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ewh-110825-serotonin-and-endotoxin — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview ewh-110825-serotonin-and-endotoxin. The excerpt begins at 00:29:15.800 and runs for 1 minute 7 seconds.

is activated by estrogen and inhibited by progesterone. And that's the route into the serotonin and the route out of serotonin is, for example, the monoamino oxidase type A happens to be inhibited by estrogen so it doesn't break down serotonin and it's activated by progesterone so it breaks down serotonin. So, the in route is increased by estrogen and the out route is decreased by estrogen and progesterone has the opposite effect protecting you against serotonin. And so, we've known in our lab we saw that estrogen treatment would cause the animals to first,