WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.860 reduce energy consumption and expand the use of climate-friendly electric 00:00:04.860 --> 00:00:11.080 vehicles. Visit redwoodenergy.org for complete details or call 707-269-1700 00:00:11.080 --> 00:00:16.960 for more information. It is seven o'clock. This is Redwood Community Radio, 00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:23.760 KMUD Garberville, KMUE Eureka KLA Laytonville, where the views and opinions 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:27.440 expressed throughout the broadcast day are those of the speakers and not 00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:31.640 necessarily those of the station staff or underwriters. Time will be made 00:00:31.640 --> 00:00:39.720 available for all sorts of information and I'm going to start this music here 00:00:39.720 --> 00:01:07.600 and deal with stuff and then it's time for Ask Your Herb Doctor. 00:01:09.720 --> 00:01:38.760 [Music] 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:45.960 And I believe we'll be hearing Dr. Murray and Dr. Murray's. Whoops, there we go. 00:01:45.960 --> 00:01:52.280 Do I have both of you here? Yes, you have me. 00:01:52.280 --> 00:02:01.040 I don't hear Andrew. 00:02:03.400 --> 00:02:10.760 Hey Andrew, could you speak up for a second? Well we can't hear you so you're 00:02:10.760 --> 00:02:14.480 just gonna have to switch to this other microphone. I apologize, we're gonna go 00:02:14.480 --> 00:02:18.840 back to the music for just one second then we'll be back. 00:02:33.400 --> 00:03:02.440 [Music] 00:03:03.400 --> 00:03:29.480 Hopefully Sarah, you're there with me. Yes, I'm here. Welcome to your Ask Your Herb 00:03:29.480 --> 00:03:35.960 Doctor. It's October the 15th 2021, the colors were starting to look really nice 00:03:35.960 --> 00:03:41.360 on the way into the studio this evening so next month it'll be too dark probably 00:03:41.360 --> 00:03:46.200 the usual time to come in but some beautiful autumn colors starting to come 00:03:46.200 --> 00:03:49.040 in now so it's so nice to see this transition and hopefully we'll be getting 00:03:49.040 --> 00:03:57.360 some more rain. Anyway this is KMUD 91.1 FM and from 7.30 until the end of the 00:03:57.360 --> 00:04:01.440 show callers are invited to call in with any questions related to this month's 00:04:01.440 --> 00:04:06.520 subject amongst other things of the treatment approach to cancer and some 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:12.440 mythology surrounding cancer and once again very pleased to invite and have on 00:04:12.440 --> 00:04:18.160 the show Dr. Raymond Peat with his 40 plus years of experience and ongoing 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:24.520 research bearing out the effectiveness of his treatment strategies or his 00:04:24.520 --> 00:04:28.800 approaches to treatment which are not orthodox and even sometimes are not even 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:33.520 alternative as we will find out so a little more than that so Dr. Peat are you 00:04:33.520 --> 00:04:38.400 with us? Yes. Okay well thanks so much for joining again perhaps as always for 00:04:38.400 --> 00:04:41.400 those people who perhaps might have never heard of you before and we'll give 00:04:41.400 --> 00:04:44.520 out your contact details at the end of the show here would you just introduce 00:04:44.520 --> 00:04:51.320 yourself in terms of your academic and professional background? My first working 00:04:51.320 --> 00:04:59.600 experience was in actually teaching biology was one of my first courses but I 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:08.440 was meanwhile studying literature and linguistics and I about ten years later 00:05:08.440 --> 00:05:16.920 I decided to go back to graduate school in biology and studied the effects of 00:05:16.920 --> 00:05:27.120 aging on metabolism energy metabolism in particular and I was right from the 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:30.600 start of my graduate work I was interested in 00:05:30.600 --> 00:05:40.720 Varberg's approach to the energy metabolism he saw the failure in the 00:05:40.720 --> 00:05:51.840 energy system as the essential cause of cancer but I think that people right 00:05:51.840 --> 00:05:58.680 from that period when he was very unpopular academically because he 00:05:58.680 --> 00:06:06.360 believed cancer was not a genetic disease but a metabolic disease a few 00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:15.600 people who accepted that idea of metabolic disease misinterpreted 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:21.880 Varberg. Varberg's basic idea was that there's something about cancer cells 00:06:21.880 --> 00:06:30.280 that doesn't allow them to rest and accumulate ATP to do their normal work 00:06:30.280 --> 00:06:37.600 and so they just keep running can turn off the expenditure of energy and that's 00:06:37.600 --> 00:06:45.400 what leads to the association with excess lactate formation even in the 00:06:45.400 --> 00:06:50.760 presence of oxygen. Okay so from the perspective of one of the main questions 00:06:50.760 --> 00:06:56.600 I wanted to bring out tonight and and this is not as a condemnation but we 00:06:56.600 --> 00:07:02.200 hear it often and when we were graduates of the school of herbal medicine in 00:07:02.200 --> 00:07:07.080 England when we did our degree in herbal medicine and from then until now there's 00:07:07.080 --> 00:07:11.240 this current this counter current well counter current against your way of 00:07:11.240 --> 00:07:14.400 thinking and certainly our way of thinking at this point having worked 00:07:14.400 --> 00:07:19.920 with you for the last 11 years or so but the belief that sugar is bad for you I 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:23.200 wanted us first to explore that and so for people that are listening the number 00:07:23.200 --> 00:07:27.400 if you're you'd like to call in from 7 30 on to join the show either questions 00:07:27.400 --> 00:07:32.760 about cancer or Covid or any other subject that you have the number 707 923 00:07:32.760 --> 00:07:37.400 3911 so just put that out there once again from 7 30 to 8 o'clock callers are 00:07:37.400 --> 00:07:45.200 invited to call in 707 923 3911. So Dr. Peat are the main the main tenet that I 00:07:45.200 --> 00:07:48.080 hear time and time again on which we were actually taught the same kind of 00:07:48.080 --> 00:07:52.440 thing and it's erroneous and you're the you're the one to explain it I know 00:07:52.440 --> 00:07:57.280 you've told us and over and over and we repeat this to other people so not to 00:07:57.280 --> 00:08:02.400 say that we are into the mistaken belief that sugar feeds cancer but I was 00:08:02.400 --> 00:08:07.320 listening to a podcast a very a very good podcast I won't start naming