1.

Calcium
Unless you like cheese and milk, a calcium supplement would be the only way to balance the
phosphate. Powdered eggshells are the best calcium supplement, oyster shells are the next
best. Having some fruit, such as orange juice each time you eat meat will make the protein
assimilation much more efficient, so less is needed. The natural sugar in fruit is mostly sucrose,
equal parts of glucose and fructose, and the fruits have some of the minerals needed to use
carbohydrate efficiently.
Milk and cheese are the best foods for getting enough calcium, and they will help to keep your
protein intake up; an active person needs at least 100 grams daily for efficiency. ...80 grams of
protein daily is probably enough for a medium sized person who isn't very active. I have known
people whose thyroid function improved noticeably when they increased their protein from 20
grams to 40 grams daily. (A quart of milk has 32 grams of protein, an egg about 6 grams.) If you
depend on chicken for your major protein, it will contribute to suppressing your thyroid and
progesterone. Increased salt helps to increase your metabolic rate. Low thyroid makes you lose
salt too easily, and temporarily just eating more salt helps to make up for low thyroid-adrenals-
progesterone.
Did they mention the CO2 or bicarbonate? That's usually low with hypothyroidism, and CO2 is
what regulates calcium. Powdered eggshell (mixed with food) is a safe way to supplement
calcium.
The milk estrogen research isn't good. It also contains thyroid and progesterone and other
protective substances. The high calcium content helps to increase the metabolic rate, and
probably contributes to maintaining the anabolic balance.
Regarding milk and its tryptophan content, The calcium helps to keep the metabolic rate high,
and the other nutrients help to steer tryptophan away from the serotonin path.
[Is 2000 mg calcium and 1000 mg phosphorus a safe ratio?] Yes, that's safe. Even a 1 to 1 ratio
is probably safe, but the ideal hasn't been clearly defined.

2. Carrot
Just chewing a carrot is best, any saturated fat around the same time is o.k. What doesn't work
very well is to grind the carrot very fine.
If you want to avoid the carotene of carrots, they can be rinsed after shredding; washed and
cooked bran or psyllium husk can be effective, too

3. CO2
[Bag breathing] Just until it's uncomfortable, usually a minute or two, depending on the size of
the bag. If you do it a few times in a day, you might notice that it makes your skin (e.g., under
nails) pinker, by improving circulation.
[At sea level, roughly how often would someone need to do it (2 mins duration) during a day to
maintain a significant, noticeable elevation in CO2 levels?] 2 or 3 times a day will usually do it,
you can check blood pressure to see its cumulative effect, but you should see a lingering
increase of the pinkness of your nail beds.
[Do carbonated drinks have a significant effect on tissue concentrations of CO2?] In a crisis
situation, it (or baking soda in water) can be helpful, but it's more effective to rebreathe in a paper
bag.
[When you say several effects of CO2 shuts off glycolysis, do you mean anaerobic glycolysis or
all glycolysis, if all glycolysis how does glucose enter mitochondria without breaking down to
pyruvate?] Meaning the entry of lactate into the blood stream inappropriately, which would
usually be called aerobic glycolysis, though you can't be sure how much oxygen is getting to the
cells when CO2 is deficient, since its absence causes many problems in oxygen delivery and
use. [So when CO2 isn't deficient glycolysis, meaning glucose to pyruvate, is fine?] Yes, as part
of oxidative metabolism, it's better than burning too much fat.

