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blp-200219-fertility-pregnancy-development — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview blp-200219-fertility-pregnancy-development. The excerpt begins at 01:12:44.280 and runs for 56 seconds.

chicken's brain kept developing for the rest of its gestational period, producing chickens with bigger brains than it ever happened naturally. So the amount of brain development in the case of a chicken isn't developmental, it's environmental. The egg just didn't hold enough glucose to finish making a smart chicken, and if your glucose is limited after the six months of pregnancy, the brain stops developing. In the 50s, experiments were done on dogs and other animals, and they found that if they gave a little bit of insulin, lowering