:57.200 --> 00:24:08.200 And you've long mentioned serotonin in the gut as an inflammatory mediator and that the gut related to migraines and headache and spasm is well established, 00:24:09.200 --> 00:24:18.200 but I think these days most people don't even really associate their gut and their bowel movement with their headache or with their mental processes. 00:24:18.200 --> 00:24:25.200 That's been a major project of the medical industry in the 19th century and earlier. 00:24:25.200 --> 00:24:34.200 The intestine was a central part of medical understanding of the body, right at the core of how the body works. 00:24:35.200 --> 00:24:48.200 And again, with the beginning of organized so-called scientific medicine, there was a campaign to wean doctors away from the use of laxatives and enemas. 00:24:48.200 --> 00:24:50.200 Claiming that... 00:24:50.200 --> 00:24:52.200 It seems too primitive, huh? 00:24:53.200 --> 00:25:08.200 And they taught doctors that they were dangerous, addictive, all kinds of ways to incriminate and just move doctors into more mechanical treatment. 00:25:09.200 --> 00:25:23.200 But in fact, if you start up in the middle of the 19th century to the more recent endotoxin studies starting 20 or 30 years ago, 00:25:23.200 --> 00:25:28.200 you see that they were on the right track in the 19th century. 00:25:29.200 --> 00:25:40.200 Now it's turning out that endotoxin, serotonin, histamine are major things in everything that goes wrong in the organism. 00:25:40.200 --> 00:25:44.200 It's interesting you mention that about cascara. 00:25:44.200 --> 00:25:56.200 I just wanted to mention that to substantiate that, cascara and cassia, both the anthraquinone-containing herbs that have laxative properties, 00:25:57.200 --> 00:26:02.200 that help with bowel movement, relieve constipation, and by doing so, benefit the person using it, 00:26:02.200 --> 00:26:07.200 because endotoxin formation from constipation has such negative sequelae, 00:26:07.200 --> 00:26:15.200 that there's almost a campaign against manufacturers that produce these products, 00:26:15.200 --> 00:26:22.200 because they've gotten such a bad press, and they are casting such a bad light. 00:26:23.200 --> 00:26:27.200 Well, that's actually an FDA conspiracy. 00:26:27.200 --> 00:26:30.200 Right, well that's the very people, you've hit the nail on the head. 00:26:30.200 --> 00:26:36.200 I won't go any further than that, but that was very much two of the plants that were in question. 00:26:36.200 --> 00:26:45.200 They've gone through a series of natural substances, killing the general access to them as far as possible, 00:26:46.200 --> 00:26:53.200 and assigning all rights to one company, which then increases the price a third fold, 00:26:53.200 --> 00:27:00.200 and basically making it impossible to use the cheap natural herbal form. 00:27:00.200 --> 00:27:04.200 It's not a conspiracy at all, it's actually the truth, folks. 00:27:04.200 --> 00:27:07.200 But like I said, truth is always stranger than fiction. 00:27:07.200 --> 00:27:13.200 Let me put you on pause there for a minute, Dr. Peat, because we have two people here lined up here to ask questions. 00:27:14.200 --> 00:27:17.200 So let's take this first call away from, and what's your question? 00:27:17.200 --> 00:27:24.200 I'm from New York State, and my question, it's actually a follow-up question from a previous show. 00:27:24.200 --> 00:27:29.200 I had a skin rash, and a couple of things Dr. Peat mentioned was one, the dry CO2, 00:27:29.200 --> 00:27:34.200 but the Assault Baths 2, which I've been doing, it's gotten a lot better. 00:27:34.200 --> 00:27:37.200 But there's two things I added that I just wanted to get your commentary on. 00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:41.200 One, probiotics. I've been doing the cane, the carrots, 00:27:42.200 --> 00:27:45.200 and I just don't know that that does enough to build the right bacteria, 00:27:45.200 --> 00:27:50.200 given that theoretically, even if no bacteria is ideal, I don't think it's practical. 00:27:50.200 --> 00:27:55.200 And I think from reading one of your papers, Meshnikoff, 00:27:55.200 --> 00:27:59.200 about Meshnikoff, he said inflammation is an exaggeration of the aging process, 00:27:59.200 --> 00:28:03.200 or maybe those are your words, and that he consumed fermented food 00:28:03.200 --> 00:28:06.200 and believed that proper bacteria was the key to longevity. 00:28:06.200 --> 00:28:11.200 So in light of that, I mean, I think the probiotics actually has been helpful to me. 00:28:11.200 --> 00:28:15.200 It took about 15 strains, and maybe you haven't had the, 00:28:15.200 --> 00:28:19.200 maybe there hasn't been enough science done on it, but it seems to me that it's a positive. 00:28:19.200 --> 00:28:25.200 So that's one. And the second thing I added was thymus gland and adrenal gland 00:28:25.200 --> 00:28:30.200 and hypothalamus, desiccated, low-heat, grass-fed animals. 