4. Coffee
A couple of times I have seen coffee that had been stored near herbs that made it slightly
allergenic, but that could probably be noticed in the flavor.
Dry instant coffee is close to 0.5% magnesium, so a cup of strong coffee has about 40 mg. I
make strong drip coffee.
The antioxidants in very fresh coffee might have some special value, but I think instant coffee is
on average just as good as brewed coffee. The high temperature of espresso gets the most
caffeine, lower temperature processes get the minerals and vitamins (mostly niacin) and aroma,
but a little less of the caffeine.
It's important not to drink coffee on an empty stomach, it should always be with food, since it
increases the metabolic rate, and can deplete glycogen stores.
Drinking coffee with meals will greatly reduce iron absorption. Abnormal thyroid status can affect
ferritin level, without necessarily affecting your iron load.
[Coffee enemas - "He takes one or two cups of filter coffee and uses it as an enema (holding it in
for 15-20 minutes)."] Coffee in such small amounts probably is more effective for protecting
against bowel cancer and liver disease when it's used by enema, rather than orally, but I think
the general effects might be better when it's drunk.
Organic coffee is preferable (in the coffee orchards I have seen no pesticides were needed), but
the roasting process probably eliminates any added chemicals.
[Coffee withdrawal] I suspect that it happens mostly with hypothyroidism, because in the 1970s I
averaged dozens of cups a day, and thought about it as soon as I woke up, then suddenly after I
took some thyroid, I didn't feel any need for it.
[How beneficial are coconut oil and coffee to a healthy person with a good diet?] If the basic
foods were chosen for minimal unsaturated fats, then coconut oil wouldn't add much of value.
Coffee is a good source of magnesium and niacin, and has smaller amounts of other essential
nutrients, besides the caffeine and antioxidants.

5. DHEA
It's very common for people in their forties to become deficient in both pregnenolone and DHEA,
but occasionally it happens in younger people, usually because of an imbalance of thyroid and
estrogen. In women, too much DHEA can have a masculinizing effect, so it's best to work on the
diet, or to use pregnenolone, which doesn't lead to an imbalance between progesterone and
DHEA, since it turns into either, according to need.
Ten milligrams of DHEA is pretty safe for men, the most common side effects are pimples, oily
skin, and sex dreams.
If your thyroid is very low, you should be cautious with the DHEA, because stress hormones can
cause it to turn to estrogen. 5 mg of DHEA taken with a little olive oil or butter can have a
noticeable effect on your mood and muscle tone in a few hours.
[Oral or topical use?] Orally.
[DHEA, type 1 diabetic] If thyroid function is good, and inflammation is low, about 5 mg of DHEA
is probably safe, but I think pregnenolone and cynomel would probably be as effective.
[15mg DHEA and 5mg testosterone every day for a woman?] DHEA and testosterone at those
doses are likely to grow whiskers. 5 mg. of testosterone is about ten times what a woman
produces in a day, and is about what a muscular young man produces. (Reference)
[Dosage] Its production decreases fairly steadily with age, from a daily maximum of 12 to 15 mg
in the teens, to nearly zero at 90, so supplements of 5 to 10 milligrams are usually safe for
middle aged people.
[Conversion to estrogen] Thyroid and other antiinflammatory things (even aspirin) help to prevent
conversion to estrogen.
[Would a ratio of 2:1 (pregnenolone  : DHEA) help mitigate DHEA conversion to estrogen, given
no more than 15 mg of DHEA is ingested in a day?] Yes, I think pregnenolone can protect
against stress and conversion of DHEA to estrogen; larger quantities would be o.k.

