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For those of you who perhaps have never listened to our shows, which run every third Friday of the month from 7 to 8 p.m., we are both licensed medical herbalists who trained in England and graduated there with a degree in herbal medicine. We run a clinic in Garboville where we consult with clients about a wide range of conditions and recommend herbal medicine and dietary advice. So you're listening to Ask Your Herb Doctor on KMUD Garboville, 91.1 FM.
And from 7.30 until the end of the show at 8 o'clock, you're invited and welcome to call in with any questions either related or unrelated to this month's topic of the subject of radiation and its widespread use. Okay, so the number if you live in the area is 923 3911. Alternatively, there's a toll-free number, 1800 KMUD RAD. So we're very pleased to be joined by Dr. Raymond Peat, who has recently published an article about the very subject of the prevalent effects of radiation in the environment
and how seemingly subjected we are to it on a daily basis and how it, rather than being a normal fact of life, is really something to be aware of. So Dr. Peat, thank you for joining us. Hello. Perhaps, as always, people tune in, they've never listened to KMUD before, they're passing through, or some people have just happened to be in front of the radio and haven't heard the show before. Would you just explain to the listeners your academic background?
In biology, I started graduate school as a specialist in nerve biology, but I felt that they weren't very scientific, they were so dogmatic. I wandered around the various labs until I ran across the reproductive physiology people and they actually seemed to be just getting information and thinking about how the organism works, where the nerve biology people were really just trying to develop a dogma more than discover how brains work. So I did my dissertation on aging of the reproductive system in mammals. Okay.
Well, I think with particular relevance to something that you've recently published, I know the controversy surrounding the full body scanners that began rolling out about 2007, but of which recently hit the mainstream news on television, I think of last month in November. So far as the radiation from, we'll want to get into that a little bit later too, the radiation from medical devices and other sources. What's your opinion of the devices themselves in terms of their potential for causing any negative effects through the mechanisms by which you'll describe?
I think the situation is similar to in the 1950s, the government was assuring the public that fallout from atomic bomb testing in the atmosphere was completely harmless because of their way of explaining the biological effects. And they're still promoting those theories of biological effects. And even though this kind of x-ray treatment or examining is much less dangerous than the radioactive isotopes falling out of the bomb tests, the science by which they assure us of its safety is just exactly as faulty as it was in the 1950s.
John Goffman, who was a government defender of the safety of radioactive isotopes from bomb tests through most of the 50s, when he suddenly thought about what he was doing, saying that we don't know that it is going to have long range deadly effects, so we should keep doing it. He just suddenly realized that if the effects are going to be disastrous sometime in the future, it's better to learn about the dangers now rather than wait until we're all dead from the long range effects.
And the trick that they have been using now for almost 100 years, around the beginning of the last century, people knew that you could cause mutations in organisms either with radiation or with toxic chemicals. And by the 1920s, people were seeing the effects of the mutations or the genetic changes as being in the chromosomes entirely. And as the chromosomes and genetic storage seemed to be in the DNA, the doctrine focused on the interaction of radiation with DNA. But that was really strictly a matter of reasoning from the fact that they cause hereditary changes
and that they decided that heredity was all in the chromosomes and DNA. But in the 1960s, people were demonstrating that if you, for example, do microsurgery on a protozoan and just change the orientation of its cilia right on the surface of the cell, that its offspring will, for generations onward, will all have backwards cilia on that part of the cell. So it's like a biological memory. And totally separate from the DNA, the frog biologist, Gurdon, was doing similar things on frog eggs,
showing that surgery on the surface of a frog egg, generations later, could cause the whole line of frogs to die out, even though that egg would mature into an adult. That adult could reproduce, but eventually, several generations later, there would be no more frogs just from treating the surface of the egg. And he showed that if you heat a spot on the surface, you will get mutations. But the inheritance wasn't necessarily by way of mutations, but it just showed that some harmful influence, other than direct interaction with DNA,
is able to eventually cause mutations and death. Okay. Do we actually know what it is at this point in time that's actually transferred several generations down the line, even to produce those mutations in offspring later on? Not really. Just some good guesses. A man in Hungary named Csaba, C-S-A-B-A, has been working on what happens with these early life experiences that are passed on from cell to cell and even from adult to its offspring. I think that's probably, like you've said time and time again, that's the fault with the doctrine of biology, the way it's evolved.
