Ray Peat Audio Archive

yohaf-970211-nutrition-and-the-endocrine-system — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview yohaf-970211-nutrition-and-the-endocrine-system. The excerpt begins at 00:24:06 and runs for 48 seconds.

The estrogenic substances can be just as toxic whether or not they bind to the so-called estrogen receptor, because there are so many ways that estrogen has its effects, not just the classical so-called receptor. For 40 years or so, people recognized that estrogen had a wide spectrum of instantaneous effects. It imitates the shock reaction and causes cells to take up water and such in a time that it couldn't possibly be acting through the classical receptor. So there is sort of either a signal action or a chemical action of any estrogenic substance,