6. Diet (general)
[POTATOES] The carotene in sweet potatoes can make them harder to digest. Well cooked
white potatoes, such as russets, are very nutritious, and the (cooked) juice is just something for
people with extreme metabolic or digestive problems. The juicer I had was the kind that's
commonly used for juicing carrots, and it was inexpensive. I don't think it was anything near 700
watts, that's nearly a horsepower, more than enough for a big cement mixer.
[NON-MAGICAL MUSHROOMS] Since reading about the chemicals in mushrooms I stopped
eating them, but using them occasionally is o.k., probably better than many vegetables.
[THYROID FROM FOOD] Yes, people used to get very significant amounts from fish heads,
chicken necks, various stews and sausages. I knew Norwegians who lived in fishing villages and
ate fish head soup every week who said all their relatives were healthy into their 90s.
Orange juice and other sweet fruits (with very little starch) would be best. The muscle meats and
starches don't provide a good balance of minerals and amino acids (high in phosphate,
tryptophan, and cysteine, for example). Shellfish provide trace minerals that are often lacking
from other foods. Mercury content is high in the big (old) fish, but not in the small shellfish or
small fish such as cod and sole. You are probably deficient in calcium, so gradually adding
cheese, eggs, and milk could be helpful.
Yes, squid is very good, with selenium, copper, etc. Some people say that goat's milk is good
after they have had trouble with cow's milk. The food the animals eat can contribute allergens to
the milk. I use pasteurized milk because the dairies in this region with raw milk happen to use
feed that give the milk a bad taste. If you think you might have a real milk allergy, you should
start with just a drop or a sip. Adding sugar or honey (if you aren't allergic to honey) will decrease
any allergic reaction to the milk.
There isn't any MSG in gelatin, but the purity of the product is important. It's best when you
extract it yourself, in things like ox-tail soup. Sugar helps the thyroid function, so can improve
your blood sugar stability. Hypothyroid people are sensitive to even small amounts of lactic acid,
since it tends to deplete the liver's glycogen stores. Squid amino acids are similar to other
muscles, but the trace minerals are helpful.
Since cholesterol is the source of progesterone and testosterone (and pregnenolone, DHEA,
etc.), and sugar increases it, having fruit rather than starch might increase the hormones. Those
hormones, antagonistic to cortisol, can help to reduce waist fat. Chard, collard, and kale are good
greens.
Usually the low carbohydrate diets have a high ratio of phosphate to calcium, and I suspect that
your present diet does, too. If you powder some eggshells, that's the best way to supplement it,
but two quarts of milk per day would be best, providing adequate protein and a safe ratio of P to
Ca. Seafood, especially oysters, shrimp, squid, etc., would provide the iodine and selenium you
need for good thyroid regulation. Increasing fruits in place of bread would increase blood sugar
stability, and would provide vitamin C in a safer form. Taking your temperature before and after
breakfast helps to interpret your circadian hormone cycle---hypothyroid people often have very
high adrenaline, cortisol, and other stress hormones during the night, causing the temperature to
be higher before breakfast than after. A daily raw carrot often helps to balance progesterone,
cortisol, and estrogen, by improving intestine-liver functions.
It's best to have more calcium than phosphate, and your diet is deficient in calcium, and heavy
on phosphate, and that by itself can cause serious stress. Cheese would be a good way to get
enough calcium, if you don't use milk. Eating protein by itself can cause a big surge of cortisol.
Preceding the protein with some carbohydrate makes the protein go farther, otherwise under the
influence of cortisol a lot of protein is used just for energy. Your diet might below in vitamin A, so
it would be better to have eggs for breakfast, preceded with a generous amount of orange juice.
Bananas can be seriously allergenic, apples are allergenic for some people, but not as intensely
