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 13:29 and runs for 1 minute 10 seconds.

Estrogen sensitizes your immune system. It acts on your brain and your glucose supply. For example, it activates insulin secretion, but it shifts your metabolism away from glucose towards fat oxidation and that makes you less able to oxidize glucose, turning it to carbon dioxide. In the absence of the high production of carbon dioxide, you produce lactic acid. Lactic acid promotes inflammation and starting with the fact that estrogen slows liver function by reducing the thyroid hormone, the slowed liver production shifts you into that lactate-favoring metabolism away from carbon dioxide and lactate causes inflammation of everything.