Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz - The Importance of Micronutrients – With Dr. Kedar Prasad

Episode Date: March 29, 2021

// R E A D Y • S E T • R E S E T Have you ever wondered if there was a magic combination of vitamins and minerals you needed to put together to get the best cellular effect? Well, Dr. Kedar Prasad answers this question for us!  Dr. Kedar N. Prasad obtained a Ph.D. in Radiation Biology from the University of Iowa. He went to Brookhaven National Laboratory for postdoctoral training. Dr. Prasad was a Professor and the Director for the Center for Vitamins and Cancer Research in the Department of Radiology at the University of Colorado Medical School. He published over 250 papers in peer-reviewed journals including Nature, Science, and PNAS, and was supported by the NIH for over 30 years. He has edited and authored 25 books on the role of micronutrients in radiation damage and neurodegenerative diseases. In 1982, he was invited by the Nobel Prize Committee to nominate a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Medicine. He is a former President of the International Society for Nutrition and Cancer. Currently, he is Chief Scientific Officer of Engage Global.           In this podcast, we cover: The magic combination of vitamins and minerals to get the best cellular effect Why antioxidants and stress do not mix well together The importance of testing your inflammation and free radicals Why everyone is so immunocompromised About micronutrients and why they are critical for your overall health   // E P I S O D E   S P O N S O R S  Pre-Order a copy of The Menopause Reset book today and get the bonus ebook now, for FREE! Feel the impact of Organifi - use code PELZ for 15% off all products!    // R E S O U R C E S   M E N T I O N E D Micronutrient supplement, save 25% off a subscription MBC Probiotic   // F O L L O W Instagram | @dr.mindypelz & @theresetterpodcast Facebook | /drmindypelz & /theresetterpodcast Youtube | /drmindypelz   Please note the following medical disclaimer: By listening to this podcast you understand that this video is for educational purposes only. It is not intended to substitute for professional medical advice and should not be relied on as health or personal advice. Always seek the guidance of your doctor with any questions you may have regarding your health or medical condition.  

COVID-19, we call it, because in 19, it was discovered. It could be COVID-20, could be COVID-22. Before that COVID was, this is not the first time we have exposed to COVID. There was SARS virus. There was a, you know, chicken virus. And they all belong to the same family, coronavirus family. But this is specifically very aggressive in terms of infection than previous coronavirus. I am a woman on a mission that is dedicated to teaching you just how powerful your body was built to be. I like to do that by bringing you the latest science, the greatest thought leaders,

and applicable steps that help you tap into your own internal healing power. The purpose of this podcast is to give you the power back and help you believe in yourself again. My name is Dr. Mindy Pels, and I want to thank you for spending part of your day with me. Have you ever wondered if there was a magic combination of vitamins and minerals you needed to put together to get the the best cellular effect? Well, let me tell you about our next guest, because he's going to answer that question for us. And I've been taking supplements a long time.

I've been analyzing supplements, looking at different formulas, understanding which ones can give us the best effect. And this doctor actually elevated the conversation on supplements to a whole new level. He's going to talk to us in this episode about which vitamins, and which minerals go together to get the best health benefit possible. And he's a brilliant man. So his name is Dr. Kedar Prashad, and he's the first radiation biologist, a Ph.D. in the U.S.

and the entire world. He's authored over 25 books on micronutrients. He's published more than 250 peer-reviewed articles. He's the president of the International Society of Nutrition and Cancer and a member of the Nobel Prize Committee for candidates and in medicine. So this is an incredible conversation. And if you are taking supplements at all or you've ever wondered, should you take supplements, shouldn't you take supplements, this is going to be a whole new discussion for you. And he's really going to dive into the specificity of, okay, which vitamins do we need to take with which minerals? And what should

we be looking out for to make sure that we don't get the combination right. And what was surprising was he actually talked about when you do get the combination wrong, you can actually cause more aging of your cells. You can cause more inflammation. So I really enjoyed this man. As always, I love the people with the big hearts and really big brains as Dr. Prashad has. And his products are incredible. We have been testing them. You can definitely tell a difference when you take his supplements. And he's got a unique approach that more people need to know about. So Dr. Pershad, I'm excited to bring you this conversation, this intelligent man. And as always, I hope you get something out of it and it moves your life forward. So Linus Pauline was your mentor. You

personally knew him. Yeah, I knew him because, you know, when he did, you know, when he did, discovered that, or he was saying that vitamin C can cure cancer, and everybody thought that he's now crazy old man. But I thought that he can't be that crazy because he has won two Nobel Prize. So I started working on vitamin C on my cell line, which was neuroblastoma cell at the University of Colorado. And we have a support from the National Institute of Health. And so we found that, yes, high dose of vitamin C will kill cancer cell. But low dose of vitamin C can stimulate of some cancer cells or it is ineffective. Interesting.