00:28:30.200 --> 00:28:34.200 And I think that's helped too, because I think you mentioned the first thing that happens 00:28:34.200 --> 00:28:40.200 if you have a cortisol spike on a regular basis is, you know, 00:28:40.200 --> 00:28:42.200 your thymus gland goes first, then your muscles go. 00:28:42.200 --> 00:28:46.200 And if you're older, over 50, you know, that to me seems like 00:28:46.200 --> 00:28:51.200 you never know whether your thymus gland's gone, but I figured why not take that? 00:28:51.200 --> 00:28:56.200 So I've added those two things. The other thing topically, the third one is 00:28:56.200 --> 00:29:01.200 vitamin E from a capsule and COQ10 squeezed out of a capsule onto the skin area, 00:29:01.200 --> 00:29:05.200 sort of around it. Don't really think those are good ideas, 00:29:05.200 --> 00:29:08.200 or whether you'd have anything else to try to clear the thing up completely. 00:29:09.200 --> 00:29:12.200 Okay, well let's get around to those three questions. Thanks for asking the questions. 00:29:12.200 --> 00:29:16.200 So Dr. Peat, probiotics first. Let's get your take on probiotics 00:29:16.200 --> 00:29:20.200 and then move through the glandulars and the vitamin E, COQ10. 00:29:20.200 --> 00:29:24.200 And we do have three more callers queued up here, so let's get started with this. 00:29:24.200 --> 00:29:32.200 Yeah, getting the ideal intestinal flora would be extremely important. 00:29:32.200 --> 00:29:37.200 It's very hard to do, though, and so it takes a lot of trial and error. 00:29:38.200 --> 00:29:44.200 Yogurt works for lots of people, but sometimes it takes other bacteria. 00:29:44.200 --> 00:29:55.200 My experience is that the antibiotic substances produced by Bacillus subtilis 00:29:55.200 --> 00:30:03.200 and the echiniformis, I think it is, or licheniformis, I guess, 00:30:04.200 --> 00:30:10.200 but anyway, the bacteria that produce antibiotic substances are very helpful. 00:30:10.200 --> 00:30:16.200 And the bacteriophage virus that kills specific bacteria, 00:30:16.200 --> 00:30:21.200 including some of them kill E. coli and some of the others that can be toxic. 00:30:21.200 --> 00:30:24.200 And these bacteriophages are available? 00:30:24.200 --> 00:30:31.200 Yeah, a few of them are available in Life Extension Foundation, for example, 00:30:32.200 --> 00:30:37.200 and there are other companies making a bigger variety of them now available, 00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:43.200 but most of the work for the last 70 years has been in Eastern Europe, 00:30:43.200 --> 00:30:46.200 and it's just now catching on in the US. 00:30:46.200 --> 00:30:49.200 Okay, and then what about glandulars? 00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:56.200 They are at least good nutrition, and some of them do have some active agents, 00:30:57.200 --> 00:31:02.200 but the glandular cortex contains a fair amount of pregnenolone. 00:31:02.200 --> 00:31:06.200 There you go. Okay, I know you're a good supporter of pregnenolone. 00:31:06.200 --> 00:31:09.200 And then I know you do support vitamin E's use, 00:31:09.200 --> 00:31:14.200 and what do you have to say about vitamin E and CoQ10 as a cutaneous treatment? 00:31:14.200 --> 00:31:20.200 Very good. They're poorly absorbed, but if you do absorb them, it's very helpful. 00:31:20.200 --> 00:31:23.200 Okay, all right, well there's that one. Let's take the next caller. 00:31:23.200 --> 00:31:26.200 Caller, where are you from, and what's your question? 00:31:26.200 --> 00:31:28.200 I've got a comment and a question. 00:31:28.200 --> 00:31:33.200 You were saying something about migraine headaches and pertaining to the gut. 00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:35.200 Yeah. 00:31:35.200 --> 00:31:41.200 So was there a suggestion there to keep the bowels, like enemas and that sort of thing, 00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:44.200 would help with migraine headaches? 00:31:44.200 --> 00:31:50.200 Yeah, definitely. The whole endotoxin issue surrounding poor gut motility 00:31:50.200 --> 00:31:55.200 is responsible for inflammation, and that inflammation is picked up in the intestine, 00:31:55.200 --> 00:32:02.200 and that actually causes a reflex action for migraine, 00:32:02.200 --> 00:32:05.200 triggering migraines in terms of vasoconstriction. 00:32:05.200 --> 00:32:09.200 Dr. Peat, let me just clarify your understanding of migraines 00:32:09.200 --> 00:32:12.200 in relation to serotonin and endotoxin. 00:32:12.200 --> 00:32:17.200 When your blood sugar is low, your intestine is very touchy 00:32:17.200 --> 00:32:24.200 and has exaggerated reflexes, so that stretching it or bulging it with gas 00:32:24.200 --> 00:32:31.200 or with constipation or chemical inflammation from the endotoxin 00:32:31.200 --> 00:32:36.200 and other chemicals produced by the bacteria, any of those irritations 00:32:36.200 --> 00:32:39.200 is exaggerated when your blood sugar is low. 00:32:39.200 --> 00:32:47.200 And a good diet, making sure your thyroid function is good to stabilize your blood sugar, 00:32:48.200 --> 00:32:54.200 can greatly reduce the incidence of migraines because your intestine 00:32:54.200 --> 00:32:59.200 loses that hypersensitivity when your blood sugar is good. 00:32:59.200 --> 00:33:03.200 Okay, and then, Carla, did you have a question specifically for... 00:33:03.200 --> 00:33:05.200 I have a comment regarding... 00:33:05.200 --> 00:33:07.200 Comment, sorry. 00:33:07.200 --> 00:33:11.200 You guys were saying, you were talking about psychotropic drugs or antidepressants and violence, 00:33:12.200 --> 00:33:18.200 and my comment to you is, I had a radio program about 2 or 3 years ago, 00:33:18.200 --> 00:33:24.200 they listed 75 people that did mass murders, and they listed the drugs that they were on 00:33:24.200 --> 00:33:26.200 or had just come off of or had just started. 