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To continue, the last two months, we've been talking about the role of good sugars and bad sugars.
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And again this month, I'm very pleased to be joined by Dr. Ray Peat
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who's going to expose the risk of endotoxin and dietary effects that influence endotoxin production.
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There's a lot of research now to show that endotoxin is associated with many inflammatory diseases
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that you wouldn't normally associate with food.
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So, the adage "You are what you eat" is very true.
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So, we're excited to have Dr. Ray Peat with us again this month
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and we'll be hearing from him on this scientific-based approach to endotoxin.
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So, Dr. Peat, are you with us?
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Yes.
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Hi. Thank you so much for joining.
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As always, new people can be listening who perhaps have never heard you before.
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So, would you please just give an outline of your expertise?
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I'm studying hormones and nutrition mostly.
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I got my PhD in physiology with a biochemical orientation concentrating on reproductive aging
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and that was when I got interested in the interactions of estrogen, oxygen, unsaturated fatty acids
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and the toxic interactions of some of our natural materials with environmental materials and processes.
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Okay. So, to talk about this month, the role of endotoxin, would you just describe endotoxin?
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Its chemical name is lipopolysaccharide and there are several kinds of bacteria that make similar things
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but it's a combination of a starch-like molecule with some fatty acids attached to it
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and it's so widely distributed that all animals have a system for reacting to it and defending themselves against it
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and it seems to be partly a bacterial defense against the bacteria's environment
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and so there's an evolved back and forth relationship between animals and the bacteria
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and it's a matter of things getting out of balance that causes the endotoxin to be a problem.
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Okay. So, I hear of many foods that promote this production.
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Would you be able to list some specific foods that people should be thinking about before they consume them
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given that we're going to open up the negative effects of endotoxin?
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Mostly, it seems to be things that are poorly digested that pass along with a lot of food value down into the intestine
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where bacteria thrive on them.
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Things like fruit are so quickly digested by most people.
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The liquid parts, minerals and sugars can be largely absorbed before you get down to the bacterial area of the intestine
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and so the more indigestible the food is, the more risky it is for supporting an overgrowth of bacteria
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and if your digestion happens to be poor, then more foods will pass along and become bacteria food.
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Indigestible fibrous materials, types of starch that can't be broken down by animal enzymes or human enzymes
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become good food for bacteria and many of these are being promoted for intestinal health to stimulate the peristalsis and so on.
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About 30 years ago, some Australian studies saw that people who ate a lot of oat bran
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actually were increasing their risk for bowel cancer.
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Certain types of fiber cause such intense growth of bacteria that the bacteria produce many types of toxins,
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not just the fragment of the bacterial coat that's known as endotoxin,
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but they can produce modified proteins, modified fats and so on from indigestible food.
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So endotoxin is just one kind of universal toxin that everyone has some basic defenses against it
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while there are other types of toxins that are more specifically influenced by your diet.
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So when people say, "Oh, I can't have a normal bowel movement if I don't eat lots of fiber in my diet."
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Well, there are some very safe fibers that come from plants that have their own defenses against bacteria and fungi.
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Raw carrots, for example, if you've noticed that many vegetables will spoil in the refrigerator
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while carrots still seem to be completely clean and unattacked by bacteria or molds.
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That's because there are chemicals that are defensive for those plants.
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When we eat them, they remain like antibiotics all the way through our intestines,
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so they are very hard for bacteria to grow on.
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And in that way, they also provide a good roughage that doesn't get broken down by bacteria.
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Yeah, and it can also bind some of the toxins produced by bacteria
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so that rather than increasing the amount produced,
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it can actually bind it and carry it out, subtracting toxins.
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It's almost like the activated charcoal that's used for detoxifying ingested chemicals.
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Carrots are a natural way of doing that.
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And when people say, "Oh, if I eat a good green salad, then I have a wonderful bowel movement,"
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is that because the bacteria are stimulating, actually stimulating the peristalsis
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because we don't have cellulose-digesting enzymes
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and it's actually relying on the bacteria to ferment and digest the cellulose?
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Yeah, some people get terribly constipated when they eat raw vegetables.
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Other people, it's enough irritation to stimulate the intestine.
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There are doctors for a long time who have warned against using stimulant laxatives,
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but when they recommend eating vegetables, it's really primarily a stimulant action
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produced by irritating substances either in the vegetable itself or produced by the bacterial growth.
