Ray Peat Audio Archive

ewh-130717-energy-and-metabolism — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview ewh-130717-energy-and-metabolism. The excerpt begins at 36:09 and runs for 1 minute 2 seconds.

Yes. In cancers, bowel or breast or whatever, the cells that are stressed begin to produce estrogen and the estrogen in the other tissues no matter what it is, as long as there's polyunsaturated fat available, the estrogen is going to activate the cyclooxygenase enzyme that makes prostaglandins and keep the aromatase active producing more estrogen. So even if you aren't eating it currently, the polyunsaturated fat that was incorporated into your tissues is going to break down under stress, flow into the bloodstream and feed the production of estrogen, whatever tissue it's in, but especially in the irritated, inflamed cancerous tissue.