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Well, welcome to this month's Ask Your Herb Doctor. My name is Andrew Murray From 730 and to 8 o'clock the end of the show we do a live. I do a live call-in I say we because Dr. Raymond Peat Always joins us and has done for several years now The number of you on the reaches I'd love to hear from you about either tonight's subjects continuing topic of serotonin inflammation superoxide oxidants antioxidants And several other subjects, but the number is seven zero seven nine two three three nine one one
For those of you who perhaps have never heard dr. Peat Will be giving out his details at the end of the show and for those of you who know a Lot about him and listen to lots of what he's got to say and read his books I'm sure you'll find this evening show just as informative It's a once a month show that we do from 7 to 8 p.m. And from 730 Until 8 o'clock we do a live call-in so
If people want to call in with questions related or unrelated to this month's subject on continuing topic of inflammation serotonin Etc numbers seven zero seven nine two three three nine one one so from 730 on And if people want to line up ahead of time before that that's just fine too because that also happens So once again very pleased to welcome introduce dr. Raymond Peat onto the show dr. Peat you with us. Yes, okay Thanks so much for giving your time again as you always do every third Friday the month for us
For those people that perhaps have never heard you or heard your name heard you speak or know anything about you perhaps. Would you just Outline your professional and academic background and then we'll get into tonight's topic okay, I got a master's degree with a thesis on William Blake from University of Oregon 1960 and then taught various schools and colleges and in 1968 I went back for a PhD in biology University of Oregon graduating in 72 and I've been following up on Pretty much the same interests ever since the 50s
Studying how the brain and body work Okay, thank you. I was going to ask I wanted to ask I didn't didn't prepare this ahead of time But when when did you stop seeing people in person because you used to consult with people right? um, yeah, but 1990 I think it was yeah Okay. All right Well, I just wanted to let people know also that's something I should have done at the very beginning of the show because I often find Myself wondering what month it was the show was done in It's November. So November the 15th
2019 the doctor Peat Carrying on from where we left off last month Talking about or discussing parts of your newsletter But and a small part of it because we didn't get a lot of time to to cover it. Excuse me, but I had some more questions in about Tryptophan and serotonin and given that serotonin is formed from this amino acid tryptophan If we are to if we're to avoid this like because the whole the whole ages of this is that Serotonin is an inflammatory molecule
It's responsible for many negative effects in the body and obviously we'll get you to outline all of those things in detail here So people can understand just how? You know just how bad it is for you and its negative effects and why? The selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are so bad for you given that they allow this product to remain in larger concentrations in the body How best how best can we avoid? tryptophan ingestion In order to try and get an edge on the serotonin that would be formed from it Tryptophan and Metabolites including serotonin is
Essential for life every kind of organism is built with proteins containing tryptophan and The very nature of life as I see it and as Albert Szent-Györgyi Researched it he for the last 30 40 years of his life Was demonstrating the electronic nature of life? the fluorescence luminescence electronic conductivity in such of living systems at the proteins interacting with water Producing excited electrons and of light emissions and Tryptophan is the amino acid that gives proteins that basic property that according to Szent-Györgyi It is the the essential Mechanism of life that lets it
Sense and move he was a muscle researcher among other things and this electronic property Is at the heart of both sensation and movement and all of the other? familiar properties of life nutrition consciousness and so on so it's a When when something goes wrong with tryptophan or its metabolites it disturbs life at its deepest level cell division and all other functions depend on this excitability of tryptophan and The in the muscle protein myosin for example There's one particular tryptophan which is most sensitive electronically and To light interactions such as phosphorescence and this
tryptophan interacts electrically or electronically with cysteine which is an oxidizable sulfur protein and these are the sort of the electric motor of all the life processes and They happen to be the essential things during the growth process of an organism, but If you keep the same ratio coming in in your diet and stop growing They're no longer being Consumed in proportion for growth and so they become sort of free actors which can spread excitability and oxidized ability randomly in the organism so during the growth period of an organism