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If you've ever left a head of lettuce in a closed container at room temperature,
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you know how quickly lettuce can decompose compared to a carrot.
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Lettuce is very good bacterial food, so it can become very toxic if you happen to catch the wrong bacteria.
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So the last couple of months we've spent time talking about the different types of sugars,
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the good sugars versus the bad sugars.
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I don't really like to use that good and bad description,
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but you've been describing, Dr. Peat, the health benefits of an easily digested sugar,
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one that gets digested in the stomach and very high up in the intestinal tract,
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thereby not providing any food for bacteria further down.
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These are mainly fruits and honey, soft, ripe, juicy fruits and honey,
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and even white sugar is pretty rapidly absorbed.
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And the lactose in milk is another good sugar.
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And lactose in milk.
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And those are all things that our human digestive tracts can absorb quickly and efficiently
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without having to rely on bacterial degradation.
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They also have a defensive effect against the products of the bacteria,
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so that once you are poisoned by the endotoxin,
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the sugars protect by decreasing the inflammation reaction to them.
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So if you ate starches for dinner tonight, then tonight before bed,
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some good sugars will help protect against some of the endotoxin that could be produced by the bacteria
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that are digesting the starches.
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So those are what we call the bad sugars, and they come from more resistant to digestion.
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The starches are more resistant to digestion and include the breads, the pastas, the cakes, the cookies,
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the flours, the grains, the beans, rice, those types of food products
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that don't get immediately digested in the stomach
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and then can be digested further on down by the bacteria.
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Another kind of defensive food is the saturated fat.
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These are, if you think of soap and its antibacterial effect,
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the saturated fats are mildly antiseptic.
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So if you eat butter with your potato, the starch is less likely to become a toxic material for the bacteria
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because the butter saturated fats will suppress bacterial growth.
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So that means mashed potatoes with lots of milk and butter can protect against eating these starches
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that are a little more resistant to digestion.
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And cooking them well, if you cook your starches really, really well,
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like weren't you saying, Dr. Peat, if you boil potatoes for 45 minutes to an hour,
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that if they're softer, then they'll be digested more easily in your stomach.
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It's pretty basic when you think of it.
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You think of grains, they're quite resistant to digestion,
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and then you think of beautifully ripe papaya or mango,
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or right now we have nice soft persimmons in this part of the country.
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Those are pretty easily digested.
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I was wondering, Dr. Peat, you don't actually sign up for the belief of the commensal organisms in the gut.
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Is that right?
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As far as you understand it, there needn't be gut bacteria.
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When we were studying it, this is such a doctrine, the commensal organism kind of theory.
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Everyone's got commensal gut bacteria and you need them.
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Well, the experiments with germ-free animals,
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they do find they're actually healthier than the normal germ-infected animals
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until if they grow up never exposed to bacteria, they seem very healthy,
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but then they've never developed their immune defenses,
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and so when they are exposed, they're extremely susceptible to infection.
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So if we're going to live in a world with germs, we might as well get used to them.
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When I was looking at some of the research on endotoxin,
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and when we were studying for the microbiology lectures,
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endotoxin was always something associated with E. coli or salmonella or typhoid.
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So far as our own normal, we'll say that they exist, but our own commensal, our own gut bacteria,
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then are in their own right able to be a reasonable threat to us in terms of toxin production
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if when we eat these foods that you've mentioned are helpful for those bacteria to live on,
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then the endotoxin production by our own bacteria can be significant.
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Is that right?
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Yeah, all the bacteria produce something that can be sickness-inducing.
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The lactobacillus itself, even though it's unbalanced, probably favorable,
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the polysaccharide material in its covering can also produce inflammation
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and a whole range of pathological reactions.
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So it's really a matter of balance.
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So the very cell wall of these bacteria can, in their own right, trigger inflammatory responses.
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Is that correct?
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Yeah.
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And so what about the research that's being done in cancer,
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in endotoxin in the formation of cancers because of that chronic inflammation that happens
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with endotoxin being absorbed into the bloodstream and triggering those secondary effects?
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I think that's a very plausible approach.
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If you look at practically any degenerative disease, arthritis, gout, dementia, epilepsy, hepatitis,
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almost anything is crucially made worse by the endotoxin once you get stressed.
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Then all of these things are exacerbated by the endotoxin.
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Now, just describe the word "stress."
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What do you mean when you say "stressed"?
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Just a mental stress, for example, that will shift the blood away from your digestive system,
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out to your legs and arms, the fight or flight reaction.
