Ray Peat Audio Archive

kmud-170721-language-criticism-estrogen-part2 — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-170721-language-criticism-estrogen-part2. The excerpt begins at 8:51 and runs for 1 minute 36 seconds.

Yeah, in studying the effects of estrogen and aging on the uterus, I saw that the same changes that occurred in old animals in the uterus could be produced immediately just by overdosing them on estrogen, and my professor had previously found that a vitamin E deficiency would create the same conditions, and others had found that an excess of polyunsaturated fatty acids created very similar conditions. Vitamin E was around 1935 to 1940 was known as the fertility vitamin, and some Italian researchers in the 40s called vitamin E the progesterone protective vitamin. They saw that both progesterone and vitamin E were preserving fertility while estrogen or polyunsaturated fats were seen to create very quick miscarriage. My professor showed that at any stage of pregnancy, if you adjusted the dose of estrogen, you could create miscarriage, death of the fetus, in animals very often resorption rather than expulsion of the embryo just by