Ray Peat on microparticles
"Things in the environment, or substances produced in reactions to environmental stress, that might cause autism, include prenatal and neonatal exposure to radiation, including isotopes from the power industry, bomb testing, Chernobyl, and Fukushima; exposure to air pollution, including nitrogen oxides, ozone, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and particles (Jung, et al., 2013); aluminum (Mold, et al., 2018), lead, mercury, manganese, arsenic, cadmium, chromium, manganese, and nickel (Windham, et al, 2006); acetaminophen, infections, endotoxin, exogenous and endogenous estrogens, hypothyroidism, progesterone deficiency, agmatine deficiency, serotonin excess, endogenous nitric oxide (Sweeten, et al., 2004), and vitamin D deficiency."
- May 2018 - Ray Peats Newsletter
0 upvotes"The study of exosomes, the particles the size of small viruses, which transmit useful (or harmful) information between cells, has revealed their similarity to the particles of DNA that bacteria use to transfer new information, such as resistance to antibiotics, to other bacteria. The exosome particles can carry the DNA of mobile genetic elements, and as they leave the body in its secretions, including sweat and saliva, they can carry genetic information to other individuals of the same species, or to very different types of organism."
- March 2021 - Ray Peat's Newsletter
0 upvotes"There have been, since the development of good microscopes, occasional descriptions of microscopic food-derived particles in the blood and urine of people and animals"
- March 2019 - Ray Peat's Newsletter
0 upvotes"Volkheimer immediately recognized that the presence of food particles in the blood and cerebrospinal fluid needed to be investigated, because of the circulatory and immunological implications."
- March 2019 - Ray Peat's Newsletter
0 upvotes"In the 1960s, a North Korean researcher, Bonghan Kim, reported the discovery of what he called a third vascular system, in addition to the blood and lymph vessels, in which particles containing DNA were circulating. He suggested that they constituted a repair system for all the body’s organs. For various reasons, his reports were almost completely ignored; a few acupuncturists in the US circulated one of his publications."
- March 2019 - Ray Peat's Newsletter
0 upvotes"The quantity of nanoparticles and microparticles in air and water from pollution has increased greatly."
- March 2019 - Ray Peat's Newsletter
0 upvotes"Volkheimer was concerned about the health implications of the persorption of alien particles even before our endogenous particulate regulatory system had been recognized."
- March 2019 - Ray Peat's Newsletter
0 upvotes"The bystander effect that occurs when irradiation of one tissue causes similar damage in other tissues, or throughout the organism, is a general phenomenon that occurs with injuries other than ionizing radiation. When a lung is damaged with silica particles, cells removed from that lung, when cultured outside the organism, secrete into the culture fluid substances that produce similar injury, fibrosis, when cells from a different organism are exposed to that fluid."
- March 2019 - Ray Peat's Newsletter
0 upvotes"Small particles of silica or other inorganic or organic material (such as plastics), can, like radiation, oxygen deprivation, sepsis, or estrogen, increase the production of lactic acid, and this lactate promotes various features of inflammation, including edema, collagen synthesis, and the growth and movement of cells."
- March 2019 - Ray Peat's Newsletter
0 upvotes"Stressful exercise, increasing serotonin, decreases the brain’s ability to exclude harmful substances, including small particles"
- July 2019 - Ray Peat's Newsletter
0 upvotes"Around 1980, a friend showed me an article in JAMA that warned about the dangers of vitamin E, with many citations of research publications. Most of the articles that the author said showed the harmful effects of vitamin E were actually reporting biological changes that the researchers considered to be beneficial."
- July 2018 - Ray Peat's Newsletter
0 upvotes"Fred Hoyle and his colleagues have done some work which parallels that of Vernadsky, and which encourages a livelier way of thinking about cosmology. They have gathered spectroscopic evidence that cosmic dust (which makes up a significant part of the mass in the universe) more closely resembles bacteria than the other materials or particles which have been suggested (E. coli were used for spectroscopic comparison)."
- Generative Energy Restoring The Wholeness Of Life
0 upvotes"the energy of respiration was causing an alignment of molecules, resulting in the polarization of charges. Any field of this sort will influence other charged particles, and so it is obvious that it will participate in the arrangement and organization of particles. The existence of such fields probably influences the alignments of particles within cells, and of cells within organs."
- 1998 - Ray Peat's Newsletter - 2
0 upvotes"I have seen articles in major science journals that draw important conclusions from the nonexistent positive charge supposed to be on the outside of cells, and those things have got past the editors and referees because those ideas are so current 1n our scientific culture. Less blatant, but equally false, ideas are even more prevalent. The use of various microelectrode techniques has produced an abundance of information on cellular electrical responses, but with the exception of the work of Gilbert Ling and a few others, the meaning of the data is obscured by a huge culture of phantasy theories."
- 1998 - Ray Peat's Newsletter - 2
0 upvotes"In size and over-all structure, keratin filaments are similar to the scrapie particles, and to the filaments that accumulate in Alzheimers disease. I think of keratin as a protein made by a cell which has lost the energy to make more functional proteins. Normally, keratinized cells are formed by rapid cell division at a body surface, where little energy is available. In chronic vitamin A deficiency, the keratin-forming cells divide more rapdily than normal."
- 1992 - August.September - Ray Peat's Newsletter
0 upvotes"Koch soon constructed a theory of natural immunity against virus and cancer, based on his belief in the existence of biological free radicals, able to oxidize virus particles and carcinogenic molecules. Koch believed that allergies were an early sign of the failure of this free radical oxidation system.!"
- 1988 - August.September - Ray Peat's Newsletter
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