So the dose is very important. Okay. And people who were questioning, didn't understand his view that he's talking about the high dose, like 10 gram, not like 100 milligram of vitamin C. So it was a treatment issue, not a prevention issue. And I further extended that the, so I wrote a paper that vitamin C kills cancer cell. I extended further that vitamin C not only kills cancer cell, but also enhances the effect of radiation and chemotherapy on cancer cell, but not on normal cell. Okay.

But has to be high dose. Low dose will protect it. But high dose enhancing their effect. And there are mechanisms that if you are interested in. I can go further why this is the case. And so I wrote a paper on this issue that vitamin C enhances the effect of chemotherapy and radiation on cancer cells, but not a normal cell. And in some criteria, they protect normal cells.

And so I thought that we should publish this paper on the Proceeding National Academy of Sciences. And so, and you know, he was the member of... without a member you can't publish in that journal. So I sent him this paper. And he loved it and he sponsored it and the paper got published in a highly prestigious, as you know, Dr. Mindy, proceeding National Academy of Sciences.

And then I became very close to him after that. And he had a meeting in a Rio de Janeiro on vitamin C. And then he invited me to talk on this issue. And so it became closer. And after that, being a president of International Society of Nutrition and Cancer, I organized seven international meetings. And in every meeting, he was the keynote speaker.

Wow. And when he wrote a letter for my promotion to a full professor, the chairman of the committee came and gave me that letter to me. He was supposed to be confidential. But he wrote in a way that as if I was going to get a Nobel Prize. But anyway, so we became a very friend and he was guiding force for my future development and we maintained a close contact until he died. Amazing.

I'm thinking as you're talking, I was like, why we have gotten so far away from giving something like vitamin C any credit anymore? Like it's baffled me when we are sitting in the amongst this pandemic and we go into the research on vitamins and minerals, and you start to see how important they are for a strong immune system, yet everybody's sitting at home waiting for some big moment to happen when the moment could happen every day in what they're taking as far as their minerals and vitamins go. Why are we so, why did we stray so far from those original understanding of vitamin C? I think the reason was that a few of the clinical study that was performed,

formed in the beginning, like beta-carotene in a heavy male smoker, and then they increased the risk of lung cancer. When they tried vitamin, single vitamin, in a heart disease or other diseases, they found either very little effect or no effect. And in some cases, in case of a heavier smoker, they increased the risk of cancer. But here is why that, and that created a lot of publicity against vitamin. And they also apply from data on single vitamin to a multiple vitamin as well said. They said, don't take vitamin.

But here is the problem with that study. It is very well established that when a single antioxidant enters your body, and if your body has a high oxidative stress producing a lot of free radicals, or a lot of inflammation, like a smoker has, heavier smoker or any chronic diseases, whether it's the Alzheimer or heart disease. If you measure the blood level of marker of oxidative stress and inflammation, they are all elevated.

So if you give a single antioxidant in the presence of high internal or body oxidative environment, this antioxidant will be oxidized. And once they get oxidized, they act as a pro-oxident rather than as an antioxidant. And that can increase the risk of disease. It can have also. So single anti-oxygen either will have no effect or if you have too severe oxidative distress in case of a smoker, it can increase the risk of disease.

And so from there on we said, no, we have to have a multiple antioxidant. Interesting. Because your body has a multiple antioxidant, some of which we take from your. the diet, some of which our body makes it. And they're all distributed differently throughout your body. Some are on the membrane, some are in the cytosol, some are in mitochondria. You see what I mean? Yeah.

So it's the combination of the macronutrient or micronutrients that make the big difference. And that's led me to the development of microdial. Interesting. I love that. It is very important. Some simple thing is, for example, it is very well known that iron, iron, copper, manganis, they are called trace mineral, as you know, documented very well, because tiny amount is absolutely essential for your health.

