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yohaf-961112-thyroid-progesterone-and-diet — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview yohaf-961112-thyroid-progesterone-and-diet. The excerpt begins at 22:59 and runs for 54 seconds.

Then we start to get people who are getting middle-aged and things start to change and that's when I think you like people to consider if they're ill or maybe not only ill to consider supplementing with pregnenolone and you know I asked, I think I told you I asked Michael Colgan who is a sports nutrition specialist about pregnenolone. He went, "Oh no, it makes, you know, makes cortisol and people who are exercising will make cortisol and that won't be good." So tell me, tell everybody about that. The one hormonal effect that has been seen consistently and it's the only thing that shows up in when you study animals or people who are given pregnenolone, the only hormonal consequence is that if their cortisone is elevated, pregnenolone brings it down to normal.