as bananas. Well cooked potatoes, with butter or cream,are a very good way to get
carbohydrate, if you aren't allergic to them, because they contain a good balance of amino acids,
too, as well as minerals and B vitamins.
I normally use pasteurized (and homogenized) milk, and I know people who do best when they
use ultrapasteurized milk, and many people who, especially in certain seasons, don't tolerate raw
milk. Cows' bacteria change according to what they are eating, and sometimes even the low
level of bacteria in pasteurized milk can upset the person's intestinal balance of bacteria. I advise
against eating the solid parts of coconut, as a regular part of the diet, and recommend the
deodorized refined oil, because so many people are allergic to the proteins (and starches) of
coconut. My November newsletter, below, will explain why people tend to lose weight on milk
and sugar.
For a while, the vitamin A is very important, and the PUFA isn't crucial in the short term, so 2 or 3
eggs would be o.k., though in the longer run it's good to eat liver about twice a month, limiting the
daily eggs to one or two. The type of cheese doesn't matter much as far as calcium goes. If you
don't get much sunlight, and during the winter, a vitamin D supplement is necessary to use the
calcium effectively. Plain white rice, well cooked, with butter is o.k. The calcium, vitamin D and
vitamin A will greatly improve your immunity,the colostrum wouldn't be necessary.
[POTATOES VS BANANAS: Potatoes can feed bacteria in the gut resulting in endotoxin and
serotonin production; bananas contain serotonin -- yet which of the two is the lesser evil?]
Potatoes are much better, unless you’re allergic to them (it usually goes with allergy to tomato
and bell peppers).
They [conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) and Butyric acid] aren’t necessary, but the CLA in cream
and butter are probably responsible for some of their good effects. I use 1% milk, some butter
and hydrogenated coconut oil, to keep polyunsaturated fats to a minimum.
[Salt cravings] There are some very salty cheeses that help to satisfy salt appetite, for example
pecorino or feta; sometimes I add salt to cheeses such as gouda, emmental, mozzarella, or
cheddar. Sometimes pork rinds, chicharrones, are good for a salty snack; I usually heat them in
coconut oil and then drain them, to remove some of the pork fat. Orange juice, guavas,
watermelons, cherimoyas, cooked apples, cherries, and ripe papayas are good sources of sugar
to have regularly.
[Low testosterone, high cholesterol] The problem with chicken is that the fat is highly
unsaturated, and the meat provides very little calcium. Milk and cheese have a much better ratio
of calcium to phosphate. Having the carrots raw (shredded, with a little olive oil, vinegar, and salt)
would help with the hormone balance, and protect the intestine against inflammation.
Supplementing pregnenolone wouldn't have the risk of the DHEA being converted to estrogen,
which tends to happen when thyroid function is low. A small supplement of Armour thyroid or the
equivalent could quickly lower the cholesterol, and since cholesterol is converted by thyroid into
pregnenolone and DHEA, that would probably help the testosterone. Some shellfish (oysters,
shrimp, squid, etc.) or low fat fish would provide trace minerals that might be lacking in your diet.
Several eggs per week, or liver once a week, can help with other nutrients that are probably
deficient in your present foods. Well cooked potatoes, with butter or cream, fruit, and well cooked
greens are other foods have vitamins and minerals that are helpful.
Meal frequency
Small meals help to increase the metabolic rate, single big meals increase fat storage.
There are just occasional intervals when I'm not eating---cafe con leche several times a day,
other things in between.
Frequent meals are helpful during hypothyroidism, and help to prevent obesity, but when the
thyroid and liver are working, 2, 3, or 4 meals are good. For me, 2 meals and some snacks are
most convenient. Orange juice is good by itself.
Yes, as the metabolism gets more effective, you don't have to eat as often as when you are
starting to change. At first, when glycogen isn't being stored, temperature will rise and fall
situationally.

