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garynull-960101-thyroid-function-npr-thyroid-interview — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview garynull-960101-thyroid-function-npr-thyroid-interview. The excerpt begins at 54:36 and runs for 1 minute 54 seconds.

soon as you eat an oil from a cold living organism it starts turning to peroxide varnish structure. Okay now remember don't get don't get too technical we only have two minutes to go and you got to summarize. Okay the ideal calorie source I think is tropical fruits and tropical oils especially coconut oil and any tropical fruit that lives at a high temperature papayas the custard apple family pineapples anything that that is full of carbohydrates is likely to be reasonably low in iron and high in all of the other vitamins and reasonable for minerals and they are important as a source of magnesium meat and shellfish and fish and so on give you quite a bit of magnesium but the fruits are a major source of magnesium without overloading us on iron and the toxic substances because fruits in general from the tropics have small amounts of the thyroid inhibiting substances. Seeds in general have the thyroid inhibiting substances for a variety of reasons namely the worst of them is that plants evolve poisons to prevent their seeds being eaten because they wouldn't have a next generation if animals found the seeds palatable and