You need the full balanced range of amino acids but when when your body growth stops all you need to maintain The renewal of your skin and Intestine lining lungs All of the turnover of brain proteins that are being renewed and so on That's a very small amount of growth that's going on compared to in your infancy and teens Those those amino acids are are now at risk of becoming Random excitatory inflammation promoting processes and it happens that gelatin is a major protein that is used for building frameworks connective tissues and it has a
complete lack of these excitable proteins cysteine thiamine and tryptophan and so if it becomes a major dietary protein when growth is completed then you reduce the the risk of the inflammatory and degenerative diseases Do you think this could be mitigated through I mean I know you don't at all promote any aerobic exercise or stress inducing exercise But given that I've come from a kind of not I am but I come from a kind of bodybuilding perspective Where you do recommend lightweight bearing exercise for people of all ages and actually very much
Support is used for producing muscle mass muscle burning glucose being thyroid thyroid stimulatory and supportive If these amino acids are being consumed and somebody's actually doing some work then Does that would that warrant that diet remain in that way because obviously there's an ideal in life and you've mentioned the gelatin and it being completely absent from these inflammatory amino acids, but in terms of a balanced diet that would contain some of these Would you recognize work? doing work by lifting small weights and Exercising your body is
Yeah by the age of 30 or 40 when growth is completed The bulk of our energy is spent just in maintaining the body But it has to function to be maintained and renewed if you Have a cast for example on your arm muscles will atrophy because they aren't being used So just to maintain What we have we have to be active and that includes mental or spiritual activity Keeping a freshness of perspective This is the The environmental enrichment and Yeah stimulation of everything Mental processes as well as
Varied physical activity. Do you think there's a place for people to get more? It's kind of outside the context of this month's show, but I guess a leading question from what you're saying, but in terms of people Doing things that hopefully they're interested in obviously outside the mundanity of work if they're not interested in that, but they have to do it but actively actively engaging and pursuing things that require them to be mobile and engaging with environment and Yeah, environmentally enriching them to be a process that is supportive to the organism in terms of
You know producing good Not just feelings but Good good good results in terms of feeling fulfilled and that fulfillment transferring into a mind-body state that's supportive rather than degenerative and Reductive, you know, it always has to involve newness and invention Even conversations can be relatively athletic Okay, are you listening to ask you that herb doctor on Kamedi garble 91.1 FM and from 730 until the end of the show 8 o'clock you invited to call in the number to reach us here is 7 0 7 9 2 3 3 9 1 1 and
I just got to ask the engineer actually that the clock is missing. There is worse happen to the clock. I Didn't actually go check in there to make sure the clock was there. It's actually not here I suppose we should put that on our checklist. Well, not a bad idea I'll start like going like that when you get towards the end and I'll start doing the music very quietly I just want to make sure that we pay no attention
The musical get loud and little just want to make sure that we have timely intervals remind people Well, I will I will say opens I will open the lines for calls that have passed. How about that? Sure. Okay So dr. Peat carrying on about tryptophan now You've always mentioned that this should be in balance and that's why you've always talked about gelatin gelatin rich products because it's in The muscle meats where we get the greatest proportion of tryptophan and that would be You know consuming excess amounts of muscle meats and I think you've don't
Rate more than four ounces or six ounces As being beneficial for us because of the tryptophan content Yeah, so It's I guess it's possible to to avoid and again, this is kind of a little bit off topic, but I was looked at a program that was About plant-based and I don't want to get into a discussion necessarily about plant-based Versus animal based proteins, but it was quite an interesting documentary about and I think they followed Several people maybe four or five Quote unquote athletes obviously because I think they're at the top of their game
but these people were either vegan or just basically got all of their protein from non animal sources as all plant-based proteins and They you and McGregor actually was that I don't have to know him, of course, but he's like an MMA fighter and he was at the top of his game and he was fighting a title bout that was gonna challenge him for his title and The chap that Reeves fighting was a vegan and in the interview McGregor was really castigating him and saying that he was
