Ray Peat Audio Archive

#78： CO2 ｜ Art and Science ｜ Supply Shortages ｜ Kille… — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview #78： CO2 ｜ Art and Science ｜ Supply Shortages ｜ Killer Austerity ｜ Authoritarianism with Ray Peat [72Zz0TbfBAg]. The excerpt begins at 58:43 and runs for 1 minute 1 second.

And you know, Ray, people, a common topic on this show is liver problems, whether non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, etc. You know, and I know you're not shocked that a lot of people experience poor liver function. How is progesterone helpful specifically for the liver? By optimizing the degree of excitation of cells. The same transmitters that cause brain damage, excitotoxic glutamate, for example, will cause excitatory damage to any other cells such as the liver. And estrogen and PUFA and the glutamic acid range of excitants, those are all defended against by progesterone.