People are led to believe that things are understood a certain way, when in actuality, there's very different reasons why things are changing and they're not actually looking in the right direction. So far as the radiation issue is concerned, and again, as mentioned, the whole body scanners that are coming into place in American airports across the USA, so far as the potential dose of radiation, because I know obviously they want to tell us that these things are safe
and that they've been tested, and I even heard of the chap who was giving the speech saying that even his children have been through it, and not to say that it's anything good or safe, but tell us about the potential risks and what this causes. So that is the fact that this can happen, this is a potential risk. For 70 or 80 years, people have been noticing that X-rays, even in moderate doses, seem to accelerate the aging process,
and the idea of imprinting is that you might get acceleration of the aging process from generation to generation if that's passed on the way the other cytoplasmic injuries are. But the doctrine that everything is controlled by the genes, many people insisted that the aging process was the result of accumulating mutations, that someone used a chemical mutagen to produce more mutations than the X-ray treatment was producing, and the mice that were treated that way lived just as long as normal mice, but the X-rays producing even fewer mutations shortened their life,
so it's a physiological effect and mutations are much less deadly than whatever this other cytoplasmic or general physiological process is. Okay. Starting then, perhaps just to listeners who perhaps have just started listening to this show, we're talking about the inherent risks of exposure to radiation, especially in the light of the whole-body scanners that are being deployed. I think there are about 450 airports across the USA at the moment, and they plan to expand the range and they want to tell us that they're safe, but there's evidence out there to the contrary, and like most things,
unfortunately, probably 10 or 20 years later on, we'll find even more evidence with actual physical... Well, we probably won't, that's the problem, not in this lifetime. It's probably something that's going to take a couple of generations to come through, but hopefully the science that underlies that will see that there's a fault in it. So far as the difference between what we know as ionizing and non-ionizing radiation, what do you have to say about that? Well, all kinds of electromagnetic or other radiation interact with matter. That's how we know that they're there.
Light bounces off something and is absorbed in our retina and we can see things, and that light is causing a certain amount of electronic excitation. And if you use a blue light rather than a full spectrum centered on yellow, the excitation of the electrons is enough to damage the mitochondrial energy production. They've seen this for 50 or 60 years, growing plants under different colored lights. If you put a plant which thrives in sunlight, if you put it in pure blue light, the mitochondria are damaged almost as if they were being irradiated with x-rays or ultraviolet.
But when you add back the rest of the spectrum, there's something about the red light that neutralizes that toxic effect of the blue light. And I think that on a slightly different energy scale, if you put a piece of glass out in the desert for many years, it turns purple. And with a given energy of radiation, you can bleach that purple out of the glass. What happens is that electrons are excited by the very energetic radiation and they lose contact with their normal system and are trapped in like sort of the peak of a mountain.
If you imagine a dimple at the top of the peak, it takes a lot of energy to knock the electron up to that peak. But when you shine a just right energy like red light, you can typically move an electron out of its little trap and restore it to its normal position. That works people who have burned their retina, for example, with ultraviolet light. If they get red light soon enough, it prevents the burning.
You can demonstrate this in seeds and other types of tissue or even a piece of hair will show excited electrons after being in the sunlight. But if you shine red light on it, that excitation disappears. And so the excitation and moving of electrons isn't strictly an X-ray gamma ray phenomenon. It's something that happens in different substances at different energy levels. But when you get up to ultraviolet and higher, the main effect is that the electrons get completely knocked out of the system. And that constitutes ionization.
But you actually have some degree of sort of ionization, even from blue light. And then the non-ionizing type doesn't have the same amount of energy, doesn't displace electrons, doesn't have that kind of energy to change an atom. You get very similar chemical effects from ultraviolet and X-rays. But the good thing is that ultraviolet light is absorbed just a few millimeters into your skin. And you get the same kind of damage to the skin cells from ultraviolet that you get to your heart and brain cells from X-rays.
