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WEBVTT
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Hi, welcome to this month's Ask Your Herb Doctor. My name is Andrew Murray.
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My name is Sarah Johanneson Murray.
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For those of you who perhaps have never listened to our shows which run every third Friday of the
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month from 7 till 8 p.m., we are both licensed medical herbalists who trained in England and
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graduated there with a degree in herbal medicine. We run a clinic in Garboville where we consult
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with patients about a wide range of conditions and this month we're again very pleased to welcome
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Dr. Ray Peat to the show and we'll be finishing up last month's discussion on food additives and
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the detrimental effects, detrimental health effects of food additives and ingredients that
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may not even be listed. But after that we want to cover the topic of cancer in general and
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immunosurveillance and immunology of cancer and perhaps a lot of beliefs about cancer which are
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probably more propagated than true. So I know Dr. Raymond Peat has quite an extensive
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experience with this and certainly from his background things have changed a lot since
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he was studying and I think what he will bring out is that some of the doctrines that have been
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made very common are pretty erroneous and that some of the old research as well as some of new
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research needs to be taken carefully in the light of what it is showing. Okay so Dr. Raymond Peat
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thank you for joining us again on the show. Okay so just to finish up last month's topics of the
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food additives and the kind of things that they will be harmful, they will be harmful in consuming
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them. Most people when they buy foods off the shelf, I know in England definitely people will
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look very carefully at the labels, the ingredient panel and everything as far as I know it has to
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be disclosed in England. They have got fairly strict food laws whereas in America there is a
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certain percentage of food ingredients that legally don't have to be detailed. So I know some
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of those things that we mentioned last month we talked about and I know there was a couple of
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things, things like dough conditioners and rennets that I'd like to just discuss with you. The dough
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conditioner, most people probably don't even know it exists in bread or if they do they haven't
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really thought too much about it. But would you say a little bit about the iodine bromate which is
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a fairly common additive to bread and what likely negative health effects it's going to have?
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Well besides any changes that it makes to the proteins and starches which will make them more
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likely to be allergenic, any that gets into the system is going to be an anti-thyroid agent at
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least. Right, okay, yeah. So it's going to be thyroid suppressive in some respects. Okay,
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and then things like the, I know cheeses, I know we've spent quite a bit of time researching
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cheeses, I know our family consumes lots of different cheeses and have leaned more towards
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the European cheeses because of their consistency and the type of manufacturing they go through is
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certainly less, I want to say harmful, but it's more of a traditional type of manufacturing for
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a food. I know in the states and it's not so much just the states but I know probably for the last
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15 years or so the genetically modified yeasts etc that have been used to culture cheese have
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been certainly very widespread and it's quite difficult these days to get a cheese that's not
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actually made using a genetically engineered yeast. What do you know about the genetically
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engineered yeasts and the trouble with them rather than using traditional rennet from...
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Well, I think the worst problem is that they are using things to carry the
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microbial enzymes. There is always some debris from the aspergillus or whatever the microbe is
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they're using as a source of the enzymes and the genetic modification is going to make them
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somewhat different but they're already toxic and allergenic in themselves and so even if they're
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perfectly normal naturally evolved organisms any debris from them that goes along with the enzyme
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is going to be very risky. But even worse than simply having microbial enzymes where there used
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to be animal enzymes to distribute and emulsify or mix the enzymes efficiently to make them store
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and package so they can be canned and then just dumped into the bat. They're using seaweed
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materials either carrageenan or other things that for example one of the
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compounds that's being used to make microspheres to enclose the microbial enzymes one of these
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has been used to make dental mold for taking impressions of the mouth and making restorations.
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One person died shortly after having some of that stuff put in his mouth and the students of
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dentistry a very high proportion of them had serious allergic reactions when they were practicing with
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them but these things are routinely being added to foods to carry other products and as a packaging
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or carrying material they don't show up on the labels at all. So I mean even on the labels for
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cheese if you go into the grocery store and look at the label for the cheese sometimes it just says
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rennet and that could mean animal rennet or it could mean vegetable rennet and the vegetable
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rennet never really comes from a vegetable source it's always either genetically modified or grown
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on a mold and that would be the microbial enzymes or it says non-animal rennet they have all these
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different types of course there's there are natural rennet available like fig juice and
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cardoon thistle but of course no companies use those anymore to manufacture so you're saying
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not only are these enzymes problematic but also the carriers that they that carry the enzymes so
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that it's easy and convenient for the cheese maker to make cheese. And they're being used as carriers
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for other foods I don't know how far it has gone but they're for the last 10 years it's
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increasingly common to use the seaweed materials which are potentially deadly.
