Vitamin D, Thyroid, Evolving Consciously

00:00 Well, we’re happy to tell you that for the time being, until he doesn’t want to do it anymore, because he has free will, Dr. Pete says, yeah, I can come on once a month, and we’re gonna do the first or the third Tuesday, and that’s today. So we’re excited about that. Thank you, Dr. Pete. Dr. Ray Pete, PhD, University of Oregon, he specialization in physiology. Started his work with hormones back in 1968. Man, that’s when I started in radio in the Navy, 68. How’d he do it? He wrote his dissertation in 72, which he outlined his ideas on progesterone. Progesterone. And the hormones closely related to this. Something else, Clugdale, I wanna make sure you’re on. Dr. Pete, are you there? Yes. Hi, hi, good morning. Good morning. Have we had our coffee today? Yep, have two cups already. Wow, wow. What time do you generally get up? Oh, generally 8.30. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. You live on the West Coast, huh? Yeah. 01:00 Yeah. You lived down to Mexico for a while? Oh, yeah, years down there. First time I went down, it was 1955 for summer school, studying painting, and then many times since then, and had a school down there for a few years, like college. Mm-hmm. Who you taught? Yeah, it was an experimental college from 1961 to 65. Uh-huh, and what kind of things were you teaching down there? It was intended to be an sort of open curriculum in which teachers could teach anything they wanted, and students could study anything they wanted, and the student would propose an idea and try to get teachers interested, or the teacher would give a lecture 02:01 and see what the students thought. Huh, college level, university level? Yeah. Uh-huh. What kind of things were the students most interested in? What is that, 40 years ago? Wow, 50 years ago. Literature, philosophy, and painting. Really? Huh. It was sort of a matter of who the teachers were, I think. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you still spend time painting now? Oh, yeah, almost every day. Really? Yeah. What kind of things do you paint? Oh, a few landscapes, lots of faces and figures, sort of integrating figures in the landscapes. That must be a nice meditative thing to do for you. It is. It completely gets me out of the words from reading too much. I’ll do it. 03:02 I don’t know how your head explodes now, you know, not explodes with. Do you find, is it fairly, talk a little bit about your research now as your ongoing research, finding research that you think is valuable to even retain that information? How do you do that? I have a general thought in mind, understanding how everything works. Yeah. And things that don’t fit the established theories or paradigm just stick with me. Some of them for 50 or 60 or 70 years have been in the back of my mind. And that was what finally shifted my main activity from painting and literature to biology was these unanswered questions that no one was working on. 04:04 And currently, the idea is around the idea of stress and energy and structural development. There’s a young professor at MIT, Jeremy England, who a few years ago proposed a new way of looking at the origin of life rather than being governed by chance. And I think that’s a good point. I think that’s a good point. Rather than being governed by chance, the really kind of silly idea that is behind neo-Darwinism that everything is random, and that life developed by chance. Jeremy England is saying that the flow of energy very quickly on a timescale relative to the conventional beliefs 05:05 very quickly will create order and that the order will begin self-organizing. And his idea really is just a new mathematical version of the Russian Bernadsky who started that same idea at the end of the 19th century and tried to convince like he applied for research support at tertiary American universities who told him to go away. But he was integrating the development of soil with the development of organisms in the context of the continuing flow of energy from the sun. And he showed very clearly why organisms 06:06 develop big brains simply responding to the flow of energy from the sun. Oh, and that’s how the evolutionary, that’s how we evolved is what he argues. That’s how we as a species. Yeah, but my interest is in how it governs development from the ovum up through the adult form. It’s really the same sort of principle that it’s the flow of energy ultimately derived from the sun in the form of the sugar made by plants. And then the sugar which the mother consumes is provided to the fertilized ovum and in proportion to the oxygen and sugar, basically the source of energy 07:09 and the recipient of the energy on oxygen. It’s that flow from glucose to oxygen that shapes the human organism or any animal organism. And it follows that same principle that the flow of energy through the system creates order. And those observations that have been sitting around for a hundred years are just now starting to show up again in the science culture with people like Jeremy England. So would that argue then that the energy, whatever this energy is that drives everything called spirit or whatever, has an order to it? It is an orderly energy. Yeah, and that’s what really went wrong with neo-Darwinism. 08:15 They were horrified by the idea of spirit guiding things. Yeah, right. So they said, no, it’s all blind and random. Matter is utterly stupid and mindless. And the alternative is that the matter isn’t alien to spirit. That matter isn’t alien to spirit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it would pretend then that we can utilize spirit, this energy to our greater good and to everyone’s greater good, becoming more conscious of what he’s arguing, right? What Mr. England’s arguing. Yeah, and it implies that there’s a basic goodness in existence. Yeah, I like that. Well, it feels right. I mean, that spirit, we take all the beautiful attributes of goodness and love and abundance and beauty, right? 09:16 Balance, all those words. It feels like that’s what’s spiritually made out of, if you had to describe it on a game show or something. Yeah, and philosophers, since before Plato’s time, have been under that, and it’s fairly continuous through philosophy and all the cultures, and it’s only this fairly recent neo-Darwinist world view that has put things off the track. So I don’t really understand neo-Darwism. What is it exactly? What are they arguing, the neo-Darwinist? The basic horrible assumption is that the universe is random. How random? And that variation happens only by chance. And so they see evolution as something involving roughly a billion years. 10:19 But Sidney Fox, a biologist about 40, 50 years ago, doubted that timescale had any reality, and he put, instead of thinking of random changes in a prime orginal soup of an ocean, he said, what if it was just a volcanic energy like these volcanic vents under the ocean? The team was at very high temperature. He took some hot lava and dropped some amino acids on it and then splashed water on the hot rock and amino acids and looked under the microscope, and he had what looked like bacteria. And in an afternoon, he developed a process so that high school students could create self-replicating 11:23 energy-consuming cell-like structures in an afternoon lab class. And so basically he demonstrated that chance is not at all involved in making proteins and DNA. He added the bases that are used in making up DNA and RNA and these protein microspheres, self-organizing, integrated and made chains, made DNA-like chains out of the basic precursors. So it’s sort of a self-guiding or cosmically guided process rather than random chance over time. Yeah, somewhat more like maybe free will and God’s will or maybe the same thing in a way. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, that’s pretty cool stuff. So on the bacteria level, we always hear about 12:25 how much bacteria we’ve been talking a bit about, parasites, Dr. Pete, from in the last couple of weeks. As a biologist, I mean, we just a lot, there’s just a lot of bacteria everywhere in our body that our body’s really made up of a lot of bacteria. How does it work? No, but they can coexist with us harmlessly. One of the people I got interested in in the 1940s, one of these anomalies that has been excluded from biology and medicine was Frederick Koch. And he developed a cancer treatment about 1915 to 1920. He was a professor at University of Michigan. And the AMA didn’t like his attitude. And so after one or two papers were published, 13:28 describing his work treating cancer successfully, no one would publish any more of his papers. He lived decades after that doing his own work, but he was written out of science and medicine. And he showed that the treatment that he used for cancer patients worked for infections. And it worked simply by activating the oxidative energy system, restoring mitochondrial energy production, which activated the immune system and prevented inflammation. And in the process, it made any bacteria which were present made them harmless by providing them what they needed, preventing stress to the bacteria at the same time 14:29 that it prevented stress to the host organism. And some of his followers in Canada tested his materials on cows with infected udders at mastitis and showed that they could demonstrate the infecting organisms coming out in the milk. And when the cow was treated, their oxidative metabolism improved and the infection disappeared, their udder became unenflamed and normal, but the number of bacteria present increased. The bacteria had become harmless and thrived without hurting the organism at all. So what does that mean for us when we think about oxidative stress? It’s exactly the wrong idea. 15:33 This people in the 1960s had already demonstrated that it was a wrong approach, but for 50 years, the mainstream has gone crazy on the idea of preventing oxidative stress with antioxidants. Vitamin C was sort of a cultural icon. The basic antioxidant, but in cells, it is present in an oxidized form. I experienced this myself in the 1960s. I decided to stop eating all vitamin C rich foods or supplements and analyzed the amount of vitamin C in my urine. It dropped slightly, but I was still putting out 16:35 2000 milligrams a day in my urine a week after I had stopped eating any. And that got me interested in what’s going on energetically and oxidatively with the vitamin C. Where was it coming from? Meat and milk turn out to have a lot of vitamin C in them, but it isn’t present in the form that the ordinary tests can detect. In meat, it’s almost all 10 times more vitamin C is present in the form of dehydral ascorbate, fully oxidized form of the molecule rather than ascorbic acid. And so the tests simply are blind to the amount of vitamin C in our diet 17:36 because they think it should be in the reducing antioxidant form, but it functions in the cell as an oxidant protecting against oxidative damage by maintaining normal oxidation, which is the flow of electrons all the way down to oxygen. As long as the oxygen is sucking up the excess electrons, they won’t go wrong and produce damage. So you want to intensify normal oxidation. And if you cut off the oxygen supply, that’s where you get the so-called oxidative damage because the reductive pressure, the excess of electrons shifts senders like iron atoms. It reduces them, gives them an extra electron, which they will donate to just about anything, 18:38 including water, making the water toxic. So when you cut off the oxygen as the oxidizing source, then water becomes a random oxidizer and you get what they call oxidative damage, but it’s really the result of just exactly the opposite, too much reduction for our oxidative capacity. So that sounds pretty geeky. I wasn’t able to follow all of it. So what’s the takeaway for us, our listeners, and with 5 and C, say, example, and so you say our body, we’re making all that we need? No, but we’re getting it from unsuspected sources. Unsuspected sources, like the meat and milk. Yeah, meat and milk and eggs all, the organism is making it themselves and having it right inside their cells, but in an oxidized form, 19:39 which is stabilizing their oxidative system. So it’s stabilizing their oxidative system and it goes in as an oxidative form. So that is no way detrimental to us, right? No, that’s the form we use. That’s the form we use. But that’s not the form that the scientists say, you gotta have so much vitamin C and blah, blah, blah, and oranges and whatever. Yeah, they’re saying it acts as an antioxidant, but its real function is as an oxidant, the system where proteins are put together in the cell, they call it the endoplasmic reticulum, but it’s just a location or system that forms proteins. One of vitamin C’s main functions is to keep the oxidized state there for folding the proteins properly, keeping the sulfur atoms and the proteins 20:40 in an ready to be oxidized state to lock the protein into a stable condition. Without the vitamin C, the protein folding goes wrong and too many electrons, too little oxygen, will overwhelm that oxidizing function of the vitamin C. So what happens when folks take ascorbic acid or other forms of vitamin C supplementation? What goes on in the body? If it’s the right amount in the well nourished person, it goes into the cell and is used as a dehydro ascorbate and some of it circulating as the reduced form will protect as an antioxidant. It will, for example, put mercury into a reduced form which isn’t dangerous, but it also can put iron and copper 21:44 into a reduced form which is dangerous in those molecules. In the Journal of Free Radical Chemistry, I think it was about 20 or 30 years ago, someone noticed that there were trace impurities even of iron in commercial pure reagent grade or USP grade vitamin C and he put, I think it was a gram of it in the liter of multiply distilled very pure water and then put that in a machine that detects free radicals, electrons, spin resonance and showed that it would, if an x-ray machine had been producing that amount of free radicals, it would have been enough to kill an organism in a few seconds, but he said that showed something 22:46 about our organism that we can eat a gram of vitamin C without dying of free radical poisoning as if x-ray to death, but it was the trace elements of heavy metals, apparently causing the production of free radicals with that concentrated vitamin C. In the body, that’s quickly disposed of and the vitamin C is eliminated as a reductant turned into a protective oxidant. So to take away for you, do you take any extra vitamin C supplementation? No, I stopped in 1967 or eight. I used to stop, nothing at all. And I stopped having habitual cough 23:48 right after I stopped taking the vitamin C so after that, when I would see someone with a habitually runny nose or cough, I would suggest they stop the vitamin C and it generally worked almost always. Is that right? Man, from the motion picture, nothing is as it seems. Just curious. So much contra talk about different things on the planet these days in there, it’s pretty fun. We’ve been discussing the vitamin D thing and we talked to a professor, Michael Hollick. I think, yeah, I’m IT, he’s a pretty cool guy. He was on the show and Stephanie Seneff was on and she had an idea and you know, Hollick is a, I think his takeaway thing was you should take about, I don’t know, what six to 10,000 units would be a reasonable thing and Dr. Seneff was, she was just wondering and she wasn’t basing this on any science but she was really curious that does the supplemental 24:49 vitamin D actually do something totally different than what the sun does as far as helping us and so I’d like to get your thoughts on vitamin D in general. I think she’s very wrong and he’s very right. Oh really, okay. He has pretty much turned the culture around on the issue of vitamin D and I think it’s main function not the calcium bone building function that they talk about I think it’s even more basic function is that it reduces the parathyroid hormone and the parathyroid hormone is an activator of the kidney production of what they call activated vitamin D, one comma 25 hydroxy. One they measure, the one they measure on a blood test. Well sometimes they measure that 25:49 but the usual one they measure is 25 hydroxy. Oh 25, right, yeah. And they called the one made in the kidney the activated vitamin D and people who studied that go off on a separate line of thinking but several years ago a mutant mouse was found that aged very fast in all of the standard ways, osteoporosis, dementia, wrinkles, gray