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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 particulates (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 Genetic Information Transfer

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

March 2021 – Ray Peats Newsletter

Microscopic Food Particles in Blood and Urine

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

March 2019 – Ray Peats Newsletter

Volkheimer on the Implications of Food Particles in the Blood

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

March 2019 – Ray Peats 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 lymph vessels, in which particles containing DNA circulated. He proposed that they formed a repair system for all organs of the body. For various reasons, his reports were almost completely ignored; a few acupuncturists in the USA circulated one of his publications.

March 2019 – Ray Peats Newsletter

Increase of Nanoparticles in Air and Water

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

March 2019 – Ray Peats Newsletter

Volkheimer’s Concern About the Uptake of Foreign Particles

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

March 2019 – Ray Peats Newsletter

Bystander Effect in Various Injuries

The bystander effect, which occurs when irradiation of one tissue causes similar damage in other tissues or throughout the organism, is a general phenomenon that also occurs in injuries outside of 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 this medium.

March 2019 – Ray Peats Newsletter

Silicon Dioxide, Estrogen, and Lactic Acid Production

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

March 2019 – Ray Peats Newsletter

Serotonin Increase After Exercise and Brain Permeability

Stressful exercise that raises serotonin reduces the brain’s ability to exclude 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 warning about the dangers of vitamin E and citing many research papers. Most of the articles the author cited as evidence for the harmful effects of vitamin E actually reported 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 conducted work similar to Vernadsky’s that promotes a more lively way of thinking about cosmology. They collected spectroscopic evidence that cosmic dust (which makes up a significant portion of the mass in the universe) is more similar to bacteria than to 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 charge polarization. Each field of this kind influences other charged particles, so it is obvious that it is involved in the arrangement and organization of particles. The existence of such fields likely influences 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 drawing important conclusions from the supposedly positive charge on the outside of cells, which in reality does not exist. These works passed editors and reviewers because these ideas are so widespread in our scientific culture. Less obvious but equally false ideas are even more common. The use of various microelectrode techniques has provided a wealth of information about the electrical responses of cells, but except for the work of Gilbert Ling and a few others, the significance of the data is obscured by a huge 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 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 at body surfaces where little energy is available. In chronic vitamin A deficiency, keratin-producing cells divide faster 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 failure of this free radical oxidation system.

August–September 1988 – Ray Peats Newsletter
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