So it's a very similar biological damage, except the very high energy radiation goes right through you. And affects all of your cells. Okay. I just wanted to let people know that we were talking about this subject. So just want to let people know you're listening to Ask Your Ob-Doctor on KMUD 91.1 Galbraithville. And from 7.30 till the end of the show at 8 o'clock, you're invited to call in with any questions either related or unrelated to this month's subject of radiation. Also, I'm getting a signal that a question would be asked.
But I'm wondering if we could just wait until we get to that point in the show, because I know we want to try and hear as much as possible from you, Dr. Peat. In terms of, I think I have to jump on a little bit. I wanted to, and I know I have an article actually about the, something I think we might have covered a couple of weeks, couple of months back rather, which was by Goffman, John Goffman. And that was the article that he'd written on the damaging effects of radiation for medical procedures.
And a very big article and very well, very well referenced. But what I wanted to bring out a little bit more was that the phenomena of red light to reverse the effects or to calm down the excitation of electrons, which is behind the whole free radical thing, behind the destruction of tissues and the inflammatory changes and cancers. So red light is extremely healing then. Yeah, the most surprising example of an experiment to demonstrate that was a Russian experiment in which they gave a lethal dose of gamma rays to frogs.
And the dose was so intense that the frogs would just live a few days after the exposure. But within the first hour after exposing frogs to that same intensity of gamma rays, if they shined bright red light on them, they didn't get sick at all. So we're talking about a red light bulb. We're not talking about, are we talking about infrared or are we talking about just red light? Red light, but in an ordinary incandescent bulb, if you have a prism or a tapered piece of glass to look at
an incandescent light bulb, you'll see that it varies from blue to red. And the red end of it is a lot more intense than the blue and green end, just because the temperature of the bulb isn't nearly as hot as sunlight. Okay. Yeah, so red light. So there you go, folks. If you're listening, the healing, curative effects of red light go far beyond just that mellow kind of ambiance in the room that some people have red light on for. So if somebody has been exposed to an X-ray or a form of radiation,
then what would you recommend they go sit under, Dr. Peat? Well, if you can do it very quickly, that gamma ray frog experiment shows that within the first hour, you can just almost completely block the chain of events that follows the exposure. But since people who were exposed to Chernobyl or even the Nagasaki atomic bombing, they still in recent years, their blood serum is still toxic. They can add it to cells in vitro, and the blood from these people who were exposed decades ago is still toxic to cells.
And so it's similar to the effect of when you irradiate an animal's foot, the whole body is influenced. The thymus will shrink. The ovaries will--if it was intense enough, the ovaries will degenerate. The uterus swells up. It acts like a systemic dose of estrogen to irradiate any part of the body. This is the whole reason why it's so important for people to refuse medical X-rays wherever possible if they have any control over it and to exercise as much diligence as possible
when they know they could potentially be in a situation where they could be exposed from these CT scans, and that's why we're talking about the whole full-body scanners as another--the most modern form of intrusion. The lingering inflammation from exposure a long time ago probably could be affected slightly even years later by getting a very intense exposure to penetrating red light. How far, actually, how far into the skin does red light penetrate? Years ago, I made some--the LED, red light-emitting diodes in a paddle, so there were about 100 of them side by side,
and I let my eyes adapt to the darkness until about 2 a.m., and I put this paddle under my thigh, and I could see the bone silhouette. The light, just moderate, not really brilliant light, but just 100 of these LEDs was enough to go entirely through my thigh, showing a shadow for the femur. Wow. So it will penetrate that deeply. So presumably, at will, haven't it? Would you think it would have an effect within the marrow of bones to have a quenching effect on excitatory damage there?