hair and so on and the mutant gene was called clotho or clotho after Greek goddess or some mythological figure and the clotho gene now is recognized as a regulator 26:50 of calcium metabolism and it has an anti-parathyroid hormone effect in many parts of the system and the vitamin D that we take or that we get from the sunlight works to reinforce clotho, the anti-aging gene or protein and at the same time it’s lowering the parathyroid hormone and in the process it lowers the parathyroid hormone and it lowers the so-called active vitamin D and I think the failure to look at the relation of the so-called active vitamin D to the circulating 25-hydroxy form and see how that compares to all of these indicators of health that have been neglected, not just the bones but the rate of aging 27:53 and that will help people to unravel things and see why the strange range of health issues that Hollick talks about, how they really fit together and it all has to do this reductive oxidative balance the flow of energy and the parathyroid hormone rises when we’re deficient when our diet is deficient in calcium and magnesium and vitamin D or we aren’t getting enough sunlight and it’s part of an emergency system that creates tissue repair and regeneration on an emergency scale but that diverts energy from the long-range purpose of the organism. 28:54 The overriding large purpose is to be conscious. The emergency purpose is to repair tissue damage and these hormones such as parathyroid hormone are working on the emergency scale and diverting energy from our big biological function consciousness and an example, many people have noticed that after doing surgery, for example, someone with kidney disease, if they remove their parathyroid glands they will have a remarkable improvement in their health without these supposedly essential glands, experimenters on, I think it was mice, maybe rats, anyway, or rodent, they, 29:56 about a, yeah, it was rats, a fourth of the way through their pregnancy, about five days pregnant, they removed the animals, the mothers, parathyroid glands and so the babies developed in pretty much in the absence of that hormone. And then several generations later, as much as eight or 10 generations later, these offspring of that one exposure to a great deficiency of parathyroid hormone, these animals were fertile in old age that normal rats have become sterile and ready to die. The old rats descendant of the parathyroid deficient mother were still working and reproducing. So what are we learning from this then? What’s, let’s break this down a little bit 30:58 to better understand the bottom and do you think so. So are you on board then, agreeing with Hollick, or are you saying, at the end of the day, maybe six to 10,000 vitamin D supplement would be a reasonable thing. He also said that if you look at the 25-idroxy on the blood test, that the upper scale would be preferable to him as far as the lower scale. I think that, I think the range, Dr. Peter, somewhere between 30 and 100 on the blood test. Yeah, I think the upper end of the scale is right, 80 maybe. Yeah, so you kind of go along with him where you think an 80 thing might be a better serve for humans to be around in that level. Yeah, 50 to 80, I think there’s pretty consistent evidence that that’s good. How is it, I wonder, in a fellow like me, I get on the sun every day, every day, every day. I just do, I just love sitting out there, especially midday and with no clothes and stuff 31:59 and my level was like 38 when I took it about a month ago, which is kind of on the lower end. How can I explain that to myself? The older you get, the less cholesterol there is in your skin. Oh, your cholesterol. Yeah, it’s basically a cholesterol deficiency in the skin that makes older people need much, much more sunlight. Oh, so you could take more and you’re not absorbing as much? Yeah, there just isn’t as much cholesterol in the skin to be turned into vitamin D. Right, okay. So that’s the whole mechanism of the cholesterol. Well, my cholesterol levels were way up the high and good ones, but it’s just maybe it’s left my skin a little bit. Yeah, the skin aging. So I wonder then if I would take supplemental D, would that number go up and would that be a good thing for someone like me and other people? Yeah, cholesterol can be rubbed into the skin 33:00 and helps restore the youthful function. Oh, you mean I did do it more normally than taking the supplements? I don’t know of any good sources of pure cholesterol, but rubbing it into the skin slight impurities aren’t likely to be as much risk as taking it orally. Oh, I wonder what would you would use pure cholesterol? I didn’t know it possible. Just eat meat or eggs, right? Yeah, eggs are of a very good source of cholesterol. So what is it doing when the levels are good on the 25-hydroxy test at the levels 50 to 80 like you and I’ll holic are proponents of? What’s that doing for the bodies of the people that have those levels? It’s on one side of the research, it’s helping the clothal protein to work, 34:02 but the side that I’ve been paying more attention to is lowering the parathyroid hormone, which is the other side of the rising function of the clothal and all kinds of stress increase to a toxic effect, the parathyroid hormone, a deficiency of salt or sodium in your diet or the inability to retain sodium properly causes the parathyroid hormone to rise the same way a calcium deficiency does. And so the adrenals under stress or especially in a sodium salt deficiency, the adrenals produce aldosterone at a higher level and aldosterone directly blocks your mitochondrial energy production and increases the parathyroid hormone activity 35:05 which itself functions by blocking your parathyroid, blocking your mitochondrial oxidation and making up for it with glycolytic energy production, which shifts you over into the reductive stress, the failure of oxidation. Where does it, how does the parathyroid hormone lowering and raising tied in with like the T’s, TSH levels that people get on the thyroid test? TSH is increased by stress hormones. And so a person with low thyroid doesn’t make their oxygen turn into carbon dioxide. They don’t have the carbon dioxide needed to retain sodium. And so they lose sodium, that activates the adrenals to produce aldosterone and the aldosterone interferes 36:12 with mitochondria and increases parathyroid hormone. The TSH being activated by stress is one of the, in itself it is a signal of stress as well as being a product of stress. And the TSH goes around irritating or creating inflammation, for example, in the blood vessels, tending to work with parathyroid hormone. Parathyroid hormone is what shifts calcium out of the bones into the blood vessels. And TSH in excess works in that same direction, calcifying the blood vessels, increasing blood pressure. So the traditional recognition that hypothyroid people with the diagnostic high TSH, 37:14 hypothyroidism goes with a great risk of hypertension and related diseases. But it turns out that it’s the TSH directly creating much of that damage to the circulatory system and it has inflammation promoting effects in the bone marrow. Everywhere it has been studied, it has a tissue irritating effect, so the stress condition creating more adrenaline and cortisol, for example, these can compensate, the hormones will suppress the TSH and reduce inflammation. So the stress which is creating the hypothyroid need for more thyroid production, tending to increase TSH, it will also produce more cortisol and adrenaline 38:18 to lower the TSH defensively. So in the defensive condition, you will look like your thyroid is normal because the cortisol is holding the TSH down, protecting against inflammation, but it makes TSH useless as an indicator of your thyroid status because it’s just as much an indicator of your stress status. Wow, boy, really tricky business. So when folks are taking, say, a little bit of nature thyroid or one of those guys and they’re getting their TSH level to lower, they’re on the right path, they’re doing good things, right? Yeah, I think it’s good to have close to zero on TSH as long as everything else is going smoothly. And how do you know if everything else is going smoothly? Stable blood, sugar, feeling good, not all the good functions, good sound, sleep, for example, 39:21 takes energy to the brain to make the brain relax and go to sleep. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the traditional diets used to contain the equivalent of these natural desiccated thyroids, maybe something like an average of half a grain in the daily food. The Europeans used to make sausages, for example, out of all of the glands of an animal. They would make stew or something out of muscle meats, but for the flavor, they would put liver and thyroid glands and other tissues in some type of sausage, usually. Sometimes the whole thing would just go in a big stew pot and so they would get muscle and bone and skin and thyroid gland. 40:22 And if you eat the whole animal, that way you’re getting your little daily dose of desiccated thyroid equivalent. Yeah, and you had said I wanted to kind of retrace before we do a little break here is that when folks start off, you thought if they were doing it themselves and you can get these thyroid things now overseas or clean stuff to do a little bit at a time, maybe do a fourth of a 60 tab or a grain or like 20, let’s see, what did you say? Like 15, would it be 15 milligrams or so and start slowing and kind of teach the thyroid to be happy with that and work your way up? Yeah, traditional thyroid doctors like Brenda Barnes usually started with 30 milligrams of a well-standardized product, like at that time it was armor thyroid, but I have seen two people who reacted very surprisingly to 15 milligrams, a fourth of a grain with heart pain. 41:29 And I realized what’s happening is that your cells, especially your big muscle cells retain magnesium and calcium in a balance, magnesium is a relaxant. And thyroid is needed for the muscles to retain the proper amount of magnesium. And your heart has that same magnesium retaining stabilizing effect when your thyroid is good. But if you’re suddenly increasing the thyroid when you’ve been deficient, your muscles, your leg muscles will compete with your heart muscle for that trace of magnesium in your diet. And your heart arteries will constrict and you’ll get a heart pain. So it’s very important to make sure that your diet 42:32 includes plenty of magnesium when you’re starting to use thyroid. Just magnesium rich foods. Yeah, as, for example, milk has a good amount of magnesium and milk and meat will provide the magnesium but many people have a low intake of those. And then it’s only two people that I’ve seen out of about a thousand who had that reaction but it’s something to keep in mind. So have you seen people that actually have felt better and then thus lower their TSH number down closer to zero just on 15 or even 30 milligrams of the thyroid meds, you know, the natural stuff. The ones that’s at T3 and the T4, I guess, is the one we’re talking about, right? Sometimes 30 milligrams will do it. But historically, it usually is around 100 milligrams 43:35 or 120 of the desiccated stuff to reach a stable anti-inflammatory level. But you still like working your way up there? Yeah, traditionally they would take five or six months of increasing at 30 milligrams at a time before they would be. Oh, so over a long period, just a little bit. 15, 15, yeah, yeah, just slowly, yeah. That makes a lot of sense to help the body to figure out what’s going on, huh? Just saying, yeah, yeah, cool. Stay right there, Dr. Pete. Boy, we have lots of emails, holy cow. So we’re gonna get to them all and Dr. Ray Pete is with us and he’s said, yeah, for the time being, as long as the creeks don’t rise and I can come on once a month and that would be the third Tuesday of the month and that’s today, so we appreciate him doing that. And we’re gonna get your emails, all of them, and we’re gonna do it, hold on. Daniel Vitalis talks about his two premier medicinal mushroom products, shaga and rashi. 44:38 Because rashi and shaga are considered not just adaptogens but they’re also considered immunomodulators, they’re safe for daily consumption for a lifetime. 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Talking to Dr. Ray Pete, a nutritional counselor, been around for a long time working with this back in the 60s and pleasure to have him here. From now we’re gonna get him on once a month, you know, that’s cool. So Dr. Pete, you wanna take some emails here? Sure, sure. Sure, why not? Let’s have some fun. This is from Masha. 49:44 What is the purpose of the endogenous unsaturated fats and why are they, like meat acid, not harmful contrary to ingested poofers such as omega-3s or omega-6s? The omega-9 series that we manufacture out of saturated fat or sugar or starch, the omega-9 means that there are nine saturated carbons lacking double bonds at the tail end of the molecule. The acid end is the chemically manipulable end that the body handles with enzymes and adds to the length of the chain at that end. 50:44 And so the omega-9 series, the unstable water, relatively water level and loving unsaturated carbon bonds are closer to the active end of the molecule where the acid end is creating a slight shift away from electron activity. The oxygen groups cause a retraction of electrons wherever this acid touches. Carbon dioxide is the basic acidic group that stabilizes the electronic system of proteins and other molecules. And the acidic end of the fat molecule 51:46 is like a carbon dioxide group which is protecting against free toxicants. They take electrons and so these unstable double bonds are close to the protective acidic end of the fat molecule leaving the stable, oily part of the molecule to have a surface creating effect on the water that is exposed to it. So when water is at a surface, whether it’s air or oil, the film that you see on a cup of water that you can balance a pin on, flow to pin on, it’s so tough that it can support a considerable object 52:50 like a water skater bug. The oily end of the molecule puts water into that tough, stable condition and the acidic end protects the water relatively hydrophilic unsaturated ends. So the overall picture is that the overall picture is that the unsaturated fats that we make have some affinity for water but it’s held under control and protected against oxidation by the ineffective carbon dioxide integrated close to that unsaturated part of the molecule allowing nine carbon tail to have a strong influence in toughening up the water surrounding 53:54 this protein fat system. Omega minus three system is the least stable because it has only a short three carbon hydrophobic tail so it has less contribution to the film property of water. The water is less tough and protected when you have these fats and at the same time the risky, easily oxidized double bond are farther away from the protective acid group at the other end of the fat. Wow, I mean so we humans then, 54:54 I guess olive oil is one of the safest oils? Yeah, because it has only eight or 10 or 12%!(NOVERB) of the omega minus six which they are more stable than the fish oils but not as stable as the ones we make and we can turn the bulk oil is an omega nine mono unsaturated fat and so olive oil is providing pretty much the same fat composition that sugar would provide. Sugar would be turned, any fat we make from sugar is all omega minus nine. Olive oil, something like 60 to 80%!