[00:00:00] Welcome back to another episode of superhuman radio. Today is July 8th 2019. We've got the Fourth of July weekend behind us. And now it's time to get serious about our health. If you would like me We loosened up we partied a little bit we enjoyed ourselves. But now it's that point in time where at least for me.
[00:00:58] I'm going to rededicate [00:01:00] myself to this journey that is healthy aging and today's topic is of Paramount importance. In fact. When my guests reach out to me and he reached out to me and it was quite auspicious because this is something that many of you know, I've been talking about lately indirectly.
[00:01:20] Tangentially. I have given up caffeine. I just feel like we especially in the United States. I don't know if this is like this anywhere else. But in the United States, we literally live with our foot on the gas pedal and we're pretty proud of it people boast about only sleeping three or four hours a night, you know, grinding getting up and grinding it's so important to grind and work harder and outdo yourself and and so many people are developing diseases while they're grinding, you know, I say, That if you're not sleeping 7 to 9 hours a night, I don't care what how successful [00:02:00] you are.
[00:02:00] You will crash and hit the wall and you will have all sorts of conditions manifest and you will spend the rest of your life in Physicians offices trying to unwind the damage that you've done. Well part of that grinding is our. Love affair. We have with stimulants today the more stimulating the better.
[00:02:21] We have people in this audience that literally take primatene tablets because of the stimulating effect that they have they have no bronchial problems at all. They just they just want the the stimulating effects from them. We have people who use pre workouts in the morning to get started. They're not even going to the gym.
[00:02:41] They're consuming three four hundred milligrams of caffeine plus other. Catecholamine type agents that stimulate them and forget about just going to Starbucks many of you know, my addiction to a couple iced large iced Cafe americanos each one with 600 milligrams [00:03:00] of caffeine. And when I gave all the caffeine up my sleep improved.
[00:03:04] I immediately started sleeping two hours a night in deep and closer to ours in rem after about three or four days of giving up caffeine and that was enough for me to say. And of course many of the listeners came out and said Carl all the research on coffee is so good. You know, it does this and it does that and I'm like look dude, you're stepping over dollars to pick up dimes if you're drinking coffee because of the studies that you're reading.
[00:03:33] That's a coffee so good for you, but it's impairing your sleep. And my guest is talking about a subject. That isn't getting enough attention because we all live in this hyperdrive state today, and we actually think it's beneficial to us. And that is adrenaline dominance. Dr. Michael Platt. Welcome to the show.
[00:03:59] Good [00:04:00] morning. How are you? I'm good. Thanks. So. First of all, you said very correctly. Why isn't anyone paying attention to this and in your research so far and we're going to talk about your books and and the fact that they've received all sorts of literary awards. Why isn't anyone paying attention to his obvious?
[00:04:23] Five hundred pound gorilla in the room. You know, it's almost like a rabbinical question it you because rabbis have all the answer. I don't know why doctors are not aware this it, you know, one of the primary problems with our whole medical system is that doctors are not trained to treat the cause of illness, you know the train to give out Band-Aid.
[00:04:45] And and adrenaline is a primary cause of multiple illnesses that that are never talked about and I but I don't know the exact answer is we why doctors don't realize. So talk about what what issues [00:05:00] conditions seem to trace back to the hyper adrenaline situation. Well when you when you talk about issues or you talk about conditions conditions, like you said fibromyalgia traces back to it.
[00:05:13] There are 10 million people in this country with fibromyalgia, including Lady Gaga and they've all been told the same thing that there's no cure for it, but I tell patients that who do have over. Sure that if they have a chronic pain Condition, it's the best thing they can head because it's the easiest chronic pain condition to get rid of the you know at another condition is insomnia.
[00:05:38] The number one reason why people have trouble either falling asleep or staying asleep is excess adrenaline and these are the people that toss and turn they have restless leg syndrome. They grind their teeth at night keep their jaw clenched get up at night to urinate. This is all adrenaline. And then and then you know, it's no one called the effects the only cause of ADHD and nobody took [00:06:00] you there a hundred books on ADHD and nothing not one of the mentions adrenaline and it's all about adrenaline and and road rage is only caused by excess adrenaline and again problems with anxiety and very often depression and addiction.
[00:06:14] I mean you all these things are related to excess adrenaline and they're all easy to fix. Okay, so let's start from the beginning here for something but is this is really hitting on a lot of different issues that I see in my own life when I was a young boy. I wet the bed to a pretty late age.
[00:06:34] You're telling me that was because of adrenaline. So it's the only cause of it and you only see that in created five children by the way and what Craig, you know children that are creative. Oh, really? Really cuz creative people had the most. Interesting and and I was in a canoe. I was in a situation of familial situation that this is before my father stopped drinking.
[00:06:55] He stopped drinking later on but there was a lot of [00:07:00] unsteadiness in the house. Let's say and plus plus we were living in a really bad neighborhood and it was really a bad neighborhood Bed-Stuy. When I was living there. I was nervous all the time. I think I was you know, I was hyper aware, but I got so used to living in that way that I didn't notice it.
[00:07:17] So is this where is this where the hyper adrenaline situation comes from? Are we reacting to our interpretation of our circumstances and our surroundings actually the primary cause of excess adrenaline. It's all genetic and other it's if you have a lot of adrenaline that's because one or both of your parents had a lot of adrenaline.
[00:07:36] Yes, and they did I mean my parents both reacted inappropriately to small situations like literally lost their minds about things, right. And you mentioned that your father, you know got a problem with alcoholism. And again that again people get into drugs and alcohol just to relax when they have excess adrenaline [00:08:00] interesting.
[00:08:00] It's probably the number one cause of addiction and nobody talks about it. They're self-medicating in other words exactly. Okay. Okay. Now I want to back up. I actually got ahead of myself. So you've won seven different literary awards for this book and another book that you wrote as well. Correct?
[00:08:15] Well 11 all together here. Okay, talk about that real quick. So we can establish your credentials before we move forward in this in this discussion. Well be the first book I wrote was called The Miracle of bioidentical hormones the miracle of bioidentical hormones and that one got six literary awards and that book literally brought thousands of patients to my office from all over the country and all over the world came in because of that book and needless to say the the Medical Board in California.
[00:08:43] They're experts felt the ideas in the book were so dangerous. I shouldn't be practicing medicine of course, and that's because you know, the book talked about treating the cause. Illness and getting people off drugs, right? Right. In fact, I know a guy back in [00:09:00] 2004 who was in New York named. Dr.
[00:09:05] Joel Nathan who was treating men with depression by getting them on testosterone and the New York Board of medical licensure threatened to take his license away from her. This is it. This is not a new thing. We we see this constantly. Well, the medical boards are there to protect the business of medicine.
[00:09:27] They used to their main what they were formed to protect consumers, but that that went away a long time ago. They're there to protect the business of medicine including the drug company. so. Let's talk about you have some case studies when you start to talk about adrenaline dominance in the book.
[00:09:46] And a lot of these are older people I notice is it because when we were younger. We tend to be able to manage this easier and when we get older, it's just you know, we're just frazzled all the time. Well, not necessarily, you know babies that [00:10:00] have colic that's that's due to excess adrenaline real net and that could be eliminated in about three minutes just by rubbing some 5% progestin cream on the belly.
