Ray Peat on microparticles

Environmental factors that may contribute to autism

Environmental factors or substances that arise in response to environmental stress and could cause autism include prenatal and neonatal radiation exposure, including isotopes from the energy industry, bomb tests, Chernobyl and Fukushima; exposure to air pollution, including nitrogen oxides, ozone, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide and particulate matter (Jung, et al., 2013); aluminum (Mold, et al., 2018), lead, mercury, manganese, arsenic, cadmium, chromium, manganese and nickel (Windham, et al., 2006); acetaminophen, infections, endotoxins, 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

Exosomes in cell communication and the transfer of genetic information

The study of exosomes, particles the size of small viruses that transfer beneficial (or harmful) information between cells, has shown their similarity to the DNA particles that bacteria use to pass on new information, such as antibiotic resistance, to other bacteria. Exosome particles can carry the DNA of mobile genetic elements and, upon leaving the body, transfer genetic information via secretions such as sweat and saliva to other individuals of the same species or to very different organisms.

March 2021 – Ray Peat's Newsletter

Microscopic food components in blood and urine

Since the development of good microscopes, there have been occasional descriptions of microscopic particles originating from food in the blood and urine of humans and animals.

March 2019 – Ray Peat's Newsletter

Volkheimer on the implications of food components in the blood

Volkheimer immediately recognized that the presence of food components in the blood and cerebrospinal fluid needed to be investigated because of the circulatory and immunological implications.

March 2019 – Ray Peat's Newsletter

Bonghan Kim's discovery of a third vascular system

In the 1960s, a North Korean researcher, Bonghan Kim, reported the discovery of what he called a third vascular system, in addition to blood and lymphatic vessels, in which particles containing DNA circulated. He suggested that they formed a repair system for all the body's organs. For various reasons, his reports were almost entirely ignored; a few acupuncturists in the US disseminated one of his publications.

March 2019 – Ray Peat's Newsletter

Increase in nanoparticles in air and water

The amount of nanoparticles and microparticles in air and water due to pollution has increased significantly.

March 2019 – Ray Peat's Newsletter

Volkheimer's concern about the absorption of foreign particles

Volkheimer was concerned about the health consequences of ingesting foreign particles even before our endogenous particle regulation system had been recognized.

March 2019 – Ray Peat's Newsletter

Bystander effect in various injuries

The bystander effect, which occurs when the irradiation of one tissue causes similar damage in other tissues or throughout the organism, is a common phenomenon that also occurs with injuries not caused by ionizing radiation. When a lung is damaged by silica particles, cells taken from that lung and cultured outside the organism secrete substances into the culture medium that cause similar damage and fibrosis when cells from another organism are exposed to that medium.

March 2019 – Ray Peat's Newsletter

Silicon dioxide, estrogen and lactic acid production

Small particles of silicon dioxide or other inorganic or organic material (such as plastics) can, similar to radiation, oxygen deprivation, sepsis, or estrogen, increase the production of lactic acid. This lactate promotes various aspects of inflammation, including edema, collagen synthesis, and cell growth and movement.

March 2019 – Ray Peat's Newsletter

Serotonin increase after training and brain permeability

High-stress training, which increases serotonin, reduces the brain's ability to filter out harmful substances, including small particles.

July 2019 – Ray Peats Newsletter

Misinterpreted studies on the effects of vitamin E in JAMA

Around 1980, a friend showed me an article in JAMA that warned of the dangers of vitamin E and cited numerous research papers. Most of the articles the author cited as evidence of vitamin E's harmful effects actually reported on biological changes that the researchers considered beneficial.

July 2018 – Ray Peats Newsletter

Hoyle's cosmological research suggests the biological nature of cosmic dust.

Fred Hoyle and his colleagues have carried out work similar to Vernadsky's, fostering a more vibrant understanding of cosmology. They have gathered spectroscopic evidence that cosmic dust (which constitutes a significant portion of the mass in the universe) is more similar to bacteria than other proposed materials or particles (E. coli was used for comparison).

Generative Energy: Restoring the Wholeness of Life

Respiratory energy causes molecular orientation and cell organization

The energy of respiration causes molecules to align, leading to the polarization of charges. Any field of this kind influences other charged particles, and it is therefore evident that it is involved in the arrangement and organization of particles. The existence of such fields likely affects the orientation of particles within cells and of cells within organs.

1998 – Ray Peats Newsletter – 2

Criticism of the current scientific culture in cell studies

I have seen articles in major scientific journals that draw important conclusions from the supposedly positive charge on the outside of cells, which in reality does not exist. These papers have passed the editors and reviewers because these ideas are so prevalent in our scientific culture. Less conspicuous, but equally erroneous, ideas are even more common. The use of various microelectrode techniques has provided a wealth of information about the electrical responses of cells, but with the exception of the work of Gilbert Ling and a few others, the significance of the data is obscured by a vast culture of fanciful theories.

1998 – Ray Peats Newsletter – 2

Keratin formation as a sign of energy-depleted cells

In size and overall structure, keratin filaments resemble scrapie particles and the filaments that accumulate in Alzheimer's disease. I consider keratin to be a protein produced by a cell that no longer has the energy to produce more functional proteins. Normally, keratinized cells are formed by rapid cell division on body surfaces where energy is scarce. In chronic vitamin A deficiency, the keratin-producing cells divide more rapidly than normal.

August-September 1992 – Ray Peats Newsletter

Koch's theory of natural immunity against viruses and cancer

Koch soon developed a theory of natural immunity against viruses and cancer, based on his belief in the existence of biological free radicals capable of oxidizing virus particles and carcinogenic molecules. Koch believed that allergies were an early sign of the failure of this free radical oxidation system.

August-September 1988 - Ray Peats Newsletter

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