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Right, so the adrenaline.
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Yeah.
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If that persists or is very intense, the intestine loses its barrier function
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and bacteria can go right through the membrane,
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lightening the intestine into the bloodstream, even passing through the whole intestine out into the abdominal cavity.
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Before the whole bacteria goes through, a much lower degree of stress will begin letting the endotoxin flow in at an increased rate.
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So just thinking stressful thoughts will tend to increase your endotoxin absorption.
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Right, I mean, it's very real.
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I think most people, when they hear that, stressful thoughts, they probably start chuckling, you know.
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But it's pretty straightforward.
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It's cause and effect, and what you're saying about stress is very real physiologically.
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So that's why I wanted to bring out the whole endotoxin thing
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and the diets that promote endotoxin because of the bacteria feeding on,
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and what you can do to help yourself can be a really very simple way of improving your health.
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Like sitting down and having a relaxing meal instead of eating on the go.
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Yeah.
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And the things that you've done in the last several years contribute to how risky any little stress is.
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Okay.
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For example, women who were going to a fertility clinic,
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a doctor had a theory that maybe their ovaries were infected, the reason they weren't fertile.
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He put some of them on a moderate dose of penicillin or other antibiotic,
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and many of them noticed that their mood and headaches were relieved by the antibiotic.
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And that got the doctors interested in seeing what was happening to their hormones,
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and they also became pregnant.
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But they thought that before they took the antibiotic circulating in their blood,
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they had a stress level of cortisol and a very high ratio of estrogen to progesterone.
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And taking the antibiotic, their cortisol and estrogen decreased and the progesterone increased.
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And that turns out in that particular study, they didn't determine the mechanism,
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but they've also seen exactly the same pattern in studies with rats.
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And I've done the same measurements in women who had those syndromes, PMS and infertility,
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and just two or three days of eating a raw carrot salad every day,
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they had exactly that shift of hormones, increased progesterone, decreased estrogen and cortisol.
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And the other research shows that endotoxin alone will account for exactly those changes.
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You inject an animal with endotoxin and its estrogen, even a male animal,
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the estrogen will go up maybe five times higher than normal,
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and the progesterone and testosterone fall sharply.
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Okay. All right.
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So, Dr. Peat, in terms of endotoxin production and diet,
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because I know that you're very keen on the saturated fats and you've got lots of research
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and there's plenty of information out there to show that the polyunsaturated fats are actually pretty bad for you.
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How about endotoxin and the PUFA, the polyunsaturated fatty acids?
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Is there any increased link between the two?
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Yeah, they do favor the growth of many microorganisms, but they also interact at every stage.
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For example, the permeability of the intestine is increased by the polyunsaturated fat.
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One of the first reactions when the cell senses the endotoxin is to produce nitric oxide.
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Nitric oxide increases the permeability, leakiness of the intestine.
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And if your tissues happen to be well-supplied with polyunsaturated fats,
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the nitric oxide increases the release and amount of pre-fatty acids in circulation.
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And so the person who has eaten a lot of polyunsaturated fat, once a stress triggers the absorption of endotoxin,
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then the reaction can be much more intense.
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And those same things will trigger the release of serotonin and increase all of the inflammatory mediators.
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And the environment of increased estrogen, decreased progesterone, and testosterone will continue that like a cascade of bad effects.
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So just to describe for some of our listeners, estrogen, estrogen, estrogen,
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is a very inflammatory hormone that's involved in a lot of cancers.
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It is useful at that level when it's balanced with progesterone, which is an anti-aging hormone.
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It's a fertility hormone.
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So if you want to look at it, the estrogen is the bad guy, progesterone is a good guy,
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and these bacteria tend to increase the estrogen in relation to the progesterone.
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And then for the polyunsaturated fats, those consist of fats from mainly seeds, nuts and seeds,
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almond oil, sunflower oil, safflower, corn, soy, cotton seed, all those liquid oils except olive oil,
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which is not very polyunsaturated.
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Olive oil is only 10% polyunsaturated.
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And the saturated fats are the ones that are antibacterial, so they're antimicrobial,
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and they will inhibit the bacterial growth in the intestine.
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And those include butter, coconut oil, palm oil, palm shortening, not the unrefined,
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and also some animal fats that are from animals that haven't been eating corn and soy, unless they are beef and lamb,
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that do eat corn and soy, they have four stomachs, they can process the fats into a saturated fat,
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whereas chicken fat and pig fat are going to be polyunsaturated because the chickens and the pigs are fed polyunsaturated grains and beans and corn and soy.