7. Fiber
Cellulose is the safe fiber, and (boiled) bamboo shoots are another safe fiber. My May
newsletter, below, has some information about the effects of other fibers, including pectin. If the
fruits don't cause digestive problems, such as gas, then the fiber is good. Apples and pears are
often so fibrous (because of incomplete ripening) that the fiber can be harmful.
They aren't necessary [FIBER], for example milk supports abundant bacterial growth that creates
bulk, but when there are digestive and hormonal problems because of bad intestinal flora, the
fibers of carrot and bamboo shoots have a disinfecting action. The carrots must be raw for that
effect.
[Fiber-free diet possible?] I’ve had a fiber-free diet for many years.

8. Macronutrients (carbs, proteins, fats) and their ratios

[How much starchy food is safe?] There isn't enough information to judge, but a fair part of the
carbohydrate should be in the form of sucrose, fructose, and/or lactose. If it's well cooked, and
eaten with butter, it's probably safe for many people.
When starch is well cooked, and eaten with some fat and the essential nutrients, it's safe, except
that it's more likely than sugar to produce fat, and isn't as effective for mineral balance.
Starch is less harmful when eaten with saturated fat, but it's still more fattening than sugars.
People can do well on high or low fat or carbohydrate, but when the carbohydrate is very low,
some of the protein will be wasted as fuel, replacing the missing glucose.
I have often had a gallon of orange juice in a day, with 100 grams of other sugar, and didn't see
any problem, even while being sedentary. If your metabolic rate is high, with a pound of sugar
you will still have an appetite for quite a bit of fat and protein.
That depends on your size, metabolic rate, and activity, and the other nutrients, but I sometimes
have more than that [400 G OF CARBOHYDRATE], including the sugar in milk and orange juice
(and I'm about your size, and very sedentary). The fructose component of ordinary sugar
(sucrose) helps to increase the metabolic rate. I think a person of average size should have at
least 180 grams per day, maybe an average of about 250 grams.
Sugar helps the liver to make cholesterol, switching from starchy vegetables to sweet fruits will
usually bring cholesterol levels up to normal. If the fat is mostly saturated, from milk, cheese,
butter, beef, lamb or coconut oil, I think it's usually o.k. to get about 50% of the calories from fat,
but since those natural fats typically contain around 2% polyunsaturated fats, I try to minimize my
PUFA intake by having more fruit, and a little less fat, maybe 30 to 35%.
[SUGAR] Appetite should be the basic guide. When your liver has enough glycogen stored,
sweet things aren't appetizing.
Although we can make our own fats from sugars, I think it's good to have some fat in our food,
because of its effects on the intestine especially. Experiments on an isolated loop of intestine,
measuring the nutrients entering the bloodstream, showed that relatively simplified mixtures of
nutrients were poorly digested. Fat, protein, sugars, and minerals, in combination, activated the
intestine, increasing the digestion of all of them, when they were present at the same time. If the
fats are mostly saturated, as in butter, coconut oil, or beef or lamb fat, roughly a third of the
calories is good, but the ideal proportion probably depends on the specific foods and the
person's level of activity. Increasing either fat or sugar can have some specific therapeutic
effects, but when more information becomes available about the composition of particular fruits, I
suspect that the ideal balance of nutrients will lean toward the sugars, supported by ketoacids
and short-chain saturated fats. The polyunsaturated fatty acids, which break down into toxic
fragments and free radicals and prostaglandin-like chemicals, are--along with bacterial toxins
produced in the intestine--the source of the main inflammatory and degenerative problems.
Sugar and the minerals in fruits are fairly effective in keeping free fatty acids from being released
from our tissues, and the fats we synthesize from them are saturated, and aren't likely to be
stored as excess fat, because they don't suppress metabolism (as polyunsaturated fats and
some amino acids do). The minerals of fruits and milk contribute to metabolic activation, and
prevention of free-radical damage.
The fats in meat and cheese can be minimized by choosing low fat types, and skimmed or 1%
milk can be used.
It's mostly from large fat meals, at first, but then it is increased by stress, and builds up over time.
[AMOUNT OF FAT EATEN PER MEAL TO ACTIVATE THE RANDLE CYCLE, EVEN IF IT'S
SATURATED]
[NAUSEOUS AFTER HIGH FAT MEALS] Diabetes tends to interfere with the activity of thyroid
hormone, and low thyroid function is closely connected to gall bladder problems. It's important to
have some carbohydrate with protein foods, to prevent decreased blood sugar symptoms.
[GRAVITATING TOWARD HIGHER FAT RATIO] Increased metabolic rate could increase fat
appetite.
[HIGH FAT VS HIGH CARB] Because of the harmful effect of PUFA, I think it's good to keep all
fat intake somewhat low, because even butter and coconut oil contain about 2% PUFA. Fruits
and vegetables have sugar in a good balance with the minerals needed to metabolize it.
[40 Grams of fat a day enough?] I think that's enough, having a little with the other foods is best.
[Do you think someone eating 5000cals and 8g pufa is equivalent to someone eating 2500cals
and 4g pufa; both being weight stable] I think so.

