
Generative Energy Podcast
"If we learn to see problems in terms of a general disorder of energy metabolism, we can begin to solve them." —Raymond Peat PhD
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Mar 4, 2021 • 2h 17min
#51: Heat Shock Proteins | Antibiotic Resistance | DHT Safety | Energy and Aging with Ray Peat, PhD
00:00 - Start
01:10 - Ray's new newsletter
05:05 - Le Chatelier's principle, Lamarckian fish, Barbara McClintock
09:18 - Gilbert Ling, ATP "the queen of cardinal adsorbents," phase transitions, coacervates, rigor mortis
13:51 - "The role of ATP is not limited to the contraction cycle. It dominates the physical state of muscle even in rest, keeping it soft and pliable... rigor mortis is but a lack of ATP..." Albert Szent-Györgyi
14:43 - Does the activation of the heat shock proteins (HSPs) precede cell division?
16:02 - Niacinamide and solubility, energy loss, DNA repair
19:09 - What about gelatin?
20:85 - Estrogen activates HSPs, redox balance, progesterone inhibits HSPs, water economy
23:15 - Should we activate the HSPs?
25:12 - Will the activation of the HSPs leave a scar?
27:06 - "Energy deprivation stabilizing proteins"
29:37 - Metallic taste in the mouth, lipid peroxidation
30:20 - "Estrogen, hyperventilation, lactate, etc., increase serotonin, and I think it’s serotonin that directly increases PTH, and then PTH increases NO." Ray Peat (2017)
33:30 - The living cell is more susceptible in the fatigued state
38:23 - HSP inhibitors: tetracycline, progesterone, methylene blue, etc.
38:58 - Is PTH a "newer" part of the system?
40:25 - Is RAAS more ancient than the HPA?
40:54 - Ray Peat's newsletter, Progest-E from Kenogen, Ray's history with progesterone
45:24 - Why can progesterone fill-in for the adrenals but pregnenolone cannot?
48:14 - Are pregnenolone and progesterone "true" hormones?
49:25 - If someone has a sensitive stomach -- how can they take progest-E?
50:14 - Ray's thoughts on using DHT and testosterone, gynecomastia, finasteride, governing principles of health
55:40 - Is DHT always "safer" than testosterone? Ray's thoughts on TRT
58:34 - What does Ray think of as a "max dose" of aspirin at one time?
01:00:04 - What happens to the agaratine in mushrooms? Does the mushroom water contain agaratine?
01:01:26 - How to distinguish between a fungal and bacterial infection?
01:07:40 - Does Ray prefer pure olive oil over coconut oil for the carrot salad and mushrooms? 1/2 a teaspoon provides a trace of PUFA
01:08:39 - Are fungal infections rarer than bacterial infections?
01:09:20 - H.pylori infection -- how to treat? Thoughts on dosing antibiotics
01:12:41 - The two-week time frame for antibiotic use scientific?
01:13:45 - Is antibiotic resistance important for the individual?
01:14:28 - Does antibiotic use cause a fungal overgrowth?
01:16:05 - Tetracyclines as antifungals? Inflammation predisposes to infection, feeling "uncomfortable" on minocycline
01:19:16 - Danny's experience on minocycline
01:21:46 - Question: why would a virus want to invade a cell?
01:29:28 - Viruses and weakened organisms
01:30:57 - Do viral pandemics exist?
01:36:02 - “...That is, if one pursues any ‘physical’ illness far enough and deep enough, one will find inevitably intrapsychic, intrapersonal, and social variables that are also involved as determinants.” Maslow (1993)
01:38:08 - What's the factor in the environment that's leading to frailty in young people?
01:40:42 - If a group has a problematic "death culture" holy book -- how can a functioning society be maintained?
01:44:54 - Could a holistic view of science be a foundation for a functional society?
01:45:51 - What is the long-term "artificial" struggle between humans?
01:47:10 - Does authoritarianism have anything to do with nature?