(NOVERB) 55:56 is this safe mono unsaturated. And that’s the one that theoretically raises the HDL levels which we like, is that correct? No, not necessarily, stress raises HDL. I thought HDL was good to have that number high. That, yeah, it often turns out that way but there are many situations in which it’s a precursor to cancer. Oh, I see, so is that that simple? I guess we went through a lot of years saying take olive oil because it raises your HDL and the higher your HDL, the healthier you are. Remember, we went through that phase. Yeah, the HDL is a protective reaction to stress but if it’s too high for too long that is associated with some degenerative problem. Do you think we’re ever gonna know I’m in in our lifetimes of really nitty gritty and intractable, what goes on 56:59 when we react to a stressful situation on planet Earth? I mean, it’s probably pretty just difficult to tell exactly all the negative things that go on. Well, I think that’s the thing that Jeremy England and others working in the tradition started by Vernadsky. I think that’s basically what they’re working on. Really trying to figure out, you know. Linda writes in, babies are generally given vitamin K, a synthetic form right after birth. Newborns are generally deficient in K. Is there an oral form that can be administered instead of the injection, which is aluminum in it, among the other things? Oh, I didn’t know they did that to babies. Yeah, for a long time they were using the very toxic, I think it’s K3 synthetic vitamin K, but at least now they’re using a non-toxic form, 58:02 adding toxins to it. But it works even transtermily. You need a bigger dose, but it is absorbed through the skin. So if a mother was eating vitamin K while she was pregnant, the baby wouldn’t need a supplement, but it can be supplemented on the lips or on the skin. What about K2? Do we need K2? Is it good to have that with a vitamin D? Yeah, it’s involved in energy production, not just clotting. And in the clotting system, it’s actually needed to make anti-clotting proteins. Protein C and protein S are intrinsic protection against abnormal clotting. So vitamin K deficiency can cause excess bleeding, 59:06 but also leads to abnormal clotting and strokes. And it’s involved in calcium metabolism, protecting the blood vessels against calcification. The same way that vitamin D and calcium in the diet do. And it’s involved in synthesizing brain chemicals, but actually in the mitochondrion, it’s working with coenzyme Q10 to produce energy, stabilizing that system. When we use the term strokes in our culture, just generally people, is it the idea that at some point, something happens in the blood clots and it’ll just cause big problems in the brain and strokes and heart? Is that what we generally say strokes are? Officially. Officially? Yeah. There are several times as frequent 01:00:08 clotting type strokes as bleeding type strokes. I see. But if you actually look at the data, any extremely old person is likely to be having small bleeding strokes, microscopic capillary level bleeding in their brain and other tissues. And I think vitamin K and progesterone and thyroid and vitamin D and all these things protect against that multiplicity of small bleeding strokes. And the so-called transient ischemic attack is a constriction of small arteries caused by reduced energy production. Carbon dioxide is the normal vasodilator in the brain. 01:01:10 And if your brain is just not getting enough sugar or oxygen, it stops making enough carbon dioxide. And so the arteries constrict and shut off completely and taking extra carbon dioxide or extra sugar can sometimes break the tension, the ischemic attack. The stress hormones providing increased blood sugar will usually stop that transient constrictive effect. The stress hormone, one of the basic triggers of the stress system is serotonin. And under stress, the brain concentration of serotonin increasing is what turns on the ACTH cortisol 01:02:11 stress hormone system. But in the process, the increased serotonin in the brain reduces circulation of the brain. And I think it’s one of the constrictive factors that reduces the production of carbon dioxide and tends to tighten up blood vessels and reduce oxidation and the use of a glucose in the brain. And how do we increase this carbon dioxide? In an emergency, re-breathing in a paper bag, you can, I’ve seen people lower crisis level blood pressure in just a few hours by every 30 minutes or so. Breathing as long as they can in a paper bag, breathing for one or two minutes in an average size paper bag. You run out of oxygen and have to stop, 01:03:14 but then resting awhile, you can do it again. And the increasing carbon dioxide by recycling it will relax blood vessels, especially in the brain, but throughout the system. And so the resistance to circulation of the blood drops as the carbon dioxide opens up the blood vessels and that can restore functions of the brain breaking a transient stroke effect. But it also by reducing the resistance to circulation makes your blood, makes your heart able to produce a bigger stroke with less effort. So it can relax, reduce the strain on the heart while the heart is pumping much more efficiently. Dr. Apeet is with us, interesting. 01:04:15 Dr. Apeet said that a processed liver supplement was not a good thing. Could you ask him if a processed thyroid supplement is good, bad? I did not get results from the desiccated thyroid prescription. So I went to a grass-fed thyroid supplement out of New Zealand. He suggested a desiccated thyroid product of Mexico, maybe, hope to find that info on your site. No, about 30 years ago the standard for almost 100 years was Armour Thyroid, but the Armour Company sold their trade name and business and immediately it started, the formula started changing. Went through about 10 years of periodic changes of the recipe. And so I lost confidence in that one. And before that happened, there had been several 01:05:21 thyroid products sold through pharmacies for about 30 or 40 years. And someone sent 10 of these products to an analytical lab that could detect tissue, an immunological test. And they found that eight of the 10 samples bought in a drug store as prescription thyroid USP, eight of the 10 contained no thyroid tissue at all. Really? Wow. That was probably deliberate fraud, but it’s somewhat of a refined technology of making good thyroid product. You have to know that you’re getting the actual thyroid gland. I’ve seen people mistake lymph nodes for thyroid gland. 01:06:22 So you have to know that the person producing the thyroid gland crude product knows what they’re doing. Then you have to know that it’s being processed carefully, simply removing the fat with a solvent so that it’s stable, doesn’t deteriorate with oxygen exposure, and then that they don’t extract part of the chemistry before they sell it as a thyroid product. Some of the companies are taking out thyrocalcitonin, which is one of the natural hormones that should be in the thyroid product. And almost all of the thyroid products made in the US now claim that they contain a certain amount per, grain, a certain amount of T4 and a certain amount of T3. 01:07:24 But there should be none of those. They shouldn’t be in there? No, it should be a thyroid globulin with only the slightest trace amounts of any of the actual hormones. That’s the characteristic of the thyroid product, is that it’s almost pure protein, de-fatted, and we digest it. And in the process of digesting the thyroid globulin, our enzymes release the T4 and T3, some T2 hormone. It shouldn’t be in the product, but I think the FDA encouraged this misleading, really, really false labeling. Wow. So where can we get this good old just thyroid globulin? Is that even available? That’s in all of the true desiccated thyroid products, but it shouldn’t be labeled that it contains the hormones. 01:08:25 It should be labeled according to the actual protein content. Are you familiar with this one that’s made in Thailand? It was a five. Yeah, you can go with that one. A chemist contacted me, said he had done tests on it, and it was labeled as containing so much T4 and T3. He said he couldn’t find a trace of these hormones in it, was it a fraudulent product? And I said, no, it shouldn’t contain those hormones. Yeah, it shouldn’t, right. And so he hydrolyzed the product with hydrochloric acid and wrote back a few days later and said, now it contains full amount of the hormones. He hydrolyzed it the same way our stomach acid would. Oh, so maybe that’s a pretty good product. There was a fellow, I guess he went over to Thailand because he was tired of this nonsense going on with thyroid, 01:09:26 and he’s making this, and you can actually buy it. I think it’s like he goes by something like postage stamps or something, you know the product I’m talking about? No. No, you don’t, oh well, oh well. So, if I’m gonna go out and get ahold of the good stuff now, where would they go? The good stuff? I don’t, I’m not sure which to recommend, but people have told me in the last few months that they were having good results from, I think the nature thyroid and WP, I think they said they were getting consistent results, but for about 30 years, I’ve been using the synthetic equivalents that were based on the old armor composition. Thyrolar was their