[00:10:08] It's gone. And and that what they called the terrible twos is also caused by excess adrenaline and bedwetting that can be eliminated in 24 hours with washers by lowering adrenaline. And then then you go into you know, childhood with ADHD is all about adrenaline. So, you know and and children have anger issues and temper tantrums.
[00:10:31] It's all adrenaline. So it's not it's not an adult thing. When we talk when we talk about adrenaline all we talked about epinephrine and norepinephrine are we talking about all of the adrenal hormones because the adrenals make corticosteroids they make androgens. Obviously, they make an epinephrine norepinephrine.
[00:10:49] They make Angiotensin converting. Yeah Angiotensin converting at what Angiotensin? Yeah, I mean that the adrenaline the adrenals are really a pretty [00:11:00] powerful. Set of glands sitting atop of our kidneys when we talk about adrenaline. We talking just about epinephrine norepinephrine. That's exactly what we're talking about.
[00:11:09] Okay, because no one pays attention to those. Oh DHEA. Yeah, of course, you know what to talk about that but it's like no one. I don't hear anyone talking about the actual primary adrenal hormones which are epinephrine and norepinephrine at all. Well what you hear them talking about is cortisol sometimes yes, yes.
[00:11:24] Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. You're right. You're right cortisol is the big bad Boogeyman. And cortisol has it very powerful. You know, I suffer from allergies. My allergies have actually gotten better since I stopped drinking coffee, and I think it's because my my cortisol receptors are working better and my nose doesn't get stuffed up as often and I notice I don't have the need to clear my throat as much am I crazy that coffee May exacerbate people with allergies because of the constant production of cortisol.
[00:12:00] [00:11:59] Well, I've never heard that but if it's possible, okay, certainly possible. Okay, so so getting back just to the adrenal dominance discussion. We know a lot of things. The Circadian rhythmicity of the body and one of those things that's becoming more and more popular understand is the activation of blue light wavelengths in the eye at night when typically blue light would be going away and red light would become more dominant in the sky does does that.
[00:12:40] Artificial light from the TV and all those things is the reason that we don't sleep as well when we try to go right to sleep after watching TV because the adrenals are saying oh, it's still daytime. I have to produce more epinephrine norepinephrine. Well, it's actually not related to that the it's actually [00:13:00] as a simpler reason.
[00:13:02] Okay, you know, you know people hear about adrenaline and they think fight or flight hormone. And it's true when people are in danger. The body does release a lot of adrenaline and there's no question about that. But that's not the primary function of adrenaline. The primary function of adrenaline is to ensure to make sure that the brain has enough fuel and so anytime the body detects that the brain is running out of fuel more specifically glucose the body releases adrenaline to raise glucose levels for the brain and so.
[00:13:35] And the brand and the Brain runs out of fuel in about three or four hours so you can see that adrenaline could be the actually released throughout the day, but especially at night adrenaline Peaks at 2:30 in the morning when the brain is really devoid of fuel and a lot of people get up at that time to urinate because your adrenaline gives people that urge to urinate even during the day, [00:14:00] you know when people.
[00:14:01] A lot of people when they have to go they have to go and that's adrenaline. So, yeah, so and then when the body releases adrenaline, it creates stress and you wake up and you and you wake up. So yeah. So how does how does help so how does someone who has the correct adrenal sensitivity not wake up?
[00:14:25] When the body says we need to produce more blood glucose for the brain because obviously you're saying that this happens as a normal condition. Physiological condition that the body is producing some low levels of adrenaline at night to keep the brain fed while we are fasting but not everybody wakes up some people do and some people don't am I correct about that?
[00:14:52] Well, there's some other things involved for example, the person's level of progesterone will because progesterone actually blocks adrenaline [00:15:00] and it all depends on how people eat during the day. You know in terms of providing fuel so there's some some different parameters involved but the primary parameter involved with excess adrenaline is as again the body of release of it just to raise sugar levels for the brain, you know, it's funny because I remember reading a study probably over a decade ago that Associated so so as women start to go through menopause.
[00:15:32] Even in perimenopause they start to not be able to handle stuff as well. Like they'll even say things like God things like this used to just roll off my back and now a frazzles me and the study promoted the idea that it was actually estradiol that seemed to put the brakes on the adrenals from from from overreacting to.
[00:15:57] Stressful situations that kicked that kicked a [00:16:00] fight-or-flight mechanism in too soon, but you're saying it's progesterone. Well that suggestion is a feel-good hormone, right and and most most doctors. Most people think that progestin is a woman's hormones. They don't realize that men and women have the identical hormones different levels, but exactly the same hormones.
[00:16:21] And then stop making progestin right around the age of 50 and it's after the age of 50 that Men start putting on weight around the middle because progesterone is the home of that actually blocks insulin and insulin is the home of the put some fat around the middle and Men start getting prostate cancer and after the age of 50 because again progestin blocks, estrogen and prevents prostate cancer.
[00:16:45] So and it's the primary hormone that also blocks adrenaline so, Justin is an incredibly important hormone that nobody ever talks about. I talked about it on my show and I'll tell you why no, no I do I do you you'd like to [00:17:00] show a few would be if you've caught some of the episodes you actually enjoy it.
[00:17:03] So when I first started HRT and 2007, you know, the first two years I was like this stuff is the best. I felt like somebody turned the lights back on in my life about two years into it. I noticed that I didn't feel as good. I started to shed hair and that's when I discovered HCG. And I started doing a very very low dose of HCG daily a hundred IU's a day and I eventually evolve to doing it at bedtime because I found that I slept better now makes more sense to me because I know that HCG promotes luteinizing hormone production, which is associated with with faster onset of sleep less sleep latency, but now what you're talking about with progesterone production because HCG also prompts men to make more progesterone.
[00:17:50] Which also reduces 5-alpha reductase which keeps guys hair from shedding and keeps them from growing hair in their ears and their nostrils in there [00:18:00] and places they never had hair because of the increased DHT conversion as you stay on HRT longer and these other hormones start to also. Get produced less and less along with your own testosterone.
[00:18:14] So I started using HCG. I took off for a while and I started using it again and I've been using it for the past year again, but when I use HCG, I notice I don't shed. I sleep better. I take a hundred I used before bed. So the progesterone it produces must be having some effect on me as a result of that.
[00:18:33] Well, you may find that if you use progesterone directly, you might sleep better. Oral project. So I did I did experiment with oral progesterone 50 milligrams and it made me groggy. Well, that's a side effect and the oral progesterone is not the same thing as progesterone cream right because of convert higher to a low progesterone to deliver, right?
[00:18:56] Yes, LOL pregnant alone again alone. I'm sorry, right? [00:19:00] Yeah, so that's why so I should use progesterone cream. In fact, I've been talking about on this show. If you look at the progesterone molecule and you look at finasteride, they're almost identical and I've been promoting on the show for years that if your hair starts thinning just get a 5% progesterone cream and just rub it on your scalp and give it about six months in hair starts sprouting and I've gotten emails from listeners who said it actually works I said, of course it works because progesterone suppressants.