names or 00:08:07.320 --> 00:08:11.920 anything like that because I don't want to insinuate the person as being yeah 00:08:11.920 --> 00:08:15.900 unknowledgeable about the subject in any way because she was very very detailed 00:08:15.900 --> 00:08:21.240 but basically she was giving a cancer dialogue an hour and a half which is a 00:08:21.240 --> 00:08:26.320 qualified medical herbalist and she runs a cancer clinic and she's quite well 00:08:26.320 --> 00:08:30.080 involved in the treatment of cancer alternatively but again she said the 00:08:30.080 --> 00:08:33.880 same thing and I just want to just read this back to you I kind of transcribed 00:08:33.880 --> 00:08:37.440 it word-for-word so it's not plagiarism as such but I just want to read back to 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:42.240 you what she has said and they're so often repeated in the alternative 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:46.520 circles and in mainstream that sugars bad unit causes cancer or can feed 00:08:46.520 --> 00:08:51.160 cancer so let me just read this to you Dr. Peat and if you can listen to the 00:08:51.160 --> 00:08:56.080 paragraph and then give us your rendition of why actually sugars not bad 00:08:56.080 --> 00:09:01.000 for you and why you don't want to starve yourself of sugar so she said to avoid 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:05.280 sugar cancer does not like sugar to run its oxidative pathways through 00:09:05.280 --> 00:09:09.360 glycolysis and it does make its energy that way using a lot of sugar so we can 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:14.040 starve it that way into submission by stringently avoiding sugar and sugary 00:09:14.040 --> 00:09:17.520 foods and that will help to get the mitochondria away from simply 00:09:17.520 --> 00:09:22.040 glycolysis but actually starting to use fats and proteins for energy as well and 00:09:22.040 --> 00:09:26.560 cancer can do that too but not an efficiently or effectively as healthy 00:09:26.560 --> 00:09:30.720 cells so by avoiding sugar you're going to turn up the Krebs cycle in healthy 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:35.240 cells and you're going to direct energy that way away from the cancer cells and 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:42.800 also decrease lactic acid around the cancer and that will set it back so your 00:09:42.800 --> 00:09:49.840 impression of sugars being put into the Krebs cycle for production of ATP and how 00:09:49.840 --> 00:09:54.520 cancer does definitely seem to be a lactic acid producing issue and you've 00:09:54.520 --> 00:09:59.260 always been warning about lactic acid and seeing it as a cancer promoter but 00:09:59.260 --> 00:10:05.520 in terms of sugars metabolism in the body why would you not want to decrease 00:10:05.520 --> 00:10:11.620 someone's sugars and actually put them on a non-sugar diet in the last five or 00:10:11.620 --> 00:10:17.400 ten years there have been several publications that clearly show that if 00:10:17.400 --> 00:10:29.240 you starve a cancerous animal or patient for glucose you can tend to put it into 00:10:29.240 --> 00:10:39.880 ketosis and anything you do to it to put it into ketosis like starving it for a 00:10:39.880 --> 00:10:50.120 day or so or giving it stress hormones that mobilize fat out of storage so that 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:56.360 it tends to push fat metabolism rather than glucose metabolism all of these 00:10:56.360 --> 00:11:04.720 things increase the growth of cancer the rate of growth and probably the 00:11:04.720 --> 00:11:13.480 mechanism for most of that increase of cancer proliferation and growth is that 00:11:13.480 --> 00:11:22.920 stress whether it's hypoglycemia or hypoxia activates the protein called the 00:11:22.920 --> 00:11:43.920 hypoxia but it's initiated by glycolysis or stress just as much as hypoxia and 00:11:43.920 --> 00:11:55.200 that HIF activates among other things the mast cells to produce histamine and 00:11:55.200 --> 00:12:05.720 several other pro-inflammatory interleukin 6 I think is one of 00:12:05.720 --> 00:12:12.120 dozens and dozens of pro-inflammatory things all of which increase 00:12:12.120 --> 00:12:21.840 inflammation and so HIF is a promoter of both inflammation and carcinogenesis or 00:12:21.840 --> 00:12:32.680 cancer growth and so the in the last 10 years or so the physiological chemistry 00:12:32.680 --> 00:12:40.720 of it has been worked out with experiments and this line of criticizing 00:12:40.720 --> 00:12:47.640 the cancer dependency on glucose goes back mostly I think through a book in 00:12:47.640 --> 00:12:57.780 the 1970s by Chappote and Blinoff they published many articles but summed up 00:12:57.780 --> 00:13:07.040 through work in a book and they showed that the presence of a tumor is eating 00:13:07.040 --> 00:13:15.520 all of the available glucose and that in response to prevent hypoglycemia the 00:13:15.520 --> 00:13:25.760 glucocorticoids are activated and produce in defense produce a tendency 00:13:25.760 --> 00:13:37.640 towards hyperglycemia a diabetes type of metabolism and among other things showed 00:13:37.640 --> 00:13:45.200 that starving the animal was the worst thing for the outcome of the tumor that 00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:52.600 maintaining the animals weight by giving it extra food in particular extra 00:13:52.600 --> 00:14:03.440 carbohydrate to satisfy the tumors appetite for glucose because they showed 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:10.600 that if you don't do that cortisol rises to maintain not just normal but even 00:14:10.600 --> 00:14:18.120 elevated glucose in the blood and the way the cortisol does that and this is 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:29.800 what happens during fasting or producing a ketogenic condition by cutting 00:14:29.800 --> 00:14:44.120 carbohydrates the cortisol produces sugar to satisfy the tumor appetite for 00:14:44.120 --> 00:14:53.520 it by breaking down proteins and the glutamine is very easily entered into 00:14:53.520 --> 00:15:02.360 the glycolysis pathways that sort of it's turned into glucose to feed the 00:15:02.360 --> 00:15:14.200 lactic acid metabolism that means that when you're starving for glucose your 00:15:14.200 --> 00:15:20.760 cortisol rises to eat up your body proteins to make sugar and so it 00:15:20.760 --> 00:15:29.320 accelerates the cachexia of the tumor condition and accelerates degeneration 00:15:29.320 --> 00:15:36.520 and death so basically when you're low oxygen or low sugar you're going to 00:15:36.520 --> 00:15:40.440 stimulate a lot of pro-cancer inflammatory mediators like you were 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:45.720 mentioning the atoxia protein HIF which then trigger mast cells the histamine 00:15:45.720 --> 