But slight access can increase the risk of almost all human chronic diseases. And if you go in a pub med and look iron and chronic diseases, you will have many, many paper that excess amount of iron in your body. So if you add a and it is also very well known, not my discovery, it has been very known phantom reactions, that the vitamin C in combination with vitamin, the iron in combination with vitamin C generates a lot of free radicals. As a matter of fact, if you want to study the effect of pure free radical, in a test, you eat iron and vitamin C and ureotest tissue material, what you want to see, because it is very well known. So why you will add that? And in the present antioxidant, these minerals, iron, copper,

many get absorbed better. So your body has certain amount of protein, iron binding protein, copper binding protein. Once they get saturated, then a free iron, free copper are floating around and increase the risk of many diseases. So why you will add that? So. Yeah, and it sounds confusing. So, you know, if you're the typical, if you're just the lay person, for lack of a better word, and you hear this, you're like, oh, I'm never taking supplements again. And if you're a medical doctor and you're looking at that research, you're like advising your patients to never take supplements again. But if you dive into one of your books and you start to see, oh, you get this combination right, you're going to help your immune system, your brain health.

So how do we make it simple for people? Yeah, simple people here is the simple people. For example, you say that if you increase the oxidative stress and in premise, if your body has a high level of producing free radicals, high level of information, they are two most important defects that leads to almost all human chronic diseases. not only in an acquired one, like during time, you know, they call it a sporadic that you acquire, it is not a genetic, you acquired during your lifetime. They are well established. Recently, I'm writing a review, even the genetic basis of the disease, like sickle cell anemia, Huntington, Korea, 10% of the Alzheimer, 5% of the Parkinson's disease, they have a gene defect, single gene.

defect. And even that defect, that means you are going to appear the disease at the age of of 35, 45, much earlier. But if you are a quiet disease, then you occur at 70, 60, 80. So the genetic disease might appear much earlier, whether it's a heart or diabetes or anything, appear much earlier. So the question right now is that they don't do anything until the symptom appears, then you start treating them. But if you look before the symptom appears, if you look, look their body, they have a high level of oxidative stress, a lot of free radicals, a lot of inflammation, and they contribute to the onset of the disease. So if you block that, even genetic basis of the disease can be delayed by many, many years. This is very important to remember that

people think that, oh, we can modify. Yeah, you cannot change the mutation. But the product mutation produces is a protein and that protein is toxic. And so they produce a lot of free radicals. So if you block the action of those proteins, then you can delay the onset of even genetic disease. So instead of occurring in any kind of genetic, whether it's Alzheimer, Parkinson'sism, or sickle cell anemia, or any kind of.

So instead of appearing much earlier state, they can stay 80, 90, after that you are ready to leave this planet anyway. So that's the expiration date that it's time for you to go. You could be 100, but in other words, even with quality of life, if you can delay the onset of genetic basis of disease, so it is very, very important. Nobody had to think.

Awesome. And I'm hoping you're going to give us all the secret combinations that we're supposed to know. It makes total sense to me. I have seen just in the world of natural health and people who are wanting to make lifestyle changes to improve their health, that they bring what I call a broken mindset to that world, which is one problem, one diagnosis, one pill. And I really, we call it a multi-therapeutic approach where we really need to come to somebody's health from a lot of different angles. And in the last couple of minutes of talking, you just elevated my vision on the fact that vitamins and minerals have to be in synergy with each other as well.

That, to me, seems like a topic nobody's talking about. Am I correct? Yeah, yeah. And also that, you know, I always emphasize like you are doing it, you know, diet is a very important component. and the intermittent fasting is a very important concept. And that because it reduces the total caloric glass. And therefore, your weight and everything the immune system is maintained. But micronutrient is also important.

So in addition to following that guideline that you have, and if you follow the micronutrient supplementation guideline that we will tell you our uniqueness of our formula, why it is the case, then as you grow older, your body has started producing more inflammation, more free radicals. And then if your body is already have a high level, they can be reduced. And therefore, you could have a good quality of life for longer, longer period of time. Yeah.

Because it is not just living longer, living with the quality of life longer. Yes. I'm 86 year old, 85. Next month, 86, January. So. So. Amazing. Wow.

Wow. Wouldn't have guessed it. No, I mean, I'm taking macro daily forever since I discovered it. Yeah. And I think one of the biggest things I get about supplements in general is, well, I can get it in my food. I'll just, why? Just give me the food resource. Can you talk a little bit about why we can't just eat our way into great, you know, micronutrient health?