[00:19:26] 5,000 reductase and project and reduces the production of DHT in the scalp. Well, you're right. It's also an aromatase inhibitor. Ah, interesting. I didn't know that. Well, that's why it's good for preventing prostate cancer. The but you know the other thing that can cause hair thinning, you know how some people get cold hands and cold feet Yes.
[00:19:52] Okay. It's always blamed on low thyroid, but it's actually called by adrenaline adrenaline constricts blood vessels. [00:20:00] So so adrenaline can also cause a cold nose. It can actually cause glaucoma. By constricting blood vessels in the eye big it can also constrict blood vessels on the scalp and and 2/3 of went and if there's a study that shows that two-thirds of all men with male pattern baldness have reduced blood flow to the scalp.
[00:20:22] Interesting. I haven't heard that said it was yes. In fact, that's why there's all these new LED lights that people are putting on their heads. So it to connect some dots and then we're going to take a break because I want to talk about peripheral neuropathy when we come back. So, okay. So my dad had peripheral neuropathy back in 2002, and I found the patent for a company called Anodyne research in the Pacific North East that made an 890 nanometer LED.
[00:20:50] Light pads that they were using for wound healing and they were using it with diabetic neuropathy and they call the diabetic neuropathy back. Then now we know it's not diabetic neuropathy people who don't have [00:21:00] diabetes again in neuropathy. But anyway, so. I made him these pads that he could sit and watch television and keep them on bottoms of his feet and on his hands and it really did make his neuropathy go away.
[00:21:12] And the way it works is that 882 890 nanometer LEDs will liberate some very powerful forms of nitric oxide of Venus vascular nitric oxide which dilates blood vessels and by dilate that dilating blood vessels you bring blood. Back to the nerves and the hyperalgesia / paresthesia kind of goes away over time and someone discovered this and now they using it on guys scalps because it'll help your hair regrow after a while.
[00:21:45] So there's the connection there to the blood flow. Well, whatever works. Yeah. Yeah, I mean but I mean this is just so so I want to I want to take a break when we come back. I want to talk about something else because right now we have a population of people who [00:22:00] is suffering from peripheral neuropathy.
[00:22:01] And I believe that these also abusers of caffeine high coffee. I want to talk about coffee. I want to feel about caffeine. I want to talk about adrenaline dominance and and neuropathies to plug your book. Where can people find your book address adrenaline down. It's well, they can get either find it on Amazon or they can find it on my website which is www.hyken.com.
[00:22:25] Pla TT plat. Wellness.com. Okay or Amazon? Okay. Alright and we're going to talk about diet to a little bit later in the show. Stay tuned. You're listening to superhuman radio bright back. Hey, you've heard me talk about Roan.com before rom.com is the place where smart guys go to buy their clothes.
[00:22:44] Why? Because they have premium performance lifestyle Brands like the commuter line, which I love you know, you work so hard in the gym to build muscle and then you put a shirt on and can't tell right. You want your clothes to fit you? [00:23:00] Well enough where you actually look like somebody who puts time in a gym.
[00:23:05] And that's what Roan does with their commuter line. You have to check it out. Fantastic clothes. They fit. Well, the website is so easy to get on and off guys love that right guys don't want to browse. We want to go in and get a pair of underwear some shorts a couple pair of slacks, maybe a shirt or two and get out and we're talking about very very easy to navigate.
[00:23:29] My audience gets a special discount. If you go to Roan.com /sh are today and use the promo code. Shr. You'll get 20% off your first purchase and that's not a small amount their clothes a fantastic. It's rho n e.com shr promo code shr for 20% off you'll love this stuff. I love this stuff and I look good wearing.
[00:23:55] That's the important thing. You know what I'm talking about we're talking with. Dr. [00:24:00] Michael Platt today about his book adrenal dominance. I'm getting some feedback here. I don't know why maybe they'll go away there it goes. He went anyway a dr. Platt. Let's get back on the the discussion about micro vasculature and the effects of constant bath of adrenaline.
[00:24:20] We see this a lot in today's society don't. Yes, you do. Actually, you know, when you consider the number of children that have ADHD and we're talking about millions and millions of children. This is all adrenaline. So it's a very prevalent condition. But like I say it's not not talked about but the you know when you when you mention peripheral neuropathy.
[00:24:46] The number, you know from my standpoint the number one cause of peripheral neuropathy is excess adrenaline and again because it cuts all you know, it constricts blood vessels and cuts off blood supply to the nerves and feet and [00:25:00] and it's interesting what you're saying about, you know that special.
[00:25:05] Device that you mentioned that that helps. Yeah, the LED also, you know because the blocks adrenaline. So let's talk about this for a second. I was excessively abusing caffeine for many years. And we're talking about upwards of 1,500 milligrams or more a day. And that was a combination of coffee products as well as caffeine anhydrous or energy shots or any combination of all three and I would notice something around three o'clock in the afternoon.
[00:25:43] My my fingers would get all splotchy and almost look like Renaud syndrome like the the blood flow to my fingers started to go away and my fingernails would turn whitish. And I [00:26:00] also started to develop clubbing of the fingernails and there was no reason for this because it wasn't I wasn't suffering from sleep apnea or something like that and I started to think to myself, you know, this is something different.
[00:26:13] I think that my boot my blood. The the the the blood to my fingers is being shut down throughout the day because of some reason the blood vessels are constricting and and to prove the point when I got my order ring so ordering measures your heartbeat by not using venous blood but by using capillary blood.
[00:26:42] And as a result of that my or ring wouldn't read my heartbeat and it's because those small blood vessels were probably so constricted. It couldn't see the blood pulsing through them any longer and that is one at that was that was the the straw that's when I said, I know this [00:27:00] is from caffeine.
[00:27:01] Because if I have my big dose of caffeine in the morning by 3 o'clock, I sought to experience this and I'm suffering from not numbness, but it feels like there's wax paper on my fingertips, you know that the the sensitivity on my fingertips isn't what it used to be and I do have peripheral neuropathy in the lower legs.
[00:27:22] And so I'm hoping that by giving up caffeine that's one thing but now I'm thinking I'm going to get progesterone cream assault run it rubbing it on my legs. Do you think there's a way to reverse? The I just wanted to clarify something it the reason why this happened at 3 p.m. In the afternoon. Is that between 3:00 and 4:00 in the afternoon is when your insulin levels are the highest so when insulin goes up blood sugar is going to drop and with you when you have that low sugar the body puts out more adrenaline and with it was the release of adrenaline that constricted the blood vessels in your.
[00:27:57] So but the [00:28:00] thing about caffeine, you know caffeine is a stimulant and and and and so is adrenaline so people who do have a lot of adrenaline to begin with do not do not tolerate stimulants as much but you know, once you control adrenaline, then caffeine should not be a problem here. Hey, just maybe not in the excessive amounts that you used.
[00:28:24] I don't think I needed anyway, it's be honest. Okay, that's why I'm done with it. I really don't need it. It's one of those things that you know II feel just as good at the gym when I don't use caffeine. In fact, I get washed out faster if I have used caffeine. I feel like I can't train as long my heart rate is always faster, which makes me even more nervous because I'm 61 years old now.