00:15:49.000 and all sorts of inflammatory mediators interleukin 6 and those are all 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:56.680 associated with cancer tumor growth correct yeah it's basically a stress 00:15:56.680 --> 00:16:02.360 metabolism brought on by the the fact that there's something wrong with the 00:16:02.360 --> 00:16:08.680 tumor cell preventing it from getting into the relaxed turned-off condition 00:16:08.680 --> 00:16:17.480 that allows it to store ATP it's as if it's being prodded constantly estrogen 00:16:17.480 --> 00:16:24.600 is one of the things that crowds the metabolism in the direction of glycolysis 00:16:24.600 --> 00:16:29.080 so if you were going to starve yourself of sugar you're saying that you was 00:16:29.080 --> 00:16:35.000 going to drive more fats into the system to create energy therefore producing 00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:39.360 lactic acid but the tumor cells themselves would want to be 00:16:39.360 --> 00:16:47.080 preferentially driven by glucose no although they do love fatty acids 00:16:47.080 --> 00:16:56.120 their mitochondria aren't dead they're able to use as much fat as is available 00:16:56.120 --> 00:17:07.720 as well as glucose so that the you can't start them even if your cortisol was 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:13.840 turned off so it couldn't break down your body protein it would the cancer 00:17:13.840 --> 00:17:24.200 would still adapt them be very vigorous on the fat diet okay so and key key 00:17:24.200 --> 00:17:32.320 tones are a good energy that's been one of the points the ketogenic people have 00:17:32.320 --> 00:17:41.120 said that ketones are too hard for cancer cells to digest but in fact 00:17:41.120 --> 00:17:49.040 experimenters have fed cancer-bearing animals with ketones so they don't have 00:17:49.040 --> 00:17:57.440 to go through this stress condition of being starved just adding ketones to 00:17:57.440 --> 00:18:03.440 their diet feeds the tumor okay so they're the cancer cell basically to 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:10.360 sum up the life cycle of it in terms of its fuel hungry needs it'll either 00:18:10.360 --> 00:18:14.280 derive what it needs from glucose or it'll derive what it needs from the 00:18:14.280 --> 00:18:20.760 lactic acid cycle that is the energy wasteful side of metabolism so if you 00:18:20.760 --> 00:18:30.320 were going to become keto a ketotic and follow a ketotic diet and get into 00:18:30.320 --> 00:18:37.520 ketosis as some way of supposedly avoiding the sugar issues that will 00:18:37.520 --> 00:18:48.520 raise your HIF and the stress hormones and the inflammation histamine and the 00:18:48.520 --> 00:18:53.720 others so which all promotes cancer growth so it's either way you either if 00:18:53.720 --> 00:18:59.440 you starve yourself a sugar you're gonna raise those HIF proteins and increase 00:18:59.440 --> 00:19:05.280 the inflammation or and or you're going to increase your cortisol which is going 00:19:05.280 --> 00:19:13.720 to feed cancer yeah so the solution is to find out what causes that 00:19:13.720 --> 00:19:20.320 inflammation that keeps cancer cells from relaxing in the normal energy 00:19:20.320 --> 00:19:26.160 production and use and obviously I think the other thing that goes goes without 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:32.720 without saying yeah really is that if you're going to starve yourself sugar as 00:19:32.720 --> 00:19:35.760 far as not just cancer cells we're talking about that perhaps may 00:19:35.760 --> 00:19:41.520 preferentially want to consume sugar for the angiogenesis production of new 00:19:41.520 --> 00:19:45.800 capillaries their blood vessels supply etc etc and their rapid growth rate but 00:19:45.800 --> 00:19:49.360 everything else in your body needs sugar and I think this is the being the 00:19:49.360 --> 00:19:54.000 rationale behind what you've always said about not starving yourself for sugar and 00:19:54.000 --> 00:19:58.920 how how essential sugar is for your metabolism not just for your brain which 00:19:58.920 --> 00:20:03.400 consumes most of it but for everything that happens in the body the energy 00:20:03.400 --> 00:20:10.480 currency the ATP you know the blood vessels themselves need a sugar diet 00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:16.120 right well isn't it true that every cell in the body needs glucose to operate 00:20:16.120 --> 00:20:29.560 properly Dr. Peat yeah the absence always ends up creating inflammation and then 00:20:29.560 --> 00:20:37.240 if you if you don't eat sugar then your body will break down your own body's 00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:41.760 tissues taken to utilize and release the sugar so either way your cells are going 00:20:41.760 --> 00:20:44.600 to use sugar it's either you feed it to them or you end up breaking yourself 00:20:44.600 --> 00:20:50.480 down and producing media's yeah the same as playing along famous claimed another 00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:57.800 immune tissues are the first to go under glucose deprivation and then your skin 00:20:57.800 --> 00:21:06.440 and muscles are the bulk of the source of glucose okay so you'll break down 00:21:06.440 --> 00:21:11.240 your muscle bulk mm-hmm so rather than barking up the wrong tree and pointing 00:21:11.240 --> 00:21:17.200 the finger blame it sugar as driving cancer rather supply a healthy quantity 00:21:17.200 --> 00:21:23.600 of sugar whether it's sucrose or fructose or glucose to keep all your cells fueled 00:21:23.600 --> 00:21:28.840 as it were and so you don't go into the stress metabolism side of physiology 00:21:28.840 --> 00:21:34.840 which will derange you further and this is a little bit similar to the candida 00:21:34.840 --> 00:21:40.040 hypothesis where people also say the same mantra that sugar feeds candida and 00:21:40.040 --> 00:21:45.280 I think what you've said in the past is that the yeast penetration into the 00:21:45.280 --> 00:21:50.640 tissues just goes further in the absence of sugar trying to get more sugar from 00:21:50.640 --> 00:21:56.040 tissues that it's not currently involved with yeah hungry yeast cells become 00:21:56.040 --> 00:22:03.320 aggressive and mean and will eat go anywhere looking for sugar yeah okay so 00:22:03.320 --> 00:22:08.800 you're listening to ask Europe Dr. K.M.U.D. Garberful 91.1 FM from 730 to the 00:22:08.800 --> 00:22:11.840 end of the show you invited to call in the questions and number here if you'd 00:22:11.840 --> 00:22:22.240 like to call in is 707 923 3911 707 923 3911 so Dr. Peat to get onto a 00:22:22.240 --> 00:22:27.600 continuation of the alternative and holistic approach to cancer I think we 00:22:27.600 --> 00:22:30.800 covered the first instance here where the misnomer is that sugar is not good 00:22:30.800 --> 00:22:34.320 