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jf-22XXYY-cancer-asthma-hair-growth-and-more — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview jf-22XXYY-cancer-asthma-hair-growth-and-more. The excerpt begins at 45:49 and runs for 2 minutes 10 seconds.

There have been tests and it was right around 3,000 or 4,000 units a day that would cause vitamin E to produce diarrhea. It was simply a physical overload that probably irritated the intestine and they found that you couldn't absorb above a certain limit that produced diarrhea was useless but they didn't see any damage from doses up to that point. But you have to remember that the products they call vitamin E has changed pretty continuously through technology in the 20s and 30s when it was known as a fertility of vitamin. That's where the name came from, Tocal Feral Offspring Burying. And so a deficiency was defined as the sterility level and that worked because vitamin E protects against estrogen. Estrogen is the anti progesterone, anti-fertility agent. And so progesterone and vitamin E were found in the late 1930s to be working together to protect against estrogen and so to improve fertility and the side effect of many other changes. But at that point, for various reasons, the estrogen industry didn't want vitamin E to be known as a pro-fertility anti-estrogen chemical so they promoted the idea that it's nothing but