Yeah, I could see the walls, the center of the bone, looked almost transparent, and I could see the thickening of the cortex of the bone as a dark shadow, so it was definitely going right through the marrow, too. So I wonder why it is that no one tells anybody about this. Has this been public knowledge, say, in the '40s and '50s, and it's been just out of fashion and suppressed since then? Yeah, the information about it being estrogenic started appearing in the 1950s,
and in my newsletter, I give a little graph that was published by Sigaloff in 1971 and '73. He showed that irradiation and estrogen synergize. A little bit of one added to a little bit of the other one is like a lot of either of them. Right. And since you can block the effects of estrogen toxicity with progesterone, he tried treating the deadly carcinogenic dose of irradiation, treated the animals with progesterone, and it essentially completely blocked the cancer formation from the radiation. Wow. So if you were to advise someone to purchase a light bulb,
what type of light bulb would you recommend, Dr. Peat? A red light bulb? No, when they paint or use colored glass, it actually doesn't increase the amount of red coming out of the bulb, and it makes the bulb more expensive and hotter to handle. So just a clear front bulb, but they make them designed to run on 130 volts, so when you run them on a standard 120-volt circuit, they aren't as blue-biased as ordinary incandescent bulbs. They're much weaker in the blue and stronger in the red. But they appear to be white light.
Yeah, sort of yellowish-white, warmer than standard bulbs. So like a 130 clear front incandescent. And what number--how many watts? Oh, I think they come in 150 to 250, and the high wattage 250 I think are only about $4 usually. Okay, good. Thank you. Okay, so there you go, folks. That's a very cheap and inexpensive way to do some healing on yourself without taking anything into your body that's potentially a problem. Okay, so we've reached--coming up to 730, so I just want to remind people that we have Dr. Raymond Peat joining us,
and he's sharing his research and his experience with us once more for his knowledge with radiation and the biological effects of radiation. So just to carry on, I know you mentioned at the very beginning of this that the dogma was surrounding the belief that everything was genetic and mutations were carried in the chromosomes, and that's not actually the case. There is this concept--well, not concept, there is this biological memory that is elicited by something that we don't quite know yet, but it has a very real effect later on in generations.
Between, gosh, radiation and estrogen, I know you've mentioned this before as well, that there is also a link in that the liver's ability to metabolize metabolic waste products can be severely influenced by both estrogen and radiation in conjunction. What would you say about the possible sequelae of that? The first thing that--the most intense, visible first thing is that both estrogen and radiation interfere with mitochondrial energy production, and that is associated with inflammation and adaptive lactic acid production. As the carbon dioxide production goes down, lactic acid goes up, and the lactic acid itself triggers inflammatory mediators.
And in experiments with both cells and whole organisms, it's been demonstrated that when you irradiate one cell, it emits inflammatory mediators that will affect other cells in the same dish, even if you put them in the dish later, and even taking the medium off the cells and putting it in another dish. So it's a chemical that goes into the cell's environment that then will cause mutations, inflammation, degeneration in other cells that are exposed to it. So that's what happens when your foot is irradiated. The fluids escaping from those damaged cells circulate throughout your body,
and that inflammatory signal, lactic acid, for example, the reason I advise against eating a lot of yogurt and other things with lactic acid is that even natural lactic acid in your diet contributes to formation of fibrotic tissue, inflammation first, then fibrosis, and within the fibrosis then there's the increased risk of tumor formation. I read a part of that article known as the bystander effect, that fish exposed to this radiation could affect other fish previously not exposed if the unexposed fish share the same water, so there is something coming out of the irradiated animals
that is something more than the sum of the radiation. And they've been able to block that by using antagonists to serotonin. Oh, okay. So serotonin itself contributes to fibrosis and impaired energy production and so on. And people in this country, they're almost encouraged to use serotonin as a kind of mood type supplement for lifting your mood for seasonal affective disorder and sleep improvement and that kind of thing. That seems a little bit erroneous. Yeah, the whole system relating to serotonin, for example, it's made from tryptophan,
and tryptophan has some of the bad effects of serotonin partly by increasing serotonin, but also tryptophan happens to be probably the most sensitive amino acid to absorbing radiation. It's where, for example, the lens is injured by ultraviolet light. It's largely the tryptophan absorbing that energy. Okay, so consuming a lot of meat is not a very good idea if you do, because the tryptophan in the meat then is another excessive source of tryptophan. Adults have a very low requirement for tryptophan, cysteine, and methionine.