company’s formula for a synthetic equivalent, and then CenoPlus 01:10:27 exactly copied the thyrolar proportions, and so I’ve been using CenoPlus now for about 35 years, and it’s very reliable and consistent. The CenoPlus, that’s T3, right? More T3? No, it’s a mixture of a four to one ratio of T4 to T3, and the same company makes a pure T3 called CenoMell. CenoMell, so the CenoPlus, you get that out of Mexico, right? Yes, they’re constantly being interfered with by American drug company competition. Yeah, I bet they are. Okay. I lost my place here, sorry, bear with me a second. Okay. Mm. 01:11:29 Did Dr. Pete has talked about, before on your show, about high tyrosine is a protective protein, and it’s found in gelatin. Are there any good food sources of tyrosine, plant-based sources? Oh, I think, uh, did you say tyrosine? Tyrosine, right, tyrosine. Glycine, glycine and proline, I think are the main reasons for using gelatin. Gelatin. Glycine is something like 35 or 40%!o(MISSING)f the amino acids, and glycine and proline have a cell stabilizing anti-inflammatory effect. And gelatin is completely free of the amino acids that are pro-inflammatory, anti-thyroid, 01:12:29 and even carcinogenic, tryptophan is a carcinogenic amino acid, promoting inflammation, excess serotonin, for example, and cysteine can be pro-inflammatory. Methionine is another amino acid that is not in glycine. Methionine is a longevity and shortening amino acid. So, gelatin being free of those three potentially toxic amino acids is a very protective protein for a mature person who isn’t growing. So that’s one of the reasons why you like the gelatin product as your, if you want to do a protein powder rather than something else, a whey or bean or rice or whatever. And these amino acids that have the toxic effect 01:13:34 are also very susceptible to oxidation. Tryptophan and cysteine can become more toxic than normal when they’re dehydrated and exposed to oxygen. So almost all proteins are degraded and made pro-inflammatory by dehydration, even with so-called freeze drying. The drying process itself tends to create oxidation of those amino acids. So, gelatin is unique as far as I know in being pretty stable to dehydration. Dear Dr. Pete, if powdered egg shells is pure calcium carbonate, why not just buy calcium carbonate tablets from the store and forget the process of boiling the egg shells and then grinding them to a powder to increase one’s calcium intake? 01:14:34 If the manufacturer of the powder or the tablets used oyster shells or egg shells, they would get a pure safe product, but you can’t count on that. When people have analyzed various calcium carbonate products, the egg shell was always the purest, very close to oyster shells. If the oysters are taken from a polluted part of the ocean, they can have some contaminants, but egg shells are consistently the least chemically contaminated source of calcium carbonate. Interesting. Second point of his question, he says, my joint pain is greatly subsided simply by putting a quarter teaspoon of baking soda in my coffee each morning, 01:15:35 as well as drinking a half teaspoon in water before I go to bed in the evening. Do you see any issues with this routine of mine? I don’t know. It’s actually filling in for a potential calcium deficiency The sodium is tending to lower your adrenal aldosterone production, and aldosterone is an age-promoting inflammation, promoting fibrosis, promoting hormone, so keeping that low by a little supplement of sodium is good. The bicarbonate is turned once it gets in the bloodstream. It’s absorbed by cells. If they happen to be deficient in carbon dioxide, they can turn the bicarbonate into carbon dioxide, acidifying cells, keeping them in the protected oxidizing state. 01:16:36 So a little baking soda is generally very protective. Athletes at the start of a marathon bicycle race, for example, have taken a tablespoon of baking soda and greatly increased their endurance. Lots of people take a teaspoon at a time, but even a smaller amount can be protective. Very interesting. Is self-fated castor oil, writes an e-mailer, turkey red oil, safe to use as soap, is lanolin a safe moisturizer? Two questions there. Turkey oil, turkey oil. For soap, yeah, I think it’s probably okay if it doesn’t smell like turkeys. Yeah, you don’t smell like turkeys. And lanolin, it’s a very stiff oil, so it helps to thin it with a little coconut oil 01:17:36 or MCT or something to make it spreadable. But besides being a protecting, sealing agent so your skin doesn’t dehydrate, it tends to hold moisture in the skin just by forming a seal. But at the same time, it’s, I think it’s more than 50%!o(MISSING)f a precursor steroid to cholesterol. So I think it’s, to the extent that it can be dissolved, like if it’s maybe olive oil or MCT or something thinner, to the extent that it can dissolve into the skin, it’s going to have an anti-aging effect by supporting the local production of cholesterol. I’ve read that Mr. Peter’s not a fan of whey protein powders. I was wondering if he could recommend other form of protein powders that could use. So, would gelatin for you? 01:18:38 Gelatin is the only protein I know of that is stable during dehydration. Can you take a lot of that? I mean, if you want, people want to eat a lot of it. Is it okay? Yeah, 30 grams of the book on the medical use of gelatin that was published, I think, about 1940 and distributed. My goodness. By, I think the Great Lakes Gelatin People, yeah. Has been distributing the book. It described treating diabetes and colitis, for example, with, I think 30 grams a day was the most they recommended, but I’ve known people to use 60 grams a day with very good results. Yeah, I think is, I have to look at the can, but in there, about 10 grams of protein per tablespoon, that’d be a lot if you wanted to get 60. Six tablespoons, but you know, I don’t know if it works. 01:19:40 Yeah, it seems weird though that, and they say it’s grass-fed and organic, well, grass-fed on the label, but they use the height of the cows, right? That’s where it comes from. Yeah, and pork and beef gelatin is, as far as I can tell, there’s no difference, but some people think they have a digestive irritation from the pork gelatin, so you can specify which you want, beef or pork. Yeah, so now when you take beef or pork bones, you can different pig’s feet and ham hocks and stuff and make your own bone broth, there’s a lot of gelatin in there, right? Oh yeah, if you cool it and it becomes solid. Yeah, just solid, yeah. Yeah, that’s what you want. I did that with chicken feet, some organic chicken feet, Dr. Pete, and after I took, I had a nice bowl of it with some carrots and onions and garlic, and then I put it in the fridge, it was so thick, 01:20:41 you had to take literally a big spoon to get it out, that’s how much gelatin was in there, wow, man. Yeah, it should bounce. Yeah, it should bounce. So this would actually be maybe even a step up from doing the Great Lakes or similar in its efficacy? Oh, you get some of the chicken flavor when you use wings and feet, so it’s tastier. Yeah, yeah, well, you want to hear a potato story? You’re a fan of dexturization, right? Dexturized foods? No, not especially. Oh, I thought you were, oh. Anyway, I dexturized a potato in a crock pot for about 12 hours yesterday, we were talking about on the show, and boy, it really came out good, just in a crock pot, just for, you know. You know, long cooking breaks down the starch, so it’s easier to digest, but usually 40 minutes to an hour is… Plenty, yeah. Yeah, but then you do it like 375 or something, or 400? 