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ewh-110118-inflammation — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview ewh-110118-inflammation. The excerpt begins at 30:11 and runs for 1 minute 1 second.

So it works like an antibiotic on the intestine, reducing endotoxins. And when the liver is failing because of the endotoxin burden and your cortisol and estrogen are high, that goes with a systemic excess of serotonin and deficiency of thyroid hormones. So serotonin lowers cellular oxidative metabolism and energy production. One of the biological effects of high serotonin is to allow rodents to hibernate. When they're under stress and the serotonin goes up, these rodents are able to drop their body temperature enough to go into a torpor and get through the stress of bad food supply.