How many ounces of meat product, since all muscle meat is very, very rich in tryptophan, do you think is a safe limit for a person per day? Well, some experiments with animals in which they've given them almost zero methionine. Methionine is one of the amino acids that's very rich in meat, and they live 30% to 40% longer when they're almost completely lacking methionine. Similar effects with tryptophan, these are the anti-metabolic amino acids, so an adult has very low requirements, but no one has really--
bad experiments suggest that maybe just an ounce or two would be safe, and gelatin, which lacks those amino acids, is safe in very large amounts. So poor people who eat the tough bits of the animal, chicken feet and wings and such, are getting much more gelatin than the rich people who eat the tender steaks. Okay. Okay, well, it is 734, and I know the engineer had a question, so let's pass it over to the engineer. When you were talking about the red light versus healing the damage from the ultraviolet,
one question is, say, is natural sunlight a better thing to tan by than the tanning beds? Yeah, because you're absorbing all the way through your body from sunlight, and it's doing many-- it increases your energy all the way through your body, your liver and brain, everything is being refreshed and renewed, and any sunburn that develops from staying in the sunlight too long, your skin oozes these inflammatory mediators into your bloodstream and causes-- some people get a fever and feel sick if they stay in the sun too long.
But the general saturation with the red light is protecting you to a great extent against that systemic bystander stuff seeping out of the damaged skin. And is near infrared beneficial too, so say, sitting by a wood stove? Well, it mostly just warms you, and keeping your temperature up to close to 99 degrees, that activates your respiration and all of the protective processes. So I think its main value is helping to keep your core body temperature up where it should be. Thank you, and bye-bye, and to Robin. Okay, so yeah, we've gone past the 730 points,
so if people would like to call in this month with any questions related or unrelated to the effects of radiation, or any other questions they may have, please feel free to call the numbers 923 3911, or if you are outside the 923 area code, there's a toll-free number, and it's 800 KMUD RAD, which is 800 568 3723. Okay, so to continue with the topic of radiation, radiation's effect is neither instantaneous, it's neither apparent nor instantaneous, and can linger for many generations. So the... I think the lights are flashing, actually,
I don't know if there is a call that will take it, otherwise we'll carry on. Is there? I think someone may be actually giving a question to the engineer. Okay, so the fact that the effects of radiation are not perceived instantaneously is a bit of a worry, because most people will be told that something is safe, and most people will follow it like... And many of the experiments that measure the dangers of radiation just look at a very short time span,
and then they throw the animals away if they didn't get sick or die from the radiation, but any meaningful experiment would have to follow those exposed animals' offspring for generations. Yeah, definitely. We do actually have two callers, Dr. Peat, so let's see what our first caller has to... The first caller wanted me to ask for them. So if you're familiar, Dr. Peat, with grow lights, by any chance? Grow lights? Lights for growing plants. Yes. Yes, so what are the benefits of those? And she was asking specifically about grow, but I would like to ask...
Well, the red fraction is used for making energy as well as for protecting against the irritating higher energy frequencies, but if you grow--most plants, if you grow them under pure red light, they'll grow extremely fast, but they'll be very weak, and they tend to fall over. Just because they need some of the irritation to build the cellulose skeleton for strength. So the typical grow light has red, blue, and a little either ultraviolet or at least blue and violet to irritate the cells enough that they produce cellulose for strength. Okay. Go on. Sorry.