for you so that shouldn't be restricted in any way and actually people need 00:22:34.320 --> 00:22:40.000 glucose and they need fructose etc etc not just for thyroid support but you 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:44.280 know your body to run and operate properly and for your you know your 00:22:44.280 --> 00:22:48.100 brain function and tissue repair etc it all costs energy and the energy is all 00:22:48.100 --> 00:22:53.320 derived from ATP what should be in an efficient way so I wanted to look at 00:22:53.320 --> 00:22:58.520 things like there were other kind of sub headings in terms of holistic 00:22:58.520 --> 00:23:02.240 treatment to cancer which I think I totally agree with I think that was the 00:23:02.240 --> 00:23:08.000 one the main takeaways was the sugar thing but the whole concept of the 00:23:08.000 --> 00:23:11.960 hypothalamic pituitary axis that the stress hormone production of cortisol 00:23:11.960 --> 00:23:16.920 and the dysregulation of the immune system that can happen through it so in 00:23:16.920 --> 00:23:22.980 terms of thyroid support do you do you think it's a kind of given in terms of 00:23:22.980 --> 00:23:26.720 somebody dealing with cancer especially if it's metastatic cancer and they're 00:23:26.720 --> 00:23:30.560 dealing with it on many fronts and or you know they're in a kind of catch 00:23:30.560 --> 00:23:36.120 exit state if not losing losing weight anyway but I'm losing energy that the 00:23:36.120 --> 00:23:43.080 thyroid would be affected in that yeah the lack of thyroid is a catabolic 00:23:43.080 --> 00:23:55.360 metabolism thyroid is our basic anabolic hormone and so the lower your thyroid 00:23:55.360 --> 00:24:03.840 function is the less efficient your metabolism is and that means producing 00:24:03.840 --> 00:24:12.440 lactic acid instead of carbon dioxide and so the more stressed or the more 00:24:12.440 --> 00:24:20.440 hypothyroid a person is the higher their ratio of lactate to carbon dioxide will 00:24:20.440 --> 00:24:28.200 be and the one of the ways that can't that lactic acid promotes cancer growth 00:24:28.200 --> 00:24:37.840 is that it shifts the oxidative balance towards reduction away from oxidation 00:24:37.840 --> 00:24:49.480 just by the fact that it's an electron donor and the same applies to one of the 00:24:49.480 --> 00:24:59.840 so-called ketone bodies beta hydroxy butyrate the hydroxy means it's an 00:24:59.840 --> 00:25:06.400 alcohol rather than the ketone and it's made in one of the so-called ketone 00:25:06.400 --> 00:25:13.760 bodies that promotes cancer growth by shifting the balance of oxygen the same 00:25:13.760 --> 00:25:23.600 way lactic acid does that the pure ketone diet would use acetone instead of 00:25:23.600 --> 00:25:30.440 beta hydroxy butyrate okay interesting now you mentioned that was one of the 00:25:30.440 --> 00:25:34.920 going to be one of my kind of second the third or fourth point rather the redox 00:25:34.920 --> 00:25:39.800 balance but let me quickly just prior to that go to the fact I was very happy to 00:25:39.800 --> 00:25:44.480 hear this person talk about the cancer promoting effects of estrogen that was 00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:50.520 quite a positive thing and so again you know from an alternative medicine 00:25:50.520 --> 00:25:56.120 perspective this was totally correct and again you have substantiated the use of 00:25:56.120 --> 00:26:00.680 progesterone in cancers to combat that estrogen rather than per se using a 00:26:00.680 --> 00:26:07.080 rheumatase inhibitors or other you know tamoxifen etc other other anti 00:26:07.080 --> 00:26:11.640 estrogen compounds what do you think about just speak a little bit to 00:26:11.640 --> 00:26:15.000 progesterone and then I'd like to ask you a question about the phytoestrogens in 00:26:15.000 --> 00:26:18.840 terms of blocking estrogen what do you think about that but let's start with 00:26:18.840 --> 00:26:30.200 progesterone's effect there are lots of anti-inflammatory things that can be in 00:26:30.200 --> 00:26:37.160 the absence of the strong estrogens that they can demonstrate binding to the 00:26:37.160 --> 00:26:44.480 estrogen receptors and can even cause enlargement of the uterus in large 00:26:44.480 --> 00:26:51.560 amounts but if the animal or person already has too much estradiol the 00:26:51.560 --> 00:27:01.640 powerful estrogen these things the slight estrogenic activity functions as an 00:27:01.640 --> 00:27:08.920 antagonist to the powerful estrogen and so what turns out to dominate is their 00:27:08.920 --> 00:27:17.480 anti-inflammatory effect and in in general anti-inflammatory things are 00:27:17.480 --> 00:27:25.080 anti-estrogenic okay so you see a kind of limited a limited use for the quote 00:27:25.080 --> 00:27:29.240 unquote phytoestrogens because in the presence of regular estradiol they're 00:27:29.240 --> 00:27:35.720 not really going to they're not going to matter yes there are other actions that 00:27:35.720 --> 00:27:42.640 can be beneficial without regard to how they affect the estrogen so how about 00:27:42.640 --> 00:27:49.880 progesterone is an antagonist yeah it definitely prevents the actions of 00:27:49.880 --> 00:27:57.200 cortisol and all of the stress hormones promote to cancer metabolism and so at 00:27:57.200 --> 00:28:04.680 many levels the progesterone is shifting the metabolism in the right direction 00:28:04.680 --> 00:28:14.560 especially by turning off aromatase and there are about half a dozen other very 00:28:14.560 --> 00:28:23.560 potent regulators of estrogen production that be sulfatase and sulfur 00:28:23.560 --> 00:28:32.360 transferase of glucuronidase and glucuronide transferase for example and 00:28:32.360 --> 00:28:45.600 the enzymes that shift the redox state of the estrogen type steroids so you've 00:28:45.600 --> 00:28:54.280 got roughly ten ways that progesterone suppresses estrogen production and 00:28:54.280 --> 00:28:59.760 metabolism okay well let's just move on a little bit then to what you've touched 00:28:59.760 --> 00:29:06.600 on with the redox reaction redox balancing and kind of the effects of 00:29:06.600 --> 00:29:11.840 stress basically I think is unequivocal produce and liberate a lot of free 00:29:11.840 --> 00:29:19.440 radicals and free radicals cause a lot of tissue damage so the flavonoids this 00:29:19.440 --> 00:29:24.800 was also mentioned and we mentioned quercetin recently well in the last few 00:29:24.800 --> 00:29:30.800 months in the continuing dialogue about this crazy coronavirus situation and 00:29:30.800 --> 00:29:37.680 that the flavonoid quercetin has been used very successfully by Dr. Vladimir 00:29:37.680 --> 00:29:42.240 Zelenko amongst several other good doctors in this country to treat COVID 00:29:42.240 --> 00:29:46.480 prophylactically in the presence of zinc and talking about the flavonoids being a 