Yes. Yeah. Here is the issue that I will tell you about the uniqueness of our product. Sometimes people have asked questions, well, you know, I see the vitamin supplement bottle, supplement fact. It looked like anything else, you know, it has all the vitamins. So what is new? But here are the couple of points that I will tell you that white is unique. First, nutrition industry thinks that vitamin A and beta-carotene are same.

So sometimes you will label vitamin A from beta-carotene or, you know, so they think it is same. But recent data show that they are, even though the beta-carotin is a precursor of vitamin A, like one molecule of beta-caratine, as you know, give you two molecule of vitamin A. This is a fact. But beta-caratine produce certain biological function that vitamin A cannot do it, and vitamin A can produce certain biological functions. that beta-carotin cannot do it. And I will give you one example.

That beta-carotin will induce a protein called connection protein, and this protein holds two normal cells together. And when the cell become cancers, they get lost. But if you treat the cancer cell with beta-carotin, they reintroduce this connection gene. But vitamin A cannot do it. vitamin A is very important in differentiation of cells during development like muscle cell, brain cells, all different types of cells.

But beta-carotin cannot do it. So in our preparat there are many examples. So in our preparation, we have treated beta-carotin and vitamin A as a separate ingredient. So this is one uniqueness. That's what I was wondering, yeah. Diet theoretically looks like, you know, you can get it, but in practice, not many people follow it. And also that you cannot get all these nutrients, you know, in a high level, you can get in it for survival. But when you are growing older, this is not enough, because dosage is also

very important. So if I eat a carrot, I don't have the right combination of beta carotene to A, and it's in a much lower dose, then will be therapeutically helpful. Exactly. And also, Also, yeah, and it will be, so it will prevent, if we just take a carrot, it will prevent vitamin A deficiency. Right. So you don't go, you're not in the negative. High enough level to have an impact for other biological functions. So all food is doing is helping us get to maybe a normal balance, but it's not going above

that. Exactly. That's right. That's very important. This is very important. And the second uniqueness is that you may have. have seen vitamin E. Vitamin E added in a commercial product, other commercial vitamin E acetate.

And we have added vitamin E acetate and vitamin E succinate. And this form of vitamin E, I was the first one to discover it in 1982 and published in a cancer research journal. And before that, there was not a single paper on vitamin Auxnet. but today if you go and look on a PubMed in the internet you will put 500 paper on vitamin E succinate and this is very important because vitamin Suxnet is not only entire cancer agents

but also it has very important implication in other diseases human diseases and people have published this information but vitamin Suxnet is unique because it is much more soluble than vitamin E acetate And therefore, it can cross blood-burn barrier better than the vitamin acetate. And it has some unique property that other forms of vitamin cannot produce it. And so in order to optimize the effect of vitamin all over your body, we added both vitamin acetate as well as vitamin suction.

Now, that commercial product you will see one or the, sometimes I have seen people have started adding vitamin suction. But you have to be well, they have to read your book or spend hours on PubMed to be able to get that information. That's correct. Yeah. That's correct. Yeah. So, and before I leave the topic of dosage, because I really want to get into immunity, you know, I think that there also is a piece from my research on the microbiome and how the microbiome affects how much you absorb the nutrients from your food or your supplement.

Is that correct? That's correct. Microal, very important. Most important is also the fat in the diet, a little bit fat, because some of the fat soluble vitamins are there, and they, you know, any kind of, not too much fat, just some meat. That's why we recommend that our product, microdaily, should be taken with meal. But some, you're fasting.

So at least, you know, you can take some, even, say, omega-3 fatty acids, some kind of things that you have fat in your stomach and that it will be absorbed better. But probiotic dose flora is very, very important. And they play an important role in generating vitamins, some forms of vitamin B. But we feel that by protecting the GI tract as a whole, you can give the better environment from the good bacteria probiotic bacteria to flourish. So could you combine a supplement? with a probiotic?

Yeah, if we take a probiotic separately, we don't have right now. But at some future time, we might develop one. But if somebody is taking a probiotic together with our supplement, it will be okay. And if they take your supplement with a fatty meal, would that be a really good combination or any meal is fine? Any meal, every meal has a little bit fat. Right. You see what I mean?

Right. It doesn't have to be a fatty meal. Right. It has to be any kind of milk, some milk, some yogurt, tiny amount of fat for better absorption. The same concept? Because some of these purified ingredient in green tea extract that people have purified the substance, they are fat soluble, just like vitamin A, just like vitamin E. And so most of the product that they isolate from, say, green tea extract or garlic or, you know,

People claim all these things. They're all fat, all good. But these substances, although is important, green tea is important, just even for the taste. But green tea or any other things, as a separate ingredient, like in a capsule, we did not do it because it does not produce any unique effect that cannot be produced by the ingredient that we have added in microdaily. Got it, got it.