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Feb 20, 2021 • 1h 49min
#50: DHT for Hair Growth? | New Ray Peat Interviews | Keto and Mitochondria | Childhood Trauma with Georgi DInkov
00:00 - Skip setup music, Georgi's situation in Washington, D.C.
06:00 - 'On The Back of a Tiger' Ray Peat interviews released on youtube
10:59 - "Consensus" in science
22:41 - The 50th generative energy episode
26:28 - Topical DHT therapy promotes hair growth
32:32 - Testosterone therapy (TRT) reverses hair loss (in women)
50:37 - Question: mitigating the harm from a mRNA vaccine?
59:56 - Question: calcium supplementation and heavy metal contamination
01:02:17 - Question: what to do about intense environmental sensitivities?
01:12:44 - Keto (low-carb) diet causes heart fibrosis, blocks mitochondrial biogenesis
01:16:57 - Childhood stress causes mental illness in adults by blunting androgens
01:25:01 - Idealabs update
01:28:01 - Question: healing from trauma
01:34:42 - Question: bad reaction to antibiotics
01:42:10 - Question: calcium, vitamin D, vitamin K

Feb 13, 2021 • 1h 31min
#49: Cortisol Causes High Blood Sugar | DHT and Aging | PUFA, Immunosuppression, and Hibernation with Georgi Dinkov
Exploring the benefits of DHT for male health, the impact of cortisol on high blood sugar, the immunosuppressive effects of PUFA, and discussions on topics like fatty acid oxidation, hibernation, and fertility optimization.

Jan 23, 2021 • 1h 58min
#47: The Power Elite | Vaccines | Hair Loss | UFOs | Surviving The Great Reset with Ray Peat, PhD
00:00 - Skip setup music
00:51 - Where is the most critical place to start the conversation?
02:35 - Are people dying the mRNA or the polyethylene glycol lipid?
07:22 - Pfizer vaccine, HIV, Luc Montagnier, Peter Duesberg
04:27 - PCR test cycles, creating evidence for an "epidemic"
07:30 - People as "public health threats," COVID camps, censorship, domestic terrorist
09:06 - Trump's legacy, QAnon as a psychological operation to identify dissenters and eventually turn them into patsies for "domestic terrorism"
12:36 - Rothschilds, Rockefellers, WASPS, Zionists, Kabbalah, Jesuits, Numerology, Noam Chomsky, Language
20:03 - Rothschilds, Talmud, Kabbalah
21:27 - What was the relationship between the Rothschilds and Rockefellers?
23:20 - What is essentialism?
25:33 - Where do Bill Gates and other elites live if they're spending so much toxifying the environment?
29:54 - Why does capitalism lead to war and destruction?
34:54 - Ray's thoughts on surviving the great reset, foods to stock
38:36 - Nutrition labels can't be trusted
41:55 - Question: How to stop the aging process?
51:35 - Question: Ray's views on the history of philosophy? Immanuel Kant
59:20 - Question: How to shift vellus hairs to terminal? DHEA, estrogen, cortisol, prolactin, aldosterone, frontal fibrosing alopecia, PTH
01:11:06 - Why is there so much focus on estradiol?
01:08:06 - Question: How to stop Crohn's disease flair-ups? Estrogen, redox balance, vitamin D
01:17:27 - Is vitamin D an anti-estrogen?
01:21:32 - Question: How to approach a stubborn endotoxin problems? Biosporin, florassist, megasporebiotic, antisceptic fibers, erythromycin, penicillin VK, tetracycline, charcoal
01:28:35 - Send $28 to raypeatsnewsletter@gmail.com for a digital subscription to Ray's Newsletter or to purchase his books
01:29:05 - What is Ray working on right now?
01:33:15 - What's mainly responsible for the hardening of the cell?
01:35:17 - Question: Are there benefits from activating the vagus nerve?
01:37:31 - Question: What would happen if the earth released more CO2?
01:41:23 - Question: Who's behind the UFO agenda?