00:29:46.480 --> 00:29:52.160 chaperone for the zinc to get it into the cells and thereby have its RNA 00:29:52.160 --> 00:29:57.640 dependent or RNA polymerase blocking activity as an antiviral now I know you 00:29:57.640 --> 00:30:04.000 maybe not don't agree with that in those terms but in terms of a flavonoid and 00:30:04.000 --> 00:30:10.920 its anti free radical activities antioxidant activity what about things 00:30:10.920 --> 00:30:16.960 like the many flavonoids that there are in the in the plant world yeah I talked 00:30:16.960 --> 00:30:26.120 a lot about orange juice because it has fewer drawbacks than many other fruit 00:30:26.120 --> 00:30:34.440 sources but I think their name was Johanna Brandt a South American doctor 00:30:34.440 --> 00:30:45.120 South South African doctor about oh six years 70 years ago wrote about her use 00:30:45.120 --> 00:30:55.300 of a pure grape diet to treat cancer and it didn't sound rational to the 00:30:55.300 --> 00:31:03.320 profession so she was just ignored and ridiculed but our grapes certain 00:31:03.320 --> 00:31:12.960 varieties of grapes have extremely rich flavonoid and related compounds that are 00:31:12.960 --> 00:31:22.960 anti-inflammatory so that combination of anti-inflammatory flavonoids and rich 00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:30.960 very high content of glucose made it possible plausible to see the results 00:31:30.960 --> 00:31:35.480 that she claimed she got now presumably these would be the red grapes rather 00:31:35.480 --> 00:31:40.920 than green no red and blue I think yeah yeah and you remember Dr. Peat what the 00:31:40.920 --> 00:31:50.880 varieties were I think comfort was one that she used a lot what about musket 00:31:50.880 --> 00:31:58.600 musket come into it I think they must be good they taste so good okay you're 00:31:58.600 --> 00:32:03.400 listening to Ask Your Herb Doctor Garverville 91.1 FM from from now it's 00:32:03.400 --> 00:32:09.240 732 from now until 8 o'clock you invited to call in with questions 707 923 00:32:09.240 --> 00:32:16.320 911 I think I am Sarah Johannesen Murray we have Dr. Ray Peat joining us here 00:32:16.320 --> 00:32:21.160 okay I think we have a caller Jimmy caller you're on the air my name is 00:32:21.160 --> 00:32:25.680 Michael I'm from Redway okay and I'm really interested in the the mitochondrial 00:32:25.680 --> 00:32:33.280 redox issues what is your opinion on niacinamide mononucleotide taken as a 00:32:33.280 --> 00:32:39.060 supplement in order to increase NADPH concentration and its effects on 00:32:39.060 --> 00:32:44.800 serotonin production and I think risk ferritol is also related to that I'm 00:32:44.800 --> 00:32:48.760 glad you brought up that because NADH is one of those substances along with coq10 00:32:48.760 --> 00:32:55.700 that we want to get into in a little bit so Dr. Peat yeah niacin itself niacin 00:32:55.700 --> 00:33:03.040 amide definitely shifts your balance in the right direction towards oxidation 00:33:03.040 --> 00:33:11.020 okay good okay so niacin amides certainly on the cards there for redox 00:33:11.020 --> 00:33:16.720 balancing so we've gone through you mentioned dark grapes and Concord being 00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:21.280 one of those particularly and they mentioned also like I said for the other 00:33:21.280 --> 00:33:26.020 flavonoids in terms of free radical quenching and redox balancing as it 00:33:26.020 --> 00:33:30.820 were Hesperidin which is another compound similar to quercetin and then 00:33:30.820 --> 00:33:35.500 resveratrol and you mentioned that Michael yeah resveratrol as another 00:33:35.500 --> 00:33:45.320 powerful antioxidant as well as substances like selenium zinc and coq10 00:33:45.320 --> 00:33:52.640 they'd all be well in well advised supplement with those how about things 00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:59.160 like what do you think of the immune surveillance side of cancer and whilst 00:33:59.160 --> 00:34:03.200 if we knew what it was all about we probably wouldn't have cancer but we 00:34:03.200 --> 00:34:09.600 still get it but in terms of the body's inability to really see cancer cell for 00:34:09.600 --> 00:34:14.800 what it is and and kill it with macrophages or you know unloading on it 00:34:14.800 --> 00:34:20.200 with other substances or many other ways that we can do these things to be in 00:34:20.200 --> 00:34:24.240 constant touch with healthy and unhealthy situations what do you think 00:34:24.240 --> 00:34:34.320 about immune surveillance I think the mast cells mostly histamine are the 00:34:34.320 --> 00:34:40.040 problem that keeps the immune system from going ahead and getting rid of the 00:34:40.040 --> 00:34:49.400 cancer these particular pro inflammatory things are driving cancer and 00:34:49.400 --> 00:34:59.200 disrupting the immune function so that some of the antibodies formed in 00:34:59.200 --> 00:35:05.580 reaction to the abnormal tissue in the cancer some of the antibodies 00:35:05.580 --> 00:35:12.840 specifically block other immune reactions and promote the tumor growth 00:35:12.840 --> 00:35:17.680 so antihistamines and other compounds that that would stop mast cell 00:35:17.680 --> 00:35:23.560 degranulation to release and liberate history would also be useful yeah yeah 00:35:23.560 --> 00:35:34.800 definitely and if you mention taking aspirin and antihistamines for cancer 00:35:34.800 --> 00:35:41.240 until just recently everyone would really show the idea but now there's 00:35:41.240 --> 00:35:48.240 enough foundation for it you can see tremendous improvement just in a couple 00:35:48.240 --> 00:35:55.520 days with good antihistamines and aspirin good let's hold it there I want 00:35:55.520 --> 00:35:58.200 to ask you more questions about aspirin when we get back from this corner but 00:35:58.200 --> 00:36:00.840 we've got a caller on the air so you're on the air call away from what's your 00:36:00.840 --> 00:36:10.480 question yes this is I'm in Hawaii and my question is about effects during a 00:36:10.480 --> 00:36:14.480 surgery two years ago my husband had an aggressive surgery to remove a large 00:36:14.480 --> 00:36:19.440 tumor in his colon and during the five weeks in the hospital he was given 00:36:19.440 --> 00:36:25.160 fentanyl for four weeks and then total anesthesia three times and also a 00:36:25.160 --> 00:36:31.360 capscan in an MRI after coming home 80% of the time he experiences various 00:36:31.360 --> 00:36:37.680 degrees of heaviness in his body his arms legs chest and mouth feel like 00:36:37.680 --> 00:36:41.980 they're full of cottony lead and during these times he also feels partially 00:36:41.980 --> 00:36:47.840 anesthetized as if observing his body but not quite in it 20% of the time his 00:36:47.840 --> 00:36:52.880 energies up he's present and normal although the the cottony mouth never 00:36:52.880 --> 