[00:28:46] It's like I don't want to stroke so I can do without caffeine but now. This discussion about adrenaline dominance comes into, you know front and center for me and I'm thinking okay, what are the things I can start to do to reduce [00:29:00] adrenaline and and I want to start talking about that too. You know, if I if I am suffering from adrenaline dominance, how long does it take if I do all the right things for this to subside?
[00:29:15] And what will I notice? Okay. Well, it looks as though he had to apologize for the just to give you an idea, you know people that have road rage, you know, and that's only caused by excess adrenaline that could be eliminated in 24 hours. I mean, that's how quickly you can reduce adrenaline and like I mentioned, you know bedwetting and children you can get rid of in 24 hours ADHD and get rid of in 24 hours.
[00:29:44] So. As soon as you start lowering adrenaline, the first thing you'll notice is that you're going to feel a lot more relaxed and you'll be able to focus better. You know when people have a lot of adrenaline it makes the my go very quickly. So it's hard for them to focus unless they're very [00:30:00] interested in the subject.
[00:30:01] You know, that's the whole thing about ADHD. You know, ADHD is not a learning disorder. It's an interest to sorter. You know people they th see if they're interested they can focus if they're not interested will not focus and but the most intelligent successful creative people the rooms have ADHD, so 80s is not a bad thing to have and you know, and if you could control it obviously you can't well enough but it's very easy to control without medication.
[00:30:26] I got these trucks are toxic, you know hundreds of children have been have died from from these, you know, drugs like Adderall and Ritalin they cause strokes and. And heart attacks, right because what they're doing they're treating these children with adrenaline when they already have a lot of adrenaline and and the excess adrenaline just numbs the mind that's why they use it but children hate these drugs.
[00:30:51] So so how so you know, there's another thing that I wanted to throw in here about maybe eight years ago. I did a an interview with the scientist who published a [00:31:00] study about a new type of heart failure that they discovered. Okay, and this was a. This was a type of heart failure that when adrenaline when epinephrine and norepinephrine Maja, I all the time the they affect the impulse of the heart to beat they actually affect, you know, the the heartbeat they tell the heart to beat and as a result of that people who are constantly in a flight or fight mode.
[00:31:29] they're the sensitivity to. Starts to become less and less and as a result of that they start to undergo some changes in. Cardiac tissue where the heart doesn't want to beat it doesn't it doesn't it doesn't react to the adrenaline that's flowing it wants more and more but they can't produce more and more and it's a it was actually a type of heart failure.
[00:31:56] We talked about 8 years ago on the show was so fascinating to me. [00:32:00] That's something that we take for granted, you know, like adrenaline and that was when all the whole discussion about. Adrenal fatigue, which I have never been a proponent of adrenal fatigue. I don't believe it exists. I do believe that you can become desensitized to your own adrenaline.
[00:32:17] And I also believe that the adrenals can become dysregulated where they're producing too much at the wrong times of day, but I've no there's no example except in. What is it Cushing's or Addison's disease where it's Frank failure of the adrenal glands is no example of adrenal fatigue and my wrong about that.
[00:32:36] You're absolutely correct. Adrenal fatigue is really a naturopath diagnosis. And and the reason why they diagnosed it is because they just would have called saliva test rather than blood test or urine say they do saliva test. And the problem is is that adrenaline which is a survival hormone. It cuts off blood supply to certain areas of the body that are not needed for [00:33:00] survival and one of these areas that it cuts off blood supply to other salivary.
[00:33:04] You know, that's why people have chronic anxiety very often have very dry mounts because they're not making saliva because the blood supply to the salivary glands is cut off but as a result when they do a hormone study on saliva, they get a low cortisol level because the hormones don't get into the saliva and based on the low cortisol cortisol level in the saliva.
[00:33:25] They diagnose adrenal fatigue. If they did a blood test, they would find that the cortisol levels actually High and. Actually, right it's a complete misnomer adrenal fatigue does not exist. They're drilling fatigue is really adrenaline dominance interesting. And the problem is that they very often treated with cortisol and and cortisone.
[00:33:48] As you know is not a happy hormone, you know creates that causes brain damage causes osteoporosis. So and and when people have a lot of adrenaline they also have a lot of quarters. [00:34:00] Interesting. So what role does does type 2 diabetes play in this discussion is it does it promote adrenaline dominance it or is it actually a byproduct of adrenaline dominant since we just discussed about how insulin and adrenaline seem to have this this this relationship.
[00:34:21] Well, you've given those two choices I would say was a byproduct you've heard people that are called pre-diabetic. Yes. Okay, and the reason they come up with that diagnosis because they do blood test called the hemoglobin A1c. And the hemoglobin A1c. This is a test that determines how much sugar are in red blood cells and red blood cells live for about three months.
[00:34:44] So it sort of gives a picture of the blood blood sugar levels over the last three months. So when it's elevated, you know, they tell people that they're pre-diabetic but the number one cost of an elevator. Hemoglobin A1c is adrenaline and because you know not [00:35:00] only do they have a lot of adrenaline that keeps on Races your clothes but cortisol also raise your sugar levels, so they have two hormones that keep on racing sugar levels.
[00:35:08] And so 99% of people that are told are pre-diabetic are not pre-diabetic. They just have too much adrenaline interesting. I I'm getting a message from somebody on Facebook. So his wife. Has to pee lat a joke with her and say that she has a tiny bladder. She's also a type A type person she tends to be not anxious but easily worried she worries a lot and so on and so forth.
[00:35:39] She does have some sleep issues Is frequent urination. A sign of like like I'm talking about your bladder is not full. It's not like you feel your bladder full just frequent urination because that's what happened when we used to play Ring a levy on hide-and-seek. If I was hiding. I always had a p because I was nervous.
[00:35:56] You know what I mean? Is that is that a sign of adrenaline [00:36:00] dominance if someone has to peel. Absolutely, you know clean adrenaline gives people that urge to urinate on television. They refer to it as an overactive bladder. So it's not if she doesn't have a small bladder. She just has too much adrenaline which keeps on giving her that urge to urinate and a lot of women when they run to the bathroom, you know, trying to get to a toilet they get urine leakage and that's called stress stress incontinence blow.
[00:36:24] It's called urgency incontinence. Right because the clock was the closest and it's funny. They could be blocks away. But the closer they get to their home. They have to pee worse and worse and worse. Right? Right. And and the problem is that there are a lot of doctors now that are treating women with this kind of situation with botox injections in the bladder and what they're not telling these women is that for the next three months they're going to have to self-catheterize themselves every time they have to urinate that's horrible.
[00:36:51] But you know, but you can actually reduce adrenaline in 24 hours and get rid of that urgency. Now there's another condition which you may have heard of called chronic [00:37:00] Interstitial cystitis, and you know in my in my book adrenaline dominance, you know, I talked about all the different conditions and and.
