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Generative Energy Podcast

#36: CO2 and Mineral Balance | Thyroid | Magnesium | Calcium in Health and Disease | Current Events with Ray Peat

Oct 3, 2020
02:11:14

00:00 - Setup intro music

02:45 - Skip setup intro music

02:46 - Does caffeine enhance the effects of thyroid?

05:00 - Steroids and caffeine decalcify cells

06:10 - Is caffeine a mild cell irritant?

06:44 - What is the optimal amount of coffee?

08:28 - Signs of dehydration

09:37 - The regulation of calcium, potassium, magnesium, and sodium by carbon dioxide

13:00 - Calcium is sedative or excitatory depending on calcium (ionized calcium)

15:00 - ATP binds magnesium while ADP binds calcium

19:20 - Blood vessel calcification by blocking oxidative metabolism

19:55 - How does Ray interpret intracellular calcium?

21:09 - Magnesium should not be high in the blood, are there any good blood tests for magnesium?

23:15 - Intracellular calcium makes cells insensitive to stimuli

26:08 - Calcium and albumin can bind endotoxin? Cancer cells lose sensitivity

27:07 - What determines a cell's specific response to intracellular calcium?

29:03 - How does GABA affect intracellular calcium?

30:11 - ATP compounded with magnesium therapeutically

31:24 - Calcium overload is from high parathyroid hormone, not dietary intake

35:29 - Hypercalcemia from elevated lactic acid?

36:55 - What's a healthy range for lactic acid on a blood test?

37:42 - Lactic acidosis in coronavirus patients

38:39 - Intracellular calcium increases lipolysis 

39:59 - Intracellular calcium increases the hormone-like prostaglandins

40:44 - Intracellular calcium increases nitric oxide

41:42 - Substances to help reoxidize lactic acid back to pyruvate

45:22 - Similarities between prolactin and parathyroid hormone

47:49 - Parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP) and endotoxin

48:26 - PTHrP and cancer

50:33 - Ray's view on the evolutionary role of calcium-containing foods

52:17 - Did we evolve eating large amounts of meat?

54:50 - Does fructose deplete intracellular phosphate?

58:05 - Policosanols and the klotho gene

59:29 - Ray's thoughts on the Boskop skull (Starchild skull)

01:01:53 - Ray's thoughts on our origins, head shape

01:03:50 - Ray's thoughts on alternative history narratives (Atlantis, Graham Hancock)

01:05:22 - Vitamin K on facial structure, head growth with age

01:08:19 - Hollywood stars appearances over the years

01:09:00 - Old Indians found to have no decline in DHEA and testosterone

01:11:19 - Ageless flamingos

01:12:25 - The hormonal constellation of process and fluidity, Carl Rogers

01:15:09 - Maslow's hierarchy of needs and hormones, empathy

01:17:04 - Doctors and empathy

01:17:35 - Is analytical thought under the control of serotonin?

01:19:33 - Coronavirus is real, but the testing is fraudulent, antibodies, immunity, estrogen

01:31:18 - Coronavirus act II: food shortages, digital currency

01:33:07 - Climate change and coronavirus, weather disasters 

01:40:00 - Methods of increasing the homeless population 

01:42:49 - How is this future dystopian society going to work?

01:47:20 - In the future, will homesteaders be considered domestic terrorists harboring coronavirus infected animals? 

01:54:11 - "Desiccated liver contains oxidized tryptophan, cysteine, vitamin A, ubiquinone, and many other harmful things." Ray Peat (2020)

01:56:35 - Does gray hair always involve an excess of iron? 

01:59:49 - How can people obtain Ray's newsletters and books? 

02:00:43 - Ray's thoughts on quinine

02:03:22 - Ray's thoughts on Trump getting coronavirus

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