You know just a plant eating, you know, whatever. He was weak and he was gonna destroy him in the fight and McGregor lost and it was such a shock in the circle because he was at the top of his game and They proved they were doing this physiologically showing that meat consumption. I'm not anti meat at all You know But they were showing that a consumption of meat Actually slowed the organism down and it actually I know you've mentioned things like cadaverine and putrescene as being byproducts of meat
And definitely which is why you advocate not hanging meat you know like they do in England perhaps or hang pheasants until they start falling apart and same with their you know, the Venison, but anyway getting getting back to this title fight They said that they showed physiologically how it was slowing him down and how his muscles were not able to repolarize reactors repair as quickly and recover as quickly and they were saying that it was pretty much based on his diet and they were really
They were really putting meat consumption down, but I don't know if I think the highest phosphate content Relative right the calcium is a big part of that Wastes the energy it's like a constant subliminal stimulus Tend to tend to load the cells up with calcium as if they were fatigued already Honey, would you would you be supportive of a plant-based protein diet over getting any kind of meats? Because I know you've you know, you're really You stand very strongly behind gelatin and well, the problem is that a lot of the plant-based proteins are either
Overloaded with phosphate the same as meat or or they have potential allergens and Offensive molecules that the plants are right have that no no animal has right so you just you still advocate very simple amino acid type Gelatin protein sources and then obviously things from dairy Cheese milk and eggs is good quality clean proteins Yeah, but it's a tremendously important field for research to find what plants Have the proper Nutrients and don't have the toxins right so that you say you
they nearly always see the conjugated with the oil was a liquid or so that you know polyunsaturates from the nuts and Yeah, then there's other sources obviously tofu and soy soy protein has been Implicated with having kind of estrogenic effects Yeah, okay, all right, so anyway, so getting back to Getting back to what we were talking about with tryptophan and serotonin I wanted to ask about and this will be this will branch out a little bit later into insulin resistance and Cholesterol production and Yeah, kind of just go in a few different directions
But I try and keep it as focused as possible that superoxide dismutase Then this is an enzyme that degrades superoxide and superoxide sold you know as a health food supplement and It's an extreme oxidant, correct Yes, and so and so very damaging and I know last month I asked you just to break down the oxidation antioxidation Kind of concept because we're bombarded with these And obviously vitamin C is an antioxidant and we know vitamin C is very good. But there's also antioxidant effects that are not necessarily positive correct oh Yeah
too much of an antioxidant of It's typical cancer metabolism for example, right? Okay, so then that cancer metabolism is a lactic acid producing Physiology Yeah as a byproduct Okay. All right. So Let's move on then to talk about proteins in terms of muscle building and that kind of thing. But Most proteins contain tryptophan then which is converted to serotonin And do you think it's possible to contain enough non tryptophan containing proteins for continued muscle growth and repair? All of the proteins other than gelatin that I know of
Will support proper growth and repair, right? Okay. All right, it's very straightforward then. All right, and then Let's have a look here I wanted to ask you about the pH of the blood and I know there are people Where especially on the internet if you're looking for any kind of guidelines for health or health related topics they'll talk about acidity and alkalinity and I know the pH of the blood is kept very tightly between seven point three five and seven point four five I think
How much can this change I mean it's not really possible for that to change is it oh, yeah, I've seen Very sick people with extremely high blood pH Seven point five or six for example, really? Okay, it's a can go outside that range I thought the body did everything it can to keep it It does a person has to get really sick for the blood to change Outside that range. Okay, and and you can do it momentarily just by hyperventilating Blowing breathing so fast that your Carbon dioxide is being lost and
That can push your your blood pH very high to the point that you Might faint or die When you lose too much co2 the increased pH tends to cause Spasms including blood vessel spasms cutting off the circulation of your brain Can you do the opposite of that because I know you're an advocate of increasing co2 Rebreathing in a paper bag, for example, you can correct out and forward the pH of your blood To the to the point that it can start weakening your muscles and causing too much vessel dilation
So it is possible to go the other direction equally and oppositely Yeah, muscle weakness is the worst thing All right, there's nothing too much more serious than that because I know some people were really really getting into co2 baths and rebreathing co2 is a kind of Yeah, if you're just soaking it in through your skin Since you're breathing in the ordinary air Even though you're absorbing a really large amount of it through your skin it's going to Equalize with the air and so you can't overdose sitting in pure co2 All right