01:45:19 - Question: Does MDMA increase serotonin? What does Ray think of Chinese medicine?
01:49:49 - Question: Can Ray expand on the feeling of euphoria and how not experiencing it represents the degenerative effects of aging and stress?
01:54:50 - Carbon dioxide, euphoria, how exactly Ray uses carbon dioxide

Jan 16, 2021 • 1h 44min
#46: Solutions For The Great Reset? | Is Vitamin D3 Toxic? | Optimizing Digestion | Testosterone
00:00 - Start
00:39 - Solutions for The Great Reset? Food ideas, "bug out bag"
12:45 - mRNA vaccines as "operating systems" according to Moderna, mRNA vaccine side effects, spinning the narrative
23:09 - Credible news sources?
32:20 - One-to-one coaching, idealabs update, tocovit vitamin E winner
39:58 - Vitamin D and cancer, PTH increases 1,25-D and cholecalciferol lowers it, Warburg effect, supplemental vitamin D is not risky or toxic
51:24 - Oral testosterone with vitamin E for NAFLD
59:33 - Question: avoiding PUFA in Asia, drugs to reduce harm
01:05:52 - Question: recovering from statin use
01:11:49 - Androgens promote immunity
01:19:52 - Question: optimizing digestion, salt, thyroid, antibiotics, gelatin, charcoal
01:27:13 - Lisuride, serotonin, immunity
01:34:30 - Question: high prolactin, high triglycerides, high cholesterol, but doesn't tolerate thyroid well

Jan 9, 2021 • 1h 46min
#45: Sugar Lowers Cortisol | Obesity and Endotoxin | Some "Anti-Estrogens" Increase Estrogen with Georgi Dinkov
00:00 - Skip setup music, current events, society, stress, torture
37:39 - Endotoxin behind the mortality of Black Death and 1918 Flu pandemics
53:41 - Sugar (sucrose) lowers stress-induced cortisol
54:38 - Some aromatase inhibitors (AI) are estrogenic
59:38 - Even “non-carcinogenic” estrogens can cause cancer
01:03:38 - Question: cholesterol level, metabolism, androgens, endotoxin
01:13:55 - Question: dental hygiene, antibiotics, intestinal health, methylene blue
01:18:15 - Endotoxin (LPS) as a cause of systemic inflammation seen in obesity
01:26:59 - Question: elevated white blood cell count, leukemia, PUFA, estrogen
01:32:49 - Question: klonopin, panic attacks, progesterone
01:38:12 - Idealabs update
01:42:08 - Outro, live stream schedule

Dec 18, 2020 • 1h 49min
#43: Body Temperature, Inflammation, and Aging | Copper and Thyroid | mRNA Vaccines and Infertility with Ray Peat and Georgi Dinkov
00:00 - Ray's newest newsletter, Body Temperature, Inflammation, and Aging
03:14 - Temperature range, enzyme systems
05:10 - The average normal temperature has decreased over the last 50 years
07:15 - Softening vs. hardening of tissues
08:36 - Health world obsessed with mitochondria, but not heat or CO2
09:35 - The rate of living theory by Raymond Pearl
12:36 - How did Ray know the rate of living theory was bogus?
16:26 - Who were the pro-metabolic people in the 1930s?
20:31 - Telomeres length and aging?
22:53 - Richard Dawkins, the selfish gene
25:09 - Bertrand Russel, ruling class jerk that occasionally spoke the truth
29:30 - Thiamine, CO2, acetazolamide, temperature
31:02 - The money take over of medicine, abstract medical thinking
33:25 - Does increasing the metabolic rate increase reactive oxygen species (ROS)?
34:25 - "Calorie restriction" and "longevity"
37:59 - PUFA, uncoupling proteins
38:24 - Temperature, aromatase, estrogen
39:42 - Is cold temperature an adaptation to injury?
42:40 - Is ROS helpful?
