Antiaging supplements and testing your gut health.

0:00 Speaker 1 With us today is doctor Peter Michelos and his model Live long and prosper, and so many things are happening. Science is moving at a light speed and doctor Peter Michelos, Sunday morning, what do we have for this today?

0:17 Speaker 2 Well, we’re learning so much more about the human body every day and the literature that is coming out and some of the compounds and molecules, and basically we’re really learning that old disease can be traced back to the molecular level and that we’re a big bag of chemicals and we really need to balance all those chemicals out.

0:37 And we hear a lot about different supplements and sometimes people confuse, you know, vitamins and supplements, but there are certain things that have been around for a long time, supplements that are turning out to be anti aging and anti cancer. And of course, before you start in any anti aging program, I have a discussion with your doctor

1:00 and you need to do a deep dive of your blood work annually. And also there are things you can even analyze your gut microbiome and you can measure things that you couldn’t do before. And you put all that data in together and then you write a treatment plan and one of the medicines which I consider some of

1:23 these things they call them nutraceuticals, but a lot of medicines originally came from plants, and a lot of even some of the chemotherapeutic agents are really started from plants. And one of the spices that’s used commonly throughout the world is curcumin, and that comes from the tumoric plant.

1:39 And it turns out that Kirkman is a powerful anti inflammatory and anti cancer compound, and it’s used in many diets around the world. And sometimes they find that some people who take over the counter iviewprofen are sometimes taking turcument, especially in the more readily or liquid form. It kills the pain just as much, but those anti cancer, anti

2:05 inflammatory properties are very important. And it does something called inhibits cellular senessence, meaning that it slows the cell that’s down. So as we get older, if we can slow aging down, a lot of the diseases that happen to us Alzheimer’s cancers happen when we’re older, so if we can stay a little younger, we get less of those diseases. Another

2:26 important compound is coke coke ten, and it’s basically an over the counter vitamin that you can take, and it affects how we process the energy of our cells. And as we age, we have less coq ten available. And it turns out also that people say, who take statins for cholesterol, oftentimes your doctor will recommend to take coq

2:47 ten along with it, because it turns out that statins seem to deplete your supply of coke chen. Another thing is collagen, and we lose collagen and that’s why our skin starts to change. And there are college supplements as well, again under the supervision of a physition. It’s very important.

3:06 Another one is vitamin C, which turns out to be anti inflammatory, helps build your skin, and it also boosts the immune system. And the other thing you have to be careful is not to take too much, especially if you have kidney stones, because it changes the acidity of the urine and you might get more kidney stones.

3:25 Speaker 1 Use I use a lot of cinnamon, and I put it on my oatmeal, on my farina, on my cream of wheat, and of course I’m greak on my rice pudding, and it reduces the amount of insulin I need for my diabetes.

3:44 Speaker 2 Absolutely. There is even a cinnamon supplement that a lot of people who have diabetes or pre diabetes, they do take cinnamon and along with it they take another a plant like moleculele Berberin. So Berberine plus the cinnamon is a common thing that people the naturopathic physitions give out and that also reduces sugar. So there’s a lot of

4:08 things from nature that can help improve help and there are other things, but you really need to know what you have. And I had a discussion with doctor Maglenus Rtuskian International Anti Aging Specialists and Jeevan does magnesium levels and copper levels and calcium levels. For example, if someone’s copper level is low. During COVID, a lot of people

4:33 took zinc, but zinc blocks the absorption of copper. So there was a young man by at or C and he had anxiety and loss of hair, and it turned out he had super low copper levels. They supplemented that and the anxiety went away. So there are things that you can do and balance out your chemicals. And for

4:51 men and women also our hormones can also be balanced and that also helps us have energy and strength. Does we get on it’s important to have the annual physical check our blood work and then consider taking some of these supplements under the supervision of physition and.

5:10 Speaker 1 What’s good, what’s good for blood pressure? What is your a spice out there or a cinema.

5:17 Speaker 2 Yeah, actually, Coach two ten that we just mentioned does help lower blood pressure, and the other one is magnesium glyconate, which some people actually take to help them sleep, but it also has an effect on helping to lower blood pressure.

5:32 And that’s why many doctors who are more open minded and do integrated medicine also recommend patients with high blood pressure to take magnesium. Of course, a lower salt diet and when you go out to eat in the restaurant, always ask could you please tell the chef not to put additional salt? And you know, that’s one of the

5:53 things that in fast food restaurants people don’t know. In those little shakers, they mix up fine granulated sugar with salt, so it makes you hungrier, but it also raises blood pressure because the more salt we have, we have to draw more fluid in our bloodstream and that raises blood pressure.

6:10 Speaker 1 And some spice companies put cinema in with sugar, thinking that they’re being you know, whatever, whatever the word you want to use and these I hope these manufacturers and these they create food stop using sugar because as we know, sugar is reading an enemy. Yeah.

6:33 Speaker 2 Absolutely. Recent studies show too that one of the biggest drivers of pancreatic cancer is high sugar levels. Than when they radioactively labeled sugar molecules and gave it to cancer patients, the sugar molecule they found went directly and straight to the cancer cell. So sugar is not a good thing.

6:51 That’s why when you look up some of the older ancient skulls and they do digs, they find perfect teeth on some of these mummies and people from your ago because they didn’t have hyproctose corn syrup and all these sweets and sugars. They ate farmed the table, they ate fresh fish, fresh vegetables, and we need to change our

7:09 diets in order to live long and healthy. And I forgot to mention, of course, olive oil is also great medicine. The avocados and they also have the magic common thing called olaic acid in avocados and olive oil, and they turn on the sertuns which is the long deviity gene.

7:28 Last listening to W. A. B. C.

7:30 Speaker 1 Last question, how far how far are we away from discovering that gene that that makes us age? It turns on our aging process.

7:42 Speaker 2 Well, it turns out that the work being done by companies with the OSK gene, which was mister doctor Yamanaka and Japan got the Nobel Prize for he found that each of ourselves has the younger computer program of our younger selves. And they’ve already were verse blindness in glaucoma and people and mice and apes in rednal damage and

8:06 human clinical trials are now starting in twenty twenty five, and the medicine has actually been manufactured, according to doctor David Sinclair at Harvard, who’s the leading anti aging scientists in the United States, and that’s going to be amazing because that will not only be used for eyes final cords, but we’ll be going in for infusions or pill that

8:26 will activate that program, that OSK gene program, and it’ll go into a younger self and we’ll be able to actually take years off our lives. It really sounds crazy and sci fi, but if our audience looks up OSK genes and age reversal and blindness reversal, they should start following it and it’s really amazing things that are happening

8:48 in medicine. That’s why you got to keep listening to WABC to stay healthy and stay on the front lines of anti aging because we all want to live long and prosper.

8:58 Speaker 1 God bless you and we’ll talk again soon.

9:01 Speaker 2 Thank you, John for always getting the truth out on the Cats round Table.