00:33:26.200 --> 00:33:34.200 There's the psychotropic drugs, antidepressants, and mass shootings, 00:33:34.200 --> 00:33:40.200 whether it be Knives, Legend, or whatever, they named all the people 00:33:41.200 --> 00:33:45.200 that did the drugs that they were on, and the Alphabet Channel, news channels, 00:33:45.200 --> 00:33:50.200 briefly said something about it, but then probably pushed it under the carpet, 00:33:50.200 --> 00:33:54.200 mainly because of the pharmaceutical companies probably put pressure on people not to... 00:33:54.200 --> 00:34:00.200 I'm guessing, I don't even know, but there is obviously a correlation with 00:34:00.200 --> 00:34:03.200 antidepressants and violence, is what you guys are saying. 00:34:03.200 --> 00:34:07.200 Yeah, that's like I mentioned, the FDA is actually making a statement about it, 00:34:07.200 --> 00:34:09.200 a public statement in 2007. 00:34:10.200 --> 00:34:13.200 That's interesting that they said it, and it's not... 00:34:13.200 --> 00:34:19.200 My point is, they're blaming the gun, but it's not the gun, it's the person behind the gun. 00:34:19.200 --> 00:34:21.200 Yeah, not at all, exactly. 00:34:21.200 --> 00:34:23.200 Thank you. 00:34:23.200 --> 00:34:26.200 Okay, you're welcome. Okay, so we do have one more call on the air. 00:34:26.200 --> 00:34:30.200 Hang on a second, I just wanted to say that we're on the air live, 00:34:30.200 --> 00:34:34.200 and this is AskYourAbDoctor, so if you want to call KMED Garboville, 00:34:35.200 --> 00:34:41.200 our number here is 707-923-3911, and Dr. Peat is our long-term guest, 00:34:41.200 --> 00:34:46.200 and so either questions surrounding or even unrelated to this month's show, 00:34:46.200 --> 00:34:50.200 go ahead and call, and please do donate. 00:34:50.200 --> 00:34:54.200 It's a very independent radio station, there really aren't too many like this, 00:34:54.200 --> 00:34:56.200 especially across the States. 00:34:56.200 --> 00:35:01.200 In the days when I was a teenager, there was a radio station called Radio Caroline, 00:35:02.200 --> 00:35:06.200 and they were in the English Channel, and they were a very independent radio station, 00:35:06.200 --> 00:35:09.200 they were just floating out there on their boat, and they had a big transmitter. 00:35:09.200 --> 00:35:13.200 And these kind of people, you know what, you've got to give them space, 00:35:13.200 --> 00:35:17.200 and free speech is very important, let's not quash it, let's keep it alive, 00:35:17.200 --> 00:35:20.200 because there's always more than one side to an argument, 00:35:20.200 --> 00:35:23.200 and sometimes hearing that other side might just save your life. 00:35:23.200 --> 00:35:27.200 So that's the reason for having Dr. Peat on the show and running the monthly shows that we do, 00:35:28.200 --> 00:35:32.200 so please visit the website kmud.org and donate some money now, 00:35:32.200 --> 00:35:36.200 we're still about 15,000 short on the shows, it closes at 8 o'clock, 00:35:36.200 --> 00:35:40.200 and that's when the pledge drive closes, so please do donate some money, keep us going. 00:35:40.200 --> 00:35:45.200 So Dr. Peat, we do have another caller on the line, 00:35:45.200 --> 00:35:47.200 so let me just get the engineer back in. 00:35:47.200 --> 00:35:49.200 Hello. 00:35:49.200 --> 00:35:51.200 Hi, you there, good. 00:35:51.200 --> 00:35:53.200 Where are you from, caller, and what's your question? 00:35:53.200 --> 00:35:55.200 I'm from London, Ontario, Canada. 00:35:56.200 --> 00:35:58.200 I've been a listener for a little while, 00:35:58.200 --> 00:36:01.200 and I've heard you talk about various government agencies, 00:36:01.200 --> 00:36:05.200 such as the CIA, FBI, and some other ones, 00:36:05.200 --> 00:36:09.200 and I've also seen some interesting threads on the Ray Peat forum, 00:36:09.200 --> 00:36:14.200 and I was wondering who you feel, or what group, 00:36:14.200 --> 00:36:18.200 is at the top of the pyramid of world power? 00:36:18.200 --> 00:36:21.200 Interesting. 00:36:21.200 --> 00:36:23.200 Well, Dr. Peat, do you want to say anything to that? 00:36:24.200 --> 00:36:26.200 Do you have any kind of opinion who might be on top, 00:36:26.200 --> 00:36:30.200 or is it just a generalized mania for control? 00:36:30.200 --> 00:36:41.200 Yeah, generally, people with poor judgment and bad information are in control. 00:36:41.200 --> 00:36:43.200 Yeah. 00:36:43.200 --> 00:36:45.200 Well, there you go, let's leave it at that, 00:36:45.200 --> 00:36:49.200 and in terms of not wanting to name names, 00:36:50.200 --> 00:36:55.200 the whole thing is such an embroiled soup of just deceit and dishonesty 00:36:55.200 --> 00:36:59.200 and poor judgment, like you say, and it's unfortunate. 00:36:59.200 --> 00:37:03.200 It's a mixture of greed and money and power, 00:37:03.200 --> 00:37:09.200 and it's always been told that it's going to be the problem that we live with, 00:37:09.200 --> 00:37:14.200 and so there's no surprise, ever since Adam and Eve. 00:37:14.200 --> 00:37:19.200 Okay, but the bells are ringing, and the light's flashing, so... 00:37:19.200 --> 00:37:20.200 All right, thanks. 00:37:20.200 --> 00:37:22.200 Okay, no, you're welcome, thanks for calling in. 00:37:22.200 --> 00:37:24.200 Okay, so we have another caller. 00:37:24.200 --> 00:37:27.200 Caller, you're on the air, where are you from, what's your question? 