Can I want to move on again just to reiterate this for some people perhaps? I'm not too sure The connection was made quite as clearly as this but I was looking at I was looking at some articles today just going through some material to see what else could be fleshed out with this evening's talk carrying on from last month, but Statins are we I'm gonna get one about statins again, but just just to mention again that the brain Actually creates its own cholesterol and cholesterol
Systemically is too big a molecule to get across the blood-brain barrier and I know I asked you last month about the blood-brain barrier and how Physiologically intact it was and I know that you mentioned several Several components that wouldn't typically get across a blood-brain barrier could in certain instances and I think a little bit like the intestinal barrier Fairly large fats can massively go into the brain Well they came from the blood Interesting, okay, so you say fat some fairly large fats, but you don't think that cholesterol will pass the blood-brain barrier D
Yeah, I think it can Wow Okay, because I what I wanted to say was that in so far as the literature is concerned I'm not saying the literature has it right and you don't but so far as the literature is concerned That that molecules they say is too big to get across the blood-brain barrier and and hence Whatever the biological reason for however long we've been around the brain Because it is such a both energy Hungry or organ and because the white matter of the brain is principally cholesterol
they say that 20% of the body's cholesterol is actually in the brain and presumably because of the white matter and presumably because of the Insulating effect of cholesterol on the neurons and that the enzyme HMG Co a reductase Produces cholesterol and Statins for those people unfortunately who might be using them But hopefully they'll look to an alternative if they don't completely ban them, but they probably won't because they're making too much money from it This the statins do pass and cross into the blood-brain barrier, so I
Imagine what they do to the brain is what they do to the muscles and if you're soaked in statins and do vigorous exercise the Interference with cholesterol can cause your muscle to break down and simply dissolve and disintegrate And I'm afraid that same thing can happen in the brain accounting for the depression Suicidality and such right because they're saying they're saying that these are some of the common side effects that they advertise as part of their disclaimer for the products that
but just to bring out again from a kind of a simplistic maybe mechanistic point that The fact that you have this stacking crossing into the brain and actually lowering your brains brains cholesterol Is a definite reason of cause for concern because typically? If you had a low cholesterol situation, which was not actually You know due to Just an inherently high Genetic reason for producing cholesterol that if you start lowering it systemically And this is crossing into your brain and your brain is suffering as a result of this you're going to get some very
very odd neurological side effects of it the old brain is sort of like a clump of atherosclerosis it's a lots of cholesterol, but it's bound to fatty acids and In in the old brain free cholesterol is actually lower than in the young brain. It's the bound up Interfering type of cholesterol that accumulates in the aged brain as in the aged blood vessels Hmm, but your brain is not like that is it? Avoiding vegetable oils Good all right you're listening to I have no idea what time it is, but you're okay there
You go you're listening to ask your doctor came you de Galvo 91.1 FM and from now on to 8 o'clock You're invited to call him the questions dr. Raymond Peat Is our guest and the number if you live in the areas or if you even if you don't live out in the area if you? Live anywhere on the planet. It's seven zero seven nine two three three nine one one I Looked at and to be your counting okay. It's expecting the phone to start ringing okay, so I was looking at some some
Some articles this afternoon. I saw an article about hand cellular, which you mentioned Quite a lot saying that he was doing work on muscular dystrophy And by administering serotonin to animals this was this was caused he actually gave that he could precipitate muscular dystrophy in animals Um yeah, and that was in the late 50s and early 60s that he was doing those experiments and Despite that being in the literature in the 70s Tryptophan supplements became a popular fad and there was a lot of Sickness produced by it I think there were mental problems, but
muscle inflammation and an immune problem was the Focus of the disease that became Well known and the FDA blamed it on on a bad type of tryptophan that they never explained, but Hansell you was producing it with tryptophan simply in excess Okay, all right. We have a we have a caller on the on the line, so let's take this caller call away from what's your question? Hi, good evening. I'm calling from Santa Barbara, California. Hi welcome to show Thank you. I just have a question are you familiar with the hair tissue mineral analysis test?