Okay. So, again, we're back at the combination. That's right. combination, at least off of science, is what's going to make it more bio-available for the cells. That's right. Why our product is so effective. Generally, commercial markets, say, once a day, right? That's some of those brand names, once a day. And one time I was attending a conference of the company,

because they invited me to talk on vitamin E. but Hussein asked a question why you're recommending once a day because science says that you have to recoup

twice a day and I will tell you the science behind it he said the reason we do it because people

will not follow it so they compromise the addict but why it is so important because if you take a

micronutency for example microdaily our product the rate of elimination from your body

varies depending upon their solubility in a lipid or in water so people have estimated that by about 50% of those things ingredient that you took in the morning will be gone by the evening another 50% by next morning so body sees a great fluctuation of the level of antioxidant throughout the day and night when that happens when we I was in Colorado we did experiment on gene expression and it changes in the level of, say, in this case, what vitamin is succinate. And we found the slight difference in the level or concentration of vitamin E makes an enormous

difference in the expression of genes. And so if your body, your cell in your body seeing a lot of fluctuation, they have to increase the adjust to meet that fluctuation, readjust a lot of genetic activity, changes in gene expression. And while doing so, it is possible one time they can do error. If it is happening every day, you can do one error, and that can induce mutation.

Some mutations are harmful. Some mutations have no consequence, depending upon whether it is in a gene which is transcribing all the protein or whether it is a non-coding or coding region of the DNA. And so that's why in order to maintain their steady level, we said if I give it twice a day, it will demand relatively a steady level than taking once a day. And these are some small things. Makes a lot of difference in terms of effectiveness over our health, long-term health. It's so simple.

It's so simple. Yeah. You know, I saw two studies recently, one that they say exercise is the same way, that we're actually better off. our bodies are better at just having small doses of exercise multiple times a day. I've also seen some studies on stimulating mTOR and the growth capabilities of a cell by using protein, but you don't dive into a big bunch of protein. You do 20 grams of protein every three hours and you start to stimulate that part of the cell that will grow and replicate in a healthy way.

So this is sort of all tying together with other things that we're not talking about. need to be that people aren't doing and we're not having enough conversations about it. Yeah. I mean, you know, macronutrients is also extremely important for your health. But if you just take a micronutrient, emphasize on protein or cargo or whatever and don't ignore the micronutrient, then you don't have optimal health. You will survive. I mean, human body can adopt it.

But when you grow older, then all these things start expressing it. So I think exercise is also. See, if you do excessive exercise, anytime you use oxygen, you generate a lot of free radicals. And when free radical damage, that induces inflammation. And so, you know,

also that if somebody has doing aerobic exercise, for example, I recommend take vitamin before going to there. Because if your body has a high level at that time, your lot of free radical you are generating, this is well-known phenomena. They will be quenched. they will be removed.

Ah, smart. I love that. But most of the people do exercise, then come home, then have a breakfast. Yeah. So do it all wrong. It is all wrong.

Actually, it's the anecdotal story, but my secretary when I was in Colorado, she was saying, you know, at that time, Microdel was being developed. She said that, you know, I'm taking some form of multiple vitamins. And they,

but I said, still I get cold and flu and this kind of things. So I said, when do you take it? And then she said, well, I go there, come back, and then have breakfast, and then I take my breakfast. I say, just reverse it. After she reversed it, she never had any cold. Amazing.

You know, yeah, no, I hear people all the time when they're taking supplements. I'll say, do you notice anything? Do you feel anything? And they're like, no, I just take it. When I take supplements, typically, I feel something. I have like, I feel more energy or more brain. Should, if you're taking a good supplement, should you be able to have some kind of tangible effect from it?

Yeah. I think, I think you will see that many people who are taking our product, they report sometimes within two weeks, different sometimes, four weeks, you know. But I go conservative weight. I said, try 30 days. And if it doesn't work, throw it. Throw it away. But I can't say it like 90%.