00:36:58.000 goes away so also several times a day electric like shocks that last one 00:36:58.000 --> 00:37:03.040 second pass through various parts of his body leaving an itch that he scratches 00:37:03.040 --> 00:37:09.640 for 10 to 15 minutes to relieve so to us this appears to be lingering damage 00:37:09.640 --> 00:37:15.840 from the fentanyl and the anesthesia residue he feels as if his body is 00:37:15.840 --> 00:37:24.360 poisoned do you know of anything that might help this situation fentanyl 00:37:24.360 --> 00:37:35.720 that's an opioid yeah yeah I would guess short short use of naloxone or naltrexone 00:37:35.720 --> 00:37:43.920 might break the cycle one of the effects of morphine or most of the 00:37:43.920 --> 00:37:53.640 opioids is to activate inflammatory especially histamine pathways and the 00:37:53.640 --> 00:38:02.640 histamine keeps the opioid effect going and just a short one or two or three 00:38:02.640 --> 00:38:13.680 days dosing of naloxone or naltrexone can break that cycle by stopping the 00:38:13.680 --> 00:38:21.040 morphine or in an orphan effect but make sure that if you're going to ask your 00:38:21.040 --> 00:38:27.320 doctor that you request low-dose now naloxone or naltrexone not the normal 00:38:27.320 --> 00:38:32.400 dose and normal dose is 50 milligrams so you need something more between 2 and 5 00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:40.240 milligrams and if it's working you can tell after the first few milligrams it 00:38:40.240 --> 00:38:47.700 can break the cycle in just one day but sometimes two or three days is okay oh 00:38:47.700 --> 00:38:53.240 and how do you spell the two words so that I'm sure to say them correctly to 00:38:53.240 --> 00:39:08.680 the doctor n-a-l-o-x-o-n-e or n-a-l-t-r-e-x-o-n-e okay and is it given it 00:39:08.680 --> 00:39:17.840 through orally or intravenously orally orally okay and in fact Dr. Peat you 00:39:17.840 --> 00:39:23.360 recommend that for anyone who's ever used any opiate medication one to five 00:39:23.360 --> 00:39:29.600 days use of low-dose naltrexone to reset the endogenous opiates our body 00:39:29.600 --> 00:39:34.440 produces after we come off any type of pain medication that contains opiate 00:39:34.440 --> 00:39:42.460 yeah there are numerous types of endogenous opiates or endorphins 00:39:42.460 --> 00:39:48.320 experimenters have shown that a particular balance the left side of the 00:39:48.320 --> 00:39:55.720 body and the right side of the body use different endorphins for suppression 00:39:55.720 --> 00:40:04.960 against injury and there are some people who are developing cancer for example 00:40:04.960 --> 00:40:11.120 will have all of their symptoms on one side of the body because of the 00:40:11.120 --> 00:40:21.200 predominant type of endorphin they're producing I see and for the anesthesia 00:40:21.200 --> 00:40:28.440 is it possible to chelate out or detox the system from the residue of that I've 00:40:28.440 --> 00:40:41.780 read that Magnolia bark good nutrition and getting the thyroid activity to an 00:40:41.780 --> 00:40:52.040 ideal condition so you're lowering the systemic lactic acid the thyroid reduces 00:40:52.040 --> 00:40:59.720 lactic acid production in favor of carbon dioxide and lactic acid is the 00:40:59.720 --> 00:41:06.200 main thing that drives endorphin production so to keep the endorphins 00:41:06.200 --> 00:41:14.120 down it's important to have to write steroid hormones but especially thyroid 00:41:14.120 --> 00:41:23.040 hormone oh all right oh thank you thank you for your call call that's uh thank 00:41:23.040 --> 00:41:31.120 you yeah appreciate it okay so 9 2 3 or 7 0 7 first area code 7 0 7 9 2 3 3 9 1 1 00:41:31.120 --> 00:41:35.560 Dr. Peat you were just starting to talk about aspirin and that was one of my 00:41:35.560 --> 00:41:41.840 next questions in terms of the abundance of information in the alternative world 00:41:41.840 --> 00:41:46.800 or exactly well not the not the alternative world that decries aspirin 00:41:46.800 --> 00:41:53.480 as some bleeding promoter but the papers that have been done on acetyl salicylic 00:41:53.480 --> 00:41:59.720 acid as an anti-cancer substance what do you what do you think about aspirin and 00:41:59.720 --> 00:42:07.600 what do you what do you say to it it activates mitochondrial respiration so 00:42:07.600 --> 00:42:16.640 it's like an adgent to thyroid hormone okay what what do you what do you think 00:42:16.640 --> 00:42:20.900 would be a useful dose for somebody in terms of taking aspirin and then 00:42:20.900 --> 00:42:27.200 obviously mitigating any quote-unquote potential to cause any hemodynamic 00:42:27.200 --> 00:42:33.600 instability with vitamin K what have you I think it's a good idea just to make 00:42:33.600 --> 00:42:41.800 sure you're well charged with vitamin K anywhere from 1 milligram to 30 or 40 00:42:41.800 --> 00:42:53.400 milligram is safe if it doesn't contain bad additives the MCT can disturb the 00:42:53.400 --> 00:43:03.160 digestive system enough to make it better to use the any sort of vitamin K 00:43:03.160 --> 00:43:09.520 that doesn't contain that particular fat and I know several people that are 00:43:09.520 --> 00:43:15.240 personally are taking in excess of two grams a day and have done for months and 00:43:15.240 --> 00:43:20.880 if not I think maybe up to two years yeah 500 milligrams at a time every 00:43:20.880 --> 00:43:27.760 three hours is fine okay so you think that's an effective anti-cancer to 500 00:43:27.760 --> 00:43:38.240 milligrams which is about less than two tablets yeah I don't think it hurts to 00:43:38.240 --> 00:43:48.560 take 650 at a time but you can tell when the effects are wearing off after three 00:43:48.560 --> 00:43:55.280 or four hours taking another one will keep the progress continuing in the 00:43:55.280 --> 00:43:59.480 right direction so it's safe is and it's safe and effective as long as you're 00:43:59.480 --> 00:44:06.680 taking the vitamin K to at the same time yeah the vitamin K stays in your body 00:44:06.680 --> 00:44:15.200 for usually a few weeks even after you're blocking its actions but it's 00:44:15.200 --> 00:44:22.400 good to take some every week or so can we talk about how many milligrams of 00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:27.480 vitamin K to people might need to take if they're using two aspirin tablets 00:44:27.480 --> 00:44:37.520 several times a day one milligram is a pretty good dose of vitamin K but it's 00:44:37.520 --> 00:44:45.280 okay to take 20 or 30 milligrams it tends to lower blood pressure so that's 00:44:45.280 --> 00:44:50.720 the only thing that's interesting because thorn research thorn with a knee 00:44:50.720 --> 00:44:55.840 they've been around for quite some time and we've always gotten our own vitamin 00:44:55.840 --> 00:45:00.760 K to from them and they always had it probably about a year