The irritating frequencies tend to make crops rich in certain defensive chemicals, and so for food crops, it makes them tend to be bitter, but those defensive substances in the plants are very often antioxidants for humans. Okay. That's interesting. Okay. We do actually have a few callers on the line, so let's take the next caller. Hello? Hi. You're on the air. Thanks a lot. Thanks, Dr. Peat. I love--I'm really--I just love listening to you. I have one comment and a question. My comment is I just had a bunch of dental x-rays,
and then two days later, my back got really inflamed, so I was very interested to hear what you had to say, that things--you could be irradiated in one place, and then it could cause inflammation in a different area. Yeah. Just a few years ago, a study in Seattle was measuring the responses to standard dental x-rays, and they were putting on lead aprons to shield the person's body from the chin down, and women who were pregnant at the time they got a set of mouth x-rays had smaller babies
than the women who weren't exposed to x-rays, even though the baby was shielded. It was the systemic stress or estrogen-like effect that caused even the embryo to grow at a slower rate. Oh. Well, my other--my question was about serotonin and this estrogen thing. I have been taking Prozac for more than 20 years, and I don't really see that it does anything for me anymore and would like to get off of it, but it's about--they always say the serotonin thing is what you need and so on,
and I only take it every other day, but still, I'm very concerned about--I'd like to quit taking it, and I was just wondering what that's doing to my body all these years. There have been several studies in which when thyroid is added to the antidepressants, when the antidepressant isn't working, it works when they add thyroid, but the drug companies never test the thyroid by itself because that wouldn't sell their product, but they can make several of the antidepressants work better just by adding thyroid. They talk about the generations of antidepressants.
In the '50s, it was the mono-amino oxidase inhibitors. Then those patents expired, and the drug companies said, "Well, those turn out to be toxic, but we now have the tricyclic antidepressants," and for 17 or so years, those were the good things, but it turned out that they increase prolactin, which has many harmful effects like bone loss and so on, and now they were replaced by the so-called serotonin reuptake inhibitors, but serotonin is now turning out to cause bone loss too by raising prolactin just the way the older ones did,
and some comparative studies have found that the old 1950s style is actually safer than some of the newer ones. Oh, my goodness. So my question is then, is just taking something for thyroid, is that a better way to go? Well, that would be my choice. Some of these so-called serotonin reuptake inhibitors are actually promoting adrenaline and dopamine at the same time, but they don't emphasize that, and one of the most interesting recent antidepressants actually has the opposite effect. It increases the reuptake of serotonin, just the opposite of the currently popular ones,
and it is very effective for many people as an antidepressant. Well, thank you so much. This is really very interesting. I worked in brain research for many years, and I quit about 20 years ago, but I'm very interested in what you're doing. Thank you so much. Thank you for your call. Thank you for your call, yeah. Okay, there's two more callers on the line, so next caller. You're on the air? Yes, Dr. Peat. Can you hear me? Yes. Yes, I am a 64-year-old woman with 100-year-old bones. I've kept them that way for approximately 12 years,
and I'm now doing Forteo injections for approximately three months, and I've been given 17 x-rays in this last one week because of the pain level from previous injuries. I'm headed for an MRI and a CT scan. I've had hepatitis C for 16 years and kept it at level two. Can you tell me what possible effects could all this have on me in the future as far as the MRI and the CT scan, which I have not done yet? I couldn't hear part of that. Andrew or Sarah, could you summarize it? Yeah, go ahead.
The woman has had, I believe, 17 x-rays. In the past week. In the past week, and she's headed for an MRI and a CAT scan, and she's wondering... I have 100-year-old bones and I've been injecting Forteo for three months. I didn't hear that last part, actually. What was the last thing you said? What's the name of the drug? Forteo. It's an injection for bones. Okay. And I've been doing that for three months. I have hepatitis C for 16 years. I'm in stage two. Okay. All right, Dr. Peat, can you hear us now? Yeah.
Okay. I think the lady's main concern is what can she do to strengthen her bones. She says she has 100-year-old bones and she's only in her 60s. Oh, well, probably the safest, most effective thing is, besides getting lots of calcium in your diet and adequate magnesium, vitamin K is very safe and it complements vitamin D and calcium. And since exposure to radiation, one of the first things it does as it knocks down the energy production, it causes cells to take up too much calcium into the soft tissue.