So nobody pointed out. And so these are the changes that makes very important. Why is everybody so immune compromised? I'm hoping you're going to answer that. Yeah, here it is all. These are our published information from many other people. That high-risk population, for example, like older people, people who have pre-adjusting disease, obesity, they are considered high risk.

and if you measure their level, inflammation level is very high. So free radical level markets is very high. So, and that means they are not very healthy. The immune system will impair. Increase inflammation, increase oxidative stress will impair immune system. And micron nutrient deficiency will also do it by increasing free radical inflammation. So micron deficiency is there. they may have a lot of food, you know, macro nutrition, not metrient, but macronutrition, but not

micronutient. And so their immune system is very poor. During the time if you look at evolutionary period of human, before we have any kind of drug, any kind of things, people are facing bacterial invasions, viral in all the time. But not 100% eliminated. Those who had a good immune systems didn't get at all. Those who have a moderate good immune system got it but recovered. And those who have a poor immune system got infected

with bacteria and then they died. So even at the time when there was no drug or anything available. This is the way our immune system is so critical and it is so dependent on micronutrient. So then

you say that how do I improve micronutrient? Well, first is a good diet, you know, in any one, that's important. And then take a micronutrient supplement. And the way we have devised it again, right kind of micronutrient supplement. And they will improve your immune system by two way. First, it will protect your immune system from further damage by inflammation and oxidative damage by free radicals.

Second, it improved the ability. because as soon as, say, for example, in case of virus, COVID, as soon as they enter the cell, they produce cytokines cell damage, they produce cytokine. And then cytokines sends a message to immune system that some foreign invasion has occurred and better do something. And so they send immune cells like neutrophil, macrophages, natural killer cell to take care of that. So if it is poor quality of cells, they can't handle it. So the virus keep multiplying and they overtakes it, then becomes much more difficult.

But micronutrient can produce a much more able cell which can fight more effectively against the virus infection. And in addition to that, micronutrient supplement that we have can also make sure, that ability of lymphocyte to produce more antibody, more antibody, because this is also dose-dependent, affects especially antibody, is dose-dependent. If you have a small amount, produce it may not be as effective. And so microdutrient can stimulate your immune system in this kind of ways. And therefore, maintaining the immune system is very important, and not only for today's infection, but also the COVID-19, we call it, because in 19 it was discovered, it could be COVID-20, could be COVID-22.

Before that COVID was, this is not the first time we had exposed to COVID. There was SARS, there was a, you know, chicken virus, all kind of. And they all belong to the same family, coronavirus family. But this is specifically very aggressive in terms of infection than previous coronavirus. Because it has a protein called a spike protein on the surface. That was the corona picture you may have seen it. They are binding ability that is a receptor, very rich receptor in lung cell and in intestine cell.

And these receptors are called angiotensin-converting enzyme receptor. And these love it. And so because of, and especially older people, have loaded with this one. And therefore, they become much more susceptible. Would you say, again, I'm thinking this year, I've been walking around the whole year going, I don't feel like we have a viral problem. We have an immune system problem.

And yes, like you said, this is a new virus. It's more virulent. It's got some punch to it. But when you explain it like that, I'm thinking we have bigger than an immune system problem. We have a micronutrient problem. And if we bring our micronutrients up, we bring our immune system up. we have a chance to go after this virus. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So why aren't we talking about that? I don't know. You know, I have highest regard for Dr. Fauci. He's very expert. But for the vitamin is concerned, he has no knowledge. And he's not expected to because I'm not immunologist. So if you ask me, I would say I don't know. But I'm talking about with respect to immunity

or with respect to the immune system and micronutrient, that I know something about it. Yeah. And do you think that this idea in medicine where we've all become specialists have is hurting us in this moment because Fauci is, he is an immunologist and his specialty is to look at how strong the virus is. And we come over to you and you are, you know, in a simple term, a micronutrient specialist. We need to marry these people together. That's right. That would be nice. But here is one example that did not record. did not receive any, any kind of press. That this group of scientists, it was published in a JAMA, very respectful journalist, you know, Dr. Minotterman.

And this fellow picked up to one commercial, I saw that formula was not as good as ours, but some kind of multiple vitamin was there. And they tried in a, they wanted to know whether overall populations, if they take vitamin, does it reduce the risk of cancer? and they found it reduced the risk of cancer by 10% without any diet modification, without any proper nutrition.

It's just any junk kind of, I would define very suboptimal multiple, at least it had some multiple component there. And so there was one positive study that multiple vitamin works rather reduced in risk of cancer rather than single vitamin where everything failed or increase the risk. Another same kind of study was performed. with multiple vitamins in a patients who was just infected with eight viruses.

