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yohaf-140729-heart-brain-cancer-and-hormones — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview yohaf-140729-heart-brain-cancer-and-hormones. The excerpt begins at 53:32 and runs for 53 seconds.

Yes, and do you know about Marty Paul's work? He wrote a book called The No-Oh-No Cycle. Oh, no. Yeah, we should get him to send you a copy. Anyway, what he's saying is that the cycle gets, it just goes crazy and it starts overproducing. Yeah, the nitric oxide in some organs like the brain makes iron more toxic. The endotoxin makes you absorb too much iron if it's present in your food, and the series endotoxin, iron, nitric oxide has one further step. Nitric oxide activates heme oxygenase, which produces carbon monoxide and releases free iron from the heme complex, which is kept as under control.