Ray Peat Audio Archive

(2005-10) Ray Peat - Nervous System Protect & Restore… — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview (2005-10) Ray Peat - Nervous System Protect & Restore [mdLHWFJI2y0]. The excerpt begins at 37:29 and runs for 1 minute 34 seconds.

When he added amino acids to the watery solution that these were floating in, the things would grow incorporating amino acids into their structure and even produce offspring. They would reach a certain size and a bud would form. In the absence of water, slightly moist hot amino acids polymerize spontaneously into proteins and those proteins spontaneously form little bacteria-like particles that break up. Following the coacervation principle, they are more stable at a certain small size and those then, the proteins that make up those particles can catalyze reactions incorporating new amino acids in the new proteins allowing them to grow. So in an hour or two, Sidney Fox demonstrated something very much like the origin of life that Oprin and Bungenberg, De Jong had just postulated as possible. Sidney Fox demonstrated real growing organism-like things with real proteins spontaneously synthesized.