ago or so I think 00:45:00.760 --> 00:45:04.360 they changed the labeling for supplement fact panel or maybe two years ago but it 00:45:04.360 --> 00:45:08.480 was always a one milligram per drop and it's not cheap it's pretty expensive 00:45:08.480 --> 00:45:12.040 stuff but then I just saw recently they've read not rebranded but they've 00:45:12.040 --> 00:45:16.800 relabeled you know their range and it's kind of in keeping with this nude look 00:45:16.800 --> 00:45:20.080 or design or whatever it is they want to achieve with it but the products are 00:45:20.080 --> 00:45:26.560 good but they've got a 10 milligram dose so that's that's to say that they are on 00:45:26.560 --> 00:45:31.440 their supplement facts panel label for vitamin K to one drop one milligram and 00:45:31.440 --> 00:45:36.360 they put the supplement fact panel dose of 10 milligrams as a single dose yeah I 00:45:36.360 --> 00:45:42.200 think that's okay because it has side effects of decalcifying your arteries 00:45:42.200 --> 00:45:49.880 and some studies showed an anti-cancer effect and the brain protected effect I 00:45:49.880 --> 00:45:53.560 thought you'd I thought you'd also said some point in the past about hepatitis 00:45:53.560 --> 00:45:59.920 treatment with vitamin K that was yeah anti-inflammatory okay all right so I 00:45:59.920 --> 00:46:03.220 think we have another call one year actually I was looking at our log and 00:46:03.220 --> 00:46:07.000 we're either supposed to play the music junkie asking us to donate to came in or 00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:11.720 you could ad lib one well go ahead and play one I don't want to spoil the oh oh 00:46:11.720 --> 00:46:14.560 well I didn't pull it up I thought it would be much better just okay good 00:46:14.560 --> 00:46:18.480 good because the listeners who are listening now love Dr. Peat 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keep you on yes okay so please 00:47:37.660 --> 00:47:44.560 not the board of people but yeah thank you very much to the board and if you 00:47:44.560 --> 00:47:47.880 really want to step up and help came out in a way other than volunteering in the 00:47:47.880 --> 00:47:52.760 studio and you have like say treasurer skills or something consider at least 00:47:52.760 --> 00:47:56.300 like going to the board meetings on zoom and getting up to speed on stuff and 00:47:56.300 --> 00:48:01.600 then consider being a board member at some point in the future okay well thank 00:48:01.600 --> 00:48:07.120 you that's that and then let's carry on with the last 10 minutes or so so people 00:48:07.120 --> 00:48:12.520 if you're in the area you want to call him questions 707 923 3911 Dr. Raymond 00:48:12.520 --> 00:48:18.800 Peat giving his professional advice or advice call it opinion say advice will 00:48:18.800 --> 00:48:22.340 make you do anything but it's a free world and you have alternatives if you 00:48:22.340 --> 00:48:26.800 want to use them folks so don't be afraid of it at the end of the day we 00:48:26.800 --> 00:48:30.520 mentioned those things about the dark pigments and then immune surveillance 00:48:30.520 --> 00:48:34.600 you talked about the mast cells degranulating and histamine being 00:48:34.600 --> 00:48:39.720 liberated is all being very anti so rather inflammatory and not what you 00:48:39.720 --> 00:48:44.760 want is the antithesis of what you want the next thing I wanted to bring up was 00:48:44.760 --> 00:48:52.120 the concept of invasion of local tissues now cancers obviously do this so they do 00:48:52.120 --> 00:48:57.660 it quite well because apart from I think breaking down connective tissue which 00:48:57.660 --> 00:49:04.080 they can do with various enzymes and hyaluronic acid and stuff they are pretty 00:49:04.080 --> 00:49:09.000 good at mobilizing themselves and getting into circulation because of 00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:13.620 their effects on the vasculature what do you think about substances that would 00:49:13.620 --> 00:49:20.800 improve the endothelia make it more resilient if that's possible as a word 00:49:20.800 --> 00:49:26.880 what do you think about the metastatic ability of cancer and how we would hope 00:49:26.880 --> 00:49:31.640 to contain a cancer if it was growing so that we could treat it before it has had 00:49:31.640 --> 00:49:38.800 a chance to spread keeping the HIF down I think is the main thing it promotes 00:49:38.800 --> 00:49:46.840 metastasis and damage to the surrounding tissues we've got two people on the air 00:49:46.840 --> 00:49:49.360 I don't want to cut you off but I know you like answering people and I'd love 00:49:49.360 --> 00:49:54.120 to hear you your side of the discussion so we've got two people on the air 00:49:54.120 --> 00:49:59.120 first caller you're on the air where you from what's your question yes you're on 00:49:59.120 --> 00:50:02.840 the air what are you from what's your question my name is Bruce and I'm from 00:50:02.840 --> 00:50:07.480 Wendy gap near Garberville hey Bruce what's your question I have a question 00:50:07.480 --> 00:50:16.680 what's a normal blood sugar historically I mean and isn't a high blood sugar an 00:50:16.680 --> 00:50:24.240 inflammation for our venous system I've been a diabetic six shots a day for 43 00:50:24.240 --> 00:50:30.480 years and I've studied this somewhat on my own in my situation I'm trying to 00:50:30.480 --> 00:50:36.440 avoid sugar and to keep my blood sugar low because the effect of a high blood 00:50:36.440 --> 00:50:42.400 sugar seems to be destructive yeah so I'm curious what the doctor thinks about a 00:50:42.400 --> 00:50:50.960 normal blood sugar level inflammation good if you look at the healthiest 00:50:50.960 --> 00:50:59.600 pregnancies they used to be in the diabetic range 140 milligrams percent of 00:50:59.600 --> 00:51:09.480 glucose and the diabetes industry does lots of experiments supposedly showing 00:51:09.480 --> 00:51:17.960 that high glucose is toxic but what they're doing is creating a diabetic 00:51:17.960 --> 00:51:25.040 type of high glucose meaning that the cells are unable to get and use the 00:51:25.040 --> 00:51:33.360 glucose so all of the studies that I've seen in the dangers of elevated glucose 00:51:33.360 --> 00:51:40.200 were actually studies blocking the ability to use glucose so that it would 00:51:40.200 --> 00:51:48.760 rise so I understand that insulin is necessary to get the sugar out of your 00:51:48.760 --> 00:51:54.480 blood and I guess into your fat bank is basically where it goes and so with the 00:51:54.480 --> 00:52:03.680 high blood sugar in my case I can't get my fat back because insulin also holds 00:52:03.680 --> 00:52:10.680 fat on your body so the idea was to come down in blood sugar and then insulin 00:52:10.680 --> 00:52:15.440 would come down with it and then let the fat come from your fat bank and be 00:52:15.440 --> 