[00:37:09] And I and I put into what's called The Good the Bad and the Ugly category chronic and social cystitis is in the ugly category. These are women that have pain in the bladder 24 hours a day and severe burning when they urinate. And again, it's another condition felt to be incurable. But again, it's a very simple easy condition to get rid of your seed only takes two weeks to get rid of this and it's all caused by adrenaline.
[00:37:33] And I call it fibromyalgia the bladder and and the reason for that is that when people have a lot of adrenaline they always had that urge to urinate but a lot of women can't run to the bathroom every 20 or 30 minutes. So they keep the bladder muscle tense and a buildup of lactic acid in the bladder muscle and that caused the pain and again it just a matter of luring adrenaline to get rid of this condition.
[00:37:56] That's very very interesting. I want to take a quick commercial [00:38:00] break and when we come back I want to start to talk about. What people can start doing I know that the dietary interventions and it sounds to me like progesterone cream can play a role. So let's do that. Let's when we come back. Let's talk about the different types of things that people can do stay tuned.
[00:38:14] Welcome back were talking with. Dr. Michael Platt. His book is called adrenaline dominant. She can get an Amazon.com or a plat Wellness pla TT wellness.com. This book is not only good for individuals, but for clinicians to because too many doctors. Are treating patients. With drugs for things like peripheral neuropathy.
[00:38:36] They give you they give you horrible horrible horrible anti-seizure drugs. I mean Gabapentin is horrible. It's an anti-seizure drug that gives people seizures and that's the first thing they want to give you when you complain about. Peripheral neuropathy and it doesn't make your neuropathy go away.
[00:38:55] It just makes you feel so miserable that your neuropathy is the least of your problems. [00:39:00] I know it's you know, I have that old joke that I tell people. You know, if your hand hurts I can get rid of it. I'll have to stop on the InStep of your foot now then your foot hurts. So bad you forgot your hand hurts.
[00:39:12] And that's how a lot of these drugs actually work, you know by by distracting you so okay. So you keep saying that you could drop your adrenaline within 24 hours. How do you do that with a Valium? Well, you know what it all comes down to remember. I mentioned at the beginning that doctors are not trained to treat the cause of illness.
[00:39:34] You know, they just trying to give out Band-Aids. So when it comes to excess adrenaline again, you need to treat the reason why the body is releasing it and as I mentioned, you know, the reason you there's only two reasons why the body puts out adrenaline, you know one is if you're in danger. You know, it's the body pours out adrenaline and that but that's a very rare instance the primary reason why the body releases adrenaline is just to raise sugar [00:40:00] levels for the brain.
[00:40:01] So armed with that knowledge what that tells you is that if you provide the right fuel to the brain, the body doesn't have to use adrenaline to do it. So again the brain. Uses two fuels to there are two fuels that the brain uses one is glucose and the other fuel which is possibly even more important are ketones, right?
[00:40:24] And the so the primary the best source of glucose for the brain. I wish I could say candy and soda but our vegetables and the reason why vegetables are really good source is that they're low glycemic what that means is they don't stimulate the release of a lot of insulin candy and soda. Produced lots of insulin so you actually get a lowering your sugar and never reaches the brain but the but green vegetables are like zero glycemic.
[00:40:54] They don't produce any insulin at all. So so vegetables are a great source of glucose for the [00:41:00] brain and then in terms of ketones. You know people hear about the ketogenic diet, which I don't recommend because it's a very tough diet to do right A lot of people have a hard time complying with it. But you know you can you can produce like I produce ketones just by fasting for 16 hours.
[00:41:18] Why don't I have my last meal at 6 p.m. And I generally don't have my first meal until after I train like I did today and when I check my blood sugar and Ketone levels in the morning. My blood sugar is almost always between 60 and 70 and I'm usually producing one millimole of ketones by then. So if you're if you're metabolically flexible, I'm now obviously somebody who's type 2 diabetic isn't going to maybe do this, but somebody who's been using.
[00:41:43] Either time restricted feeding or if they like to call it intermittent fasting. I like to call it a more ancestral meal frequency, you know, you are producing ketones in the morning after you wake up and many many cases and then you can [00:42:00] eat in such a way by not consuming high glycemic carbohydrates.
[00:42:06] You can continue to produce ketones throughout the day maybe not the two and three millimoles that people like to brag about in the Keynote. Die but surely enough to feed the brain, right? Well, yeah, but but the prayer a little bit more simple way for getting ketones. It's just add coconut oil and MCT oil into your meal plan.
[00:42:28] MCT oil is a medium chain triglyceride oil available in health food stores and off the internet and they're better source of ketones than coconut oil has to convert into MCT oil which then converts into ketones.
[00:42:46] Are you a fan? Are you a fan of Ketone salts and BHB products? Well? I'm a fan of anything that actually raises Ketone levels. So [00:43:00] I'd like simple I like easy, you know and that they'll be fine to BHP things are fine. But the you know coconut oil is better for cooking. Because it has a very high heat threshold, right and then MC 2 L is better for adding to foods that you can you don't drink coffee, but you decaf coffee, but you know, there's a thing called Bulletproof Coffee.
[00:43:25] But you can add you know, you can and you can just I've done you know, a couple tablespoons of MCT oil. I've got a huge bottle from a very reliable source metagenic sex is a supplement company with very very high standards and I actually have metagenic and they have the high seven. I think a nine.
[00:43:47] MCT oil because we know that the seven and nine forms are the ones that convert very quickly to ketones. So, I mean, I I've just taken a couple tablespoons here and there [00:44:00] just when I wanted to so it doesn't have to be in coffee obviously and just too. So it sort of emphasize the importance of this people may have heard that coconut oil can actually cure people with Alzheimer's and if you've heard that yeah, dr.
[00:44:16] Del bredesen has been on my show a few times we talked about how ketones are become the choice fuel for the Alzheimer brain because the Alzheimer brain tends to be insulin resistant and so blood sugar doesn't make it into the cells but ketones do. Right, you're absolutely right. They call that type 3 diabetes.
[00:44:36] Yeah, I know and I told you that I was the first person to coined that term almost 14 years ago you would you would say oh come on, but I was my audience my audience will tell you I I actually sat across from a neurologist at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse one night. Okay and told him that we've now discovered that Alzheimer's and maybe even [00:45:00] Parkinson's.
[00:45:01] Is the result of insulin resistance of the brain and I said and I refer to I says it's kind of like type 3 diabetes and he looked at me and he dismissed me and he said it's not that simple and that was probably 12 years ago. He was wrong, you know, he was that he was so wrong. It was unbelievable at but I mean it's like he was pompous.
[00:45:22] He's part of the medical off the docks. He's like, how could you know anything? I don't know I listened I was in I was in Illinois. And we have a relative who is is a very prestigious professor at at Champaign, Illinois University of Illinois in Champaign, and she is a geneticist who works with pigs and I told her that the brain produces its own insulin.
[00:45:47] She said nonsense and I found two studies that prove that you know, it's this information is out there. You just have to be reading that's all just just open up your brain and read a little bit you'll find this stuff. So anyway, Well [00:46:00] memory you're very creative person. And creative people are very intuitive about people and other things this is why you have premonitions and Deja Vu type feeling and you probably have noticed it Anna.
