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kmud-120921-phosphate-and-calcium-metabolism — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-120921-phosphate-and-calcium-metabolism. The excerpt begins at 27:27 and runs for 44 seconds.

And for about 30 years, David McKerrin has been saying it's not sodium that causes high blood pressure, it's calcium deficiency. Deficiency, right. And so eating extra calcium can often cure hypertension or avoiding excess phosphate in the diet or a good ratio. For example, one of the things that started getting me interested in phosphate was looking at the fat-free diet that George Burr and the group did in the 1930s. They believed that unsaturated fatty acids were nutritionally essential.