And then you wait for treatment with the antiviral drug. It takes about a year or two. And so as soon as they were infected, they started them on a multiple vitamin formula. And they delayed the requirement for antiviral drug by five years. But even though it was not very good vitamin, and still did something to belay, rather than within a six month, then you get antiviral treatment and so on.

And so, plus especially immune system is so important. This study was done in a immune study, a stimulation immune system was done in a Monta, University of Montevideo in Irogoe. And the volunteer were anywhere from 35 to 35 years, and they were very heavy smokers, because, as you know, in those countries, young kids drink smokes like mad. And so they were volunteered and without any other modification,

just gave them a multiple micronutrient that we developed it. And it was a six-month trial. And they found that they were making the marker of oxidative damage like MDA and also improving the markers of the immune. system, which is called a proliferation of lymphocyte assay system. It is a very reliable old technology. And we found that during six-month period, the marker of oxidative damage, free radical damage was gradually decreased, and the immune function was gradually increased. Amazing.

So there was, again, direct evidence in human that multiple micronutrient, right preparation can do both. Yeah. And what, so tell me what the nutrient. are that we need to put together to keep our immune system, like it strong, especially viral immunity. Is there a specific combination that we would need? Yeah, because in micro-daily, for example, micro-daily, we have combinations, and micro-daily has permutated different forms, like one, we have recently developed micronutrient EMF, because we are concerned about the electromagnetic radiation coming out. from Wi-Fi, television, telephone, so on, 5G, you know.

And there we have added a few more ingredients. We just don't have time to read. The typical person doesn't have time to research which supplements. They should be combining to stay strong. So it's easier for them to mask up and move out of everybody's way. But we have so much more we can do. And this has been really frustrating to watch the world go into fear when you listen to someone like Dr. Persaud, you're like, oh, you just need to get the right

combination of supplements together. You guys have done an incredible job making it really easy, just put it in your mouth, and now we're getting ourselves out of that deficiency state. So one other detour I want to take with the micronutrient, because as we started this, I told you that we fast a lot of people. We have hundreds of thousands of people that fast together every month. And before COVID came around, I started to notice that once, people started to fast, their hair would fall out, they would end up with some thyroid problems.

And when I would go dive into like what was going on, I realized that they were coming to a fasting lifestyle already with a deficiency. So I've been noodling on this thing, on this idea of micro nutrient deficiency for some time. I had never connected it to the immune system in the way that you're talking about. What about everything we're seeing with brain health, like with kids who have ADD and Alzheimer's and dementia, are those all linked to micronutrient deficiencies as well? Yes. For example, take the example Alzheimer or dementia, you know, mitochondia produce a lot of energy. And one of the defect is mitochondia doesn't have enough substrate to produce enough energy. So brain boost formula, we have added, for example, vitamin B3, which provide an NAD for

mitochondia to generate energy. We have added coenzyme Q10, which mitochondria use a certain step to produce energy. We also added a resveratrol there because it is a, it will protect one of the protein of mitochondria called CERT protein, and that protein is very essential for all the pathway for generating the energy. And we also added a curcumin, which is a general. know is a very powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammation effects that we don't have in a micro-daily, original microdaily. We also added two phospholipid, which is very important for membrane integrity of the membrane. And one is called phosphorytidal serine and one is called phosphorytidal colon. And so because membranes are very easily damaged by feed articles. And therefore, it is

important to provide a substrate or precursor of membranes so that the damage membrane can be replaced or can help when new membranes are formed, they remain stable and strong so that toxic substance cannot get inside the brain. And so these are the uniqueness of the brain boost, but we already come and take brain boost together with microdaily. Is that your number one product, microdaily or do you have more than one? Micro daily plus in case of microdaily in general for things. But if some people have like older people who have high discop dementia and things like that, then we recommend micro daily as well.

Do they have to change the dosage at all? Like if you're really thinking you got a condition that you've got to bring that level up? Well, for a short term you can do, for example, microdaily. And the brain, which you take one capsule in the morning, one in the evening. But micro-daily people are telling me sometimes they take it three times a day, morning, evening, because there is no toxicity involved. If you go six times, it might be. Then you are talking about the high dose, therapeutic dose rather than preventive dose. And so, but generally we recommend morning and evening, but some people can take three times a day at least.

If they have some acute tissue right away, then this is okay. Yeah. So this sounds like something everybody should be taking. all the time. Yes. Are there certain behaviors like one thought I had was you talked a little bit about EMFs and I don't think we have time to go down that rabbit hole. But what about like masking up and not getting outside?

