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jf-200116-insulin-resistance-vegans-low-cortisol — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview jf-200116-insulin-resistance-vegans-low-cortisol. The excerpt begins at 12:13 and runs for 1 minute 50 seconds.

You know, the chronic stress elevates the free fatty acids in the blood. Women in particular have the problem of chronically high free fatty acids because estrogen causes a great activation of the growth hormone, which is a major producer of free fatty acids. And it's free fatty acids in general, and especially unsaturated free fatty acids, that interfere with the use of glucose. So keeping your fat intake low is somewhat helpful, but any fat -- anything that lowers stress, lowers estrogen, is going to increase your insulin sensitivity, increase your ability to use glucose. Everything that lowers stress tends to lower estrogen and improves your ability to use oxygen productively, converting sugar to carbon dioxide. When you're stressed or high estrogen or have too much free fatty acid in the blood, any sugar that's present tends to produce lactic acid instead of carbon dioxide. And lactic acid itself has many toxic ketogenic effects.