And that's what Goffman demonstrated, that a tremendous amount of heart disease and arterial disease is being caused by radiation exposure. The calcium goes into your soft tissue rather than the bones. And vitamin K is safe at much larger doses than have been traditional, and it can actually reverse the calcification of arteries while greatly accelerating the growth or repair of bones and their uptake and retention of calcium. Okay, good. And would that replace the Forteo? What was that? Would that replace the Forteo injections? I can't hear it clearly.
The lady's asking whether or not what you've suggested there would replace the current injections that she's been having or is about to have. Well, vitamin K is very important for energy production as well as for calcium deposition. And I didn't hear what the current injections were. Well, she said Forteo. I think that's what they call it. Forteo injections. Oh, is that a bisphosphonate? I inject it once a day. But do you know-- Dr. Peat's asking is it a bisphosphonate? No, I don't believe so. Okay.
I think until we know what the drug is, it's difficult to be able to discuss it. Okay, okay. I'm sorry. But vitamin K, calcium, and vitamin D are the most important things that Dr. Peat was mentioning for your bone strength. Right. And to get your thyroid checked. And obviously make sure your thyroid's working optimally. That will certainly help. Right. Okay, now the herbs for pain level. Now, I haven't taken any prescription drugs in quite some time. And the doctor gave me Valium to take. I do not like it. I replaced that with valerian root. Okay.
Okay. What can I replace for blood pressure medicine? Okay, so you have high blood pressure, huh? Only on occasions. Only on occasions, okay. Well, I mean, there are traditional-- the traditional herbs for blood pressure are things like hawthorn, hawthorn flowers and berries. They have a cardioactive effect to lower blood pressure and to decrease the-- increase the force of contraction but decrease the rate. So that's kind of primary number one, cardiotonic.
There are several other, you know, obviously things that reduce your stress will certainly have a potential benefit for high blood pressure because stress will increase adrenaline. Adrenaline will drive up blood pressure. But hawthorns, the nurse of the heart, that's always what they-- And the valerian should help as well. Yeah, the valerian should do. Even if you have hepatitis C. And the calcium and vitamin K should help blood pressure. Yeah, okay. And as for the hepatitis, I think what the most-- I think the most important thing for the hepatitis is to avoid polyunsaturated fats.
Certainly, they have been majorly implicated in causing inflammation and inflammation is not what you want with hepatitis. There's plenty of other things but they're mainly going to be dietary factors so increasing your gelatin consumption, making sure that you get good proteins from a mixed range. Okay. And I have the information on the Forteo. Okay. It's T-E-R-I-P-A-R-A-T-I-D-E. Hmm. Parenthesis. I've not heard of it. R-E-N-A origin. Yeah, I haven't heard of it. Oh, okay. I'm sorry but we do have two more callers so I would like to-- Okay, thank you very much for your help.
Yeah, you're very welcome. You've been a wonderful help. You're very welcome. Thank you so much. Okay, the other callers on the line, you're on the air. Hi, I have a-- My next? I can't hear you so-- I have a question about non-ionizing radiation. Okay. I've read that they didn't used to think that that actually caused cellular damage and DNA breakage but that more recent research is showing that non-ionizing radiation can cause these problems too and I'm concerned about this with regards to the new PG&E smart meters and all the Wi-Fi that's being installed.
Can you comment on that? Okay, Toshki? Yeah, some of the electromagnetic low, relatively low energy radiation can still break chromosomes. It's a matter of how they resonate and for example, men working around power lines have very few male offspring and birds living near those same power lines have almost purely female offspring because of the apparently cellular and chromosome damage from those pretty low energy, low frequency emissions. Do you know anything about the frequencies that the microwave range of the frequencies that smart meters and Wi-Fi emit in particular?
Well, I've got a gauge that I check my things with. I went to a flat screen monitor years ago and have only wire connections because of the known effect on the brain for example. Way back in the 50s, the Russians were lowering their safety standards for that type of radiation because of the effect for example on inheritance, lowering fertility. Do you recommend people just buy an EMF meter and check their electrical appliances? Yeah, I think they cost about $20 and I just got a new microwave oven
and it has really intense fields out about two feet away from it. So even with the new ovens, it's good to stand back three or four feet at least. I think just to answer the other question about the microwave Wi-Fi, I think wherever possible if you have a microwave internet, you can just hardwire your connection to your computers. You don't have to have your house bathed in Wi-Fi signals. We're going to be attached to our houses and they're going to bathe their houses in it and we don't get a choice about it.
