Ray Peat Audio Archive

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 14:12 and runs for 58 seconds.

An Italian in the '30s had identified an amine in the intestine that caused intestinal contractions. And about 10 years later, some English studying huge amounts of beef blood found another amine, they thought, that caused blood vessel contraction. And then the Italian showed that that was the same thing he had found much more abundantly in the intestine, thousands of times more concentrated. And the English group wanted to learn how to assay it because they were thinking about it as the cause of hypertension, strokes, blood clotting, and so on.