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