9. Minerals and Vitamins

I think it's good to choose foods with a high ratio of calcium to phosphorous. Supplementing
calcium (and often vitamin D is needed too) is usually necessary with the typical modern diet.
If your temperature increases quickly after eating, that's good. I often eat a kilogram or more of
oranges in a day, 150 grams of sugar per day wouldn't be excessive.

10. Ray Peat's diet

Over the years I averaged a gallon a day, and I liked to eat butter, fat meat, ice cream, and thick
cream in my coffee, so 1% milk had enough fat. I didn't like the taste of skimmed milk, and the
available 1% happens to be pasteurized. In Mexico when I get it from the farmer, I don't know
how much fat it has, but on average it's probably similar.
I used to drink at least a gallon of 2% or 3% milk daily, and often ate more than 5000 calories,
but when I'm completely sedentary for more than ten hours daily, my energy requirement is much
lower. The calorie intake should be balanced to your heat production and activity.
I find that I need almost a pint of orange juice to balance one egg.
Our foods usually contain enough PUFA, unavoidably, to make fats matter to some extent. After
about twenty years of carefully avoiding them, I'm still getting about 2% of my fat as PUFA (beef,
oysters, eggs, etc.). That's why I'm making an effort to increase my sugar intake, to displace
some fat.
Eggs and orange juice, milk and oysters, and a raw carrot. For variety, smoked oysters, crab,
cod fried in butter, ox-tail soup, parmigiano reggiano, sapotas, lychees, liver. Completely
avoiding unsaturated fats, such as canola and mayonnaise, and minimizing beans, cereals, and
vegetables.
Normally, I usually have around 400 grams of carbohydrate. I have about 3 quarts of milk,
varying amounts of orange juice (probably over a quart on average), eggs, and about 200 grams
of meat or fish, with other things such as coca cola, cheese, ice cream, cheese cakes, some
coconut oil and butter, occasional tropical fruits.
[GLYCINE SOURCE] I occasionally use some powdered gelatin for things like making
marshmallows, but usually I get my gelatin from soup, such as ox-tails. lamb shanks, or chicken
backs and wings.

11. Testosterone
[TESTOSTERONE SUPPLEMENTATION] Yes, pure testosterone on the skin is safe if the diet
and thyroid function are good, but it's better to try supplements of pregnenolone first, and then
DHEA, to normalize the testosterone production.
[LOW TESTOSTERONE: Would the addition of topical testosterone supplement work in the
same direction as the diet and thyroid supplement?] Yes, I think a small supplement of
testosterone will work in the same direction.
[shrunken testes from use of high doses exogenous testosterone/DHT] Testosterone and DHT
aren’t toxic, so the testes probably haven’t been damaged, and would resume functioning with
good nutritional support. 100 mg of pregnenolone and 5 mg of DHEA would probably help their
recovery, but I think it would be good to have your LH and estrogen checked. If the LH is very
high, using a little DHT for a while might be protective until it’s more normal. Coffee, aspirin,
vitamin D, milk and cheese would also protect against high LH.
[TESTOSTERONE INJECTION] I think an oil or cream with real testosterone (and DHEA) is
much better than the injections, which are usually an ester of testosterone in a toxic solvent.