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One of the other most deadly allergens was sulfite that killed a few people eating
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restaurant salads or seafood that had been deodorized with it but it was even after
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that was recognized that it could be deadly when it was used on a salad it was still used in drugs
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sold for treating asthma patients for years and years. The product allupin a girl who had almost
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died in the hospital being treated with that once was about to be treated with it again the doctor
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wouldn't acknowledge that she had any validity and she grabbed the bottle and ran with her oxygen
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bottle and right on the bottle it said contains metabisulfite and I wrote to the FDA and the
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drug companies that made it and the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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They all said yes it's a problem it can kill people but they went on selling it for years
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and didn't even publish warnings or extra labels that this might kill you.
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Were they trying to cite the small numbers of people that might be killed as a reasonable
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cost? Yeah it killed mostly people who already had asthma. Right and who were already allergic
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to the sulfites right? Yeah. Now it's interesting you mentioned sulfites so thank you for mentioning
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that the wine and beer industry that's pretty much what keeps most wines stable or so they say
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stable I know that winemakers don't have to use sulfites I'm certainly not defending them but
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sulfites are prevalent as sodium metabisulfite as both as a cleaning agent and also as an agent to
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halt fermentation. I know in beer making I used to make quite a lot of beer when I was younger
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and I know that sodium metabisulfite tablets were a pretty common place in beer making.
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And even organic fruits can be processed with the sulfur dioxide. Yeah yeah and that's another very
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interesting point the sulfur dioxide they use in dried fruit especially that's a fairly common
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ingredient isn't it? Yeah so what do you what do you what do you state as the kind of toxic side
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effects of sulfites apart from what you've already mentioned for the asthma patient? Oh I think that's
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the allergic reaction is really the only serious toxic effect. Okay. A person never knows when
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they're going to have an allergic reaction if if they just happen to have not eaten for
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an extra long time or if their thyroid happens to have fallen there can be a sudden increase in
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allergic sensitivity because the blood sugar very very powerfully controls the release of histamine
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and other agents. In the absence in low blood sugar situations is that the case? Yeah and in
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experiments they found that the mildest allergen would kill animals with shock if their blood sugar
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was lowered to 50 percent of normal. Wow so this would be another good reason to defend the
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consumption of sugar it's always been such a maligned substance you know sugar free. If they
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doubled the blood sugar of the animals even the deadly allergen would only cause a slight
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reddening of their nose and sniffles. So that's the motto eat frequently throughout the day right?
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Yeah eating frequently avoids several stress reactions including fluctuations in blood sugar.
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Now I know there are people listening who are going to be still stuck on the mantra or the
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doctrine if you like and that's the thing that I want to open up in a few short moments about
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cancer but that we're all led to believe that sugar is bad for you you'll get diabetes if you
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eat too much sugar. How do you defend that Dr. Peat and support sugar's role in the healthy organism?
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A lot of people cite Otto Warburg's work in the 1920s in which he showed that cancer cells
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can't use oxygen efficiently and so they use sugar at an extremely high rate. Right. And so
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people are now saying if cancer cells can only live on sugar then you shouldn't eat sugar but
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that just isn't an argument because the body when you have even a small tumor the body senses
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danger and increases its production of cortisol. One of the very early events in cancer is a
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chronic elevation of cortisol and the cortisol turns your tissues to sugar and so if you don't
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eat sugar your body wastes away faster. Right that's the cachexia associated with that.
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And that the wasting away of your immune system and other tissues is really what
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kills most people from the cancer. Okay. And so there have been experiments in which
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very high concentrations of glucose were put in for example if there was a tumor in an extremity
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where they could isolate that circulation and put a high concentration like a glucose syrup
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into the artery feeding the leg the sugar itself would cause the cancer to die.