00:37:27.200 --> 00:37:31.200 Okay, that caller's out there somewhere in the... 00:37:31.200 --> 00:37:35.200 Engineer, can you... 00:37:35.200 --> 00:37:37.200 Okay, please call back. 00:37:37.200 --> 00:37:39.200 Yeah, go ahead and call back. 00:37:39.200 --> 00:37:41.200 Okay, so just to wrap up the whole SSRI thing, 00:37:41.200 --> 00:37:46.200 which had a lot of press and massive amounts of sales 00:37:46.200 --> 00:37:48.200 and lots of people being prescribed it, 00:37:48.200 --> 00:37:51.200 the very fact that serotonin is an inflammatory molecule 00:37:51.200 --> 00:37:55.200 involved with dysbiosis and poor bowel function, etc., etc., 00:37:55.200 --> 00:38:00.200 responsible for things like migraine headaches, amongst many other things, 00:38:00.200 --> 00:38:05.200 the fact that they produce an SSRI is kind of madness right there, 00:38:05.200 --> 00:38:07.200 so all you have to do is look at serotonin, 00:38:07.200 --> 00:38:09.200 look at the negative effects of serotonin, 00:38:09.200 --> 00:38:13.200 and get over the fact that they're painting it in this blissful, 00:38:13.200 --> 00:38:16.200 peaceful, hormone-type light, 00:38:17.200 --> 00:38:18.200 which is not the way serotonin is, 00:38:18.200 --> 00:38:20.200 but that's just misinformation again, you see, 00:38:20.200 --> 00:38:23.200 so you have to be very careful where you get your information from 00:38:23.200 --> 00:38:25.200 and see who's selling it, because you'll sometimes find 00:38:25.200 --> 00:38:29.200 there's a very biased approach that they're taking. 00:38:29.200 --> 00:38:32.200 Okay, so moving on from SSRIs, 00:38:32.200 --> 00:38:35.200 let's just talk about some other compounds, 00:38:35.200 --> 00:38:39.200 which I think we're all force-fed and advertised 00:38:39.200 --> 00:38:42.200 and are big money makers, but unfortunately, 00:38:42.200 --> 00:38:44.200 they're around for a long time before they've become discontinued 00:38:45.200 --> 00:38:47.200 or withdrawn from the market because of their side effects. 00:38:47.200 --> 00:38:50.200 I think some of these things that I think about 00:38:50.200 --> 00:38:53.200 are going to be... 00:38:53.200 --> 00:38:56.200 I know we've mentioned the estrogens 00:38:56.200 --> 00:38:59.200 and the xenoestrogens that are in the environment 00:38:59.200 --> 00:39:01.200 that have been linked to cancers 00:39:01.200 --> 00:39:06.200 and other inflammatory degenerative processes, 00:39:06.200 --> 00:39:08.200 but what would you quickly say, 00:39:08.200 --> 00:39:10.200 because I know we've got other things to cover here, 00:39:10.200 --> 00:39:14.200 what would you quickly say about estrogens 00:39:14.200 --> 00:39:15.200 and their role in cancer? 00:39:15.200 --> 00:39:19.200 That they synergize with radiation 00:39:19.200 --> 00:39:22.200 and stress, 00:39:22.200 --> 00:39:28.200 that estrogen is sort of an ultimate stress-related hormone 00:39:28.200 --> 00:39:30.200 like histamine and serotonin, 00:39:30.200 --> 00:39:34.200 and they have their place in tissue renewal, 00:39:34.200 --> 00:39:38.200 but that place should be limited to a few hours 00:39:38.200 --> 00:39:43.200 following any trauma or tissue injury. 00:39:43.200 --> 00:39:44.200 Right. 00:39:44.200 --> 00:39:46.200 You've always said that really estrogens' main function, 00:39:46.200 --> 00:39:49.200 I think, is from an inflammatory point of view 00:39:49.200 --> 00:39:51.200 for implantation during... 00:39:51.200 --> 00:39:53.200 Yeah. 00:39:53.200 --> 00:39:56.200 And the same thing when any tissue is injured, 00:39:56.200 --> 00:40:00.200 it helps to activate the cell renewal process, 00:40:00.200 --> 00:40:02.200 but if that continues, 00:40:02.200 --> 00:40:05.200 then the cell renewal turns into a tumor or... 00:40:05.200 --> 00:40:07.200 Right. 00:40:07.200 --> 00:40:09.200 And there's lots of estrogen-dependent 00:40:09.200 --> 00:40:11.200 or estrogen-promoted tumors. 00:40:12.200 --> 00:40:13.200 What would you quickly say, 00:40:13.200 --> 00:40:15.200 because we do have another couple of callers here, 00:40:15.200 --> 00:40:17.200 I looked at an advert, if you like, 00:40:17.200 --> 00:40:20.200 for a product called DEL Estrogen. 00:40:20.200 --> 00:40:25.200 This was a prescribing information as of November 2017, 00:40:25.200 --> 00:40:28.200 and I was quite pleased and shocked to see 00:40:28.200 --> 00:40:31.200 that it said in pretty big, bold capital letters, 00:40:31.200 --> 00:40:34.200 "Estrogens increase the risk of endometrial cancer." 00:40:34.200 --> 00:40:36.200 It wasn't just that. 00:40:36.200 --> 00:40:39.200 There was a big list of other issues associated with it, 00:40:40.200 --> 00:40:42.200 but they are advertising this product 00:40:42.200 --> 00:40:46.200 and quite blatantly telling you that it is actually 00:40:46.200 --> 00:40:49.200 a fairly big promoter of endometrial cancer. 00:40:49.200 --> 00:40:53.200 And the publications in the medical journals over the years 00:40:53.200 --> 00:40:57.200 have claimed that estrogen is good for more than 200 00:40:57.200 --> 00:41:01.200 different disease conditions, all of which were proved false. 00:41:01.200 --> 00:41:04.200 Yeah. It's almost like you tell the biggest lie 00:41:04.200 --> 00:41:07.200 and you have the greatest chance of getting away from it, 00:41:08.200 --> 00:41:10.200 or rather be the most blatant. 