12. Protein
For intense exercise, it's about a gram per pound of body weight.
I've always been very sedentary, but I have usually had close to 150 grams daily. The traditional
meat eaters didn't waste anything,ate all the skin, ears, tails, snouts, feet,tendons, lungs,
intestines, marrow, blood,brains, gonads and other glands, picked the ligaments off the bones,
so they had a much better balance of amino acids. (Small town restaurants in Mexico, China,
etc., still serve those.) Muscle meats are essentially a refined food.
That's more than enough, and with low thyroid function the excess of tryptophan, methionine,
and cystein can lower your thyroid even more. Until your metabolic rate is higher, 80 to 100
grams would be better. Replacing it with sugar, or very well cooked starch, would support thyroid
function.
It's better to take your protein during the day, sugar and fat in the evening. The powdered protein
lacks most of the nutrients, so you probably need some fruit, eggs, and liver, for the other
nutrients, including potassium and magnesium.
Food proteins stimulate insulin secretion, and to prevent hypoglycemia cortisol is increased. The
food proteins (along with tissue proteins) can be used for energy under the influence of cortisol.
Meats, other than beef, lamb, venison, and bison, usually contain enough polyunsaturated fat to
affect estrogen, testosterone, and energy production. Stress, or increased cortisol, increases the
circulating cysteine and tryptophan from muscle (meats), and these together with cortisol tend to
increase aromatase. The high ratio of phosphate to calcium in meat activates a variety of stress
processes; a high intake of calcium supports energy metabolism. Sugars tend to lower circulating
free fatty acids, amino acids, and cortisol, while activating the thyroid hormone.
I think it just takes a few hours, or a day, to normalize the tryptophan. Vitamin B6 helps to guide
the metabolism of tryptophan away from excessive serotonin.
[Does a protein deficiency lower liver detoxification due to increased muscle breakdown which
inhibits thyroid via amino acids which lowers metabolic efficiency of liver?] Yes, I think that's at
least part of how it works.
[Why do you recommend to have carbohydrates with a protein meal?] It mitigates the damage
produced by the stress response to hypoglycemia.

13. In experiments with alcohol toxicity, alcohol exposure creates a fatty and scared liver, the
immediate antidote to alcohol poisoning of the liver and other tissues is fructose. People have
been saying that fructose is poison for the liver like alcohol, but it’s the opposite. Fructose is the
antidote to alcohol poisoning. Fat metabolism doesn’t produce as much Carbon Dioxide as sugar
or starch metabolism, and so as long as you can keep oxidizing starch and sugar effectively,
you’re producing the protective Carbon Dioxide.
PT (53:33)- Going back to the fructose, so is that one of the reasons why you’re such a fan of
orange juice?

RP (53:40)- Yeah, but the flavanoids are another

PT (53:45)- And thats in Milk too?

RP (53:47)- Orange Juice and Milk are very safe ways to get a very high intake of the
bioflavanoids. (*)

PT (53:55)- Bioflavanoids. So where did all of this stuff come from that we shouldn’t be drinking
milk? All the anti-milk stuff? Its crazy isn’t it?

RP (54:12)- Yeah, my aunt was a nurse trained in the 1920s and 30s and she was indoctrinated
to not breastfeed her kids and that was big medical thing that there was some kind of a
supposedly biological stigma against breast feeding. So they were feeding them artificial milk,
and the idea of making milk out of seeds, almonds, seeds, soybeans, developed out of that baby
food culture, turning it over to industry rather than the mother. That developed, I think it has
Freudian implications in the motivation, that people are so fearful of milk.

PT (55:18)- I see. You had mentioned earlier about well fed cows, so are we just talking about
grass fed, because if they’re not grass-fed you just don’t know what they’re eating?

RP (55:27)- Uh yeah, fresh grass has the most and highest content of flavanoids, hay is fairly
good, so dried grass still has a lot of stuff. A highly grain concentrated diet is the worst.

PT (55:48)- And you could actually, if you don’t have a source locally, you could actually I’ve
seen organic grassfed milk at whole foods, so you can buy it if you want.

RP (56:02)- And the flavanoids are a great virtue

PT (56:05): So that’s in there. So that another great argument to find grassfed butter. Like the
ones we get from Ireland or something.

RP (56:11): Yes, even the butter will contain the flavanoids.

PT (56:17): Ben wants to know, he’s 71, and he wants to know “What is the best regime to
increase low Testosterone and gain more muscle?” He wants more muscle and more
testosterone. So what are your favorite things?

