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kmud-160219-iodine-supplement-reactions-hormones — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-160219-iodine-supplement-reactions-hormones. The excerpt begins at 21:11 and runs for 1 minute 49 seconds.

after the ovaries have pretty much stopped functioning with the rest of the body as the progesterone fails all of the other tissues begin the same way that happens in men. All of a woman's tissues tend to start increasing their production of estrogen so that after menopause the fatter a woman is the more estrogen she's producing because the fat tissue is a good source of it but on any tissue after menopause to the degree that it's stressed will begin producing estrogen. So is it about the same level between men and women? Yeah. After the menopausal period? I think women tend to be fatter in old age and so they are more likely to have a higher level of estrogen but just measuring the blood estrogen gives a misleading impression because when progesterone is deficient the estrogen receptor as well as the aromatase enzyme that makes estrogen the receptors bind it in cells and there's no progesterone to destroy the estrogen receptor so it just stays in the cell and some of the enzymes that are no longer inactivated by progesterone other enzymes capture circulating estrogen that should have been excreted cause it to be deposited