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And so it not only spares your immune system and brain and other tissues but if it can be
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delivered long enough at a high enough concentration it allows something to happen
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in the cancer that can kill the cancer. Wow okay so let's just go straight into the
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topic of the science and the kind of dogma surrounding current cancer theory and the
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fairly new or even in the in cases of older papers the kind of rediscovered papers written
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some time ago that are kind of largely ignored and not part of mainstream
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understanding and some of those theories about cancer in the new stem cell research that's being
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done. How do you see the cancer cells arising because we've always been traditionally
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told or taught at least that cancer cells are outside of the body's general control
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and we all led to believe that this apoptosis or cell program death exists and it's part of a
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genetic code in each cell only has so many so many times that it can reproduce and then it's
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automatically turned off and but cancer cells don't acknowledge that they don't. Yeah everything
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is wrong with that belief going back to the middle of the 19th century people were seeing that cancer
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arises in a field they called it the cancer field of visibly abnormal cells and after this basically
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inflamed area had persisted for a long time mutant cells might appear somewhere in it but
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that is something that is it has been developed progressively over 150 years that there is such
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a thing as a cancer field and anything irritating or destructive that the body can't overcome
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will cause a progressive stressing or inflammation of the tissue and you can develop a cancer
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before there is any mutation identifiable. Harry Rubin at Berkeley is really the only
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official academic biologist who has worked on that topic and he has shown that there definitely is
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a pre-mutational definitive cancer condition and in the cancer then in the tissue as a whole is so
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unhealthy that mutations among other changes occur in the DNA but the DNA event really is
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down the road from what is causing the cancer. Okay so you're suggesting that there's there's
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such an injury or a chronic inflammation to a certain tissue and eventually that's what causes
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a cancer? Yeah and when you look at the actual functioning of a tumor which it produces cells
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that look funny have three-cornered cell divisions and a very bizarre behavior and
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genetic changes in the DNA. These cells are very very sick cells that don't have a long lifespan
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there when you see them in a biopsy cross-section what you're seeing as cancer cells are very
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mortal cells that probably will die in the next couple of divisions and the the doctrine that
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that cancer cells are immortal and body cells are mortal it's completely backwards.
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The Hayflick doctrine was really invented that cells can only divide 50 times.
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It was really invented to reinforce this DNA-centric view of biology and in fact
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the stem cell work has definitively shown that all cells seem to be
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basically stem cells and immortal given the right circumstances and when the the cancer
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industry is now forced to think about the idea of stem cells but when they talk about a cancer
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stem cell basically they are just going back to the old concept of a mutant cell and the clone of
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a mutant cell they totally miss the point of of the stem cell research which is that the stem cells
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are normal cells which are able to regenerate any tissue that needs help and the function of the
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tumor is some kind of a process of healing and regeneration that can't come to completion
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something is missing that would allow a tumor to let the the sick cells die while the
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the healthy cells return to normal functioning. Studies of x-ray treated tumors found that
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in fact the x-ray had accelerated the death of all of the original tumor cells but it
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actually accelerated the ability of the tumor to call for help and recruit stem cells from the
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bloodstream or from adjacent tissues and so the same signals that are sent out causing
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a region of inflammation to progressively become more active metabolically these signals are
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calling for assistance and replacement cells so when a tumor is irradiated it increases its ability
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to call for help and so the reason the tumor keeps growing even after everything is killed with
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radiation is that you have increased the injury and made it able to recruit more stem cells
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and then grow into more cancer yeah because something is still missing in the organism
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which could allow a proper completion of the healing process. How do you see metastases
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in the light of the cancer being a recruitment of stem cells to that local site? Way back in the
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30s 40s and 50s tests were made on prison inmates and foreigners implanting pieces of cancer in them
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either with or without their permission and it was over and over found that people who had the cancer
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would accept a transplant and people who were healthy didn't suffer any consequences from
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having a bit of a cancer injected into them and the bulk of the research with
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putting human cancers into animals are done in the nude mouse which happens to be a mutant that
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not only lacks hair but it lacks the sinus glands. Okay and this is a b-cell so the transplantation
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or the metastasis which is simply a self-induced transplantation this involves
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a defect in the whole organism that makes it susceptible to receiving a transplant.