[00:46:13] Yeah my whole life show animals and small children would be very attracted to you by the way. Yeah. Yeah, and that's true. That is true. So let's so obviously shifting to a low-carbohydrate diet including things that readily produce ketones. It sounds to me like. That taking coconut oil or MCT oil at night for people who have poor sleep may be a smart thing to do because if they have elevated ketones at night, they are more likely not to wake up.
[00:46:46] You're absolutely right. You're absolutely right. So you promote that how so how do we use? I'm really intrigued by progesterone cream. So could I use progesterone cream on my hands to re-establish [00:47:00] the small vasculature in my hands to open back up you actually well you just buy fake just lowering adrenaline will increase your vasculature, but you yeah progestin criminal hands is fine.
[00:47:14] Yes, my favorite hormone progesterone. But when it comes to Progesterone, you have to use the right strength and the and so 5% progesterone cream was the eggs, which me five percent means 50 milligrams per pump. Right? So 50 milligrams is the exact strength. You need to block adrenaline and it's also the best strength to block insulin as well as estrogen.
[00:47:38] So, you know, what's interesting is that. Jasmine actually blocks the three most toxic hormones in the body. That's why it's such an incredibly important hormone. Which of the three most toxic hormones in the body. I'm thinking you're going to say Estrin is one of them, but go ahead. Well, well it gets well estrogen in general is the toxic hormone and insulin and.
[00:48:00] [00:48:00] Okay. So what you're saying is if these these Elevate two points where you are now estrogen dominant or and in this case diabetic that they become toxic, but they are not toxic at normal levels when they're doing their job. Okay? Okay. So so where would someone put the estrogen of the progesterone cream if they're looking for to block the effects of of adrenaline on the whole body?
[00:48:28] Okay, baby, you should the best place to apply it as on the forearm. And the reason for that is that on the uniform the skin is very thin and. And that's a good blood supply long before I'm so so you put a pump and one of the forums and then you rub the two forms together. So you have more of a surface area like a fly.
[00:48:49] Yeah, you look like. Yeah exactly. Now the other place that's usually a very good place to put in people with excess adrenaline always always carry tension in the back of [00:49:00] their neck and and and this neck tension very often leads to tinnitus. Because I have I have I have tinnitus lucky have a lot of adrenaline.
[00:49:12] So so if you were to apply progesterone cream to the back of your neck, you would get rid of your tinnitus that would there be gone and you know, while we're talking about the neck, you know, the neck is probably the most common place where headaches come from and so when people have a lot of tension in the back of the neck, they very often get headaches and you know, you hear about people that complain about migraine headache.
[00:49:36] Well. To my way of thinking there's another type of headache that also causes excruciating headaches. That's probably even more common than migraine headaches, but are always mistaken for migraine headaches and is called occipital neuritis, and it comes from the occipital nerve shape which sits at the base of the skull and very often the pain.
[00:49:58] She was right into the back of the eye can [00:50:00] cause excruciating headaches. And and like I say always mistaken for migraines, but once you start applying progesterone cream to the back of the neck, these headaches are gone their history interestingly enough back in the 20s. They referred to migraines as hypoglycemic headaches.
[00:50:19] They understood that there was a there was a blood sugar. And now we have brilliant people had Elena. I can't think of her last name now. She's been on my show of couple times out of dr. Dominic D'Agostino's lab and the University of Southern Florida. They are using. Ketone salts and Ketone Esters to blunt the onset of if you know people who have migraines they usually get a warning sign, right.
[00:50:50] They either get a Halo that they see or they get they get tingling on the back of their neck or they get a sensation and then they go. Oh, I'm going to get one and then they usually get one [00:51:00] pretty shortly thereafter if they take if they take Ketone Esters when they get. Warning sign they that the migraine either doesn't even come on or it comes on so subtly and it goes right away.
[00:51:14] And so this feeds back around to come full circle into your discussion about the brain and blood sugar and and progesterone and ketones. So, you know, it's really interesting. If we start to connect these dots from the 10,000, you know, 30,000 foot view. We see how this is all working together and they don't call them.
[00:51:35] Headaches anymore, even though they're still cause people. Look I had a an optical migraine one day. I was fasted for 48 hours and I went into a hundred eighty degrees on. And I sat in there probably too long and when I came out my heart was pounding and my blood sugar clearly was dropping because I started to feel a little [00:52:00] woozy.
[00:52:00] I sat down and all of a sudden I started to notice that I saw all these waves in the periphery of my vision, and I couldn't see clearly. I can only see through the small sections of my eye. And I waited for a little while and then I made my way out to my car and I had my post-workout drinking there and I drank it and within a couple minutes it went away and I thought son of a gun my blood my brain ran out of blood sugar.
[00:52:23] And actually then yeah what happened? That's exactly what happened. I got this Optical migraine. So migraines go hand-in-hand with blood sugar management and and metabolic flexibility hand and hurt. Yeah. Well remember when you have that low blood sugar the body was going to be pouring out adrenaline, but you see my body my body couldn't.
[00:52:40] The I had I had sat in that sauna for so long that I was literally wiped out if you remember the palpitations you had with that's adrenaline. Yes. Yes all yeah. You're right. You're right. You're right. Yes. Thank you. Yeah, my heart started pounding. It felt like it was pounding in my chest. Well, remember you had no fuel in the [00:53:00] brain, you know, right what did hours without fuel that you're living on adrenaline, right?
[00:53:04] Right, so that leads me to this next question. So everybody is into intimate and fasting and long-term fasting. Is this a good thing? I mean, we all talked about it. It's benefits in metabolic flexibility. What does it do to the adrenaline landscape when you fast for long periods of time? Well, if you know this fasting and his fasting we you know, well what did talk about now with a ketogenic diets?
[00:53:27] I mean, this is the same thing as Adkins and Stillman back in the seventies, whatever. The the intermittent fasting would be okay as long as you are in ketosis, you know, but you know, it doesn't cut any slack, you know, the slightest amount of the wrong food and you can put out insulin that can sit you know, that'll sit there for seven days.
[00:53:50] You know, I remember had a patient that had one cup of pea soup and when out of ketosis for seven days. [00:54:00] So like I say it's a it's not an easy. But if you can if you can maintain it and you have the discipline and that's fine as long as you're in ketosis because you need the fuel for the brain, right?
[00:54:13] Interesting, very very interesting. I want to take a last commercial break and when we come back, we'll wrap up the discussion we're talking with. Dr. Michael Platt. His book is adrenaline dominance. You can get it on Amazon or go to Plat pla TT. Wellness.com stay tuned. We'll be right back.
[00:54:27] Welcome back. So, dr. Platt, what what does melatonin do in the in the way of adrenaline production? Doesn't it? Kind of blunt it at night? That's an interesting question. I get a melatonin is an extremely important hormone and and again right around the age of 50. We stopped producing it the. You don't have it.
[00:54:57] It not only helps people [00:55:00] sleep but also it increases natural killer cells to help the body fight cancer. It's good for us. You know, you could for bones are good for osteoporosis. It's good for a lot of different things, but it does have some effect. I think I'm part of the brain that that affects emotions, so it probably does have some interrelationship with adrenaline.