00:41:10.200 --> 00:41:12.200 And people, I think, unfortunately, 00:41:12.200 --> 00:41:14.200 are just in a state at this point in time 00:41:14.200 --> 00:41:17.200 where they just don't really want to hear too much more, 00:41:17.200 --> 00:41:19.200 because it's just too shocking. 00:41:19.200 --> 00:41:23.200 And so when they freely tell you that these things cause cancer 00:41:23.200 --> 00:41:27.200 or they cause heart attack or stroke or increased risk of death, 00:41:27.200 --> 00:41:31.200 I think, unfortunately, most people are not really serious enough 00:41:31.200 --> 00:41:34.200 about being critically thinking about it. 00:41:34.200 --> 00:41:36.200 Anyway, let's get the next caller. 00:41:37.200 --> 00:41:38.200 Caller, you're on the airwave from. 00:41:38.200 --> 00:41:40.200 And what's your question? 00:41:40.200 --> 00:41:43.200 I'm from Long Island, and my question is 00:41:43.200 --> 00:41:46.200 the B vitamins. 00:41:46.200 --> 00:41:49.200 Most B vitamins, when you take them separately, 00:41:49.200 --> 00:41:52.200 they're not in the right ratio and they're all synthetic. 00:41:52.200 --> 00:41:56.200 I was thinking that, like you mentioned brewer's yeast in the past, 00:41:56.200 --> 00:41:59.200 that nutritional yeast, which I think has less estrogen, 00:41:59.200 --> 00:42:03.200 has the B vitamins in sort of a natural ratio 00:42:04.200 --> 00:42:07.200 and relationship plus selenium in bioavailable form. 00:42:07.200 --> 00:42:10.200 And being in the proper proportion, it would be, 00:42:10.200 --> 00:42:12.200 it may not be as large a dosage, 00:42:12.200 --> 00:42:15.200 but it seems like it would be a much better way to go 00:42:15.200 --> 00:42:18.200 for the body to absorb them and help with digestion 00:42:18.200 --> 00:42:20.200 and all other aspects when in the right form. 00:42:20.200 --> 00:42:22.200 I would say this right off the bat. 00:42:22.200 --> 00:42:26.200 Dr. Peat does not, he really is not a very big advocate 00:42:26.200 --> 00:42:29.200 for vitamins per se, and he's much more based on his food. 00:42:29.200 --> 00:42:32.200 But if you have to take any kind of vitamins, Dr. Peat, 00:42:33.200 --> 00:42:35.200 knowing what you know about their manufacturing process, etc., 00:42:35.200 --> 00:42:39.200 what would you have to say about vitamins that we think 00:42:39.200 --> 00:42:43.200 might be okay for you, and/or what do you have to say 00:42:43.200 --> 00:42:45.200 about nutritional yeast? 00:42:45.200 --> 00:42:50.200 Nutritional yeast does have a good range of the B vitamins. 00:42:50.200 --> 00:42:56.200 The drawbacks besides the small amount of estrogen 00:42:56.200 --> 00:43:02.200 is indigestible starch and the high phosphate content 00:43:02.200 --> 00:43:07.200 so if you use it for a supplement, using it for several days 00:43:07.200 --> 00:43:11.200 is okay, but you don't want to use it as a major part 00:43:11.200 --> 00:43:14.200 of your diet because of that high phosphate content 00:43:14.200 --> 00:43:18.200 unless you take measures to balance it with calcium. 00:43:18.200 --> 00:43:21.200 And then what about good, are there any good vitamins out there? 00:43:21.200 --> 00:43:23.200 Actually, how good? 00:43:23.200 --> 00:43:27.200 I stopped using oral vitamins in the 1970s 00:43:28.200 --> 00:43:33.200 because I had some extreme allergic reactions to vitamin B2 00:43:33.200 --> 00:43:41.200 and folic acid, which being yellow-colored, 00:43:41.200 --> 00:43:45.200 they're absorbers of even visible light, 00:43:45.200 --> 00:43:48.200 causing chemical reactions to happen, 00:43:48.200 --> 00:43:53.200 and that means that before you get them into your mouth, 00:43:54.200 --> 00:43:58.200 you're likely to have been exposed to oxygen and radiation 00:43:58.200 --> 00:44:02.200 that has activated free radical processes, 00:44:02.200 --> 00:44:07.200 making a pretty bad risk for allergy. 00:44:07.200 --> 00:44:11.200 Okay, I think we have three people kind of queued up. 00:44:11.200 --> 00:44:13.200 One other question about vitamins, 00:44:13.200 --> 00:44:16.200 you mentioned magnesium carbonate and calcium carbonate, 00:44:16.200 --> 00:44:18.200 but if they're less bioavailable, 00:44:18.200 --> 00:44:21.200 wouldn't your body treat them as toxins too, 00:44:21.200 --> 00:44:23.200 if they're not as bioavailable? 00:44:23.200 --> 00:44:27.200 In fact, the magnesium supplements very often cause migraines 00:44:27.200 --> 00:44:34.200 and asthma symptoms because of probably some contaminant in them, 00:44:34.200 --> 00:44:38.200 but in your stomach, the stomach acid generally 00:44:38.200 --> 00:44:42.200 will turn much of the supplement, 00:44:42.200 --> 00:44:47.200 such as magnesium carbonate, into magnesium chloride, 00:44:47.200 --> 00:44:50.200 which is instantly absorbed. 00:44:51.200 --> 00:44:52.200 Gotcha. 00:44:52.200 --> 00:44:55.200 Oh, by the way, are you blood type B? 00:44:55.200 --> 00:44:57.200 What was that? 00:44:57.200 --> 00:44:59.200 Is your blood type blood type B? 00:44:59.200 --> 00:45:01.200 I don't know my blood type. 00:45:01.200 --> 00:45:03.200 All right, thanks for your question. 00:45:03.200 --> 00:45:05.200 Let's get this next caller. 00:45:05.200 --> 00:45:07.200 Caller, where are you from and what's your question? 00:45:07.200 --> 00:45:09.200 Hi, I'm from Northern California. 