43:49 - Broda Barnes, thyroid, Ray's own metabolism, magnesium, ATP
50:38 - PUFA, cytochrome c oxidase, cardiolipin, hibernation
53:28 - Incoherent messaging surrounding mRNA vaccine rollout, side effects
01:00:34 - Unscientific mRNA vaccine trial design
01:02:35 - Emergency authorization act
01:03:32 - Articles regarding injecting foreign RNA?
01:04:51 - mRNA vaccines, infertility, syncytin-1
01:06:38 - Shedding of viral material during stress
01:09:01 - Ray's thoughts on the vaccine timeline, who will get the vaccine first?
01:11:03 - Replacing doctors and teachers with AI and robots
01:13:24 - Is this situation the craziest Ray has ever seen?
01:14:36 - Problem, reaction, solution
01:16:57 - Ted Kaczynski, technocracy, MK-ULTRA
01:20:30 - Is there an optimal level of technology?
01:22:19 - Ray's thoughts on bitcoin
01:22:45 - Klaus Schwab, cyber polygon, cyberattack
01:24:23 - Money, China, Russia, Iran, the great reset
01:30:05 - Copper, cytochrome c oxidase, thyroid, DHEA, infection, pigmentation, iron, ceruloplasmin
01:35:46 - Benefits of lidocaine, carbon dioxide, eugenol
01:40:40 - Possible to get rid of citric acid in fruits?
01:41:18 - Is starch craving a manifestation of hypothyroidism?
01:43:05 - What are the big vitamin K2 doses useful for?
01:44:50 - What is Ray working on?
01:45:49 - Vitamin K2 as an antiestrogen, increasing steroid synthesis

Dec 12, 2020 • 1h 56min
#42: Weight Loss, Sex, and Stress | Lipid Peroxidation | Mitochondria | mRNA Vaccine Side Effects with Georgi Dinkov
00:00 - WEF cyber polygon, economic collapse, digital currency, social credit score
06:17 - mRNA vaccine side effects, bell's palsy, antifertility, syncytin-1
20:54 - The future of the show is not on youtube
20:54 - Idealabs update
26:02 - Stress-driven lipid peroxidation, inflammation re-awakens dormant cancer cells
29:29 - Niacinamide may treat ALS by improving energetic state
32:42 - "In the body, as in a chain, the weakest link breaks down under stress although all parts are equally exposed to it.” Hans Selye
33:00 - Niacinamide may treat depression by improving energetic state
36:32 - Sexual activity and stress levels (HPA activity) may determine longevity
41:48 - Aspirin can cure liver cancer in just 24 hours (in rabbits)
46:24 - For hypothyroidism, T3 and T4 are most effective when taken orally with food
46:24 - Question: high cholesterol, aging, hypothyroidism
57:26 - Question: differences between mRNA vaccines, polyethylene glycol, what's being tested in trials?
01:10:46 - Glycine (and leucine) can treat fatty liver (NAFLD and NASH)
01:12:21 - Serotonin promotes (futile) patience and (false) faith in future rewards
01:17:32 - Serotonin (and SSRI drugs) can cause anxiety and PTSD
01:28:02 - Oral pregnenolone as hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in humans
01:32:42 - Compared to meat eaters, vegans / vegetarian / pescatarians have higher risk of fractures
01:35:00 - Question: weight gain, calories, stress, thyroid, "Ray Peat diet"
01:52:36 - Donations, parting words

Nov 28, 2020 • 2h 2min
#41: Body Temperature | mRNA Vaccines | Vernadsky's Evolution | The CIA's Weaponized Culture with Ray Peat and Georgi Dinkov
00:00 - Abiogenic petroleum origin
07:03 - Evolution as an energetic process
08:19 - Georgi on "Kali Yuga"
09:47 - Is there an optimal energy source for civilization?
10:18 - Did we evolve from the ocean?
13:58 - Sydney Fox, Vladimir Vernadsky
15:14 - Jeremy England
17:16 - Alexis Carrel, Hayflick limit, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, August Weismann
21:17 - Are genes the drives of evolution?
