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RP: Yah, I think it was 1996. In the early 90’s, some millionaire in Nebraska started buying full-page newspaper ads saying that all your cookies and many other traditional good products were killing people because they had coconut oil in them. We had been using some very nice products, for example, tortilla chips that were fried in coconut oil. And we ate huge amounts of those. The more we ate, the leaner we got [chuckles].
RP: Yah, I found years ago that reading affects the mind in some not beneficial ways. And I found that if I would take a break from reading and talking and writing, and do sculpture or painting, that it would prevent the brain damage from too much verbalization. And alternating between painting and sculpture is good because you have different approaches to dimensional thinking; and using the verbal part of your brain too much tends to deepen the ruts. And you can sort of come out of old ruts if you paint or sculpt for a while.
KG: Well, I never knew myself to be a painter or a sculptor, but I will certainly try to get out of the verbal mode, at least for purposes of this show and other communication. I think I am OK with that but I would like to know how to paint. I know it's relaxing and it stimulates your imagination, doesn't it?
RP: Yah, when I was a kid I wanted to be a portrait painter. And I actually did that for several months and I found that the only people who could afford to have their portrait painted wanted you to represent their social status rather than the truth about them. So when I would paint cute kids the parents loved it, but when I would paint piggish looking kids the parents hated it.
KG: *laughs* You spent a lot of time in Mexico, still ?
RP: Yah.
KG: For rejuvenation or...?
RP: The high altitude. One of my areas of study for the last 15 years or so has been carbon dioxide; and high altitude cures everything, if you can get high enough. For example I used to notice that every time I went up to about 8,000 feet altitude, my myopia would quickly improve. I had been using 12 dioptre negative correction for near sightedness, and after a summer in Mexico it had gone down to 9 dioptres, just a tremendous improvements in a few months. And people going on just ski vacations for a few days, they have measured that the myopia will improve by a dioptre or so almost immediately.
KG: Do you think that it has to do with oxygen? Or are you saying it has to do with CO2?
RP: CO2. As the oxygen gets thinner, the carbon dioxide is retained in your tissues instead of being displaced. We’re all being slightly oxygen-poisoned chronically at sea level. And in hospitals that was demonstrated in the 1930’s and 40’s (that you should never give a sick person pure oxygen). It should have 6% or 7% carbon dioxide added. But just in the last few years, that information is being recovered. But still, most hospitals are killing patients by giving them pure oxygen, when they really should have it always above 5 or 6% carbon dioxide.
KG: Don’t forget that our EPA has now called carbon dioxide a toxin, even though it's food for plants. And it's created it as a boogey man. So I would imagine there would be a distance from it, since there’s so much misinformation about it.
RP: Yah. The whole culture after 1950 forgot the research that had been done showing that, for example, you can cure mountain sickness supplementing carbon dioxide instead of oxygen. I don't remember the Italian's name, but he was the first one around 1900 to cure altitude sickness with a carbon dioxide supplement. Then on one of the Everest expeditions, where they have been putting people in a plastic bag full of oxygen when they couldn't take them to a lower altitude, it turned out that breathing inside the plastic bag, they were providing their own carbon dioxide therapy. After that was discovered, a few people would, when they would go to a high altitude for ski vacation, they would take a little pressure canister of carbon dioxide with them instead of a big tank of oxygen.
KG: How interesting. I actually interviewed the founder of the Everest Peace Project, and I think I'm gonna pass that on to him.
RP: Yah, there are a few publications available now on the internet describing that. I have friends who have found that it's a very quick and convenient way to prevent or cure altitude sickness.
KG: I also noticed you wrote an article about the eyes. I understand that you are talking CO2 being a remedy, and getting to higher altitudes being a remedy for myopia. Is there anything else about the eyes that you can share with us?
RP: Ultraviolet light is damaging, so is blue light. And the reason they damage the tissues of the eye, especially in old age, is that the tissues have become increasingly unsaturated in the fats. The long-chain polyunsaturated fats are damaged even by blue light, which does get to the retina, where ultraviolet mostly is stopped in the cornea and lens. And the ultraviolet will accelerate the formation of cataracts in the lens. But even the blue light, if it's very bright, and the person has become saturated with unsaturated fats, then the blue light is going to contribute to damage of the retina.
KG: You know, you are a very interesting man to listen and to talk with. And I wanted really to invite you back at a later time to talk about some more of your research. And I wanna thank you for taking your time to be with us today and to share. I know that you don't spend a lot of your time with people from the media (and understandably). But I wanted to tell the public that if you would like to read Ray Peat's articles, or books, you can go to http://raypeat.com and read about his background and research.
Ray, I just want to thank you again for you gracious time today.
RP: OK, thank you.
KG: Thank you so much.
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Minor: "chicken food soup" to "chicken foot soup", no?
Live in the knowledge that you will always be the one who transcribed, "Oh well, when you grind up a person's brain. . .."
RP: Yah, I found years ago that reading affects the mind in some not beneficial ways. And I found that if I would take a break from reading and talking and writing, and do sculpture or painting, that it would prevent the brain damage from too much verbalization. And alternating between painting and sculpture is good because you have different approaches to dimensional thinking; and using the verbal part of your brain too much tends to deepen the ruts. And you can sort of come out of old ruts if you paint or sculpt for a while.
Great article, thank you!
This part, in particular, hit me hard:
It seems all too relevant to my life right now. When I was younger, I would draw and paint a lot, and was very good at it too. Now I spend too much time reading online, and feel a bit stuck in that "verbal" mode of thinking, and I'm not drawing nearly so much. And when I do, I'm not so focused on it... this has inspired me to get the hell of the computer.