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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 00:31:47 and runs for 1 minute 3 seconds.

will help with water retention and edema and heart failure and so on. And that's because they're antagonizing the effects of aldosterone. Yeah. And aldosterone is causing the inflammation and the water retention. Yeah, and aldosterone increases. Besides inflammation, it leads to fibrosis and prolonged heart failure and vascular and kidney disease and so on that lead to fibrosis, lung disease. Everywhere that water retention and inflammation start, they tend to end up with fibrosis. So 60 or 70 years ago, a researcher, Lipschutz, called pregnenolone and progesterone the anti-fibromatogenic steroids, they start out inhibiting fibrous overproduction