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Right because it shouldn't be receiving the transplant in the first place.
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I didn't hear that. Basically the body should be rejecting the yeah yeah normally the cancer
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transplant. It's constantly rejecting uh cells that go astray and if if the cell isn't appropriate
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for that organ or tissue it can't live in that environment and so dies. But the animals that
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could accept the cancer transplants were obviously so unhealthy that their bodies didn't reject
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the tissue is that what you're trying to say? Yeah they can't even grow hair.
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So they're already a deformed organism. I want to go back to what you said about radiation Dr. Peat
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is that why radiation is used in the cancer industry is because it does kill some tumor
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cells? Oh yeah it'll it'll stop the um the cells that are irradiated um it stops them right in
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their tracks uh healthy or sick especially uh the uh the sick cells were going to die anyway but
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it'll stop the growth of healthy tissue and cause it to produce uh first it releases histamine
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and serotonin and uh tryptase enzymes that cause inflammation and and degeneration locally. That's
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within 30 minutes of getting irradiated there's a burst of these allergens uh reactive substances
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and then that leads to a chronic overproduction of collagen and the growth of uh repair cells
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fibroblasts. So first it's inflammation then fibrosis. Now the body's trying to heal the
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inflammation or take care of it. And if the body can't uh heal this scarred atrophied tissue then
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the cells can uh if they recruit cells that try to repair it and so it'll keep
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becoming a a risk of future cancers just as part of the attempt to repair a sick tissue.
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So that's why while some people might have radiation for their cancer it's very uh often
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that the cancer returns is because it didn't take care of the underlying problem in the first place.
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Yeah. Okay you're listening to Ask Your Herb Doctor on KMED Galbafil 91.1 FM and from 7 30
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until the end of the show at 8 o'clock you're invited to call in with any questions either
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related or unrelated to this month's topic of current cancer research and old theory.
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My name is Andrew Murray. My name is Sarah Johannison Murray. And we're joined by guest
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speaker Dr. Raymond Peat endocrinologist biochemist and physiologist. The number here if you live in
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the area is 923 3911 or if you live outside the area the toll-free number is 1-800-568-3723.
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How about the uh is the current theory in place that cancer cells have slightly different surface
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markers on their cell membranes? The MHCs that are normally associated with body cells
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being different in cancer cells is that immunology still current or? Oh um yeah they're
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they're degenerating and so they can go off in many directions and so they can be killed very
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easily because they're recognized as abnormal material. Okay. And the normal function of what's
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called the immune system is to maintain the proper development and form of the body and
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the phagocytosis of sick or injured tissue is really at the center of the immune system and
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germs don't necessarily trigger the immune system unless they damage something. As soon as they
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damage something then the immune system tries to take care of it cleaning up what damage has been
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done and in the process they'll clear out the bacteria or viruses. But really in the development
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of the organism the immune system is really part of our developmental nutritional control systems.
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Okay um I know we mentioned at the beginning of this discussion about constant irritation and I
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know um when I was studying the this constant irritation and specifically something that most
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people can understand is constant irritation uh smoking and how smoking ultimately in a lot of
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people would lead to lung cancer and so that constant irritation of the tobacco smoke those
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particles in the lung tissue uh caused this change in the cell and that was the that was the beginning
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of lung cancer. How the higher a cell's energy capacity is the more it takes to irritate it.
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Okay. And so keeping your cellular energy at a maximum means that you're pretty immune to
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irritation but if if something impairs your energy production then almost anything becomes irritating.
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So that's what you see commonly in low thyroid diseases the energy production of the cell is
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very decreased very much decreased and then you can have allergic reactions or cancer come
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start up. And in cigarette smoke there are not only uh the uh irritants and um the
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polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are the famous carcinogens but they are also estrogens and
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irritants are causing pain and inflammation and estrogen-like changes and uh behind those irritants
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there's the carbon monoxide which blocks oxygen use and so makes the cell spontaneously
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more susceptible to over stimulation or irritation.