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So that's just to give our listeners a little update there on what we're talking about here with the polyunsaturates
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and the saturated fats and the different hormones.
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Okay. How about the association of cancer with endotoxin production?
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Every level you look at practically is a promoting effect.
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There are a few positive effects of endotoxin.
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Our long exposure to these toxins will build up certain defenses,
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but beyond that very basic kind of immunity, which includes things like HDL cholesterol,
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the lipoproteins are defenses against the endotoxins largely.
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So that's one of the defensive effects of high cholesterol.
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And the reactions beyond that very simple level of defense are all pro-inflammatory,
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tend to stimulate development of fibrosis as a sign of deteriorating tissue function,
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and fibrosis and atrophy make the tumor harder to get at and more autonomous.
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The atrophy effect is something that estrogen participates in in many ways.
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The medical establishment has convinced the public that estrogen has some anabolic protective effects,
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especially for the bone preventing osteoporosis,
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but the overall effect of the inflammation produced by endotoxin creates a systemic age-like atrophy of all of the tissues.
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Osteoporosis, for example, is extremely sensitive to endotoxin.
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Endotoxin activates all of the factors that stop the bone replacement and accelerate its decomposition,
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and it's those atrophic processes that weaken the immune system's ability to remove a cancer once it starts.
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So atrophy and tumor formation are really very closely connected,
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and endotoxin is pushing on both of those in an unfavorable way.
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Yeah, pretty scary, huh?
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Okay, so there's, like I was wanting to bring out, the whole thing about your food,
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what you eat and what you shouldn't eat, really should be taken quite seriously,
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just because it's a very inexpensive way to stay healthy.
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There's no drugs involved, there's no treatment involved.
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You're your own doctor, and the more you take care of yourself in terms of what you put into your body,
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the better off you're going to be.
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So just to recap the endotoxin gut bacteria and lipopolysaccharide side of the liberation from the bacteria,
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and the starches, the offending substances.
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Sarah, do you want to cover the offending substances?
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Besides the starches, Dr. Beatman, I've already mentioned the breads, the grains, beans, and flowers,
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and starchy root crops.
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Besides those, what other foods will encourage the growth of bacteria that then could subsequently produce endotoxin?
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The so-called fibrous materials, a lot of them are being promoted as health foods.
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Lignin, lignans that are woody materials in many vegetables and grains.
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And like in flax seeds.
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Yeah.
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Generally, those tend to have an estrogen-promoting effect and support the growth of bacteria.
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As well as have flax seeds also have PUFA, polyunsaturated fat,
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so those won't be inhibiting the growth of the bacteria like a saturated fat would be.
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Yeah.
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That's interesting. I just want to hold it there very quickly with what you mentioned about lignin,
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because I was just reminded again that the Dow Chemical Company were actually trying to incorporate lignans into bread,
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and they were doing some research at a USDA lab to see whether or not these lignans could be a viable starch source to be put in bread.
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And here, as you've already mentioned, lignans as being one of the other bad foods that could possibly be implicated.
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I think they've used sawdust for many years.
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Yeah.
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The cellulose is probably the safest fiber if it's a clean kind of cellulose.
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Yeah, no, they were testing it.
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I'm friends with one of the scientists at the Food Safety Department of the USDA labs in Albany,
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and they were testing to see if they could boost the fiber content.
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And my friend said, "If people are going to eat bread, why can't they just eat whole grain bread?
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Why do they have to add sawdust into it?"
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Yeah, as another cautionary warning, I think, to people that are listening,
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the industry is certainly keen to make sure that there are no byproducts of an industry that are not sold.
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So just be aware, there's lots of high fructose corn syrup.
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It's just one of those examples.
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If something isn't naturally occurring, don't be surprised if what you're consuming is a byproduct of another industry
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that you're being told is actually going to be good for you.
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So it's the whole fish oil thing.
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And then the paint industry with the flax seed oil, how that suddenly became a food source rather than a paint additive.
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Okay, well, back to diet and endotoxin.
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One minute.
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This is your engineer.
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I actually had someone who called up and had a question very much in this line.
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She had a question about pediatric Crohn's disease and a diet that would be good for that.
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Okay. Dr. Peat?
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I think it's good to try raw carrot.
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It's important how you use the carrot.
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Just eating a raw carrot is fine.