Ray Peat Audio Archive

04.29.19 Ray Peat Live, April 29, 2019 [613401165] — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview 04.29.19 Ray Peat Live, April 29, 2019 [613401165]. The excerpt begins at 20:01 and runs for 1 minute 23 seconds.

And they found that that was because their liver had been damaged from the prolonged protein and vitamin deficiency. And the liver normally destroys or it causes excretion of 100% of the estrogen reaching it. And so if you starve the liver for the B vitamins or protein in particular, the estrogen accumulates so a man will grow breasts just from a prolonged nutrient deficiency. And that happens in women and that's a basic cause of premenstrual syndrome. And the misinterpretation of what happens premenstrually, the estrogen industry starting in the 1940s when they had a product to sell, they convinced the government first of all and the public that these PMS problems and menopausal problems were the result of deficiency of estrogen rather than an excess.