Yep, don't say yeah Okay, great. I just had some results of that and my first question was is I have a very high sodium to potassium potassium ratio my my Sodium is 34 and my potassium is one. I just wanted to know what could be causing that and What do you do about it? What's a hair analysis? Yeah It could be that you Have hard water or have a water softener that puts sodium into the water Yes, Santa Barbara has water softeners in lots of the houses
Do you have do you have a water softener in your house? Yes, I do Yeah, okay, that puts sodium into the water and so it will skew the hair test Okay and then just one more on those I Have a the ratio between the calcium and the potassium is It very skewed as well. My calcium is 46 and the potassium is one I I'm not sure that that could be from hard water rather than softened water, but I wouldn't worry about a Hair mineral test a serum test is much more useful
Right. Yeah, there you go. It's basically anything that you're exposed to that Dr. Peat mentioned in the first instance here if you're showering and your water has been Softened that way then that could easily explain how the hair would take up those components and would show to be High in one and low in another but obviously blood tests are the best way to do it Okay, did you have any particular reason for testing your hair or was this just a curiosity? No, yeah, I am working like with a functional nutritionist and I've
Had the Dutch hormone testing done previously and I've had some Stool sampling done and so as we progress kind of trying to figure out the puzzle pieces of my symptoms This was another This test was recommended by her. Yeah, do you feel like you want to talk about what it was? You were looking for help for or oh sure. Yeah, I basically a couple years ago I started having symptoms of Hypoglycemia, which I still have now and how old you I'm 46. Okay, go carry on Yeah, so I've had that I've had
Basically increased weight gain during these last couple years. I've gained probably about 40 pounds I have changed my diet Significantly that was obviously a big problem for me. But my my diet is very I follow a lot of dr. Peat's recommendations my my practitioner follows his work, so I've in you know done a lot of those changes and everything, but Basically, I have like hypoglycemia. I have problems with anxiety My inflammation marker is very high And then like I said the weight gain and my hormones Indicate I have high cortisol
So those are all kind of things that we've been trying to work on Okay, Dr. Peat hypoglycemia with high cortisol and weight gain and anxiety and anxiety And calcium and and thyroid are likely involved vitamin D calcium and thyroid Have you have you had your vitamin D measured? Do you know what that is? Yes, the most recent one I've had done. I want to say it was around 50 ish Then amount of calcium in your diet works with both Thyroid and vitamin D to keep your metabolic rate up and your blood sugar steady Okay
To two grams a day of calcium is it's a good level Do you drink any milk or do you take a calcium supplement or? I don't take a calcium supplement, but I do drink milk, and I do eat high quality dairy. How much milk do you drink? I Was well I've increased that Per dr. Peat so I mean for me probably about 16 ounces, and I'm drinking 2% milk yeah, I think twice that much of 1% would be better
Took two quarts of what skimmed or 1% helps to lose weight because of the high calcium content and you said About like there. What did you say on the ounces? From 1 to 2 quarts Okay, 1 to 2 quarts of okay Okay That tends to increase your temperature and if your temperature doesn't Rise quickly in the morning when you get up and eat breakfast if it doesn't get up to 98.6 by half hour after breakfast But then you're likely to need a thyroid supplement, too
Yeah, I do. I do the temperatures and pulses and I tend to have low temperatures And then I did I did try some nature throid a very like of the like the lowest dosage I forget the like quarter grain or Something like that, but I started having More negative effects with it I started having like my anxiety was more increased and I started having like more aggressive Like behavior like a real short fuse and that kind of stuff so I quit taking that after about a month One of the effects of
thyroid is to make your cells able to retain the magnesium that they need and If your diet doesn't have enough magnesium And two quarts of milk would give you a generous supply of magnesium which would make the thyroid able to work more quickly and The normal function of thyroid is to increase your ability to relax both both muscles and nerves Okay Okay, I appreciate your time. Thank you both so much. Yeah, you're welcome