RP (56:30): Yeah, shift the diet away from fats to some extent. Increase the carbohydrates,
especially orange juice is one of the best. But any carbohydrate is better than more fat.

PT (): Wow really? So many people say fats are so good for us? Could you talk more about that?

RP (57:02): The saturated fats going back to Hans Selye’s experiments in which the rapeseed oil
was considered to be heart toxic so they developed Canola oil, with I think it was Erucic Acid
which was reduced , but Hans Selye showed it was linoleic acid, which is still to high in Canola
Oil. Hans Selye showed it was the high Polyunsaturated fats that were causing heart cell death.
He would slice up the rat’s heart after they had eaten that high PUFA diet and find dead heart
cells all through the tissue. But then he fed them besides the same amount, he didn’t reduce the
PUFA, but he added a lot of coco butter. Which is very high in stearic acid. And just by getting
the very saturated long chain fat to balance and protect against the PUFA, he eliminated the
heart death.

PT (58:18): Hmm, so it would be good for us to have a little coco butter? You can actually buy
that to hm?

RP (58: 23): Yeah, I just got some, the deodorized, the odorous stuff can sometimes be very
allergenic.

PT (): It’s just white isn’t it? It’s made from Cocoa, or raw chocolate

RP (58:44): Yeah, if you have the unrefined coco butter, its white but it tastes like chocolate so
you can make white chocolate. It’s important to check for allergenicity, even with natural coco,
because the way it’s fermented and prepared can cause allergies.

PT (59:14): So back on the muscles and the more you say more carbs, does that rice and pasta
for muscles or not? Or just more fruit?

RP (59:27): Fruit is higher in the protective flavanoids, the grains are very low in them. But then
the protein should be adequate. You don’t want too much of the methyl donors, the age
promoting amino acids are mostly cysteine and methionine, so you want to moderate those. And
then the type of muscle activity, like using dumbbells and squats, just a few of those like 10
repetitions of dumbbells or 10 squats or sit-ups will build muscle volume.

PT (): What about animal fats? Porkfat or beef fat or things like that?

RP (1:00:32): Beef fat is rich in stearic acid and mono unsaturated fats. Pork fat can go all of the
way up into 30% linoleic acid, which is very age promoting. But there’s one pork farm in Maryland
that has experimented with feeding a good high carbohydrate diet to their pigs and they got their
PUFA content all of the way down to 4%. And beef fat can be as high as 3%. So their pork was
very competitive with beef for safety and high stearic acid content

PT (1:02:22): Interesting. So the pigs that are fed maybe GMO corn and other stuff could be a
real issue, but if you find a farmer that is doing more vegetarian and more fruits and vegetables
and stuff then that could be just fine?

RP (): Yeah
PT (): Yeah, that’s cool man. So smoothies are good for us? Fruit smoothies?

RP (): Yeah as long as you don’t put raw seeds and nuts and vegetables

PT (): All that stuff. You don’t put that stuff right?

RP (): Mhmm

PT (1:01:57): What’s the best thing we can do writes Carol for a system that is usually alkaline? I
guess she’s feeling too alkaline? Are vegetables okay?

RP (1:02:10): Umm yeah, cooked vegetables are a way of getting a well balanced carbohydrates
but proteins are the main thing that acidifies our system, so if your urine is more acidic, you’re
much less likely to get kidney stones than people on a high alkaline diet. So the people on a very
vegan or excessively vegetarian diet are much more likely to get kidney stones because the
material crystallizes and deposits at a higher pH.

PT (1:03:02): I see, so our urine wants to be more in the 5-6 range?

RP (1:03:09): Yeah, and exercise producing carbon dioxide is one of the things that will help to
keep your blood and urine slightly on the acidic side. Well, not acidic for the blood. The less
alkaline system, higher carbon dioxide, slight tendency toward Hypercapnia is highly protective to
all of your cells.