00:45:09.200 --> 00:45:13.200 I'm 77 and I'm a sustaining member of KMUD, 00:45:13.200 --> 00:45:16.200 and I love it and I listen to it almost exclusively, 00:45:16.200 --> 00:45:18.200 and your show sounds great. 00:45:19.200 --> 00:45:23.200 I've had some high thyroid issues and been taking my own, 00:45:23.200 --> 00:45:27.200 you know, my own whatever you call it, every day, twice a day, 00:45:27.200 --> 00:45:31.200 and it goes, you know, between 170 and 144, 00:45:31.200 --> 00:45:33.200 and then it goes down to 113, 00:45:33.200 --> 00:45:36.200 and I was wondering what you think of, 00:45:36.200 --> 00:45:39.200 what your approach is to high blood pressure. 00:45:39.200 --> 00:45:42.200 Do you, how do you feel about, for instance, 00:45:42.200 --> 00:45:45.200 lisinopril, is that how you pronounce it? 00:45:45.200 --> 00:45:47.200 That's how you pronounce it. 00:45:48.200 --> 00:45:50.200 I haven't taken it yet, but I've been, 00:45:50.200 --> 00:45:52.200 you know, I have a bottle of it here, 00:45:52.200 --> 00:45:55.200 and I'm wondering whether I should do it or not. 00:45:55.200 --> 00:45:57.200 So don't be, high blood pressure, 00:45:57.200 --> 00:46:00.200 and I know specifically the person's asking about lisinopril, but... 00:46:00.200 --> 00:46:07.200 Big doses of vitamin K often cure it in just a week or two, 00:46:07.200 --> 00:46:11.200 but getting enough calcium in your diet, 00:46:11.200 --> 00:46:15.200 especially in relation to phosphate, 00:46:16.200 --> 00:46:19.200 calcium and vitamin D are extremely important, 00:46:19.200 --> 00:46:25.200 and then if you can't do it with good nutrition, 00:46:25.200 --> 00:46:31.200 then of all the medical approaches that I know of, 00:46:31.200 --> 00:46:38.200 the angiotensin blockers and the ACE inhibitors 00:46:38.200 --> 00:46:43.200 are the safest medical approaches that I know of. 00:46:44.200 --> 00:46:47.200 And how much vitamin K, thank you, would you recommend? 00:46:47.200 --> 00:46:50.200 I know people who, Lord, 00:46:50.200 --> 00:46:54.200 they're chronically extremely high blood pressure, 00:46:54.200 --> 00:46:56.200 over 200, over 100. 00:46:56.200 --> 00:47:02.200 Lord, their pressure within a week or two, 00:47:02.200 --> 00:47:04.200 down to the normal range, 00:47:04.200 --> 00:47:08.200 by taking 30 to 50 milligrams a day, 00:47:08.200 --> 00:47:10.200 and then stopping. 00:47:10.200 --> 00:47:12.200 30 to 50? 00:47:13.200 --> 00:47:14.200 Yeah, milligrams of vitamin K. 00:47:14.200 --> 00:47:17.200 And that's a vitamin pill, you're saying? 00:47:17.200 --> 00:47:20.200 No, it's generally a liquid, but I know you can get a pill. 00:47:20.200 --> 00:47:22.200 Oh, it's a liquid, okay. 00:47:22.200 --> 00:47:24.200 The liquid form is what I use, 00:47:24.200 --> 00:47:26.200 but there are obviously tableted versions of it, 00:47:26.200 --> 00:47:29.200 but Thorne Research does a good one milligram per drop. 00:47:29.200 --> 00:47:32.200 Actually, now I think there's actually 10 milligrams per drop, 00:47:32.200 --> 00:47:34.200 but they do a liquid vitamin K2, 00:47:34.200 --> 00:47:38.200 which is a supplement that I would recommend most people go find. 00:47:38.200 --> 00:47:40.200 And you take it on an empty stomach? 00:47:41.200 --> 00:47:42.200 Yeah, it doesn't really matter, 00:47:42.200 --> 00:47:44.200 it's only a drop or two drops or whatever, 00:47:44.200 --> 00:47:46.200 but even if you're taking more than that, 00:47:46.200 --> 00:47:49.200 20 or 30 drops, it wouldn't be a problem, regardless. 00:47:49.200 --> 00:47:53.200 Can you eat vitamin K in something, also? 00:47:53.200 --> 00:47:55.200 Well, it's generated by your gut, 00:47:55.200 --> 00:47:58.200 but in your gut flora, generally produce vitamin K. 00:47:58.200 --> 00:48:00.200 Oh, I see. 00:48:00.200 --> 00:48:03.200 And then you said calcium also, and D? 00:48:03.200 --> 00:48:05.200 Calcium and vitamin D, yeah, they're both... 00:48:05.200 --> 00:48:07.200 Oh, vitamin D. 00:48:07.200 --> 00:48:09.200 Yeah, they're intimately related. 00:48:10.200 --> 00:48:11.200 D3? 00:48:11.200 --> 00:48:13.200 Yeah. 00:48:13.200 --> 00:48:15.200 And how much of that would you suggest? 00:48:15.200 --> 00:48:18.200 Well, you want about 4,000 to 6,000, 8,000 IU. 00:48:18.200 --> 00:48:20.200 It's very different from person to person, 00:48:20.200 --> 00:48:22.200 if you get your blood drawn, 00:48:22.200 --> 00:48:26.200 and I think the reference range is above 30 nanograms per milliliter, 00:48:26.200 --> 00:48:28.200 or nanograms per deciliter. 00:48:28.200 --> 00:48:31.200 Somewhere in the range of 50 is probably better. 00:48:31.200 --> 00:48:33.200 I think the upper limit is 70 or 75, 00:48:33.200 --> 00:48:36.200 and I find people that take 2 or 4,000 a day, 00:48:36.200 --> 00:48:38.200 sometimes they have very low vitamin D labs, 00:48:39.200 --> 00:48:42.200 and some people that can take 8 or 10 or 12, 00:48:42.200 --> 00:48:44.200 they still have normal vitamin D, 00:48:44.200 --> 00:48:47.200 so it's quite important to get your vitamin D tested. 00:48:47.200 --> 00:48:49.200 It's not an expensive lab, 00:48:49.200 --> 00:48:51.200 but it'll give you a good idea of where it is, 00:48:51.200 --> 00:48:53.200 and then you can get retested in a month or two months 00:48:53.200 --> 00:48:55.200 and see where you are. 00:48:55.200 --> 00:48:59.200 So take the K and the calcium and the D3, 00:48:59.200 --> 00:49:02.200 and I also take thyroid medicine. 