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kmud-190419-particles — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-190419-particles. The excerpt begins at 46:18 and runs for 2 minutes 2 seconds.

The nerve regeneration, peripheral as well as central, there have been many studies in animals showing that vitamin D and progesterone work together to restore nerves. I think it's a good idea to have a blood test for both vitamin D and progesterone and keep the vitamin D at least in the middle of the normal range, 50 nanograms per milliliter is good, 50 or 60. And progesterone should be in the luteal range, even for postmenopausal women is good to supplement it if it isn't naturally detectable. And this is because it's directly opposing estrogen. Yeah, and the serum tests for estrogen are meaningful if you don't have a good amount of progesterone because after menopause, estrogen begins forming inside cells all through the body, fat cells, skin cells, breast, uterine cells, everywhere that you don't want it, it can be formed from adrenal precursors and the anti-inflammatory things, aspirin, progesterone and thyroid, vitamin D and the calcium in the diet all help to minimize that inflammatory process of spontaneously forming estrogen in the tissues. Okay, aspirin, vitamin D, progesterone, thyroid hormone, I've taken that since I was in ninth grade. Which thyroid hormone?