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And when you add up uh different types of stimulation and uh impairment of energy production
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then you have a greater risk of chronic inflammation and cancer. And besides those
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hydrocarbons that you say are estrogenic those suppress the thyroid as well. Yeah um the um
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alternative for really it used to be the main line cancer research was really at the point of
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understanding uh how cancer development works uh the work of the Pullman's
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in the 1940s and 50s was uh showing that it's the electronic behavior of these
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aromatic hydrocarbons that uh act as signals to the cells in the same way that estrogen
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substances signal the cells. And uh the um various uh drug interests and government interests uh
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diverted that line of research by not financing it anymore and instead they finance the um molecular
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biology approach which is uh explaining away those hormonal actions of the aromatic hydrocarbons
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as nothing but a type of mutation. They they happen to fit into the DNA very compactly
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and uh do mutate it but really their main uh mechanism for mutating the DNA is by acting
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as hormones that uh deplete the energy of the cell while over exciting it.
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Okay so I think most people listening to the show this evening could understand the truth
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behind the statement that a energetic active organism is more able to defend itself against
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external uh threats and external uh breakdown but the weak de-energized organism is more easily
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overcome. How does how does a human being energize itself in terms of uh improving its ATP production
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and being more uh yeah more energetic? First you need all of the essential vitamins and minerals
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and adequate amino acids and proteins of the right sorts but sugar is very essential for uh
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keeping your thyroid functioning up without resorting to a cortisone overproduction. Right.
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And uh the essential nutrients if you're getting enough sugar uh will allow your your thyroid to
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function unless the thyroid is specifically signaled to turn off by such things as polyunsaturated
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fatty acids and estrogens which are very systematically involved in turning down your
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metabolism. Once that weakening process starts from such things as smoke and
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hormone imitating toxins then the bacteria in your intestines will produce toxins that you absorb
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when your intestine is de-energized it becomes permeable and anything in the intestine then can
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leak right into the bloodstream. So if you're exhausted you might get flu-like symptoms.
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If your thyroid is being poisoned flu-like symptoms will often make you ache all over and
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feel exhausted and so on. So the intestine is always available as a sort of a third level
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of toxicity and and energy poisoning. Okay so you would avoid things like polyunsaturates you would
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improve your thyroid function. Um polyunsaturated let's just uh specify the polyunsaturated fatty
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acids are vegetable oils corn soy canola cotton seed sesame seed oil all those vegetable oils
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that are in common use in restaurants. In the 1980s the French did a great series of experiments
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showing that every stage of the thyroid hormone production and response and transport every stage
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was blocked in proportion to the number of double bonds in the unsaturated fat. So
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the monounsaturated were slightly inhibiting compared to the saturated fats or sugars. The
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two bonded uh two double bonds like linoleic acid were much more inhibiting and the triply
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or quadruply unsaturated fat such as the popular fish oils and omega minus three
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fats these are the most inhibiting to the the whole energy system. So the bottom line there is
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eat coconut oil and butter and avoid all other oils olive oil in moderation. Yeah and sugar is
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really the basic protection against the toxicity of the oils. So keep your blood sugar up with
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frequent meals and lots of fresh fruit. Lots of fruits yeah. Lots of fruit is the best sugar.
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Perfect I think we've got a caller on the line so let's take the call. Caller you're on the air.
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[Phone rings]
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Hello caller. Oh we had a caller anyway all right well until the caller comes back or we get another
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another caller. I think the phones I can see the lights flashing and the phones are going so until
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we get the oh you're on the air again. Hello. Well that's not done either. Well I know they're coming
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in because the lights are flashing but for some reason they're not uh they're not coming through.
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Anyway so I think to get back to the the cancer issue and what's what's not being done in terms
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of what's being done wrong in terms of most people's treatment for cancer and the pretty poor
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success rate. Almost universally doctors want to kill cancer cells but the cancer cells
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just want to die. They're very weak cells and you damage the organism when you concentrate on
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killing the cancer cells. Right. And since the total death rate from cancer has simply steadily
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increased. Right. The only way they can claim they're making progress is by diagnosing cancer
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more often. If you look in enough tissues and organs by the time a person is 50 you can find
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at least one cancer and so if you diagnose really hard you can have about a an 80 or 90 percent cure
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rate without actually curing anyone. I think the caller that we had Dr. Peat has come back on so
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we'll carry on this conversation once we've had the caller. You're on the air? Hello. Hello you're
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on the air. Yeah hello. Yes. Is that me? It is. Okay um I wanted to ask some questions about sugar
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to clarify. You sound like uh the impression I'm getting is like oh sugar's okay go for it
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you need sugar. Now um as far as I know sugar especially refined white sugar is addicting.