Okay, so people want to call in numbers seven zero seven nine two three three nine one one dr. Raymond Peat's with us in the studio Okay so dr. Peat going back to the Going back to positive effects, and we've mentioned it's positive. It's only ever positive, but it's demonized in the industry in terms of treatments for lowering it cholesterols effect is Undoubtable in terms of regulating regulating the system regulating and supporting and stabilizing cells Let me just okay. There's a call on the line
Let's get this caller before we jump into this next question caller you're on the airway from I'm from Mendocino County. Okay. Hi. What's your question? My question is from recently diagnosed with osteoporosis, and I was wondering an alternative way to treat that yeah How old are you? 62 62 okay, there's plenty of good plenty of good ways to do this, but let dr. P Let Dr. Peat discuss it. Go ahead Dr. Peat. Okay keeping keeping the parathyroid hormone under control is essential and Eating a lot of calcium
like two quarts of milk and keeping your your vitamin D serum level up to the middle of the range like 50 mg per ml That Is a good basis, but if your thyroid Hormone is low Then your your prolactin Will likely be high enough that the prolactin itself as a bone weakening effect Prolactin is normally the hormone of lactation And it takes calcium out of the bone normally to put into the milk but under stress it causes calcium to be lost from the bone and Prolactin tends to rise along with thyroid stimulating hormone and The
simplest way to normalize prolactin is to normalize your thyroid function keep Keep your thyroid stimulating hormone At the lower end of the normal range Okay, how do you keep the thyroid how do you do that um if you can't do it just with a selection of foods then a supplement A thyroid supplement, yeah Yeah, and I do not like milk so is there something else that I could do to get calcium oh? Well cooked greens are Food that's richest other than milk and calcium relative to phosphate but if you grind up eggshells
That's a good pure form of calcium carbonate which is next best to milk Okay, how much how many ground-up egg cells that you do per day? Oh? A couple of grams would be good Okay Yeah, so you can just use your eggs if you use eggs you can just put them to one side and Gently wash out the membrane and stack them up for a week or so and then after a week you can put them on a Baking tray and put them in the oven at about 150 and
Basically sterilize sterilize them that way and then put them in a coffee grinder, and then they'll grind up very finely into a fine powder Do have some people who use these? Kind of approaches to calcium rather than pills and capsules that do say that and best taken with food Can irritate some people's stomachs, but it's a very clean way especially if we're using organic eggs To get a good quality calcium carbonate, and it's almost all calcium so 2,000 milligrams a day is what dr.
Peat said so two grams it's about it's about three one eighth teaspoons I think I think an eighth teaspoon is 650 odd milligrams Okay, yeah, so if you don't drink milk or eat cheese or get lots of cooked greens, and you are calcium Calcium lean then that's obviously gonna work against you, but can I quickly ask you what kind of menstrual history you had I? Had I went to menopause at early age at 45 45. Yeah, all right I just spoken to a lot of women who have Either had hysterectomies and very poor hormone replacement
Approaches done or have had really bad menstrual cycles and been very high estrogen and a lot of these women show very early Osteopenia I mean in their 40s and in osteo bordering osteoporotic by 50 it's not what you want you really want to address this and vitamin D and Calcium and thyroid are going to be the best least invasive and certainly most tolerable approach to dealing with your osteoporosis because you're only young and You know hopefully you're gonna live quite a while longer, and it's gonna
It's not gonna get any better if you don't address it unopposed cortisol other bone dissolving What is that? cortisol If it's even in the higher part of the normal range in a morning test if it isn't balanced with the adrenal DHEA and progesterone and other adrenal steroids that can can contribute to osteoporosis and supplementing progesterone and DHEA and or pregnenolone Can oppose that effective cortisol? Okay, all right. Thank you very much. Dr.. Peat Okay, good, so the number if you live anywhere on the planet, and he's like to ask dr.