00:49:02.200 --> 00:49:04.200 I had my thyroid removed. 00:49:04.200 --> 00:49:06.200 Okay. 00:49:07.200 --> 00:49:10.200 Thyroid supplement often lowers the blood pressure. 00:49:10.200 --> 00:49:13.200 You want to keep your TSH fairly low, 00:49:13.200 --> 00:49:15.200 at the low end of the normal range, 00:49:15.200 --> 00:49:21.200 because TSH itself is responsible for increasing blood pressure. 00:49:21.200 --> 00:49:23.200 Okay, terrific. 00:49:23.200 --> 00:49:25.200 Thank you very much. 00:49:25.200 --> 00:49:27.200 I'm looking at this medicine, 00:49:27.200 --> 00:49:31.200 and I'm just nervous about getting involved with Acinopril. 00:49:31.200 --> 00:49:34.200 Try natural alternatives first and see how they work for you. 00:49:34.200 --> 00:49:36.200 That's my advice. 00:49:36.200 --> 00:49:40.200 And then hopefully you're supporting KMUD financially. 00:49:40.200 --> 00:49:42.200 I am. 00:49:42.200 --> 00:49:44.200 I'm a sustaining member. 00:49:44.200 --> 00:49:46.200 Excellent. 00:49:46.200 --> 00:49:48.200 I didn't really want to put you on the spot, 00:49:48.200 --> 00:49:50.200 and you didn't have to answer. 00:49:50.200 --> 00:49:52.200 No, no, no. 00:49:52.200 --> 00:49:54.200 I believe in this station. 00:49:54.200 --> 00:49:56.200 It's great. 00:49:56.200 --> 00:49:58.200 Awesome. 00:49:58.200 --> 00:50:00.200 I listen to it all the time. 00:50:00.200 --> 00:50:02.200 Thank you so much. 00:50:02.200 --> 00:50:04.200 You're welcome. 00:50:05.200 --> 00:50:06.200 Okay, good. 00:50:06.200 --> 00:50:08.200 We've got people calling in. 00:50:08.200 --> 00:50:10.200 Got it. 00:50:10.200 --> 00:50:12.200 We've got eight minutes to go. 00:50:12.200 --> 00:50:14.200 I wanted just to quickly, 00:50:14.200 --> 00:50:16.200 I know we're not going to get through what I had prepared here, 00:50:16.200 --> 00:50:18.200 and perhaps we can just carry on with it next month, 00:50:18.200 --> 00:50:20.200 but I like it when the calls come in thick and fast. 00:50:20.200 --> 00:50:22.200 I know Dr. Peat feels the same way about it, 00:50:22.200 --> 00:50:24.200 but he's obviously very able to give plenty of information 00:50:24.200 --> 00:50:26.200 without really having to answer questions, 00:50:26.200 --> 00:50:28.200 but I know he kind of enjoys it. 00:50:28.200 --> 00:50:33.200 I just wanted to mention a couple of things related to SSRIs. 00:50:34.200 --> 00:50:38.200 Articles that are 2018, so published this year, 00:50:38.200 --> 00:50:41.200 and this is things like 00:50:41.200 --> 00:50:44.200 "Bleeding induced by selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, 00:50:44.200 --> 00:50:46.200 a case report and review of literature." 00:50:46.200 --> 00:50:48.200 That's a 2018 article. 00:50:48.200 --> 00:50:51.200 Another one here in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 00:50:51.200 --> 00:50:56.200 "Gastrointestinal bleeding risk of SSRI by level of kidney function." 00:50:56.200 --> 00:50:58.200 So this is people with decreased kidney function 00:50:58.200 --> 00:51:00.200 have definite increased risk of bleeding. 00:51:01.200 --> 00:51:05.200 Anyway, there's hundreds and thousands of articles. 00:51:05.200 --> 00:51:08.200 So don't just accept what your doctor tells you 00:51:08.200 --> 00:51:10.200 as being something that's safe for you. 00:51:10.200 --> 00:51:12.200 Question it. 00:51:12.200 --> 00:51:15.200 It's your right to question what it is you're being told, 00:51:15.200 --> 00:51:17.200 just like it's your right to question what I'm telling you. 00:51:17.200 --> 00:51:19.200 I don't expect you to go away and just believe everything I say. 00:51:19.200 --> 00:51:21.200 Go and find it out for yourself. 00:51:21.200 --> 00:51:23.200 That reminds me, 00:51:23.200 --> 00:51:25.200 just last week I've heard from two people 00:51:25.200 --> 00:51:30.200 that when their doctor prescribed a certain drug, 00:51:30.200 --> 00:51:33.200 immediately they started feeling terrible. 00:51:33.200 --> 00:51:35.200 It felt like it was killing them. 00:51:35.200 --> 00:51:37.200 And I said, "Well, why don't you stop it?" 00:51:37.200 --> 00:51:39.200 And they both have said, 00:51:39.200 --> 00:51:43.200 "My appointment isn't for two or three weeks yet, 00:51:43.200 --> 00:51:47.200 and I can't stop it until the doctor takes me off it." 00:51:47.200 --> 00:51:49.200 Oh my gosh. 00:51:49.200 --> 00:51:53.200 So the doctor, unfortunately, is elevated to such a supernatural position. 00:51:53.200 --> 00:51:55.200 It's so bizarre. 00:51:55.200 --> 00:51:57.200 It's so bizarre. 00:51:57.200 --> 00:51:59.200 I don't know if there's anything else. 00:51:59.200 --> 00:52:00.200 The priests are probably the only other class of people 00:52:00.200 --> 00:52:03.200 that people would listen to without questioning so much. 00:52:03.200 --> 00:52:05.200 Anyway, the lights are flashing. 00:52:05.200 --> 00:52:07.200 I guess people are calling in. 00:52:07.200 --> 00:52:09.200 So hopefully people are calling in and they're donating. 00:52:09.200 --> 00:52:12.200 The number is 707-923-3911. 00:52:12.200 --> 00:52:15.200 And we need another probably I don't know how many thousand. 00:52:15.200 --> 00:52:17.200 Let's say it was 15 when I came on. 00:52:17.200 --> 00:52:19.200 Hopefully it's less than that now. 00:52:19.200 --> 00:52:21.200 Please do donate. 