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It's it's more of a drug than a food. Most people's obesity can be traced to their addiction to sugar
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and most diabetes can be traced to an overuse of sugar which overuses the insulin to where the
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insulin production the pancreas wears out and can't produce enough insulin to keep up with the
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sugar and then a person has to go on artificial insulin just to live. Now I assume fruit sugar
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and if you're just eating fruit that that's okay but can you clarify the difference between eating
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fruit sugar and an apple or an orange or eating you know candy and cookies with white sugar and
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refined white flour? I mean that can't be good for your body. Could you address that please?
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Um starches and proteins really are very powerful stimulants to insulin and the combination of
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starch and polyunsaturated fats will cause the greatest disturbance of blood sugar much more
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than eating white sugar candy and such. The polyunsaturated fat block the ability to use sugar
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and so the cells experience a sugar deficiency and turn on stress reactions and the starches
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are pure glucose rather than 50/50 fructose and glucose and so starches are much more powerful
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stimulants to insulin and the stress reactions. So um just to kind of clarify that a little bit
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here for our listeners Dr. Peat you're saying that starches well I know they have a glycemic index of
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around 140 or 138 and that includes bread, pasta, chips, cookies, cakes, all those foods that are
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starchy carbohydrates rather than actually the sugar in them well that adds to it but the starches
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themselves have a much higher glycemic index so they will cause your pancreas to have to
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secrete a lot more insulin. Now white sugar has a glycemic index of around 99 and whilst organic
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raw honey is one of the best sweeteners there is, fruit sugars, honey has a lot more fructose
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than sucrose so honey even has a lower glycemic index than white sugar and fruits have a glycemic
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index of around 75. The potassium content of fruit is really what keeps the insulin much much lower.
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If you eat a piece of bread you are getting very little potassium but if you eat a piece of fruit
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with the same amount of sugar the potassium will pretty much take care of the insulin issue it acts
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like insulin and so when you eat a piece of fruit you're having very little stimulation to your
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fat production. And the other thing too that I've found out is that white sugar actually because
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it's been filtered is much less allergenic to the organism than the raw brown sugar the
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rapadura sugar. Dr. Peat can you comment on that point? Yeah the manufacture of brown sugar
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when you centrifuge it the first wash is blackstrap molasses and I've noticed that
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there's usually a very smoky taste in the blackstrap and it has been a common practice
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to burn the cane fields to make it easier to harvest and so some of the brown stuff is
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smoke and the rest of it if you just boil sugar even white pure sugar if you boil it at a very
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high temperature driving off the water so the temperature rises above 100 degrees Celsius
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any impurities in it will start causing polymerization reactions and create allergens
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from the sugar itself and so the brown material containing a lot of biological materials other
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than sugar heating that with the sugar can make some pretty intense allergens.
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So to summarize all that the best source of sugar in your opinion than Dr. Peat is fruit
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soft ripe fresh fruit and milk sugar and then so that's number one number two would be raw honey
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and then if you had to eat sugar then it would be white sugar rather than brown correct? Yeah.
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And then the starches are the least preferable form to get your sugar in because they
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have very little minerals to balance the high spike of glucose that's released and the high
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glycemic index they have even in whole grains. Yeah and that stimulation of insulin always leads
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to a surge of cortisol which tends to destroy the protein in your tissues to keep your sugar
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up against the effect of insulin and so eating even too much protein at a time without fruit
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will waste a lot of protein. I've seen people who are eating more than two pounds of meat a day
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who were having signs of protein deficiency with super amounts of cortisol being produced
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and tremendous amounts of amino acids in their urine. Wow waste. So not only do these starches
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so it's you know it's yes it's a well-known fact that cakes and cookies cause problems and
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diabetes but it's not as well as the oils that are put in the cakes and the cookies the vegetable
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oils but it also can be too much protein not balanced by enough sugars can lead to the same