00:52:21.880 metabolized and maintain a weight a better weight so I've managed to get 00:52:21.880 --> 00:52:26.080 pretty thin over the years because I've worked hard to keep my blood sugar down 00:52:26.080 --> 00:52:34.600 and I don't eat a lot of carbohydrates but I'm really curious about recommending 00:52:34.600 --> 00:52:38.920 that people have a high blood sugar is that what's happened to people or do 00:52:38.920 --> 00:52:44.080 normal people keep a low blood sugar even though they're eating a lot of 00:52:44.080 --> 00:52:52.600 glucose yeah if you're able to keep your cortisol at another stress hormones low 00:52:52.600 --> 00:53:01.720 but that's what lets your tissues use the glucose so you can turn off the 00:53:01.720 --> 00:53:10.520 liver's gluconeogenesis and stop pushing your blood sugar up to overcome 00:53:10.520 --> 00:53:18.320 the inability to oxidize it I understand the gluconeogenesis but that that 00:53:18.320 --> 00:53:23.160 doesn't happen in my understanding until blood sugar comes down your liver's 00:53:23.160 --> 00:53:28.560 inactive when you have a high ramping up and down blood sugar you're not doing 00:53:28.560 --> 00:53:34.480 new code gluconeogenesis but when it gets down to our whatever familiar 00:53:34.480 --> 00:53:40.120 standpoint and I think it's in the 80s then the liver begins to do gluconeogenesis 00:53:40.120 --> 00:53:47.880 to provide sugar for our brain which of course constantly needs it I think 00:53:47.880 --> 00:53:55.720 the crucial regulatory factors thyroid hormone that activates the oxidation 00:53:55.720 --> 00:54:05.360 system and makes the insulin unnecessary okay all this time I've been taking a 00:54:05.360 --> 00:54:12.120 thyroid supplement because I'm familiar low in thyroid so I also take a thyroid 00:54:12.120 --> 00:54:19.260 supplement have you checked your body temperature yeah constantly when you go 00:54:19.260 --> 00:54:24.240 around in society these days you might get your body temperature tested at the 00:54:24.240 --> 00:54:32.280 dentist office and I'm usually a little low than 97 something usually yeah do 00:54:32.280 --> 00:54:40.200 you've heard about exercise reducing your need for insulin certainly it's the 00:54:40.200 --> 00:54:48.320 same thing with thyroid hormone warming you up the same way exercise does and 00:54:48.320 --> 00:54:55.720 activating your ability to oxidize glucose partly just by being warmer I 00:54:55.720 --> 00:55:01.000 hear you I know cold is probably good for that way to be a little chilly how 00:55:01.000 --> 00:55:04.960 about one more question what do you think about actually we've got another 00:55:04.960 --> 00:55:08.200 caller after you and we're at the top of the air and I asked you to be quick so 00:55:08.200 --> 00:55:12.480 sorry we're just gonna go to the next caller okay let's take this next caller 00:55:12.480 --> 00:55:17.560 quickly what's your question where you from hello hello you're on the air 00:55:17.560 --> 00:55:22.600 what's your question where you from oh I'm from Artea and I have a question I 00:55:22.600 --> 00:55:28.720 have grandchildren who love to have lots of burgers yeast when I make them popcorn 00:55:28.720 --> 00:55:34.280 is it bad for them to have too much one is the boy and one is the girl nine and 00:55:34.280 --> 00:55:42.320 five and so I went with their breweries you know I'll take this s on the air okay 00:55:42.320 --> 00:55:46.540 Dr. Peat did you hear that not very well what was she saying about I didn't 00:55:46.540 --> 00:55:49.200 catch you she's talking about brewer's yeast I think he actually wanted to know if it's 00:55:49.200 --> 00:55:53.280 good to feed kids brewer's yeast but that might not be exactly it are you still there 00:55:53.280 --> 00:55:57.520 fine yeah okay Dr. Peat what do you think a brew is east there's a source of 00:55:57.520 --> 00:56:08.720 B vitamins and brewer's yeast oh it's so high in phosphate you have to be 00:56:08.720 --> 00:56:19.240 sure to get milk or cheese calcium supplement and vitamin D with it if you 00:56:19.240 --> 00:56:27.400 use it every day in any significant quantity you'll fairly quickly notice 00:56:27.400 --> 00:56:34.240 depressed calcium metabolism okay well we probably better hold you there too 00:56:34.240 --> 00:56:38.440 Dr. Peat just so I can give out people give people your information thanks so 00:56:38.440 --> 00:56:43.120 much for joining us okay thank you Dr. Peat for joining us and thank you for 00:56:43.120 --> 00:56:46.920 answering that gentleman's question regarding sugar and diabetes and I 00:56:46.920 --> 00:56:52.080 wanted to say one thing quickly if that gentleman is still listening if you 00:56:52.080 --> 00:56:57.640 email us we'll send you a chart so you can check your temperature and pulses and 00:56:57.640 --> 00:57:02.200 compare them to what a normal temperature and pulse would both levels 00:57:02.200 --> 00:57:08.240 be before and after eating and you can compare to what it would be normally if 00:57:08.240 --> 00:57:14.300 you had your thyroid level optimal so please email us Sarah or Andrew at 00:57:14.300 --> 00:57:18.600 Western Botanical Medicine and we'll send you that chart so you can test 00:57:18.600 --> 00:57:22.840 yourself okay well thank you for that Sarah so let's give out Dr. Peat's 00:57:22.840 --> 00:57:27.680 information so people have listened to that show and we're gonna listen to it 00:57:27.680 --> 00:57:32.680 on the archive Dr. Raymond Peat has a wealth of knowledge and archive material 00:57:32.680 --> 00:57:40.920 on his website www.raypeat.com we can be reached through our website 00:57:40.920 --> 00:57:46.880 westernbotanicalmedicine.com my wife and I are both naturopathic doctors we 00:57:46.880 --> 00:57:52.880 produce a range of extracts of medicinal plants we graduated in 1999 and 2001 so 00:57:52.880 --> 00:57:56.680 we've been doing this 20 plus years now and Dr. Peat has been a guiding light 00:57:56.680 --> 00:58:01.680 for the last 11 at least so until the third Friday of next month I think we 00:58:01.680 --> 00:58:06.780 could probably carry on wrapping up this month's cancer dialogues but thanks for 00:58:06.780 --> 00:58:13.200 those people that called in and yeah we'll be on wintertime next month so 00:58:13.200 --> 00:58:18.760 it's all of you happy for enjoy the colors and the coming rain we'll speak 00:58:18.760 --> 00:58:22.400 to you then good night thank you for listening my name is Sarah Johannesen 00:58:22.400 --> 00:58:27.400 Murray my name is Andrew Murray thank you good night 00:58:43.440 --> 00:58:49.620 and this has been Redwood Community Radio KMUD Garberville KMUE Eureka 00:58:49.620 --> 00:58:55.480 KLAI Laytonville just a moment and you will be stepping out on a wing and a 00:58:55.480 --> 00:59:01.000 prayer with Shaka and Shyla thanks for tuning in 00:59:13.200 --> 00:59:15.200 [Music] 00:59:43.200 --> 00:59:45.200 [Music]