00:52:21.200 --> 00:52:23.200 Visit the website, kmed.org. 00:52:23.200 --> 00:52:25.200 Push the red donate button and please donate some money. 00:52:25.200 --> 00:52:28.200 I also wanted to mention an article, Dr. Peat, 00:52:28.200 --> 00:52:31.200 that I looked at just amongst other articles 00:52:31.200 --> 00:52:34.200 supporting cyproheptadine back in the 60s. 00:52:34.200 --> 00:52:38.200 And the main reason for cyproheptadine 00:52:38.200 --> 00:52:41.200 was because it was an antiserotonin agent. 00:52:41.200 --> 00:52:45.200 And yet here we are in 2018. 00:52:45.200 --> 00:52:49.200 And all you've kind of constantly said in the past on radio shows 00:52:49.200 --> 00:52:52.200 that there's lots of material from the 30s, 40s and 50s 00:52:52.200 --> 00:52:54.200 which has just gotten buried 00:52:55.200 --> 00:52:58.200 because the advent of modern "medicine" 00:52:58.200 --> 00:53:01.200 and the corporate interests that are driving it 00:53:01.200 --> 00:53:04.200 and steering the ideology behind it have buried it. 00:53:04.200 --> 00:53:08.200 One study found that a small dose of cyproheptadine 00:53:08.200 --> 00:53:11.200 was effective against lymphoma. 00:53:11.200 --> 00:53:13.200 Yeah. 00:53:13.200 --> 00:53:15.200 Anyway, okay. 00:53:15.200 --> 00:53:17.200 I know it's 5-2. 00:53:17.200 --> 00:53:19.200 I don't think we're going to get time for any more callers. 00:53:19.200 --> 00:53:22.200 But I wanted to hopefully next month question you 00:53:23.200 --> 00:53:25.200 about all of these things that I think people unfortunately 00:53:25.200 --> 00:53:28.200 just take for granted as being things that we should take. 00:53:28.200 --> 00:53:30.200 Things like the lipid-lowering drugs. 00:53:30.200 --> 00:53:32.200 I know we've mentioned statins in the past. 00:53:32.200 --> 00:53:35.200 And there's plenty of very respectable people 00:53:35.200 --> 00:53:37.200 campaigning against them. 00:53:37.200 --> 00:53:39.200 And then the ADD and ADHD drugs, 00:53:39.200 --> 00:53:41.200 which are basically the amphetamines. 00:53:41.200 --> 00:53:43.200 And then all the other cardiovascular drugs 00:53:43.200 --> 00:53:45.200 that people are taking. 00:53:45.200 --> 00:53:47.200 I mean, that last caller there 00:53:47.200 --> 00:53:49.200 who was being prescribed licinopril. 00:53:49.200 --> 00:53:51.200 I'm not saying she shouldn't take it, 00:53:52.200 --> 00:53:53.200 but there's plenty that you can do 00:53:53.200 --> 00:53:55.200 that's alternative to it. 00:53:55.200 --> 00:53:58.200 So don't just jump into the first drugs you're prescribed. 00:53:58.200 --> 00:54:01.200 And then other things, Alzheimer's drugs. 00:54:01.200 --> 00:54:04.200 And I wanted to ask you some more about 00:54:04.200 --> 00:54:07.200 your belief in some of the other things 00:54:07.200 --> 00:54:10.200 that you've researched over these last four or five decades. 00:54:10.200 --> 00:54:12.200 Well, thanks so much for your time, Dr. Peat. 00:54:12.200 --> 00:54:14.200 And I'll point people to your website. 00:54:14.200 --> 00:54:16.200 Okay, thanks. 00:54:16.200 --> 00:54:18.200 Okay, so Dr. Peat can be reached 00:54:19.200 --> 00:54:22.200 at www.raypeat.com 00:54:22.200 --> 00:54:24.200 and fully referenced articles, 00:54:24.200 --> 00:54:26.200 many different subjects. 00:54:26.200 --> 00:54:28.200 And like I said, fully referenced. 00:54:28.200 --> 00:54:30.200 And he's been spending a long time, 00:54:30.200 --> 00:54:32.200 probably 40 years here, 00:54:32.200 --> 00:54:34.200 doing what he's doing. 00:54:34.200 --> 00:54:36.200 And he's very, very purposeful. 00:54:36.200 --> 00:54:38.200 And he's very altruistic. 00:54:38.200 --> 00:54:40.200 And he's not doing it for money, folks. 00:54:40.200 --> 00:54:42.200 So please take a look at his work. 00:54:42.200 --> 00:54:44.200 And for all those people that are listening 00:54:44.200 --> 00:54:46.200 at this point in time 00:54:46.200 --> 00:54:48.200 and who have donated and have pledged, 00:54:48.200 --> 00:54:49.200 thank you. 00:54:49.200 --> 00:54:51.200 And for those people who are thinking about it, 00:54:51.200 --> 00:54:53.200 please get off the fence and push that button. 00:54:53.200 --> 00:54:55.200 However much it is you decide, 00:54:55.200 --> 00:54:57.200 it's all going to add up towards 00:54:57.200 --> 00:55:00.200 enabling this radio station's survival 00:55:00.200 --> 00:55:02.200 and continuance into 2019. 00:55:02.200 --> 00:55:05.200 We're probably never going to stop raising money. 00:55:05.200 --> 00:55:07.200 That's just the nature of being independent. 00:55:07.200 --> 00:55:09.200 So don't be surprised. 00:55:09.200 --> 00:55:11.200 And sometimes you just have to be careful 00:55:11.200 --> 00:55:13.200 about the people that you do support. 00:55:13.200 --> 00:55:15.200 Maybe it's time for you to not support other things 00:55:15.200 --> 00:55:17.200 and start supporting KMAD 00:55:17.200 --> 00:55:18.200 in terms of what it is you hear from them. 00:55:18.200 --> 00:55:22.200 So until October of this year, 00:55:22.200 --> 00:55:24.200 I'll say goodnight. 00:55:24.200 --> 00:55:26.200 And we can be reached 00:55:26.200 --> 00:55:29.200 www.westernbotanicalmedicine.com 00:55:29.200 --> 00:55:31.200 during normal business hours. 00:55:31.200 --> 00:55:33.200 And thank you for listening. 00:55:33.200 --> 00:55:36.200 Until October, when the clocks roll back, 00:55:36.200 --> 00:55:38.200 I'll see you then.