Peat a question during this evening's call Ending at 8 o'clock here with seven zero seven nine two three three nine one seven zero seven nine two three three nine one one So dr. Peat just getting back to cholesterol for a little bit in terms of what has been so popularized and so treated with statins Cholesterol's positive effects. I think are just beginning to come to pass you know and I think it's a little bit like a sea change that's occurred with the whole perpetration of
Polyunsaturated supposedly being good for you and saturated fats being bad for you, which is I think now at last finally seeing the light of day and I'm reading reports on the internet. I'm not saying the internet is the only sole source of any information, but Seeing some good articles coming out about how that is just so and he's been talking about it for 40 years or more I'm sorry that it's taken So long for everybody you know including us ten years ago is still thinking that helps the way it was but I'm
Also starting to see some good articles that have been written Expounding the benefits of cholesterol and just outlining in very plain simple layman terms Just how beneficial cholesterol is and why it's so important and that the whole LDL HDL Thing is a complete myth, and they're actually a lot more studies showing that some of these oxidized LTL particles They're probably more responsible for the inflammatory initial insult on the endothelia of the vessels that then causes
Cholesterol to be laid down as a repair mechanism which during dissection of a cadaver who's died of a heart attack for example They'll say oh, that's it. They say here. I is a cholesterol. It's blocked the arteries That's why he's dead when actually all the time you and you boy said it's the initial insult from things like lipofluxin or other oxidative byproducts of lipid metabolism that have caused initial insult But in terms of the brain and the brains functioning so cholesterol
I can't we can't really can't really state it enough. Just how important it is to have adequate cholesterol and that low cholesterol is virtually unspoken about people you find it very hard to find any information regarding low cholesterol because no one's looking that way and I wonder just how many people Actually present with a blood test and their doctors saying oh your cholesterol is great You know whenever I've had blood work done and my cholesterol is played 120 at the moment
It's always wow your cholesterol is great, and I'm thinking no. It's not it's nowhere near high enough You know and I know you've always said that you should be about 200 so a cholesterol of 120 is obviously not good for me But yeah, it's not at all influenced by diet and in terms of your body will make cholesterol out of just about anything Yeah Okay, there's a caller on the end. Let's get this caller. I call you. Yeah, where you from what's my name is John and I'm 78 over the last
Year or maybe a little more I guess my PFA's gone up, okay precipitously yeah from four to five to 20 okay And I wonder if there's any supplements that can help me drive that down. Yeah Talks P. It's probably not in isolation for this, but this person's PSA is 20 now Um I think everything Anti-inflammatory is the right approach a diet Low in phosphate is a very basic anti-inflammatory thing And so on The Cooked cooked greens cheese milk and eggs are anti-inflammatory foods Keeping your thyroid function up so that your
Your liver is helping to balance your hormones keeping estrogen down Adequate protein a good calcium phosphate ratio and Fairly High normal a body temperature is important Lower inflammation and keep the ratio of estrogen low Do you think dr. Peat from my from an herb herbal medicine perspective the kind of rationale of using aromatase inhibitors from things like nettle root or using the sterols Probably from saw palmetto might be anti-estrogenic and that's how that could be a rationale for treating high
Prostate hypertrophy if you do you think I prostrate hypertrophy is down to estrogens as much as anything else yeah Estrogen love It's a growth and carcinogenic factor In the prostate right and as men get older their estrogen no doubt rises especially as testosterone is on the decline Yeah, and the men who live the longest with prostate cancer have the highest testosterone What? The men that live the longest yeah with prostate cancer have the highest testosterone Yeah, so in that okay? Yeah, so that the testosterone that in that point then it's kind of protective huh yeah
And in the early 90s when They started using the PSA test as a diagnosis of prostate cancer the Mortality from prostate cancer took a huge surge upward and Some of the doctors noticed that and decided maybe it wasn't a good idea to diagnose prostate cancer Right because a lot of the times you have said this quite a few times before now But a lot of the times it can not advocating people just don't do anything about a supposed cancer marker That is you know possibly treatable especially from a medical perspective but
You've mentioned quite a few times that people found In in the mortuary they've just died from some other cause and they've been found with a wide range of different cancers that hasn't been the Thing that's killed them or they've been found with prostate enlargement and or you know benign type dysplastic prostatic inflammation a couple studies found that a hundred percent of people who died at the age of 50 or more All of them had diagnosable cancer some right yeah Yeah, so the the the call a the the best thing the best things for you