[00:55:20] We got because I know that it shuts off DHEA production, which is another primary adrenal hormone and they are reciprocals of each other. If you take DHEA late at night, you won't sleep as well. If you're young and still producing melatonin because your body won't produce it as readily and so I've been taking melatonin for close to 20 years now.
[00:55:47] And I've interviewed. Dr. Russell Rider from the University of Dallas, Texas and Dallas was maybe he's in San Antonio who is called The Godfather of the pineal gland. He's authored over [00:56:00] 800 studies on the primary hormone of the pineal gland which is melatonin and at the end he still alive. I think he's retired now, but he was still teaching into his 80s and.
[00:56:14] He and he was taking 60 milligrams a night of sublingual melatonin. The last time I interviewed him which was about two years ago. And so I've been taking melatonin for 20 years now, not a lot. I take 9 milligrams a night at and I can tell the difference in my the quality of my sleep. But I feel like I read I know that it it shuts off DHEA.
[00:56:38] I have to think that it has other you know, since the adrenal glands tend to be the daytime. The locomotive period you know when we're up and around and doing things and the pineal gland seems to produce nighttime hormones. Okay, II kind of feel like maybe they are they kind of work hand-in-hand but they just work different shifts.
[00:57:00] [00:57:00] Well memory adrenaline Peaks at 2:30 in the morning. So he's real plans are working at night also. If you're if you're more insulin sensitive. Does it does it make sense that they just don't have to work as hard they just don't have to pump out because isn't didn't you and I talk offline. That the problem is not that the adrenal glands don't produce adrenaline.
[00:57:22] It's that the body becomes desensitized. It's kind of like the same model of insulin resistance, but we're talking about adrenaline resistance. So if you're metabolically flexible, you eat a low carb diet you tend to have a low stress lifestyle. You're getting good quality sleep does it make sense that the adrenals don't have to put out as much for the for the brain to be happy.
[00:57:47] Well, what makes sense is that the you can certainly control adrenaline by how by the nutrients that you provide the brain? So if people are like vegetarians, you know that they may have less of a [00:58:00] problem because you know, they have a constant inflow of glucose, but you know what one thing that we didn't really mention, you know, a lot of people are concerned about way.
[00:58:15] And I just want to bring to your listeners, please please, you know, you have people that died in it. Are you there sir? You dropped out. The last thing I heard was you have people who died in exercise. I'll just edit. I'll just edit the music out. We'll just that so the last thing we heard you say was you have people who diet and exercise obviously for weight management and you were about to throw in the discussion about adrenaline.
[00:58:45] Maybe you know a lot of people put out adrenaline tonight. And and the reason why the bodies put out a drone is to raise sugar levels and the thing about sugar it doesn't matter whether or not whether you're eating sugar what the body is producing [00:59:00] sugar. If you don't burn up the sugar in the body stores all that extra sugar in your fat cells, but it gets worse because when the body releases adrenaline, it creates stress to the body.
[00:59:10] And in response the body puts out cortisol to deal with the stress. And the first thing cortisol. Does it also raises sugar levels through a different process. So while people are sleeping or trying to sleep they're putting a two hormones of right sugar levels and we should getting stored as fat.
[00:59:26] It's probably the number one cause of weight gain and nobody ever talks about it. Wow, that's great. The. And you know, you've heard the term ADHD, but they also have another term called add and these are kids that have trouble focusing but they're not hyperactive. Right? And these kids always have a weight problem because they're putting out all this adrenaline, but they're not burning up the sugar from the adrenaline like kids with ADHD that are hyperactive and so get so creative people very often have a problem [01:00:00] with weight.
[01:00:01] At least they have. I called what I call mixed type 88 she was a combination of ADHD and add and these people that have that combination of the most successful people in the world. The heads of every major corporation probably have two different types of ADHD and very few of them if any ever finish college and yet they're the heads of Corporations interest.
[01:00:28] Adrenaline is an interesting hormones. Well, it makes us that when we talk about type A people which are about people who tend to be running on adrenaline or off. Yeah, that's what we are. And so what about meditation does meditation have the ability to kind of shift the person's propensity to produce adrenaline if they meditate long-term.
[01:00:51] Well, well, you know, there are certain things that people can do to sort of. Help control adrenaline, you know meditation is one taking deep breaths is another [01:01:00] but you know to me these are Band-Aids, you know, because they don't care anything they just they help alleviate. It's like certain drugs, you know, you can take that can help alleviate, but they don't cure anything.
[01:01:13] So to me the best way of dealing with excess adrenaline is to prevent it from occurring in the first place and you do that by just providing the right fuel to the brain. And using progestin crank to block adrenaline oxytocin. What about oxytocin? I know, you know becoming more and more popular within the prescribing HRT divisions.
[01:01:34] So yeah. Well oxytocin affect certain areas of the brain is no question. But again to me it would be a Band-Aid because it's really not directly affecting adrenaline, but it's helping alleviate certain symptoms. But some but some of this audience would say but but but putting progesterone cream on as a Band-Aid to is so I realized [01:02:00] that because we are ancient creatures living in modernity today and we have been ill-equipped to function in that and the roles of life that we know.
[01:02:12] It's true. I mean, I've had nothing Daniel even we right. Yeah, I mean when we look at Evolution, I mean. We were never designed for any of this me sitting behind a microphone for 4 hours a day. Like that's I'm supposed to be out walking and looking for stuff and so because we are cursed by the trappings of modernity.
[01:02:31] Is there a way for us to raise progesterone levels naturally without turning to creams or is it that no because we weren't we don't belong where we are. So we have to use you know, exogenous things to correct. Well, I think we're in that and I think you're right. We have to use exhaustion of things.
[01:02:49] I don't know of anything that that really elevates progesterone levels the you know, but one thing that you could do to help yourself to fit for me [01:03:00] is to stand. And talk in the microphone. How are you? I stand up. Well, I can't stand and talk on the microphone right now. But in during the commercial breaks I get up and I walk down the hall and I do push-ups so and I don't know that I don't know that that's actually alleviating adrenaline because I obviously do try to do 25 push-ups very quickly and then get back in my seat.
[01:03:21] Wow, but but you know that may or may not be the best interests, okay? That was after training this morning I train this morning for an hour. So I'm kind of wiped out right now. But anyway, So obviously but meditation can be beneficial. What about sex? I have to believe that adrenaline drops after orgasm.
[01:03:41] You know, we never talk about sex sex is like like adrenaline. We know that it confers all of these benefits. It's amazing. I like men who have more orgasms. Don't get prostate cancer women who have their partner ejaculate into them. Don't get [01:04:00] fibrotic tumors in their uterus like we. We were put on this planet to do one thing and that's to have Offspring and that's it.
[01:04:09] That is job number one, but we act like as though it's unimportant men who don't ejaculate often tend to have the most aggressive prostate cancers. So I have to believe that after being with your partner who you you have love and emotions for and you have an orgasm. I have to believe that adrenalin probably drops down into the dirt.