22:48 - Do chimpanzees and humans share a common ancestor?
25:06 - Did the human organism develop under harsh circumstances?
28:10 - Does cognitive ability and openness to possibilities relate to the redox balance?
29:11 - "The being of matter is its meaning; the being of ourselves is meaning; the being of society is its meaning. The mechanistic view has created a rather crude and gross meaning which has created a crude and gross and confused society." David Bohm
32:14 - Altruism retards brain aging?
36:09 - Pathology, trauma, self-mutilation, war
41:22 - Child-care, CIA, Gloria Steinem, Jaffe memo
44:20 - "Toxic masculinity," machismo
48:21 - Contraception weaponization, Barbara Seaman
51:26 - Did occupy wall street frighten the power-elite?
54:42 - What distraction was employed when JFK was shot?
01:01:28 - Half the population is suspicious of mainstream media, "vaccination hesitancy"
01:04:42 - 'Doctors say CDC should warn people the side effects from Covid vaccine shots won’t be ‘a walk in the park'
01:05:35 - Children can now self-consent to vaccination
01:06:36 - Vaccine trials testing for symptoms of the common cold
01:07:34 - Will the public get spooked when side-effects are discovered?
01:09:44 - How long before side-effects are seen from an mRNA vaccine?
01:11:13 - 'Side-effects of vaccine same as covid'
01:12:57 - Why are mRNA vaccines being employed now?
01:13:57 - How can a person protect themselves from an mRNA vaccine?
01:16:54 - Lies, Damned Lies and Health Statistics – the Deadly Danger of False Positives by Dr. Michael Yeadon
01:17:27 - Endotoxin, TLR-4, tetracyclines, vaccines
01:19:14 - Ingredients of the Pfizer vaccine (lipid adjuvants)
01:22:01 - The great reset and a Biden presidency, CFR, CIA
01:26:21 - World economic forum and cyber polygon cybersecurity event
01:31:50 - China, Russia, the great reset, AI
01:36:04 - Chinese electromagnetic pulse weapons
01:37:44 - Is AI overrated?
01:43:01 - Covid-19 cured the flu
01:44:47 - When did the education system in the U.S. become insane?
01:47:57 - What is Ray working on right now?
01:49:43 - Hyperthermia therapy
01:54:10 - Estrogen and cortisol tend to decreases the temperature
01:57:22 - Methylene blue and red light
02:00:36 - Email raypeatsnewsletter@gmail.com for Ray's newsletter subscription and books

Nov 20, 2020 • 1h 57min
#40: Fasting, Cortisol, and Weight Gain | Is Fruit Just Sugar? | DHT, Estrogen, and Baldness | NAFLD
00:00 - Setup music start
02:35 - Skip setup music
02:36 - Current events catch-up
19:25 - Idealabs TocoVit giveaway instructions
21:33 - Orange juice (OJ) as therapy for all coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2
26:16 - Are fruits "bags of sugar"?
28:58 - DHT is an estrogen (receptor) antagonist
33:18 - Thoughts on the development of finasteride (pseudohermaphrodites)
44:24 - Fasting ups estrogen & cortisol, decimates vitamin D, may cause diabetes
50:05 - Low-carb, fasting, and chronic stress as an "assault" on your sugar metabolism system, weight gain, beyond nutrition
01:07:22 - Ear wax testing as a reliable method for measuring long-term steroid levels
01:11:05 - Lowering estrogen prevents memory decline in menopausal females
01:12:58 - Estrogen can both cause and exacerbate Lupus
01:16:35 - Video question: liver health, ALT, choline, redox, nafld
01:27:26 - Face masks (at best) ineffective against SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 and flu
01:30:41 - "What need is there to worry about a murderous environment when doctors are industrially equipped to act as life-savers!" Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich (1976)
01:33:41 - Asthma can be caused by endotoxin (LPS)…from air filters
01:49:47 - “The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important." Abraham Maslow
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