Talking about what dr. Peat's been mentioning if you can obviously maintain physical activity In terms of keeping a testosterone as high as you can from being a male that's certainly very protective and anti estrogenic estrogen being one of those Hormones that rises in males especially in males that are obese or you know they have more fat than is good for them Especially because of that tissue tends to accumulate and or produce estrogen in its own right and then there are two Herbs that I know there's more than that
But the two that come to mind instantly are things like nettle root as an aromatase inhibitor And that has an effect blocking estrogen and then the saw palmetto extract, but there's lots of there's lots of information about alternative medicines for enlarged prostate but I think obviously keeping an eye on your your PSA in conjunction with using some of those herbs that have been used for prostatic enlargement and Making sure that your estrogen is being opposed by testosterone and getting exercise and aspirin
There you go and aspirin certainly something that's very well tolerated very inexpensive and very easily to get hold of Okay, we do have one more caller on the air, so let's get this next caller call it you're on the airway from them What's your question? I'm in Humboldt and Redway, okay? My question is how can I get off selexa? Okay, we had we had a very similar question last month about a lady who called in on SSRIs and wanted wanted help with that so
In terms of in terms of a dose have you ever tried reducing the dose of this and then? slowly withdrawing from it I would be willing to try that yeah It's one. I mean Dr. Peat in terms of withdrawing we've we talked about this last month so in terms of withdrawing From an SSRI it's not to be done unsupported, but you mentioned last month that there's Plenty to do in terms of support in the physiology with thyroid with other you know positive lifestyle diet changes that
basically will allow a person to slowly taper off of an SSRI and not be Not be basically overloaded with this this product serotonin one of their effects tends to increase the stress hormones and so an anti-stress program I've known people to withdraw from several different addictive things including the SSRIs using progesterone and coffee and thyroid and a good high calcium diet for example How long have you been using it for? Many years yeah, yeah, I mean obviously it's
It's unfortunate. We're getting so close to the top of the hour and the end of the show but in terms of It's used for the treatment of anxiety and depression etc etc and all the label recommendations that are given for prescribing it in the first place in terms of your headspace and Where you are and what you engage with what stimulates you or what or what you know upsets you even? there's certainly Scope there for You know lifestyle changes, but as dr.
Peat's mentioned you know in terms of anti-stress things there are certainly components that in your diet are anti-stress and that support your thyroid and are anti-inflammatory and Decrease the quote-unquote stress which is on you know Like lifestyle changes that like go out and run or walk in a day. No. We're not running for sure but in terms of Gentle weight-bearing exercise and walking and reading and being in the sunlight You know or in a bright room making sure you've got exposure to that good red light etc etc especially in the winter now
We're coming with a long day long nights and short days and the whole seasonal affective disorder being a fairly widespread thing in this part of the world as Thyroid gets low as the winter's coming This thyroid hormone, and then there's opposing your estrogen as a female which undoubtedly will have a beneficial effect Keeping up vitamin D. Yeah Hormone replacement therapy No, not a big Good of hormone replacement therapy well the only hormone would be progesterone to oppose your estrogen that
If you're on any kind of hormone replacement, that's estrogen based, and you really don't want to be doing that It's it's completely not what you're gonna hear from your doctor perhaps you know or maybe some naturopath who's a little more current Mm-hmm yeah, I don't even have a clock in front of me. What what time is it Michael I? Guess it's that time. I'm afraid we got a little music where you yeah, I mean you've got a minute to say goodbye to dr. Yeah, all right. Thank you so much dr. Peat for joining us
Okay, if that lady wants to contact us any any time afterwards basically you can just email me my email address is Andrew at Western botanical medicine comm So yeah, go ahead and email me. I'll respond to your email next week. I want to get back in the office on Monday Okay, so for those who've listened. Thanks for joining in the show the same third Friday of next month December and For those people who've listened to dr. Peat I want to find out more about him www.raypeat.com
I've got plenty of well-written articles that fully backed up by Studies that you can just go ahead and look at on the internet so people want alternatives. They want some hope definitely a good thing to have and Very positive there's lots of alternatives, so don't have to be forced down one particular way to do something anyway until Next month. Oh, I just wanted to mention that in January Sarah will be back For all those people all those people who keep saying where's Sarah where's Sarah anyway? Thanks so much for joining until next month