Ray Peat Audio Archive

kmud-081201-cholesterol-is-an-important-molecule — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-081201-cholesterol-is-an-important-molecule. The excerpt begins at 24:08 and runs for 52 seconds.

But these fats are saturated or monounsaturated fats. And even if you feed so much that you cause a great increase in triglycerides circulating fat and even cause increased deposition of fat in the liver, for example, it's lowering the toxic effects of free radicals protecting the tissues. And it actually helps to lower the blood glucose. It has an anti-diabetic effect to feed a high sugar diet. Contrasting that with starch, the complex carbohydrate that dieticians have been recommending now for 30 years, the starches have the opposite effect.