[01:04:30] Okay, that's a study I haven't done but but you know, look at it from another standpoint is that adrenaline is an angry woman and when people have a lot of anger and very often it appears his sexuality. You know me. Yeah. Yeah, very interesting. Interesting. It's an anger hormone. So if you spend less time angry and more time appreciating your life, maybe that'll have a Rollin.
[01:04:57] So this is the diet they diet in the [01:05:00] book. Also the diet that you detail. Well. Yeah, I mean I'd is an incredibly important part of long adrenaline. What I should do is give you you know, the one downside to using progesterone. Because it basically has no side effects and you can overdose on it, but you know this but now we come back to that that condition called type 3 diabetes and you know, they don't have a test for type 3 diabetes.
[01:05:28] But indirectly one test for it is is to use progesterone cream because when people have insulin resistance in the brain, one of the characteristics of progesterone is that it does create some degree of insulin resistance, which is a good thing because it prevents people from getting sleeping the afternoon or sleepy when they're driving.
[01:05:49] You know, some people go off the road and hit a tree and kill themselves when they become hypoglycemic when the driving but insulin prevents that which is good, but when it people already have insulin resistance in the brain and these progesterone [01:06:00] than they actually have an increase in immediate increase the amount of adrenaline because the body again.
[01:06:06] He takes it it's even harder now to get sugar into the brain cell. So so in that case it, you know, I tell people because it does happen not often, but it happens. You know, it's one of the predisposing factors to alzheimer's when people have type 3 diabetes. So, you know, I tell them that this is actually a good thing because Alzheimer's is as you probably notice a disease of prevention and so.
[01:06:33] Explain to me how important that is to use ketones, you know as the fuel to for the brain and but sometimes when people are just lousy eaters to begin with and and then all of a sudden they start using progesterone they will get this increase insulin resistance, so I didn't have no stop the progesterone.
[01:06:54] And then make sure they're eating correctly and then restart the progesterone. So what would be the symptoms that they would notice [01:07:00] whether they would feel right sluggish ya know right away. They feel more anxious palpitations and might have more tension in the neck. And in other words adrenaline that there's not a subtle hormone.
[01:07:12] You know, it's a very powerful hormone when I was taking my was taking 50 milligrams of progesterone before bed at night. And I was sleeping very soundly, but I would wake up in the morning and just feel groggy like oh man, you know, maybe thank you everybody back. What's that about the oil pressure?
[01:07:32] That's oral progesterone. That's a whole different ballpark, you know 80% of oral progesterone converts into a different hormone, right? And so I never recommend oral progesterone. Interesting interesting very very interesting discussion and it's an important and like you said that nobody's paying attention to this and and and obviously our Fascination and love affair with stimulants is making this worse.
[01:07:55] Is it not well, you know people [01:08:00] again that have a lot of adrenaline, you know, Lexi these are the people that get involved with drugs and alcohol. If you look at the music industry, you're going to be Mount the drugs and alcohol in the music industry, and these are all creative type you. And they're the ones that are like I say have the most adrenaline and even in Hollywood with the eye Hollywood actors get involved with drugs and alcohol the so yeah, it's it's an idea.
[01:08:26] It's completely under the radar this whole thing about adrenaline and and my book adrenaline dominance as far as you know is the only book ever written that talks about excess adrenaline and the consequences and the conditions and had retreated. Interested but getting back to what you said eating correctly is is very important and then you Di and you detail that in the book, right?
[01:08:52] You detailed the dietary approach that people should be following their at okay a good absolutely. Yeah because say, you know, and I haven't [01:09:00] used possessed cream right before they eat because as soon as people put in food in the mouth and putting out insulin, And again when insulin levels go up blood sugar drops when blood sugar drops body percent more adrenaline.
[01:09:11] So one of the ways of controlling adrenaline is the control insulin, so I have a good friend who has a child who is Spirited? Okay, and the and the school keep saying, you know, the child needs special care and they need drugs and and the mom and the dad do not want to put the child on any drugs for obviously weapon.
[01:09:29] So I need to tell her I need to tell him to get the adrenaline. I mean he had the progesterone cream at 5% And what rub it on is Robert not rub it on his arms first thing in the morning. Okay, you know your children, you know, they like I said they have called. You know when they're first born when they're in the womb to get exposed to incredibly high levels of progesterone.
[01:09:51] So you click, you know, so chosen you cannot open us a child with the guest room and it's extremely safe to give them because they've been exposed to it. [01:10:00] They just they're just not making anymore. Yeah, so it's the same format to get the children. But you know again, it's one of those taboos, you know, you don't get four months to show, you know, I know I know but you could give us and we give them all the soy milk they want let's let's let's that's that's the the nonsense drugs and vaccinations.
[01:10:19] Yeah, but I mean when they talk about HRT, and we talked about phytoestrogens we talked about the amount of. Phytoestrogens in soy and children can drink soy milk all day long and that's fine. And the I had dr. Scott Connelly the founder of metrics. Come on my show probably 11 years ago, and he actually broke it out the the phytoestrogen load in a glass of soy milk as compared to a transdermal.
[01:10:48] Preparation of estrogen that was a 5% estrogen biased and he said that the child is getting almost a hundred times more exogenic compounds in that soy milk than [01:11:00] if somebody rubbed the cream at a dose that is given to a postmenopausal woman. And that's that. That's the nonsense that we deal with today.
[01:11:08] You know, the phytoestrogens is xenoestrogens are children of consuming today. Oh, that's not a big deal. That's no big deal. That's okay. So it's just you know, sorry for the most part is genetically modified. Yeah, and you know, I don't have a beef with genetic modifications doc. I mean so. If they can genetically modify a food to have to confer greater benefits to the people who consume it.
[01:11:36] I'm all for that. But all the genetic modifications we've seen today. Have been designed to benefit industry allow industry to slather more chemicals on these things to allow industry to grow salmon faster. At cheaper prices. So all the genetic modifications have been designed to benefit industry and as such they are [01:12:00] not good for us because what industry does is they just put more glyphosate on these plants and we eat them with the guy with the plants.
[01:12:07] We eat the glyphosate now if they can come out with genetic modifications that that confer greater Omega. Three fatty acids that are actually absorbable unlike other platforms, you know, then I'm okay. That's a good thing but they've yet to do any of that sort of stuff. Not a perfect world. Yeah.
[01:12:26] Listen, it's been really great having you on the show The Wedding to play the web the web site is Platt wellness.com. The book is adrenaline dominance. You can get it on Amazon. It's been really fun. And I think that your message is important and I hope that you get picked up by other podcasts because it's an important discussion.
[01:12:44] Well, thank you. I definitely it's been a pleasure. I really appreciate you having me on thank you. Thank you. Take care. Okay, and that's it for today's show. Well, we have lots of great shows planned this weekend at this Friday were doing an amazing. Episode [01:13:00] of the pep talk and we're going to have a new physician on with us, and we're going to be talking about Petey 141, which is the only known aphrodisiac made for women.
[01:13:15] That's actually been released as a drug called vile EC approved by the FDA. So talk about that this Friday and lots of good shows all week. So we'll see you then. Thanks for listening [01:14:00] today.
