Ray Peat Audio Archive

ewh-110222-the-thryoid — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview ewh-110222-the-thryoid. The excerpt begins at 42:38 and runs for 56 seconds.

So first it slows down liver function, but then it reaches a point where it will even block the thyroid itself. And this is where women tend to have a high frequency of goiter thyroid enlargement. They call it Hashimoto's thyroiditis, but most often it's what they used to call colloid goiter, where since estrogen stimulates the stress hormones in the brain, increasing thyroid stimulating hormone, estrogen causes the pituitary to drive the thyroid harder. Meanwhile, it's blocking the ability of the thyroid gland to secrete it, so it tends to enlarge the thyroid and then they get diagnosed as having thyroiditis.