Is that affecting our nutrient levels as well? No, I think masking issues again, you know, that is a individual decision. But masking is some kind of prevent some strategy that some people, some people are saying it, Some people are saying don't. And so, but whenever you need, you go outside, you know, outside is okay without mask. But if you are in large crowd, some people will say you should have a mask. Some people say you don't have a mask. And you can go on various CDC channel and find out what is the best for you.

And then you decide it. I mean, this is not my expertise. And therefore, I go. and look at it and then I decide what I want to do. Yeah, yeah, make a decision for yourself. I think everybody actually... But it makes sense to you. Yeah, right.

And it makes sense to you, then you, ZTP does make sense to you, then... Exactly. But I've got five questions for you that have been burning on my mind that are personal to you. So before we sign off, if there was one person, and you may have already answered this, but if there was one person who is out in the front lines talking, talking about COVID, teaching the public about COVID, that you could get to to talk to, to really educate them on micronutrients, who would that be?

It would be any individual over the age of 16-year-old? Over 16. Like people have influenced, somebody of influence. Like if there was somebody who you're like, is speaking to the public about COVID, and they're speaking fear, fear, fear, fear. And you're sitting back there and you're like, you don't need to fear. You just need to really work on your own immune system.

Who do you think has the most impact right now on how we are approaching this COVID situation? And what would you say to them? I think in my opinion, micronutrient has been ignored on this issue, building the immune system. And when we are building immune system, they are saying develop antibody. But macronutrient can also help emphasize to produce. antibody more. Yeah, like I'm wondering if Fauci, if you could get together with Fauci, what would you tell him? Take micronutrient. And then tell everybody else to take micronutrient. That's what I, that's what's what's your favorite micronutrient? What's your favorite combination of nutrients?

I take micro daily EMF and brain boost. Great. Every day. Every day. Okay. And all ages can take that? Not always. For example, between 12 to 16, brain boost is for older people, but microdaily say from 12 to 17 years age, they can take a half dose. But children formula, we are in a process that sometimes developing for children. We don't have a children formula age yet. Okay. Awesome. And who do you think has been the biggest inspiration in your journey of understanding micronutrients? Linus pollen. Okay, so no doubt.

You didn't even hesitate there. Yeah, that's amazing. Okay, and my last question is if you had one message for the world that you could get out and you could get into everybody's brain and help them see what would that message be. Message would be build your immune system, but proper diet, exercise, and micronutrient. Yeah, it's beautiful.

I feel like this is an elevated version of the nutrition talk that most people have and what you're doing in the world is incredible. I'm so grateful. I mean, you really opened my vision on supplements today. And I thought I knew a lot about nutrients and supplements. And I feel like I just went to a whole other level. And I can't wait to try your product. Resetters, here's the challenge that I have to my community is I want them to try the product

and see if they can see a change in their fasting because that's where it really reveals itself. So I'll be talking with them offline about. that, but I see this as an incredible tool to help the person who's trying to build a life of intermittent fasting. Somebody who wants a full head of hair, doesn't want the hair to fall out, a woman who's got thyroid problems, or as we learned today, anybody who doesn't want to, you know, have COVID symptoms. So thank you. Dr. Prashad, keep up your good work. You just, thank you for being such a beautiful voice for this topic. Hey, resetters, I just want to start off by saying thank you so much for all your wonderful reviews and those of you that have left me comments on

iTunes. I just greatly appreciate your thoughtfulness and how much you guys are enjoying these episodes. And it seems like you're enjoying them as much as I am enjoying doing them. One of the things that I've learned in just interacting with so many people is that we've really lost the art of deep conversations. And for me, the Resetter podcast stands for having meaningful conversations with people who are thinking about health, about life, about mindset in a way that we may not be getting on social media or in mainstream media. And so I just want to say, give you guys a shout out and just say thank you for participating in this process with me. Because as much as I absolutely love delivering the information to you, I love even more knowing that.

that it's impacting your life. So please let us know if there's anything we can do to make this podcast more customized to you, to make it better. We are now officially in season two, and we are working to bring you the best conversations that health influencers have, that mindset changers can give, and to really deliver you something that you're not able to get anywhere else. So from the bottom of my heart, as I always say my YouTube, from the bottom of my heart, I am deeply appreciative of you.

I am deeply grateful to be on this journey with you. And let's get healthy together.