01:21:45 I never thought of just boiling temperature was all I used. Oh, just to boil it, just to boil it, yeah. Mr. Pete has said in a young person, good food, sunlight, and a high altitude can often overcome severe inflammatory conditions. And then when an older, in quotes, person whose tissues contain larger amounts of polys and they break down products, it takes more environmental support to get them out of chronic inflammatory pattern. Can you share? Such as aspirin on coffee. Oh, such as aspirin on coffee. That’s where he said some specific remedies for folks that can do to break down the chronic inflammation pattern. Yeah, N-vitamin D, N-thyroid. That’ll do it, huh? What’s the difference, folks who want to live in a very low humidity, high altitude, like a Colorado compared to equator stuff? Is there any of those living conditions that are more conducive to longevity and health, 01:22:47 in your opinion? Yeah, studies in New Mexico and Switzerland have shown heart disease decreases in proportion to increasing altitude. Every 1,000 feet they saw about a, I think it was about a 2%!d(MISSING)ecrease in mortality. Every 1,000 feet you end up. I wonder what that’s about. I wonder what, did they say why that was? Your body retains more carbon dioxide when you adapt slowly. If you rush up to 8,000 feet in a day, you might get altitude sickness, but the people who are low thyroid at sea level and think they’re breathing okay are really hyperventilating chemically at sea level. And when those people go suddenly up to high altitude, their hyperventilation shows up and they get swelling of the lungs and brain and get sick. 01:23:50 But if you adapt slowly, it will tend to correct hypothyroidism, your T3 production goes up and your blood becomes more fluid, even though more concentrated, carries oxygen more effectively. Very interesting. And inflammation goes down, that’s the main thing. The Russians for about 50 years were doing high altitude therapy for allergies, arthritis, heart disease, and they even did studies in animals at least, in which sending the cancer treated animals that should 100%!d(MISSING)ie of cancer to 17,000 feet altitude, about 50%!o(MISSING)f them threw off the cancer. Interesting. On the heart study thing you mentioned 01:24:52 on the high altitude are the dryness or lower humidity. Was that looking at myocardial infarctions and actually the heart muscle or the atherosclerosis idea with heart disease? They were just looking at the deaths from heart disease. Heart disease, death in general. Yeah, very great reduction. And the insurance companies have seen for more than 100 years, they’ve seen a great reduction in cancer mortality in high altitudes. Yeah, wow. And there’s been some publicity in the last several years. It just came on the news again yesterday the day before about high altitude causing suicide by lowering serotonin. Several people have been researching this in Colorado, which does have a high suicide level. And they noticed that serotonin goes down as altitude goes up. 01:25:53 And so they said if serotonin is the happy hormone and you have less then maybe suicide occurs at high altitude because of loss of serotonin. But actually that is totally wrong. Totally wrong. Yeah, serotonin does go down as altitude goes up. And that’s why the mortality from heart disease and cancer goes down. But if you look at suicide rates in relation to altitude and forget about Colorado, the very low countries, if you look at the three countries that have been number one for suicide, extremely high suicide rates in the last 10 or 20 years. South Korea, I think it was Lithuania and Bangladesh, very low altitude countries, 01:26:57 extremely high suicide rates. And then the lowest suicide rates in the world have generally been Mexico, Columbia, and Bolivia. High altitude countries, yeah, interesting. And I think that’s the actual effect of altitude. Yeah. Improves health and reduces depression. Any challenges with living low humidity, like places like Colorado for over many years? I mean, does that pose any health issues or challenges? Yeah, it seems to make your skin drier. Trier. You just gotta put more gooey stuff on it or something. Yeah. Yeah, probably so. Or eat more chicken feet. Could you ask Dr. Pete what he thinks regarding a carnivore or strictly animal foods diet? Yeah, she’s got two parts. Let’s do that one first. Yeah, that’s kind of big now. It’s another fad. Carnivore, just all animal foods diet. 01:27:59 If that includes milk and cheese and eggs and oysters, that’s a pretty good diet. But if you don’t include the bones or the milk and cheese, then it can be a dangerously high phosphate-rich diet. Yeah, you should take in about equal amounts of calcium and phosphorus. And if you eat only the muscle meats, then you have something like a 10 to one ratio of phosphate to calcium, which is very pro-inflammatory and pro-degenerative disease. That could be a challenge with the classic paleo diet, right, that they don’t like dairy or stuff. Yeah. Yeah, come here. Just in general, do you think, I don’t know if we’ve probably talked about it, but I can’t recall, like just brown rice 01:29:03 or organic brown rice or jasmine or even quinoa or these kind of things, millets. These things that we need, are they just something extra to eat? Are they valuable to us? The reason the Chinese developed the white rice product thousands of years ago is that the fats in rice are very highly unsaturated and get rancid almost immediately in a warm temperature, in a cold climate, they fall off the plant when the weather is cool and they live during the winter and then spout when the weather is warmer. And so the polyunsaturated fat is not harmful to the plant, but if you store it in the unprocessed condition, then it’s very likely to be rancid by the time you eat it. 01:30:07 And then when you assimilate those fats, they proceed to become more oxidized in your body. So I think the traditional Chinese way of making white rice and then cooking it thoroughly, it’s a good source of carbohydrate. Oh, I’m sorry. The last part, I missed the last part. You say, traditional way, you mean soaking and all of that? Yeah, but processing it, removing the bran and the germ. And they also, thousands of years ago, developed the process of soaking it in lime or lime. Ashes, for example, which form a life when they’re wet, but that will digest the starch and convert the tryptophan to vitamin B to niacin 01:31:12 and make much of the fat go off in the solution. So the ideal way to eat rice or corn is the lime processed. The Mexican form is called mixtamalized corn or mixtamal. Also, what are your thoughts, writes an emailer, on high-oxalate foods such as potatoes, nuts and seeds, darky leafy greens causing oxalate toxicity? I don’t think it’s a problem if you have good digestion and a good thyroid function. It’s a potential problem if your calcium metabolism is going haywire. You can form calcium oxalate stones, but calcium deficiency in your diet is one of the things 01:32:15 that increases the stress hormones. A parathyroid hormone makes you mishandle calcium. That increases the tendency to form stones. I see. Here’s an email, I’ve always pasteurized milk, especially like ultrapasteurized. I’ve always heard pasteurized and ultrapasteurized was not good because the high heat damaged the fats and proteins and this is what caused the allergic problems and everything else. That’s true and then how can we eat meat and fish? Is that a problem also? So, cooking, let’s start with the milk. You said that pasteurized milk, that’s not a problem. Is that correct, if I understand? Yeah, the ultrapasteurized tastes funny and that goes with a slight loss of vitamin A, for example. Vitamin C, I think it’s about a 20 or 30%!l(MISSING)oss, 01:33:19 but mostly it’s a taste problem when it’s ultrapasteurized, but the good tasting pasteurized milk has, I think it has been held at the temperature only for a few seconds and then quickly cooled and it can taste just as good as unpasteurized milk. But even unpasteurized raw milk, do you like to just, if you wanna heat it up to 160 and bring it back down? Yeah, the longer it stays at 160, the more flavor it loses. Right, right, right, yeah. So any issues on this email with when we cook meat and fish, is that a problem for us? Similar, if it’s overcooked, the cholesterol is progressively oxidized, so quick cooking at high temperature, for example, they’ve compared different meats. 