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kmud-111216-water-retention-salt — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-111216-water-retention-salt. The excerpt begins at 00:11:33 and runs for 48 seconds.

for example a low thyroid person who can't produce much metabolic energy is very susceptible to drinking too much water and getting a very general disruption of their physiology. A pint or so of water passing suddenly through your stomach to your intestine is a surge of serotonin release and that's simply a model of stress or shock in general. Anything that shocks you or stresses you tends to start the same process but just a surge of water hitting the intestine is enough to increase serotonin