So that's what I was concerned. Yeah. Okay, well I'm not too sure about that but we do have seven more callers. Buy a field meter and check a smart meter. Okay, we've got three more callers. I'm not sure how many we'll get through but let's take the next caller. Hi, my question is actually pretty simple. On the serotonin stuff, I take a supplement called 5-HTP. Does that fall in the benign or bad category? Many of its effects are essentially the same as serotonin. So that's inflammatory? Yeah. It's inflammatory?
Yeah, the same effects. 5-HTP or 5-hydroxytryptophan has got the same negative effects that serotonin does and that is that it's inflammatory. Serotonin, for example, stimulates cell growth and inflammation. It can increase the growth of plaques in arteries and accelerate tumor growth and so on. And tryptophan, which isn't quite as active as the 5-hydroxy, tryptophan itself is considered to be slightly carcinogenic in excess. Well, that's odd. I've actually been struggling with healing tendons and taking this at the same time. So perhaps I've been shooting myself in the foot. Thanks so much.
And to that caller who was just on, who's just left the air, the tendons, certainly one of the best things that you should be doing for tendons is one of Dr. Peat's recommendations of a bone broth or gelatin broth from bone shanks. And gelatin is an extremely protective anti-inflammatory and the components of which are utilized in the formation of tendons and the protective material around joints. Okay, there's another caller on the line.
Hi, Dr. Roy, I talked to you this morning. My name's Chris and I was curious if the good doctor would know, I'm currently looking to lose weight and I was wondering, is there any meat that's any better than any other meat out there? I think avoiding the pork and the non-ruminants because those reflect whatever they ate and are usually highly unsaturated and anti-thyroid. So instead of chicken and pork, beef and lamb? Yeah, beef and lamb are saturated. Coconut oil is a vegetable oil which is highly saturated and so it promotes metabolism, increases calories.
You don't recommend turkey? Turkey usually eats the same stuff chickens and pigs do, corn and soybeans. Okay, well thank you so much. Okay, you're very welcome. Okay, well I think we should hold the callers there. I know there's more on the line but I'm sorry we don't have the time this month. We do have a few minutes, however, to thank Dr. Peat very much for his time. I really appreciate you taking time out of your day just to share what you have.
I know a lot of people that listen in this area particularly are very, very interested and what you have to say is very researched, it's scientific, it's not quackery, it's not suspect. It's all out there, you know, you can find it. For those people that want to hear, you know, what you're saying is very well researched and we thank you so much for helping. It is December now and just a by-product of December's 21st full lunar eclipse, folks, if you get a chance to see it at about 11 o'clock, 70 minutes long.
Okay, Sarah, do you have anything else you'd like to say? No, just I want to make sure you hand out Dr. Peat's contact details. That's right, that was the very next thing, of course. Make sure it's .com. Anybody who wants to find out more about Dr. Raymond Peat, his website is www.repeat.com and he's got many fully referenced articles. He's been doing this for many, many years and has a wealth of information. So if people would like to read his material, then that certainly would be the first step in greater understanding.
I also want to let people know that these radio shows are archived. Everything that KMUD puts out on the air, including Marky Mark's couple of hours that come next every time we're on our show, everything's archived. So if you want to go to Friday Night Live, you'll find the show there and you can go ahead and download it, listen to it. I would suggest for those people who are interested in what Dr. Peat has said before, and obviously some were listening again this evening and got much more out of it,
then they could burn these CDs, if that's a legal or non-legal term, they could use these CDs and listen to them and really start to digest what he's saying. OK, so thanks so much for all of you who listen regularly and for those of you who tuned in this evening as well. We'll see you next year. Happy Christmas, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you. Thank you for listening. [Music] And thank you very much. Support for KMUD comes in part from the Stonery in Garberville.
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