01:34:22 Salmon was the most interesting because poached salmon had many times more toxic oxidized cholesterol than a quickly broiled salmon, same with steak. If you slow cook a steak, it tastes bad, and part of that is your fats and cholesterol have been seriously oxidized. So that’s what the kind of an overcooked flavor is when you overcook meat, it’s an oxidation of the fat in there? Yeah, and if you can bring it up to temperature in just two or three minutes, that’s best like a pasteurization of milk. Oh, I see. That preserves the flavor and the nutrients. Ellen writes in, can Dr. Pete recommend a safe cholesterol product to rub into the skin? No, don’t know anything about what’s available now. 01:35:23 Just do butter or something. I agree. My daughter has, butter might work, there’s a lot of cholesterol in there, right? Yeah, butter and lanolin. Lanolin, sure, yeah. My daughter has a condition called EPP where her liver doesn’t flush out porphyrins as they build up in the body and causes sensitivities to the sun. EPP experts recommend a higher carb diet. As they say, there is an enzyme in the carbs that cleans out the excess porphyrins. Is Dr. Pete aware of anything like this and what I could do to help her? Yeah, sugar is the protective thing. And when your sugar is low, your free fatty acids go up and poison all of your tissues. Not just the liver, but your brain, everything is exposed to stress when the sugar is low. And those people with that slight shift 01:36:27 in the balance of porphyrin metabolism, estrogen causes a drop in blood sugar and a surge of porphyrin. And just having consistent sugar intake, keeping your thyroid steady so that your blood sugar doesn’t drop easily and having frequent orange juice, for example, as a source of sugar. That’s a good one. Usually all it takes to prevent the attacks. And fruit, of course, and I guess anything that’s gonna turn to sugar, right? The potatoes or orange juice or anything. Honey, maple syrup, that kind of fruit. Sure, yeah. Boy, I like honey, man. There’s, we just got an email, fellow, this one to thank you for your idea. He says when he does a couple teaspoons of honey when he wakes up in the middle of the night, it goes right back to the bed. I think you mentioned that on past show. He just wanted to thank you for that. People have told me that they have taken 01:37:32 honey secretly to the hospital for someone who was in serious condition, gave him a couple of tablespoons. Person got up and left the hospital. Yeah, well, it’s pretty magical, some of it. Dr. Pete, they stated that the omega-3s is less stable. What that really means is that it is more sacrificial, it oxidizes instead of your tissue being oxidized. Do you know what he’s saying here? I’m sorry. Yeah, that’s been the basis for a lot of the claims. One thing it does is lower your prostaglandin production. It competes with arachidonic acid for making the pro-inflammatory prostaglandins. So it can reduce inflammation, but when it’s taken into the bloodstream, by the time it gets to the bloodstream, 01:38:33 it’s oxidizing, a large percent of it is oxidized before it gets into the tissue. Some of it does reach the brain, but much of it circulates as breakdown products, and these poison the immune system, interfere with white blood cells, and that can powerfully stop an inflammatory process. But if it continues for more than a few days, that suppresses your resistance to bacterial or fungal infections too. So after a period of about six months, you start seeing serious damage to the immune system when people are eating too much fish. Oh, this fellow actually is a doc, and he says, I know of a Dr. Trimpe, T-R-E-M-P-E. He had benefits of seeing cause effect in the eyes, 01:39:33 and there’s no doubt that Omega-3 is protective to the retina, and he sends a link here. Oh, I wrote a newsletter about that, and there is a lot of literature showing that babies in particular, it’s the Omega-3 fatty acids that are damaged by blue light or ultraviolet light, but bright light in general, causes retinal damage, specifically by the changes in these highly unsaturated fats. So there’s a lot of literature showing that they are damaging to the retina. The threes are. Wow. Couple more of them, we’ll let you go to work. Could breathing, hydrogen gas help regulate the thyroid? Probably, but I haven’t seen any research on that. 01:40:34 It’s very interesting stuff, but I don’t know exactly what it would be doing to the thyroid. Gotcha, understand. An American Indian friend keeps bear fat in his fridge for internal and external use. Is this a good fat to have, and you can catch a bear? A bear fat, let’s get some bear fat. I think it would depend a lot on what the bear was eating. Some bears eat lots of berries, lots of fruit, and others load up on salmon when the salmon are running. So if they were eating berries, I think it would be pretty much like beef fat. Yeah. Dr. Peter, have you ever heard of a fellow by the name, I think it’s Morris Croc? Croc? No. No, he wrote a lot of books about just eating fruit, and you read these things and it’s like, if you just eat fruit, the whole world is gonna open up and you’re gonna be in heaven, and so have you ever experienced anybody 01:41:35 that’s really done the whole, just a lot of fruit, a lot of fruit? Do you see possible advantages? I feel so good when I just eat a lot of fruit, I don’t know. Talk a little bit about that with what you know about thyroid. Part of it is that lots of fruits stimulate the intestine and accelerate the movement through the intestines, and so they can keep the bacteria happy and harmless. And one of the problems with a pure fruit diet over the long run is most fruits are very low in iron. And there was a study in California of migrant fruit picker families. The kids were, they found that their average hemoglobin was at 10, way down in the anemic range because they were eating lots of oranges, 01:42:36 but they were extremely free of disease and infection, healthier than their well-fed neighbors. So I think you can tolerate a fairly low iron intake if everything else is good. And there isn’t enough availability of a variety of fruits, I think, for people in the United States, too, you might end up eating a lot of bananas and dates and easy to store and ship, and those happen to be high in serotonin and can create problems of inflammation. Why are they hiring serotonin? Just because they’ve hybridized them and stuff like that to make them ripe in a certain time and all that? I suspect that there’s a part of it because when you stress a plant, it produces defensive, irritating chemicals 01:43:39 intended to kill insects or predators. And I think the way bananas are grown is very special to the plant. If you’re gonna do a lot of fruit, how would you get more iron in there to help balance that out? People that love fruit, where would you get that from? I’m not sure, in some of the studies of the Pacific Islanders who live on a potato diet, once a year, they have pork feasts one week a year, and that’s enough iron, apparently. My goodness, isn’t that funny? Yeah, one day a year, I mean, whole. One week a year. One week a year, they just eat a lot of pork, they’re all. But let’s see, doesn’t molasses have a lot of iron, blackstrap? Yeah, but it also has some irritants that I don’t think it’s a safe, regular source of iron, 01:44:40 better than an iron deficiency, but not, I think, eggs or oysters or something would be a much safer way to do it. You know, when you’re in the business like this, that, you know, I talked to all these people, all these different carnivores and paleo and keto and, I don’t know, vegan and vegetarian, and do you think these are always gonna be with us, you know, 10, 20, 30 years from now, or? I think the information is gradually getting organized to the point that we’ll be able to understand which fruits, for example, complement each other. You can get all the protein you need just from fruits. Potatoes are extremely good as a protein source, but with the right choice of fruits, you can get your protein just from fruits. But it involves choosing with information 01:45:45 about which fruits should balance your whole nutritional pattern. How would you, there’s places you could actually research and just research protein in fruits? Yeah, it’s very scattered and hard to put together, but it’s possible. Kind of fun, though. Fruits are fun, yeah, they feel good. Well, Dr. Pete, thanks for being here this morning. What are you gonna do today for fun? Anything? I think I’ll paint a little. Yeah, well, it sounds like a good day to paint. Yeah, you’re up in the Northwest, right? What’s the weather like? I have a cooling off a little. Mm-hmm, yeah, yeah. Well, thanks for being here, we appreciate it. 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